MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by marcus_holmes | 2026-01-14 02:45:59+00:00
Love this, and agree with almost all of it.

The only quibble I'd have is with "1:1's happen organically and infrequently" - I think this is based on a misunderstanding about what 1:1's are for.

Regular, formal, 1:1's are the opportunity to get above the work and talk about meta stuff - career direction, morale, interpersonal issues, etc. It's the founder/manager's chance to check if the employee is happy and thriving, or if there's something that needs to change.

These sorts of conversations can happen organically, but often don't, and can be awkward if they do happen organically. Getting the awkward out of the way with a formal agenda can really help to get into the guts of it. Rather than having to manipulate the conversation to get to an emotional item, the manager can just flat-out ask the question because it's on the agenda.

Obviously, you can overdo this, and it can turn into a nightmare for folks so I can see why TFA proposes eliminating them. But properly done, formal 1:1's are really valuable even in small teams.
by zzzeek | 2026-01-14 02:47:13+00:00
People aren't resisting arrest. When you see people bloodied, beaten, permanently blinded by point blank non lethal weapons, or just shot in the face, that's because ICE / cops / CBP are doing it for their own personal enjoyment, and making sure the minimal amount of setup is there so they can claim they did nothing wrong. Cops finding excuses to kick the shit out of people who bother them is as old as policing itself. There's tens of thousands of accounts per year of this sort of thing, extreme examples being like Derek Chauvin, or more old school look up Abner Louima, but tons of garden variety cruelty every day, everywhere, done in the name of "fuck that asshole we're gonna fuck him up". The ICE version, run by fascist maniacs, is selecting for only the cruelest and most ideologically driven employees, but ICE had this reputation even before the current administration. It's just they have 80 billion dollars now to make it happen.
by coolcoder613 | 2026-01-14 02:48:10+00:00
I have used the T-Deck with tulipcc for coding and writing, although these days I mostly use it as a calculator. I wrote a GUI text editor for it, which you can find here:

https://github.com/coolcoder613eb/notepad

I haven't done too much coding with it, but I have on occasion fixed bugs in the text editor on the T-Deck itself.
by apetresc | 2026-01-14 02:49:38+00:00
Yeah, that is what I meant. I mean, it's kind of the system administrator's/user's responsibility to run processes in whatever user context they want. I don't wonder why, like, nginx doesn't forcefully switch itself to an nginx user. Obviously if I want nginx to run in some non-privileged context (which I do), then I (or my distro, or my container runtime, or whatever) am responsible for running nginx that way.

Similarly, it's not really claude-code's job to "come with" a claude user. If you want claude code to run as a low-privilege user, then you can already run it as a low-privilege user. The OS has been providing that facility for decades.
by nonethewiser | 2026-01-14 02:49:40+00:00
>Every 2/3 months we're hearing there's a new model that just blows the last one out of the water for coding

I haven't heard that at all. I hear about models that come out and are a bit better. And other people saying they suck.

>Meanwhile, here I am with Opus and Sonnet for $20/mo and it's regularly failing at basic tasks, antigravity getting stuck in loops and burning credits.

Is it bringing you any value? I find it speeds things up a LOT.
by Vates | 2026-01-14 02:49:40+00:00
I'm also surprised by the tone of this thread. HN discussions usually involve more nuanced debate, but many comments here are hitting very specific talking point. Comparisons to China, sarcastic references to 'diversity,' grooming gangs, that I more commonly see in certain Reddit communities rather than in typical HN discussions about tech policy or civil liberties.

There are legitimate concerns about UK surveillance, protest policing, and speech regulations worth discussing. But when the same cluster of talking points appears with this particular framing, it makes me wonder about the makeup of who's participating in this thread versus other HN discussions.
by RickJWagner | 2026-01-14 02:50:21+00:00
Are the secret police any different than when Obama used them?

The ACLU has a series of papers written when Obama was in office. They claim violence, lack of due process, illegal grabs, etc.

Why be upset now but not then?

If you condemn Obama as well as Trump, I applaud your integrity. If you condemn only one, I question your motives.
by manuelmenzella | 2026-01-14 02:51:00+00:00
Hi! I noticed you mentioned launching pico balloons on a different thread. I launched two of them using these [1] balloons but they both burst within hours of launch. Do you have any advice for me? Did you pre-stretch the balloons? I just unfolded them and filled them up to about 6 grams of free lift before launch.

[1] https://balloons.online/orbs-32-clear/
by rescrv | 2026-01-14 02:52:00+00:00
From where I sit today, I can say that I see things others don't. I have a hard time saying they aren't real, though, as experience has been a zero-knowledge proof the the commentary.

The front half of the book, up until a clear pivot chapter, is me trying to put to words a coherent schizophrenic vision; both to establish credentials and to give people a sense of what it can be like.

A common theme I've seen both in myself and in others who have spoken to me about their experience is that it's common to have a delusion that you are at the center of a religion.

Personally, I've been blessed with insights at the core of every major religion that I know more than a slight deal about. It just so happens that the episode I detail in this book has me at the center of a prophecy; It rings in my head as truth, but I don't have any proof of that truth to produce.

In the latter half of the book, I introduce a conversation with Master Yoshu that I feel is critical to the message. It would have been awkward to say, "I heard this from a voice" without the setup to give that.

Regarding your last paragraph, I think what you'll find is that life is rarely ever centered around something that you can ever adequately put to words. Even if someone is always 100% literal, their concepts will not match your concepts; labels are the source of much of our suffering, and trying to label something as example or metaphor or "not literal" already betrays that you're unable to falsify it; thus, there's something to it.

I don't want to dismiss you though: If I went through that burden of categorizing my own text, how would your life be improved?
by retretret | 2026-01-14 02:52:27+00:00
played with your API a bit and ran some searches with contentfilter=high, response objects don’t seem to include a per-item rating / nsfw flag (like GIPHY does)

For apps that need strict SFW, is the expectation just to rely on the request-side filtering, or is there additional metadata I should be looking at that might not be documented yet?
by wincy | 2026-01-14 02:52:34+00:00
I’m not going to listen to people poo poohing what I’ve been doing with Suno, my seven year old and I rocked out to a song that took me less time to make than it took to listen to about my character’s D&D adventure last night. I’m just having fun.

The big secret right now is Suno will output good stuff but then it’s tortuous to get the lyrics to line up if you want to change anything, or add a word, it screws up the entire flow of the song all the way through. I spent 5 minutes making a 6 minute long power metal style song about a Druid fighting a dragon, then two hours unsuccessfully trying to get one with slightly more coherent lyrics and it output like 8 songs that sound terrible in a way I can’t quite put my finger on. The one song I tortured into existence took me 5 hours of work after getting a rough draft.

That said, being able to instantly make a song to tell my kids they need to clean the living room before we open presents and them singing the chorus happily for weeks after is just this great unique memory we have. Bespoke songs just for us is one of the coolest things ever and no amount of grumbling from anyone can dissuade me from it.
by yellowapple | 2026-01-14 02:53:07+00:00
> For code, it can call non existent functions, not do what it is supposed to do, or have security issues or memory leaks.

I guess what I'm getting at is that, since programmers are typically more inclined than the average person to understand how AI works, programmers are therefore ahead of the curve when it comes to understanding those pitfalls and structuring their workflows to minimize them — to play to the strengths and weaknesses of LLMs. A “fancy” autocomplete v. a “fancy” linter v. something pretending to be a junior programmer are all going to have very different rates of success.

The issue hindering art and music is that most people using generative AI for art and music are doing so analogously to the “something pretending to be a junior programmer” role instead of the “fancy autocomplete” or “fancy linter” roles. That is: they're typically using AI to generate works end-to-end, whereas (non-vibe-coder) programmers are typically using AI in far narrower scopes, with more direct control over the final output. I think the quality of AI-based art and music will improve as more narrowly-scoped AI-driven workflows catch on among actually-skilled artists and musicians — and the result will be works that are very different from existing works, rather than works that only cheaply imitate some statistical average of existing works.
by wging | 2026-01-14 02:53:15+00:00
I also like icicle graphs for this. They're flamegraphs, but aggregated in the reverse order. (I.e. if you have calls A->B->C and D->E->C, then both calls to C are aggregated together, rather than being stacked on top of B and E respectively. It can make it easier to see what's wrong when you have a bunch of distinct codepaths that all invoke a common library where you're spending too much time.)

Regular flamegraphs are good too, icicle graphs are just another tool in the toolbox.
by daxfohl | 2026-01-14 02:54:20+00:00
Though I think it's a very steep sigmoid that we're still far on the bottom half of.

For math it just did its first "almost independent" Erdos problem. In a couple months it'll probably do another, then maybe one each month for a while, then one morning we'll wake up and find whoom it solved 20 overnight and is spitting them out by the hour.

For software it's been "curiosity ... curiosity ... curiosity ... occasionally useful assistant ... slightly more capable assistant" up to now, and it'll probably continue like that for a while. The inflection point will be when OpenAI/Anthropic/Google releases an e2e platform meant to be driven primarily by the product team, with engineering just being co-drivers. It probably starts out buggy and needing a lot of hand-holding (and grumbling) from engineering, but slowly but surely becomes more independently capable. Then at some point, product will become more confident in that platform than their own engineering team, and begin pushing out features based on that alone. Once that process starts (probably first at OpenAI/Anthropic/Google themselves, but spreading like wildfire across the industry), then it's just a matter of time until leadership declares that all feature development goes through that platform, and retains only as many engineers as is required to support the platform itself.
by Yapping7880 | 2026-01-14 02:54:22+00:00
I'd challenge the person who submitted this to think about this rule:

"Essentially there are two rules here: don't post or upvote crap links, and don't be rude or dumb in comment threads.

A crap link is one that's only superficially interesting.

What does "deeply interesting" mean? It means stuff that teaches you about the world. A story about a robbery, for example, would probably not be deeply interesting. But if this robbery was a sign of some bigger, underlying trend, perhaps it could be."

Is there a deeper, underlying trend here? Is there something that society is missing here? Are pitbulls a greater existential threat than school shootings? I'd say -- no. Dogs are animals, they typically aren't considered to have an ethical compass. Dog attacks are unfortunate, deaths from dog attacks are usually avoidable and very sad. Many deadly attacks by dogs are the result of poor dog ownership by humans, and a lack of proper regulation by local government.

School shootings are a different problem. Unfettered access to high powered, fast-firing guns, poor mental health, and unfortunately a response from at least half of government that is unsufficient and insulting to those threatened by gun violence, where those people in government value difficult to quantify values like "freedom" over easy to quantify values like the life of a child.
by epistasis | 2026-01-14 02:54:22+00:00
All the action at PSB happens in the hot tub discussions. I didn't spend any time in them, as I was too junior and didn't know the right people, but PSB did get me some good post doc options!

Not much industry there though, unless it's changed in recent years. One of the more scientifically productive conferences because of the connections that people establish.

(Inside JPMorgan is so crowded and not so useful. I got a really really bad impression of 10X when I saw their debut at JPMorgan but that was an incorrect impression because they have done really well, mostly by not actually doing any of the products they touted at their presentation.).
by nebula8804 | 2026-01-14 02:54:47+00:00
>The idea that all this AI is powered by “green” energy and unicorn farts is just a bunch of PR puffery from tech companies trying to divert attention from the environmental damage they’re causing.

Do we have a solid breakdown ala Our World in Data for the energy mix mused to power AI Datacenters?

The only thing I have seen is the facility that Musk acquired in Memphis for Grok is illegaily emitting more pollutants than allowed because of Musk's insane drive for speed and it is causing health problems in the underlying poor community.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VJT2JeDCyw

Its the reason I will never use Grok but i've been curious about where ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini are hosted. Google has had a history of efficient data centers and they are running custom silicon so i'd assume they are the best here?
by innoying | 2026-01-14 02:56:02+00:00
The newer global node IDs (which can be forced via the 'X-Github-Next-Global-ID' header [1]) have a prefix indicating the "type" of object delimited by an underscore, then a base64 encoded msgpack payload. For most objects it contains just a version (starting at 0) followed by the numeric "databaseId" field, but some are more complex.

For example, my GitHub user [2] has the node ID "U_kgDOAAhEkg". Users are "U_" and then the remaining data decodes to: [0, 541842] which matches the numeric ID for my user accepted by the REST API [3].

You shouldn't rely on any of this implementation of course, instead just directly query the "databaseId" field from the GraphQL API where you need interoperability. And in the other direction the REST API returns the "node_id" field for the GraphQL API.

For folks who finds this interesting, you might also like [4] which details GitHub's ETag implementation for the REST API.

[1] https://docs.github.com/en/graphql/guides/migrating-graphql-...
[2] https://api.github.com/user/541842
[3] https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/#recipe=Find_/_Replace(%7B'...
[4] https://github.com/bored-engineer/github-conditional-http-tr...
by zahlman | 2026-01-14 02:56:16+00:00
> To avoid escalating

Again, this is not how law enforcement works. You do not back down from the scene of a crime in the hopes of apprehending someone privately later. That's patently absurd.

> who clearly had no respect for them and would have been more receptive to local police

The entire reason that ICE agents are on the scene is that local police cannot be trusted to enforce the applicable law.

> In the other comment I asked you to point out what vehicles were obstructed and you did not.

Yes, I did: all of the ones headed towards the SUV with the intent of driving past it.

You then disputed this by refusing to accept the plain definition of "obstruction", which I cited to you from a dictionary.

> By the time of the shooting, traffic was moving freely in the left lane and any vehicle that wanted to be gone was gone.

Given the orientation of the parked cars I suppose this must be a one-way street. At 2:44 in the long video a car is clearly stopped in front of the SUV in the right lane, and the left lane is empty and people are not using it. 3:08 or so appears to correspond to the start of most of the shorter videos. The SUV is mostly backed into a parking lane; at 3:11 you can see a car (or another SUV?) pass by that still must swerve considerably to avoid the SUV, taking it into the left lane. At 3:15 another car makes a much larger swerve, as the SUV moves slightly forward. At 3:23 the ICE van pulls up; it was going to stop there (as they are the first officer's backup), but it's apparent that they would not have had a clear path through that lane.

This is a residential road with parking on both sides and narrow lanes, and almost everyone is in a relatively large vehicle. The left lane being available does not negate that traffic is being obstructed, as demonstrated by the effort required to avoid the obstruction.

LEO are entitled to require, for public safety reasons, that the path is kept clear. Free speech and right to protest do not cover orienting a vehicle like this. A basic web search such as https://duckduckgo.com/?q=are+protesters+allowed+to+block+tr... makes this abundantly clear.

> Once again this is highly motivated reasoning

No, it is not, and I find it frankly offensive that you would suggest as much.
by gamblor956 | 2026-01-14 02:56:44+00:00
Like with VC investing, lenders don't always need every pitch to end up a home run. In the case of business lending something like 90+% of loans get paid off. For PE-owned businesses, just over half get paid off, which justifies the risk on the half that don't, but since this risk is far greater than with normal loans the interest rate is higher for PE-owned businesses. It's just basic finance. It doesn't require caricatures, just a knowledge of how this stuff works.

Lenders are also not all banks, and in the case of PE-owned businesses, most lenders are not banks (but would be characterized as financial institutions), because most banks simply won't lend to PE-owned businesses, having been burned in the past. For some PE firms, business flow is highly dependent on finding new lenders to finance their debt-financed purchases because their old lenders won't lend to them anymore.

PE firms aren't the caricatures that HN thinks they are. They're worse. You want to know why small town America can't afford to go to their small town doctor or dentist or veterinarian anymore? (Hint: the PE firms bought most of the small practices.) Want to know why it costs 10x as much to send grandma to the retirement home or hopsice? (Hint: PE firms bought nearly all of the retirement homes and hospices.) Want to know why insurance keeps rising by double-digits every year despite a corresponding lack of insurance payouts? (Hint: PE firms either own or are now major investors in most insurance companies). Want to know why dozens of major PE-owned retailers survived COVID but then died despite being cash-flow positive on an EBITDA basis? (Hint: the "I" in EBITDA from the PE debt financing overwhelmed everything else.)
by nonnontrivial | 2026-01-14 02:56:47+00:00
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by JCattheATM | 2026-01-14 02:56:59+00:00
> I gave you another example from last year, but it was in an edit so you might have missed it.

It doesn't really matter though, the point was it hasn't been a national issue in over a decade, and that remains the case.

> Protest marches occur regularly in the UK as well, so that's evidence it's fine there?

The point was people were being arrested in the UK simply for holding up signs. You tried to equate free speech zones with that, but as I said it's an entirely unrelated matter, a desperate whataboutism sprung from defensiveness.

> Sure, the last time they were used in the exact same way was probably under Bush Jnr,

So, over a decade ago like I said.

> but they're still used where protest is considered inconvenient (like the ICE protests in the article I linked above).

There are giant protests all over the country. Free speech zones don't make the news because they are not an issue. No one is being impeded.

> Not with those exact words, but it was heavily implied with your repetition of emphasis on the guy being arrested (or not) for holding a piece of paper.

Not at all, you inferred it. I've been consistently clear that I think the UK is going down a bad path but in a very different way from the US, I never said worse.

> I have agreed with that, several times. I haven't defended the actions of the UK once. When you directly asked me if it was a problem, I said yes it's awful.

Honestly, only once that I'm aware of, and I had to drag it out of you. All your posts are pushing back, which gives the impression you want to defend the problems being mentioned.

> OK, I'm done with this conversation, at some point dang will be along to put an end to it anyway I imagine, as it's fruitless.

I shan't expect a reply then. Cheers. Hopefully we can have a more productive discussion on a different topic in the future.
by jrmg | 2026-01-14 02:57:10+00:00
There’s a mean-spiritedness to even many of the early strips that, at the time, I thought was part of the gag - a sort of self-knowing nod to and mockery of the mean parts of office and engineering culture. In the spirit of ‘laughing with not laughing at’.

I’m not sure if Adams’ later real-life self-superiority and mean spiritedness evolved from that over time, or if he was always like that inside and we just didn’t see it, but I find myself unable to laugh with the strips in the same way now nevertheless.
by drnick1 | 2026-01-14 02:57:51+00:00
Instead of trying to regulate everything through laws, perhaps it would be better if consumers educated themselves and did not buy devices that do not run locally using open protocols in the first place. For me, it's a hard requirement -- I will not buy a "smart" anything device that isn't supported offline by Home Assistant. This restricts my choice set, but so be it. Sometimes, it means doing more work. I won't buy a Ring camera so I had to build my own system using generic RTSP cameras, some hard drives and a PC.
by vlovich123 | 2026-01-14 02:58:33+00:00
Sounds like you’ve maybe never actually run a service or API library at scale. There’s so many factors that go into a decision like that at a company that it’s never so simple. Is the person impacted influential? You’ve got a reputation hit if they negatively blog about how you screwed them after something was working for years. Is a customer who’s worth 10% of your annual revenue impacted? Bet your ass your management chain won’t let you do a breaking change / revert any you made by declaring an incident.

Even in OSS land, you risk alienating the community you’ve built if they’re meaningfully impact. You only do this if the impact is minimal or you don’t care about alienating anyone using your software.