MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mmooss | 2026-02-15 18:21:30+00:00
Speculation may usefully provide leads to investigate, but it's meaningless as a conclusion and won't be accepted by scientists or anyone else serious (including courts); they require evidence.

> you can’t always make a definitive statement

It's far short of that. Human speculation is wildly unreliable and we seem to always overestimate it, perhaps because it's emotionally satisfying: What other speculative answer would we choose but something that satisfies our emotions? Lacking evidence, nothing compels us to face the unpleasant or unexpected. Look what our understanding of nature and the world was before we required evidence (before science).
by xp84 | 2026-02-15 18:21:52+00:00
Where even are all the people wandering around naked for lack of clothes? There's so much donated clothing already out there. And the homeless here mainly 'need clothes' because they have no way to wash their clothes. It'd be less wasteful to get them access to laundry facilities. And the developing world always gets the "PATRIOTS - Super Bowl LX Champions" gear and a ton of other cast-offs - I doubt they need more.

To me this whole regulation sounds like a bunch of virtue-signaling politicians wanted to pat themselves on the back.
by asdfbank | 2026-02-15 18:22:16+00:00
Not a programmer (accountant here) and thanks to Github copilot in VSCode, I was able to make the app I couldn't find. It's been a super fun hobby over the last 6 or 7 months, especially hosting it myself and my only cost now is Apple's recurring 99 USD in case i want to ship an update later, so I can keep it up for free into the future.

95% of the app is boilerplate API and DB stuff but I stood 0 chance of making this without the LLM handling syntax and the volume of code.

It's Plantshare and it helps people share and find plants, because if you do gardening, your plants are likely making more free plants all the time. which you can now share and find on this app. Saw an app for sharing tools in your neighborhood and I thought that was really cool, so I did this but for giving plants/seeds/cuttings away.

https://ps-prod.bloodys.cc/links/getplantshare
by hinata08 | 2026-02-15 18:23:01+00:00
correct

PBS's _spying on the homefront_ piece from 2007 already described this very kind of omniscient private database.

The government itself isn't constitutionally allowed to build or run anything of the kind, but it can commission friends in the private sector to do one and query it with little to no oversight

I am definitely not uploading my face and ID on Discord or any site
by hn_acker | 2026-02-15 18:23:07+00:00
> The only thing Section 230 did was protect large corporations by removing their liability for hosted content, thereby enforcing generic corporatist speech. It did NOT protect speech on the internet.

Do you really think removing Section 230 would lead to more speech overall on the internet? Without Section 230 protections, the companies that would choose not to moderate at all would externalize content moderation into self-censorship (why would I continue posting on Hacker News if Hacker News became like 4chan? also, such companies wouldn't be able to remove libel!) and the companies that would choose to continue to moderate would ban everything that could be interpreted by anyone as legally controversial (have you never witnessed commenters on Hacker News making false claims about famous figures, including but not limited to politicians?).

Also, skim "Why Section 230 Is Better Than the First Amendment" by Eric Goldman [1].

> Companies hosting libel should be sued, because the same companies also have editorial control over their content.

> If you don't want companies to be sued for libel, then they should also be forced to remove their editorial controls. No more algorithms, no more content moderation, no more banning, etc.

Hacker News has algorithms, content moderation, and banning. How are comments ordered? How are pages on the front page ordered? Why are most dead posts and comments unsearchable even when you have showdead on? (Well, because HN's Algolia search doesn't know what showdead is.) What happens to someone who repeatedly breaks HN guidelines? Should Hacker News be sued because every week (every day?) a user on Hacker News who isn't banned yet is posting defamation about someone?

> The only thing Section 230 did was protect large corporations

No, it did not. Exhibit A: Hacker News, and any social media website smaller than it. Exhibit B: Barrett v. Rosenthal [2].

> If you don't want companies to be sued for libel, then they should also be forced to remove their editorial controls.[...]

> You can't have it both ways.

It's "both ways" in the same sense that by default a family can both let a convicted adult family member continue to live with the family and not be liable for that family member's crimes. Each family member is liable for their own crimes. A family can both kick an adult family member out of the house and not be liable for that family member's crimes. A social media company is liable for its own unprotected speech. A social media user is liable for their own unprotected speech.

[1] https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3351323

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrett_v._Rosenthal
by mschuster91 | 2026-02-15 18:23:33+00:00
> all assuming the product is not sold as "new"

And that is a very big assumption to make. Recycling is ripe with fraud simply because how much money is in the system.

The only way you can really be sure that "recycling" companies don't end up screwing you over is to do rough material separation on your own and dispose of the different material streams (paper packaging, manuals, plastics, PCBs) by different companies.
by kmeisthax | 2026-02-15 18:23:35+00:00
If they're local, then they're subject to GDPR, which carries massive fines and a private right of action that lets you sue the shit out of anyone who spies on you.

International surveillance, on the other hand, doesn't give two shits about GDPR. Likewise, in the US, they pay private firms and other governments to spy on their own citizens to get around the 4th and 5th Amendments.

Limiting spying to nation-state actors only - and prohibiting cross-border surveillance cooperation - would do an insane amount of good for plugging the data drain.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2026-02-15 18:23:40+00:00
I would like it a lot better without the mention to the "West", which, as usual, is a code word for: "I want to pretend my point extend outside the USA but I have absolutely no knowledge of how true that is. I don't intend to do any research because that would demand efforts from me so bear with my casual imperialism". Queue the purely American historical lesson following.
by alexjplant | 2026-02-15 18:23:53+00:00
There were numerous reasons the Dreamcast failed in the market and piracy is pretty far down on the list of those. The loss of major sports franchises and dearth of must-have games relative to competitors, Sony's hypewave marketing ("the PS2 is a supercomputer in your living room"), consumers and developers wary of a repeat of the CD/32X/Saturn debacle, trans-Pacific dysfunction between Sega's Japan and US branches... I could go on, but pirated discs wasn't it. If anything the lack of DVD playback was a bigger factor.

> Hideki Sato was responsible.

I fail to see why you want to make one guy culpable for a hardware security hole (on a system without pervasive OTA updates, no less) or why you think it necessary to do so in a thread about his death. Did you lose your job because of the failure of the Dreamcast or something?
by Der_Einzige | 2026-02-15 18:25:26+00:00
GLP-1's solve this, now you're basically only losing weight and eventually (i.e. the 2030s) most people won't fluctuate much in weight. So, try again on "changing sizes". Yes I'm aware that children grow up rapidly and need new clothes. Don't buy goodyear welted boots for your 7 year old.

The best fashion is timeless, and that's why heritage fashion is far superior to trends. Coincidentally, it's why the brands I listed above are exclusively heritage brands, who have basically no regards for trends.

There's a reason HN is poorly dressed. I'd rather take the "only dresses with startup T-shirt" guy over the "I've gotta have the Sydney Sweeney Jeans" person, and especially over the sneakerhead crowd which now thinks Hoka and NB is superior to Nike.
by renewiltord | 2026-02-15 18:25:51+00:00
Hmm, I’m interested in this, especially since it applies no compression delta encoding might be feasible for daily scans of the data but for whatever reason my Brave mobile on iOS displays a blank page for the example page. Hmm, perhaps it’s a mobile rendering issue because Chrome and Safari on iOS can’t do it either https://gwern.net/doc/philosophy/religion/2010-02-brianmoria...
by its-a-new-world | 2026-02-15 18:25:55+00:00
It is true that the current neatify scripts to not aim to replicate rustfmt. My personal goal is cross-language standardization, where reading Java, TypeScript, or Rust all follows the same visual "layout".

Of course, I totally understand that people often have very different ideas on formatting, depending on which tool they are generally used to. That's why I made the scripts pluggable.

If someone wants to build a rustfmt compatible formatting script in neatify, they can. The real power comes from being able to apply those same formatting rules to other languages to get a consistent result across a polyglot stack.

The age of MCP is not unlike that of microservices where the primary feature was polyglot implementations. Except now there is the added angle of AI generation.

The goal is to allow absolute freedom in formatting style across a broad range of syntaxes.

I absolutely love the tree-sitter library, I use it in a number of projects. One of those projects is to create syntax-aware embeddings. Currently the rules in that systems are still query based and lack flexibility when it comes to defining context. I'm actually thinking of taking some architectural ideas from Neatify's Rhai-bridge to make my embedding extraction more flexible as well.
by locallost | 2026-02-15 18:26:48+00:00
This is yet another conflict within the system we live in. On the one hand the EU is, as is most of the world, a capitalist society, but on the other it tries to be a leader in being environmentally friendly. One could assume these are possibly orthogonal, but they are not. Example: there was a baker in my co-working space who had a desk there to do his accounting. He would occasionally bring in unsold goods instead of essentially throwing them away. Which was nice, but it was obvious that people who got something for free would not go to his shop to buy some. Economically it makes more sense to destroy what you don't sell.

So a noble idea for sure, but it will fail because it goes against the core of the society we live in today. And the EU is primarily an economic union.
by xp84 | 2026-02-15 18:26:59+00:00
They are -- so I hope Europeans will remember this when they have more trouble finding the size and color they need. If you can't throw anything away you do have to underproduce to avoid being stuck with crap that no one wants, is illegal to throw away, and can't even be recycled (because that would be 'destroying' the clothes, wouldn't it?)

So you have to underproduce always, and maybe not even make things that aren't a safe bet to sell out.
by tonymet | 2026-02-15 18:27:28+00:00
The surveillance protects the regime, which mostly involves the US Federal government. Street crime, unless it’s organized by Cartels, is not a political threat.

You can see the counter example during the 40s-70s when the FBI targeted the mafia and local political corruption to take out the remaining organized crime strongholds .

Today organized crime doesn’t have much political influence. A sort of truce. So there’s no longer incentive for the feds to pursue street crime. Street crime yields no longer funnel into influence.

In fact, most political corruption today is coming from entitlements , which further bolsters political control.
by collingreen | 2026-02-15 18:27:55+00:00
A distraction from what?

If anyone with power picks and chooses who gets justice then there is no justice, those people are corrupt, and they need to be removed from power and charged.

Whatabout whatabout whatabout. Charge, try, and imprison the guilty regardless of how much money they have, which political party they are part of, or how they vote. Anything else is madness.
by spwa4 | 2026-02-15 18:28:09+00:00
> i.e. no different from bank seizing your house if your mortgage arrangement blows up.

No, this would be like the bank seizing your house if SOMEONE ELSE'S loan arrangement blows up (specifically your broker's loans from the securities exchange). And yes, this assertion is correct, your securities ownership will be in question if your broker becomes insolvent, especially if it becomes insolvent due to fraud.

But this is just fox news scaring people. They don't even take the scariest laws. If your broker goes bankrupt because it commits tax fraud ... then a much bigger can of worms is opened, which can have even bigger consequences for customers.

And it's Fox News, right. Also from the article:

"Lawmakers could also enact new legislation that weakens current consumer safeguards"

Well, yes. In other news: lawmakers could enact legislation that makes it legal to kill your dog.
by wiseowise | 2026-02-15 18:28:17+00:00
Nobody forces you to use the applications, you’re free to create native counterparts that fit your scenario (enjoy recreating everything while you’re at it).

> Let's not pretend this is what users want.

It’s what I want, as long as it integrates with native shortcuts. Great examples that I like: VScode, Obsidian. I couldn’t care less if they look native or not.
by layer8 | 2026-02-15 18:28:30+00:00
I wouldn’t use the term “product” here. Apart from most software being projects, not products, what I was getting at is that details and design decisions matter at all levels of software. You might have a robust mental model of your product as a product, and about what it does, but that doesn’t mean that you have a good mental model of what’s going on in some sub-sub-sub-module deep within its bowels. Software design has a fractal quality to it, and cognitive debt can accumulate at the ostensibly mundane implementation-detail level as well as at the domain-conceptual level. If you replace “product” by “module”, I would agree.
by Nevermark | 2026-02-15 18:28:38+00:00
You are right, some people are stretching that word a lot.

I don’t think that’s changed how most people interpret the word. More of a weakening of its meaning often with an activist or persuasive bent.

Toxic is another word similarly getting stretched and watered down by some.

> Farming is violence.

This would definitely fall into the stretched / watered down pattern.

I don’t think the other strong words you are using are any different in this context.

I am not saying you don’t have a point, but over dramatizing can make it hard to relate to, when people are being expected to accept a level of verbal shrillness that isn’t necessary to make a point.

Humanity is certainly damaging a lot of ecosystems, not by any single farmer, but in aggregate. Change is normal, but we are driving it faster than nature can keep up with. It is a problem.

But outside of poetic or proselytizing use, violence usually means inflicting intentional harm, not a problem of conflict between reasonable local tradeoffs (creating food being a positive use of land) vs. the total global impact that needs to be balanced too.
by idopmstuff | 2026-02-15 18:28:57+00:00
No, because even if they're not sold as new (which as others have commented is often not the case), they're still competing with you for sales. Someone who would have paid full price for a new one instead gets a version with a slight issue at 25% off. That's fine if you're the one selling it at a discount, but here you've lost money on the production and are now losing even more money because you've lost a sale of a full price unit.
by mindslight | 2026-02-15 18:29:01+00:00
> It's also my firm belief that our legal system has been undermining these basic concepts for decades now. It benefits the federal government to make this all very vague, as if modern technology suddenly means you have no expectation of privacy anymore. They've also mixed in some of that wonderfully authoritarian "for purposes of national security".

Very well said. While the legal system's details are important for a few avenues of effecting change, they're often used to bog down conversions into "what is" territory rather than staying focused on "what ought". And "what ought", based on the ideals laid out in our country's founding documents, is very different from "what is" in the modern day.
by xnx | 2026-02-15 18:29:08+00:00
There is a huge amount of superstition around prompting. I've copied and pasted elaborate paragraph long results and then gotten. Same or better results with only a few words.

People write long prompts primarily to convince themselves that they're casting some advanced spell. As long as the system prompt is good you should start very simply and only expand if results are unsatisfactory.
by moritzwarhier | 2026-02-15 18:29:31+00:00
Not the inverse, but for any SPA (not framework or library) developers seeing this, it's probably worth noting that this is not better than using document.write, window.open and simular APIs.

But could be very interesting for use cases where the main logic lives on the server and people try to manually implement some download- and/or lazy-loading logic.

Still probably bad unless you're explicitly working on init and redirect scripts.
by intended | 2026-02-15 18:29:37+00:00
There seem to be many layoffs, and the hype say that AI has made coders redundant. Who knows? Perhaps you won’t have to depend on the many people who would happily take lower pay for the chance to contribute to their nation.

There’s more incentives than pure profit - Government seems capable enough to attract people when it comes to cyber weapons.

Governments aren’t currently making these tools, because until last year, private enterprise was good enough. It still is, minus the dependency on America and its political climate.

Personally - The issue isn’t engineer availability or salary, but committee based decision making.
by pear01 | 2026-02-15 18:29:43+00:00
Get money out of politics (reverse citizens united) and enact term/age limits for all public offices.

These problems will be solved. Most Americans agree on most things. Don't let the politicians who benefit off of dividing us fool you. An agenda that focuses on reform outside of the usual finger pointing game of partisan politics and promises to enact these reforms without fear or favor will win.

Any such agenda must also be willing to purge itself of any old guard that stands in the way, and treat them as a virus attached to their political movement. There is no benefit from trying to say, make a wedge between a Clinton and a Trump. If you can't get over that you're part of the problem, and this cycle will just continue.

Stop defending an old guard halfway in the grave. Being right doesn't matter in electoral politics, winning does. It is likely the only way to achieve such a broad reform is to be willing to entertain as many incriminations as possible.

Given recent relevations re Epstein this is our best chance to reform corruption in generations. Let's not squander it by defending anyone simply because they fall on one side of a dubious partisan line, or seem "less bad" than another.

The broader the castigation, the more likely to achieve momentum that can actually enact said reforms, given the disadvantages of taking on these vast incumbent interests and a government that is easily susceptible to gridlock driven by a minority.
by jonas21 | 2026-02-15 18:30:08+00:00
Here's Claude's translation of the PDF in the repo (starting at page 9):

https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/0c40c3f8-16de-4947-93c1-3...

I couldn't verify it, and a human translation would likely be preferable in the long run -- but it's probably good enough to get an idea of the story if you want to read some right now.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2026-02-15 18:30:22+00:00
I guess it's cue like on cue but it's late on a Sunday. You will have to excuse my brain.

It wasn't a nitpick by the way. I deeply resent American using "the West" like if my own country and culture was somehow fungible in their experience. They are not. We don't have that much in common. That doesn't include a legal tradition, or a conception of what freedom of speech should be, neither does it include values or history.
by alexjplant | 2026-02-15 18:30:36+00:00
The Saturn is my favorite Sega system. I remember seeing it on the GameFAQs header in the late 90s when looking up strategy guides for Game Boy games and thinking "wow, that's a cool name for a system!" It wasn't until a few years ago that I finally got one. The next time I'm convalescent or snowed in I plan on finishing Powerslave and Panzer Dragoon Saga - I've only made it about halfway through both and they're fantastic.

RIP.
by kaashif | 2026-02-15 18:30:44+00:00
I don't think there's really a credible alternate reality where Moore's law just stops like that when it was in full swing.

The ones that "could have happened" IMO are the transistor never being invented, or even mechanical computers becoming much more popular much earlier (there's a book about this alternate reality, The Difference Engine).

I don't think transistors being invented was that certain to happen, we could've got better vacuum tubes, or maybe something else.