MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by evanelias | 2026-02-09 21:25:19+00:00
Right, but my point was that renames in particular typically can't go out well before the corresponding application change [1]. Thus, renames are "out of band" relative to the company's normal schema change process. (This is orthogonal to how schema changes are always "out of band" relative to code deploys; that wasn't what I was referring to.)

[1] In theory a custom ORM could have some kind of dynamic conditional logic for table or column renames, i.e. some way to configure it to retry a query with the "new" name if the query using the "old" name fails. But that has a huge perf impact, and I'm not aware of any common ORMs that do this. So generally if you want to rename a table or column that is already used in prod, there's no way to do it without causing user-facing errors or having system downtime during the period between the SQL rename DDL and the application code change redeploy.
by parasubvert | 2026-02-09 21:25:20+00:00
This is unhelpful fatalism and actively dissuades reform. Not all politicians are "corrupt and bought". And further, there is an enormous difference before and after this Supreme Court decision.

It costs money to run for office. Before Citizens United, it was hard, limited, traceable donations, from individuals. No corporations, no soft money, no legal dark money. Now money has flooded in, with far less accountability.
by formerOpenAI | 2026-02-09 21:25:25+00:00
People usually assume their pain is personal —
some mix of bad habits, lack of discipline, or being “wired wrong.”

But there’s another possibility:
most of what feels like personal failure might just be the behavior of the model you’re running.

RCC (Recursive Collapse Constraints) points out a simple structural fact:

Any system that’s embedded in a larger container collapses
after enough self-referencing steps,
because it can’t see the boundaries shaping it.

Humans show the same failure modes:
1. plans fall apart around step 8–12
2. emotional loops repeat even after we think we’ve “learned the lesson”
3. identity drifts under reflection
4. long-term intentions collapse back into short-term reactions
5. relationship patterns reappear with different people

It looks personal, but it’s structural.

It doesn’t mean you’re broken.
It means your internal model is hitting limits you didn’t know existed.

Guilt isn’t data.
Shame isn’t data.
Pain isn’t data.

They’re all boundary logs — signals from the edge of the model.

Once you see this, the question shifts from:

“Why am I like this?”
to
“What container am I embedded in, and what constraints come with it?”

Your pain isn’t your fault.
It’s your model.
And models can be examined, understood, and rewritten.
by ptdorf | 2026-02-09 21:25:36+00:00
Same here. Asimov threw a veiled tantrum.

> He did not have the science fictional knack of foreseeing a plausible future and, in actual fact, in almost all cases, the world of 1984 bears no relation to the real world of the 1980s.

Asimov refuses to concede that Orwell beat him at his game. The book is not about predicting future gadgets but societal patterns and operating models.
by crowcroft | 2026-02-09 21:25:39+00:00
I totally agree, but the framing is critical.

I guess the question is, when I write a prompt into ChatGPT is the answer the entire response I get back, or is the answer just one part of the response I get back.

To date the entire response = the answer and so users likely see them as synonymous. That metaphor is being broken now and we're saying "no actually the response contains multiple things and only one part of it is the 'answer'".

Maybe I'm the one splitting hairs though.
by b00ty4breakfast | 2026-02-09 21:25:41+00:00
it's like there's an inherent user-hostility in every platform that is expressed in a less-than-ideal user experience in it's usage or in the ways that the host will harvest all of your personally identifying information for various purposes (which it will also inevitably fail to properly secure, resulting in a near guaranteed leak at some point in the future).

I personally don't find ease-of-use to be worth the price of my privacy but most people are more than happy to sell themselves out piecemeal in the form of data until there's nothing left but a bunch of numbers in a spreadsheet to attest to their ever having existed.
by matthewkayin | 2026-02-09 21:25:43+00:00
If a person is working 40 hours a week to contribute to society, then they should be able to afford housing from that society. If a person on minimum wage needs to have a roommate to get by, then that means that their 40 hours a week is not enough to afford their own shelter. Without that roommate, the person goes without a home despite having done their time for society. This is not reasonable.

If it is reasonable for a young person to have flatmates, then that should be because they are a student or an artist and are working only part-time while devoting the rest of their time to their studies or their art.

But a person working full-time? Who may be a single mother or father with a child to support? They should be able to afford a place to live, without roommates.
Show HN: Local and Cloud LLM Comparison Using Nvidia DGX Spark
by devashish86 | 2026-02-09 21:25:46+00:00
Sharing a recording and notes from my demo at AI Tinkerers Seattle last week. I ran 6 different models in parallel on identical coding tasks and had a judge score each output on a 10-point scale.

Local models (obviously) didn't compare well with the cloud counterparts for this experiment. But I've found them to be useful for simpler tasks with a well defined scope e.g. testing, documentation, compliance. etc
by technion | 2026-02-09 21:26:33+00:00
Those checklists are frequently answered like this:

"Hey it says we need to do mobile management and can't just let people manage their own phones. Looks like we'll buy Avanti mobile manager". Same conversation I've seen play out with generally secure routers being replaced with Fortigates that have major vulnerabilities every week because the checklist says you must be doing SSL interception.
by Aurornis | 2026-02-09 21:26:37+00:00
> Yet this says housing costs annually would be $12000. How?

Having roommates is extremely common.

There are also a lot of room-for-rent situations that don’t show up on the websites listing apartments. If you’re tapped into local networks of younger people there’s always someone with a room for rent or a group of friends looking for someone to take over a room in a house they’re renting together. Not helpful for someone in their 50s moving to a new city, but for young people living on a budget this is just how it works and has for a long time.
by SlightlyLeftPad | 2026-02-09 21:26:42+00:00
The amount of time and energy that I have to put in to keep my 3 individual kids safe online while still allowing some access is mind-blowingly high. It shouldn’t be as hard as it is. It’s so hard, in fact, 99.9% of parents give up on it. I’m not one to do that but I’ve strongly considered it many times.

Parental controls are fractured across every platform, they can’t enforce everything in one place, domain filtering isn’t practical, some sites (like YouTube) are needed for schoolwork and they include adult content intermingled with no sane way to bifurcate those. It’s also impossible to disable the forced short-form video push onto toddlers and teens.
by JohnMakin | 2026-02-09 21:26:44+00:00
It isn't as easy as it sounds. It's a lot of fingerprinting, location, and metadata aggregation from an astounding variety of sources that is extremely difficult to fake - It can pinpoint you to an astounding degree. I have been working off and on the last 3 years in the privacy space (passion project) on a similar concept of adtech data obfuscation, and it's far more complex than just "put a fake birthday in a form" (although stuff like this can manifest in interesting ways).
by bell-cot | 2026-02-09 21:27:05+00:00
Between the critical strategic/military need, the by-far largest producer being an unfriendly rival power, and commercial production looking like a very poor fit for the use case - the Old School solution would be for the gov't to own & probably operate the needed mines, refining facilities, and stockpiles.

But between our low-functioning gov't and our lower-functioning Capitalist-Ideological Complex, I'd be surprised if such a solution was even mentioned.
by cozzyd | 2026-02-09 21:27:06+00:00
The cost of childcare seems way underestimated, at least for young children.

It shows $13,641 for my metro (Chicago), but day care costs are easily twice that. Obviously once kids are school-age this is much lower (if going to public school), so maybe that's how you get at this figure.

On the other hand the transportation costs are way overestimated for non-car families (we spend less than $2k/year on local transit for 2 adults and 1 child, obviously this doesn't include airfare for vacations or whatnot). Maybe these are both an artifact of too broad a catchment area (childcare is probably cheaper in the 'burbs, but so likely are average transportation costs).
by runjake | 2026-02-09 21:27:21+00:00
This comment is not well-formatted and a bit "zomg", but an important mention:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump%E2%80%93Raffensperger_ph...

This is the infamous call where Trump, according to the recorded tapes, tried to overturn the 2020 presidential election results by demanding that Raffensperger "find 11,780 votes".
by worik | 2026-02-09 21:27:38+00:00
> total compensation will be set based on the market value of your labor.

No, you do not want that.

The market value of most people's labour is very close to zero.

Left to the market most of the population would live just below starvation, a very small group of owners would live very well, and a small group of artisans would do OK supporting the tiny group.

That is where many countries are heading
by haKCer | 2026-02-09 21:27:45+00:00
Built by SecurityScorecard's STRIKE team. Live data updated every 15 minutes.

Key findings:
- 135K exposed instances, 42K unique IPs, 82 countries
- 53K breach-linked, 50K RCE-vulnerable
- 25K with CISA KEV vulnerabilities
- 4M leaked credentials across affected orgs
- TAXII 2.1 feeds available for TIP integration

Full research report: https://securityscorecard.com/blog/beyond-the-hype-moltbots-...

IPs are redacted. Data is for defensive awareness, not exploitation.
by martinpw | 2026-02-09 21:27:57+00:00
Problem is that in an EV world the raw figures are really not going to be that impressive. Plenty of Chinese EVs have 1000+hp at far lower cost, and likely as good or better acceleration that whatever Ferrari can deliver, since EVs seem to be reaching a point where the limit on acceleration is the tires rather than the motor. So don't think Ferrari can deliver anything truly eye catching in those terms. Differentiation needs to come in other domains.
Micro Grassroots Social Media
by gentleman11 | 2026-02-09 21:28:10+00:00
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=A2P06aHpvnQ

I saw this yesterday and thought it was cool. Its basically a tiny 50 person social media network modelled on video games where you customize your home and can visit each other. I cant help but imagine a world where there are 100 such apps out there, open sourced (possibly federated?), and they replace discord for friend and family groups

Thoughts on the concept?

(Not affiliated with the creator of that particular version)
by JeremyNT | 2026-02-09 21:28:22+00:00
Their valuation is dumb no matter what but you've got to think it's based off of the potential for B2B / gov revenue, not monetizing the consumer facing stuff directly.

Which is to say I feel like they're going to use ads on the consumer stuff just to stop bleeding out VC money as quickly, but nobody's deluded enough to think this is going to bring them much closer to profitability overall.
by btown | 2026-02-09 21:28:38+00:00
> The first option uses AI to analyze a user’s video selfie, which Discord says never leaves the user’s device. If the age group estimate (teen or adult) from the selfie is incorrect, users can appeal it or verify with a photo of an identity document instead.

Are they shipping a video classifier model that can run on all the devices that can run Discord, including web? I've never heard of this being done at scale fully client-side. Which begs the question of whether the frames are truly processed only client-side...
by DrMeric | 2026-02-09 21:29:01+00:00
Fair questions.

I use OrthoRay as a secondary tool — preoperative planning, teaching, research. Clinical reads go through certified PACS, as they should. The app requires explicit consent at launch acknowledging it's not certified for clinical use.

Since you work in this space, I'm curious: is there a realistic FDA/CE pathway for an independent developer, or is certification fundamentally an enterprise-level investment? How do open-source tools like 3D Slicer or OHIF handle this same liability question?

Would appreciate your perspective.
by RegnisGnaw | 2026-02-09 21:29:17+00:00
The answer is that most people don't care if it benefits them. My Tesla has 6 cameras recording full time when driving and parked, but it benefits me so I enable it. It saved me $1000+ (my deductible and possible rise in insurance rates) when someone hit my car while parked at Costco (they drove off but Sentry Mode caught them).
by dddw | 2026-02-09 21:29:26+00:00
Use to maintain a couple of mailservers for an ecommerce platform. The amount of times we where greylisted by MS was so often. They actually have good tools at MS to check is your are blacklisted, but the greylisting was horrible. Resolution was always to request to be un-blacklisted at live, hotmail, and outlook. Never confirmation you actually where blocked, but problem was always fixed in half a day after that.
by bilekas | 2026-02-09 21:29:48+00:00
It's giving my identification to a no face company, that I don't know will handle the data correctly. And if they don't I have absolutely no recourse.

Also, why should I need to identify myself at all ? I used to use IRC for the better part of my life, I still do infact. So to have to Identify myself by sending my ID to a random company is insulting to me.
by antonymoose | 2026-02-09 21:30:12+00:00
I agree while also disagreeing. It feels to me like the Democrats seemingly always get their way while in power while Republican presidents with a congressional majority get little to nothing done.

To me they have the classic problem as with non-profits: “If we solve the problem we cease to have a cause to exist.”

Taking a look at what’s been accomplished this past year, it’s a lot of token Executive Orders on renaming things, a token deportation effort, no material change on mass legal immigration, nothing happening on the voter ID front.

It’s just theater until they lose out in the midterms and they to rally their base again in 2028 to “Save America” or “Keep It Great” or whatever hokum.

Democrats will undo it all when the pendulum shifts.
by SideQuark | 2026-02-09 21:30:25+00:00
In the US, this is trivial to do. Theres plenty of states where unskilled entry lever wages easily allows this life, for most of the locations, with the exception of extremely high cost city centers.

Pick IL for example. Min wage $15, so $30k a year income fulltime. Most every adult that’s worked even a little should be able to earn decently more than min, which is for completely unskilled, new workers. Median il wage is 66k.

Even at $30k, the rough 30% rule on housing is $750/mo. At 66k it’s over $1500/mo.

Dig through smaller cities, and you’ll find apartments to rent in either end of this range. This works in any state.
by ahhhhnoooo | 2026-02-09 21:30:29+00:00
I'm 45. My friend, I still resist licking the boot. Stop believing that your experience is somehow more universal.

I have a rich social network, I have a family, and now more than any time in my life do I think it's important to resist.

Stop saying you'll get less radical as you age, it's just not the axiom you think it is.
by byronic | 2026-02-09 21:30:37+00:00
This depends a lot on where you live. In our area, the minimum internet-only offering from Spectrum is $125 (approximately) after taxes/fees, and the only "competitor" is AT&T, which is more expensive for (at least in our area) worse / flakier service.

I was surprised (at least for Birmingham/AL/Jefferson County) how accurately it pegged _most_ of the costs -- childcare here is closer to $12k/annum/child so that one was the only one I pegged as 'off' - they show 2 children as $16k and that's a ~$8k underestimate
by bunderbunder | 2026-02-09 21:30:51+00:00
Parents are just burnt out, I think. Online spaces have become so consolidated and enshittified that it’s seriously a choice between basically keeping them offline - which is a very socially isolating thing to be these days - and letting a small number of faux-accountable monopolies ranging from Discord to Google and Meta call the shots. It’s kind of a no-win situation.

I’d love to have my kids in relatively small, intimate online spaces where I can’t necessarily assume they will be perfect (nor do I want them to be - they deserve to have some room to learn to navigate problems for themselves) but I can at least assume they won’t be overwhelmed by the impossibility of successfully navigating life in a globalized fishbowl. But if there’s one thing late stage capitalism abhor, it’s a self-contained community of real humans from which the powers that be can’t extract “value”.
by bradlys | 2026-02-09 21:31:00+00:00
Right, and I think we shouldn't even be talking about a fake ass "living" wage when it's so disconnected from what you actually need to reliably "live" in these environments. I don't know who comes up with these terms but it's terrible. It may as well be called, "absolute minimum amount of money to get by without anything ever bad happening or planning for the future at all" wage.
by Terr_ | 2026-02-09 21:31:02+00:00
> Isn't it just so much easier to make sure that wealth isn't concentrated in so few hands? Tax wealth, not work.

1. No, it's not "easier" because it's hard-if-not-impossible to accurately and objectively judge the present-value of many types of assets. Even the case most-familiar to working-class folks, property taxes, nobody really likes/trusts the outcome.

2. We don't tax work, we tax income, because actual transactions between people with "skin in the game" are harder to fake. The extent to which wages are preferred as a subset of income is separate from the wealth-vs-income split.
by triceratops | 2026-02-09 21:31:16+00:00
> You need to process that other people disagree with that claim

I think I already said that in my original post.

> We should not accept the Overton window shifting here

Great! Let's say you and I refuse to accept it. How do we keep Discord from demanding passports or selfies? How can we get France[1] or Finland[2] to roll back age restrictions on social media?

You'll never convince a majority of voters in democracies that nothing online should be age-restricted. These are the people that the enemies of anonymity and free speech are counting on to advance their agenda.

At the same time a majority of voters is currently quite content with the state of age verification for access to tobacco and alcohol. Both its strictness (or lack thereof) and privacy preservation (almost perfect).

I'm not saying my proposal is the one that should be adopted. I honestly don't care which idea gets picked and I don't want anything from it. But it's a virtual guarantee that in the absence of a competing good-enough, privacy-preserving implementation, only the most privacy-invasive idea will be implemented.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46776272

2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46838417
by utf_8x | 2026-02-09 21:31:23+00:00
If you're looking for an alternative to Discord, check out Stoat (formerly Revolt). [1] Especially if you're an iOS dev with some free time as the iOS client could really use some love... [2]

(not affiliated with the project, just really want to see it succeed)

[1] https://stoat.chat/
[2] https://github.com/stoatchat/for-ios
by Tuna-Fish | 2026-02-09 21:31:46+00:00
> The Wikipedia Tungsten article states the largest reserves are in China followed by Canada, Russia, Vietnam and Bolivia. This contradicts the articles claim.

No, it does not, it's just a confusion of the term reserves. That's not on you, though, because everyone constantly gets it wrong.

Reserves are not estimates of the amount of a mineral underground. To be counted as proven reserve, you need to show that the mineral is economically extractable at market prices. Specifically, by starting to extract them. They are "working inventory" of mines that have been developed, they are not our understanding of how the minerals are distributed. They are also a function of commodity prices, not something that remains constant unless you dig them.

China has so much of the worldwide production and reserves because mining is an extremely capital-intensive industry, that is also sensitive to labor costs and environmental legislation. For a long time, China had the trifecta of lax legislation, cheap labor, and sufficient political stability to attract investment. US or Europe can't compete because mining there is more expensive, the third world can't compete because people are wary of investing billions into projects that might go to zero for political stability reasons.

Should the market prices of key minerals rise to the point where it makes sense to mine them outside of China, reserves will be developed and production will shift. This will probably require political will to either tariff Chinese production or subsidize production outside China, because so far China has wielded mineral exports as a weapon only for brief periods, being careful to release exports to crater prices often enough to kill competing projects.
by tracker1 | 2026-02-09 21:31:57+00:00
I think that censorship should be expressly limited based on size and usage of 230 protections. ex: if you have 10+ million users and you want to cite section 230 protections, you may not censor protected speech, but maybe allow users to opt-in to a "censored" feed, or otherwise limited such as for minors.

I'm mixed, but I don't think companies should have 230 protection AND be able to make express publisher decisions on editorializing content.
by bovinejoni | 2026-02-09 21:32:02+00:00
That’s quite an interesting take. You don’t think Europe doing more trade with China (I assume this is what cozying up means?), is a result of a wildly unpredictable trade policy and threats to invade Europe? Instead because the US with their global military presence are sick of footing the bill for it?

You’ll get cheaper oil though I guess?
by a2tech | 2026-02-09 21:32:11+00:00
This website has no author attribution and this is the only article on it. I would be very suspicious of its claims (not that I disagree with them, just that unattributed works on brand new websites are not ALWAYS the most trustworthy).

The United States has exported the dirtiest businesses internationally for quite a few years (raw mineral extraction is a dirty, nasty business, with slim margins). Now that China has become more adversarial and also more established (you mean people want to actually get PAID to slave away in a mine, or even worse, refuse to even work in a dangerous and dirty pit mine?!) the US is facing some hard decisions. We need many of these materials, and we have them, but we haven't had the will to mine them. Lots of people want to open US government lands to these resource extraction outfits, but there's right worry about the potential for ecological destruction.
by dec0dedab0de | 2026-02-09 21:32:25+00:00
I still say that mixing CI/CD with code/version control hosting is a mistake.

At it's absolute best, everything just works silently, and you now have vendor lock-in with whichever proprietary system you chose.

Switching git hosting providers should be as easy as changing your remotes and pushing. Though now a days that requires finding solutions for the MR/PR process, and the wiki, and all the extra things your team might have grown to rely on. As always, the bundle is a trap.