MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Arcayr | 2026-02-05 04:17:39+00:00
i received _a lot_ of these as well (~200 now). i'm noticing while all are from the zendesk platform using it as a relay similar to the previous waves, many of them are specifically customers of synack, as the emails are coming "via" the responsibledisclosure.com platform. not sure if there's any correlation there—i don't think they've been compromised, but they may be being used as a trampoline.

similar to others i had it hitting emails that "don't exist" (wildcard catchall), including the less tasteful ones mentioned here.
by stego-tech | 2026-02-05 04:18:26+00:00
Nevermind that society dictates everyone must work to survive by default.

Nevermind that work has become significantly more precarious, the cost of living higher, the wages lower.

Ageism is just a dick move in general. It's gotten to the point where job candidates in their 30s and early 40s are dropping work history and education to appear as if they're in their 20s to potential employers - and even considering plastic surgery[1]. It's gotten completely out of control, but I'm quite glad to see more of my peers and younger colleagues taking a firm stance against it in any form.

As long as the work gets done, everything else is irrelevant. As long as the idea is successful, it doesn't matter the age of the person who surfaced it.

Stereotyping just gets your ass into legal trouble, and the easiest solution is to just not do it in the first place.

[1]https://www.businessinsider.com/resume-botox-lying-millennia...
by magicalhippo | 2026-02-05 04:19:20+00:00
We've rolled our own variant of this, which uses an XML file as input. Just easier to parse than SQL schema definitions. The tool compares the schema defined by the XML with the DB, and applies changes as needed.

We used Sybase SQLAnywhere, and a complication there was that if you had materialized views against a table, you had to drop and recreate that view when adding or removing columns in the table. And when you recreate it, you of course have to remember to recreate the indexes on that materialized view.

Tracking this in case you have multiple materialized views touching multiple tables became a bit tricky, and you don't want to do the "dumb" thing to just always drop and recreate, or per-column, since some of them might take an hour or so to recreate and reindex.

The tool has some built-in safeties like never dropping columns if it's missing (have to add explicit element for that in the XML), and only performs safe column definition changes, ie integer to varchar(50) is safe, integer to varchar(3) is not, etc.

It really made database migrations very painless for us, great since we've have hundreds of on-premise installations. Just modify the XML, and let the tool do its job.

And since its our tool, we can add functionality when we need to.
by CamperBob2 | 2026-02-05 04:20:05+00:00
Eh, they can be found in the $8K neighborhood, $9K at most. As zozbot234 suggests, a much cheaper card would probably be fine for this particular model.

I need to do more testing before I can agree that it is performing at a Sonnet-equivalent level (it was never claimed to be Opus-class.) But it is pretty cool to get beaten in a programming contest by my own video card. For those who get it, no explanation is necessary; for those who don't, no explanation is possible.

And unlike the hosted models, the ones you run locally will still work just as well several years from now. No ads, no spying, no additional censorship, no additional usage limits or restrictions. You'll get no such guarantee from Google, OpenAI and the other major players.
by munificent | 2026-02-05 04:20:19+00:00
He does also say:

> The entire global economy is re-organizing around the scale-up of AI models.

> Software engineering is just the beginning; ...

> Air conditioning currently consumes 10% of global electricity production, while datacenter compute less than 1%. We will have rocks thinking all the time to further the interests of their owners. Every corporation with GPUs to spare will have ambient thinkers constantly re-planning deadlines, reducing tech debt, and trawling for more information that helps the business make its decisions in a dynamic world.

> Militaries will scramble every FLOP they can find to play out wargames, like rollouts in a MCTS search. What will happen when the first decisive war is won not by guns and drones, but by compute and information advantage? Stockpile your thinking tokens, for thinking begets better thinking.

So he is extending this to more than just computer science.
by theragra | 2026-02-05 04:20:22+00:00
Sadly, Linux still has many small issues for desktop day-to-day usage. I encounter different small bugs almost each day, something I don't see on Windows that often. These bugs or inconvenient UI are tolerable for me, but not for everybody. Today the bug was Firefox not starting with first click on the shortcut, and mysterious case where keyboard clicks are not registering in the Firefox omnibar until Firefox restart.
by kalterdev | 2026-02-05 04:21:18+00:00
It can code in an autocomplete sense. In the serious sense, if we don’t distinguish between code and thought, it can’t.

Observe that modern coding agents rely heavily on heuristics. LLM excels at training datasets, at analyzing existing knowledge, but it can’t generate new knowledge on the same scale, its thinking (a process of identification and integration) is severely limited on the conscious level (context window), where being rational is most valuable.

Because it doesn’t have volition, it cannot choose to be logical and not irrational, it cannot commit to attaining the full non-contradictory awareness of reality. That’s why I said “never.”
by luxiedge | 2026-02-05 04:21:59+00:00
I've developed an attention mechanism called the Waller Operator that maintains constant ~14ms latency regardless of sequence length, compared to FlashAttention's O(N²) scaling.

Benchmarks on NVIDIA H100 with Mistral-7B:

• Constant latency: 14.168-14.305ms across 512 → 524,288 tokens (0.96% variance)
• 24.5x faster than FlashAttention v2.8.3 at 32K tokens
• O(N log N) memory complexity vs O(N²)
• Zero throughput degradation (FlashAttention shows 76% loss from 4K→32K)
• Successfully executes at 524K tokens (FlashAttention OOMs beyond 32K)

Full benchmark data: https://github.com/RegularJoe-CEO/vllm/blob/waller-operator-...

FlashAttention baseline for comparison: https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/pull/33860

The kernel achieves ~492-496 TFLOPS consistently across all sequence lengths.

Looking for feedback on the approach and additional validation suggestions.
by zephen | 2026-02-05 04:22:02+00:00
The article is a paradigmatic example of innumeracy.

10% of prodigies becomes 10% of elite, whereas (whoknows)% of (general_population - prodigies) becomes 90% of elite.

How big is elite? How big is prodigies?

Well, for a start, I guess we can assume that size of elite == size of prodigies, because 10% == 10%.

But what is that size compared to general population?

If it's 1%, then 99% of muggles compete for slots in 0.9% of the population, so, hey, a prodigy is 11 times more likely to become an elite than a muggle.

If it's 0.1%, then a prodigy is 111 times more likely to become an elite than a muggle.

If it's 10% -- well, that's kind of stretching the definition of both prodigy and elite, isn't it?

tl;dr -- article is crap; research probably is, as well.
by jacinda | 2026-02-05 04:22:02+00:00
This is an excellent point! People often forget that something uncommon out of a much larger pool is still larger than anything that comes from a smaller pool (base rate neglect).

https://www.simplypsychology.org/base-rate-fallacy.html

> For example, given a choice of the two categories, people might categorize a woman as a politician rather than a banker if they heard that she enjoyed social activism at school—even if they knew that she was drawn from a population consisting of 90% bankers and 10% politicians (APA).

The general population is much larger than the population of child prodigies.
by kijin | 2026-02-05 04:22:05+00:00
It's a testing box, sure, but a lot of people have the same setting, usually because of some legacy app that requires it.

It does contradict your insistence that Windows would never allow such things. An exploit doesn't need to do its thing silently in order to be effective. If a security apparatus can be bypassed by tricking a user to flip a switch, it WILL be bypassed. Heck, just trying to install or update Notepad++ throws up a UAC dialog. Who would suspect anything?
by pickleRick243 | 2026-02-05 04:22:29+00:00
Regardless of the basic conceptual point being made (merits of tiger parenting vs. holistic "participation trophy" style parenting), this research doesn't look that convincing.

There's the graphic: "Top 1% cognition aged 12 and top 5% salary mid-30s" which is supposed to be the most dramatic one. So apparently we suddenly just take at face value the criticism "if you're so smart, why aren't you rich"?
by oxguy3 | 2026-02-05 04:22:47+00:00
> Can I play non steam games with the Steam Controller?
> The controller can work with any game compatible with the Steam Overlay.

Ughhhhhh. Looks like they're doing the same nonsense as the last controller, and it won't work without Steam running. Such a disappointment; have to hope someone makes an open-source driver.
by ziml77 | 2026-02-05 04:24:41+00:00
> But inconsistency isn't a surprise for anyone who actually knows how LLMs work

Exactly. These people saying they've gotten good results for the same question aren't countering your argument. All they're doing is proving that sometimes it can output good results. But a tool that's randomly right or wrong is not a very useful one. You can't trust any of its output unless you can validate it. And for a lot of the questions people ask of it, if you have to validate it, there was no reason to use the LLM in the first place.
by llbbdd | 2026-02-05 04:25:38+00:00
Maybe not the last, but it feels like we're getting closer than I thought we would.

I love keyboards, I love typing. I'm rocking an Ergodox daily with a wooden shell that I built myself over ten years ago, with layers of macros that make it nearly incomprehensible for another person to use. I've got keyboard storage. I used to have a daily habit of going to multiple typing competition websites, planting a flag at #1 in the daily leaderboard and moving on to the next one.

Over the last year the utility of voice interfaces has just exploded though and I'm finding that I'm touching the keyboard less and less. Outside of projects where I'm really opinionated on the details or the architecture it increasingly feels like a handicap to bother manually typing code for a lot of tasks. I'm honestly more worried about that physical skill atrophying than dulling on any ability to do the actual engineering work, but it makes me a bit sad. Like having a fleet of untiring tractors replacing the work of my horse, but I like horses.
by keepamovin | 2026-02-05 04:26:45+00:00
Well, an LLM is a mirror, right? Maybe you were just using it wrong? Can you give any examples of what you used it for that led you to believe it's what you said?

I don't think your view is based on personal experience, but you get my, point, yes?

The feeling I get about you here is you simply dislike his companies and Musk and am enjoying seeing him get what he deserves, right? Which I think is the personal mirror of the "state feeling" behind the current official actions.

More broadly, your comments and many others like it in these threads, identify a narrow band of content with the product as a whole. And the implication being if you disagree with hatred against Musk / xAI, you must be a pervert. Which is intended as a reputational threat to intimidate people into not voicing support.

But if an LLM is used to create bad content by some, does that mean the only content it can create is bad? Does that mean that every user is using it to create bad content?

If xAI has a problem with bad content, they need better controls. I don't think these state efforts nor discourse are about the bad content. I think that issue is just a vector through which to assert pressure. I think it's because people in power want control over something that is, annoyingly to them, resisting control. And not in a way that's about "bad content", but in a way that's about inconvenient-to-them content.
by FeteCommuniste | 2026-02-05 04:27:07+00:00
> I know nothing about child psychology or anything adjacent, but I honestly think a lot of "advanced child" stuff is just maturity.

That makes me think back to my elementary school, where a lot of the kids who got into the "gifted" program just happened to be, surprise surprise, some of the oldest kids in their grade.

At that age the better part of a year in brain development can be exactly the "edge" one needs to excel. And then it can become self-reinforcing when kids gravitate toward the areas in which they dominate their peers.
by threethirtytwo | 2026-02-05 04:27:27+00:00
I think this framing quietly smuggles in a category error.

This isn’t about what feels compelling to you or me, nor is it a clean split between “near-universal moral prohibitions” and “petty micromanagement.” There’s a massive middle ground you’re flattening. Scale matters. Irreversibility matters. Civilization-level consequences matter.

Banning murder preserves a baseline condition for freedom. Large infrastructure projects don’t just “nudge” behavior or marginally increase traffic. They reshape cities, labor markets, land values, energy use, migration patterns, and political power for decades or centuries. They bind future generations who never consented and cannot meaningfully opt out. Calling that “petty” is just wrong descriptively, regardless of whether you support the project.

Once you acknowledge that, the question stops being “should the state only prevent violence?” and becomes “what kinds of collective decisions are legitimate when their effects are vast, asymmetric, and effectively permanent?” That’s not micromanagement. That’s the core problem of modern governance.

So no, the objection isn’t to the government punishing murder instead of being anarchic. It’s to pretending that civilization-shaping actions belong in the same moral bucket as minor regulatory nuisances. You can argue that such projects are worth the tradeoff. You can argue they should override individual objections. But dismissing them as trivial violations is an easy rhetorical move that avoids grappling with why people resist them in the first place.
by HDThoreaun | 2026-02-05 04:27:39+00:00
The only reason Iran is starving is because their corrupt, incompetent government diverted all the water to insider usage and agriculture imploded. A government that was installed by a domestic political movement with minimal foreign influence. As I said there are certainly instances where the people can’t end their government because of foreign influence, Iran is in no way an example of that. Their domestic political movement fucked themselves and they can only blame themselves.
by parable | 2026-02-05 04:27:52+00:00
The post where the data is available for download states that "the scraping method used was noisy and patched fast", leading one to believe that Substack was aware of the breach early on, yet they never alerted a single user until the data was posted publicly. It's so disheartening that companies won't admit breaches until the evidence becomes too loud to ignore.
by popalchemist | 2026-02-05 04:28:00+00:00
that depends entirely on how common the borrowed thing is. And anyway, option A is always going to be insufficient for my code-switching example -- as another commenter pointed out, it is very common to want to refer to a foreign work (song, movie, book) by its foreign language title. Monolingual ASR solutions break over this all the time. Try asking Alexa to play a Spanish language track on Spotify. It fails frequently.

The real world is like that.
by techpression | 2026-02-05 04:28:38+00:00
Yeah the whole filing taxes thing is an epic XY-problem. Governments can make this as easy as a digital signature, there’s zero need for an agent of any kind.

Actually most of the things people use it for is of this kind, instead actually solving the problem (which is out of scope for them to be fair) it’s just adding more things on top that can go wrong.
by necheffa | 2026-02-05 04:29:05+00:00
Partially. Being gifted is special needs education. And the average K-12 in the US is not equipped to provide that for that special need, especially in a post No Child Left Behind era.

A lot of adults conflate giftedness with maturity and expect the kid to act like an adult, combined with the pressure to perform and an identity built around being gifted...it fucks with development.

There is a reason why depression and suicide in adults can be correlated with formerly gifted children.
by tbrownaw | 2026-02-05 04:29:40+00:00
This seems to be arguing that they should more than showing that they increasingly are.

Also the bit about companies with more older workers performing better, and the bit about older people often losing jobs due to layoffs, sound like they could also fit together as high firm performance permitting long tenure rather than having to show only that experienced employees cause higher firm performance (although of course the examples demonstrate the latter via other means, so it can't be that it doesn't happen at all).
by Nition | 2026-02-05 04:30:07+00:00
The article wants me to sign up to read it, so forgive me if it already says this, but you also need to know the percentage of children that become prodigies before you can calculate exactly how much more likely they are to become elite adults.

e.g. If 1% of children are prodigies, 10% of prodigies become elite, and 0.9% of normies become elite.

If 0.1% of children are prodigies, 10% of prodigies become elite, and 0.09% of normies become elite.

Or in the rather unlikely case that 10% of children are prodigies, non-prodigies become elite at exactly the same rate as prodigies - 10%.
by rbbydotdev | 2026-02-05 04:31:21+00:00
While it's debatable if Apple would release something outright as encompassing and complete as OpenClaw, they should have helped developers and builders to build something similar themselves.

This could have come in any form, a platform as the author points out for instance.

I have a couple of ideas, how about a permissions kit? Something where before or during you sign off on permissions. Or how about locked down execution sandboxes specifically for agentic loops? Also - why is there not yet (or ever?) a model trained on their development code/forums/manuals/data?

Before OpenClaw, I could see the writing on the wall. The ai ecosystem is not congruent to Apple's walled garden. In many ways because they have turned their backs on those 'misfits' their early ad-copy praised.

This 'misfit' mentality is what I like so much about the OpenClaw community. It was visible from it's very beginning with the devil-may-care disregard for privacy and security.
by cruffle_duffle | 2026-02-05 04:31:23+00:00
Did you point that out to one of them… like “hey bro, I’ve asked y’all this question in multiple threads and get wildly different answers. Why?”

And the answer is probably because there is no such thing as an ideal temperature for waterfowl because the answer is “it depends” and you didn’t give it enough context to better answer your question.

Context is everything. Give it poor prompts, you’ll get poor answers. LLMs are no different than programming a computer or anything else in this domain.

And learning how to give good context is a skill. One we all need to learn.
by cperciva | 2026-02-05 04:31:34+00:00
The parasite is not the disease; the parasite causes the disease.

Similarly, SARS-COV-2 is a virus which causes Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) and the Human Immunodeficiency Virus causes AIDS.

People often conflate parasites or viruses with the diseases they cause, and it's practically impossible to eliminate the diseases without eliminating the causative agent, but they are technically distinct concepts.
by whattheheckheck | 2026-02-05 04:32:38+00:00
You think the personal lawyers of Donald Trump Pam Bondi and Todd Blanche will follow the money unbiasedly? As well as children's book, The Plot Against the King, author Kash Patel and FBI director? As well as Russian asset herself, Tulsa Gabbard director of National Intelligence want to do anything against their power source?
by tombert | 2026-02-05 04:33:09+00:00
At Apple, on iTunes, we used an Oracle database to do job queue stuff. Initially I will admit I made fun of it because I wanted to use a "real" queue like RabbitMQ or ActiveMQ or something, but I have to admit that it worked fine and to be fair it did predate both of those.

Anyway, it made me realize that there's really no reason you can't use a SQL database as a backing store for queue stuff. I should try building my own at some point.
by b1temy | 2026-02-05 04:33:40+00:00
What are your thoughts on the usefulness of tribal knowledge when older (age-wise) employees change jobs? [0]

Then, the tribal knowledge they had at their previous place of employment won't be as useful somewhere else. Though I suppose you can make an argument that they might have similar workflows, or tools, or they might just have general experience that would be useful.

But I suppose your comment was more on the under-appreciation by management of existing tribal knowledge in a team.

[0] Perhaps out of necessity, e.g: company went under, or maybe they want a change of pace.
by harry8 | 2026-02-05 04:34:40+00:00
Let me express it another way.

Think of 5 relevant attributes of your body for playing something well.

Guesstimate where they were on the population bell curve when you were 10.

Guesstimate if these would have been on a different spot on the population bell curve for that attribute when you were an adult. Would you have guessed it when you wee 10? Would others have guessed it about you at that age?

Puberty changes you in unpredictable ways. Do we need a study to know that?

Everyone committing to tennis before they are 10 are elite, you wouldn't do it otherwise. Who is the best player of that elite set changes given the great puberty shake up.
by cosmic_cheese | 2026-02-05 04:34:54+00:00
Mindshare matters, too. A big reason why small distros manage to get a foothold is because they're highly visible in places that get traffic (which then kicks off a virtuous cycle further increasing visibility). When existing Linux users get an itch to try a different distro, the ones that will come to mind to try are those they saw on reddit/youtube/xitter/etc, and Linux newbies are also going to be inclined towards these high visibility distros.

Holing up in mailing lists definitely isn't going to help with pulling in users or devs.
by IAmLiterallyAB | 2026-02-05 04:35:20+00:00
To maximize device performance when wiping a drive to use for something else, I use nvme format with --ses=1.

Which in theory should free all of the blocks on the flash.

Really hard to find good documentation on this stuff. Doesn't help that 95% of internet articles just say "overwrite with zeroes" which is useless advice