MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by imiric | 2026-01-16 19:43:34+00:00
Spoken like a true advertiser.

The reality is that psychologically manipulating people into buying things by forcing yourself as a middleman into every business transaction and industry on the planet is not just morally despicable, but opportunistic, exploitative, and many other negative descriptors I can't quite put into words.

But this isn't even the truly insidious and harmful part. That is reserved for the fact that the same systems used to get people to consume, are also used to manipulate them into thinking and acting in ways that someone, somewhere, could potentially benefit from. So anyone with a negligible amount of resources and effort has the ability to influence individuals, groups of people, societies, and entire countries, to buy into their agenda by pushing their propaganda. After all, modern advertising uses the same propaganda tactics pioneered by the likes of E. Bernays a century ago.

It should be clear to any sane adult that this psychological manipulation is directly responsible for the corruption of democratic processes and sociopolitical instability we've seen around the world for the past decade+.

And then, if all this wasn't enough, these advertising leeches are doing this by violating digital rights, abusing our privacy, corrupting every entertainment experience, and utilizing every nasty trick they can legally get away with to steal our data, and get rich from it via dark data broker markets in perpetuity.

So, please, spare me the bullshit excuse that this is "just" advertising, and that it's a public good that helps poor small businesses reach customers. Catalogs and contextual advertising have existed for decades, but that wasn't enough for these greedy bastards. Humanity is objectively far worse off because of this, and the adtech industry has played a huge role in making it happen. Everyone who has worked on this tech should be ashamed of themselves, even though I'm sure they don't think twice about it, and enjoy the sight of their bank account statements.
by 12_throw_away | 2026-01-16 19:44:28+00:00
Reading the actual NTSB report [1], my first reaction is just my usual awe at the professionalism of the NTSB. They started with a 3000-ft-long debris field and in the end could say "here are the microscopic stress fractures in the left pylon aft mount bulkhead wing clevis spherical bearing assembly's ball element's forward bearing race".

[1] https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/Documents/DCA26MA024%20I...
by maxglute | 2026-01-16 19:44:32+00:00
Maybe it's a head turner vs eye mover thing. It's a lot less fatiguing moving eyes, which might not be option for glass wearers. I sit 2 feet away from my 50 inch OLED and moving eyes is much less work than windows management. Otherwise it is very workflow dependant, i.e. working on visuals or schematic diagrams.
by ThrowawayR2 | 2026-01-16 19:44:32+00:00
"The wealth of the top 1% reaches a record $52 trillion ... The total wealth of the top 10% ... reached a record $113 trillion", so subtracting, the other 9% has $61 trillion.

"The top 1% held 29% of total household wealth in the second quarter ... The top 10% held 67% of total household wealth in the quarter...", so subtracting again, the other 9% has has 38% of total household wealth.

When the SV techbros in the top 10% say "eat the rich", they're volunteering themselves to be on the menu too. Don't let 'em say otherwise.
by krick | 2026-01-16 19:45:05+00:00
Even that I'd call somewhat petty, but it is more defensible if it's insulting to you when you hear toilet noises from your phone, and you are totally in your right to tell it straight to the person who is calling you, that it's hard to hear him behind all farts and flushes. That's ok. People here seem to be complaining that somebody else is talking to somebody else on a phone while being in the public (office) toilet. I mean, I kinda understand if it distracts them from their business due to some psychological difficulties they may have, but that's the public toilet design fault when you cannot feel isolated enough, not the guy's talking.
by LunaSea | 2026-01-16 19:45:06+00:00
It's only realistic if you let it happen.

Good for consumers is highly debatable since we'd lose one more social connection in life. Something we are running a very high debt tab for already.

We would also lose musical knowledge since all the full-time musicians would have to stop playing. Only amateur musicians would remain.

And the "desired lifestyle" / "desired status" would be transferred to the already very, very rich and powerful AI company CEOs. Such an improvement ...
by tedkimble | 2026-01-16 19:45:14+00:00
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[1]: https://agrarianparty.org/
by raffael_de | 2026-01-16 19:45:15+00:00
It is very difficult to stay polite while getting very angry. Politeness is usually reserved for respectful people. If somebody acts in a way that is perceived as intentionally disrespectful (whether that's actually the case or not), there is a severe psychological dissonance to overcome. Also physiologically people will get nervous, voice shaking, facial tension, heart racing, mind gets foggy when severely agitated which makes trying to act polite even more difficult. It's easier and seemingly more sensible to just skip straight to snapping or ... bottling the rage up to eventually release it against somebody weaker - humans are monkeys after all (which isn't even necessarily bad, we should just strive for civilizing the chimp and strengthening the bonobo within us.)
by embedding-shape | 2026-01-16 19:45:36+00:00
Yeah, seems latest commit does let `cargo check` successfully run. I'm gonna write an update blog post once they've made their statement, because I'm guessing they're about to say something.

Sometime fishy is happening in their `git log`, it doesn't seem like it was the agents who "autonomously" actually made things compile in the end. Notice the git username and email addresses switching around, even a commit made inside a EC2 instance managed to get in there: https://gist.github.com/embedding-shapes/d09225180ea3236f180...
by RHSeeger | 2026-01-16 19:45:49+00:00
I agree with everything you're saying here. The only thing I would add is

Before I hand a ticket off to QA, I write up

1. What I understood the requirements to be,

2. What I implemented,

3. How to interact with it (where it is in the tool, etc), and

4. What _other_ areas of the code, besides the obvious, are touched; so they can regression test any areas that they feel are important

Doing that writeup makes sure I understand everything about my implementation and that I didn't miss anything. I find it extremely valuable both for QA and myself.
by Retric | 2026-01-16 19:46:05+00:00
The average Canadian drives 15,200km / year is also from that same article you linked.

322,000 km / 15,200 = 21.2 years. Assuming nobody has multiple cars.

From that link: Here's a breakdown of the average annual kilometres driven in some provinces:

Ontario: 16,000 km
Alberta: 15,200 km
British Columbia: 13,100 km
by adrian_b | 2026-01-16 19:46:14+00:00
No, it is a poor pixel density when compared with a printed book, which should be the standard for judging any kind of display used for text.

At the sizes of 27" or 32", which are comfortable for working with a computer, 5k is the minimum resolution that is not too bad when compared with a book or with the acuity of typical human vision.

For a bigger monitor, a 4k resolution is perfectly fine for watching movies or for playing games, but it is not acceptable for working with text.
by autoexec | 2026-01-16 19:46:37+00:00
> It isn't like he is desecrating a temple, or intruding into your home and using your toilet, or jerking off in the public...

Just like jerking off, defecation should be done in private. Meetings are not private.
Very few people want to see/hear/smell you do that and that includes over zoom or phone conference. Most people really do want to mind their own business, and that means having no part in you doing those very private things.

If someone is in a meeting on their phone while in a bathroom stall it's also very rude to everyone else in the bathroom trying to do their own business as privately as they possibly can under the circumstances.
by akomtu | 2026-01-16 19:46:45+00:00
It seems there is a rule of thumb: the top 10% holds half of the assets.

top 0.1% $23T (those with $46M)
top 1% $52T
top 10% $113T (those with $2M)

It also seems to apply to spending too: "Consumers in the top 10% of the income distribution accounted for 49.2%"
by metaPushkin | 2026-01-16 19:46:59+00:00
I have 8Gb RAM and HDD. Windows 7 works perfectly, windows 10 work acceptable. Linux bad work: horrible performance browser and IDE especially on distr with snap (browser performance near zero). On linux desktop huge problem with shortcuts. I don't know what the DE developers are doing, but I've never been able to get the key combinations I need and find convenient to work without conflicts with the system ones. Or it's just impossible to set them.
by closewith | 2026-01-16 19:47:35+00:00
> This would be escalated to upper management to find out why people are under so much time pressure that they need to take calls in the bathroom, and at the very least doing so would be made some kind of violation of new policy.

Or why there are people so idle that they can defecate without working.

Remember, HR protects the company, and complaints about heavy hitters because they work on porcelain aren't going to reflect well on the complainant.
by guywithahat | 2026-01-16 19:48:59+00:00
This feels like a poor long-term play for a short term political win. Canada has a robust automotive supply industry to US auto manufacturers, and this industry could be in long-term risk in an attempt to hurt relations with freer, traditionally more conservative nations. It’s not a shock but it is always disappointing to see major political decisions made for the benefit of the next election cycle.
by JimsonYang | 2026-01-16 19:49:14+00:00
Thanks for the feedback.
To answer your question is:
1) yes, you still need good content as if you're ranking for SEO. However trad seo(i'm shorthanding bcuz i'm lazy) requires you to really to be in the top 5 results. Although this has beeen made worse by google AIO, 0 click answers, and a bunch of other things. For AI SEO you need to be in the top 20-30. Easier-yes but fundamentals like writing good conent is still needed
2) The between trad SEO and AI SEO is that the content you have to create to rank well has changed-often needing multiple pieces to rank well. For instance the prompt "Which AI company has the safest AI models?" has google results show a lot of listing various companies by ranking them safe and least safe-almost promotional content. But if you look at what chatgpt is searching and getting, it's a lot more safety index, reports, and technical information.

There's SEO experts that believe that trad seo and ai seo is the same-that's fair. We're of the group that believe it's pretty much the same, although we're starting to come at an inflection point and it'll change in the future.

To answer your second question: we don't have an icon to give recommended actions. I think that's a mistake we made during planning, where we saw "ai recommended actions" and questioned the validity of them. For instance, it doesn't make sense to edit and change wikipedia becuase that's incredibly hard although a few platforms do recommend that.
The idea was that users would improve their keyword research and blog content strategy and we just assist in figuring out what to write for, which we still think is the best approach- however it seems that wasn't very clear. It's different from improving page rank because the strategy has been shifted. Instead of opimizing for the 1st and 2nd result, you're optimizing for topics as a whole and can even appear on the second page of google. If you're saying improving your pagerank via making good content that's unique and high quality-then I fully agree that you need to improve your pagerank
by BeetleB | 2026-01-16 19:49:19+00:00
> The strategy of getting ahead or staying behind doesn't work when there are switchbacks or crowded trails.

If a trail is crowded, you won't hear much of the sound of nature, whether someone is playing music or now.

It all depends on where you live, and what access you have. Nature is not far from me, so I have several options within an hour's drive.
by filoleg | 2026-01-16 19:49:29+00:00
I didn’t do the napkin math on it earlier, because I don’t believe it really matters for making the point I was making.

I don’t care about looking up real numbers, so I will just overestimate heavily. Let’s say that for a large enough number of GPUs, the overhead of all the surrounding equipment would be around 20% (amortized).

So you can just take the number of GPUs I calculated in my previous comment, multiply by 0.8, and you get your answer.
by barbazoo | 2026-01-16 19:50:08+00:00
Mercosur-EU trade deal was agreed 2019

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EU%E2%80%93Mercosur_Associatio...

India-EU have deepened ties since long ago too

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India%E2%80%93European_Union_r...
by livrasand | 2026-01-16 19:50:14+00:00
That’s a fair question, and for some cases a pseudonym + throwaway email can be enough.

The main difference is that git config only affects a small part of the metadata. Even with a pseudonym, GitHub still receives and exposes:
- Commit timestamps and timezone
- Correlation across repos and long-term activity
- Client and workflow patterns
- A persistent GitHub account (even if “throwaway”)

gitGost operates server-side and normalizes everything before GitHub ever sees it. Commits are re-authored with sanitized metadata and PRs are opened from a neutral bot account, so there’s no persistent identity to correlate over time.

The goal isn’t just pseudonymity, but reducing long-term traceability and cross-repo linkage, especially for people contributing in sensitive or hostile contexts.

That said, if someone is comfortable with a pseudonym and doesn’t need stronger anonymity guarantees, local git config is simpler. gitGost is meant for the cases where that’s not enough.

Appreciate the question.
by omgJustTest | 2026-01-16 19:50:21+00:00
```
README.md

straight up honest - originally called this "make-it-stop" but then saw @TimDarcet also built similar and named it STFU. wayyyyy better name. so stole it. sorry not sorry.

```

Probably the reason that the code "worked" from a single prompt. Could potentially have downloaded the github repo first...
by KomoD | 2026-01-16 19:50:22+00:00
It says it makes the PRs with gitghost-anonymous but it's gitgost-anonymous without a h. the typo seems to be everywhere.

Also realistically speaking, no project is going to accept a PR (beyond the most basic typo fix) with no information at all. You can't provide any info in the PR, you can't discuss the PR with anyone, you can't change it.

A throwaway account makes much more sense than this.

Also if you are going to reply to me, please don't use AI, thanks
by diyseguy | 2026-01-16 19:50:37+00:00
Also, you have to accept the brainworms to be accepted into the church community. You gotta join the Borg. You can't have a different opinion or be an atheist. Or you have to hide it well.

It's a cult - a very old one, 20 centuries old. This longevity gives it a feeling of validity or that it's the 'only truth'. But it's really just collective sunk cost fallacy. It's the cultural bandaid that we apply to all problems because no one dares think up a new one. Rip off that bandaid and all kinds of problems it was patching emerge. That's why we dare not speak of parting ways with it.
by sodafountan | 2026-01-16 19:50:47+00:00
I found it interesting that the OP defaulted to using an AI agent for his voice recording software rather than doing a Google search. Perhaps a sign of things to come? I would've chosen Google, but maybe I'll be falling behind in the future.

Aside from getting an LLM up and running on a device, what's stopping AI from creating an operating system? I admittedly don't know much about operating system development, but aren't most operating systems written primarily in C?

I guess what I meant by that is it would be interesting if the AI prompt itself were the OS, and all software would be generated via prompting the agent. No downloads, just a "What do you need?" prompt with the AI generating everything on the fly.

Perhaps becoming so fast that you wouldn't even notice it thinking. Just: "I need to edit a document that was sent to my email" The AI would then retrieve the email, download the document and generate its own text editor to display the document in. All within a few milliseconds.

Call it AIOS
by collinmcnulty | 2026-01-16 19:51:05+00:00
https://theicct.org/publication/electric-cars-life-cycle-ana...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S09596... (paywall)

https://about.bnef.com/insights/clean-transport/no-doubt-abo... is a writeup of https://www.bnef.com/insights/33557 which is paywalled.
by BeetleB | 2026-01-16 19:51:05+00:00
I was pointing out the pointlessness of invoking "laws" in this scenario. I'm not the one that brought it into the conversation.

As for social norms, one only has to read the comments to understand that there clearly isn't consensus on this point. People go to nature for many reasons - not all related to enjoying the sounds of nature. What dylan604 is pointing out is to be mindful of that.
by jackling | 2026-01-16 19:51:05+00:00
I mean Canada's largest trading partner is the US, which also has many examples of large scale human right abuses.

As a Canadian, it's not really relevant to me that a country we trade with isn't liberal, and I don't agree with the premise that China is inheriently anti-west. Anti-western values, yes, but China does not threaten west violently in anyway that I can see. They mostly threaten western dominance economically.

IMO, Canada should just do what's best for its citizen, which is get good trade deals, and ensure that our values don't morph into something unrecognizable. What other countries do in their own borders is largely irrelevant.
by Battleshack | 2026-01-16 19:51:34+00:00
Subtle joke right there, if I may venture?

I think technological systems for managing ADHD are targeted mainly towards J-type personalities (Myers-Briggs).

As a hard P-type, I generally perceive Systems as detrimental to my well-being. A take which of course is riddled with both fallacies and exceptions (so don't hold me too harshly to it).

What's holding me back from checking out any sort of recommandation is the fear of commitment.

Everything eventually becomes one (or more) of the following:

- A joyous commitment
- A meaningfull commitment
- A stressfull commitment

Having a kitten is joyous. Having a 17 year old cat is all of the above.

Systems—good, usefull and fascinating as they may be—generally tend to fit in the 'stressfull' category. Especially those who encroach toward a hobby/hyper-fixation during the honeymoon period.

(The one system I still use on a day-to-day basis is a calendar. Because I have to. It's not joyous, but it's meaningfull.)
by RHSeeger | 2026-01-16 19:51:35+00:00
I worked with someone a little while ago that tended to do this; point out things that weren't really related to the ticket. And I was happy with their work. I think the main thing to remember is that the following are two different things

- Understanding what is important to / related to the functionality of a given ticket

- Thoroughly testing what is important to / related to the functionality of a given ticket

Sure, the first one can waste some time by causing discussion of things that don't matter. But being REALLY good at the second one can mean far less bugs slip through.
by Freak_NL | 2026-01-16 19:52:17+00:00
Well, Abraham Lincoln's favourite game is Raid: Shadow Legends. This is well documented in Lincoln and the Fight for Peace (John Avlon, 2023) and Abraham Lincoln: A Life (Michael Burlingame, 2008).

(At which point will malignant/benevolent AI agents take over from us mere mortals poisoning the well and make it all useless?)
by te7447 | 2026-01-16 19:52:52+00:00
> use a $200 camera and photograph your keyring from a couple blocks away

I suppose serious defenders will need to get an EVVA MCS, if that's their threat model :-) Just don't let the really serious lockpickers near the lock with a contact microphone.

https://www.evva.com/int-en/products/mechanical-locking-syst...
by wrsh07 | 2026-01-16 19:53:06+00:00
> All wealth groups saw gains over the past year, with the net worth of the bottom half of Americans increasing 6% over the past 12 months, according to the Fed data. Yet the growth has been fastest for those at the very top. The top 1% have seen their wealth increase by $4 trillion over the past year, an increase of 7%

I think the excessive use of absolute numbers in this article does the author and readers a disservice. It's like describing a chess game and saying "after five moves and fifty million possible games,..."

Yes, it's worth noting that the wealth at the top increased faster than the wealth at the bottom (7% > 6%). And it compounds so that alone can increase the wealth gap.
by Twisol | 2026-01-16 19:53:37+00:00
I have a Shokz brand two-piece headset (the OpenFit 2+ i think?) that just wraps around the outside of the ear, with the actual speaker part held just outside the ear canal. I can't do in-ear buds either, but these just work for me. Doesn't even feel like anything's there.

I did try their bone-conduction headphones, but the quality was slightly worse and they didn't feel as nonexistent to wear.
by Terr_ | 2026-01-16 19:53:41+00:00
This headline formulation is statistical malpractice that news companies do to get clicks. It's defines a "record" that will get regularly broken by default even when nothing interesting changes.

What we should be tracking and concerned-about is the proportional distribution of the total wealth among groups, which the article touches upon here:

> The top 1% held 29% of total household wealth in the second quarter, compared with 28% in 2000. The top 10% held 67% of total household wealth in the quarter while the bottom 90% held 33%.
by ElevenLathe | 2026-01-16 19:53:48+00:00
I honestly have trouble understanding the other side of it. I have always been working class. I have a good job now in tech now and could weather 6 months of job searching if I needed to, but if I lost my job today, I would absolutely take the first available job I could find, even if that is something "beneath" me like retail or hospitality. I don't think I could ever be convinced that it was safe to be unemployed for any length of time. Sure, I could take the time now, but what if I need that money later on for something that I don't have a choice about, like an illness, natural disaster, etc.?

It's just too risky to ever be unemployed in the United States unless you are already so wealthy that you don't need to work at all anyway.
by m463 | 2026-01-16 19:53:59+00:00
lol.

that's like harley riders with unmuffled motors "for safety".

On the other hand, I remember being in japan and watching some construction vehicles in tokyo. They were surprisingly quiet. After a while I realized what it was - in the united states all construction vehicles have these annoying "beep-beep-beep" sounds while they're working (for safety).

I wonder if one day they can play those only when someone walks nearby or play in some technologically quieter way.