MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by antonvs | 2026-01-13 20:57:32+00:00
> Probably variable is initially coming out of an ellipsis for something like "(possibly) variable* value stored in some dedicated memory location".

No, the term came directly from mathematics, where it had been firmly established by 1700 by people like Fermat, Newton, and Leibniz.

The confusion was introduced when programming languages decided to allow a variable's value to vary not just when a function was called, but during the evaluation of a function. This then creates the need to distinguish between a variable whose value doesn't change during any single evaluation of a function, and one that does change.

As I mentioned, the terms apply to two different aspects of the variable lifecycle, and that's implicitly understood. Saying it's an "oxymoron" is a version of the etymological fallacy that's ignoring the defined meanings of terms.
by zahlman | 2026-01-13 20:57:38+00:00
> The first time we see the Pilot it is blocking both travel lanes

And it stays in this position for a considerable period of time, while Good's partner is walking around outside the vehicle and behaving belligerently.

The fact that she waves some cars past certainly doesn't negate the apparent intent to obstruct the ICE vehicle.

> Being an asshole isn't a crime worthy of summary execution, is it?

Resisting arrest in a manner that causes a LEO reasonable fear of death or serious harm, as an objective matter of settled case law, justifies the LEO's use of lethal force. Relevant case law specific to the situation where someone is trying to flee, includes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee_v._Garner and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_v._Connor .
by philipkglass | 2026-01-13 20:57:54+00:00
Naval reactor power ratings are for thermal output. You can assume that about 1/3 of the thermal output can be converted to electricity when steam from the reactor is used to drive an electrical generator:

https://www.nuclear-power.com/nuclear-engineering/thermodyna...

Assuming that your cited numbers are correct, "$2 billion for 2 x 400 MW reactors in Ford-class aircraft carrier" translates to 267 megawatts of electrical output for $2 billion. Or $7.5 billion for 1000 megawatts of electrical output. This is not much cheaper than "Westinghouse: ~$8 bn for 1000MW reactor."
by dizzy9 | 2026-01-13 20:58:14+00:00
I have seen at least one blog where the author updated his RSS feed manually, but it's one of the first pieces of busywork that you want to automate away, after applying the page template and entering <p> tags at every double-newline. Jekyll is useful for that; it builds automatically in GitHub Pages, which also conveniently serves as a free web host.
by knicholes | 2026-01-13 20:58:15+00:00
Because, "Why are the edges burnt and the middle is too soft? How are these supposed to actually look? I used a clear 8"x8" pan, and I'm in Utah, which is at 4,600 ft elevation"

Oh, it's a higher elevation, I need to change the recipe and lower the temperature. Oh, after it looked at the picture, the top is supposed to be crackly and shiny. Now I know what to look for. It's okay if it's a little soft while still in the oven because it'll firm up after taking them out? Great!

Another one, "Uh oh, I don't have Dutch-processed baking power. Can I still use the normal stuff for this recipe?" Yeah, Google can answer that, but so can an LLM.
by goatlover | 2026-01-13 20:58:32+00:00
There is a video today of ICE dragging a disabled woman out of a car as she was trying to drive down the street to a doctor's appointment. Then there was the video yesterday a citizen they beat up and dropped off in another part of town. His face was battered and he was crying. And there are many more similar videos.

This is not defensible in a democracy. Never mind that ICE is not wanted in these cities by the citizens or their elected officials. This is massive federal overreach for political reasons.
by hiAndrewQuinn | 2026-01-13 20:58:53+00:00
This is actually one area of research for me as a recently-minted DevSecOps engineer. Most cybersecurity attacks are relatively unsophisticated, and succeed by being scaled up so much they succeed on a few soft targets anyway - but a Ralph Wiggum loop on even a scaled up local edge model could make those kinds of techniques much, much more terrifyingly sophisticated for actors with that kind of hardware at their disposal. Abliterated models are of special interest here [1] because they make it even cheaper to do it at scale.

It almost feels like we are seeing the digital analogue of the evolution of the flighted stinging insect, i.e. mosquitoes, bees, etc. They don't have to be very smart individually to absolutely decimate the population of megafauna. A tiny bit of economic intelligence goes a really long way here.

[1]: https://huggingface.co/blog/mlabonne/abliteration
by dijit | 2026-01-13 20:58:58+00:00
I understand this might be unpopular, but I’ve been told exactly this… directly, to my face, on multiple occasions. The last time it happened, I asked for it in writing. Unsurprisingly, that request went nowhere.

Whether it happened to Adams specifically, I can’t say. But I can state with absolute certainty that this happens, because it’s happened to me repeatedly. Either it’s more widespread than people want to acknowledge, or I’m unusually unlucky.

And yes, it’s a radicalising experience. It’s taken considerable effort and time to regain my equilibrium when discussing these topics.
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2026-01-13 20:59:00+00:00
> fundamentally ad hominem

Yes, but I'd point out that I was intending to speak "to the person" with those words. It is not to say "you're better than this" but instead to say I know you reach a certain baseline level of skill in critical thinking. Given that, I am genuinely not sure why you would choose to defend the actions of the agents.

But I guess I have my answer. "I wouldn't be murdered because I would comply with all of the agent's unreasonable demands." I will spare you an attempt to explain either the clear lack of reason in the agent's demands or the folly of this reasoning.

Apologies for not responding to the rest.
by lukevp | 2026-01-13 20:59:14+00:00
And you create music without ever having heard music before? Or are you also extracting other artist’s work and using it as inspiration for what you do?

AI music is the same as AI code. It’s derived from real code, but it’s not just regurgitated wholesale. You still as a person with taste have to guide it and provide inputs.

Electronic music made it so you didn’t have to learn to play an instrument. Auto tune made it so you didn’t have to learn how to sing on key. There are many innovations in music over time that make it easier and less gatekeepy to make music.

We are just moving from making music as a rote activity similar to code, to making music like a composer in much the way that you can create software without writing code. It’s moving things up a level. It’s how the steady march of innovation happens.

It won’t work to put the genie back in the bottle, now it’s to find what you love about it and makes it worth it for you and to focus on that part. Banning the new types of art is only going to last as long as it takes for people to get over their initial shock of it and for good products to start being produced with it.
by keithnz | 2026-01-13 20:59:23+00:00
I worked in a large company in the 90s and it really felt like Scott was spying on us with the comics he wrote. Such a great comic strip, and I liked his book the Dilbert principle. I followed his blog for quite a while then things started going off the rails a bit and I stopped following, I also ended up in smaller companies and Dilbert felt less relevant and I haven't really been following what has been happening with him. Kind of glad I didn't. I'm appreciative of the years of humor Dilbert provided in the 90s.
by epistasis | 2026-01-13 20:59:23+00:00
> by portraying it as a repressive dictatorship that is cracking down on peaceful protest. This is a standard "regime change" strategy, which often includes violent demonstrations in order to provoke state violence."

Side note: The self contradiction in adjacent sentences is so funny to me! It says a lot about the lack of mental coherency of the author and of the intended audience.

But I'm not 100% sure I follow your point, this is an editorial from way back in 2014, from a UK site not a US site. Though this could be published in the Guardian, I don't think a supporter of Maduro's government would get any TV time.

Search long enough and you will find supporters and detractors of all governments in the US, and openly doing it, because that's what the US's principles are supposed to allow. I remember in SF a political group which is half-mainstream, the DSA, starting a Maoist reading group, which caused a local uproar. That's particularly notable in SF, a city that has a very large Chinese population, with many of the families in SF to flee Mao himself!

The original assertion was that the US had one voice, without any opposition, in its media. While the viewpoints that make it into the mainstream media are somewhat narrow, you can find nearly every viewpoint somewhere on the Internet in the US.
by binary132 | 2026-01-13 20:59:35+00:00
As I read it, the attestation is simply that the server is running a particular kernel and application in the Secure Enclave using the hardware’s certification. That does not attest that there is no sidechannel. If exfiltration from the TEE is achieved, the attestation will not change.

To put it another way, I am quite sure that a sufficiently skilled (or privileged: how do you know the manufacturer is not keeping copies of these hardware keys?) team could sit down with one of these enclave modules and figure out how to get the memory image (or whatever) out without altering the attested signature.
by shermantanktop | 2026-01-13 20:59:56+00:00
Using "Rasse" as a direct dictionary translation and then saying that it doesn't have the same cultural connotation in another culture is nonsensical. The term "race" means something in the context of American culture, which is due to our troubled history. And Adams' comments are also in the context of that same culture.

But I believe some other countries have their own challenges living up to their nominal multi-ethnic ideals. Surely if I pop open a copy of Der Spiegel and start commenting about the finer points of an immigration policy proposal from an American perspective, I am going to get something wrong.
by cosmicgadget | 2026-01-13 21:00:06+00:00
I think you are right on the "wasn't always there" front, though perhaps the commenter making the claim has some early work in mind.

Personally, the Reddit AMAs (including sock puppets) were a pre-2023 indicator of his enKanyefication. Endorsing Donald Trump (who encompasses the stupidity and lack of self-awareness of the Dilbert antagonists) was another, though this may have been driven by a need for money/relevance.
by xmprt | 2026-01-13 21:00:11+00:00
What makes you think you couldn't have made brownies without Google. Just go to your local library and find the first baking cookbook you can find. And there it is, a better recipe than Google without all the SEO blog spam.

To avoid my comment just being snarky, I agree that there's a difference between comparing Google to LLMs, and the library to Google... but still I hope you can acknowledge that LLMs can do a lot more than Google such as answering questions about recipe alterations or baking theory which a simple recipe website can't/won't.
by bluescrn | 2026-01-13 21:00:20+00:00
Extracting money from horny young men with an illusion of intimacy/friendship just doesn't seem ethical. Or good for society as a whole. The regular porn industry is bad enough, but at least the content is non-interactive, there's no pretence of friendship/connection.

(Especially when you've got streamers using sites like Twitch, aimed at younger gamers, promoting their OnlyFans porn)
by TacticalCoder | 2026-01-13 21:00:44+00:00
When you see what z-image turbo with some added LORA does in mere seconds on a 4090 locally, you know it's a lost fight. And that's not even the best model: just a very good one for something that everybody can run.

Not only is the cat out of the bag but this is just the beginning. For example say porn vids where people can change the actress to their favorites celebrity in real-time is imminent.

There's no fighting this.
by deng | 2026-01-13 21:01:07+00:00
> I'm a musician, but am also pretty amused by this anti ai wave.

Let me guess: you're an amateur musician. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but it makes it much easier to be amused about this topic.

> There was recently a post referencing aphex twin and old school idm and electronic music stuff and i can't help bein reminded how every new tech kit got always demonized until some group of artists came along and made it there own.

What are you talking about? Which "tech kit" got demonized by whom? Of course, there were always controversies around techniques like sampling or whatever, or conservatives in the UK demonizing rave culture, but otherwise, I have no idea what you're referring to.
by NickC25 | 2026-01-13 21:01:23+00:00
>And TikTok is the antithesis of culture. It's consumerist rubbish that encourages a vapid, thoughtless, and illiterate consumption of shallow material. The article even mentions the monetary motivations of those posting. Any gimmick will do just to make a buck.

My brother, you've just described modern American culture perfectly.
by venndeezl | 2026-01-13 21:01:43+00:00
Media in the US is obsessed with fear mongering:

https://flowingdata.com/2025/10/08/mortality-in-the-news-vs-...

If they reported on heart disease people might get healthy. But it's instinctual understanding that people dying all over just improves journalists odds in our society. Keep them anxious with crime stats!

Such an unserious joke of a society.
by tastyface | 2026-01-13 21:01:52+00:00
"And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand? The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If... if... We didn’t love freedom enough." --Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Gulag Archipelago

We learn from history. These people don't get to terrorize our communities without pushback. (FWIW I do not advocate violence. But their little masks will not protect their anonymity. Let their friends and neighbors know who they really are.)
by rootusrootus | 2026-01-13 21:01:56+00:00
> Isn't that the whole point the found fathers made the Second Amendment?

At the risk of going off on an entirely different direction ... no, I don't think that was the point of the second amendment, not really. It was more about making sure they had something that would function like a standing army (in the absence of the real deal) should a foreign government invade. Defense against tyranny from our own government doesn't really feel like it was something they worried deeply about (at least with regards to the right to bear arms), and the self-defense justification for the second amendment wasn't even a commonly held viewpoint until about the 20th century.
by riedel | 2026-01-13 21:02:14+00:00
I don't know if this really counts as art but there are existing AI music that are at least though provoking funny like https://kommandointernet.bandcamp.com/

It is German but there is really funny remixes combining Mallorca Party music (a German music genre of its own) with anti fascist themes. They manage to make fun of both without being IMHO totally alienating both subcultures, which could count as art. IMHO such things would not really be possible without AI. Would be really disappointed if this disappeared from BC.
by dbborens | 2026-01-13 21:02:16+00:00
I was going to post this tomorrow, but in light of the great discussion going on about yolobox, I thought I'd add another approach tackling a different threat model.

yolo-cage runs in Kubernetes, scans all egress traffic for secrets (API keys, tokens, SSH keys), enforces git branch isolation so multiple agents can work in parallel without stepping on each other, and ensures agents can't merge their own PRs. "Agent proposes, human disposes."
by fkfkafjfjk | 2026-01-13 21:02:38+00:00
"Affordability" is more than just rental prices which is why I think building more units is insufficient.

You need to address wages as well.

> Then you're making it de facto illegal to build new housing. No bank is going to lend money to anyone to build more housing if they can't charge enough rent to cover the loan.

This implies you think landlords are trying their best to lower prices, only charging enough rent to just cover their loan payments, which is absurd.
by maxsilver | 2026-01-13 21:02:40+00:00
> Housing is too expensive because it's illegal to build enough of it.

A lot of us are in the US, where (except for SF and handful of specific cities) housing is legal to build practically everywhere, municipalities are handing out free money for any form of development, so people do build tons of new housing all over...

...and the prices still rise anyway.

80% of the buildings within a 1 mile radius of me did not exist at all 20 years ago. There's almost 5,000 new units around. Half of the new apartment buildings are only at like 70% utilization. Prices are at 40 year record high prices anyway (yes, even after factoring for inflation).
by concinds | 2026-01-13 21:02:50+00:00
It's a massacre. The originals[0] were metaphorical and easy to grasp. These new ones are meaningless, for most of them you can't guess what the app does from the icon.

And especially the new Final Cut Pro icon looks like some garbage free app with ads that Microsoft might bundle in Windows 11, not like a pro app. In fact that's true for most of them. None of the gravitas of the old ones.

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/1qbz6g8/whos_excited...
by lukevp | 2026-01-13 21:03:06+00:00
How many engineers are using ai-generated software libraries at this point? This could be all over github, but the software mostly sucks (because the AI doesn’t do architecture and real engineering, that has to be input into it right now). Increasing the volume of production doesn’t necessarily lead to the abandonment of the “good stuff”. You still have to compose the music and write the lyrics, the AI is not sophisticated enough to competently do that right now
by p_ing | 2026-01-13 21:03:21+00:00
> 1. Build the box: Take Panther Lake. Stick it in a boring little box that fits under the TV. No RGB. No gimmicks. Just raw performance in a console-size form factor.

All current console CPUs are custom silicon, eliminating bits they don't need an adding what they do need.

Likely taking Panther Lake as-is would be too expensive.
by clnhlzmn | 2026-01-13 21:03:48+00:00
If this is better than a laptop for mobile work why include the keyboard? Why not just make it a tiny box with a single USB C connector to plug into the dock on your home and work desks? Since you already must have monitors and mice at those locations (or bring them with you) I'm failing to see the point of including the keyboard in this package (except of course to be able to advertise the "copilot key")
by machomaster | 2026-01-13 21:04:20+00:00
And in this case the US participation should come. Wouldn't be better to fight a Putin's Russia that was weakened in Ukraine? Perhaps weakened so much, that Putin's won't attack at all. Perhaps weaken so much, that the US can scale down its European military force deployment (saving money) and concentrate on other things (China).

So yeah, US investments in Ukraine directly benefit America. Ukrainians are fighting for Americans. So much so, that they are destroying Russia's nuclear weapons capabilities (destroying radars, strategic bombers, submarines and ships, weapons arsenal, ballistic rockets, carriers of nuclear weapons like Iskanders).
by all2 | 2026-01-13 21:04:22+00:00
Mostly just learning, to be honest. I'm not trying to replace HN, I'm just fiddling around and seeing what I can do and what I can't.

My long term purpose is to provide the source code for communities/creators that want something simple to set up, and specifically allow creators to gate content behind a paywall. I'm sure stuff like that exists, but I hope what I build will be at least somewhat use-able.
by homebessguy | 2026-01-13 21:04:30+00:00
In the UK, where the OP is from, the equivalent of the battery you linked is available from Fogstar for £1850 (includes 20% VAT), shipped. Without the VAT that works out at ~$2000. A compatible high end 9kW inverter is available for around £1200.

The ROI is really attractive once you look past the overpriced kit.
by KaiserPro | 2026-01-13 21:04:39+00:00
I have 5kwp panels one tesla powerwall (bought before musk had a midlife crisis) and a single electric car.

In 2025 we consumed 6Mwhr, imported 2.7 & produced from solar 5.1

I assume that OP must have electric heating to account for the extra power use, or just does huge amounts of miles. its about 54kwhr a day consumption.
by sanity | 2026-01-13 21:04:57+00:00
> He was certain it was due to DEI

He was told explicitly by his boss that they weren't promoting white men.

> The strip that got him dropped in 2022 featured a black character (first in the history of the cartoon) who "identifies as white".

That wasn't what got him dropped, he did an interview with Chris Cuomo where he explained what actually happened and why: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_bv1jfYYu4
by yawaramin | 2026-01-13 21:05:14+00:00
> This is honestly all you need.

No, you need less than that! :-)

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HTML is very forgiving! You can start really simple and work your way up to more complexity when you need it.
by pizzafeelsright | 2026-01-13 21:05:21+00:00
I disagree. I say speak against the ideas, not the person, as the person dies, except Jesus who people continue to invoke his name, which probably means he transcends an idea or belief.

I have a terrible toxic belief troubles you. Can I be a member of society just because I believe pineapple on pizza is acceptable? If you associate me as a person with that belief instead of someone who believes, I suddenly become a problem, and not the belief. Jesus said to love your enemies. He also spoke against ideas, not people.