MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jsnell | 2026-01-19 15:19:28+00:00
I would have thought that my issue with what you did was pretty clear from the original message, and would not require any particularly sophisticated interpretation.

">" is the notation for quotes.

You did not use it for a quote. Instead you used it to present your own distortion (not a paraphrase) as whimsicalism's words. That is not cool. Stop doing it.
by disgruntledphd2 | 2026-01-19 15:19:54+00:00
> The rules based order, as endlessly parroted out by mostly European and USAian talking heads, is meaningless.

It was never meaningless. It was rather like the rights enumerated in the US bill of rights back before the Civil War. Aspirational, rarely enforced but something that (some) people some of the time tried to live up to.
by hansvm | 2026-01-19 15:19:55+00:00
Perhaps. Would you mind elaborating on what you're envisioning?

In both cases (auto-regressive vs diffusive), you still have some process that's being followed, and the exact steps in the process are important to the result. If you constraint at each step then you get the equivalent of something like projected gradient descent (as an analogy) and aren't guaranteed the same solution. If you constrain as a post-processing phase then (a) diffusion wasn't required for the initial generation, and (b) that's still unlikely to converge to the same distribution (for similar reasons -- using my example of ellipsis errors, if you corrected that particular mistake in post then the closest valid messages to the initial generation are likely too short and thus still incorrect).
by eudamoniac | 2026-01-19 15:20:13+00:00
I think people will eventually learn to not trust any videos or stories they see online. I think the much bigger issue will be what happens when the LLM providers encode "alignment" into the models to insist on certain worldviews, opinions, or even falsehoods. Trust in LLMs and usage of them is increasing.

"Great question! No, we have always been at war with Eurasia. Can I help with anything else?"
by throw0101d | 2026-01-19 15:20:44+00:00
From Nick Schifrin of PBS' Newshour:

"""

NEW: @potus letter to @jonasgahrstore links @NobelPrize to Greenland, reiterates threats, and is forwarded by the NSC staff to multiple European ambassadors in Washington. I obtained the text from multiple officials:

Dear Ambassador:

President Trump has asked that the following message, shared with Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, be forwarded to your [named head of government/state]

"Dear Jonas: Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America. Denmark cannot protect that land from Russia or China, and why do they have a “right of ownership” anyway? There are no written documents, it’s only that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago, but we had boats landing there, also. I have done more for NATO than any other person since its founding, and now, NATO should do something for the United States. The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland. Thank you! President DJT"

"""

* https://twitter.com/nickschifrin/status/2013107018081489006#...

* https://xcancel.com/nickschifrin/status/2013107018081489006#...
by consumer451 | 2026-01-19 15:20:44+00:00
I've been think about these broad critiques of Capitalism, and while I sometimes find myself nodding in at least partial agreement, I worry that it's far too blunt a criticism.

If you look at Soviet or Chinese Communism, they also stifled innovation, and they also destroyed entire ecosystems. They also had extreme concentrations of power, which allowed psychopathic leaders to commit atrocities.

If we want to come up with real long-term solutions, maybe we need to be honest about underlying human traits, and address those via systematic controls. Otherwise, it feels like we are going to keep bouncing from extreme to extreme, a tendency that seems like another easily exploited human trait that needs to be identified and addressed.

I guess my point here is that maybe it's not entirely specific systems at fault here, as much as it is universal human traits and group dynamics.

Disclaimer: I thought we had already found an answer, and it was Social Democracy with a regulated market economy. However, this system seems not extreme enough for many people to get excited about it.
by zozbot234 | 2026-01-19 15:20:54+00:00
Being able to do everything in user space looks like it might be a worthwhile gain in some scenarios. You're right that there can be some context switching overhead to deal with, though even that might possibly be mitigated; the rendezvous(2) mechanism (which works in combination with segattach(2) in plan9) is relevant, depending on how exactly it's implemented under the hood.
by ZitchDog | 2026-01-19 15:21:44+00:00
Hi HN!

I built TJS over my holiday as a way to experiment and get better at agentic coding. I was astounded at how quickly software can be built when you have a full test spec like JSON Schema has.

The thing I'm most proud of is the TypeScript type inference. It automatically deduces the types from the JSON Schema. Try it out in the playground to see what I mean! https://sberan.github.io/tjs/#playground
by mkw5053 | 2026-01-19 15:21:53+00:00
This got me thinking about the Unix philosophy of composing small, specialized tools that each do one thing well. While at first glance a "single powerful tool" approach might seem aligned with that ethos, I think it actually runs counter to it. Forcing agents to reimplement ls, grep, and find throws away decades of battle-tested code. The real Unix-style approach would be giving agents more specialized tools, not fewer, and letting them learn to compose those tools effectively.
by YeGoblynQueenne | 2026-01-19 15:21:55+00:00
>> The problem? Every compound interest calculator online is terrible. Ugly interfaces, ads covering half the screen, can't customize compounding frequency properly, no year-by-year breakdowns. I've tried so many. They all suck.

While you can't do anything about (other peoples') interfaces, you can absolutely do something for ads. You can install an ad-blocker on your browser. This is not just for you, OP, it's for everyone: get an ad blocker. Your experience of the internet will be radically changed.

I am reminded of this anytime I sit at someone else's computer who doesn't have an ad blocker, or whenever I see internet conversations complaining about ads; I wonder "what ads"? Then I remember: the ads I'm blocking.

So do yourself a big, warm, fuzzy favour and make the internet better for you. Block ads today.

Choose your own ad blocker, obviously.

What, you thought this was an ad for a specific ad blocker, didn't you? Nah, any one will do. Just block bloody ads.
by lovich | 2026-01-19 15:21:59+00:00
I don’t have an opinion on if it’s worse or not because some people mistakenly think they are free.

I meant that from the perspective of how market forces play out, hyper concentration of wealth into a few actors looks the same whether the title of the those actors is “king” or “oligarch”.

You start losing the wisdom of the crowds effect the market gives if you have a handful of people making the decisions for the entire market
by rugun | 2026-01-19 15:22:25+00:00
They are stupid when it comes to everyone’s specialty. Some level of ignorance around what you’re doing is a prerequisite of feeling like AI is a good tool (and is usually the exact wrong scenario to use AI as well, to boot).

It’s like using a poorly made steel adjustable wrench. People who know how to use it will low-key hate it (but still maybe find it better than no tool at all), whereas people just using it to smash things because heavy will think it’s pretty much the perfect tool.
by dathinab | 2026-01-19 15:22:40+00:00
actual, that is de-facto wrong

many alternative Colas don't try to imitate Coca Cola but give Cola their own twist, and IMHO multiple of them taste noticeable better then Coca Cola

and for people with little money getting cheaper knock-off is pretty common and people get used to it

at the same time Coca Colas brand isn't seen as "fancy"/"high quality"/"well regarded" enough anymore. So many restaurants for which cola isn't just a "default fallback they don't care about" but a drink commonly combined with their meals, started serving other Cola brand like e.g. Fritz Cola, Mio Mio Cola or Afri Cola. Also some of the more beer/alk. focused companies have started to branch out to soft drinks as Alkohole consume is going down with some surprise successes (e.g. Paulana Spezi) but also with existing distribution contracts with Restaurants and Food Chains, so their stuff is popping up increasingly more often.

And I mean we are still speaking about the kind of soft drink with the most dominant brand control (Cola/Coca Cola), for all other soft drinks the US companies have a far less strong hold on them.

And sure some pople like I guess you will insist on drinking Coca Cola.

But also if the US continues to paint themself as the new big evil (while Russia looks increasingly weak, and China is clever enough to move mostly behind the scene) then it's just a matter of time until people will start ostracizing people for buying (unnecessary) products which are "well known US" and haven't somehow separated their company image from the US. Like seriously how did the US became so incompetent in politics that you find people all over the EU which think joining with China against the US would be a good idea and long term better for their quality of live... like wtf.
by embedding-shape | 2026-01-19 15:22:41+00:00
Right, but what does that have to do with "every other developer has to time their release and development around GTA 6", especially considering that Silksongs release was a surprise, so what exactly could you even plan for?

My original point that there is so many things at play, GTA 6 launch date, which may move, together with other things outside of your control, that "planning your release and development around GTA 6" doesn't make sense, unless you're a big company doing a AAA release.
by magicalhippo | 2026-01-19 15:23:14+00:00
From the linked paper:

Our main results, depicted in Figure 2, show fairly consistent patterns across datasets. In particular, both spatial and temporal features can be recovered with a linear probe, these representations smoothly increase in quality throughout the first half of the layers of the model before reaching a plateau, and the representations are more accurate with increasing model scale.

While the previous results are suggestive, none of our evidence directly shows that the model uses the features learned by the probe. To address this, we search for individual neurons with input or output weights that have high cosine similarity with the learned probe direction. That is, we search for neurons which read from or write to a direction similar to the one learned by the probe.

We find that when we project the activation datasets on to the weights of the most similar neurons, these neurons are indeed highly sensitive to the true location of entities in space or time (see Figure 5). In other words, there exist individual neurons within the model that are themselves fairly predictive feature probes. Moreover, these neurons are sensitive to all of the entity types within our datasets, providing stronger evidence for the claim these representations are unified.
by 1718627440 | 2026-01-19 15:23:34+00:00
I see, but now you are essentially operating on multiple files, at once, so the serialization makes some sense. Although for just this, I wouldn't write the operation in bash at all:

find . -type f -name '*.mp3' | wc -l

Honestly I don't really view the shell / filesystem interface as a security boundary. I use the shell mainly for (automation of) interactive use, so any screwup due to e.g. quoting issues is my own fault, maybe even of using stupid filenames. Shell is a great language to connect streams of different programs into each other, not so much for doing any work. If I do that, I would reach for C.
by shadowgovt | 2026-01-19 15:24:01+00:00
In social networks, revenue is enhanced by stickiness.

Anger increases stickiness. Once one discovers there are other people on the site, and they are guilty of being wrong on the internet, one is incentivized to correct them. It feels useful because it feels like you're generating content that will help other people.

I suspect the failure of the system that nobody necessarily predicted is that people seem to not only tolerate, but actually like being a little angry online all the time.
by drysine | 2026-01-19 15:24:07+00:00
>The West isn’t a real entity, it’s not coordinated like a state or a nation.

The EU and NATO look with surprise at your statement.

>I know they teach you from a very young age that the West is your enemy and things could be so much better if it weren’t for the West, but outside of Russia we don’t have the reverse obsession.

The fact that you believe in this "they teach you from a very young age" story tells quite clearly that you do have such an obsession.
by Otterly99 | 2026-01-19 15:24:50+00:00
Thank you for pointing that out. It irritates me every time I see the "water waste" argument. A toilet tank contains 5-13L of water, so if everybody started flushing only half the time they piss, that's an average of 4.5L of water saved per usage! That's roughly 900 LLM queries (using the 5 gram of water figure). Yet, I don't see anybody urging other to flush less, even thought it would have a much bigger impact.
And if you ask, yes, I only flush once in a while, so I earned my tokens.
by troupo | 2026-01-19 15:25:05+00:00
Functional illiteracy and lack of any capacity to hold any context longer than two sentences has long been a plague on HN. Now that we've outsourced our entire thinking process to "@grok is this true", it has now claimed almost the entirety of human race.

soulofmischief: complains that AI-skeptics would say the Wright brothers were idiots because they didn't imediately implement a supersonic jet

ares623: we were promised supersonic jets today or very soon (translation: AI hype and scam artists have already promised a lot now)

eru: The passive voice is doing a lot of work in your sentence. (Translation: he questions the validity of ares623's statement)

me: Here are just three examples of hype and scam promising the equivalent of super jet today, with some companies already being burned by these promises.

soulofmischief: some incoherent rambling
by throw0101d | 2026-01-19 15:25:39+00:00
For the record, in 1917 the US bought the then Danish West Indies and made them the United States Virgin Islands and gave up Greenland:

> During 1916, the two sides agreed to a sale price of $25,000,000, and the United States accepted a Danish demand for a declaration stating that they would "not object to the Danish Government extending their political and economic interests to the whole of Greenland".[12][18] Although it had a claim on northern Greenland based on explorations by Charles Francis Hall[19] and Robert Peary, the United States decided that the purchase was more important, especially because of the nearby Panama Canal.[20] Historian Bo Lidegaard questions the utility of such a declaration, as the country had never disputed Danish sovereignty.[12]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_the_Danish_West_Indi...

See:

> In proceeding this day to the signature of the Convention respecting the cession of the Danish West-Indian Islands to the United States of America, the undersigned Secretary of State of the United States of America, duly authorized by his Government, has the honor to declare that the Government of the United States of America will not object to the Danish Government extending their political and economic interests to the whole of Greenland.

* https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1917/d881
by ekianjo | 2026-01-19 15:25:41+00:00
> in term of dependency when it comes to solar vs gas/oil.

I don't agree. Oil and gas can be sourced from many different countries, you don't have to rely only on Russia. Russia is just the obvious choice if you are in the middle of Europe, but there are many other producers.

If China stops the supply of solar panels today, you are only good if you have already achieved 100% energy needs coverage with solar. No large country is going to be at that level anytime soon.
by Quothling | 2026-01-19 15:25:48+00:00
AI is pretty bad at Python and Go as well. It depends a lot on who uses it though. We have a lot of non-developers who make things work with Python. A lot of it will never need a developer because it being bad doesn't matter for what it does. Some of it needs to be basically rewritten from scratch.

Over all I think it's fine.

I do love AI for writing yaml and bicep. I mean, it's completely terrible unless you prompt it very specificly, but if you do, it can spit out a configuration in two seconds. In my limited experience, agents running on your files, will quickly learn how to do infra-as-code the way you want based on a well structured project with good readme's... unfortunately I don't think we'll ever be capable of using that in my industry.
by sigio | 2026-01-19 15:25:59+00:00
Worst is... the bots, spam and ads are still there, even if there is no-one to read them.
Usenet might still be alive (for piracy/binaries at least), and maybe a handfull of still-alive text-groups, but in the text-groups I used to read, it's nothing but a constant flow of spam since 15+ years.
by SpaceNugget | 2026-01-19 15:26:35+00:00
So does the one it's in reply to. But you skipped that one to complain about this one.

It's absurd that anyone could pretend to believe that more people having guns is a "deterrent" mild or otherwise to lethal use of force? In every interview about why american cops shoot and kill orders of magnitude more people than most civilized countries, americans always argue it's because their citizenry is armed so the police need to be prepared to make life or death decisions in a split second at every moment on the job.
by itishappy | 2026-01-19 15:26:42+00:00
Right! My terminology may be imprecise here, but I believe there is still an important distinction:

The depth map stored for image processing is image metadata, meaning it calculates one depth per pixel from a single position in space. Note that it doesn't have the ability to measure that many depth values, so it measures what it can using LIDAR and focus information and estimates the rest.

On the other hand, a point cloud is not image data. It isn't necessarily taken from a single position, in theory the device could be moved around to capture addition angles, and the result is a sparse point cloud of depth measurements. Also, raw point cloud data doesn't necessarily come tagged with point metadata such as color.

I also note that these distinctions start to vanish when dealing with video or using more than one capture device.
by hughw | 2026-01-19 15:27:30+00:00
When I first used my own telescope to view Saturn I had a thought, "they can't fake that!" Photos in a magazine or on television could have been faked. And the moon landing truthers became unhinged about it. I had not appreciated that I subtly and unconsciously held a reservation about the truth of it all.

This is the modern epistemic crisis. And wait till Elon implants a brain computer interface in you. You won't even fully trust your eye looking through a telescope.
by throw0101d | 2026-01-19 15:29:06+00:00
For the record, in 1917 the US bought the then Danish West Indies and made them the United States Virgin Islands and gave up Greenland:

> During 1916, the two sides agreed to a sale price of $25,000,000, and the United States accepted a Danish demand for a declaration stating that they would "not object to the Danish Government extending their political and economic interests to the whole of Greenland".[12][18] Although it had a claim on northern Greenland based on explorations by Charles Francis Hall[19] and Robert Peary, the United States decided that the purchase was more important, especially because of the nearby Panama Canal.[20] Historian Bo Lidegaard questions the utility of such a declaration, as the country had never disputed Danish sovereignty.[12]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_the_Danish_West_Indi...

See:

> In proceeding this day to the signature of the Convention respecting the cession of the Danish West-Indian Islands to the United States of America, the undersigned Secretary of State of the United States of America, duly authorized by his Government, has the honor to declare that the Government of the United States of America will not object to the Danish Government extending their political and economic interests to the whole of Greenland.

* https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1917/d881
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by freeourdays | 2026-01-19 15:29:47+00:00
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