MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by doublerabbit | 2026-01-09 23:50:45+00:00
If you have a camera and you're only taking photos. You don't have any photos of the car keys and the car going missing do you? /s

It's how urban exploration folk get away exploring abandon buildings here in the UK. If you can prove you didn't create damage to gain access; a grey area.

> Trespass (Civil Matter): In England and Wales, simple trespass is typically a civil matter between you and the landowner. You cannot be arrested for civil trespass alone, but the landowner can sue you for damages or an injunction, and police may get involved if you refuse to leave when asked.
by sublinear | 2026-01-09 23:50:52+00:00
I agree only with the part about reconfiguring existing proofs. That's the value here. It is still likely very tedious to confirm what the LLMs say, but at least it's better than waiting for humans to do this half of the work.

For all topics that can be expressed with language, the value of LLMs is shuffling things around to tease out a different perspective from the humans reading the output. This is the only realistic way to understand AI enough to make it practical and see it gain traction.

As much as I respect Tao, I feel like his comments about AI usage can be misleading without carefully reading what he is saying in the linked posts.
by kergonath | 2026-01-09 23:51:07+00:00
> When I played (original vanilla) WoW I remember getting 2-3 fps in 40 player raids.

I had to look at the ground and get the camera as close as possible to cross between the AH and the bank in IF. Otherwise I’d get about 0.1 fps and had to close the game, which meant waiting in line to get back. Those were the days.

> So with the right UI layout made from addons I could still be a pretty effective healer.

I got pretty good with the timings and could almost play without looking at the screen. But I was DD and it was vanilla so nobody cared if I sucked as long as I got far away with the bombs.

> I don't even remember what the dungeons looked like, just a giant grid of health bars, buttons and threat-meter graphs.

I was talking a couple of weeks ago with a mate who was MT at the time and told me he knew the feet and legs of all the bosses but never saw the animations or the faces before coming back with an alt a couple of years later. I was happy as a warlock, enjoying the scenery. With a refresh rate that gave me ample time to admire it before the next frame :D
by oaiey | 2026-01-09 23:51:09+00:00
He took a risk in ignoring a law instead of exiting the market. They did not escalate, they applied the law.

What we need is an international legal framework for the Internet. And that includes compromises on all sides. China, EU, Russia, US and others have very different understanding on what is right. But hey, I think US politics is America first and cancel all international treaties. Sounds like more problems like this are incoming.
by aspenmartin | 2026-01-09 23:51:26+00:00
No it’s certainly not, and if you do want to lump coding agents into blockchain and NFTs that’s of course your choice but those things did not spur trillions of dollars of infra buildout and reshape entire geopolitical landscapes and have billions of active users. If you want to say: coding agents are not truly a net positive right now, that’s I think a perfectly reasonable opinion to hold (though I disagree personally). If you want to say coding agents are about as vapid as NFTs that to me is a bit less defensible
by pstuart | 2026-01-09 23:51:27+00:00
I don't buy the "both sides" argument anymore (except for corruption by party leadership). The fact that conservative stalwarts have left the GOP shows we're in new territory.

I abhor partisan politics and am more than happy to point out flaws on the Left but we've gone through the looking glass on the Right. It's literally a cult of personality and I take no pleasure in saying that.

While a two party system is not a good thing (George Washington warned us about political parties), having proper debate over policies and ideas is a good thing to have and we no longer have that. I've followed American politics for half a century and can unequivocally state that the situation we have here is not normal.
by irthomasthomas | 2026-01-09 23:51:55+00:00
I asked both grok and Gemini 3 flash to analyze the rule books on this.

https://x.com/i/grok/share/6vyMItjGVFIICOWOsLHjX7eU6

https://gemini.google.com/share/5e4c7a24b3c9

They both converge on roughly the same answer but one is clearly better quality than the other. The convergence is probably due to the well specified prompt which written by Gemini after a short chat.
by ceh123 | 2026-01-09 23:51:59+00:00
Context: I finished a PhD in pure math in 2025 and have transitioned to being a data scientist and I do ML/stats research on the side now.

For me, deep research tools have been essential for getting caught up with a quick lit review about research ideas I have now that I'm transitioning fields. They have also been quite helpful with some routine math that I'm not as familiar with but is relatively established (like standard random matrix theory results from ~5 years ago).

It does feel like the spectrum of utility is pretty aligned with what you might expect: routine programming > applied ML research > stats/applied math research > pure math research.

I will say ~1 year ago they were still useless for my math research area, but things have been changing quickly.
by lurk2 | 2026-01-09 23:52:00+00:00
> I still can today. It's background mode, part of Youtube Premium.

If you’re trying to make the case that things are just as good under Tim Cook as they were under Jobs, paywalling commonly-used features behind a monthly subscription is not an argument in your favor.

> You can still do that, too. USB-C to headphone adapters are easy to use and cheap.

Using an adapter means I can’t charge the device while I’m using headphones. It’s also pointlessly cumbersome.
by tzs | 2026-01-09 23:52:02+00:00
> They are going after illegal immigrants.

They are also going after legal immigrants who have any crime on their record, even just a misdemeanor from decades ago. There was one a few weeks ago for example of a Canadian who has lived here for something like 30 years, since he was a child, on a permanent resident visa. As a teen he participated in some normal but illegal high school shenanigan and got a misdemeanor on his record. When returning from a business trip to Canada he was stopped and deported over that high school misdemeanor.

They are also trying to make it hard for these people to defend themselves. For example in another case they are trying to deport a legal permanent resident who came here is a kid from the UK something like 40 or 50 years ago. She has an American husband, American children, and American grandchildren. A decade or two she wrote a check for a small amount and failed to ensure enough money was in the account. She pleaded guilty to the lowest level of passing a bad check and served probation. This is the only blemish on her record.

Not only have they decided that she needs to be expelled as quickly as possible, they put her in a detention facility far from her home even though there are facilities with room much closer to home, making it hard for her family to visit. I believe I read they have also moved her at least once, making it hard for her lawyer to visit. (I believe she also may have spent time in solitary, because she kept asking for someone to be allowed to bring her prescription medicine, but I may be mixing that up with another case).

Even if you can somehow make a case that every non-citizen who is legally here no matter how long should be deported if they have any blemish on their record, no matter how minor, I don't see how you can make case that they should deliberately make it hard for them to get a hearing.

I also don't see how you can make a case that they should even be in detention. If you really think there is a risk that they would run rather than stay around until their hearing, an ankle monitor would be sufficient and cheaper.
by iammjm | 2026-01-09 23:52:20+00:00
Thanks. I'll also add a couple of my tactics for other ADHDrs out there: I only have black same socks, underwear and T-shirts so I never have to bothered by them. I replaced my coffee machine with a simple French press, so the cleaning and maintenance is quick and easy. I add every fixed-date event to my calendar so that I get a notification when something is due and don't have to remember it. I write everything down and make lists so I keep track of stuff. I try to reduce all the fluff from my life to simplify it, and I am extremely weary of getting new things, because each thing comes with responsibilities such as maintenance, cleaning, storing and of course using it. I basically want daily stuff to leave me the fuck alone and I feel like this frees up a lot of mental resources for me
by muwtyhg | 2026-01-09 23:52:43+00:00
Taking your framing at face value (I disagree that the videos show this, but lets assume they do). Does shooting someone who is operating a vehicle aimed at you "end the threat"? What happened after the officer shot the driver? Did the car become more or less controlled?

Your first argument was "he's not trigger happy, he only shot her 1 or 2 times" (it was 3 times, by the way). And he "did it in under a second". None of that means he is not trigger happy. Trigger happy means he is inclined to use his weapon in situations where it is unwarranted and may escalate the situation. That is exactly what happened. He turned a woman operating a car into a dead body operating a car on a public street. In no way did he handle the situation correctly.
by jacquesm | 2026-01-09 23:53:11+00:00
I don't have a degree in either physics or math, but what AI helps me to do is to stay focused on the job before me rather than to have to dig through a mountain of textbooks or many wikipedia pages or scientific papers trying to find an equation that I know I've seen somewhere but did not register the location of and did not copy down. This saves many days, every day. Even then I still check the references once I've found it because errors can and do slip into anything these pieces of software produce, and sometimes quite large ones (those are easy to spot though).

So yes, there is value here, and quite a bit but it requires a lot of forethought in how you structure your prompts and you need to be super skeptical about the output as well as able to check that output minutely.

If you would just plug in a bunch of data and formulate a query and would then use the answer in an uncritical way you're setting yourself up for a world of hurt and lost time by the time you realize you've been building your castle on quicksand.
by SunshineTheCat | 2026-01-09 23:53:35+00:00
The notion that someone keeping what they earn is "theft" while having something forcibly taken from them via taxation isn't, is wild.

I agree everyone should pay taxes, including billionaires, but this is like saying if my neighbor doesn't give me his couch, he's stealing from me. It's just logically (and morally) wrong.
by christophilus | 2026-01-09 23:53:47+00:00
Claude Code is the best thing I’ve used, though it’s been a while since I tried other tools. If you want to give it a fair shot, that’s what I’d use. I use the Max plan, I think. I write my initial instructions in markdown with pseudo code for the parts that really matter.

Here’s an example prompt: https://christophilus.com/blog/posts/example-claude-code-pro...
by troad | 2026-01-09 23:54:29+00:00
As a person who's lived in Europe, I encourage you to try it. You'll find that there are some upsides to all the regulation, but also many downsides. More than you'd expect if you've never lived and worked in Europe before. Many things you take for granted - don't even think about - either don't work at all, or don't work well.

Not knocking Europe, but there's too much of a tendency online to picture Europe as some kind of Disneyland. Some of this is down to Americans who only know Europe from two-week holidays and picture it as a holiday utopia, some of it is Europeans who only know America from reality television and picture it as a hellscape.

Pop discourse != reality.
by throwawayffffas | 2026-01-09 23:54:50+00:00
Use a linter that can auto fix some of the problems and have an automatic formatter. Ruff can do both. It will decrease your cleanup workload.

Don't get too hanged up on typing. Pythons duck typing is a feature not a bug. It's ok to have loose types.

On duplicate code, in general you should see at least two examples of a pattern before trying to abstract it. Make sure the duplication/similarity is semantic and not incidental, if you abstract away incidental duplication, you will very quickly find yourself in a situation where the cases diverge and your abstraction will get in your way.

In general coding agents are technical debt printers. But you can still pay it off.
by text0404 | 2026-01-09 23:55:00+00:00
You could just read the article before knee-jerking to state repression.

> November 13, 2025 — Initial disclosure sent to Flock Safety security team

> November 14, 2025 — First follow-up requesting confirmation of receipt

> November 19, 2025 — Second follow-up; Flock Safety finally acknowledges receipt

> January 7, 2026 — Vulnerability remains unpatched (55+ days)

> I am withholding specific technical details to prevent exploitation while the vulnerability remains unpatched. However, its existence more than 55 days after responsible disclosure with no remediation, demonstrates a systemic pattern of credential mismanagement.
by ramraj07 | 2026-01-09 23:55:05+00:00
As the other person said, Deep Research is invaluable; but generating hypotheses is not as good at the true bleeding edge of the research. The ChatGPT 4.0 OG with no guardrails, briefly generated outrageously amazing hypotehses that actually made sense. After that they have all been neutered beyond use in this direction.
by j-krieger | 2026-01-09 23:55:14+00:00
> JD Vance and Musk are precisely the wrong entities to have opinions on stuff like this because they are on the wrong side of that line most of the time. Especially Musk, but Vance has his own ulterior motives to berate the EU on anything so regardless of the outcome it will be tainted.

People focus on Vance in this issue because they hate him and hate is easy to come by. They ignore that popular Democrats and progressives said the same thing. Hell, even the Atlantic posted a piece about the issue.
by jjulius | 2026-01-09 23:55:55+00:00
Sorry to confuse, it's 9:30 every night. Anything less than 7 and I'm wrecked. 7.5 is ideal, but I also feel great with 7. My non-scientific guess is that I spent so much of my teens and 20s getting less than 6 hours that my body is delighted by 7+ lol.

But yeah, I imagine I'll need more as time continues to pass and I get older.

/shrug

Edit: To say nothing of my mild fear of an inadequate amount of sleep in middle age possibly contributing to dementia, but I digress...
by kergonath | 2026-01-09 23:55:55+00:00
> What are we supposed to do with this information?

Nothing. It’s just fun.

> t would have been more meaningful if the author tried the GPU card with an old machine, rather than a Raspberry Pi

But then it would have been lame. Who cares? If your old machine is a x86 less than 10 years old it’s most likely faster than the Pi. But that’s not the point. The point is to pair a cheap fun computer with a humongous and expensive card and see if it works. Because it’s fun.
by mnky9800n | 2026-01-09 23:56:04+00:00
i think what is missing from this narrative is not whether or not people have a routine, it is that exercise elevates your mood away from the depressed state, therapy encourages you to question your thoughts and decisions through out your day that might lead you away from a depressed state. to put it a different way, whats the point of exercising every day if you continue the thoughts and habits that are less than satisfactory to you without any self awareness?
by atmavatar | 2026-01-09 23:57:46+00:00
> From watching the videos, especially this latest one, she tried to hit the officer.

I don't see this at all. She was turning her steering wheel hard right when the officer was standing at the front left corner of her vehicle, indicating her intent was to drive around the guy. You can see that in the two or three seconds before the officer's camera jerks.

If this was the only video we have of the incident, you might be forgiven for assuming that she was unsuccessful in avoiding him, but the earlier video caught from a different perspective made it look like the officer hopped out of the way untouched. In any case, even if contact was made, it wasn't severe enough for the officer to drop the phone despite being held in one hand while at the same time drawing and firing his gun multiple times at the driver.

I've seen far worse strikes/near-misses happen when parents teach their teenagers to drive for the first time where everyone walks away unhurt.
by klipklop | 2026-01-09 23:58:32+00:00
>In a chaotic couple of seconds, she turns the wheel to the right and pulls >forwards.

>The camera jerks up to the sky. "Woah, woah!" a voice says, as bangs are heard.

This seems like a rather misleading description of what happened. It's plain as day the car makes contact with him as she attempts to drive off (with him in front of the car). I guess they just rely on biasing people before they see the video for themselves?
by D-Machine | 2026-01-09 23:58:35+00:00
I do / have done research in building deep learning models and custom / novel attention layers, architectures, etc., and AI (ChatGPT) is tremendously helpful in facilitating (semantic) search for papers in areas where you may not quite know the magic key words / terminology for what you are looking for. It is also very good at linking you to ideas / papers that you might not have realized were related.

I also found it can be helpful when exploring your mathematical intuitions on something, e.g. like how a dropout layer might effect learned weights and matrix properties, etc. Sometimes it will find some obscure rigorous math that can be very enlightening or relevant to correcting clumsy intuitions.
by mnky9800n | 2026-01-09 23:58:41+00:00
thats right. a year ago i decided, fuck this going to the gym randomly and not having a plan and only kind of committing. im going to do it. so i got a trainer, committed to 4 days a week, and so far ive kept that up for a year. and now, if i find myself running out of time in the day i make time for the gym. it is such a part of my routine that i simply do it without much questioning. because i know if i dont go i will no longer be able to do the things in the gym the way i do them today. i enjoy that feeling and wish to continue. i think the point of life, at least partially, is to figure out things that you enjoy that don't take from you and do them consistently.
by newyankee | 2026-01-09 23:58:47+00:00
Exactly, and I think not every instance can be claimed to be a hallucination, there will be so much latent knowledge they might have explored.

It is likely we might see some AlphaGo type new styles in existing research workflows that AI might work out if there is some verification logic. Humans could probably never go into that space, or may be none of the researchers ever ventured there due to different reasons as progress in general is mostly always incremental.
by abdullahkhalids | 2026-01-09 23:59:04+00:00
I work in quantum computing. There is quite a lot of material about quantum computing out there that these LLMs must have been trained on. I have tried a few different ones, but they all start spouting nonsense about anything that is not super basic.

But maybe that is just me. I have read some of Terence Tao's transcripts, and the questions he asks LLMs are higher complexity than what I ask. Yet, he often gets reasonable answers. I don't yet know how I can get these tools to do better.
by muwtyhg | 2026-01-09 23:59:11+00:00
Female is a word that can refer to any species. Woman is a human female. The use of "female" is often used to dehumanize the subject, and is almost never used consistently. I am guessing you do not, off the cuff, refer to men as "males". It sounds weird as hell.

> Anyway, law enforcement is fully within their right to meet deadly force with deadly force

Do you disagree that the driver had her wheels turned away from the officer who shot her?
by observationist | 2026-01-09 23:59:13+00:00
I think they mean in a more general way - thinking with tau instead of pi might shift the context in terms of another method or problem solving algorithm, or there might be obscure or complex uses of tau or pi that haven't cross-fertilized in the literature - where it might be natural to think of clever extensions or use cases in one context but not the other, and those extensions and extrapolations will be apparent to AI, within reach of a tedious and exhaustive review of existing literature.

I think what they were getting at is something like this: The application of existing ideas that simply haven't been applied in certain ways because it's too boring or obvious or abstract for humans to have bothered with, but AI can plow through a year's worth of human drudgery in a day or a month or so, and that sort of "brute force" won't require any amazing new technical capabilities from AI.
by j-krieger | 2026-01-09 23:59:39+00:00
Well you see, <my side>'s swarm intelligence is organic and honest and people from <other side> are bots.

Jokes aside, the Harris campaign openly manipulated Reddit to get their opinions on the top [1]. I was there on election night. The entire site slowed to a crawl. Opinions of people you normally never read gained hundreds to thousands of upvotes. It felt organic for exactly one day.

[1]: https://thefederalist.com/2024/10/29/busted-the-inside-story...
by aebtebeten | 2026-01-09 23:59:46+00:00
Maybe I'm way too cynical, but I think having you decide not to visit national parks is part of the game*:

1) make it unpleasant to visit a national park
2) say: "see, no one visits national parks, we should privatize them"
3) profit!

Yes, this is galling, but lawyers joke about the kind of client who would kill his own parents and then throw himself on the mercy of the court as an orphan.

* the game as described by Eric Arthur Blair:

> O’Brien: How does one man assert his power over another, Winston?

> Winston: By making him suffer.

> O’Brien: Exactly. By making him suffer. Obedience is not enough. Unless he is suffering, how can you be sure that he is obeying your will and not his own?
by cmxch | 2026-01-09 23:59:48+00:00
It’s not sold as impact, but is impact - intentional impact by the decedent striking the officer with their body cam (not a cell phone) on while the decedent’s co-conspirator said “Drive, baby drive” - which establishes felony murder charges against the decedent’s wife in a much less sympathetic federal court.

ICE did nothing wrong here and should be protected - even if a state chooses to not honor any Minnesota charges and intentionally prevents Minnesota (or anyone else) from kidnapping any protected ICE officer or impacted civilian.

And if you simply want to keep trying to justify attempted murder on an ICE officer, I cannot cure your persistent ideological blindness nor cure your irrational bloodlust.

I can only stand athwart the insatiable hatred of this administration and its supporters. And no CBC narrative security analyst can change that.
by extra_rice | 2026-01-10 00:00:06+00:00
For some time, I used org-mode for almost all type of note taking. I love the structure being functional without HTML rendering. However, it's pretty much locked to emacs and so the portability is very poor. I need most of my notes to be at least readable on my mobile devices.

When I discovered Obsidian, I decided to fully switch to Markdown. It's very nice that it supports vi bindings.