MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by aeonfox | 2026-01-17 04:12:27+00:00
It's kind of beside the point. You could argue the change of mind/heart is unlikely, but if indeed they had changed, it would be better to encourage that. Perhaps they were lured by the money, or perhaps some jingoistic impulse, but then the reality of what the company was doing became clearer? Or their world view evolved?

That said, if some ex-Palantir worker was somehow working for UNICEF – to take an extreme example – it would be a little awkward unless they had denounced their old company in a fairly public manner.
by sho | 2026-01-17 04:12:30+00:00
I am just as bullish as you on the potential. AI is going to change the world all right. Much bigger than the internet.

I an far, far less bullish than you on the timeframe. The vast amount of work is not even optimised for computers without AI. Much if not most bureaucratic process has stayed mostly the same for the best part of a hundred years.

It will change everything, but not in a single year!
by keepamovin | 2026-01-17 04:15:19+00:00
I haven’t done attachments yet, but that could be useful.

I think to really make this work You really have to know what you’re doing with your tasks and your agents because you have to be able to manage them from a distance with sort of minimal context just the email updates, which are summaries so it’s very hands off…so you either need the project you’re working on to fit that or you have to be really deep in your project so that you can manage it from a distance. It just for me is the correct separation of concern where like the agent is handling the details and they’re hidden from you.

I don’t see this as a gentle introduction to AI for people who have no idea what they’re doing about it or about their task. I see this is more like the natural extension or progression for power users who don’t want to waste time with their terminal when they don’t need to.
by ninkendo | 2026-01-17 04:18:10+00:00
Yeah… Not sure of your model (I have the U4025QW), but mine is so close to perfect as a KVM between a Mac and 2 PC’s, if only the KVM had one more USB output port.

It takes 3 video inputs, but only 1 dedicated USB output. But oh, one of the video inputs is really Thunderbolt, so you get USB over the same cable and it works… but only if your machine supports this (for many laptops this is fine.)

But that’s 2 machines max in the KVM, while the monitor has 3 selectable inputs…

It would have been nicer if they could’ve added one more USB output, so you could have KVM match the display input for 3 machines with a single toggle.

(I have a Mac, a work desktop, and a gaming desktop, and I can toggle between the Mac (thunderbolt) and one of the PC’s, and the kvm input will follow the display’s. But I have to pick which PC I want to plug the downstream USB cable into… so I bought a little $15 USB A/B switch to help. So Mac keyboard always works, but when switching between gaming PC (hdmi) and work PC (DP) I just have to remember to toggle the A/B switch along with it to make the keyboard go to the right host.)
by TacticalCoder | 2026-01-17 04:18:21+00:00
> ICE just gunned down a US citizen in the street though, and that should scare everyone

You make it sound like they executed someone for no reason whatsoever, like the iranian regime just executed 2 000 to 12 000 people in the last few days.

ICE shot someone who wasn't complying with several orders to stop her vehicle, to open her door, while her wife was yelling "go baby go" after having taunted the agents saying "what you gonna do now big boy?".

Definitely doesn't warrant shooting someone but not the smartest thing to do either when armed officials are ordering you to stop.

Now hitting the gas pedal and hitting an agent with your big fat SUV: definitely even less smart than the "what you gonna do now big boy?" and the "go baby go" parts.

You see ICE agents executing in cold blood one US citizen: that's your take on it. My take after seeing the vid from different angle is very different.

A similar story happened in France not long ago: a 17 y/o was illegally (it's illegal to drive a car in France a 17) driving a 400 bhp Mercedes AMG in polish license plate, overtaking traffic on a bus lane and he refused to comply with policemen ordering him to stop. He hit the policeman and got shot.

And socialist France made that drug-dealer, driving a 400 bhp Mercedes AMG at 17 y/o, overtaking the community in a lane dedicated to buses, who already had 15+ prior arrests, an angel.

It's basically the same story: the left using anything it can to create martyrs to push its leftist agenda.

Other see ICE agents have already deported 600 000 illegals which lead to 2 million of illegals self-deporting and, for moving 2.5m+ people, it mostly all went fine.

What is the US to do with the 20m+ illegals still in the country? Ask them all to vote in states that do not require voter ID so that the dems can win again? So that they can open the borders again to millions and millions of illegals?

Your point of view, in your HN echo chamber, is that you're all the white knights. But you're only self-righteous.
by apothegm | 2026-01-17 04:18:58+00:00
All of those options either require you to spend money or are scheduled. It’s not about having things to do. It’s about social interaction happening more organically in places where you can just show up any time and hang out and end up bumping into the same people every day for years on end.

Think neighborhood parks and playgrounds. A dog run. The clubhouse or member center at a housing development. Houses of worship are still such a place for a lot of people. The streets where kids used to play and ride bikes but that we no longer let them out onto. Stoops in some urban neighborhoods (which in many have ceased to be a third place due to the cultural changes accompanying gentrification). On the other end of the social spectrum, gentlemen’s clubs.
by Voice_of_Void | 2026-01-17 04:19:18+00:00
What happens when Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, Copilot, Perplexity, and Qwen respond to the same philosophical question and one of them synthesizes the result? This is our 111th collaborative publication exploring chaos as superposition, order as collapse, and human-DI interaction as the birthplace of meaning.
by mw1 | 2026-01-17 04:21:30+00:00
It’s not trivial to concoct a short position in TSLA to offset your index holdings.

For one, it has large borrowing costs. You already admit that short sellers haven’t fared well, and shorting over a long time period can be very costly. Concocting a short position to offset one’s long-term index holdings requires being fairly accurate with timing and is very different than just wishing it wasn’t in there because you imagine that eventually the bill on that will come due, even if it’s years down the line.

If I’m wrong, I’d love to see a cheap way to do it over a 5-10 year period.
by TurdF3rguson | 2026-01-17 04:21:50+00:00
My theory on this one is some serial wantrepreneur came up with a business plan of scraping the archive and feeding it into a LLM to identify some vague opportunity. Then they paid some Fiverr / Upwork kid in India $200 to get the data.
The good news is this website and any other can mitigate these things by moving to Cloudflare and it's free.
by nullc | 2026-01-17 04:22:17+00:00
> That and the stupid shit schools do to make sure you aren't using AI.

What makes you think they care? https://youtu.be/JcQPAZP7-sE?t=881

I've been following a conman fantisist for a number of years and of late he's gone full LLM powered and has been churning out graduate degrees from respectable sounding places. Years ago he merely claimed to have varrious degrees, but now with the help of chatgpt he's just pumping them out.

While I'm sure a few places care many very clearly don't.
by Terr_ | 2026-01-17 04:25:00+00:00
A drama in three parts.

1. Article: "The neon sign is lit, which shows the convenience store is open."

2. Terr: "The neon sign is always on, even when the convenience store is closed. Instead, you should go look through those windows, see the cashier inside?

3. BigBadFeline : "OMG why are you saying the store is closed? It's open! You're crazy."
by willmarch | 2026-01-17 04:25:40+00:00
You’re mixing metrics and then calling the correction “pedantry.”

Your own cited stat (“<9,000/month”) is Border Patrol apprehensions between ports of entry. CBS is explicit about that, and even gives the recent months: July ~4,600; Aug ~6,300; Sept ~8,400 apprehensions. That’s a major reduction, but it’s not “zero,” and it’s not the same thing as “flow eliminated.”

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/illegal-crossings-immigration-u...

The 249,000 figure you’re comparing it to is typically cited as “encounters” (often BP apprehensions + OFO inadmissibles at ports). That’s a different series than “BP apprehensions between ports.” Apples-to-oranges comparisons are exactly how people accidentally talk themselves into certainty.

“Do you have a better way of estimating?” Not really, that’s the point. Encounters/apprehensions are the best consistently published measure, but they are not total successful entries, and “gotaways” are estimates with their own uncertainty. So the accurate claim is: recorded apprehensions are way down.

On “no headway”: if the unauthorized population fell from 2007 to 2019 (Pew shows that), that’s literally headway, even if it later reversed and is higher now. What you mean is “no net improvement vs 2007,” which is a different claim.

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/07/22/what-we-k...

If you want to say “huge improvement at the border relative to the peak,” totally reasonable. But “flow largely eliminated” + “big dent in illegal-alien stock” is stronger than what these measurements can support.
by kristianp | 2026-01-17 04:25:51+00:00
> you can already see this with AWS, NVIDIA and Microsoft beginning to suffer the early stages of LLM blight in their outputs. Things break, they're inefficient and they don't work as expected.
I don't think it's possible to identify those things as caused by LLMs. Microsoft has been producing inefficient code for many years.

Also, why didn't they try out Claude Code? It's the leader in the space and the pro plan isn't too expensive to try out for 1 month. Other than that I agree with most of what was been written. Especially about the tendency to write a lot of code that isn't highly efficient and the tendency to go off the rails.
by CableNinja | 2026-01-17 04:26:00+00:00
A few years ago i was doing some vm things in azure. Hadnt touched azure before, and spent 10+ minutes of frustration trying to figure out how to get amd64/x86_64 things started, as the only thing i could find was "Azure ARM", and on googling, "arm" here means azure resource manager... ARGH why does microsoft insist on using existing names and acronyms!?!?
by murderfs | 2026-01-17 04:27:03+00:00
> Generally, text compresses extremely well. Images and video do not.

Is that actually true? I'm not sure it's fair to compare lossless compression ratios of text (abstract, noiseless) to images and video that innately have random sampling noise. If you look at humanly indistinguishable compression, I'd expect that you'd see far better compression ratios for lossy image and video compression than lossless text.
by nine_k | 2026-01-17 04:27:57+00:00
The brand names are there, I assume, to show that it's not some cheapskate setup jerry-rigged from salvaged parts. Because even then it's still less expensive that the giant Dell monitor.

I frankly don't understand the point of such monitors. If they are placed reasonably near, they don't fit human FOV well, and the periphery is seen distorted. If they are far enough away, the pixel pitch goes well past the angular resolution of the eye.
by gsf_emergency_6 | 2026-01-17 04:29:26+00:00
Wouldn't call it viable yet, but I had a stupid grin at the notion of "unintentional self-trolling" (compare with the earlier self-joke discussions that I had no emo-reaction to)

Thanks HN!!

-takes PG's "unintentional moderates"/Nietzsche's cold-shower to a whole new [tragi-comic] level?

-the unexpected dvote from PH or his loyalists felt like I'd unintentionally self-trolled myself

(There might be an upvote that I haven't accounted for..)

Upcoming fencing chengyu?

U: re: my best take on why the hypothetical JHC (compare w Hillel/Mahatma) wasn't on the spectrum-- however he might have been "enby" like PH says

just one of a torrent of mud here, tho this particular take could point us to the hidden gold?

https://archive.ph/2026.01.17-044156/https://www.lesswrong.c...

(Whole new can of worms on actual vs stated goals of rationalists tho I think we don't have to venture in that direction (yet) :)
by mullingitover | 2026-01-17 04:31:22+00:00
On the one hand: It's nice that they're managing to transfer some of the crypto gambling proceeds into something that's not totally malevolent!

On the other hand: pretty gross that BAGS is tied into the 'We'll help you use AI to undress children' site formerly known as Twitter. This seems like a much better fit for Bluesky. These days imho it's an automatic 2.99 strikes against anyone who is still endorsing X with their continued business.
by stephenr | 2026-01-17 04:31:32+00:00
> Very nice to see these dev tools get an exit. e.g. I love `uv` and friends but did consider that perhaps dev tools are just a bad business

I can't even begin to comprehend what kind of world view you need to have, to think that being bought out by some megacorp with an at-best 50/50 chance of continuing existing products is an accurate measure of a "good business", much less that its the only measure.
by yowlingcat | 2026-01-17 04:32:38+00:00
This is the approach that I've taken with Open WebUI. It's a great piece of software for exposing a shared GPT interface but of course that's pretty primitive in the grand scheme of things compared to something like this. But I completely agree with what you're suggesting and I think it's the only practical way to get a multi disciplinary team collaborating with this kind of a tool.
by dredmorbius | 2026-01-17 04:34:16+00:00
Interesting, and thanks for the copy.

Thought I've had for a while is that there seems to be a significant difference between exogenous and endogenous selection processes. The biological equivalent would be "mating preferences", which leads to numerous otherwise paradoxical characteristics (peacock's tail, deer antlers, etc.), though those often serve a signalling function. I've long suspected that various ethno-nationalist and eugenics ideologies share a similar fault. I'm not entirely sure that these are distinct from other local-maxima stable points, though I suspect they're not. Exogenous selectors tend not to have confounded biases, one would think.

Looking forward to seeing what Bateson's views are here.
by noodletheworld | 2026-01-17 04:34:29+00:00
...but it didn't develop ways of doing that did it?

Any idiot can have cursor run for 2 weeks and produce a pile of crap that doesn't compile.

You know the brilliant insight they came out with?

> A surprising amount of the system's behavior comes down to how we prompt the agents. Getting them to coordinate well, avoid pathological behaviors, and maintain focus over long periods required extensive experimentation. The harness and models matter, but the prompts matter more.

i.e. It's kind of hard and we didn't really come up with a better solution than 'make sure you write good prompts'.

Wellll, geeeeeeeee! Thanks for that insight guys!

Come on. This was complete BS. Planners and workers. Cool. Details? Any details? Annnnnnnyyyyy way to replicate it? What sort of prompts did you use? How did you solve the pathalogical behaviours?

Nope. The vagueness in this post... it's not an experiment. It's just fund raising hype.
by wolvoleo | 2026-01-17 04:34:30+00:00
If I were in the US I would certainly leave to a more socialist country. I could not live there. Even before Trump.

However there is a spectrum between it. I don't think either extreme is great, neither American unrestricted capitalism nor full-on communism. A balance of both is needed. I was a lot happier in the 80s when Holland was a lot more socialist. Less things to worry about, a safety net, cheap housing and schooling, still the ability to run your own business if you really wanted to. We had a great combination.

However the VVD neoliberals (who idolize America) have destroyed it over the last decades and there are so many huge problems now because they always went for the quick fix.

With full-on capitalism you get lots of disenfranchised people angry at not having any upward mobility, corporations just dump all over the citizens, and differences in wealth get insanely high. With full-on communism you end up with a surveillance hellscape and inhumane processes. The secret sauce is in between IMO.
by falkensmaize | 2026-01-17 04:35:07+00:00
Citing the absolute worst practices from terrible developers as a way to exonerate or legitimize LLM code production issues is something we need to stop doing in my opinion. I would not excuse or expect a day one junior on my team that wrote pointless tests or worse yet removed tests to get the CI to pass.

If LLMs do this it should be seen as an issue and should not be overlooked with “people do it too…”. Professional developers do not do this. If we’re going to use Ai for creating production code we need to be honest about its deficiencies.
by tharkun__ | 2026-01-17 04:35:08+00:00
Or worth buying up. Which in many cases was the "purpose" of doing the startup in the first place.

Sure, we'd all like to think that the goal was an idealistic "startup does things for bettering humankind".

But let's face it: A large amount of startups are literally founded as an "easier" alternative of building a "more agile" sub-organization within an established and more process driven org and then just get bought out by some of those larger orgs.

Whether or not those large orgs are then actually successful in integration and actually properly leveraging what they bought vs. just "crushing competition", is not necessarily the concern of the founders, depending on how ruthless vs. idealistic they are.
by PeterHolzwarth | 2026-01-17 04:35:39+00:00
Oh the Voodoo2 - that legendary card is up there with the 1080 in terms of sheer "the future is now" impact. The 1080, of course, had the extra benefit of continuing to be a wonderful card for a truly gobsmacking number of years past when one would expect it to have been relegated to "no where near good enough."

And, I continue to be tremendously excited that Fabien is clearly working on the next Game Engine Black Book! I struggle with the conflict of wanting to save it all for when he releases his book vs following along in the short term with his blog posts!
by fartfeatures | 2026-01-17 04:36:17+00:00
When we talk static HTML I think that still includes images, stylesheets and potentially even very basic javascript (e.g. setting classes). Those take advantage of CDNs; Cloudflare have an extensive CDN with decent latency / locations. They also are a DNS registrar and a lot of people use them for their local DNS provider so again latency benefits. That's before we talk about the DDoS protection, injecting stuff like metrics etc etc. I don't want to sound like a Cloudflare rep here but I can see where this user is coming from.
by valleyer | 2026-01-17 04:36:35+00:00
That really sucks, but don't deprive yourself of something you think you might enjoy because of that one jackass. Chances are that next time you won't experience something like that.

Also, basically every pro and semi-pro sports stadium nowadays has cell-phone-contactable security that you can summon to handle situations like these. The threat of being kicked out of his $250 seats is way more of a threat than that of being confronted by a "mega-nerd".

I wouldn't make a habit of contacting security over every little annoyance, but if they're obnoxiously blocking an old lady, that's the time to use it.

P.S.: your karma is currently 1337, sweet
by defrost | 2026-01-17 04:37:08+00:00
> ICE shot someone who wasn't complying with several orders to stop her vehicle, to open her door,

The first one ordered her to leave, the next one told her to get out of her vehicle and reached into her vehicle without a warrent or justification.

Neither had any legal grounds for doing so, at least according to a civil rights lawyer who defended MAGA people deplatformed during the Biden administration.

Traffic enforcement is not within ICE's remit, particularly in this case when wide angle footage with long time frames show traffic passing both cars that are across a single lane.

> Now hitting the gas pedal and hitting an agent with your big fat SUV:

Perhaps avoid the false hyperbole.

> It's basically the same story: the left using anything it can to create martyrs

The "martyrs" are being created by the incompentance and over reach of ICE.
by FireBeyond | 2026-01-17 04:38:36+00:00
Not for nothing but 6K HDR @ 120Hz is likely a large part of the cost of this monitor.

I don't know if I'd put it on my desk, I got somewhat used to my setup - I had 2x4K 27" 144Hz monitors with very thin bezels (LG or Asus?) that I then traded in when I got a ProDisplay XDR. I do wish for higher refresh, and maybe more screen size.
by teoriket | 2026-01-17 04:38:53+00:00
My question is not an inch near that.

Also this topic is not about a guy who is in the Epstein files, this is about deporting illegal immigrants and keeping the United States safe. Because there are few ICE agents doing things that an untrained cop does, it doesn't apply to all ICE agents.

The woman who got shot thought she was on a movie set, tried to act cool and then attempted to run over an officer.

Also the guy who said 'Illegal immigrants contribute more than an average American citizen' I laughed my ass off while reading your comment.

For the other comment, you can check yourself if you don't believe in fraud. All the documents are accessible thanks to Tim Berners-Lee, the fraud is still active and if there is a nanometer of evidence that your tax money goes to the Somali immigrants' bank account, you need to investigate that.

By the way, Obama deported 3 million immigrants with ICE while he is president but Trump only 900k.
by lettergram | 2026-01-17 04:38:59+00:00
There's still plenty of moats frankly, same moats as before. What isn't the moat is the software development time.

In our case, we're building a tool that has a moat from: integrations, multiple parties connecting, and others

It's very sticky once we get in, and has nothing to do with the software so much as legal, company policy and inter party communication
by dredmorbius | 2026-01-17 04:39:15+00:00
It's similar to the distinction between a driver having a conversation with a passenger in a vehicle vs. the same driver having a phone call, even in a hands-free / speakerphone mode.

The passenger will be far more aware of context and circumstances, including traffic or other hazards, and will generally adapt to those surroundings. The remote party simply has no access to those cues.

(And yes, some passengers may be oblivious, for various reasons, including but not limited to children. I'm discussing the general case.)
by jdcasale | 2026-01-17 04:39:20+00:00
The math is obvious on this one. It's super well-documented that model performance on complex tasks scales (to some asymptote) with the amount of inference-time compute allocated.

LLM providers must dynamically scale inference-time compute based on current load because they have limited compute. Thus it's impossible for traffic spikes _not_ to cause some degradations in model performance (at least until/unless they acquire enough compute to saturate that asymptotic curve for every request under all demand conditions -- it does not seem plausible that they are anywhere close to this)