MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lanstin | 2026-02-09 20:31:56+00:00
It isn't the managers it is the business. All those geniuses hired and over years and years no one came up with another business model but ads. I pay for ad-free YouTube and would happily pay for ad free search. As would many. Many people would like a google scale micropayments system that isn't ads. The failure to do this led directly to social media becoming customer devouring experiences rather than making good products people want.
by downrightmike | 2026-02-09 20:31:58+00:00
Does this base itself on the metric started in 1963, that was eseentially a big guess that 3x starvation level was well off? because we have better numbers now. Avg us salary is 60k, but to take car of the needs of a family of 4, not in starvation range is ~$160k/year
by kristjansson | 2026-02-09 20:32:07+00:00
Tesla Roadster took a bunch of preorders at $50-250k down almost a decade ago, More recently, Taycan did reasonable-ish volume at $100-200k/unit. There (at least once was) a market for such things. Its definitely not the same market as ICE super/hypercars, but there are some that might enjoy a silent, luxurious car with a sub-2 0-60 as a complement to other cars in the garage.
by gwbas1c | 2026-02-09 20:32:15+00:00
I'm one of the faster drivers and I maintain a safe distance. (I usually have the most distance in rush hour.) It's very easy with adaptive cruise control or the other self-driving technologies that are on the market.

The only people who cut too close to me are driving recklessly.

That being said: If you're in the mode where people are constantly changing lanes in front of you, think a bit about how you're driving: On the freeway you're supposed to stay to the right except to pass, and you're expected to keep up with the flow of traffic. Are you going slow in the left lane? Are you driving too slow? Are you camping in the right lane by a busy interchange?
by x0x0 | 2026-02-09 20:32:36+00:00
It's not really ecommerce. it's PE parasites selling the brand equity.

The article doesn't really mention: Authentic Brands Group, an asset-light PE org, bought it in 2021; a company called Outdoor 5 LLC now licenses Eddie Bauer's e-commerce and wholesale operations; and we're well deep into enshittification. You can find widespread complaints of bad product quality. Note that ABG wasn't the first PE company to own them, but they seem to have accelerated the enshittification / are doing a bust-out: turning them into a bottom-dollar contract manufacturer scam before people broadly realize the brand name no longer merits the quality reputation it has/had.
by Kanav14 | 2026-02-09 20:32:49+00:00
Hey, I have 6 years of experience, although my experience is in DevOps/MlOps but in my last role I have had multiple hats, I build a telemedicine platform from scratch by architecting its infra, db, ui, ux and what not.

I have AWS and Azure DevOps certifications with 3 patents published. I think I can be a good fit.
by samgranieri | 2026-02-09 20:32:59+00:00
I've been a GitHub user since the very early days. I had a beta invite to the service. I really wish they didn't swap out the FE for a React FE.

They need to start rolling back some of their most recent changes.

I mean, if they want people to start moving to self hosted GitLab, this is gonna get that ball rolling.
by pgt | 2026-02-09 20:33:09+00:00
EACL: Enterprise Access ControL is a situated ReBAC Authorization system based on SpiceDB, built in Clojure and backed by Datomic – https://github.com/theronic/eacl

'Situated' here means that your permission schema & permission data live with your data, which has a number of benefits:

- one less network hop, so can be faster than Spice for typical workloads,

- one less distributed consistency & syncing problem,

- one less component to run in prod with full consistency,

- potential to implement ZedToken / Zookies via Datomix txid, and

- easy to test new schemas with in-memory Datomic.

EACL is plenty fast without a cache since horizontally-scalable Datomic Peers already cache datoms aggressively, but there is another 10-100x improvement in the pipeline. EACL is especially suitable to real-time multiplayer apps built in frameworks like Electric Clojure.

IMHO, EACL is currently the best-in-class authorization library in the Clojure ecosystem and is improving every week. ReBAC subsumes both ABAC & RBAC. I recently applied for Clojurists Together funding to improve cursors for intermediate resource traversal, which is the primary perf. bottleneck.

EACL was not "vibecoded" as all tests were written by me and all code is human-reviewed, but EACL would not be possible for a single engineer to build mainly in his spare time without AI assistance.

Docs with rationale: https://eacl.dev/
by hnav | 2026-02-09 20:33:19+00:00
They've been going to turbos in all but their flagships so they generally don't sound all that exciting anyway. Lambo literally draped their styling over a VW/Porsche parts-bin crossover SUV and all the influencers flocked to it. The person who appreciates the high-rpm wail of old timey, power-dense engines is not the same person who drops half a million on a car anymore.
by benbojangles | 2026-02-09 20:33:33+00:00
I love it, first ferarri that i have said "I want one". I have been an ev driver for over a decade and have no regrets, it has improved my life. The mental health benefits of driving an almost silent vehicle are completely over looked, the addiction to a vibrating noisy gas engine we find quite frankly bizarre in 2026, it is old technology, outdated, and becoming lost in history and thank you to the lithium cell.
by adamcharnock | 2026-02-09 20:33:45+00:00
We can run a Forgejo instance for you with Firecracker VM runners on bare metal. We can also support it and provide an SLA. We're running it internally and it is very solid. We're running the runners on bare metal, with a whole lot of large CI/CD jobs (mostly Rust compilation).

The down side is that the starting price is kinda high, so the math probably only works out if you also have a number of other workloads to run on the same cluster. Or if you need to run a really huge Forgejo server!

I suspect my comment history will provide the best details and overview of what we do. We'll be offering the Firecracker runner back to the Forgejo community very soon in any case.

https://lithus.eu
by bilekas | 2026-02-09 20:33:51+00:00
When will it be normalized to be able to say "Parents should just be doing their job" before we decide to ruin everything online for everyone else.

Although I know it's not really about protecting the kids. I wonder if the politicians are exempt from this too as they were chat control.

> The scanning would apply to all EU citizens, except EU politicians. They might exempt themselves from the law under “professional secrecy” rules.

https://nextcloud.com/blog/how-the-eu-chat-control-law-is-a-...

What about my "PERSONAL SECRECY" ?
by danaris | 2026-02-09 20:34:43+00:00
Not everything is worthy of discussion.

"The earth is flat" is one of those things.

"The singularity is happening" is one of those things.

"LLMs are AGI" is yet another.

They've already been discussed to death. The only reason to discuss them now is if you are one of the people who is absolutely rejecting reality because you are bound and determined to believe something that is not true.
by rayiner | 2026-02-09 20:36:14+00:00
I know it sounds crazy, but they do need his consent to being deported.

Coming to the U.S. under the Visa Waiver Program means you waive any rights you have to claim asylum, etc. This guy admits he came here under Visa waiver, and that he overstayed his visa by years. But they still can’t deport him, because he’s raising new legal arguments based on being married to a US citizen.
by laughing_man | 2026-02-09 20:36:16+00:00
The problem with modern print journalism is the business model just doesn't work anymore. In the old days everything the paper provided was bait to get you to read the classified ads. DBAs, obits, for sale, for rent, seeking someone... all that stuff was in the paper, and you had to pay a lot of money to get your ad there.

The regular ads and the cover price paid for printing, mostly, but the classifides were what paid for the organization's fixed costs.

Now that revenue stream is gone. So most papers are in a death spiral, in which they cut costs, which causes the paper to be less attractive, causing people to drop their subs, forcing another round of cost cutting. The Sunday paper where I grew up used to be about two inches thick in half a dozen sections. Now it totals about twenty pages in one section.

Beyond that, you can't copyright news. You can copyright news copy, but there's nothing stopping other organizations from rewording your stuff and publishing without ever shouldering the cost of gathering news themselves.
by pton_xd | 2026-02-09 20:36:44+00:00
> If I search for a hotel the top N results are for other hotels, and then results for travel agents, and buried somewhere in this sea of uselessness is the result I searched for.

The other day I had a DMV appointment scheduled on my Google Calendar with the office address saved in the location field. I opened the event and clicked on the address to navigate there.

I didn't realize initially but the first few Google Maps results were ads! When clicking on an exact address link!! I almost ended up at some apartment complex 2 miles away. Absolutely bewildering.
by AdeptusAquinas | 2026-02-09 20:36:54+00:00
It's always 'eventually', 'soon', 'by the latter half of this year' with AI. Meanwhile I am both bemused and horrified as I watch a bunch of idiots desperate ly trying to find the magical 10x trick with AI unleash more and more mediocre code full of security vulnerabilities, running on agents with root permissions, that I somehow have to 'secure' for the company :D At least I have job security! Up until we get hacked sideways at least.
by prepend | 2026-02-09 20:36:58+00:00
I don’t think this is very accurate. In my county the “living wage” is $26.50 for a single adult with no children.

Many young people I know live on much less than this.

This is more like “optimal wage to live alone in my own apartment with a car.” Which of course, people would like to have but certainly isn’t required to be comfortable.

For example, transportation costs are $9000/year and housing is $20000/year. These are both way more than is necessary.

They need better branding because calling this a living wage is a misnomer and harming their cause.
by throwaway894345 | 2026-02-09 20:37:07+00:00
I’m the person to whom this rebuttal was originally made, and I did not say that EVs can’t work in the cold (I own one and I live in a northern state—they work, but not flawlessly).

I was only disagreeing with another commenter who claimed the status quo was fine. There’s a pretty big gap between “not fine” and “not workable”.
by nradov | 2026-02-09 20:37:07+00:00
Not really a surprise. The people who buy outdoor apparel to actually spend time outdoors, like for hiking / hunting / fishing / skiing, long ago moved to other brands that were more technically advanced and focused on their specific activity. That left only the casual fashion consumers who are notoriously fickle, and Eddie Bauer failed to keep up with fashion trends. The products aren't bad necessarily but they're nothing special, you can get essentially the same stuff from a dozen other brands now.
by riku_iki | 2026-02-09 20:37:15+00:00
> The managers at Google have become self interested promotion hunters, and the programmers weak sycophants. It wasn't like this in the early days when I was there, the best ideas won, but then the B player managers were hired and the rot started.

I bet they run some metrics, and while hyper-intelligent persons like you are annoyed, there is a chance that avg joes representing 95% of revenue are fine with that.
by fooker | 2026-02-09 20:38:27+00:00
Here's a potential bug report, but maybe it comes down to the resolution.

There seems to be some missing data here when it comes to the north face of most Himalayan peaks (for example: Annapurna).

I am willing to believe looking south gives you the longer view, but there has to be some points on the north faces that win out for a northern view.

Fun fact, the view north is so far, clear and reliable weather-wise that the CIA partnered with mountaineers to set up equipment to monitor China's progress with nuclear weapons several decades ago.
by redleader55 | 2026-02-09 20:38:47+00:00
It would be so nice of that tax was actually "burned"(similar to proof of stake), instead of being used to fund even greater inflation. This comes in the form of a huge administration, which gets payed for providing, many times, negative value. Alternatively, it is used to pay social benefits for the sole purpose of keeping the current political party in power.
by 9dev | 2026-02-09 20:39:47+00:00
I don’t understand this sentiment. Journalists are humans too, with their own opinions that invariably shape their work.
That doesn’t invalidate all their work though, and it’s vital for a democracy to have a spectrum of opinions floating around, and citizens getting in contact with that spectrum.

Big newspapers and media outlets are the only institutions able and persistent enough to dig through things like the Epstein files. With them going down, we loose yet another guardrail, some more checks and balances.
by korhojoa | 2026-02-09 20:40:08+00:00
I don't see why a slider couldn't work with "Auto".

Setting the temperature where one end is minimum, the other is maximum, and between them you have a choice of degrees.

Activated vents would probably be better kept as buttons instead of being on a slider, I might want to use the floor vents at the same time as the defroster.

Fan speed (imo) should be on a knob, like a volume control. It would be fun to see it move, like a motorized pot on a receiver.
by zozbot234 | 2026-02-09 20:40:09+00:00
The so-called "Dark Ages" were not solely engendered by Christianity, and even the arguably negative characteristics of Christianity in late antiquity were ultimately shaped by prevalent outside factors and not inherent to the religion itself. It literally took many centuries for Roman civilization to collapse, and the root cause was that (like many ancient societies) it was basically predicated on plunder and conquest, so the whole arrangement began to collapse like a slow-motion trainwreck when they could not effectively plunder anymore.

There might have been some hope that it could gradually transition to a somewhat more modern style of economic development, but this was hindered by the Barbarian invasions especially of the Huns, so this whole dynamic only really took hold much later, in the Middle Ages.
by rayiner | 2026-02-09 20:40:11+00:00
No whistling: some cultures are better adapted to developing modern democratic societies than others. That’s not even a controversial statement: https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/09/joseph-henric...

“One of the points I want to make is a lot of the big institutions we think about, like Western law or representative government, actually flow, in part, from the way people think about the world. It wasn’t that people invented these institutions first and then they began to think about the world differently. Rather, this was a kind of evolving process where people began to think about the world a little bit differently because their families had been transformed, so they tended to adopt different kinds of laws and think about new kinds of laws to account for this. As European societies became increasingly dominated by monogamous nuclear families in the High Middle Ages, for instance, the laws being created centered increasingly on the individual and on their intentions, rights, and obligations as separate from their kin groups. Those laws then shaped the world that they subsequently grew up in even more, and you had this kind of coevolution between our psychology on one hand and our social norms and institutions on the other.”

That’s in the Harvard Gazette from September 2020! The book was covered in the New York Times and Psychology Today. So what’s with the innuendo?
by baggachipz | 2026-02-09 20:40:14+00:00
This assumes that ads at google's or facebook's level would get them anywhere close to profitability. OpenAI's costs of doing business are only accelerating, all while burn rate continues to get worse. I have no doubt that selling ads will bring in a lot of revenue, but it'll be dwarfed by the numbers OpenAI needs to stop hemorrhaging cash every quarter. The great irony is that the more success OpenAI has in gaining users, the more money they lose at an ever-increasing rate. Lose on every sale, and make up for it in volume!
by digdugdirk | 2026-02-09 20:40:21+00:00
Aha! You might be just the person to ask about something that's I've always been curious about - are there any other types of Braille mechanisms other than the "pin on a lever arm" concept? They seem so fragile and clunky, and I'm surprised there hasn't been anything revolutionary that's sprung out of the miniaturization over the past 3 decades or so.
by danaris | 2026-02-09 20:40:38+00:00
Well, at least thus far, the only reason my life is worse due to AI is because of all the people who won't stop talking about how amazing it is for vibe-coding everything from scratch despite ample empirical evidence to the contrary.

Until and unless there are some more significant improvements in how it works with regard to creating code, having strong "manual" programming skills is still paramount.
by frumplestlatz | 2026-02-09 20:40:38+00:00
This is great, but if and only if it remains an opt-in choice that enables parents.

There is a stark difference between enabling choice or compelling it.

Somehow in the last 15 years, we have completely lost sight of agency-based ethics as a founding and fundamental principle of western liberalism.

This has been replaced with harm-based ethics. Harm has no fixed definition. There is no stopping rule — when will we have eradicated enough harm? It’s declared by fiat by whoever has the means to compel and coerce — and harm inherent in that enforcement are ignored.
by 0_____0 | 2026-02-09 20:41:08+00:00
Allegedly it was to keep people from trashing the garments when they left the company. I have a few nice jackets I really don't wear because I don't represent that organization, and they are way less valuable at thrift.

The rules are if you want to get bulk discounts from Patagonia, you're right that you can just buy the clothes and do whatever to them, you just pay retail.

The assholery aspect is more personal to me I think. I like that even though they're not exactly a grassroots cottage gear maker anymore, that Patagucci actually enable and encourage secondhand use via their worn gear and repair programs and messaging. I try to give space to people and orgs who are trying to do things thoughtfully, so if someone goes out of their way knowingly to disrespect that thoughtfulness, yeah I find that distasteful.
by lelandbatey | 2026-02-09 20:41:11+00:00
Put in an area and see for yourself. In general, yes this calculator is closer to what you're describing. For example, Skamania County, a pretty rural county of Washington state with a very low population of 12,000 people, still has a "required living wage" for 1 breadwinner + 1 homemaker + 3 children of $104,292 per year: https://livingwage.mit.edu/counties/53059

That feels pretty close to accurate.
by kayo_20211030 | 2026-02-09 20:41:15+00:00
Intuitively, this seems correct.

As an aside and generally, a problem that bothers me: the economics of AI replacing knowledge workers doesn't add up. If all knowledge workers become manual laborers the market for AI augmentation products shrinks. Manual laborers don't need a great deal of AI augmentation - almost by definition. If all the knowledge workers go away what's then the market for the AI suppliers?

Also, the feedback loop. If the next 10 generations of AI products are based on the output of the last 10 generations, with a diminishing proportion of human-generated content, is there a risk of a negative feedback loop with an ability to "judge" also diminishing in a similar way. (I'll be candid and say that I believe, but don't know, that humans, at the upper margin, are better at willing and judging than any AI. Let's not underestimate the willing piece. What's the best way to do something can only be judged in context of what you want to achieve. It's a bazillion factor optimization problem.)
by chamomeal | 2026-02-09 20:41:28+00:00
Last year I finally caved and tried to sign up for instagram. It's tragic but it's almost like a second internet. So many small business and bands only have instagram. So many lil communities post their events only on instagram. I always have to ask friends with instagram to tell me when a brewery is open, when a show starts, etc.

So I tried to sign up (and I already HAVE an active facebook account from high school, with hundreds of friends) and it wanted me to scan my face. I did it, which I regret, only to be told five days later that I am too suspicious. So here I am, still locked out of all this information lmao
by bigbadfeline | 2026-02-09 20:41:28+00:00
> Countries where mafias are de facto rulers... are only held up due to external pressures put on by democratic world orders.

At least 5000 years of history strongly disagree. Besides, the democratic world order is no more.

> There will always be someone more brutal ready to just take yours and dispose of you.

Not always. It's like organized crime, the top clan makes the rules, the rest comply or die - there's no reason to believe that kind of hierarchical organization isn't already in place, ready to become the dominant structure when the plans call for it.

There will be no chaos, all sings point to very thoughtful and meticulous planning.

> As mentioned, guns and bombs can guarantee protection up to a point, and the rest of that necessary work is done by ideas and ideals.

At the moment, guns, bombs, ideas and ideals are all in the same hands, as is AI, which makes the point of protection failure rather distant and unattainable.
by johnnyanmac | 2026-02-09 20:41:31+00:00
I'd love to arrest billionaires, but can we at least suggest some specific and resonable goals forst? Baby steps.

Eat the rich is a good mantra and banner, but not an action plan. Here in America we have at most 3 years of this left and at median 1 year (with a huge nebulous cloud based on the reaction to trying to seize power). There's a lot we can do to build up to the ultimate mantra.
by AdeptusAquinas | 2026-02-09 20:41:37+00:00
It's almost as if being able to generate boilerplate code is only like 5% of software development.

That being said, its great at generating boilerplate code or in my case, doing something like 'make a react component here please that does this small thing, and is aligned with the style in the rest of the file'. Good for when I need to work with code bases or technologies that are not my daily. Also a great research assistant.

But I guess being a 'better google' or a 'glorified spellchecker' doesn't get that hype money.