MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by PostOnce | 2026-01-05 21:51:52+00:00
It's very suspicious that the phrase "a veteran like you" comes up in sequential comments to different users in the same reply chain given that:

1] it's likely the context for a theoretical LLM on HN would be the one comment chain

2] once something appears in the context window, it's more likely to repeat itself, and once repeated a single time, it becomes all the more likely to turn into an infinite loop

3] Generally speaking, human beings aren't quite this effusively polite, while LLMs are

4] if an LLM was merely translating, the repetitive loops wouldn't occur?
by crazygringo | 2026-01-05 21:51:57+00:00
Or don't? Because the other company may hire you at the higher level anyways, that's the point. Because you're getting multiple companies to compete for the experience you already have. It's your task to demonstrate in interviews that you have the skills for that higher level. Which is a huge shortcut.

And "maybe your current company will surprise you" just sounds like being taken advantage of to me. Because the reality is they probably won't. Not at anywhere near the same speed, usually.
by 9cb14c1ec0 | 2026-01-05 21:52:18+00:00
General Caine specifically said they utilized CYBERCOM (which is the US inter-branch hacking command) to pave the way for the special ops helicopters. I personally have no doubt that any (whether or not they all were) lights being out was due to a US hack. Some of the stuff that got blown up may well have been to prevent forensic recover of US tools and techniques.
by away0g | 2026-01-05 21:52:31+00:00
Being promoted into obsolescence or into under performing is a death sentence. Some people are perfectly suited for their work and would find their bosses work to be numbing, too complex or too simple for them. Not getting a promotion is not a bad thing (do not mistake raises for a promotion). If the company cannot or will not allocate more to your position then that is a problem as a business, not something you can control. The best case scenario is to find another company who can pay your worth for the skill set presented.
by runako | 2026-01-05 21:52:57+00:00
I thought about addressing this in the original post, but I want to address part of your response:

> one worker today produces vastly more than one worker in 1950. Elderly care doesn't

Indeed, this is a core component of Capital vs Labor issue I mentioned. Productivity increases, workers generate more value, but Capital's share of the results increases nonetheless. The change in this relationship is why I would expect a reinvigorated manufacturing sector to be dominated by Bad Jobs instead of the Good Jobs everybody hopes for.

(There's also a measurement issue in comparing those two. The benefits of e.g. caregiving are measured by the ability of other workers to be productive. For ex if a high-wage worker has to stay home to care for someone, then they are not doing high-wage work, which reduces the overall GDP potential of the country.)
by thrance | 2026-01-05 21:53:26+00:00
I usually fall in the "all law enforcement is bad" part of the population too. But I don't think law enforcement in any society has ever not attracted these type of people you describe. I believe the "culture that's been present in law enforcement forever" you describe is completely unchanged.

To me, the more interesting question would be: why is law enforcement getting away with so much as of late? And the answer ties back to the current administration and the signicant part of the population behind them. If so many americans weren't cheering on ICE and cie., none of this would fly and it would blow over almost immediately. You get authoritarianism when authoritarian thinking wins. Authoritarian thinking wins when complex socio-political and socio-economical reasons I don't care to go into today.

The main thing I'm trying to say here, I guess, is that I reject the slippery slope fallacy ("get age verification today, get 1984 tomorrow"). If you want to fight authoritarian practices, find their source and fight that instead (the "how" is left as an exercise to the reader).
by wrsh07 | 2026-01-05 21:53:57+00:00
Sure, at this point, substitute in whatever responsibilities are given to the role you're seeking:

> If you're doing everything your team needs from you, now is a great time to do the additional work

Fwiw, most tech companies do not consider eng management to be a promotion. The path to becoming a manager is thus "figure out that you want to be a manager, discuss how such a transition would look with your manager, etc"

That said, if you're not already earning the trust of your team (you do the things you say you'll do, etc) you will not have an opportunity to manage
by saltcured | 2026-01-05 21:54:02+00:00
I think the weirdest I encountered was Apollo Domain/OS. But SPP-UX was close as a microkernel with an HP-UX compatible personality on top.

But in some sense, every high-performance platform back then was an abomination. Whether it was the variant of AIX on an SP2, the weirdly unique Irix versions that seemed to exist in each Origin system at each national lab, or the painfully slow fork/exec on a Cray T3E frontend system when compiling apps.
by mk89 | 2026-01-05 21:54:16+00:00
Why the downvotes?

The one above is not my opinion (although I partially agree with it, and now you can downvote this one :D ). To be honest, I don't care at all about X nor about an almost trillionaire.

It was full of bots before, now it's full of "AI agents". It's quite hard sometimes to navigate through that ocean of spam, fake news, etc.

Grok makes it easier, but it's still ugly and annoying to read 90-95% always the same posts.
by refulgentis | 2026-01-05 21:54:29+00:00
It's not only downvoted, it was flagged, and dead. (flag accepted by moderator, no one else will see this comment thread without expanding)

Mr. Trump good.

Trump derangement syndrome bad.

If Mr. Trump does what you say eventually, then it was good. (see rule #1)

I see this frequently on HN since the re-election, won't speculate as to why: only way around the downvote is to criticize policy generically, untethered to time, with some sort of micro-focus like you're sharing new information about how things work, not discussing current events.
by taylodl | 2026-01-05 21:54:39+00:00
Almost. I’m admittedly being pedantic, but here’s the nuance:

Greenland is not part of the EU. Their citizens are Danish citizens, and as such, they are EU citizens. Confused yet? Greenland is a member of NATO - which is actually much more problematic. If Trump invades Greenland, he’s delivered NATO’s head on a silver platter to Vladimir Putin. I’d call that aiding and abetting an enemy - an act of treason - but I’m old school.

Since this is HN, what’s the tech angle?

The EU will restrict or outright ban U.S. Big Tech. Big Tech stocks will tank, and we can expect hundreds of thousands of layoffs as a result. More concerning, EU consumers will boycott as many American products as they can - just as Canadians have done. That means a wave of U.S. business failures and even more job losses. It’s also a big win for China, who will happily fill the gap.

Oh, and all U.S. military personnel and their families? Deported immediately. My crystal ball isn’t telling me what happens to the materiel.

So much winning!
by miduil | 2026-01-05 21:54:43+00:00
Reading through this makes me realize that I wonder what will come after "energy wars"? Like if almost 100% of electricity demand is coming hopefully around ~2040-2050, that means a completely new area of power. Till then, fossil energy has been the strongest dominator on which establishment is holding power - once that's becoming the past - what will happen on the world table?

Of course, mining etc. is part of the answer; but I feel like there is much more flexibility around working around refined material availability, than it is with access to energy to start with. Also, contrary to Energy, almost anything that's mined will stay in recyclable economy - so the dominance/control one country can exercise is limited.
by 578_Observer | 2026-01-05 21:54:53+00:00
@sanwa, thank you for such a profound and passionate comment. As a banker, I’ve seen many businesses, but your perspective as a musician adds a beautiful layer to the concept of "Shugyo."

I especially resonate with your method of "slowing down the tempo." In my peak days 30 years ago, I used to perform Guile’s Sonic Boom and Somersault Kick as naturally as breathing. I now realize that this "effortless" state was only possible because of the slow, deliberate repetitions I did back then, just as you described.

By slowing down until all tension is gone, you are not just learning a move—you are removing the "noise" from your mind and body. This is the ultimate "subtraction" and the only way to "Forge the Steel." Whether it's a guitar scale or the core philosophy of a 500-year-old company, the logic is the same: true strength is born from quiet, intentional repetition.

Thank you for sharing your journey of Shugyo. It’s an honor to find a fellow traveler here.
by sandworm101 | 2026-01-05 21:55:06+00:00
Small error. The pulse "rate" should be called pulse interval (more/right on the slider = fewer pulses per time, which would be a lower rare.)

If you want to see a supersonic boom, switch to moving target at just over mach 1, and turn the sound on. And you can see you can still get much of the effect from a non-supersonic flypast. So hearing a "boom" does not necessarily mean something is supersonic.
by TheAlchemist | 2026-01-05 21:55:36+00:00
Something like this more or less happened during the initial Israeli strike on Iran ?

From what I remember reading, they were able to gain air dominance not because Iranian air-defense was bad, but because it was put almost completely out of service for a brief period of time by people on the ground - be it through sabotage, cyber-warfare, drone attacks from inside, allowing the Israeli jets to annihilate them.
by mingus88 | 2026-01-05 21:56:10+00:00
Bollocks. Politics is endemic to tech. It’s impossible to discuss tech without politics.

What some folk want to squash is very particular politics which they don’t want to confront. It violates everything it means to be a hacker in the true sense of the word but I have realized a long time ago that these types of people wear the badge of hacker for their ego only
by WorldMaker | 2026-01-05 21:56:11+00:00
That original half-black/half-white caster for very simple/cheap optical limits was something of a known off-the-shelf approach. You'd often use them in various Lego Robotics environments a decade or two before the Roomba.

It's easy to agree with the article here that the off-the-shelf simplicity of the early Roomba was a virtue. I appreciated that sense that you could look at a lot of the parts and guess what they were for or how the operated from the software side. That caster was one of those for "oh, yeah, that's probably for simple distance estimations".
by estearum | 2026-01-05 21:56:19+00:00
> The thing about second order effects is that they are almost never larger than the first order effect.

Sounds clever but this is just a labeling trick. When a second order effect is larger than the first order one, we just rename them to first order and intermediate effects.

For example, the first order effects of growing GLP-1 prevalence are actually consumption of prescription pads, new demand on pill bottles, and gas consumption of pharma sales reps.

The second order effect is weight loss in patients who take the drugs.
by mrWiz | 2026-01-05 21:56:30+00:00
Apple Music got extremely slow for me in (atypical, granted) situations that used to be perfectly snappy. I keep recordings of a radio show in my Music library, with the whole series tagged as a single album, each "episode" as a separate disc, and each half of the episode as its own track. This makes it easy to scroll through, browsing to pick what I want to listen to. But now with 26 Music has been chugging whenever I open the album - it takes ~20 seconds before it starts responding smoothly again. I'll concede that having 1000+ discs within a single album isn't a normal use-case, but this has worked properly for the last decade before they screwed it up.
by bigyabai | 2026-01-05 21:56:36+00:00
> Apple managed to listen to their customers and quickly got rid of the Touch Bar thing, reintroduced a physical Esc key, etc. so

Those are all hardware upgrades that Apple profits from. What incentive does Apple have to make the App Store better, or improve the visual clarity in the iOS and macOS interface? Shouldn't we be seeing downward pressure there too, if innovation can be generalized to software?

Most users don't have a say in the matter, and Apple has exploited their ambivalence for decades. If you're the sort of person who cares, you're not Apple's target audience.
by bigbadfeline | 2026-01-05 21:56:43+00:00
> In the specific case of these chips, the offshoring was to Taiwan

In the context of Jensen's would-be-apology, it doesn't matter where the offshoring went. Nvidia, Apple and AMD drove the US chip manufacturing overseas. and thanks to that, they are now a virtual cartel and we have to pay them enormous margins so they can "mercifully" bring chip production back here... at our expense of course.

While paying through the nose, we are also supposed to appreciate their crocodile tears and listen to their drivel about what's good for America.
by ceejayoz | 2026-01-05 21:56:49+00:00
I have no doubt they used cyberattacks and electronic warfare.

Trump just seems the worst person in the world to play a game of telephone with on such a subject.

For example: https://www.defensenews.com/air/2025/05/16/pentagon-silent-a...

> “The F-35, we’re doing an upgrade, a simple upgrade,” Trump said. “But we’re also doing an F-55, I’m going to call it an F-55. And that’s going to be a substantial upgrade. But it’s going to be also with two engines.”

> Frank Kendall, the secretary of the Air Force during former President Joe Biden’s administration, said in an interview with Defense News that it is unclear what Trump was referring to when he discussed an “F-22 Super,” but it may have been a reference to the F-47 sixth-generation fighter jet… Kendall said it is also unclear what Trump was referring to when he discussed the alleged F-55.
by tmcz26 | 2026-01-05 21:56:57+00:00
What’s Cuba relevance today? Back in the Cold War they had a strategic location, close ties to the USSR etc. But that hasn’t been the case since the other Castro died.

Today Cuba is irrelevant. I don’t even know the name on the Cuban president, they are not in the news, produce nothing, and threats nobody.

That would just be a wasted of “goodwill” IMO.
by michaelt | 2026-01-05 21:57:31+00:00
> I don't know how we got to the point where we can build things with no guardrails and just expect the user to use it legally?

Historically tools have been uncensored, yet also incredibly difficult and time-consuming to get good results with.

Why spend loads of effort producing fake celebrity porn using photoshop or blender or whatever when there's limitless free non-celebrity porn online? So photoshop and blender didn't need any built-in censorship.

But with GenAI, the quantitive difference in ease-of-use results in qualitative difference in outcome. Things that didn't get done when it needed 6 months of practice plus 1 hour per image are getting done now it needs zero practice and 20 seconds per image.
by wrsh07 | 2026-01-05 21:57:58+00:00
I would encourage everyone to identify when these rules don't apply!

However, I think these rules are generally safer than the claim that you should do something other than what you've said you would do (or, perhaps, other than what your manager has said you will do)

And if you are doing something much more important, there's a new rule which was probably worth emphasizing more: communicate aggressively. Over communicate. If you're doing A but your manager thinks you are doing B, communicate quickly and often about why you are doing A, what the impact is, and when you will get back to B (or whether B should be deprioritized)
by abanana | 2026-01-05 21:58:03+00:00
Indeed, the ellipsis means some kind of dialog box will open. Regarding the wording "the user must provide more information", that's what that dialog box is for, while also providing a "cancel" option so that as you say, the user can back out. Surely "Attach Files..." brings up a file requestor, so it's exactly the correct use. I can't see why the blogger thinks otherwise.

It's just a small nitpick though. The article generally seems to do a good job of highlighting some frankly shocking (and worrying amateurish) problems in these menus.
by mk89 | 2026-01-05 21:58:07+00:00
Second line of the article.

> X is planning to purge users generating content that the platform deems illegal, including Grok-generated child sexual abuse material (CSAM).

Which is moderating/censoring.

The tool (Grok) will not be updated to limit it - that's all. Why? I have no idea, but it seems lately that all these AI tools have more freedom than us humans.
by zamadatix | 2026-01-05 21:58:13+00:00
My comment was in response to the debate already starting so it's quite bold to claim no debate will be had. Whether there will or won't be debate about something is not something you or I get to declare. It just happens, and that it had already started happening is why I commented.

I'm sure "The only people who say it's not are <x>" is an abominable thought pattern Nazi's would love everyone to have too. I can't look at these numbers https://i.imgur.com/hwm2bI5.png and conclude most Americans are Nazi's instead of being willing to accept perhaps not everyone sees it the same way I do.
by KittenInABox | 2026-01-05 21:58:27+00:00
I agree that this is part of the trouble. I don't think any of this is a binary checkbox. But I also think there's likely enough evidence or public pressure that the company is being found by the public to be responsible if their service encourages a mentally ill person to commit murder/suicide. I guess similar to maybe how non-flammable furniture is now regulated even though setting fires is not the materials' fault?
by vo2maxer | 2026-01-05 21:58:36+00:00
I think you are confusing forced exposure to something with being exposed to something by choice. I did not force my daughter to watch Bergman and Antonioni; I was interested in their movies so I saw them, and she chose to be interested in what kept me interested. That is how we get our cultural knowledge passed down through generations of parents who do not simply consume whatever algorithmically generated media is served up to them.
You are setting the problem: you have assumed that for children to be introduced to anything other than the popular culture among their peers is always oppressive. And when you narrowed my references to Bergman, Kurosawa, Fellini, and Antonioni down to "Red Desert," you showed either that you are being dishonest or that you really don't know what you're dismissing when you dismiss all of these movies.
Her access to everything included books, music, films from different genres and time periods, and she chose which things she wanted to pursue based on the options available to her. The fact that now she does not care about the architecture of artificial intelligence does not indicate that the exposure I provided to her earlier failed her, and this is precisely what I said would happen: teenagers are making their own choices, influenced by peer pressure and social forces, and that does not make the earlier exposure I gave her invalid or mean I should have given her an iPad at the age of 5 and called it autonomy.
Given your username, I am not surprised that you are weak in nuanced thinking regarding exposure versus coercion.
by cruffle_duffle | 2026-01-05 21:58:50+00:00
But your argument could be made against anything novel. You love the first 3 seasons of Chopped or Hell’s Kitchen but eventually you figure out the repetitive story arc, you know how each show will unfold halfway through, same kinds on conflict, etc… the show either becomes background while folding clothes or you stop watching entirely. The novelty wears off-for better or worse.

I mean look at house hunters international. Every segment is the sssme. “I need an extra room for overseas family, I want to live by the beach, I need a roof deck but I teach ESL to blind monks and children. My budget is $400”. And then they’ll have some silly hang up about the reliability of elevators in general or maybe they absolutely can’t get over the east facing window. It’s 100% formulatic yet perfect as background.

I dunno where I’m going with this but those AI videos you say you liked… the novelty wore off.
by nawgz | 2026-01-05 21:58:58+00:00
> Please point out what exactly in the article you consider to be an instance of "doublespeak".

How about the part where the Pentagon, staffed by a Fox News anchor, fresh off firing the top legal heads, are now accusing a decorated American of sedition for reciting the law?

> Since we're not in alignment on this

We seem perfectly aligned.

> We could talk about how that outcome could be avoided, or what could be done in general

We could also run on a hamster wheel. Both would be equally impactful.
by erxam | 2026-01-05 21:59:27+00:00
That just sounds like more 'strongly worded letters' which never go anywhere and they never do anything about.

It's over for the EU. They rested on their laurels for too long and cowardice rotted them from the inside.

I don't think Denmark will put even a smidge of resistance up. Trump is going to bark some orders, boots are going to hit the ground and it's fait accompli.
by gryson | 2026-01-05 21:59:40+00:00
In Rosen's last Sega-related interview with Keith Stuart for the book Mega Drive Collected Worms, he disagrees with the Sega internal conflict narrative as presented in Console Wars and says it was just Sega of America CEO Tom Kalinske being unable to understand why certain decisions had to be made.

After Console Wars, he apparently stopped giving interviews because he didn't like that game historians were constantly getting the Sega story wrong.
by epistasis | 2026-01-05 21:59:45+00:00
This is one of the most atrocious branding and product mistakes I have ever witnessed.

> The Microsoft 365 Copilot app continues to serve as your everyday productivity app for work and life.

The productivity hit has been extremely negative for me. If I want to create a new spreadsheet, I have no idea where to go now. After opening the Okta tile, I'm presented with a chat box, and some nondescript tiles on the left.

If I ask the chat box to create a new document, I'm suddenly engaged with a slow-to-respond bot conversation describing what I want to do. I want a blank spreadsheet. It gives me a DOCUMENT TO DOWNLOAD rather than a document inside OneDrive. My goodness.

OK, so how do I find the prior interface? It's hidden behind "Apps". Getting a blank spreadsheet is hard enough, getting an actual slide deck from a template, that's impossible in the interface. And the bugs! SOOOOOO many bugs in the web interface.

I've finally given in and am using the desktop apps. If I need to use a template, I copy an old document manually.

It's pretty clear that Microsoft didn't even dogfood this, and that there was no iterative design cycle. Just a first-draft UI that get shoved out the door, and replaced decades of good-will about Office. Maybe "good will" is too strong, let me say not-ill-will.
by andreyandrade | 2026-01-05 21:59:55+00:00
Right, but that's retention for legal defense — they keep everything. The selective hiding is a different layer. They retain it, they just choose when to surface it. So users get "deleted" as UX theater while the data sits in cold storage waiting for subpoenas or PR fires.
The irony is the same infrastructure that protects them in copyright suits also lets them curate what investigators see. Retention and visibility are decoupled by design.