MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jrflowers | 2026-02-13 03:48:21+00:00
> (example: cannibalism) which people are now taking as the truth

I haven’t seen any indication of “people that didn’t previously believe in cannibal elites now believe in cannibal elites after reading the emails” being a phenomenon that actually exists.

I’ve yet to interact with anyone that has seriously said “I didn’t believe they ate babies on Tuesday but it is Thursday and now I believe they were eating babies.” but people are posting like that’s a thing that happens frequently now. It’s almost like the tinfoil hat theory I’ve seen the most isn’t “pedophile cannibals” but rather “reading the emails will make you go crazy and start believing in cannibal pedophiles” like they are an actual real-life Lovecraftian hazard, which is a much more outlandish idea than… kooks and hucksters continuing to be kooks and hucksters.
by erxam | 2026-02-13 03:51:13+00:00
You ask an American what's the last painting he saw and what he thought about it and he'll bring up whatever random shit some vastly-underpaid and over-exploited immigrant will have been made to plaster over a McDonald's wall.

The "intellectual" Americans will bring up Thomas Kinkade and how his work embodies the true nature of what American society should be all about. His pieces make them long for the good old past where non-whites knew their place and segregation was a godly law.
by angiolillo | 2026-02-13 03:52:56+00:00
Cost is one root cause, not the root cause.

> Cost can basically be removed as a reason.

This is false. From an empirical standpoint, Pew Research finds that financial concerns rank among the top reasons adults say they are unlikely to have more children, the US Census reports that a substantial share of women who expect to have fewer children than desired cite economic constraints, and OECD fertility analyses find that financial insecurity and housing costs are closely associated with lower realized fertility in OECD countries.

I wouldn't go so far as to say that fertility is highly elastic, but the economics of child rearing do appear shift behavior at the margins.

> There are plenty of studies that it was far more costly in the past than now.

Can you provide more detail about these studies? At least when it comes to paid childcare in the US this is false. Before the 1940s paid/institutional childcare was less common in the US, with most childcare provided by mothers, extended families, neighbors, religious institutions, and charities. From 1990 to 2025, the Day Care and Preschool CPI index increased ~280%, outpacing the ~150% increase in overall CPI during that same period.

Not to mention that double-income households are much more common, especially in high cost-of-living areas, and this raises the opportunity cost of having a child compared to a couple with only one income.

Not to mention housing costs outpacing inflation, and for many people stable housing is often a prerequisite for considering starting a family.

I'm not saying cost is the only reason, and I would not even claim that fertility is highly elastic, but the economics of child rearing obviously do shift behavior at the margins.
by zmmmmm | 2026-02-13 03:53:32+00:00
This should be a legitimate basis for legal action against whoever empowered the bot that did it. There's no other end point for this than human responsibility.

Many of us have been expressing that it is not responsible to deploy tools like OpenClaw. It's not because others are not "smart" or "cool" or brave enough that not everyone is diving in and recklessly doing this. It's not that hard an idea to come up with. It's because it's fundamentally reckless.

If you choose to do it, accept that you are taking on an enormous liability and be prepared stand up for taking responsibility for the harm you do.
by dang | 2026-02-13 03:54:13+00:00
Thanks - this was a good catch, and it makes steam come out my ears to see any account abusing HN like that.

You don't have to email us, of course! But please understand that we're on the same side. We don't want to see HN overrun by generated comments (a form of spam) any more than you, or other users do. Remember that tomhow and I were avid users of HN for many years before we became mods.

All: generated comments and bots aren't allowed here. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que.... If you notice an account that appears to be consistently pattern-matching to this, and have a minute to let us know, we'd appreciate a heads-up at hn@ycombinator.com. We don't come close to seeing everything that gets posted here, but we do monitor the inbox closely (including fishing through the spam bin for real users) and we take these reports seriously.
by Towaway69 | 2026-02-13 03:54:58+00:00
Thanks for explaining that, I didn’t know.

So there is a definite alternative. Why doesn’t anyone start Orange Inc. to provide a one-stop hardware solution using Linux. I mean a place where phones, laptops, tablets are sold that are setup to work together?

Why doesn’t Ubuntu (for example) move into selling integrated hardware solutions based on Linux - for the consumer market.
by duskwuff | 2026-02-13 03:55:20+00:00
How would flying drones be useful to a drug runner? Their priorities are to transport a large amount of material over a long distance and to avoid detection. Drones have a relatively low payload capacity, have limited range, and are easily detected - they're not practical.

(A very different kind of "drone" has seen quite a bit of use in drug running - remote-controlled submarines! They've proven able to carry a large load over a long distance while remaining hard to detect.)
by SecretDreams | 2026-02-13 03:55:25+00:00
> Tesla's choice to abandon lidar will be one of the biggest oof in business history.

This yes.

> The lead that Waymo has acquired in perceiving its driverless car's environment will be almost impossible to kill.

This, I don't think so. I think it'll be more like the space race. Or the LLM race. Anytime money or data is all that's required, you won't hold the lead forever. The reason big tech holds their leads today is not innovation, but critical mass combined with user entrapment. Waymo is not positioned right now for either since their space is primarily focused on taxis, whereas the real winners (in auto) will be whoever does it best (and there may be a few) for consumer auto ownership.

We can talk about robots all day, but we haven't gotten to mass robots yet because of cost and reliability. It'll be a bit still for those to work and it won't surprise me if robots end up in homes and wars sooner than factories, since those former use cases are shockingly more fault tolerant than a high paced environment.
by varenc | 2026-02-13 03:55:54+00:00
I don't think that's true for HomeKit Secure Video (HKSV). Advanced Protection turns on E2EE for various iCloud services like iCloud backups and Apple photos. But HKSV is already E2EE'd and the decryption keys aren't part of the device's iCloud backup. At least that's my understanding. I believe
health data and the iCloud keychain is similar.
by quiet35 | 2026-02-13 03:56:33+00:00
Funny. The author is not sure if his (and original) extension improves Claude output, but since the original project has 4k+ start on Github, "surely, 4,000 developers can’t be wrong". So, "Please try for yourself! Install the extension, don’t forget to star my repository and see the results". No matter if it's good, just star my repo.
by wxw | 2026-02-13 03:57:51+00:00
> The Hong Kong Mass Transit Railway buys up the land around new station sites before they start building them. This rail-plus-property model makes them one of the few profitable transit services in the world.

I really enjoyed this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_roPoXi8QI describing more in detail how they did this. It has as much to do with historical circumstance as it does with good decision-making. The MTR is an impressive organization. MTA in NY seems to be taking a few cues, prioritizing in-house expertise.
by dboreham | 2026-02-13 03:58:14+00:00
> AI will kill SaaS moats and thus revenue. Anyone can build new SaaS quickly.

I'm LLM-positive but for me this is a stretch. Seeing it pop up all over media in the past couple weeks also makes me suspect astrofurfing. Like a few years back when there were a zillion articles saying voice search was the future and nobody used regular web search any more.
by fuzztester | 2026-02-13 03:58:55+00:00
>Oh a programming language certainly needs to have traction and community for it to succeed, or be a viable option for serious projects.

You are totally right, sir.

>You can code your quines in whatever you'd like, but a serious project needs existence of good tooling, good libraries, proven track record & devs that speak the language.

Now, you HN user who calls yourself 4gotunameagain (which type of name is already a red flag for those in the know, because usually used by trolls), do us a favour by posting the link to at least one of your so-called serious projects here. Put your money where your mouth is.
by vessenes | 2026-02-13 03:59:06+00:00
Thanks for the write up. I think you might be happy to hear that ffmpeg has scene detection built in. But you might be unhappy given how much work you did. In my experience it works pretty well.

An upscale pipeline seems like the next job, by the way! you can pull a lot of quality out of those old videos with modern tools. Enjoy.
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by gib444 | 2026-02-13 04:01:10+00:00
Did your CCTV increase the time you leave the dogs alone, out of interest?

We never needed CCTV in the 90s/00s for dogs. We would have someone take the dogs out for a walk/toilet, or if having to regularly leave them alone beyond what is fair to them, re-home them

And if you need to check they're not causing mischief they're likely not tired enough

So I'm wondering what use case remains really
by alsetmusic | 2026-02-13 04:02:41+00:00
> Sure, immigration reform could have achieved this twenty years ago. But powerful business interests didn't let it happen then, so it behooves you to start questioning why they are outright championing it now!

That can't possibly be because championing a vindictive and corrupt admin is in their interests. No, it has to be nefarious forces working in the shadows.

The corruption and lawlessness of this admin is right out in the open, but you know what? It's probably the Jews, right? /s

Oh right, and racism.
by econ | 2026-02-13 04:02:54+00:00
I think the dumbest thing that happened in the west was the combination of lack of access to education and mass immigration. Many found themselves competing for jobs with people starting with nothing, often even without knowing the language.

Had we upgraded the training of natives it would have been very exciting to see so many capable hands flood into the country. Everyone could be hiring!

A concrete box with a door and a bed in it. 3 meals per day. A computer and a book. A professor or teacher to sometimes hold your hand. It doesn't have to be expensive. It doesn't have to be every man for himself. It definitely doesn't have to fit an exploitation model.

Now with AI we could even tailor education for exactly the market demand. No need to let little jimmy figure out his own business plan. Could write it to fit market and investor demand. And if he fails he goes back to school for the next project.

The Chinese are killing it in education but there is no reason to think it can't be made even easier, more effective and cheaper.
by codazoda | 2026-02-13 04:03:05+00:00
I also cut my own hair, but sometimes I’m lazy and just hit up the Barber shop.

She charges me $15! I tip +$25 and it’s still a cheap haircut.

My haircut has to be one of the simplest around, but 9 out of 10 stylists will leave me fixing it myself later. Once I paid $50+tip for the same cut at a swanky joint and STILL went home and fixed it. She doesn’t know what she’s worth.
Ask HN: Better hardware means OpenAI, Anthropic, etc. are doomed in the future?
by kart23 | 2026-02-13 04:04:14+00:00
This is something I don't understand, how will all these AI-as-a-service companies survive in the future when hardware gets better and people are able to run LLMs locally? Of course right now the rent vs. buy equation is heavily tilted towards rent, but eventually I could see people buying a desktop they keep at home, and having all their personal inference running on that one machine. Or even having inference pools to distribute load among many people.

do you think what this is possible, and what are these companies plans in that event?
by godelski | 2026-02-13 04:04:47+00:00
> Try not to get overly attached to a hypothesis just because it’s yours.

It is very similar to Feynman's

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself--and you are the easiest person to fool. So you have to be very careful about that.

I'm linking my comment but if you want to skip to the source it is [5]: Cargo Cult Science.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46997906
by toofy | 2026-02-13 04:06:46+00:00
while i agree that unifi is worth looking at, id urge anyone reading this to be a little weery there:

i used to own extensive unifi equipment for my home network, 8 access points, 2 switches, gateway, a couple cams, etc… it was amazing, the initial setup, the interoperability, the stability and maintenance was absolutely painless. i will loudly sing them praises for those things, but i started noticing them trying to jam cloud features and subscriptions behind paywalls deeper into the integration, it’s pretty obvious that its only a matter of time before they enshitify with pay-for-features paywalled behind subscriptions, cloud first, etc…

keep that in mind before you dive headfirst. their stuff was perfect in that stability sweet spot of better than small office but not quite enterprise tier local only configurations, but i personally dipped as soon as i saw what i think is the writing in the wall.

i love their stuff, genuinely i did, but if the goal is to move further away from subscriptions and cloud-first, be very cautious of their current trajectory.
by latexr | 2026-02-13 04:06:51+00:00
> there is no em-dash on a standard keyboard. The one way it ends up in real writing is (…)

Then you proceed to list multiple ways to do it, but neglected to mention that by default on Apple operating systems they are inserted automatically when typing “--“. It’s something you have to explicitly turn off of you don’t want it. On Apple mobile operating systems you can also long press the hyphen to get the option. Em-dashes are trivial to type.
by stevage | 2026-02-13 04:09:01+00:00
This is amazing. Super challenging.

Two UX feedbacks:

- it took me a long time to work out how to buy a ticket. It doesn't really make sense that you can't click on the coach icon, you have to click the circle around the coach icon.

- I mistakenly clicked "get off at the next stop". (I interpreted it as "jump forward to arriving at your destination). It really needs a confirmation - I wasted a huge amount of money.
by gib444 | 2026-02-13 04:09:13+00:00
Mounjaro is widely known to cause bad hangovers and side effects while drinking isn't it? That's what I gleaned from my research. I'm a little surprised you didn't come across that

Curious also if you're considering staying on the lowest dose for cost purposes? I've ignored all advice to step up from 2.5mg and I can even go 10-14 days without noticing too much, but weight loss is slow compared to others (12kg in 6 months). But that's how I want it to be honest.

Though I guess lower dose for longer might work out more expensive
by mediaman | 2026-02-13 04:10:26+00:00
Others clarified the kW versus kWh, but to re-visit the comparison to a household:

One household uses about 30 kWh per day.

20 kW * 24 = 480 kWh per day for the server.

So you're looking at one server (if parent's 20kW number is accurate - I see other sources saying even 25kW) consuming 16 households worth of energy.

For comparison, a hair dryer uses around 1.5 kW of energy, which is just below the rating for most US home electrical circuits. This is something like 13 hair dryers going on full blast.
by alexjplant | 2026-02-13 04:10:30+00:00
The receipt printer in the kitchen is tied to the POS. Anything rung in for prep is saved in the computer. The manager can run reports and see who comped what and if anything has been voided. This has been a thing since the 90s.

Creating a good guest experience is how you get repeat business. Comps are part of that. You are talking about theft and I mentioned nothing of the sort. If you choose to engage in such behavior then that's your business - don't accuse me of it.
by dylan604 | 2026-02-13 04:12:11+00:00
They have been selling NVR based camera systems for decades. It's clunky. It takes a network savvy person to open up their home network to allow remote access. It takes an even savvier person to not do that in a way that guarantees getting their network pwnd.

Having a cloud based solution from an ethical company would be the consumer friendly solution people are actually wanting. Lots of people are willing to spend money to make problems go away.
by jessji | 2026-02-13 04:13:16+00:00
The official international platform is Dreamina: https://dreamina.capcut.com/tools/seedance-2-0

That's the actual product page where you can try the model. It launched globally on Feb 12.

For a structured walkthrough (account setup, prompt structure, the @ reference system), I put together a guide here: https://seedanceguide.com/tutorial
by CamelCaseName | 2026-02-13 04:13:38+00:00
Yeah, this is too much nonsense for me.

If a waiter is comping something in exchange for a higher tip, that's not generosity or goodwill at all, it's a dishonest scam.

I will tip what I want to tip (often 0) without remorse and move on with my life.

Unfortunately this cancerous American system leeched into Canada, but we can still stop it, one $0 tip at a time.
by jessji | 2026-02-13 04:14:34+00:00
Great breakdown of the segment-based approach. The prompt structure you described (scene description, key actions, starting/ending pose, timestamps) lines up with what works best — subject first, then camera, then lighting/audio cues.

I documented 25 tested prompts following this pattern if anyone wants ready-to-use templates: https://seedanceguide.com/blog/best-seedance-2-0-prompts
by codazoda | 2026-02-13 04:14:53+00:00
I recently had an entire meal at Chili’s comped by the manager, because I waited an hour for food. I guess their system flagged it, or they just noticed, because I didn’t complain. I was hanging with my grandson.

I tipped on the full amount but we had to get the manager again to figure out how. I was going to Venmo her but the manager just sent the $0.00 bill to the table.
by jorvi | 2026-02-13 04:14:54+00:00
Spotlight and Mission Control (and the dock) being separate is good, and them being tied together on Gnome is horrible.

I just want to type which app to launch or do some quick math or search for something, I don't need my windows and UI to fly in 14 different directions and then back again every time I need to do those things. Ditto for just want to lazily do something on my dock with the mouse. It's seriously one of the most ill designed off-putting UX things about Gnome.
by vessenes | 2026-02-13 04:15:51+00:00
I'm not suggesting, I'm saying that this is what has happened so far, full stop, based on multiple public statements from people like Dario.

Basically every model trained so far has made money for Anthropic and OpenAI. Well maybe not GPT4.5 - we liked you but we barely knew thee..

The cash spend is based on two beliefs a) this profitability will continue or improve, and b) scaling is real.

Therefore, rational actors are choosing to 2-10x their bets in sequence, seeing that the market keeps paying them more money for each step increase in quality, and believing that either lift off is possible or that the benefits from the next run will translate to increased real cash returns.

What's obscure to many is that these capital investments are happening time shifted from model income. Imagine a sequence of model training / deployments that started and finished sequenced: Pay $10m, make $40m. Pay $100m, make $400m. Pay $1bn, make $4bn. Pay $10bn, (we are here; expectation is: make $40bn).

If you did one of those per year, the company charts would look like: $30m in profits, $300m in profits, $3bn in profits. And in fact, if you do some sort of product-based accrual accounting, that's what you would see.

Pop quiz, if you spend in the first month your whole training budget, and the cycles all start in November, what would the cash basis statement look like for the same business model I just mentioned?

-$10m, -$60m, -$600m, $-6bn.. This is the same company with different accounting periods.

Back in reality, shortly into year 1, it was clear (or a hopeful dream) that the next step (-100 / +400) was likely, and so the company embarked on spending that money well ahead of the end of the revenue cycle for the first model. They then did it again and again. As a result naive journalists can convince engineers "they've never made money". Actually they've made money over and over and are making more and more money, and they are choosing to throw it all at the next rev.

Is it a good idea or not to do that is a question worth debating. But it's good to have a clear picture of the finances of these companies; it helps explain why they're getting the investment.
by jauntywundrkind | 2026-02-13 04:15:58+00:00
Zero people would have read your shit though. So no, you would not be here. There would be no here. No comment threads, no discussion.

I can't begin to state what an absolute moronic plan this sounds like. Trying to make the whole world spin up their own servers in their basement... Because even a VPS is protected & can run only because of 230. Too stupid even to be a joke.

And then how do we have threads & comments? Sure you can post your words, but sites like this patently couldnt exist.

It's just the most brain rotted dumbest shit. The anti 230 people dont attempt even the smallest faintest attempt at making sense. Durbin has been confronted by a number of people, and it's always this fantasy world delusion, hiding behind the castle walls of the mind pretending like he's right, utterly unable to hear a single sound from outside. It's a Pam Bondi performance, a commitment to disregard any reality that doesn't meet what you want.

I have yet to meet a single anti-230 person who can even begin to be reasonable & measured in how they talk about this. There are just endless massive holes you could send a whole aircraft carrier battle group through. None of it is serious. It's probably half Russian agitprop, disinformation, begging America to stop having a freedom to share our words.
by smcin | 2026-02-13 04:17:04+00:00
- some resident aliens (if not authorized to work), B-1/B-2 Visitors, WB/WT (Visa Waiver Program), nonresident aliens

- their spouses and dependents e.g. F-2 Dependents, J-2 Dependents, H-4 Dependents: of H-1B, H-2A, H-2B, or H-3 visa holders.

- Undocumented immigrants: Individuals without lawful status who have a US tax filing requirement.

Read "Who's eligible for an ITIN" https://www.irs.gov/tin/itin/individual-taxpayer-identificat...