MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by iLemming | 2026-01-12 19:46:54+00:00
This isn't a "religious war", because similarities of Markdown and Org-mode are only superficial, once you learn more about the differences, you will see what actually makes Org-mode much, much different.

- Org's outline is semantic - the nesting IS the data structure. You can collapse/expand, refile, navigate as a tree natively. Markdown treats `#` markers as decoration on top of flat text.

- Org drawers, properties, timestamps are integrated. Markdown frontmatter is bolted on.

- Org has in-buffer table editing. Markdown tables are write-once text blobs.

- Org can execute code blocks and weave results back into the document. Markdown extensions can display code, but they don't integrate execution.

- Org can track what links to what, rename headings and update links automatically.

Your claim of the "20% stylistic" is just wrong - those feature differences aren't cosmetic - they do change how you use the tool for knowledge work.

> If orgmode had the popularity that markdown had, it would also have twenty variants

Org-mode does have fragmentation - it's just vertical (depth of features) rather than horizontal (incompatible variants).

Org-mode is less "one format" and more "a Lisp-cursed toolkit where everyone assembles their own variant through configuration" The Markdown variants are at least standardized incompatibility - you kinda know what GFM does. With Org, you don't really know what someone's personal setup supports until you try it.

If Org-mode had GitHub's reach and people were pushing personal variants of the spec onto the web, you'd absolutely see 20+ "Org-flavored Markdown" projects. The consistency is partly an accident of Org being the domain of power users who configure rather than fork.

There's no "causative reason" for why markdown is more popular than Org - the entire argument is just nonsense. Nobody in the right mind (with the proper Org-mode experience) would ever argue "which is better". It's like arguing LaTeX vs. Word - LaTeX is clearly technically superior for certain tasks, even though Word won institutional dominance - but only those who have very little exposure to LaTeX would argue that "Word's popularity proves it's better designed...", or something.
by NikolaNovak | 2026-01-12 19:46:59+00:00
If I understand it correctly, no; PeopleSoft is Legacy in some ways but it is actively developed and improved/maintained. The Peoplesoft Integration Broker is "modern-ish" from that perspective, and a proper middleware messaging system:

https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E92519_02/pt856pbr3/eng/pt/tibr/c...

It'll do XML messages in somewhat proprietary format with other PeopleSoft applications, and "near-real-time" queues via web services with other applications in a fairly standardized way (WSDL etc). I think of PeopleSoft Integration Broker as a "mini, proprietary ESB", as inaccurate as it may be in details :).
by tgtweak | 2026-01-12 19:47:10+00:00
Very interesting but the slight issue I see here is one of data: the information that is recorded and in the training data here is heavily skewed to those intelligent/recognized enough to have recorded it and had it preserved - much less than the current status quo of "everyone can trivially document their thoughts and life" diorama of information we have today to train LLMs on. I suspect that a frontier model today would have 50+TB of training data in the form of text alone - and that's several orders of magnitude more information and from a much more diverse point of view than what would have survived from that period. The output from that question "what happened in 1834" read like a newspaper/bulletin which is likely a huge part of the data that was digitized (newspapers etc).

Very cool concept though, but it definitely has some bias.
by oldandboring | 2026-01-12 19:47:17+00:00
> In none of those conflicts you mentioned does the US act as the main benefactor to the side causing excessive suffering.

The United States is far and away the Saudis' most important and pivotal ally. We almost single-handedly ensure their security and and diplomatic standing. Now, many believe the "side causing excessive suffering" in that conflict is actually the Houthis. I would be interested to know if you fall in that camp, while (it would seem) not feeling the same way about Hamas, as that would do a better job of making my point than I could ever do on my own.
by mort96 | 2026-01-12 19:47:25+00:00
AFAIU, 40kHz exactly wouldn't really work, if your goal is to represent 0Hz-20kHz: in order to avoid aliasing, you need a low pass filter to remove all frequency content above half your sample rate, and no filter is infinitely hard (and you generally want to give the filter a decent range of frequencies to work with). If you want to start your low pass filter at 20kHz, you want it to end (i.e reach practically -∞dB) at a few kHz above 20kHz. If you used a sample rate of exactly 40kHz, you would need your low pass filter to reach -∞dB at 20kHz, meaning it'd have to start somewhere in the audible region.

Though this is just my understanding. Maybe I'm wrong.
by jcranmer | 2026-01-12 19:47:29+00:00
The C pointer provenance is still in TS form and is largely constructed by trying to retroactively justify the semantics of existing compilers (which all follow some form of pointer provenance, just not necessarily coherently). This is still an area where we have a decent idea of what we want the semantics to be but it's challenging to come up with a working formalization.

I'd have to double-check, but my recollection is that the current TS doesn't actually require that you be able to implement user-written memcpy, rather it's just something that the authors threw their hands up and said "we hope compilers support this, but we can't specify how." In that sense, byte type is going beyond what C does.
by port11 | 2026-01-12 19:47:45+00:00
Our Samsung running Tizen has the obnoxious need to check if antenna-based broadcasting is available, every single time you open the settings menu.

It never is, it won’t ever again be in Europe. But it checks. And lags. And then whatever you chose in the menu is not what it selected.

Every. Single. Time. Going to settings makes me wince.
by SalariaLabs | 2026-01-12 19:47:50+00:00
I’ve been job hunting recently and noticed something that cost me a lot of time.

I was applying broadly on LinkedIn, then wondering why:

rejections came within hours

the same jobs kept resurfacing

“urgent” roles already had hundreds of applicants

some listings never seemed to go away

A recruiter friend pointed out that many listings are:

reposted repeatedly

promoted for visibility rather than active hiring

already saturated with applicants

So I started being stricter about what I applied to and filtered out:

promoted jobs

roles I’d already applied to

jobs I’d already viewed

postings that looked heavily overcrowded

It didn’t improve outcomes overnight, but it significantly reduced time spent and burnout.

Curious if others here have observed the same pattern or have found better heuristics for filtering job listings.
by keernan | 2026-01-12 19:48:06+00:00
To the extent the known universe of human knowledge can be collected and some how parsed to flag questionable material, 'next word predictors' will be an incredible tool and change our world. We are already seeing the impact where the data and knowledge is rules based, such as coding.

But the real power of a database containing the entirety of human knowledge, is finding previously undetected patterns and connections in the data that advances knowledge itself. However, LLMs cannot perform that on their own. They do not, and never will, possess conscious understanding. They are not capable of having thoughts; cannot wonder or use imagination or curiosity; or have ideas.

They will never search the database without being instructed to do so and told what to search for. They will forever require living minds to perform the wondering, imagining, and essential curiosity, that produces the thoughts defining the patterns and connections the LLMs are then instructed to look for.
by FrustratedMonky | 2026-01-12 19:48:23+00:00
Doesn't it also imply that the US Gov was doing something illegal. If the President is immune if doing something official, then the government was doing something officially illegal.

Even Bush/Cheney went through the motions of coming up with a legal reasoning for torture. Even Bush got Congressional approval for military actions.

This president is off the rails not even trying to have even a flimsy cover of legality.
by lpcvoid | 2026-01-12 19:48:35+00:00
Alright, good point. Sorry for my bad first comment, I am just a bit defensive after all these years of people saying Wayland is unusable. The problems you describe with screen sharing are likely because of missing xdg-portal implementation (the implementation depends on your setup).

>Those features should just work and shouldn't require skill.

Maybe, yeah. But we are on hacker news, I assumed people would be open to hacking on things, but the comments are always very much not like that.
by gruez | 2026-01-12 19:48:45+00:00
>For example, food away from home is down. People cannot afford to go out to eat as much. Rather than reflect the higher cost of going out to eat, the consumption basket reduces the proportion of food away from home.

He specifically mentions "groceries" so trying to retcon his argument to being about food away from home doesn't make any sense.

Moreover BLS publishes price indices for each item in the basket, so you can exclude the effect of the basket weights changing. Looking at the "Food Away from Home" category, that only rose 33% since the pandemic, not much higher than the overall inflation of 25.4%, and a far cry from ">50% on their groceries".
by Flux159 | 2026-01-12 19:48:50+00:00
This looks useful for people not using Claude Code, but I do think that the desktop example in the video could be a bit misleading (particularly for non-developers) - Claude is definitely not taking screenshots of that desktop & organizing, it's using normal file management cli tools. The reason seems a bit obvious - it's much easier to read file names, types, etc. via an "ls" than try to infer via an image.

But it also gets to one of Claude's (Opus 4.5) current weaknesses - image understanding. Claude really isn't able to understand details of images in the same way that people currently can - this is also explained well with an analysis of Claude Plays Pokemon https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/u6Lacc7wx4yYkBQ3r/insights-i.... I think over the next few years we'll probably see all major LLM companies work on resolving these weaknesses & then LLMs using UIs will work significantly better (and eventually get to proper video stream understanding as well - not 'take a screenshot every 500ms' and call that video understanding).
by Cyph0n | 2026-01-12 19:49:13+00:00
1. If you look closely, Western media is operating a coordinated campaign that is more interested than usual in what’s happening in Iran.

2. The scale of the protests is very likely overblown.

3. Iran’s purging of Mossad assets since the 12 day war has not yet wrapped up. The CIA is rumored to also have assets participating in these riots.
by pegasus | 2026-01-12 19:49:14+00:00
> manipulating the tokens of language might be more central to human cognition than we've tended to think

I'm convinced of this. I think it's because we've always looked at the most advanced forms of human languaging (like philosophy) to understand ourselves. But human language must have evolved from forms of communication found in other species, especially highly intelligent ones. It's to be expected that the building blocks of it is based on things like imitation, playful variation, pattern-matching, harnessing capabilities brains have been developing long before language, only now in the emerging world of sounds, calls, vocalizations.

Ironically, the other crucial ingredient for AGI which LLMs don't have, but we do, is exactly that animal nature which we always try to shove under the rug, over-attributing our success to the stochastic parrot part of us, and ignoring the gut instinct, the intuitive, spontaneous insight into things which a lot of the great scientists and artists of the past have talked about.
by woodruffw | 2026-01-12 19:49:44+00:00
> I mean, I had an issue once where this broke the pipeline:

It seems fair to dislike YAML (I dislike it too), but I don't understand how this broke for you unless CircleCI (or whoever) isn't actually using a legal YAML parser.

irb(main):009:0> YAML.load <<EOD
irb(main):010:0" key:
irb(main):011:0" - value 1
irb(main):012:0" - value 2
irb(main):013:0" EOD
=> {"key"=>["value 1", "value 2"]}
irb(main):014:0> YAML.load <<EOD
irb(main):015:0" key:
irb(main):016:0" - value 1
irb(main):017:0" - value 2
irb(main):018:0" EOD
=> {"key"=>["value 1", "value 2"]}

(This works for any number of leading spaces, so long as the spacing is consistent.)
by hmokiguess | 2026-01-12 19:49:59+00:00
Came across this today from JetBrains whilst searching for a benchmark of Coding Agents.

Does anyone knows of another, or perhaps one that considers more tools out there?

Curious to see Open Code, Codex, Claude Code, Amp Code, Gemini CLI, etc.

There seems to be lots of Models benchmark, but not many of the tools using them (or at least not that I know of).
by troupo | 2026-01-12 19:50:06+00:00
In Japan you can run other voice assistants than Siri (well, at least some of the functionality like calling them up via a button shortcut): https://developer.apple.com/documentation/appintents/launchi...

Why only in Japan? Because Japan forced them to: https://9to5mac.com/2025/12/17/apple-announces-sweeping-app-...
by porphyra | 2026-01-12 19:50:18+00:00
Obviously I think that AI generated undressing pictures of people, especially minors, is bad and there should be safeguards against that. But how is it different from other tools like doing it manually with photoshop? Also it has been shown that many other tools like ChatGPT and Gemini/Nanobanana can also do it with sufficiently creative prompting.

I also did scroll through the public grok feed and the AI generated bikini pics were mostly Onlyfans creators requesting their own fans to generate these pictures (or sometimes generating them themselves).
by j45 | 2026-01-12 19:51:19+00:00
Physical media and/or interactions are a great way to help kids understand storage as a physical media and putting into and out of things.

One thing I notice with kids is they think everything is already in a device, which is not true at all, same for the internet always being available.

I see DVDs etc coming back into popularity for kids now too, because they can control and make it play, instead of fighting a youtube algorithm that is obesses with getting them to play the next video. Streaming platforms are the same and they will be leaving my life if I can't manage how they are to be used.

That combined with Youtube not allowing me to add youtube kids videos to a playlist however I wish (premium account or not) has me looking elsewhere.
by tptacek | 2026-01-12 19:51:32+00:00
The protests are, by credible reporting, huge, reflected in the scale of the number of arrests and fatalities. Their antecedents include sky-high unemployment, the highest inflation rates in the world, and water and power rationing --- far more severe and far more directly material conditions than what preceded the 2022 protests. Diverse outlets have the signal chant of the protesters "Neither Gaza Nor Lebanon, My Life Only For Iran", which correlates well with the belief the the IRGC is effectively an Iranian version of the KGB, a second "inner society" whose large membership has preferential access to everything ordinary Iranians don't.

Some of this is disputable, much of it isn't. Meanwhile:

* There's no evidence that foreign powers are behind these protests, just narratives. The track record on unsupported but convincing-sounding narratives everywhere is pretty bad; nowhere is it worse than in this part of the world.

* There's no evidence that the protests themselves are pro-US (and certainly not pro-Israel; most of the protesters probably don't like Israel!). They just want water, jobs, and currency that can reliably buy food.

* There's also not much evidence that any major government in the world wants Iran toppled. Iran is incredibly weak right now. Regional powers like Turkey, Saudi, and especially Israel --- which has basically depantsed the IRGC --- don't actually have much to gain from an Iranian overthrow, but the whole region has a lot to lose from instability.

So yeah, I'd say: pretty extraordinary claim --- again, that claim being, "the anti-regime movement is the product of foreign intervention".

I want to keep saying: I don't think the protests will be successful. It's a state specifically designed to prevent protests movements like these from being successful! They may suck at air defense, but I don't think they're bad at putting down rebellions.
by kenhwang | 2026-01-12 19:52:11+00:00
I'm at about 700kWh monthly use in the winter, up to about 800kWh in the summer (when AC is running) for a ~1600sqft house. Gas heating and appliances so they don't contribute to the electricity bill.

Modern AC and insulation is really good, so cooling in the summer doesn't really use that much more energy, especially since AC use generally lines up with cheaper time-of-day electricity rates since it lines up with when solar is most effective.

If you further divide out that use to hourly amounts, it comes out to 1000Wh per hour average. I figured the fridge and air purifiers combined eat up ~200W continuously. My work laptop and all the accessories eats up ~200W when it's doing anything interesting, and that's about 8hrs/day. Then after that it's just death by a thousand cuts: all those <20W chargers and lights and screens and routers start adding up. According to my electricity use by hour, in the dead of night, I'm still using ~500W total from all the things that are always on, which doesn't leave all that much room for all the occasionally used but much higher power use items like washer/dryer, microwaves, vacuums, and devices using their GPUs.
by gmueckl | 2026-01-12 19:53:25+00:00
I personally don't trust Republican members of congress to stand up against their administration in any meaningful and coordinated way. But I would love to see that happen as the start of a restoration of a functional balance of power. This could set the US on a nonviolent path to reduced tension and hopefully towards a normalcy in politics with the possibility of more honesty and fairness from th administration, open civil discourse around contentious topics and non-erratic decision making (I am still allowed to dream, right?)
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by mort96 | 2026-01-12 19:53:31+00:00
Yeah, they know and their comment reflects that knowledge. They're saying that if we had infinite bit depth, we could arbitrarily resample anything to anything as long as the sample rate is above the Nyquist frequency; however we don't have an infinite bit depth, we have a finite bit depth (i.e the samples are quantized), which limits the dynamic range (i.e introduces noise). This noise can compound when resampling.
by theodore-1 | 2026-01-12 19:53:54+00:00
Docker Sentinel - allows you to configure YAML policies which is integrated with Docker Daemon, allowing admins to manager what docker commands can be executed. It can be as granular as a specific cgroup property and also supports integration with secret scanning like trufflehog, vulnerability scanners like Grype, trivy etc.
It is really fast and cannot be bypass byt regular users.
by its_ethan | 2026-01-12 19:54:12+00:00
No other thoughts on my actual questions? You're just addressing one-off sentences from my responses.

"it's antitrust because they have a failed product" is objectively hilarious

> What would Siri's position be like today if they hadn't blocked default voice assistants?

Probably pretty much the same. What would Gemini's position be like today if they hadn't blocked out default voice assistants? You only get Gemini when you use Gemini, just like you only got Siri when you use Siri (up until this deal takes effect). Also Siri has used ChatGPT already, so I'm not even convinced this is a valid criticism. They already didn't block OpenAI from being part of Siri.

> Would they be able to recover from their plight to dominate the market just by adopting Google's technology?

This is relevant how?

> How would that measure against OpenAI, Anthropic or just using Google directly?

How would what measure against other ai models? How would their ability to recover from a lack of investing in a better "homemade" AI model differ if they used OpenAI instead of Gemini? How does that have anything to do with antitrust? That's a business case study type of question. Also, shouldn't they be allowed to recover from their own lack of developing a model by using the best tool available to them?
by tptacek | 2026-01-12 19:54:28+00:00
I don't think either the US or Israel is all that worried about "defanging" Iran's actual military. Their proxies, like Hezbollah, Assadist Syria, Ansar Allah, and Kataib Hezbollah? Sure. But they've mostly already accomplished that. I think Iran's actual military is kind of a joke in military circles?
by smeeagain2 | 2026-01-12 19:54:32+00:00
Of course. When you're already an expert on day one, it's "easy" to "get the most" out of it. "The most" in this case being wasting four more years of your life that you'll never get back, only to end up enslaved to some corporation or government, assuming you can even be employed at all in the smoking remains of the economy/country that still exist when you graduate. Pass.
by LegionMammal978 | 2026-01-12 19:54:40+00:00
Sure, but my point isn't even that we ought to change the "POSIX time by default" status quo (the ship has long sailed that everyone counts durations by 'calendar seconds'), it's that the underlying libraries don't even provide enough information for "specialty applications" to reliably correct for it, short of perpetually updating it themselves.
by techdmn | 2026-01-12 19:54:47+00:00
How did Voldemort put it? "There is no g̶o̶o̶d̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶e̶v̶i̶l̶ law, there is only power, and those too weak to seek it."

The law doesn't matter if there is no one to enforce it, or if enforcement is selective, etc.
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2026-01-12 19:55:18+00:00
Maybe they'd prefer it for aesthetics, but OTOH in iOS 18.2+ they support off-device ChatGPT and apparently refer to it as "ChatGPT" both in settings and when prompting the user to ask if they want to use it.

If they do refer to it as "Gemini" then this is a huge win for Google, and huge loss for OpenAI, since it really seems that the "ChatGPT" brand is the only real "moat" that OpenAI have, although recently there has been about a 20% shift in traffic from ChatGPT to Gemini, so the moat already seems to be running dry.