MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by janalsncm | 2026-02-13 21:16:06+00:00
If someone says something is a BERT “model” I’m not going to assume they are serving the original BERT weights (definition 2).

I probably won’t even assume it’s the OG BERT. It could be ModernBERT or RoBERTa or one of any number of other variants, and simply saying it’s a BERT model is usually the right level of detail for the conversation.
by throwawa83737 | 2026-02-13 21:16:17+00:00
I kinda agree, we should allow people to vote in a country they live in and contribute to. There should be a reasonably difficult process where you show you have strong ties and commitment to the country and you get the voting rights. You should only have one at a time. We could call it a citizenship or something.

Jokes aside, I don't understand what they are asking for.
"Allowing people to vote where they live would be a good start."
After how long? Should I be able to vote in a foreign county if I move and work there for a month?

If anything, complain about specific citizenship process if it's unreasonable, but you have to respect that it's role of the citizens to define what are the rules.
by BobAliceInATree | 2026-02-13 21:16:33+00:00
I tested this, and if I have slide-to-type disabled, and slide my fingers, then every letter I slide over will highlight, but only the letter I let my finger up on will show up in the text input box.

If I don't have slide-to-type enabled, then only the letter I press down on will highlight, and what shows up in the text input box is pretty inconsistent for horizontally adjacent letters.
by Forgeties79 | 2026-02-13 21:16:43+00:00
While I get the butterfly keyboard hate (though mine is so far still perfectly fine) the USB-C ports were amazing. I have a 2016 MBpro and that thing still cooks really well. As somebody who worked in video production those ports were a godsend. No more waiting around for footage to transfer all the damn time. Complete game changer. Plus with one or two quality docks I could plug-in literally anything I ever needed. With the AMD GPU i could also edit pretty beefy 4K with no proxies most of the time. In 2016/2017 that was pretty awesome. Plus last good intel machine they made IMO, so good compatibility with lots of software, target display mode for old iMacs, windows if I wanted it, etc.

Probably my favorite laptop I’ve ever owned. Powerful machine, still sees work, runs great.
by hinkley | 2026-02-13 21:16:45+00:00
I sing in the shower all the time. I'd rather have my fingernails pulled out one at a time and the video sold to psychopaths than go to an open mic night or participate in a talent show.

I know what I am and I know the degree to which people suck. Don't walk into abuse teeth first and then make a surprise Pikachu face about it.
by thebruce87m | 2026-02-13 21:16:48+00:00
> When I jump to Android I think garmin is probably the best choice, but maybe there are good wearables now. Unfortunately Android doesn’t have its act together re:built in health data database.

I have a Garmin Fenix 8 - the latest flagship. I love the look of the watch but it does not feel snappy to use in any way- significant lag after each button press. Not enough to make me immediately go back to an Apple Watch but I do miss the snappiness.

But the Connect app is actually pretty good in terms of a central place to look at the stats.
by aussieguy1234 | 2026-02-13 21:17:03+00:00
I built myself a docker container for openclaw which has an X server inside with VNC access. Openclaw only has access to a single folder on my machine that is shared with the container.

I'm currently using this for social media research via browser automation, running as a daily cron job.

Given I have VNC access and the browser is not in headless mode I can solve captchas myself as the agent runs into them.

Apart from a known issue with the openclaw browser which the agent itself was made aware of so it could work around it, this has been working well so far.

I'm thinking of open sourcing this container at some point...
by someguyiguess | 2026-02-13 21:17:38+00:00
This has to be sarcasm. Either that or you have never used KDE or Gnome even once in your life. No DE for Linux is anywhere near as polished as the DE in Mac OS. You have to spend hours customizing KDE or CFCE to get them to function even halfway near what an average user would expect. Gnome is okay but so bloated and even more opinionated than MacOS or Windows.
by solomonb | 2026-02-13 21:17:39+00:00
The article defines it through an example:

> You've been wanting to take cooking classes, but you've also been wanting to join an improv group. If you don't have time/resources for both of these projects, you might choose a metaproject like "weekly dinner party with funny friends" -- it doesn't strictly meet the requirements from either project, but it might fulfill some deeper desire.

So the idea is to extrapolate a new project that satisfies some core aspects of multiple projects you dont have time for.
by ZoomZoomZoom | 2026-02-13 21:17:49+00:00
Dunno about using legislative moves, but yes please. The stupidest solution to a problem no one had. Moving layouts, unreachable footers, no or unsatisfactory indication of one's position.

All just to remove navigation clicks no one minded and reduce server loads, in exchange for users suffering laggy lazy loading (or, what a hate-inducing pattern!) inability to preload, print, search or link.
by joe_mamba | 2026-02-13 21:18:03+00:00
This. If all it took was a $300k ad campaign on tiktok to get the population of a country(Romania in this case to be specific) to vote for a shady no-name candidate that came out of nowhere, instead of the well known candidates of the establishment, that should tell you the politics of your country betrayed its electorate so badly that they would rather commit national suicide instead of voting the establishment to bend them over for the n-th time. Tiktok only exposed that, it didn't cause that.
by shoo | 2026-02-13 21:18:24+00:00
The underlying argument this article seems to be making is that an appropriate algorithm for any given application isn't always the one with the most efficient asymptotic performance for sufficiently large n -- for a given application (in this case routing), we have data on typical values of n that appear in reality and we can choose an algorithm that offers good enough (or optimal) performance for n in that constrained range, as well as potentially having other benefits such being simpler to implement correctly in a short amount of engineering time.

This argument is very much in line with Mike Acton's data-driven design philosophy [1] -- understand the actual specific problem you need to solve, not the abstract general problem. Understand the statistical distribution of actual problem instances, they'll have parameters in some range. Understand the hardware you're building writing software for, understand its finite capacity & capability.

It's common that new algorithms or data-structures with superior asymptotic efficiency are less performant for smaller problem sizes vs simpler alternatives. As always, it depends on the specifics of any given application.

[1] see Mike's CppCon 2014 talk "Data-Oriented Design and C++" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rX0ItVEVjHc
by 0xbadcafebee | 2026-02-13 21:18:32+00:00
It's a cool idea, but personally I don't like the implementation. I usually don't use monolithic tools that cram a lot of different solutions into one thing. For one thing, especially if they're compiled, it's very hard to just modify them to do one extra thing I need without getting into a long development cycle. For two, they are usually inflexible, restricting what I can do. Third, they often aren't very composeable. Fourth, often they aren't easily pluggable/extensible.

I much prefer independent, loosely coupled, highly cohesive, composeable, extensible tools. It's not a very "programmery" solution, but it makes it easier as a user to fix things, extend things, combine things, etc.

The Docker template you have bundles a ton of apps into one container. This is problematic as it creates a big support burden, build burden, and compatibility burden. Docker works better when you make individual containers of a single app, and run them separately, and connect them with tcp, sockets, or volumes. Then the user can swap them out, add new ones, remove unneded ones, etc, and they can use an official upstream project. Docker-in-docker with a custom docker network works pretty well, and the host is still accessible if needed.

As a nit-pick: your auth code has browser-handling logic. This is low cohesion, a sign of problems to come. And in your rsync code:

sshCmd := fmt.Sprintf("ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -o ProxyCommand=%q", proxyCmd)

I was just commenting the other day on here about how nobody checks SSH host keys and how SSH is basically wide-open due to this. Just leaving this here to show people what I mean. (It's not an easy problem to solve, but ignoring security isn't great either)
by idle_zealot | 2026-02-13 21:19:10+00:00
You're right that it's more consistent to have windows behave as you describe, and Windows and Linux both treat fullscreen windows this way. I posit that Apple cares more about not hiding windows behind others than it does consistency. This also shows with their new window placement algorithm that results in an absolute mess of windows all partially occluded but with some corner or edge peeking out of the stack for a user to visually identify and click to focus/being-to-top. Compare to Windows that (at least when I last used it) opens new windows at a slight diagonal offset from the last focused window, almost like building a neat deck of cards. Apple's ethos is also on display in the design of Stage Manager, which groups windows into these messy clumps and creates a visible shelf to swap between window bundles. Everything is optimized for hunt-and-peck visual users. If you're the type to organize your windows and workflows then you're fighting the system.
by baq | 2026-02-13 21:19:10+00:00
Chess grandmasters are living proof that it’s possible to reach grandmaster level in chess on 20W of compute. We’ve got orders of magnitude of optimizations to discover in LLMs and/or future architectures, both software and hardware and with the amount of progress we’ve got basically every month those ten people will answer ‘we don’t know, but it won’t be too long’. Of course they may be wrong, but the trend line is clear; Moore’s law faced similar issues and they were successively overcome for half a century.

IOW respect the trend line.
by dawg91 | 2026-02-13 21:19:29+00:00
I mean it is described somewhat succinctly no? Potentially untrusted tools are isolated from the rest of the system - there were recently some cases of skills for openclaw being used as vectors for malware. This minimizes the adverse effect of potential malicious skills. Also protects from your agent to leaking your secrets left and right - because it has no access to them. Secrets are only supplied when payloads are leaving the host - i.e. the AI never sees your keys.
by hellisad | 2026-02-13 21:20:00+00:00
Hmm feels a bit trivializing, we don't know exactly how difficult it was to come up with the generic set of equations mentioned from the human starting point.

I can claim some knowledge of physics from my degree, typically the easy part is coming up with complex dirty equations that work under special conditions, the hard part is the simplification into something elegant, 'natural' and general.

Also
"LLM’s can make new things when they are some linear combination of existing things"

Doesn't really mean much, what is a linear combination of things you first have to define precisely what a thing is?
by solomonb | 2026-02-13 21:20:15+00:00
As someone who takes on _a lot_ of side projects, I like your idea of a metaproject!

I often wonder what draws me to pick up so many interests and goals. I used to think its leading me towards something but after so many years I have started to wonder if that is really whats going on. Maybe there is something more essential I can tease out of all my side projects that reveals what I am really after..
by kyboren | 2026-02-13 21:20:25+00:00
That's not entirely true. Yes, Puerto Ricans do pay some federal taxes (tariffs, FICA, gift and estate taxes) but do not pay federal income tax unless they have income from sources outside Puerto Rico.

Anyway many Puerto Ricans probably wish they were subject to federal income tax:

As the cutoff point for income taxation in Puerto Rico is lower
than that imposed by the U.S. IRS code and because the per-
capita income in Puerto Rico is much lower than the average per-
capita income of the US states, more Puerto Rico residents pay
income taxes to the local taxation authority than if the IRS
code were applied to the island.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation_in_Puerto_Rico
by jjcm | 2026-02-13 21:20:50+00:00
Here's the actual statement from the European Comission: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_26_...

It's important to note they aren't creating laws against infinite scrolling, but are ruling against addictive design and pointing to infinite scrolling as an example of it. The wording here is fascinating, mainly because they're effectively acting as arbiters of "vibes". They point to certain features they'd like them to change, but there is no specific ruling around what you can/can't do.

My initial reaction was that this was a terrible precedent, but after thinking on it more I asked myself, "well what specific laws would I write to combat addictive design?". Everything I thought of would have some way or workaround that could be found, and equally would have terrible consequences on situations where this is actually quite valuable. IE if you disallow infinite scrolling, what page sizes are allowed? Can I just have a page of 10,000 elements that lazy load?

Regardless of your take around whether this is EU overreach, I'm glad they're not implementing strict laws around what you can/can't do - there are valuable situations for these UI patterns, even if in combination they can create addictive experiences. Still, I do think that overregulation here will lead to services being fractured. I was writing about this earlier this morning (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47005367), but the regulated friction of major platforms (ie discord w/ ID laws) is on a collision course with the ease of vibe coding up your own. When that happens, these comissions are going to need to think long and hard around having a few large companies to watch over is better than millions of small micro-niche ones.
by mytailorisrich | 2026-02-13 21:21:02+00:00
We have great freedoms in Europe. We just need to apply in advance with our detailed plan, in three copies and the Commission will decide whether to deny our application or to deny it and fine us for unhealthy thoughts, too.

Sarcasm now, but maybe what the near future will look like...

More to the point: this is indeed a massive overreach with the Commission being the police, judge, jury, and executioner... what could go wrong? Exactly what we are seeing is taking shape, precedent by precedent.
by jrflowers | 2026-02-13 21:21:16+00:00
I don’t doubt that. I’ve read a lot of the emails, had to tap out myself, and seen a lot of people tap out as well. What I haven’t seen is some sort of contagion where the cannibalism stuff is all of a sudden being embraced by a new group of people. It’s pretty much just been people that have had the Clinton’s adrenochrome theories and blood libel etc. in the stuff they that they read for a while that are talking about it.

I’ll put it this way: if somebody believes that it is more likely that people were eating babies than the fact that it’s actually somewhat common to refrigerate beef jerky, it’s because they’ve already been primed to think that way; there are several leaps in belief that have to take place before that becomes an even acceptable notion to consider let alone something to earnestly take as gospel.

I’ve seen 20x more people have to stop after reading about Leon Black than the cannibalism/“he’s still alive” stuff (because there aren’t actually that many people that believe in cannibal elites, they’re just very vocal). Heck, I’ve seen quite a few more people have to step back after reading about Epstein funding the bitcoin devs than after reading the more kook stuff. If there’s any sort of general “hazard” in the emails it’s not the things that aren’t true, it’s the things that are.
by shadowgovt | 2026-02-13 21:21:38+00:00
> You don't need to notify if you use cookies for required functionality like login sessions or remembering a functional setting

Nobody wants to be the EU test case on precisely how "required functionality" is defined. Regardless of what the plaintext of the law says, it should be self-evident that companies will be more conservative than that, especially when the cost is as low as adding one cooke banner and tracking one preference.
by raffraffraff | 2026-02-13 21:21:58+00:00
Ask her if she would prefer the government actually spend the money in ways that make it easier for arts / crafts people to actually make their own living. You know, instead of a handout. My wife doesn't think her self esteem would improve if she could only survive on a handout.

Ask her how much it costs for a stall at Showcase every year. Why does the RDS have this whole area sewn up? Why don't the government sponsor events like this? Why is the craft council absolutely useless? They can't organise anything, they just wait for gougers to set up ultra expensive events and then tag along.

Ask her if she'd prefer subsidised rent for her business in a decent location, in a city or town? Remember before Templebar got gentrified, it was an absolute shithole, decaying buildings that should have been condemned and torn down, and yet because it was cheap, it became the place for artists, designers, jewellery makers, cooks to set up, and became the most interesting part of Dublin. Sky High rent drove away all but the big chains, and now it's soulless. What do the small makers have now? Nothing.

What about subsidised shipping? Right now An Post are massively increasing the cost of their flat rate small parcel shipping within the country. Why invest in that, and make it easier for makers to ship their products at a reasonable, predictable price?

What about actual help with the "running a business" part, that many artists suck at?

I dunno. Giving free money to a few people, without even checking whether or not they need it, strikes me as unfair, lazy and short sighted. Why bother doing anything at all if you're getting free money? But reduce the cost and difficulty of running a business... That actually encourages it.

Teach a man to fish vs give him a fish.
by joe_mamba | 2026-02-13 21:22:14+00:00
No. Romanian people hated their corrupt politicians since way before tiktok was invented. Tiktok only acted as release valve for that pent-up anger, but it's not the cause of it. The cause is 35+ years of rampant theft and corruption leading to misery and death of taxpayers.

So blaming of tiktok is a convenient scapegoat for Romania's corrupt establishment to legitimize themselves and deflect their unpopularity as if it's caused by Russian interference and not their own actions. NO, Russian interference just weaponized the massive unpopularity they already had.

So here's a wild idea on how to protect your democracy: how about instead of banning social media, politicians actually get off their kiddie fiddling islands, stop stealing everything not nailed to the ground and do right by their people, so that the voters don't feel compelled to pour gasoline on their country and light it on fire out of spite just to watch the establishment burn with it.

Because when people are educated, healthy, financially well off and taken care of their government who acts in their best interest, then no amount of social media propaganda can convince people to throw that all away on a dime. But if your people are their wits end and want to see you guillotined, then that negative capital can and will be exploited by foreign adversaries.

Like do you think that during the 60's cold war, when American workers had the highest purchasing power and standard of living in the history of mankind, the USSR could have made any propaganda to convince them that they're living poorly and that communist lifestyle was the better political choice, to swing the elections in the country to a communist? No, because people can see with their own eyes what good life is and what a bad one is.

This isn't a Romanian problem BTW, many western countries see similar political disenfranchisement, and why you see western leaders wanting to ban or seize control of social media and free speech, instead of actually fixing their countries according to the pains of the voters.
by Jtsummers | 2026-02-13 21:22:39+00:00
What's the highly editorialized title based on?

In case it changes, the submitted title is currently:

ArsTechnica seemingly using AI to write an article about AI impersonation

The actual title is:

After a routine code rejection, an AI agent published a hit piece on someone by name

And the article is not about AI impersonation of anyone which makes AdmiralAsshat's title all the stranger.
by torginus | 2026-02-13 21:22:41+00:00
I'm glad you brought up the contrast between the Aztecs and Ottomans - the majority of South America was inhabited by tribes similar to Native Americans in the North.

The Aztecs are noteworthy because of having an empire to conquer.

I am not suggesting that their civilizations did not have artistic or cultural merit, but I think even in a fictional alternate history where the Spanish decided to peacefully trade with Montezuma, I bet a couple hundred years later these people would've had mechanical looms and walked around in tailored suits just the same as their European counterparts.

Not to speak of an what an empire gaing such powerful technologies and ideas about running society would've done to its neighbors.
Ask HN: What I cannot create, I do not understand"
by kailpa | 2026-02-13 21:22:42+00:00
Do you live by the quote “What I cannot create, I do not understand” by Richard Feynman?

I got inspired by it and started building a small LLM in order to understand how it works and after learning that it's a deep neural network I started building a neural network in order to understand that.

So I wondered what others think of this approach.
by xracy | 2026-02-13 21:23:03+00:00
It looks to me like you're adding the conflation to "all addictions" because you can clearly distinguish between "sugar" and "cocaine" as both forms of addictions.

Why would you not be willing to include "scrolling" as another form of addiction? Just because it's labeled the same way you yourself are demonstrating that we handle that in different ways.

Social Media is being treated as "sugar" in this instance instead of as "cocaine".
by its_magic | 2026-02-13 21:23:04+00:00
I don't play a lot of games but one thing I've noticed over the years is that the best games with the best communities are more niche. Like Xonotic for instance. It has a fair number of players; there's always at least one or two servers going in the evening. Everyone is friendly to each other. I've never seen any kind of trash talking in there. Same with other games like Quake etc which are long past their heyday. Wherever the masses are, that's where the toxic assholes are. When they move on, things just get a lot better.