MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Der_Einzige | 2026-02-06 20:19:38+00:00
Don't let the door hit your ass on the way out. Oregonians have more personal freedom than almost any other state. Ron Wyden is by far the best sitting senator. It's a remarkably pro-gun state for being so left wing. Just use your tech bro money and live in a suburb. Cheapest weed in America. legalish shrooms. It's harder here than almost anywhere else for cops to fk your life up. Good.

Also it's objectively very low on violent crime, and the problems you talk about are in every PNW city, i.e. SF, Portland, Vancouver (WA), Vancouver (BC), Seattle. They're also the places where all the innovation, including AI (despite the non SF cities hatred for it), is happening.
by ddtaylor | 2026-02-06 20:19:48+00:00
I suffered a traumatic brain injury (TBI) related to an e-bike accident two years ago. I woke up in the ICU after a short coma-like thing and the nurses/doctors asking me questions and it was clear I was answering for the 10th time or more, like we had all done this before, but I couldn't remember anything.

Thankfully my very long password I use for an encrypted Borgbackup I have was somewhere deep or untouched, but, otherwise I would have been fucked. Also, the backup codes Google told me they would always accept failed and it wasn't until I found a random unused Android device in a drawer that had been unused for a year was I able to get access back to my Google account of ~25 years.
by cucumber3732842 | 2026-02-06 20:19:55+00:00
>Every marginal dollar* taxed is a dollar politicians don't have to scrounge from a wealthy donor, in order to get that politician's pet interests achieved.

You fundamentally misunderstand the relationship.

The donors donate because the politician will then direct more money at the donors interests.

I spend $1mil on lobbying, $1mil on bunk science at labs I fund or astro turf'd grass roots support (something the government can point to to justify their action), $1mil on donations I get a preferential change in law or rule, or perhaps even government investment in my industry, that lets my business make billions, bringing back say $6mil in profit to me personally. Repeat for all my other business activities.

Politician, political appointees and regulatory agencies pet interests only matter insofar as I get better value for my money by choose one who's interests align.
by no_wizard | 2026-02-06 20:20:02+00:00
News is hamfisted as much by news organizations themselves as much as it is Apple. They don't want to sell through the News+ subscripition, they want to tease a few articles and then upsell you to their subscription.

News organizations have really become quite aggressive about negotating these things now, I think in large part because Meta (aka Facebook at the time) screwed them badly when it stopped revenue sharing.

This leads to a situation where a product that actually could at least be good and servicable is a mess. They don't see News+ as being a positive to their businesses to bundle it into the subscription.
by ben_w | 2026-02-06 20:21:18+00:00
> what is insane is that everyone just accepts it, knows that this happens, and dont go lynch the ones in charge immediately.

For a while, my pet conspiracy theory was that this was Epstein's real cause of death: a lynching by a prison guard made to look like suicide.

I never took it too seriously, because no actual evidence; now I'm more inclined to think it was a coconspirator hoping it would mean no more evidence getting out.
by ceejayoz | 2026-02-06 20:21:36+00:00
> President Roosevelt rejected funding the war with taxes, and went instead with war bonds.

War bonds covered about half the costs.

Roosevelt was not shy about taxation, before or during the war.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revenue_Act_of_1935

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revenue_Act_of_1937

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revenue_Act_of_1942

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Individual_Income_Tax_Act_of_1...

"A 5% Victory tax on all individual incomes over $624 was created, with postwar credit."
by blibble | 2026-02-06 20:21:43+00:00
> What they have always criticised is that it makes it harder to do so than MV2, and the difficulty of implementing dynamic filtering with it gives the advertisers an upper hand over adblockers.

it's more than this

the filter list is now bundled in extension, which has to be approved by Google

so they're now the gatekeepers of the filter list updates

so to stop youtube adblockers, all they have to do is:

- design a countermeasure
- deploy it
- don't approve updates until the next countermeasure is ready

and repeat

you'd never be able to block a youtube ad again
by nabbed | 2026-02-06 20:21:46+00:00
That explains the incredibly attention-stealing animated knee joint ad I sometimes see on Apple News+.

On the other hand, the ads are usually static, the content on the page will stay put (unlike news sites on the regular web, where the paragraph I am reading will shift up or down and often will get completely jettisoned out of the viewport), there are no pop-ups, and the page has never scrolled back up to the top while I was already half-way down the article.
by SignorZ | 2026-02-06 20:21:51+00:00
Yes, it's now practically unusable, and anyone who paid the full price, like me, has been ripped off.
An AI bot responds and refuses to refund the unused portion of the subscription. In my jurisdiction (EU), this is completely illegal; I will contact the authorities and request a full refund.
I used to get 600 Pro queries per day, now I get 20 per month. Support responds via AI and says the limits have been updated and are dynamic, but denies the refund. There were already the well-known traffic redirection issues on economic models, now this. All the alternatives offer much more in the free plan than what Perplexity offers by paying as much as a premium plan from other providers.
by smoe | 2026-02-06 20:22:11+00:00
I’m the same. Often the first step is a time-boxed exploration, just trying to make the key pieces work in any way to encounter major blockers as early as possible. No planning, no design, not following any best practices, often all in a single file. Then from there, either refactor/rewrite or just use it as input for planning.

Of course, it requires some discipline to not just yolo the prototype into production when that’s not appropriate.
by programjames | 2026-02-06 20:22:33+00:00
Doesn't the government try to ban heroin?? You have to live in the real world, not your ideal world, and in the real world people are not perfectly rational agents. They make mistakes. Each and every mistake could have been avoided if the individual just had a stronger will, was a little smarter, a little more prudent, or took a little more time to think, but just because mistakes can be avoided and some people are better at avoiding them than others does not change the fundamental issue: drugs, tobacco, gambling, and TikTok are trying to increase the rate at which mistakes are made. Wouldn't you rather live in a society where they aren't out to get you?

I think there's an argument that can be made, like, "well maybe 10% of the time people consuming alcohol is a mistake, but I just use it recreationally. The government shouldn't prohibit all drinking!" And sure. If it is really the case that people would take the same actions even if they had more time to think things through and were in a good mental state, the government should probably not be intervening for the 10% of the cases that doesn't hold. But you have to draw the line somewhere.
by duskwuff | 2026-02-06 20:22:46+00:00
> AFAICT we haven't really had a big shift in fundamental mathematical notation in Europe (and its colonies) since Roman Numerals (CXXIII) gave way to Arabic (123) numerals four hundred years ago. 8I

Your history is a little confused. Arabic numerals came into use in Europe as early as the 13th century (introduced by Leonardo Fibonacci), but most other mathematical notation like "=" or or "√" didn't show up until the 16th or 17th century.
by Seattle3503 | 2026-02-06 20:22:59+00:00
This is interesting to me as it demonstrates that a normal person at the time could see for themselves that Epstein was someone you didn't want to associate. I've wondered if Epstein put up a good smoke screen that confounded ordinary judgements (rather than moral judgements). IMO this demonstrates that a normal person could see him for who he was, even in the midst of one of his charm offensives.
by Xmd5a | 2026-02-06 20:23:52+00:00
bikes into thread

BASED jumping is an acronym that stand for five categories of fixed objects from which one can jump:
- Buildings
- Antennas
- Spans
- Earth
- Deepfakes

bikes out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1ULJ92aldE (<- finally found the track used in so many CNC machining youtube shorts).
by WarcrimeActual | 2026-02-06 20:24:18+00:00
I'd go as far as saying every film ever made should have to have a concrete ending and stand on it's own. I am however much less into "freedoms" as I get older and see people become crackheads for apps and the worst form of capitalism possible where market breaking hoarders and resellers get rich denying people both necessities and wants in equal measure. I'm also radical enough to think that it should be illegal to own more than one house, more than one car for every licensed member of a household, and reselling anything for profit. I guess put simply, I hate resellers. I hate hanging threads, and I hate people that design things to constantly leave people wanting or "needing" more.
by thwarted | 2026-02-06 20:24:19+00:00
Given the same inputs, the desire for search-based optimization, superoptimization, or diversification should still be predictable and deterministic, even if it produces something that is initially unanticipated. It makes no sense that that a given superoptimization search would produce different output—would determine some other method is now more optimized than another—if the initial input and state is exactly the same. It is either the most optimal given the inputs and the state or it is not.

You are attempting to hedge and leave room for a non-deterministic compiler, presumably to argue that something like vibe-compilation is valuable. However, you've offered no real use cases for a non-deterministic compiler, and I assert that such a tool would largely be useless in the real world. There is already a huge gap between requirements gathering, the expression of those requirements, and their conversion into software. Adding even more randomness at the layer of translating high level programming languages into low level machine code would be a gross regression.
by petemilly | 2026-02-06 20:24:20+00:00
> You can change which resolver you use in your network settings. I switched to 1.1.1.1 on my machines - it's noticeably faster than my ISP's default resolver.

Noticeably faster as in just loading a website? Or in some script where small differences add up? I thought typical DNS lookup was sub 100ms, but I've never tried switching my resolver so I'm curious
by AndrewHart | 2026-02-06 20:24:31+00:00
This is something I built while learning RL, and I decided to open-source. I noticed that every major RL algorithm (Actor Critic, A2C, PPO, TD3 etc.) would be written from scratch, even though they shared a lot of the same features. And every implementation of the same features would be slightly different across each implementation. So trying to take a feature from one algo to another, or even to try building your own features, was a massive pain and error-prone.

HelloRL is a new modular framework, built around a single `train()` function, which scales up to every algorithm. The difference between Actor Critic (discrete, online, monte-carlo, simple) and TD3 (continuous, offline, 1-step rollout, targets, reference critic, etc.) is just a different set of modules. Easy to swap between algorithms, or mix and match features, or build your own modules.
by pixelready | 2026-02-06 20:24:49+00:00
I think this is just once again an example of the interests of corporate ownership running counter to creative culture ala “Everything is a Remix”. Music samples, fan fic, fan art, reaction vids, etc.. are natural artifacts of culture. Corporations want to harvest the value of these artifacts without allowing the free flow back into the commons that provides fertile soil for these things to exist in the first place. It’s as unhealthy to culture as strip mining is to the environment.
by ok_dad | 2026-02-06 20:25:02+00:00
I'd like to see Waymo have a few of their Drivers do some sim racing training and then compete in some live events. It wouldn't matter much to me if they were fast at all, I'd like to see them go into the rookie classes in various games and see how they avoid crashes from inexperienced players. I believe that it would be the ultimate "shitty drivers vs. AI" test.
by godelski | 2026-02-06 20:25:08+00:00
It is weird to read because they bring up many things a lot of people have been critiquing for years.

> But as impressive as these feats are, they obscure a simple truth: being a "test-taker" is not what most people need from an AI.
> In all these cases, humans aren't relying solely on a fixed body of knowledge learned years ago. We are learning, in real-time, from the context right in front of us.
> To bridge this gap, we must fundamentally change our optimization direction.

I'm glad the conversation is changing but it's been a bit frustrating that when these issues were brought up people blindly point to benchmarks. It made doing this type of research difficult (enough to cause many to be pushed out). Then it feels weird to say "harder than we thought" because well... truthfully, they even state why this result should be expected

> They rely primarily on parametric knowledge—information compressed into their weights during massive pre-training runs. At inference time, they function largely by recalling this static, internal memory, rather than actively learning from new information provided in the moment.

And that's only a fraction of the story. Online algorithms aren't enough. You still need a fundamental structure to codify and compress information, determine what needs to be updated (as in what is low confidence), to actively seek out new information to update that confidence, make hypotheses, and so so much more.

So I hope the conversation keeps going in a positive direction but I hope we don't just get trapped in a "RL will solve everything" trap. RL is definitely a necessary component and no doubt will it result in improvements, but it also isn't enough. It's really hard to do deep introspection into how you think. It's like trying to measure your measuring stick with your measuring stick. It's so easy to just get caught up in oversimplification and it seems like the brain wants to avoid it. To quote Feynman: "The first principle is to not fool yourself, and you're the easiest person to fool." It's even easier when things are exciting. It's so easy because you have evidence for your beliefs (like I said, RL will make improvements). It's so easy because you're smart, and smart enough to fool yourself. So I hope we can learn a bigger lesson: learning isn't easy, scale is not enough. I really do think we'll get to AGI but it's going to be a long bumpy road if we keep putting all our eggs in one basket and hoping there's simple solutions.
by IG_Semmelweiss | 2026-02-06 20:25:46+00:00
Take that to the next level.

How about taxing the...Government ?

For example: I am a teacher. I run for office. I win. Now, as a consequence of my win, my tax bracket for the rest of my life, is 100% after i exceed the higher of either:
a) my elected official salary, OR
b) the average last 5 years of W2 income, OR
c) the average last 2 years of W2 income.

You'd delete inmediately all the grifters getting into government to be rich. And because those narcissists griefters people would self select themselves out of the running; it gives breathing room to those willing to actually do their DUTY for country. Those willing to sacrifice lifetime income.

This is pathway to the less charismatic, but more duty-oriented people that would not mind working in the govt and also do a good job. Under these rules, you dont care if I stay in govt forever, either. Limited terms have no point, when you can't grift.

This also takes care of those pesky post-election speaking fees, as well!
by Nextgrid | 2026-02-06 20:26:28+00:00
NVME only provides block IO. An interruption of the connection is equivalent to forcibly unplugging a hard drive. If the filesystem you put on top supports that and is able to recover from that, you're fine. But most filesystems do not optimize for that happening anywhere near as frequently as it would if you were using this as a regular file sharing protocol over unreliable networks.
by nine_k | 2026-02-06 20:26:52+00:00
But words like "incapsulation" or "polymorphism" or even "autoincrement" also sound unfamiliar and scary to a young kid who encounters them the first time. But the kid learns their meaning along the way, in a desire to build their own a game, or something. The feeling that one already knows a lot, sort of enough, and it'd be painful and boring to learn another abstract thing is a grown-up problem :-\
by 7tflutter7 | 2026-02-06 20:28:24+00:00
I was referring to Germany, the largest EU nation. But sure let's look at percentages.

40% of the EU has age of consent 14 or lower. (Germany, Italy, Portugal, etc.)
78% of the EU has it at 15 or lower (France, Sweden, Denmark, etc.)

Your 'standard' of 16 is actually the exception. And a far cry from your original claim of an 'official line' at 18-21.
by tonfa | 2026-02-06 20:28:51+00:00
> I don't even see how an LLM (or frankly any recipe) that is a summary / condensation of various recipes can ever be good

It's funny, I actually know quite a few (totally non tech) people who uses (and like using) LLMs for recipes/recipes ideas.

They probably have enough experience to push back when there's a bad idea, or figure out missing steps/follow up.

Thinking about it, it sounds a bit like LLM usage for coding where an experienced programmer can get more value out of it.
by dann1609 | 2026-02-06 20:29:20+00:00
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by pwdisswordfishs | 2026-02-06 20:29:59+00:00
It's the default on new accounts for stuff when people do things through the GitHub interface.

If you set user.email using git-config on your machine to a real email address and decide to author and publish commits with it, then GitHub will, of course, not be able to stop you (aside from maybe rejecting the commits when you tried to push them). It can't just arbitrarily rewrite the email address in the commit. That would break Git's data model.
by eudamoniac | 2026-02-06 20:30:12+00:00
Okay, but those are very recent developments to which the historical sentiment hasn't fully caught up. To the extent it has, it's via negative memetic sentiments, e.g. "Stockholm is now the rape capital of the world!" Sweden, at least, also, doesn't capture racial demographics, so we don't know the makeup of the foreign born population. Walking around Helsinki, you don't need statistics to notice the homogeny.
by 827a | 2026-02-06 20:30:22+00:00
> The question is more fundamental. In a world of AI coding assistants, is code from external contributors actually valuable at all?

Everything comes down to this. Its not just open source projects; companies are also slowly adjusting to this reality.

There's roughly two characteristics that humans need in this new environment: Long-ranging technical leadership about how the system should be built (Lead+ Software Engineer), and deep product knowledge about how its used (PM).
by smallmancontrov | 2026-02-06 20:30:23+00:00
Tesla has driven 7.5B autonomous miles to Waymo's 0.2B, but yes, Waymo looks like they are ahead when you stratify the statistics according to the ass-in-driver-seat variable and neglect the stratum that makes Tesla look good.

The real question is whether doing so is smart or dumb. Is Tesla hiding big show-stopper problems that will prevent them from scaling without a safety driver? Or are the big safety problems solved and they are just finishing the Robotaxi assembly line that will crank out more vertically-integrated purpose-designed cars than Waymo's entire fleet every day before lunch?
by platinumrad | 2026-02-06 20:30:28+00:00
> All Java programs "really" happen in the IO + Either monads

People say things like this all the time, and I think it's a vacuous assertion. While there is probably some very narrow view where returning early with an error, throwing an exception, and binding in Either are the same thing, such a view ignores a lot of important context (e.g. all of imperative programming). This is why you have to qualify it as "IO + Either", but that doesn't say anything at all because everything is possible in IO.
by jhickok | 2026-02-06 20:30:42+00:00
Interesting article! I think I get what the concern is, but I think your view of human cognition is going to heavily color what you think the limitations of an LLM are. For example, if you think that broadly speaking, the human learning process (concept acquisition, inference and concept revision, etc) is modeled by modern LLM training, these limitations might apply to humans in the same sense they do to LLMs.

Systematicity is a really powerful concept that can drive a wedge between classical cognition folks and connectionists/associationists, but it has never been clear to me that we actually instantiate systematic cognitive patterns, only that in some arenas we should.
by toomuchtodo | 2026-02-06 20:30:46+00:00
The question is affordability. The market for those who can service $1k/month in a car note and insurance is not that big in the US. Average price of a new car is $50k currently.

Record number of subprime borrowers miss car loan payments in October, data shows - https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/record... - November 12th, 2025

Driven to Default: The Economy-Wide Risks of Rising Auto Loan Delinquencies - https://consumerfed.org/reports/driven-to-default-the-econom... - September 10th, 2025

> Auto finance is at a breaking point, as Americans owe over $1.66 trillion in auto debt. Delinquencies, defaults, and repossessions have shot up in recent years and look alarmingly similar to trends that were apparent before the Great Recession. Cars are more expensive than ever, due in part to economic factors, but also due to the fraught experience of buying and financing a car. Dealers and lenders have long engaged in deceptive and predatory practices that jack up prices for car buyers in order to line their pockets. This auto finance crisis is happening just as our nation’s federal watchdogs–the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) – have taken significant steps back from oversight and enforcement of predatory practices in the auto market.

(day job is in consumer finance)