MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by soulofmischief | 2026-01-15 22:55:27+00:00
This is not a correct approximation of what happens inside an LLM. They form probabilistic logical circuits which approximate the world they have learned through training. They are not simply recalling stored facts. They are exploiting organically-produced circuitry, walking a manifold, which leads to the ability to predict the next state in a staggering variety of contexts.

As an example: https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.05217

It's not hard to imagine that a sufficiently developed manifold could theoretically allow LLMs to interpolate or even extrapolate information that was missing from the training data, but is logically or experimentally valid.
by ashtakeaway | 2026-01-15 22:55:32+00:00
It was just a couple of months ago where I found myself complaining that we shouldn't have to pay exorbitant amounts of money for friendship.

Last time I went to a bar a pretty woman and her friends decided to sit next to me only after I closed my tab and was getting an Uber to go back home. She seemed super nervous just sitting next to me and I assumed that if I butted into their conversation I'd get ignored like last time.
by zinodaur | 2026-01-15 22:55:56+00:00
Love this idea! Started building a version of it a while ago, but gave up because my resume time was too slow

My job has their own DCs, but inexplicably hosts devboxes in EC2 - an autosuspend feature for cost savings sounds awesome.

Feature request: let me give you a Dropbox folder to persist/load my suspended vms from/to, that way i dont get charged for storage when not using it, and i can walk away whenever i want
by tzs | 2026-01-15 22:56:24+00:00
Up to the 2008 election the Republican party platform called for reducing fossil fuel use, establishing a Climate Prize for scientists who solve the challenges of climate change, a long term tax credit for renewable energy (with specific mentions of solar and wind), more recycling, and making consumer products more energy efficient.

They wanted to aggressively support technological advances to reduce the dependence of transportation on petroleum, giving examples of making cars more efficient (they mention doubling gas mileage) and developing more flex-fuel and electric vehicles. They talked about honoraria of many millions of dollars for technological developments that could eliminate the need for gas powered cars.

They also mentioned promoting wireless communication to increase telecommuting options and reduce business travel.

All that was gone by 2012. I'm not sure what caused the change.
Ask HN: Did OpenAI just disable codex CLI login for workspace accounts?
by amluto | 2026-01-15 22:56:45+00:00
OpenAI rolled out a shiny new version of codex (the CLI) that finally supports device code authentication, so now it's finally now awkward to use it in headless environments. And they appear to have disabled the old non-headless variant in the mean time.

But trying to use it in a workspace says "Please contact your workspace admin to enable device code authentication". It's not obvious that this setting actually exists, and OpenAI's chat support says, and I quote, "The latest updates require device code authentication, which works for personal ChatGPT accounts but does not work for workspace (Business/Enterprise/Edu) users."

An actual human at OpenAI closed the relevant issue as "not planned": https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/9253

Did OpenAI really just decide that it doesn't need to be possible to use the codex CLI on a paid workspace plan?
by kelnos | 2026-01-15 22:56:50+00:00
Sort of, but maybe not quite? When you spin up an EC2 spot instance, it's a fresh instance with whatever AMI you load into it, and it's a fresh boot at that time. (You can save persistent data to an EBS volume that you create once up front and then attach to each new instance, of course.)

With this service, it seems like the VM underpinning your session is suspended (like as if you were to suspend-to-RAM or hibernate your laptop), and then resumed the next time you sign in, so not only is the filesystem in the same state as it was during your last session, but any background processes that have spun up since then are resumed as well, and are still running.
by hadlock | 2026-01-15 22:56:53+00:00
Not only do you need to create the things to do, but you need to pick up the phone and CALL them (on the telephone! not voicemail, not whatsapp/facetime) and have a conversation with them. Sometime in 2006-2008 we started sending people online invites to parties and the habit of calling people died out.

If you call 12 people, on the telephone, and invite them for a dinner party next weekend, and 12 people say yes, I give 90% odds that 12 people show up to your party
by mrguyorama | 2026-01-15 22:56:58+00:00
There are ways in which the Trump admin is aiding Ukraine right now that cannot fit the narrative though.

If Putin controlled Trump outright, Ukraine would not be using US intel to more effectively strike Russian oil infrastructure. Trump blocked this intelligence sharing for a little bit during the initial "Peace talks" but now we are back to helping the find routes for weapons that won't be intercepted.

That is in line with Trump being sympathetic to Putin's narrative, but not in line with Trump following Putin's orders.

That infrastructure is critical for Russian state budget, something that is very strained, and for maintaining cheap energy internally to keep the populace apathetic.

Putin would also not have wanted the US to waltz into Venezuela unopposed. Makes Russia look very weak to have an ally who they supply with military aide be so comprehensively owned.

Unfortunately, Trump just idolizes Putin for being a powerful and oppressive dictator, because he likes power and wants that for himself. He has no moral qualms with the immoral things done by Putin. He loves the fake "Manly" persona. He's jealous of how effective Putin propaganda is.
by chaps | 2026-01-15 22:56:59+00:00
> That doesn't mean she deserves it, but that she was doing something stupid without realizing just how stupid it was

Am I right to say that your argument can be summarized as, "She didn't deserve it, but her actions were deserving of it"? Or maybe "merited"?

I'm genuinely confused by what you mean by "deserves".

(just to be explicit, the disagreement we have here is very much about what the word "deserves" means rather than anything productive)
by platinumrad | 2026-01-15 22:57:37+00:00
The current administration is actively shutting down in-progress wind projects.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/11/how-the-wind-indust...

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/22/trump-leaves-wind-i...

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c15l3knp4xyo
by firefax | 2026-01-15 22:57:53+00:00
no music or tv? that sounds fucked... why don't ppl just drink in a park? iirc public drinking is actually legal in the uk?

(I know in some countries it's actually not -- Bratislava being one surprising example, though some cops were really chill when I was like hey sorry, I thought this was allowed, it's cold out so I bought a pounder and I wanted to warm up on the way to my hostel I'm not trying to bother anyone... though maybe they may have been letting me slide mostly because they were amused by what a pounder is once I defined it)

(A pounder is a big can of beer that got it's nickname because American frat bros will "pound" (chug) it to get very drunk quickly in places where the sales of beer are looser than liquor)
by phs318u | 2026-01-15 22:58:15+00:00
That justification was always the issue before. The cost of entry to a working solution for a problem was always high enough that low or very-low value propositions couldn't jump the starting gate (cost > value). AI assisted coding has lowered that barrier tremendously. Despite the negativity around vibe-coding - this is the sweet spot. The long-tail of lower value prop demand that couldn't justify the cost of getting built. In the enterprise world, RPA lowered some of that barrier. Vibe coding is next level lowering that barrier.
by mmooss | 2026-01-15 22:58:17+00:00
Removing Trump from office would require votes from some Republican Party members in Congress, and so far not enough are willing to vote for it.

He's been impeached twice, in his first term when Democrats controlled the House of Representatives, which is where impeachment happens. But removing a president requires trial and conviction in the Senate, and enough Republicans there voted against conviction. Several presidents have been impeached; none have been convicted.

> Where is the American people?

My belief is that the right wing in the US has almost absolute information dominance over a segment of the population. They can say anything and that segment will believe them and support it.
by ElFitz | 2026-01-15 22:58:27+00:00
My feeling is the definition of the "AI look" has evolved as these models progressed.

It used to mean psychedelic weird things worthy of the strangest dreams or an acid trip.

Then it meant strangely blurry with warped alien script and fifteen fingers, including one coming out of another’s second phalanx

Now it means something odd, off, somewhat both hard to place and obvious, like the CGI "transparent" car (is it that the 3D model is too simple, looks like a bad glass sculpture, and refracts light in squares?) and ice cliffs (I think the the lighting is completely off, and the colours are wrong) in Die Another Day.

And if that’s the case, then these models have covered far more in far less time then it took computer graphics and CGI.
by theshackleford | 2026-01-15 22:58:52+00:00
Remote work has allowed me to build the structure I need to function and perform at a high level. I have severe ADHD and do not fit well into conventional office environments, not because I lack capability, but because my work is most effective when done on my own terms and schedule. I've worked remotely on and off for most of my life (I grew up on a farm, so "working from home" was already quite natural to me.)

This is also colored a little by the fact that remote work is no longer really just an optional for me. Due to a spinal cord injury, I need flexibility to manage just ongoing existence, rehabilitation, and frequent medical appointments. An in-office role simply isn’t compatible with those realities, though the most recent surgeries do make it more viable than it was even twelve months ago.

I’m fortunate to work for a remote organisation that recognises this arrangement as mutually beneficial: I’m able to do my best work, and they get the full value of my expertise.

With all of that being said, I know people whom are far more aligned with you. Remote work is not particuarly beneficial for them, they indeed need an externally inforced structure and so would be best (and happiest) in office. I would never tell them otherwise and nor would they do the same to me.

I am thankful for the most part that many (though not all) of us somewhat have the ability to work in the way in which is best for us (and those employing us.)
by quickthrowman | 2026-01-15 22:58:59+00:00
Wire has barely gone up in price, I was paying $175 for 1000’ of #12 THHN a year ago and today it’s about $190 for 1000’ of #12 THHN.

It’d be nice to get 1000’ of 12-2 MC cable for $500 again, but those days are gone.
by kelnos | 2026-01-15 22:59:12+00:00
Not really. I mean, I guess the lightning stuff makes it settle/confirm faster than doing an on-chain transaction, but bitcoin as a store of value is still essentially gambling. So you'd want to immediately sell it and convert it to USD (or a stable coin, I guess), and presumably you're incurring fees at whatever exchange you're using.

5% for paddle does sound like it kinda sucks, but I feel like any lower fee you'd end up paying with bitcoin would get eaten up by complexity, annoyance, and currency conversion risk.
by anonymous908213 | 2026-01-15 22:59:13+00:00
Applying for a job is an action that can change the entire course of your life. A job is something somebody spends ~30% of their time at, and every individual job contributes to a career trajectory and determines the opportunities one will have available throughout their life. Not only from the candidate's perspective, making the correct hires is something that will determine the course of a company's future; I would argue that there is literally nothing more important in running a business than hiring the right people. You would think, given these considerations, maybe the person who is paid money to review these applications should actually review them with the thoroughness that is warranted by such a task. Did the university approve of the work being outsourced to a chatbot instead of the person they were paying the salary to do the work?

To say nothing of the flagrantly illegal data privacy violations, of course. I see another comment raising these points was killed instantly. It is telling about the state of this site. It's sad to see it overtaken by LLM boosters who will stop at nothing to shirk their actual work responsibilities and who approach security and privacy violations like a checklist wherein the goal is to collect them all, but I suppose this was the natural result, because people who can actually engineer real software would inevitably be outnumbered by the masses who can now pretend to be software engineers.
by publicdebates | 2026-01-15 22:59:22+00:00
I see young people facetiming each other all the time, maybe a little too much. It definitely fills the same role as audio calls used to. But I just text. I remember when texting started to become a thing, and I was very much looking forward to the absolute convenience of being able to read and respond whatever I had time, and not have to deal with a phone call. I wonder if that was common in my generation (millenials), and I wonder if we call/facetime significantly less and text more than other generations.
by hnthrowawayacct | 2026-01-15 23:00:07+00:00
It's an FDA guidance doc so you can expect to see this affecting new filings or supplemental filings for upcoming FDA submissions and clinical trial designs. This is good news, statistical plans are always a point of contention during trial design and the submission process. This guidance lays a line in the sand and will remove some of the reviewer-to-reviewer variance present in the current FDA staff.
by thebigspacefuck | 2026-01-15 23:00:24+00:00
For me, the answer was smoking. I made a ton of friends that way. Always went out to a pool hall, a bar, or a nice patio so I could smoke. It was great. You can’t smoke in your rental so you gotta get out and find places to smoke. Few states you can do it in anymore though. I moved to a state with a smoking ban and quit smoking, no point to it. Don’t get out as much nowadays.
by 1718627440 | 2026-01-15 23:00:28+00:00
If you choose to put a boundary in your code that makes it span over several binaries, so that they can be swapped out at runtime, no compiler in any language can optimize that away, because that would be against the interface you explicitly chose. That's what dynamic linking aka. runtime linking is in C.

This is not an issue for libc, because the behaviour of that is not specified by the code itself, but by the spec, which is why C compilers can and do completely remove or change calls to libc, much to the distress of someone expecting a portable assembler.
by Herring | 2026-01-15 23:00:36+00:00
I think it's about the Northern Sea Route (NSR) which is opening up cause of climate change.

A Chinese Panamax ship recently completed the NSR transit in just five days, showing that it's a viable alternative to the Suez Canal route.

The NSR is basically a conveyor belt for Russian and Chinese trade, most of it passing in or near Russian waters. However for that traffic to reach the global markets of the Atlantic, it must pass through the GIUK Gap (between Greenland, Iceland, and the UK).

Right now Russia is so dependent on China they're transferring valuable military tech. So that just leaves Greenland if you want to isolate China.
by JCattheATM | 2026-01-15 23:00:47+00:00
> You've backtracked from your 'blank sign' position.

I wouldn't say backtracked. I acknowledged a correction. The pont still stands, people are being arrested and/or intimidated by police for expressing a non-hatespeech, non-violent opinion.

> I'm pointing out that your "People were just arrested for holding up signs like 'abolish monarchy'" might be on similarly shaky ground.

I gave a source elsewhere in this thread.

> If it's not clear, I'm also heavily implying that you should be questioning the veracity of whatever source you're getting this easily-debunked tripe from.

It's not tripe, and if you want to attempt to go ahead and debunk it. I was wrong about the arrest for the blank sign as admitted, I'm not wrong about people being arrested for holding up signs expressing non-hatespeech, non-violent opinions, for which sources are abundant.
by gulugawa | 2026-01-15 23:00:53+00:00
I think one solution is to have more accessible public spaces where people can meet. As a host of board game meetups, my biggest challenge is finding places to meet. I had to stop hosting Friday game nights because the available spaces were too expensive or closed early.

I'm working on an open source non-commercial website to drive up demand for public spaces. https://createthirdplaces.org/
by eagsalazar2 | 2026-01-15 23:01:10+00:00
I love this but I think you'll be surprised at your success rate. Everyone is struggling with this, not just you. Right on the heels of covid we were debating whether to have a NYE party or just go to a friend's house for a low key thing. We were paralyzed a bit feeling like, why we weren't invited to other parties ourselves? Won't everyone already be busy doing other stuff? In the end my wife took the leap and invited a ton of neighbors and friends. Guess what?? Almost everyone showed up! Which means all those people were going to be sitting at home feeling bad and wondering the same thing. You just need to believe and get over it, people want to hang out. We've all just gotten out of the habit.
by Uehreka | 2026-01-15 23:01:14+00:00
It feels like a lot of people keep falling into the trap of thinking we’ve hit a plateau, and that they can shift from “aggressively explore and learn the thing” mode to “teach people solid facts” mode.

A week ago Scott Hanselman went on the Stack Overflow podcast to talk about AI-assisted coding. I generally respect that guy a lot, so I tuned in and… well it was kind of jarring. The dude kept saying things in this really confident and didactic (teacherly) tone that were months out of date.

In particular I recall him making the “You’re absolutely right!” joke and asserting that LLMs are generally very sycophantic, and I was like “Ah, I guess he’s still on Claude Code and hasn’t tried Codex with GPT 5”. I haven’t heard an LLM say anything like that since October, and in general I find GPT 5.x to actually be a huge breakthrough in terms of asserting itself when I’m wrong and not flattering my every decision. But that news (which would probably be really valuable to many people listening) wasn’t mentioned on the podcast I guess because neither of the guys had tried Codex recently.

And I can’t say I blame them: It’s really tough to keep up with all the changes but also spend enough time in one place to learn anything deeply. But I think a lot of people who are used to “playing the teacher role” may need to eat a slice of humble pie and get used to speaking in uncertain terms until such a time as this all starts to slow down.
by firefax | 2026-01-15 23:01:16+00:00
>invocation of free expression as the supreme unbridled right even for teenagers who wouldn’t even understand what you’re talking about

i got into policy partly by reading eff's deeplinks in my very early teens, but hey, go ahead and assume just because you were incapable of nuanced thought when you were violating COPPA to participate in public life everyone is.
by peterldowns | 2026-01-15 23:01:55+00:00
> The problem is people aren't collectively incentivized to do so.

Yes, we are — please believe me that a LOT of people go out into the world and interact with each other. Doing so is extremely heavily incentivized by all of the wonderful and beautiful things that happen in the world all the time, both quotidian and sublime.

There is critical mass!
by hairofadog | 2026-01-15 23:02:29+00:00
I think it's going to have to get very very much worse before it gets better. Too many people have no idea what's happening, and too many of the people who do know what's happening (including quite a few in Democratic leadership) seem to think it'll all just snap back into place in 2026 and 2028. I'm afraid they won't wake up to it until we see a 1930's style depression in which Americans are literally going hungry. Really does feel like we're doing the 20th century all over again.
by btown | 2026-01-15 23:02:42+00:00
> To escalate privileges, we abused the token’s repo scope, which can manage repository collaborators, and invited our own GitHub user to be a repository administrator.

From everything I know about pentesting, they should have stopped before doing this, right? From https://hackerone.com/aws_vdp?type=team :

> You may only interact with accounts you own or with explicit written permission from AWS or the account owner
by firefax | 2026-01-15 23:03:04+00:00
why should your opinion matter more because you're a parent? in my experience, folks with the economic comfort to create children by choice tend to be extreme machavellian and justify said machinations by the fact they must provide for the children they have thrust into an overpopulated world. as a nonparent, i'm less biased towards the natalist mindset and thus my opinion should be weighed more, not less than yours.
by datsci_est_2015 | 2026-01-15 23:03:04+00:00
Heh, the “illegitimately” was in reference to it “[not coming] to fruition”, precisely in the immediately preceding clause of that sentence.

In other words, I was saying that the reason for it not coming to fruition could be either legitimate or illegitimate. You assigned your own presumptions to what I said.

Ironically the Democrats deserve much more benefit of the doubt when it comes to election fraud and interference given the glut of evidence of such on the other side of the aisle.
by vbelenky | 2026-01-15 23:03:29+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

Here is a poster with more data in the same series, showing that the L70 is about 13,500 hours: https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0694/8637/9189/files/24061...

I have never seen any other data for any other commercially available krypton-chloride excimer lamp besides this paper and this poster. All that is "widely documented" is manufacturers claims. The non-USHIO KrCl excimer lamps I have personally tested had L70s closer to 1000 hours, nowhere near 3000-5000 hours. Of course since I am involved in Aerolamp I am not a credible third party, but I am not asking anyone to believe me, I am simply explaining why I decline to believe this 3000-5000 hour claim that is presently without any substantiation whatsoever, not even a paper or conference poster.

Of course, a cheap 1000-hour bulb that is easy to replace and available from multiple manufacturers is great! For many people this approach makes sense. But it is not a 3000-5000 hour bulb and consumers need to know that in order to replace their bulbs in a timely fashion.

You will probably say that the paper and poster and is not credible third party data. 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?