MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Nevermark | 2026-01-13 21:34:44+00:00
6 Levels of algorithm people confuse:

1. The Model Architecture. Calculation of outputs from inputs.

2. The Training Algorithm, that alters parameters in the architecture based on training data, often input, outputs vs. targets, but can be more complex than that. I.e. gradient descent, etc.

3. The Class of Problem being solved, i.e. approximation, prediction, etc.

4. The Instance of Problem of the problem being solved, i.e. approximation of chemical reaction completion vs. temperature, or prediction of textual responses.

5. The Data Embodiment of the problem, i.e. the actual data. How much, how complex, how general, how noisey, how accurate, how variable, how biased, ...?

6. The Learned Algorithm that emerges from continual exposure to (5) in the form of (3), in order to perform (4), using algorithm (2), on the model's input-output algorithm (1).

The latter, (6), has no limit in complexity or quality, or types of sub-problems, that must also be solved, to solve the umbrella problem successfully.

Data can be unbounded in complexity. Therefore, actual (successful) solutions are necessarily unbounded in complexity.

The "no limit, unbounded, any kind" of sub-problem part of (6) is missed by many people. To perform accurate predictions, of say the whole stock market, would require a model to learn everything from economic theory, geopolitics, human psychology, natural resources and their extraction, crime, electronic information systems and their optimizations, game theory, ...

That isn't a model I would call "just a stock price predictor".

Human language is an artifact created by complex beings. A high level of understanding of how those complex beings operate in conversation, writing, speeches, legal theory, their knowledge of 1000's of topics, psychologies, cultures, assumptions, lifetime development, their modeling of each other, ... on and on ... becomes necessary to mimic general written artifacts between people with any resemblance at all.

LLM's, at the first point of being useful, were never "just" prediction machines.

I am still astonished there were technical people saying such a thing.
by OhMeadhbh | 2026-01-13 21:34:55+00:00
not everyone in the states is 996, but yeah, there's a pandemic of bad management here. or rather... not so much bad management... but management by people who read articles about how Amazon, a company with tens of thousands of engineers, manages projects and then decides they're going to manage their startup of 4 people the same way because they think it's a "growth hacking" hack.

just keep in mind that American tech startups are often just vehicles to evade estate tax. and certainly vehicles for converting VC money into more VC money by selling dreams to greater fools. there's also a down side.
by jacquesnadeau | 2026-01-13 21:34:56+00:00
Apple container is more akin to a replacement for docker or colima (although patterned more like Kata containers where each container is a separate vm as opposed to a bunch of containers in a single vm). It's a promising project (and nice to see Apple employees work to improve containers on macOS).

Hopefully, they can work towards being (1) more docker api compatible and (2) making it more composable. I wrote up https://github.com/apple/container/discussions/323 for more details on the limitations therein.

Originally, I planned to built shai to work really well on top of apple container but ultimately gave up because of the packaging issues.
by observationist | 2026-01-13 21:35:16+00:00
No, I have principles. I wish to see people live the best possible lives for themselves, out from under tyranny and oppression, without the threat of death and violence and mayhem from those who have power over them, to the greatest degree of liberty and human rights that they can accommodate reasonably.

Because of my principles, I do not pretend cultural or moral relativism has legitimacy, and that somehow religious or cultural rationalizations of murder and oppression and mayhem can't be assessed as such because I'm halfway across the other side of the planet living a good life of riches nearly unimaginable to previous generations, arguing with people on the internet that I want things to be this good, or better, for everyone, especially the ones currently under the thumbs of tyrants.

I don't want the US to invade and try to build some sort of mythical liberal Iran, I want to see them rise up and get all the support they need to get their best and brightest to rebuild something awe inspiring and new for themselves.

The odds aren't great, but they're not as bad as recent American and Western driven nation building exercises. The Iranian people will have to walk a tightrope, and I'm cheering for them.
by WesolyKubeczek | 2026-01-13 21:35:24+00:00
That was when I stopped reading his blog.

It’s one thing to, say, acknowledge and respect the cleverness of a villain succeeding by pulling a trick and then deconstruct the trick.

It’s a totally different thing when you go beyond mere respect/acknowledgement and start incessantly praising the villain’s cleverness, professing your love for the villain, worshipping the villain, publicly fantasizing about having hot sex with the villain, etc.

Adams at first was vaguely alluding to do the first thing, but testing the waters showed him which side of the sandwich was buttered, and he went fully with the second.
by m4ck_ | 2026-01-13 21:36:07+00:00
In the US at least having roommates carries massive risk. Sharing a place requires taking on full legal and financial responsibility for a total stranger. If your roomie ends up a drunk who trashes the place, that's 100% on you if they bail out. maybe you could hire a lawyer and take action, but more than likely you're going to be on the hook for any damages (and if you can't pay that debt, you are blacklisted from legitimate rentals until it's cleared.)
by i_cannot_hack | 2026-01-13 21:36:17+00:00
What makes his story unbelievable is that it happened in corporate America in the 1980s (that you have a different experience in 2020s Sweden is not really a counterexample to what makes his story hard to believe) combined with the fact that he is a famously unreliable narrator. He has previously offered conflicting narratives about similar scenarios, changing the story to be about race only in his later years.
by gerdemb | 2026-01-13 21:36:20+00:00
Thanks or the detailed feedback.

You’re right about that error message. What’s happening is that when the SMB share gets unmounted, the app can no longer access its SQLite database (pba.sqlite), and the resulting error isn’t very user-friendly. I agree it would be much clearer to explicitly detect a missing or unmounted network share and provide guidance.

I’ve added this to my list of things to improve. Thanks again for taking the time to report it — feedback like this is super helpful.
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2026-01-13 21:36:23+00:00
> Your claim of "clear lack of reason" is contradictory to evidence

This is obviously false.

> you have not even attempted to make a case for it beyond bald assertion

That is correct: I am not attempting to sway you with the evidence you've already decided is in favor of your assertions. I instead "baldly assert" that said evidence seems to corroborate my perspective, the same as you.
by array_key_first | 2026-01-13 21:36:25+00:00
It depends. If you're someone like, say, Trump, then truly nothing matters because you're far too old to care. You can pretty much burn the whole world down and suffer zero consequences.

This is one of the biggest downsides to letting the most old, and "wise", among us run the show. They have no incentive to help future generation or even current generations.
by jjk166 | 2026-01-13 21:36:27+00:00
> There are also very easy things that you can do to hugely reduce intake of MNPs. If you are concerned about water, just filtering through charcoal works.”

Filtering your drinking water is one thing, but what about filtering the water of the animals you eat, the water that irrigates crops, water used in industrial processes to produce drinks and foodstuffs, water in which you cook, the water with which you wash your dining utensils, water you consume in public spaces. And that's just for ingestion - consider the water you bathe in, water you wash your clothing in, washing your hands in public restrooms, anything that produces an aerosol spray. Without society level changes to how water is processed, avoiding exposure is not practical.
by rpdillon | 2026-01-13 21:36:40+00:00
> The program, according to Pelly’s reporting in Harper’s Magazine, is designed to embed low-cost, royalty-free tracks into Spotify’s most popular mood- and activity-based playlists. Produced by a network of “ghost artists” operating under pseudonyms, the tracks are commissioned with the intent to reduce the company’s royalty payouts to artists, per Pelly.

https://edm.com/news/spotify-using-ghost-artists-minimize-ro...
Show HN: DeepFace now supports DB-backed vector search for face recognition
by serengil | 2026-01-13 21:37:22+00:00
DeepFace previously relied on filesystem-based datasets and pickle caches for face search, which made it stateful and hard to expose via APIs.

We introduced register and search functions that store embeddings in a backend DB (Postgres, Mongo, Weaviate, Neo4j).

This makes face recognition stateless, horizontally scalable, and suitable for API use.

For Postgres and Mongo, FAISS is used for ANN search; Weaviate and Neo4j handle vector indexing natively.

Additional databases and vector stores can be added over time.
by mathis-l | 2026-01-13 21:37:38+00:00
I’ve worked on a code base that was about 15 years old and had gone through many team changes. It was a tricky domain with lots of complicated business logic. When making changes to the code, the commit history was often the only way to figure out if certain behavior was intended and why it was implemented this way. Documentation about how the product should behave often lacked the level of detail. I was certainly always thankful when a dev that was long gone from the team had written commit messages that communicated the intent behind a change.
by testacc74 | 2026-01-13 21:38:12+00:00
I see no difference in Cristiano Ronaldo and a porn star and an influencer and whatever you name it. They are both idols that sell stories for people to project their own thoughts and desires onto and get emotional. I would be more worry about my kid believe in celebrity, regardless of who they are. And the American mainstream culture is filthy anyway. As the old French joke once said the difference of yogurt and the us is that if you leave yogurt for a coupled of hundred years they would develop culture.
by MisterTea | 2026-01-13 21:38:28+00:00
> All in one systems with water heating are way too complex and _will_ fail relatively quickly, ...

Can you offer some evidence of this? I don't see how adding a refrigerant to water heat exchanger after the compressor, before the reversing valve, could possibly hurt the longevity of a system.

> ... mini heat pumps won't last 10 years, and by the time it dies you won't be able to find a replacement for your specific model

Thing with mini-splits is you replace the entire unit so it doesn't matter.
by thepotatodude | 2026-01-13 21:38:31+00:00
I'm telling you all this as a medical student that has used the latest and greatest models with proper prompting for the past 3 years in school:

There are a ton of misses. Especially on imaging. LLMs are not ready for consumer-facing health information yet. My guess is ~ 3-5 years. Right now, I see systems implementing note writing with LLMs, which is hit or miss (but will rapidly improve). Physicians want 1:1 customization. Have someone sit with them and talk through how they like their notes/set it up so the LLMs produce notes like that. Notes need to be customized at the physician level.

Also, the electronic health records any AI is trained on is loaded to the brim with borderline fraud/copy paste notes. That's going to have to be reconciled. Do we have the LLMs add "Cranial Nerves II-X intact" even though the physician did not actually assess that? The physician would have documented that... No? But then you open up the physician to liability, which is a no go for adopting software.

Building a SaaS MVP that's 80% of the way there? Sure. But medicine is not an MVP you cram into a pitch deck for a VC. 80% of the way there does not cut it here, especially if we're talking about consumer facing applications. Remember, the average American reads at a 6th grade reading level. Pause and let that sink in. You're probably surrounded by college educated people like yourself. It was a big shock when I started seeing patients, even though I am the first in my family to go to college. Any consumer-facing health AI tool needs to be bulletproof!!

Big Tech will not deliver us a healthcare utopia. Do not buy into their propaganda.
by firefax | 2026-01-13 21:38:35+00:00
Old fashioned phone trees can be really useful IMHO OP. We used them when I worked in a school. If there was winter weather, you'd call say, everyone with a last name from A to G in the staff directory, someone else calls G to K, and so on and so forth.

You can combine the phone tree with literal runners -- so basically, someone takes their burner and calls suburbs A,B,C and D and then the runners go out and pass the word about the protest or action.
by showerst | 2026-01-13 21:38:53+00:00
I agree with you on the value > price, but disagree about why. If you take out classified (and later internet) Ads, almost no newspaper and no TV news in the US was _ever_ profitable.

It might sound crazy but as a percent of revenue, news was actually moving more towards subs and away from ads even by the 1980s and 1990s. I used to work with a very long tenured editor who told me that in the 1970s north of 70% of most newspapers revenue was from ads.

Back then overhead was massive due to printing presses and delivery infrastructure, now it's dominated by labor costs, but the point stands that doing good journalism isn't cheap. Even people who care about the product don't want it enough to pay its production cost, and never have.
by hahahahhaah | 2026-01-13 21:39:02+00:00
Thw word hired is doing a lot of work.

Is motivation intrinsic to a person.

Or is it a person plus situation.

Ot is it person, situation and reason (reason given in interview)

I have been most motivated when there was an aha in the interview process. Or a "cooll!" feeling. For me usually about the end product over the tech stack. I like to work on things I like to use myself.
by Izikiel43 | 2026-01-13 21:39:02+00:00
No, if you can, max the 401k, as long as you've set up emergency fund and other stuff. After maxing the 401k, then go to taxable brokerage.

The personal finance reddit goes like, fund it up to the match is basic, but if you can, max it.

You reduce your taxable income and the money doesn't pay capital gains when you pull it out.
by keithnz | 2026-01-13 21:39:53+00:00
I was on IRC really early, 91, and it was great, there wasn't that many people on there and it felt way more international and you naturally ended up talking to people from all around the world (I'm from NZ). I even did two overseas trips to meet all kinds of people in real life and experiencing all kinds of slices of other peoples worlds. As more and more people got on the internet people ended up talking much more with locals (except for special interest groups). I'm still in contact with one of the very first friends I made on IRC (who is in the US) and have met them multiple times over the years
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by rambojohnson | 2026-01-13 21:40:06+00:00
AI takes all of that old school idm and electronic music and repackages it without a human story to tell, ripping off actual musicians in the process. AI didn’t magically ‘make old IDM its own.’ It scraped decades of artists’ work, stripped out the context and intent, and reassembled the surface features. There’s no human arc, no lived constraint, no risk and no culture.

What’s being repackaged isn’t a new instrument, it’s other people’s careers. I’m not sure what part of that is supposed to be amusing.
by vharuck | 2026-01-13 21:40:08+00:00
>And you create music without ever having heard music before? Or are you also extracting other artist’s work and using it as inspiration for what you do?

Personally, I don't buy this "AI models are learning just like we do." It's an appeal to ignorance. Just because we don't fully understand how a human brain learns, one can't claim it's the same as a statistical model of ordered tokens.

But even if it were true, I'm alright with drawing a line between AI learning and human learning. The law and social conventions are for humans. I want the ability to learn from others and produce original works that show influences. If this right is allowed to all humans, there is a chance one learn from and outperform me. That would suck for me, but I can accept it because it came from a universal human right I also enjoy. But an AI model doesn't have human rights. For models, the law and social conventions should still favor humans. The impact on the creative community and future creative endeavors should be balanced against the people who create and use the models.

I don't know how to do that with LLMs in a way that doesn't prevent the development of these amazing models. Maybe the government should distribute a portion of the revenue generated by the models amongst all citizens, to reflect how each model's value came from the written works of those citizens.
by russellbeattie | 2026-01-13 21:40:13+00:00
Scott Adams is yet another example of the need to separate a person's work from their qualities as a person. It's just something we have to accept: Bad people can make great things.

An example that I like (that doesn't include WWII Germans) is William Shockley. He was a pretty horrible person all told. He didn't kill anyone, he was just a shitty guy. And yet the world owes him a debt for accurately describing how semiconductors work at the atomic level. Silicon Valley basically wouldn't exist without him.

Adams is like that as well. His work was funny and insightful, his politics were abhorrent. He will always have an asterisk next to his name in the history books because of it.

(Not that anyone will care about Dilbert in another decade or so. Much of it today is already about a moment in business that is long past).
by dijit | 2026-01-13 21:40:21+00:00
Sure, that's why I can't say for sure if it actually happened or not.

People are not readily able to believe my experiences either (though, the political narrative is opening up to the potential for sympathy? I'm not sure).

These policies come in waves. The 90s in the UK was very "PC" as we'd say. I don't necessarily believe that all diversity initiatives happened in the 2010's and onwards.

That said, you're totally right nobody can truly know except him and who he spoke to. A sibling commenter mentioned that it could be a mealy mouthed middle manager trying to ascribe blame to $women for his own decisions; which I totally buy, even for my own scenarios to be honest with you.
by bilekas | 2026-01-13 21:40:24+00:00
> Windows11 making it hard to create a local account is a separate topic.

Hard is a generous take. They litterally removed their offline phone mode.

> You don't need apple account if you are fine with not using half the features listed in the marketing page for apple hardware.

Can you name the hardware features? Because Apple take the approach of opt-in in my experience. And don't get me wrong.. I'm adamantly pro choice.

Features are one thing. Getting installed without an account is another thing. Imagine now you buy a laptopwith windows, you can activate it until you connect to the internet.

Apple, buy a notebook. Install the os. Nice airgapped system to test with.

Added software is another story. You're conflating the two I feel.

> You don't need apple account if you are fine with not using half the features listed in the marketing page

I want an OS I paid for. Why should I connect to your CNC?
by miki123211 | 2026-01-13 21:40:31+00:00
There are artists that Spotify has different deals with. Spotify promotes their music in their playlists, but the artists get a much smaller cut of the profits in exchange. Win-win for everybody.

This only happens in genres where most listeners don't care about the artists they're listening to, think "chillout", "focus" or "easy listening." That kind of music is a commodity, Taylor Swift (or Metallica or Mozzart or whatever) is not. This has been proven.

My hypothesis is that those genres would otherwise lose Spotify the most money, as people often play that kind of music and never turn it off. Because Spotify pays per listen, the user who attentively listens to their favorite artist a few times a week is much better for them than somebody who has "chillout" playing on their echo 24/7.