MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by circuit10 | 2026-02-03 11:32:41+00:00
Personally I joined Discord servers for open source projects and this is how I got my start using GitHub, learning how code review worked and the process for communicating with other devs etc. I feel like I may not be in a software development career if these laws had existed when I was growing up

Autism is a wide-ranging spectrum, I find the idea that I should be “kept away from the Internet” because I have (high-functioning) autism quite patronising. Maybe this is true for some people, but my point is that these social media ban ideas are too indiscriminate

I would agree that addictive platforms are harmful for children, and I haven’t looked into this law so maybe it does make a distinction, but any online communication (e.g. GitHub) is sometimes considered “social media”. A lot of people seem to exclude the platforms they like from what they count as “social media”, as they see social media as the evil thing they look down upon
by jpfromlondon | 2026-02-03 11:33:03+00:00
There's also no proven causal link between UPFs and ill health.

By country the largest consumers of UPFs are also on average the longest lived. They are a by-product of wealth, as is obesity, what people are trying to pin on UPFs is much more likely to be a symptom of excess.

If you trace all countries by causes and incidences of death or morbidity there is nothing unusual or unexpected in the countries that consume the most UPFs, in some cases they even have lower figures.

Unprocessed food is usually a sign of quality, that is all.

Eat less.
Lift more.
Run more.
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by ninkendo | 2026-02-03 11:33:13+00:00
Sudo’s networking functionality is infuriating too, because if my system’s DNS is broken, I get to wait 60 seconds for sudo to work, during which time I can’t even ctrl+c to cancel!

(It has to do with sudoers entries having a host field, since the file is designed to be deployed to multiple servers, which may each want differing sudoers rules. It’s truly 90s era software.)
by cucumber3732842 | 2026-02-03 11:33:35+00:00
Everywhere in the country they have basements a huge fraction of them are unheated and probably hover around 38, 40, 35deg in the winter. You dump cold air into that and some % of pipes are going to freeze. And we're talking about a much bigger energy amount, water having high specific heat after all so it is a lot of "cold" being dumped in.

Now, this is of course no concern in the "my water heater is in my attic or attached garage" parts of the country such regulations come from...
by Macha | 2026-02-03 11:34:04+00:00
It’s part of why I’ve tried to move my Internet time to smaller forums in recent years. It turns out it’s still possible to have that feeling of community that old forums had, but only if the users you encounter aren’t constantly changing. Forums with personalisation like avatars definitely seem to help a bit, but e.g. new reddit still feels impersonal with avatars and tildes manages personal with a very similar layout to HN, so I think size is the biggest factor
by infecto | 2026-02-03 11:34:20+00:00
I think the words are going over your head sorry. I will try one more time but realize now it might be too much especially see some of your dead comments here.

I am not claiming a transition is happening in this round, so asking for evidence of one misses the point. Transition here means enabling future shifts in who owns and operates the capex, not changing the cap table today. If Alphabet wanted permanent full-stack ownership, an entirely internal recap would have been cleaner. Bringing in outside capital, even minority, is about signaling and optionality, not dilution.
by direwolf20 | 2026-02-03 11:34:54+00:00
Phone booths are made by the phone company to increase the money they make, that's political. Phone booths are made with more or less shielding implying a greater or lesser danger to their occupant, that's politics. The ones at the airport have glass dividers while the ones at the lonely gas station at night are fully enclosed with thick glass. Different ones have different amounts of graffiti and different likelihood of being vandalised at any given time. You will find this correlates with demographics. Phone booths have disappeared as we all got portable phones in our pockets, but those phones also track us and some people might prefer the relative privacy of an impersonal phone booth, but can't because they no longer exist.
by TonyStr | 2026-02-03 11:35:05+00:00
> While all this happens, twice as many will experience the same SA by their spouse, family member/friend, tinder date, or whatever

Figure 2 shows that sexual assault is almost twice as likely to be perpetrated by immigrants than US-born citizens[0]. As a foreigner with no ball in the game here, I've seen a lot of outrage from both black-on-white and white-on-black violence in the US. Maybe some news papers like fox news are more selective in what they show, but APNews (which I've been reading for world news) seems to cover a pretty balanced range of racial crime.

> If some illegal / undocumented foreigner sexually assaults a white person, that's all you'll see in the newspapers and media for a week. There will be townhall meetings, debates, protests.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding the scale of this, but surely it doesn't compare to the response that George Floyd got?

[0] - https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2014704117#fig02
by littlecranky67 | 2026-02-03 11:35:09+00:00
Good, heavily in favor. Social media has just become media, the social aspect is mostly gone. Especially since all of them just try to shove down 30sec shorts/reels/tiktoks down your throat. I have not a single real-life friend or family member (except those, that are under 16 and use tiktok) that ever recorded a short.
by arrrg | 2026-02-03 11:35:37+00:00
There it rears its ugly head again, the preemptive cynicism that prevents anything good from ever getting done.

It’s simple really: zero trust age verification should be a strict requirement of any such law and anything else illegal for age verification.

That to me is what has to happen and it’s important to me. That’s my perspective on this – not that‘s never going to happen anyway, so no point in trying to.
by K0balt | 2026-02-03 11:35:52+00:00
Welcome to the club. I inadvertently traveled with not one, but two large box cutters in my carryon satchel for at least 20 flights before I discovered them while searching for some swag. I put them in there for a booth setup in Vegas years prior. Sent a completely calm, even sympathetic report to the powers that be, got put on the DNF list for my troubles.

Still screened and detained 100 percent of the time, sometimes for hours, sometimes having to surrender personal devices, decades later.

The message is very clear.
by ben_w | 2026-02-03 11:36:19+00:00
> I don't think this is true, Starlink satellites have an orbital lifetime of 5-7 years,

That's better than I thought, but still means their PV is only lasting order-of 20% of their ground lifespans, so the integrated lifetime energy output per unit mass of PV isn't meaningfully improved by locating them in space, even if they were launched by an efficient electromagnetic system rather than by a rocket.
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by _heimdall | 2026-02-03 11:37:04+00:00
My brother and his wife began cooking pretty much every meal at home a couple years ago. Prior to that they ate out very regularly, especially once they had kids.

They started cooking because feeding the family of 5 at McDonalds cost close to $80.

There may have been a time where fast food was cheaper, but it seems we're past that.

As far as Taco Bell goes, a single crunchy taco is $2.19 and their fancier ones are closer to $5. When I used to eat there I'd usually get 3 tacos and a drink, so I'd be into that today for something like $10-$11. I cook tacos at home regularly for cheaper, and with homemade tortillas and grass fed beef no less.
by u_sama | 2026-02-03 11:37:20+00:00
The cynical in me doesnt see that as the main problem, lack of diversity in thought and debate is already an issue, censorship laws about what subjects and what opinions are correct is an issue that will be exacerbated.
To save the democracies you need, a better population who votes in competently and informed, as well as a public debate that is honest and doesnt decry any deviation from the standard as fascism.
Far-right populism only exists in coutries where debate is not honest and pragmatic enough, and avoided in countries like Denmark because population and government are in a tight loop where each feels heard by the other.
by Der_Einzige | 2026-02-03 11:37:22+00:00
I sure do want to get rid of the entire concept of "economy" class.

If all seats were business class, than economics of scale would kick in and average ticket prices would be more like 2X per seat rather than the 5-10X that you pay for business class vs economy.

Flying is a war-crime in the sky for anyone not in business class.
by graemep | 2026-02-03 11:37:47+00:00
Its harder to implement change than to promise it, of course.

However, historically it made a lot more difference which party was elected.

In the UK in the 80s you knew that if you voted Labour things would bet nationalised, and if you voted Conservative things would get privatised. Since the centrist consensus (e.g. Blair and Cameron) emerged it makes a lot less difference.

That, IMO, is evidence that what has changed is not that the two parties are constrained from pursuing very different policies, but that they no longer wish to.
by citrin_ru | 2026-02-03 11:38:18+00:00
Back in 80s-90s it was common to use static buffers to simplify implementation - you allocate a fixed size buffer and reject a message if it has a line longer than the buffer size. SMTP RFC specifies 1000 symbols limit (including \r\n) but it's common to wrap around 87 symbols so it is easy to examine source (on a small screen).
by Kim_Bruning | 2026-02-03 11:38:44+00:00
So, is this mostly a (bad) restatement of the text by Anil Seth? https://www.noemamag.com/the-mythology-of-conscious-ai/ ?

So Seth has seen Turing (1936) for sure. But I'm not sure he realizes that Turing (1952) actually did do work on continuous stuff as well!

Can you imagine where we'd be a few papers down the line, if Turing had lived longer?

* Turing (1936): https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/Turing_Paper_1936.pdf

* Turing (1952): https://royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/article/237/641/37/1...
by mattstellify | 2026-02-03 11:38:46+00:00
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by direwolf20 | 2026-02-03 11:40:04+00:00
There is an EU initiative to bring in chip manufacturing but it's not related to open source. For sovereignty purposes, airgapped software or locally made software is as good as open source and it's usually higher quality.

There are already alternatives to KiCad for PCBs. And I repeat myself: NLNET can only rule on the proposals it receives. Have you proposed to spend a year improving the KiCad UX?
by theshrike79 | 2026-02-03 11:40:04+00:00
> Sadly this is an inherent weakness of the US constitution. It's old and it was written at a time where we didn't have enough experience with democracies.

(I'm not even American and I know this)

The constitution was meant to be a living document, adjusted over the years as the world changes.

But the very opposite happened, it became Holy Scripture, unchanging and never evolving.

The whole American system was based on the idea that the ruling class cared for "reputation", "honor" or "legacy". It was wholy unprepared for people who just don't give a fuck about all that and actively wipe their asses on existing rules and conventions.

Like going in front of Congress and just ... lying. Provably, verifiably lying. Zero recourse, the shame of lying used to be enough. And because of ancient decorum rules, the congress can't even say "you're lying" and google the facts right there and then, they have to do this idiotic perfromatic dance of asking the same question repeatedly and getting a word salad non-answer back for hours.

Or just not going for the inquiry because, why would you? There's no penalty past "losing face" for not going. Why bother.

The system was flawed from the start, but the people were still in there for the best of everyone so it held together and mostly worked. Politicians respected one another as people and humans, even though they differed in opinion.

I personally can't see a way back for USA without a massive purge in the government followed by actual ironclad laws and processes set in stone to prevent anything like this from happening again. Let congress google basic facts, let them call people liars to their face, give them their own execuitve branch that can drag people for hearings by force if needed.

And copy the German Federal Constitutional Court[0] system, they have term limits and people are nominated through multiple channels.
by gorgolo | 2026-02-03 11:40:33+00:00
When I show my ID at the cash register I assume the person working there doesn’t instantaneously memorize all my details and then write down when exactly I was at the shop, along with other details, to use this info later for their own reasons.

Whereas if I upload my ID to a tech company (that potentially answers to both my own government and foreign governments, as well as having its own ad-related agenda) I am a bit less certain about what will happen to this data.
by vidarh | 2026-02-03 11:40:40+00:00
Just scratching at the surface, assuming the increase in production capacity is only realistically possible if you can bring prices down (or this "project" would start to consume a proportion of economic output large enough to seem implausible), you can address the intermittency problem in several ways:

Driving down the cost makes massive overprovision a means of reducing the intermittency because you will be able to cover demand at proportionally far lower output, which also means you'll be able to cover demands in far larger areas, even before looking at storage.

But lower solar costs would also make storage more cost effective, since power cost will be a lower proportion of the amortised cost of the total system. Same with increasing transmission investments to allow smoothing load. Ever cost drop for solar will make it able to cover a larger proportion of total power demand, and we're nowhere near maximising viable total capacity even at current costs.

A whole lot of industrial costs are also affected by energy prices. Drive down this down, and you should expect price drops in other areas as well as industrial uses where energy expensive processes are not cost-effective today.

The geopolitical consequences of a dramatic acceleration of the drop in dependency on oil and gas would also take decades to play out.

At the same time, if you can drive down the cost of energy by making solar so much cheaper, you also make earth-bound data centres more cost-competive, and the cost-advantage of space-bound data centres would be accordingly lower.

I think it's an interesting idea to explore (but there's the whole issue of cooling being far harder in space), but I also think the effects would be far broader. By all means, if Musk wants to poor resources into making solar cheap enough for this kind of project to be viable, he should go ahead - maybe it'll consume enough of time to give him less time to plan a teenage edgelor - because I think the societal effects of driving down energy costs would generally be positive, AI or not, it just screams of being a justification for an xAI purchase done mostly for his personal financial engineering.
by manmal | 2026-02-03 11:40:43+00:00
Yes, and many places have high electricity costs. And btw, those are hard to foresee, so if you make a long term investment into a heat pump that is supposed to last 20-25 years, you have no idea how electricity prices will affect you. That's obviously true for gas and oil as well. I do concede that my original point was too blanket-y.

I have a heat pump btw., with COP 4.5 (below ground). Costs me EUR 2.5 - 3k per year to heat the house.
by layer8 | 2026-02-03 11:40:57+00:00
Mails are (or used to be) processed line-by-line, originally often using fixed-length buffers. This avoids dynamic memory allocation and having to write a streaming parser. RFC 821 finally limited the line length to at most 1000 bytes.

Given a mechanism for soft line breaks, breaking already at below 80 characters would increase compatibility with older mail software and be more convenient when listing the raw email in a terminal.

This is also why MIME Base64 typically inserts line breaks after 76 characters.
by keyle | 2026-02-03 11:41:16+00:00
Say, you can vibe design your next house.

Would you want that?

Isn't a house too personal that you'd want to get a professional architect with experience to design it, and sign off on it? Even if they used advanced tools like CAD and copy pastes 8/10 of it?

Sure, you can probably one shot notepad.exe but it has no meaning. Meaningful work isn't going anywhere, for the reason that meaningful work lives and lives on by people for people.

No one wants a vibe designed car, unless you are one of those psychos that has no tastes and doesn't care about anything.
by andrepd | 2026-02-03 11:41:22+00:00
False dichotomy. Plenty of governments have a digitalised id/login service to log into the tax office, government portals, whatever. This is usually also offered as a "single sign-on". After signing on, the website can request any piece of information, the list of those pieces is presented to the user, who clicks Accept or Go Back. Pretty standard stuff.

Meaning: these websites simply need to request 2 pieces of data: a boolean stating whether you are older than 16 or younger, and a UUID. Zero other pieces of identifying information. Where does the mass deanonymisation enter into this? What does it even mean in the context of using algorithmic social media whose entire business model is surveillance of its users?
by jdahlin | 2026-02-03 11:41:57+00:00
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by codingdave | 2026-02-03 11:42:35+00:00
Yes, but not the way you are thinking.

My prior job was for a group within a large company who were early into going "All in" on AI. They insisted that we move our products towards AI, that everyone use AI for all the things, etc. It did not go well. At all. All the management above us got fired. I've never before seen an entire executive team all fired at the same time. Then they fired us, too. The handful people who were left went back to their pre-AI product strategies, recovered, and are running just fine now.
by zelphirkalt | 2026-02-03 11:43:04+00:00
That's basically what I do with my own tool. I create my own data files and store lots of meta information like similar words, usage, and mnemonics in there. I try to keep that somewhat usable for others, but ultimately, I am building the tool for myself and also write the data about words in the way I personally find it useful, so it will be biased in that way. Only, that I am also building the software to use the data around it, combining 2 hobbies, computer programming and learning Mandarin.