MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jodrellblank | 2026-01-29 18:27:01+00:00
Yes you did. No I'm not.

(I've written paragraphs and paragraphs thinking through some of my views in this thread. You wrote three words naming a thing which doesn't seem to exist. If you want more engagement, engage more. What words am I twisting? Where did you say it was anything more detailed than that? What behaviour that people "can't control alone" are you talking about?)
by davidee | 2026-01-29 18:27:04+00:00
I have to concur. And to the question about understanding what its good and bad at; no, tasks that it could accomplish quickly and easily just a month ago, now require more detailed prompting and constant "erroneous direction correction."

It's almost as if, as tool use and planning capabilities have expanded, Claude (as a singular product) is having a harder time coming up with simple approaches that just work, instead trying to use tools and patterns that complicate things substantially and introduce much more room for errors/errors of assumption.

It also regularly forgets its guidelines now.

I can't tell you how many times it's suggested significant changes/refactors to functions because it suddenly forgets we're working in an FP codebase and suggests inappropriate imperative solutions as "better" (often choosing to use language around clarity/consistency when the solutions are neither).

Additionally, it has started taking "initiative" in ways it did not before, attempting to be helpful but without gathering the context needed to do so properly when stepping outside the instruction set. It just ends up being much messier and inaccurate.

I have to regularly just clear my prompt and start again with guardrails that have either: already been established, or have not been needed previously / are only a result of the over-zealousness of the work its attempting to complete.
by tokyobreakfast | 2026-01-29 18:27:39+00:00
RAM shortage or competent programmer shortage?

Can't get a Linux box to idle (or even install) under 512M these days.

Can't find a web developer worth a shit who doesn't think he needs a Python backend application server to print "Hello, world" when you could do this with a static page served with something like OpenBSD with two-digit RAM requirements.

It's not the RAM that's changed; it's everyone around the RAM.

A coddled generation who were taught that AWS is the Internet and live in abstractions certainly hasn't helped.
by fennecbutt | 2026-01-29 18:27:49+00:00
You mean the Aussie one where the guy was going an appropriate speed for the area and when the cops arrived the parents and their neighbors LIED TO THE POLICE and said he was hooning down the road at excess speed and hit the kid? And that he was only saved from prison by having a dash cam that proved the lies to be lies? That one?

That logic is utter bs, if someone jumps out when you're travelling at an appropriate speed and you do your best to stop then that's all that can be done. Otherwise by your logic the only safe speed is 0.
by the_other | 2026-01-29 18:27:53+00:00
In the UK we have a great big yellow zig-zag road marking that extends 2/3rds the width of an average car across the road. It means "this is a school, take your car and fuck off". You find it around school gates, to a distance of a few car lengths either side of the gate, and sometimes all along the road beside a school.

It doesn't stop all on street parking beside the school, but it cuts it down a noticeable amount.
by spiderfarmer | 2026-01-29 18:28:04+00:00
Meta isn’t going to fix this because they have your mindset.

Meanwhile, my website with 48M pages over 8 domains is getting hammered with over 200 req/s 24/7 from AI bots in addition to the regular search engine bots. It seems like every day new bots appear that all want to download every single one of my URL’s.

To me it’s not background noise. It’s a problem. I could do with 95% less resources and faster response times for my actual users if these bots would just bugger off.
by b00ty4breakfast | 2026-01-29 18:28:15+00:00
I used a vps service hosted in a country with strong digital privacy laws to host a personal wireguard+pihole vpn. I could probably think up a decent argument why that privacy with the smaller guy was only nominal but I could absolutely think up a good argument why doing that on a big name would have no privacy guarantees at all, especially as someone who would be in the bottom rung payment-wise.

Never had problems with downtime and I payed, like, 40 bucks a year over 3 years. I think I had to restart the thing once because of something dumb I did on my end.
by stickfigure | 2026-01-29 18:28:17+00:00
The author brought up more examples besides PNG:

* Afghanistan

* Nigeria

* Congo

* South Sudan

* Eritrea

* Chad

* Somalia

* South Africa

Enough that "a lot" seems to be a fair characterization.

Also - while he implies this, I think it's important to mention explicitly - there's obvious fakery in the number of significant digits. If the numbers are approximations to the nearest ten million (or worse), it's a form of scientific fraud to provide a number like "94.9 million".
by mannanj | 2026-01-29 18:28:26+00:00
I wonder when I experience noticeably degraded model quality, ie opus, is it because my usage falls in the highest buckets and I’m being shadow limited or served worse versions of opus or is it because of actual server load/burden?

It wouldn’t be the first time companies have secret shadow algorithms running to optimize things and wouldn’t it be obvious to limit power users as matter of cost/profit and not tell them. (See history of “Shadow ban” though that’s for different reasons)
by pseudalopex | 2026-01-29 18:28:31+00:00
Mozilla Foundation's 2024 revenue was 60% investments, 28% program service revenue, 11% contributions and grants.[1]

Most of program service revenue was from Mozilla Corporation. They paid Mozilla Foundation a small part of their revenue for trademark licenses, legal services, and so. And most of Mozilla Corporation's revenue was from Google.

[1] https://stateof.mozilla.org/pdf/Mozilla%20Foundation_Form_99...
by Archio | 2026-01-29 18:29:31+00:00
>We accept the risks with humans because those humans accept risk.

It seems very strange to defend a system that is drastically less safe because when an accident happens, at least a human will be "liable". Does a human suffering consequences (paying a fine? losing their license? going to jail?) make an injury/death more acceptable, if it wouldn't have happened with a Waymo driver in the first place?
by matthewdgreen | 2026-01-29 18:29:33+00:00
The original argument was that Tesla made a substantial amount of its revenue from subsidization, i.e., government mandated payments extracting money from one set of people to fund another. Subsidies can entail direct taxation, followed by payment to a company. Alternatively, they revolve around regulatory schemes that mandate transfer payments from one group (in this case, ICE car manufacturers and their customers) to another (EV manufacturers.) Although the mechanism is slightly different, they're both subsidies. To be clear: I have no problem with these subsidies! Just think your pedantry is misfiring.
by ano-ther | 2026-01-29 18:29:38+00:00
I am not sure if I count as a “passionate customer” or more a captive one, but I sure hope they fix it.

Recently, even cut and paste is no longer reliable.

- Sometimes cmd-c doesn’t do anything, only right-click works

- Pasting an image into PowerPoint requires an explicit paste as picture

- Pasting as picture in Outlook is only available after I default-paste the picture once

These and other things are very irritating because they disturb my flow and make me question my sanity (“did I not press cmd-c?”).
by fortran77 | 2026-01-29 18:29:58+00:00
I'm a big fan of Waymo and have enjoyed my Waymo rides. And I don't think Waymno did anything "bad" here.

> The young pedestrian “suddenly entered the roadway from behind a tall SUV, moving directly into our vehicle’s path,” the company said in its blog post. Waymo said its vehicle “immediately detected the individual as soon as they began to emerge from behind the stopped vehicle.”

BUT! As a human driver, I avoid driving near the schools when school's letting out. There's a high school on my way home and kids saunter and jaywalk across the street, and they're all 'too cool' to press the button that turns on the blinking crosswalk. So I go a block out of my way to bypass the whole school area when I'm heading home that way.

Waymos should use the same rationale. If you can avoid going past a school zone when kids are likely to be there, do it!
by MattDaEskimo | 2026-01-29 18:30:41+00:00
I'm concerned that this fits in "using today's innovation to solve outdated paradigms".

Google has A2A: An Agent-to-Agent Protocol. SaaS is plumetting in value.

Arbitrary semantics made sense when communications were human-dominated.

If agents dominate these fields, why wouldn't they simply set their own protocols and methods to communicate both text, binary, and agreed data structures?

There's an assumption that email is somehow the best channel, when you've found yourself that the most popular, functional interfaces don't align with your expectations.

Then, ultimately I have a single agent that can sit in numerous communication platforms, such as email
by audunw | 2026-01-29 18:31:09+00:00
Feels like the article is overstating the risks of Li-ion. Modern Li-ion battery packs from reputable manufacturers are remarkably safe. An EV with Li-ion is still an order of magnitude safer than an ICE car. Yeah it can take a while for the thermal runaway to dissipate completely.. but it’s not a huge issue. You just have to keep it cool so it doesn’t set fire to other flammable materials (there are inflatable pools firefighter can use to surround the car with water)

Badly made Li-ion packs are a huge risk. But that’s a QA/Certification problem as with anything else (badly made charging bricks are also a risk.. don’t buy them on Temu). There have been CT scans published now showing how big a difference there is in the manufacturing of good and bad cells.
by dragonwriter | 2026-01-29 18:31:32+00:00
> How good for the EU will it be if the US collapses into financial ruin (it won't)? Who is going to backstop their militaries against Russia or other bad actors?

This would be a bigger concern if the US hasn't, in words, direct action, and inaction shown that it is no longer interested in doing that in any case and is, instead, both joining Russia as a threat to Europe.
by dghlsakjg | 2026-01-29 18:31:37+00:00
Amstar Corp. v. Domino’s Pizza, Inc., 615 F.2d 252 (5th Cir. 1980) The record showed a history of extensive third‑party “Domino” uses (including other food and grocery products). That crowded field made Amstar’s DOMINO relatively weak outside sugar, and Domino’s Pizza prevailed. Link:
https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F2/615...
by nateroling | 2026-01-29 18:32:09+00:00
I’ve bounced off of LazyGit multiple times because I never figured out how to make it play nice with a light theme terminal.

I haven’t used dark mode anything for years. I set my monitor so it’s roughly as bright, or slightly brighter than, a piece of white paper.

No more flash-bangs when some website doesn’t support dark mode.
by DangitBobby | 2026-01-29 18:32:20+00:00
They can kill when they have a reasonable basis for assuming they are facing an imminent threat to their lives or addressing a threat to public safety (but NOT to prevent criminal activity that isn't life threatening). That isn't the same thing as a license to kill, and they are accountable for charges like murder when they don't meet a "reasonable officer on the scene" standard. I don't consider that to be "at will" (likened to "at will employment") so much as "at their discretion."
by owaislone | 2026-01-29 18:32:26+00:00
I'm sure you are aware but sharing anyway. Django 6.0 shipped an API called Django Tasks for background jobs so all Django code can implement portable, backend agnostic background jobs and swap backends on the fly but there are zero actual backends out there right now one can use in production. If you could add inbuilt Django Tasks support to Chancy or create a `django-chancy` package that bridged it, I think you'd see a lot of early adoption by Django projects.
by direwolf20 | 2026-01-29 18:32:40+00:00
All video encoders have bit–rate — target number of encoded bits per second — as a tunable knob. Lossiness is compensated to match the target bit–rate. When a video is encoded with a lower bit–rate, it produces a smaller file that looks worse. Resolution almost doesn't matter, if your bit–rate is so low that the encoder doesn't have a chance of encoding pixel–level detail.

Bittorrent pirates may source shows from Netflix but they may also source them from other places with higher bit–rate encodings.
by qwertox | 2026-01-29 18:32:48+00:00
Isn't it more like this:
JEPA looks at the video, "a dog walks out of the door, the mailman comes, dog is happy" and the next frame would need to look like "mailman must move to mailbox, dog will run happily towards him", which then an image/video generator would need to render.

Genie looks at the video, "when this group of pixels looks like this and the user presses 'jump', I will render the group different in this way in the next frame."

Genie is an artist drawing a flipbook. To tell you what happens next, it must draw the page. If it doesn't draw it, the story doesn't exist.

JEPA is a novelist writing a summary. To tell you what happens next, it just writes "The car crashes." It doesn't need to describe what the twisted metal looks like to know the crash happened.
by kreetx | 2026-01-29 18:32:49+00:00
Not sure constitution works like that, that a suspicious person can simply run and you can't check ID.

The opinion to allow visa holders as the Turkish person to exercise political activism is funny, too. Don't you think it's the citizens who the country should look after?

Europe is confused, but is finally coming around to understanding that they need to be able to protect themselves. Let's hope we make it on time :).

You can't really turn around climate without China and India. You may try to cripple yourself to attempt it though, but you'll lose even harder then.

I can also tell you that I've seen public funding on various science projects in EU. While it's convenient for the scientists to live off of these projects, then rarely if ever does much or any value come out of it. No companies nor products. Most of the "digital product" is provided to us by US companies, we don't come even close to having anything like it. EU leaders also somehow think that economic development is a matter of their "decision", but as career public servants they have little to no private experience, and just run public funds in "social circuits" that don't produce much.

Objectively.
by sofixa | 2026-01-29 18:32:58+00:00
> Paris has almost no East Asian food and what I did see when trying to find some was all in porcelain trays like slightly fancier Panda Express.

This is simply not true. Are you sure you were in Paris, France? French people absolutely adore East Asian, and especially Japanese cuisine. There are the meh fast food options, yes, but the majority are definitely sushi places. And you have tons of others like Korean, Korean barbecue, more traditional japanese, etc.

The Japanese restaurants are concentrated around rue St Anne; the Chinese ones around rue Volta. But not exclusively.

As a fun exercise, Japanese is the highest represented origin (country) category in the Michelin guide. After that is Italian with slightly less. (The first category is "modern" which can mean anything).
by Ancalagon | 2026-01-29 18:33:00+00:00
I still feel like with all of these tools I as a senior engineer have to keep a close eye on what they're doing. Like an exuberant junior (myself 10 years ago), inevitably they still go off the rails and I need to reign them in. They still make the occasional security or performance flaw - often which can be resolved by pointing it out.
by thunderfork | 2026-01-29 18:33:10+00:00
I understand where you're coming from, but I think this part of BP's nature is critical to its ludonarrative symmetry, in much the same way that OW's gameplay structure frames its narrative.

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by ericmay | 2026-01-29 18:33:29+00:00
> I dunno, I think Denmark and its remaining allies, including at least two nuclear weapons states, might be able to provide some incentive for the US not to take over Greenland.

If there really was just a, damn the alliance we want Greenland approach - and there's not, the EU including its nuclear armed states would not be able to do a single thing about it. Let's not be delusional. There is absolutely no debating this.

> No, they aren't happy being backed into that by the open threat of US aggression. They weren't too happy having to ally with the USSR against the Nazis, either, but, you sometimes you have to deal with the overwhelming immediate problem, first.

To be clear, are you suggesting the United States in general is the "immediate problem" and not Russia's invasion of Ukraine? I just want to make sure I understand your point of view here very clearly before I respond and want to give you that opportunity.

> Its not Russia’s aggression in Ukraine that the shift toward China is aimed at.

Ok, but as long as you acknowledge that China is assisting Russia in the invasion of Ukraine and further trading with China only furthers that war and Russia's aims.

> We aren't helping the EU, we are threatening an EU and NATO state (and another NATO state, and consequently an ally of many EU states) with invasion. That’s literally the source of the shift you are complaining about. Trying to use the response to justify the action it responds to is...mind-boggling mental gymnastics.

The source of the shift didn't start there, nor will it really end there. But we are helping the EU immensely even when we're having a conflict about somewhere else. You can't make the claim that the EU gets to do this with respect to China but the US doesn't get to do it with the EU.
by drnick1 | 2026-01-29 18:33:30+00:00
The issue is that we DO NOT want every device to have a publicly routable IP address. It does make sense for some machines, but you probably don't want your your Internet-of-Shit devices to have public IPs. Of course you can firewall the devices, but you are always one misconfiguration or bug away from exposing devices that should not be exposed, when a local network is a more natural solution for what is supposed to remain local in the first place.
by stevenwoo | 2026-01-29 18:33:41+00:00
The anti abortion and anti birth control contingent would never let even a little of that happen in countries with significant fundamentalist and Catholic voters. There are plenty of examples where these people force babies to be born without a brain on principle. Just recently https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/louisiana-woman-carryin...
One can go back to something like Terri Schiavo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terri_Schiavo_case
by stefan_ | 2026-01-29 18:33:54+00:00
The primary (non malicious, non stupid) explanation given here is batching. But I think you would find looking at large-scale inference the batch sizes being ran on any given rig are fairly static - there is a sweet spot for any given model part ran individually between memory consumption and GPU utilization, and generally GPUs do badly at job parallelism.

I think the more likely explanation is again with the extremely heterogeneous compute platforms they run on.
by seanhunter | 2026-01-29 18:34:15+00:00
In any enterprise, normal would be to have monitoring on all ingress and egress points from the network and on devices themselves. You can't only have monitoring on managed devices because someone might BYOD and plug in an unmanaged device/connect it to internal wifi etc.

You bring in vendors and they need guest wifi to give you a demo, you need to be able to give them something to connect to but you don't want that pipe to be unmonitored.
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by tialaramex | 2026-01-29 18:34:57+00:00
> How are Reform like Tories?

I think the problem might be that you don't know anything about this at all?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2yrjqp4zvo -- Suella Braverman, who had been Tory Home Secretary deciding on these policies you think are the opposite of what Reform stands for, defected to join Reform just days ago.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gv9gyxgjjo -- that's Farage, only days earlier, insisting that his party isn't for failed Tories, like Suella.

It's Temu Tory Party.
by thewebguyd | 2026-01-29 18:35:33+00:00
> I’m just always astonished at “have you tried not being depressed?”

There's a lot of this attitude, at least in the USA, when it comes to mental illness in general. I have ADHD, it's a common trope/meme at this point of "Have you just tried focusing?" "Gee thanks, I'm cured!"

It's a form of institutional ableism, particularly prevalent in the US I think because of our hyper individualist culture. A lot of people tend to assume that you are just lazy, or not trying hard enough, as if it was just a matter of willpower.

Kind of frustrating, because those same people would never walk up to someone in a wheelchair and say "have you just tried walking?" but for some reason mental illnesses get a free pass to be ableist.
by Projectiboga | 2026-01-29 18:35:45+00:00
The help aiding sleep is only one function for melatonin. The reason for higher suggested doses is due to its anti-oxident function. From personal experience melatonin needs to be paired with vitamin e to really clear out over night. I take vitamin e as I get into bed right before I take a melatonin sublingual. Another benefit of melatonin is that it upregulates our insulin receptors.
by jeny2002 | 2026-01-29 18:35:47+00:00
Today, the telephone is not a simple means of communication. It is a work tool, a camera, a document holder, a bank wallet, and even a device that performs the function of a personal diary. Nevertheless, most people make their phones unusable in just a year or two. Someone's battery dies quickly, someone's screen breaks, and in others, the phone slows down and starts working stiffly. Interestingly, most of this is not the manufacturer's fault, but rather the user's unintentional errors.

In this article, Kursiv Uzbekistan lists the reasons for the rapid deterioration of smartphones.
by data-ottawa | 2026-01-29 18:36:01+00:00
There are some days where it acts staggeringly bad, beyond baselines.

But it’s impossible to actually determine if it’s model variance, polluted context (if I scold it, is it now closer in latent space to a bad worker, and performs worse?), system prompt and tool changes, fine tunes and AB tests, variances in top P selection…

There’s too many variables and no hard evidence shared by Anthropic.