MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Antibabelic | 2026-02-03 08:10:13+00:00
> Whether such practices can produce effects beyond what placebo research documents—whether shared noetic certainty can, under certain conditions, become causally operative on physical outcomes in ways that exceed current medical understanding—remains genuinely open.

It doesn't, there are many studies on the "placebo effect" (see for example https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM200105243442106 - "We found little evidence in general that placebos had powerful clinical effects. Although placebos had no significant effects on objective or binary outcomes, they had possible small benefits in studies with continuous subjective outcomes and for the treatment of pain. Outside the setting of clinical trials, there is no justification for the use of placebos.") that reliably show that the only thing it can do is reduce the feeling of pain.

This essay is verbose AI moralityslop that doesn't back up any of the points it makes, makes no single coherent argument, and apparently tries to subtly promote quackery. Truly awful.
by guessmyname | 2026-02-03 08:11:16+00:00
> Thanks for posting! Are there specific language requirements, since the role is in the Japan office?

Well, can you understand the job posting? [1] It’s written in Japanese, so if you can’t read it, you’re probably not qualified to work in Japan. Some companies do hire non-Japanese speakers if your main goal is visa sponsorship to move here, but that’s not a great idea. You really need enough Japanese to get by, handle taxes, see a doctor, manage your bank account, and read emergency instructions in case of an earthquake or tsunami. It’s better to learn the language before you make the move.

[1] https://www.enthought.com/careers?gh_jid=4101680007
by foota | 2026-02-03 08:11:19+00:00
Imho (in my harsh opinion, in this case) unless you're a prodigy you're probably not a very good programmer at this point. Now granted people learn more quickly outside of university I think because it tends to be more focused, but I don't think I know anyone that I would have called a good programmer a year in.

But feel free to call yourself a programmer, I'm not going to gatekeep it :)
by exceptione | 2026-02-03 08:11:26+00:00
I don't think they would be able to have an LLM withouth the flaws. The problem is that an LLM cannot make a distinction between sense and nonsense in the logical way. If you train an LLM on a lot of sensible material, it will try to reproduce it by matching training material context and prompt context. The system does not work on the basis of logical principles, but it can sound intelligent.

I think LLM producers can improve their models by quite a margin if customers train the LLM for free, meaning: if people correct the LLM, the companies can use the session context + feedback to as training. This enables more convincing responses for finer nuances of context, but it still does not work on logical principles.

LLM interaction with customers might become the real learning phase. This doesn't bode well for players late in the game.
by nextaccountic | 2026-02-03 08:11:41+00:00
> In general, the bootstrap relies on a binary package of the previous version. This is unacceptable for an otherwise source-only, self-contained distribution like the NetBSD sources.

This does not paint the full picture. Rust can be bootstrapped with mrustc, which is written in C++

https://github.com/thepowersgang/mrustc

Now, mrustc supports only Rust 1.74. To build Rust 1.92, you need almost 20 builds. But this can be done from source

Guix has written about bootstrapping Rust from source (they care a lot about this). Here is how it looked like in 2018

https://guix.gnu.org/nb-NO/blog/2018/bootstrapping-rust/
by gorgoiler | 2026-02-03 08:12:22+00:00
> Starship will be capable of landing massive amounts of cargo on the Moon […] to establish a permanent presence and take advantage of lunar resources to manufacture satellites and deploy them further into space.

The trouble with strip mining the moon is that it is a pristine international geological park where one side is permanently visible from Earth*. In terms of park visits it’s been seen by pretty much every human that ever existed. Take that, Yosemite. The far side will be banned from exploitation to maintain its unique park status as being almost completely radio silent.

Perhaps the mining will take place behind the ridge line of limbward mountains: technically on the near side but without being visible. Going underground feels like a bit of a stretch.

On the far side, how far does one have to be from the anti-Earth point before one can fire up the WiFi without pissing off the space telescopes?

Who will even regulate this stuff? Do we extend the Antarctic treaty for whole-lunar purposes?

*Worst case, a 5km wide strip mine is 10 pixels on a DSLR photo, but that’s still too much for some.
by bigbuppo | 2026-02-03 08:12:38+00:00
Not sure if this is stock manipulation trying to push the bubble a little further in a way that doesn't require showing something of substance immediately, or if Elon's having another manic episode after doing too many or not enough drugs, but who didn't see this coming?

I'm sure next week he'll have SpaceX be bought by The Boring Company, sell that to Tesla, then rename all the companies as "X".

Also, whatever happened to his plan to turn twitter into a financial services company?
by King-Aaron | 2026-02-03 08:12:40+00:00
It was an observation, and a criticism. It was massively reported that Shitter has a huge problem with bots, and was very publicly known when company valuations were happening. And, since the handover to Musk, there has been a documented shift to extreme-right-wing content on the site.

I'm not going to beat around the bush. You know as well as I do that X has become the de-facto social media network for extreme-right demographics and the overall quality of content has objectively diminished as a result.
by zhonskate | 2026-02-03 08:12:54+00:00
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by voiper1 | 2026-02-03 08:13:27+00:00
I hear your pushback, but that I think that's his point:

Even seasoned coders using plan mode are funneled towards "get the code out" when experience shows that the final code is a tiny part of the overall picture.

The entire experience should be reorganized that the code is almost the afterthought, and the requirements, specs, edge cases, tests, etc are the primary part.
by sfn42 | 2026-02-03 08:14:17+00:00
They also said:
> Very short distances, very slowly and very gradually.

Which does not sound like overtraining to me. Any relatively healthy 30-something should handle that just fine no matter how untrained they are. They should get over the feelings of unwellness etc after a few weeks or at least a few months.

There is clearly some underlying condition causing this, it's not overtraining.
by bonesss | 2026-02-03 08:15:39+00:00
> AI can write the code, but it doesn't refuse to write the code without first being told why it wouldn't be a better idea to…

LLMs combine two dangerous traits simultaneously: they are non-critical about suboptimal approaches and they assist unquestioningly. In practice that means doing dumb things a lazy human would refuse because they know better, and then following those rabbit holes until they run out of imaginary dirt.

My estimation is that that combination undermines their productivity potential without very structured application. Considering the excess and escalating costs of dealing with issues as they arise further from the developers work station (by factors of approximately 20x, 50x, and 200x+ as you get out through QA and into customer environments (IIRC)), you don’t need many screw ups to make the effort net negative.
by Scea91 | 2026-02-03 08:16:16+00:00
> Parents can’t help but worry about how a lack of AI preparedness will affect their kids’ future career prospects.

The parents I've interacted with who have this worry tend to be the least tech/AI literate. It reminds me of the pressure some parents in my non-English speaking country place on kids and English teachers. Usually the parents who don't understand English well themselves and are full of anxiety about it.

Realistically, it's been just over 3 years since ChatGPT arrived and the paradigms shift every year. All of us had to learn on the go as adults, in a short time, and we did. So why worry so much about kids missing out?
by mertens | 2026-02-03 08:16:27+00:00
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by cmdtab | 2026-02-03 08:16:44+00:00
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by bigDinosaur | 2026-02-03 08:16:59+00:00
https://www.supermemo.com/en/blog/supermemo-is-better-than-f... seems to suggest that yes, it is a major improvement over SM-2, and given how critical they are of FSRS I'm happy to believe them. SM-2 to my understanding is basically the simplest possible spaced repetition algorithm - I think something like 'double the review interval if easy, otherwise multiply by some difficulty factor to reduce this interval depending on which button was clicked'.

That said, even SM-2 is probably vastly superior to just not doing SRS at all.
by erk__ | 2026-02-03 08:17:28+00:00
There is a couple libc implementations:

- c-ward [0] a libc implementation in Rust

- relibc [1] a libc implementation in Rust mainly for use in the Redox os (but works with linux as well)

- rustix [2] safe bindings to posix apis without using C

[0]: https://github.com/sunfishcode/c-ward

[1]: https://gitlab.redox-os.org/redox-os/relibc/

[2]: https://github.com/bytecodealliance/rustix
by q-base | 2026-02-03 08:17:51+00:00
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by ipnon | 2026-02-03 08:18:06+00:00
2 things have not changed since the advent of AI, and never will change. The first is the calculus of computation. The second is the engineering of computation. All coding is just some interesting combination of these two forms of logic.

You can learn both of these quickly to a deep level with only 2 books. For the calculus of computation, read "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" (SICP) by Abelman and Sussman. It is available for free.[0] If you understand all of this book, you understand all of the fundamentals of computer science. Every program you write from now on will be understandable to you, with enough persistence. But most importantly you will be able to think in computer programs by second nature, and communicate in this language. And when you talk to AIs in this language, they become exceedingly precise and powerful, because you lost the ambiguity in how you are conceptualizing the program.

For the engineering of computation, read "The Elements of Computing Systems" by Nisan and Schocken.[1] An abridged version of this book is available for free in the form of the Nand2Tetris course. In this course you will start with an imminently simple digital construct, and use it to build step by step a full working computer that can run Tetris. You could even write a Lisp from SICP on this computer, and pretty easily too as you'll see in SICP itself! Once you have completed both books you'll have met in the middle between abstract computer science and concrete computer science: coding.

Just like in your math class, you can see that one side of a right triangle is always longer than the others, but you cannot understand how or why or explain it or work with it until you can comprehend some simple theorems and functions, you cannot truly compose computer programs until you can speak the language of computer science. It used to be that you could make a career by copying code you saw online, patching bits and piece together to create basically working code. But that era is over. AI reads and writes and searches millions of times faster than you. But still only humans are capable of new compositions. But in order to create these new compositions you have to be able to speak a mutual language that you and the AI can understand. That language is computer science, and it hasn't changed since time began and it won't change in 10, 100 or 1,000 years from now when AI is capable of doing anything and everything better than we can. So if you want to stop struggling and start creating new and exciting things with computers, read these 2 books!

[0] https://mitp-content-server.mit.edu/books/content/sectbyfn/b...

[1] https://www.nand2tetris.org
by Lammy | 2026-02-03 08:18:07+00:00
Too late to edit, but here's the inarguable truth straight from the mouth of the Open Source Initiative, that the term was the direct product of Netscape's desire to get people to work for them for free: https://opensource.org/history

“The ‘open source’ label was created at a strategy session held on February 3rd, 1998 in Palo Alto, California, shortly after the announcement of the release of the Netscape source code. […] The conferees believed the pragmatic, business-case grounds that had motivated Netscape to release their code illustrated a valuable way to engage with potential software users and developers, and convince them to create and improve source code by participating in an engaged community. The conferees also believed that it would be useful to have a single label that identified this approach and distinguished it from the philosophically- and politically-focused label ‘free software.’”
by rkagerer | 2026-02-03 08:18:39+00:00
The curse-ed ribbon was a huge productivity regression. I still use very old versions of Word and Excel (the latter at least until the odd spreadsheet exceeds size limits) because they're simply better than the newer drivel. Efficient UI, proper keyboard shortcuts with unintrusive habbit-reinforcing hints, better performance, not trying to siphon all my files up to their retarded cloud. There is almost nothing I miss in terms of newer features from later versions.
by ssl-3 | 2026-02-03 08:19:02+00:00
If only it were always that easy.

In order for me, myself, to get a Real ID in Ohio, I need to produce documents demonstrating all 5 of the following elements[1]: Full legal name, DOB, legal presence in the US, SSN, and Ohio street address -- with the Ohio street address element requiring two separate documents.

Most of this is easy. I can rummage around in the paperwork pile and find most of what I need.

But the only acceptable document that applies to me (a single white male born in the US who has never had a reason to get a passport) is an original or certified copy of my birth certificate. That's kind of a pain in the ass: I have a copy, and that copy is on the fancy green cardstock the health department uses where I was born, and that copy was good enough to enlist and get paid in the US military, but it's not a certified copy and therefore is not good enough to prove my full name. My original DD214 is also not good enough.

So I'll have to round that up (which will cost me money). And then I'll have to go to the BMV (which costs money and time), and wait in line (which costs more time), and then pay for these documents to be reviewed. Eventually, they'll mail me a new ID.

Achievable? Sure. I'll get it done.

But it's quite clearly more arduous than having "two pieces of paper that have: 1) their name 2) their address", which is rather oversimplified.

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And meanwhile: Air travel doesn't have to be expensive. In my direct experience, a person can fly from Ohio to Florida and back in cattle class for as little as $37 if they're not picky about dates.

Until last month, that is. This month: It costs an extra $45, or a Real ID.

[1]: https://dam.assets.ohio.gov/image/upload/publicsafety.ohio.g...
by keiferski | 2026-02-03 08:19:11+00:00
Very cool. I made the top 1,000 too.

It would be interesting to see karma-per-word, as well, as a kind of succinctness density factor. Although karma points are not equivalent to quality, and you’d need to also factor in average comment length and some other things.

To use myself:

31,273 karma / 351,012 words ≈ 0.0891 karma per word
by port11 | 2026-02-03 08:19:46+00:00
As the quotes go, before you judge others make sure your affairs are in order. I’m not judging the young that are now trying to make sense of this hectic and overwhelming world.

But… I do agree with you, that had these things been there, I/we’d all be leaning on them. It’s the manageable hardship of life that makes it worth it, we better ourselves through the pain. My 18-year old self would complain, as would any me up to mid-30s. I’d have to insist to him that things will get better, but that he must work on what needs improving. Can’t just ask a language model for validation.
by jraph | 2026-02-03 08:20:13+00:00
> It was a little bit of a humorous tease

Whoops, missed that, sorry for this!

Not sure I understand the rest of your sentence, I understand that you are saying what I'm saying is only valid right now but could change as Gen AI keep improving.

I personally think this stuff significantly improving will require a breakthrough / paradigm shift, and that the "sophisticated stochastic parrot" model, even with "reasoning" stuff "patched" on top might only go so far and might quickly plateau (this is not science, only mostly uninformed opinion though).
by assimpleaspossi | 2026-02-03 08:20:49+00:00
I don't feel the need to have daily contact or discussions with other web devs over technical matters. Standards should move slowly and thoughtfully so such discussions are more suited to blogs and daily chats are only water cooler talk and socialization. It's just not as valuable unless you're trying to understand a concept but, hopefully, that's not a need on a daily basis.
by throwaway2037 | 2026-02-03 08:21:34+00:00
> US taxes as a percent of GDP are at an all time high

I found this from the Federal Reserve: "Federal Receipts as Percent of Gross Domestic Product"

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FYFRGDA188S

It looks pretty steady around 17%. It was as high as 20% in the late 1990s. However, this does not include state and local taxes. I could not find a source for it. What is your source of information?
by littlecranky67 | 2026-02-03 08:21:41+00:00
I paid 30€ for Anki on iOS. I remember being a bit upset because the Android and the macOS version (Qt based) are completely free. Even the iOS version is open-source. In the end, I did not want to create my own build and sideload Anki for iOS via Developer certificates, so I just paid the 30€. I think it is too expensive especially since I can easily afford that having a job and all, but I remember at uni I would struggle to afford this. But then again, when I was at uni there were no smartphones, and my computer cost less than an iPhone. So I'd probably have cheap android anyway.

To amend, I got way more than 30€ of value out of it. I learn a new language, and vocab training with Anki works better than anything else.
Show HN: Digital Immortality via Instagram Chats
by Mohsin_Gatz | 2026-02-03 08:23:24+00:00
Hi HN,

We built MetaCloned — an AI that can recreate a person’s conversational style from their Instagram or WhatsApp chat history.

Upload your DMs, and you can talk to a version of that person — reconstructed from how they actually texted. Same tone. Same humor. Same patterns.

With enough data, it gets uncomfortably convincing.

It raises weird questions:
If most of who we are now lives in chat logs, is that enough to persist us?
Is this identity or just mimicry?
And who controls it after we’re gone?

Would love feedback — technical and philosophical.
by calpaterson | 2026-02-03 08:23:29+00:00
Longtime anki user here. I think the thing people never appreciate with flashcards is that deck maintenance is real work. And in many cases, it's not work that you can do yourself as a learner of the material: the deck really needs to be created by someone who knows the material.

Commercial decks, where the deck maintainer is paid for his efforts, make a lot of sense.

And I suppose if they are making money out of the ecosystem, it also only makes sense that commercial deck makers make a contribution to the technology that makes it possible. I suppose I would prefer that be a contribution rather than ownership and custody, but I suppose Anki's license terms (it is AGPL3+ - I think without a CLA) prevents them closing it.

So cautiously optimistic
by stickfigure | 2026-02-03 08:24:19+00:00
Unfortunately I don't think this works either, or at least isn't so straightforward.

Claude code asks me over and over "can I run this shell command?" and like everyone else, after the 5th time I tell it to run everything and stop asking.

Maybe using a credit card can be gated since you probably don't make frequent purchases, but frequently-used API keys are a lost cause. Humans are lazy.
by viraptor | 2026-02-03 08:25:35+00:00
> but it doesn't refuse to write the code without first being told why it wouldn't be a better idea to do X first

Then don't ask it to write code? If you ask any recent high quality model to discuss options, tradeoffs, design constraints, refine specs it will do it for you until you're sick and tired of it finding real edge cases and alternatives. Ask for just code and you'll get just code.