MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by n4r9 | 2026-01-15 13:03:52+00:00
It feels like there's some glossing-over and circular logic here:

> Yes children show poorer impulse control than adults. But aren’t we all somewhat helpless in the face of the mighty tech companies?

The fact that adults can also have somewhat poor impulse control doesn't mean we should disregard the argument. And when it comes to the power of big tech - isn't that what regulation aims to mitigate?

> Brain development continues up until around 25 or so, and so it’s possible that social media does cause longer-term problems with brain development. Possible. Not proved. It’s possible social media causes long-term cognitive decline in adults. Possible. Not proved.

I don't know the studies well enough to know whether it's proved or not, but intuitively this feels like an obvious enough concern to at least be investigating it. Surely there are some general studies about whether mental health issues in early life are more likely to lead to long-term problems?
by falcor84 | 2026-01-15 13:04:06+00:00
Thinking about this some more now, I can imagine a future in which we'll see more and more software for which AI agents are the main users.

For tech documentation, I suppose that AI agents would mainly benefit from Skills files managed as part of the tool's repo, and I absolutely do imagine future AI agents being set up (e.g. as part of their AGENTS.md) to propose PRs to these Skills as they use the tools. And I'm wondering whether AI agents might end up with different usability concerns and pain-points from those that we have.
by codingdave | 2026-01-15 13:04:44+00:00
Sounds like you were posting about politics so the flagging was appropriate. You also were asking about TL;DRs which are explicitly not on-topic on HN. I'm not sure you've grasped the culture here to be honest.

This one statement of yours crystallizes the bigger flaw in your perspective, though: "I could get referral into decent university through this about the fact that I have commented some deep things on Hackernews."

You are over-valuing HN. A good comment here doesn't get you into college. A bad comment here doesn't change what your employees will think of you if you have some in the future. Overall, HN is not required to model itself to your desired topics and conversations. While it is a really decent place that many of us enjoy, it is still just a discussion board. And one that works exactly because the community monitors and moderates it.

If you don't like the moderation and truly feel wronged, email the mods at hn@ycombinator.com.

BTW, Odds are this post will also get flagged because complaining about flagging is another topic that is not interesting.
by yellow_lead | 2026-01-15 13:04:56+00:00
> We ban gambling for children, even though the vast majority of harm caused by gambling comes from adults. Now you could argue that more harm would befall children if we let them gamble, but I honestly don’t think you should.

> By and large, children don’t have money. And even if they do, they don’t have other people who are dependent on it. If children were free to gamble (they sort of already are, what with in-game microtransactions and variable rewards and all the features of gambling, just without the label), I still think that the majority of harm would be borne by adults. Additionally, alongside a child’s gambling ban, we heavily regulate the gambling industry for adults. Children’s social media bans don’t appear to come with similar adult regulatory scrutiny.

Kind of lost me here. I think we should ban gambling for children, even if they don't have money or people dependent on them. Children will steal their parents money to gamble or buy Roblox points.

Yeah, we have regulations on adult gambling. I wouldn't mind more regulations on adult social media use either.
by nottorp | 2026-01-15 13:06:34+00:00
> “I used AI to make a super profitable stock trading bot” —-> using fake money with historical data

Stocks are another matter. There were wonder "algorithms" even before "AI". I helped some friends tweak some. They had the enthusiasm and I had the programming expertise and I was curious.

That was a couple years ago. None of them is rich and retired now - which was what the test runs were showing - and I think most aren't even trading any more.
by embedding-shape | 2026-01-15 13:06:35+00:00
If it's not meant to be read, and not
meant to be run since it doesn't compile and doesn't seem like it's been able to for quite some time, what is this mean to demonstrate?

That agents can write a bunch of code by themselves? We already knew that, and what's even the point of that if the code doesn't work?

I feel like I'm still missing what this entire project and blogpost is about. Is it supposed to be all theoretical or what's the deal?
by pcoz | 2026-01-15 13:06:51+00:00
Most neural networks assume computation is instantaneous: an input arrives, a function runs, an output appears. Even with sequences, time is often modeled indirectly (via windowing, stacking, or recurrence), so the model still reacts rather than exists in time.

This project explores Temporal Neural Networks (TNNs): neurons as continuous-time dynamical systems with internal state and inertia. Instead of y = f(x), the network evolves via dV/dt = f(V, x), and predictions emerge through a settling process - not a single forward pass.

On clean data, TNNs typically match classical accuracy. The difference shows up under real-world stress: noise, missing samples, irregular streams. TNNs produce far fewer prediction flips and degrade more gracefully - stability comes from the computation itself, not post-hoc smoothing.
by chasil | 2026-01-15 13:07:04+00:00
Even though we use well under 25% of the fuel in even the most efficient reactors, the energy density of fissile fuel is many orders of magnitude higher than conventional fuels.

A decision to forego that benefit of energy density will be painful, especially if implemented quickly.

Involuntary XKCD:

https://xkcd.com/1162/
by xtiansimon | 2026-01-15 13:07:39+00:00
> “All of this is written with a sense of anger and sarcastic invective that doesn't seem appropriate.”

Huh. The end of the piece says the author was “frustrated”. And throughout the author says things at the end of paragraphs like, _the result was an error x, but I already have/did x!_

I read the piece because I was curious about this description of “anger”. I relate to the journey as the author describes it—frustration. Though, there are a few “dramatic” words here and there. Not least of which is in the title, “unbearable”. But I usually mark that as a crutch in the personal Blog medium.

On a more pedagogical note, encountering a personal piece like this documenting a journey of idea to (near) success is an important genre of tech writing for one’s self and maybe others. As others have noted the OPs missteps, so too the OP, with hindsight, can revisit the piece and notice where they went wrong. If you’re away from the language/project for a while a piece like this is a good review before starting the next project.
by geraltofrivia | 2026-01-15 13:07:56+00:00
I guess at some level it is a matter of incentives. In their city, we have electricity 20-22 hours per day (used to be 12-18 when i was growing up) and we can’t rely on the state to provide us electricity consistently.

But also, due to infrastructure. Everyone who could afford it has had a battery and inverter in our homes since forever. Hooking up some solar panels to it is relatively straightforward.

I think there are also some state sponsored subsidies involved although I couldn’t tell you how much.
by theptip | 2026-01-15 13:08:00+00:00
It’s a risk/convenience tradeoff. The biggest threat is Claude accidentally accesses and leaks your ssl keys, or gets prompt-hijacked to do the same. A simple sandbox fixes this.

There are theoretical risks of Claude getting fully owned and going rogue, and doing the iterative malicious work to escape a weaker sandbox, but it seems substantially less likely to me, and therefore perhaps not (currently) worth the extra work.
by selfhoster11 | 2026-01-15 13:08:26+00:00
Gemma 3 27B, some smaller models in the 8-16B size range, and up to 32B can be run on hardware that fits in the "consumer" bracket. RAM is more expensive now, but most people can afford a machine with 32GB and maybe a small graphics card.

Small models don't have as much world knowledge as very large models (proprietary or open source ones), but it's not always needed. They still can do a lot of stuff. OCR and image captioning, tagging, following well-defined instructions, general chat, some coding, are all things local models do pretty well.

Edit: fixed unnecessarily abrasive wording
by IAmBroom | 2026-01-15 13:08:46+00:00
The article mentions a 900-ton pile of mango detritus. Exactly how many mango skins and seeds a day would you be willing to eat? (They contain urushiol which causes blisters. Don't eat any!)

But that's just one part of it: this turns waste product into food. Beans don't provide complete amino acids. I don't know if maggots do, but many types of animal flesh do.

Also, most people crave diversity in their diets. How long are you willing to live on an all-bean diet, even if we make it nutritionally complete? Diversity in diet is ideal for humans.
by jorvi | 2026-01-15 13:08:49+00:00
Minimum jeugdloon exists since 1974. Of course the numbers change but the ratio doesn't.

Look at it like this: if 18y minimum wage was €3 back then and would double to €6 at 21y, and you're a construction worker working for €8.50 at 18y, you're sure as shit going to demand a raise at 19, 20 and 21 because all the people making minimum wage are getting those raises too. Maybe not a doubling, but you wouldn't (shouldn't) gnash your teeth and still make €8.50 three years later.
by Geedz | 2026-01-15 13:08:55+00:00
I've always found existing time zone converters (like World Time Buddy) to be a bit cluttered and grid-heavy.

I built Zoneless.tools to be a cleaner alternative.

What it does:

Stacks cities as horizontal timelines so you can see the day/night flow.

Highlights the "Overlap" (Business Hours) across all selected cities.

Generates a copy-pasteable message for Slack/Email with the converted times.

No Login / No Database: It stores the city selection in the URL, so you can just bookmark the link or share it with a coworker and they see the exact same view.

It's free and focused on privacy (no tracking). Hope it's useful!
by jrjeksjd8d | 2026-01-15 13:09:00+00:00
The answer is "it depends". If someone printed out the documentation and bound it together to sell without permission? Yes. The mere act of converting from one medium to another usually isn't transformative.

The test for writing a book is whether the author applied their own judgement in the creation of the book. Even if some explanations of concepts are inevitably similar the structure of the book, the example code, etc. will reflect the author's judgement and experience.

An LLM is incapable of authorial intent. It's not synthesizing the docs with a career of experience and the input of an editor. It's playing madlibs with the work of one or more prior authors.
by Torwald | 2026-01-15 13:09:05+00:00
You mean the Green party was undermined by Russians?

The Green party had the goal of de-nuclearization from the beginning, at that time the Soviet Union was still in existence. When the Green party came to power and negotiated the nuclear exit, they did not need any external motivation to do so.

The only way I can see this being Russian meddling would be the Green party being infiltrated from Russia from the beginning.

If you have sources that point to the Green party being undermined by Soviet/Russian espionage or some such, please point me torwards them.
by jauco | 2026-01-15 13:09:13+00:00
According to the post, autolocate only does something after a user initiated permission has been granted.

So on the first vist you still need to click the button. On the second visit the callback will be triggered directly.

But, well, nothing prevents a big fat html modal on the page pointing to the button, now does it? If you want to annoy your product^H^H^H^H^H^H^Husers then you can always find ways to do so.
by qsera | 2026-01-15 13:09:26+00:00
If it is a generic laptop, yes. 10 years is a stretch. Components used in the motherboard are probably not high quality enough to last more than 10 years. A manufacturer does not have an incentive to put high quality stuff (that is probably costlier) in a laptop who's only selling point is cheap for the "features", and not reliability or longevity..

One might get lucky with such a laptop, but I won't count on it.
by IAmBroom | 2026-01-15 13:09:44+00:00
OK, the OP you replied to conflated game theory and human behavior.

But the GP they were responding to incorrectly conflated game theory and Tragedy of the Commons (which is human behavior).

And my side note is that humans playing games don't follow game theory, because they aren't the actors presumed by that math field. When I play a child in a game, I want them to win a few and lose a few. When I play in Vegas for money, I only want to win (but even playing there proves I'm not rational...).

(My side-side note: this isn't limited to humans. My previous dog met a puppy on a walk, and invited him to play Tug of War. Dexter let the puppy win 5 out of 10 matches...!)
by IAmBroom | 2026-01-15 13:09:48+00:00
I had a Verizon outage Monday. I called my neighbor who also has Verizon; hers was out.

But hers came back on when she paid her bill, oops! So...

I went to their website, which said "You have a local outage! Click here to know more...". I clicked there, and it said "There are no outages in your area." OK, so we've established that Verizon's website doesn't know shit.

I started troubleshooting with a tech support person ("I am in ... New... Jersey" - sure you are...), and discovered my optical interface whatsit was hanging by its cables in my basement, mysteriously knocked off its wall bolts. This happened sometime in the last 10 days, so it's a smoking gun.

I called for a repairman, because obviously the fall damaged the fiber alignment...

... except it didn't. The tree limb across the street that broke the cable coming into my house did cause a problem.

So... Verizon outages are complicated, and despite all their technical know-how, they don't really know shit.
by ivan_gammel | 2026-01-15 13:09:48+00:00
So, basically his own party, CDU was part of the coalition when nuclear exit was decided. The chancellor from his own party, Merkel decided to accelerate exit after Fukushima, while increasing dependency on Russian gas and blocking construction of renewables in CDU/CSU governed states. And now it is the previous government that failed the energy transition. Funnily enough, both this and previous governments declared current state of affairs very inefficient and bureaucratic and promised to fix it, so the question is, if German political mainstream in general is capable of making substantial improvement or we should tear the system apart and elect AfD+BSW combo as shock therapy.
by embedding-shape | 2026-01-15 13:09:58+00:00
Yeah, I guess modern turbines are better than the one they put next to us. We used to have complete silence (no roads nearby), but after installing it the silence was gone. Not sure what else to tell you, I'm sure we wouldn't have noticed it if we already were used to road rumble, but we weren't, guess that's why it was so noticeable.

The environment and how long time
your ears been in it, matters a lot for how loud or not we perceive noise, I can imagine most modern ears basically tune out the traffic rumble you hear almost everywhere.
by JohnFen | 2026-01-15 13:10:41+00:00
> they would rather have a NATO with the US and without Denmark than the other way around.

I'm not so sure about that. The US has successfully alienated pretty much everybody that used to think well of us. We now represent a threat to them. We have lost a huge amount of goodwill and respect. Why would they prefer us over Denmark? Because we have big guns that we're willing to use against them? That's all the more reason to distance themselves from us.
by V__ | 2026-01-15 13:10:47+00:00
Merz will say anything if it somehow benefits him and doesn't concern himself with facts.

> German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, admitted recently that Germany’s departure from nuclear energy was a serious strategic mistake, saying the policy has made the country’s energy transition “the most expensive in the entire world.”

Even if that were the case, nuclear had no impact on the cost of the transition.

> eliminating nuclear power — once a significant part of the electricity mix — has complicated energy planning and driven up costs.

Not investing in the gird for decades and stalling renewables for cheap Russian gas arguably was more of an impact.

> Merz argued that Germany’s rush to pivot away from nuclear energy, combined with extensive investment in renewable sources under the Energiewende policy, has made the transition unusually expensive.

Reliance on Russian gas has made everything expensive, but since his party is responsible for that, it's easier to scapegoat the departure of nuclear energy.

The only mistake was to depart from nuclear before reducing gas, since that would have reduced emissions quicker.
by astura | 2026-01-15 13:10:51+00:00
Usually the imagined uses are very aspirational at best. The imagination doesn't fit reality. I've seen it firsthand, many years ago my dad got the fancy pickup because he "needs the utility." Whenever an opportunity presented itself for him to use his truck as a truck though, he'd pay the extra fee for delivery because he didn't wanna bother.

It did make his reckless driving more dangerous for the innocents, though.
by modo_mario | 2026-01-15 13:10:52+00:00
I'm an agnostic leaning towards atheist and might be wrong but I believe that definition of hell isn't originally accepted, agreed upon, etc and even got some initial backlash at least up until people started iterating a bit much on dante's inferno. But organized religion is a bit of a memetic social phenomenon in many ways.

Rather that eternal torment (and heaven) was originally a bit more vague.
Not a place of fire and demons and a place in the clouds with golden gates and all things nice.

Supposedly hell is more more like eternal absence of god. Eternal nothingness which supposedly is horrifying to some rather than eternally being with god or becoming one with him.
by codingbot3000 | 2026-01-15 13:11:08+00:00
Merkel dumped nuclear after Fukushima simply to improve her electoral calculus. As in everything she did, there were no long-term concerns. Yet to her defence it has to be stated that nuclear energy in Germany was just not economically feasible anymore at that time (when gas was still cheap, wind and sun cheaper, and burning coal was not yet frowned upon). Also, Germany had shut down their own uranium mining long ago.
by sumtechguy | 2026-01-15 13:11:11+00:00
That was my point I think I said it badly. A physical store takes people on site to run it. Even amazon with its online store has an army of people running the behind the scenes things. Most things are not automated by code. VZ is not much different. When I worked there they had well over 5000 locations worldwide that were staffed by people. They reduced it at that time. Hence me no longer working there. But sounds like they put it back and then some. Their core business is probably small. But they have huge initiatives they try to do. They do not want to be the commodity data line company. But most of their stuff just doesnt stick well. They think in terms of 'number of lines sold' instead of 'number of customers satisfied'.
by analog31 | 2026-01-15 13:11:50+00:00
It seems like the things we ban for children are things that we might ban for everybody, but can get away with for children. Very few of those things are conclusively proven to be harmful -- perhaps firearms, motor vehicles, and smoking, and even those things put up a pretty good fight to stay alive as long as they did.

Smoking is an interesting case. Vanishingly few people who smoke learned to do so as adults. Virtually all started as kids. Likewise, virtually all marketing of smoking was directed towards kids. Banning smoking among kids had the side of effect of reducing it in adults without the impossibility of an overall ban.

Social media is an interesting example. Of course it influences behavior. That's its purpose. Otherwise all of the advertising revenue poured into the social media industry would be wasted. The most successful social media businesses I'm aware of all started being marketed primarily to young people.
by self_awareness | 2026-01-15 13:12:02+00:00
For the sake of simplicity, and to detach our feelings from this subject, let's assume that Ω-GN is a grift. Ω is a superset of Ω-GN. We cannot conclude that Ω is a grift solely because a subset (Ω-GN) is a grift. However, can we objectively say that Ω is not a grift just because there are some instances within Ω that are not grifts? Clearly, there are also instances within Ω that are grifts, since Ω-GN (a subset of Ω) is a grift by our assumption. Therefore, the existence of both grift and non-grift instances in Ω means we cannot categorically label Ω as either a grift or not a grift based solely on its subsets.

Yet you say that objectively it's not a grift because there is at least 1 instance of a non-grifting event in Ω. Even Kenneth Copeland _sometimes_ is right about _something_, can we say that objectively he's not a liar because _there was at least 1 instance of him telling the truth_? I think not.

Also, you people use this word, "nazi", but do you actually know what are Nazis? German National-Socialists. Even the name "NAZI" is taken from German language. So if you ask me "what is wrong with disliking nazis", yet you use some artificial and historically wrong definition of a nazi, then I'm telling you that the problem is with you people using "nazis" for others who disagrees with you. I probably am a Nazi in someone's eyes, because I'm opposed to trans-women participating in women's sports. In reality, my grandfather fought with the actual nazis which existed in real world, not in your imagination.

> Thus, if you want to create an inclusive community, you have no choice but to exclude certain groups of people.

Yeah, this is how I understand it as well. People want easy inclusivity, a mono-themed style of thinking, and diversity only within their own strictly defined boundaries. I interpret this as a contradiction and a lie: diversity among selected groups is not true diversity, and inclusivity limited to chosen pools is not genuine inclusivity. For me there is absolutely no difference between this and a situation where whites stick to whites, blacks stick to blacks, etc.

If something is marked as "LGBTQ+ friendly" then I'm all fine -- it's very understandable and I know what I'm dealing with. But if something is "inclusive" then I automatically know I'm not in the target audience, because the sole definition of "include" is already loaded. The language already contains words with different meanings. For me this means "we're so closed, we even use our own definition of 'inclusion' to not think about the outside world".
by cbm-vic-20 | 2026-01-15 13:12:36+00:00
Fragmentation in the non-x86 world really hurts adoption. RPi presents a very well documented configuration that can be used as a target for development.

RISC-V is going through this exact same problem right now. All of the current implementations have terrible documentation, and tailoring Linux for each of these is proving to be difficult. All of these vendors include on-board devices that have terrible doc and software support.
by Loughla | 2026-01-15 13:12:38+00:00
I gave up on that years ago. You can find guns that work but they're rare and crazy expensive. You can make an oil gun from a grease gun that works but that bitch will oil the machine and you and the floor and the wall.

I just swapped the fittings to get rid of the zerk nipples for something I could use with a standard oil fitting.