MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 0x457 | 2026-02-04 18:22:25+00:00
> However you still need a second document IIUC. And to even open an account in the first place won't you need similar documentation?

Nope, KYC rules are different from Real ID rules. Banks accept more documents ad PoA. It comes down to: does the person have access to banking or not because it's the easiest PoA.

> How does that improve security? Why do I need any ID at all in the first place? If the concern is weapons or explosives then just search for those ... which they already do.

Like I said in the original message - every state has different requirements for IDs. I was able to get California AB-60 with just paper (no RFID) foreign passport that looked like I made it myself and laminated at it at FedEx.

> 3. pay fee for "real" ID 4. wait a while.

I don't know how other states do it, but I'm pretty sure in CA it's the same time it takes to get a regular ID. and the fee difference is like $20?

> Another thought occurs to me. What if I grab a homeless person off the street and attempt to fly with him? So now there's an additional $45 "no ID" fee?

Well, that person still needs some ID to fly? I'm against that tho, I'd start enforcing real id years ago if it were up to me.
by jodrellblank | 2026-02-04 18:22:36+00:00
Are you suggesting that if you wrote your CSV file parser as complex as you could manage, then it would be twice as hard to change the comma to a tab, and you wouldn't be able to do that? That's in line with the quote I'm questioning which you are defending. I might think that the corner cases were easier and less complex than the core.

I'd read the quote as saying "if you write a compression algorithm with the most obfuscated 'clever' macro-using compiler-quirk exploiting C code you can manage and it doesn't work properly, you won't have enough brain power left over to debug such code and make it work. Instead you should have written it with idiomatic C and boring for(){} loops and then you would have a better chance of debugging it until it works". I was questioning the quote and suggesting that if debugging is a separate skill, it must be one that can be developed and improved by practise and tooling.

The person above me suggested that coding and debugging are not separate skills, which rather throws the quote into confusion - if you can "write" it but it doesn't work, and you can't debug it, and "debugging" is the same skill, what are we talking about at all?
by arjie | 2026-02-04 18:22:49+00:00
It's always been that way. People have wanted to do things and others have said "You want to do that? Before you do this?" and so on. The US moon landing was contemporaneous with Whitey On The Moon. There are people who constantly care about things and work on incremental improvements to them that slowly collectively yield an outcome. That's just the mechanism that works.

As an example, consider the Guinea Worm Eradication Program. In theory, sheer bloodymindedness and mass effort could have yielded the majority of the initial effects for great suppression. But the application of modern technology (and I include incentive system design in this category) brings the cost down sufficiently for successful eradication.

Suppression of the disease is possible with old techniques: case maps, word of mouth reporting, logbooks. Now detection to containment is far faster because of digital technology. You can't just dump temephos on everything. You need to target application.

The transmission of data specifically is a problem that most people discount the difficulty of. As an example that more people will be able to relate to, there was a delay in the October 2025 jobs report and it was finally released without an unemployment rate. Many people didn't get why it was hard.

One viral tweet (mirrored by others) went:

> Can't we just...
> (rubs temples)
> Can't we just divide the number of unemployed workers by the work force population? Isn't that the unemployment rate?

But you don't know what those two numbers are. You need machinery to get it. The machinery has a lot of middle management. It cannot function without.

Society today is a complex thing. To get insight into it you need a lot of infrastructure. The fact that we all have electric power, that roads across the country are reliable, that bridges are all up, that planes fly and trains run, is a marvel. It's a marvel enabled by all the bits that people work on, all the boring bits: yes, even procurement software. And yes, corporate law and bureaucracy. All of these things make this possible.

I think a very common thing in online forums is to look at a flowering tree and say "Oh, look at the flowers. They are so beautiful. Instead of such ugly bark and wood why don't we make more flowers?". Building the society that has the muscle to do this is part of making things like this happen.
by toomuchtodo | 2026-02-04 18:22:56+00:00
Average age of a farmer is 58, China has reconfigured their imports towards South America for trade stability. "Agriculture dies" = Rural America agriculture, which is needed to sustain Rural America economies.

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

https://usafacts.org/articles/us-agricultural-exports/

Former Farming Leaders Warn U.S. Agriculture Could Face ‘Widespread Collapse’ - https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/us/politics/us-agricultur... | https://archive.today/dDebF - February 3rd, 2026

China to favour Brazilian soybean imports in 2026 H1 despite renewed US inflows - https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-favour-brazilian-s... | https://archive.today/NXFCC - January 27th, 2026

$12 Billion Farm Aid Package Not Enough, Farm Leaders Say - https://farmpolicynews.illinois.edu/2025/12/12-billion-farm-... - December 12th, 2025

Farm Bankruptcies Rising in 2025 - https://farmpolicynews.illinois.edu/2025/07/farm-bankruptcie... - July 15th, 2025

Q1 2025 U.S. farm bankruptcies exceed 2024 - https://www.uaex.uada.edu/media-resources/news/2025/july/07-... - July 7th, 2025
by okok3857 | 2026-02-04 18:23:10+00:00
No (or, not yet...) and yes, I know the Allmaps team well--it is an excellent project. There are a lot of similarities, but I would say two high-level differences are 1) OIM is built around server-side processing that immediately produces downloadable files and web services (geotiffs) while Allmaps applies a client-side transformation to non-geo IIIF tiles, and 2) OIM is designed around the creation of mosaics from many different pages to a greater extent than Allmaps is. This year I do see bringing more IIIF/Allmaps tooling into OIM though, so stay tuned!
by rednafi | 2026-02-04 18:23:29+00:00
> Xi's already suggested making the Yuan a global reserve currency, and seeing as much debt they're holding, I'm a little worried they're able to make it happen if this is the US financial strategy.

I wonder why you’re worried. Regime’s change all the time. From a third party perspective, China is no better or worse than the US. Also, given how literally every country under the sun despises US now, this might just happen.
by footydude | 2026-02-04 18:23:48+00:00
Yeah the UK isn't really very 'cold', but figured would include my example to show that not a problem in UK-equivalent of cold climates.

From a quick skim around it appears ASHPs can continue to work at -20c even -30c IF they are units that were designed for cold climate operation, albeit they can't secure the same SCOP/efficiency as they can with warmer temps.

It also looks like homes in these colder areas will often install the ASHP + have some form of additional heating as a back-up (e.g. electric heating) to compensate for the limitations of the ASHP in the coldest weather.
by avereveard | 2026-02-04 18:24:29+00:00
here's the secret saas can vibe code features too on top of their paid well developed and secured api. they can get off their ass and vibe code a mcp wrapper, so user can use the ai tooling they pay for to interact with their saas. and they'd be called visionary hero of the agentic revolution.

but they don't want to. and they will be replaced, as it's good and well.
by ekjhgkejhgk | 2026-02-04 18:24:37+00:00
> In 48 hours, the islamic regime in Iran massacred more than 40,000 protestors (and left tens of thousands of people blinded/wounded, often "finishing them off" by raiding hospitals...). Some figures even show more than 40,000, but even assuming the low-park, that's 833 people per hour, or 13 people per minute who got killed.

> Whatever Israel did (to defend itself) was by no means even near those numbers.

Israel killed about 300,000 people in the first month. Sure, it's a lower count per day, what a low bar.

From now on, every time anyone says anything about Iran, I'll be pushing the narrative that "whatever Iran did, it was to defend itself".
by rubansk | 2026-02-04 18:24:43+00:00
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by Jayakumark | 2026-02-04 18:24:59+00:00
They are the most anti-opensource AI Weights company on the planet, they don't want to do it and don't want anyone else to do it. They just hide behind safety and alignment blanket saying no models are safe outside of theirs, they wont even release their decommissioned models. Its just money play - Companies don't have ethics , the policies change based on money and who runs it - look at google - their mantra once was Don't be Evil.

https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-s-recommendations-o...

Also codex cli, Gemini cli is open source - Claude code will never be - it’s their moat even though 100% written by ai as the creator says it never will be . Their model is you can use ours be it model or Claude code but don’t ever try to replicate it.
by input_sh | 2026-02-04 18:25:00+00:00
> I'd want to see a pattern of multiple critics being banned.

So it's cool if one person gets deplatformed, as long as it's not a pattern? Odd choice if you ask me.

Personally if one side is financially backed by someone as insane as Thiel, I tend to need very little evidence from the other side to believe it.

For what it's worth Wise was also funded by Thiel, so he'd be somewhat to blame (not fully, of course) for that incompetence as well.
by saghm | 2026-02-04 18:25:20+00:00
Yeah, even with the usual guidance around editorializing headlines and the inherent difficulty in trying to summarize a tweet into a headline-sized snippet, it's worth noting that the title on this comment thread itself doesn't even directly claim any connection. Someone could just as easily state "French streamer Unbanked by Qonoto after eating a salami and cheese sandwich", and if that's what they ate for lunch the day before, it would be equally accurate but unlikely to be considered noteworthy.
by regularization | 2026-02-04 18:26:06+00:00
If the mullahs are so bad, why did the UK and US back them against the democracy of Mossadegh in the 1950s? Then Savak with CIA help slaughtered the secular left in Iran into the 1970s.

Westerns work to slaughter the secular left in a country, then use that as their entitlement to take over the country - "there is no secular force to take over".

This just happened in Syria - the West forced out a secular leader to replace him with a now celebrated al-Qaeda leader who the US had a $10 million bounty on fourteen months ago.
by harundu | 2026-02-04 18:26:46+00:00
Sure, vibe coding has impacted user's expectations. They know you can ship a new update easier and faster than before - and you actually can.

But, not sure which successful SaaS companies just stopped shipping any updates to the product, never talked to their customers and never added any new features to win over major new accounts - and still managed to survive and thrive?

And the author actually confirms this:

> AI isn’t killing B2B SaaS. It’s killing B2B SaaS that refuses to evolve.
by jaggederest | 2026-02-04 18:26:57+00:00
Few cases is good, but if there are any, the whole machinery of surveillance, treatment, and education has to be in place. As soon as we reach 0 cases for a certain amount of time, all those resources can be redirected to other neglected tropical diseases that haven't been wiped out, like onchocerciasis, loa loa, yaws, lymphatic filariasis, trachoma, and all the others. Yaws in particular is a good candidate for eradication.
by 12_throw_away | 2026-02-04 18:27:13+00:00
> In character of what, that Thiel is a mustache twirling villain?

I mean, yes? You don't amass billions of dollars with subtlety?

[1] https://www.inc.com/jeff-bercovici/peter-thiel-young-blood.h...

[2] https://theintercept.com/2017/02/22/how-peter-thiels-palanti...

(not that I think TFA here is very likely to be true)
by kipchak | 2026-02-04 18:27:17+00:00
Thanks, trying to figure out the timeline relative to the board's creation given how close they are. The first email I can find related to a meeting is this one from Boris Nikolic on Oct 20th, with /pol/ on the 23rd.

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2010/EFTA01992...
by aprilthird2021 | 2026-02-04 18:27:33+00:00
You honestly cannot know and anyone who claims you can should be suspected. It's probably between what the government claims (which will tend to be lower) and what people estimate. Some groups are only logging confirmed deaths are around 12k+ probably increasing by the day.

But if it's 5-10-20 or even more k, how much difference does it make? The crime of mass killing and collective punishment is still as gruesome either way
by digiown | 2026-02-04 18:28:41+00:00
If banks have to insert themselves into every transaction (cash is banned for larger transactions), then it follows that debanking should be viewed as a legal instrument of punishment, and should only be allowed following a violation of the law, and subject to the usual due process like fines or prison sentences. Anything else is a significant infringement on personal freedom.

Also, "freezing" the funds without a court judgement or the opportunity of retrieving them is effectively theft. If you didn't pay the parking fees on my property for a couple days, it's not legal for me to just boot or chain it or hide it somewhere (at least in the US), and I think the same should go here.
by davidmurdoch | 2026-02-04 18:28:54+00:00
For me, yes. It is possible as when working full-stack if you aren't being interrupted. Not all tasks, but some tasks, where you're pretty sure of the high-level requirements, have the necessary agency to stay in a bubble for a bit, and the task is sufficiently complex but narrow enough so you don't have to context switch too much.

With LLM Agents I can't seem to do it, as waiting for the agent to finish working just doesn't tickle my brain in the right way. I feel... distracted, I guess?
by rolph | 2026-02-04 18:29:01+00:00
what part of the dangerous part is the actually dangerous part?

its a framing trap to think you have to print or cnc the whole thing in one job.

split it up into many smaller jobs, each one not looking dangerous, rezero start the next section as if its a new job, spiff it all up with a session of crank and curse finishing, and the blockade is meaningless.
by doublerabbit | 2026-02-04 18:29:03+00:00
Perl is being migrated to Python. Two of the big banks I know have been running LLM tooling to migrate from. My last job was for a fortune 10 bank.

I personally learnt it at the age of 17 as the homemade switchboard for MSN Messenger bots were coded in it.

I'm 36 now and still not letting go. Something about the syntax pleases my brain. I am currently learning Erlang.
by m1el | 2026-02-04 18:29:05+00:00
I've been using nemotron ASR with my own ported inference, and happy about it:

https://huggingface.co/nvidia/nemotron-speech-streaming-en-0...

https://github.com/m1el/nemotron-asr.cpp
https://huggingface.co/m1el/nemotron-speech-streaming-0.6B-g...
by gilbertjolly | 2026-02-04 18:29:13+00:00
The most rapid path that Intel has to selling competitive GPUs, would be to licence designs from Groq, and apply all effort to getting them working on 14a.

Hyperscalers would bite their hand off and would be a viable alternative to TSMC.

Nvidia has left the door open with the non-exclusive license in the acquisition
by FireBeyond | 2026-02-04 18:29:20+00:00
Yeah, my step-daughter is a vegetarian. She cannot opt out of the several thousand dollar a year meal plan at her college despite the campus dining facilities having often only one not-particularly-good vegetarian option (I'm not vegetarian but when visiting I've tried the options).

So we're left with paying her credit card to buy groceries and a largely unused meal plan.

> it’s worth examining why the school feels compelled to make the meal plan mandatory in the first place.

Well, that's often because Aramark and Chartwells (Compass) require that in their contracts. My partner is the Accounting Manager for another university in our state and that's mandated in their contract (along with other clauses like "any event on campus must be offered to us for catering first, and we will either cater it or decline, and only then can you use another caterer").

There can be debates on why that is allowed in the negotiation, though.
by jandrewrogers | 2026-02-04 18:29:50+00:00
The President is the representative of the constituent State governments of America, not the people. That is why it is the States that vote. The only part of the Federal government that is intended to proportionally represent the people, and is in practice, is the House of Representatives in Congress.

This is a good and appropriate thing. States are approximately countries. Most laws only exist at the State level e.g. most common crimes don't exist in Federal law. The overreach of the Federal government claiming broad authority over people is an unfortunate but relatively recent (20th century) phenomenon. The US does seem to be returning to States having more autonomy, which I'd say is a good thing.
by zdragnar | 2026-02-04 18:30:00+00:00
Having participated in the build of an inventory system / system of record for a large national retail company, I can't see vibe coding helping anything more than the prototyping in the discovery / requirements gathering parts of the process.

The sheer volume of data, the need for real time consistency in store locations, yada yada means that bad early decisions bite hard down the road.

Lots of drudge work can be assisted by AI, especially if you need to do things like in ingest excel sheets or spit out reports, but I would run far away from anything vibe coded as hard as possible.
by PromptEMR | 2026-02-04 18:30:34+00:00
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by SpicyLemonZest | 2026-02-04 18:30:42+00:00
It raises the odds I suppose, but through what mechanism would something like this even work? Like, the story would have to be:

* Peter Thiel, a man who does not speak French, discovers that a French streamer is saying mean things about Palantir. Lots of people say mean things about Palantir, since they do so many bad things, but this particular criticism is just so cutting Thiel feels he has to do something about it.

* He searches through every investment he's ever made, singling out all the French ones, and sends their executive teams an email saying that this one specific French guy sucks and they shouldn't do business with him.

* The executive team at Qonto, a profitable company with 600,000 customers and almost €500M in annual revenue, receives the message and decides that they'd like to help one of their dozens of investors with his personal revenge campaign.

It's not 100% impossible, but it's so implausible I don't think it's reasonable to believe based on a coincidence.