MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rdm_blackhole | 2026-01-13 15:15:33+00:00
While you have a point, you are looking at this the wrong way.

20 years ago if you had told someone you needed to get a face scan or upload your ID to view certain websites or that you might get your messages and emails scanned in case you send something that the government deems suspicious to someone else, people would have laughed at you.

Yet as we are seeing currently this is what is happening slowly but surely.

Yes, the UK government is not gunning down protesters in the street but can you say with certainty that the screws are not being tightened and that the so called western values of freedom of speech are not being eroded systematically year after year under the pretense of safety?

It seems to me that every western government is looking at what China and Russia are doing and instead of staying true to their values, they are actually trying to figure out how to roll out the same exact measures in the west.

Will we see Gulags in the west make a comeback? Most likely not but in terms of freedom of speech and online privacy rights, we are seeing clearly a rollback and if we do nothing to stop it, we will end up like China with governments looking at everything we say and write on our phone and computer and that is unacceptable especially when these measures are cowardly disguised as 'safety" measures.
by the_mitsuhiko | 2026-01-13 15:15:43+00:00
> Are you saying the agent says "I need to write a tool", it takes a snapshot, and once it's done, it rewinds to the snapshot but this time, it has the tool it desired? That's actually a really cool idea to do autonomously!

I'm basically saying this except I currently don't give the agent a tool yet to do it automatically because it's not really RL'ed to that extend. So I use the branching and compaction functionality of my harness manually when it should do that.

> If you mean manually, that's still interesting, but that kind of feels like the same thing to me.

It's similar, but it retains the context and feels very naturally. There are many ways to skin the cat :)
by tyjen | 2026-01-13 15:16:14+00:00
It's rare to find local newspapers owned locally, and even rarer to find a local newspaper that's a fair representation of the local population instead of an insulated clique with heavy handed control over what's represented.

Local online forums dedicated to a locality produce more representative content and everyone can participate as long as their isn't a similar controlling clique in charge of moderation. See /r/Seattle and /r/SeattleWA for how moderation manipulates outcomes. Both perspectives are important, but each clique tends to omit what others deem important; leading to topic over-representation/under-representation problems.

There's clearly a loss on long forum informational pieces, but your community is misinformed or misrepresented if those pieces only support the motives of the clique.
by wolrah | 2026-01-13 15:16:34+00:00
> great for kiosks and shared workstations.

Absolutely not.

For a kiosk, I want everything the user is touching to be effectively disposable. Keyboards and mice are cheap and trivial to replace, this design integrates the most important part of the system in to one of the easiest parts to damage/steal. It's possibly the worst way to do a kiosk.

For a shared workstation, likewise if I'm the user I want to be able to bring my own keyboard and mouse, both for sanitary reasons (have you seen the way people treat their own keyboards, much less shared ones?) and for personal preference. This design integrates the most important part of the system with the part most likely to get gunked up.

Even for the idea of a shared docking station where each user has their own keyboard PC, it's a crappy keyboard. Perhaps if it were a nice mechanical board with swappable keyswitches that might not be terrible, but as it is it's all of the downsides of a laptop without the ability to actually use it undocked.

Whatever use cases may exist where this is actually an improvement are very specific niches.
by freedomben | 2026-01-13 15:16:37+00:00
> There is also Ladybird, whose founder is a prolific and technically brilliant person but who is also, at minimum, a fascist sympathizer, in addition to being a supporter of white replacement theory and other racist ideas.

I know nothing about Ladybird or their founder, so I'm taking your word for it that they are "at minimum, a fascist sympathizer, in addition to being a supporter of white replacement theory and other racist ideas."

Accepting the premise, this leads to an interesting philosophical discussion. I'm utterly repulsed by all those things, but I'm also repulsed by viewpoints and even personalities of some actors and musicians and such. In my younger days I couldn't even enjoy their art. There would be songs or shows I loved but couldn't listen to or watch once I knew about the musicians/actors views. However as I've gotten older, I've gotten more to a place where I'm able to separate the art from the artist and appreciate it more (still not perfectly, but I hope to get there someday).

I'm now asking myself if I could use and/or support a browser like Ladybird (assuming it's a good product, again I know nothing about it) even despite the founder's reprehensible views. I'm not sure, but I feel like I want to be able to.
by Der_Einzige | 2026-01-13 15:17:28+00:00
You are SO SO wrong if you think ASIANS are not eating processed garbage slop food too.

Please actually go to east asia, go into their markets, and look on their shelves. They have SO much processed crap. Most Asians will gleefully tell you their love of the worst possible instant noodle (i.e. Mama brand) along with American cheese or other slop on top. Asians have the highest food standards when they want to, but their lows are as low as ours are. They love love LOVE spam for gosh sakes!

Also white rice has terrible macros and is why they have crazy rates of Diabetes despite low obesity rates.
by ralferoo | 2026-01-13 15:17:39+00:00
Well, arguably if it's immutable, then it's not a variable so "var" doesn't make sense. The corollary is if it's a variable it should be mutable so "var mut" is a tautology.

I think "const x = something();" would be logical but they've used const already for compile-time constants. There's probably a sensible way of overloading that use though, depending if the expression would be constant at compile-time or not, but I've not considered it enough to think about edge cases (as it basically reduces to the halting problem unless any functions called are also explicitly marked up as compile time or not).
by piltdownman | 2026-01-13 15:17:39+00:00
I mean where is Sir Humphrey Appleby when you need him!

Johnson's incredibly colourful reaction to Starmers trade deal, in that he was 'acting like an orange-ball chewing manical gimp', speaks volumes about the discourse around Starmer.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0ld3qkz

Hislop is particularly scathing, albeit cynically pragmatic, since Starmers appointment - "“Keir Starmer is the man who likes to sit on the fence unless you don’t like fences and then maybe he can find a hedge, or if you don’t like hedges he’ll find a wall."

“People have suggested Keir Starmer is very boring, but I think that’s partly his superpower, in that being interesting in the way his predecessor was manages to lose you elections.

“You have to be careful when you dismiss people as boring. Everyone thought John Major was boring, but then you had him for two elections.”
by cramsession | 2026-01-13 15:18:01+00:00
We are the target of this propaganda, and I don’t mean the Scottish independence stuff. The US and Israel are jamming the airwaves with anti-Iran propaganda to manufacture consent to attack Iran. Every day we’re being subjected to a ton of this stuff on every channel (including HN).

It’s certainly not working on me, but I fear far too many of us are just taking these stories at face value.
by steve1977 | 2026-01-13 15:18:06+00:00
I think that's why they call it "Creator" studio. Creators - in the way the term is usually used today - indeed do use many of these tools. Maybe you produce music, create a video about you producing music and also need an engaging thumbnail for YouTube.

In a feature film production, these would certainly be separate roles. But apart from maybe Logic Pro for composers, Apple's tools are not really relevant at those levels of the entertainment business anymore. Post-pro would be Pro Tools for audio, something like Avid Media Composer for editing etc.

I think Apple has realized they are not playing on that level anymore and target their marketing to where they are still in the game. That's not necessarily a bad move.
by speak_plainly | 2026-01-13 15:18:10+00:00
This seems like an Apple AI subscription under the guise of a software bundle.

It’s a good value for some, especially if you want to use FCP, but seems like a bad value for most users who are expecting more value from their Mac purchase.

I wonder if new Macs will offer a three-month trial for this suite, or if the standard apps will be pre-installed and the AI features are unlocked through a subscription.

If bundled versions of iWork go away, we may see a renaissance for G Suite.
by no_wizard | 2026-01-13 15:18:19+00:00
They often start there, some stay there, some graduate to an iPad, but a a lot of the higher end creators absolutely edit in desktops or laptops (usually MacBooks)

My old job dealt with this quite a lot as they were our target market, so I got some up close views of how for example, creators like MrBeast go about their editing (well the employees anyway)

Though I did note a lot of creators that do graduate to more robust software basically go from lightweight editor via Canva -> iMovie or equivalent -> professional software e.g. FCPX or Premiere
by floatrock | 2026-01-13 15:18:30+00:00
It's "eh, we haven't gotten to this problem yet, lets just see where the possibilities take us (and our hype) first before we start to put in limits and constraints." All gas / no brakes and such.

Safety standards are written in blood. We just haven't had a big enough hack to justify spending time on this. I'm sure some startup out there is building a LLM firewall or secure container or some solution... if this Cowork pattern takes off, eventually someone's corporate network will go down due to a vulnerability, that startup will get attention, and they'll either turn into the next McAfee or be bought by the LLM vendors as the "ok, now lets look at this problem" solution.
by carlosjobim | 2026-01-13 15:18:39+00:00
> It's pretty clever that they keep the "pay one time" option still alive while announcing the availability of subscription, so anyone who says "Boo, not you too Apple" can easily be shut down with "You still have the option to buy it!"

Probably not. Those customers are almost completely irrelevant and not people who Apple or anybody else cares about. They won't mind if you kick and scream.
by catlifeonmars | 2026-01-13 15:18:39+00:00
From “How it works” in the readme:

> yolobox uses container isolation (Docker or Podman) as its security boundary…

I have no issue with running agents in containers FWIW, just in framing it as a security feature.

> what vectors are you expecting the LLM to use to break out?

You can just search for “Docker CVE”.

Here is one later last year, just for an example: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-9074
by voidhorse | 2026-01-13 15:19:15+00:00
Yawn I am so over stoicism being the philosophy du jour. I shouldn't be surprised, since it's stony individualism aligns extremely well with the amoral and increasingly draconian imperatives of unbridled, self-interested capital (I guess one could write a book on this), but man seeing it constantly referenced in dumbed down contentless rehashing of the surface level engagements one could have with a body of thought in all this popular media is becoming so tiring.

If you're actually interested in stoicism I highly encourage picking up books by some actual scholars.
by tialaramex | 2026-01-13 15:19:24+00:00
One of the really boring things about crime stats is that if you insist that "Nobody will do anything" and so you don't bother to report crimes, the crime stats go down -- because you didn't report a crime.

It suits a certain kind of person to have this obvious statistical fact portrayed as some sort of failing of existing institutions. Because it's just how statistics work it won't magically change if you're dumb enough to put them in charge but they can certainly tell gullible people like you that they've fixed it.

Reporting crimes is one of those tedious things citizens have to do to get a nice society to live in, like patiently queueing for things, or putting trash in the bin. You could choose not to do it, but don't blame anybody else if no-one does it and now your society sucks.
by toss1 | 2026-01-13 15:19:26+00:00
Which was specifically addressed early in the article.

Not only are there more falls among the elderly, there are more falls even fully accounting for changes in age composition of the population.

>>But an aging population only partially explains the rise in these deaths. Deaths by falls have risen 2.4-fold on an age-adjusted basis. While they have fallen among younger people and only risen slightly among the middle aged, they have risen substantially within every age bracket of the elderly.
by flatline | 2026-01-13 15:19:53+00:00
I find stoicism to be Taoism's spiritual sibling in the West. From the Dao De Jing, passage 5, Red Pine's translation:

"Heaven and Earth are heartless /
treating creatures like straw dogs /
heartless is the sage /
treating people like straw dogs..."

and his translation of one commentary:

"Heaven and Earth aren't partial. They don't kill living things
out of cruelty or give them birth out of kindness. We do the same when we
make straw dogs to use in sacrifices. We dress them up and put them on the
altar, but not because we love them. And when the ceremony is over, we throw
them into the street, but not because we hate them. This is how the sage treats
the people."

It reflects a detached, broad perspective on the world, which does not deny our very attached and narrow view, but rather augments it and provides a counterweight to our suffering.
by rdm_blackhole | 2026-01-13 15:19:54+00:00
That is why I said for them and their family.

If you use app A and that app is scanned for "malicious" content then I will message you on app B where there is no such scanning. If you don't want to use app B then I guess we can't be friends.

I mean at some point you need to make some choices.

But the beauty is that if anyone wants to talk through app A exclusively and their contacts are happy to respond on the same platform, then they can do that.

The rest of us can use app B.
by dralley | 2026-01-13 15:20:27+00:00
> I think the problem many of us have is it feels like Mozilla invests more effort into everything other than its browser, we see the things they do outside of Mozilla, I mean it was so bad Thunderbird had to become its own foundation due to lack of funding!

And then people simultaneously complain that Mozilla is reliant on Google for funding. There are not many good revenue options available for a browser other than selling search defaults - and AI may start choking off that revenue as well - but Mozilla also can't touch AI without being screamed at.

I mean, even literally this one sentence is self-contradictory. Thunderbird is not their browser. You complain that they "invest more effort into everything other than their browser" and then complain that they don't invest enough in Thunderbird.

No win situation for them in terms of public opinion.

* They can't get diversify their revenue to be less dependent on Google without doing things that people view as "distractions"

* They don't get credit when the "distractions" are for the public good, like LetsEncrypt, Rust, Opus / AV1, etc.

* They get punished for de-prioritizing "distractions" like Thunderbird and Servo and Rust because those distractions are popular.

* For years they were simultaneously being dragged for dropping the XUL extension ecosystem, and also dragged for low performance and lack of multiprocessing and a bunch of other things which were being kneecapped hard by the XUL extension ecosystem.

It's not like I love their management or anything, certainly they've made mistakes, but the narcissism of small differences hits them with full force relative to every other competitor in the space.
by welferkj | 2026-01-13 15:20:36+00:00
This kind of breeder talk fuels ~all of the disdain against you.

you are responsible for the consequences of your decision to breed. Nobody else. Nobody owes you an environment conducive to zero-effort desirable outcomes of your decision to breed.

It's naive to expect breeders being used as an excuse to push more and more authoritarian censorship and anti-privacy practices won't result in blowback against your kind. Ally with authoritarians at your own risk.
by Noaidi | 2026-01-13 15:20:39+00:00
I was replying to someone who was suing the fallacy of composition.

But if you really want to talk about fallacies, why is no one talking about how genetics can determine who these fatty acids are good and bad for? making blanket recommendation for a specific food without knowing someones genetics and heritage is foolish. But do a search for nutritional genetics on HN....nothing.
by superkuh | 2026-01-13 15:20:55+00:00
I don't run any OS or games that would require such a thing. The two modern AMD cpus do have an fTPM but they are certainly not enabled in my UEFI firmware. My 3 other desktop computers including the one I'm typing to you on have no TPM and indeed this computer doesn't even have an Intel Management Engine (ME). And in my other old intel CPUs that do have ME I disable it and coreboot.

I can do whatever I want to my PC hardware and my software remains under my control. This is quite different than cell phone based computer platforms.

So, it's not locked down now. I won't lock my existing PCs I hand assembled down in the future, and I'd never buy any hardware that was locked down. In fact, I've never bought or used a smartphone because of this.

>You don't own your PC either.

Yes, I do.
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by shuh01 | 2026-01-13 15:21:37+00:00
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by vuggamie | 2026-01-13 15:22:11+00:00
The new CEO centered AI ("It's Time to Evolve Firefox Into an AI Browser") in his first communication to the community. Spawned at least three new forks and introduced people to LibreWolf.

His first communication reduced trust: "It is a privilege to lead an organization with a long history of standing up for people and building technology that puts them first."

Now let's put people first by making Firefox an AI first browser. Enzor-Demeo would have made an excellent Microsoft product manager. Too bad he didn't get the job.
by cthalupa | 2026-01-13 15:22:36+00:00
Steroids significantly increase glycogen/water retention in-muscle while on them and for a period of time while coming off of them. This would increase muscle size by the measures noted in Bhasin's study (the big one people reference here), but not increase the amount of actual contractile tissue. There's also a cap there - going up in dosage, going for longer, etc., is not going to continually increase overall muscle size at that rate because you've saturated the stores in the muscle for the glycogen and water.

You will gain some additional contractile tissue doing nothing on gear. The average person, if faced with the two options, will gain more actual contractile tissue opting to lift weights without gear.

You can find huge quantities of people in gyms that are on gear and look like they barely lift.
by Aurornis | 2026-01-13 15:22:39+00:00
I find classic Stoicism interesting, but these modern social media and influencer versions of Stoicism feel like something else entirely.

The heading and subheading of this article invoke ideas of indifference and warriors and prisoners. This appeals to frustrated people, more often men, who are struggling with emotional regulation and want a solution that feels like a tough response.

Maybe there’s something useful in here, but more often than not when I see younger people I work with invoke stoicism it’s as a weak defensive mechanism to dodge their emotions for a while rather than deal with them. The modern simplified ideal of stoicism is just being too tough to care and flexing to show others that you don’t care.

Anecdotally, I haven’t seen anyone embrace this social media version of stoicism and thrive on it long term. At best it’s just a phase that helps them get past something temporary, but at worst it’s a misleading ideal that leads them to bottling up and ignoring problems until they become too unbearable to ignore. Some times you do have to care and you have to address the root cause, not just listen to some influencers telling you to be so tough you don’t care like legions of warriors and prisoners in past literature.
by bluGill | 2026-01-13 15:22:55+00:00
I don't work for McDonald's, much less in any of the departments that would make this decision. I'm speculating, but I still stand by my claim that they won't do this: they need to arrange supply lines before they can make that switch - which would take years, the tide could change at any time in those years. That is why continue to stand by my claim, but I'm not an insider and so if they do something different - it won't be the first time I predicted the future and turned out wrong.
by Marsymars | 2026-01-13 15:22:56+00:00
Sometimes it feels like the least-bad alternative.

e.g. I'm currently working on a substantial framework upgrade to a project - I've pulled every dependency/blocker out that could be done on its own and made separate PRs for them, but I'm still left with a number of logically independent commits that by their nature will not compile on their own. I could squash e.g. "Update core framework", "Fix for new syntax rules" and "Update to async methods without locking", but I don't know that reviewers and future code readers are better served by that.
by chimprich | 2026-01-13 15:23:07+00:00
I think we can fairly easily dismiss Cummings' views on anything. He was of the opinion that the best thing for the UK economy was Brexit, and that the the best team to carry out that out was to be headed by Boris Johnson.

He changed his mind on Johnson, but he seems to be of the view that nothing works and that there is nothing for it but to burn everything down and start again according to the Dominic Cummings vision.
by kstrauser | 2026-01-13 15:23:25+00:00
Seats have gotten smaller. It wasn’t a big deal 30 years ago because you could reclining without mashing the person behind you.

It’s kind of like a yoga studio with mats 3 feet apart when they use to be 6. You’re allowed, and encouraged, to spread your arms out wide, but now if you do you’re going to have a hand in your neighbor’s face. The yoga studio laughs at the visitors arguing about whether one’s an asshole for using their arm space, or for telling others to stop slapping them in the face, when the whole thing is their fault.