MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by laurencerowe | 2026-02-11 20:22:55+00:00
Quality of life is very subjective though. Few American cities offer the kind of walkable lifestyles those of us who moved from Europe took for granted. San Francisco is one of the few places that can offer that, though even then I spent most of my career here driving out to Silicon Valley's suburban office parks. At least I could always walk to the supermarket, bars, restaurants, and cafes in my neighbourhood.

If you value a big house and are content to drive for all your errands most of the US is set up for that.
by Dylan16807 | 2026-02-11 20:22:58+00:00
> This doesn't even include the cost of hiring ~20 engineers to handle the buttons. ~6 people to check appearance and do testing... It doesn't include the assembly costs on the line. That 1% was just the cost of button + wire.

That doesn't make sense. $1 uninstalled might make sense for a fancy custom-molded button, even if it's too much for a generic button. (I'd rather have some generic buttons with labels than use a touchscreen, by the way.) But there's no way a few feet of signal wire and the proportional share of power wires get anywhere near $1 uninstalled.

Also I can find entire car stereo units with 15 buttons on them for $15? That kind of integrated button is cheap, has been common in cars for a long time, and can control things indirectly like a touch screen button if that's cheaper than direct wiring.
by riscii68 | 2026-02-11 20:23:02+00:00
Personally-speaking, there aren't that many different consumer technologies or tech applications over the past 2+ decades that truly gave me an 'aha' moment. The Palm Pilot, Google Maps on an early Android phone come to mind.

When I began playing around with LLMs, I had my initial aha moment. It was far above either of those for me. So, I think that collective aha moment we've been having the last few years (still) drives a lot of the excitement/hype.

If you view 'hype around [x]' as essentially a probability ranking problem, that is, whatever is most likely to give you your next aha moment generates the most hype, at any point in time. There's a decay element, too, if the reality doesn't match the expectations, then other technologies are viewed as more likely to produce that next big aha moment.

But for now I think this characterizes AI today more than other technologies.
by acheron | 2026-02-11 20:23:21+00:00
I go to local performances of baroque-era and somewhat earlier music regularly. I have noticed on occasion in a small vocal performance that has 2 people per part, occasionally a female contralto is paired with a male tenor. (I don’t know enough to know how that works as far as needing to modify the original parts or not.)

Though conversely I’ve also seen a male countertenor paired with a female alto, so maybe it’s just generally “who’s available for this performance” rather than an issue with a general shortage.
by bcrosby95 | 2026-02-11 20:23:42+00:00
Outside AI independently uncovering some energy breakthrough there is nothing it can do to help, only hurt. We already have a source of clean, cheap, unlimited energy, we aren't rolling it out the way we could and should because some rich people would rather have us on a subscription plan where we literally light our source of energy on fire so we have to keep coming back for more.
by jakderrida | 2026-02-11 20:23:43+00:00
Think of it more like the original poll. They originated the census weighting methodology. In statistics classes about methodologies and survey design, it ALWAYS starts with a reference to the Literary Digest poll being wrong about Alf Landon beating FDR and Gallup, a new poll, being dead right with only like a sample size of over 1000 while Literary Digest sampled all their readers.

I don't recall them doing polls for commission like almost every other poll does.
by maybelsyrup | 2026-02-11 20:23:59+00:00
> Is it the "far right"?

Yes, it is. They're committed to "Every molecule of hydrocarbon will come out". [0]. They keep saying this to us, and we don't seem to believe them. I like your optimism, and I'm not denying a lot of what you're saying -- renewables fast becoming the cheapest energy. But that's not deterring people: the far right here in the US are about to dismantle the government's legal rationale for regulating emissions. They're laughing at us right now, doing victory laps. They're telling polluters to take the gloves off.

These people are terrorists, extremists, and they're in charge of the world's single most powerful economy and military. They're obsessed with domination, with doing violence to the weak and the poor and to nature. It's pure Freudian thanatos.

It's just hard to take your position.

[0] https://theecologist.org/2023/dec/05/every-molecule-hydrocar...
by vladdoster | 2026-02-11 20:24:14+00:00
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by mattkrause | 2026-02-11 20:24:29+00:00
Simplification can be good---but they've removed the wrong half here!

The notifications act as an overall progress bar and give you a general sense of what Claude Code is doing: is it looking in the relevant part of your codebase, or has it gotten distracted by some unused, vendored-in code?

"Read 2 files" is fine as a progress indicator but is too vague for anything else. "Read foo.cpp and bar.h" takes almost the same amount of visual space, but fulfills both purposes. You might want to fold long lists of files (5? 15?) but that seems like the perfect place for a user-settable option.
by Aurornis | 2026-02-11 20:24:42+00:00
> Hire people who have never used the product and don't think like or accurately represent our users

In most of my engineering jobs, the Product Managers were much closer to our users than the engineers.

Good product managers are very valuable. There are a lot of bad ones carrying the product manager title because it was viewed as the easy way to get a job in tech without having to know how to program, but smart companies are getting better at filtering them out.

> Find your most socially competent engineer, and have them talk to users a couple times a month

Every single time I've seen this tried, it turns into a situation where one or two highly vocal customers capture the engineering team's direction and steer the product toward their personal needs. It's the same thing that happens when the sales people start feeding requests from their customers into the roadmap.
by AnthonyMouse | 2026-02-11 20:24:48+00:00
> my body goes haywire if I don't eat some meat at least a couple of days per week

Isn't this just a nutrient deficiency in whatever you were eating instead of meat? Meat is "convenient" because it's high in a wide variety of minerals, vitamins, essential amino acids, etc. that your body can't make. (The animals mostly can't make them either but guess what livestock eats.) There are plants that contain each of them, but few if any that contain all of them, and then if you're missing one you're going to have a bad time. So the problem there is almost certainly that you need to eat some different plants than that the thing you were missing is only found in animals.
by KellyCriterion | 2026-02-11 20:24:48+00:00
> always been “reduce, reuse, recycle” in that order

my dev machine for boring CRUD apps is from 2011 :-D

the only thing I upgraded was RAM and a SSD - its a 4x 3Ghz board; it works quite well despite the fact that its 15 years old :)

(honestly, the only thing why I do not switch is because of reinstallig the whole setup)
by pyrale | 2026-02-11 20:25:41+00:00
> If such a thing existed, we could be sure that environmentalists and leftists would have openly embraced it, rather than nip it at the bud 50 years ago. Because they are Good People™. And we should definitely listen to them now because they Follow The Science™.

The issue with current politics wrt environment is environmentalists and leftists? This feels like a smoker blaming their smoking habit on anti-drug associations not being good enough rather than big tobacco.
by abeppu | 2026-02-11 20:25:57+00:00
> Now, if the boss said "hey, since you're all going to be so much more productive working in the factory, we'll give you all 10x raises" then perhaps you might be more excited about putting down your hammer.

... is now the moment to form worker cooperatives? The companies don't really have privileged access to these tools, and unlike many other things that drive increased productivity, there's not a huge up-front capital investment for the adopter. Why shouldn't ICs capture the value of their increased output?
by bcrl | 2026-02-11 20:26:13+00:00
Many of the merge lanes in California are insanely short compared to those in the rest of the world. The worst are the ones that have merge immediately before an overpass and exit immediately after where merging and exiting have about the width of the overpass to change lanes. I found those infuriating when I used to visit friends in the Bay area. The pattern where I live is the opposite (long exit lane before the overpass and a long merge lane after) and provides far better margins of safety.
by jPendleton | 2026-02-11 20:26:19+00:00
I pepper sprayed a felon for resisting arrest in accordance with Virginia law. See Burke v. Com., 515 S.E.2d 111, 30 Va. App. 89 (Ct. App. 1999) (citizen's arrest by a private security guard using pepper spray); Tharp v. Com., 210 S.E.2d at 754, 221 Va. 487 (1980) (accused rapist arrested at his home).

This isn't a theory -- Cowen is a federal employee according to the FBI (5 U.S.C. § 552(b)(6)), which he lied about during his testimony (yet another felony): https://drive.proton.me/urls/ZWDEXDP6KR#4g2FS28q7k4E

And regardless of your theory of the case, I'm not allowed to speak on X right now because the government knows the law is overwhelmingly on my side and they would lose the argument in the court of public opinion.
by thunky | 2026-02-11 20:26:29+00:00
> to be fair, every other comment is usually screaming about how if you aren't able to utilize LLMs effectively, you will be without a job soon

I think a lot of these "it's all overhyped crap" posts are a hypocritical.

If someone wants to be consistent with their "it's crap" argument, they wouldn't be using it for anything. Period.

If someone says they need it for their job, then they are admitting that it's useful for their job. Because it would otherwise be irrational to use a tool that makes them worse at their job.
by PaulHoule | 2026-02-11 20:26:30+00:00
My YOShInOn RSS reader uses an SBERT model for classification (will I upvote this or not?) and large-scale clustering (20 k-means clusters and show me the top N in each cluster so I get a diversity of different articles.)

For duplicate detection I am using DBSCAN

https://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/generated/sklearn.cl...

and found some parameters where I get almost no false positives but a lot of duplicates get missed when I lowered the threshold to make clusters I started getting false positives fast. I don't find duplicates are a big problem in my system with the 110 feeds I have and the subjects I am interested in, but insofar as they are a problem there tend to be structured relationships between articles: that is, site A syndicates articles from site B but for some reason articles from site A usually get selected and site B articles don't. An article from Site A often links to one or more articles, often that I don't have a feed for, and it would be nice if the system looked at the whole constellation. Stuff like that.

Effective clustering is the really interesting technology Google News has had for a long time.
by BitwiseFool | 2026-02-11 20:27:03+00:00
Liquid Glass looks pretty from a distance, but my biggest gripe with the design language is just how difficult so many things become to read or interact with. Given that the whole raison d'être of liquid glass is transparent effects, the options to limit that or otherwise increase contrast simply do not go far enough. I also balk at how much extra computing power is needed to generate effects I find no value in and would prefer to disable.

My hope was that Apple would be forced to course correct in subsequent releases but that doesn't seem to be happening.
by mym1990 | 2026-02-11 20:27:03+00:00
We are a planet of 8 billion people, interest will vary widely. Expecting everyone to swarm on the same issue at the same time is simply not how humanity has worked in the past. Innovation often happens because many people go different directions, testing what works and what doesn't. Getting AI to play SimCity may be a stepping stone to real life urban planning, or it may be nothing, who knows?
by mullingitover | 2026-02-11 20:27:09+00:00
> each and every one of us contributes to its intensification or mitigation through our decisions.

I have to disagree here.

This idea of a consumer-level personal responsibility for the fossil energy industry's externalized costs is a lot like the plastic producers shifting blame for waste by saying that it's the consumers' fault for not recycling. It's transparent blame-shifting.

The fossil energy industry pulls the carbon out of the ground and distributes it globally. Then it buys and sells politicians and, through mass media, votes, to ensure they maintain the industry's hegemony.

You only have to look at the full-blown slide of the US into a despotic petrostate to understand the causes of the climate crisis.
by ctoth | 2026-02-11 20:27:16+00:00
The concern about climate is well placed. Ripple et al. lay out a serious case that we may be closer to tipping cascades than models predict, with the Greenland Ice Sheet potentially vulnerable to tipping below 2°C warming, well before 2050.

But "invest an equal share of the resources currently being pumped into AI into climate" misidentifies the bottleneck. Marine cloud brightening could produce meaningful planetary cooling for roughly $5 billion per year at scale (NAS estimate). That's like what? 1% of what was spent on AI infrastructure last year?

The money exists. What doesn't exist is the political coordination to spend it.

The goddamn Alameda city council shut down a University of Washington MCB field test in 2024 because nobody told them it was happening on their property. Go look it up.

This's the actual bottleneck: governance, coordination, and political will, not capital.

When someone says "we should invest resources in X instead of Y," it's worth asking who "we" is and what mechanism they're proposing. AI investment is private capital chasing returns. You can't redirect it to climate by wishing. The implicit model, that Society has a budget and we're choosing wrong, assumes a resource allocation authority that doesn't exist. If you want to argue for creating one, that's a real position, but it should be stated openly rather than hidden inside "it would be sensible."

Also ... "AI won't solve it; it only makes it worse" is doing a ton of work! The energy consumption concern has real merit. But materials science, grid optimization, and climate modeling are direct climate contributions happening now. Google has saved energy in its datacenters ... using AI!

Blanket dismissal of an entire domain of capability isn't seriousness, it's pattern matching. (Ironically, there's a phrase for systems that produce plausible-sounding output by matching patterns without engaging with underlying structure. We're told to be worried about them.)
by havaloc | 2026-02-11 20:27:25+00:00
I was on Google Reader, then Feedly for a long time, until the Feedly iOS client just slowly degraded and got buggy. I'm not opposed to paying for a good RSS set.

I finally switched to NetNewsWire as the front end and FreshRSS on the backend, and could not be happier. NNW being free is just the icing on the cake, it's really great, and FreshRSS was also really easy to install.

What I like about FreshRSS is that it's PHP and will install on any old shared hosting plan and uses Sqlite as the database, super easy.
by blixt | 2026-02-11 20:27:48+00:00
Claude Code is a nice experience on the terminal, and this makes it compatible with very well-established remote terminal software too which can be quite powerful. But I really do hope the main focus shifts to Claude Code not just exposing a WebSocket for the SDK, but also exposing a web UI where you can solve a lot of this information hierarchy with things that don't work very well in the terminal (though they certainly did their best at making it feel like a modern UI). There are plenty of good GUI patterns outside of the terminal to solve a lot of the challenges mentioned here.
by ansk | 2026-02-11 20:27:59+00:00
The other explanations here don't explain the long delay between the start of the investigation and the release of the footage.
Yes, storing customer data is what we'd expect from Google and yes, the FBI can coerce Google to provide this data for their investigations.
But it does not take a week for Google to find a file on their servers.

My hunch is that Google initially tried to play dumb to avoid compliance, as to not reveal they do in fact retain customer data.
They had a plausible excuse as well -- the owner had no subscription so they don't store the data -- and took a gamble that this explanation would suffice until the situation resolved itself.
I suspect that authorities initially took Google's excuse at face value, since they parroted this explanation to the public as well.
As pressure mounted on authorities to make some headway on the case, they likely formally exercised whatever legal mechanisms they have at their disposal to force Google's hand, and only then was the footage released.
by mjr00 | 2026-02-11 20:28:07+00:00
Yeah, as I say in a sibling comment, it's a fair reading of the movie that it's ultimately pro-surveillance because it shows that despite being immoral, unethical mass surveillance catches the bad guy. But "surveillance is unethical but necessary when battling the forces of evil" is worlds away from "surveillance is totally awesome and everyone should buy a Ring camera."
by connoronthejob | 2026-02-11 20:28:08+00:00
Neat.

As a mechanical engineer, I feel the part of my job is safe from AI for the time being. I don't think quality training data for good mechanical design exists.

3D CAD is only part of good design. To a tinker-er that is 3D printing simple parts, an STL is fine. But most parts that matter require far more design consideration and detail than simply the geometry data that an STL (or other 3D file) provides.

The majority of parts are accompanied with a drawing, and that is where the real design actually is found: Tolerances, GD&T, materials, processing notes...

Even then, most of the calculations and considerations to build the model and drawing are not explicit in the design documents: Nothing about a drawing of a stainless steel part tells you WHY it must be a stainless steel part. I don't think there is a large set of well documented designs out there to act as training data for an AI system to design an assembly beyond basic 3D parts.

The authors identify this gap, but it's a fundamental problem with the wholesale move to AI in mechanical design.
by mewpmewp2 | 2026-02-11 20:28:19+00:00
I am not paying this myself, but the place I work at is definitely paying around 2k a month for my Claude Code usage. I pay 2 x 200, for my personal projects.

I think personal subs are subsidized while corporate ones definitely not. I have CC for my personal projects running 16h a day with multiple instances, but work CC still racks way higher bills with less usage. If I had to guess my work CC is using 4x as little for 5x the cost so at least 20x difference.

I am not going to say it has 10xed or whatever with my productivity, but I would have never ever in that timeframe built all those things that I have now.
by RankingMember | 2026-02-11 20:28:34+00:00
I knew plenty of people growing up who thought Fight Club was just a fun movie about guys who like to fight and make a club to do so and it gets a little crazy, then cut to credits. They then theorized making their own such club. This to say, yeah, I think sometimes the audience can be overestimated in their ability to understand deeper meaning in art.
by maybelsyrup | 2026-02-11 20:28:43+00:00
> these suggestions let the real perpetrators off the hook.

This can't be said enough. It simply cannot be said enough. It cuts right to the heart of how we view the world in the west: as autonomous, separate individuals, with no communal counterweight and certainly no model of power (some entities in the world have vastly more power than others) We assume that because our constitutions grant us equal rights or whatever, we all have equal responsibility and equal power.

But polluters, the biggest sources of emissions, have way more power and way, way less responsibility. And yet we continue to tell ourselves to focus on our own individual behaviors to combat global heating. The effects are real, but tiny, and our elites continue getting away with our annihilation.
by ekropotin | 2026-02-11 20:28:45+00:00
Yes, the most common solution for this problem either creating a symbolic CLAUDE.md link pointing to AGENT.md (or visa versa) if OS supports it.

Or, in CLAUDE.md have an instruction to follow AGENT.md - but this approach is quite unreliable.

These are solutions to a problem that shouldn’t exist in the first place. How else can one explain Anthropic’s reluctance to adhere to a widely adopted standard, if not as an attempt to build a walled garden around an otherwise great product?
by potsandpans | 2026-02-11 20:28:49+00:00
Online forums tend to amplify and legitimize otherwise minority standpoints.

There is a well studied cognitive bias: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_superiority. People tend to think they're special.

> The vampire in the room, for me, seems to be feeling like I'm the only person in the room that doesn't believe the hype. Or should I say, being in rooms where nobody seems to care about quality over quantity anymore.

If in real life you are noticing the majority of peers that you have rapport with tending towards something that you don't understand, it usually isn't a "them" problem.

It's something for you to decide. Are you special? Or are you fundamentally missing something?