MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nozzlegear | 2026-02-11 21:53:45+00:00
> A similar issue happens with Apple Silicon macs and external monitors since long time ago.

Random nitpick: in English you'd say "A similar issue has been happening with Apple Silicon macs and external monitors for a long time," or "A similar issue with Apple Silicon macs and external monitors started a long time ago." The phrase "since [duration of time]" is almost always grammatically incorrect in English.

Just a random bugbear of mine.
by crabmusket | 2026-02-11 21:54:01+00:00
This has been my experience even before AI. We are a small bootstrapped company, and we have major competitors with free offerings and much more resources than we have (due to VC funding or other backing). While they've achieved some success, they've come nowhere near close to out-competing us.

Paying for AI is much more accessible than getting venture funding, so it's less of a differentiator. They could pay for more AI than we could, but that's already been true with humans, and it hasn't necessarily helped.

Knowing what to build is still the game. As well as the actual business side of business - building a trusted brand, relationships with customers, smart marketing etc.
by mothballed | 2026-02-11 21:54:54+00:00
Yes the 10th amendment was supposed to ensure a lot of that that but it was largely waived away during the progressive era and in acts related to the civil war. But cuz slavery for some reason it also has to apply to all sorts of other things that have nothing to do with slaves or even civil rights (in the sense of negative rights) and you are racist or something for pointing this out.
by triceratops | 2026-02-11 21:54:58+00:00
> You want them to pay for the negative consequences of your fossil fuel consumption

No I want them to pay for the negative consequences of the lies they spread. I paid them for fuel, and I got fuel. I did not think I was paying for lies and I never wanted them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExxonMobil_climate_change_deni...
by LightBug1 | 2026-02-11 21:54:59+00:00
Oh come on ... the same wankers who want to see the end of Israel are the exact mirror reflection of those Israeli's currently pushing for a "one state solution" (read: "and we'll enact a final solution genocide them to make it happen").

The only difference is the Israeli's wear a suit and pretend to represent democracy as they suck US taxpayers of their earnings.

Be honest. I am.
by bastawhiz | 2026-02-11 21:55:31+00:00
I simply refuse to believe the cost difference between a CPU with hundreds of megs of DRAM is cheap enough to be an appealing choice over the same chip with a gig of RAM. We're not talking about a disposable vape with 3kb of RAM, this is a car that needs to power a camera and sensors and satellite radio and matrix headlights or whatever. If it's got gigahertz of compute, there's no reason it's still got RAM sized for a computer from 30 years ago.
by MetaWhirledPeas | 2026-02-11 21:56:13+00:00
There are actions you can cheer on, like China's quick adoption of renewable energy. You can't make it happen yourself but you can bring peoples' attention to good things, encourage those within your circle of influence, and vote for representation that shares your views.

As for what "we" collectively can do... let's assume you are speaking of areas of research. We may need to focus on researching adaptation techniques for the areas that are going to be the hardest hit, or that have the fewest resources to cope. It's a sad topic but it may be needed. Assume the worst, hope for the best, and plan for what you can.
by bluGill | 2026-02-11 21:56:14+00:00
The question is who is managing the pension. Defined contributions can be a really bad deal if you can't control who is managing the money.

The other major problem with contribution is you don't know when you will die. If I'm going to die at 65 like some relatives I should retire at 50, but if I'm to live to 97 in great health like others I should wait a few more years. (family history says my expected lifespan is about 80, but it follows a statistical curve ranging between 65 and 95 - just like nearly everyone else in a "first world" country). I want a system that acounts for how long I will live and my health and ensures I have plenty of money - group pensions should be really good at that.
by echelon | 2026-02-11 21:56:20+00:00
1. Take the top ten searches on Google Trends
(on day of new model release)
2. Concatenate
3. SHA-1 hash them
4. Use this as a seed to perform random noun-verb
lookup in an agreed upon large sized dictionary.
5. Construct a sentence using an agreed upon stable
algorithm that generates reasonably coherent prompts
from an immensely deep probability space.

That's the prompt. Every existing model is given that prompt and compared side-by-side.

You can generate a few such sentences for more samples.

Alternatively, take the top ten F500 stock performers. Some easy signal that provides enough randomness but is easy to agree upon and doesn't provide enough time to game.
by drecked | 2026-02-11 21:56:24+00:00
Because this makes it harder for future administrations.

As long as this was the court approved status quo (this has been through the Supreme Court before) a future reality based administration could re-implement it.

However, now that they’ve removed it a new administration would have to add this or similar language back which could go through the legal process again (citing changed circumstances or something), allowing the current Supreme Court to knock it down.
by Sentinel-gate | 2026-02-11 21:56:24+00:00
RLS on Postgres is fine — I use it in production for tenant isolation and it works great. The problem is that Supabase puts it as the only thing standing between the public internet and your data. PostgREST translates HTTP straight into SQL, so if you get a policy wrong (or forget one), game over. Behind a normal backend, a bad RLS policy is a defense-in-depth failure. In Supabase's model, it's a breach. That's a huge difference, and it gets worse when LLMs are writing the code because they'll happily scaffold a full app without ever thinking about access control.
by satgate | 2026-02-11 21:56:55+00:00
Timely coincidence — Lightning Labs just open-sourced agent payment tools today (lnget, an L402-aware curl for agents). They're solving the client side: teaching agents to pay Lightning invoices automatically. SatGate is the server side: the policy enforcement and budget layer that sits in front of your APIs.
If you're running an API that agents consume, SatGate lets you go from "observe what's hitting you" to "enforce per-agent budgets" to "charge per-request via L402" — without changing your backend. An agent running lnget hits your SatGate endpoint, gets a 402, pays the invoice, and proceeds. No signup, no API keys.
The two projects are complementary. They're building the roads. We're building the toll infrastructure.
by ryandrake | 2026-02-11 21:57:01+00:00
Not to mention Lawyers.

The civil court system is basically a way for wealthy people and corporations to use money to silence and/or coerce behavior out of less wealthy people. If Elon Musk or Larry Ellison woke up one day and decided to sue me, and defending myself would cost 100X my net worth, I'm probably just going to give up and do whatever they want me to do.
by Teever | 2026-02-11 21:57:37+00:00
What's wrong with a sovereign nation taking steps to reduce or eliminate the influence of a non-citizen who they feel is acting against the best interests of that nation?

If a nuclear capable country like France decides that someone like Elon Musk is acting against the best interests of their country they can ask him nicely to stop and if he continues they can use force to reduce the perceived threat.

This all seems completely in line with the day-to-day norms of contemporary society as well as historical norms.
by mrinterweb | 2026-02-11 21:58:06+00:00
I thought this was going to talk about a nerfed Opus 4.6 experience. I believe I experienced one of those yesterday. I usually have multiple active claude code sessions, using Opus 4.6, running. The other sessions were great, but one session really felt off. It just felt much more dumbed down than what I was used to. I accidentally gave that session a "good" feedback, which my inner conspiracy theorist immediately jumps to a conclusion that I just helped validate a hamstrung model in some A/B test.
by omoikane | 2026-02-11 21:58:27+00:00
I agree with slowing down and taking my time if I am shooting something static, but if I am outdoors taking pictures of anything that moves (e.g. birds), I am going to shoot in full auto burst mode until the buffer/SD card is full.

I understand I am relying more on luck and not being as deliberate with composition when I do that, and I have high respect for people who are able to get great wildlife photos with film. But for amateurs like me, it's far easier to get better pictures simply by taking more pictures.
by ratelimitsteve | 2026-02-11 21:58:35+00:00
goomba fallacy. the government isn't one person with one position. i agree with you that the backdoor should never have been installed in the first place but accusing them of hypocrisy because a group of lawmakers passed a law a while ago and a different group of lawmakers want a report on what went wrong and why is silliness. It seems as though the person spearheading this effort, Senator Cantwell, is in fact one of the better people that you propose we should elect but here you are shitting on her for trying to shed light on the pitfalls of the very policy you seem to be against in the first place.
by siofra | 2026-02-11 21:58:53+00:00
> Something often left out of fiction about war is how easily a moving army can overwhelm a local ecosystem, particularly if its supply lines sag. You might not even be their target, and yet you will be pillaged. No more easy hunting for you for years. No more quick trips for firewood, or tinder.

This is also why so many soldiers ended up dead outside of battle, and not from getting stabbed. Why Sun Tzu and Clauzewitz went on and on about logistics.
by xphos | 2026-02-11 21:58:59+00:00
> Who primed them?

Republicians. By declaring all parts of the government are full of fraud and incompetence. By "doing there own research" aka not really and just lying and misrepresenting things they didn't really research and didn't really understand. I mean it would be 1 thing if they actually found fraud and incompetence but republican appointed bodies like Doge were to incompetent to find any appreciable fraud that IGs were not already proscuting.

Its been this way for a long time ever hear of the Golden Fleece Awards, these were given to 'useless' basic research projects the government funded. I think the key take away being that do your own research gets equated to the government cannot do research and we won't trust any government research that doesn't comport with our worldviews. The irony being several of the reciepts of Golden Fleece Awards actually turned out to be very usefully and highly impactful economically speaking.

> that scientists are in cahoots over a global warming hoax.

I kind of reject this claim because the suppression of research especially at places like EXXON, or the teflon people did not come from the scientists generally speaking, but rather from the business interests above them who did not want that research to be shared and owned it. Public Scientist later exposed it and the irony here is that the very thing you are saying won't get exposed got exposed but the system your condeming. Main stream media is not the Fact finding body when it comes to research, it is the propogation business. The do your own research crowds I have experienced ignore the Science Fact Finding Groups regardless of the results because they are no doing research they are vibing their beliefs.

> It's not okay to have like 6 billionaires running all your media.

I agree 100% here but doing your own research doesn't change this incentive, this exists because we don't have resonable taxes and monopoly laws. I'd argue (in agreement with the other guy) that do your own research on everything becomes a distraction to actually getting the above things passed to handle this problem. How do enforce the monopoly laws when you haven't done your own personal Market wide analysis the conditions of beef after all we cannot trust others to do that. And I think this is the sentiment of the other poster in the thread group is trying to give and i tend to agree with it.

The government likely cannot make 10 decisions better than you personally can, but the government makes billions of decisions everyday probably more than you'll make in your entire life. The scale is the problem government solves and not trusting anyone doesn't necessiarly produce higher quality results boardly
by Barrin92 | 2026-02-11 21:59:02+00:00
>What is money if not a proxy of power?

for a lot of people in the newly rich class, a kind of virtual currency best compared to a high score in a videogame. Symbolic and representing status. It's why when they attempt to translate it into power this particular class thankfully fares fairly badly, from the article:

"TogetherSF, a similar nonprofit backed by venture capitalist Michael Moritz, crashed and burned after the 2024 elections when its $9.5 million ballot measure to reform the city charter lost to a progressive counter-measure backed by about $117,000."
by palata | 2026-02-11 21:59:03+00:00
Given the number of publications about curing <pick your uncured disease> over several decades using varying techniques, can you recommend a good review article disproving all of them?

Answer: no need, if it had been cured, it would be cured. And it is not.

My point being that many publications saying "towards X" may mean that we are making some progress towards X, but they don't mean at all that X is possible.
by fff_123l | 2026-02-11 21:59:34+00:00
The title was changed, but "dark money" has a specific meaning in US politics that is now lost:

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

Such a group is not a PAC or a Super PAC, but anonymizes donors. It can be used as a vehicle to transfer money to a Super PAC while only naming the dark money group and keeping the donors secret.
by xixixao | 2026-02-11 21:59:56+00:00
All reactions are taking this comment seriously, but I think it can be also read as "money equals power" (which I strongly believe - there's some power without money and sometimes money without power, but mostly those two are fungible) - and then pointing to the futility of getting money out of politics, since politics is about power.

But really what people mean is "prevent paid political advertisement of all kinds", which seems about as hard as "get rid of all kinds of advertisement" - at some point, you're back to power, communication, attention.

Hard problems. Probably there's a reason all ancient democracies did not survive.
by sgt101 | 2026-02-11 21:59:59+00:00
It never occurred to me to see if there was a film!

Mind you even more amazing I was on youtube yesterday and a short film showing the first chapter of the brand new book (published really recently) that I was reading popped up.

Now I see that there is not only that film (in the DUST series) but also a miniseries someone has made...

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=antimemetics+di...
by tomwojcik | 2026-02-11 22:00:03+00:00
Outside Japan, sales are worse than expected.
https://www.ign.com/articles/nintendo-acknowledges-switch-2-...

> Sales figures collated by The Game Business last month showed that U.S. Switch 2 sales over the holiday period were down around 35% versus the Switch 1's first holiday sales performance back in 2017. In the UK, a similar comparison saw Switch 2 lagging Switch 1 by 16%. Even in Nintendo's homeland of Japan, Switch 2 holiday sales couldn't match Switch 1, and were down by 5.5% over the year's final nine weeks.

> In France, 2025's final tally of Switch 2 sales was down by "over 30%" versus the amount Switch 1 notched up back in 2017
by awesome_dude | 2026-02-11 22:00:11+00:00
Online drug markets existed before BTC, and today there is a problem with "mules" being used (people who have legitimate bank accounts that are used to transfer money for groups that engage in illegal activities)

Sending money to a "grey market counterparty" has had workarounds for some time, and continues to have workarounds.

People were fooled into thinking crypto offered anonymity, and were surprised when they realised every single one of their transactions was sitting in the public chain available for anyone to read.

Digital wallets provide LEA's with clear evidence of transactions with a given party when that party's anonymity is unmasked, and it's there in perpetuity.

Had Epstein being using BTC to do business, every single one of his clients would be known.
by antonkochubey | 2026-02-11 22:00:14+00:00
> Besides, if you want insurance just get a 30€ per year rolling package.

My credit card has a yearly fee of €36 (and it’s not like having a debit card instead would have been free). The total annual insurance premiums of all insurances that it includes (travel, third party liability, purchase) would exceed €200 from the same provider.
by thewebguyd | 2026-02-11 22:00:28+00:00
Me, absolutely not. Unfortunately, my opinion seems to be increasingly in the minority and more and more people will happily be surveilled for even just an illusory promise of safety.

The harsh truth is that safety/security can never be guaranteed. No amount of surveillance will 100% prevent any individual from being a victim of a crime. Surveillance might help catching the criminal to face justice afterwards, but it will never 100% prevent.

Because of that, and because of the potential for abuse, it is better to not be under constant surveillance than it is to give up your rights and privacy for no guarantees.
by femiagbabiaka | 2026-02-11 22:00:41+00:00
1. X is not, and has never been, "the press".
2. If you were to have categorized them this way previously, botting and pay-for-reach have made it definitely not that way now.
3. It is bad when any individual can shift the politics of the entire globe simply because they have enough money. Feel free to insert your most hated left-wing billionaire instead of Elon, I still believe the same thing.
by asdff | 2026-02-11 22:01:08+00:00
Well, to be fair, you see the image how the proprietary jpg engine chooses to automatically post process the raw file. Even this age canon cameras there was some controversy in that regard. And even if you view the raw file you are looking at how your raw file viewer chooses to post process a minimal preview for you to view for that raw file.

You want full control you fall into the rabbit hole of dcraw where you can option out how that raw processing engine actually works, what algorithms are used and what parameters for those algorithms. Even lightroom you are just using the algorithm they decided for you already with parameters they decided are fine.
by palata | 2026-02-11 22:01:24+00:00
> Second, it is a logical leap to assume Google knows everything already. They could for example build this nearby Wi-Fi based location querying API with privacy in mind

In which world are you living?

> It is tired and lazy to argue that just because some Big Tech has the capability of doing something bad therefore they must already be doing it.

It has the capability of doing something bad, and it has a history of doing it. Better not forget the last part.
by jemmyw | 2026-02-11 22:01:56+00:00
That is highly unlikely. People may seem stupid when acting as a larger group, but I think part of that is that our current democracy doesn't require much engagement. If we moved to direct democracy then imo we'd get some bad policies that would quickly be reverted once the effects become apparent, and then voters are going to be a bit more careful. For example, "only taxing people whose last name begins with X, Y, Z", I don't think voters would currently be that dumb, but if they were then how many weeks of zero tax money would it take to get that undone?
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by gimenete | 2026-02-11 22:02:16+00:00
Hi HN,

I built a small app for myself.

I was drowning in GitHub notifications and needed a faster way to triage them and focus on what actually matters.

So I built one. It's available for iOS already and soon will be available for Android.

Would love feedback. Thanks!
by laurencerowe | 2026-02-11 22:02:18+00:00
Median income is not much lower in Utah than in California. Utah's low healthcare spending per capita is likely a reflection of Utah having the lowest median age of any state. Most healthcare costs are spent on elderly people.

I should add though that life expectancy is affected at least as much by social policy as by healthcare spending. Much of the difference is a result of cars/guns/drugs killing more people earlier in life in the US than in Europe.
by chatmasta | 2026-02-11 22:02:18+00:00
That system is nothing compared to the geolocation databases curated by Apple and Google, with GPS sensors combined with Wi-Fi wardriving, IMEI tracking, cell tower handoffs, and the rest of the insane amount of telemetry they collect collect in real time. And that’s before even considering BLE and the Find My network. Imagine the “God mode” dashboards they could have in Cupertino (or more likely, in Mountain View).
by tavavex | 2026-02-11 22:02:35+00:00
> The energy density of fossil fuels is very high (about 50x higher than that of lithium ion batteries)

That doesn't make sense. Batteries are an energy container, they're not energy itself. How can it be compared to a fuel? The direct counterpart to oil or coal is wind or solar radiation itself, batteries are used to amortize the supply and store an excess for emergency use, but otherwise those types of energy just immediately go into powering the grid.

The economic case for renewable power is actually extremely good, because unlike fossil fuels, they're effectively infinite and don't need complex infrastructure to extract. They're free. You only need a power plant that directly converts them into power. If we were just able to shift fossil fuel demand towards producing goods like plastics, this would already be massive. However, a lot of powerful people are deeply invested into fossil fuels and will do anything to tip the scales into their favor, despite gradually losing in the energy sector.
by timmg | 2026-02-11 22:03:06+00:00
Sorry, I'm not saying the far-right isn't (whatever) anti-climate change.

I just meant that I don't think the lack of concern is necessarily due to them. I think it may have more to do with the reality that we are already on a good path.

Bill Gates famously wrote a "note" about it last year: https://www.gatesnotes.com/work/accelerate-energy-innovation...
by SnowingXIV | 2026-02-11 22:03:12+00:00
I’ve been building something in this space as well, but with a broader toolkit [1] approach rather than a single-purpose interval trainer. The thing to me that's a bit jarring is the keyboard itself. Also, when it comes to ear-training (and while I've included this as well), without context it's not quite as useful. It's an area I plan to revise and really work on, but want to find a better approach. Good luck.

[1] https://www.umaro.app