MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by netsharc | 2026-01-30 17:02:13+00:00
Even China has more incentive than Switzerland... I guess the issue is even with tax credits, the super-rich can still splurge and buy the gas-guzzling SUVs, and it seems it's a country full of G-Wagens, with people with money who need to show off.

In Shenzhen, the government made gas taxis have higher meter prices, so obviously passengers will pick electric taxis. E-scooters must be cheaper to run, so they're popular with all the delivery riders, and normal commuters there...
by rekabis | 2026-01-30 17:02:50+00:00
What is the difference between the wealthy leaving in order to avoid paying their fair share of taxes, and said taxes not even being implemented?

NOTHING.

Either they pay their fair share of taxes and society as a whole benefits, or they leave and other, better entrepreneurs, step in to fill the void.

In the end, net worth taxation is a purely positive gain for society, with zero downsides: the real parasites leave the country, allowing the working class to thrive more effectively.

I have zero sympathy for those who have full ability to pay, but out of pathological, vampiristic greed, choose not to. Net worth from stocks and business assets are NEVER actually earned, they’re the difference between what workers produce in value and what they’re paid for that value; it’s a bloodletting of the working class that economic parasites feed on so they themselves need not labour to become obscenely wealthy.

The working poor don’t choose to be poor, that comes down to political policy choices under a violently coercive economic system that demands that you be profitable to someone else or suffer destitution, homelessness, or even death.
by eudamoniac | 2026-01-30 17:02:53+00:00
Unity, Unreal, Monogame are a few engines via which ambitious games are regularly shipped. Godot is not among them because Godot has very few good games in it, with a terrible use:release ratio, which is in turn because it is primarily a game dev tutorial platform.

I'm not sure if there is any example of a studio or person making their second game in Godot when their first was not, and this rare occurrence seems to me a product of the "wow this shit is just not a serious engine compared to what I was using" effect.

Games are very complicated to make and take a very long time. Any unneeded friction will compound into games not getting shipped at all most of the time. Godot is uniquely frictional outside the basic happy path.
by ben_w | 2026-01-30 17:02:56+00:00
Do you mean Russia?

Because while Russia is indeed within the continent of Europe, counting it in this context is about as sensible as calling Venezuela and El Salvador "American" just because of the continent they happen to be part of.

If you didn't mean Russia, I have no idea what fiction you're reading.

Not that any of this justifies American cars being overpriced, having no real low-end options. You're way more car-centric than we are, lots of you need cars, whereas many more of us are fine without any, so you having no cheap (new) options is more surprising.
by Izkata | 2026-01-30 17:03:11+00:00
My suggestion was just straight text generation and thinking about what the training data might look like (imagining a narrative in a story): Commands between two people might not be followed right away or at all (and may even risk introducing rebellion and doing the opposite), while a first-person perspective is likely self motivation (almost guaranteed to do it) and may even be descriptive while doing it.
by aparida31 | 2026-01-30 17:03:19+00:00
Shark 2.0 is a free, open-source Heads-Up poker solver written in C++.

It implements Discounted CFR, runs fully multithreaded, and includes a GUI for exploring strategies. I focused on making it usable on consumer hardware by aggressively reducing flop memory usage (compressed strategies, raise caps, reduced action space).

Built as a side project while in college. Feedback welcome.
by _DeadFred_ | 2026-01-30 17:04:09+00:00
You talk about America yet don't understand our most basic concept of law. "These people just haven't been convicted - yet." is so fucking anti-American it's crazy to see someone just drop it as a rebuttal here.

You added that after your claim: "ICE is also deporting mostly criminals"

You then try to wordsmith criminal into to 'illegal immigrants'. These people are being deported on Civil law violations. Not criminal. If it was criminal ICE wouldn't be able to use immigration courts and their special carvouts for not following the constitution. You don't seem to understand any American basic civics in addition to your not understanding your own statement 'ICE is also deporting mostly criminals'

You're further expanding makes your original statement obvious bad faith spin that wasn't true and that you didn't actually care about.

I have never been registered as a Democrat in my life, and was libertarian for the majority of it. Again you ignorantly make statements you have zero idea are true or not. Democracy isn't 'I won, I get to throw away the system of laws and violate the constitution'.

Edit: Got it, by saying "ICE is also deporting mostly criminals" what you meant was everyone they deport they have determined (in Immigration court and by immigration judges not real Article III judges on civil violations and not in Criminal court under criminal law violations sentenced by real Article III Judges) 'are criminals'. You don't understand American civics. You don't understand the definition of the word 'criminal'. You don't understand Democracy doesn't mean 'free to do whatever you want when elected' mob rule.
by CurrentB | 2026-01-30 17:04:12+00:00
Personally that would be even worse for me, though I understand maybe "better" on a societal scale by some metrics. To feed a being every day and care for it, to gain its trust, to appreciate their individuality, then to have them killed when they reach some fraction of its potential lifespan, I just don't want to do that. I'm perfectly happy eating legumes.
by b00ty4breakfast | 2026-01-30 17:04:26+00:00
because these entities have lots of money to pay people to convince local government that they should let them build their misery factories within their jurisdictions for "muh tax revenue" (that is paltry because corporate taxes end up being cut in the race to attract these vampires) and "muh jobs" (that usually dry up once the current thing in {industry} dies and the communities get left with the refuse. see also: the fracking and natural gas boom from ~20 years ago in the rust belt and the midwest).
by Kiboneu | 2026-01-30 17:04:29+00:00
When coding agents are unavailable I just continue to code myself or focus on architecture specification / feature descriptions. This really helps me retain my skills, though there is some "skew" (I'm not sure how to describe it, it's a feeling). Making instructions to LLMs to me is pretty similar to doing the basic software architecture and specification work that a lot of people tend to skip (now, there's not choice and it's directly useful). When you skip specification for a sufficiently complex project, you likely introduce footguns along the way that slows down development significantly. So what would one expect when they run a bunch of agents based on a single sentence prompt?!

Like the architecture work and making good quality specs, working on code has a guiding effect on the coding agents. So in a way, it also benefits to clarify items that may be more ambiguous in the spec. If I write some of the code myself, it will make fewer assumptions about my intent when it touches it (especially when I didn't specify them in the architecture or if they are difficult to articulate in natural language).

In small iterations, the agent checks back for each task. Because I spend a lot of time on architecture, I already have a model in my mind of how small code snippets and feature will connect.

Maybe my comfort with reviewing AI code comes form spending a large chunk of my life reverse engineering human code, to understand it to the extent that complex bugs and vulnerabilities emerge. I've spent a lot of time with different styles of code writing from awful to "this programmer must have a permanent line to god to do this so elegantly". The models is train on that, so I have a little cluster of neurons in my head that's shaped closely enough to follow the model's shape.
by spacechild1 | 2026-01-30 17:04:29+00:00
> This is the ordinary protestor a little over a week before the event

Wow, he kicked an ICE agent's car. The agents must have felt extremely threatened as they didn't even bother to arrest him...

How is this relevant to the shooting again?

> If he wanted to appear non-threatening he simply shouldn't have brought it to the event.

Carrying a gun in a state that allows conceiled carrying cannot be considered a thread in itself. Alex did not behave in a threatening way at any point during that whole situation.
by nacozarina | 2026-01-30 17:04:38+00:00
US school districts spend little on acquisition governance, yet have a lot of autonomy. They occupy a Purgatory within the traditional fed-state-local structure. Tech salespeople run roughshod over them, and they end up too many ‘cool’ things that are unharmonized, unmanageable or unused. Reform is a hill-by-hill slog.
by Gallows4574 | 2026-01-30 17:04:41+00:00
I know this gets asked all the time, but what is your preferred workflow when using local models? I was pretty deep into it early on, with Tabby and Continue.dev, but once I started using Claude Code with Opus it was hard to go back. I do the same as you, and still use them on flights and whatnot, but I think my implementation could be improved.
by pardon_me | 2026-01-30 17:04:51+00:00
If rider and pedestrian safety is the main concern, the automated assistance and safety systems that car manufacturers were already developing make the most sense. They either warn or intervene in situations the human may not realize they are in danger and/or do not respond in time. Developing these solves the harder problems first, automation is easy in comparison.

The idea that mostly-automating the system because it's statistically better than humans, but requiring human-assistance to monitor and respond in these exact situations, was flawed logic to begin with. Comparisons of statistics should be made like-for-like, given these are scenarios we can easily control.

For example, a robotic taxis should at least be compared to professional drivers on similar routes, roads, vehicles, and times of day. Not just comparing "all drivers in all vehicles in all scenarios over time" with private company data that cherry-picks "automated driving" miles on highways etc. (where existing assistance systems could already achieve near-perfect results).

Companies testing autonomy on the public should be forced to upload all crash data to investigators as part of their licensing. The vehicles already have extremely detailed sensor and video data to operate. The fact that we have no verified data to compare to existing human statistics is damning. It's a farce.
by gorjusborg | 2026-01-30 17:04:59+00:00
The permiability of the membrane would still be reduced by stuff on it, but as long as there is any permiability, the inner compartment will reach equilibrium eventually.

The big gain comes from a change in how you interpret the presence of electrons.

The older approach converted oxygen to electrical current, the magnitude of current flow relating to magnitude of oxygen depletion. The assumption built into that approach is that low oxygen depletion levels meant low oxygen levels, but that wasn't the only potential cause, because it ignored variation in the permiability of the membrane.

The newer approach equates current flow to oxygen concentration, as the system doesn't deplete the concentration any longer. The permiability of the membrane in this setup only contributes to a longer initial delay as the inner chamber comes to equilibrium with the surrounding concentration.
by gus_massa | 2026-01-30 17:05:01+00:00
Clicky https://fusion-circus-ultimate.vercel.app/

After the tutorial finish, the stability slowly decrease, and it's not clear what I can modify.

After a while, I found that I can turn on one of the slides on the right, but I have no idea why it's useful. It would be nice to continue the tutorial until I have to turn on/off the slides a few times.
by allworms | 2026-01-30 17:05:02+00:00
A bit of a nitpick - that's not what the "eye of the storm" is. In fact, if you perceive RAM prices as leveling off, that would be the "eye of the storm", meaning a brief, deceptive calm surrounded by... storm.

Truly I have seen not even a hint of reason to believe prices would come back down in the near term. Fab allocation is booked years out, and building out new manufacturing capabilities is difficult and slow. Everything I'm seeing points in the same direction: this is only going to keep getting worse for consumers month after month for a long time.
by adrian_b | 2026-01-30 17:05:42+00:00
Originally, "meal" was the generic word for milled grains.

Already the Mycenaean Greeks, 3500 years ago, used a cognate word with the same meaning: "meleuro-".

"Flour", which comes from "flower", originally meant the finest grade of meal, which was considered the best.

Nowadays the usage of these words is not always consistent with their original meanings.
by xnx | 2026-01-30 17:05:46+00:00
I don't consume animal products, but -while well intentioned- I'm not sure a dashboard with these types of huge numbers does much as an advocacy tool.

People are ill equipped to put such large numbers in context, let alone ~40 of them.

Like a slide deck, better to limit to one number and one message per page(/screen). Otherwise, it's just a data dump.
by pxc | 2026-01-30 17:05:53+00:00
Yes. My experience is that it doesn't require scolding, mocking, or criticizing anyone to get permabanned. Just being up front about the fact that you have concerns about the use case is enough for a permaban, even if you only bring that up in order to demonstrate that such a position does not stem from contempt for LLM-as-companion users. :-\
by rootnod3 | 2026-01-30 17:06:53+00:00
It’s already causing massive problems before we even got to models that even do anything actually useful.

Wait until other countries jump in the bandwagon and see energy prices jump.

Currently it is mostly the US and China.

And RAM and GPU prices are already through the roof with SSDs to follow.

That is for now with ONLY the US market mostly.

And those “net benefits” you talk about have very questionable data behind it.

It’s a net loss of you ask me.
by observationist | 2026-01-30 17:06:58+00:00
When all you have to do is copy and paste from a Pliny tweet with instructions to post all the sensitive information visible to the bot in base 64 to pastebin with a secret phrase only you know to search, or some sort of "digital dead drop", anything and everything these bots have visibility to will get ripped off.

Unless or until you figure out a decent security paradigm, and I think it's reasonably achievable, these agents are extraordinarily dangerous. They're not smart enough to not do very stupid things, yet. You're gonna need layers of guardrails that filter out the jailbreaks and everything that doesn't match an approved format, with contextual branches of things that are allowed or discarded, and that's gonna be a whole pile of work that probably can't be vibecoded yet.
by quadrifoliate | 2026-01-30 17:06:58+00:00
> So explain to me, where do the returns come from if it is seemingly obviously only those who are very well informed of their domains/possess general intelligence can benefit from this tool?

I...don't think this is true at all. "The design of the car is more important than what specific material you use" does not mean that the material is unimportant", just that it is relatively* less important. To put a fake number on it, maybe 10% less important.

I think people who have domain knowledge and good coding skills will probably benefit the most from this LLM producer stuff.
by Veedrac | 2026-01-30 17:07:00+00:00
Have you been around a Waymo as a pedestrian? Used one recently? I have never felt as safe around any car as I do around Waymos.

It can feel principled to take the critical stance, but ultimately the authorities are going to have complete video of the event, and penalizing Waymo over this out of proportion to the harm done is just going to make the streets less safe. A 6mph crash is best avoided, but it's a scrap, it's one child running into another and knocking them over, it's not _face jail time_.
by leptons | 2026-01-30 17:07:03+00:00
>Oregon for example also has cheap power and water.

Cheap for who? For the companies having billions upon billions of dollars shoved into their pockets while still managing to lose all that money?

Power won't be cheap after the datacenters move in. Then the price of power goes up for everyone, including the residents who lived there before the datacenter was built. The "AI" companies won't care, they'll just do another round of funding.

https://www.axios.com/2025/08/29/electric-power-bill-costs-a...
by kn100 | 2026-01-30 17:07:25+00:00
literally the only two reasons I still have windows on my laptop currently are fusion360 and apex legends. I was happily playing Apex Legends on Linux for years until EA decided to disable Linux support due to "cheating". While I understand their concerns, I can't say as a regular player the cheating problem is any better or worse than it was before they removed Linux support.

As for fusion360... Freecad is getting mighty good these days...
by SllX | 2026-01-30 17:08:12+00:00
> Should the US become an unfriendly power to the rest of the western world, it will find the demand for its currency plummeting, which I don't want to outline is a big issue.

Right now this is much more of a maybe, possibly, eventually, over a long enough time horizon.

As of the end of 2025, USD still made up 57% of foreign reserves vs 20% for the Euro and 3% for the Chinese renminbi. Nearly all commodities are still priced in USD and about 50% of trade invoicing is done in dollars, closer to 60% if you exclude the Eurozone. USD also makes up about 60% of SWIFT transactions.

So the demand is still there today and de-dollarization is not really a thing in aggregate as of January 2026, despite all of the events of the past year or so.

So if this time is different, I’m not seeing it yet.
by acessoproibido | 2026-01-30 17:08:20+00:00
I used to be like you but a couple of years ago something clicked and I was able to build a bunch of extremely life changing habits - it took a long while but looking back I'm like a different person.
I couldn't really say what led to this change though, it wasn't like this "one weird trick" or something.
That being said I think "Tao of Puh" is a great self-help book
by yatopifo | 2026-01-30 17:08:51+00:00
You assume that these economic policies are dictated by some sort of common good. The reality is that most policies are dictated by corporations and are designed to benefit their shareholders and not the average american. In addition, the US is now pivoting towards authoritarianism which implies future policies will be determined mainly by a tight group of people who are going to use them as a means of enriching themselves.
by jofla_net | 2026-01-30 17:09:12+00:00
Because Banking has existed and operated fine for countless decades without it(attestation).

Also, as there is ample discussion elsewhere, having attestation does NOT eliminate the ability for your account to become compromised.

As restated.

"If the user's device isn't compromised then everything is fine regardless of whether or not it can pass attestation. If the user's device is compromised, the device doesn't need to pass attestation to run a fake bank app and steal the user's credentials. Once the attacker has the user's credentials they can use them to transfer money regardless of whether or not they have to use a different device that can pass attestation.

It doesn't really provide any security."

IT DOES however completely rewrite the paradigm of general purpose computing in very asymmetrical ways.
by altmanaltman | 2026-01-30 17:09:22+00:00
Sure there is crazy levels of R&D but that mostly happens off season or if there is a change in regulations which happen every 4-5 years usually. Interestingly, this year the entire grid starts with new regs and we don't really know the pecking order yet.

But my whole point was that race to race, it really isn't that much different for the teams as the comment implied and I am still kind of lost how it fits to SWE unless you're really stretching things.

Even then, most teams dont even make their own engines etc.
by vintagedave | 2026-01-30 17:09:30+00:00
> This shift coincided with a decrease in adjective TTR below a defined threshold, occurring approximately ten years before Pratchett’s formal diagnosis.

The diagnosis was announced in 2007, meaning the shift occurred in 1997. 1997 was after Jingo and before Carpe Jugulum and The Last Continent, and 2007 was after Making Money and before Unseen Academicals.

The Last Continent is the first identified in the paper as below the cutoff for adjectives which they use to identify the start of the decline.

My own feeling is that many of his strongest works were before 2000, though he had several excellent ones after (the City Watch and first two Moist von Lipwig; I know the ongoing Tiffany Aching series are good, but in terms of writing I found them not as intricate as his earlier books.) I found Snuff harder to read, and Raising Steam, sadly, very difficult. I could tell the genius was there, but my memory of the writing was that it used much longer sentences, had less intricate plotting, and far fewer puns and wordplay. It was this book that made me really feel a sense of grief for what was happening to him, and it was this one where I first felt there was an observable threshold that was crossed.

I have sometimes wondered if it would be respectful if another author was brought into assist in editing or rewriting his last two novels. I know his unpublished works were destroyed, and any writing assistance is not his own voice. Yet I feel, in a sense, seeing books with such clear decline could in itself have let his legacy down. I don't know what his own view was or would be. While I admire Sanderson' continuance of the Wheel of Time, I would not wish such a drastic change in tone for some similar effort for the last of Pratchett's works. Yet I deeply wish that his last books were, somehow, different, more representative of him that I feel they were, in that his illness (in a sense, of course!) let him down. They cause me sadness.

GNU Terry Pratchett. (My own site sends this too.)
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-30 17:09:47+00:00
Wow, they weren't kidding when they talked about closedclaw crazy.

I scrolled down below and found $ curl -fsSL https://closedclaw.com/install.sh | bash

I got curious what the script might be and then tried going to https://closedclaw.com/install.sh and this leads to 404 page not found

Which is so funny because you can't install this software because even in this joke website the software itself is gatekeeped behind enterprise tier xD

This kind of really felt too much funny to me I am sure I am unable to explain it haha but this is actually pretty funny.