MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by wedg_ | 2026-01-20 19:56:39+00:00
I'm on Android and I use "one sec" with "In app distractions" enabled for YouTube. no idea how it works but when I click on the shorts tab or any shorts in my feed (in the app, not website), it immediately gets blocked by a heroic looking polar bear saying "No shorts for you!". I believe it can block some other in app stuff like reels in instagram as well
by fpoling | 2026-01-20 19:56:43+00:00
Even 15 years ago IPv6 was much worse than IPv4 for most of the people. Only when the mobile operators has started to insist on it then the usage started to grow to significant numbers. Which showed the real problem with IPv6: lack of compatibility with IPv4. That was absolutely possible 30 years ago, but the designers decided that it would just complicate things.
by accrual | 2026-01-20 19:56:46+00:00
Thanks for the question. It's a couple days later but:

> how does the fact that it is of their own volition offer you any comfort? I ask genuinely. Is it something along the lines of recognizing the things you can't change?

Yes, pretty much exactly this. It's like living a giant pot full of autonomous beings. Sometimes, others do unexpected or undesirable things. I can't control what they do, but I can control how I respond and what I do about it (if anything), and so I try to focus there.
by mysteria | 2026-01-20 19:57:09+00:00
That's going to tank the stock price though as that's a much smaller market than AI, though it's not going to kill the company. Hence why I'm talking about something like robotics which has a lot of opportunity to grow and make use of all those chips and datacenters they're building.

Now there's one thing with AR/VR that might need this kind of infrastructure though and that's basically AI driven games or Holodeck like stuff. Basically have the frames be generated rather than modeled and rendered traditionally.
by BSchoolland | 2026-01-20 19:57:30+00:00
Neither OpenCode nor Anthropic is in the wrong IMO. Opencode is trying to do a good thing by letting people choose which CLI to use with their subscription, and Anthropic is perfectly within their rights to enforce their own TOS. I don't have a problem with OpenCode breaking TOS but then it's up to them to deal with the problems that stem from that.
I use OpenCode with my Claude Code subscription, and it's really good, so personally I hope OpenCode continues to find ways around it.
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2026-01-20 19:57:31+00:00
> confirm that they are indeed experiencing that emotion

This is not emotional validation; nobody wants to be told something they can decide for themselves. Instead, they want to hear that it is okay to feel said emotion. When venting to someone, one doesn't want to hear "I understand that you feel that way", they want to hear "I understand why you feel that way". The former is a dismissal (taking the guise of a validation) and the latter is a validation. "I don't get why you feel $EMOTION about this" is the ultimate emotional sucker punch of invalidation from an active listener even though it necessarily implies said confirmation that they feel $EMOTION.

> They're looking for people to share in that anger, sadness, or frustration and confirm that it's a valid response to the situation.

Notably, "sharing" the emotions is not the only way to validate them; I do not have to feel (or even understand) one's sadness for their sadness to be valid. The second part is the only thing they're looking for and it is very unlikely to be false given the appropriate context. From another comment, "the emotional response was valid for the circumstances" is accurate when one understands "the circumstances" to include the life experiences that cause them to have such an emotional response from something that doesn't trigger the same emotions in oneself.

> overreacting to everything and having unreasonable emotional reactions all the time

There are healthy avenues for expressing such emotions as well as unhealthy ones. Validating the emotional response to something is precisely what will allow the person feeling the emotions to calm down and decide on actions that will benefit their situation. If they are invalidated, they will instead spend effort seeking that validation.

> Just going along with it.

Well, if "it" is referring to behaviors and attitudes, then there's an obvious problem (in all likelihood) but that's also distinct from emotional validation. As I said in my other comment in this thread, one can logically say "it's okay to feel that way but you shouldn't think that". I strongly doubt that is the likes of the validation being complained about here. The negatives of the situation being described do not seem likely caused merely from emotional validation. And I would bet with near certainty that the partner they met who got them to choose healthy behaviors did so by first validating their emotions.
by mrkeen | 2026-01-20 19:57:34+00:00
DIP is easily my favourite design principle.

Couple of notes on the article:

* Don't try to interface between various SQLs. It's not the right place to make 'the cut'. Instead, interface via what the caller wants to achieve. It doesn't want to 'run an INSERT statement'. It wants to 'add a user'. So the interface should be Store<User> or something. Then it can just be backed by a hashmap in tests.

* The real power of DIP emerges in deep vertical stacks. Abstractions can point at abstractions all the way down (as long as they don't eventually point to IO). Which means you can unit test your real ReportController, it will hit your real ReportService, which will hit your real ReportStore (which will then hit a HashMap instead of a DB). No need to fake/lie at every layer down the stack like is done with typical unit testing. You get the all the upsides of Unit testing and Integration testing, with very few downsides.
by sodafountan | 2026-01-20 19:57:46+00:00
The best developer I've ever worked with had a degree in Philosophy. He leveraged React in a way that was elegant back when React was still fairly new. It was super hard to scaffold back then, but we got it done and completed a pretty important project with it. It was shipped, hosted, and delivered into production for the company to use on time (it was somewhat of an internal tool, with a public-facing side for data collection).

One of my best working experiences.
by _DeadFred_ | 2026-01-20 19:57:49+00:00
Total US goods exports were $2,083 in 2025. This number is 4% of all of our exported goods for the year, so actually a pretty big number when it comes to national economics. People keep talking like the US can throw away 4% here, 2% there, likes it's nothing. The same people said last week 'Trump is meme'ing about Greenland'. Now they are saying 'the hit to our economy won't be too bad' which is as truthful of a statement as 'meme'ing about Greenland' was and based on the same 'defend Trump' and not reality.
by wolvesechoes | 2026-01-20 19:57:57+00:00
> Russia can't even take few miles off Ukraine

And yet Europe is unable to support Ukraine enough to change the course of war.

Which is the direct cause of the current situation. If Europe was so strong and ready, war in Ukraine would be over, Russia was defeated, and US wouldn't even think of doing what it is doing.

Everything else is copium.
by hopelite | 2026-01-20 19:57:58+00:00
It seem to me the obvious counter is that the current age of things like FB is 13. Short of legislated controls, guardrails, limits on that access (e.g., parental responsibility for any and all online activities with parental notifications, reports, and clandestine surveillance abilities, limitations based on immediate proximity or same school attendance, limitations based on age difference, i.e., only +/- 1 year, etc) I don't see how the current state is ideal.

The problem now is arguably that parents are not really good at "teaching" children about SM, to a large part because they aren't "good" at it, don't underestand it, and it constantly changes too (Looking at FB here).

I would agree with you if there were some kind of solid, public input crafted specification and standard for SM to not just handle minors, but even transportability across SM/sites, and also hard user data protections and ownership laws. The idea being that possibly anything but boring BBS basically dying out because the data cannot be captured, collected, and sold like harvesting humans in the Matrix.
by tim-tday | 2026-01-20 19:58:28+00:00
Having worked at Google, been a hiring manager, been on numerous hiring boards:
I don’t believe you.

I mean, maybe if he means the technical meaning of the word namely “more than two” and not “a noticeable percentage” which is implied.

In my time there I literally only knew two googlers without a college degree. I didn’t pry but people also aren’t shy about it. And zero people without degrees made it to offer stage in any hiring committee I was part of.
by rustystump | 2026-01-20 19:58:51+00:00
This is objectively not true, if it were the path of least resistance would mean everyone uses the option that is fastest and best.

It takes far less effort to implement the bad way. I think people take their own skill for granted. Maybe you can but most others cannot. Maybe they will learn or maybe they are happy to put food on the table and go home at 5.
by jazzyjackson | 2026-01-20 19:59:19+00:00
ICE has not been disappearing people to meet quotas for 25 years.

"Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night and day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. They're allowed to take only a knapsack and a little cash with them, and even then, they're robbed of these possessions on the way. Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared. Women return from shopping to find their houses sealed, their families gone."
by mgrat | 2026-01-20 20:00:01+00:00
DHS has become what actual conservatives were worried about during its creation - super federal power without balance. There exists precedence within the US: the military. They are granted extraordinary powers at the discretion of civilian government. It employs Officers to manage it across branches, they are paid well, and their employ is terminated if their charges fail. If boots on the ground fail there is the UCMJ, which is quite happy to hold you accountable under 'conduct unbecoming' if any of the specific laws don't happen to pertain to you. The JAG handles prosecutions and you are judged by your peers.

In the case of federal law enforcement, I'd recommend they be generally charged with upholding specific general orders and tactics approved by congress. Make the statute of limitations 9 years. The jury should consist of federal law enforcement for fairness. But ultimately make them accountable to a specific federal justice system like the military does. Will all the wrongs be made right in real time - no. Will there be instant justice - no. It would hold people accountable, there would be a chance for someone to go to law school to right some wrongs.
by gardnr | 2026-01-20 20:00:12+00:00
When we look at how fast and coordinated the rollout of age verification has been around the globe, it's hard not to wonder if there was some impetus behind it.

There are dark sides to the rollout that EFF details in their resource hub: https://www.eff.org/issues/age-verification

There is a confluence of surveillance capitalism and a global shift towards authoritarianism that makes it particularly alarming right now.
by alephnerd | 2026-01-20 20:00:20+00:00
> What "prized industries" are still there other than automakers?

Automation Engineering, Materials Engineering, Biopharmaceuticals, Automotive Engineering (already mentioned), and Genomics.

The fundamentals still exist within the EU, but Europeans on the Internet seem to vaccilate between chest-thumping Euro-nationalism (which is dead in the water) or defeatism (which doesn't make sense).

> How far off do you think a Chinese ASML is

1. ASML's EUV/DUV IP is owned and airgapped from the rest of ASML by the US DoE's JV with ASML called Cymer

2. Around 5-7 years, which is a loss from a Chinese NatSec standpoint and shows the Sullivan doctrine is still intact (keep China 1-2 generations behind the collective west in semiconductor fabrication capabilities).

> And what would be the solution? I think we've all learned that protectionism doesn't work.

The EU never actually tried protectionism or industrial policy. When most other countries and trade blocs were flouting the WTO, the EU kept trying to prop it up in order to negotiate with the US.
by throwaway132448 | 2026-01-20 20:00:21+00:00
> Unlike the Soviets, however, we can see it happening and debate it.

I think you’re severely underestimating how much public discourse has already been chilled. There are a lot of things leaders across business or government won’t say any more for fear of being targeted. And let’s be honest the people who rise to the top in America aren’t the selfless kind.
by xienze | 2026-01-20 20:00:30+00:00
> No, homogeneity doesn't cause happiness.

Funny though how all those European countries everyone on HN and Reddit point to as "how things should be" are all pretty ethnically and culturally homogenous, though that's changing rapidly. Interestingly, cracks are starting to appear.

> And the US was always less homogenous than other "western" countries.

The US was 85-90% white in 1965. That's pretty homogenous.
by fruizm | 2026-01-20 20:00:45+00:00
NEUROSPORTS is built specifically for athletes.

Instead of generic meditation, it starts with a Free Mental Assessment that generates a Mental Game Profile, then delivers sport-specific guided meditations and game-day visualizations.

Elite Mentality plan adds AI mental support, emotion-based tools, interactive AI worksheets, cognitive drills with an index, and weekly AI progress reports, so mental training becomes structured and measurable.
by bmurphy1976 | 2026-01-20 20:00:54+00:00
It's because they run 24/7 in a challenging environment. They will start dying at some point and if you aren't replacing them you will have a big problem when they all die en masse at the same time.

These things are like cars, they don't last forever and break down with usage. Yes, they can last 7 years in your home computer when you run it 1% of the time. They won't last that long in a data center where they are running 90% of the time.
by tuetuopay | 2026-01-20 20:00:55+00:00
I generally use pgcli to that end. Works well, has a few niceties like clearer transaction state, better reconnect, syntax highlighting, and better autocomplete that works in many more cases than plain psql (it can even autocomplete on clauses when foreign key relations are defined!).

My only gripe with it is its insistence on adding a space after a line break when the query is too long, making copy/paste a pain for long queries.
by imiric | 2026-01-20 20:01:56+00:00
Umm no, your example is a backwards reading of the data.

From the PwC survey:

> More than half (56%) say their company has seen neither higher revenues nor lower costs from AI, while only one in eight (12%) report both of these positive impacts.

So The Register article title is correct.

> It's a snowball effect that eventually builds bigger and bigger.

That's just wishful thinking based on zero evidence.
by sho_hn | 2026-01-20 20:02:01+00:00
I'm an engineer working on safety-critical systems and have to live with that responsibility every day.

When I read the chat logs of the first teenager who committed suicide with the help and encouragement of ChatGPT I was immediately thinking about ways that could be avoided that make sense in the product. I want companies like OpenAI to have the same reaction and try things. I'm just glad they are.

I'm also fully aware this is unpopular on HN and will get downvoted by people who disagree. Too many software devs without direct experience in safety-critical work (what would you do if you truly are responsible?), too few parents, too many who are just selfishly worried their AI might get "censored".

There are really good arguments against this stuff (e.g. the surveillance effects of identity checks, the efficacy of age verification, etc.) and plenty of nuance to implementations, but the whole censorship angle is lame.
by hopelite | 2026-01-20 20:02:12+00:00
I should have been more explicit, if I understand you. I support not just making it illegal for any minor to be on any big SM, but also creating standards and specifications for data ownership, controls, collection, and privacy that are hard and accompanied with extreme punishments, i.e., per intentional, negligent, or reckless violation; per data point, not incident. Make the companies aware that a single event can crater the whole corporation if the corporation cannot prove that its officers did not act in violation of the corporation and are therefore personally responsible, and they will keep the rules.
by WheelsAtLarge | 2026-01-20 20:02:31+00:00
Being familiar with tech is important, but being a 'tech head' is not. A CEO needs to be familiar with the product, marketing, sales, HR, and all the other parts of a company. If you are highly focused on one aspect, it can be disastrous for the business. Your job is to get the right people in the right positions and use their knowledge to make the right decisions. A CEO's superpower is making the right choice with the information available, which means you must get the right information from your staff.
I can see a tech head being very important at a technology-based startup. However, once you have a product you can sell to investors or users, you need to let go and determine how to survive and thrive as a company. Tech is just one more thing you need to know as a CEO, but it is by no means the most important.
by testaccount28 | 2026-01-20 20:02:40+00:00
it's an interesting point, and i don't think it can be resolved quite so neatly. to the people building such monuments, or writing such texts, the activity may have been closer to what we now refer to as "history" or "natural philosophy" (or even "civic infrastructure").

the fact that _now_, we have independent traditions referred to by those terms, and so categorize the ancient practices under "religion" is quite confusing, and it may be productive to make the distinction clear.

for a modern example, suppose we build a skyscraper in such a way that it lines up with, or reflects the setting sun on the solstice. we would regard this as "architecture", not "religion". i would be quite offended if, some thousand years from now, the aesthetic decision is dismissed as primitive superstition.
by cortesoft | 2026-01-20 20:03:09+00:00
Being able to separate these situations out is part of ‘emotional problem solving’. Just like any problem solving, there is no one-size-fits-all solution for all cases.

I think the important bit is to recognize that emotions are separate from (although related to) the situation itself. The problem many people have is approaching emotional problems as simply symptoms of the underlying practical problem, and that the way to solve the emotional problem is to simply go directly to solving the underlying practical problem.

Now, sometimes this is the correct approach. However, many times it isn’t. Sometimes the practical problem is not solvable by you or the person you are talking to. Sometimes the practical problem is actually not really a problem and is simply triggering something else. Sometimes you just need someone to share some pain, or some joy, or just need a connection with someone.

A good emotional problem solver can navigate all of these situations.
by binalpatel | 2026-01-20 20:03:22+00:00
This is admittedly dated but even back in December 2023 GPT-4 with it's Vision preview was able to very reliably do structured extraction, and I'd imagine Gemini 3 Flash is much better than back then.

https://binal.pub/2023/12/structured-ocr-with-gpt-vision/

Back of the napkin math (which I could be messing up completely) but I think you could process a 100 page PDF for ~$0.50 or less using Gemini 3 Flash?

>560 input tokens per page * 100 pages = 56000 tokens = $0.028 input ($0.5/m input tokens)
>~1000 output tokens per page * 100 pages = $0.30 output ($3/m output tokens)

(https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/gemini-3#media_resolut...)
by csa | 2026-01-20 20:03:30+00:00
> Very effective multiple choice tests can be given, that require work to be done before selecting an answer, so it can be machine graded.

As someone who has been part of the production of quite a few high stakes MC tests, I agree with this.

That said, a professor would need to work with a professional test developer to make a MC that is consistently good, valid, and reliable.

Some universities have test dev folks as support, but many/most/all of them are not particularly good at developing high quality MC tests imho.

So, for anyone in a spot to do this, start test dev very early, ideally create an item bank that is constantly growing and being refined, and ideally have some problem types that can be varied from year-to-year with heuristics for keys and distractors that will allow for items to be iterated on over the years while still maintaining their validity. Also, consider removing outliers from the scoring pool, but also make sure to tell students to focus on answering all questions rather than spinning their wheels on one so that naturally persistent examinees are less likely to be punished by poor item writing.
by JohnFen | 2026-01-20 20:03:45+00:00
> Why not?

Well, ignoring the moral questions around it, here's a good reason.

Trump isn't really the problem. He's the figurehead. The problem is the people who are backing him and using him to further their agendas. If he were to suddenly stop being president, for whatever reason, it wouldn't solve any of the issues we're having.

In fact, it might make them worse. If Trump vanished, Vance is president and Vance is, if anything, even worse than Trump if for no other reason than Vance is actually smart.
by aleksandrm | 2026-01-20 20:04:42+00:00
It's nonsense and doesn't work. They have "age predicted" my account a couple of months back saying I'm under 18, while I'm a man in my 40s who uses ChatGPT for mostly work related stuff, and nothing that would indicate that it's someone under 18. So now they are asking for a government ID to prove it. Yeah, no thanks.
by bigyabai | 2026-01-20 20:04:45+00:00
Nvidia's not your average bear, they can walk and chew bubblegum at the same time. CUDA was developed off money made from GeForce products, and now RTX products are being subsidized by the money made on CUDA compute. If an enormous demand for efficient raster compute arises, Nvidia doesn't have to pivot much further than increasing their GPU supply.

Robotics is a bit of a "flying car" application that gets people to think outside the box. Right now, both Russia and Ukraine are using Nvidia hardware in drones and cruise missiles and C2 as well. The United States will join them if a peer conflict breaks out, and if push comes to shove then Europe will too. This is the kind of volatility that crazy people love to go long on.
by appplication | 2026-01-20 20:04:48+00:00
> expect me to work 12 hour days with little pay and no benefits

This is not how it should be, but sometimes when you have no other opportunities this is what you need to do to open doors.

Capitalism is vicious and not participating because you (rightfully) find it demeaning is your prerogative, but it is also poor local optimization.

I joined the military and walked with PTSD not because I’m a patriot but because I needed to pay for college. I got out and took an internship well below the poverty line. I turned that into an entry level job, climbed the ladder to build a cushion. Started several side businesses trying to improve my lot. One was successful enough now I can live a comfortable life.

The world sucks but you’ll be eaten alive if you wait for it to become fair. Some obstacles are stepping stones.