MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by arter45 | 2026-01-10 19:16:58+00:00
>I noticed the problems that I fought with for ages, that I spent hours with debugging and shit. It just created in 15 minutes. So I was wondering, was I even ever able to code? Or was it just a huge waste of time?

I think it's fair to say that you were able to code in the first place. Yes, you took more time, but if you were able to meet your deadlines and produce decent code, that's what matters.

A more apt question could be: are you able to code right now? Challenge yourself to a small project, maybe in a weekend at most. Do not use AI tools at all. If you can write a small project in the language you are most familiar with, you can still code, even if you need 5x more time.
by themafia | 2026-01-10 19:17:31+00:00
> Removing battery swaps is the last step to deploy UAVs autonomously at scale.

I can't say, as a citizen, that I'm particularly excited about this.

> Autonomous drones can deliver over 20x the inspection coverage for the same cost.

And we have 20x the manpower to review this footage? I wonder if you're just generating a bunch of data that cannot be practically used.

"More coverage" isn't always the best answer. "Better informed coverage" is probably the problem to solve here. Aside from that what is the maintenance interval on those drones? How does that incorporate into this system?

I think this is solving the problem in the wrong direction.
by bitwize | 2026-01-10 19:17:57+00:00
It's been years since I've seen RHEL on the desktop at work. Any company that tolerated Linux desktops has either been large and geeky enough to go all-in on Linux and roll their own custom management solutions (Google), or else was still operating in "startup mode" with an attitude of "we trust our software devs, let's just give them a laptop and let them go nuts with root" which means they would flunk any serious security audit. And most of those used Ubuntu or similar.

The only place I've actually seen RHEL on the desktop, also the only large instutition besides Google I've seen Linux desktop rollout, was in government labs; and for those the government can commission arbitrarily bespoke security systems. In the real world, the CISO of your organization is going to go with one of the industry standards, like Cisco Secure Endpoint, which—again—only exist on Windows and Mac. In the real world, you might be issued a Mac if you're a developer, otherwise a Windows machine, and that's what you'll use, end of story.
by dang | 2026-01-10 19:19:06+00:00
Please don't take HN threads into nationalistic flamewar. It's the last thing we need here. (Well, tied for last.)

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: your account has unfortunately been breaking the site guidelines quite a bit and repeatedly crossing into personal attack:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46526454

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46493104

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46422571

Can you please stop doing that? It destroys what HN is for so we end up banning such accounts.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
by gejose | 2026-01-10 19:19:25+00:00
> Everything about this is ridiculous, and it's all Anthropic's fault. Anthropic shouldn't have an all-you-can-eat plan for $200 when their pay-as-you-go plan would cost more than $1,000+ for comparable usage

Hard disagree. Companies can and do subsidize products to gather market share. It's just a loss leader [1]. The big money for them is likely satisfied software engineers pushing their employers to pay for more Anthropic products in an enterprise setting.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_leader
by Culonavirus | 2026-01-10 19:19:37+00:00
To be able to do this requires perfect domain knowledge AND environment knowledge AND be able to think deeply about logical dominoes (event propagation through the system, you know, the small stuff that crashes cloudflare for the entire planet for example).

Please wake me up when Shopify lets a bunch of agentic LLMs run their backends without human control and constant supervision.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-10 19:20:19+00:00
Well yes but I feel like its because the threats of monopolization got less and less due to lobbying efforts but for the time, there are reports where microsoft was scared in the internal emails after what happened.

"Microsoft was more scared of taking over companies that were competitors because of this anti trust trial. They had to back off a little and this created this tiny little gap, this little window from which many flowers can bloom. These flowers ended up growing into massive trillion dollars competitors (google and apple)"

Per Atrioc (https://youtu.be/VS6p5kPeD9I?si=PUT4R5a7Y4kiIvD2&t=692) [Title of the video being the Halo scheme is insane talking about groq's weird acquisition by nvidia]

I would consider that much of what I wrote in the previous comment was I think something I had thought about but this particular video definitely helped me and you could say did influence me in a way to write the comment.

It also mentions how it was provable that Microsoft was scared about it. I am not sure about this contradiction though but I would consider that it atleast created a gap for around 10-18 years from which the tech giants emerged.
by nosianu | 2026-01-10 19:20:29+00:00
I'm not sure how useful it is to argue based on comparisons of that ancient car and new ones. Yes yes I know that's how it started, but I think it is obvious that a useful discussion is about looking at the principles behind that old car, and then to apply "what if" to modern ones.

I'm making this assumption based on how utterly useless it is to try to have a serious discussion that's really about that old car vs. a new one. I mean, would anyone even think about producing those same old cars with their old technology? Obviously not.

I think, in my discussions, not just this one, it would help us all A LOT if we didn't try to win an argument and limit ourselves to interpret the other people's comments in the most restricting way. Let's assume we are here to learn something other than finding ways to be "technically correct".
by alexisread | 2026-01-10 19:20:44+00:00
I think this is the crux of the issue, use like this is like a real program, just built up incrementally in a notebook rather than a repl or shell-with-pipes, and with manual error handling. The STEPS project was all about this- a way of incrementally building blocks that can be composed.

With org mode in mind, ideally you would have language support for this ie. Comments are scoped metadata that can be formatted, tested, linked etc.

You need a well defined spec like djot as a DSL for this to work, so that parsers can be easily written for it. This level of language support allows many different views onto the source code. We’re not there yet.
by notepad0x90 | 2026-01-10 19:21:24+00:00
a better approach is to convert them to jpeg/png. Then convert that to raw BMP, and then share or print that.

A more modern approach for text documents would be to have an LLM read and rephrase, and restructure everything without preserving punctuation and spacing, using a simple encoding like utf-8, and then use the technique above or just take analog pictures of the monitor. The analog (film) part protects against deepfakes and serves as proof if you need it (for the source and final product alike).

There various solutions out there after the leaks that keep happening where documents and confidential information is served/staged in a way that will reveal the person with who it is shared. Even if you copy paste the text into notepad and save it in ascii format, it will reveal you. Off-the-shelf printers are of course a big no-no.

If all else fails, that analog picture technique works best for exfil, but the final thing you share will still track back to you. I bet spies are back to using microfilms these days.

I only say all of that purely out of a fascination into the subject and for the sake of discussion (think like a thief if you want to catch one and all). Ultimately, you shouldn't share private information with unauthorized parties, period. Personal or otherwise. If you, like snowden, feel that all lawful means are exhausted and that is your only option to address some grievance, then don't assume any technique or planning will protect you, if it isn't worth the risk of imprisonment, then you shouldn't be doing it anyways. Assume you will be imprisoned or worse.
by Groxx | 2026-01-10 19:21:38+00:00
Gotcha. Broadly agreed then (Java is a very good counter-example), though I think pypy might be succeeding quite a bit more than org-mode in terms of users... and org-mode doesn't have a language spec either afaict. It has a fairly good description of the current code's parsing behavior, but the closest I've seen to something rigorous is https://github.com/200ok-ch/org-parser and even that's still unfinished from the readme (and it seems probably abandoned).

I haven't looked into the actual current state of things though, my last check was a couple years ago. I'd be pretty happy if things have changed, I just haven't seen any sign of that.
by newfriend | 2026-01-10 19:22:16+00:00
You're not even American. It's "prize" not "price".

He's eligible because he was elected by the People. End of story.

Thankfully he is (somewhat) doing the job we wanted him to. I wish he'd deport more illegal aliens faster though. We still have more than 10 million of them who all need to be deported.
by MobiusHorizons | 2026-01-10 19:22:19+00:00
Sometimes real estate agents do a lot. Anecdote of course, but my real estate agent spent a few hours basically every weekend with us for like 2-3 months as we toured 25 houses, went over ~10 inspection reports, and made 3-4 offers. And he and his team got roughly 20k. In a better housing market I think they do a lot less, but I know ours did a lot of work.
by tedivm | 2026-01-10 19:22:43+00:00
When I used to play Screeps[1], a MMO strategy game where you programmed to control your units and buildings, a group of us setup a player that was managed in this exact way called Quorum[2].

If anyone wants to run their own project in this way I open sourced the code to do so under the GitConsensus[3] project. There's a Github App (which may not still work, but if there's interest I'll restart it) and a "run it yourself" python library and CLI you can run from Github Actions[4].

1. https://screeps.com/

2. https://github.com/ScreepsQuorum/screeps-quorum

3. https://www.gitconsensus.com/

4. https://pypi.org/project/gitconsensus/
by ronsor | 2026-01-10 19:22:47+00:00
> The AI goldrush has proven that intellectual property laws are null and void. Money is all that matters.

Indeed they never really mattered. They were a tool for large corporations to make money and they will go away if they can no longer serve such purpose. Anyone that thought there was a real moral or ethical basis to "intellectual property" laws fell for propaganda and got scammed as a result.
by goku12 | 2026-01-10 19:22:51+00:00
> Play Integrity and Play Services are two different things.

You're right in your elaboration, but I didn't mention which one it is. My primary concern is that it forces me to log in to my play services account, which I haven't agreed to so far.

> There's an open source substitute called MicroG that allows most apps to run without it.

It's not for the lack of trying and I probably wouldn't even be complaining if it had worked. Phones are getting harder to root these days, much less install a custom ROM. Everyday feels like the ecosystem is tightening around us.
by kccqzy | 2026-01-10 19:22:55+00:00
I was already using flexbox ten years ago. And if the goal was pixel-perfect layout, I could do that twenty years ago using `position: absolute`.

I would instead characterize the recent developments in CSS as enabling good layout even when there are major unknowns in your content. It was always easy to write CSS tailored to one set of content (say, one style of toolbar in your UI), but it has become possible to write generic CSS (say, a generic toolbar component where the icons are unknown, the width and height are also unknown).
by 1dontnkow_ | 2026-01-10 19:23:10+00:00
He is not asking Vance for help as an individual but the position he has for the country the company is headquartered in. What would you expect? They cant go and ask a random country for help on a complicated geopolitical issue. You are supposed (maybe required) to contact officials from your country and relevant agencies and institutions.

I'm not the biggest fan of the US Administration currently either but if a company asks them for help, they're doing what you're supposed to do, and they shouldn't be labeled as bad or sharing the view of the current administration.
by latexr | 2026-01-10 19:23:30+00:00
Effectively no one is arguing Apple is “inventing” this, and tons of people—especially the most ardent Apple fans—hate this direction. Adoption of the 26 OSs is lower than others in recent memory. Even the comment you’re replying to is critical of it.

There are a lot of legitimate reasons to criticise Apple, especially under Tim Cook. Let’s please not do this obvious rage bait where you fabricate that a group has a singular unified hypocritical opinion which is the opposite of what we’re seeing just so you can hate on them.

What even is the point? For the past twenty years, I have never seen an Apple fan being as close to annoying as the haters are. Same thing with other groups like vegans: There are more people loudly proclaiming that vegans are annoying than there are annoying vegans in the world.

Why must we keep defining ourselves by hating on others? As long as they’re not causing hurt, let people be. “Why are you so angry?”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExEHuNrC8yU&list=PLJA_jUddXv...
by c0nsumer | 2026-01-10 19:23:41+00:00
That sounds familiar. I also have ever so slight green-brown color blindness. It's only really noticeable in low light (like in the woods in evenings), but that could well all stack up to be a problem.

I also have significant problems with blue LEDs around the house, to the point where I've removed, replaced, or covered almost all of them. They really, really bother me because it feels like my eyes never focus on them and they leave me feeling slightly disoriented.
by vishnuharidas | 2026-01-10 19:23:51+00:00
I've driven both. Drove LHD for more than a decade in India. Now driving in RHD country for 2y now. Personally, I enjoy RHD more because I am right-handed and I get to do things easily with my RH. Otherwise, I realized that safety benefits comes from the driving discipline and not driving on a particular side of the road. Driving on Aus/Japan is way safer than India, despite all of them being LHD.
by rsyring | 2026-01-10 19:24:27+00:00
> And we have 20x the manpower to review this footage?

I was involved with a startup that did inspections of power generation windmills. The computer vision anomaly detection was really good and that was about five years ago. The goal was to have the automated visual inspections route images with suspected anomalies to humans for review and it was working well the last time I heard.

Compared to having a human who needs to rappel down to the blades for a manual inspection, this is a huge productivity and safety boost.
by Salgat | 2026-01-10 19:25:11+00:00
My experience, as a software developer, is that both Windows and Linux desktop are great. The biggest advantage Windows has is better support for desktop applications that are used by a lot of people, which is just the nature of Windows being more popular for desktop users, and is why I use it. With Linux, it's more likely you'll have to be a bit more savvy with occasional issues.

To note, with official Linux support on Windows, it's trivial for me to get everything I want as a developer on Windows, so that's never been a hard blocker for me.
by nandomrumber | 2026-01-10 19:25:38+00:00
I loved the iPhone 4 format factor, but prefer more recent and larger editions for battery life and battery longevity.

My only gripe with the 6.7 inch form factor would be solved if someone would just sell me a bigger hand. I can’t hold it one handed and reach the far corner of the screen without some obnoxious accessory like a Popsocket bolted to the back thereby making it impossible to use on a flat surface or fit in a pocket.

Come to think of it, Zaphod might have been on to something with that third arm.
by tharkun__ | 2026-01-10 19:25:53+00:00
Oh for sure there are many differences, that comes with them being different languages, countries, ethnicity. You can do this on many levels.

The point was essentially what you're showing here: People focusing on all the differences instead of shared history, languages influencing each other and how we're all not that different in the end.

If you want to, even within what are nowadays countries and what outsiders would say is "one language" and "one ethnicity", you can start focusing on differences and make people dislike each other.
by palata | 2026-01-10 19:25:54+00:00
Not sure what this brings other than nitpicking.

If you look at the situation in France, I think it's pretty damn obvious that the people don't feel represented by their government.

My point was not to nitpick on the numbers, but rather to say that having a president elected by the people and having as much executive power as the president has in France doesn't seem to work really well. As opposed to countries that enforce a consensus.
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by JumpCrisscross | 2026-01-10 19:26:07+00:00
> Light rail often has its own right-of-way with priority over cars

It’s still at grade. Priority is meaningless if there is a car in the way when the guards come down. And those guards, in interrupting traffic, are annoying to drivers. (I’d also point out that the line between trams, street cars and light rail is ambiguous. It’s an American term describing principally European infrastructure.)
by nwallin | 2026-01-10 19:26:28+00:00
I think it's great that there are Linux projects where the people in the project are obviously unhinged fanatical idealists sent on a mission by god to do <whatever> in the One True Way. I wouldn't use any of those projects, but it's great that they exist, and sometimes their good ideas percolate out to projects that I do use.

Like fine, they're gonna make a distro that only uses software under one of the FSF's free as in freedom copy-left open source licenses, not just excluding closed source software, but also binary blob device firmware and software distributed under one of those filthy permissive licenses. That's great. It's fucking unusable, but it's awesome that it exists and it's great that they're doing it.
by pan69 | 2026-01-10 19:27:10+00:00
Since Denmark and Greenland are already NATO allies, the US has pretty much full access to Greenland. The Trump admin says they need it for defence purposes, well, there already is a US base in Greenland and I'm sure the other NATO allies would happily allow the US to expand their presence for defence purposes. Re. the minerals and what's not, also here, the US has pretty much full access. However, there is no company that's interested since digging out those minerals is very difficult and not really worth the investment at this point in time. So, the "I need it" argument is really weak as they already pretty much have it for the purposes they say they want it for.

What is really happening here is part of the Monroe Doctrine [1]. Trump is trying to consolidate the Western Hemisphere. Remember Canada being the 51st state?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monroe_Doctrine
by RiverCrochet | 2026-01-10 19:27:20+00:00
Most of Linux's laptop woes is due to two things:

A. ACPI which is a sprawling, overengineered mess created by Microsoft, Intel, and Toshiba, and

B. ACPI-specific things like sleep and power being tested only for Windows

B is a direct result of two things: 1) crappy outsourced firmware developers, and 2) Microsoft's 1990s strategy of disallowing OEMs from offering systems with other operating systems preinstalled.

So, not really Linux's fault. If the interfaces that controlled all the laptop goodies were exposed as normal hardware (and documented) instead of gatekept behind ACPI methods that have to be written by firmware vendors that can often barely spell the menu options correct in the setup screens, then this issue would not exist.

UEFI is ACPI's successor and carries on this legacy. It's disappointing that it's seeping into the ARM world.
by c0nsumer | 2026-01-10 19:28:01+00:00
(Author here.)

This is akin to how I've (technically?) stepped back from a 5K 27" to a 4K 32". Likely due to scaling and how far I sit from the screen (about 24" -- average I think) things look the same? At least, I don't notice that the 4K is any worse.

Me being me, I can't help but think I should have a 5K or 6K or whatever, but the price is... high. So I figured I'd try a 4K 32" since the OLED was cheap and the result was this post because the subpixel pattern messed with me. But now for the replacement I'm looking at a simple (but nice color / high end) 4K 32" IPS LCD.

And having been using one for the last day, I'm pretty content with it. It's like everything I wanted from the OLED without the eye strain.
by dgacmu | 2026-01-10 19:29:00+00:00
We do semi-automated analysis of imagery of things like utility right-of-ways and it's pretty scalable. We triage the vast majority of images automatically and then surface a small subset to human experts to review, but it's much, much faster than having the experts be in the field, while having high coverage. (Most images are really boring.)

And in most cases of inspection, you need to look at the stuff anyway, so any cost reduction is very welcome. And if you do increase the total coverage volume while reducing human time, you get a double benefit of being able to provide more granular information, either in time or in space, which can often be useful.

(And as a commenter below notes - this all works pretty well with several year old CNNs. We use a limited amount of image-LLM stuff to surface things zero-shot, but a lot of what we end up doing is a very conventional classifier with a lot of engineering work to make it very fast for the experts to see only the important things.)
by 1dontnkow_ | 2026-01-10 19:29:09+00:00
Hm, I'm trying to keep an open mind here so help me:

Why exactly would that be weak? Given the resources and connections it needs, wouldn't it be actually very strong? Also, I'm from EU, and nobody in their right mind sees Italy as the victim. The politics in Italy gave gone insane and they are a huge example of a fuck up as a whole country. Also the EU, is trying to push censorship law and most companies in EU are fight with everyone they've got to not let them pass and organize petitions and what not.

Also are you all people supporting this law and the fine or do people, for some weird reason, have started to hate Cloudflare and letting their emotions cloud their judgement? Lets forget Cloudflare for a moment and imagine just another company... Would you still agree entirely on this laws contents and the procedures and fines issued? Lets please all focus on the important topic here. Companies come and go, but destructive laws keep us suffering for decades on end, maybe forever.