MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by atoav | 2026-01-12 18:46:30+00:00
It being designed is what also should give away that it could also be designed differently.

People who create, be it artists, designers and engineers can sometimes develope that insight from their daily practise. We create, thus we have a deeper than avarage awareness that the world is created and which factors play into it being this way and not a slightly different (better?) variation on the same theme.
by alimbada | 2026-01-12 18:46:40+00:00
I dual booted Fedora back when it was still called Fedora Core from version 6 until 11-ish. I had it installed on a laptop and had a lot of driver issues with it and eventually didn't bother with dual booting when I moved to a new laptop.

I'm now looking to get off Windows permanently before security updates stop for Win 10 as I have no intention of upgrading to Win 11 since Linux gaming is now a lot more viable and was the only remaining thing holding me back from switching earlier. I've been considering either Bazzite (a Fedora derivative with a focus on gaming) or Mint but after reading your comment I may give vanilla Fedora a try too.

So far I've tried out the Bazzite Live ISO but it wouldn't detect my wireless Xbox controller though that may be a quirk of the Live ISO. I'm going to try a full install on a flash drive next and see if that fixes things.
by akiselev | 2026-01-12 18:47:20+00:00
> Very interested in your workflow - do you have anything online to share?

Not yet but once I'm ready it's all going to be open source.

> Also looked into automating altium more and found having to do a lot of GUI work to guide the models along.

Have you tried the Windows UI Automation/Accessibility APIs? You can download Accessibility Insights for Windows to see the data structure and it's well supported by Altium. It has everything you need to tell the LLM what's on screen without ever sending a screenshot (except for the 2d/3d CAD view) and the UIA provides an API that can actually click, focus, etc. without sending fake keyboard events manually. When reverse engineering the file format I put Opus on a loop and it just kept fiddling with the binary file format until Altium stopped throwing parsing errors.

> How much of going from ‘design in head’ to schematic and layout have you automated?

At this point everything but the final PCB routing. My autorouter and autoplacer are very much a work in progress and LLMs aren't great at routing complex traces, but they can brute force it given enough time and DRC checks. Right now I just shell out to autorouters like Specctra with a DSN and route the most important nets by hand in Altium. Since the LLM sets up all the design rules and can spend hours on a loop figuring out the optimal placement, it's usually a breeze. Especially compared to when I first started out in EE and spent days with part selection and footprint capture. Now a lot of that tedium is completely automated.

Soon I'll integrating probe-rs into the whole workflow and making end to end vibe PCBs, adding support for FPGAs, and integrating Solidworks so it does enclosures and molds too.
by switchbak | 2026-01-12 18:48:01+00:00
It's not anyone's job to "promote it in a good way", we have no responsibility either for or against such tech.

The analogy would be more like: "yeah, the motor blew up and burned your garage, but please don't be negative - we need you to promote this saw in a good way".

Sure, it's important to "hold it right", but we're not in some cult here where we need to all sell this tech well beyond its current or future potential.
by bpt3 | 2026-01-12 18:48:12+00:00
I will say upfront that I do not condone or support annexation of Greenland, but I have to ask why on earth you or anyone else think that would inspire any meaningful portion of the US population to organize a general strike?

Whatever happens in Greenland has no impact on at least 99.99% of the US population, and a general strike will have no impact on the small fraction of the US population that would support annexation.
by gspr | 2026-01-12 18:48:16+00:00
> Unit tests.

Not proof.

> Lean.

Fantastic. But what proportion of developers are ready to formalize their requirements in Lean?

> Typed languages. Even more broadly, compilers.

For sufficiently strong type systems, sure! But then we're back in the above point.

> https://micahkepe.com/blog/thompson-trojan-horse/

I am of course aware. Any malevolent backdoor in your compiler could also exist in your LLM. Or the compiler that compiled the LLM. So you can never do better.

> Rowhammer is the physics underlying the computations affecting the computation in a way that was undocumented prior to it getting discovered and, well, documented. Issues like this exist before they're documented, and by definition nobody knows how many unknown things like this have yet to be found.

Yep. But it's a bug. It's a mistake. The unreliability of LLMs is not.

> If you vibe code (as in: never look at the code), then find an error with the resulting product, you can still just ask the LLM to fix that error.

Of course. But you need skills to verify that it did.

> LLM generated source code: if you've forgotten how to read the source code it made for you to solve your problem and can't learn how to read that source code and can't run the tests of that source code, at which point it's as interpretable as psychology.

Reading source code is such a minute piece of the task of understanding code that I can barely understand what you mean.
by gruez | 2026-01-12 18:48:16+00:00
Not sure about "ICE murderers", but Trump v. United States[1] only seems to cover presidents, and wikipedia even has a specific article for for it[2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_v._United_States

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_immunity_in_the_U...
by ianburrell | 2026-01-12 18:48:18+00:00
Iran has deployed jammers for Starlink. It sounds like they got help from Russia and China. They may not be jamming Starlink directly, but GPS that Starlink needs to locate dishes.

Easiest way would be to fly drones or planes around and look for the dishes. Should be possible to receive and triangulate the signals.

The problem for Iran regime is that they are busy putting down the uprising.
by array_key_first | 2026-01-12 18:49:15+00:00
It's important to note that overweight and obesity are not the same thing. Most people are overweight, and from what I've seen of modern studies, the health risk of being overweight is almost negligible.

But being obese is a higher BMI than overweight, and the bar is actually quite low. Lower than most people think. A lot of people think they're overweight, but they're not, they're obese.
by parl_match | 2026-01-12 18:49:52+00:00
They also had an average lifespan of 40 years. Now obviously, high meat consumption isn't the cause of that, but we now know that eating large amounts of red meat leads to an overall reduced lifespan in societies where people make it to 70 on a regular basis.

> Was that too much

I challenge you to eat 5 pounds of animal products in a day, for three days.
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2026-01-12 18:49:53+00:00
Perhaps you're intending to say that "a claim made without evidence can be dismissed without evidence" but that's a personal dismissal. The way this is phrased comes off a bit self-important; they don't really "need" that data because they don't "need" you to not dismiss their claim. I rather get the impression they don't care what you think and were just answering your question.
by jrockway | 2026-01-12 18:51:00+00:00
Yeah, I'll be taking minoxidil for my hair forever. And zyrtec for my allergies forever. So it goes. "What if you get lost in a cave system for 30 years? What then?" I guess I'll lose my hair and be sneezing a lot, and gain weight. So it goes. Until then, it doesn't really bother me.
by rootusrootus | 2026-01-12 18:51:06+00:00
> But it is true that obesity is much less prevalent in most of Europe

Let's put this into perspective. On average, the US has about twice the obesity rate as Europe (though in both cases there is a fairly wide variation regionally). And Europe has 4 or 5 times the obesity rate of Japan. So relatively speaking, Europe is not in a position to argue that their regulations or lifestyles are the answer.
by ErroneousBosh | 2026-01-12 18:51:21+00:00
That's more of a bit depth rather than bit rate thing. I was surprised to find that going from 16 to 8 bits by simply truncating gave really obvious artifacts on certain sounds (a sampled 808 kick for example had a distinct BZZZEEEOOOOWWWW sound, quite prominent), and even really simple triangular noise dithering made it go away. It did mean the playback was more noisy but it was less obvious.

As an aside, G.711 codecs use a kind of log scale with only four bits of signal but small signal values use much smaller bits.
by throw_paper | 2026-01-12 18:51:38+00:00
For anybody who stumbles over this thread and is curious:

Ring Warrior Enhanced v9 has a Wilkies score of 34, and

Spiral Bomber Optimized v22 has a Wilkies score of 85.

At least that's what my quick and dirty check with exMars says :-)

34 is not that great. 85 is better, but I think some Core War evolvers can match it. For instance, the MEVO example at https://newton.freehostia.com/net/corewar/evol/ describes an evolved warrior with a score of 93.
Stop Typing and Start Deciding
by dxs | 2026-01-12 18:51:55+00:00
Three-part post by synthaicode...

1) AI Does Tasks. Humans Do Deals.
https://dev.to/synthaicode_commander/ai-does-tasks-humans-do-deals-5hao

2) What AI Actually Replaces in Software Development
https://dev.to/synthaicode_commander/what-ai-actually-replaces-in-software-development-part-2-the-reality-7nf

3) Why Your Job Isn’t Disappearing—But Your Tasks Are
https://dev.to/synthaicode_commander/why-your-job-isnt-disappearing-but-your-tasks-are-part-3-the-career-1p0b
by timr | 2026-01-12 18:52:11+00:00
> Do you have a link to the final report?

AR6, Working group 1 report, chapter 2. Relevant section starts at page 365:

https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/downloads/report/IPCC_AR6...

The conclusion is the same, though they've added a paragraph talking about browning in some areas "somewhat slowing" the rate of aggregate increase since the late 90s. Conclusion is unchanged, and in fact, they strengthened it versus the draft by directly attributing it to CO2:

"The increased greening is largely consistent with CO2 fertilization at the global scale, with other changes being noteworthy at the regional level (Piao et al., 2020)"

> So it sounds like a combination of the CO2 increases up to about the year 2000, along with agricultural intensification and various other factors have indeed increased the amount of plant cover, but we are already seeing changes to that picture with further rises to CO2 levels.

Not really. The observations are also made in uninhabited areas. See above.

> And my central point is that the model you're implying there is one in which there's a monotonic relationship between CO2 levels and plant growth.

I said nothing about a monotonic relationship. I said that the earth will have more plants (plant mass, really) with more CO2. This is inevitable. It could follow a monotonic relationship, or it could do something else as factors shift. For example, one big, unpredictable factor that likely swamps everything else, is the randomness of human behavior.

> However in reality things are clearly more complex than that, and there is indeed legitimate argument over what factors are dominant in different scenarios.

No. Greening is occurring, and has been for some time. We have multiple lines of evidence. The IPCC report confidence is high. The only debate is over what might happen in the future, which, again, is fortune telling -- involving not only the climate system, but the actions of people.

> In systems with significant feedback loops it seems dangerous to assume that changes will only happen slowly unless you're very confident that you fully understand all the system dynamics.

I grant you that one can imagine theoretical scenarios in which all sorts of doomy feedback loops happen. The problem with that kind of imaginative exercise is that you have to bring evidence of their existence. So far, with regard to global vegetation, no such evidence exists, and in fact, the opposite of the doom loop scenario is occurring.

Could this change? Maybe! But that's just storytelling right now.
by 542354234235 | 2026-01-12 18:53:02+00:00
Is that true though? Most quality animated features included quality animation. The visuals of the beautifully hand painted early Disney movies were part of the art form. Toy story looks basic to us now but it being the first totally computer animated movie and the visual style that came with that was part of it. Movies are a visual medium, so I guess saying that the visual part of the movie doesn't matter much to you is like saying that the words a writer uses doesn't matter much to your enjoyment of a book.
by gspr | 2026-01-12 18:53:43+00:00
> Besides, your comment goes by the assumption that we no longer know (intimately) how to program - is that true? I don't know C or assembly or whatever very well, but I'm still a valuable worker because I know other things.

The proposal seems to be for LLMs to take over the task of coding. I posit that if you do not code, you will not gain the skills to do so well.

> I mean it could be partially true - but it's like having years of access to Google to quickly find just what I need, meaning I never learned how to read e.g. books on software development or scientific paper end to end.

I think you've misunderstood what papers are for or what "the previous generation" used them for. It is certainly possible to extract something useful from a paper without understanding what's going on. Googling can certainly help you. That's good. And useful. But not the main point of the paper.
by Atlas26 | 2026-01-12 18:53:44+00:00
> it is extremely opinionated so instead of ending with a tailored custom tiling WM that suits your needs at the end of the learning curve, you end up with a tiling WM that is suited for someone else’s needs.

DHH built it, and I find it absolutely hilarious that his Linux distro is literally his insufferable personality personified in Linux form
by bombcar | 2026-01-12 18:54:01+00:00
I have no idea what AI involves, but "training" sounds like a one-and-done - but how is the result "stored"? If you have trained up a Gemini, can you "clone" it and if so, what is needed?

I was under the impression that all these GPUs and such were needed to run the AI, not only ingest the data.
by andy99 | 2026-01-12 18:54:37+00:00
I canceled prime ~8 years ago because where I am, half the stuff I wanted was considered an “add on item” that could only be shipped free if you had > $35 of other stuff, which is a complete scam because you get that without prime.

Maybe that was just for me (in a large Canadian city at the time) or maybe they don’t do that anymore?

I haven’t considered getting prime since, it would be a lot more interesting if it actually provided the shipping terms they advertise.
by porker | 2026-01-12 18:54:39+00:00
> Basically, I need Claude Code with a proper review phase built in. I need it to slow-the-fuck-down and work with me more closely instead of shooting mountains of text at me and making me jam on the escape key over and over (and shout WTF I didn't ask for that!) at least twice a day.

It sounds like you want Codex (for the second part)
by hexbin010 | 2026-01-12 18:54:52+00:00
Would you be offended about undisclosed AI code?

And is 100% of your blog 0% LLM (or disclosed as LLM)? This isn't LLM output for example?:

> The wild thing is that all three of these projects weren’t even a priority for me—they were side quests, representing pure curiosity that I could outsource to Claude Code and solve in the background while I was occupied with something else.
by array_key_first | 2026-01-12 18:55:19+00:00
Well, uh, working. The less you make per hour of work means the more hours you need to maintain a normal standard of living. Obviously there's variance in standards of living, but wealthier people don't typically work two or three jobs. Poor people do, I've met people who do. The reality is that at 12 dollars an hour, 40 hours is just not gonna cut it.

And it's a little more complicated than even just that. Another reality is that, at 12 bucks an hour, nobody is going to be giving you a steady 40 hours. You need extra shifts for buffers, and your shifts will be shorter.

Sure, working 50 hours a week across 7 days isn't technically more than 50 across 5 days. But it does certainly drain your will to live a lot more, from what I've seen.
by 827a | 2026-01-12 18:55:38+00:00
To be clear: I mean "no one uses org mode" hyperbolically, but there's a causative reason why markdown's popularity has led to twenty variants: When a ton of people use anything, it often needs to be tweaked to fit many different use-cases. If orgmode had the popularity that markdown had, it would also have twenty variants; its characteristic of being highly consistent is not a reflection of some internal design or authority that aligns it toward consistency; its a reflection of dispopularity.

I am aware of no evidence supporting the claim that orgmode is more developer-oriented than markdown. It is identical to markdown in ~80% of the formatting directives people widely use. The remaining ~20% are mostly stylistic choices (would you rather hit the # key or the % key). Most of the unique capabilities orgmode offers (e.g. programming language syntax highlighting) are functionally covered by popular markdown extensions available everywhere someone interacting with markdown would work (e.g. Github, Obsidian).

This is a religious war, not engineering. Use what works for you.
by neoromantique | 2026-01-12 18:55:52+00:00
1) Cry me a river about bloody dictators being deposed, wah wah.

2) Nobody is asking to "accept Israel's dominance", but dropping the "Destruction of Israel" as one of the main goals of the state would be a quite welcome.

The world does not revolve around Israel, and the less bloody dictators it has (theocratic or not) the better.
by sixothree | 2026-01-12 18:55:54+00:00
30 kWh per day sounds about right. I have resistive heating and holy heck is it expensive in the winter months, which are short and mild. I plan to replace it soon.

But yes, most of that would be heating and cooling single family homes. Many built during a time when insulation was an afterthought. Now homes are well insulated, but they are larger.
by dustfinger | 2026-01-12 18:56:34+00:00
Yeah, that matches what I have seen: if the upstream metadata isn’t reliable, automation can amplify the mess.

I tried to avoid relying solely on contributors to accurately label or tag things correctly. The script is tag-driven only for release boundaries (version tags), while categorization is derived from PR title & body with optional GitHub metadata. The script is idempotent and preserves edits/omissions so you can correct the few bad ones post-generation.

If you are curious, I am happy to share my script and would be genuinely interested whether it reduces the manual cleanup for your workflow. Also, if you run it with `--ai --github` and a PR body is sparse, it fetches a truncated PR diff and uses that as extra context for the LLM summary.
by dragonwriter | 2026-01-12 18:57:04+00:00
EPUB 3.x spec uses “XHTML” to refer to the XML serialization of HTML in the current WHATWG HTML living standard, not the separate historical standard from HTML known as XHTML.

The obsolete EPUB 2.x (and earlier, I believe) specs actually used XHTML (XHTML 1.1 in EPUB 2.x), though.
by blobbers | 2026-01-12 18:57:18+00:00
<sarcasm>
Well, if their kids are anything like our kids, they'll certainly have more student protests. Maybe not against the regime, but certainly against their parents.

And I'm not talking about university. I'm talking about the hoards of kids that want to play Roblox. It's been a nightmare keeping my kids off of it but I continue to fight the online lifestyle!
</sarcasm>
by amlib | 2026-01-12 18:57:31+00:00
Not an expert in this field, just a scrub, so I can't really give you much.

There is this website that has painstakingly compares many resampling algorithms from all sorts of software:

https://src.infinitewave.ca

Try it's mirror if you can't access it: https://megapro17.github.io/src/index.html

The only one that says it is a cubic interpolation is the "Renoise 2.8.0 (cubic)" one, the spectrogram isn't very promising with all sorts of noise, intermodulation and aliasing issues. And, by switching to the 1khz tone spectrum view you can see some harmonics creeping up.

When I used to mess with trackers I would sometimes chose different interpolations and bicubic definitely still colored the sound, with sometimes enjoyable results. Obviously you don't want that as a general resampler...
by tortilla | 2026-01-12 18:57:48+00:00
I'm enjoying my ZSA Voyager and Navigator (trackball) combo.

Out of picture, I also have a Magic Trackpad (right) and Logitech MX Anywhere 3 (left). I like to switch up my hand movements.

https://i.postimg.cc/TYMSMCT1/IMG-1528.jpg
by rootusrootus | 2026-01-12 18:57:50+00:00
Indeed, aside from online, where I don't feel consequences from admitting it, very few people know I've taken a GLP1. None of their business, and I don't need to waste seconds of my finite lifespan nurturing their need to feel morally superior. Let everyone worry about their own problems, I'll worry about mine. And I wish they were all as easily solved with GLP1s...
by feb012025 | 2026-01-12 18:58:18+00:00
In none of those conflicts you mentioned does the US act as the main benefactor to the aggressor. And in none of those conflicts does the aggressor lobby aggressively for the support of US politicians.

Considering that reality, does it not make sense that Americans would be more vocal when it comes to this conflict, because we actually have agency to affect it?

I genuinely want to know what your response is to that argument, because it's not a new one, and seems pretty obvious to me.
by farseer | 2026-01-12 18:58:19+00:00
You are partially right, Israel does want to subdue the middle east and Iran stands in the way. However that does not absolve the current Iranian government of being a despicable entity, mostly hated by its own people. I hope the Iranian people choose democracy, limit the Ayatollahs to their holy city in Qom like the Vatican, tell that rascal Shah's son to go fornicate himself and of-course continue putting a necessary check on Israeli expansionism.