MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Guestmodinfo | 2026-01-10 03:40:19+00:00
People flirt because they are flirtatious, not necessarily they think you are the one they should be with. You just are above a certain "least number of qualities to flirt" that's all I think. I mean he or she may well be treating you just like a statistic rather than an individual.
All I'm saying if sufficient "above the bar" personalities are around then that person will flirt with all of them if the desperation and the context permits because not everyone flirts with everyone at the same time openly. They have mental models where they flirt with a particular person in a particular setting and with another particular person in another setting, maybe openly or privately but setting is different
by NewsaHackO | 2026-01-10 03:40:52+00:00
> It is clear much of the people below don't even understand basic terminology. Something being a transformer doesn't make it an LLM (vision transformers, anyone) and if you aren't training on language (e.g. AlphaFold, or Aristotle on LEAN stuff), it isn't a "language" model.

I think it's because it comes off as you are saying that we should move off of GenAI, and alot of people use LLM when they mean GenAI.
by chrneu | 2026-01-10 03:42:13+00:00
you just described a private investigator.

stalking requires some kind of menacing or whatnot. i seriously doubt a judge would grant a restraining order just because you think someone is following you without any interaction.

>Stalking is a crime of power and control. It is a course of action directed at an individual that causes the victim to fear for their safety, and generally involves repeated visual or physical proximity, nonconsensual communication, and verbal, written, or implied threats.
by AdieuToLogic | 2026-01-10 03:42:27+00:00
> This is an area I'm very interested in. Do you have a particular application in mind? (I'm guessing the recipe example is just illustrate the general principle.)

You are right in identifying the recipe example as being illustrative and intentionally simple. A more realistic example of using constraint programming techniques with LLMs is:

# Role
You are an expert Unix shell programmer who comments their code and organizes their code using shell programming best practices.

# Task
Create a bash shell script which reads from standard input text in Markdown format and prints all embedded hyperlink URL's.

The script requirements are:

- MUST exclude all inline code elements
- MUST exclude all fenced code blocks
- MUST print all hyperlink URL's
- MUST NOT print hyperlink label
- MUST NOT use Perl compatible regular expressions
- MUST NOT use double quotes within comments
- MUST NOT use single quotes within comments

In this exploration, the list of "MUST/MUST NOT" constraints were iteratively discovered (4 iterations) and at least the last three are reusable when the task involves generating shell scripts.

Where this approach originates is in attempting to limit LLM token generation variance by minimizing use of English vocabulary and sentence structure expressivity such that document generation has a higher probability of being repeatable. The epiphany I experienced was that by interacting with LLMs as a "black box" whose results can only be influenced, and not anthropomorphizing them, the natural way to do so is to leverage their NLP capabilities to produce restrictions (search tree pruning) for a declarative query (initial search space).
by machomaster | 2026-01-10 03:44:05+00:00
Way too many people treat ADHD as an excuse of not following proper task-management rules. They are so special that no rules could possible apply to them. To all hundreds of millions of them...

This is backwards. In practice, it should be the exact opposite. ADHD people should be MORE vigilant regarding the correct behavior, rules, habits. It is neurotypical people who have some leeway to be lazy with what and how they do stuff, but ADHD have way smaller margin of error!

Sometimes there are things (noise in the room, other distractions, mess in tasks, etc.) that neurotypical can safely ignore, but that will make an ADHD person not able to work at all.

The fact that life is harder to organize and manage for ADHD people only means that they should pay EXTRA attention to doing right things the correct way.

Sure, ADHD people have their own peculiarities (as does any other neurotypical person), but in my experience this is a drop in a bucket of issues that are actually solvable with typical means without reinventing the wheel.
by agoodusername63 | 2026-01-10 03:44:14+00:00
Well considering the fine is larger than their profits in Italy, why on earth would they keep doing business there?

Yeah lemme just keep burning money to provide a service in a single country.

Is there some idea that CF is a public utility?

Or an idea that CF should just comply with a 30 minutes zero questions asked API infamous for egregious false positives?

That CEO should stop posting but that just sounds like a business decision
by metadope | 2026-01-10 03:45:13+00:00
> And let’s not forget the Epstein files [snip]

No, please, let's do forget about Epstein. We've gone beyond the point of no return; there is no reputational damage to Trump that will change anything; the avalanche has begun and there is no immediate shelter for anyone, anywhere.

These are now the United States of Roy Cohn, where everyone in the federal government claims all authority and denies all responsibility. They will continue to lie and deny, and attack attack attack. This is the apprentice lawyer's lowdown and dirty gameplan: to claim victory in everything, no matter how egregious the loss or failure; to never admit to any mistakes, never accept defeat; to never stop attacking enemies, real or imagined.

This is Trump teaching his cabinet what Roy Cohn taught him: the mindless attack-dog strategy. It is a wonderful stance for a lawyer to take. Who wouldn't want a lawyer like that, working for them? But this US administration should not be built on this rabid aggression against the American people (but it is). The fact that the ghost of a long-dead and demented lawyer is now haunting the halls of our federal government-- in every cabinet office and hanging from every branch-- influencing and participating in the same rabid hate-- repeating the same frothing-at-the-mouth bald-faced lies-- tells me that no amount of Epstein taint will make any difference.

They need to go to hell.

And we need to send them there.
by mindslight | 2026-01-10 03:46:03+00:00
You literally just personally attacked jacquesm for not being an American, and then have the gall to complain about "personal attacks" ? Yet another example of reactionary hypocrisy.

From what I (and apparently many others) have seen is that there is no merit to your assertions about what factually happened. It seems as if you're simply repeating what you've heard from the regime, government news sources (eg Fox), or some other bald-faced liars. I'm not saying you're deliberately lying, rather you're caught in a filter bubble so strong it's causing you to rally around the killers of a fellow American citizen.

I am most certainly open to evidence that Renee physically impeded or assaulted ICE agents before they chose to create an an escalated high-stakes situation. So far I have yet to see any beyond vague allusions and innuendos.

Perhaps maybe part of your frustration here comes from having characterized everyone who doesn't support summarily executing American citizens in the street as "far left wackos" ?

And sorry, but you're simply not a libertarian. An actual libertarian believes in individual liberty front and center - in this case the freedom for a non-violent woman to not be assaulted and then ultimately killed by agents of the government, for what amounts to Constitutionally-protected filming, criticism, and heckling. But there is certainly a strain of fake libertarianism whereby people will overindulge in the deductive parts of its framing, attracted to the idea that the violation of a precondition serves as a justification for a draconian response. But this is not libertarianism! Rather it is more appropriately described as cryptofascism.

For reference here no, I haven't spent much time on reddit since 2009 or so. When I do, it's mostly to find answers to technical questions. Some of the subs on the top banner of my current throwaways - /r/kubota, /r/woodstoving, /r/vorondesign, /r/buildapcsales. Haven't seem much political commentary in them.

But as far as HN? I'd say HN owns this problem. The way I see it, this topic isn't really politics but rather a societal sickness that is the direct result of the consumer surveillance industry that HN helped build.
by tverbeure | 2026-01-10 03:46:15+00:00
The premise of your question is wrong. I would still write Python for most of my tasks even if I were just as fast at writing C or ASM.

Because the conciseness and readability of the code that I use is way more important than execution speed 99% of the time.

I assume that people who use AI tools still want to be able to make manual changes. There are hardly any all or nothing paradigms in the tech world, why do you assume that AI is different?
by chrneu | 2026-01-10 03:47:10+00:00
...people can just follow you in public. there's nothing illegal about that.

there is no reasonable expectation of privacy in a public setting, nor should there be. anyone arguing there should be is giving up basic rights because they're scared.

the issue is when public feeds get recorded and are allowed to be viewed at a later date. the data retention is the issue, not the privacy.
by anonym29 | 2026-01-10 03:47:51+00:00
>a venomous creature that bites you will release its venom into your bloodstream

unless it's a bee, wasp, hornet, scorpion, stingray, jellyfish, man-of-war, platypus, lionfish, stonefish, sea urchin, or catfish, which all have venom instead of poison, but the delivery mechanism of said venom isn't biting
by NooneAtAll3 | 2026-01-10 03:47:55+00:00
https://www.erdosproblems.com/forum/thread/728#post-2808

> There seems to be some confusion on this so let me clear this up. No, after the model gave its original response, I then proceeded to ask it if it could solve the problem with C=k/logN arbitrarily large. It then identified for itself what both I and Tao noticed about it throwing away k!, and subsequently repaired its proof. I did not need to provide that observation.

so it was literally "yo, your proof is weak!" - "naah, watch this! [proceeds to give full proof all on its own]"

I'd say that counts
by Rantenki | 2026-01-10 03:47:59+00:00
I am somewhat confused by this post. If the AI assistant is doing such a bad job that it lights up the linting tool, and further, is incapable of processing the lint output to fix the issues, then... maybe the AI tool is the problem?

If I hired a junior dev and had to give them explicit instructions to not break the CI/lint, and they found NEW ways to break the CI/lint again that were outside of my examples, I'd hopefully be able to just let them go before their probation period expired.

Has the probation period for AI already expired? Are we stuck with it? Am I allowed to just write code anymore?
by svat | 2026-01-10 03:48:51+00:00
- Minor nit: The documentation mentions "uvx aristotlelib@latest aristotle" but that doesn't work; it should be "uvx --from aristotlelib@latest aristotle"

- Major nit: It took me a minute or two of clicking around to figure out that the (only?) way to use it is to start aristotle in the terminal and interact with it there.
by djtango | 2026-01-10 03:52:26+00:00
Assuming this is an earnest question - the lived experience is that for some people, they are less well off than their parents. This is a big enough phenomenon that it has been measured and AFAIK is well accepted as a fact. So being poorer than your parents isn't about living the experience of both your life and your parents.

Although anecdotally my father moved to the UK with my mother with nothing but the clothes on their backs, and by 27 my dad was able to afford his first property in London start a family, all without a uni degree and hadn't even yet finished his accountancy training. He did that without any family help and in fact was sending money home. This has always helped provide a bit of colour of how things have changed
by lutusp | 2026-01-10 03:52:53+00:00
Nice project! This video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nBY4Y0bicM explains why the original interferometer was designed in the first place: to detect a hypothetical luminiferous ether, before Relativity theory made it unnecessary.

It's important to say the original interferometer was much less elegant -- there were no lasers in 1887. But it did have a solid stone "boat" floating in a little lake of mercury. Not making this up.
by temp0826 | 2026-01-10 03:52:58+00:00
Yah I think there's a lot of urban legend around the stuff. I know a few people who have used it (well, Brugmansia plants that contain it anyways) as part of their apprenticeships (Amazonian plant medicine, in conjunction with ayahuasca) in a more controlled manner and even then they have some wild stories about it (waking up naked in the jungle, covered in scratches with no memory etc). It lasts a looong time.
by SllX | 2026-01-10 03:53:04+00:00
Also a little extra distinction: “.txt” is a relic of 8.3 DOS filename conventions. He was not bound by these. If you’ve got the space, of course you’ll go with “.text” over “.txt” because text is the input, HTML is the output, Markdown is the tool for converting one into the other, per the first line of the introduction:

> Markdown is a text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers.

Ergo they’re not Markdown documents, they’re text files that can be converted into HTML using Markdown.

https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/
by Izkata | 2026-01-10 03:53:32+00:00
It's just an extension of nearly a decade of fearmongering over Trump. One of his main policy goals is the centrist "enforce the current law" over immigration, but because it's Trump then the left has to oppose it - even when it means attacking law enforcement.

The "sanctuary state" status of blue states has gotten the left used to ignoring that particular set of laws, so it's not seen as a bad thing. Problem is, that status never included active resistance - they used to just skirt legality by simply not cooperating instead of actively working against ICE.
by geerlingguy | 2026-01-10 03:55:03+00:00
Best if you need the RAM and are willing to pay, but it doesn't make as much sense as a mini PC for the same purpose (cost-wise), if you're doing normal computing tasks.

I think the sweet spot for the Pi 5 is 4GB (cost vs functionality you can use it for). But if you're like me, you don't care about value quite as much as fun/exploration. And for that, the more RAM, the merrier...
by Dylan16807 | 2026-01-10 03:55:38+00:00
From the previous HN discussion, 00c for pawn and xxxc for other pieces is probably the optimal way to encode pieces into whole bits. Because you can sacrifice 1 pawn to enable 3 promotions, so you need to handle up to 28 non-pawns. With 2/5 you start at 14 bytes but can need up to 17.5. With 3/4 you start at 14 bytes and never need more than 14.
by ky3 | 2026-01-10 03:56:08+00:00
> Good textbooks have gone through expert reviews and multiple iterations of improvement.

That's an assumption increasingly false, unfortunately. The spirit of collegiality has been beaten back.

Far better to hone logical skills that sift between fact and error than to rely on social reputation. Ironically we're discussing a text designed to do exactly that.

The savvy LLM user already knows to be on the lookout for falsehood, if not bad pedagogy. That's a benefit, not a drawback of LLMs.
by lifetimerubyist | 2026-01-10 03:58:11+00:00
Another game that has LLM powered NPCs is the f2p action game from China called "Where Winds Meet" and players came up with all sorts of hilarious ways to cheat quests and other fun stuff via prompt injections.

https://www.dexerto.com/gaming/where-winds-meet-players-are-...

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/where-winds-meet-player-con...
by vlod | 2026-01-10 03:58:20+00:00
“Action precedes motivation.” ― Robert McKain

This seems to work for me at least. If I start trying to reason with myself why I should get out of bed at 5am to go to the gym rather than excuse XYZ, I will talk myself out of it.

If I simply start "moving" and start doing "stuff" without engaging my brain, things happen and within a short space of time, I'm pumping iron and feeling great.
by nomel | 2026-01-10 04:01:40+00:00
I never really understood how GPIO is a killer feature with them. There are so many ways to get GPIO, from $5 USB dongles to any microcontroller/dev board that's ever exists. What's special about Raspberry Pi GPIO that I'm missing?

The only case I can think of is very heavy compute that relies on low latency GPIO related to that compute?
by lutusp | 2026-01-10 04:02:12+00:00
> I thought the whole point was if it did exist the motion goes faster in one direction than the other.

No, the idea was that, in a space filled with the hypothetical ether, Earth's velocity through the ether should have been detectable by comparing light beams traveling in different directions.

The null result was very important -- it didn't prove the absence of an ether, it only showed that it wasn't a factor in light propagation.
by theden | 2026-01-10 04:03:47+00:00
Way back when I was young and broke, I played through Half Life 2 and the episodes on a ThinkPad T420 using an ExpressCard/34 PCMCIA to PCI with a graphics card I borrowed and an old crappy PSU I pulled from a business Dell desktop.

Managed to complete the games with decent graphics and framerate at the time. It wasn't an ideal setup, but I didn't care. In fact, I thought it was a cool hack to play games at the time without forking out a lot of money to build a gaming PC.

Maybe there are probably better options now to game than attaching a dedicated GPU with whatever hardware you already have, but I can verify that external GPUs are really cool and useful (though a 5090 is definitely not needed). You also don't have to care about cooling the GPU, since it's "atmosphere" cooled (though headphones and/or ANC are a must).
by ggm | 2026-01-10 04:03:53+00:00
A valid point. I might add I followed my dad into the field and my son followed me into the field and both academically and in capability he exceeds my ability. I'm enormously proud of him, and I did not seek to prevent him following his heart into the field beyond noting there are other dreams to follow worth considering. I did seek to persuade him not to become a chef, it's a really hard, stressful life.

I totally did not exceed my dads abilities: as one of the 1950s computing pioneers who build some of the first machines in the UK, founded a department of computer science and did work in IFIP, and the BCS, this was always going to be hard.
by metaphysicalyes | 2026-01-10 04:06:12+00:00
> And also she did hit the officer

She made contact with the officer. And that is only because he had to put down his recording phone and take out the gun instead of focussing on stepping out of the way. This framing feels even more egregious when you consider that he casually strolled to take a glance at dead mother and escape the scene.

> only reason it was a slight hit was because she lost traction on the ice.

> only because the icy road caused her wheels to lose grip

It is winter season and all roads are layered with ice. Ice was not a lucky coincidence at the spot she was shot. When you drive in ice for months every year you gain the intuition of vehicle motion. Before being killed, she had reversed in that spot and had a good idea how much gas creates how much traction like any other person driving in snow does. You can not claim her intent to hit based on how fast the wheels are spinning.

Regardless grip is immaterial, what matters is how fast the vehicle was actually moving.

> This is confusing to me and I don’t really know what to say about that

> deciding that she is a non-threat in the split second after his first shot

If you can make a decision to step aside and fire subsequent shots from side window instead, your intention is no longer own safety but to kill, in common parlance called murder. A woman driving in different direction, clearly escaping is somehow more of a threat than the masked gunmen surrounding her.

> when she accelerated, she still had her wheels pointing just left of center

Do you drive? If you did you would know that it is not a discrete process of turning and forward motion. It is easier to turn when you are moving. Whatever the direction of wheel at the moment, the rotation towards right while the masked gunman is on left corner makes her intent clear.

> she was looking directly at the officer when she accelerated

Because he is a masked gunman with ability to leave her child motherless which he actually did.
by metaphysicalyes | 2026-01-10 04:06:23+00:00
Do you recognize the freedom and comforts you enjoy is due to the tiny brave and unhinged section of population willing to take actions against their self-interest? It is reasonable you yourself won't take the risk but discrediting those who do is another low.

What leverage do the citizens have when government can illegally constraint their rights including the right to justice in the courts which you speak of?

How would you challenge these masked gunmen when they have legal immunity conferred by the fascist in charge? How successful is your approach for the sitting president with criminal history and redacted links to Epstein? Are you willfully feigning ignorance of how fascism works?
by mindslight | 2026-01-10 04:06:39+00:00
Your comment got me thinking -

Maybe pg should come back to this board, and make HN his primary venue. Does he really like getting backscatter from all the bots and botlike humans on xitter? He could still syndicate there.

Meanwhile, HN certainly could stand to use an opinionated benevolent dictator (or at least tone-setter), not mere "both sides" moderation (as heroic as it has been). With such an anchor we might be able to constructively discuss these problems without getting derailed by the handful of reactionary flamebaiters.
by donutthejedi | 2026-01-10 04:06:55+00:00
I completely agree with what your saying, with one caveat. If I understand how the underlying physics and dynamics are working but don't know how to write the code then theres no world where I could make something like this. The way that I see it is that AI is a tool that really depends on the person.

If I were to be someone who just tells AI "implement drag" and lets it do it then sure, im not learning, but if I do my research outside and just use AI to translate what I give it into the language of computers I feel like im not only building something cool but im understanding whats happening because AI is just translating.

So basically while yes I do believe that AI can be harmful if you approach it inproperly, it helps novice programers implement cool things by just using english.