MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-02-06 13:53:20+00:00
I work in consulting cloud + app dev. Every single project I’ve had for the last year and a half has been Gen AI related in some form. Most of them could have been done before Gen AI using traditional ML. It’s just much easier now.

That being said, consulting is a low margin race to the bottom business if your consultants email address isn’t @amazon.com (been there done that) or @google.com.

Google’s sales staff and SAs and other go to market to chase large deals are still not on par with AWS ProServe or Microsoft’s. It takes a lot of work to build up a good consulting department and no matter what, you still end up - unless you are a cloud provider -going with the Americans are the face for the customer and low paid folks from India do all of the work.

Consulting for cloud companies - either internal or external (where they give credits to customers for third party partners consulting) isn’t about the money they make on consulting, it’s about ongoing spend on their cloud providers and they can also afford to lavish credits on companies. The cloud provider have real profitable businesses
by duxup | 2026-02-06 13:54:19+00:00
Perspective, and the ability to see things outside the frame of ones own circumstances is not a common trait I fear. I think plenty of people say the right things, but it might just be that my or their circumstances brought us to the same place for a bit, and any given person wouldn't apply the same generosity or principles if it wasn't to their own advantage at that moment ... Perhaps we don't agree so much as their tribe likes the same slogan as I do.

People like Trump once identified themselves as a Democrat, I actually suspect it doesn't even matter and given other circumstances he would have happily continued to do so if he felt it was to his personal advantage.

When I was a child I remember various efforts by adults to teach young people various good principles. Some in school, some in books or even TV. I actually thought the amount of effort was sort of silly. Of course I should treat others in a way that I would hope to be treated if I were in their place and so on. Many of these things seemed self evident to me, and I wondered why they put so much effort into teaching the obvious.

I feel like I know why now. The trick isn't the basic concept of knowing principles, it's still applying them when it isn't advantageous to you or your tribe or your concerns.
by kreetx | 2026-02-06 13:54:56+00:00
Sure. I'm simply saying that illegals in the US and German Jews aren't the same. The latter actually were citizens, most/many of them for more than one generation while the illegals in the US have recently entered. Also, US illegals are simply deported, not killed.

Also, acquiring real estate for any org to for any activity is also normal. E.g a town government who buys a warehouse to house a temporary school or hospital.

Bloomberg is just trying to insinuate analogies here because their political party didn't win.
by seanmcdirmid | 2026-02-06 13:55:41+00:00
We could but we don’t. Like, let’s buy artificial diamonds so kids in the Congo aren’t mining blood diamonds, but you never hear about the follow-up of helping those kids out of poverty. I’m all for ethical sourcing, but we are horrible at the other things we should be doing to alleviate poverty around the world.

I can see why many think that our global social activism would be better redirected at simply making poorer people less poor as opposed to their exploitation. It’s definitely a jaded view though.
by JohnFen | 2026-02-06 13:57:03+00:00
> "assume every system on earth can/will be breached"

This.

I've spent years working in network security and one of the core principles is "if a thing can be accessed legitimately, it can be accessed illegitimately". Perfect security is an unachievable ideal. What you can affect, though, is how much time and effort it will take to breach you. What you're practically shooting for is to make the cost higher than the value an attacker would get from breaching you.
by JKCalhoun | 2026-02-06 13:57:06+00:00
Not necessarily a PDF attachment?

Someone who made some progress on one Base64 attachment got some XMP metadata that suggested a photo from an iPhone. Now I don't know if that photo was itself embedded in a PDF, but perhaps getting at least the first few hundred bytes decoded (even if it had to be done manually) would hint at the file-type of the attachment. Then you could run your tests for file fidelity.
by frantathefranta | 2026-02-06 13:57:17+00:00
I'm in the same boat. I have a TikTok account so my wife and friends can send me videos (mostly cute dogs). It's funny when people probe why I don't use TikTok and they think it must be because I'm against the Chinese/Larry Ellison influence or other common reason. No, I just don't like the format.
by sigmoid10 | 2026-02-06 13:57:42+00:00
The big AI houses are all in involved in varying degrees of litigation (all the way to class action lawsuits) with the big publishing houses. I think they at least have some level of filtering for their training data to keep them legally somewhat compliant. But considering how much copyrighted stuff is spread blisfully online, it is probably not enough to filter out the actual ebooks of certain publishers.
by woodruffw | 2026-02-06 13:57:51+00:00
> There is one answer: Epstein was protected by state forces, not that of U.S. but of its closest "ally" (more like master at this point).

This is a bog-standard white nationalist trope (“ZOG”), gussied up with current affairs.

Epstein avoided the consequences of his actions because he was a wealthy, powerful man surrounded by other wealthy, powerful men (who in turn stand to lose a great deal by having their behavior exposed). Not because the Jews secretly run the world.
by em-bee | 2026-02-06 13:57:56+00:00
i am not necessarily agreeing with any of the opinions shared above. when someone jumps into a thread like i did this can easily be missed. so please forget all of that discussion, as it is not relevant to my argument. i am a different commenter.

what i am suggesting is that the only way to lead people out of poverty as a society is to heavily invest in education. paid for by taxing those that make all the profits. paid in such a way that sending children to school offsets the loss of income the family would have from letting the children work in the fields. (in some places in africa this works because the school is the only place where the kids get food.)

i am not suggesting that these jobs should go away. that's besides the point. i am not sharing any opinion about those jobs or the current situation.

what i am suggesting is that instead of arguing about the situation or complaining about those jobs, the best way to make life really better for these people is to improve their education.

the companies that provide these jobs could be contributing to that too by not only paying good salaries as they are but also directly investing into the building of schools, and making sending children to school a condition of employment.
by codingdave | 2026-02-06 13:57:57+00:00
The discussions around this point are taking it too seriously, even when they are 100% correct. LLMs are not deterministic, so they are not compilers. Sure, if you specify everything - every tiny detail, you can often get them to mostly match. But not 100%. Even if you do fix that, at that point you are coding using English, which is an inefficient language for that level of detail in a specification. And even if you accept that problem, you still have gone to a ton of work just to fight the fundamental non-deterministic nature of LLMs.

It all feels to me like the guys who make videos of using using electric drills to hammer in a nail - Sure, you can do that, but it is the wrong tool for the job. Everyone knows the phrase: "When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail." But we need to also keep in mind the other side of that coin: "When all you have is nails, all you need is a hammer." LLMs are not a replacement for everything that happens to be digital.
by zozbot234 | 2026-02-06 13:58:27+00:00
"The model advances both the frontier coding performance of GPT‑5.2-Codex and the reasoning and professional knowledge capabilities of GPT‑5.2, together in one model, which is also 25% faster. ... With GPT‑5.3-Codex, Codex goes from an agent that can write and review code to an agent that can do nearly anything developers and professionals can do on a computer."

They're specifically saying that they're planning for an overall improvement over the general-purpose GPT 5.2.
by Terretta | 2026-02-06 13:58:38+00:00
I can't say the AI scripted AI voiced "my wife bet my abs vs. a trip to Paris" and "I ordered this and was going to throw it away but then the heavens opened and angels descended and gave me this Alibaba tchotchke" are harbingers of the idiocracy. Because it's already here.

// Adblock at DNS used to kill these Apple News ads. They're no longer suppressed. Free with their Plus all the things and aggregated my content subs but I quit using it. Had loved Texture, this now sucks.
by addicted | 2026-02-06 13:58:45+00:00
"customer" is a much better term IMO. It indicates this is ultimately a transactional relationship where both sides have certain responsibilities. The customer the responsibility to provide the money, and the provider receiving the money has a responsibility to provide the customer with something, products or services, of value that makes their lives better.

"user" is a worse term. It suggests that the "user" is simply utilizing the provider's products/services, and therefore they can't really complain about whatever the provider chooses to do in return, because the "user" can simply stop using.

It's also not a coincidence, IMO, that drug addicts are also called "users" since "user" implies a one way dependent relationship and that's what all the tech companies have been trying to create.
by Forgeties79 | 2026-02-06 13:58:53+00:00
The idea that you can just ban drinking and driving is a fantasy because there’s no technical way to actually guarantee enforcement.

I know that sounds ridiculous but it kind of illustrates the problem with your logic. We don’t just write laws that are guaranteed to have 100% compliance and/or 100% successful enforcement. If that were the case, we’d have way fewer laws and little need for courts/a broader judicial system.
by npiauilino | 2026-02-06 13:59:03+00:00
I do have a similar feeling, but about YouTube ads. Seems like the region where I live there's a problem with gambling apps and, even if I've never used any app of this kind or showed interest in gambling sites/platforms, I'm bombarded everyday by ads of gambling apps on YouTube.

Since last year, I've been reporting every gambling ad as "Promoting illegal product/service" (they are, in fact, illegal here) to no avail, there's no end to these ads nor seems like YouTube is willing to do anything but implement dark patterns to discourage reporting, such as delayed pop-ups when reporting to interrupt typing.

I noticed some time ago that others ads that seemed not related to gambling were also leading to gambling apps. They are categorized as anything, like Hotels, Banking, Cullinary and Education. Don't look like YouTube checks if the things being advertised are really what they claim to be. It's worse when you remember that kids also use YouTube a lot.
by jbwagoner | 2026-02-06 13:59:21+00:00
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by cogman10 | 2026-02-06 13:59:22+00:00
This is what makes so much of the Epstein files damning. They are correspondents that happen after 2008 when he was publicly convicted of prostitution.

The fact that Scott here was able to find that information and cut ties shows how corrupt every powerful person that didn't do that was. Sorry billionaires and politicians, you don't come out looking clean being friendly to the known pedophile pimp.
by biophysboy | 2026-02-06 13:59:32+00:00
Chemical modifications of DNA are so amazing, and underpin so much DNA related research and engineering. Illumina and Moderna would not exist without DNA mods. It’s very cool that the set of tools is expanding further!

“ Guided by the removable DNA page numbers, Sidewinder achieves an incredibly high fidelity in DNA construction with a measured misconnection rate of just one in one million, a four to five magnitude improvement over all prior techniques whose misconnection rates range from 1-in-10 to 1-in-30.”

I wonder if this is even a problem, since you could amplify the correct sequence with PCR afterward.
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by jillesvangurp | 2026-02-06 14:00:48+00:00
Lots of people making confident recommendations with the experience of a few weeks of exposure. I adopted OpenAI's Codex desktop app on day 1 of its release (a few days ago). I've done a few things with it. But honestly still figuring it out as I go. As anyone else in this space. Except for industry insiders, none of us have more than a few days experience with this. The models that got released last night are worse. Essentially everything you read about this is people rushing out articles on the back of at best a few hours of experience but otherwise just rehashing what's in the press releases.

My views on this:

- the models don't matter as much any more. You can pick Gemini, Claude, or Codex and get similarish results. Especially if you are not a rocket scientist and aren't trying to boil the oceans and are just trying to complete relatively straightforward development tasks. You probably don't need the most expensive models on "high". You get a new one every few weeks.

- The UIs and plumbing around the models matter a lot more. To orchestrate agentic loops around these models is a lot of plumbing and work. Claude Code and Codex are the two "it just works" type options in this space. Claude had all the momentum earlier than OpenAI. But Codex is getting a lot of glowing reviews now. If you are more of a tinkerer, there are a bazillion tool and model combinations to try out that don't meaningfully move beyond what those two do out of the box. Your mileage may vary. I'm mostly a codex guy. Because I'm lazy and the OpenAI Plus subscription is a very good deal.

- Google is good at models but not that great at tools. Yet. And they are worse at marketing them. If find their stuff very confusing.

- Any advice on what is "best" here has a half life measured in weeks. It can all be different in a few weeks.
by Orphis | 2026-02-06 14:00:58+00:00
In some cases, you can start by using the "at" functions (openat...) to work on a directory tree. If you have your logical "locking" done at the top-level of the tree, it might be a fine option.

In some other cases, I've used a pattern where I used a symlink to folders. The symlink is created, resolved or updated atomically, and all I need is eventual consistency.

That last case was to manage several APT repository indices. The indices were constantly updated to publish new testing or unstable releases of software and machines in the fleet were regularly fetching the repository index. The APT protocol and structure being a bit "dumb" (for better or worse) requires you to fetch files (many of them) in the reverse order they are created, which leads to obvious issues like the signature is updated only after the list of files is updated, or the list of files is created only after the list of packages is created.

Long story short, each update would create a new folder that's consistent, and a symlink points to the last created folder (to atomically replace the folder as it was not possible to swap them), and a small HTTP server would initiate a server side session when the first file is fetched and only return files from the same index list, and everything is eventually consistent, and we never get APT complaining about having signature or hash mismatches. The pivotal component was indeed the atomicity of having a symlink to deal with it, as the Java implementation didn't have access to a more modern "openat" syscall, relative to a specific folder.
by Aurornis | 2026-02-06 14:01:51+00:00
> I recently browsed the same feed on mobile ... and it was entirely different! I think I spent a half hour and saw zero content from my follows

At the top of the mobile app there’s a “For You” tab and a “Following” tab. You must have been on the “For You” tab.

Switch to the “Following” tab.

If you start scrolling the “For You” tab and do it for half an hour straight, you’re basically signaling that this the content you wanted to see and will continue getting more of it.
by 8cvor6j844qw_d6 | 2026-02-06 14:02:03+00:00
I'm considering dropping the Max plan for the API.

Using the Max plan with tools like OpenClaw violates Anthropic's ToS [1].

The API gives you the same flexibility without the risk of getting your account suspended.

[1] https://www.anthropic.com/legal/consumer-terms (Section 3-7)
by SamuelAdams | 2026-02-06 14:02:07+00:00
> The producer sees no more dependency so it prunes the export. But it can't delete the export, cause the consumer still needs it. You can't deploy the consumer, because the producer has to deploy first sequentially. And if you can't delete the consumer (eg your company mandates a CI pipeline deploy for everything) you gotta go bug Ops on slack, wait for someone who has the right perms to delete it, then redeploy.

This is a tricky issue. Here is how we fixed it:

Assume you have a stack with the ConstructID of `foo-bar`, and that uses resources exported to `charlie`.

Update the Stack ConstructID to be a new value, ie `foo-bar-2`. Then at the very end of your CI, add a `cdk destroy foo-bar` to delete the original stack. This forces a new deployment of your stack, which has new references. Then, `charlie` updates with the new stack and the original `foo-bar` stack can be safely destroyed once `charlie` successfully updates.

The real conundrum is with data - you typically want any data stacks (Dynamo, RDS, etc) to be in their own stack at the very beginning of your dependency tree. That way any revised stacks can be cleanly destroyed and recreated without impacting your data.
by 0xE1337DAD | 2026-02-06 14:02:27+00:00
I really don't think spotify gas much to worry about. Pirating music has been a thing since long before Spotify hit the stage. Spotify's strength (and what I pay for) is convenience. Even if I had a personal library with all the music annas-archive pulled down, I still think I'd keep paying for Spotify as long as it remains easily accessible on all my devices.
by kranke155 | 2026-02-06 14:02:30+00:00
Yes on the last count for Apple U.

The culture of excellence is just not there. Big company but not sure if it’s a live player atm. Lots of unrefined experiences.

People say it’s Tim Cook as if Apple had a bunch of CEOs. In its modern incarnation it was basically Jobs and Cook. But there were some major improvements under Cook and some major disappointments. Hardware seems to be doing well, software not so much.
by alphazard | 2026-02-06 14:02:31+00:00
> I think they mean "taxation of the too rich" in that case.

Everyone wants taxes to go up on everyone making more than them, and for their own taxes to go down.
The problem is this is a collective negotiation, not a discussion about what to ask the genie for when we rub the lamp.
If the middle class wants to decrease their own taxes (which is the political issue that objectively affects them the most, and how they lose their power), then they are going to have to meet the wealthy half way.
Idealism is the enemy of the the common sense, rational, self-interested move.

> And needless to say, a non-functioning democracy is not a proof that the concept of democracy doesn't work.

Yes, democracy is a good idea precisely because imperfect implementations of it work well.
If it worked in theory and not in practice, then it wouldn't be a good idea.
Contrast it to communism, which is literally an info-hazard.
If you try to bring it in to existence, you won't achieve your goal, and the system you do create will be much worse for you.
Even if it works in theory, it's a bad idea because it doesn't work in practice.
by wtetzner | 2026-02-06 14:02:36+00:00
> A lot of software people like to jump in and I see them portray the planning people as trying to figure everything out first.

My approach, especially for a project with a lot of unknowns, is usually to jump in right away and try to build a prototype. Then iterate a few times. If it's a small enough thing, a few iterations is enough to have a good result.

If it's something bigger, this is the point where it's worth doing some planning, as many of the problems have already been surfaced, and the problem is much better understood.
by jimbohn | 2026-02-06 14:02:55+00:00
Who said the story doesn't add up? Things seem to add up pretty nicely. Mossad and FSB are the first suspects, given their history. The countries have quite an overlapping background among their elites, and it shows.
Regardless, do you agree or not that in the US media it seems ok to point the finger at russia, but not at israel, when it comes to this?
by simianwords | 2026-02-06 14:03:09+00:00
yeah no sorry. there's clearly a person who thinks this should not be done. the way to interpret what they said is that they are forced to take this option.

> No one in this comment chain has once said that this should not be allowed

this is incorrect.

I did say that its okay for people to be forced to do the job if no other option exists (with some caveats).

If you disagree, tell me how and be specific about it. What would you rather do in this case?

Don't beat around the bush, try being specific.
by concats | 2026-02-06 14:03:29+00:00
TikTok has a lot of issues, such as privacy, dubious content, 'brainrot', etc. I don't want to seem like I'm necessarily defending TikTok specifically here.

But this really just stinks of Regulatory Capture to me. Their main argument is that the consumers like to use the app too much?

Why? Because it's smarter and not as enshittified as the competitors?

I'm sure if youtube, facebook, reddit, etc reduced the number of ads, and started showing more relevant content that people actually cared about, they too would start being "more addictive". Do we really want to punish that?

What's the end goal here?