MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by psychoslave | 2026-02-09 22:39:12+00:00
Well we can look at attempts at socialism and see that some failed, some were successful: https://factually.co/fact-checks/politics/successful-sociali...

But of course success is relative to some cultural values. We could just as well wonder about success and failure in implementation of any political system.

The most remarkable trait of humans is cognitive plasticity, so determining any natural tendency that would be more inate than acquired is just a game of pretending there are hypothetical humans living out of any cultural influence that would still exhibit predominent behavioral traits.

Competition is a social construct. There are people out there whose biggest concern is keeping focus on enjoying what they are, freeing their attention from the illusion of possession, avoiding any financial/material bounds they can and staying away of contingent hierarchical servitudes.

They are also many people who holds desires for both of these perspectives, or any interpolation/extrapolation that they can suggest.
by MindSpunk | 2026-02-09 22:39:15+00:00
Acceleration is about the only selling point of a sports EV.

They're so ungodly heavy because of the batteries that they handle like barges. They need giant tyres and so much ESC and software control because these things weigh almost 2000kg or more. You can try and work around it but there's only so much that can be done to make 2000kg take a corner.

Looking at where sports cars will be in 10 years with ICEs being regulated out of existence makes me very sad because it seems like we're about to see the death of the lightweight sports car.
by agwa | 2026-02-09 22:40:06+00:00
After the WebPKI banned the issuance of new SHA-1 certificates due to the risk of collisions, several major payment processors (Worldpay[1], First Data[2], TSYS[3]) demanded to get more SHA-1 certificates because their customers had credit card terminals that did not support SHA-2 certificates.

They launched a gross pressure campaign, trotting out "small businesses" and charity events that would lose money unless SHA-1 certificates were allowed. Of course, these payment processors did billions in revenue per year and had years to ship out new credit card terminals. And small organizations could have and would have just gotten a $10 Square reader at the nearest UPS store if their credit card terminals stopped working, which is what the legacy payment processors were truly scared of.

The pressure was so strong that the browser vendors ended up allowing Symantec to intentionally violate the Baseline Requirements and issue SHA-1 certificates to these payment processors. Ever since, there has been a very strong desire to get use cases like this out of the WebPKI and onto private PKI where they belong.

A clientAuth EKU is the strongest indicator possible that a certificate is not intended for use by browsers, so allowing them is entirely downside for browser users. I feel bad for the clientAuth use cases where a public PKI is useful and which aren't causing any trouble (such as XMPP) but this is ultimately a very tiny use case, and a world where browsers prioritize the security of ordinary Web users is much better than the bad old days when the business interests of CAs and their large enterprise customers dominated.

[1] https://groups.google.com/g/mozilla.dev.security.policy/c/RH...

[2] https://groups.google.com/g/mozilla.dev.security.policy/c/yh...

[3] https://groups.google.com/g/mozilla.dev.security.policy/c/LM...
by macintux | 2026-02-09 22:40:15+00:00
I’ve only started using it, so maybe I’m holding it wrong, but the other day I asked the IntelliJ plugin to explained two lines of code by referencing the line numbers. It printed & explained two entirely different lines in a different part of the file. I asked again. It picked two lines somewhere else.

After using ChatGPT for the last 6 months or so, Copilot feels like a significant downgrade. On the other hand, it did easily diagnose a build failure I was having, so it’s not useless, just not as helpful.
by rafabulsing | 2026-02-09 22:40:23+00:00
> That's not his most recent video, it's a fix of a 2022 video.

That's fair, I didn't notice that.

> I compared the nickels video instead, to the worst ID system in America, and they seemed to be similar levels of embellished slideshow.

He still has videos that are simpler. But back then he had nothing that came even close to those big productions he releases from time to time.

> I thought you meant paid access stuff and it's easy to see a list of those. If you're suggesting secret videos then uh maybe but that's kind of a weird assumption.

I'm suggesting he may work on stuff other than videos. Like non-general public facing/non personality driven businesses. Like Cortex Brand, and the Standard stuff before it. He obviously talked a lot about the Cortex Brand stuff, but he kept Standard on the down low. I don't cite Standard as a reason that he is not putting out videos right now, I cite Standard as evidence he isn't necessarily shouting from the rooftops every time he creates a business. So it stands to reason that he may have had other similarly "secret" ventures over the years.

> That might be the answer but it seems like a waste of his productivity potential.

I don't consume their products (they seem nice but they're far too expensive for my third world salary), so selfishly I'd also prefer if he focused more of his time on the videos. But that's an entirely different conversation from "he just pretends to be productive and actually gets next to nothing done".
by mncharity | 2026-02-09 22:40:47+00:00
Perhaps because one's world is often blue-lit? While whole-hemisphere illumination generalizes as warmer, local conditions vary. Absent direct (yellow-ish) sunlight, outdoor daylight illumination can be quite blue-ish. I've had fun recently with photos in a park under clear blue skies, shadowed by tall buildings... but with a gap, resulting in a narrow strip of bright sunlit ground. My phone will take a bit of sunlit snow as its whitepoint, and provide a blue-tinted world. Similarly for sunlit buildings in background.
by order-matters | 2026-02-09 22:40:57+00:00
I agree. Additionally, a company can own and update a business language of their own design at their own pace and need. Then they can use AI to translate from their controlled business language to the DSL needed (translation being an area it actually does well). In this way the LLM would only ever be going from General -> specific, which should keep it on the rails, and the business can keep its business logic stored

Now that said, there is still the actual engineering problem of leveraging the capabilities of the underlying technology. For example, being able to map your 4 core program to a 16 core system and have it work is one thing, actually utilizing 16 cores is another. Extend to all technological advancements
by luxpir | 2026-02-09 22:41:05+00:00
Wait, what do they teach in North America? Never heard the term "following distance" before now. Sounds misleading.

In Britain at least we call it "braking distance" and you're supposed to leave 2 seconds at least between you and the person in front. Count it off a lamp post/sign etc.

In certain at-risk areas they use chevrons on the road and signs telling you to keep at least 2 chevrons between you and the car in front.

People definitely always get into my braking distance in slower moving traffic, so that happens here too of course. But when things are moving well I likely push the limit and am generally moving faster than most others: going by GPS speed vs speedo, pushing a little into the discretionary and unofficial +10% guidance etc. And weirdly enough I do this for safety and fuel economy.

I generally prefer to avoid other vehicles as much as possible in all situations. But I was a motorbike rider in my youth. Once a defensive driver...

From that perspective, following distance sounds way more like a gap I want to close up than braking distance does.
by danudey | 2026-02-09 22:41:13+00:00
The new design/architecture allows them to do great stuff in the name of efficiency; for example, when browsing through some parts of the UI, it's now much more capable of just updating the part of the page that's changed, rather than having to reload the entire thing. This is a significantly better approach for a lot of things.

I understand that the 'updating the part of the page that's changed' functionality is now dramatically slower, more unresponsive, and less reliable than the 'reload the entire thing' approach was, and it feels like browsing the site via Citrix over dial-up half the time, but look, sacrifices have to be made in the name of making things better even if the sacrifice is that things get worse instead.
by burnte | 2026-02-09 22:42:27+00:00
> There was an appeal button; she was asked to take a picture of her face from many angles and upload ID. She gave them everything they asked for, but when Facebook reviewed the appeal, they closed her account permanently.

I can't speak for every company, but I know with Facebook and Paypal, these requests generally are from automated systems and the chances of successfully reopening the account is well under 1%. The info you submit is not viewed by a human and the systems are mostly treated as a way to lighten the load on human support staff. They don't care if your account is reopened, they just want you to feel like you had a chance, did all you could, and then just give up.

I discovered this about 20 years ago dealing with Paypal. I happened to know someone who worked in Paypal engineering at the time. I had a well established account, a Paypal debit card, linked accounts, etc., everything you could need to feel good about an account.

Out of the blue it was suspended and I was sent into this system to send in verification documents. I gave everything it wanted. First it was ID, then a "utility bill" so I sent over my phone bill. That wasn't acceptable because it didn't prove I lived at my address for some reason, so I sent a natural gas bill. Even though that did have to be tied to a physical address (you can't deliver gas wirelessly!) I was asked for an electric bill. Then the lease. Then a bank statement. Every time I gave it pretty quickly. Then I was asked for a passport. I didn't have one. Suddenly that was the only thing that could unlock my account and as soon as they had the passport my account would be reopened. Nothing further would be done without a passport, not even communication.

I asked my friend to look into it. She said, "that's on purpose, that's the NoBot. It gets people out of support's hair." Turns out if you let unhappy customers complain to humans on the phone they will, so some exec decided to improve call center metrics by forcing customers into a system designed to keep them occupied until they gave up. You funneled people into it, and it would continue to reject their submissions with new reasons infinitely. It just went through a list of things to ask for, and when it found one you couldn't provide, suddenly that was the key and without it you were screwed.

Companies still do this today.
by JamesBarney | 2026-02-09 22:43:03+00:00
> You're ignoring the gorilla in the room. Why can't one live in a comparable manner today and bank the difference?

For two reasons.

1. They're illegal. You're not allowed to build a house to 1936 climate, safety, and fire codes with un-licensed labor. And boarding houses were effectively banned.

2. Market. Most people would rather live in a smaller apartment than 1936 style un-climate controlled death trap.

And the reasons are the same for cars. You legally can't see a new version of a 1936 car, and even if you could most people would rather drive an old civic.
by Grimblewald | 2026-02-09 22:43:05+00:00
This reads like "if we have to solution, then we have the solution". If I can model the system required to condition inputs such that outouts are deseriable, haven't i given the model the world model it required? More to the point, isn't this just what the article argues? Scaling the model cannot solve this issue.

it's like saying a pencil is a portraint drawring device, like it isn't thr artist who makes it a portrait drawring device, wheras in the hands of a peot a peom generating machine.
by zozbot234 | 2026-02-09 22:43:06+00:00
The issue of "which jobs should exist" should be left to the market only. If typical low-end jobs throughout the country pay wages that do not guarantee a minimum living income, the government should simply make up the difference for everyone in a fair way (subject to clawback rates as earned income increases, in order to keep the overall arrangement viable).

(Lowering the cost of essential goods and services is also something that can be done by leveraging the open market. It doesn't take yet another wasteful government program, which is the typical approach in socialist and social-democrat countries.)
by ianburrell | 2026-02-09 22:43:10+00:00
I have thought that could use Matter for time sync. It works with both Wifi and Thread. I don't think there is a time message. I also don't know if it has public broadcast since Thread needs pairing to work.

The advantage is that smart devices might have Matter support already. People with Matter devices will have border routers, which are perfect place for running NTP and broadcasting time.
by alexashka | 2026-02-09 22:43:27+00:00
Most everyone will go down the path of least resistance. A few outliers will try to resist, get old and/or tired. A few of the few will reach acceptance, comprehend the serenity prayer. A few of the few of the few will reach enlightenment.

What you do depends on where you're at - statistically, you'll go down the path of least resistance which is totally, totally fine.
by mothballed | 2026-02-09 22:43:45+00:00
I lived in a blizzard ridden area using just a 250cc motorcycle, year round, including riding it on the interstate. Layer enough layers, use heated gloves, etc you can easily get by with just a ninja 250, you're not going to burn more than $3-4k a year on that no matter hard you try.

You don't actually need a car unless you have a child or a tradesmen with tools or something like that, a small displacement motorcycle will still take you to 99.9% of the jobs in the lower 48.
by brendoelfrendo | 2026-02-09 22:43:59+00:00
I feel less safe knowing that anyone's doorbell could be tracking me and sending my movements to a third party to do whatever they want with that information. A camera that lets someone see their front doorstep and can record someone stealing a package is one thing; when that camera is now part of a network that is part of a larger, society-wide surveillance apparatus, I am concerned.
by aappleby | 2026-02-09 22:44:15+00:00
I don't quite understand why the author is doing special handling for PSG versus PCM audio.

My GameBoy emulator generates one "audio sample" per clock tick (which is ~1 mhz, so massive 'oversampling'), decimates that signal down to like 100 ksample/sec, then uses a low-pass biquad filter or two to go down to 16 bit / 48 khz and remove beyond-Nyquist frequencies. Doesn't have any of the "muffling" properties this guy is seeing, aside from those literally caused by the low-pass.
by hn_acc1 | 2026-02-09 22:44:21+00:00
My daughter who is studying CS (unexpectedly) actually listens most of the time. Which is surprising. But then she tells me her classmates used AI to cheat on assignments so much that the prof had to change the weighting of the assignments to be 0.

I just don't get paying to "learn", and then using AI avoid learning.
by rayiner | 2026-02-09 22:44:22+00:00
Australia's mandatory detention applies to people who enter on a visa and overstay their visa: https://humanrights.gov.au/resource-hub/by-resource-type/boo...

"Australian law requires the detention of all non-citizens who are in Australia without a valid visa (unlawful non-citizens). This means that immigration officials have no choice but to detain persons who arrive without a visa (unauthorised arrivals), or persons who arrive with a visa and subsequently become unlawful because their visa has expired or been cancelled (authorised arrivals). Australian law makes no distinction between the detention of adults and children."
by docjay | 2026-02-09 22:44:36+00:00
They neither understand nor reason. They don’t know what they’re going to say, they only know what has just been said.

Language models don’t output a response, they output a single token. We’ll use token==word shorthand:

When you ask “What is the capital of France?” it actually only outputs: “The”

That’s it. Truly, that IS the final output. It is literally a one-way algorithm that outputs a single word. It has no knowledge, memory, and it’s doesn’t know what’s next. As far as the algorithm is concerned it’s done! It outputs ONE token for any given input.

Now, if you start over and put in “What is the capital of France? The” it’ll output “ “. That’s it. Between your two inputs were a million others, none of them have a plan for the conversation, it’s just one token out for whatever input.

But if you start over yet again and put in “What is the capital of France? The “ it’ll output “capital”. That’s it. You see where this is going?

Then someone uttered the words that have built and destroyed empires: “what if I automate this?” And so it was that the output was piped directly back into the input, probably using AutoHotKey. But oh no, it just kept adding one word at a time until it ran of memory. The technology got stuck there for a while, until someone thought “how about we train it so that <DONE> is an increasingly likely output the longer the loop goes on? Then, when it eventually says <DONE>, we’ll stop pumping it back into the input and send it to the user.” Booya, a trillion dollars for everyone but them.

It’s truly so remarkable that it gets me stuck in an infinite philosophical loop in my own head, but seeing how it works the idea of ‘think’, ‘reason’, ‘understand’ or any of those words becomes silly. It’s amazing for entirely different reasons.
by nickf | 2026-02-09 22:44:38+00:00
Client authentication with publicly-trusted (i.e. chaining to roots in one of the major 4 or 5 trust-store programs) is bad. It doesn't actually authenticate anything at all, and never has.

No-one that uses it is authenticating anything more than the other party has an internet connection and the ability, perhaps, to read.
No part of the Subject DN or SAN is checked. It's just that it's 'easy' to rely on an existing trust-store rather than implement something secure using private PKI.

Some providers who 'require' public TLS certs for mTLS even specify specific products and CAs (OV, EV from specific CAs) not realising that both the CAs and the roots are going to rotate more frequently in future.
by digiown | 2026-02-09 22:44:50+00:00
I'm not sure that would work. How about spam or adverts? That's protected speech. And downranking based on viewpoint is not any different from censoring.

Yeah you can say X but no one will see it.

I can see potentially requiring platforms to moderate in a "viewpoint neutral" way, though, which only applies if you have ~5% of potential customer base as users.

It would at least create a diseconomy of scale and discourage centralization.
by text0404 | 2026-02-09 22:45:22+00:00
> I have nothing to hide

What's your full name and current address? Where do you work? What locations do you frequent in your day-to-day life? Who do you live with and spend the most time with? Can you please list their full names and contact information? Would you mind turning on location tracking on your phone? Once you've done this, let me know and I'll email you so you can share it with me.
by dmix | 2026-02-09 22:45:41+00:00
My only ticket and accident I've been in was because an Uber SUV hard braked at the end of a highway offramp at night time when the light was green, the car in front of me hit it, then I hit that car despite braking hard + my cars autobreaking radar. I was charged with following too close even though I didn't cause the accident. Damaged the car pretty badly. There was also a pregnant lady in the Uber that caused it.
by Supermancho | 2026-02-09 22:46:06+00:00
Tungsten demand is real and bulk sources are quite scarce, today. It would be helpful if the historical charts went back farther than 2016. Where did the US get Tungsten in the 80s and 90s? South Korea, China, and Russia. The US and Canada had Tungsten mines, but the value wasn't there due to international pricing undercutting the industry. America's dogged federal agenda to break free of all Chinese influence or Capitalism, which will go first? We know the answer.
Show HN: Codedocent – Turn any codebase into visual blocks with plain English
by clanker-lover | 2026-02-09 22:46:08+00:00
I'm not a programmer — I'm a designer/engineer who reads schematics, not source code. I kept running into the same problem: needing to understand codebases I couldn't read.
So I built Codedocent. Point it at any project and it generates an interactive visualization — nested colored blocks showing the structure, with AI-generated plain English summaries of what each piece does. It uses local AI (Ollama) so nothing leaves your machine.
pip install codedocent then just run codedocent and it walks you through setup.
Built in ~30 hours with heavy AI assistance (Claude). Python, tree-sitter, MIT licensed. Happy to answer questions about the process or the tool.
by legitster | 2026-02-09 22:46:25+00:00
> Households that have to share housing with others have always been characterized as unusually poor, no matter the continent and the millennium.

Historically speaking this is incredibly wrong.

Nearly every culture evolved from some sort of shared communal longhouse to individual clan homes, to extended family homes. The idea of individual private rooms actually comes about explicitly from Manors in the late medieval ages. We really didn't see widespread individual homes until the industrial revolution. In places like the East, individual rooms were an import from the West.

Even in rare places where there were individual family homes (Ancient Egypt, for one). Privacy and individuality were just not concepts. Through the 1800s, you might have literally been sharing a bed with a stranger in a hotel.

There has also never, ever been a point in human history where living without some sort of roommate was common. Even in situations where you had lots of single workers, they almost always lived in bunkhouses or SROs.
by shoo | 2026-02-09 22:46:28+00:00
> thought processes went "I'm a full stack engineer" > ... > "I'm evaluating classes in professional writing"

Let that one run, let's see where it ends.

maybe "I no longer build software; I now make furniture out of wood"

or "Have taken up farming"

or perhaps "I've sold all my RSUs, am taking a Sabattical" > "I'm exploring activities I find more fulfilling: yoga & angel investing" > "I'm the author of a substack blog post where I share life advice with others" [1]

[1] https://briansolis.com/2015/09/silicon-valley-hierarchy-need...
by jconvery14 | 2026-02-09 22:46:38+00:00
Yeah I will for sure implement hashing down the line, the current file name/size comparison was good enough for what I need at the minute and an initial release.

Given the time it'd be cool to try single threaded vs parallelism (rayon) on larger datasets and compare the performance.

Nice work on your tool, sounds like you've put a lot of consideration into it.
by csin | 2026-02-09 22:47:02+00:00
Interesting novel concept.

With something like subreddits, people congregate because of a common interest. There's a clear topic on what people should be chatting about.

I don't know how far you'll get slotting a bunch of strangers with no clear direction on the topic.

How does the island hoping work? I don't see a "Change island" button. I'm assuming it's because there's only 1 island right now?