MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by machomaster | 2026-01-29 12:38:55+00:00
Most obese people think "I am a bit on a heavy side, but I am not that fat and definitely not obese".

People are generally in denial about their fat percentage and their muscle mass. Even somewhat healthy people (~20% fat) who are calculating how much they must lose in order to get to a healthy 12-15%, are surprised when the reality shows that they calculations were 5-15kg off.
by bayindirh | 2026-01-29 12:39:16+00:00
Most of the people are bashing Tesla because they 1) Overpromised and underdelivered 2) They claimed/acted like they're so ahead that nobody can touch them.

Now, other automakers are closing the gap fast, and their overpromise of camera-only FSD is reaching Duke Nukem Forever levels, while other automakers use a diversified sensor set with more conservative autonomy levels because they value human lives more than playing fast and loose (plus, they are scrutinized way more heavily for various right and wrong reasons).

For me, it's not hatred, but I saw that they were hyped a bit too much and need some correction, and this correction is coming hard for them.

Valuations means nothing except investor trust. We have seen some spectacular collapses under unbelievable valuations. Theranos had a valuation of $9 billion. Tesla is not a scam or balloon per se, but they were a bit too overconfident of their moat.
by jcgl | 2026-01-29 12:39:17+00:00
Yes, sandboxing impedes those things. But I assume you're not advocating against sandboxing in general, right?

Starting with a sandbox and poking holes/whitelisting as-needed is a good way to go. Whitelisting access on a per-application basis is a pragmatic way to do this, and Flatpak with Wayland gives a way to actually implement this. It's imperfect, but it's a good start.

Preventing keylogging is a good, concrete example here. There's no reason some random application should be able to see me type out the master password in my password manager.

Likewise, there is no reason that some other application should be able to read ~/.bash_history or ~/.ssh/. The browser should limit itself to ~/Downloads. Etc.

> Meanwhile the advantages of sandboxing are pretty much moot in an open source distro where individual applications are open and not developed by user hostile actors.

Defense in depth. Belt and suspenders. I do trust the software I run to some degree, and take great care in choosing the software. But it's not perfect. Likewise, I take care to use sandboxing features whenever I can, acknowledging that they sometimes must have holes poked in them. But the Swiss cheese model is generally a good lens: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_cheese_model

If we weren't concerned with belt and suspenders and could rely on applications being developed by non-hostile actors, then we could all run as root all the time! But we don't do that--we try to operate according to least-privilege and isolate separate tasks as much as is practical. Accordingly, technologies which allow improved isolation with zero or minimal impact to functionality are strictly a good thing, and should be embraced as such.
by pelagicAustral | 2026-01-29 12:39:49+00:00
I'm already sold to Claude Code for Windows Desktop development.

Couple of months ago I used some shady C# SDK to build an implementation that interfaces with a very specific hardware component. My only option was Windows Forms, which I don't love very much but I have worked with extensibility in the past.

I did not have a lot of faith, because of how weird it feels to ask an LLM to work with a design.cs file, but what I did was just sketch all the design and let Claude do the logic with certain specification on how I wanted to corral the code... App was flawless in about 2 days of work. It's in production now with zero faults.

So, hard to now give this a shot, I already got my go-to tool. Even for something has arcane and obscure as Winforms.
by Lerc | 2026-01-29 12:40:39+00:00
Content is not meant to imply fungibility by being nonspecific. It is supposed to represent an acknowledgement of diversity across a wide range of activities.

The term content creator represents inclusivity, not genericity.

You have used the term information as a candidate for an alternative. What if someone is sharing an experience, an artwork, or simply something they found to be beautiful? There may be an information component to some of those things but the primary reason that they were offered isn't to be informative.

You don't seek content any more than you seek words. You may read books made of words but it is what the book is about that you look for. The same goes for content, only with a broader spectrum. You seek things that you like, things that you value. Content, being nonspecific, means your horizons can be broad.
by catapart | 2026-01-29 12:40:49+00:00
this looks very plainly like "oh shit, devs are having a really hard time actually integrating with our AI services! That must be the only reason we are seeing adoption so slow. quick - throw a wrapper around some boostrappers that can get a green field project prepared for integration with our AI services (and whatever else can be done when you get that set up)."
by hshdhdhj4444 | 2026-01-29 12:40:53+00:00
> If a user almost exclusively uses the Patreon ios app to consume the artist’s content and likes to live inside the ios ecosystem for frictionless payments using the card on file/privacy/UX/whatever, then I feel apple should get to set the terms of engagement.

When I paid over $1000 to buy an iPhone I thought I was buying a technological product that I could use to improve my life.

I didn’t realize I was buying a ticket to Disneyland where the seller of the product decided how I interacted with everything the device enabled.

I don’t think this should be disallowed. I certainly think it’s incredibly false marketing for Apple to claim I bought an iphone, when in reality I paid upfront for essentially AOL.
by lm28469 | 2026-01-29 12:40:54+00:00
> And how does it follow that AI is a net negative when wielded by professionals who are excellent at what they do?

Simple, the 80% of code monkeys who are not good at what they do will cause way more damages than the "professionals who are excellent at what they do". And out fo tech I can guarantee you the vast majority of people use llms to do less, not to do more or do better

It's also easily verifiable, supposedly AI makes everyone a 10x developer/worker, it's been ~3 years now, where are the benefits ? Which company/industry made 10x progress or 10x revenue or cut 90% of their workforce ?

How many man hours are lost on AI slop PRs? AI written tickets which seem to make sense at first but fall apart once you dig deep? AI reports from mckinsey&co which use fake sources?
by gosub100 | 2026-01-29 12:41:18+00:00
My tinfoil hat theory is devices like HDDs will be locked and only work on "attested" systems that actively monitor the files. This will be pushed by the media industry to combat piracy. Then opened up for para-law enforcement like palantir.

Then gpu and cpu makers will hop on and lock their devices to promote paid Linux like redhat. Or offering "premium support" to unlock your gpu for Linux for a monthly fee.

They'll say "if you are a Linux enthusiast then go tinker with arm and risc on an SD card"
by lelanthran | 2026-01-29 12:41:21+00:00
> The relevant market here is the creators not the consumers. As a creator you have no choice but to accept whatever fees Apple, Google, Steam etc set. Or whatever rates Spotify pays you per stream. The fact you "could" host your own website is irrelevant when the reality is nobody will visit it.

Collective action by the creators would help.

All they have to do is dual-host (a fairly trivial matter, compared to organised collective action). What would make things even better is if they dual host on a competing platform and specify in their content that the competing platform charges lower fees. If even 10% of the creators did this:

1. Many of the consumers would switch.
2. Many of the creators not on the competing platform would also offer dual-hosting.

The problem is not "As a creator you have no choice but to accept whatever fees Apple, Google, Steam etc set". The problem is the mindset that their content is not their own.

I say it's their mindset, because they certainly don't act as if they own the content - when your content is available only via a single channel, you don't own your content, you are simply a supplier for that channel.
by jonasdegendt | 2026-01-29 12:41:30+00:00
> I had a very similar experience, except it killed my libido

Did you, as well as the other people seconding this, have any libido left in the first place? I got on Sertraline because I was depressed, and it actually brought my libido back, by virtue of just bringing me back to a better emotional baseline.

All to say, if it had affected my libido, it'd have been a NOOP anyway in my case.
by cardanome | 2026-01-29 12:42:15+00:00
Objectively in the sense that there are actual causes in you life that distress you and cause your symptoms instead of thinking your life is shitty because you are depressed. Of course being able to determine if it is your depression talking or if things are objectively bad isn't easy and people often need outside help from a therapist for that. Plus it isn't really clear cut in practice.

On a sidenote, I know that knowing that it is "just your depression talking" is also a pretty hard pill to swallow and not always helpful. Personally I have a lot of fears that I know are irrational but that doesn't make them any less real.

And even if your problems are external, sometimes you need to focus and your inner self first, find some strength and help so you can tackle the external problems later. But for other people "working on yourself" can be avoiding the actual problems they need to work on.

And yes happiness is always relative.
by freakynit | 2026-01-29 12:42:41+00:00
Everything tends toward commodification in a hyper-competitive, hyper-connected world. The only variable is time... and this "time" keeps shrinking.

As commodification accelerates, consolidation follows. In the current landscape, where private capital and state power are deeply entangled under the banner of national security, this consolidation no longer stays economic. It becomes geopolitical.

The end result... it translates to not just corporate monopolies, but geo-monopolies... enforced not by markets alone, but by coercion, conflict, and control over resources.
by pjc50 | 2026-01-29 12:42:43+00:00
Qualification is a very difficult problem, but I think everyone resents the characterization of "bad devs". Things like the Metaverse failure - apparently $70bn spent for no results - are primarily management failures. Like the Cybertruck, they succeeded 100% at building a product that the CEO wanted. The problem is that the CEO is basically the only person that wants that product.

There's also the thought nobody wants to examine: what if the consumer market total spend is kind of tapped out?
by brianwawok | 2026-01-29 12:42:54+00:00
But if you are too small for celery, it seems a hard sell to buy a premium message queue?

My top problem with my celery setup has always been visibility. AI and I spent and afternoon setting up a Prometheus / grafana server, and wiring celery into it. Has been a game changer. When things go crazy in prod, I can usually single it down to a specific task for a specific user. Has made my troubleshooting go from days to minutes. The actual queue and execute part has always been easy / worked well.
by Balinares | 2026-01-29 12:42:56+00:00
I think it was the FT that observed about a year ago that even as institutional investors were pulling away from US equities, retail investors (redditors, if you will) were filling in the gap quite enthusiastically. (You know, "Buy the dip!! " and brethren.)

I don't know to what extent that's still the case. But someone always ends up with the hot potato no matter what.
by jasode | 2026-01-29 12:43:10+00:00
>In traditional industries like manufacturing you don’t hire 500 factory workers unless you have a production line that needs them. You don’t over-hire based on a guess.

Traditional factories do make wrong guesses about the future and overhire all the time. Example: https://www.google.com/search?q=Ford+f150+lightning+laid+off...
by simondotau | 2026-01-29 12:43:18+00:00
> It seems obvious to me that larger players will require different regulations than smaller players

Apple is not a uniquely large vendor of games. There are multiple ecosystems operating at similar orders of magnitude in games sales, at around $10B or more. Against that backdrop, portraying the App Store as some singular 400-pound gorilla with respect to games is not accurate.

> Second, Apple doesn't operate a marketplace for games. They operate a general purpose market

That distinction cuts the other way. A general-purpose market does not escape product-specific regulation; it applies it selectively. A store that sells liquor must comply with liquor laws when selling liquor, but selling liquor does not prohibit it from selling candy to children. It is normal and reasonable to attach rules to the product being sold, not to the fact that the venue also sells other things.

Perhaps if Apple were willing to exclude games from the App Store and move them to a newly created Game Store, it would be easier to imagine how they could be made subject to different rules. But I don't think that should be necessary for the government to impose different rules on different product categories.
by lm28469 | 2026-01-29 12:43:42+00:00
> If machines did all the repetitive, labor intensive, productive work, including building more machines, the natural consequence would be a very disruptive rethinking of economics. Post-scarcity is only a disaster if money exists. People would still work, but as a hobby, not as a way of survival.

That's what they told us during the industrial revolution. And also what they told us during the last automation rush of the 70s/80s

It's a political problem, not a technological one, and it's been that way for at least 100 years.
by Matl | 2026-01-29 12:43:45+00:00
> Assange seems to have decided "the enemy of my enemy is my friend", which was a very bad idea when applied to Putin's Russia

What if he simply decided that the information he obtained is worth having out there no matter the source?
It seems to me that you're simply upset that he dared to do so and are trying very hard to come up with a rationalization for why he's a Bad Guy(tm) for daring to turn the tables. It's a transparent and rather lackluster attempt to shift the conversation from what to who.
by bflesch | 2026-01-29 12:43:58+00:00
Your suggestion sounds a bit detached from reality of many people.

In many countries it is physically impossible to get enough vitamin D from the sun, even if you go out naked.

Also did you ever notice that the cheap apartments in many places are facing north and do not have a balcony, and of course do not have a private garden? Now you are reduced to going to a park which in the "cheap" areas is also not a good spot to chill for 30 minutes.
by smallvariance | 2026-01-29 12:44:03+00:00
To be clear, I assume the author here is well-intentioned, and I certainly don't see this as spam or malice.

That said, I'm sure that what I read now has more noise and less signal than it did a couple of years ago, which I find very sad. More and more of the writing I read daily is clearly AI generated, and it seems that a large proportion of it comes from people with a clear "quantity over quality" mindset. Even reading messages from people I know (who speak English well), I find it's frequently AI generated - I assume because they don't want to summon the effort to write it themselves, and find AI generated text "good enough".
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by maggie-r-m-88 | 2026-01-29 12:44:33+00:00
Tree-based inspector for JSON/XML documents.

At work, debugging often means jumping between logs from multiple systems, and I got tired of opening a bunch of tabs just to quickly format and inspect JSON/XML side by side.

A lot of existing tools are ad-heavy, not fully client-side, or limit you to a single document, so I built a small workspace-style tool that lets me inspect multiple payloads at once, entirely in the browser.
by brk | 2026-01-29 12:44:33+00:00
While I am in the camp that believes camera-only FSD won't succeed, your comment isn't entirely accurate.

CCD and CMOS sensors can easily work in sub-freezing temperatures with various kinds of heating. There are 10's of millions of surveillance cameras installed outdoors in sub-freezing climates that work fine.

Cameras also have moveable IR cut filters, which is analogous to your sunglasses example.

Human eyes do have greater dynamic range in the visible light spectrum, but solid state sensors can commonly interpret light above 1000nm, and of course you can do thermal/IR imagers to provide optical sensing of wavelengths outside of what a human can see.

Sensor technology relative to the human eye isn't what is holding FSD back.
by jacquesm | 2026-01-29 12:45:10+00:00
Absolutely, the more money you have the more risk you can take. That's fractions-of-a-martingale level money so you can probably chalk up a win before you lose it all. Musk uses the same playbook. Losing is for small fry.

Proverb from my granny to contemplate: the devil always craps on the larger heap.
by Cthulhu_ | 2026-01-29 12:45:57+00:00
Not so much AI itself, but the billions invested into it and the hardware required - anything you invest billions into but that doesn't have similar return on investment is a fast track to an economic crash / correction. The Y2K tech companies are a previous example, investors were champing at the bit to invest in uh, pets.com or whatever but turns out it didn't / wouldn't earn enough money to earn it back.
by conartist6 | 2026-01-29 12:46:11+00:00
But on the other hand every single model is competing in the sense that there's only one world to fill up with slop.

Maybe in a few years LinkedIn will have 10 times more AI slop, but that won't make either LinkedIn or the AI companies 10x more valuable.

I guess my point is that the models, IRL, salt the earth. Since model use became common people have started using them to cheat on their work as students, cheat on job interviews, cheat their duties to scientific integrity, and generally stop building and sharing communal knowledge. Why wouldn't you cheat and steal instead of improving yourself when you're told that in the future your skill and intelligence will be utterly and completely negligible compared to that of The Machine.

This is already costing society trillions of dollars in practical damages. OpenAI is one of the world's biggest polluters, but in the past there has never been a need for legal protections against indsutrial-scale polluting of the well of human knowledge so we're still catching up. Nevertheless the fact that the unit economics look even this good is because they're dumping the real costs onto society itself.
by Archelaos | 2026-01-29 12:46:18+00:00
For as long as I can remember, industry and politics have always complained that there are too few skilled workers---even in times of high unemployment. In most cases, however, this is simply a reflection of the fact that companies or institutions are not prepared to pay higher wages and that too few capable individuals are being trained by them.

For example, qualified professionals in Switzerland earn 30 to 50% more than in Germany and pay less tax. If you commute from Germany, you are also not subject to the higher cost of living in Switzerland.

In 2022, for example, there were 39,222 doctors in Switzerland, 38.4 per cent of whom were from abroad, and of these, 51.8 per cent were from Germany, i.e. 7,802 doctors.[1] Of course, this alone does not explain the shortage of doctors in Germany, but it does contribute significantly to it. Added to this is the lack of training over decades. There are currently around 12,000 medical graduates per year in Germany. Before reunification, there were 13,500 in Germany (East and West combined). In the intervening period, the number fell to a minimum of around 10,000.[2] And that in a degree programme that is highly sought after.

[1] Source: https://aerztestellen.aerzteblatt.de/de/redaktion/arbeiten-d...

[2] Source: https://www.aerztezeitung.de/Wirtschaft/Zank-um-Zahl-der-Stu...
by archerx | 2026-01-29 12:46:53+00:00
They do and it’s awful. I’m making a browser based game and it works great on desktop browsers but Apple refuses to allow css filters on canvas forcing you to build your own filters and apply them to image data. The web audio api is also a pain to get working properly on iOS safari and a bunch of other arbitrary but feels like they’re intentional obstacles found only on iOS. I’m almost considering just using webgl instead of a 2d context but who knows what obstacles apple is hiding there also it will make everything so much more verbose for no real gain.

Not even in the days of IE was I ever this frustrated.
by flurdy | 2026-01-29 12:46:58+00:00
But it is also really good. I love the completely enclosed platforms, ie shielded from the track and train by a glass wall/doors, like the Jubilee line, but all the way to the ceiling. This makes it both safe and very quiet.

Though the platforms are huge, as the trains are long, you have to really make a conscious decision on which exit to use as they come up very far from each other. Unlike other tube stations, where if you don't pick the most optimal exit, you just have to cross the road.
by happymellon | 2026-01-29 12:47:02+00:00
> network security

This was the only reason I remember being given.

And was also the one that was contradicted the most as they were sharing all the source code, and several areas of national security reviewed it, including GCHQ, giving it the clear.

Politics and trying to stop an economic competitor from taking business away from overpriced alternatives was the real unspoken reason.
by graerg | 2026-01-29 12:47:06+00:00
Exactly! It must be exhausting to have this huge preoccupation with determining if something has come from an LLM or not. Just judge the content on it's own merits! Just because an LLM was involved doesn't mean the underlying ideas are devoid of value. Conversely, the fact that an LLM wasn't involved doesn't mean the content is worth your time of day. It's annoying to read AI slop, but if you're spending more effort suspiciously squinting at it for LLM sign versus assessing the content itself, then you're doing yourself a disservice IMO.
by forgotpwd16 | 2026-01-29 12:47:22+00:00
Meanwhile they could've just bundled mermaid-ascii and run it on wasm. But then again probably took Claude less than an hour to port this to TS. The main algorithms are 1:1 conversion.

https://github.com/AlexanderGrooff/mermaid-ascii/blob/master...

https://github.com/lukilabs/beautiful-mermaid/blob/main/src/...
by pornel | 2026-01-29 12:48:18+00:00
The whole Epic vs Apple was about Apple blocking this. Before being slapped by regulators, Apple had anti-steering policies forbidding iOS apps from even mentioning that purchasing elsewhere is possible.

Even after EU DSA told them to allow purchases via Web, Apple literally demanded a 27% cut from purchases happening outside of App Store (and then a bunch of other arrogantly greedy fee structures that keeps them in courts).

Apple knows how hard is not to be in the duopoly of app stores. They keep web apps half-assed, won't direct users to them, but allow knock-off apps to use your trademarks in their search keywords.