MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by fusslo | 2026-02-06 19:09:22+00:00
the first time I did work as the article suggests I used my monthly allowance in a day.

Apparently out of 3-5k people with access to our AI tools, there's fewer than a handful of us REALLY using it. Most are asking questions in the chatbot style.

Anyway, I had to ask my manager, the AI architect, and the Tooling Manager for approval to increase my quota.

I asked everyone in the chain how much equivalent dollars I am allocated, and how much the increase was and no one could tell me.
by efreak | 2026-02-06 19:09:36+00:00
Ads for products I already use. Probably 90% of the stuff in your house has been advertised somewhere. A good number of the books on my shelves advertise other books by the same author in the back (some of these are order forms, many are not), and I certainly do use them to see what's the next book in a series of what reviewers have had to say about other books by the author. Heck, some of the objects I own and use daily (hopefully lower than average) is itself advertising, such as the branded Crayola desk lamp I'm using.
by toomuchtodo | 2026-02-06 19:09:40+00:00
Trump’s Prescription Drug Website Exposed as a Big Fat Scam - https://newrepublic.com/post/206265/trump-prescription-drug-... -
February 6th, 2026

https://x.com/cturnbull1968/status/2019602529278136786 | https://archive.today/IG7Au

https://x.com/okcreports/status/2019655323137589399 | https://archive.today/mbMdd
by pwdisswordfishy | 2026-02-06 19:09:59+00:00
One problem with the law is that it's difficult for the layperson to tell where they stand wrt to the plaintiff's claims against them, and they become, in turn, open to themselves being the "victim" of an inept defense attorney. On the other hand, it's possible that the defendant shopped around before taking on counsel and (allowing for the possibility that this defense was the defendant's own idea and pursued here at his insistence) was told by multiple attorneys that this defense was junk, and then he happened upon an attorney who was willing to handle the procedural aspects so long as the defendant was willing to pay the attorney's fees. Whatever is the case here (there are other possibilities), the defense that the defendant's attorney is arguing is junk, and the defendant doesn't have a legal leg to stand on by trying to pursue it. He's wasting money.

TorrentFreak's analysis here also isn't very good. This isn't a contentious matter where we're seeing two equally well-argued sides. There is no open question here or a novel defense strategy. The DMCA has statutory damages around the anticircumvention parts, even if the circumvention is in regards to enabling use that is not otherwise illegal. That's what makes it insidious. This guy is going to lose if he did use a ripping tool instead of a screen recorder and this is the defense they stick with and the outcome of the case is decided on its merits.
by Brybry | 2026-02-06 19:10:06+00:00
He cites the 50% number from Jay Swanson, a CCAP Investigations Unit manager, and then dismisses criticism of the number by saying the criticism requires an unreasonable standard (only criminal convictions).

But if you read the cited source of how Swanson came up with that number he said it wasn't just for over-billing (claiming more kids than the places actually had).

Instead, by his estimation, the employees working are not actually working because 'children are unsupervised, running from room to room while adult “employees” spend hours in hallways chatting with other adults' and so all of the funds to those providers are fraudulent. [1]

I think it's pretty easy to criticize the logic for that 50% fraud rate number without requiring criminal convictions.

[1] https://www.auditor.leg.state.mn.us/sreview/ccap.pdf#page=16
by drivers99 | 2026-02-06 19:10:11+00:00
I have this OST and the Mortal Kombat one as well on CD (mentioned together since they both have the same song, "Halcyon + On + On" on them!). When I went to a 2600 meetings in Seattle in 1999, I listened to the Hacker's soundtrack in my car on the way, of course. I gave one of the people I met there a ride and we had a laugh when he saw the case in my car. (I feel like I have a story for every song. Thanks for indulging me.)
by ActorNightly | 2026-02-06 19:10:14+00:00
This is cool, but they are still not going about it the right way.

Its much easier to build everything into the compressed latent space of physical objects and how they move, and operate from there.

Everyone jumped on the end-2-end bandwagon, which then locks you into the input to your driving model being vision, which means that you have to have things like genie to generate vision data, which is wasteful.
Show HN: Search complex flight itineraries with natural language
by aiddun | 2026-02-06 19:10:28+00:00
Whenever I book a complex trip on Google Flights, I find myself with 7 tabs open and an hour lost. I built
deep research for flights, where Claude searches dozens of itinerary combinations and summaries the best one. Try it out! I'm currently losing money on this lol.
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2026-02-06 19:10:46+00:00
I can relate as far as asking AI for advice on complex design tasks. The fundamental problem is that it is still basically a pattern matching technology that "speaks before thinking". For shallow problems this is fine, but where it fails is when it a useful response would require it to have analyzed the consequences of what it is suggesting, although (not that it helps) many people might respond in the same way - with whatever "comes to mind".

I used to joke that programming is not a career - it's a disease - since practiced long enough it fundamentally changes the way you think and talk, always thinking multiple steps ahead and the implications of what you, or anyone else, is saying. Asking advice from another seasoned developer you'll get advice that has also been "pre-analyzed", but not from an LLM.
by nradov | 2026-02-06 19:10:48+00:00
Yes, that would be considered a criminal act in most or all US states. Depending on the exact facts of the case it could be prosecuted as fourth-degree assault (misdemeanor), or it could fall under other statutes covering food adulteration or delivery of prescription drugs. I am answering in general terms and have no knowledge of what happened with Gates. A police investigation seems unlikely because so much time has passed (possibly exceeding the statute of limitations) and it would be hard to find admissible evidence.
by morshu9001 | 2026-02-06 19:10:55+00:00
It's easy for you and me. At the same time, it doesn't seem right to make a business of intentionally going after the people who get addicted to this, like flavored cigs meant to appeal to teenagers. And these social media companies have a paper trail of internal research on user engagement.

But I'm still wary of the motives behind these bans because they seem to be about controlling information, not addiction.
by joriJordan | 2026-02-06 19:10:58+00:00
Because we don't experience reality through language but direct sensory perception. Language is arbitrary bird song and visual representations dragged forward from history, accepted definitions never uniformly distributed.

Testing based on contextual correctness makes no sense when there is no center to the universe. No "one true context to rule them all".

We learn from hands on sensory experiences. Our bodies store knowledge independent of the brain; often referred to as muscle memory.

Gabe Newell mentioned this years ago; our brain is only great at some things like language and vision processing but the rest of our body is involved in sensory information processing too: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Gabe_Newell

The most potent evidence the brain is not the center of the universe we commonly think it to be is that patient with 90% of their skull filled with fluid while they carried out a typical first worlder life: https://www.sciencealert.com/a-man-who-lives-without-90-of-h...

States are banning a reading education framework that's been linked to lower literacy scores in younger generations; 3-cueing relies on establishing correctness via context assessment: https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/more-states-are-tak...

"Establishing context" is a euphemism for "arguing semantics".

Putting the brain at the root of of human intelligence is a relic of hierarchical and taxonomical models. There are no natural hierarchies.
by cmrdporcupine | 2026-02-06 19:11:03+00:00
I know we're not supposed to complain about comment quality, but -- I came here to look for interesting technical analysis but instead it's Slashdot level snipes about Microsoft the company. And yes, I also dislike Windows and Microsoft generally but this looks like a very interesting project and I'm frankly frustrated at the level of discussion here, it's juvenile. This has nothing to do with Windows, and it looks like most people didn't even read past the title.

I'll play with this later today after work and see how mature it is and hopefully have something concrete and constructive to say. Hopefully others will, too.
by carlosjobim | 2026-02-06 19:11:17+00:00
I don't think there's anything very complicated here. We don't need to make up unreal scenarios.

For example a company can instruct a truck driver what time he needs to have the goods delivered, then the company is also to blame if he has an accident because the schedule was unfeasible while following safe driving practices.

Or a company which is dumping harmful chemicals into the environment.

A cab driver raping a passenger is unfortunately not an isolated happening, it's not particular to Uber.
by GS523523 | 2026-02-06 19:11:29+00:00
> "Do what we say or lose your income" does require blind faith in the correctness of the hierarchy.

That just describes anyone who worked under management. Recognizing that you may be fired for disobeying orders != believing that your manager is physically special.

How do you define blind faith and informed faith? Can't you conceive of someone who follows orders without blindly believing in them?

You seem to have this caricature of an XSXJ in your mind but your definition is so broad it lumps the majority of the world into it, and that's what I'm calling you out on.
by nworley | 2026-02-06 19:11:33+00:00
Right there with you because SEO has evolved to a place that incentivizes a lot of bad behavior, and the end result made search worse for everyone. I’m personally less interested in “gaming” LLMs than understanding what they already do. From my side, this feels closer to observability than optimization when trying to see whether AI systems are even reading or understanding a site, not how to trick them into ranking something low quality.

The Raymond Chen analogy brings up something interesting. If everyone forces themselves on top, the signal collapses. My hope is that AI systems end up rewarding genuinely useful, well explained things rather than creating another arms race...but I’m not naive about how incentives tend to play out.

A huge concern of mine has been the introduction of ads. Once ads enter LLM responses, it’s hard not to ask whether we’re just rebuilding the same incentive structure that broke search in the first place.
by necovek | 2026-02-06 19:12:46+00:00
If anything, Microsoft has a lot of problems because they support a wide variety of crappy hardware and allow just about anyone to write kernel level sw (drivers). Not sure if this changed, but they used to run in the ring0 even.

This was most evident back in the 90s when they shipped NT4: extremely stable as opposed to Win95 which introduced the infamous BSOD. But it supported everything, and NT4 had HW support on par with Linux (i.e. almost nothing from the cheap vendors).
by nicoburns | 2026-02-06 19:13:09+00:00
> If everyone turned off the news, and totally ignored the messaging around taxes and government programs and just looked at their own cash inflows and outflows to/from the government, the middle class would retain far more power than they do.

Are you only counting material benefit that you personally get from the government rather than the benefit that other less well off people get in your calculations? Because if my tax dollars enable otherwise less well off people to live a lifestyle closer to my own, then I would consider that a benefit to me and a large part of the intended outcome of that taxation.
by DSMan195276 | 2026-02-06 19:13:18+00:00
Without questioning the LOC metric itself, I'll propose a different problem: LOC for human and AI projects are not necessarily comparable for judging their complexity.

For a human, writing 100k LOC to do something that might only really need 15k would be a bit surprising and unexpected - a human would probably reconsider what they were doing well before they typed 100k LOC. Where-as, an AI doesn't necessarily have that concern - it can just keep generating code and doesn't care how long it will take so it doesn't have the same practical pressure to produce concise code.

The result is that while for large enough human-written programs there's probably an average "density" they reach in relation of LOC vs. complexity of the original problem, AI-generated programs probably average out at an entirely different "density" number.
by Revolution1120 | 2026-02-06 19:13:27+00:00
It's not necessarily a "waste of money," but it's certainly highly deceptive. For example, China has built a large number of unprofitable infrastructure projects and abandoned projects over the past two decades. Even though they lost money, the waste during construction still made China the world's second-largest economy and aroused envy among some ignorant right-wingers. However, this cost has overdrawn the resources for the next few decades. It has caused China's fertility rate to fall below 1, meaning there won't be enough population to repay this debt in the future, let alone enough money for maintenance (even though many of these facilities were never economically viable to begin with). China's bankruptcy is only a matter of time. Moreover, China owes not only economic debt, but also significant "cultural debt" and "civilizational debt." The Chinese government and society's attempt to raise money through illegal means and extortion by issuing "cultural debt" and "civilizational debt" will undoubtedly result in another collapse.
by smallmancontrov | 2026-02-06 19:14:47+00:00
His stated reason was that he wanted the team focused on the driving problem, not sensor fusion "now you have two problems" problems. People assumed cost was the real reason, but it seems unfair to blame him for what people assumed. Don't get me wrong, I don't like him either, but that's not due to his autonomous driving leadership decisions, it's because of shitting up twitter, shitting up US elections with handouts, shitting up the US government with DOGE, seeking Epstein's "wildest party," DARVO every day, and so much more.
by ghostly_s | 2026-02-06 19:14:47+00:00
I actually was looking into this recently (exploring how much of a PITA changing my github email would be) and found it interesting that, while in principle your GH email is public to anyone interfacing with your commits via `git`, they have gone to some length to avoid displaying it anywhere in the web interface. The docs actually mention it being shown on your 'profile' page but I don't see it anywhere there.
by ceejayoz | 2026-02-06 19:14:50+00:00
https://www.courthousenews.com/in-sexual-assault-trial-uber-...

> When matching drivers with riders, Uber uses an AI-powered safety feature called the safety ride assistant dispatch, or SRAD. SRAD gives potential driver-rider matches a score from 0 to 1 based on potential for sexual assault and aims to make matches with the lowest risk. Risk factors include location and time of day, but SRAD also considers a driver’s weekend and nighttime request rate, scoring them as more risky because they may be more likely to be searching for easy victims.

> The SRAD score for Dean’s trip with Turay was 0.81, which was higher than the late-night average for the Phoenix area. Uber said it never informed Dean of its risk assessment. “We did not, nor would it be practical to provide that information to riders,” Sunny Wong, Uber’s director of applied science, said in a deposition played for the jury earlier in the day.
by bloomingeek | 2026-02-06 19:15:00+00:00
When I was in my late teens and early twenties, I worked offshore for Santa Fe International on a pipe laying barge. There, I learned the applications and strength of 3/4 inch rope. As a "rigger I", I've tied off almost anything on the deck during almost any kind of storm. As a joke, I once tied off an anchor, attached to a buoyed, two inch steel cable. The deck foreman was not amused.
by marttt | 2026-02-06 19:15:22+00:00
Yeah. There's probably tens of thousands of internet users worldwide with that same story. Myself included: when I was fixing my Bianchi retro road bike's derailleur etc some 20 years ago as a univesity freshman, this site was a definite gold mine, immensely helpful, and taught me a ton. One of my favorite procrastination rabbit holes as well back then. :) And -- a prime example of 1990s era internet and information freedom and layman-level enthusiasm -- selfless sharing of knowledge (and, I wonder if he also used Notepad to write the HTML :). Thanks, Mr Brown, for everything, all the way from Estonia!

PS, interesting to note that Mr Brown seemed to be quite a fan of sci-fi books: https://www.sheldonbrown.com/org/books.html
by dan-bailey | 2026-02-06 19:16:44+00:00
Oh thank god. I was planning on a 200km, 300km, and 400km this year, all as mental preparation, and then having to blitz next year by traveling to warmer locales. I
I'm doing my 200km at the end of April, and my 300km in early July, followed by a 400km gravel in early August. Going to be a grind.

Good luck tomorrow!
by tekne | 2026-02-06 19:16:51+00:00
But suppose you have egalitarian nation N -- what stops the billionaire from non-egalitarian nation B from influencing your politicians? Especially if nation N is small and nation B is large.

Moreover -- why would low-level elites (think: entrepreneurs, small business owners, etc.) stay in nation N if it was more profitable to do business in nation B -- recall this is precisely the type of person that is often most mobile and internationalized.
by b58yan | 2026-02-06 19:17:10+00:00
Location: Toronto/Vancouver, looking for San Francisco/NYC

Remote: Depends. Prefer in person

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: JS/TS, Python, C#, Next.js, FastAPI, etc.

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LI0oCRJO_03NJ2DjEbSWAE7hCze...

GitHub: https://github.com/Ch3mson

Email: bensonyan778@hotmail.com

CS @ UWaterloo, looking for Summer 2026 internships. Previously scaled apps to 100,000+ users and looking for series A+ companies.
by ceejayoz | 2026-02-06 19:17:11+00:00
If history is any guide: tan suits (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama_tan_suit_controve...), eating arugula and dijon mustard (https://theweek.com/speedreads/704818/big-controversy-point-...), terrorist fist jabs (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/terrorist_fist_jab), and putting feet on the Oval Office desk (https://wtop.com/news/2013/09/obama-and-the-foot-on-desk-con...).

They aren't operating in good faith.
by blacksmith_tb | 2026-02-06 19:17:13+00:00
It is a wonderful catalog, but I don't find it to be as useful for learning to tie the actual knots as books by Budworth, Pawson, etc. (or Youtube, these days)

One of the cool aspects of knots for this audience is that they have a unix-like aspect where multiple individually-useful knots can be "piped" together, the example I like to use is the Trucker's Hitch:

https://www.animatedknots.com/truckers-hitch-knot

(which also can be tied in multiple ways, depending on which knots you combine to make it)
by tristor | 2026-02-06 19:18:18+00:00
> Apple's contract likely puts verification on Taboola's plate

The biggest problem started when Apple accepted Taboola as an advertising partner. Taboola is the master of the chumbox/chumvertising, and it's unsurprising that ads are full of scams, that is Taboola's raison d'etre. See https://medium.com/the-awl/a-complete-taxonomy-of-internet-c... from 10 years ago. This isn't new.
by XenophileJKO | 2026-02-06 19:18:25+00:00
Hmm.. I looked at the benchmark set.

I'm conflicted. I don't know that I would necessarily want a model to pass all of these. Here is the fundamental problem. They are putting the rules and foundational context in "user" messages.

Essentially I don't think you want to train the models on full compliance to the user messages, they are essentially "untrusted" content from a system/model perspective. Or at least it is not generally "fully authoritative".

This creates a tension with the safety, truthfulness training, etc.
by nicoburns | 2026-02-06 19:19:13+00:00
> Is there a strong correlation between higher taxes and decreasing wealth inequality?

A sufficiently strong progressive taxation regime would obviously have this effect, assuming you could actually enforce it. For example, if you taxed 99% of earnings above $10 million that would greatly reduce the wealth of the ultra-wealthy, even without taking into account how that money was redistributed.

That's obviously an extreme, and I'm not suggesting we do exactly that. But 80% tax rates were common as recently as the late 20th century, and coincidentally there were much lower rates of wealth inequality during this time.
by jellojello | 2026-02-06 19:19:21+00:00
Yep, and won't activate until any morning dew is off the sensors.. or when it rains too hard.. or if it's blinded by a shiny building/window/vehicle.

I will never trust 2d camera-only, it can be covered or blocked physically and when it happens FSD fails.

As cheap as LIDAR has gotten, adding it to every new tesla seems to be the best way out of this idiotic position. Sadly I think Elon got bored with cars and moved on.
by tzs | 2026-02-06 19:19:44+00:00
Those are single unit prices. The AT128 for instance, which is listed at $6250 there and widely used by several Chinese car companies was around $900 per unit in high volume and over time they lowered that to around $400.

The next generation of that, the ATX, is the one they have said would be half that cost. According to regulator filings in China BYD will be using this on entry level $10k cars.

Hesai got the price down for their new generation by several optimizations. They are using their own designs for lasers, receivers, and driver chips which reduced component counts and material costs. They have stepped up production to 1.5 million units a year giving them mass production efficiencies.
by thisislife2 | 2026-02-06 19:20:17+00:00
The onus should be on the job provider to care for their employees too. They have a responsibility to ensure their employees are not physically harmed while they work. And to help or compensate their workers for any work injury. Right? Why not use the same criteria for psychological harm too? They should be provided psychological counselling. And note that this is not a new industry.