MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by aorist | 2026-01-12 23:16:28+00:00
The process where resources accrue to those with more resources is called the Matthew Effect. It explains, amongst other things, why the degree distribution of social networks follows a power law.

There's a nice experimental test of this where showing the number of previous downloads a song has makes it more likely to be downloaded (but not to the extent that it entirely overrides the quality of the song.
<https://www.princeton.edu/~mjs3/salganik_dodds_watts06_full....>
by MarsIronPI | 2026-01-12 23:18:25+00:00
I would! Learning Japanese has been a mind-stretching experience.

And there's just some passages of literature that you can't translate. Or rather, you can but it just doesn't work, simply because the target language doesn't let you structure or rhyme in the same way as the source language. Every language has a potential for generating unique literature simply because each language has a unique vocabulary + sentence structure.
by Arathorn | 2026-01-12 23:19:29+00:00
Matrix has a pretty comprehensive featureset with clients across a broad range of platforms.

The accusations of it being overengineered come typically due to the Synapse server implementation being slow. This is basically an artefact of Matrix being quite complicated to provide a byzantine fault tolerant decentralised equivalent to WhatsApp or Slack etc - and time has gone into fixing stability and usability rather than performance. Meanwhile performance is getting better, but progress is slow due to tragedy-of-the-commons related funding challenges. We will get there in the end, though.
by mullingitover | 2026-01-12 23:19:41+00:00
> With highly specific intentions

Intentions to pull the CSAM out of the server full of CSAM that twitter is running.

Yes, you are making the flailing argument that the operators of the CSAM site desperately want to establish as the false but dominant narrative.

If you have a database full of CSAM, and investigators write queries with specific intentions, and results show that there is CSAM in your database: you have a database full of CSAM. Now substitute 'model' for 'database.'
by 01100011 | 2026-01-12 23:20:58+00:00
Don't overthink it. Some of us were raised on Looney Tunes and MTV and somehow still figure out normal social interactions and do quite well in life.

40 years ago my parents had a close friend with a young and irresponsible wife who raised their child in front of a TV. At 4 years old the child could barely speak. My parents began babysitting and helping socialize her. Now she's a successful businessperson herself and is doing quite well in life.

Studies on the impact of media on children are informative but don't lose sight of the fact that kids are adaptable and will overcome most kinds of sub-optimal upbringing.
by maccard | 2026-01-12 23:21:08+00:00
Yes. Look at the UK - in the best case the laws here (OSA) are absolutely trivially bypassable by apps that are openly advertised on the App Store (VPN apps). In the worst case it pushes people onto sites that refuse to comply which are likely holding _actually_ harmful material.

> there’s also people who want to restrict access to adult material

First of all - we’ve been down this path so many times. Won’t someone think of the children is a plea to emotion not to reason. Secondly, there are many ways that people can opt in to those controls already, and for the most part _they work_. Anyone who can bypass those will be able to bypass what’s being rolled out around the world. Lastly; they’re trivially bypassable because a grown up can validate and then just hand the device back to a child.

The UK is pretty good at digital services and had a solid opportunity to make an anonymous, privacy first based age verification system. I designed one (not without flaws) in about 15 minutes, so we definitely could have had something decent. Instead our first move was to make something that basically required a liability shift, and we ended up sending face scans and passport photos to US tech giants - meanwhile the kids were just pointing their cameras at YouTube videos of adults and bypassing the filters.
by ericmay | 2026-01-12 23:21:31+00:00
Pretty importan! More fans mean more sponsorship dollars, which mean better coaches, food, &c, which means better conditioning and training for the match, and thus a higher chance of winning and getting more fans and more sponsorship cycles.

I actually think it’s great. The level playing field can get a bit overrated. Hungary entrepreneurs will intuitively understand the parallels.
by rspoerri | 2026-01-12 23:21:48+00:00
I allow her to watch me work (mostly text documents), and we often search for images of an animal or object that she wants printed (today we searched for stars). Also, she can video-phone the grandparents, which is not that addictive from my experience.

My screensaver (animated colours) is problematic. Watching a video of herself or the grandparents on the smartphone can be problematic as well, but at least they are typically only a few seconds.

So yes, it's a thing of the medium. But most media for kids are colourful, highly animated, childlike characters and voices. Optimized to catch their attention for a long time.

Also, the media for kids are barely matching the level of the kids state of knowledge. I use words she understands describing things she asks me about, a TV show never does that.
by hnlmorg | 2026-01-12 23:21:53+00:00
We aren’t talking about p and li tags which require data to be embedded.

We are talking about self-contained tags such as br.

In XHTML (and XML in general) tags absolutely can be open and closed inside the same tag via the method I described:

<br/>

Look it up if you don’t believe me. But this is correct.
by smeej | 2026-01-12 23:23:17+00:00
The assumption that there is one set of rules for "correct behavior, rules, habits" that somehow applies equally to all brains is so spectacularly ignorant it's staggering.

I can obtain the same results as almost anybody at the vast majority of things. But if I am required to follow the same process, I simply cannot. I can't tell you how destructive the well-meaning people were who tried to tie me down to the way that works for their brain rather than saying, "OK, fine. Don't do it my way. Do it your way. Just get it done."

It's like saying to someone with dyslexia, "You just have to be MORE vigilant regarding looking at the letters, putting them together, and saying the words! There's no excuse for not following proper reading rules!"

It's just asinine. It's wonderful that you have figured out a set of "proper task-management rules" that work for your brain. I'm even happier for you if it was easier for you. That sounds nice.

But why on EARTH would the billions of living brains on this planet all function like yours? Does anything else in all those billions of bodies function exactly like yours? Of course not. And it would be ridiculous to expect them to.
by touristtam | 2026-01-12 23:23:46+00:00
I had a similar random thought: Why don't we have a cloud company that does something opposite to what a Cloud company usually does. Instead of renting out resources from a data center, they help company setting up local resources and sell/rent out the unused capacity to other companies/individuals?

Probably a bit of a nightmare to oversight all the resources and ensure consistency and privacy but hey why can't we dream?
by JoshTriplett | 2026-01-12 23:23:54+00:00
https://bsky.app/profile/tupped.bsky.social/post/3lwgcmswmy2...

> The U.K. Online Safety Act was (avowedly, as revealed in a recent High Court case) “not primarily aimed at protecting children” but at regulating “services that have a significant influence over public discourse.”
by its_ethan | 2026-01-12 23:23:59+00:00
Not sure if it's a "flaw" or not, but I always get stuck on AI + 3D design stuff with there being no dimensional information or control.

How big is that mug? Slowing it down and trying to catch some dim info the initial cylinder has a radius of ~39. Regardless of if that's default inches, that's one hell of a mug.

Sure you can scale it, but it's not great practice to design something and then just apply a scaling to get it to the intended size.
by ethbr1 | 2026-01-12 23:24:41+00:00
I think any workflow that doesn't cater to human constraints is suspect, until genAI tooling is a lot more mature.

Or to put it another way -- understandable piecemeal commits are a best practice for a fundamental human reason; moving away from them is risking lip-service reviews and throwing AI code right into production.

Which I imagine we'll get to (after there are much more robust auto-test/scan wrap-arounds), but that day isn't today.
by defrost | 2026-01-12 23:25:12+00:00
> We've all seen the vids; from various angles.

We have.

> you can clearly see the official being thrown back after being hit by a fucking SUV.

No, I can't.

What I have seen, with the wide angle sync'd to the handheld phone is that it's clear the officer jolted his phone as he shot.

He advanced and drew as the car reversed. He fired as the car started forward, turning, at car park speeds. He stepped to the side and fired twice more through the driver side window, then stomped away muttering "fucking bitch".

> You don't hit an agent by using your 2 tons SUV as a weapon.

She didn't.

Either way, the agent that shot a woman three times is entitled to his day in court.

Ideally the US executive, the FBI, the DOJ, et al all keep their thumbs off the scales of justice.
by marcd35 | 2026-01-12 23:26:37+00:00
I really appreciate the still images at the end of the Mandalorian episodes. I'm not sure if they were used for set design or created afterward, but they are really stunning and gives you more time to appreciate the world building, costumes, and creativity that goes into production.

Also a huge fan of that channel. I think he came back recently to do some more episodes. There's a new channel I found that offers similar reflections upon cinema - willbryanfilms - definitely worth checking out!
by alephnerd | 2026-01-12 23:26:54+00:00
Euronext, Deutsche Borse, and NASDAQ Nordic have a combined market cap a little under $10T and a little under $400B in monthly trade volume - it's too small to support an ExChina let alone an ExAmerica strategy. Heck, Euronext and DB's monthly trade volume makes the LSE look attractive.

There are opportunities that are relatively undervalued (eg. European defense majors), but there just aren't enough to make up for the entire US's public equity market. And don't get me started on exit opportunities for privately held assets (eg. PE/VC).
by hardware2415 | 2026-01-12 23:26:54+00:00
Very cool, definitely interested when you open source it! Great idea to use those apis, as not having the AI be able to check its own output was the big blocker. Is most of the work on the schematics therefore done through this, or manipulating the binaries themselves? Why Altium and not text based kicad for this? I presume just for the ‘professional features’ Altium has
by _moof | 2026-01-12 23:27:18+00:00
If you're interested in assembling PCBs at home, but you're looking at all this expensive hardware and thinking it's impossible, I've had great success with:

1. Stencil jig: two bare boards taped to stiff cardboard (the kind stencils are shipped in)
2. Squeegee: an old debit card
3. Pick and place: ESD tweezers, a magnifying glass, and some tunes
4. Reflow: a toaster oven modified with a kit (the expensive part: https://whizoo.com/products/controleo3-reflow-oven-build-kit)

I've made tons of boards with this setup and they work great. Are there limitations? Sure. Doing pick-and-place by hand will set a lower bound on the size of components you can design with. It also forces you to keep your part count down (but you should probably be doing that anyway). For my projects, these are never even close to the biggest problems.
by pazimzadeh | 2026-01-12 23:27:26+00:00
Agreed, I’m saying the regime will pass reforms (or try to, given sanctions). I would love for the end of the regime, but who tell me who will take its place?

Realistic best case scenario right now is a situation like England where there is technically a monarch (who also heads the church) but they practically hold no power (less and less over time).
by Anthony76 | 2026-01-12 23:28:00+00:00
The “silent assistant” framing resonates a lot. We’ve seen similar dynamics while working on long-term adoption and visibility for developer-facing products at AixBoost — the solutions that quietly build trust in the background often end up feeling indispensable without users ever consciously noticing when that shift happened.

Making the 2D grid appear exactly at the moment it’s needed, without asking the user to think about it, really does feel like a missing standard rather than a feature.
by smeej | 2026-01-12 23:28:39+00:00
> Just 100% effort of resting and recovering, without any distractions.

You say that like the distractions are exclusively outside. I'm not the person you're replying to, but if I close all my blackout curtains, turn off all the lights, and turn off all but the white noise, but I'm not sleepy, my mind will go in a thousand directions at once.

How do I or anyone else explain that to you? The challenge is in the brain. It's not an outside force. There is no boredom.
by apstls | 2026-01-12 23:29:39+00:00
> they are working hard on making it impossible for other models to support their every increasing agent feature set (skills, teleport and remote sessions, LSP, Chrome integration, etc). The move totally makes sense, like it or not.

I don't understand, why would other models not be able to support any, or some, or even a particular single one of these? I don't even see most of these as relevant to the model itself, but rather the harness/agentic framework around it. You could argue these require a base degree of model competence for following instructions, tool calling, etc, but these things are assumed for any SOTA model today, we are well past this. Almost all of these things, if not all, are already available in other CLI + IDE-based agentic coding tools.
by GuB-42 | 2026-01-12 23:30:33+00:00
I suspect that the length of the offset of your input data in pi is equal to the length of the input data itself, plus or minus a few bytes at most, regardless of the size of the input data.

That is: no compression, but it won't make things worse either.

Unless the input data is the digits of pi, obviously, or the result of some computation involving pi.
by Aloisius | 2026-01-12 23:30:57+00:00
The IMF is essentially a credit union with 191 member countries, so they'd become a vassal to most of the world - if by vassal, one means to agree to terms that might make it possible to repay loans.

Some (including quite a few neoliberals) want to abolish the IMF altogether, though I'm unsure if letting countries collapse completely is really a better option.
by abdullahkhalids | 2026-01-12 23:30:57+00:00
Will echo sibling. I have tried using Claude Sonnet for OpenSCAD to design a simple soap mold and it failed terribly in getting the rounded shape I wanted. (1) It's really difficult to explain 3d figures in text, and I doubt there is a lot of training material out there. (2) OpenSCAD is limited in what it can do. So the combination is pretty bad.
by numpad0 | 2026-01-12 23:31:21+00:00
I've found another[1] on a blog post[2], captioned as follows:

Frontispiece 1. Art drawn by chimpanzee Ai using sharpies(Saito, 2008)[p.19]
Frontispiece 2. Art styles of 4 adult chimpanzees(Saito, 2008). Guess which one was by Ai[p.20]

Not sure what the background of the author is, but this essay/lecture note discusses ego or literal self-awareness of apes contrasted against human children, using quotes from books. Apparently apes don't exhibit explosive growth of vocabulary, show use of syntax etc etc, and are therefore not able to acquire language. The post later also argues their ego may be on the edge of formulating but must be weak/incomplete.

There's also magazine excerpt[3] on a page on relevant Kyoto University research center comparing an inpainting task done by a chimpanzee and a human child of 3 years old, showing that chimpanzees can only recognize and trace existing patterns, whereas kids go and complete the face with eyes, nose and mouth.

1: https://kyoikugenri2019.up.seesaa.net/image/2017-10-132018.11.52.jpg
2: https://kyoikugenri2019.seesaa.net/article/471281414.html
3: https://www.wrc.kyoto-u.ac.jp/ja/publications/AyaSaito/kagaku084.html
by smeej | 2026-01-12 23:32:32+00:00
10%: There's were I a Proving It's

100%: There's no way you could ever understand me if I were trying to say something complicated. I'm much too intelligent. I have way more mental firepower than you do. I'm a very complex thinker, and you just can't keep up. Proving it to you would be a waste of time. It's just hopeless anyway.
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If communication isn't working, sure, it might be a comprehension error. But...it's rarely only a comprehension error.
by SV_BubbleTime | 2026-01-12 23:32:51+00:00
Doesn’t that seem useful though? Isn’t that why I’m forced to read “This movie was made a time when racial stereotypes were different and not well considered” or whatever on old movies?

I think talking to a legit trained LLM from a different era would be rad. But… this seems the opposite of Gemini making black lady popes and Native American Nazis… that these views wouldn’t really be “allowed” (published by anyone that wants AI funding money).
by gruez | 2026-01-12 23:33:13+00:00
That's an unhelpful way of analyzing stuff because you can cynically retort "You've identified the group that would be incentivized to lobby for this" regardless of what happens. No age verification whatsoever? I bet social media companies would like that! Age verification by the government? I bet it's because the government wants to know what porn sites you visit! Maybe verification by the OS instead? Must be the Google/Android OS duopoly! So complicated PKI or zero knowledge proofs solution? There's probably some consultancy that would benefit, not to mention there's still going to be companies that would handle the outsourcing. There's a whole industry for handling user account management/SSO, for instance, and that's entirely open source.
by SOLAR_FIELDS | 2026-01-12 23:33:59+00:00
Reforged was received poorly because it was a lazy half assed job that was a blatant cash grab. Not because culturally we have moved on and the game has aged beyond being fun

You probably knew this, but wanted to make sure others knew that the reason they ended the franchise is not because there was no market, but instead it was pure unadulterated greed that led to that situation. In an alternate reality they would have actually done the remake justice and there would be a lively competitive scene
by alexdobrenko | 2026-01-12 23:34:51+00:00
I've been using Claude Code in my terminal like a feral animal for months. Building weird stuff. Breaking things. Figuring it out as I go.

Cowork is the nice version. The "here's a safe folder for Claude to play in" version. Which is great! Genuinely. More people should try this.

But!!! The terminal lets you do more. It always will. That's just how it works.

And when Cowork catches up, you'll want to go further. The gap doesn't close. It just moves.

All of this, though, is good? I think??
by immibis | 2026-01-12 23:35:00+00:00
Did you already understand complexity theory (the most obvious example of this phenomenon) by the time you went to an actual school?

Tinkering is great but (good) school teaches you all the things and not just the things you obviously, and then you don't have any knowledge gaps.

Any fool can probably weld metal but how do you learn to do it properly if you don't learn properly?
Phind Is Shutting Down
by MekaiGS | 2026-01-12 23:35:01+00:00
Just got this message from phind, blogs seem to have been deleted.

Dear Phind User,

I've made the difficult decision to shut down Phind.

This Friday, January 16th, will be our last day of search operation. You will get a prorated refund on that date if you are a paid user.

You will be able to download your data until Friday, January 30th, after which it will be permanently deleted.

You can download your data from Phind 3 here: https://www.phind.com/history
And download your data from Phind 2 here: https://old.phind.com/settings/download

I'd like to personally thank you for coming on this journey with me, it really means a lot.

Best,

Michael
by eru | 2026-01-12 23:35:08+00:00
> There is a pin 34 “Disk Change” that is supposed to give this information, but this is basically a lie. None of the drives in my possession had that pin connected to anything, and the internet mostly concurs. In the end I slightly modified the drive and added a simple rolling switch, that would engage when a disk was inserted.

I wonder if he could have just polled the drive every five seconds?
by striking | 2026-01-12 23:36:31+00:00
> 8.10. the legal defense of financial and violent crimes, including those related to money laundering, murder, robbery, assault, battery, sex crimes or crimes against minors;

And as per the article,

> On Sunday night, Emmons’ fundraiser stated that “funds will go to help pay for any legal services this officer needs.” That language was removed after WIRED’s inquiry and replaced by Monday morning with the phrase, “Funds will go to help him.”

The rules aren't so specific as to say whether or not they have to have been formally charged, just that GoFundMe has historically only taken action once there are formal charges. And that's interesting in this scenario, because

> Local prosecutors claimed that without access to the FBI’s case file, it may be impossible for the state to assess whether charges are warranted

No matter what decision they make, it will appear political.
by kaliszad | 2026-01-12 23:37:26+00:00
Many people seem to be running OpenCode and similar tools on their laptop with basically no privilege separation, sandboxing, fine-grained permissions settings in the tool itself. This tendency is reflected also by how many plugins are designed, where the default assumption is the tool is running unrestricted on the computer next to some kind of IDE as many authentication callbacks go to some port on localhost and the fallback is to parse out the right parameter from the callback URL. Also for some reasons these tools tend to be relative resource hogs even when waiting for a reply from a remote provider. I mean, I am glad they exist, but it seems very rough around the edges compared to how much attention these tools get nowadays.

Please run at least a dev-container or a VM for the tools. You can use RDP/ VNC/ Spice or even just the terminal with tmux to work within the confines of the container/ machine. You can mirror some stuff into the container/ machine with SSHFS, Samba/ NFS, 9p. You can use all the traditional tools, filesystems and such for reliable snapshots. Push the results separately or don't give direct unrestricted git access to the agent.

It's not that hard. If you are super lazy, you can also pay for a VPS $5/month or something like that and run the workload there.
by SilverElfin | 2026-01-12 23:38:39+00:00
The funniest part is that he claimed the reason he didn’t fund the GoFundMe for Renee Good is that it closed already. Yea I don’t buy it. Also he posted a criticism about the credit card interest rate cap that Trump proposed, but then deleted it like a coward, presumably so he won’t get on the bad side of Trump. These oligarchs are a danger precisely because they are spineless and don’t have principles they stand up for consistently.
by JumpinJack_Cash | 2026-01-12 23:38:42+00:00
> > This president is off the rails not even trying to have even a flimsy cover of legality.

The problem is Trump but also he's a symptom of a larger problem.

Left and right are so at odds with each other that all the reforms that a modern country would have to undertake in order to have less traumatic and less 'winner take all' elections not only weren't undertaken like they were in other countries, but the odds of actually happening are close to 0% ever since 2016