MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tpurves | 2026-01-29 23:30:34+00:00
It's not just chat. Remember image and video generation are on the table. There are already a huge category of adult video 'games' of this nature. I think they use combos of pre-rendered and dynamic content. But really not hard to imagine a near future that interactive and completely personalized AI porn in full 4kHDR or VR is constantly and near-instantly available. I have no idea the broader social implications of all that, but the tech itself feels inevitable and nearly here.
by phatfish | 2026-01-29 23:31:07+00:00
We can certainly do with less plastic junk and fast fashion. But on the high end it hard to argue that cheaper Chinese products are ever a bad thing.

If corporations in western (aligned) countries stopped feeding sovereign wealth funds and private equity with profits and actually invested something maybe they could compete with China more closely, even with whatever shenanigans the CPC get up to with state support.
by dugidugout | 2026-01-29 23:31:24+00:00
I didn't feel much at all. It's simply a rhetorical question which sets up the explicit claim being made in the title of the article. The structure is quite clear if you account for the entire text which I'm sure the author intended. Do you mean to assert that reasoning through the Socratic tradition is something to loathe and push against? In other words, you are leaning on a lot of ancillary personal concerns which I don't believe the author earned.
by randycupertino | 2026-01-29 23:31:24+00:00
I routinely see this in biotech, I've seen hiring managers from our Clinical Science team blatantly discriminate against candidates not on linkedin, even if they come with a strong referral and have 15-page super thorough CVs with 150 credible publication references. "Oh, they're not on linkedin, this person is sketchy" - immediately disqualifies candidate.

I had a pretty slim linkedin and actually beefed it up after seeing how much weight the execs and higher ups I work with give it. It's really annoying, I actually hate linkedin but basically got forced into using it.
by fragmede | 2026-01-29 23:32:04+00:00
FSD is already better than at least one class of drivers. If FSD is engaged and the driver passes out, FSD will pull over to the side of the road and stop. And before we leap to conclusions that it only helps in the case of drunk drivers who shouldn't be driving in the first place (which, they shouldn't be), random strokes and seizures happen to people all the time.
by psychoslave | 2026-01-29 23:33:10+00:00
Like, "Your Brain Hallucinates Your Conscious Reality" as exposed by Anil Seth[1]? Found that one while searching for something like "the illusion of the self" a few years ago.

It’s also easy to find this treated in various philosophy/religion through time and space. And anyway as consciousness is eager to project whatever looks like a possible fit, elements of suggesting prior arts can be inferred back as far as traces can be found.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyu7v7nWzfo
by akoboldfrying | 2026-01-29 23:33:17+00:00
The Poisson distribution is well approximated by the binomial distribution when n is high and p is low, which is exactly the case here. Despite the high variance in the sample mean, we can still make high-confidence statements about what range of incident rates are likely -- basically, dramatically higher rates are extremely unlikely. (Not sure, but I think it will turn out that confidence in statements about the true incident rate being lower than observed will be much lower.)
by Muromec | 2026-01-29 23:33:27+00:00
>Somebody was responsible for choosing to use a tool that has this class of risks and explicitly did not follow known and established protocol for securing against such risk. Consequences are that person's to bear - otherwise the concept of responsibility loses all value.

What if I hire you (instead of LLM) to summarize the reports and you decide to email the competitors? What if we work in the industry where you have to be sworn in with an oath to protect secrecy? What if I did (or didn't) check with the police about your previous deeds, but it's first time you emailed competitors? What if you are a schizo that heard God's voice that told you to do so and it's the first episode you ever had?
by jacquesm | 2026-01-29 23:33:27+00:00
You can 'what if' this until the cows come home but you are responsible, period.

I don't know what kind of drivers education you get where you live but where I live and have lived one of the basic bits is that you know how to park and lock your vehicle safely and that includes removing the ignition key (assuming your car has one) and setting the parking brake. You aim the wheels at the kerb (if there is one) when you're on an incline. And if you're in a stick shift you set the gear to neutral (in some countries they will teach you to set the gear to 1st or reverse, for various reasons).

We also have road worthiness assessments that ensure that all these systems work as advertised. You could let a pack of dogs loose in my car in any external circumstance and they would not be able to move it, though I'd hate to clean up the interior afterwards.
by verdverm | 2026-01-29 23:33:31+00:00
I like to think about it this way, you want to put some high level, table of contents, sparknotes like stuff in the system prompt. This helps warm up the right pathways. In this, you also need to inform that there are more things it may need, depending on "context", through filesystem traversal or search tools, the difference is unimportant, other than most things outside of coding typically don't do filesystem things the same way
by iamnothere | 2026-01-29 23:33:31+00:00
So they don’t “sell” data, they give it away:

> A key vulnerability of real-time bidding is that while only one advertiser wins the auction, all participants receive data about the person who would see their ad. As a result, anyone posing as an ad buyer can access a stream of sensitive data about billions of individuals a day. Data brokers have taken advantage of this vulnerability to harvest data at a staggering scale. Since bid requests contain individual identifiers, they can be tied together to create detailed profiles of people’s behavior over time.

> Data brokers have sold bidstream data for a range of invasive purposes, including tracking union organizers and political protesters, outing gay priests, and conducting warrantless government surveillance. Several federal agencies, including ICE, CBP and the FBI, have purchased location data from a data broker whose sources likely include RTB. ICE recently requested information on “Ad Tech” tools it could use in investigations, further demonstrating RTB’s potential to facilitate surveillance. RTB also poses national security risks, as researchers have warned that it could allow foreign states to obtain compromising personal data about American defense personnel and political leaders.
by gambiting | 2026-01-29 23:33:47+00:00
Well, nothing new has been invented since checkers, if you really think about it hard enough and reduce everything to a few buckets of games that everything can fit neatly into, then everything is just a mystery game or just open world or just a platformer. Again, I have a feeling like you're just looking at it mechanically and not how these elements work together to produce a game that is larger than just the sum of its parts. Outer Wilds has puzzles and open world and mystery element to it - and all of those have been done before. But has anyone else combined them this way to produce a game with this narrative? No, I don't believe so(happy to be proven wrong, as always).

Like the other commenter said - I hope I don't become jaded like this about video games, it still brings me joy to see how every new game twists the known formula a little bit more and in new and exciting ways, I believe there are several nieches where we haven't seen the game of that genre yet and I can't wait to see it emerge and how and who is going to do it.
by superfrank | 2026-01-29 23:34:19+00:00
> But most humans would have been aware of the big picture scenario much earlier. Are there muliple kids milling around on the sidewalk? Near a school? Is there a big truck/SUV parked there?

Waymos do this and have for years. They know where the people are around them and will take precautionary action based on that.

Here's a video from 2019 of one understanding that a car in the bike lane means the cyclists may dart out into the lane it's in and taking action based on that. https://waymo.com/blog/2019/05/safety-at-waymo-self-driving-...

That video is nearly 7 years old at this point and they've gotten much, much better since then.

If you think a fully-attentive human driver would have done better, I think you're kidding yourself.

I know you didn't make this point, but if anyone think the average LA driver would have done better than this I've got a bridge to sell you and that's really what matters more. (I say that as someone who used to live like half a mile from where this happened)
by trhway | 2026-01-29 23:34:38+00:00
In USSR (and early 90-s Russia) airports, train stations, theaters had that you'd call VIP lounges - those intended VIPs were the high Party and government bureaucrats and the likes. While general population halls were crowded those lounges would usually be empty or almost so and they would have comfortable (soft) furniture, well stocked cafe/bar, much cleaner restrooms, etc. And in many cases nobody would even guard entry and check you for whether you're a such VIP. So, i'd just go in and was never kicked out :) And while Party bozos were of no interest to me, it was interesting to mingle with top Soviet theater/movie actors at one such new theater show opening that bunch of them attended to.
by direwolf20 | 2026-01-29 23:35:18+00:00
That's when companies were accountable for their results and needed to push the accountability to a person to deter bad results. You couldn't let a computer make a decision because the computer can't be deterred by accountability.

Now companies are all about doing bad all the time, they know they're doing it, and need to avoid any individual being accountable for it. Computers are the perfect tool to make decisions without obvious accountability.
by radiator_1451 | 2026-01-29 23:35:42+00:00
Maybe the person thought that, but that would still be an absurd belief for them to hold. First of all, it doesn't seem like he had any problems he needed "help" with, the article only says he was "developing normally". Second of all, why would you give a random pill meant for adults to a baby not even two weeks old, without asking a nurse or at least reading the package insert?
by stared | 2026-01-29 23:36:12+00:00
I am sorry for that.

As a context, I felt that the original title (the first time I posted get a few upvotes, but not more). At the same time, I shouldn’t have editorialized it, as it is a slippery slope from „just a bit better title”, through optimization, to a clickbait.

Thank you dang for keeping the spirit and quality of HN.
by thevinter | 2026-01-29 23:37:08+00:00
I'm a bit confused by their claims. Or maybe I'm misunderstanding how Skills should work. But from what I know (and the small experience I had with them), skills are meant to be specifications for niche and well defined areas of work (i.e. building the project, running custom pipelines etc.)

If your goal is to always give a permanent knowledge base to your agent that's exactly what AGENTS.md is for...
by Muromec | 2026-01-29 23:37:26+00:00
>A brave new world that is post-truth, post-meaning, post-responsibility, and post-consequences. One where the AI's hallucinations eventually drag everyone with it and there's no other option but to hallucinate along.

That value proposition depends entirely on whether there is also an upside to all of that. Do you actually need truth, meaning, responsibility and consequences while you are tripping on acid? Do you even need to be alive and have a physical organic body for that? What if Ikari Gendo was actually right and everyone else are assholes who don't let him be with his wife.
by __loam | 2026-01-29 23:37:29+00:00
Part of me thinks maybe I erred bringing this up, but there's discussions worth having in terms of continued access to software that's working for people regardless of what it is, and on if this is healthy. I'm probably on a live and let live on this but there's been cases of suicide and murder where chatbots were involved, and these people are potentially vulnerable to manipulation from the company.
by SethTro | 2026-01-29 23:37:30+00:00
I've used kiri:moto for several simple CNC projects!

This probably won't scroll to the correct place on the page but there's some images of my project at https://hcc.haus/propmania/#2024-palm-torches and https://static.cloudygo.com/static/Prop%20Making/2024%20Palm...

I used it instead of the terrible closed source Easel App for a CARVEY hobby CNC. For metal milling I find Fusion 360 is necessary.
by throw310822 | 2026-01-29 23:37:37+00:00
For one, since last month, AI is writing about 95% of my code and that of my colleagues. I just describe what I want and how it should be implemented and the AI takes care of all the details, solves bugs, configuration issues, etc. Also I use it to research libraries, dig into documentation (and then write implementations based on that), discuss architectural alternatives, etc.

Non-developers I know use them to organise meetings, write emails, research companies, write down and summarise counselling sessions (not the clients, the counselor), write press reports, help with advertising campaigns management, review complex commercial insurance policies, fix translations... The list of uses is endless, really. And I'm only talking of work-related usage, personal usage goes of course well beyond this.
by CompoundEyes | 2026-01-29 23:38:19+00:00
I wonder if a large chunk of the population choosing to only buy non-discretionary goods for an extended period of time might freak policy makers out more. Not a targeted boycott. Not a strike still going to work. Lower effort to participate. For example if this caused US Amazon orders to fall by a 1/4 for two weeks and similarly across all retailers.
by BigTTYGothGF | 2026-01-29 23:38:21+00:00
I'm not particularly convinced, a mention of the arpanet is a mention of the arpanet, and keeping quiet means keeping quiet.

I can believe that Pournelle was being the kind of person about whom one might write "most of the irritation came from a handful of people, sometimes only one or two" and that was the real reason he got kicked off, but that's a long way away from being censored for politics.
by elzbardico | 2026-01-29 23:38:28+00:00
Humans are supposed to deal with this kind of ambiguity. Actually, that's one of our nicest abilities.

I hate when people pretend to be smarter than everyone else by pointing this kind of utterance and insisting that someone, somehow, will parse those statements in the most literal and stupid manner.

Then there are the ignorant misanthropes that can't waste a chance to repeat their reductionist speculations about human cognition. Just like the idiot Elon Musk that wasted billions in irrecoverably fucked self-driving system based on computer-version because he underestimated the human visual cortex.

Fucking annoying midwits.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-29 23:38:29+00:00
The problem is that the chances of the bursting of AI bubble seem far more likely than this happening first which you say about 10-15 years.

plus, the ram manufacturer cycle moves and does this all the time.

Atrioc does a really good job explaining these cycles[0]

But the point is that AI demand peaked when the supply was at its lowest which is why we are caught up in this messed up timeline that we live in. And this has sort of happen in the past too and this industries notorious for it (again watch the video, definitely worth it imo)

But still it feels like we are in this atleast for a year or two hard. Micron is iirc like suggesting what hundreds of billions of $ in factory investment right now and saying that the fastest might open in early 2027

Some estimates 2028 idk, I do feel like the chances of AI bubble popping around this time are likely too.

But still for atleast 1-2 years, we either as consumers or as small vps providers (yes the people who create vps providers are same people like you and me) are absolutely f*ed and the question is around that imo.

[0] The AI Tax Has Started: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nipeaKC3dWs
by vvntrz | 2026-01-29 23:38:34+00:00
After getting my MacBook a couple months ago, I realized there isn’t really a wallpaper engine style program on macOS that feels native and flexible. So I built *Styx* to solve that and to learn Swift.

Styx is an open-source macOS app for animated/live wallpapers (and other wallpaper types as I add them). It’s still early, so feedback and feature requests are very welcome.

Widgets are created using standard web tech (HTML/JS/CSS)

- Repo: [https://github.com/vvntrz/styx](https://github.com/vvntrz/styx)
- Downloads: prebuilt binaries are on the *GitHub Releases* page (same repo)

If you try it, I’d love to hear:
- Performance/battery impact on your setup
- Multi-monitor behavior
- Any formats/features you’d like next
by godelski | 2026-01-29 23:38:43+00:00
Depends on your definition of simulation but yeah, I think you understand.

I think it really comes down to dev time and adaptability. But honestly I'm fairly with you. I don't think this is a great route. I have a lot of experience in synthetic data generation and nothing beats high quality data. I do think we should develop world models but I wouldn't all something a world model unless it actually models a physics. And I mean "a physics" not "what people think of as 'physics'" (i.e. the real world). I mean having a counterfactual representation of an environment. Our physics equations are an extremely compressed representation of our reality. You can't generate these representations through observation alone, and that is the naive part of the usual way to develop world models. But we'd need to go into metaphysics and that's a long conversation not well suited for HN.

These simulations are helping but they have a clear limit to their utility. I think too many people believe that if you just feed the models enough data it'll learn. Hyperscaleing is a misunderstanding of the Bitter Lesson that slows development despite showing some progress.
by gambiting | 2026-01-29 23:38:53+00:00
>>Everything since 2018 that I have played has been relatively easy to guess the plot line

Be honest- you guessed the plot of Claire Obscure before you got to Act 3? Or the plot of Death Stranding 1 & 2 before you finished them?

What kind of games have you played since 2018? Because yeah, there is a lot of predictable cookie cutter AAA games out there, sure. But each year there are games which are surprising in their storytelling, same as somehow there are still new and surprising films despite film being much older than gaming. Not to mention books.
by danhite | 2026-01-29 23:39:01+00:00
Also earlier credit due to Isaac Asimov in Second Foundation [1953] "...

The same basic developments of mental science that had brought about the development of the Seldon Plan, thus made it also unnecessary for the First Speaker to use words in addressing the Student.

Every reaction to a stimulus, however slight, was completely indicative of all the trifling changes, of all the flickering currents that went on in another's mind. The First Speaker could not sense the emotional content of the Student's instinctively, as the Mule would have been able to do – since the Mule was a mutant with powers not
ever likely to become completely comprehensible to any ordinary man, even a Second Foundationer – rather he deduced them, as the result of intensive training.
by lotsofpulp | 2026-01-29 23:40:09+00:00
Perhaps your assumption is wrong. In a high income cohort, I know zero people that buy new phones every year.

https://nsysgroup.com/blog/average-device-lifespan-how-long-...

> Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP) shares more data on smartphone lifespan by brand. According to their research, people who use iPhones keep their devices longer: 61% of Apple smartphone users and 43% of Android users have owned their previous devices for two years or more.

>Notably, 29% of iPhone users held onto their phones for more than three years, compared to 21% of Android users. Additionally, CIRP found that over a third of iPhone buyers (both those who previously used iPhones and Androids) have owned their devices for over three years, while fewer than a third have owned them for less than two years.
by PlatoIsADisease | 2026-01-29 23:40:44+00:00
As someone who reads epistemology for fun. Its so much worse than you know.

Everything is basically a theory only judged on predictive capabilities. Even the idea that Earth is not at the center of the solar system is a judgement call of what we define as the solar system and center.

The math is simpler sure, but its arbitrary how we define our systems.
by reactordev | 2026-01-29 23:41:15+00:00
https://youtu.be/kS-9ISzMhBM

They’re trying to introduce legislation that would require 3D printers to be online so that if you try to print a firearm, it won’t let you…

Granted, today, you can print offline.

Tomorrow? A firmware update might just brick it the next time it goes online or won’t be able to read the grbl
by RobotToaster | 2026-01-29 23:41:27+00:00
Are you sure?

>CXMT has begun mass production of DRAM using a D1z (sub-16nm) process.

https://www.globalsmt.net/advanced-packaging/decoding-cxmt-d...

They call it "10nm class" later in the article.

It's hard to find much concrete info tbh.
by scheme271 | 2026-01-29 23:42:07+00:00
ICN is a breeze. There's actual sleep rooms that are quiet, have dim lights and have full length recliners that you can sleep on (as a bonus there's partitions between the recliners so you get some privacy). If you want something better, Walker Hill has hotels inside terminal 1 and 2 where you can get an interior room (no windows) with a bed, bathroom, etc. It's a little pricey but you can get it in 12hr increments.
by torginus | 2026-01-29 23:42:12+00:00
My personal take is that there has been no progress - potentially there has been a regression on all LLM things outside of coding a scientific pursuits - I used to have great fun with LLMs with creative writing stuff, but I feel like current models are stiff and not very good prose writers.

This is also true for stuff like writing clear but concise docs, they're overly verbose while often not getting the point across.
by kobalsky | 2026-01-29 23:42:25+00:00
Long time ago I had a 10km 2.4ghz wifi link with directional antennas, it worked very well but the throughtput improved with rain.

Directional antenas are far from directional, they pick noise from everywhere.

In my opinion rain reduces that noise, and if the point to point has more than enough signal margin to keep operating at full speed, it ends up improving the link.

Something like horse blinders.
by ianburrell | 2026-01-29 23:42:46+00:00
Killfiles were local to each user which is good since each person could control what they saw. It was bad because new users who didn't know about killfiles would see the bad actors. It also meant that could have disjoint conversation so it felt like each thread was its own thing. You would have to keep telling people to not respond to the trolls.

The ideal is to have a global filter by moderators for the bad actors, and user killfile to tune that.