MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by samename | 2026-01-20 20:19:17+00:00
Interesting. Do you believe OpenAI has earned user trust and will be good stewards of the enhanced data (biometric, demographic, etc) they are collecting?

To me, this feels nefarious with the recent push into advertising. Not only are people dating these chat bots, but they are more trusting of these AI systems than people in their own life. Now, OpenAI is using this "relationship" to influence user's buying behavior.
by dfawcus | 2026-01-20 20:19:19+00:00
Lockdown mode allows one to optionally disable 2g, maybe it is also the default there. One can turn 2g back on in said mode if desired.

As to 3g, it is largely switched off here, and I understand most of the rest of the world is also disabling it.

However it does not remove images from messages, it just disables certain automatic helpers - e.g. link previews etc.

One can still send photos, etc without any issue.
by EcommerceFlow | 2026-01-20 20:19:25+00:00
I see this as an energy problem. We have 'unlimited' water from the Oceans, and distillation technology exists, it's just not economically viable (enough) because of the high energy costs of distillation. Elon's solution to this is solar panels everywhere, since they're so incredibly scalable (imagine an automated solar factory). Hopefully this comes to fruition sooner rather than later.
by footy | 2026-01-20 20:19:41+00:00
I am against companies doing age verification like this due to the surveillance effects, but I agree with you that the censorship angle is not a good one.

I suppose mainly because I don't think a non-minor committing suicide with ChatGPT's help and encouragement matters less than a minor doing so. I honestly thing the problem is the user interface for GPT being a chat. I think it has a psychological effect that you can talk to ChatGPT the same way you can talk to Emily from school. I don't think this is a solvable problem if OpenAI wants this to be their main product (and obviously they do).
by giraffe_lady | 2026-01-20 20:21:02+00:00
Yeah it sucks but unfortunately this is the conclusion I came to after pondering on this for my own career. I think you phrased it as well as I've ever seen it put though.

And of course there is always the other options. For myself I didn't relish either choice and now I teach programming and CS. But I'm old and this feels like a good way to end my working years.
by immibis | 2026-01-20 20:21:07+00:00
For some background why IoT products will stop being insecure: if you sell one in the EU, you're liable for all the damage your botnet causes.

Luckily, common EU home routers have firewalls, even for IPv6. And it's so much easier to punch holes on purpose! Instead of messing with port forwarding and internal and external IP addresses, you can just say "this device is a server, please allow traffic on port 80 and 443, thank you"
by jl6 | 2026-01-20 20:21:29+00:00
There is likely no single or simple answer. It’s just one example of the general issue of humanity living beyond its means, filling the deficit by drawing down on resources that will not be renewed. Debt and bankruptcy is a good analogy.

In a way, this is quintessential human behavior. Animals faced with shortages tend to die off until their population size matches the available resources. Humans have invented ways to postpone this fate, manipulating our environment in order to sustain a growing population.

So it’s not “just” infrastructure mismanagement. Unsustainable living is practically ingrained into human nature.

The challenge will be whether we can voluntarily reduce our population size or consumption to match the available resources, or whether we’ll have that reduction forced upon us.
by imiric | 2026-01-20 20:22:38+00:00
Why the doom and gloom? It's going to hurt those who jumped on the bandwagon hoping to cash out. I couldn't care less about them, but I would like for computer hardware to be affordable again, and for the tech job market to go back to normal.

Though I'm more concerned about the effects of the current political climate, than the "AI" bubble popping. In the scenario of that going south, nothing will be normal for a long time.
by Herring | 2026-01-20 20:22:42+00:00
It's not gonna work. Dems have been meeting Republicans in the "center" for a long time. Republicans just go further right. You think conservatives like Obama?

It's not a rational thing. Like you said "Biden housing immigrants in hotels" and the implication is that he personally spent trillions on it and the sky is falling.

You need to train people to switch their brains back on because it's a national security issue. All kinds of policies from free college to a shorter work-week so they have less stress and more time to think. Again, just copy what Western Europe does.
by nolamark | 2026-01-20 20:22:58+00:00
Saw a Wall Street Journal article (behind paywall) on this topic which was a short version of this upcoming book: _Mattering: The Secret to a Life of Deep Connection and Purpose_

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FFZY9V8V/

"What these retirees were describing wasn’t just disappointment in a lack of opportunities. It was an erosion in something far more fundamental—their sense of mattering, the deep human need to feel valued and to have a chance to add value to the world. We plan for our wealthspan and healthspan, mapping out financial security and physical well-being. Yet very few of us prepare for an equally essential dimension of retirement: our mattering span, or how we will continue to feel seen, useful and capable of making a difference in this next chapter of life."

https://www.wsj.com/health/wellness/the-retirement-crisis-no...
by constantius | 2026-01-20 20:23:02+00:00
First: before speaking about the Jewish community, go to a protest, you'll find plenty of them there. The Jewish community is not under attack, the tired "antizionism/antigenocide = antisemitism" trope doesn't fly much nowadays. I'd be extremely certain that a lot of those who voted for that mayor, and who campaigned for the football match to be cancelled, and who got ready to bash the fans if need be were Jewish people (haven't been to a single protest without Jews being represented and very vocal about their protest of the genocide).

Second: believe it or not, but for hours after writing that comments, it kept popping up in my head until I realised what I was doing.

I'm arguing with someone who:

- during an ongoing genocide harps on about the great injustice done to genocide-celebrating football fans

- plays the moderate by saying we should all defer to the public authorities (the good ones, those that don't do anything, not the public authorities like Khan, who is a dishonest guy who wouldn't even have gotten elected if there hadn't been a genocide around in the first place)

- mentions that indeed, it's complicated, there are problems on both sides, etc. The sides you're equivocating being a group of pretty much Nazi football fans and the (gasp) the Muslamists!

- jumps into a comment about Muslims being the problem whipping out a Muslim map of Birmingham. Imagine any other discussion about risks of violence and someone helpfully jumping in with a "Jew map" or "Chinese map" and making dark innuendos about the Jewish mayor. And then has the gall to squeak out "and don't you dare be an islamophobe"!

- is all over the discussion, making disingenuous, weaselly arguments.

Again, stop reading opinion pieces on WP and looking at Muslim maps, go to a protest, you'll see you're imagining things.
by snowwrestler | 2026-01-20 20:23:08+00:00
Prediction markets are another way to monetize attention.

The typical notion of the “attention economy” is that you build your audience by getting attention—doesn’t much matter how—and then you get paid to advertise things to them. Could be white label retail like supplements or hats, or could be “content partnerships,” or just straight up ads a la “this episode brought to you by Squarespace.”

Prediction markets only make real money if there is attention. I can predict when my neighbor will take out their trash cans, but without attention, no one will take the counter or put up funds.

Conversely if something does have a lot of attention, then literally anything about it can be predicted, bet, funded, and fulfilled.

I can’t think of a way to stop this, any more easily than I can think of a way to stop people from getting paid to shit-post ragebait slop on YouTube, X, TikTok, etc.

Attention is the complement of free expression. If we let people say whatever they want, then people can also pay attention to whatever they want.
by i_don_t_know | 2026-01-20 20:23:09+00:00
I’m not sure the people in Eastern Ukraine who have been “relocated” to Russia agree with your idea of “nothing changes except for the government”. I don’t think the people across Europe and Asia during World War II would agree either.

Your new government does not and cannot trust you. You pledged allegiance to your old country. Are you still secretly fighting for it? Or have you pledged allegiance to your new country? Does that mean anything when you betrayed your old country to whom you had pledged allegiance too? You’re a potential enemy and your new government will act accordingly.
by the__alchemist | 2026-01-20 20:23:15+00:00
My surprise level at your finding is low. I regularly start from scratch in embedded rust for precisely this scenario. A typical response is "Why not use [reticulum-rs] etc.". Your elegant description could be described with the "But we have McDonald's at home" meme.

There are many cases where a library will be posted online, be mentioned in a blog post, and demonstrated in a demonstration workflow. If you try to use it for practical means, it becomes immediately clear it is "totaled" or easier to start over than fix or adapt it.
by win311fwg | 2026-01-20 20:23:20+00:00
> Which micro-tasks do you look forward to?

I, for one, don't even know anymore. I used to quite enjoy the art of coding and "big picture thinking", for lack of a better description. But now LLMs do the former and everyone and their brother are clamouring to do the latter as they see it as the only way to remain relevant in the software industry, leaving it to be a competition that is not fun to participate in.

Collecting the paycheck, I guess?
by taberiand | 2026-01-20 20:23:49+00:00
Sure, and the people who live near oceans can just sell their houses and move as sea levels rise.

People forced to migrate due to fresh water scarcity will migrate to where fresh water can be found, which is likely where other people already are, increasing pressure on the increasingly scarce water and other resources in that area, driving conflict, disease, famine, further migration into increasingly stressed areas and leading to social and ecological collapse across the board.

Access to reliable fresh water is foundational to stable society.
by shakna | 2026-01-20 20:23:56+00:00
Escaping the sandbox has been plenty doable over the years. [0]

WASM adds a layer, but the first thing anyone will do is look for a way to escape it. And unless all software faults and hardware faults magically disappear, it'll still be a constant source of bugs.

Pitching a sandbox against ingenuity will always fail at some point, there is no panacea.

[0] https://instatunnel.substack.com/p/the-wasm-breach-escaping-...
by arretevad | 2026-01-20 20:24:01+00:00
I guess I’m trying to say that in both cases you outline, the purpose of the act lies solely in the risk itself. Believing something is mispriced simply means the perceived risk is very low (or even negative) but the action is taken _because_ of the risk itself. No other purpose is served. Unlike other monetary instruments which could be consider stores of wealth. or other life decisions which have outside intrinsic values in which the risk is a consideration but not the primary object.
by ecshafer | 2026-01-20 20:24:21+00:00
Then they are misusing the 22% argument. The 22% to win argument, is a specific arrangement of votes that is an argument against the electoral college. In that if someone were to merely win a the electoral college with 51% of the votes in each states but receive 0% of the votes in all other states, they could still win the presidency. So it is an extreme case of a president winning the electoral college despite a landslide crushing defeat in the popular vote. It is not about counting all non-voters as having been votes for the opponent.
by jollyllama | 2026-01-20 20:24:28+00:00
Betteridge's Law strikes again. As of Q2 2025 (roughly the time that TFA was published) there is more dollar-denominated debt than ever before [0]. And its value relative to other currencies (as of this month), while subject to cyclical fluctuations, is on par for the post-Covid cycles and higher than pre-2020 levels [1].

[0] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FDHBFIN
[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/DTWEXBGS
by big_toast | 2026-01-20 20:24:46+00:00
I hope Anthropic or someone pulls an Apple and has the taste to say no to ads. Maybe it will just be Apple. (Even their resistance is slowly fading..)

We don't need to jam ads into every orifice.

I hope there's more value to be had not doing ads than there is to include them. I'd cancel my codex/chatgpt/claude if someone planted the flag.

OpenAI seems to think it has infinite trust to burn.
by heliumtera | 2026-01-20 20:25:32+00:00
Any proof that you are above a certain age will also expose you identity.
That is the only reason regulators care about children safety online, because they care about ID.
LLMs are very good at profiling users in hacker news and finding alt accounts, for example. profiling is the best use case for llms.

So there you go, maybe it wont give exactly what regulators say they want, but it will give exactly what they truly want.
by yodsanklai | 2026-01-20 20:25:59+00:00
> War with the US isn't a clear cut "good vs evil" situation as the EU vs russia would be

I don't think EU vs Russia would be a "good vs evil" situation. Russia/US seem pretty similar to me, dictatorship/propaganda with a majority of the population being regular people not in favor of any war, and 30% of indoctrinated people.
by ogurechny | 2026-01-20 20:26:06+00:00
This is something a clueless TV marketer would say, I suppose.

Both tools can be used to both build private networks managed by a single entity, and to connect to global shared volunteer-run network.

Reticulum is not a general purpose protocol-agnostic data transfer network into which you can plug anything. Also, when you want any kind of serious bandwidth over long distance radio, you have to meet with agencies managing national frequency plans, and they won't lease you anything for free.

Yggdrasil is hardly an “alternative to Internet” as long as it runs on top of Internet links. Moreover, when public Yggdrasil network becomes big enough (assuming that it still runs on volunteer public nodes, just many more of them), the core of the network will have to form a backbone with links shaped by user concentration and user traffic flows, just like network of physical cables used by providers is shaped by demand, concentration of computing resources, geographical features, and so on. Someone will probably have to collect funds to pay for that. Or some new smart multipath routing with dynamic load balancing will be invented.
by pixl97 | 2026-01-20 20:26:12+00:00
Well demand is so high currently that it's likely this cycle doesn't exist yet for fast cards.

For servers I've seen where the slightly used equipment is sold in bulk to a bidder and they may have a single large client buy all of it.

Then around the time the second cycle comes around it's split up in lots and a bunch ends up at places like ebay
by mothballed | 2026-01-20 20:26:15+00:00
Americans don't need money to fight. I was paid $0 with the YPG and had to bankroll my own time. Lots of Americans there. I met a lot of them that didn't even really give a shit about the sides of the war, they just needed to fight something. We're a savage people.

Which historically has worked more for us, than against us.
by gostsamo | 2026-01-20 20:26:26+00:00
Let's be honest - to protect the children, big tech will put everyone under the suspicion of being one. And the issue is not how they use the technologies they have, because they have a moral responsibility to do it safely, but that we don't have technologies of hours.

What I wonder lately is how an adult person can be empowered by tech to bare the consequences of their action and the answer usually is that we cannot. We don''t have the means of production in the literal marxist definition of the phrase and we are being shaped by outside forces that define what we can do with ourselves. And it does not matter if those forces are benevolent or not, it matters that it is not us.

The winter is coming and we are short on thermal underware.

The chinese open models being reason for hope is just a very sad joke.
by scelerat | 2026-01-20 20:26:40+00:00
>> Yes, Canada, you are indeed in danger as well as Mexico.

> No evidence. Unless you're arguing while NAFTA was around this was a way to create a "United America".

Trump recently posted an image on Truth Social of a White House meeting in which a map is displayed, of north america with the US flag superimposed on Canada, Greenland, and Venezuela. [1] He has repeatedly suggested that Canada is the 51st American state. [2]

[1] https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/greenland-trump-tariffs-tra...

[2] https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trumps-remarks-on-cana...
by sodafountan | 2026-01-20 20:26:50+00:00
Yes, it listed a few of my past questions as reference points. I had asked some questions about Nintendo 64/Dreamcast and Gamecube games. It also used information I had asked it about programming languages and some work-related questions to guess my age.

I don't know how OpenAI plans to do this going forward, just quickly read the article and figured that might be a good question to ask ChatGPT.

Edit: I just followed that up with, "Based on everything I've asked, what gender am I?" It refused to answer, stating it wouldn't assume my gender and treats me as gender neutral.

So I guess it's ok for an AI agent to assume your age, but not your gender... ?

I don't really feel like diving into the ethics of OpenAI at the moment lol.
by engineer_22 | 2026-01-20 20:27:43+00:00
If we could put ourselves in the shoes of the people in charge in these places. We'll probably all agree we as the Government have a vested interest in maintaining social stability. One key to this is maintaining access to potable water. Sick and diseased people won't rebel, but they'll be unable to carry out ordinary functions, you'll be vulnerable to outside forces. In periods of drought access to food is affected, the population might get restless, again, we'll be happier if they're placid so let's make sure water is available. If we know our water system is threatened we'll use any method available to ensure access to water is not interrupted. Seek advice of a soothe-sayer, sacrifice to the gods, take IMF loans, go to war with a neighbor. If none of these things is successful, the situation is dire. The people will become dissatisfied, if they organize and obtain weapons we could see violence. At worst we could lose our heads, or at best flee to a wealthy country but leave behind our power. Therefore, we'll appoint our best people to manage and maintain our water system.
by lm28469 | 2026-01-20 20:27:45+00:00
> I don't understand the appeal at all.

Renewable energy, one of the cheapest source of heat kwh/$, doesn't require electricity to function, cheap to buy/install if the place was designed for it, &c. I'm building right now and my main heater will be a wood stove.

If the air stinks both inside and outside of his house I would assume he's doing something wrong, even my cheap cottage fireplace insert from the 80s doesn't smoke the inside of my house.
by Dylan16807 | 2026-01-20 20:28:11+00:00
> Apparently not though, I saw it said ad.

It's not like it's a guarantee. And being the "kind" of attitude doesn't mean you miss the exact same things in each situation. It didn't bite you here but it's a risk elsewhere.

> Maybe you missed it because you were focused on the wall of text instead of the UI.

I was looking at the ads the whole time, but I was intuitively focusing edges and the corners and the fine print at the bottom but the actual marker was tucked into the middle very small.
by glemion43 | 2026-01-20 20:28:13+00:00
Ah yes it is the magic idea of the master mind Elon musk.

The guy who says the earth is not rescueable and therefore needs mars.

Let's just ignore what it really means okay?

It means relocating millions because a few pull out billions of liter for selling as water bottles, for industry while sending back the waste or growing crops in the a dessert.

And you do know how much musk loves poor people right? After all doge and usaid right?
by jamesgill | 2026-01-20 20:28:33+00:00
“01/20 update: Billionaire investor Ray Dalio, the founder of hedge fund giant Bridgewater Associates, has warned the latest weakness in the U.S. dollar shows his long predicted collapse in the dollar as the world’s reserve currency is “happening now.””

Ray Dalio has no crystal ball, but the odds are high that he’s correct. Sadly, this might be the thing that gets Republicans (quietly) abandoning the sinking Trump ship.
by StephenHerlihyy | 2026-01-20 20:28:56+00:00
That’s fair enough. Part of it is the Trump effect. I tend to dive pretty deep into things when they catch my interest. A lot of time we write things off as crazy simply because we don’t understand the context behind the presumption of insanity. So I try to look under the surface so to speak. I want to know why someone feels the way they do, even if their thesis is a little confused. Almost like: “I see you are very passionate about this, let me figure out why.”

I try to make the world make sense. Communication is a skill and many otherwise smart people simply fail to invest in it. Curiousity I suppose.
by al_borland | 2026-01-20 20:29:18+00:00
A lot of people are using AI as a trusted friend, because they don't really have anyone else. A good friend would, I hope, talk someone out of doing something dangerous just to get a silly viral video. With AI being trained on the internet, that's going to have a very different take on things, as the internet only cares about the spectacle, not the person performing it.
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