MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by misswaterfairy | 2026-01-16 04:20:50+00:00
Unproven in the sense that it'll become 'super intelligent', et al.

For a statistical word salad generator that is _generally_ coherent, sure it's proven.

But for other claims, such as replacing all customer service roles[1], to the lament of customers[2], and now that a number of companies are re-hiring staff they sacked because 'AI would make them redundant'[3] still make me strongly assert that Generative AI isn't the trillion dollar industry it is trying to market itself as.

Sure it has a few tricks, and helps in a number of cases, therefore is useful in those cases, but it isn't an 'earth-shattering mass-human-redundancy' technology, that colossally stupid amounts of circular investments are being poured into it which, I argue, makes fabs mostly, if not solely, dedicating themselves to AI are now in a precarious position when the AI bubble collapses.

[1] https://www.cxtoday.com/contact-center/openai-ceo-sam-altman...

[2] https://www.thestreet.com/technology/salesforce-ai-faces-bac...

[3] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/companies-quietly-rehiring-wo...
by datsci_est_2015 | 2026-01-16 04:23:43+00:00
Is election cancellation the only form of anti-democratic action? That would be quite naive to believe, wouldn’t it?

Actually, there’s quite a bit of reactionary political theory regarding the weaknesses of liberal democracy and how they can be exploited, especially concerning the concept of the “friend and the enemy”. It’s an incredibly powerful tactic to make the people believe that liberal democracy is not up to the task of navigating the rough waters of “extraordinary times”, nevermind if those extraordinary times are imagined or even manufactured. No, only a strong, decisive, and unencumbered executive can save us.
by mmis1000 | 2026-01-16 04:24:33+00:00
Knowing something is wonky and knowing how to fix something wonky effectively without pissing anyone are completely different level of tasks though.

Knowing things is bad only requires knowledge of the product itself. But fixing it requires understanding of the whole infrastructure and members around the project.

An outsider can't do it. And the insider don't necessarily think the project is bad from his perspective. You would have to argue with him to convince him the project is bad. Which really don't bring any value to the outsider themselves. And it can even be harmful.
by deevus | 2026-01-16 04:25:28+00:00
Yep I spent a lot of time trawling through the midclt and webui source code to understand how to work with it. Are you using this in a professional context or homelab only?

All of the existing terraform providers for TrueNAS can't create apps with the latest version that uses docker, not kubernetes.

Please tell me what you need by creating issues on the repo
by whatever1 | 2026-01-16 04:27:17+00:00
Regex is not used for parsing HTML or C++ code. So it is not good for complex tasks.

What is the claim? That it is compact for simple cases. Well Brainfuck is a compact programming language but I don't see it in production. Why?

Because the whole point of programming is that multiple eyeballs of different competence are looking at the same code. It has to be as legible as possible.
by cratermoon | 2026-01-16 04:28:30+00:00
As a consultant I've been brought in on both good and bad projects.
In one example, I figured out pretty soon the project was only kept alive because it was deemed high priority by upper management.
I gave the engineering manager and project manager my recommendations for how mitigate a few of the highest risk problems, and maybe salvage something.
After not hearing back from anyone for a month I realized that nobody was going to risk making waves for an effort they'd already decided was going to fail.
Mostly they were positioning themselves to not be blamed at the post mortem.
by teraflop | 2026-01-16 04:29:10+00:00
In that respect, it reminds me a bit of the busy beaver problem.

I wonder: consider the decision problem of determining whether or not a given still life is glider-constructible. Is this problem known to be undecidable?

It's straightforward to show that an "inverse" of this problem -- given an arbitrary glider construction sequence, does it result in a still life? -- is undecidable, because gliders can construct patterns that behave like arbitrary Turing machines.
by w7 | 2026-01-16 04:29:46+00:00
It's funny to me as well. Being initially inspired by Yelp's dockersh I wrote a functional MVP of the same concept around 2 years ago. It used a custom Go sshd-proxy to spawn kata-container backed pods in kubernetes. I used it personally for a very brief period of time, and found it useful as a small timesaver for testing things. I wasn't comfortable with monetizing it though. After seeing a few of these pop up, I realize maybe I missed my chance to be early.

As far as self-hosting goes, it looks like there are some FOSS projects now, eg https://containerssh.io/
by soulofmischief | 2026-01-16 04:29:47+00:00
Good questions. If we're going by Oxford's definition of "stop feeling angry or resentful", I think the PTSD is here to stay, along with other facets of my personality and life which will always remind me of my experiences. Past that, I have made peace with my life, because that's the thing I'll always have to grapple with. Otherwise, I would just be so bitter... Instead, I focus on how statistically lucky I am to still be alive.

But I have no intention of speaking to my father or grandfather ever again. As for my mother, I laid out clear terms for what it would take to begin communication with me again, and she responded about as narcissistically as you can imagine... So I have made my peace with that as well. She's in prison now and I have no plans to reach out to her while she's in there. She lied to me about the situation, lied to me about the case, and lied to me about the sentencing. So as far as I should know, she's not even in prison. I had to pay the local clerk of court for access to her court documents just to know the truth.
by anabis | 2026-01-16 04:30:36+00:00
OpenCode has 11 options for installation.

I knew curl, npm, and docker, but asked Gemini about the rest:

bun, pnpm, yarn, brew, scoop, chocolatey, paru, mise.

Although its wonderful that people are building and creating, I also hope it calms down somewhat so I can choose from well tested few options in the future.
by cookiengineer | 2026-01-16 04:32:36+00:00
No they sadly don't have that, and that's the major issue of connectivity. All chat recipients have to be online/reachable to receive your messages, which is okay, but useless in mobile environments where you can't afford that constant traffic.

The broadcast type channels though are what the article talks about, they are great for off the grid and mesh environments.

Relaying and scattering traffic across neighboring peers (and handshakes via multicast DNS, for example) would fix a lot of the issues you'll get with Briar, but I guess that would imply a refactor of the codebase.

For these types of NAT breaking issues, a lot of protocols rely on TURN/TURTLE routing.

For my experimental software router I'm relying on broken firewall deep packet inspection, so I'm using exfil / smuggling protocols. Currently still works, according to my local setup of the great firewall (it's source leak was legit btw).
by simplisticelk | 2026-01-16 04:33:23+00:00
Economically viable uses for intermittently cheap energy has proven to be quite difficult. Most energy intensive industries require high capacity factors to cover capital costs.

£90 wind energy does not make for a low cost energy environment. And if spot prices dropped substantially the UK government is going to be taking a massive loss on these contracts.

I’m coming across as very negative in this thread, but I do really want renewable energy to succeed. I just work in the industry so I’m very aware of how challenging it is to make the economics stack up, so I find these puff pieces a bit exasperating.
by ajkjk | 2026-01-16 04:34:34+00:00
ah, to be clear, I'm not really talking about anyone's individual values here. It may well be that a person is as rewarded, or even moreso, getting to work on some pie-in-the-sky foolish idea as they are one that is productive for society.

My point is that, from the viewpoint of an external observer: we want people doing prosocial work if it's possible, so if there's counterfactuals where they do or don't, we'd rather they do. And the point of taking moral stances on stuff is to press for the attitudes and behaviors that lead to a world that maximize's everyone's safety and happiness and prosperity and whatnot. Therefore it is moral, at some level: a world where the company wastes money on dumb stuff is worse than a world where the company channels that money into value for humanity.

It has nothing to do with the individual's preferences, and I don't begrudge them their preferences either way. My point is that when we're evaluating "letting projects fail" as a policy, the moral angle needs to be part of the conversation, because it does have moral implications. Convincing yourself that it does not is a moral choice: it amounts to saying that you do not feel responsible for those implications in the slightest. That doesn't mean you should turn around and be fully responsible for them, either. As with anything there is a lot to weigh. But completely writing it off seems wrong.
by JBlue42 | 2026-01-16 04:36:09+00:00
>The post office will attempt to deliver if you put an address on it.

I still find it fascinating that we developed this human system, with expectations that are still in play, even if some aspects become less and less relevant, it's still an important tool beyond being dependent on technology. Same with lending libraries. A few things we should cherish that have real ethics in this lets-monetize-everything world.
by kristopolous | 2026-01-16 04:37:23+00:00
I don't think anyone's nailing this right

It's manufactured grievance. Opportunists politicize losing positions for political gain because they're inherently anti-elite, anti-establishment and upset experts and the informed.

Upon this antagonization is conflict which brings on drama, eyeballs, and advertisers.

It's an attention flywheel that brings loyalty, builds a moat, and sets a differentiator...

They trial balloon these things all the time dredging up long settled ideas from decades ago about things like vaccines, the earth being flat, child labor, the moral condemnation of slavery, the "Jewish question"...

And it works. There's plenty who hop on a mic completely unprepared, hustle this formula about how they're fighting "for you" and make millions of dollars...
by duskdozer | 2026-01-16 04:37:40+00:00
I see. I've always just used `#!/usr/env/bin bash`. I wonder if there's a directive to hint at incompatibilities without changing it? I'll have to see.

And this isn't meant snarkily - why should I care if my scripts are portable? I've worked on a number of different devices and types but have seemingly always had access to bash.
by selcuka | 2026-01-16 04:37:59+00:00
> Only if they were linked - you blew up a plane that was about to be flown into a building for example.

That's a bad example (because all 99 will die anyway if you don't do something, so you're not really killing 49 to save 50), but ignoring that, I don't think you can trivially answer such questions. They have been discussed by many philosophers for the last few thousands of years and we don't seem to have a common agreement about ethics and morality.

Would you change your answer if the building was a prison for 50 child abusers, and the plane carried 48 newborn babies (plus the pilot)? Why? A human is a human, right?
by gabriel-uribe | 2026-01-16 04:38:14+00:00
Yep, lots of bike shedding right now.

To be fair, Cowork and similar things are just trying to take the agentic workflows and tools that developers are already accessing (eg most of us have already been working with files in Cursor/CC/Codex for a long time now, it's nothing new) and making them friendly for others.
by dannyobrien | 2026-01-16 04:39:50+00:00
I'm happy to bet with that skills -- or "a set of instructions in markdown that get sucked into your context under certain conditions" will stick around. Similarly, I think that the Claude Code/Cowork -- or "interactive prompt using shell commands on a local filesystem" -- will also stick around.

I fully anticipate there being a fair amount of thrashing on what exactly the right wrapper is around both of those concepts. I think the hard thing is to discriminate between the learned constants (vim/emacs) are from the attempts to re-jiggle or extend that (plugins, etc); it's actually useful to get reviews of these experiments exactly so you don't have to install all of them to find out whether they add anything.

(On skills, I think that the reason why there "aren't good examples out there" is because most people just have a stack of impromptu local setups. It takes a bit of work to extract those to throw them out into the public, and right now it's difficult to see that kind of activity over lots of very-excitable hyping, as you rightly describe.

The deal with skills and other piles of markdown is that they don't look, even from a short distance, like you can construct a business model for them, so I think they may well end up in the world of genuine open source sharing, which is a much smaller, but saner, place.
Ericsson Silent Layoffs in the US
by allabouttech | 2026-01-16 04:40:02+00:00
I just saw the post here about silent layoffs happening at Ericsson.

Seeing more signals across the telecom sector pointing to cost restructuring and potential workforce reductions this quarter.

Given margin pressure, shifting capex priorities, and automation accelerating faster than most orgs anticipated, this isn’t entirely surprising — but it’s still a tough moment.

Hoping companies handle whatever comes next with transparency and empathy. There’s a lot of talented people in this space who deserve clarity and respect.
by davidgay | 2026-01-16 04:40:09+00:00
> In my experience, when one begins to program in Prolog, they pepper their code with cuts to try and stop unwanted bactracking, which can often be avoided by understanding why Prolog is backtracking in the first place.

This gets to the heart of my problem with Prolog: it's sold as if it's logic programming - just write your first-order predicate logic and we'll solve it. But then to actually use it you have to understand how it's executed - "understanding why Prolog is backtracking in the first place".

At that point, I would just prefer a regular imperative programming language, where understanding how it's executed is really straightforward, combined with some nice unification library and maybe a backtracking library that I can use explicitly when they are the appropriate tools.
by SilverElfin | 2026-01-16 04:40:25+00:00
Every five years feels too infrequent. These are planes that are 30 years old and have done 100,000 hours of flying. Apparently UPS policy is to keep them around for about 35 years to maximize the ROI. But maybe once they hit a particular age they need to be inspected deeply every few months.

I am not an expert, however. Can metal fatigue be detected with such infrequent inspection?
by 1shooner | 2026-01-16 04:41:04+00:00
My understanding is that it relates to the flood routing in meshtastic. I haven't heard a real-world failure example, but another comment on this post mentioned defcon being a case (I don't know anything about that).

I did find this assessment:

https://www.disk91.com/2024/technology/lora/critical-analysi...

And here is Meshtastics explanation of the rationale behind 'managed flood routing':

https://meshtastic.org/blog/why-meshtastic-uses-managed-floo...

I think I first heard about the differences from Andy Kirby, one of the MeshCore creators:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNWf0Mh2fJw
by Izkata | 2026-01-16 04:41:45+00:00
"Deserved" is a stronger word than "earned" or "merited", there's a sense of satisfaction or entitlement (though negative) behind that word. Something like, to say that she deserved death means saying she should have died for what she did, that it was the right outcome. That's not what we're saying. It's more like, the actions the officer took weren't in the wrong despite the bad outcome. She made really bad choices, and she was the one at fault, but there were better possible outcomes given the exact same series of events and she didn't deserve to die. But it's not a surprising outcome either.

Another quick aside since I suspect this is a second point of confusion, "lethal force" does not mean "with the intent to kill", it means "force that is likely to cause severe injury or death".
by soulofmischief | 2026-01-16 04:42:49+00:00
God is a great author to reference. The Bible is filled with enough atrocities and inconsistencies that it remains my number one recommendation for deprogramming Christians.

God told Abraham to kill his son as a test of fealty, then psyched him at the end:

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

God flooded the entire fucking earth, killing countless innocent people:

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

God rained sulfur upon a city because they were sucking too much dick, and turned a guy's wife into salt:

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2019&ve...

Now, you could point out that many of the stories in Genesis, including the Garden of Eden, can actually be traced back to older works, such as the epic of Gilgamesh.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_of_Gilgamesh#Relationship...

And I would agree, and this further weakens the legitimacy of the Christian mythos.
by Rendello | 2026-01-16 04:43:30+00:00
I've wanted to try out the "2 hour cocktail party", based on the book linked in this HN comment. The author started doing this after moving to NYC, just hosting a cocktail party every month or so and inviting interesting people that he'd met. I haven't tried it yet, but it seems to cover all the classic hosting missteps and pains that I've experienced in the few get-togethers I'd previously hosted:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32879851
by throw10920 | 2026-01-16 04:44:20+00:00
> It is tedious because you must edit with facts, not ideology.

Wikipedia is ideological. Even when the articles stick to the facts (which they often don't), editors will selectively omit inconvenient (but factually true) information to push their ideology.

As a recent, first-hand example of this, witness the highly ideologically motivated Wikipedia editors actively suppressing discussion of Hasan Piker's dog abuse/shock collar scandal: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Hasan_Piker&...
by lovich | 2026-01-16 04:46:41+00:00
>Please continue doing whatever you're doing now that is working for you

Lol.

It doesn't work out because I don't have leverage, and tried to stand up for what I believe in. I also don't believe it would work for you unless you had views that aligned with the current oligarchical leadership that the entire US industry is operating under.

If you only have a good time when you found the "right" founder, because they will and are capable of harming your career or income when you disagree with them, and the law does effectively nothing to protect you from their ego driven tantrums, then you are a serf at best.

I'd agree with you if it was relatively common that employees who had differences of opinions with founders of companies, weren't forced out, but that is not my experience.

I do not find contentment out of accepting that some assholes are my Betters because they have more money than me.
by hackyhacky | 2026-01-16 04:47:49+00:00
> This gets to the heart of my problem with Prolog: it's sold as if it's logic programming - just write your first-order predicate logic and we'll solve it. But then to actually use it you have to understand how it's executed

Prolog is a logic-flavored programming language. I don't recall Prolog ever being "sold" as pure logic. More likely, an uninformed person simply assumed that Prolog used pure logic.

Complaining that Prolog logic doesn't match mathematical logic is like complaining that C++ objects don't accurately model real-life objects.
by monterrey | 2026-01-16 04:49:21+00:00
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by stickfigure | 2026-01-16 04:49:24+00:00
It can still fit the narrative. There's a game theory to blackmail; if Putin publishes (hypothetical) kompromat then he loses his leverage. So as long as Trump remains less hostile to Russia than the alternative, he can do what he wants.

Also, support for Ukraine is very popular in the US, and Trump is clearly concerned about his image. Also about a potential revolt in the GOP. Cracks are showing already.
by kmeisthax | 2026-01-16 04:50:27+00:00
"Supergun" is a term for an adapter intended to allow JAMMA-compatible arcade boards to be used with standard home video equipment. Normally, you'd need an arcade cabinet with a JAMMA port, compatible arcade-RGB display, and all the wiring harnesses behind it, but that is a space hog and most people don't want one in their house.
by noosphr | 2026-01-16 04:50:41+00:00
If I have zero wives yesterday and one today, by next week I will need a new house for all my new wives.

Like I said in the original post:

>Even the people who understand the scale don't understand the purpose.

>The Chinese grid isn't renewable or non-renewable. It's built to keep the lights on for anything short of a thousand year catastrophe.

Only capitalists are so penny wise and pound foolish to bet their civilization on the lowest bidder while hoping the inevitable doesn't happen in the next quarter.
by shiroiuma | 2026-01-16 04:51:57+00:00
>I’m already seeing colleagues at work using AI to generate documentations and then call it a day. It’s like they are oblivious to how _ugly_ and _ineffective_ the AI generated AI slops are:

I'm sure their slop looks FAR better than the garbage my coworkers write. I really wish my coworkers would use AI to edit their writing, because then it might actually be comprehensible.
by jacquesm | 2026-01-16 04:52:34+00:00
I recall a lot of fingerpointing minutes after the crash by people blaming the presumably foreign maintenance crew.

Even now there is a lot of uncertainty around this crash, maintenance - or lack thereof - or even wrong maintenance could still be a factor. But given the location of the part asking for a 'visual inspection' is a pretty strange move, the part is all but inaccessible when it is in its normal position and even with an endoscope it would be pretty hard to determine whether or not the part had weakened. That's just not going to show up visually until it is way too late unless the part has been especially prepared to announce the presence of hairline cracks.

You'd have to disassemble a good chunk of the wing to gain access to the part based on the pictures I've seen of how it all holds together when assembled.