MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by HenryBemis | 2026-01-09 09:25:06+00:00
IMHO1: Notion is a Confluence+SharePoint+Jira with useless "AI" to quickly create templates.

Anyone who uses it for your made-up use-case is silly, and has no sense of 'segregation of duties' (access).

IMHO2: this is a process/procedure problem, not a technical problem (to quote GDPR's phrase) "..technical and organisational measures necessary to ensure.." this is an organisational problem that you are trying to solve as technical.

I have very recently tried to work with Notion staff in applying basic "compliance" controls, and their input/response was next-to-garbage, with a big "we didn't build it for/like this mate" attitude. E.g. complete lack of "canned reports showing inactive users", "canned reports showing failed login attempts", and so on. One will have to drill though the audit logs, extract the lot, and go excel magic. Other 'within-Notion' solutions are (politely) 'inaccurate'.

Overall it is a GRC/Privacy nightmare and I am happy to not be a user of this any more :)
by saghm | 2026-01-09 09:25:07+00:00
Reading though that link is very confusing as someone who hasn't been actively following all of the various standards and organizations in detail. Quite a lot of the technical claims seem a bit vague and hard to evaluate without being more of an expert (like the repeated complaints about WASI being bad for Java/JavaScript/"the Web"). Pretty much the only concrete technical concern I could glean is that whoever wrote that was extremely unhappy about the use of UTF-8 over UTF-16, which I can understand feeling strongly about, but I also feel like the situation where there's a choice between the way Java/JavaScript/Windows does it and the way a lot of other things do it isn't exactly an original problem to WebAssembly. There's merit in the idea of sticking with what a lot of web stuff already uses, but it's not really that crazy to consider that a new standard would be the place where you might try to design with an eye towards shaping the future rather than always following the past.

Moreso than anything technical though, there sure seems to be a lot of bad blood between the group of people behind AssemblyScript and the people behind WASI. This feels like a classic case of small initial technical disagreements spiraling out of control and turning into a larger conflict fueled by personalities and organizational politics. I agree that overall this doesn't add confidence to the WebAssembly ecosystem as a whole, but it's not clear to me that the obvious conclusion is "WASI is controversial" as "WebAssembly seems like it might have a problem with infighting".
by djtango | 2026-01-09 09:25:21+00:00
Exactly - people have it backwards, when data diverges from lived experience you don't tell lived experience to shut up cuz' dataa you go back and check your models and your data collection. And you check and you check and you check. Einstein was famously wary of Quantum Mechanics rather than taking the findings at face value, and I guarantee that economic data is a hell of a lot less rigorous and more complicated than particle physics. Not to mention the data is political...
by inferiorhuman | 2026-01-09 09:25:31+00:00
I've yet to see a MCU vendor ship without bugs. At least with ST,
the MCU is very cheap.

Moving the goalposts much? You went from "lengthy errata doesn't mean anything" to "at least it's cheap", which was my point entirely. The STM32 lineup is cheap with a bunch of features, has readily available documentation, and that appeals to a lot of people.

This feels more like an Apple bug to me considering how they work very
well on Linux, Windows and Android.

Yep, that's the typical STM fanboi response and part of why I'm not so gung ho on STM products. It just feels… cultish and obnoxious.

Meanwhile I've been using Macs on and off since before USB came around and this is the first USB device I've found that glitches out like that. Given that Apple uses off the shelf USB silicon (TI) and the complaints about STM's older USB FS peripherals I came across I'd fully believe it's an STM problem.

What is entirely STM's fault is that they still market the F7 based devices (ST Link, Nucleo, etc) as being Mac compatible. They've also skipped out on putting that fun little wart into the F7 errata.
by marcoloco232323 | 2026-01-09 09:25:31+00:00
Hi HN! I built dimtensor after wasting too many hours debugging physics simulations where the bug was a unit mismatch buried in the code.

It wraps NumPy/PyTorch/JAX arrays with physical units and catches dimensional errors immediately:

velocity = DimArray([10], units.m / units.s)
acceleration = DimArray([9.8], units.m / units.s**2)
velocity + acceleration # DimensionError!

Key difference from Pint/Astropy: native PyTorch autograd and JAX JIT support. Gradients flow through unit-aware operations.

Docs: https://marcoloco23.github.io/dimtensor

Happy to answer questions!
by ndsipa_pomu | 2026-01-09 09:26:09+00:00
> Also, these are global investigations - most countries don't have the same approach to freedom of speech as the US

It's peculiar to me how people in the U.S. seem to prioritise "freedom of speech" and de-prioritise freedom from being harassed online. In general, I support free speech, but I don't take an absolutist position as there can be a lot of harm created by allowing lies to propagate unrestricted (c.f. Brexit in the UK). Meanwhile, there's direct emotional harm being caused by these AI images being posted and also a speech chilling effect by making people, especially women, afraid of posting on contentious topics.
by MORPHOICES | 2026-01-09 09:26:14+00:00
I remember reading a pattern that describes the loss of contributors by platforms. Early users play a crucial role in establishing the primary level of quality and norms. ~

Once a platform scales, new levels of moderation, metrics, and various types of abstractions are added. Thereafter, the platform prioritizes safety and growth at the cost of craft.

One simple framework I use is the separation of: Value creation: the signal producer Value protection: the one who manages the risk and optics Value capture: the one whose interests the decisions serve These three domains represent the asymmetry that occurs in aol the platform contributors. The complex part of the problem is that from the outside, the platforms seems successful, and is growing.

Therefore the complaints that are almost always prevalent are considered “edge cases.” Unfortunately, those who were part of the ecosystem, and were most passionate contributors are the ones that are leaving.

Final thought for the builders of any community: pay attention to those who are not posting, instead of the new users who are signing up. In your experience, are there examples of the phenomenon described above? Can the platforms be salvaged after the loss of trust? What are the dead ends that are a given in these situations?
by jiggawatts | 2026-01-09 09:26:41+00:00
Greenland is Trump’s Ukraine. He’s jealous of Putin, that is all.

There is nothing in Greenland worth breaking up the alliances with Europe over.

Trump is too stupid to realise this, he just wants land like it’s a Civ game.

PS: An entire rack of the most expensive NVIDA equipment millions of dollars can buy has maybe a few grams of precious or rare metals in it. The cost of those is a maybe a dollar or two. They don’t even use gold any more!

The expensive part is making it, not the raw ingredients.
by notarobot123 | 2026-01-09 09:27:17+00:00
I never understood where the desire to "colonise the galaxy" comes from. Why is this a desirable goal? Compared to anywhere else we know about, Earth is an extremely unique utopia. A "better" planet would be measured in how Earth-like it is - perhaps bigger or with more/different exploitable resources.

The only driver that I can really comprehend is the desire for freedom and autonomy in less populated spaces. The problem with this is that the human condition follows us everywhere. We'll recreate the same problems we have here everywhere we go. We can't run away from ourselves.
by instagraham | 2026-01-09 09:27:22+00:00
There's a quote by Mahatma Gandhi that resonates whenever I see contrasting debates about this economic indicator or that:

"I will give you a talisman. Whenever you are in doubt, or when the self becomes too much with you, apply the following test. Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man [woman] whom you may have seen, and ask yourself, if the step you contemplate is going to be of any use to him [her]. Will he [she] gain anything by it? Will it restore him [her] to a control over his [her] own life and destiny? In other words, will it lead to swaraj [freedom] for the hungry and spiritually starving millions? Then you will find your doubts and your self melt away."

India's IT outsourcing-led GDP growth can benefit many almost-poor and poor people by giving them access to more spending by the "middle-class" (a very debatable minority in India) and the rich. But it will not benefit the poorest - social welfare schemes do that, but anti-homeless measures cancel it out. Access to formalised lending can do that, but anti-immigrant schemes and the Kafkaesque labyrinth of getting an id-card in India will negate that. And banks won't give you a loan if you're poor (so they go to loansharks).

You can have all the Apples and the Facebooks of the world in California, but putting spikes in places where homeless people could sleep makes Gandhi's talisman stand out far better than any macro-economic indicator.

Inflation can be positive or negative but if you're living in a place with less supply than demand, your rent will go up by far more than the price of eggs. This will hurt you completely independently of the price of eggs.

All this to say - if you care about the poorest, you'll find little to cheer about. But should you care about the poorest? Is that a good measure of healthy economic growth? Is economic growth the only priority after 1991?

You can be poor and destitute in a capitalist dystopia and you can be poor and destitute in a communist dystopia. This is why I hate the language of the Cold War so much - we lose an infinite amount of nuance with terms like "Capitalism" "socialism" "communism" and "GDP"
by Mashimo | 2026-01-09 09:28:03+00:00
Here is an overview: https://www.inferless.com/learn/comparing-different-text-to-...

Also keep in mind the processing time. The ^ article above used a NVIDIA L4 with 24-GB VRAM. Sopro claims 7.5 second processing time on CPU for 30 seconds of audio!

If you want to get real good quality TTS, you should check out elevenlabs.io

Different tools for different goals.
by B480FA8D | 2026-01-09 09:28:09+00:00
The TOS, which is a contract of adhesion for consumer-facing products, does not really matter that much in my opinion since "we have to lock you in to our specific interface on our public offering" is not a cognizable interest. SCOTUS is also very clear in requiring actual damages (in incremental harms) to establish a CFAA violation. At any rate, opencode is essentially providing equitable estoppel as a service by being open and popular - cannot go after me without first dealing with the "unionized" project (last words)! I don't think they get to conflate the issues of alternative interface dispute and their intentional pricing strategy losing money on heavy users.

Of course, they are banning for financial economic interests, not nominal alleged contractual violations, so Anthropic is not sympathetic.

// NOT LEGAL ADVICE

I think it can make sense to Anthropic since opencode users likely disproportionately cost them money with little lock-in - you can switch the moment a comparable model is available elsewhere. It does not (necessarily) mean there are any legal or ethical issues barring us from continuously using the built-in opencode OAuth though.
by Nursie | 2026-01-09 09:28:10+00:00
Yes, that is the other side of the coin, that people are not just attracted to change because of loss of faith in the mainstream, but actually going over to support the populists.

And this is not aimed at you, but I do see all too often that people in the more mainstream spaces look at that side of the coin exclusively. "They're supporting reform because they're racist/stupid/brainwashed/propagandised". Sure, sure, those are definitely factors. But the opportunity to do that brainwashing and propagandising is there for a reason.
by Evan233 | 2026-01-09 09:28:15+00:00
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by Ianjit | 2026-01-09 09:28:56+00:00
Sorry for the late response!

My guess is they didn't publish it because they only measured it at one company, if they had the data across the cohort they would have published.

The general result that review/re-wrok can cancel out the productivity gains is supported by other studies

AI generated code is 1.7x more buggy vs human generated code:
https://www.coderabbit.ai/blog/state-of-ai-vs-human-code-gen...

Individual dev productivity gains are offset by peers having to review the verbose (and buggy) AI code:
https://www.faros.ai/blog/ai-software-engineering

On agentic being the saviour for productivity, Meta measured a 6-12% productivity boost from agents programming:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OzxYK2-qsI&si=ABTk-2RZM-leT...

"But it's different now" :)
by poisonarena | 2026-01-09 09:29:52+00:00
Thats actually not what I meant. I meant the experience of owning music on cd's/records/tapes. This cant really be experienced anymore since every song ever released can be immediately streamed. Sure you can buy vinyl or cd's at shows but it isnt the same because back then it was radio or buy/own the stuff

And my other point was how lots of electronic musicians seemed so distant and mysterious because they weren't livestreaming and and social media that made them/their personality/tweets etc available.

as for AFX, I think like one in 15 of his songs are amazing, the rest is just noise/filler
by hdgvhicv | 2026-01-09 09:30:07+00:00
I have a speaker in the lounge and kitchen. Wr want to be able to listen to the same thing whichever room we’re in. Or perhaps we don’t.

Being able to say “play this stream in room 1,3,6 and this in room 4 and nothing in room 2,5,7” is a valuable feature for people who don’t live alone in a studio flat.
by cumo | 2026-01-09 09:30:21+00:00
If you already know all this, what stopped you from making an eye‑opening video and actually illustrating those Zoroastrian principles yourself? Calling someone derivative is easy; producing something better is not.

And if you’d really absorbed thinkers like Spinoza, Kant, Hume, or Leibniz, you’d know that reworking older metaphysical frameworks is literally how intellectual progress happens. Every major philosopher in that era built on ancient ideas — they didn’t sneer at people for revisiting them.
by MORPHOICES | 2026-01-09 09:32:59+00:00
I recently tried out a tool that seemed quite sophisticated on first glance, but once you peel the layers back, the core logic is surprisingly small.

Not trivial. Just...smaller than expected. It really made me think how often we mistook: surface level complexity product polish system depth Lately, I've been pondering: if I had to re-explain this from scratch, what is its irreducible core?

I'm curious to hear others: What system surprised you by being simpler than you expected? Where was the real complexity? What do people tend to overestimate?
by Retric | 2026-01-09 09:34:04+00:00
Google etc may be a US based company, but they can leverage emerging markets just fine.

There’s a stronger argument to be made for small caps, but stock buybacks allow any company’s stock to effectively experience exponential growth even with flat earnings. IE there’s little long term difference between buying back 2% a stock every year and ~2% actual growth every year assuming you never hold the majority of shares. (as in 1/0.98 ~= 1.02)
by Latitude7973 | 2026-01-09 09:34:27+00:00
n-o-d-e (blogger) has published many mods for this watch, with videos included. They have great production quality, and the mods are easy enough to pull off. https://n-o-d-e.net/casio.html

When I did this mod, I soldered the LED on its side, so that it shone directly onto the LCD. This made the watch face much brighter.

On reflection, the similar variant of the watch with an EL display is vastly superior. The A168 is similar to the A158 you mentioned but with a better light.
by aebtebeten | 2026-01-09 09:34:28+00:00
Tillis doesn't put it quite so bluntly, but he comes close:

> “I’m sick of stupid,” a fiery Tillis declared in the Senate. ... he told his colleagues that Miller’s comments were “absurd.”

> “Mr. Miller said that the US government – obviously Greenland should be part of the US. That is absurd,” he said.

> Tillis also ... “What makes me cranky? Stupid. ...

I mean, he's a politician, so he tries to throw Miller under the bus (instead of admitting the stupid rots like a fish), and he claims he's the only one speaking his mind because of his committee (not because he's retiring and doesn't worry about being primaried), but I find absurd stupidity comes close to fucking lunacy.

Then again, I thought GWB and his posse were fucking lunatics, and now I've had to reevaluate their statesmanship.
by MattBlissett | 2026-01-09 09:34:42+00:00
GBIF track the use of data we provide to scientists, where they later publish papers citing that data [1]. For iNaturalist, the list of known citations is at [2]. In most cases a download of data from GBIF will include data from more than one dataset (iNaturalist is one of over 110,000). To find how particular records in a download were used — or even if they were discarded — requires reading the paper.

As an example from the list, "Aedes albopictus Is Rapidly Invading Its Climatic Niche in France: Wider Implications for Biting Nuisance and Arbovirus Control in Western Europe" [3] cites 5348 iNaturalist records.

[1] https://www.gbif.org/literature-tracking

[2] https://www.gbif.org/resource/search?contentType=literature&...

[3] Paper https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.70414 citing GBIF data download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.gzdq3f

PS we are recruiting an engineer, but the deadline for this position is today: https://gbif.link/senior-data-engineer
by atoav | 2026-01-09 09:35:29+00:00
I worked in the shipping department of an online store as a side job during my studies, so I know a bit or two about this.

The issue is that management of all shipping companies is expected to run their services 100% resource-efficiently and without any slack (wasted money). The problem is that the only way to do that you are essentially constantly above capacity.

I had certain services where literally every second month a new unfortunate subcontractor with yet another beaten up white van would show up. Needless to say their service quality was absolutely shit, since those subcontractors didn't even get a chance to learn how to do the job properly.

Extracting as much money as possible from shipping isn't the same as providing a good service. Reliable service needs redundancy and underutilized capacity. If your laptops CPU was constantly at 150% load you wouldn't say "Great I am not wasting resources", you would get a beefier CPU that gives you enough headroom for your daily tasks.
by Xelbair | 2026-01-09 09:36:07+00:00
We'll see how it goes this time.

If they once again go for creating their own forks, instead of financing development of existing software then I'll know the initiative failed.

Also imho their 'questions' mentioned in the comment kinda feel like they have answer baked in - like it's foregone conclusion.

Still - I hope EU will just have a decent program financing or contributing in any shape or form to development of OSS.
by Oras | 2026-01-09 09:36:15+00:00
> Would love feedback on:
> Data accuracy / gaps

I clicked on Indeed as it was the first one in the list. It says 1.3k layoffs on the 9th of Jan 2026, but the article is from July 2025 https://mashable.com/article/glassdoor-indeed-cutting-1300-j...
by fennecfoxy | 2026-01-09 09:36:29+00:00
This is not it. Services are bad because month by month year by year, capitalism demands that they produce endless growth. When there's nothing legit left to strip down then they start taking out the floorboards.

Exact same thing as shrinkflation; make the product smaller for more money because there's no other way that the execs and shareholders get to jerk each other off this year. And then the next year, and the next.

Delivery services/couriers have been having to deliver more packages faster for less money YoYoYoY.
by Dylan16807 | 2026-01-09 09:36:30+00:00
It's reasonable to assume they're broadly stable, but being broadly stable doesn't mean a drop will "recover". There's no specific ratio that the currencies are being pushed to. Permanent changes in the baseline can and do happen.

> You're buying a share of productive capacity, the currency it is listed in doesn't matter.

But I don't own a fixed percentage of production, I own a fixed number of shares and the number of shares can change. If the number of shares doubles, then my investment is worth half as much.
by shakna | 2026-01-09 09:36:52+00:00
If the code executed is deterministic - then so is the output.

If your output is in any way nondeterministic, then so is the code executed. Fin. No nuance to mathematically be had.

Randomness is nothing new. Various algorithms have always been non-deterministic. Randomness is in most standard libraries.

My problem here is not with what you're doing - but that you're presenting as if you do not understand what you're doing.
by jaccola | 2026-01-09 09:37:18+00:00
- This has been going on for well over a year now.

- They always write relatively long, zealous explainers of how productive they are (including some replies to your comment).

These two points together make me think: why do they care so much to convince me; why don't they just link me to the amazing thing they made, that would be pretty convincing?!

Are they being paid or otherwise incentivised to make these hyperbolic claims? To be fair they don't often look like vanilla LLM output but they do all have the same structure/patter to them.
by jbstack | 2026-01-09 09:37:31+00:00
It's not really a fair analogy. Restaurants don't want you taking food away because they want to limit the amount you eat to a single meal, knowing that you'll stop when you get full. If you take food out you can eat more by waiting until the next meal when you're hungry again.

You don't "get full" and "get hungry again" by switching UIs. You can consume the same amount whether you switch or you don't switch.
by pdubroy | 2026-01-09 09:37:55+00:00
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