MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cocoto | 2026-01-19 22:28:57+00:00
Why are some examples full of errors? The `set_vec` method for instance does not bind the reference, you can't change the reference itself... so the code would simply copy the vector and there would be no dangling reference... And `B` is missing a constructor since the default constructor would be ill-formed (you can't default initialize a reference).

Anyway the article is quite approachable, do not take my criticism to shy away from writing!
by dvt | 2026-01-19 22:29:05+00:00
You can call me crazy or you can attack my points: do you think the first example logically follows? Do you think the second isn't wordy? Just to make sure I'm not insane, I just copy pasted the article into Pangram, and lo and behold, 70% AI-generated.

But I don't need a tool to tell me that it's just bad writing, plain and simple.
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2026-01-19 22:29:10+00:00
Those types of allocation technique were common back in the day for efficiency reasons, maybe still relevant for things like embedded programming where you need to be more careful about memory usage and timing, but I would say that nowadays for normal application usage you are better off using smart pointers.

It's not a matter of one being strictly better than the other, but rather about using the right tool for the job.
by rayiner | 2026-01-19 22:29:20+00:00
There’s many kinds of immigrants. There’s immigrants who love their countrymen but come to the U.S. for economic opportunity. Then there’s people like my parents who hate what their countrymen have done to their country and come to the U.S. to get away from them. (Lots of Iranians, Vietnamese, and Cubans in this camp.)

For many people, having Americans pay for government benefits while making America more like Bangladesh culturally is a win-win. For me it’s the nightmare.
by piva00 | 2026-01-19 22:29:57+00:00
How are you unsure? You don't think the USA benefitted from the world order it set after WW2, with NATO, setting up a global system of economical hegemony and become the wealthiest nation on the history of mankind? What else do you want? More?

It's fucking bonkers that's even an argument to be had, it seems it's never enough for the empire.

The US's expenditure on its military was never to protect anyone from the Soviets but to impose its own world order against the Soviets, it's been always self-serving and for someone so educated it's a bit ignorant to not understand that.

> And what does my background have it do with my point? What Trump thinks of me has nothing to do with my analysis of any particular policy

It has to do with you aligning with the agenda, repeating the rhetoric about US's allies as not being worthy even though it built the USA as it exists today in 2026. The same applies to your background, it helped to build the USA as it exists today but given how you look [0] you'll also be considered not worthy when it's convenient by the agenda of the same administration you're aligning with to betray allies.

Good luck thinking the USA as it exists can do so without allies, it's a shame that "when education is not liberating, the dream of the oppressed is to become the oppressor".

[0] https://www.linkedin.com/in/rayiner-hashem-3481b58/
by h4kunamata | 2026-01-19 22:30:49+00:00
Since when do we need study for that??
Look around us!!

Gaming isn't and never will be an issue in our society, now, social media??? 100%

* Teens in Western countries don't wanna study because they wanna be "social media influencer" (whatever that means).

* Students at Uni and schools are using ChatGPT to do the thinking for them meaning, they are getting dumber and dumber.

* if you never watched 2006 Idiocracy movie, it was a warning about the future, not a comedy movie. Strongly recommend you to watch it. DO IT!!!!

* Social media is not affecting just teens metal health but everything, look around us, birthrate is all time low and declining.
Women no longer need men they say, marriages all falling apart because of social media, they think they deserve better because neighbors grass is greener.
Decades old marriages, gone! Dating?? Non existent and not worth anymore so guys are walking away so birthrates is going worse by the day.

* Hollywood got into some insane plastic surgery epidemic right now, social media is allowing it to spread, teenagers are using cosmetics and surgery to blend into the social media trend, something 40s and above used to do, not 15-20s.

Now with the AI, chatbots, fake accounts, fake videos, fake everything, watch our society doomed.
It already started, like I said, birthrates is gone, students cannot read, they cannot do anything without asking ChatGPT. Food is nothing but plastic, chemicals and everything in between.

Watch 2006 Idiocracy movie, you won't regret.
by fuzztester | 2026-01-19 22:30:51+00:00
Dal bhat in Nepal is not unique to Nepal, it is also a huge Indian staple food, dal and rice in India, eaten in many parts of the country in various forms. Called dal chaval in Hindi states in north India, varan bhat in Maharashtra, and a variant called sambar sadam or similar in south India.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dal
by wwweston | 2026-01-19 22:31:38+00:00
The core issue is that the current US leadership has abandoned its status as a former trustworthy leader that accepted cooperation and responsibility as key operating tenets.

If anyone threatened to take your home by force if you didn’t sell at his favorite price, the sane social discussion would focus on their uncivil threat and pro-social responses, not on victim blaming “the core issue is that I’ve abdicated my ability to defend my house by force.”

You could have a reasonable conversation about sovereign defense budgets and alliance contributions, but not while you’re threatening the sovereignty of an ally.

And all of this will make American citizens less safe, not more. It’s madness. There’s nothing to be gained here for most people by threat of force or hybrid warfare.
by xp84 | 2026-01-19 22:31:45+00:00
It’s surprising how much society apparently thinks merely being above 85 IQ is sufficient to gate all kinds of things behind. Like, bomb-making. As though there isn’t ample information available that anyone with 4 brain cells can find. Yet we see utility apparently in worrying about whether the most smooth-brained would-be bomber gets a useful answer from a chatbot.
by shermantanktop | 2026-01-19 22:31:51+00:00
I view my presence as mostly transactional here. I read posted content, I read comments, I sometimes comment and have exchanges like this. But aside from a little dopamine hit from getting a few upvotes, my emotional investment here is limited.

I don’t have professional or personal connections here (though I know a few members irl) and this is not part of my permanent digital identity— I don’t have one of those, for a few reasons. Others do it differently, and I think the risk of HN going bad is low, so I understand the risk they are taking.

This is a mall - a publically open space privately owned by others - not a true public square. It’s better than x, fb, etc. in part because the private ownership is mostly used for good (strong moderation) rather than for obvious bad.
by kshri24 | 2026-01-19 22:31:54+00:00
> This isn't really any different than any other kind of taxes. You pay income tax and then pay sales tax using the money that was already taxed as income

It definitely does make a huge difference. From sibling comment I got to know US does not even have VAT. It only makes the situation worse as the businesses operating in US cannot offset input credits against their output liability as Sales Tax has no such concept. So you are paying tax-on-tax-on-tax all the way to your raw materials that have been imported APART from paying tariffs. No wonder prices are so jacked up in US and to compensate that, you all have inflated salaries. The US Government is fleecing its citizens dry. Please study how VAT/GST works in EU/India/Australia and compare it with Sales Tax regime in US and you will know why Sales Tax is so bad.

> Meanwhile how many times something is taxed isn't really the relevant thing. It's, how much in total are you paying in taxes? If you pay ~10% three times, that's not really any worse than paying ~33% once. It is, of course, worse than paying 10% once.

You are not paying 10% three times. Assuming raw material was imported at $X + %10 of $X (tariff is 10%), value add was say $10, then the IRS is collecting say sales tax of 10% of the total value: 10 % of (($X + %10 of $X) + $10). Now this is just the simplest chain where raw material -> imported by manufacturer -> sold directly to consumer. But that is not how it is done. You typically buy from a retailer who buys from a dealer who buys from a wholesaler/manufacturer. So that would be 10% every time. The longer the chain, the more tax you are paying (in some cases the tax can even go above the actual cost of making the product). This nonsense is solved by VAT/GST where the tax you pay for acquiring raw material or processed inputs comes back to you as input credits, which you can use to offset your output tax liability. There is no compounding of tax in VAT/GST.
by foobarchu | 2026-01-19 22:33:03+00:00
A good place to see this pre-2022 (the ai epoch) is articles on less known bands from the late 2000s when Wikipedia was becoming more popular. Quite a few of them turn out to be copy/paste promo text. I know this because I did webdev work for that industry, and when I look up those bands on wikipedia I will recognize the text as text that I personally had to paste into a bio page 20 years ago. Since the bands are well known, nobody reports it (I admit I'm too lazy)

The real tell on those tends to be weirdly time-specific claims that tend to be wildly outdated ("currently touring with XYZ")
by xeniafont | 2026-01-19 22:33:04+00:00
hey! no i wasnt planning to charge... should i? the reason i didnt release the other weights is because i built the glyphs scaled by the width of the line... so i haven't really tested out the other "weights"... meaning, i haven't yet decided exactly what widths to set the other weights at... and that would take some time for me to do... and i would only do it if there was interest :) and its not a new github account, i just dont have any public repos https://linkedin.com/in/lorettarules im like a real person
by asdff | 2026-01-19 22:33:51+00:00
A message is certainly sent in the process that previously was going unheard.

"Former UnitedHealth CEO Andrew Witty published an op-ed in The New York Times shortly after the killing, expressing sympathy with public frustrations over the “flawed” healthcare system. The CEO of another insurer called on the industry to rebuild trust with the wider public, writing: “We are sorry, and we can and will be better.”

Mr. Thompson’s death also forced a public reckoning over prior authorization. In June, nearly 50 insurers, including UnitedHealthcare, Aetna, Cigna and Humana, signed a voluntary pledge to streamline prior authorization processes, reduce the number of procedures requiring authorization and ensure all clinical denials are reviewed by medical professionals. "

https://www.beckerspayer.com/payer/one-year-after-ceo-killin...
by baubino | 2026-01-19 22:34:01+00:00
> It is almost impossible to escape the constant barrage of takes and news headlines these days without being a total luddite.

It’s quite easy actually. Like the OP, I have no social media accounts other than HN (which he rightfully asserts isn’t social media but is the inheritor of the old school internet forum). I don’t see the mess everyone complains about because I choose to remove myself from it. At the same time, I still write code every day, I spend way too much time in front of a screen, and I manage to stay abreast of what’s new in tech and in the world in general.

Too many people conflate social media with technology more broadly and thus make the mistake of thinking that turning away from social media means becoming a luddite. You can escape the barrage of trolls and hottakes by turning off social media while still participating in the much smaller but saner tech landscape that remains.
by csa | 2026-01-19 22:34:58+00:00
> If you compare them to Finnish or Norse arctic troops and if it ever came to combat, yes, this isn’t the place a US soldier would want to be.

Thanks for coming out.

These are the Arctic Airborne folks (11th division) — above average (which isn’t saying much), but not elite. They are tasked with rapid deployment, and they are good at that, but they aren’t the point of the spear.

There are elite arctic troops who I am confident would sow fear into any opposition troops (arctic or otherwise). If you know any elite Norwegian or Finnish arctic troops, then they have either worked with or know someone who has worked with highly competent US counterparts.

No need to conflate the two.
by vee-kay | 2026-01-19 22:35:03+00:00
The Metro (trains) stations in my city have foot-operated levers (pedals) to control the elevators/lifts, doors, toilet taps/faucets (though the urinal themselves have sensors to auto-flush), etc.

Although, as a precaution, I carry a hand-sanitizer and fresh mask in my bag whenever I commute on such public transportation.

I guess the pandemic (and the eerie realisation that it can repeat anytime, since it was decidedly an artificial one) has attuned me to be more vigilant on my safety and health, so I try to be cautious and safe in public where crowds can gather.
by duped | 2026-01-19 22:35:32+00:00
People use `new` and `delete` when explaining memory in C++ because those are the language primitives for allocating and releasing memory in C++.

That rule of thumb is only a useful rule if you don't care about how memory works and are comfortable with abstractions like RAII. That's fine for lots of real code but dismissing `new` and `delete` on principle is not interesting or productive for any discussion.
by TacticalCoder | 2026-01-19 22:35:40+00:00
> Walz imagined a future with something akin to the Nuremberg trials.

But what about a Nuremberg trial for the well-oiled organization that consisted in importing millions and millions of illegals in both the US and the EU and then quickly relocate them, often at night, in countless buses and planes, all over the country?

How is that not treason against your nation?

> liberal cities with sanctuary policies have been hit the hardest

Because they're harboring illegals.

> by inflicting terror on Minnesotans: “They have the right to go to work, take their children to school, and move through public and private spaces free from fear of violence against themselves or their loved ones by their federal government.

On which minnesotans? US citizens enjoy constitutional rights. And people who are there legally aren't getting deported.

ICE is deporting illegals.
by sgarland | 2026-01-19 22:35:43+00:00
Last year, I bought a MBP with both screen types (at the recommendation of an Apple employee - they said just return the one I didn’t like) and compared them side by side for a few days. I also spent some time in the Apple Store, looking at iMacs side by side, since they were the only things they had on display with the Nano Texture.

tl;dr in perfect lighting conditions - which I noticed the Apple Store did a pretty good job at - the glossy screen wins, obviously. The contrast is quite a bit better, pictures really pop, and text isn’t particularly affected. In anything other than perfect lighting, Nano Texture wins by a mile.

If you’re going to be doing any kind of photo or video work, you’ll probably want the glossy screen, or (what I suspect most would have) the Nano Texture, with a dedicated external monitor for the best of both worlds.

If you’re primarily using your laptop for anything other than photo / video work, or if you use it mobile, you want the Nano Texture screen. I can’t objectively say what you lose in contrast ratio, but it’s not bad enough to overcome the huge disparity in glare reduction. I haven’t regretted my Nano Texture MBP for a second.
by formerly_proven | 2026-01-19 22:35:58+00:00
This is a recurring fantasy in LLM threads but makes little sense. Writing machine code is very difficult (even writing byte code for simple VMs is annoying and error-prone). Abstractions are beneficial and increase productivity (per human, per token). It makes essentially no sense to throw away seven decades of productivity increasing technologies to have neural nets punch cards again, and it's not going to happen unless tokens become unimaginably cheap.
by xeniafont | 2026-01-19 22:35:59+00:00
ya... the i was a tough one to do... because its a trade off you know? between having honor the fact that its a slim character and having it match the look of the others... this was incredibly difficult to do because of the fact that the characters have to align correctly - say if an i is between two M's - and also sandwiched between two T's... its really difficult... but let me know if you come up with an alternative solution!
by collingreen | 2026-01-19 22:35:59+00:00
The human behind it, the community using it critically, and the years of battle hardening.

The great open source tools out there have handled, worked around, or influenced away many many bugs and edge cases out in the real world, many of which you wont think of when initially designing your own. The silent increase in stability and productivity resulting from this kind of thing is as vast as it is hard to see/measure. It feels like the quote about expertise saying someone "has forgotten more than I'll ever know about [subject]".

Thank you to everyone powering our collective work.
by int_19h | 2026-01-19 22:36:14+00:00
There are no reliable AI detection services. At best they can reliably detect output from popular chatbots running with their default prompts. Beyond that reliability deteriorates rapidly so they either err on the side of many false positives, or on the side of many false negatives.

There's already been several scandals where students were accused of AI use on the basis of these services and successfully fought back.
by Mogzol | 2026-01-19 22:36:15+00:00
I have no idea what this is fixing.

> Note: This does not change the rounded corners of individual app windows. It only restores the straight silhouette at the edges of your display.

My display does not have rounded corners. I am on macOS Tahoe using external monitors. I know that newer macbooks have rounded display corners, but those are rounded at the hardware level afaik, those corner pixels simply don't exist. And besides that, the medium article linked in the repo specifically talks about external monitors. Does anyone have an example of what this program is actually meant to fix?

EDIT: I downloaded and compiled it myself to see. All it does is add a black border around your whole screen. Here is a screenshot: https://imgur.com/8sfKOK3

Again, I don't have rounded corners on my display in the first place, but if I did I suppose this would hide them. At the cost of losing the whole edge of my display, lol. I don't see why anyone would actually use this.
by linsomniac | 2026-01-19 22:36:53+00:00
>While in our interpretation the RFCs do not require CNAMEs to appear in any particular order

That seems like some doubling-down BS to me, since they earlier say "It's ambiguous because it doesn't use MUST or SHOULD, which was introduced a decade after the DNS RFC." The RFC says:

>The answer to the query, possibly preface by one or more CNAME RRs that specify aliases encountered on the way to an answer.

How do you get to interpreting that, in the face of "MUST" being defined a decade later, as "I guess I can append the CNAME to the answer?

Holding onto "we still think the RFC allows it" is a problem. The world is a lot better if you can just admit to your mistakes and move on. I try to model this at home and at work, because trying to "language lawyer" your way out of being wrong makes the world a worse place.
by Wobbles42 | 2026-01-19 22:37:31+00:00
That is the root of most arguments I have seen, both pro and anti gun.

If people fundamentally disagree about whether the government should have a total monopoly on violence they are unlikely to come to agreement on the issue of gun control.

I'd rather recognize a fundamental values difference with someone than try to argue a bunch of rational points in bad faith, though. No sense raising blood pressure in a discussion that is doomed to be unproductive for both people.

Full disclosure: I am personally on the "Belt fed machine guns should be dispensed from vending machines in elementary schools" end of the spectrum. My views probably don't matter to my point above, but more openness about bias is better.
by Aurornis | 2026-01-19 22:38:01+00:00
> Since when do we need study for that?? Look around us!!

> Gaming isn't and never will be an issue in our society, now, social media??? 100%

It's notable to see gaming and social media blended into the same study, but it's even more interesting to see how the study's results are being rejected in favor of everyone's own pre-conceived conclusions anyway.
by stavros | 2026-01-19 22:38:07+00:00
I really love AI for lots of things, but, when I'm reading a post, the AI aesthetic has started to grate. I read articles and they all have the same "LLM" aesthetic, and I feel like I'm reading posts written by the same person.

Sure, the information is all there, but the style just puts me off reading it. I really don't like how few authors have a voice any more, even if that voice is full of typos and grammatical errors.
by kelseyfrog | 2026-01-19 22:38:11+00:00
The "Council of models" is a good first step, but ultimately I found myself settling on an automated talent acquisition pipeline.

I have a BIRTHING_POOL.md that combines the best AGENTS.md and introduces random AI-generated mutations and deletions. The candidates are tested using take-home PRs which are reviewed by HR.md and TECH_MANAGER.md. TECH_MANAGER.md measures completion rate per tokens (effectiveness) and then sends the stack ranking of AGENT.mds to HR to manage the talent pool. If agent effectiveness drops low enough, we pull from the birthing pool and interview more candidates.

The end result is that it effectively manages a wider range of agent talents and you don't get into these agent hive mind spirals you get if every worker has the same system prompt.
by asdff | 2026-01-19 22:38:30+00:00
Eventually the generation and evaluation will be quite fast where testing a million alternatives will be viable. Impressive you suggest that there might be a million alternatives but it would be faster to just read the code and settle on one. How might that be determined? Did the author who wrote the standard library really come up with the best way when writing those functions? Or did they come up with something that seemed alright to ship relative to other ideas people came up with?

I think we need to think outside the box here and realize ideas can be generated, evaluated, and settled upon far faster than any human operates. The idea of doing what a trillion humans evaluating different functions can do is actually realistic with the path of our present technology. We are at the cusp of some very remarkable times, even more remarkable than the innovations of the past 200 years, should we make progress on this effort.
by hnthrowaway0315 | 2026-01-19 22:38:36+00:00
Hi kens, thanks for the knowledge sharing all these years. Can you please confirm this one? From Wikipedia, it says that 8087 uses CORDIC algorithm. Does that mean that it's the same (but different speed) as what I'd implement the functions in software, except in microcode (which has more granularity than usual assembly code)?

I found it a bit surprising that as a 45-year old chip, there is no public information of its microcode. I guess hardware is indeed much more secret than software.