MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by conductr | 2026-01-15 21:19:45+00:00
I do this. Even to the point where I go to church yet am openly agnostic. Takes the right church, I enjoy a good pastor and message even if I don’t technically believe it can be rooted in morality or philosophy and I can filter out the religious aspects. I could do without the singing but that’s my wife’s favorite part.

The thing is, church works for this because it’s an agreed upon and set time of the week. It’s also a broad group of people. Having friends of all ages is beneficial. I prefer it to a hobby group or our parent groups where we are all very similar in many aspects, although I do those too I just feel like their impact is less on building my own character.

It’s hard to lose what has been lost in the macro sense and then go from 0 to 1. A social movement like “screen free Saturday” or something would be ideal. Kids had to prearrange where to meet, where the teens will party (they don’t party anymore yall!), arrange logistics, and deal with being bored during some part of the day (underrated life skill, as a busy adult I love being bored, but hated it when young). I just recently explained to my kid how TV worked in the 80s. You couldn’t pick what to watch and there were very few times when cartoons were on. You either watched the news or MASH with the adults or found something else to do out of boredom.
by imiric | 2026-01-15 21:19:46+00:00
> Being able to type quickly and accurately reduces

LLMs can generate code quickly. But there's no guarantee that it's syntactically, let alone semantically, accurate.

> I feel that I'm learning faster because I'm not tripping over silly little things.

I'm curious: what have you actually learned from using LLMs to generate code for you? My experience is completely the opposite. I learn nothing from running generated code, unless I dig in and try to understand it. Which happens more often than not, since I'm forced to review and fix it anyway. So in practice, it rarely saves me time and energy.

I do use LLMs for learning and understanding code, i.e. as an interactive documentation server, but this is not the use case you're describing. And even then, I have to confirm the information with the real API and usage documentation, since it's often hallucinated, outdated, or plain wrong.
by antonvs | 2026-01-15 21:19:56+00:00
You may be waiting a long time. Low-level IRs lose a lot of information compared to the source language - their purpose is only to execute correctly, which means a lot of the information that we depend on when reading code is eliminated. I'm reminded of Hal Abelson's quote, " "Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute." IRs are the opposite of that. In general, a reverser is going to suffer because of that.

I did some reverse engineering of compiled C code back in the day. Back when compilers and CPUs were simpler, and optimizations were fewer, it was relatively straightforward for a human to do. That's no longer true. I suspect an LLM would have difficulty with it as well, plus the non-determinism that would introduce would be likely to be problematic.
by swsieber | 2026-01-15 21:20:07+00:00
> the idea of deporting people who have no legal status in this country is immediately branded Nazi

It's not just that idea though. Plenty of presidents have done that without pushback. It's that idea combined with:

* Rhetoric dehumanizing the immigrants

* Raiding churches, courts, jobs, etc

* Revoking legal status of immigrants

* Reducing training time for new hires

* Detaining U.S. citizens and threatening them

* Saying it'll help the U.S. citizens, when data shows it doesn't
by publicdebates | 2026-01-15 21:20:44+00:00
I was with you up until you said policy was the solution. No, action must come first. Policy needs people to agree on it, and can take a long time to enact. Action can be done now, and allows experimentation and disagreement. I am looking for actionable solutions that I can experiment with as one lone individual with time to spare on Sundays.
by Desafinado | 2026-01-15 21:20:52+00:00
Everyone always gets the causality reversed. Social media didn't cause the epidemic, it filled a niche to help cure the epidemic. People were lonely long before the internet arrived, the internet just made it easier for those lonely people to connect to each other. And now many of them prefer the internet over socializing with people they don't care for that much in person.

In other words, the problem is structural. Moving to a new city where you don't know anyone, only work with people for a few years, and where there are no longer institutions like the church, how is anybody supposed to meet anyone? Meetups? Half the people can't even afford a car.

There is no solution other than meeting a lifelong partner.
by PaulHoule | 2026-01-15 21:20:59+00:00
This movie

https://joinordiefilm.com/

based on the work of Robert Putnam is an essential backgrounder on the topic.

Yet, if you're concerned about Gen Z, 2-4 are aspirational at best. Churches, clubs, live music events, and every other group my son attends have a lot of people who are 35+ and children that tag along but the 18-30 demo is almost absolutely absent at events away from the local colleges and universities. [1] It's quite depressing for someone his age who is looking to connect with his cohort in person.

Leaders of groups are somewhere between outright hostile, completely indifferent, or well-meaning but unable to do anything about the "cold start" problem.

I'm sympathetic to the argument of Ancient Wisdom Tradition (AWT) practitioners that secularism is to blame, but my consistent advice to anyone is you can control what you can control and that secularism would not have encroached as much as it has if AWT organizations weren't asleep at the switch if not doing the devil's work for him.

Personally in the last year I've found a lot of meaning being an event photographer for this group

https://fingerlakesrunners.org/

where I know you can find some people in the 18-30 hole because I read their age off their bibs.

My son is doing all the ordinary things and I am supporting him in all the ordinary ways but I do believe extraordinary times require extraordinary methods.

I can't advise that anyone follow my path but I felt a calling to shamanism two years ago which recently became real, I "go out" as

https://mastodon.social/@UP8/115901190470904729

who is a "kidult" and who embodies [2] the wisdom, calm and presence of a 1000-year old fox who's earned his nine tails. In one of the worlds I inhabit I'd call this a "platform" for gathering information and making interventions as it builds rapport and bypasses barriers and the social isolation of Gen Z is my top priority for activism in my circle of influence.

[1] ... and our data there seems to indicates that Asian students seem to be OK and white kids, if they do anything at all, drink.

[2] ... at least aspires to
by no-dr-onboard | 2026-01-15 21:21:08+00:00
You know, I think you're right. I recant what I said earlier. I actually don't think I should care about this matter at all.

In a more general sense, it seems best to me that people should just mind their own business and settle things like adults without giving into this pervasive and strange desire to be vindicated by their framing of the situation to others.

There is literally no benefit to anyone but the storyteller. They are either seen as more or less virtuous by their framing of the situation.

They have an interest in telling you a story that makes them look good and a greater interest in downplaying their guilt in the matter. At the end of the day it means very little to most observers.

Pair that with the absolute disincentive to provide actual specifics, the whole thing is moot to an honest person.
by anal_reactor | 2026-01-15 21:21:47+00:00
IMO it is not possible. The world has changed. Until modernity, people made connections out of economic necessity. Either you get a wife or have fun farming by yourself - literally it doesn't work so you die. Either you're friends with the baker or you don't get bread or get absolute shittiest-quality goods and you die. And so on. Shut-ins didn't exist because it was physically impossible to survive without leaving your room. No UberEats, no Amazon Prime, no remote work, no internet.

When the economic necessity to form relationships with others disappeared, the naked truth was exposed - most people don't fucking like each other. Yes, when you're starving to death you'll be friends with the guy who has potatoes, but when you can buy the damn potatoes yourself in the supermarket, you're not going to tolerate his smelly ass.

Most friendships form over common participation in a project. Doing something together, knowing that you have to put up with the other one to achieve higher goals. Without those goals, there are no incentives to deal with others. And what goals am I supposed to have if by doing nothing I already have a roof above my head, full fridge, clean house, and an entire library of video games?

Think about the main message of feminism: "Girl, you can make it in life without a man. Don't settle for an aggressive alcoholic just because that's the only option. You can do it yourself.". It perfectly captures how forming relationships turned from an asset into a liability.
by favorited | 2026-01-15 21:21:47+00:00
I'd love to hear more about your setup. The last time I tried messing with virtual webcams on macOS, most of the OSS options were still using the deprecated DAL API, which stopped working in Sonoma (without setting a `system-override` from Recovery Mode).

Do you know if your setup is using the new CMIO APIs? Or did you need to set the `legacy-camera-plugins-without-sw-camera-indication` override?
by tehjoker | 2026-01-15 21:21:50+00:00
We chose this path because the U.S. dollar is underpinned by fossil fuel markets. Also, batteries do not have the energy density to mobilize a mechanized military.

Our elites refuse to concede dominance of the affairs of the world, so they will never allow the fossil fuel infrastructure to decline unless forced.

By contrast, China has every incentive to do the right thing.
by lazyasciiart | 2026-01-15 21:21:55+00:00
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/us-epa-fires-some-e...

Jimmy Kimmel
Terry Moran

It happened in his last term too - https://www.kcrg.com/content/news/Senior-Trump-appointee-fir...

And even worse: people fired for overseeing accurate data about his administration https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/firing-of-labor-statistics...
by dpark | 2026-01-15 21:22:07+00:00
> You missed the part where Wales called a fact an "opinion".

Has Wales actually disputed the objective facts of the matter?

I did not take his comment to mean “it’s an opinion whether Sanger worked on Wikipedia from the beginning” but “it’s an opinion whether that qualifies him as a cofounder”.

> Wales could have said "I don't dispute the facts of that case. I see myself as the founder, but I won't argue against other interpretations. Lets move past it."

That is essentially what he said. He called himself the founder, then when the interviewer probed, said it’s a dumb question, then said he doesn’t care, then said the interviewer can frame it however he wants, then said again that he doesn’t care.

He said what you think he should’ve said. He just didn’t use your exact words.

> The interviewer is right to press on the basic facts and Wales was wrong to ragequit, especially since the exchange lasted less than 45 seconds(!)

What “basic facts” did he press on? I heard no facts or questions about facts. He used the word “facts” while pressing Wales specifically about calling himself the founder.
by artyom | 2026-01-15 21:22:19+00:00
All Ring subscribers were surprised with unexpected charges for "AI Pro" that they didn't opt into and weren't accounting for.

What happened: an internal billing migration into newer subscription plans (not unusual) didn't account for proration charges into higher tier plans and overly charged customers.

What REALLY happened: the original engineering team for Ring subscriptions was fully laid off around mid 2025 and replaced by way cheaper "engineering" personnel. This is probably the first "big launch" of that new team.

Amazon will write this off as cost of doing business and compensate "money saved on not having really good engineers" with "money lost because of incompetence", and I'm pretty sure it'll be on the negative this time. Which is also not unusual (as of late at least).

This is making a few statements that aren't in the article (entire users base, layoffs, migrations). Happy to reply to questions privately.
by ge96 | 2026-01-15 21:22:23+00:00
I'm not in NYC sorry to give that impression. I was mentioning NYC as far as being densely populated, I'm in the midwest. Honestly I don't meet much women outside of work or the occasional girl I run into at a gym. I know the cliche saying "go join a club" meet girls that way. I could see that but it's also possible I like being alone too but yeah it just bothers me that my self-deemed value is whether or not I get laid.

The other problem too today is the fakeness of social media, filters on faces, photos looking like peopel go to beaches all the time/live extravagant lives.

Bars it's like a self-control issue, use drinking for courage then you get too f'd up.

In the midwest but we have a small "city" with "skyscrapers" that I wanted to go into and do photography at.
by dc396 | 2026-01-15 21:22:27+00:00
You're confusing data with facts.

A "fabricated fact" (or "alternative fact" if you prefer) is an oxymoron. Actual truth, as opposed to a vibe or what people are basing their decisions on these days, is orthogonal to "the amount of energy, power and money that the person has." Deriving or identifying actual facts and truth is hard (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_method) and always subject to change based on new data, so lots of people don't do it -- it's much easier to just make shit up and confirms biases.
by reena_signalhq | 2026-01-15 21:22:44+00:00
This is impressive! Building a multiplayer game with AI assistance is no small feat.

Quick questions:
- What was the hardest part to get Claude to help with? (I imagine real-time networking/WebSockets was tricky)
- How much of the code did you write vs. Claude?
- Any major bugs or issues that Claude couldn't solve?

Would love to try it out - is there a live demo link?
by fragmede | 2026-01-15 21:23:14+00:00
Doesn't seem likely, TBH. Nevermind the legal agreements they would be violating, TSMC fabs Qualcomm's Snapdragon line of ARM processors. The M1 is good, but not that good (it's a couple generations old by this point, for one). Samsung had a phone line of their own to put it in as well. TSMC does not.
by jovial_cavalier | 2026-01-15 21:23:45+00:00
The point of an IRB is to stop you from nonconsentually sterilizing people. As long as the system stops that from happening, I don't care about the paperwork. It's not my concern.

The "ethical" issues with this study do not rise to the level that I care, so the only objection is that they didn't get the IRB to rubber stamp it beforehand, which I also don't care about.
by joe463369 | 2026-01-15 21:23:52+00:00
You've backtracked from your 'blank sign' position. I'm pointing out that your "People were just arrested for holding up signs like 'abolish monarchy'" might be on similarly shaky ground.

If it's not clear, I'm also heavily implying that you should be questioning the veracity of whatever source you're getting this easily-debunked tripe from.
by reena_signalhq | 2026-01-15 21:23:56+00:00
This is a smart approach to the AI attribution problem. As more code is AI-generated, tracking provenance becomes critical for debugging and compliance.

One question: How do you handle cases where AI-generated code is heavily edited by humans? Does it still count as "AI-generated" or does it become "human-written"?

Also curious about performance impact - does adding this metadata to every commit slow down large repos?
by megous | 2026-01-15 21:23:59+00:00
Does US have such a lack of space to fail to absorb 2-5% increase over years?

What's so hard about naturalizing or legalizing them, so that they can more easily interact with current power structures on the territory?

Capital city in the country where I live got a 25% population bump over a few months a few years back, of people who didn't even speak the language. Barely anything appretiably negative overall happened.
by evereverever | 2026-01-15 21:24:02+00:00
I would use a mac of the Beige G3 variety. They still had SCSI ports and can run a bunch of OSes. I'd dump to a BlueSCSI or make a network disk that can be read by a newer OS or host a share from a newer computer to dump onto (SMB, AFP).

Another good candidate for hardware is a Lombard Powerbook. Otherwise you'll need an adapter.
by csallen | 2026-01-15 21:24:42+00:00
This is an individual problem and an individual's responsibility to solve, imo (Although I do think it's interesting to consider whether a project, company, or initiative could help make this easier to solve for millions.)

Regardless, there are four steps worth taking as an individual: (1) go out, (2) make friends, (3) turn friends into community, and (4) maintain community.

If you're feeling lonely, you're probably failing at one step along this chain.

1. Going out. I don't have a lot of tips here. Except to go to things that actually facilitate interacting with strangers. Don't just go to a bar or go work from a cafe. Go to a meet and greet, an event for strangers to mingle, etc. Or, if you're having trouble motivating yourself to go out, then that's something inside yourself to work on. I find that a shakeup to your life routine (e.g. moving cities, going on a vacation) can provide a good window to change your habits, where you'll start doing things you don't normally do in your home city.

2. Making friends. This one is simple but hard for some. Basically: be personable, smile, engage in conversation, ask questions, be interested, avoid being threatening or clingy, dress and stylish normal-ish unless you really don't want to, etc. Then talk to people at these events, and if seems like you'd like hanging with them and have things in common, ask to exchange numbers.

3. Turn friends into community. IMO this is where you go from the basics into the advanced, and where the most benefits lie. However, most people stop after #2, even though this step is easier than steps #1 or #2, and is extremely rewarding. Community is an in-person social network. The number of connections between people in a community determines the strength and stickiness of that community. Thus it's very important that you introduce your friends to other friends. For example, instead of going on a coffee date with a friend once every month or two, invite 2 or 3 friends to dinner. This has numerous benefits. All of your friends will meet each other, and suddenly they'll know who you're talking about when you mention other people. Also, conversation is easier when there are more people. Also, you'll find events and hangs happen more often, because (a) more people are able to initiate them, and (b) there's more reason to go. People are more motivated to go and less motivated to cancel when there's an event that allows them to see multiple friends at once.

4. Maintain community. People move away. People have silly fights and disagreements and stop talking to each other. People get into relationships and disappear. People get sick, or old, or antisocial, and disappear. Shit happens. So you have to keep doing steps #2 and #3, at least occasionally, forever. You don't necessarily need to do step #1 as much, since the people in your community will naturally bring friends and whatnot to your events. But you still need to get to know these people, exchange numbers, and invite them to future events.
by kraquepype | 2026-01-15 21:25:21+00:00
No - human learning is still something special in this world.

It is a gift of time and effort, from both the student and teacher. The ability to be inspired by other works and draw from them, not merely imitate them.

You can ask any human musician to make music that is either inspired or outright copied from another artist. They have a moral compass to do so in a way that is not infringing on the works of others.

A music AI model will ingest what is thrown at it, and generate whatever you ask of it. It is a tool, and if it is ingesting human works to be formed into something else, proper attributions and royalties to the sources need to be made.
by NonHyloMorph | 2026-01-15 21:25:25+00:00
We are very weary of that in Europe. I consider it to be the case thag the "Rechtsruck" (sudden movement to the right) is a global phenomenon. Alls the right extremist are orienting themselves after the model of what Trumpism is doing which at least thats true for my personally, is why I am ver y concerned of what is happening kn the US. I grew up to a jazz sax playing father to whom the culture the GI brought here was progressive and related to freedom. It feels loke that idea of the US is dead now.
As to why this phenomenon is happening - i would speculate that it has to do with the polarisation that is happening in the face a ever faster progressing disintegration of the social fabric into technology accompanied by the prospect of a scarcity of resources caused by an impeding breakdown of the biosphere and the climate system with which it coevolved plus on a more local scale an extreme increase of inequality of wealth distribution.
by selfhoster1312 | 2026-01-15 21:25:33+00:00
I have very limited experiences with object storage, but my humble benchmarks with juicefs + minio/garage [1] showed very bad performance (i.e. total collapse within a few hours) when running lots of small operations (torrents).

I wouldn't be surprised if there's a lot of tuning that can be achieved, but after days of reading docs and experimenting with different settings i just assumed JuiceFS was a very bad fit for archives shared through Bittorrent. I hope to be proven wrong, but in the meantime i'm very glad zerofs was mentioned as an alternative for small files/operations. I'll try to find the time to benchmark it too.

[1] https://git.deuxfleurs.fr/Deuxfleurs/garage/issues/1021
by dragonwriter | 2026-01-15 21:25:57+00:00
ICE employees working to “injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because of his having so exercised the same”, such as exercise of 1st Amendment rights, is itself super-illegal (not just “outside their authority” but a federal criminal violation of the KKK Act), whether or not the employer’s response to the resulting pressure is also illegal.
by tyre | 2026-01-15 21:26:23+00:00
You might not choose your neighbors but, like your family, they're a part of your life anyway. You can choose to build bonds with them (rely on them to water plants, pick up packages, borrow spices) or create your own little world.

You can also find these things elsewhere—I know someone whose dry cleaner cat sits for her—but your relationship with your neighbors can still really affect your life.