MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by palmotea | 2026-02-11 17:31:54+00:00
> last year was the first year I've seen since the release of the original switch where switch/switch 2 was not constantly sold out (usually poached by resellers early in the AM) every time I visit target. There's a full shelf of them since late last summer. Unless nintendo actually produced enough units for the first time in recent company history, I suspect it indicates something.

Well, I remember the same thing happening with the Wii for a long time, and then eventually it was easily available.

But now I can't find a Wii at a Target anywhere, so the economy must be booming?
by deron12 | 2026-02-11 17:32:02+00:00
Unscientific indeed:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-17/nintendo-... [0]

They produced a record number...your observation should be the expected result (they are aiming to produce 25% more than are expected to sell).

[0] https://archive.is/RInO7
by asa400 | 2026-02-11 17:32:15+00:00
> I've never seen any tech theme pushed top down so hard in 20+ years working.

> The common theme is C-suite thinks it will save money and their competitors already figured out out, so they are FOMOing at the mouth about catching up on the savings.

I concur 100%. This is a monkey-see-monkey-do FOMO mania, and it's driven by the C-suite, not rank-and-file. I've never seen anything like it.

Other sticky "productivity movements" - or, if you're less generous like me, fads - at the level of the individual and the team, for example agile development methodologies or object oriented programming or test driven development, have generally been invented and promoted by the rank and file or by middle management. They may or may not have had some level of industry astroturfing to them (see: agile), but to me the crucial difference is that they were mostly pushed by a vanguard of practitioners who were at most one level removed from the coal face.

Now, this is not to say there aren't developers and non-developer workers out there using this stuff with great effectiveness and singing its praises. That _is_ happening. But they're not at the leading edge of it mandating company-wide adoption.

What we are seeing now is, to a first approximation, the result of herd behavior at the C-level. It should be incredibly concerning to all of us that such a small group of lemming-like people should have such an enormously outsized role in both allocating capital and running our lives.
by randusername | 2026-02-11 17:32:17+00:00
I like how threads like this are like a reverse nesting doll. Somebody says the problem is the specific metals, then someone says it is recovery processes, then market forces, then legislation, and I think I spied a comment on thermodynamics.

I will take a shot in the dark somewhere in the middle. Intellectual property. As long as transparency and standardization are disincentivized it will be pretty hard to orchestrate un-building anything.

I wonder if we're converging on all products becoming "good enough" that the pace of innovation will slow and this will change for the better?
by fweimer | 2026-02-11 17:32:36+00:00
It should be possible to get a better idea where the filtering happens with a tool like tcptraceroute (possibly patched to use other segments beyond the default TCP SYN).

I haven't found evidence of extremely widespread filtering. Why would there be? The installation count is not that high. The potential side effects from uncoordinated port filtering could be quite severe. This isn't netkit's telnetd or Busybox. (I'm aware of Debian switching defaults, but that was fairly recently.)
by solidasparagus | 2026-02-11 17:32:43+00:00
> Here’s what’s genuinely interesting.

That's my current AI detector smell.

> He discontinued the blood exchange after data showed “no benefits.” A suspicious person might note that a vampire would say exactly this after the media got too interested.

I don't think it's the media (clearly the younger generations are media friendly), it's probably pressure from the older vamps.
by ericmay | 2026-02-11 17:32:51+00:00
> I’d be interested to compare their rates to Wise.

Well for US-based "no foreign transaction fees" credit cards the rate is 0. There's no additional fee. For cards with foreign transaction fees you'll see something like 1% that goes to Visa/Mastercard/whoever and then the bank will charge a fee too, typically a percent or two.

But that's one thing, and then you have the actual currency conversion rates. I found an excerpt from an article that I think explains it well enough [1].

"Typically, a purchase at a foreign merchant is made entirely in the local currency. The cardholder authorizes the purchase amount in the local currency, and the purchase price is not converted until the payment is processed.

When you make a purchase at an international store, you may be asked if you want to convert your purchase to your home currency. This service is provided at the point of sale as a value added service and allows you to know the converted price at that moment—but don’t be fooled; it comes at a cost.

While this may initially sound like a wise way to avoid fees, these charges are in addition to any foreign transaction fees your card may apply. These fees assessed by the merchant at the point of sale are called dynamic currency conversion or DCC. You can think of DCC as an added service and just like most services that make life easier, there’s a convenience charge. Plus, even when using DCC, you’ll usually be charged a foreign transaction fee by your card issuing bank unless your card has no foreign transaction fees."

tl;dr version is, at least for an American, get a "no foreign transaction fees" credit card and save 1%-3% on all transactions you may otherwise be charged a fee for, and if prompted by a local shop to exchange currency, don't, just pay in the local currency so they can't dishonestly set arbitrarily high exchange rates. Visa and Mastercard (among others) as mentioned in the article have better negotiated exchange rates so it's better to let them do any exchange that's needed to keep costs to a minimum.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/advisor/credit-cards/foreign-transact...
by cmrdporcupine | 2026-02-11 17:32:58+00:00
I find 5.3 very impressive TBH. Bigger jump than Opus 4.6.

But this here is excellent value, if they offer it as part of their subscription coding plan. Paying by token could really add up. I did about 20 minutes of work and it cost me $1.50USD, and it's more expensive than Kimi 2.5.

Still 1/10th the cost of Opus 4.5 or Opus 4.6 when paying by the token.
by dylan604 | 2026-02-11 17:33:00+00:00
There were plenty of people that were not against Pablo Escobar as he spent a lot of money back in his home town. Once the violence escalated, like when they took down a civilian flight, even that support waned. So I can see where GP is saying similar that by the time cartels get to the point of shooting down civilian aircraft even those that did support them would consider that the final straw.
by drink_milk | 2026-02-11 17:33:01+00:00
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by gruez | 2026-02-11 17:33:34+00:00
But are you actually against inequality because not every industry is getting its fair share (whatever that might mean), or simply that you don't like the winners under the current system? In other words if the current bubble are for solar or fusion power, would you be like "darn, the inequality under the capitalist system is luring talent from enterprise SaaS (or whatever) and that makes me sad"?
by talkingtab | 2026-02-11 17:33:37+00:00
It does not matter if a hypothesis is discredited if it helps you build an effective model that works. If you use a discredited hypothesis to make bread and make a great tasting and edible bread, then the hypothesis has value. Even if it is "wrong". Because it works.

Here are some question for you: can you think of any things you cannot think of in your language? Hints. Beethoven, Van Gogh, 7. Can a democracy evolve from FaceBook? What kind of political system can evolve from FaceBook? Is there a language for Democracies? The important thing is not the answer, but the thinking.
by palmotea | 2026-02-11 17:34:26+00:00
> I think this illustrates another pernicious effect of excessive inequality: where does it lure talent? The best and brightest, lured from speculation to ads to blockchain to AI to...

Or finance. There was a pretty brutal takedown published recently: The Finance Industry Is a Grift. Let’s Start Treating It That Way. (https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/opinion/capitalism-indust...).

Basically the finance industry is pivoting away from actually investing in real businesses to more and more elaborate paper pushing schemes (that make them money, but actually weaken the economy):

> Unlike Dawes’s Fidelity Fiduciary Bank, a modern investment bank mostly earns its money in a way that not even the bravest lyricist would set to music: providing advisory services, executing complex financial engineering schemes, trading stocks and bonds, managing other people’s money, issuing credit cards and so on. Assets get bought and sold, divided and packaged, and the bank collects fees at each step.

> David Solomon, the chief executive of Goldman Sachs, could not sing to young Michael about the many productive uses to which he might put the tuppence because Goldman Sachs rarely invests in anything at all. Fostering economic progress appears to be beside the point.

> Less than 10 percent of Goldman’s work in 2024, measured by revenue, was helping businesses raise capital. Loans of Goldman’s own funds to operating businesses accounted for less than 2 percent of its assets. At JPMorgan Chase the figures were 4 and 5 percent; at Morgan Stanley, 7 and 2 percent. Even the efforts at helping to raise capital are misleading, because less than a tenth of it goes toward building anything new. The rest funds debt refinancing, balance sheet restructuring and mergers and acquisitions.

> These are symptoms of financialization. That’s the term for making financial markets and transactions ends unto themselves, disconnected from — and often at the expense of — the societal benefits that support human flourishing and are capitalism’s proper purpose. Chief among those benefits are good jobs that support families, and products and services that improve people’s lives.
by KellyCriterion | 2026-02-11 17:34:32+00:00
When I was young in the 80ies, my mum worked part-time 4h as basic clerk, mainly for fun and having people around her so that she doesnt have to take care of us for the whole day.
My dad worked fulltime as an engineer, the bought a house.

Today, you need 2 top tier salaries to make childcaycare and rent even possible
by somenameforme | 2026-02-11 17:34:42+00:00
You're only considering superficial last mile manufacturing of stuff - not the entire labor pipeline involved in processes. Going from elemental silicon to RAM requires an absolutely insane amount of labor across a vast array of fields and specializations. And imminent seeming doesn't mean imminent.

A decade ago full self driving, let alone for commercial trucking, seemed obvious and imminent. Today, it's not only nowhere to be found but, in many ways, feels even further away than it did a decade ago. A robot doing backflips doesn't inherently foretell revolution ahead, especially as Boston Dynamics bots were doing backflips about a decade ago as well. Yeah they look nicer now, and perhaps in a decade we'll be again observing little more than that they look even nicer still.

As for country comparisons, it's not meaningfully possible yet because there's no precedent in modern history for countries going through catastrophic fertility collapse. And it does take some time. For instance Japan is in obvious and severe decline, but they're still at what will be considered 'the good ole days' in the future. So we will get to look on at what's set to come to much of the rest of the world over the coming decades.
by Symbiote | 2026-02-11 17:34:43+00:00
Another likely source is "free" VPN tools, or tools for streaming TV (especially football or other pay-to-view stuff). The tool can make a little money proxying requests at the same time.

I can't provide evidence as it's close to impossible to separate the AI bots using residential proxies from actual users, and their IPs are considered personal data. But as the other reply shows, it's easy enough to find people selling this service.
by tw1984 | 2026-02-11 17:34:44+00:00
I just checked with ChatGPT, Opus and Gemini whether Netanyahu is a war criminal for what happened in Gaza, they all worked damn hard to defend Netanyahu to the extend that as if Netanyahu was their client. I asked the exact same question to DeepSeek, it gives conclusive positive answer.

You tell me which one is less censored & more trustworthy from those 20,000 killed children's point of view.
by dfxm12 | 2026-02-11 17:34:53+00:00
Consider some writing contemporary to Rockefeller (there is a section on cards): https://baptisthistoryhomepage.com/social.amusements.willis....

Consider that Titan was written maybe 100 years removed from the events and you're reading a secondhand telling of it from a blog. Maybe there is more context in the book if you're really curious, or maybe the context was lost from Rockefeller's time to the book, or from the book to the blogpost.

Consider a few more things: If you ask 10 Baptists about something secondary to scripture like this, you may get different answers from different people, especially if they are from different eras, as religion changes over time. As another example, some Catholics grew up hearing the mass in Latin.

It's funny though, Rockefeller appeared devout enough to understand that gambling was a sin. Rockefeller appeared to believe in an omniscient God. Did he really think his square counters would fool said omniscient God? People trying to find such loopholes in Religion is always fascinating to me. Of course, it could have all been a show.
by ghostly_s | 2026-02-11 17:35:01+00:00
> So what's the resolution of these images, and what's visible/invisible to them?

The researchers never claimed to generate "images," that's editorializing by this publication. The pipeline just generates a confidence value for correlating one capture from the same sensor setup with another.

[Sidenote: did ACM really go "Open Access" but gate PDF download behind the paid tier? Or is the download link just very well hidden in their crappy PDF viewer?]
by samspot | 2026-02-11 17:35:18+00:00
It's hard for me to imagine anyone balking at this feature. My core note taking workflow frequently involves:

1. Note about blah
2. Paste link to blah
3. Open that link later when reviewing my notes.

Blah is sometimes a web link, sometimes a link to a doc on my system, and sometimes a link to an item in my todo tracker. The better analogy is this is like a pencil having an eraser built in.

I use Drafts instead of Notepad, but if I used Notepad I would want to be able to easily open links in my notes. When I do find myself in Notepad, it's because I double clicked on a readme file that often contains links to resources I need.
by frumplestlatz | 2026-02-11 17:36:19+00:00
I don't say this lightly, as someone who has spent decades around drugs, and as a result, knows more than a few recovering addicts: this comes across as wild rationalization by an addict.

And while 1600mg of caffeine is 4x the FDA's recommended daily intake and really isn't a good idea, someone on that much caffeine is neither going to feel nor behave in any way similar to someone on coke.
by giantg2 | 2026-02-11 17:36:35+00:00
That's more of a moral question. The best and brightest are the ones running the casino. Why would someone spend 8 years in expensive schools becoming a doctor when they can work as a developer or marketer for an online sports book? Morals on the consumer supply curb demand. Morals on the provider side can help curb innovation and expanse.
by coder543 | 2026-02-11 17:37:14+00:00
It is missing both of models that I mentioned, so yes, I would say one reason it is not accurate is because it is so incomplete.

It also doesn't provide error bars on the ELO, so models that only have tens of battles are being listed alongside models that have thousands of battles with no indication of how confident those ELOs are, which I find rather unhelpful.

A lot of these models are also sensitive to how they are used, and offer multiple ways to be used. It's not clear how they are being invoked.

That leaderboard is definitely one of the ones that leaves a lot to be desired.
by deaddodo | 2026-02-11 17:37:20+00:00
Just to add to this: intentional/digital blur is even easier to undo as the source image is still mostly there. You just have to find the inverse metric.

This is how one of the more notorious pedophiles[1] was caught[2].

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Paul_Neil

2 - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39411025
More Terrible Slack Setups
by zeitgeistcowboy | 2026-02-11 17:37:28+00:00
I find Slack to be a necessary evil. I guess we have to use it, but it can also generate a lot of mental overhead tracking what was said in what channel. This got me thinking, what are alternative ways to organize Slack? What are the worst ways?

- No channels allowed, only direct messages

- No direct messages allowed, only channels

- Only channels which contain all the permutations of N people and are randomly named

- Only one channel, no DMs, everything happens in threads

- Everyone can create only one channel at a time

- No private channels
by jimmaswell | 2026-02-11 17:37:29+00:00
Anyone lumping AI in with gambling and crypto scams has their head firmly in the sand. The value in making it easier to make computers do things for you is plainly obvious. People all across the tech literacy spectrum are seeing benefits, from coding projects that took days or weeks taking minutes to hours to finish to soccer moms telling their phones to fix up family photos and find them the email from the doctor's that's buried in their inbox. Competent doctors are getting help catching things from scans/symptoms that would take House MD to connect but are a breeze for an LLM, and there are numerous reports of people figuring out their own longstanding obscure medical issues by asking an LLM to speculate on their symptoms after a hundred doctors failed to diagnose it. Someone who can't afford to get ripped off by a mechanic and doesn't have the spare hours in the day and technical knowledge to Google it the old-fashioned way has a decent chance of solving simple car problems instantly on their own by asking ChatGPT or Gemini. It's frankly a miracle, and it keeps making more leaps and bounds every time the peanut gallery starts going on about it having hit a wall it can never improve from.
by mandevil | 2026-02-11 17:37:30+00:00
They separately report people who are on unemployment insurance, but the headline unemployment numbers come from a survey of potential workers, which will capture recent graduates.

Source: 15 years ago I was one of the people they surveyed. Every month for a year they called me, once a month, to ask what my employment status last week was, if I was actively looking, etc. (It was all synchronized around one week a month, but I don't remember which one it was they cared about.)
by carefree-bob | 2026-02-11 17:37:57+00:00
> Are you really saying that you can keep more of the code in your head than AI with a one million token context window or that you can read and understand various markdown files in a repo faster?

Of course. A million tokens is 50,000 lines of code. That's nothing.

It's not that you memorize a million lines of code. It's that you develop a solid mental model of how those lines of code are organized, how they work together, what the important gotchas are, what hurt performance in the past. You know the system well. Then when you are interacting with something, you can generally make predictions about the best way to make a change to that system, and you know in which modules to look when diagnosing a problem, so you can work your way around the codebase efficiently.

Most large mature projects are millions of lines of code. Chrome, Photoshop, databases like oracle or postgres.

But the LLM with that million token context window has that 50,000 line memory and then its general training data. That's it.

So your "value" as a developer who is using AI is to bring that mental model with you so you can supervise the AI and guide it to do surgery on that million line codebase with it's puny 50,000 line knowledge of your codebase.

But when you stop coding, you begin to lose your mental model. So, yes, there is a short term burst of productivity as your mental model fades but you are still good enough to guide the LLM. But after a while -- and depending on how deeply that code has been burned into your mind, it could be 6 months or a couple of years -- you will no longer be able to effectively supervise the LLM. You'll be like that noob that wanders into a big codebase they don't understand anymore. Then you wont be able to supervise the LLM.

You have to keep coding in a codebase to maintain your understanding of it. It really is just like having the LLM do your homework for you. Use the LLM to help you learn, to help you do your work, but keep doing the exercises yourself, so that your mental model remains fresh.
by notepad0x90 | 2026-02-11 17:38:25+00:00
Yes, but things could be refined. With more resources and research thrown at it, it could become more versatile, that's why the title of the post says "could". And chances are, there are private and government entities already doing this. Research like this has been coming out for at least a decade now.

Even Xfinity has motion detection in homes using this technique now:

https://www.xfinity.com/hub/smart-home/wifi-motion
by arexxbifs | 2026-02-11 17:38:48+00:00
Sweden introduced a similar scheme in 1964, in which artists (broadly defined, having since come to include one clown and one chess player) have been given a basic income, supplementing their other incomes up to a specific level.

Artists couldn't apply for this, but were officially selected. The program was stopped in 2010, meaning no new recipients have been selected since. As far as I know, there's been no studies surrounding any measurable increase in artistic quality or artistic output.

It is of course easy to point out how deeply unfair such programs are on multiple levels. Unsurprisingly, many recipients have utilized loopholes in order to receive the grant despite having incomes and wealth well above the threshold.