MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by KaiserPro | 2026-01-16 09:13:35+00:00
In the same way that any other organisation has rules, which they agree amongst themselves.

The joy of a free (as in not being arrested) society is that if you don't like those rules you are free not to join. Or free to moan about them repeatedly until everyone dogpiles on them to change the rules, or not.

Either way, they are allowed to make rules how they like. Just as you are allowed to not like those rules, and talk about it incessantly.

As I said, CoCs are just rules, some of which _you_ don't like
by avadodin | 2026-01-16 09:15:16+00:00
Maybe change the name to Wins?

Wine is not a Sandbox but come on. Everyone has been using it as if it was.

Even Bottles was only a prefix-manager until a couple months ago.

I think it should be and also disallow Linux syscalls and Z: drive accesses by default from within the "sandbox" on top of that in order to reduce the attack surface.
by phoronixrly | 2026-01-16 09:15:27+00:00
> If you don't speak the local language anyway, you can't decode pronounced spoken local language names anyway

This is plainly not true.

> Multilingual doesn't mean language agnostic. We humans are always monolingual, just multi-language hot-swappable if trained

This and the analogy make no sense to me. Mind you I am trilingual.

I also did not imply that the model itself needs to be multilingual. I implied that the software that uses the model to generate speech must be multilingual and support language change detection and switching mid-sentence.
by conradfr | 2026-01-16 09:15:53+00:00
Yeah I've been trying Claude Code for a week (mostly Opus) and in a C++ Juce project it kept hallucinating functions for a simple task ("retrieve DAW track name if available") and actually never got it right.

It also failed a lot to modify a simple Caddyfile.

On the other hand it sometimes blows me away and offers to correct mistakes I coded myself. It's really good on web code I guess as that must be the most public code available (Vue3 and elixir in my case).
by TuringTest | 2026-01-16 09:15:54+00:00
Wikipedia is and has always been a wiki; reverting bad or controversial edits has always been expected from day one.

Also Wikipedia has developed an editorial line of its own, so it's normal that edits that go against the line will be put in question; if that happens to you, you're expected to collaborate in the talk pages to express your intent for the changes, and possibly get recommendations on how to tweak it so that it sticks.

It also happens that most of contributions by first timers are indistinguishable from vandalism or spam; those are so obvious that an automated bot is able to recognize them and revert them without human supervision, with a very high success rate.

However if those first contributions are genuinely useful to the encyclopedia, such as adding high quality references for an unverified claim, correcting typos, or removing obvious vandalism that slipped through the cracks, it's much more likely that the edits will stay; go ahead and try that experiment and tell us how it went.
by sp0ck | 2026-01-16 09:16:25+00:00
Google is no better here, I would say they are even worse since they are scanning your files actively. Remember story of Father who was asked by doctor to send his baby son private parts photos due to covid and Google not only locked him out but also notified Police. Even after getting statement from Law Enforcement there was no crime they didn't restore his access. Guy lost 20 years of live history due to algorithm.
by lurking_swe | 2026-01-16 09:16:47+00:00
i’m about to have my first child soon. My mother died in June. She loved little kids so it’s pretty tragic that she won’t get to experience being a grandmother. My dad is still around but he will likely be useless as a support system.

The man can barely cook anything and tends to make a mess. i also expect he’ll have a tough time changing diapers or holding a delicate baby, one of his hands has lots of numbness from a past stroke.

Thank god i have the BEST in-laws, who are also in great health. I can’t imagine what someone would do in my situation with bad in-laws.
by dwaite | 2026-01-16 09:16:58+00:00
The R&D and equipment cost for fabrication continues to be closer to exponential growth - which is why so many players have gotten out of the game, why companies with fabs like Samsung and Intel still use TSMC for some parts, and why even Intel is now trying to justify the cost of new processes by becoming a contract fab.

I can certainly see Apple taking a large stake and board position in fabricators, but I can't see them being able to justify the ongoing investment in a closed fab.
by troupo | 2026-01-16 09:17:20+00:00
"They don't use delve anymore" is bot really a testament that they became better.

Most of what I can do now with them I could do half a year to a year ago. And all the mistakes and fail loops are still there, across all models.

What changed is the number of magical incantations we throw at these models in the form of "skills" and "plugins" and "tools" hoping that this will solve the issue at hand before the context window overflows.
by ethbr1 | 2026-01-16 09:17:58+00:00
I'll buy that, especially in NYC-like urban environments where frequency of exposure is definitely not the issue. Suburbs and rural may be different.

Part of the increased diversity is unavoidable due to technological changes eroding previous touchpoints. E.g. limited broadcast TV becoming cable becoming streaming.

But there does seem to be an increasing dearth of the logical tonic: discussion-facilitating diverse spaces. Places where people of different opinions can mingle, there are strong social norms around mutually productive conversation (and enforcement to discourage / weed out poison apples?), and that are open to new people.
by mathgratuitious | 2026-01-16 09:18:26+00:00
This is a very interesting take, however, it makes it a bit ironic to compare wikipedia across topics and domains.

Like, right here, let's not ask the question "Why is wikipedia deciding that gratuitous detail is consideration" for one page, and instead point out the amount of inconsistency in this regard on other surgical procedures (coronary bypass is tame, kidney transplant is not), and on non-medical topics, such as the absolute inscrutable travesty that is every single Mathematics Wikipedia page and how all of it amount to post-graduate oneupmanship competitions at this point.
by ndsipa_pomu | 2026-01-16 09:18:30+00:00
At what point will big tech companies not be trusted to self-regulate? It seems bizarre that there should be any trust given to Musk's Twitter/X as he's clearly acting in bad faith and even launching attacks against democratic countries as he pushes a far-right/Nazi agenda. To my mind, all government communication should have moved away from Twitter/X after Musk performed his Nazi salutes.

I get that this is a positioned as a problem with Grok, but it's equally bad that Grok's abusive image generation was freely allowed on Twitter/X.
by falcor84 | 2026-01-16 09:18:35+00:00
Interesting - I found this quantitative historical study [0] showing that while a civil war does significantly increase the likelihood of inflation, only 36% of countries analyzed which had a civil war between 1975-1999 ended up in an inflationary crisis. And with the USD having such a strong foundation, I would expect the risk to be significantly lower.

[0] https://kjis.org/journal/view.html?uid=302&vmd=Full
by pjf | 2026-01-16 09:18:42+00:00
I'd advise to first compare with:

- https://bgp.tools/
- https://bgproutes.io/
- https://bgp.he.net/
- https://radar.qrator.net/
- https://github.com/nttgin/BGPalerter

...all of which are (usually) free. IMHO you should have a competing product + money strategy before you continue. Many people have tried (and failed) to make money off BGP.

BTW, author of https://bgpipe.org/ here, an open-source BGP data tool
by netdevphoenix | 2026-01-16 09:19:24+00:00
Efficiency will ultimately decide if LLMs become feasible long-term. Right now, the LLM industry is not sustainable. Investors were promised literally the future in the present and it is now undeniable that ASI, AGI or even moderately competent general purpose quasi-autonomous systems won't happen anytime soon. The reality is that there is not space for all these players in the market in the long-term. LLMs won't go away but the vast majority of mainstream providers will definitely do
by TeMPOraL | 2026-01-16 09:20:06+00:00
It's more than that. The overall goal function in LLM training is judging predicted text continuation by whether it looks ok to humans, in fully general sense of that statement. This naturally captures all human capabilities that are observable through textual (and now multimodal) communication, including creating new abstractions and concepts, as well as thinking, reasoning, even feeling.

Whether or not they're good at it or have anything comparable to our internal cognitive processes is a different, broader topic - but the goal function on the outside, applying tremendous optimization pressure to a big bag of floats, is both beautifully simple and unexpectedly powerful.
by palata | 2026-01-16 09:21:21+00:00
I'm really not sure what you are talking about. When I run GrapheneOS, "the OS" is open source. It includes some binary blobs, just like my desktop Linux.

> I would rephrase it as why attesting that we have an unknown and outdated OS is valuable to the phone owner?

I am not sure if you're genuinely not understanding what the secure boot does, or if you're just venting about the situation with mobile phones.

The secure boot is there to attest that the OS running on your phone is coming from the manufacturer and has not been tampered with by a malware. If you don't trust the manufacturer or if the manufacturer doesn't update the OS frequently enough, then I guess you should look for another manufacturer. GrapheneOS is pretty much up-to-date.
by nosianu | 2026-01-16 09:21:31+00:00
Humans are trained on the real world. With real world sensors and the ability to act on their world. A baby starts with training hearing, touching (lots of that), smelling, tasting, etc. Abstract stuff comes waaayyyyy later.

LLMs are trained on our intercepted communication - and even then only the formal part that uses words.

When a human forms sentences it is from a deep model of the real world. Okay, people are also capable of talking about things they don't actually know, they have only read about, in which case they have a superficial understanding and unwarranted confidence similar to AI...
by wiether | 2026-01-16 09:22:29+00:00
Is it common for women to work in those countries?

What I'm seeing here in Europe is that mothers are working, so when they have grandchildren they are either still working or retired.
If they're working, they don't have time to do childcare.
If they're retired, they are either worn out and don't have the energy/physical ability to do childcare, or they just want to enjoy the few years of freedom they have.

So grandparents can do some childcare, during weekends or holidays mostly, but they are not the one who would take care of the children during the parent's 9-to-5.

On the other hand, I know some families where the mother staid at home to raise her children and she naturally assumed the same role for her grandchildren. But the chain is broken because their mother is working and will not stop working to do childcare for her grandchildren.
by anonymous908213 | 2026-01-16 09:22:40+00:00
I'm not commenting in any way on UBI, as I try to avoid having strong opinions about topics I don't have expertise on. My only stake in this matter is addressing the patently false claim that NEETs are not creative, when the exact opposite is true which perhaps is incidentally harmful to the argument you were building against UBI given that you staked it on an inversion of the truth.

That you boil it down to "gooner fanart" reflects entirely on yourself and what you view. I believe this is known as "telling on yourself". The overwhelming majority of the artistic output is actually not lewd; somewhere in the region of 85-90% of what gets published is SFW. Not only that, a pretty considerable amount of output is in fact professional-quality; if anything keeps them from being professionals, it's merely the fact that they spend their time creating what they want to see in the world. Being an actually professional artist generally entails creating what other people want to see in the world; specifically what a critical mass of people willing to pay want, which renders commercially viable art to a limited subset of possibilities, mostly only possibilities that appeal to the lowest common denominator if you want to ensure the safety of your income.

You could indeed say that literature is a weak point relative to the very high quality art, music, games, etc, in the NEET cultural sphere, but it's because people aren't trying to be literary. There is simply a subcultural preference, among both creators and consumers, for easier-to-digest writing. The forms of creativity people take an interest in don't have to match the exact ones you value in order for them to have merit. People read and write trashy webnovels because they like trashy webnovels, and that's fine too. It is still an expression of creativity all the same. And some small percentage of those trashy webnovels do go on to be extremely commercially successful, so even if that's your cynical metric for creative value to society it would still be incorrect to say they don't have value.
by K0balt | 2026-01-16 09:22:49+00:00
What is odd to me is hearing people talk as if somehow a job is supposed to be intrinsically enjoyable or enriching. Paid labor is and always has been a subservient role that pays exactly the minimum that the market allows for the circumstances.

Labor is the next option above slavery and indenture, and now that slavery and indenture are frowned upon, labor has absorbed that space as well.

If you want to have some control of your environment and destiny, you must be an independent agent, a contractor, entrepreneur, or consultant. A tradesman. You have special skills and expertise, your own tools, and a portfolio of masterpieces at the least.

There is nothing new in this space of human endeavour, it is as it has been, and I suspect will continue to be, for better or for worse. Sacrificing your agency for subservience is going to make you feel at the mercy of your “betters”. If you don’t want that, don’t do that. Labor law and other conventions have made it a little better, but the fundamental relationship is still master and servant.
by nicbou | 2026-01-16 09:23:30+00:00
After a failed apartment search, I set to make my current apartment as comfortable as possible. These are my game changers:

- French press and v60. Coffee became a ritual I look forward to, not something I drink to achieve a goal.

- Speakers and amp. I got mine used. They are over 50 years old. The amp is a gorgeous object. Listening to music became a full activity. I do it with my coffee. I cannot overstate how much better it feels.

- Wiim Mini. Airplay for 70 year old speakers

- Plants. They make the whole space look better and give you a sense of the passage of time.

- Good pillows, soft sheets. The best of ikea’s sheets is already a massive upgrade. So soft!

- Motion activated leds. It’s nice to reach into the pantry and get light, or use the toilet at night without being blinded. They are magnetic and charge with USB C.

- Robot vacuum. I have a used Roborock S5 that keeps the whole flat spotless at the press of a button.
by zvqcMMV6Zcr | 2026-01-16 09:23:46+00:00
> I can handle hundreds of requests per day with no issue on a home cable modem connection and my desktop pc running nginx.

And what kind of ecommerce site are you running on that nginx? First thing that get overwhelmed by bot traffic is DB. With a tiny one, with low total connection limit and bots hitting less common path like browsing 20th page of product search results, it is really easy to get DoS. I remember having to block Yandex user agent 20 years ago, surprising no one wanted to allocate additional resources so that crawler is happy.
by kreeben | 2026-01-16 09:23:54+00:00
Why is Pippi Longstocking's "soda pop tree" not on the list? It's dying and the whole of Sweden are freaking out. We're putting tax payer money on solving its disease. We're developing a vaccine to try and save it for gods sake. Yes, this is a very LOL type of situation to the rest of the world, I know that. But it's not a laughing matter in Sweden: https://www.slu.se/nyheter/2025/11/pippis-sockerdrickstrad-r...
by theshrike79 | 2026-01-16 09:24:09+00:00
I've been trying to manifest Web of Trust coming back to help people navigate towards content that's created by humans.

A system where I can mark other people as trusted and see who they trust, so when I navigate to a web page or in this case, a Github pull request, my WoT would tell me if this is a trusted person according to my network.
by ethbr1 | 2026-01-16 09:25:32+00:00
1000%, but I didn't want to make my post too long.

If you want a kick, read through the 1957 edition of Air Force Social Customs [0].

It makes you realize how the art of entertaining has atrophied over the decades.

[0] https://archive.org/details/answerbookonairf00wier/mode/1up
by eastbound | 2026-01-16 09:25:51+00:00
May I suggest that the political divide is extremely harmful? I don’t understand why [other camp] is so hateful, socially excluding at the first sign of our political leaning, etc.

I agree we also need to organize activities, but when social circles are occupied by the other camp with a witchhunt bonus, it is discouraging to try. And recursively encourages political extremism.

Incoming comment: “Not our problem, don’t be a Nazi.”
by em-bee | 2026-01-16 09:26:33+00:00
there is also the sentiment of people in their 50s that they are done with taking care of kids. they want to enjoy their freedom now. it's just an anecdote, but for example my dad tried to marry again, but was unable to find a partner willing to marry someone with kids. i don't know if that translates to taking care of grand kids, but i think it is related.

in developing countries there are no pensions for many people and the young parents provide the support the grandparents need, taking care of the grandkids is one way to ensure that this support keeps coming.
by jiehong | 2026-01-16 09:27:24+00:00
>"I was in 東京 yesterday"

I think it's the wrong example, because this is actually very common if you're a Chinese speaker.

Actually, people tend to say the name of the cities in their own countries in their native language.

> I went to Nantes [0], to eat some kouign-amann [1].

As a French, both [0] and [1] will be spoken the French way on the fly in the sentence, while the other words are in English. Switching happens without any pause whatsoever (because there is really only one single way to pronounce those names in my mind, no thinking required).

Note that with Speech Recognition, it is fairly common to have models understanding language switches within a sentence like with Parakeet.
by ThierryBuilds | 2026-01-16 09:28:13+00:00
I wrote this because I kept seeing developers (myself included) confuse language-level isolation like Python venv with OS-level isolation like Docker. I wanted to trace the actual technical boundaries between them.

The article maps out the differences between common execution environments—from physical bare metal and VMs to containers, process sandboxes, and virtual environments—to create a mental model of where the "isolation boundary" actually sits for each tool.
by richardgill88 | 2026-01-16 09:29:09+00:00
I've been thinking about this very hard problem while walking the dog.

Individuals and companies love open source software, but the current donation models don’t really work.

I thought this problem was bad for programming libraries (e.g. the recent Tailwind stuff), but after using Linux desktop open source—which has much less incentive for companies to donate or sponsor—oh boy, it’s bad.

Open source evokes a lot of emotions, but at its core, to me, it’s two things:

A collection of “features” (depending on license / governance):

* You can use it for free, no matter what

* You can see how it works

* You can modify the software

etc.

These are genuinely valuable features, which is why open source has won.

But these features are unavoidably coupled to business models and incentive structures for the developers who create this value.

Right now, open source developers and companies can only extract a relatively small percentage of the (considerable) value they create. As a result, only very large or strategically important projects become financially sustainable.

I agree with the article that the solution likely involves a different business model or incentive alignment—but this is a very hard problem.

We’ve seen major business model shifts outside open source during my career:

- SaaS software (used to be one-time payments)

- Microtransactions in games (personally dislike them, but they radically changed incentives and revenue)

These shifts are often counterintuitive and closely tied to human behavior.

I don’t agree with the specific solution proposed in the article, but I don’t have a clean answer either.

My best (very rough) idea:

Create a non-profit that builds tooling and infrastructure to measure open source usage (tricky!).

Loosely, you run something like:

oss-usage

And it generates a report for a machine (or an entire company):

'tailwind': 5 # units TBD
'npm': 8
'haskell': 1

Then a centralized registry where individuals and companies can disclose usage and donations:

'stripe': {
usage: {
'tailwind': 5,
'npm': 40,
'haskell': 1,
'ruby': 60
},
totalDonationDollars: 100000,
donationBreakdown: {
'ruby': 10000,
'haskell': 100,
'tailwind': 5000
}
}

'oracle': 'not yet claimed'

'dave': {
usage: {
'svelte': 20,
'pnpm': 40
},
totalDonationDollars: 100,
donationBreakdown: {
'svelte': 20,
'pnpm': 40
}
}

Donated funds are held centrally and can be claimed by project maintainers.

Companies can claim (or not) their usage. Developers can claim (or not) their projects and funds.

Donations are aggregated into one transaction per month, solving the microtransaction problem.

This creates a public, open record of who is funding open source. I think that could be a strong incentive for larger companies—engineers will notice when choosing where to work.

Bad actors who under-donate or refuse to disclose won’t be invisible; we’ll know where they stand.

Anyway - if you’ve read this far and are interested in working on or funding this idea, come find me:
https://richardgill.org
by foldr | 2026-01-16 09:30:06+00:00
You are conceding the point that it is not in fact normal in other parts of the world for the police to shoot the driver as a means of avoiding being hit by the car. Doing so does not even make sense from a practical point of view. The car will most likely keep coming towards you anyway.

The incident you linked where the police officer sustained life threatening injuries (they didn’t die, as far as I can tell) seems to have been a collision between two cars caused by dangerous driving, so it’s not really a relevant example.