MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by redwood | 2026-02-23 20:56:53+00:00
What I find odd about all the discourse on this question is that no one points out that you have to get out of the car to pay a desk agent at least in most cases. Therefore there's a fundamental question of whether it's worth driving 50m parking, paying, and then getting back in the car to go to the wash itself versus instead of walking a little bit further to pay the agent and then moving your car to the car wash.
by agentifysh | 2026-02-23 20:57:03+00:00
In all of those cases capital chased a future reality, railroad, electricity, internet all had massive speculation. the dot com bubble came and went but internet stayed.

$7 trillion looks cartoonish due to inflation, you'd have to normalize it with other economic numbers. Large companies are funding capex with bonds that still within healthy margins per employee head.

> to cure every disease and solve every problem known to man

not sure why you view this so negatively, that would be absolutely worth every penny. Granted there is a lot of noise too but dismissing everything because of the volume is premature. Technological shifts rarely produce catastrophic labor supply/demand shocks that last, it changes how we work and the market adjusts.

You are conflating the hype layer typical with all major technological breakthroughs and the subsequent capability that gets baked into humanity as a result.
by cg5280 | 2026-02-23 20:57:19+00:00
My confusion stems from the fact that mass surveillance is already pretty normal in major cities. Your face is on a dozen cameras anytime you walk through the grocery store. Your precise location is pinged off cell towers multiple times a day. I understand specific qualms with Flock as a company and how they manage the data, but this libertarian demand for total privacy in public spaces has been long lost and the beef with Flock in particular doesn’t even scratch the surface.
by bigstrat2003 | 2026-02-23 20:57:27+00:00
Let's assume for the sake of argument that social media is extremely harmful to children. Which means the answer to your question is "yes, obviously". If people were running around giving their kids fentanyl, you wouldn't say "but my kid's friends all use fentanyl and he'll be an outcast if he can't". You would say "any friends that he loses over this are well worth avoiding the damage". Why would it be different just because it's social media?
by levkk | 2026-02-23 20:57:29+00:00
I think we may have fixed this 3 weeks ago: https://github.com/pgdogdev/pgdog/pull/744

Might be worth another try. If not, a GitHub issue with more specifics would be great, and we'll take a look. Also, if binary encoding isn't working out, try using text - it's more compatible between Postgres versions especially:

[general]
resharding_copy_format = "text"
by delichon | 2026-02-23 20:57:34+00:00
Nope, I cook and wash dishes twice a day. I eat almost exclusively from the grocery store and haven't been to a restaurant, etc., since 2020. But my cooking is simple, and I very rarely use more than a single cooking vessel (mostly an air fryer drawer), plate and utensils. I wash dishes so quickly that I think I'd feel the same if I were cooking for four.
by sodapopcan | 2026-02-23 20:57:45+00:00
I've done this recently. It's only been six weeks so not sure if I'll keep it up, but I have felt very little pain. I put my sim back in my iPhone the other day when I needed an Uber to go to the vet after reading that recently taxis in my city have been denying people with pets even if you tell them you have one when ordering. Sim went right back in my flip phone when I got home and I actually experienced some relief as I did it.
by floatrock | 2026-02-23 20:58:00+00:00
> The funniest part: Perplexity's Sonar and Sonar Pro got the right answer for completely wrong reasons. They cited EPA studies and argued that walking burns calories which requires food production energy, making walking more polluting than driving 50 meters. Right answer, insane reasoning.

I mean, Sam Altman was making the same calorie-based arguments this weekend https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/23/openai-altman-defends-ai-res...

I feel like I'm losing grasp of what really is insane anymore.
by linkjuice4all | 2026-02-23 20:58:16+00:00
I certainly agree about the lack of shame - but even if you destroyed all of the Flock cameras (and any other public traffic cams) you're still left with no actual protection for your private data.

There's more of us then there are of them - so their wealth can't protect them from everything. They can and do buy privacy so there must be something worth protecting that the masses can expose using their same methods.
by jacquesm | 2026-02-23 20:59:10+00:00
Indeed, and as a school those 18 months are well worth it, but it is in many ways also 18 months wasted. There is a strong sense of NIH with the Ladybird dev(s), and I wonder if that isn't their whole reason for doing this.

I've seen another team doing something similar, they went through endless rewrite cycles of a major package but never shipped, and eventually the project was axed when they proposed to do it all over again, but this time even better.
by giaour | 2026-02-23 20:59:21+00:00
Perhaps CZ's prosecution was generally regarded as political among the people you talk to regularly, but the contemporaneous media consensus (at least to my recollection) was that Binance had openly flouted US law for years and was finally being reined in. E.g., https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/22/business/binance-crypto-c... was representative.
by pjmlp | 2026-02-23 20:59:27+00:00
It doesn't need to win the benchmarks Olympics, it needs to be fast enough.

Plenty of AI based tooling is already trying out this path.

Agents execute actions that in the past would be manually programmed applications, now tasks can be automated given a few mcp endpoints.

LLMs are already at the same output quality of lousy offshoring companies, thus having to fix a bit of it is something that unfortunately many of us are already used with fellow humans.
by tolmasky | 2026-02-23 20:59:33+00:00
If you need help (monetary or otherwise), please email me at tolmasky |at| gmail |dot| com. This is a sincere offer. I can't tell how much is hyperbole in your post, but if you're going through that and I can help, I'd be happy to.

> I mean you got $20 million and what did you do? You started making addictive games.

I refrained from responding to the rest since it seems that there is a deeper issue, but I could not help setting the record straight here. I think everyone who has ever played Bonsai Slice will firmly attest to it being the opposite of addicting. My parents never let me own a game console so I never really wrapped my head around games, and made exactly the kind of game someone like that would come up with: a deep tech exploration, to hopefully make progress on two problems that were plaguing me at the time: 1) how little mobile UI had seemed to progress (instead getting stuck in one-tap local maxima), and 2) building an app that is generally considered to be the worst candidate for a pure immutable language... in a pure immutable language in order to serve as a forcing function to surface new ideas in the space. I've always believed that if you wanted to make a general purpose programming language, you should probably try to have as much varied experience as possible, or otherwise you'll end up with a domain-specific language that is misused for every other domain (this is how I would describe most programming languages. In fact, I'd say most programming languages are written for the niche use case of writing a compiler, since they are written by compiler writers. Ironic that that is the last thing most get used for.). As such, I made a decision to start actually writing a wide variety of apps.
by marcel-felix | 2026-02-23 20:59:37+00:00
My friend and I built the first open source product analytics SDK for MCP Apps and ChatGPT Apps. Once deployed, you're blind on which tools get called, what fails, where users drop off. Existing tools track page views, not MCP.

Yavio wraps your app at the protocol level and captures everything automatically:
const server = withYavio(new McpServer({ name: "my-app", version: "1.0.0" }));

MIT licensed, self-host with Docker. Free cloud coming soon. v0.1.0. Would love feedback.
by spwa4 | 2026-02-23 20:59:52+00:00
ChatGPT will repeat pieces of text of my personal website back to me, verbatim, a description of how to write a visual effect in webassembly, you know, directly in webassembly. Words are identical, often for an entire paragraph. And without pushing too hard for it.

Also, ChatGPT will explain preparation steps for both explosives and bioweapons as long as you don't ask too directly. Most known explosives work by being heavily nitrated, so ask for examples of such compounds and dive deeper in a given direction, focusing on preparation steps and it'll give you many alternatives.

And, the most used bioweapon, is very simple, except for a rather peculiar molecular bond. So ask about that bond, and then for preparation steps of such molecules and ... I'm going to stop there.

And yes, models like Qwen and gpt-oss-20b contain that knowledge too and will explain it just fine.

If courts wanted to act, they needed to act years ago. The economic disaster if they'd actually act now, is not something they can deal with.
by stabbles | 2026-02-23 20:59:53+00:00
The .run file is a shell script with a compressed archive appended:

MS_dd "$0" $offset $s | eval "gzip -cd" | UnTAR t

Where

MS_dd()
{
blocks=`expr $3 / 1024`
bytes=`expr $3 % 1024`
dd if="$1" ibs=$2 skip=1 obs=1024 conv=sync 2> /dev/null | \
{ test $blocks -gt 0 && dd ibs=1024 obs=1024 count=$blocks ; \
test $bytes -gt 0 && dd ibs=1 obs=1024 count=$bytes ; } 2> /dev/null
}
by lurking_swe | 2026-02-23 21:00:07+00:00
presumably being a parent is different from being a your child’s friend. There is overlap, but yes, sometimes being a good parent requires “laying down the law”.

With that being said, i think explaining _in detail_ why you’re laying down certain rules can go a LONG way toward building some trust and productive dialogue with your child. Maybe you’ll find out they are more mature than you give them credit, can loosen up a bit. Or maybe they’ll be bitter for a few months, but they’ll at least understand “why”.
by embedding-shape | 2026-02-23 21:00:23+00:00
> I can't really see many people getting their daily happiness boost from making code machine say brrrrt straight to /dev/null

How long time do we have to wait before these people get bored? Or might they actually find what they generate useful and it doesn't all go straight to /dev/null, since seemingly it seems to gain usage, not drop in usage?
by snowhale | 2026-02-23 21:00:24+00:00
yeah, matches what I'd expect. when you're porting idiomatic -> idiomatic within a language, the cleanup is mechanical. crossing from C++ to Rust means the borrow checker surfaces assumptions that were latent in the original code, so you end up redesigning rather than translating. that's not a complaint about Rust -- it's actually doing its job.
by plorg | 2026-02-23 21:00:32+00:00
Back in maybe 2017 there was a YC startup called Audm that hired professional audiobook narrators to read magazine articles. I found them through their embeds in The New Yorker. The app was pretty mediocre and I wanted to use it in my podcast app, so I started writing a scraper. Very quickly I realized that the page embeds were making calls directly to their production database with no authentication whatsoever. So I pivoted to dumping the entire archive, hosting it on my LAN, and serving it as RSS over my VPN. It was cool, and I found that articles from some publications would post as much as 2 weeks before publication. Eventually they were bought by the NYTimes, and in 2020 they either set up permissions or moved the infrastructure. I gave up on the project, and I understand that most of the content is no longer available. I unfortunately lost my archive with a lot of data when my storage array died a couple of years later. I think the product space got commoditized very quickly by AI readers (none of which, to my ear, are as engaging as the human professionals). I think maybe 4 other people knew about my project when it existed.
by derefr | 2026-02-23 21:00:37+00:00
> One thing I think you are missing is that in person groups are usually far smaller.

Yes, but also, an online group with 1000 members isn't really equivalent to an in-person group with 1000 members. It's actually more equivalent in "activity" / "number of expected novel pairwise interactions" to an in-person group with, say, 100 members.

(Why? Because the "members" of an online group, as reported by most chat/forum systems, are just the number of people with access to the chatroom/forum, or who are subscribed to updates to the chatroom/forum, etc. Most of these people have never posted. Many more have only ever posted once. Whereas, in common parlance, you wouldn't really describe someone as a "member" of an in-person group, unless they actually regularly attend the group's in-person meetings. So the word "members" here really refers to two very different metrics: for online, the number of passive readers; for in-person, some upper bound on the number of people you might expect to encounter at the average in-person event. We need to do some unit conversions here in order to make valid comparisons!)

Let's say, for the sake of argument, that an online group with 1000 "members" has 100 regular posters. (It's probably less, actually.) And that a (geographically-based) in-person group with 150 "members", has events attended by on average 100 people. Let's assume "regular posters" and "attendees" are equivalent in how they drive (dis)engagement within the group.

I would assert that an in-person group event attended by 100 people, tends to do just fine without rules of behavior / explicit moderation / etc.

And yet an online group with even just 100 regular posters, tends to fall apart without such rules / moderation.

That's the more specific, apples-to-apples-ish distinction that I had in my head in my GP post: that it's weird that when we take basically the same "level of expected interactions" from in-person + synchronous, to online + asynchronous, that it tends toward a different equilibrium state.

---

I do agree with the lack of community / real relationships being a major driving factor. If you take a bunch of people who are already in the same community and give them a closed-membership unmoderated online forum, the resulting interactions won't tend toward inanity/collapse nearly as badly.

But I would argue that an implicit shared context for "recovering" an assumed set of nonverbal signals that "would go along with" others' textual wording choices, is exactly the primary way in which a shared pre-existing community is enables continued behavioral regulation. People don't need to actually convey that they're frowning at you, if everyone in the community (including the poster!) knows exactly what subtextual meaning is carried by a reply of "well bless your heart."
by reify | 2026-02-23 21:00:46+00:00
I am definitely going to get the "Lightning detector" and the "Bed occupancy sensor".

I have fuck all else to do with my life so lets get stuck in.

I mean who the fuck wants a detector that tells you that someone is sleeping next to you in your own bed.

Its not as if some random person off the street is going to enter your home and get in bed with you and have a nice sleep. without you waking up!

I use my ears for lightning detection. Clue! listen for the rumble of thunder, then count to 5 and look out of your window in the direction of rumbling noise. you will see lightning. Detected!

I could do with a "how smelly is my fart" sensor.

muppets,

Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
Till it's gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lo

They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
With a pink hotel, a boutique
And a swinging hot spot
by vintermann | 2026-02-23 21:01:19+00:00
A historian I respect - don't want to name him in case I accidentally misrepresent his ideas - has speculated that the Norse didn't mix with the Sami because having a separate tribe of hunters (no major reindeer farming back then) was useful to them. Almost like a caste. If people live side by side for 1000s of years, I think that's fair to speculate - there has to be a reason they didn't just assimilate into each other.

After the Danes returned to Greeland and first met the Inuit, the priests pushed for religious and cultural assimilation. Not strictly speaking linguistic assimilation, since they were good protestants who believed everyone had a right to hear the gospel in their own language, but it seems likely the language would have disappeared eventually if they got their way.

But the mercantile class in Denmark resisted development efforts, because if the Greenlanders became just another European people under the Danish crown, exploiting trade with them might become less profitable. People who were willing to live without European material comforts, such as they were, yet would sell you highly lucrative trade goods in return for comparatively little. The policy may have saved their language and culture, but at the cost of crippling economic development for a long time.

Maybe it was like that with the frontier/foraging Sami in the past, too. Kept apart in order to be easier to exploit economically. Though already in Harald Fairhair's day, it seems there were also Sami living among the Norse as boatwrights and smiths and maybe also as wandering professional hunters, hunting livestock predators for bounties - we know that kept going for a long time.

Another historian, which I will name - Johan Borgos - has written that the Lofoten islands were roughly 1 / 5 Sami, and that it was priests, the social elite, who first broke the taboo on marrying across the language barrier. Once they had done it, common people started doing it too, and so the language died out in that place. Not really from deliberate suppression effort (that came much later), but simply from "well, our parents speak different languages but most of the people we interact with speak Norwegian, so..."

Segregation can "work wonders" for preserving language and culture, but it's obviously often not a good thing. And to some degree, I think we have to respect our ancestors choices that they wanted bakeries, horn orchestras, cinemas, photography studios, tuberculosis sanatoriums, teetotaller lodges, baptists and salvationists, steam ships, traveling circuses, gymnastic competitions, revue theater etc. etc. in short everything modern, coded as "Norwegian" to them - rather than joik and reindeer and the few exotic things coded as Sami.
by basch | 2026-02-23 21:01:37+00:00
Rust may be the darling of the moment, but Erlang is oft slept on.

As AI makes human-readable syntax less relevant, the Erlang/Elixir BEAM virtual machine is an ideal compilation target because its "let it crash" isolated process model provides system-level fault tolerance against AI logic errors, arguably more valuable than Rust’s strict memory safety.

The native Actor Model simplifies massive concurrency by eliminating shared state and the complex thread management. BEAM's hot code swapping capability also enables a continuous deployment where an AI can dynamically rewrite and inject optimized functions directly into live applications with zero downtime.

Imagine a future where an LLM is constantly monitoring server performance, profiling execution times, and dynamically rewriting sub-optimal functions in real-time. With Rust, every optimization requires a recompile and a deployment cycle that interrupts the system.

Finally, Erlang's functional immutability makes deterministic AI reasoning easier, while its built-in clustering replaces complex external infrastructure, making it a resilient platform suited for automated iteration.
by cyberax | 2026-02-23 21:02:14+00:00
Yes? Netflix had 20 million subscribers in 2010. At additional $50 per year per subscriber, that's $1B a year. More than enough to be profitable with regular loan financing at market rates.

> So how would that have helped smaller competitors? Where were they going to get the money from to compete if not other lines of businesses or borrowing?

By borrowing at market rates and pricing services to cover the loan payments.

You're actually making a good argument why cross-financing should not exist at all and that we all would probably be better without it.
by cpgxiii | 2026-02-23 21:02:26+00:00
You probably aren't using some weird SOM, though. There is a bit of an unstated exception of "unless said SBC/SOM has specific hardware that is necessary/particularly valuable for your product/project". For example, if you need GMSL you are probably not going to be picking Intel, even though ADL-N and the bigger processors support MIPI, simply because no one else does and the documentation/support for it is basically nonexistent. Designs with closely-coupled A/M/R cores, or CPU/MCU/FPGA hybrids like Zynq would be others.

But generally projects which are choosing some random SBC aren't using any of these features, and are just suffering the pain/imposing it on their users for no good reason.
by maddiedreese | 2026-02-23 21:02:35+00:00
How it works:

1. The iMac G3 loads a page with a form in its browser

2. I type a message and hit send (plain HTML form POST)

3. The Pi Zero 2W I have hooked up receives the form submission and makes an HTTP request to the OpenClaw gateway’s /v1/chat/completions endpoint on the VPS

4. The VPS runs OpenClaw

5. The response comes back through the Pi to the iMac as a page reload with the full conversation
by impulser_ | 2026-02-23 21:02:42+00:00
It's greed, now that they have all the data and infrastructure they are pulling up the ladder.

Why do you think not a single one of these labs have released an open source models distilled on their own SOTA model?

They are all preaching they want to provide AI to everyone, wouldn't this be the best way to do this? Use your SOTA model to produce a lesser but open source model?
by jacquesm | 2026-02-23 21:02:48+00:00
That goes for almost every language. I recall my first couple of weeks with various compiled language and they all had their 'wtf?' moments when a tiny mistake in the input generated reams of output. But once you get past that point you simply don't make those mistakes anymore. Try missing a '.' in a COBOL program and see what happens. Make sure there is enough paper in the box under LPT1...
by nyarlathotep_ | 2026-02-23 21:02:49+00:00
In my teens/20s, I would have advocated for legalization of marijuana and thought any argument against it was some antiquated, puritanical nonsense.

In the decade+ since, there's no way I'd do so.

I know three personal friends that are long time (allegedly not addicted) heavy marijuana users that all suffer from Cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome to the extent that it's effected their daily lives substantially.

Two of the aforementioned are roughly my age, and are half as bright as they were as teens. Neither of them can follow a train of thought particularly well and are difficult to hold conversations with.

How much of this is attributable to how much more powerful "modern" strains (or whatever the geo-engineered differences are) is unknown, but I can't imagine it's not a factor. This is not the dopey "get stoned and play XBox and eat a whole pizza" stuff we had in the 00s.

I'm sure there's plenty of counterexamples or something, but my perspective on this has completely changed, influenced by examples like this.
by fdefitte | 2026-02-23 21:03:00+00:00
One cartel gone, incentive structure intact. Academic prestige is entirely mediated through journal placement, so whoever controls prestige journals can extract rents indefinitely. Elsevier did not invent this, they just ran it more aggressively.

The fix is not enforcement. It is tenure committees that stop treating impact factors as proxies for researcher quality. Until that changes, any successor recreates the same behavior. The cartel is a symptom.