MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by raddan | 2026-01-13 22:53:12+00:00
I do indeed get a lot of snow. In January and February it snows roughly once every two days, although usually in small amounts.

Fortunately I have a ground mount. The bottom row is roughly at waist height. I can (and have been) sweeping the panels off with a large push broom. Because my array is so large, I can only reach the bottom half of the array. But this usually is enough. When the panel starts to generate power, it also tends to heat up; the snow on the top half then often slides off on its own.

I might invest in a longer broom. It is not uncommon for people here to own “snow rakes” to remove large snow loads from their roofs. These usually have a rubberized “rake” with a very long aluminum handle. Or the novelty of this might wear off and I’ll just let the panel do its own thing. It is pitched rather steeply (close to 45°) and based on my observations of my neighbors, panels tend to shed the snow on their own eventually.
by anigbrowl | 2026-01-13 22:53:31+00:00
No I don't think that really qualifies because it's solving an engineering problem. I hang out on an electronic music creators' forum which is stringently anti-AI, but nobody objects to things like stem separation. People are skeptical about AI 'mastering' but don't really object for similar reasons.

What people get mad about is the use of AI to generate whole tracks. Generating rhythms, melodies, harmonies etc via AI isn't greeted warmly either, but electronic musicians generally like experimenting with things like setting up 'wrong' modulation destinations in search of interesting results. I don't think anyone seriously objects to AI-produced elements being selected and repurposed as musical raw material. But this is obviously not happening with complete track generation. It's like playing slot machines but calling yourself a business person.
by AlianaVolk | 2026-01-13 22:53:53+00:00
Danica Patrick made a special Shoutout about Treqora Intel, on how she was able to recover her lost funds with the help of the investigative and recovery skills , so i had to check out Treqora . com to also recover my lost crypto asset which was stolen by a trusted and well known Investment company. I can say it was a very nice experience working with teams that are ready to work and help people with similar cases.
by localhoster | 2026-01-13 22:54:04+00:00
I wish.
I have just witnessed a engineer on our (small) team push a 4k line change to prod at the middle of the night.
His message was: "lets merge and check it after".
AI can help good team become better, but for sure it will make bad teams worse.

I sorry friends, I think imma quit to farming :$
by bossyTeacher | 2026-01-13 22:54:11+00:00
This happened to me last month. After the first song, I suspected so I checked the cover and the artist profile. It was AI generated. I enjoyed the album nevertheless. You can find AI music enjoyable. People also hated DJ music before. And recorded music before. And electro amplified live music performances before that. This is just another category of music. Doesn't take away from human music. What people are right to be angry is that the tech was made on the backs of other people's non-remunerated work. Whether a human made a song or not shouldn't be as important as actual living artists being taken advantage of.
by squigz | 2026-01-13 22:54:44+00:00
> To archive Metabrainz there is no way but to browse the pages slowly page-by-page. There's no machine-communicable way that suggests an alternative.

Why does there have to be a "machine-communicable way"? If these developers cared about such things they would spend 20 seconds looking at this page. It's literally one of the first links when you Google "metabrainz"

https://metabrainz.org/datasets
by mikkupikku | 2026-01-13 22:55:08+00:00
Hollywood actors being vapid idiots is a trope, or rather reality, as old as Hollywood. Every time they go on Letterman they have to carefully follow the script written for them to avoid embarrassing themselves and the industry. And they often fail at that.

BTW, actors are very often prostitutes. Have been since ancient times and the association has stuck. Mediterranean yachts are packed full of C-lister actresses/hookers. Not to mention most of them get jobs by sleeping with producers, which is just an indirect form of prostitution. I don't know about you, but classy is the last way I'd describe Jennifer Lawrence sucking Weinstein's dick.
by tpmoney | 2026-01-13 22:55:13+00:00
I'll propose my pie in the sky plan here again. We should overhaul the copyright system completely in light of AI and make it mostly win-win for everyone. This is predicated on the idea that the NIST numbers set is sort of the "hello world" dataset for people wanting to learn machine vision and having that common data set is really handy. Numbers made up off the top of my head/subject to tuning but the basic idea is this:

1) Cut copyright to 15-20 years by default. You can have 1 extension of an additional 10-15 years if you submit your work to the "National Data Set" within say 2-3 years of the initial publication.

2) Content in the National set is well categorized and cleaned up. It's the cleanest data set anyone could want. The data set is used both to train some public models and also licensed out to people wanting to train their own models. Both the public models and the data sets are licensed for nominal fees.

3) People who use the public models or data sets as part of their AI system are granted immunity from copyright violation claims for content generated by these models, modulo some exceptions for knowing and intentional violations (e.g. generating the contents of a book into an epub). People who choose to scrape their own data are subject to the current state of the law with regards to both scraping and use (so you probably better be buying a lot of books).

4) The license fees generated from licensing the data and the models would be split into royalty payments to people whose works are in the dataset, and are still under copyright protection, proportional to the amount of data submitted and inversely proportional to the age of that data. There would be some absolute caps in place to prevent slamming the national data sets with junk data just to pump the numbers.

Everyone gets something out of this. AI folks get clean data, that they didn't have to burn a lot of resources scraping. Copyright holders get paid for their works used by AI and retain most of the protections they have today, just for a shorter time), the public gets usable AI tooling without everyone spending their own resources on building their own data sets, site owners and the like get reduced bot/scraping traffic. It's not perfect, and I'm sure the devil is in the details, but that's the nature of this sort of thing.
by ChrisArchitect | 2026-01-13 22:55:47+00:00
For more PLATO talk, the author posted often around these parts about the Friendly Orange Glow (http://www.friendlyorangeglow.com/) (not to be confused with HN, the Friendly Orange Site...) and PLATO history (http://platohistory.org/)

Also an Arstechnica thread from 2023:

PLATO: An educational computer system from the 60s shaped the future

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35208286
Launch on Hacker News
by ramishamujahid | 2026-01-13 22:56:15+00:00
Curious how folks do a launch here? Also, if your product is B2B; an intelligent behaviour orchestrating layer for companies hiring knowledge workers, would this platform make a good place for the launch? My question is inspired by a video from YC which mentioned people do/can do a product launch on Hacker News.
by zbentley | 2026-01-13 22:56:22+00:00
That's not true as generally as you might expect.

Folks might be using mmap with MAP_POPULATE; they might have overcommit turned off; they might be operating in an rlimit/cgroup (like most container runtimes/orchestrators configure) that limits memory; they might be on a system which doesn't have virtual memory (plenty such systems exist in 64-bit architectures); they might be using calloc on an OS that zeros pessimistically/early; and so on.
by chipotle_coyote | 2026-01-13 22:56:31+00:00
Of course not, but I'd rephrase what the OP said as something more like "it's unrealistic to expect them to go 'hey, guess what, never mind about all that' after a half a year.

I think it's more realistic to expect that they're going to stick with a UI officially called "Liquid Glass" for the next decade, but it's going to go through some serious iterative changes in the next couple of years -- probably much more than it would have were Alan Dye still around.
by pchew | 2026-01-13 22:56:34+00:00
>These are not terms commonly used in the industry, thanks for the clarification.

It's such an industry term that it's literally a feature on multimeters.

>The 18k provides 65A for a few seconds as an example.

Yes, you'll see I gave you that spec in the opening comment. It's not a good spec for a whole home hybrid inverter.

>the 18k can push 50A on each leg and most residential are sized at 150a or 200A

That's not how you read a spec sheet for 240v device. A home service is 200 amp, at 240v. That's 48kw potential. 12k is 12k regardless of whether that's (120 * 50) + (120 * 50) or 240 * 50. The legs aren't cumulative.

(50a * 120v) + (50a * 120v) = 12kw

A small home with a smaller 150 amp service is (150a * 240v), 36kw.
by denkmoon | 2026-01-13 22:56:46+00:00
Not super related to the OP but since we're discussing network topologies; I've recently had an insane idea that nfs security sucks, nfs traversing firewalls sucks, kerberos really sucks, and that just wrapping it all in a wireguard pipe is way better.

How deranged would it be to have every nfs client establish a wireguard tunnel and only have nfs traffic go through the tunnel?
by benjiro | 2026-01-13 22:56:51+00:00
> This comment reminds me of when I talked to a few Chinese friends about their thoughts on Mao.

There has been a push under Xi's leadership to whitewash a lot of the past, especially involving Mao. As Xi has been positioning himself as a somewhat father figure of the nation. This has resulted in a revival of Mao policies, like the little red book.

So do not be surprised about uncle figure statement...
by notahacker | 2026-01-13 22:57:13+00:00
Probably a good analogy too. Pixar's creative process is quite different from drawing it frame by frame and at least some aspects of it will use have used some sort of generative process, but it's incredibly involved and conscious in a way that typing "video of cute cartoon cat, Pixar style" into a prompt isn't.

Same applies to Bandcamp not having any issues with people making music in a DAW
by herdymerzbow | 2026-01-13 22:57:20+00:00
I thought the darkest thing you were going to point to was the matter of fact reference to the role of the slave as the inadvertent cup breaker! Some wonderfully insightful thoughts on how to manage one's emotions when confronted by life's challenges, of which I think are worth reading, but taking for granted the other human whose life is not their own and who is treated as (valuable) property by the philosopher is pretty dark to me.

I'm guessing that the institution of slavery was part of the entire imperial project of conquest so even if their conscience was briefly troubled it would've fallen into the 'so it goes' basket. But it does seem strange to the modern reader.
by bena | 2026-01-13 22:57:39+00:00
Outside of Scott Adams and all of that. And I think public figures, especially those whose major schtick was to engender reaction, are a different story.

But it's basically getting the last word in because the other party is unable to respond. It's seen as a little uncouth.

On reddit, it's kind of like those people who respond, then block you to make sure you can't respond. They aren't there to make an argument or convince you, they just want to get the last word and they're doing it in a way where you cannot respond.

Like I said, I don't entirely agree with "don't speak ill of the dead". Especially for figures who used their platform to elicit responses. But that's one of the reasons behind the sentiment. Right, wrong, that's for you to decide.
by kwk236 | 2026-01-13 22:57:54+00:00
I've been compiling papers on Physical AI — the intersection of foundation models and robotics. This covers Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models like RT-2 and π₀, world models (DreamerV3, Genie 2), diffusion policies, deployment and latency researches, cross-embodiment transfer, and safety/alignment for robots.

The field has exploded in the past 18 months. We went from "How about we apply llms to robotics" to having so many different research paths and dimensions to optimize.

Contributions welcome — especially corrections and missing papers.
by davorak | 2026-01-13 22:58:03+00:00
> On [2] he said that natural immunity from getting covid-19 is better than getting the vaccine alone,

He was more on the anti vax side than this statement implies, at least that was my take away from the [2] article:

> For unvaccinated people who got COVID-19 and recovered, he said, "Now you’ve got natural immunity and you’ve got no vaccination in you. Can we all agree that that was the winning path?"

[a]

> better than getting the vaccine alone, which is factually correct

You are not giving a metric here so I can not tell why you think it is better. Everything I have read indicates there are more risks, death or long term complications, with covid-19 exposure before vaccination than the other way around. The conclusion of [2] is similar to this.

The original Scott Adam's post not longer exists, is there another place where he recorded why he believed contacting covid-19 before vaccination was the winning path? Without that the quotes look damning against his view point.

Apparently politifact reached out for comment and did not get any:

> We sent emails to an address listed on Adams’ website and at Dilbert.com and an address on his Facebook page. We didn’t get a reply.

[a] https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/jan/26/scott-adam...
by dandano | 2026-01-13 22:58:07+00:00
Lately I have had the cursed vision as I'm building a new IoT product. I have to learn _so_ much, so I have stopped using claude code. I find directly altering my code too hands off.

Instead I still use claude in the browser mainly for high level thinking/architecture > generating small chunks of code > copying pasta-ing it over. I always make sure I'm reading said library/code docs as well and asking claude to clarify anything I'm unsure of. This is akin to when I started development using stackoverflow just 10x productive. And I still feel like I'm learning along the way.
by tzs | 2026-01-13 22:58:30+00:00
Context matters. For a more recent example consider the slogan "Black Lives Matter" (BLM) and the slogan "All Lives Matter" (ALM). Separately both are fine.

But some people, especially in white supremacist and adjacent circles, who had never used "All Lives Matter" before started using it as a response to "Black Lives Matter".

The implication was the BLM was asking for special treatment for Black people. In reality what BLM was saying was that Black lives matter too (in retrospect maybe they should have actually included "too" in the slogan), and ALM as a response to that is essentially dismissing BLM's concerns.

Semi related is why we have a Black History Month but no White History Month in the US. Every month is a de facto white history month.
by acatton | 2026-01-13 22:58:37+00:00
> In fact firefox now allows you to preview the link and get key points without ever going to the link[1]

> [1] https://imgur.com/a/3E17Dts

This is generated on device with llama.cpp compiled to webassembly (aka wllama) and running SmolLM2-360M. [1] How is this different from the user clicking on the link? In the end, your local firefox will fetch the link in order to summarize it, the same way you would have followed the link and read through the document in reader mode.

[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/ai/ai-tech/ai-link-previ...
by anonymars | 2026-01-13 22:58:39+00:00
That's quite a leap from "I am curious how that number was calculated" to inferring "it was made up"

Maybe complain to these guys too, who were apparently still curious 14 years after that blog post?

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/documenting-numbers-of-...

Sources: Documenting Numbers of Victims of the Holocaust & Nazi Persecution, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum;

“Holocaust Facts: Where Does the Figure of 6 Million Victims Come From?” Haaretz, (January 26, 2020);

Ofer Aderet, “Nazis Boasted About Six Million Holocaust Victims. But It Was a Jew Who First Cited That Figure,” Haaretz, (April 21, 2020);

Joel Rappel, “Six million victims,” Jerusalem Report, (May 4, 2020).
by z7 | 2026-01-13 22:58:44+00:00
An attempt at a neutral summary of why Scott Adams faced accusations of racism in 2023:

In early 2023 Scott Adams commented on a Rasmussen poll that reported a significant share of Black respondents disagreed with the statement "It's okay to be white." Adams interpreted that result as evidence, in his view, of widespread hostility toward white people within the Black population. From that interpretation, he argued that this hostility made normal coexistence unsafe or unworkable for whites, and he framed his remark as practical advice for self-protection rather than as a call for harm.

Direct quote:

"So if nearly half of all Blacks are not OK with white people, according to this poll, that’s a hate group, and I don’t want to have anything to do with them. And I would say, based on the current way things are going, the best advice I would give to white people is to get the hell away from Black people."

Source:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSMhg6udxn4
by tiborsaas | 2026-01-13 22:59:07+00:00
I've tried it, but it's very slow on a not too complex codebase with my M3 Macbook Air.

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Typescript JSX 121 18724 1699 1051 15974
TypeScript 61 5389 629 550 4210
CSS 5 1039 50 22 967
Markdown 3 657 173 0 484
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It was like 5-10FPS at best, not really usable unfortunately because I like these tools.

I'm using another similar one which is buttery smooth, Code Canvas.
by systemtest | 2026-01-13 22:59:14+00:00
I freelance. Occasionally I get called by former clients to work on legacy systems I was lead on. And I have some support tasks for former clients.

For one company I log on once a month, I start a Renovate process which generates pull-requests for updated dependencies. Patch-versions get auto-merged after tests succeed, minor and major need approval of the current lead. Sometimes I need to manually tweak the code a bit because of API changes or to get tests to pass. I'm allowed to bill them four hours on it regardless of actual work, which is between five minutes (no manual intervention required) and two hours (need to rewrite some code).

For another company I create a report once a month for all outages and which errors frequently show up in logging. I automated this to be a five minute task and it generates a Wiki page. I review the page to see if everything is ok. I bill an hour on this.

The company is happy to not have to allocate engineer hours on maintenance so they can continue pumping out new features. Everybody is happy.

I'd say that on average I work 4 hours and bill 12 hours. This is comparable to the income of someone in employment working around 24 hours. But I do run a significant risk obviously.
by dweez | 2026-01-13 22:59:38+00:00
One way to think about this is you have a binomial distribution with p=0.8 and n=number of lying friends. Each time you increase n, you shift the probability mass of the distribution "to the right" but if n is even some of that mass has to land on the "tie" condition.

I wrote a quick colab to help visualize this, adds a little intuition for what's happening: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1EytLeBfAoOAanVNFnWQ...
by Olshansky | 2026-01-13 22:59:45+00:00
Resurfacing a proposal I put out on llms-txt: https://github.com/AnswerDotAI/llms-txt/issues/88

We should add optional `tips` addresses in llms.txt files.

We're also working on enabling and solving this at Grove.city.

Human <-> Agent <-> Human Tips don't account for all the edge cases, but they're a necessary and happy neutral medium.

Moving fast. Would love to share more with the community.

Wrote about it here: https://x.com/olshansky/status/2008282844624216293
by ranger_danger | 2026-01-13 22:59:48+00:00
Many years ago AWS came up with a "Requester Pays" model for their S3 storage, where you can make a request for someone else's object using your own account and it would charge the transfer cost to your own account instead of theirs.

I wonder if a model similar to this (but decentralized/federated or something) could be used to help fight bots?
by neom | 2026-01-13 22:59:58+00:00
Yeah! I think how you are doing it is great! For me making music is about spacing and...I dunno, the sound stage I guess? Sometimes I don't even listen to lyrics I like getting lost in the flow of it, I'm not interested in improving my own singing abilities, but I am interested in improving as a song writer, suno really helps me hear what my words sound like.
by bollu | 2026-01-13 23:00:31+00:00
please send me an email <siddu.druid@gmail.com>. I'm a PhD student at cambridge, and might be able to put you in touch with folks who have positions to hire you as an RA if your research profile fits. even if there isn't an immediate fit, I'm happy to scout around and see if anything pops up. Best, Sid
by SahAssar | 2026-01-13 23:01:37+00:00
I think I generally agree, but I also think that treating them like people means that you expect reason, intelligence and a way to interrogate their way of "thinking" (very broad quotes here).

I think LLMs are to be treated as something completely separate from both predictable machines ("automatons") and people. They have separate concerns and fitness for a use-case than both existing categories.
by nick238 | 2026-01-13 23:02:02+00:00
This kinda reminds me of error correction, and where at some level you can have detectable but not correctable error conditions. Adding Bob is just like adding a parity bit: can give you a good indication someone lied, but won't fix anything. Adding Charlie gives you the crudest ECC form, a repetition code (though for storing one bit, I don't think you can do better?)
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-13 23:02:06+00:00
Adding onto this, we all pay some forms of taxes one way or other and those taxes are sometimes used by govts to then either be lost in corruption or scandals or the govt itself spends it on something you might not appreciate if you know the full context of details (especially when they pertain to war)

> Ignore is not only bliss, but necessary.

It honestly depends on the time, if we as a society wants change, some amount of uncomfort is needed to better shape it for the needs/affordability of the average person but also a lot of people don't want to face that uncomfort so they wish to be ignorant partially being the reason that some of the issues are able to persist even in a democratic system
by bluegatty | 2026-01-13 23:02:06+00:00
It's obviously racist - but people have to stop assuming that word means one thing.

In that statement, it's not disdain for another group, it's disdain and resignation over racial politics.

He seems to in fact have empathy, but has become maligned for some reason.

He's seems to be 'giving up' on the cause and suggesting people go their separate ways.

It's frankly much more cynical than it is racist.

That's nothing near a traditional racist view.

It's the posture of a cynical, old angry man - not some kind of White Nationlist.

I'm not justifying anything but I am indicating that these thins are obviously nuanced.

That said - I'm reflecting on a single comment, not his entire body of ugly commentary.