MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by crazygringo | 2026-01-15 23:47:10+00:00
> All communication requires some context.

Right! Which is why you should give that context when you create something for public consumption. Get it now?

> You're on a web site with a vague title and a bunch of random links, and zero explanation on the front page for what it's all about. Do you also complain about that?

Yes actually. HN has a terrible design for new visitors. Why would I defend that? HN is known for a lot of things, but its design is not one of them.

> You're doing the internet equivalent of yelling at people to speak English when they're having a conversation in another language. It's as uncouth here as it is there.

No, I'm doing the internet equivalent of criticizing where someone is giving a public lecture but refuses to give it a sufficiently meaningful title so people know whether or not they want to attend it.

This is a public website meant for public consumption. Not some private communication I'm trying to butt into.

You seem to be trying to defend some kind of gatekeeping-through-obscurity, where new potentially interested visitors ought to be made confused and have to "work" to figure things out. Why would anyone do that intentionally, or defend that? It's just rude and thoughtless.
by atdt | 2026-01-15 23:47:26+00:00
Having worked with both kinds, I have generally preferred three-dimensional human beings to cut-outs from a compliance training manual. Being fundamentally kind and collaborative is prerequisite, of course. But so is having a modicum of spite, misanthropy, pettiness, irony, and dark humor. An appreciation for the tragic sense of life. How do you get through the day if all you get from your coworkers are patriotic slogans?
by krunkworx | 2026-01-15 23:48:22+00:00
This is a shill post. I don't care. I'm genuinely worried.

With codex gpt 5.2, I basically automated the entire pipeline for creating a mac app. From ideation, to build, to test to deploying and even responding to apple support.

Let me repeat. I didn't do anything.

Yet I created: www.thock.pro

Ridiculous.
by kcplate | 2026-01-15 23:48:48+00:00
> We've been actively telling and showing our allies that we're their enemy

In my opinion that is an exaggeration. Trump has certainly been pressing US interests (as he sees them) and sometimes those interests may not fully align with what some of our allies want. Conversely, sometimes that happens in reverse too, yet we tend to work things out in the end. This will too.

> What it means is that they have to distance themselves from us as much as they can.

Another way of saying that would be “they need to stop being dependent on the US as much as they can.” I am sure any sovereign state would really want that as a goal.
by JohnFen | 2026-01-15 23:48:50+00:00
I don't think that I've ever had an actual negative initial reaction (ignoring them thinking I'm wrong -- I don't think that's negative, that's an opportunity for growth and learning, maybe by me). I am, however, careful in how I say things. Specifically, I'm careful to avoid any criticism of other people's judgements. I talk about the project and the project only, never the people working on it. Handling people is the job of a manager, and I'm not a manager.
by triceratops | 2026-01-15 23:49:04+00:00
> Would you be willing to submit to ID verification for the sites you participate

I would not. Because there are better options out there if the objective is purely age verification that's as rigorous as the status quo for buying alcohol or cigarettes.

Here's one option: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46447282 that I proposed. It is by no means the best or only one.
by rootusrootus | 2026-01-15 23:49:36+00:00
> So this was the whole point with the 2nd amendment right, that when/if the government repress you in that way, you have weapons to fight back?

Not as far as I understand. The 2nd amendment was from a time when we did not have much of a standing army and the country relied on militias for firepower. Some of the proposed language for the second amendment makes this clearer, but it was cut in the final version.

The tyranny bit was probably always someone's fantasy, and the self-defense aspect is basically a shift of interpretation that is much more recent.
by ceejayoz | 2026-01-15 23:49:40+00:00
> What came first, Trump or failing to enforce laws regarding mass illegal immigration?

If you wanna play that game, the country started with selective enforcement on day one. The Fourth Amendment didn’t apply to a rather large portion of the population.

> Somewhat reminiscent of the British declaring the American Revolution illegal.

It was absolutely illegal. What is legal is not always moral (the Holocaust, after all, was legal in Hitler’s Germany); what is moral is not always legal.
by tjr | 2026-01-15 23:49:45+00:00
It has been generally agreed for years that different people learn best differently. I have found that I tend to learn very well reading books and taking notes (and, as applicable, doing projects) and not so great watching videos. I'd probably even prefer audio lectures rather than video content, if maximum learning was my goal.

I find LLM learning to be mixed. I can ask questions, seek clarification, and that helps me get to a specific answer quickly, or helps me to get past misconceptions quickly. But it seems to fall somewhere in between reading books and watching videos for me -- I still feel like I learn best through books, even if it takes longer. Specifically, it feels like actually being a little bit harder forces me to think deeper and/or retain more.

I do not wish for LLM learning to go away, but nor do I wish for it to replace books. I hope that many people continue to write in traditional formats.
by true_religion | 2026-01-15 23:50:17+00:00
If it's not BS, there's nothing to smell.

Some people genuinely have increased revenue by 40% in a department, on their own. I know, because they were my direct reports, and I was more than happy to clear away roadblocks for them to continue doing the same thing at higher and higher levels.

The issue is that no one wants to say their part was only 0.02%, so they take credit for the job the team as a whole did.
by RickJWagner | 2026-01-15 23:50:31+00:00
Thanks for that. Here’s what I’ve found for the governments response:

- Demonstrators were throwing rocks and bottles, and shooting fireworks at ICE agents.

- Demonstrators were blocking vehicles, impeding ICE operations.

- The demonstrators were trespassing on federal property and were repeatedly warned before force was used.

I have been unable to find anything claiming those are false. Let me know if you have a source that contradicts these.

If it turns out all of those are true, does that justify the use of pepper spray to you? It does for me. I’ve shot paintballs ( not pepper spray balls ) many times and do not believe they can be reasonably aimed for a headshot. I’ll consider that a ‘lucky shot’.

Let me know it you have proof against the government claims, or if you feel unnecessary force was used if they are all true.
by binaryturtle | 2026-01-15 23:51:23+00:00
This is an older Firefox, so this is probably all "normal", but also may be entirely unrelated to the actual cause for nothing showing up?

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by triceratops | 2026-01-15 23:52:48+00:00
We can't prevent all children from getting beer, but we can prevent most of them without compromising any adult's privacy. And everyone is ok with that state of affairs and the trade-offs. No one's calling for internet-connected beer cans that make you take a selfie before you can open them.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46447282
by Nukit | 2026-01-15 23:53:22+00:00
>Here is a paper showing that the USHIO care222 module achieves an L70 of at least 10,000 hours: https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/lsj/50/7/50_394/_pdf

The scientists who wrote this paper work directly for Ushio, correct? And it has not been replicated or verified in any way?

>I am simply explaining why I decline to believe this 3000-5000 hour claim that is presently without any substantiation whatsoever

Very sensible, it should be checked also and claims until then retracted.

>This is why Aerolamp has submitted multiple samples to LightLab Allentown for lifetime testing. Perhaps you would be willing to do the same, given how frequently you emphasize the importance of third-party data?

Sounds like a great idea, we have multiple new gas formulations to test and low-cost replaceable bulbs mean it will be easy to offer customers greater operating life as we improve them. Perhaps Aerolamp would also like to refrain from making any claims without third party data as well? It would be a good example for us to set.
by bpt3 | 2026-01-15 23:53:43+00:00
> What's a "centrist" in a "Dem/repub" context, though? A non-voter?

An independent? A moderate Dem/repub? Those are two (or three) options and there are others.

> Obscuring what one actually means makes it harder to figure out what one takes issue with.

What they meant was very clear. The bias in their reporting is heavily left leaning in their opinion.

> It's genuinely unclear what this person is actually criticizing when they've draped it under so much indirection.

There's zero indirection in their statement.

> They're biased towards... dems, or the left, or something, in some way that's not made clear, but we must know they're a Reasonable Judge of that bias because they've declared themselves a centrist..? It's all signalling, no signal.

Again, this is extremely clear to anyone who isn't ignorant of politics in his location or being intentionally obtuse.

He didn't provide any links, and I'm not going to waste the time to track some down, but the content in question (in the opinion of the parent poster) almost certainly is in support of the progressive part of the Democratic Party, which does have some representation in local (in his area), state (in his state), and national government, and therefore has some power.

> And, of course, there's the whole rest of the planet to contend with, with a much broader view of the political spectrum...

The topic of this discussion is local journalism, and the parent poster provided his location (central NJ), so that's not the issue either.
by snozolli | 2026-01-15 23:53:56+00:00
Dogs are a bit like having kids, if you embrace it. They make it tougher to do extended trips (e.g. foreign countries), but you can develop an entire social network through them. Doing dog-related trips is a new world of opportunities. I did a three night stay across the state with a bunch of my dog park friends a few years ago. Hikes with the dogs during the day, beer and board games every evening.
by kcplate | 2026-01-15 23:54:26+00:00
> What's the point of a defense treaty with a partner that has demonstrated itself to be completely untrustworthy?

Some NATO member states until recently were actively avoiding meeting their defense spending commitments as agreed to in the treaty. Would that indicate that they were untrustworthy or unreliable?

> Also, it's spending rather than funding.

Care to explain the difference when it comes to being ready to fight a war?
by ljm | 2026-01-15 23:54:55+00:00
Letting people learn the hard way is a risky endeavour because you have to trust they’re aware of themselves, and they’re not coasting on your support.

Gotta accept that a likely outcome is that they do fail and they don’t learn and you have to let them go. But if you tried to support them beforehand, did what you could, at least you can have a clear conscience.
by alphazard | 2026-01-15 23:55:23+00:00
If a single engineer can sabotage a project, then the company has bigger things to worry about.
There should be backups, or you know, GitHub with branch protection.

Aside from that, perverse incentives are a real problem with these systems, but not an insurmountable one.
Everyone on the project should be long on the project, if they don't think it will work, why are they working on it?
At the very least, people working on the project should have to disclose their position on the project, and the project lead can decide whether they are invested enough to work on it.

If no one wants to work on a project, the company can adjust the price of the market by betting themselves.
Eventually it will be a deal that someone wants to take.
And if it's not, then why is the project happening? clearly everyone is willing to stake money that it will fail.
by TeMPOraL | 2026-01-15 23:55:35+00:00
Corporate wants you to find the difference...

Point being, in broad enough scope, search and compression and learning are the same thing. Learning can be phrased as efficient compression of input knowledge. Compression can be phrased as search through space of possible representation structures. And search through space of possible X for x such that F(x) is minimized, is a way to represent any optimization problem.
by chmod775 | 2026-01-15 23:55:48+00:00
> The German one has not a single sentence in the intro about advantages, but a whole paragraph on how it's controversial.

No, they do have a sentence on that right before, talking about how sometimes it can make sense as a medical procedure:

> Die Zirkumzision ist eine von mehreren Behandlungsmöglichkeiten (s. z. B. Triple Inzision), die beispielsweise bei schweren Formen der pathologischen Phimose als indiziert gilt, wenn Behandlungsalternativen nicht erfolgversprechend sind oder zuvor keinen Heilungserfolg brachten.
by acuozzo | 2026-01-15 23:56:43+00:00
Familiarity, I suppose.

I'm not a part of the Windows XP community, but I've gotten close. I love that I can make it look just like Windows 2000 and that I know where all the little knobs and dials are. I can get a Windows XP installation configured to be exactly as I want it to be very quickly and I know it won't suddenly change on me.
by kilna | 2026-01-15 23:56:52+00:00
https://kilna.net - I knocked up a linktree type site for myself and all of my projects a while back, but the offerings out there were so obnoxiously branded even when paid... and none of them felt polished in the way I like. I did the HTML + CSS myself, and was pleased I could make it work so well on both mobile and desktop.
by crazygringo | 2026-01-15 23:57:01+00:00
I don't think there are any protections against that. On the other hand, you'd have to ask yourself how realistic it is that the US is forcing Amazon to secretly backdoor its own software for US spying abroad? I can't give an answer on that one, you'll have to form your own opinion.

I imagine that if a back door were ever discovered, AWS's reputation would tank so hard that a lot of companies would probably never do business with it again.
by bflesch | 2026-01-15 23:57:46+00:00
If push comes to shove, these services can and will be weaponized against EU interests. They are bugged and backdoored to the brim. If we see a risk in chinese-made electrical buses which can potentially be remotely shut down by an integrated sim card, then using AWS should be a no go in the current political climate - no matter how much lipstick they put on that pig.

Last week, after receiving a fine in Italy, the Cloudflare CEO demonstrated that US tech leadership are extremely emotionally volatile and can lash out in all directions, threatening unrelated parties with shutdown of service. This is in line with Peter "anti christ" Thiel and Elon "nazi salute" Musk going off the rails.

What if someone scratches Bezos' yacht by accident and then he threatens to shut down the DC? Or if he is upset about a CO2 surcharge when refueling his jet?
by rootusrootus | 2026-01-15 23:58:34+00:00
The politicians on the right are not well insulated -- they are very responsive to what their constituents' popular will is, to a fault. The left still hasn't figured out what the hell they're going to do next. Probably just continue the "we aren't Trump!" chanting and hope that's enough to win elections. Meanwhile their own constituents are just as frustrated with status quo as the right was.
by cricketbee | 2026-01-15 23:58:45+00:00
i always thought I had avoided this issue. then i moved to a new town. starting with zero friends in a new town, with very little in place as far as shows, groups, etc, it seems quite a bit harder than it was 20 years ago. meetup used to work but it has become a cesspool of zoom calls and pay meetings. i wish i knew a really good answer (and i dont drink so bars dont have the appeal. by the time i get off of work coffee shops are closed)

i love people and do not want to be alone.
by threecheese | 2026-01-15 23:59:02+00:00
So let’s hear about it; sounds like you have an excellent response to the hundred of comments here about the lack of “real products” being built this way.

Things I’m curious about:
- Swift? Hearing a lot about genai lack of effectiveness in the language and in the Xcode platform
- Do you understand the codebase enough to provide support to paying customers, or are you confident enough in the models to not care
- How are you handling security controls, and are you delegating this to the models? Given you can (likely) capture keypresses this is important
- What does your process look like? Toolchain etc

Also, we sorta like these types of shills, if you do it right; most of us are in the same type of boat.
by powersurge360 | 2026-01-15 23:59:06+00:00
Tell your friend to look up the Western Reaches style of play. One of the core ideas is that you begin and end each session in a safe zone so that you can have a rotating pool of adventurers. You can tuck in some rules for having mercenaries for when you have fewer than the encounters are balanced for and you’re off to the races.

It does reduce the possibility of highly on rails campaigns and instead requires more of a sandbox plan with one page dungeons and stuff. Even so, it seems made to solve this exact problem.
by godelski | 2026-01-15 23:59:40+00:00
> Once you understand its just search, you can get really good results.

I think this is understating the issue, ignoring context. It reminds me of how easy people claim searching is with search engines. But there's so many variables that can make results change dramatically. Just like Google search, two people can type in the exact same query and get very different results. But probably the bigger difference is in what people are searching for.

What's problematic with these types of claims is that they just come off as calling anyone who thinks differently dumb. It's as disconnected as saying "It's intuitive" in one breath and "You're holding it wrong" in another. It's a bad mindset to be in as an engineer because someone presents a problem and instead of trying to address it is dismissed. If someone is holding it wrong, it probably isn't intuitive[0]. Even if they can't explain the problem correctly, they are telling you a problem exists[1]. That's like 80% of the job of an engineer: figuring out what the actual problem is.

As maybe an illustrative example people joke that a lot of programming is "copy pasting from stack overflow". We all know the memes. There's definitely times where I've found this to be a close approximation to writing an acceptable program. But there's many other times where I've found that to be far from possible. There's definitely a strong correlation to what type of programming I'm doing, as in what kind of program I'm writing. Honestly, I find this categorical distinction not being discussed enough with things like LLMs. Yet, we should expect there to be a major difference. Frankly, there are just different amounts of information on different topics. Just like how LLMs seem to be better with more common languages like Python than less common languages (and also worse at just more complicated languages like C or Rust).

[0] You cannot make something that's intuitive to all people. But you can make it intuitive for most people. We're going to ignore the former case because the size should be very small. If 10% of your users are "holding it wrong" then the answer is not "10% of your users are absolute morons" it is "your product is not as intuitive as you think." If 0.1% of your users are "holding it wrong" then well... they might be absolute morons.

[1] I think I'm not alone in being frustrated with the LLM discourse as it often feels like people trying to gaslight me into believing the problems I experience do not exist. Why is it so surprising that people have vastly differing experiences? *How can we even go about solving problems if we're unwilling to acknowledge their existence?*
by rvz | 2026-01-15 23:59:50+00:00
> Before we go any further, it’s worth acknowledging that we do not have the moral authority to propose a technical definition of AGI.

Stopped reading.

Since they have admitted their technical incompetence on the subject of AI, nor can they substantiate their definition of AGI themselves, you will struggle to take the rest of this article seriously.

Sequoia doesn't care if they are wrong.

So when I read further into and saw this:

> AGI is the ability to figure things out. That’s it.*

No it is not. This is what VCs keep doing. Hijacking and creating narratives through their own biases.

This is why "AGI" was hijacked to be a narrative scam. We already know that the definition was ill defined years ago. [0]

Their real definition of "AGI" is by what the WEF have envisioned in their last 2025 Future of Jobs Report [1]

> Your dreams for 2030

Why 2030? Oh wait. [0]

Translation:

The true definition of AGI.

Layoffs.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46307549

[1] https://www.weforum.org/publications/the-future-of-jobs-repo...
by Dracophoenix | 2026-01-16 00:00:14+00:00
> Good thing following memes to their ultimate conclusion is a ridiculous proposition.

If the conclusion of is ridiculous, it stands to reason that the claim is ridiculous. After all, a meme isn't substantial enough to be labelled as evidence or proof

> I also don’t see the connection to its reference being an attack on character.

The character attack comes from the implied framing of the invention of the so-called "torment nexus" as the direct product of a person or people exhibiting a moral failure through action or inaction.
by bruckie | 2026-01-16 00:00:22+00:00
The California Public Utilities Commission moved last month to prevent the shutdown of the Ivanpah solar concentrator. They cite data centers, grid reliability, and the state's clean energy goals as reasons to keep it online.

https://docs.cpuc.ca.gov/PublishedDocs/Published/G000/M586/K...

https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2026-01-11/trump-b...
by boramalper | 2026-01-16 00:00:37+00:00
Microsoft admitted that it 'cannot guarantee' data sovereignty [0] "on June 18 before a [French] Senate inquiry into public procurement and the role it plays in European digital sovereignty" as the CLOUD Act "gives the US government authority to obtain digital data held by US-based tech corporations irrespective of whether that data is stored on servers at home or on foreign soil."

It'd be great if they could clarify in their FAQ [1] if and how the CLOUD Act affects them.

[0] https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/25/microsoft_admits_it_c...

[1] https://aws.eu/faq/