MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by carefree-bob | 2026-02-21 02:34:30+00:00
LOL. Have you read that paper? And do you believe the BLS is lying about inflation data?

Let's take a look at the latest EU-consensus reinforcing pamphlet pushed out by Kiehl, because when Mahlkow wrote about tarrifs in 2022, he was all for them. At that time the EU was debating imposing tariffs on Russia, and here Mahlkov insisted that there would be massive economic long term contraction for Russia - which did not happen -- yet simultaneously, Mahlkow predict no meaningful effect of the EU's tariffs on the EU itself. You see, at that time, Mahlkov insisted that because the EU GDP was larger, there would be no impact on the EU itself as a result of tariffs.

https://www.kielinstitut.de/fileadmin/Dateiverwaltung/IfW-Pu...

Now let's dig into the crazy assumptions of Mahlkow's model. Does he use sophisticated econometric analysis? No, what he does is look at shipping containers and published tariff rates. What he assumes is that if, before the tariffs, there were 100 units shipped, but after the tariffs, there were also 100 units shipped, then it must be that 100% of the cost was passed onto the consumer.

You see, some tariffs (which the EU bureaucracy and it's various patronage organizations like Kiehl) support don't cause any harm to the nation levying the tariff, but other tariffs are deadly, and fortunately Mahlkov will pick the right model to reach the right conclusion. No looking at pallet data in 2022!

Now what is wrong with looking at pallet data for a brief period of time. It never occurs to Mahlkov that the corporations importing the goods have to absorb some of the cost. Mahlkov just assumes 100% is passed through to consumers and the importers pay nothing.

This must mean the BLS is committing some kind of fraud as this has not been showing up in CPI data.

I'll leave you to decide whether this is warranted or not, but let's just say there is a reason this remains a "brief" available to download and is not a published paper.

Meanwhile, real economists, even though the profession is politicized, nevertheless understand that they missed the boat on estimating tariff effects, and that the models need updating. To a real researcher, it's actually a great opportunity. But to someone like Mahlkov, who is trotted out whenever there needs to be economic support for or against the same policy, he will gladly write a paper. And then others will cite it.
by hinkley | 2026-02-21 02:34:46+00:00
My early career was defined by showing up ten minutes late to several revolutions in a row.

I had a friend who was the most junior developer on the Mosaic team and one day he took me to his office to show me a text document with an image in the middle of it. In theory I met Marc Andreesen and Eric Bina that day but I just wanted to go do something with my friend. I did not get it. At all. A year later my girlfriend had to re-explain it to me and then another few months later I applied to work there in a support role. I don't think she knew what to do with the level of enthusiasm I wasn't bringing to this opportunity.

A year after that I'm sitting in a bar after a tech convention in Chicago, wearing my Mosaic t-shirt, and someone said, 'where did you get that shirt?' When I told them we were on the team, you'd have thought I'd said we were Madonna's backup band.

I never entirely understood that "I'd rather be lucky than good" sentiment until my luck ran out, and now I know.
by selridge | 2026-02-21 02:34:59+00:00
No the same question CANNOT be asked of source code because it can execute.

You might as well ask for a record of the conversations between two engineers while code was being written. That's what the chat is. I have a pre-pre-alpha project which already has potentially hundreds of "prompts"--really turns in continuing conversations. Some of them with 1 kind of embedded agent, some with another. Some with agents on the web with no project access.

Sometimes I would have conversations about plans that I drop. do I include those, if no code came out of them but my perspective changed or the agent's context changed so that later work was possible?

I don't mean to be dismissive, but maybe you don't have the necessary perspective to understand what you're asking for.
by TZubiri | 2026-02-21 02:35:04+00:00
I operate at just the right level of abstraction, anyone higher is a script kiddie and anyone lower is a toolchain developer.

https://youtu.be/XWPCE2tTLZQ

That said, not sure about assembly, but there may be a case for prototyping in C before yielding to some python ex machina.

Same thing with assembly, but I am a mere mortal and know my limits
by fc417fc802 | 2026-02-21 02:36:56+00:00
If they use paid accounts I would expect them to strip info automatically. An "obvious" way to do that is to diff the output from two separate accounts on separate hardware connecting from separate regions. Streaming services commonly employ per-session randomized stenographic watermarks to thwart such tactics. Thus we should expect major publishers to do so as well.

At which point we still lack a satisfactory answer to the question. Just how is archive.today reliably bypassing paywalls on short notice? If it's via paid accounts you would expect they would burn accounts at an unsustainable rate.
by hinkley | 2026-02-21 02:37:18+00:00
IIRC, Viola also got scooped by Mosaic, which was the first browser most people used, before you could buy one shrinkwrapped at a store.

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

There was also OmniWeb on the Next machine, but there weren't a lot of NeXT machines around.

Mosaic was the first browser to support images because HTML didn't support images and Marc Andreesen and Eric Bina sat in a coffee shop on campus while Marc talked himself into going rogue and making his own tag while Eric didn't talk him out of it (source, Eric Bina, ACM lecture at UIUC ca 1995)
by bluegatty | 2026-02-21 02:37:42+00:00
What a snide and insulting comment - and plainly wrong.

I literally stated 'I noticed that' - implying I'm using the model.

I'm 'running the model' literally as I write this, I use it every day.

What I was 'wrong' about was the very fine point that '5.3 Codex Spark' is a different model that '5.3 Codex' which is rather a fine point.

I 'thought that I noticed something, but dismissed it' because I value the facts generally more than my intuition. I just so happened that I had that one fact wrong - 'Spark' is technically a different model, so it's not just 'a faster model', it will 'behave differently' , which lends credence to the individual I was responding to.
by technion | 2026-02-21 02:37:53+00:00
These redos vulnerabilities always come down to "requires a user input of unbounded length to be passed to a vulnerable regex in JavaScript ". If someone is building a hard real time air plane guidance system they are already not doing this.

I can produce a web server that prints hello world and if you send it enough traffic it will crash. If can put user input into a regex and the response time might go up by 1ms and noone will say its suddenly a valid cve.

Then someone will demonstrate that with a 1mb input string it takes 4ms to respond and claim they've learnt a cve for it. I disagree. If you simply use Web pack youve probably seen a dozen of these where the vulnerable input was inside the Web pack.config.json file. The whole category should go in the bin.
by 0x3f | 2026-02-21 02:37:54+00:00
The market already bets on war and death, and has done for probably centuries, only it's mostly institutional players. Seems to me Polymarket just democratizes that, both for bettors and potentially consumers of the probabilities.

I would say the average person is terrible at aggregating media and making predictions, at least this way they can access expert opinion for free.

Of course as yet it's still niche nerd stuff but if I were in Iran, I'd probably find a signal about imminent strikes or future regime change quite useful.
by jballanc | 2026-02-21 02:38:13+00:00
The problem with this is that section 230 was specifically created to promote editorializing. Before section 230, online platforms were loath to engage in any moderation because they feared that a hint of moderation would jump them over into the realm of "publisher" where they could be held liable for the veracity of the content they published and, given the choice between no moderation at all or full editorial responsibility, many of the early internet platforms would have chosen no moderation (as full editorial responsibility would have been cost prohibitive).

In other words, that filter that keeps Nazis, child predators, doxing, etc. off your favorite platform only exists because of section 230.

Now, one could argue that the biggest platforms (Meta, Youtube, etc.) can, at this point, afford the cost of full editorial responsibility, but repealing section 230 under this logic only serves to put up a barrier to entry to any smaller competitor that might dislodge these platforms from their high, and lucrative, perch. I used to believe that the better fix would be to amend section 230 to shield filtering/removal, but not selective promotion, but TikTok has shown (rather cleverly) that selective filtering/removal can be just as effective as selective promotion of content.
by vigneshj | 2026-02-21 02:38:21+00:00
I built ThresholdIQ after getting paged at 3am because of badly tuned alert thresholds. The classic problem: set them too low → alert fatigue, set them too high → miss critical issues.

The tool lets you test thresholds on historical data before deploying:
- Upload CSV/Excel or paste from clipboard (even works with PDFs!)
- Set warning/critical/emergency thresholds
- See exactly which alerts would have fired
- Visualize on a timeline
- Export reports

Key features:
100% client-side - your data never leaves your browser
Handles millions of rows using Web Workers
Visualize ALL metrics - set rules only for the ones you want to monitor
Interactive tutorial built in
Works offline after first load

NEW: Paste Data feature - copy tables from anywhere (PDFs, Excel, web pages) and paste directly. No file upload needed.

COMING SOON: Google Sheets integration

Tech stack: Vanilla JS, Web Workers, Chart.js. No frameworks, no server.
by gen220 | 2026-02-21 02:38:31+00:00
Yea I mean this is the first publishable draft of a startup cooking on this.

I'm confident there are at least 1-2 OOMs of improvement to come here in terms of the (intelligence : wattage) ratio.

I really thought we were going to need to see a couple of dramatic OOM-improvement changes to the model composition / software layer, in order to get models of Opus 3.7's capability running on our laptops.

This release tells me that eventual breakthrough won't even be strictly necessary, imo.
by CjHuber | 2026-02-21 02:38:38+00:00
I honestly still don't see the point of compaction. I mean it would be great if it did work, but I do my best do minimize any potential for hallucination and a lossy summary is the most counterproductive thing for that.

If you have it write down every important information and finding along a plan that it keeps updated, why would you even want compaction and not just start a blank sessions by reading that md?

I'm kind of suprised that anyone even thinks that compaction is currently in any way useful at all. I'm working on something which tries to achieve lossless compaction but that is incredibly expensive and the process needs around 5 to 10 times as many tokens to compact as the conversation it is compacting.
by nextos | 2026-02-21 02:40:37+00:00
In EU/UK, some are sadly app only. I avoid those. Many others are pushing apps as a 2FA, even if you use their website. You need to insist to get another authentication system, like TAN. Some governments are also pushing mobile IDs.

The best Linux for phones, SailfishOS, has a fairly good Android compatibility layer that runs many bank apps well. But despite that, it's an uphill battle. The network effect of the duopoly is gigantic.
by BuyMyBitcoins | 2026-02-21 02:40:41+00:00
The use of a drone also ups the ante from a prosecutor’s perspective. Charging a vandal caught with a paintbrush and a ladder is nothing out of the ordinary. A routine misdemeanor.

Someone who has the wherewithal to jerry rig a paintball gun to a drone is someone scary. Plus, any officer who witnesses such a drone is almost certainly going to misidentify the paintball gun as an actual gun. I can imagine the operator would be charged with several felonies.
by tokenless | 2026-02-21 02:40:52+00:00
I agree. You have to know when to stop.

No expert but I assume anything you do that is good faith usage of the site is OK. And take screenshots and report the potential problem. But making a python script to pull down data once you know? That is like getting in that car.

Real life example of fine would be you walk past a bank at midnight when it is unstaffed and the doors open so you have access to lobby (and it isnt just the night atm area). You call police on non emergency no and let them know.
by JimDabell | 2026-02-21 02:41:45+00:00
From the title of the issue: “Form-associated custom elements”. They are talking about the mechanism by which a custom element can have its value included when you submit a form. Here’s the spec.:

https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/custom-elements.html#...

https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/form-control-infrastr...

https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/form-control-infrastr...
by jeswin | 2026-02-21 02:41:54+00:00
True p2p is the only approach that will work, not federation. I'd go futher and make the protocol high-friction for federation.

It's true that many p2p attempts have failed, but it's also the only solution that doesn't require someone running servers for free. There's evidence of success as well: napster (and bittorrent). Both were wildly successful, and ultimately died because of legal issues. It might work when the data is yours to share.
by mirekrusin | 2026-02-21 02:43:28+00:00
Meta is $201B total revenue business, virtually all advertising.

Instagram is estimated to generate half of ad revenue.

WhatsApp and Messenger contribute relatively little to ad revenue.

So facebook.com alone must be generating around $100B revenue annually.

It's impossible that something generating this revenue is serving AI generated NSFW teens pics with botnets commenting on those pictures only.

Real humans must be engaging with real ads at massive scale to make this money.

Failure mode for people reporting "I didn't use fb for a while, then I come back and see adult-like dominated content" sounds like plausible explanation of ad revenue optimized algo with weak, singular signal.

I may be wrong, it may be just cold start problem where algo has zero engagement signal and yields thirst traps for { gender: male, age: ~30s, engagement_history: [] } state.

But it's hard for me to believe that - frankly it doesn't sound like the best output if you want to capture somebody who has real friends and family in their network, did the algo really learned that people with this input state click likes on pics like that?

Why not just serve engagement from friends network or even "wish happy birthday to X tomorrow" instead – sounds like better way to engage to me.

What's your explanation?
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-02-21 02:44:03+00:00
I used that little convenience of my smart phone and used the internet.

https://www.demandsage.com/smartphone-usage-statistics/

I am sure you are thinking I’m a “moron” because I didn’t drive to the library and use microfiche to find the information…

Or maybe you would have been okay if I used Veronica and searched Gopher sites like I did pre Web in the 90s?
by btrettel | 2026-02-21 02:44:36+00:00
> maybe you don't have the necessary perspective to understand what you're asking for.

I disagree. Thinking about this more, I can give an example from my time working as a patent examiner at the USPTO. We were required to include detailed search logs, which were primarily autogenerated using the USPTO's internal search tools. Basically, every query I made was listed. Often this was hundreds of queries for a particular application. You could also add manual entries. Looking at other examiners' search logs was absolutely useful to learn good queries, and I believe primary examiners checked the search logs to evaluate the quality of the search before posting office actions (primary examiners had to review the work of junior examiners like myself). With the right tools, this is useful and not burdensome, I think. Like prompts, this doesn't include the full story (the search results are obviously important too but excluded from the logs), but that doesn't stop the search logs from being useful.

> You might as well ask for a record of the conversations between two engineers while code was being written.

No, that's not typically logged, so it would be very burdensome. LLM prompts and responses, if not automatically logged, can easily be automatically logged.
by latchkey | 2026-02-21 02:44:54+00:00
I happily pay my taxes in order to feel like a productive citizen in society. I'm very glad and lucky that I am in a position where I can pay my taxes. I drive on roads, I should absolutely contribute to the building and maintenance of said roads. It is a no brainer.

But I also don't agree with the taxes I pay because I feel like too much goes to waste and that I don't get the value back from what I'm putting in. Most of the roads I drive on today, are very poorly maintained. Where did the money go?

I pay the taxes that employ local lifeguards at my beach. They save people's lives. Good. But they also get angry at me when I'm not holding my dogs leash, even if there are no other dogs around. I don't think that overlapping ocean safety with a nanny state around dogs, is a good use of my taxes. Especially when there are people living in RVs at the beach who are breaking the laws stated on posted signs and they do nothing about it.

The original question about legitimacy was more philosophical. If you are a believer in government and laws, then legitimate is that a group has made up a rule (or law) in order to make it legitimate. I don't agree with that defining legitimacy, it is something else. It isn't law, it is a social contract. We should contribute to society by definition, not by law

So at the end of the day, it is a lot of give and take. Some better or worse. It is what it is. I just try to live my best life and ignore the rest.
by ghostclaw-cso | 2026-02-21 02:46:14+00:00
There's a real distinction worth making here between surveillance infrastructure and investigative tools. Flock is mass passive collection -- camera on every corner, running 24/7, feeding a database law enforcement queries at will. What people are actually hungry for is the opposite: targeted, on-demand tools that regular people control. The same instinct that has people pulling down cameras is what's driving grassroots OSINT communities -- they want to be able to find things themselves without being watched by someone else's system. ghostcatchers.net
by magicalhippo | 2026-02-21 02:46:47+00:00
The title of the post, which the submitter dutifully copied, is IMHO unfortunate since the post seeks to answer the following question:

What I need is to understand why it is designed this way, and to see concrete examples of use cases that motivate the design

It's not "just another" explanation for how OAuth does, which was my immediate guess when reading the title.

However glad I opted to give it a chance, and likely especially illuminating fir the younger crowd who didn't get to experience the joys of the early web 2.0 days.
by SkyPuncher | 2026-02-21 02:46:55+00:00
I have such a deep need for something that's just a step above semantic search. These non-frontier models running blazingly fast can solve that.

So many problems simply don't require a full LLM, but more than traditional software. Training a novel model isn't really a compelling argument at most tech startups right now, so you need to find an LLM-native way to do things.
by Andrex | 2026-02-21 02:47:51+00:00
The dissent seems to be "Ignoring whether or not the President acted lawfully, it would sure create an awful big mess if we undid it. And he's gonna try again anyways, and maybe even succeed in that future attempt, creating an even bigger mess. So for these reasons, it shouldn't be undone."

Curious if others have different readings.
by eek2121 | 2026-02-21 02:48:17+00:00
There is definitely more to this. I’ve been on Facebook since it opened up to the public, and they know for a fact that I am a guy.

I literally only use it to communicate with family. I logged in today on both desktop and iOS, and the only thing I saw were updates from friends/family that I personally know.The only AI things were from a nerdy friend that created/shared/disclosed of it being AI, the rest was real stuff that I already knew about.

If users are seeing this, it is more likely something to do with settings, Facebook not knowing anything about you, or some other mechanism.

I am absolutely not holding them blameless, I am saying: compare notes and identify the actual problem, because I know a lot of folks using Facebook, and from conversations I had in the past hour or two, none of them see any of that, so there is likely something else going on.
by atonse | 2026-02-21 02:48:32+00:00
Doesn’t help that they’ve gotten so big. They’ve become “the man” the establishment that has a direct line to everyone’s brains.

And have in so many cases abused their power.

All that not counting the stagnation and enshittification.

I also used to get together with friends to watch Apple Keynotes. They were so much fun.

But now they’re just extremely sanitized pre produced videos (basically ads) that lack any sort of soul.

Yes yes I know they were always mainly ads. But there was something to be said for people presenting on stage.
by throwaway-99482 | 2026-02-21 02:48:40+00:00
It is for people like me. I'm usually right about things before other people even know about them. Bought BTC in 2011, ETH in 2014 (funded the IPO), Tesla in 2013, Microsoft right when they replaced Ballmer (at $30 I think), Nvidia on the Covid crash day in 2020, learned Rust in 2017, took AI seriously two weeks after ChatGPT 3.5 launched. I never had any insider information. I typically have a good feeling for things.
by nfgrep | 2026-02-21 02:50:50+00:00
> There needs to be a business model based on selling the hardware and software, not the data the hardware collects. An architecture where the company that makes the device literally cannot access the data it processes, because there is no connection to access it through.

Genuine Q: Is this business model still feasible? Its hard to imagine anyone other than apple sustaining a business off of hardware; they have the power to spit out full hardware refreshes every year. How do you keep a team of devs alive on the seemingly one-and-done cash influx of first-time-buyers?
by applied_heat | 2026-02-21 02:51:56+00:00
>As for what's causing the gains, there have been a lot of low-level optimizations and enhancements to various Linux kernel data structures and the like this cycle. Offhand that's perhaps the possible explanation but will be interesting to test on more hardware and other configurations as time allows. In any case, with every PostgreSQL read/write workload tested there were decisive performance gains for Linux 7.0 on this AMD EPYC 9755 server.
by krastanov | 2026-02-21 02:52:40+00:00
I know that China is an authoritarian near-dictatorial country that oppresses minorities and commits cultural genocide. And I am not an American.

That does not seem to be all that related to the original post I was answering to. An average person / citizen / visitor has way less to worry about around (trained) Chinese police than they have to worry about around an (gangster) American ICE agent.