MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by billynomates | 2026-02-03 10:43:21+00:00
You can do that easily with Anki as others have mentioned, however it is generally recommended to create your own cards since the process of researching, phrasing, and formatting the content serves as the crucial first stage of cognitive encoding. By actively deciding how to simplify a concept or which image best represents a term, you are building unique neural "hooks" that link new information to your existing knowledge. This personal investment transforms the card from a dry piece of data into a meaningful memory, making it far more resistant to forgetting than a generic card designed by a stranger.
by embedding-shape | 2026-02-03 10:44:05+00:00
Hmm, maybe it's just me, but it's a good thing the different agents use different files, different models needs different prompts. Using the same system/user prompts across all three will just give you slightly worse results in one of them, instead of getting the best results you can from each one of them. At least for the general steering system prompts.

Then for the application specific documentation, I'd understand you'd want to share it, as it stays the same for all agents touching the same codebase. But easily solved by putting it in DESIGN.md or whatever and appending "Remember to check against DESIGN.md before changing the architecture" or similar.
by jagged-chisel | 2026-02-03 10:44:12+00:00
“Insert characters”?

Consider converting the original text (maintaining the author’s original line wrapping and indentation) to base64. Has anything been “inserted” into the text? I would suggest not. It has been encoded.

Now consider an encoding that leaves most of the text readable, translates some things based on a line length limit, and some other things based on transport limitations (e.g. passing through 7-bit systems.) As long as one follows the correct decoding rules, the original will remain intact - nothing “inserted.” The problem is someone just knowledgeable enough to be aware that email is human readable but not aware of the proper decoding has attempted to “clean up” the email for sharing.
by revolono | 2026-02-03 10:44:20+00:00
> But - do we even have an efficient way of defending against drone warfare? Are we ready for eventual Russian response? Civilian victims in Tallinn or Warsaw? Retaliatory strikes that flatten what is left of Ukrainian energy infrastructure?

If Russia would benefit from droning random civilians in Europe they'd already be doing it, same as with 'flattening what's left of Ukrainian energy infrastructure'. Just about the only card they haven't yet played is nuclear weapons, which they won't use despite all the blustering.

> How far would you be willing to take it?

Give Ukraine what it needs to kill off the invaders effectively rather than provide this silly dripfeed of support. Russia is welcome to try and fight modern materiel with donkeys.

Ideally just straight up bomb Russian troops inside Ukraine's territory as well, but I don't expect the spineless Eurocrats to do anything like that even if their own houses would be firebombed by Russian patsies.

Russia is clearly acting according to Lenin’s "probe with bayonets, if you encounter mush, push, if you encounter steel, withdraw". If EU just found their own balls the war would be wrapped in no more than a year, and with practically zero EU casualties. All this pussyfooting around just means that it'll drag on and on because well, why would Russia stop? It's not like they care about the well-being of their own people.
by wyc | 2026-02-03 10:44:28+00:00
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by riyarawat05 | 2026-02-03 10:44:33+00:00
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by kergonath | 2026-02-03 10:44:36+00:00
> That's what asteroid mining is for.

It’s not necessarily cheaper energetically to get stuff from an asteroid than from Earth. You’d have to accelerate stuff from a wildly different orbit, and then steer it and slow it down. Metric tonnes of stuff. It’s not physically impossible, but it is wildly expensive (in pure energy terms, not even talking about money) and completely impractical with current technology. We just don’t have engines capable of doing this outside the atmosphere.
by beejiu | 2026-02-03 10:44:43+00:00
> So what’s happened here? Well, whoever collected these emails first converted from CRLF (i.e., “Windows” line ending coding) to “NL” (i.e., “Unix” line ending coding). This is pretty normal if you want to deal with email. But you then have one byte fewer:

I think there is a second possible conclusion, which is that the transformation happened historically. Everyone assumes these emails are an exact dump from Gmail, but isn't it possible that Epstein was syncing emails from Gmail to a third party mail server?

Since the Stackoverflow post details the exact situation in 2011, I think we should be open to the idea that we're seeing data collected from a secondary mail server, not Gmail directly.

Do we have anything to discount this?

(If I'm not mistaken, I think you can also see the "=" issue simply by applying the Quoted-Printable encoding twice, not just by mishandling the line-endings, which also makes me think two mail servers. It also explains why the "=" symbol is retained.)
by locknitpicker | 2026-02-03 10:44:53+00:00
> That’s not how this goes.

Once you gain some professional experience working with software development, you'll understand that that's exactly how it goes.

I think you are failing to understand the "soft" in "software". Changing software is trivial. All software has bugs, but the only ones being worked on are those which are a) deemed worthy of being worked on, b) have customer impact.

> So now all your customers are mad, but they’re all mad for different reasons, and support is powerless to do anything about it.

That's not how it works. You are somehow assuming software isn't maintained. What do you think software developers do for a living?
by ogoffart | 2026-02-03 10:45:01+00:00
C++ works, but compared to other languages it's often no longer the most productive choice for UI work.
Modern UI code is mostly glue and state management, where fast iteration matters more than squeezing out maximum performance. And when performance does matter, there are also newer, safer languages.

For teams comfortable with C++ or with existing C++ libraries to integrate, it can of course still be a strong choice, just not the preferred one for most current teams.
by DoctorOetker | 2026-02-03 10:46:00+00:00
it is instructive to calculate the size and requirements for a system that can pretrain a 405B parameter transformer in ~ 17 days.

a different question is the expected payback time, unless someone can demonstrate a reasonable calculation that shows a sufficiently short payback period, if no one here can we still can't exclude big tech seeing something we don't have access to (the launch costs charged to third parties may be different than the launch costs charged for themselves for example).

suppose the payback time is in fact sufficiently short or commercial life sufficiently long to make sense, then the scale didn't really matter, it just means sending up the system described above repeatedly.
by gwbas1c | 2026-02-03 10:46:13+00:00
To clarify my parent post: My house is also 7 (now 8) years old and has 6 inch (15cm) walls with air-tight walls. We built with solar, which got the cost of electricity down to an estimated 4-5 cents per kilowatt hour.

At that price, resistive heating cost about as much as what I paid for gas at my old house.

I went with a heat pump to hedge the bet. (I was also pointed away from geothermal.)

If the insulation wasn't as good, or electricity more expensive, I would have used a different heat source. I was looking at pellet furnaces at the time, but never seriously got into the research before the solar proposal came in.
by defrost | 2026-02-03 10:46:36+00:00
Definitely one for the "actual data" crowd and inline with ground truthing in multiple countries.

Full Title: Comparing crime rates between undocumented immigrants, legal immigrants, and native-born US citizens in Texas

Despite its centrality to public and political discourse, we lack even basic information on fundamental questions regarding undocumented immigrants and crime.

This stems largely from data constraints.

Going beyond existing research, we utilize data from the Texas Department of Public Safety, which checks and records the immigration status of all arrestees throughout the state.

Contrary to public perception, we observe considerably lower felony arrest rates among undocumented immigrants compared to legal immigrants and native-born US citizens and find no evidence that undocumented criminality has increased in recent years.

Our findings help us understand why the most aggressive immigrant removal programs have not delivered on their crime reduction promises and are unlikely to do so in the future.

This is foundational work for effective public policy aimed at crime reduction, increasing tax revenue, cost effective policing etc.

Not great for those that revel in the excitement of Enforcement Theatre.
by arcticbull | 2026-02-03 10:46:44+00:00
> "Ok then, give us $45 and you can go through."

It's not pay $45 to go though, it's pay $45 for someone to take you around back and look you up based on secondary identification, and if they can't positively identify you based on that you still can't go through.

This is a system that has been in place for a long, long time. You could always say you don't have ID and they'll look you up. The change is they're now charging for it.

> And don't get me started with all the paid express security lanes. Because of course only poor people can weaponize shoes and laptops.

This is also not accurate. If you're talking about Clear, you just skip to the front of the normal line. If you're talking about Pre, those people are individually background-checked before hand, and it costs $19/yr, so it's not exactly a tophat and monocle only program. Especially since that's half the price of a one-way taxi ride to the airport, let alone the ticket. The airport self-selects for the fairly well off to begin with.
by noduerme | 2026-02-03 10:46:47+00:00
hahah. I never really comprehended what "I'm going to slide my hand up until I meet resistance" meant. I guess it depends which way the camel's nose is facing, what kinda resistance they're gonna get.

I did meet a lot of older TSA agents who told me they tried to stand as far away from the scanners as possible all day, and they completely understood my position on not going through em. I'm from LA, and I remember when this happened [0] so my general view on letting anyone shoot any kind of imaging radiation through me is pretty dim, but more so if they can't count to ten or tie their own shoelaces.

[0] https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2009-oct-13-me-cedar...
by moop_moop | 2026-02-03 10:47:00+00:00
The article is trying hard to sound clever but comes across as pseudo-science techobabble. Another poster called it "AI moralityaslop" and that resonates.

The article pulls a (not very good) slight of hand where it switches between the interpretation of mechanics for physical phenomena such as gravity, to the interpretation of "feels".

Scaffolding requires a firm foundation to rest on. Physical reality may be a form foundation but opinions about morality are not firm.

This is "Moralityaslop" indeed.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-02-03 10:47:39+00:00
Well emsh, to be honest, I just coded it out of seeing if its possible or not and what the feedback was on it.

Now seeing the project having people be interested. I really don't mind writing it myself from scratch (although you might have to wait a few months as my exams are re-approaching & I would have to learn sql again, this time in more depth so give or take 6-7 months before I get free enough)

But honestly, I vibe coded it for myself to see how much words I wrote. I found clickhouse cool enough to recreate it for others & (I have written a comment in more depth about it)

It's really just a prototype. Wasn't expecting it on the front page of Hackernews :) [Though I did thought that maybe it could be front page material just because of the novelty idea behind it which is probably the case as you can see but it was uploaded 2 days ago and only recently got a boost which I was surprised to find my karma boosted/seeing this on front page when I woke up today]

> Only a moment before all comments are vibed as well.

regarding this. I see a lot of really great comments in here (written by human afterall) & this is honestly one of the best case scenarios for what I had in mind.

If vibe means relax comments, then I am all for it but if vibe means AI generated. Nah, I really hope so that Hackernews comments itself remains a place for humans.

(Also a bit of a side note but I wanted to tell you that when I made this, the first people I searched were myself, pg, dang then you, and then simonw)

(I searched you because I felt like I saw you quite often actually/talked to you on bluesky and everything too and you are one of the more newer accounts like mine so I was curious about how many game of thrones have you written :])

Have a nice day man!
by FabHK | 2026-02-03 10:48:43+00:00
> it's not (necessarily) related to Windows at all here as described in TFA.

The article doesn't claim that it's Windows related. The article is very clear in explaining that the spec requires =CRLF (3 characters), then mentions (in passing) that CRLF is the typical line ending on Windows, then speculates that someone replaced the two characters CRLF with a one character new line, as on Unix or other OSs.
by mfost | 2026-02-03 10:49:03+00:00
Because most maintainers love it compared to Sys V scripts.

In the end, users might complain about purity of things or something but the mainteners are the ones doing the work maintaining all that and end up deciding what gets used.

Honestly, I'm rather outside of all that stuff and I had my share of problems with systemd issues but that's mostly because I've been using pretty old systems anyway with thus older and buggier versions of the code. And I also remember the pain it was before unit files to get those sys V scripts working correctly. From my perspective, both systems had weird bugs I had to track but systemd clearly wins on the "creating a new service" part.
by embedding-shape | 2026-02-03 10:49:34+00:00
> it does that at first, then a few messages of corrections and pointers, it forgets that constraint.

Yup, most models suffer from this. Everyone is raving about million tokens context, but none of the models can actually get past 20% of that and still give as high quality responses as the very first message.

My whole workflow right now is basically composing prompts out of the agent, let them run with it and if something is wrong, restart the conversation from 0 with a rewritten prompt. None of that "No, what I meant was ..." but instead rewrite it so the agent essentially solves it without having to do back and forth, just because of this issue that you mention.

Seems to happen in Codex, Claude Code, Qwen Coder and Gemini CLI as far as I've tested.
by Arkhaine_kupo | 2026-02-03 10:49:43+00:00
> Are churches a predatory business?

the institution that invented Tithes? The institution that if you go and put money in every sunday will help you organize weddings and funerals which are very important dates for people? Which will take old women aside and talk about getting into heaven and helping missions in poor countries full of poor little children?

That institution might have a predatory business model?

The threat of hell is certainly very uncoercive yeah
by svara | 2026-02-03 10:49:52+00:00
> (...) you get these two camps 'for and against' whereas the best way forward is to insist on data rather than anecdotes.

I think that's an issue with online discussions. It barely happens to me in the real world, but it's huge on HN.

I'm overall very positive about AI, but I also try to be measured and balanced and learn how to use it properly. Yet here on HN, I always get the feeling people responding to me have decided I am a "true believer" and respond to the true believer persona in their head.
by debugnik | 2026-02-03 10:50:06+00:00
Unicode labels U+000A as all of "LINE FEED (LF)", "new line (NL)" and "end of line (EOL)". I'm guessing different names were imported from slightly different character sets, although I understand the all-uppercase name to be the main/official one.

https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0000.pdf
by TobTobXX | 2026-02-03 10:50:17+00:00
The name of the YT channel is NightHawkInLight[0] btw. Absolutely worth checking out. He creates materials with extremely useful properties from household materials (eg. PCM (high heat capacity), highly reflective paintings, Aerocrete (high insulation/fire resistance), ...)

[0]: https://youtube.com/@Nighthawkinlight
by ben_w | 2026-02-03 10:50:46+00:00
That wasn't the original question. The head of this thread was quoting Musk's claim, which I repeat here:

> it is possible to put 500 to 1000 TW/year of AI satellites into deep space

This is 500-1000 times as much as current global production.

Musk is talking about building on the Moon 500-1000 times as much factory capacity as currently exists in aggregate across all of Earth, and launching the products electromagnetically.

I mean, don't get me wrong, in the *long term* I buy that. It's just that by "long term" I mean Musk's likely to have buried (given him, in a cryogenic tube) for decades by the time that happens.

Even being optimistic, given the lack of literally any experience building a factory up there and how our lunar mining experience is little more than a dozen people and a handful of rovers picking up interesting looking rocks, versus given how much experience we need down here to get things right, even Musk's organisation skills and ability to enthuse people and raise capital has limits. But these are timescales where those skills don't last (even if he resolves his political toxicity that currently means the next Democrat administration will hate his guts and do what they can to remove most of his power), because he will have died of old age.
by cbeach | 2026-02-03 10:50:55+00:00
> SPIEGEL: Mr. Shikwati, the G8 summit at Gleneagles is about to beef up the development aid for Africa…

> [Kenyan Economist] Shikwati: … for God’s sake, please just stop.

> SPIEGEL: Stop? The industrialized nations of the West want to eliminate hunger and poverty.

> Shikwati: Such intentions have been damaging our continent for the past 40 years. If the industrial nations really want to help the Africans, they should finally terminate this awful aid. The countries that have collected the most development aid are also the ones that are in the worst shape. Despite the billions that have poured in to Africa, the continent remains poor.

https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/kenyan-economics-expert-devel...
by DoctorOetker | 2026-02-03 10:51:00+00:00
don't give up on them ;)

as an example my points almost instantly fell down 15 points, but over the last 11 hours it has recuperated back to just a 1 point drop.

it's not because they don't like to write an apology (which I don't ask for) that they aren't secretly happy they learnt something new in physics, and in the end thats what matters to me :)
by Bishonen88 | 2026-02-03 10:51:04+00:00
I think deploying can already be done with the help of LLMs using docker and vpc's (e.g. hetzner and co.) rather easily.

What I struggle with is the legal overhead of e.g. collecting money for an app/website. I have a semi-finished app which I know I could delploy within a few hours but to collect money, living in Germany is a minefield from what I understand. I don't want my name made public with the app. GmbH (LLCs) cost thousands (?). The whole GDPR minefield, google-font usage scam etc. makes me hold back.

Googling/reddit only gives so much insights.

If someone has a good reference about starting a SaaS/App from within EU/Germany with all the legalities etc. I'd be super interested!
by miki123211 | 2026-02-03 10:51:14+00:00
You can't not store the correct string in this case, as the key is calculated from the user's email address. There is an infinite number of possible keys. THe only way to check if the key is correct is to recalculate it yourself.

These days, I guess you could make the key an ECDSA signature for a public key embedded in the binary if you were willing to accept such long keys.
by stuxnet79 | 2026-02-03 10:51:36+00:00
This is the correct take. It's over for Anki. Even assuming a best case scenario where the status quo remains and AnkiWeb continues to be "free", all the valuable data collected in AnkiWeb is now ripe for paywalling & potential abuse. The AnkiWeb privacy policy is likely to undergo a change quite soon - https://ankiweb.net/account/privacy

A really disappointing development all around & I hope it galvanizes the community to fully disassociate itself from AnkiHub & dae.