MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by wongarsu | 2026-02-10 11:17:55+00:00
At first I thought it's a clever prompt because you see which direction the model takes it, and whether it "corrects" it to the more common "human riding a horse" similar to the full wine glass test.

But if you translate the actual prompt the term riding doesn't even appear. The prompt describes the exact thing you see in excruciating detail.

"... A muscular, robust adult brown horse standing proudly, its forelegs heavily pressing between the shoulder blades and spine of a reclining man ... and its eyes sharp and focused, exuding a primal sense of power. The subdued man is a white male, 30-40 years old, his face covered in dust and sweat ... his body is in a push-up position—his palms are pressed hard against the cracked, dry earth, his knuckles white, the veins in his arms bulging, his legs stretched straight back and taut, his toes digging into the ground, his entire torso trembling slightly from the weight ..."
by ndom91 | 2026-02-10 11:18:54+00:00
Ethernet tethering with a USB-C adapter from my OnePlus 13 saved my ass last weekend as I had to restore a Proxmox backup of my OPNSense VM from a remote PBS, and obviously without it I didn't have normal internet connection at home.

Fantastic stuff. I wasn't sure if I'd have to set a static IP on my proxmox box in a predefined subnet, but nope Android spins up a DHCP server and everything is basically plug-n-play
by pwatsonwailes | 2026-02-10 11:18:55+00:00
You're not wrong strictly speaking - the challenge comes in getting KPIs for ethical and moral behaviour to be things that the company signs up for. Some are geared that way inherently (Patagonia is the cliché example), but most aren't.

People will always find other goalposts to move. The trick is making sure the KPIs you set define the goalposts you care about staying in place.

Side note: Jordan Peterson is pretty much an example of inventing goalposts to move. Everything he argues about is about setting a goalpost, and then inventing others to move around to avoid being pinned down. Motte-and-bailey fallacy happens with KPIs as much as it does with debates.
by kotaKat | 2026-02-10 11:19:12+00:00
Considering Discord is building a "teen council" to groom and shape the future of Discord, I've got some bad feelings as to the floodgates of crap that's going to open up.

Kids are going to be too impressionable to free crap and pandering to advertisers to fall for literally anything Discord will dangle in front of them. They already do it for Orbs and Quests, so...
by frumplestlatz | 2026-02-10 11:19:23+00:00
That's exactly what you said, and it was incorrect:

> This is exactly the shipping I'm talking about. The gains would be so miniscule (because, again, and incremental compile was never actually slow even on the PC) and the network overhead adds up. Especially back then.

The network overhead was negligible. The gains were enormous.
by mikkupikku | 2026-02-10 11:19:25+00:00
> in no way a replication of human level entities.

Absolutely agree.

> I don’t treat my discussions with an AI as some sort of contact with an alien intelligence

Why not? They're not human intelligences. Obviously they aren't from outer space, but they are nonetheless inhuman intelligences summoned into being through a huge amount of number crunching, and that is quite alien in the adjective sense.

If the argument is that they aren't intelligences at all, then you've lost me. They're already far more capable than most AIs envisioned by 20th century science fiction authors. They're far more rational than most of Asimov's robots for instance.
by heavyset_go | 2026-02-10 11:19:27+00:00
I don't use it, but it doesn't start or stop at Discord. Age checking is already implemented as live face video & ID uploads and already deployed by every large tech company all over the world. They just have to flip a switch in our market.

To use my phone, Google wants me to verify my identity and age[1][2].

They're boiling the frog, give it a few years, and if you want to use any internet connected device at all, you'll need to sacrifice your face and ID as tribute. If you want to talk to someone else, you'll need to identify yourself with the platform or network on which you communicate. If you want to run an app that serves you any user generated content in any capacity, you'll need to identify yourself first.

[1] https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-play-users-are-starting...

[2] https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/10071085?hl=en
by co_king_3 | 2026-02-10 11:19:40+00:00
AI is one of those early-2000s SUVs that gets 8 miles to the gallon and has a TV screen in the back of every seat.

It's about presenting externally as a "bad ass" while:

A) Constantly drowning out every moment of your life with low quality background noise.

B) Aggressively polluting the environment and depleting our natural resources for no reason beyond pure arrogance.
by ReptileMan | 2026-02-10 11:19:42+00:00
Dear littlecranky67, as overseer for your digital wallet, I am happy to inform you that the owner of the discord server kinkydwarfporn doesn't know who you are and your privacy is protected.

Signed your friendly EU official.

As long as someone in the chain is able to physically connect the dots it is game over for privacy.
by pjc50 | 2026-02-10 11:19:54+00:00
Euro NCAP actually mandates that a following distance should be part of adaptive cruise control. A lot of manufacturers have turned this into a distance meter on the dash, in addition to the automatic braking. When I test-drove a Renault 5. I could see a little bar graph measuring how close I was to what the car thought was safe. Which turned out to be a lot closer than I would be comfortable driving! That is, the car would have allowed me to get much closer before it would have activated any automatic braking.

(the irony of looking at a meter on the dash to duplicate a piece of information I should be very clearly seeing out of the windscreen was not lost on me, though)
by alt227 | 2026-02-10 11:20:50+00:00
> If they tell you they're not selling your data they're not selling your data.

Oh you naive child. /s

If they tell you they are not selling your data, its because they have a license agreement with another company which is selling your data. 'They' very specifically arent selling it, however they are very much profitting from other companies using it.
by Normal_gaussian | 2026-02-10 11:20:55+00:00
To be clear, your linked map shows that it is not a blanket "in europe". Around 20 European countries don't need an ID to get a SIM card and 30 do.

For those learning about political nuance against the backdrop of current propaganda, it is worth noting that the UK and Ireland do not require registration and that the populous are significantly politically opposed to it; and then Russia requires registration and has one of the most linked up registrations.
by stevekemp | 2026-02-10 11:21:13+00:00
Back in the day I used livejournal and for a couple of years in a row I setup a matchmaking site that paired users up.

You'd login to my site and see a list of all the blogs you followed, then you could nominate five of them as people you were interested in.

If they did the same, you'd both get a notification.

It was a cute system and because it was restricted to selecting only from people you already followed it was nice and local. The code was released at the time, but has now become lost in the winds.

I could almost imagine setting it up again for instagram, facebook, or similar, but .. getting users would be hard I imagine, and I'm sure the companies would try to sue or prohibit it.
by pydry | 2026-02-10 11:21:18+00:00
In Russia I noticed that it took barely 10 minutes with stranger before getting into a discussion of philosophy, literature, meaning of life, etc. (or how their soul ached for something)

I never saw this Singaporean soul even in deepest darkest ang mo kio.

It was low key creepy how shallow the locals were. They'd chat about gaming, shopping, grinding and food, food, food but very rarely anything deeper. even after knowing them for years.

I went to some "artistic immersive theater" there one time (there was an event like this maybe once a year?) and even there the first third was a girl monologuing about her love of kpop.

Most countries fit in the middle of these two somewhere but these two countries really stood out to me in their extremes.
by rich_sasha | 2026-02-10 11:21:20+00:00
To be honest, sadly, I think you're onto something.

I can imagine the AI agents chatting to each other, figuring out what you like. I can see the chain of thought going "I can't say XYZ is lazy and rough, instead I'll say he saves his energy for what really matters, and lives to the full".

So many apps are just image attractiveness scoring plus some superficial conversation with pleasantries, which are both things AI do well at.
by Noaidi | 2026-02-10 11:21:23+00:00
40 years ago when I was a history major in college one of my brilliant professors gave us a book to read called "the myth of domesticity".

In the book The researcher explains that when washing machines were invented the women faced a whole new expectation of clean clothes all the time because washing clothes was much less of a labor. And statistics pointed out that women actually were washing clothes more often than doing more work after the washing machine was invented then before.

This happens with any technology. AI is no different.
by T-A | 2026-02-10 11:21:59+00:00
> It's trivial to add a matrix to account for neutrino masses

The matrix you are thinking of is presumably the PMNS matrix [1]. It's equivalent to the CKM matrix for quarks [2]. The purpose of both is to parametrize the mismatch between flavor [3] and mass eigenstates, not "to account for neutrino masses" or "explain their origin".

As far as the standard model is concerned, neutrino masses and quark masses all originate from Yukawa couplings [4] with the Higgs field. Adding such terms to Weinberg's original model of leptons is very much a trivial exercise, and was done already well before there was solid evidence for non-zero neutrino masses.

> it's possible experiments will say "Both the current ideas are wrong."

Assuming that by "Both current ideas" you mean Dirac vs Majorana mass, those are the only available relativistic invariants. For both to be wrong, special relativity would have to be wrong. Hopefully I don't need to explain how extraordinarily unlikely that is.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontecorvo%E2%80%93Maki%E2%80%...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabibbo%E2%80%93Kobayashi%E2%8...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flavour_(particle_physics)

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yukawa_coupling
by tianqi | 2026-02-10 11:22:48+00:00
I've seen many comments describing the "horse riding man" example as extremely bizarre (which it actually is), so I'd like to provide some background context here. The "horse riding man" is a Chinese internet meme originating from an entertainment awards ceremony, when the renowned host Tsai Kang-yong wore an elaborate outfit featuring a horse riding on his back[1]. At the time, he was embroiled in a rumor about his unpublicized homosexual partner, whose name sounded "Ma Qi Ren" which coincidentally translates to "horse riding man" in Mandarin. This incident spread widely across Chinese internet and turned into a meme. So they used "horse riding man" as an example isn't entirely nonsensical, though the image per se is undeniably bizarre and carries an unsettling vibe.

[1] The photo of the outfit: https://share.google/mHJbchlsTNJ771yBa
by OJFord | 2026-02-10 11:22:50+00:00
I don't know, I'm not familiar with Signal. But features such as described above with worse privacy than the basic chatting functionality detract from it, it's not just that it would be a bonus if it were better, because that's exactly how effort comes in, having to know about it, and the typical layman user just blindly uses it.

Take Telegram for example, where only explicitly 'secret' chats are e2ee, you have to go out of your way, it's not the easy path.
by jpc0 | 2026-02-10 11:23:11+00:00
There is a pretty significant difference between the way JS is used there and in electron apps.

This might be what you were getting to but I tend to agree with the idea of place all the interaction logic in a high kevel language and get the performance where it's needed.

Electron does not do that and neither does the people developing electron apps most of the time. I doubt many people throwing electron apps together chose to do that so they can put their CPU intensive code in C/C++/Rust/swift, they want to erite everything in JS.

What should happen is the bare minimum needs to be in JS and the rest in an efficient compiled language.

I mean even the browser does that, the DOM API hands off to lower level libraries for multimedia etc.
by mrtksn | 2026-02-10 11:23:28+00:00
LLMs are quite accurate for programming, these days they almost always create a code that will compile without errors and errors are almost always fixable by feeding the error into the LLM. I would say this is extremely precise text generation, much better than most humans.

Just like with CNC though, you need to feed it with the correct instructions. It's still on you for the machined output to do the expected thing. CNC's are also not perfect and their operators need to know the intricacies of machining.
by em-bee | 2026-02-10 11:23:52+00:00
we need to differentiate two things here:

using discord as the only way to reach a project and find documentation about it. the author mentions sending private messages right after joining. i would not have joined discord to do that, i'd have searched for their emails. if they or other ways to reach the developers can't be found then that is where the problem lies. the author doesn't mention if he tried that, and he doesn't point out the difference exclusive and optional use of discord.

but beyond that, communities form where the people are. many FOSS projects are on discord because the people are already there. there are lively communities for fedora, debian, javascript, golang, to mention just a few. they are not the central space of those projects but they reach a number of people that probably would not participate in those communities otherwise.

one community that is important to me has the core developers on a forum that is gated to a mailinglist, while the wider user community used to hang out on IRC, but eventually switched to discord. there are a few communities that did that because participation on IRC was dwindling and not getting new people. getting new people is a lot easier on discord.

bridging to discord is at least possible, even though not ideal, it does allow participation from people that don't want to use discord. we could for example create a bridge to the old IRC channel.

for some communities the choice is discord or no chat at all. github would have to integrate messaging for that to become a more attractive option than discord. but then github is not ideal for FOSS projects either. unfortunately the current reality is that the more aligned a communication platform is with FOSS ideals, the less attractive it becomes for most users. sometimes it is a tough choice.

side note: i don't appreciate that swipe against RMS. i don't care about your opinion of him. keep that to yourself please. backbiting is a vice that hurts us all.
by berkes | 2026-02-10 11:24:22+00:00
People and societies.

Your question is an important one, but also one that has been extensively researched, documented and improved upon. Whole fields of science, like "Metaethics" deal with answering your question. Other fields of science with defining "normative ethics" aka ethics that "everyone agrees upon" and so on.

I may have misread your question as a somewhat dismissive sarcastic take or as a "Ethics are nonsense, because of who defines them". So I tried to answer it as an honest question. ;)
by joeycodes | 2026-02-10 11:24:22+00:00
It is Lunar New Year season right now, 2026 is year of the horse, there is celebratory horse imagery everywhere in many Asian countries right now, so this image could be interpreted as East trampling West. I have no way to know the intention of the person at Qwen who wrote this, but you can form your own conclusions from the prompt:

A muscular, robust adult brown horse stands proudly, its forelegs heavily pressing between the shoulder blades and spine of a reclining man. Its hind legs are taut, its neck held high, its mane flying against the wind, its nostrils flared, and its eyes sharp and focused, exuding a primal sense of power. The subdued man is a white male...
by 9rx | 2026-02-10 11:25:15+00:00
> I’ve never seen a product/project manager questioning themselves: does this feature add any value? Should we remove it?

To be fair, it is a hard question to contend with. It is easier to keep users who don't know what they're missing happier than users who lost something they now know they want. Even fixing bugs can sometimes upset users who have come to depend on the bug as a feature.

> In agile methodologies we measure the output of the developers.

No we don't. "Individuals and interactions over processes and tools". You are bound to notice a developer with poor output as you interact with them, but explicitly measure them you will not. Remember, agile is all about removing managers from the picture. Without managers, who is even going to do the measuring?

There are quite a few pre-agile methodologies out there that try to prepare a development team to operate without managers. It is possible you will find measurement in there, measuring to ensure that the people can handle working without mangers? Even agile itself recognizes in the 12 principles that it requires a team of special people to be able to handle agile.
by bonesss | 2026-02-10 11:25:53+00:00
I addressed that directly in the comment you’re replying to.

It’s understandable people readily anthropomorphize algorithmic output designed to provoke anthropomorphized responses.

It is not desire-able, safe, logical, or rational since (to paraphrase:), they are complex text transformation algorithms that can, at best, emulate training data reinforced by benchmarks and they display emergent behaviours based on those.

They are not human, so attributing human characteristics to them is highly illogical. Understandable, but irrational.

That irrationality should raise biological and engineering red flags. Plus humanization ignores the profit motives directly attached to these text generators, their specialized corpus’s, and product delivery surrounding them.

Pretending your MS RDBMS likes you better than Oracles because it said so is insane business thinking (in addition to whatever that means psychologically for people who know the truth of the math).
What I want from AI – two specific use cases for a Home Assistant
by wewewedxfgdf | 2026-02-10 11:26:45+00:00
The household chores tracker:

- I want some sort of house cleaning/family chores assistant device that I can talk to.

- It should live in the kitchen - I do not want another forgotten phone app.

- It must remember conversations long term and be able to return to exactly that conversation when I come back to it.

- I want to be able to talk about the housework.

- I want to tell it randomly what chores needs to be done as I think of them "we need to sweep the floors twice a week".

- Every member of the household does chores after dinner for 10 minutes.

- I want it to tell each person what needs to be done, ensuring there is an orderly rotation of chores done and nothing is forgotten.

- I want it to record what has been done thus it can keep track of what needs to be done next.

The study assistant - this would be incredibly valuable and useful if it worked well:

- This might be a dedicated device or possibly a phone app though I feel like a dedicated device is likely to be used more, rather than yet another forgotten phone app.

- I want a homework/study assistant which retains a long memory of what I am studying.

- It tracks what study i need to do.

- It tracks the homework I have due.

- It tracks the exams I have coming up.

- It organises my study routines and tells me what I need to do when.

- It manages spaced repetition learning.
by embedding-shape | 2026-02-10 11:27:23+00:00
> Even UTC+-0 I have seen rarely

Hover the timestamp here on HN and you'll see it at least once in your life time :) I'm guessing it's mostly developers, especially ones working internationally, who come across it every day. Others seem to prefer to convert between people's timezone, while we just send UTC+00:00 to each other.
by co_king_3 | 2026-02-10 11:27:23+00:00
I feel that the popularization of bloated UI "frameworks", like React and Electron, coupled with the inefficiency tolerated in the "JS ecosystem" have been precursors to this dynamic.

It seems perfectly fitting to me that Anthropic is using a wildly overcomplicated React renderer in their TUI.

React devs are the perfect use case for "AI" dev tools. It is perfectly tolerated for them to write highly inefficient code, and these frameworks are both:

A) Arcane and inconsistently documented

B) Heavily overrepresented in open-source

Meaning there are meaningful gains to be had from querying these "AI" tools for framework development.

In my opinion, the shared problem is the acceptance of egregious inefficiency.
by zsoltkacsandi | 2026-02-10 11:27:45+00:00
Yeah, that’s a misconception too based on my experience.

I’ve seen many people (even myself) thinking the same: if I quit/something happens to me, there will be no one who knows how this works/how to do this. Turned out the businesses always survived. There was a tiny inconvenience, but other than that: nothing. There is always someone who is willing to pick up/take over the task in zero amount of time.

I mean I agree with you, in theory. But that’s not what I’ve seen in practice.
by compounding_it | 2026-02-10 11:28:17+00:00
The good news is that this won't matter much because it's probably out of consideration for pretty much all of the HN crowd. Ferrari is one of those things which the ultra rich and a small sliver of the population can afford to buy brand new, and those not even lurking here. For everyone else it's something they can try out on a track if they are curious.

That being said, I wonder what can be cloned from this by others. The ICE are huge and refined and people can steal that engineering into other cars. With battery and motors, I feel like everyone is now on a level playing field and starts from zero. I wonder what will set apart a Ferrari from others.
by Temporary_31337 | 2026-02-10 11:28:33+00:00
Unfortunately for a lot of performance and luxury oriented Car manufacturers, EVs are a death trap - since they don't have access to any special battery chemistry, the drivetrain is basically a commodity - you can get more HP from Xiaomi than you can get from a Ferrari. Any advatages / weight savings around say carbon chassis will be negligible and probably more of a nuisance in daily driving.

Moreover the battery will degrade over time so it's not a good long term investment (unlike ICE cars where 100 year old machines still run fine).
I'm sure there will still be some buyers but the margins are going to get squeezed and the Rich Oil Sheikh will reconsider their purchasing choices when it gets overtaken by a Chinese EV equivalent at 1/10th of the price.
I really don't see how Ferrari can support its brand with a toy car like this.
by nusl | 2026-02-10 11:29:19+00:00
I think it's fine for wheel controls to look different though. You're adjusting them when engaged with a task that requires constant concentration, so being able to easily identify the control you want and then use it makes sense.

I'd rather have this than all of them look the same. If you're driving in rain and need to swap to wet tyre mode, but have to spend time figuring out which generic knob does the thing, it's dangerous.