MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by threatofrain | 2026-01-17 07:03:07+00:00
> I think in this case the expectation is set differently up front, with a "ChatGPT can make mistakes" footer on every chat.

If I keep telling you I suck at math while getting smarter every few months, eventually you're just going to introduce me as the friend who is too unconfident but is super smart at math. For many people LLMs are smarter than any friend they know, especially at K-12 level.

You can make the warning more shrill but it'll only worsen this dynamic and be interpreted as routine corporate language. If you don't want people to listen to your math / medical / legal advice, then you've got to stop giving decent advice. You have to cut the incentive off at the roots.

This effect may force companies to simply ban chatbots from certain conversation.
by madmod | 2026-01-17 07:05:24+00:00
They are the tiny 8010s. I don't produce much with this setup so accurate near field monitoring was all that I needed. I love how crystal clear the high end is with these. I bought them used and they were pretty beat up. I take them traveling so as an anti theft measure I painted them neon green and covered them in stickers to make them look cheap. They are mounted on magic arms to the aluminum extrusion. I also have some random Klipsch subwoofer. I send them a balanced output from a yamaha mixer at 192khz.
by toast0 | 2026-01-17 07:05:57+00:00
> Being in nature, all alone is not social though, is it? Why are people so frustrated? What am I missing?

Let's say I'm out in the woods, being non social. And someone comes up the path, playing music loudly. Now I'm being annoyed by people again, which is what I was trying to avoid by being out in the woods. And they're usually on a motorized vehicle, even though motorized vehicles are prohibited on the path.

I'm not trying to tell people how to live their lives. If they want to apprechiate nature in silence, cool. If they want to listen to music, cool ... but it'd be nice if they used headphones and it would be acceptable if they had a speaker at reasonable volume, but when I can hear them before I can see them, it's really not cool.

If they want to walk with a friend and chat, that's ok too.
by racked | 2026-01-17 07:07:20+00:00
> As I ranted against the '90s and "how hard it was back then to have access to information", my wife came over the workbench, looked at the HDD, and then calmly informed me the J50 was the pins on the left. Hein, mais comment tu sais ca? Then she flipped the HDD to show me the PCB pins were labeled!

Mr. Sanglard is a lucky man :-)
by navar | 2026-01-17 07:08:01+00:00
As far as I can tell it should be possible to reuse this fine tuning code entirely and just replace `--embedder_name_or_path BAAI/bge-base-en-v1.5` with `--embedder_name_or_path MongoDB/mdbr-leaf-ir`

Note that bge-base-en-v1.5 is a 110M params model - our is 23M.
* BEIR performance is bge=53.23 vs ours=53.55
* RTEB performance is bge=43.75 vs ours=44.82
-> overall they should be very similar, except ours is 5x smaller and hence that much faster.
by solatic | 2026-01-17 07:10:26+00:00
Like I said, if SROs are legal, you will get better and worse examples. Certainly a lot of people lived in university dormitories which are not, of course, filled with the dregs of society. Is there a market for an SRO hall filled with young Congressional staffers in Washington DC? Or one on Wall Street for young entry-level folk working in investment banks pulling 16 hour days in their first couple of years? Almost certainly. You keep out the dregs of society the same as anywhere else: you charge more than the cheapest places and ask people to sign a strict behavioral code where violations result in quick eviction.

And you share a toilet with a hundred other people in your workplace. So what? SRO rent pays for cleaning staff for common areas.
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-01-17 07:11:04+00:00
> At the worse it was state traffic offense. Something ICE has no, nada, zero, jurisdiction over

And to underline: the historic problem with thuggery is the delegitimization of law enforcement.

Good was given conflicting instructions, none of which seem to have been legally issued. If you’re going to be shot and cursed out when stopped by the cops, at a certain point, the rational action becomes disarming by any means your security threat and then dealing with the legal consequences later. (If I’m being held up at gunpoint for no reason, I’m not considering the law when weighing my options for escape or disarming my opponent.)

Miller wants to invoke the Insurrection Act. The ICE agents are just as stupid and pawnish in this game as the left-wing agitator.
by wahern | 2026-01-17 07:11:58+00:00
You mean, rewrite the prompt: "Please summarize the article again, but this time identify and explain any references to Geocities".

P.S. I don't mean to assume the previous commenter used ML to summarize, but it just occurred to me some people probably are, and missing details like that is probably common, more common than missing a reference the classic way, otherwise it wouldn't be a summary. At the same time, they may consider themselves to have read the article.
by nlawalker | 2026-01-17 07:12:39+00:00
I really like the sentiment here, and Handmade Network has such a cool vibe, but I can't help but think that he/they would have a bigger impact by focusing more on illustrating to people how this mindset leads to value and less on teaching and learning the skills.

>Building it yourself might sound crazy, but it’s been done successfully many times before—for example, Figma famously built their app from scratch in WASM and WebGL, and it runs shockingly well on very large projects.

Yes, let's hear more about this. "Collapsing Reddit comments could have been like 180ms faster" isn't very convincing to smart, ambitious people deciding what they want to be about. Find more examples like Figma and get people to believe that there's still lots of room for up and comers to make a name for themselves by standing on their performance, and they'll take care of the learning and building themselves.
by dwaite | 2026-01-17 07:13:56+00:00
One beancounter way that I think has been used to justify the strategy - FCX and the like are currently also sold as paid upgrades at time of machine purchase. This is another way to bump up the average price of the computers outside BTO.

It also frames the cost of the software differently, as part of a much larger purchase and as enabling other uses for the new machine. I suspect this is a fairly large sales channel for the software.

That makes me wonder how this new suite strategy (as well as other subscription efforts like AppleCare One) play into the purchase experience going forward.
by fabiensanglard | 2026-01-17 07:14:52+00:00
What a timing you have :) ! Digital Foundry did a piece just 12 days ago (https://youtu.be/npMujOQsjGQ?si=4c8fmYDTMrRzFNhl&t=503).

"When Unreal came out, it supported three renderer. Software, Glide, and PowerVR."

My MMX Pentium MMX 233MHz (512x384 with Creative Voodoo 2, patch patch 223 from https://oldunreal.com/downloads/unreal/oldunreal-patches/) benchmark, the intro goes from 60fps down to 10 fps when the whole castle is seen in the intro. When I start the game, in the cell, I can see 20fps.

I think the CPU is too light for this game. Definitely a title that requires a Pentium II.

Note that all fps gathered with "stat fps". There is a timedemo (https://www.gweb.me.uk/gweb/unrealsetup.htm) that I shall give a try someday.
by defrost | 2026-01-17 07:15:26+00:00
Sure .. but 'less' so.

In the EU, European Union, member countries are voting on EU positions .. whether it's weighted or unweighted, it's a collection of N countries voting, not a collection of N millions of people voting.

Similarly in the USofA, formed as a union of states to have a common government for those things that are agreed to superseded individual state interests.

I live in a country with mandatory voting - everybody (of age, save for those convicted of _serious_ crime) votes, and ranked proportional voting.

Compulsory voting offends the sensibilities of a number of USofA citizens, but there is a strong case to be made for it, ranked voting does a lot to avoid two party Hotelling's law quagmires where major parties barely represent anybody and yet MySportingTeam divisions dominate.
by unsnap_biceps | 2026-01-17 07:16:51+00:00
No, the vast majority of parrots released into the wild will just die a terrible death. They don't have a flock to live with and don't know how to survive. It's like if you took a bunch of TikTok influencers and threw them into a random forest completely without any support or help. Some will figure it out, but most would not, even if the weather won't kill them right away, they'll eat the wrong thing, drink the wrong thing, or not know how to protect themselves from other animals.
by kelnos | 2026-01-17 07:17:07+00:00
Tough shit. "I don't like how earbuds feel" does not mean you should feel free to add noise pollution to everyone else's day.

Regardless, earbuds are only one type of headphone. I'm sure someone with an earbud sensitivity can find another type that works well. And if not, again: tough shit; no music for you.
by ralferoo | 2026-01-17 07:18:10+00:00
It's maybe best not to give too much context to this, except just to warn you to turn down the volume and not watch if you might suffer from epilepsy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJT8vfraCmk

When this was first presented, I was watching this in a large dark hall with this on the projector and the sound level set to extremely loud. Like a fool, I sat through this to the end wondering whether it was going to ever end rather than recognising it as a glorious troll.
by ragall | 2026-01-17 07:18:43+00:00
As far as I can tell, PanGUI is a drawing library not a graphical toolkit. Its primitives are geometrical, not widgets. Its showcase is an audio app, which is as far away as possible from a boring productivity application that I'd like to do.

In my university days I was very much into GUIs, and I've written apps with wxWidgets, plain Gtk 1 and 2, GNOME 2, Qt, Tk, GNUstep and even some fairly obscure ones like E17 and FTLK. For my tastes, the nicest ones were probably GNOME2, Elementary and wxWidgets. Especially GNOME2, which had a simple builder that let me create the basic shell of an app, with some horizontal and vertical layout boxes that I could later "hydrate" with the application logic.
by M4v3R | 2026-01-17 07:19:11+00:00
Upon deeper inspection? Someone checked the Cargo file and proclaimed it was just Servo and QuickJS glued together without actually bothering to look if these dependencies are even being used.

In reality while project does indeed have Servo in its dependencies it only uses it for HTML tokenization, CSS selector matching and some low level structures. Javascript parsing and execution, DOM implementation & Layout engine was written from scratch with only one exception - Flexbox and Grid layouts are implemented using Taffy - a Rust layout library.

So while “from scratch” is debatable it is still immensely impressive to be that AI was able to produce something that even just “kinda works” at this scale.
by shevy-java | 2026-01-17 07:21:41+00:00
Except that there are:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feral_parrot#Other

How many there are in absolute numbers I don't know, but your depiction of all parrots being too stupid to live in the wild is also incorrect. And other animals die too all of the time, so that is not a good assessment.
by jen20 | 2026-01-17 07:21:58+00:00
This seems like an incredibly long winded, risky and inefficient way to install bun.

I've never actually (knowingly) run Bun before, but decided to give it a try - below is my terminal session to get it running (on macOS):

$ nix-shell -p bun

[nix-shell:~]$ bun
Bun is a fast JavaScript runtime, package manager, bundler, and test
runner. (1.3.5+1e86cebd7)

Usage: bun <command> [...flags] [...args]

Commands:
run ./my-script.ts Execute a file with Bun
lint Run a package.json script
... (rest of output trimmed)...

(Edited to wrap a long preformatted line)
by catlifeonmars | 2026-01-17 07:22:27+00:00
This seems less auditable though, because now there is more variability in the way something is installed. Now there are two layers to audit:

- What the agent is told to do in prose

- How the agent interprets those instructions with the particular weights/contexts/temperature at the moment.

I’m all for the prose idea, but wouldn’t want to trade determinism for it. Shell scripts can be statically analyzed. And also reviewed. Wouldn’t a better interaction be to use an LLM to audit the shell script, then hash the content?
by kelnos | 2026-01-17 07:22:30+00:00
> But yeah, it'd be rude to be doing it where other people are trying to enjoy nature.

Right, so you are a hiking music-player, but also a person who is sensitive to the experiences of others and not a douche. I think this thread is about the douchey people who do this in much more crowded spaces than you're used to. Maybe they have the same justifications as you have when you're alone, but they just don't hold water for me when there are other people around.
by cranium | 2026-01-17 07:23:30+00:00
Looks slick! In the >50" category, I've recently upgraded from the Samsung Odyssey G9 49" (with res 2x1440p) to a Samsung Odyssey G9 57" (2x4K). With a tiling window manager and workspaces it's really a pleasure to use, and contrarily to some beliefs, I do more focused work that way because I don't have to switch workspace to find the information I'm looking for – less risk of distraction.
by kelnos | 2026-01-17 07:26:56+00:00
In a city context it's still obnoxious. In my experience these people are playing their music loudly. Like you can hear it from 2-3 blocks away, even with vehicle noise.

And the vehicle noise is expected and "necessary", in that it's a street, and of course there will be noisy cars and motorcycles on it. The noise is also easier to treat as a background buzz and tune out. Loud music is not any of those things.

Cities are a delicate balance when it comes to noise: if you live in a city, you have to acknowledge that you're living in a densely-populated place with lots of other people around, and make your peace with the fact that there will be noise. But at the same time, each individual should also do their best to avoid polluting the air with unnecessary noise. And blasting music from a giant bluetooth speaker in a backpack is 100% unnecessary, rude, and selfish.
by reincarnate0x14 | 2026-01-17 07:29:03+00:00
You're not wrong, I just want to point out this is net-lmvm1, which is different and more complex. Not functionally meaningfully more complex to an adversary with a few hundred USD (almost typed LSD) in monies. But technically larger tables. That being said I'm in agreement that this has been known problem for 10+ years, and Google is just saying the horses are so long out of the barn their grandchildren are grazing.
by rellfy | 2026-01-17 07:29:18+00:00
I think this hasn't been yet achieved because components need to interface with each other easily. This requires a standard that all components implement, from which everything can be assembled together.

From that perspective, the idea of microservices is basically "IKEA for software" relying on (primarily) HTTP as the interface between components. But this doesn't really solve it entirely, or very elegantly, because you still need to write the server boilerplate and deploy it, which will be different depending on the programming language being used. Also, your app may require different protocols, so you'll be relying on different standards for different component interactions, therefore the interface is not constant across your entire application.

I believe there's one way we can achieve this reliably, which is via WebAssembly, specifically via the WASM component model [1].

But we need an ecosystem of components, and building an ecosystem that everyone uses and contributes to will likely be the challenging part. I'm actually working on this right now, the platform I've been building (asterai.io) started out as an agent building platform (using WASM components for tool calls) but is evolving into being mostly a registry and (open source) lightweight runtime for WASM components.

The idea of using WASM to solve for this is very simple in concept. Think about a tool like Docker, but instead of images you have an "environment" which is a file that defines a set of WASM components and ENV vars. That's basically it, you can then run that environment which will run all components that are executable. Components can call each other dynamically, so a component can act as a library as well, or it may be only a library and not an executable. A component can also only define an interface (which other components can implement), rather than contain any implementation code.

This architecture solves the main challenges that stop "IKEA for software" from being a reality:
1. You can write WASM components in any programming language.
2. You can add components to your environment/app with a single click, and interfacing is standardised via WIT [2].
3. Deploying it is the same process for any component or app.

Of course, it still would require significant WASM adoption to become a reality. But I think WASM is the best bet for this.

[1]: https://component-model.bytecodealliance.org
[2]: https://component-model.bytecodealliance.org/design/wit.html
by akomtu | 2026-01-17 07:30:24+00:00
Guardrails? OpenAI openly deceives users when it wraps this text generator with a quasi personality of a chatbot. This is how it gets users hooked. If OpenAI was honest, it would tell something along the lines: "this is a possible continuation of your input based on texts from reddit, adjust the temperature parameter to get a different result." But this would dispell the lie of AI.
by kelnos | 2026-01-17 07:30:29+00:00
The way I look at it when it comes to the comfort bits: if you aren't comfortable using headphones to listen to your music in a public place (for fit or safety or whatever reasons), then you don't get to listen to your music. It's just basic common courtesy. I find it mind-blowing that there are so many comments in this subthread supporting this sort of behavior.

I guarantee you that your 70% volume music while cycling is audible to people much farther from you than you think, and that many of those people are probably annoyed by it.
by Webstir | 2026-01-17 07:30:59+00:00
Lawyer here. I just did a couple dry runs.
That the stupidest petition I’ve ever seen. Worse than most pro se people who just write in the blanks using state provided templates.

Family law is one of the most contested, and high stakes areas of law to work in. People take things like, oh, losing custody of their children as seriously as a heart attack.

Sooner or later one of the people who use your product are going to fuck up and blame you. I really hope you have good lawyers, because they’re gonna come after you next and your little disclaimer at the bottom isn’t going to protect you for squat.

You should probably take it down now before you get yourself in waaay over your head in a lawsuit. And let me tell you, be a smart guy and step on lawyers profession, they will come after you with a vengeance if someone hires them to do so.

Shut it down and run away man.
by keybored | 2026-01-17 07:31:04+00:00
> Nowadays on any top social media there's 1-3% of creators making the vast majority of popular content, but more importantly, there's another 15% of people out there who are vying to try and take their spots and will gladly fill the void should the top creators leave. They're mostly just not doing well because the top is being crowded out (and the algorithm keeps it that way), not for lack of trying.

If the thesis of the OP is that “slop” is infinite... it’s pretty obvious that taking away the top “content” creators is a self-slop correcting problem.
by oaiey | 2026-01-17 07:31:56+00:00
Yeah, but it does not have to.

There are for example products like keycloak. OpenID/OAuth2/Token/Security IdP in a box.

Why there is not ticket system in a box? Yeah, we all know Jira and friends, but these are products not building blocks.

Another angle is: Why the hack does everyone rewrite their microservice foundation. Inbox/Outbox/Worker Queue/Throtteling/tracing/..... What happened to the application servers of the past?

I am a big supporter of that narrative. Why do I need to write more than my dedicated business logic and wire up some UI (and do not get me started on UI space).

IMHO, this can be a real differentiator for the language platforms. Ruby has parts of it, but is still far of.
by dwaite | 2026-01-17 07:32:14+00:00
If you look at Office 365, OneDrive, Teams, SharePoint and Exchange Online as well as AI services and coauthoring are not included in the one time purchase price, as these require ongoing infrastructure supplied by Microsoft.

If you look at Adobe Creative Cloud, you see cloud storage and cloud libraries for maintaining files and assets and sharing them for collaboration, Behance, asset licensing such as Adobe Fonts, and generative AI tooling, as well as a pile of additional apps which were never sold separately. There's also tutorials to help you learn that smattering of apps and plugins.

Apple Creator Studio is a service, so there will likely be at least some product development going to create exclusive functionality - likely in the form of new apps which cannot be bought separately, content packs, AI integrations, additional collaboration features relying on hosted infrastructure, and so on. Since a lot of the storage features and base collaboration are instead part of the iCloud infrastructure, that last point may be a tricky line to walk though.
by kstrauser | 2026-01-17 07:32:34+00:00
I bought a brand new Dell monitor through Amazon’s Dell Store (i.e. fulfilled by Dell themselves and shipped to me directly from their warehouse). The HDMI port broke a couple months later as it was sitting undisturbed on a desk, which was a common problem mentioned in its reviews. Dell flat out refused to replace it, saying that their database showed a different owner than me. Remember, they themselves shipped it straight to me. Amazon did right and let me return it even though it was already past the return period.

I will never, ever buy Dell hardware again. They’re dead to me. And when the IT department at a previous job reported to me, and a Dell rep cold called me to offer us a business plan, I politely explained why I’d rather gargle broken glass than risk my reputation on a vendor who doesn’t understand what a warranty means. That felt pretty good.
by ksaj | 2026-01-17 07:34:04+00:00
When they first upgraded, I saw that problem over a span of a few days. I gave lots of feedback because the problems were easily reproducible.

For example, ask for an image, with specific set of details, in 16:9 format, would present 3 images that completely ignored most of the details, and none would be in 16:9. I would have to downvote and "scold" it often to get the single pics with the content I was asking for.

This problem went away after maybe a week. I haven't really seen anything too annoying since. However, even though it claims it can do a full series in one fell swoop, I don't trust that enough to bother trying. One-by-one it is...

I also specify .jpg, but it switches format randomly sometimes. I know .webp is "better" but I'm tired of explaining what webp is to people, and dealing with file managers that don't show the format in tiles. So there are a subset of my target that only get slobberproof content from me.
by Hamuko | 2026-01-17 07:35:48+00:00
The Pro Display XDR is 7.48 kg and a $199 Ergotron LX Pro is rated up to 10 kg, so that's a fifth of the Apple stand's price.

And looking at Amazon.de listings, it's definitely possible to buy a cheap arm that's good for 7.5 kg. A "suptek Monitor Mount" is good for 10 kg according to the listing: https://www.amazon.de/dp/B0833NQ8CR