MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by magic_hamster | 2026-01-05 17:41:40+00:00
(Please forgive the typos - I'm on my phone and didn't want to put this comment through AI...)

This feels like a very strongly opinionated anti-AI echo chamber; while I absolutely recognize the destructive potential of AI video, I think the author is far off to the extreme end of completely ignoring every useful use case, and also, being somewhat naive.

For example, trying to explain to people in your group chat why an AI video is fake, when they are not attentive to this message or never showed any sign they might care, and then being disappointed when nobody listens. Imagine crashing into a party and explaining to everybody why the music sucks and the food is bad; you might be right, but did you consider they just want to have a good time, and they just don't care?

Since I've been to this rabbit hole myself, as I assume have many other readers with elderly parents, let me share my own experience. I've taken the time to show the older people in my family how AI works and how easy it is to create anything fake - including using their own appearance and voice! - and in the end of the day, they don't care. When forwarding a fake video, they say they know it's fake, but they still agree with the message, or liked the cute animals, so they forwarded it.

This is old people for you.

Now, I feel that during the post, the author has progressed from stating their own opinion on AI videos, to subtly claiming everybody hates AI videos and feel a physical sickness when seeing one, to the point that YouTube is scaring off viewers. This - while at the same time detailing how some people forward these videos like crazy. So which one is it?

Well, I for one don't hate AI video as much as I hate bad, sloppy videos, but to be honest these have been around for a long time, there's a massive surge of misinformation and just aweful - and completely organic - videos out there. AI videos do open the door for very creative and awesome creations, and I've seen plenty of those, and enjoyed them quite a bit.

This is just another tool. It's all up to you how you use it and what you create. Blaming the tool is just not going to work, just like blaming an instrument for the music being bad. The blame is with the composition, not the instrument.

There will be a time, very soon, where you will not be able to tell it's AI. In fact, this time is now, and I assure you that some AI content in the right hands is just not distinguishable from the real thing anymore. You may have even seen, or - God help us - even enjoyed an AI generated video, without realizing it, and this will happen more often as these tools mature.

This is just my 2 cents. I hope you will be able to finish you AI movie one day.
by fc417fc802 | 2026-01-05 17:41:45+00:00
I agree with the sentiment but I'm struggling to see how this qualifies as a legitimate tradeoff to make. I thought the entire point of this feature was to provide assurances to customers that cloud providers weren't snooping on their VMs. In which case physically interdicting RAM in this manner is probably the first approach a realistic adversary would attempt.

I can see where it prevents inadvertent data leaks but the feature was billed as protecting against motivated adversaries. (Or at least so I thought.)
by ashleyn | 2026-01-05 17:42:02+00:00
I suspect the icons have to do with a non-english or reading disabilities accessibility requirement.

I'd argue it's not comparable to the 1992 standards because there's not clutter on the right due to dimming for the hotkey labels. These guidelines were written only slightly through Mac OS's colour era, with an extensive install base of monochrome Macintoshes where you could only depict dimming with hard-to-read dithering. Now that colour is ubiquitous, this gives designers the option to fade or tint UI items to make them look less distracting or to deemphasise them.
by a022311 | 2026-01-05 17:42:13+00:00
It's been a few years since I last used a Mac and the careful design I had known no longer exists. This made me realize the situation even worse than I imagined it to be based on Tahoe's reviews.

Even without a designer's detail-aware eyes, I couldn't stop facepalming with what I saw. I'd be embarrassed to ship that and call it an improvement! Apple icons may look cool and consistent when browsing them all together as part of SF Symbols, but all that disappears when used incorrectly.
by susam | 2026-01-05 17:42:26+00:00
> I'm hyper aware my position feels controversial and at odds with people like you and Jeff for whom I have immense respect for.

Thank you for the kind words. I don't think your position is controversial.

> But it's literally saying you did it for performance reasons at the time, and that doesn't matter now.

Actually, it still matters today because it's hard to know when the next DDoS attack might come.

> The SSG is an extra moving part, and it basically is a cache, just at the origin rather than the boundary.

I agree and I think that is a very nice way to put it. I realise that the 'fewer moving parts, not more' argument I made earlier does not quite hold. You are right that I am willing to incur the cost of an SSG as an additional moving part while being less willing to add a caching layer as an additional moving part. So in the end it really does come down to personal preferences. The SSG happens to be a moving part I enjoy and like using for some of the benefits (serverless local browsing, easy mirroring, etc.) I mentioned in my earlier comment. While mentioning those benefits, I also acknowledged that there are perfectly good non-SSG ways of attaining the same benefits too.

> My preferred/suggested alternative to SSG is dynamic rendering and serving of markdown content, and that gives me the same portability. Most markdown editors now respect certain formats of relative wiki links.

Yes, sounds like a good solution to me.

> If you already build, run and maintain a server side, SSG is just an extra step which complicates interactivity.

Yes, I agree with this as well. For me personally, the server-side program that runs the comment form feels like a burden. But I keep it because I do find value in the exchanges that happen in the comments. I have occasionally received good feedback and corrections there. Sometimes commenters share their own insights and knowledge which has helped me learn new things. So I keep the comments around. While some people might prefer a consolidated moving part, such as a server-side program that both generates the website and handles interactivity, I lean the other way. I prefer an SSG and then reluctantly incur an additional moving part in the form of a server-side program to handle comment forms. Since I lean towards the SSG approach, I have restricted the scope of server-side programming to comment forms only.

> If fun coding is your motivator, you should definitely at least entertain the throw-out-the-SSG way of thinking, y'know, for fun :)

I certainly do entertain it. I hope I have not given the impression that I am recommending SSGs to others. In threads like this, I am simply sharing my experience of how I approach these problems, not suggesting that my solution is better than anyone else's. Running a personal website is a labour of love and passion, and my intention here is to share that love of the craft. The solution I have chosen is just one solution. It works for me and suits my preferences but I do not mean to imply that it is superior to other approaches. There are certainly other equally good, and in many cases better, solutions.
by bflesch | 2026-01-05 17:42:37+00:00
Stop playing the victim. When you have time to hang out on HN you're obviously part of the privileged class. The area is hugely profiting from "stolen" EU jobs, which according to Trumpistan logic is something that is not good. I don't see any uprising of all the "folks in the Southern US" against the lawlessness of your government. And if you're called out for it the victim reflex sets in.
by dietr1ch | 2026-01-05 17:42:41+00:00
> the question (in my mind) is balancing the length of that delay with the usefulness of column order queries for a given workload. I seem to keep running into workloads that do inserts very quickly and then batch reads on a slower cadence (either in lockstep with the writes, or concurrently) but not on the extremely slow cadence seen in the typical olap reporting type flow. Essentially, building up state and then querying the results.

I see. Can you come up with row/table watermarks? Say your column store is up-to-date with certain watermark, so any query that requires freshness beyond that will need to snoop into the rows that haven't made it into the columnar store to check for data up to the required query timestamp.

In the past I've dealt with a system that had read-optimised columnar data that was overlaid with fresh write-optimised data and used timestamps to agree on the data that should be visible to the queries. It continuously consolidated data into the read-optimised store instead of having the silly daily job that you might have in the extremely slow cadence reporting job you mention.

You can write such a system, but in reality I've found it hard to justify building a system for continuous updates when a 15min delay isn't the end of the world, but it's doable if you want it.

> I'm not so sure about "continuously maintaining both means duplication and ensuring you get the worst case from both worlds". Maybe you're right, I'm just not so sure. I agree that it's duplicating storage requirements, but is that such a big deal? And I think if fast writes and lookups and fast batch reads are both possible at the cost of storage duplication, that would actually be the best case from both worlds?

I mean that if you want both views in a consistent world, then writes will bring things to a crawl as both, row and column ordered data needs to be updated before the writing lock is released.
by jaarse | 2026-01-05 17:42:57+00:00
Canadian (OHIP recipient) here. As a long time employer, and former employee, I can tell you that no one takes a job here for the heath care.
Some things like dental and vision are not covered (unless you are under 18, over 65, or low income), but everything else is.
Over the course of a decade my father in law had 3 heart attacks, a stroke, and ultimately lost a year long battle with lung cancer. The total health care bill to him (or his employer) was $0.

Now the downside … because health care is free, everyone uses it and the wait times are longer. My grandfather recently required an MRI (non life threatening). The wait time in Ontario was 3 months. He drove to the USA, paid out of pocket, and had it done within in week …
by theamk | 2026-01-05 17:43:18+00:00
Note: this is a commercial service which stores static analysis results (code memory usage + global variables) over time, basically a dashboard around "size(1)" and "nm(1)" commands.

It expects you to already have a CI action which generates a single "firmware.elf" file and associated "linker.ld" file. You then add the "upload" step that puts this into their dashboard.

(there is also a way to run it locally for testing, without cloud)
by cafard | 2026-01-05 17:43:40+00:00
> As a third grader, Rubio convinced his family to convert to Mormonism to better fit in with their wholesome new neighbors during a short stint living in Las Vegas. He spent every spare hour of high school obsessing over football, and his wife attends masses at multiple churches multiple times per week.

Did the membership in the LDS follow the rule that what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, or do the Rubios have a religiously mixed marriage? Football and religion go together nicely in much of the US, but I still don't see how his high school obsession football fits in with his wife's present (at least grammatically) religious observance.
by drakythe | 2026-01-05 17:43:42+00:00
Animating is a ton of work. Animation decisions can give a great deal of "feel" to a cartoon. Studio Ghibli works are distinct from Disney's old animation and each conveys a distinct feeling. Those decisions are often made by the production team. Its why One Punch Man season 3 is so derided this year after Season 1 was heralded as the greatest season of Anime in a very long time. You'd think following the literal story boards provided by the already published Manga would be simple! but somehow it lost all of its charm.

Animation, or shooting video is the result of many, many pieces. If you're not putting a ton of work into the decisions that result in the final "shot" the video camera makes then the video that is shot isn't magically going to show an enormous amount of care in its construction.
by freehorse | 2026-01-05 17:44:25+00:00
It is true, but occasionally it is a practice in some companies with certain business models to leave part of users contributions free up to the users to decide. I have bought some games from their preservation program, and gave me the option to add some extra donation for the project, which I did. I guess this is similar to that.

Moreover, if somebody is really into these old games, they may want to support it and get access to the behind the scenes material, discord, vote for which games to prioritize etc. I don't think this is very different than eg subscribing to the patreon of a creator to get some extra content.
by notahacker | 2026-01-05 17:44:28+00:00
Sure, but I suspect also harder because it's full of contrarians that will point out at least five better ways of solving the problem and people that upon being greeted with anything that looks like disguised marketing copy will spontaneously combust. And if you do manage to sneak a URL into a discussion without anyone thinking it's marketing, the next four comments will be about whether the design of the landing page is unsuited for people with 2400 pixel wide monitors or people with noscript enabled

(Also it's the kind of website where you absolutely can get good responses from "Show HN: A thing you might want to use and here's how much profit I'm making from it already" until a bunch of green usernames say nice things about it)
by ksk385 | 2026-01-05 17:45:11+00:00
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by mmooss | 2026-01-05 17:45:17+00:00
Voronoi diagrams I see have few if any hexagons (use your favorite mathematical reference or image search). Is that idea that if the points are distributed equidistant in 'alternating' ranks [0], then the diagram is hexagons?

Also, what is "binary breakup" and "binary fracture"?

[0] Alternating ranks: I mean something like the following (is there a better name?):

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by fuzzfactor | 2026-01-05 17:45:39+00:00
Right, it's not a takeover, it's a "slip-under" without any adversarial corporate action except from inside Microsoft itself. As it becomes less relevant more effectively than an outside force calling the shots.

Another one where the users notice instantly, and also means a lot to enterprises but the Microsoft executives seem to be so insulated they don't even seem to be paying attention at all.

This is the kind of thing that Apple and Google have been taking to the bank more every time.

With all the brilliant engineers who are still there actually putting in good code, why can't that pipeline be maintained at least to the continued benefit of users, if not better than ever without some kind of Ballmerizing still getting in the way at this late date?

Looking at the fundamentals, if Microsoft itself can no longer afford to maintain separate Office and Copilot efforts, how is a less-well-funded enterprise supposed to be able to?

Instead of accepting the nonideal combination, maybe it's actually a sign that it's the right time to choose one or the other since that's the opposite direction Microsoft is going :\

At least on a per-machine basis. I don't really mind experimenting with Copilot but I don't want it at all on an established office machine.
by famahar | 2026-01-05 17:45:53+00:00
Lots of cafés and restaurant in Tokyo have seating designed for just one person. It's usually a cozy spot in the corner. It's not uncommon at all to go to cafés alone. Many people study, read, or just quietly sit. I feel like bars are a place where people go to socialize. Anyways, I'm happy for him. Some people never feel comfortable being alone. I personally view solitude as a key factor in my creative and personal growth. Even better when it's in nature.
by coryrc | 2026-01-05 17:46:17+00:00
I so very much disagree with you.

I absolutely believe the government should have a role in regulating information asymmetry. It would be fair to have a regulation about attempting to detect use of chatgpt as a psychologist and requiring a disclaimer and warning to be communicated, like we have warnings on tobacco products. It is Wrong for the government to be preventing private commerce because you don't like it. You aren't involved, keep your nose out of it. How will you feel when Republicans write a law requiring AI discourage people from identifying as transgender? (Which is/was in the DSM as "gender dysphoria").
by wincy | 2026-01-05 17:46:17+00:00
I made my wife a song about how we met using Suno. It took me about 4 hours to get the lyrics just right, rewriting them (without AI help, it’s terrible with lyrics), plugging them in, seeing how they sounded, fixing them some more to get the verse so it sounded right.

She thought it was really special and she cried as we listened to it while holding hands in the car. I can’t play guitar, and I can’t hit some notes with my low singing voice, but I wrote every word and it felt like something really special to the both of us. I don’t really care if people think I “cheated”. To torture the analogy, it’s like cheating in a two player game since I’m not publishing this song to anyone else.
by Ajedi32 | 2026-01-05 17:46:23+00:00
Taking still photos of anything is widely considered a creative activity. There's usually only a small amount of creativity involved. Sometimes more. Same goes for AI generated anything. You can have low effort photos and high effort photos, low effort AI generated pictures and high-effort AI generated pictures.

AI just lets you get a better result for less effort (for some definitions of "better"), just as a camera lets you get a better result for less effort than a paintbrush and canvas does.
by CaptainJack | 2026-01-05 17:46:36+00:00
Having first hand experience of all of the named public services, I beg to differ heavily.
These corporations tend to be heavily left-leaning, with no real guardrails preventing this. The consequence is pretty biased coverage, under the guise of a "trust-us, we are here for the greater good".

Look at the handling of Middle-East by BBC, the Zucman tax at France Television, or the current allegations of fraud in some communities in the US.

My current take is that it is really hard to get a fair unbiased coverage, unless you actually state that you will strive to hire and promote both sides. If these corporations had to publish the composition/promotion/pay of their newsroom across the political spectrum (as they do for example by gender), you may start to have fair unbiased coverage. But many journalists working there see it as their job to describe "not the reality as it happens, but rather as it ought to be" (to quote the CEO of France Television). We should acknowledge that people are biased, and measure the balance of biases rather than assert there is no bias because they serve the greater good.
Ask HN: I built an AI money coach for new grads and it helped me
by Kartikey08 | 2026-01-05 17:46:46+00:00
i’ve always felt like budgeting apps are great at telling me where my money went, but terrible at telling me what to do next.
once i started earning, i could see every transaction in a clean dashboard and still have no idea if any of it made sense. it was just a nicer way to feel confused.

rough description of what i hacked together:

- it connects to accounts in read‑only mode.

- it remembers goals, life stage, and past conversations.

- it uses that memory to nudge you toward better decisions over time, instead of just saying “you spent 23% on restaurants last month”.

the moment it started to feel real for me was when the memory system clicked. it could reference things i’d said weeks before and give me insights i didn’t expect, and it actually changed how i felt about a couple of my decisions. that was the first time any personal finance tool felt more like a coach than another dashboard.

i wrote more about it as well here on linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7411827481483345920/

i also put up a simple landing page at https://usefinny.com, but the app itself is still in development and not on app store yet. this isn’t a launch; i’m trying to pressure‑test the idea and some assumptions before i ship a real beta.

a few things i’d really like to chat about-

- for you personally, what would an ai money coach have to do (or avoid doing) for you to still be using it a month later?

- does this feel like a real problem you’ve seen (either personally or with clients)? I’ve feel I’ve seen this problem a lot with people

- if you work in personal finance or coaching: what do tools like this usually get wrong about behavior change and trust?

blunt takes are very welcome. if this sounds doomed, i’d rather hear it now. if it sounds promising but i’m thinking about it the wrong way, i’d love to hear that too.

One thing I want to say is that its not that new grads, and genz doesn’t have money, its just that they make stupid decisions with what they have and buy what they don’t need (eg, expensive watches, concerts, sneakers, trips, clothes, and countless examples i've seen etc)