MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jacquesm | 2026-01-30 00:06:20+00:00
> I agree. The dog smashed the window, hot–wired the ignition,
> released the parking brake, shifted to drive, and turned the
> wheel towards the opposite side of the road where a mother was
> pushing a stroller, killing the baby. I know, crazy right, but
> I swear I'm not lying, the neighbor caught it on camera.

> Who's liable?

You are. It's still your dog. If you would replace dog with child the case would be identical (but more plausible). This is really not as interesting as you think it is. The fact that you have a sentient dog is going to be laughed out of court and your neighbor will be in the docket together with you for attempting to mislead the court with your AI generated footage. See, two can play at that.

When you make such ridiculously contrived examples turnaround is fair play.
by niyikiza | 2026-01-30 00:06:51+00:00
Tokens + filters work for single-agent, single-hop calls. Gets murky when orchestrators spawn sub-agents that spawn tools. Any one of them can hallucinate or get prompt-injected.
We're building around signed authorization artifacts instead. Each delegation is scoped and signed, chains are verifiable end-to-end. Deterministic layer to constrain the non-deterministic nature of LLMs.
by bsder | 2026-01-30 00:07:15+00:00
> Our society's morbid, irrational fear of quack medicine

It is not an irrational fear.

Brandolini's Law applies: "The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it."

The only way to prevent quackery is to cut it off hard before it gets started.

Wakefield demonstrated the disaster that happens when you don't.

(And if you have been reading this site for very long, you know the experimental treatments are already around--we're not currently lacking for possible cancer treatments. The problem is finding the trial. Then the problem is getting people through the process and then getting them to the trial. See: "Please be dying, but not too quickly": https://bessstillman.substack.com/p/please-be-dying-but-not-...)
by sien | 2026-01-30 00:07:20+00:00
Not according to wikipedia :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuelan_refugee_crisis

In 1998, when Chávez was first elected, the number of Venezuelans granted asylum in the United States increased between 1998 and 1999.[30] Chávez's promise to allocate more funds to the impoverished caused concern among wealthy and middle-class Venezuelans, triggering the first wave of emigrants fleeing the Bolivarian government.[31]

Additional waves of emigration occurred following the 2002 Venezuelan coup d'état attempt[32] and after Chávez's re-election in 2006.[32][33] In 2009, it was estimated that more than one million Venezuelans had emigrated in the ten years since Hugo Chávez became president.[2] According to the Central University of Venezuela (UCV), an estimated 1.5 million Venezuelans (four to six percent of the country's total population) emigrated between 1999 and 2014.[15]

The Venezuelan refugee crisis has a lot to do with Chavismo.
by rmunn | 2026-01-30 00:07:30+00:00
I sometimes fly out of a small, local airport that only has one commercial route, from that airport to Philadelphia. That airport closes down overnight and it's perfectly reasonable. (And they open up at 5 AM to start serving passengers boarding the 7 AM flight; again, perfectly reasonable since there are 50 seats on that plane and you get through security in 5 minutes). But a major international airport that has incoming flights all night long? I agree, they should have at least ONE customs location staffed somewhere in the airport, any time an international flight is scheduled to arrive.

P.S. It's not just America. I flew through the Middle East once on my way to eastern Asia. The flight landed at something like 3:30 AM local time, and the security checkpoint didn't open until 4 AM or 5 AM or something like that. There were so many people waiting in line for that checkpoint, it was getting dangerously overcrowded in that hallway, with more and more people arriving down the escalator all the time. Thankfully nobody fainted or fell, but it could have been a bad situation there.
by Novosell | 2026-01-30 00:07:45+00:00
None of the games I mentioned have micro transactions.

Outer Wilds, 1000xResist and What Remains of Edith Finch all moved me to tears. I still can't casually listen to the soundtracks of Outer Wilds or 1000x, as they simply evoke too many emotions.

Stop conflating Call of Duty and the like with "modern gaming".

You're jaded, and I feel sad for you.
by observationist | 2026-01-30 00:07:59+00:00
These people are so ridiculous. It'll fail on 1A and 2A grounds, not to mention challenges implicit from 4A and 5A considerations. They can't ban arbitrary information, even dangerous information, and there's a presumption of regularity - you're presumed innocent of wrongdoing absent evidence, so they can't legislate the assumption of criminality by default. They can't ban private creation of firearms and weapons, so long as other aspects of the law are being followed. They can't assert control over private property and mandate being online, this is equivalent to a warrantless search of private home activity. Arbitrary compliance costs and increased prices can amount to violations of 5A takings clause, and you can't bake in a violation of your right to refuse to incriminate yourself, especially with the vague, subjective nature of the proposed legislation. There's also 5A due process concerns, with the legislation being overbroad and arbitrary. 14A presents equal protections and lays the basis for discrimination between hobbyists and manufacturers and interstate commerce concerns.

The whole notion is about as anti-American and authoritarian as laws get, I don't see it as anything more than political grandstanding, and even if Washington passes it with statewide, unanimous endorsement, it won't last a year before 9th circuit court strikes it down on purely 2A grounds.
by Morromist | 2026-01-30 00:08:17+00:00
Google could build try to build an actual 3d scene with ai using meshes or metaballs or something. That would allow for more persistance, but I expect makes the ai more brittle and limited, and, because it doesn't really understand the rules for the 3d meshes it created, it doesn't know how to interact with them. It can only be fluffy-mushy dream images.
by jkingsbery | 2026-01-30 00:08:31+00:00
The examples in the first paragraph, while not grammatically passive, are functionally passive. They would be stronger in most cases if the author wrote them with the actor as the subject. For example, yes "the bus blew up" is active, but does not answer who acted on the bus.

Being so pedantic, and then saying "but I'm not going to use the technical term voice" is particularly off-putting. If this is an article about grammatical pedentry, let's go all the way. Otherwise, the author should focus on providing useful advice.
by Spooky23 | 2026-01-30 00:09:17+00:00
The US has the same issue.

Because the republican party turned out to be a bunch of fascist fucks, there's no real critique of Obamacare. One of the big changes with the ACA is that it allowed medical networks to turn into regional cartels. Most regions have 2-3 medical networks, who are gobbled up all of the medical practices and closed many.

Most of the private general practices have been bought up, consolidated to giant practices, and doctors paid to quit and replaced by other providers at half the cost. Specialty practices are being swept up by PE.
by reactordev | 2026-01-30 00:09:18+00:00
It’s definitely an age thing. Wisdom of experience and being able to dissect storytelling elements for what they are.

Don’t get me wrong. I love games. Obviously. I just see, as you said, 300+ games being released weekly and have really no desire to pursue them. I’ll occasionally jump on the bandwagon of steams top 100 but I don’t feel connected to the games I play anymore. I still play them. It’s good entertainment. I don’t care about buying battle passes, season passes, trinkets, cosmetics, DLC content, etc. If the game is good, sell the game.
by bink | 2026-01-30 00:09:24+00:00
I completely agree. Hiding from the cops puts everyone in danger. But to be clear I wouldn't be hiding from the security guards either once they had found evidence of our test. It was really only if they were nearby and unaware anything was happening that we found it OK to hide from them.

The whole point is to test security. Ideally you want to be found because that means that they have reasonable security in place and you can attest to that.
by 2001zhaozhao | 2026-01-30 00:09:40+00:00
> Code is the policy, deployment is the episode, and the bug report is the reward signal

This is a great quote. I think it makes a ton of sense to view a sufficiently-cheap-and-automated agentic SWE system as a machine learning system rather than traditional coding.

* Perhaps the key to transparent/interpretable ML is to just replace the ML model with AI-coded traditional software and decision trees. This way it's still fully autonomously trained but you can easily look at the code to see what is going on.

* I also wonder whether you can use fully-automated agentic SWE/data science in adversarial use-cases where you traditionally have to use ML, such as online moderation. You could set a clear goal to cut down on any undesired content while minimizing false-positives, and the agent would be able to create a self-updating implementation that dynamically responds to adversarial changes. I'm most familiar with video game anti-cheat where I think something like this is very likely possible.

* Perhaps you can use a fully-automated SWE loop, constrained in some way, to develop game enemies and AI opponents which currently requires gruesome amounts of manual work to implement. Those are typically too complex to tackle using traditional ML and you can't naively use RL because the enemies are supposed to be immersive rather than being the best at playing the game by gaming the mechanics. Maybe with a player controller SDK and enough instructions (and live player feedback?), you can get an agent to make a programmatic game AI for you and automatically refine it to be better.
by Habgdnv | 2026-01-30 00:10:07+00:00
In Bulgaria we have a similar speed reduction strategy but we are a bit ahead of Sweden:
We use medium-radius but very deep potholes. If you lose attention for even a split second, you are forced to a full stop to change a tire.
Near schools it gets more "advanced": they put parked cars on both sides of the road, and the holes positioned so you can't bypass them. For example, two tire-sized holes on both sides of the road right next to the parked cars. You have to come to a complete stop, then slowly descend into the hole with the front wheels, climb back out, and repeat the process for the rear wheels. Occasionally, even though we (technically) have sidewalks, they are covered in mud or grass or bushes, so pedestrians are forced to walk in the middle of the road. This further reduces driving speed to walking pace and increases safety in our cities. Road markings are missing almost everywhere and they put contradicting road signs so drivers are not only forced to cooperate but also to read each other minds.
by 0xbadcafebee | 2026-01-30 00:10:57+00:00
A lot of people still have a shallow understanding of how LLMs work. Each version of a model has different qualities than the last, each model is better or worse at some things than others, and each responds differently to different prompts, styles. Some smaller models perform better than larger ones. Sometimes you should use a system prompt, sometimes you shouldn't. Tuning settings for the model inference (temperature, top_p, penalties, etc) significantly influence the outcome. (https://www.promptingguide.ai/introduction/settings, https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/optimizing-llm-accur...)

Most "big name" models' interfaces don't let you change settings, or not easily. Power users learn to use different interfaces and look up guides to tweak models to get better results. You don't have to just shrug your shoulders and switch models. OpenAI's power interface: https://platform.openai.com/playground Anthropic's power interface: https://platform.claude.com/ For self-hosted/platform-agnostic, OpenWebUI is great: https://openwebui.com/
by bigyabai | 2026-01-30 00:10:59+00:00
And what you quoted is my opinion as a consumer. Blizzard got it working in 1996, Valve figured it out in 2003 - the industry was moving on.

EA was an outlier, and by the time they capitulated and started Origin it was so bad that people regret signing up for the service. GoG didn't have this issue, Valve didn't have that issue, EA did.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-30 00:11:07+00:00
> "It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression 'as pretty as an airport'"

I somehow got interested by quote and searched it (as is?) on duckduckgo to find a relevant reddit discussion where people were (are?) discussing trains and many other things.

Interesting quote to say the least. Here's the relevant reddit discussion

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/hqtgyg/tuesd...
by batemanchris | 2026-01-30 00:11:17+00:00
I saw a need for better comparisons between IAC tools and decided to create this site to document some of my experiences with them over the years.

Give it a go; it's still in beta, so I am fine-tuning the results and which data to include/exclude.

It's all on GitHub as well, so feel free to take a look under the hood.
Web front-end dev is not my area of expertise, but cloud infra is. I hope to add content covering the pros and cons I have experienced with each tool.
by decimalenough | 2026-01-30 00:11:29+00:00
> My 11:30 pm connecting flight out of Los Angeles International Airport was delayed by 24 hours, forcing me to rest in the airport.

If you ever find yourself in this position, just leave the airport and get a motel room. The US doesn't even have exit immigration, so it's not like they were stuck on the wrong side with a used visa.

The OP's About page notes that they're currently unemployed and living off savings, so I'll cut them some slack, although I'm not entirely sure how that's compatible with international travel from New Zealand to the US.

I also find it incredible that the airline can just delay a flight by 24 hours and offer no compensation or accommodation whatsoever, since in most of the world this would absolutely not, ahem, fly.
by scarecrowbob | 2026-01-30 00:11:36+00:00
I mean, depends- if I steal from my employer I go to jail, if my employer steals my wages they get a fine.

If I murder someone in cold blood on the street, I might not make it off the scene before getting gunned down; if a government agent summarily executes a protester, they might get a couple days vacation and a heft goFundme payout.

Nothing new there, though... if, for instance, in 1955 a random black kid has some white guys think he looked at the wrong woman in the wrong way, he might get violently killed that day; the men who do that killing might never face -any- consequences.

So the answer to your question is highly variable and has been for all of the time that anyone I know has been alive. The application of law in the US is and has always been mostly determined by class and race.
by A_D_E_P_T | 2026-01-30 00:11:56+00:00
Even if I grant that argument, what I've described isn't even quackery. It is legitimate medical research and experimentation, and what doctors in olden times would call a "heroic" intervention -- but, sadly, now this sort of thing has become collateral damage in the war between medicine and quackery. And patients are the ones who die and suffer because of it.
by Dylan16807 | 2026-01-30 00:12:11+00:00
There are signs for that. Advisory speeds that don't change the actual limit. https://wisconsindot.gov/PublishingImages/doing-bus/local-go...

Much better to be specific than a vague "slow down". There's a road near me with two tight turns a couple blocks apart. One advises 25mph and the other advises 10mph.
by jimbob45 | 2026-01-30 00:12:12+00:00
You sort of have to plan ahead for this now. If you’re not careful, your belongings will get pinched. If you wear an inner jacket with pockets, though, you can safely stash your goods and conk out. Even better if it’s just a reversible jacket. Luggage is harder but as long as it’s locked, you can usually just tie it to yourself and be safe enough.
by credit_guy | 2026-01-30 00:12:19+00:00
Because, fundamentally, their biggest competitor is Google. A company with a market cap north of 4 trillion. If OpenAI does not spend hundreds of billions of dollars on datacenters, people will migrate to Google, little by little, and OpenAI will became a new Netscape story. A good product eliminated by an incumbent with infinitely deep pockets.
by rramadass | 2026-01-30 00:12:42+00:00
Relevant:

The AI Revolution in Medicine: GPT-4 and Beyond by Peter Lee (Microsoft Research) - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/the-ai-...

The AI Revolution in Medicine, Revisited by Peter Lee (Microsoft Research) - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/story/the-ai-revolu...
by Gigachad | 2026-01-30 00:12:48+00:00
What gets me is this doesn’t even seem to be the most effective way to regulate this. 3D printed guns require a lot of non 3D printed gun parts. You can’t 3D print bullets for example.

The is really just a US specific issue where 90% what you need for a gun can be purchased easily, but the non functional handle requires registration, etc.

They could just make buying gun parts as strict as buying a whole gun
by Scoundreller | 2026-01-30 00:12:55+00:00
I don’t fly enough to carry it with me, but an ultralight tent (nature hike cloud up 2 person) and inflatable sleeping bag under 2kg if you exclude the groundsheet. Not sure if security would try to wake me constantly even airside… probably yes but otherwise would sleep like a baby with my earplugs, noise cancelling headphones and eye mask
by llmthrow0827 | 2026-01-30 00:13:08+00:00
These are extremely impressive from a technological progression standpoint, and at the same time not at all compelling, in the same way AI images and LLM prose are and are not.

It's neat I guess that I can use a few words and generate the equivalent of an Unreal 5 asset flip and play around in it. Also I will never do that, much less pay some ongoing compute cost for each second I'm doing it.
by PlatoIsADisease | 2026-01-30 00:14:29+00:00
They orbit the earth in a different shape that is more complex than an ellipse.

For further reading, I like Early Wittgenstein, but warning, he is a meme for a reason, you will only understand 10%...

Imagine we have a table with black and white splotches. We could use a square fishnet with a fine enough resolution to accurately describe it. But why use a square fishnet? Why not use hexagons? They both can accurately describe it with a fine enough resolution.

All of science is built on this first step of choosing (squares or hexagons).

Maybe something easier than Wittgenstein, there is Waltz Theory of International Politics, specifically chapter 1. But that is more practical/applied than metaphysical. I find this a difficult topic to recommend a wikipedia article, as they are too specific to each type of knowledge and don't explain the general topic. Even the general topic gets a bit lost in the weeds. Maybe Karl Popper too.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-30 00:14:36+00:00
Agreed. From what I know in hosting business/vps providers, they usually have it for a 2x factor. And honestly its not even noticable so much mostly as you mention not unless they have a crazy factor like from what I hear contabo has from forums

This is also the reason why vps's are said to not use 100% usage 24/7 as it can be noisy for other people.

Also another interesting idea by netcup is that they launche virtual dedicated cores (but still vps at heart) where you actually can use 100% usage 24/7 but to be honest on websites like lowendtalk, I have heard that be described as eerily similar to either bare metal instance or this new cloud metal instance terminology as well but the difference to me feels vdedicores atleast on netcup are focused to be more cheaper than dedicated in many instances but I haven't compared it but I have heard it be described as such in lowendtalk ig.
by consumer451 | 2026-01-30 00:14:56+00:00
Related:

> Diego Rivas, Shlomi Fruchter, and Jack Parker-Holder from the Project Genie team join host Logan Kilpatrick for an in-depth discussion on Google DeepMind’s latest breakthrough in world models. Project Genie is an experimental research prototype that allows users to generate, explore, and interact with infinitely diverse, photorealistic worlds in real-time. Learn more about the shift from passive video generation to interactive media, the technical challenges of maintaining world consistency and memory, and how these models serve as an essential training ground for AI agents.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ow0W3WlJxRY
by anyfoo | 2026-01-30 00:15:02+00:00
I loved Half Life 2, and it was highly influential, but that influence lives on.

Outer Wilds, Disco Elysium, Dark Souls, and Return of Obra Dinn were among the mentioned titles. All of these games tell a story, each of this game does it in its own, magnificent way.

You act a bit like those kind of games are hard to find, but some of them are highly popularized best sellers that keep getting remasters (I don't mean remakes), and still find a huge audience in entirely new YouTube Let's-Plays alone.
by mattlondon | 2026-01-30 00:15:11+00:00
Does it actually work though?

Many roads in London have parked cars on either side so only one can get through - instead of people cooperating you have people fighting, speeding as fast as they can to get through before someone else appears, or race on-coming cars to a gap in the parked cars etc. So when they should be doing 30mph, they are more likely doing 40-45. Especially with EVs you have near-instant power to quickly accelerate to get to a gap first etc.

And putting obstacles in the road so you cant see if someone is there? That sounds really dangerous and exactly the sort of thing that caused the accident in the story here.

Madness.
by defrost | 2026-01-30 00:16:01+00:00
There are many reasons to deny a CEO ... in a good company structure such denials are circled back around to the board for review.

Case in point: Allowing a CEO with no flight training to "have the keys" to the company <rare, expensive, uniquely outfitted, airframe> because they want to take it for a spin.

Sheparding Royalty in Monarchies has been a neccessary, delicate, loaded, and life threatening role for centuries.

Being a C-suite Groom of the Stool isn't a happy job, but somebody has to do it.
by 7777332215 | 2026-01-30 00:16:26+00:00
What I'm really asking/wondering is how (and who or which party) figured out that this was leaked, and secondly how that propagated to the public. I don't really expect to find that answer. But if I had to guess OpenAI found out first, because employees there are more likely to leak the fact that the leak happened.

But also, how was it caught in the first place? Was it automatically flagged because content scanners automatically identified this as a concern, or was his account specially flagged for extra monitoring because of who he is?
by Twirrim | 2026-01-30 00:17:39+00:00
>Roundabouts are worse for land use though, which impacts walkability, and the safety story for pedestrians and bike users with them is decidedly not great as well.

They're much safer for pedestrians than intersections. You're only crossing and dealing with traffic coming from one direction, stopping at a median, and then crossing further over.

Unlike trying to navigate a crosswalk where you have to play guessing games as to which direction some vehicle is going to come at you from while ignoring the lights (people do the stupidest things, and roundabouts are a physical barrier that prevents a bunch of that)