MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by gchamonlive | 2026-02-23 22:38:12+00:00
Have you played The Talos Principle 2? Yep, games are toys! It's nothing more than that. What we fail to realise in our industrial society is that toys are a fundamental piece of our culture, they enable learning lots of different skills that wouldn't be possible in the "real world", they foster creativity, problem solving, bonding and cooperation...

Toys are just toys, and yet they are the most important things we have. I honestly think the technological progress catalyzed by games is a byproduct, a huge one, but not central to the industry. We only think technology is the most important thing because we live in a world in which overvalues technical prowess in lieu of culture.
by dirasieb | 2026-02-23 22:38:30+00:00
> Speech is _never_ violence.

coming up to you on the street and telling you i'm going to stab you to death is not violence as long as i don't go through with the stabbing? someone needs to better secure the mental asylum wifi, you shouldn't have access to it

shouting "BOMB!" at an airport for fun is not violence even though you're causing people to trample each other and might result in serious physical harm that's resulting directly from your action?
by yurishimo | 2026-02-23 22:38:43+00:00
I bought a custom couch from Lithuania and got it shipped to the Netherlands after trying a certain brand in a local showroom. The brand is based in Belgium and does some manufacturing in Poland. They even shipped it for free because I met a minimum spend threshold.

The NL dealer wanted €5k but Lithuania wanted €2800 for the same exact couch so I then convinced myself it was worth it to pay for a fabric upgrade. Since its made by the same Belgian company, the warranty is identical and valid across the EU.

I guess you could say I’ve successfully assimilated to my new adopted home in NL and now I hate to pay full price for almost anything!
by Sabrees | 2026-02-23 22:38:50+00:00
Rosys (a middleware layer https://github.com/zauberzeug/rosys) has rosys.driving.Odometer and rosys.driving.Steerer it's essentially a differential drive kinematic model.

Hoping RTK dual-F9P moving-base setup (M4 in the roadmap) largely sidesteps the worst of this — NAV-RELPOSNED gives us a real heading vector independent of wheel odometry, and the robot_localisation EKF can weight RTK heavily and odometry lightly when GNSS quality is good.
by lstodd | 2026-02-23 22:39:13+00:00
This is all well and good, but the problem is that those systems leak left and right. No amount of politics can stop that.

Back in the day when first ALPRs went into operation (I don't remember, was it 10 or 15 years ago) it took about two weeks for the data to appear on darkweb.

Then the same happened to citywide face recognition.

The only way to stop abuse is to not collect the data : ban the systems entirely.
by ulf-77723 | 2026-02-23 22:39:28+00:00
Software is still eating the world, now even faster. I wonder how soon we will adapt to this new situation where software is vibe coded for anything and make use of this software without caution as expressed in the article.

For most people the main difference will be: Will it run and solve my problem? Soon we will see malware being put into vibe coded software - who will wants to check every commit for write-only software?
AI-Generated Images Spread During Mexico Cartel Crisis, Written from Shelter
by PZR2000 | 2026-02-23 22:39:32+00:00
I'm writing this from Mexico City, where I sheltered in place yesterday after the killing of CJNG cartel leader "El Mencho" triggered roadblocks, vehicle burnings, and unrest across six Mexican states.

While trying to figure out what was happening, I found images spreading everywhere: gunfire at Guadalajara airport, passengers on the tarmac at Puerto Vallarta, downtown Puerto Vallarta in flames. All AI-generated. State authorities confirmed it, but I only found that out because I was actively digging. Most people in a crisis are scared and scrolling.

This keeps happening: LA wildfires, Hurricane Milton, the Israel-Iran conflict. The industry response is the same every time. Join a standards committee, issue a press release, ship nothing meaningful. OpenAI, Google, and Meta all joined the C2PA steering committee in 2024. That same year, C2PA quietly made editorial identity optional under industry pressure. And even where implementation exists, social platforms strip the metadata on upload anyway.

Full article: https://medium.com/@faithrounds/the-fakes-were-more-convincing-than-the-fire-7022b1e8520b
by burkaman | 2026-02-23 22:39:51+00:00
Ok maybe this is just a semantic issue, but I'm still not understanding your argument that money has nothing to do with it. In your case, instead of having the founder donate the cameras, the company itself essentially donated them, I assume for a limited time. How is that not a money issue? When you said "a minor fracas erupted at the board", why did the board have a say at that point? Was it because the police now had to spend money, triggering public oversight?

It seems like the main problem you identified in your original comment is "I do believe you have to run a legit process to get them deployed." What is currently preventing this from happening? The only barrier I'm seeing is Ben Horowitz and Flock finding creative ways to temporarily let their customers not pay for their services.
by tptacek | 2026-02-23 22:41:30+00:00
I don't know how to more clearly say that the purchasing thresholds for police departments are not the actual issue with ALPR deployment. What you need is affirmative consent from the board/council before they're deployed, regardless of cost. If you rely on cost thresholds, ALPR vendors will make arrangements to get deployed in ways that fit under those thresholds. That's exactly what happened to us.

I think maybe one thing that's happening here is that people thing literally the only possible control against unwanted ALPR deployment is expenditure rules. But this is a story about one way a large metro got around expenditure rules. Meanwhile: there are model ordinances you can adopt that completely moot the price/gift issue. Pass them!

The point of my comment is "here is something you can do besides yelling on message boards about how much you don't like surveillance".
by robomartin | 2026-02-23 22:42:58+00:00
> The issue I take with modern games like CoC is that they are psychologically engineered to be mentally harmful

Precisely. I am not saying I am perfect as a parent or that this was the best possible approach to the situation we had. Nobody is and perfect parenting is an absolute myth.

I knew full well just how addictive gaming could be because I experienced it in my 20's. Needless to say that the "shock and awe" consequence to their deceit was not the result of a single data point. We had been seeing changes in behavior over time (six months or so). The objective was three fold: Take away the device that delivered the addictive behavior. Take away something of value to them. Make them earn it back with positive behavior.

The decision was not planned and the consequences were not communicated in advance. Few things in life are like that. Sometimes people discover the consequences of their actions (or understand them) when they are sprung on them because of something they did. Drunk driving being one possible (though not perfect) example of this.

In this case, it worked. Perhaps we got lucky. Not sure. I also did highlight that I cannot speak for all parents. I did the best I thought made sense at the time. Based on the outcome, many years later, I can say it worked.

To the critics on this thread: Your mileage may vary. Some of the comments sound juvenile, perhaps you'll understand if you ever become a parent and face similar circumstances. Then see what you think of someone who thinks they know better from behind a keyboard than you did in the moment and without having to be responsible for the outcomes (which is a multi-year commitment).
by throwaway2037 | 2026-02-23 22:42:59+00:00
Another idea for the debt brake: What if they set strict limits, like a max of 3% for 7 years, or 5% for 5 years. Literally, you have a "bank of GDP percent points". You can gain them by running a surplus and spend them by running a deficit. Start the initial bank balance at 25%.

> but I guarantee that this action will be brought up again and again by populists in the future, as an example of how the "elites" don't care about democracy.

This is a good point that I didn't think about.
by himata4113 | 2026-02-23 22:43:08+00:00
Seems pretty similar to be. I do not like people, but I don't dislike talking to people.

Speculation: What you actually like is independence, not being bound by others or being chained by those around you - the feeling of freedom. However, it does make you go a bit crazy so I do recommend getting at least something to take care of like a pet or even some plants since humanity historically relies on a purpose and the lack of it has pretty severe side effects. By chaining yourself and getting something to take care of is an easy way to make it less impactful while still experiencing that freedom.
by crystal_revenge | 2026-02-23 22:43:31+00:00
I used to think this was a sign that AI code isn't really useful, but I've changed my tune (also I believe these numbers have changed in the last few months).

As an example: One of my most promising projects I was discussing with a friend and we realized together we could potentially use these tools to build a two person agency with no need to hire anyone ever. If this were to work, could theoretically make nice revenue and it shouldn't show up in any metric anywhere.

Additionally I've heard of countless teams cancelling their contracts with outsourced engineers because cheap but bad coders in India are worse that an LLM and still cost more. I'm not sure if there's a number around this activity, but again, these type of changes don't show up in the usual places.

My current belief is not that AI will replace traditional software engineering it will replace a good chunk of the entire model of software.
by shagie | 2026-02-23 22:43:56+00:00
Some states have that as a "you should/need to declare that as a use tax."

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

It's likely poorly enforced, but it's on the books and it's a complicated one to track. It was more of a concern when internet sales didn't collect state sales.

There's also Simplified Sellers Use Tax lawsuit that was recently in the courts.
by hectormalot | 2026-02-23 22:43:58+00:00
We're doing a lot with the realtime models. Happy to see a new release.

Initial feel from a few calls is that it seems to perform better with alphanumeric inputs. Voice seems consistent. Recognition on a few tests seems to be somewhat better, especially did much better on the two 8-bit 8-kHz mulaw calls I tried.

It does still struggle a bit with some specifics in other languages (e.g., that the Dutch/German pronunciation of 53 'fifty-three' is effectively 'three-and-fifty').
by StilesCrisis | 2026-02-23 22:44:31+00:00
Shufflepuck Cafe ran on the original Macs, which were 8MHz and had between 128K and 512k of RAM. (I never had access to a 128K machine and don't know if Shufflepuck worked on those.) This is still an incredible achievement of course! But the types of Macs that ran at 16MHz with 1MB RAM were probably incompatible with the original Shufflepuck as it was coded with the original Mac screen resolution firmly embedded into the design.
by FergusArgyll | 2026-02-23 22:45:37+00:00
> equally disdainful from the same moralistic standpoint that gambling is banned from

I don't know which religion/s you're familiar with but I bet you don't know the reason gambling is prohibited in Judaism. It doesn't carry the moral stench you think it does. I've been studying Talmudic law for a very very long time and am confident there is no issue with using polymarket to get the odds on anything.

> The odds you see when booking your flight are not the real odds

In my previous comment I shared a link with you (https://calibration.city/) I told you to filter by market midpoint.

I don't know if you didn't see it or you are being obtuse but between repeating something I disproved and lecturing me about my religion, I have my suspicions...
by strangegecko | 2026-02-23 22:45:51+00:00
I have nothing smart to say, but it's one of those games I played as a kid and I feel nostalgic seeing its title pop up here more than 3 decades later. For some reason, somewhat boring seeming games were among my favorites.

I'm still proud of figuring out that one of the hardest players had a tell that let you predict which corner he was going to target, thereby making him easy to defeat (that was on the Amiga version, I'm not sure if it was universal).
by Gigachad | 2026-02-23 22:45:51+00:00
Maybe one day, but it doesn't look like we are very close yet. From the OP article, they handed it the working linux driver and asked it to just make this FreeBSD compatible, but it could not. Looks like it took OP a significant amount of work over 2 months to get something that seems to work.

What is interesting is it seems like the work resembles regular management, asking for a written specification, proof reading, etc.
by fc417fc802 | 2026-02-23 22:46:03+00:00
> ineffective non-sequiturs like requiring them to ID everyone.

Is that really a non-sequitur though? Cigarettes are harmful and addictive so their sale is age gated. So too for alcohol. Gambling? Also yes. So wouldn't age gating social media be entirely consistent in that case?

Not that I'm necessarily in favor of it. I agree that various other regulations, particularly interoperability, would likely address at least some of the underlying concerns. But then I think it might not be such a bad idea to have all of the above rather than one or the other.
by PaulHoule | 2026-02-23 22:46:08+00:00
The PDP-10 had an MMU similar to a modern MMU with page tables and such, the PDP-11 had an 8-segment-of-8kb MMU like what the TRS-80 Color Computer 3 had except the PDP-11 had a real supervisor mode and if a user mode program tried to change the MMU configuration it would fault.
by john_strinlai | 2026-02-23 22:46:46+00:00
the overwhelming part of wireshark is, at least in my experience teaching networking at a college level, the actual networking part. protocols, flows, packet structure, etc. kids tend to be up to speed on the UI part pretty quickly.

what the kids in my classes really struggle with is actually using any command line stuff (at least for a month or two), because it is so foreign to them (coming from GUI-only experience).

what specific parts are made easier with babyshark, compared to wireshark? the github readme didnt really sell me on the "easier than GUI" part, nor did your description here. is it the "explain (plan-English hints)" part? if so, i think you should focus on that. right now it looks pretty bare bones (e.g. "Weird stuff" does not seem easier or super helpful from a learning perspective)
by hiciu | 2026-02-23 22:48:16+00:00
Yes, something in the document is tied to my ID. There's my name in there for example :). I don't have to share that information, because what government signed is a uniquely salted hash of my name and passed the salt to me.

If I choose to share that salt, and provide my name, someone could hash all that information and compare it to the government-issued document to verify if my name really is john smith (or if my claim "I'm over 18" is valid).

If I don't, they have no way of knowing.

> no "routing through the government"

> government is the one providing the documents

I'm also lost. I mean, this is the government issued ID we are talking about, right? How are you expected to get it if not from the government? "Are you over 18" claim is part of that government issued ID.

They don't have to know which sites or when you are visiting, but they do have to issue you the document.

(To be clear, there are also other options, it doesn't have strictly to be government; for example banks around here can provide ID documents - for their clients. There's a list of who is trusted for what https://eidas.ec.europa.eu/efda/trust-services/browse/eidas/...).

> However there's obviously a reason that those are only valid for 30 days instead of indefinitely.

It's the same reason why we prefer tls certificates with short lifespans.
by abujazar | 2026-02-23 22:48:19+00:00
Yea, the idea is that the VAT effectively taxes the added value in each step of the value chain because there's a limit to how much you can charge for an item or service. E. g. a 25 % VAT does not necessarily mean the goods become 25 % more expensive; most of those 25 % would have been profit for the reseller, intermediates and manufacturer if it were not for the VAT. Perhaps a little contra-intuitively, a high VAT keeps prices down and business efficient because every intemediate is indirectly taxed even though the VAT is only charged to the final consumer.
by knuckleheads | 2026-02-23 22:48:57+00:00
Yep, exactly. I spent a lot of time trying to figure out better ways for interpreting the evaluations of engines for https://www.schachzeit.com/en/openings/barnes-opening-with-d... and I ended up liking WDL much better than centipawns. A blunder defined in terms of decreasing your chance of winning by such and such percentage is, to me, a much better definition than a blunder losing such and such material. What does that mean? It makes sense to me now, but it took a long while.

Relatedly, there is an interesting thing that lc0 has been doing as well, where it takes the contempt concept even further, and can beat you with queens odd. https://lczero.org/blog/2024/12/the-leela-piece-odds-challen... It assumes it is better than you and that it shouldn't just give up because you might be up a knight, rook or even queen.
by tsimionescu | 2026-02-23 22:49:45+00:00
This solves some probelms, such as children accessing porn sites (oh the horror). But it doesn't solve other problems, such as predators accessing children's spaces. YouTube Kids is purportedly a safe, limited place for kids - and yet, there are numerous disturbing videos that get past the automated censors. Pedophiles stalk places like Roblox.
by ChrisArchitect | 2026-02-23 22:49:46+00:00
In the last month:

Feb 13: IBM tripling entry-level jobs after finding the limits of AI adoption

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47009327

Jan 28: IBM Mainframe Business Jumps 67%

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46802376
by nine_k | 2026-02-23 22:50:28+00:00
> there's no hope of getting a world-wide, free, uncensored, unlimited IP4/6 network back.

What do you mean "back"? It was never free, as in zero-cost. It was also not very unlimited; I remember times when I had to pay not only for the modem time online, but also for the kilobytes transferred. Uncensored, yes, because basically nobody cared, and the number of users was relatively minuscule.

The utopia was never in the past, and it remains in the future. I still think that staying irrelevant for large crowds and big money is key.
by eigen-vector | 2026-02-23 22:50:34+00:00
I'm not trying to say it's better than the GUI but it hopes to be more guided. it’s *opinionated* about the first 60 seconds:

- *Overview dashboard*: immediately surfaces top talkers/flows + “what should I click next” instead of dropping you into the full packet list.
- *Domains-first pivot*: `D` shows hostnames and lets you jump from a domain → the relevant flows. It also works when DNS answers aren’t visible (DoH/DoT/cached) by using observed IPs from SNI/Host flows.
- *Weird stuff*: `W` is a curated set of “likely problems” (retransmits/out-of-order hints, resets, handshake issues, DNS failures when visible) with a short “why it matters” and a drill-down.
- *Explain*: `?` gives plain-English hints for a selected flow + suggested next steps (follow stream, filter, pivot to domains/weird).

So it’s basically a guided triage layer on top of tshark/pcap data, with the “where do I start?” path baked in.

If you’ve got a specific teaching use-case (e.g. “why is this slow?” or “which host is generating traffic?”), I’d love to tune the Overview/Weird detectors around that. Open to PRs as well.
by iggldiggl | 2026-02-23 22:51:17+00:00
A transcript for a half-hour radio comedy show with some formatting takes up about 60 kB. The English Wikipedia page for Monty Python is about 130 kB in pure UTF-8 text and the actual HTML page takes up around around 660 kB (plus/minus, depending on which Wikipedia theme exactly you use).

So large, text-heavy pages don't seem too unlikely to exceed 250 kB, especially if they also include some amount of formatting that's more substantial than just a minimal bunch of <p> tags.
by calmbonsai | 2026-02-23 22:51:29+00:00
> We're very close to just being about to set an AI coding agent to brute-force a driver for anything.

This is false. To "brute force" a driver, you'd need a feedback loop between the hardware's output and the driver's input.

While, in theory, this is possible for some analog-digital traducers (e.g WI-FI radio), if the hardware is a human-interface system (joystick, monitor, mouse, speaker, etc.) you literally need a "human in the loop" to provide feedback.

Additionally, many edge-cases in driving hardware can irrevocably destroy it and even a domain-specific agent wouldn't have any physics context for the underlying risks.
by rm30 | 2026-02-23 22:51:31+00:00
Look at Chinese smartphone brands: Xiaomi, OnePlus took their slice from Samsung.

Same pattern will play out with RAM and SSD. In 3-5 years, it won't be 'Samsung' on the label, it'll be 'Li Tech' or equivalent.

Western manufacturers ceded the market through strategic choice; Chinese companies are filling it systematically.
by tkiolp4 | 2026-02-23 22:51:39+00:00
I think in the future (in 10 years?) we are going to see a lot of disposable/throwaway software. I don’t know, imagine this: I need to buy tickets for a concert. I ask my AI agent that I want tickets. The agent creates code on the fly and uses it to purchase my tickets. The code could be simple curl command, or a full app with nice ui/ux. As a user I don’t need to see the code.

If I want to buy more tickets the same day, the ai agent will likely reuse the same code. But if i buy tickets again in one year, the agent will likely rebuild the code to adjust to the new API version the ticket company now offers.
Seems wasteful but it’s more dynamic. Vendors only need to provide raw APIs and your agent can create the ui experience you want. In that regard nobody but the company that owns your agent can inject malware into the software you use. Some software will last more than others (e.g., the music player your agent provided won’t probably be rebuilt unless you want a new look and feel or extra functionality). I think we’ll adopt the “cattle, not pets” approach to software too.
by ineedasername | 2026-02-23 22:51:52+00:00
someone would have already have replaced those closed source Nvidia drivers that have firmware blobs

This isn’t quite a fair example, these are so massively complex with code path built explicitly for so many individual applications. Nvidia cards are nearly a complete SoC.

Though then again, coding agents 1 year ago of the full autonomous sort were barely months old, and now here we are in one year. So, maybe soon this could be realistic? Hard to say. Even if code agents can do it, it still costs $ via tokens and api calls. But a year ago it would have cost me at least a few dollars and a lot more time to do things I get done now in a prompt and 10 minutes of Opus in a sandbox.