MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by prmoustache | 2026-01-14 23:31:08+00:00
> it's self-centered to want to communicate well?
>
> It's just basic communications skills, and honestly decency, to describe what a thing is and who it's for

What is the main country where dying pubs is such a big subject?

For f**ks sake I am not from UK yet it is easy to understand what it is all about from context and language. And I wasn't even aware of that tax change.

Pure US arrogance.
by tired_and_awake | 2026-01-14 23:31:10+00:00
The moment all code is interacted with through agents I cease to care about code quality. The only thing that matters is the quality of the product, cost of maintenance etc. exactly the thing we measure software development orgs against. It could be handy to have these projects deployed to demonstrate their utility and efficacy? Looking at PRs of agents feels a wrong headed, like who cares if agents code is hard to read if agents are managing the code base?
by miduil | 2026-01-14 23:31:29+00:00
> Spain will need to make some very hard choices

Thankfully there is now more focus and financing available to elevate the network quality - right? Portugal has added 1% onto the electricity price for that purpose alone: https://www.energy-storage.news/portugal-to-invest-e400-mill...

I've followed "expert testimonials" in the Austrian news over the past years, and even there the importance of grid safety is a common theme - there seems to be some gap, even in the networks that on the surface level appear to be tolerant.

> I know that the typical grid operator is extremely careful and pro-active on this subject

That's really good to hear, unfortunately standardization is extremely slow moving and even though a potentially "safe grid" may be much more at risk during "hybrid-war times" (or other civil unrest, as seen in Berlin this year).

https://positive.security/blog/blinkencity-38c3
by shirro | 2026-01-14 23:31:40+00:00
Fully agree. I have no issues with the social media laws as they don't impact my family at all except for YouTube. Accounts under Family Link control should have been allowed as they are overseen by an 18+ parent.

Youtube should have voluntarily removed shorts and the front page or made them available as a parental control to appease the regulator. When I wrote to the minister they used YouTube's addictive algorithms as justification for including them as social media which I do agree with.

We had curated kids logins with age restrictions, subscriptions, and ad free under premium and also youtube music with individual playlists they used for instrument practice etc. We had to shift music platform. I know we can replicate a lot of this with special apps and browser extensions but this was a single cross platform solution that was working for responsible parents. To be fair it is partly YouTube's fault for prioritizing Shorts and watch time over quality.
by RickJWagner | 2026-01-14 23:32:11+00:00
I don’t know what you mean.

Here’s an article where ACLU says agents patted a teenagers behind and threatened her with rape but this was on Obamas watch.

https://www.aclu.org/news/immigrants-rights/border-patrol-wa...

Have you got something that says something similar happened on Trumps watch?

If not, I suppose an argument could be made that Trump is better than Obama, at least in this regard.
by joe_mamba | 2026-01-14 23:32:23+00:00
I don't know what the right policies would be, but I noticed that smart, driven and disciplined driven people will always find a way to work around algorithms to get to the top, it's not something the government can legislate in order to get a desired outcome.

It's not like becoming famous back then was easy either. Plenty of good bands never got anywhere. The Mona Lisa wasn't a famous painting until someone stole it in 1911, before that nobody gave damn and now it's the most famous of them all. Survivorship bias and randomness in art is real.
by throwaway81523 | 2026-01-14 23:32:47+00:00
> Teensy 4 does currently fill a pretty unique niche in terms of processing power though. There isn't much like it outside of professional eval boards.

If I want that much performance, maybe I should think about a Pocketbeagle 2. And almost every embedded MCU these days is sprouting an on-chip "AI" extension ;).
by doctorpangloss | 2026-01-14 23:33:06+00:00
I completely disagree. Be yourself. And broadly, if you aspire to be in charge, as opposed to a forever IC, be yourself even more!

Adafruit makes an aesthetic experience that appeals to a niche audience. It is not an hockey stick growth company. And even those that are: Everybody makes aesthetic experiences. Nobody needs hobbyist microcontrollers.

Part of the product is being on the “right side” of Internet dramas.
by dvt | 2026-01-14 23:33:19+00:00
Everything in an LLM is "evaluated," so I'm not sure where the confusion comes from. We need to be careful when we use `eval()` and we need to be careful when we tell LLMs secrets. The Claude issue above is trivially solved by blocking the use of commands like curl or manually specifiying what domains are allowed (if we're okay with curl).
by analog31 | 2026-01-14 23:33:25+00:00
For me, it's the Teensy 4.x boards. I have uses that consume all of their horsepower. I'm just a researcher, and my prototypes will be commercialized by an engineering team that will use the same microcontroller but on their own board and developed under their preferred auspices.

It's the closest I can get to an FPGA within my skill set.

Also, I think that Paul has been exemplary in his contributions to the open source community despite his own product having a closed component.
by netsharc | 2026-01-14 23:34:11+00:00
Some friends flew eastwards from New York to Singapore on a direct flight (it's one of the longest flights). I wondered what their experience of sunrises and sunsets were (they departed 10PM), I've noted down the times but haven't plotted it...

Later this year I'm flying from Europe to the West Coast of Canada, and it seems I'll be in daylight for the entirity of the flight (departing 2PM local, landing 4PM local after a 10 hour flight).

Edit: well, FR24 has a handy flight tracking that includes the daylight progression: https://www.flightradar24.com/data/flights/sq23#3de5a306

So they flew 18 hours and experienced a full daylight cycle, arriving just before the second sunrise...
by dmvkmusic | 2026-01-14 23:34:13+00:00
Abstract for Friends

The Universe as a Liquid Crystal Instead of viewing space as an empty box containing matter, this theory proposes that the vacuum is a physical, superfluid liquid. We—stars, planets, and people—are essentially complex vortices or "bubbles" within this fundamental ocean.

From Chaos to Order (2D to 4D) Just as water freezes into ice, the early Universe underwent a phase transition. At the Planck scale (high energies), space was chaotic and effectively 2-dimensional. As the Universe cooled, it "crystallized" into the stable 4-dimensional geometry (3 spatial dimensions + time) that we inhabit today.

Gravity is Quantum Entanglement What holds this cosmic structure together? The theory implies that gravity is not merely a force, but a manifestation of quantum entanglement. Space itself is "stitched" together by billions of quantum connections between particles. Gravity is the web of information that connects every part of the Universe, preventing space from dissolving back into chaos.

The Topological "Knot" Why doesn't our Universe collapse? The theory suggests that our spacetime is locked in a specific "topological phase," similar to a complex knot on a rope. This mathematical "knot" protects the laws of physics, such as the speed of light, without requiring delicate fine-tuning.

Solving the Dark Energy Mystery This framework also addresses why the vacuum doesn't crush us with immense energy. Like a deep-sea fish that feels no pressure because its internal pressure matches the ocean's, our vacuum is in thermodynamic equilibrium. What we observe as "Dark Energy" is simply the vacuum liquid slowly relaxing and settling into a balanced state.
by adolph | 2026-01-14 23:34:14+00:00
And they announced the next version of the Lightning last month. People don't like that it isn't purely BEV, but I don't see the big deal.

Unlike a traditional hybrid, the F-150 Lightning EREV is propelled 100
percent by electric motors. This ensures owners get the pure EV driving
experience they love — including rapid acceleration and quiet operation —
while eliminating the need to stop and charge during long-distance towing.

https://www.fromtheroad.ford.com/us/en/articles/2025/next-ge...
by fc417fc802 | 2026-01-14 23:34:16+00:00
So we agree that it's possible to reject a behavior without legislating against it.

You conveniently left out the part about mob mentality there. I don't think anyone was ever objecting to people expressing their disapproval of something in and of itself. Certainly I wasn't.

I'm not sure what partisan complaints are supposed to add to the discussion. I don't think it matters if one, both, or neither "team" are engaging in the behavior. The behavior is bad regardless.

> I'd stop using HN and I'd tell others to also not use it. I'd implement cancel culture on it.

That's a boycott but I don't believe it qualifies as "cancelling". Identifying YC associated businesses and telling people not to patronize them due to the association might qualify. Trying to get people who continued to use HN after the policy change fired would qualify.
by Xirdus | 2026-01-14 23:34:32+00:00
SQL injection is possible when input is interpreted as code. The protection - prepared statements - works by making it possible to interpret input as not-code, unconditionally, regardless of content.

Prompt injection is possible when input is interpreted as prompt. The protection would have to work by making it possible to interpret input as not-prompt, unconditionally, regardless of content. Currently LLMs don't have this capability - everything is a prompt to them, absolutely everything.
by galaxyLogic | 2026-01-14 23:34:35+00:00
And not only understanding what the customer wants, but communicating that unambiguously to the AI. And note who is the "customer" here? Is it the end-users, or is it a client-company which contracts the project-manager for this task? But then the issue is still there, who in the client-company decides exactly what is needed and what the (potential) users want?

I think this situation emphasizes the importance of (something like) Agile. To produce something useful can only happen via experimentation and getting feedback from actual users, and re-iterating relentlessly.
by crazygringo | 2026-01-14 23:34:41+00:00
That's truly bizarre. I genuinely can't imagine what could have physically caused that. Like, if that happened to me I'd have to assume a family member had warm-washed and machine-dried the shirt without telling me.

You can have your own opinions on quality -- if there's anything I know, people have been complaining about the decline of quality of major brands every year for as long as I've been alive. Yet somehow clothes still seem fine. But that's actually irrelevant.

Because the point is, there aren't really any conceivable fabric quality issues that should cause a cotton-spandex shirt to shrink with a cold wash and hang dry. It doesn't matter the brand or quality, that's just not how cotton or spandex work. And even if you do accidentally wash warm once or dry, the denser weave that a dress shirt has will always shrink less than something like a looser Oxford or a t-shirt jersey material. So even just one warm wash on a dress shirt shouldn't have a huge effect.

So truly that's just bizarre. I have no explanation.
by narrator | 2026-01-14 23:35:00+00:00
I think what we have to do is making each piece of context have a permission level. That context that contains our AWS key is not permitted to be used when calling evil.com webservices. Claude will look at all the permissions used to create the current context and it's about to call evil.com and it will say whoops, can't call evil.com, let me regenerate the context from any context I have that is ok to call evil.com with like the text of a wikipedia article or something like that.
by bossyTeacher | 2026-01-14 23:35:19+00:00
> I'm putting "securing" in scare quotes because IMO it's fool's errand to even try - LLMs are fundamentally not securable like regular, narrow-purpose software, and should not be treated as such.

Indeed. Between this fundamental unsecurability and alignment, I struggle to see how OpenAI/Anthropic/etc will manage to give their investors enough RoI to justify the investment
by m463 | 2026-01-14 23:35:57+00:00
Yes, I've had conversations with ice owners and the misconceptions are enormous in their minds.

Practically speaking¹, normal people could buy a tesla and drive it like a gas car, except with a full tank of gas every morning. They could still drive across the state once a month to grandma's and they could supercharge if range got low.

This is due to a couple things that were not in place for early EVs.

- teslas have a lot of range/battery compared to early EVs

- superchargers are in many locations, have plentiful charging spots, and are reliable

- teslas have a good UI to navigate and charge

[1] 99% of the time. If you're an apartment dweller in the artic circle with a supercharger 2000 miles away, please scroll onwards.
by thomasdziedzic | 2026-01-14 23:35:59+00:00
Since I didn't see the changes in the announcement, here is a copy pasted changelog from the NEWS file:

New in 2.14:

* libgcrypt 1.11.
* LVM LV integrity and cachevol support.
* EROFS support.
* GRUB environment block inside the Btrfs header support.
* NX support for EFI platforms.
* shim loader protocol support.
* BLS and UKI support.
* Argon2 KDF support.
* TPM2 key protector support.
* Appended Signature Secure Boot Support for PowerPC.
* New option to block command line interface.
* Support dates outside of 1901..2038 range.
* zstdio decompression support.
* EFI code improvements and fixes.
* TPM driver fixes.
* Filesystems fixes.
* CVE and Coverity fixes.
* Tests improvements.
* Documentation improvements.
* ... and tons of other fixes and cleanups...
by danans | 2026-01-14 23:36:41+00:00
> But the problem is that means you drove a minuscule amount so if you’d bought a hybrid you would have still used very little gas and your car would have been much cheaper.

A 2023 Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV (38 miles EV range) costs less than a 2023 Toyota Highlander Hybrid with the same mileage on the odometer, and far less than Land Rover or other luxury SUV brands.

I bought my Outlander used - also was a great deal.

The real way dumb money loses is by buying new cars, not by choosing an electric drivetrain.
by mr_toad | 2026-01-14 23:36:41+00:00
Dilbert was at the bottom of the McCloud hierarchy:

https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:852/0*1sY0ftV55FfIGW_-...

But so were Alice and Asok; being aggressive and proactive didn’t get them anywhere. The ones at the top, like Catbert and Dogbert weren’t just aggressive, they were sociopaths.
by autoexec | 2026-01-14 23:37:00+00:00
People absolutely do. Elon, Trump, and his supporters have politicized the cars (https://www.the-sun.com/motors/11906310/trump-rally-cybertru...) and now the connection is to be expected.

It's not surprising since people don't really have meaningful representation in government and have to resort to trying to hit companies where it hurts in order effect change whether that means boycotting a car company because of a CEO, or boycotting a beer because of a trans person in an instagram ad.

Unfortunate as it is, what you buy and where you shop is very much a political statement.
by ssl-3 | 2026-01-14 23:37:17+00:00
Visible here, as well. I've been paying $25.00 per month, flat (no extra fees/taxes) for years.

It's perhaps worth noting for others that there are 3 different tiers of service with Visible, ranging from $25 to $45 -- although all 3 are "unlimited."

(I can't tell the difference between them, myself, with my phone in my use.)
by BrenBarn | 2026-01-14 23:37:54+00:00
I searched this thread for "Tacoma" to see if anyone was mentioning this. (A few other comments had similar sentiments as well.) It's so true. I live half a block from an auto shop that is well patronized by small-time gardeners, contractors, etc. A sizable proportion of the vehicles there at any time are 20- to 30-year-old Tacomas.
by hypeatei | 2026-01-14 23:38:19+00:00
Mike Pence, the one that Trump sent his supporters to hang on Jan 6th for "betraying" them? Bush and Romney who don't hold office and don't hold influence over the populist MAGA movement?

Republicans in Congress (the ones who can hold him accountable) are clearly sycophantic towards Trump, but you know that, hence the irrelevant politicians you named.
by nospice | 2026-01-14 23:38:31+00:00
Both companies are pretty small and presumably exist because their owners are passionate about hobby electronics. Honestly, I'd rather have companies like that ran by (flawed) humans than by PR robots.

If they want to air their dirty laundry in public, I'm happy to grab popcorn and watch. I'm honestly shocked by the number of folks on this thread who don't know the specifics, and most probably never even bought anything from Sparkfun or Adafruit, but still want to condemn one of the companies in the strongest possible terms...
by defrost | 2026-01-14 23:38:36+00:00
It's a great pity all your woods have been bulldozed.

However the world of woods, wide open spaces, kids with power tools, kids walking for hours with friends and dogs circuiting the beach, caves, forrests and fields very much still exists in many places across the globe.

Kids working for themselves down in the shed making things they can sell for money at a swap meet or market happens here all the time and is a controlled risk - they wear PPE, have knowledge of readily apparent risks and aren't being stalked and crept up on by a netwok of bot assisted groomers.
by ClayShentrup | 2026-01-14 23:38:38+00:00
Read the book ADHD is awesome. I read the audiobook during a recent solo trip to London because my son was diagnosed with ADHD a few years ago and I wanted to understand him better and be more patient with him. I think a lot of it he gets from me and I relate to a lot of this stuff where where, all I want to do is work on these crazy ideas all day. I co-founded a non-profit that does electoral reform because I want to optimize everything. I learned Esperanto I type on a dvorak key map etc. everywhere I look all I see is things to be optimized. but I'm able to manage it fairly well to hold down a software engineering job. I think he has not learned that yet so he struggles. but reading this book helped me see him and understand him better instead of just getting frustrated with him.
by rekabis | 2026-01-14 23:38:51+00:00
> And it’s nonsensical that if you got rid of all of the investors who only own 2-3% of the supply,

Either you are sealioning, or you genuinely can’t comprehend the written word.

Time and time again you keep hammering on this point, which is only a tiny fraction of mine. You keep hammering on the window dressing, while I am addressing the real elephant in the room, THE OTHER ⅓ OF LANDLORDS, WHO ARE THE MAJORITY OF THE PROBLEM.

I am talking about the other ≈30% of landlords

≈30%. Not 2-3%. ≈30%. That is the size of the problem.

> Housing is very much elastic.

For buyers and sellers, perhaps. For renters, NO.

If rent was elastic, we wouldn’t have a “working poor” homeless problem. If rent was elastic, we wouldn’t have 23 empty homes for every homeless person.

> are you also opposed to apartment complexes owned by investors?

A single, separate, unrelated owner per apartment/unit? No. That generates genuine competition for renters.

A single owner per complex? F*ck, yes. It’s an obscene concentration of economic power away from the renter and into the landlord’s hands.

> As far as raw food, do you also think that people in the supply chain like farmers, packagers, food delivery drivers etc shouldn’t make a profit?

My family have been orchardists for almost a half century. We know plenty of other farmers and orchardists. Most would rather let their food go to the hungry rather than let it rot on the tree or in the field.

And yet, it takes capitalism and the Parasite Class to drench food in kerosine and light it aflame in order to generate artificial scarcity and keep profits high.

And if you know anything about economic trends, you would know that food prices keep skyrocketing, yet the share that farmers get keeps shrinking.

Where does it all go? To the middlemen, increasingly concentrated in a handful of suppliers that keep buying up all the competition, thereby concentrating profits in the hands of the ultra-wealthy Parasite Class.

Even up here in Canada, it’s even getting such that the lines between middleman and retailer is blurring, with mega-corps such as Loblaws - which makes up a large majority of supermarkets - buying up distributors and processors in order to capture that middleman profit margin for themselves, denying the farmers higher returns and the consumer lower prices.

Yay, capitalism?

Because it’s neither the consumer nor the farmer who’s benefitting from capitalism. It’s the parasites at the top.
by johnnyanmac | 2026-01-14 23:39:03+00:00
The eternal question.

I think in this context, the term "intentional music" or "earnest music" applies better. People who just wants "music that sounds good" already has mainstream stuff. Many who want a more niche sound deliberately look to support humans in that endeavor. Not yet another billionaire label who puts out "safe" but "boring" stuff. Except it's worse now.
by mynameisvlad | 2026-01-14 23:40:22+00:00
> nor that data go unused every month

> we don't regularly go over 50Gb

I mean, you did.

And now, even if you did go over 50GB, you get 50 more GB to use at the same price. If you barely went over before, then you will likely not use up the extra 50GB, and therefore are paying less than before for the same usage.
by crazygringo | 2026-01-14 23:40:26+00:00
> What is the main country where dying pubs is such a big subject?

How should I know? That's the point. It might as easily be Ireland for all I know. Or maybe pubs are dying in Boston or something?

> For f*ks sake I am not from UK yet it is easy to understand what it is all about from context and language.

I'm happy you're so smart. Not all of us are so lucky, I guess.

> Pure US arrogance.

Who said anything about the US? You know there are people from a lot of other countries who speak English too? If your concern is arrogance, it seems like it's your own that perhaps needs to be dialed back a little.

Suggesting that communication can be clearer isn't a form of arrogance. To the contrary, it's something that comes out of empathy, identifying how communication could help more readers/listeners.
by mlacks | 2026-01-14 23:40:39+00:00
uPhone is an experimental dual-boot project for iPhone 7/7 Plus devices, allowing iOS 13.X and Ubuntu 22.04 to coexist.Basic hardware such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and the touchscreen may work, (you can use Bluetooth keyboard / mouse / headphones, speakers and other Bluetooth devices.), but many other components, including the GPU, are likely non-functional.
by minimaxir | 2026-01-14 23:41:40+00:00
> SCOOP: Thinking Machines has terminated its CTO, Barret Zoph, due to unethical conduct according to two sources familiar with the matter. CEO Mira Murati announced the news at an all-hands with employees today. Soumith Chintala will be taking over as CTO.

https://bsky.app/profile/kylierobison.com/post/3mcg7imhrq22s
by doubleunplussed | 2026-01-14 23:41:57+00:00
> "Someone did a CoC violation" is just a way for an org to say "someone was an asshole [...]"

Not even that, since so many CoCs are vague enough that someone unprincipled wielding them could be using them for petty interpersonal disputes. Unless I already have reason to trust the accuser, when I see "CoC violation" it tells me there's drama but it doesn't tell me who the asshole is.