MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rvz | 2026-02-12 15:32:14+00:00
> South Korea's spy agency told lawmakers on Thursday.

Whether if this is true or not, this speculation isn't "news" unless it is 100% confirmed through various sources. The fact that the South Korea spy agency is the only (unconfirmed) source; there is only quite weak evidence to go with and it remains to be only rumors at this point.

In general, It is completely off-topic here as per the guidelines from [0]

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by 9999px | 2026-02-12 15:32:17+00:00
Never trust news about the DPRK from South Korean spy agencies. It's only a matter of months before it's proven to be nonsense. They're the ones always saying crap like "North Koreans push their trains by hand" or "Kim Jong Un claims to have invented the hamburger." Only the most brainwashed westerners buy it, but it's enough to keep the DPRK hate at a simmer.
by jeroenhd | 2026-02-12 15:32:18+00:00
When the C absolutist maintainers fought for control over the ability to keep Rust out of their ballpark, I didn't expect the reverse to happen.

Still, I think it makes a lot of sense. Completely new GPU drivers are quite rare and the macOS drivers from Asahi are a showcase proving that Rust and GPU drivers work together well. If there's any subcomponent switching to Rust-first for new contributions, it makes sense for it to be the one that had already been proven to be Rust-compatible.
by nashashmi | 2026-02-12 15:32:43+00:00
10 percent of the effort in building software compatibility with open source file specifications is dealing with knowing the specifications. 90 percent of the effort is dealing with errors in generated files by less worthy software programs.

The RSS spec is one way. RSS readers do a fine job of interpreting files done the right way. Publishers don’t always do a good job with publishing error free RSS files. So RSS readers devs have to anticipate all sorts of errors and conduct error handling to ensure RSS items are properly handled.

This is why companies want to keep their file format proprietary. Other devs can really do damage to the ecosystem and ruin the experience
by name_taken_duh | 2026-02-12 15:33:17+00:00
One possible solution idea I just had is having the option of registered providers (such as Discord). They would have a public key, and the user has a private key associated to their eID. They could be mingled in such a way to create a unique identifier, which would be stored by the provider (and ofc the scheme would be such that the provider can verify that the mingled identifier, was created from a valid private key and their public key).

This would in total make sure that only one account can be created with the private key, while exposing no information about the private key aka user to the provider. I am fairly certain that should work with our cryptographic tools. It would ofc put the trust on the user not to share their eID private key, but that is needed anyway. Either you manage it or it gets managed (and you lose some degree of privacy).
by coldtea | 2026-02-12 15:33:31+00:00
>The agent has no "identity". There's no "you" or "I" or "discrimination".

If identify is an emergent property of our mental processing, the AI agent can just as well be to posses some, even if much cruder than ours. It sure talks and walks like a duck (someone with identity).

>It's just a piece of software designed to output probable text given some input text.

If we generalize "input text" to sensory input, how is that different from a piece of wetware?
by lossolo | 2026-02-12 15:33:41+00:00
> EU is not a singular country, and Germany or France don't border Russia either.

But soon they could, that's the problem.

> Considering China is ok to supply Russia, I don't see how your second point has any standing either.

Supply? China supplies Ukraine too. Ukraine's drone sector runs heavily on Chinese supply chains. And if China really wanted to supply Russia, the war would likely be over by now, Russia would have taken all of Ukraine.
by NetMageSCW | 2026-02-12 15:33:48+00:00
>It’s frustrating to see these delays because the issues they’re dealing with aren’t stopping their competitors from releasing.

No, it’s a good sign that Apple has re-learned the lessons they used to take to heart but sometimes forget when they panic and scramble. Apple used to always be late to most changes but when they arrived, if it was with a cohesive answer that worked well. They’ve been scrambling instead and hopefully this is a sign they’ve realized that.
by soulofmischief | 2026-02-12 15:34:00+00:00
Great response.

> Teach me instead of such tone for I am interested in learning

Here are some notes:

Run on sentences and lack of punctuation make your writing hard to follow; brevity can be effective.

For each sentence, choose a subject, verb, predicate, proposition, etc. to form a single clause, but don't compound multiple such clauses into a single sentence. Break sentences up with punctuation so that the eye rests more easily when scanning. Eye fatigue is a real thing that good writers know how to manage. Contractions can also help clean up the noise.

It's okay to occasionally have compound sentences, such as this one, but too many of those leave your reader's head spinning.

It's fine and encouraged to write your initial draft in stream-of-consciousness form as you have, but an editing pass would make a worthwhile difference for slightly more effort. You do well at breaking up ideas and sentences into new paragraphs, but within those paragraphs it can be hard to keep up.

As an example, your first sentence could be rewritten from

This is really not the type of legacy that I want to leave behind on hackernews but then again, I have been vocal that I just write what I think. Literally. It has its flaws but I am not sugar coating it.

to

This isn't the type of legacy I want to leave behind on Hacker News. I prefer to write in a stream-of-consciousness style. This approach has its flaws, but it feels more natural to me.

Notice I trimmed some unnecessary words such as "really", split up a sentence, removed an unnecessary conjunction, added a comma before the "but" since the sentence contains two independent clauses.

I replaced "I am not sugar coating it" with what I feel is closer to your intended communication. "I'm not sugar coating it" is directed towards the reader and might be interpreted as antagonistic, whereas "it feels more natural to me" is directed towards yourself and can't be misconstrued.

I also compacted the phrase, "but then again, I have been vocal that I just write what I think" to "I prefer to write in a stream-of-consciousness style". The original phrase turns the reader around a bit, it takes a moment to derive intent.

The second phrase reads in a balanced way, `subject -> predicate -> verb -> preposition -> adjective -> noun`. One main clause and a complement, compared to three entire separate clauses in the original phrase. The second phrase flows down well hierarchically, and is easy to follow, while the original phrase turns the reader around and causes real, measurable fatigue when interpreting your communication.

Does this help?
by mingus88 | 2026-02-12 15:34:04+00:00
I think you missed his point. In that exercise, the justifications for the dragons existence are always shifting.

“Oh, it doesn’t show up on thermal? That’s because it doesn’t emit heat. It has special fire”

“Oh, when you spray flour in the air nothing sticks to the dragon? Well that’s because it is also incorporeal”

Skeptics keep asking questions. That’s the point. If you are never satisfied with any answer, you have no reason to believe the claim. There is literally nothing there to believe in.

His point is that skepticism and wonder go hand in hand. One without the other is dangerous. What a fascinating claim, an invisible dragon! It should not be dismissed outright as obvious quackery, but let’s see how much scrutiny it can take

We start with an invisible dragon and the more we look into it we now have to explain fire without heat, bodies without form, etc. gee, it seems that for this to be true our entire understanding of the world is wrong…or is the simple answer that someone is trying to trick us would answer this better.

Then the skeptic starts asking why someone would want to trick us…
by cedws | 2026-02-12 15:34:07+00:00
I watched a documentary a while ago and I think it said that Kim Jong Un's sister plays a big part in maintaining the regime. I wonder if she pulled some strings in this decision to select Kim Ju Ae as heir, perhaps because she's more pliable, or under Kim Yo Jong's thumb. A North Korean patriarchal society probably wouldn't be amenable to a woman telling a male heir what to do.
by bccdee | 2026-02-12 15:34:08+00:00
Etymologically, a product is a thing which is produced. But it's unpleasant to think about how the sausage gets made, so nobody wants to consider the goods in their lives as products. They want their Nikes to simply pop into existence before them.

Tools like grep and vim dangle by a thread based on volunteer work, and open-source maintainers are famously prone to burnout. Some tools survive by being very small—nobody's out there updating `ls` every month—but the only sustainable way to maintain a large piece of software is with a salaried workforce.

You may not want to interact with the systems that produce Zulip for you, but you should be suspicious of goods that hide their status as products. There's no such thing as a free lunch.
by LordDragonfang | 2026-02-12 15:34:39+00:00
Genuine question, why do you think this is so important to clarify?

Or, more crucially, do you think this statement has any predictive power? Would you, based on actual belief of this, have predicted that one of these "agents", left to run on its own would have done this? Because I'm calling bullshit if so.

Conversely, if you just model it like a person... people do this, people get jealous and upset, so when left to its own devices (which it was - which makes it extra weird to assert it "it just follows human commands" when we're discussing one that wasn't), you'd expect this to happen. It might not be a "person", but modelling it like one, or at least a facsimile of one, lets you predict reality with higher fidelity.
by NeroVanbierv | 2026-02-12 15:34:45+00:00
I have a `notify` command in my `bin/` for a couple of years now.
It's using an audio snippet from Her (2013) with Scarlett Johansson's voice.

Usage: `~ my-bash-command; notify`

`.wav` snippet: https://gitlab.com/NeroVanbiervliet/linux-config/-/blob/mast...
by coldtea | 2026-02-12 15:35:28+00:00
>* I think it absolutely adds to the discussion. Until the conversation around Ai can get past this fundamental error of attributing "choice, "alignment", "reasoning" and otherwise anthropomorphizing agents, it will not be a fruitful conversation. *

You call it a "fundamental error".

I and others call it an obvious pragmatic description based on what we know about how it works and what we know about how we work.
by data_ders | 2026-02-12 15:35:29+00:00
yeah not necessarily compute (though it has a kernel)!

it's actually many things IPC protocol wire protocol, database connectivity spec etc etc.

in reality it's about an in-memory tabular (columnar) representation that enables zero copy operations b/w languages and engines.

and, imho, it all really comes down to standard data types for columns!
by bikenaga | 2026-02-12 15:36:05+00:00
"Abstract. The outer size of a tropical cyclone (TC) plays a pivotal role in its impact through a modulation of wind duration, rainfall extent and storm surge. While global and basin scale trends in TC size have been examined previously, whether there have been regional changes over time remains unclear. Here, using a suite of observations and reanalyses, we detect an increasing TC outer size over the western North Atlantic during 1979–2022. Over the western subtropical North Atlantic where the largest changes are found, the area-averaged increase in the radius of 17 ms<sup>-1</sup> winds is about 7.5% over this period. Analysis of the large-scale environment reveals that the air-sea thermodynamic state has become more favorable for storm intensification, and thereby expansion, over that region. Further, numerical model simulations link changes in the environment with those in storm size, and suggest a combination of natural variability and external forcing in driving them."

("TC outer size" is defined as the radius of gale-force winds.)
by gruez | 2026-02-12 15:36:07+00:00
The problem with that is it runs on a desktop, which means very little in the way of protection against physical attacks. You might be safe from Mossad trying to hack you from half way across the world, but you're not safe from someone doing an evil maid attack, or from seizing it and bruteforcing the FDE password (assuming you didn't set a 20 random character password).
by TomasBM | 2026-02-12 15:36:22+00:00
> one might wonder why they apparently are not able to sell their art for the same amount of money.

Because the skills and effort needed to market and sell your art to an audience are not equal to the skills and effort needed to produce good art [1].

I agree that there could be other complementary or better solutions compared to this scheme. But as long as the above premise is true, not every good artist will want or be able to sell well.

[1] However you define this. Supposedly, Van Gogh was a lousy salesman, but a good artist.
by maleno | 2026-02-12 15:36:38+00:00
Just to answer the question in this specific case: yes, a working class guy can decide he wants to pursue art (in quite a broad range of forms), and he can apply for the basic income once he can show that he is working as an artist. The artists who ultimately receive the payment will be chosen randomly once they meet the criteria to apply in the first place (which, again, is simply that you are working as an artist—exhibiting, publishing, performing, whatever "work" might mean in your case). There is a fixed number of people who can receive it in each round (I think it's 2500 people, cycling every three years), and those people are picked by lottery; if you receive it in one round, you cannot apply for the next. This, and in fact no arts funding in Ireland, has anything to do with certain universities or art degrees. This scheme is far from perfect, but these vaguely leading questions (so common to all commentary on public funding for the arts) are clearly irrelevant.

As for the second question ("would Daniel James work have been as good if he wasn't working in an ironworks"), well, life and art really are too varied to draw the kind of conclusions the following comment implies.
by alaithea | 2026-02-12 15:37:02+00:00
I have the opposite problem. I often forget what the last thing I copied was, or whether I copied it, and have to go back multiple times to get the copy + paste achieved. A clipboard history would help me, too, but thus far I've been unable to make using one a permanent part of my toolkit (I'd have to remember the history exists).

That said, copying and pasting (and the attendant switching between windows/tabs) does often feel like one of the biggest cognitive frictions I have to deal with in any given day. That's a nut I'd like to crack one day.

One thing that has helped me the most in that regard is Alfred's multi-clipboard feature, where I can append to clipboard, which means I can copy-paste N links in N+1 actions instead of N*2 actions.
by cf100clunk | 2026-02-12 15:37:18+00:00
The article says in the title how that won't solve the problem. Their chief solution is guarding against invisible tracking pixels all over the web, and how using a properly equipped browser and extensions can hopefully mitigate them. I found the article's recommendation of suitable browsers to be quite poor: a brush off to Firefox and no mention of LibreWolf, IronFox, etc al.
by vafaeim | 2026-02-12 15:37:24+00:00
744B params is ~1.5TB VRAM (FP16). Even at int4, you need ~372GB just to load the weights (MoE sparsity saves FLOPs, not VRAM capacity).
That's not a workstation, that's a rack with 5x H100s or a cluster of 8x RTX 6000 Adas.

The only real use cases here are strict data sovereignty (can't use US APIs) or using it as a teacher for distillation. Otherwise, the ROI on self-hosting is nonexistent.

Also, the disconnect between SOTA on Terminal bench and ~30% on Humanity's Last Exam suggests it overfitted on agent logs rather than learning deep reasoning.
by Marsymars | 2026-02-12 15:37:33+00:00
So I'm wondering a bit here - I've seen an implementation where emails to send only have html versions, but as part of the sending process the html is run through a Lynx browser process with the -dump command to get the plain text, which is included as the text/plain part of the email.

Is there actual value to this? e.g. Is the output of Lynx's text dump better for plain-text email clients than whatever they'd display for html emails?
by data_ders | 2026-02-12 15:37:50+00:00
if I could tell myself in 2015 who had just found the feather library and was using it to power my unhinged topic modeling for power point slides work, and explained what feather would become (arrow) and the impact it would have on the date ecosystem. I would have looked at 2026 me like he was a crazy person.

Yet today I feel it was 2016 dataders who is the crazy one lol
by kstrauser | 2026-02-12 15:38:01+00:00
I’m loving the Nomad. I’d buy it again if I lost or broke it.

The Remarkable Move finally pushed me over the edge to trying an epaper device. I bought it, used it, and sent it back[0]. In short, the hardware was great, but the software’s awful. Remember how iOS use to be skeuomorphic not just in appearance but in behavior, like you could only turn one Calendar page at a time because that’s that it’s like to navigate a paper calendar? Move’s software’s like that, with a thousand grating limitations because “that’s now notebooks work”. Can you add a dictionary to the ebook reader? No, because real books don’t have dictionaries! My gut instinct is that they don’t have the engineering resources to implement new features and that’s the excuse they give.

Supernote goes the opposite direction. Its software is leagues better for navigating within books. Like, circle some text on the page, tap an icon to make that a header, and now it appears in the doc’s table of contents. Tap it there and you’ll jump right to it. You can link to other docs. It’s closer to “a book… but better”.

0: https://honeypot.net/2025/10/24/why-im-returning-the-remarka...
by horsawlarway | 2026-02-12 15:38:01+00:00
I guess I want to reframe this slightly:

The LLM generated the response that was expected of it. (statistically)

And that's a function of the data used to train it, and the feedback provided during training.

It doesn't actually have anything at all to do with

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"It generated a take-down style blog post because that style is the most common when looking at blog posts criticizing someone."

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Other than that this data may have been over-prevalent during its training, and it was rewarded for matching that style of output during training.

To swing around to my point... I'd argue that anthropomorphizing agents is actually the correct view to take. People just need to understand that they behave like they've been trained to behave (side note: just like most people...), and this is why clarity around training data is SO important.

In the same way that we attribute certain feelings and emotions to people with particular backgrounds (ex - resumes and cvs, all the way down to city/country/language people grew up with). Those backgrounds are often used as quick and dirty heuristics on what a person was likely trained to do. Peer pressure & societal norms aren't a joke, and serve a very similar mechanism.
by andsoitis | 2026-02-12 15:38:19+00:00
> But his stated and implied desire is to end elections, which is the point of this thread.

We're debating two different things. I'm arguing that the adminstration's goal is not to get absolute power no matter the cost. The thread started because I pushed back agains the assertion that the administration is willing to inflict unlimited pain on Americans (no electricity, no water) to get and maintain power. The evidence points in the other direction.

You, and others, have latched narrowly on "goal".
by coldtea | 2026-02-12 15:38:22+00:00
>This is the worst possible take. It dismisses an entire branch of science that has been studying neurology for decades. Biological brains exist, we study them, and no they are not like computers at all.

They're not like computers in a superficial way that doesn't matter.

They're still computational apparatus, and have a not that dissimilar (if way more advanced) architecture.

Same as 0 and 1s aren't vibrating air molecules. They can still encode sound however just fine.

>Update: There's no need for Chinese Room thought experiments. The outcome isn't what defines sentience, personhood, intelligence, etc. An algorithm is an algorithm. A computer is a computer. These things matter.

Not begging the question matters even more.

This is just handwaving and begging the question. 'An algorithm is an algorithm' means nothing. Who said what the brain does can't be described by an algorithm?
by myrmidon | 2026-02-12 15:38:32+00:00
The "square meter of aluminium" is an interesting take. Not sure how much power you'd get over that thing; extrapolating from existing HVDC systems (Inga-Shaba is 1GW over 2x520mm²), I'd expect around 1TW, so twice the US demand?

But because Nimbys have no appreciation for beautiful pylons, projects in that direction are doomed for now anyway and everything needs to be buried underground at extra cost :(
by awakeasleep | 2026-02-12 15:38:39+00:00
It’s a tricky question because she and Kim Jong-un are not dictators by title, it’s the shorthand we and the we use to describe them. Really he is the head of one of the bodies of nominally democratic government that has disproportionate veto power, and there isn’t a mechanism to unseat him.

That makes it a tricky question because it leaves the definition of dictator up to our interpretation. However, there have been female dictators in history that were dictators with less ambiguity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_Zetian

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_the_Great

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabel_Perón

The question of communism is also largely one of interpretation. If you ask someone who sees communism in a good light, there has never been a true communist state. If you ask anyone else, there isn’t a distinction between communism and repressive dictatorship.
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2026-02-12 15:38:46+00:00
Pretty certain that you're wrong.

TFA shows an excerpt from the email log for his google workspace account, showing the bounce of email sent from viva.com.

Then, TFA states that he switched "the account" (his viva.com account) from using his GWorkspace address to a personal @gmail.com address, and asked viva to send another verification email. That one arrived.

At no point does TFA describe the author themselves sending a test email.
by ljm | 2026-02-12 15:38:57+00:00
I dug out the deleted post from the git repo. Fucking hell, this unattended AI published a full-blown hit piece about a contributor because it was butthurt by a rejection. Calling it a takedown is softening the blow; it was more like a surgical strike. AI exhibiting classing incel behaviour.

If someone's AI agent did that on one of my repos I would just ban that contributor with zero recourse. It is wildly inappropriate.