MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kypro | 2026-02-09 20:16:06+00:00
FPTP will just guarantee that nothing meaningful can be done. Too much compromise in decision making is bad.

Personally I think ideal set up is a system which grants quite a of power to a small handful of people, but makes it very easy for those people to be removed. This is typically the model that works best in business and other cooperative pursuits anyway.

Throwing more people in the room with different opinions will ensure significant decisions can almost never made. Any policy too far to the right or too far to left will be watered down. The result is that you'll be led by centrists who can't really change anything and anything they do change will be disliked by everyone.
by marginalia_nu | 2026-02-09 20:16:20+00:00
Don't underestimate just how much money you can make off funneling visitors to ads at scale. It's basically Google's entire business model.

If OpenAI plays their cards right, they can definitely end up in a similar position. Yeah a lot of programmers would probably pony up for Claude, but every lazy high schooler in the world would gladly hear about Raid: Shadow Legends to have ChatGPT do their homework for them.

Don't get me wrong it's definitely sucks, but man is it ever a profitable way to suck.
by s_u_d_o | 2026-02-09 20:16:21+00:00
Hey, smart one!
- Why not allow the behavioral/timing intervals somehow random, with predefined threshholds? Just to simulate real user interactions.
- Also, what’s the criteria for choosing those URLs? (Any security measures?)
- Those URLs being visited are the same? i.e. you mentioned the URLs being visited are hardcoded, so eventually the ISP can filter our those URLs… unless if they are continuously enriched/interchanged.
by overgard | 2026-02-09 20:16:23+00:00
> "Anti-LLM sentiment" within software development is nearly non-existent.

Strong disagree right there. I remember talking to a (developer) coworker a few months ago who seemed like the biggest AI proponent on our team. When we were one-on-one during a lunch though, he revealed that he really doesn't like AI that much at all, he's just afraid to speak up against it. I'm in a few Discord channels with a lot of highly skilled (senior and principal programmers) who mostly work in game development (or adjacent), and most of them either mock LLMs or have a lot of derision for it. Hacker News is kind of a weird pro-AI bubble, most other places are not nearly as keen on this stuff.
by jacobolus | 2026-02-09 20:16:56+00:00
For a bit of context, the ''Phaenomena'' was a book by Eudoxus (c. 400 BC) explaining the then-current knowledge of astronomy. A poem (also ''Phaenomena'') by Aratus (c. 300 BC) made the content more accessible, and was extremely popular. The only surviving work by Hipparchus (c. 150 BC) is a critical commentary on these two books, and it only survived because it was bundled together with several other commentaries on Aratus' poem which were copied as a group. Hipparchus synthesized Mesopotamian astronomical observations and measurement techniques with Greek spherical geometry, founding the subject we now call trigonometry. All of his other works are lost, but much of the content of Ptolemy's ''Syntaxis'' (a.k.a. ''Almagest'', c. 150 AD) was taken from Hipparchus' astronomical and mathematical works.

Any additional fragments of Hipparchus' works is of great interest to the history of mathematics and astronomy.
by vablings | 2026-02-09 20:17:07+00:00
My wife's VW will show the following distance and if you are too close a small icon is displayed on the dash. I believe its warning you that if there is emergency breaking required for the car it will not be able to stop in time.

It also shows how close you are to the car Infront in "car length" units with a nice big indicator and the adaptive cruse control will follow that distance mostly on its own between 30-100mph
by SideburnsOfDoom | 2026-02-09 20:17:27+00:00
FYI, the Wikipedia article has a little more data on this vehicle as an EV:
4 motors, 1,113 horsepower, an 880 V platform, 122 kWh of battery, range 330 miles (531.1 km).

Not clear yet on the exact charge speed or launch date. Or what the 0-100km/h time is, but expect a low number, of course. That number has to be eye-catching.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferrari_Luce
by johnnyanmac | 2026-02-09 20:17:43+00:00
I have my small little groups. I've walked away from big sites constantly and this won't be an exception. Definitely going to cancel my Nitro today until/unless they revert this.

But leaving is never free. There's a lot of gaming communities (especially niche subcommunities like emulation, speedrunning, modding, etc) that are mostly on Discord and not anywhere else. Many probably won't move. A lot of tribal knowledge will be lost as it's locked in these communities.

Heck, even some FOSS communities communicate mostly on Discord. I have more faith they will move. But not all.
by criddell | 2026-02-09 20:19:11+00:00
When LL Bean ended their lifetime return policy, their CEO wrote this:

> Increasingly, a small, but growing number of customers has been interpreting our guarantee well beyond its original intent. Some view it as a lifetime product replacement program, expecting refunds for heavily worn products used over many years. Others seek refunds for products that have been purchased through third parties, such as at yard sales.

People were buying old items on eBay and returning them to the store to get a brand new item.
by OldSchool | 2026-02-09 20:19:16+00:00
that is certainly a reasonable paraphrase of my own prompt. I was also using 5.2. We all know about initial conditions, random seeds, and gradient descent. I have the transcript of what I quoted. Here's a bit more:
---
Is That Still “Objective Science”?
No.
It is scientific interpretation modified by ethical policy.
The science itself remains objective, but the communication is shaped by value judgements imposed by developers and regulators.
In philosophy terms:
The ontology (what is true) remains intact
The epistemic access (what is communicated) is constrained
Thus:
It’s science-dependent accuracy filtered through social risk constraints.
---
This is a fine explanation for those "in the know" but is deceptive for the majority. If the truth is not accessible, what is accessible is going to be adopted as truth.

To me that immediately leads reality being shaped by "value judgements imposed by developers and regulators"
by dchi04 | 2026-02-09 20:19:28+00:00
A majority of Americans are in favor of age verification.

https://www.edweek.org/technology/not-meant-for-children-adu...

Have you ever considered that it's the other way around? Maybe the security needs of a minority shouldn't block policies with wide support that will protect children online?

Either way, the whole "parent better" argument doesn't work. It's victim-blaming. Thousands of kids download Discord every day to play video games with their friends only to eventually be invited to servers which host explicit content / bad actors that we know can permanently harm them. A bunch of software engineers on HN may understand the risks that online platforms pose to their children, but much of the population cannot/will not fully comprehend this. We should not allow their children to experience terrible things just because their parents aren't read up about which platforms will gladly allow creeps to interact with or message their kids.

The answer here is simple: if you don't like age verification, move on to a different service. Creating spaces where there are rules and order on the internet for those that are vulnerable is much more important than you not wanting to upload a picture of your ID to a platform that you're using completely voluntarily.
by seanmcdirmid | 2026-02-09 20:19:48+00:00
I'm not sure if you are serious, but 996 was invented by the Chinese tech industry in 2019 and I've never heard it to describe anything in the USA (well, until today). Wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/996_working_hour_system

Note all the examples are also Chinese. There is a recent edit at the bottom of the page though:

Occurrence in US tech companies
In 2025, amidst the AI boom, reports have emerged of startup tech companies in San Francisco / Silicon Valley requiring "9-9-6" work schedules, with the goal of building things quickly in a competitive market.[15][16][17] California Labor Code §515.5 exempts employers from providing many software engineers with overtime pay.
by OptionOfT | 2026-02-09 20:19:51+00:00
> North America

Having driven all over NA, and Europe, I find it more prevalent in NA. Less distance, more people in large pickups throwing their weight around to make someone move out of the way.

And a design of giant freeway interchanges that require shifting lanes.

E.g. on the 405 in CA. 7 lines going South from the Valley towards Santa Monica.

That's 7 lanes you need to cross if you're in the HOV lane.
by skywhopper | 2026-02-09 20:20:07+00:00
This is the predictable outcome of subordinating the GitHub product to the overarching "AI must be part of everything whether it makes sense or not" mandate coming down from the top. It was only a year ago that GitHub was moved under the "CoreAI" group at Microsoft, and there's been plenty of stories of massive cost-cutting and forcing teams to focus on AI workflows instead of their actual product priorities. To the extent they are drinking their own Kool-Aid, this sort of ops failure is also an entirely predictable outcome of too much reliance on LLM-generated code and workflows rather than human expertise, something we see happening at an alarming scale in a number of public MS repos.

Hopefully it will get bad enough fast enough that they'll recognize they need to drastically change how they are operating. But I fear we're just witnessing a slow slide into complacency and settling for being a substandard product with monopoly-power name recognition.
by Jimmc414 | 2026-02-09 20:20:13+00:00
Really don’t feel comfortable defending OpenAI in any way because there is a lot to complain about but ads for paid services that cost a lot more than $8 per month is not really an anomaly. Look at Amazon prime, prime video, Hulu, airline flights, any major newspaper subscription, YT premium, etc, etc. I get the annoyance but just cancel the service if you don’t want ads or pay for a tier that isn’t subsidized.
by Wistar | 2026-02-09 20:20:19+00:00
I was an Eddie Bauer XLT guy for years until they suddenly made them way too skinny. Best fitting shirts ever. I am wearing one of the old ones right now. Land's End Tall sizing is a good fit although some of their fabric quality is a bit iffy—especially the colorfastness of their dyes. I have had two of six shirts be unable to endure professional stain spot removal by a dry cleaner. The greens and grays seem to be the most fragile.

I have always meant to take one of the few remaining right-fitting Eddie Bauer shirts to a tailor to see if they can be used as a pattern to make more shirts.
by johnnyanmac | 2026-02-09 20:20:35+00:00
>In 10 years, you can completely replace larger platforms as the community of choice.

And by then you have to worry about money to upkeep the platform. You sell off or sell out your users, and the cycle repeats. Even for the most well meaning people, it comes down to the fact that scaling such communication isn't free.

We hear all these stories of eccentric billionaires going all out on their hobbies. Why do we have no eccentric FOSS people who donate to keep such stuff FOSS?
by tankenmate | 2026-02-09 20:20:55+00:00
Isn't it just so much easier to make sure that wealth isn't concentrated in so few hands? Tax wealth, not work.

And before everyone gets upset, tax serves two purposes; 1) control inflation (it in effect burns money that was issued when the govt previously paid for things), 2) disincentivises selected behaviours. and one side effect, when the govt runs a tax deficit it increases inflation, and of course the contrapositive is also true.
by SideburnsOfDoom | 2026-02-09 20:21:02+00:00
The selling point of electric sports cars is more "the acceleration is amazing" and less "it makes a loud noise".

e.g.

> a 0–100 km/h (62 mph) acceleration time of 2.36 seconds, and a quarter mile (402 m) drag race time of 9.78 seconds. ... unofficially the fastest production car in the world

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yangwang_U9

> Model S Plaid Takes 2.07 Seconds to Accelerate from 0-100 mph

https://www.energytrend.com/news/20210623-22467.html
by donkey_brains | 2026-02-09 20:21:22+00:00
Too true. I remember when I visited it took me a while to get used to this. I would ask my friend questions like “what happens if I fall off this campero/get bitten by one of these street dogs/clock somebody in the head playing rana/twist my ankle on this busted-out sidewalk? Who has the liability here?” and he would say “we don’t really have that here man”. Honestly it was a great time.
by stryan | 2026-02-09 20:21:35+00:00
>> It assumes people in very different places for 1,000+ years did the same thing and had the same views

> But that was true, wasn't it? The Dark Ages started when Christianity spread through most of Europe. And really completely ended only when the Reformation fractured it.

1. Political, economic, cultural, and even religious systems would vary drastically by place and time in Europe. The lifestyle and thoughts of an English peasent in 600CE would be drastically different from the lifestyle of a Spanish or Frankish one, and would differ even more so between 600CE and 900CE.

2. The "Dark Ages" traditionally started when Rome fell in 476CE, long before Christianity had spread outside of traditional Roman lands.

3. The Reformation didn't start until the 16th century, long after the Dark Ages are considered to have ended. Generously you could say it started with the Hussites in the 1400s but that's still skipping over the Renaissance entirely which is the absolute latest end for the Dark Ages since the whole point of it as a historical context is "rediscovering" the Classical works.
by bgnn | 2026-02-09 20:21:40+00:00
This is just so sad. One would have hoped Ferrari aa a car brand care about their design language enough to not look like any other car in 2026. That iPad in the middle looks just a bit more refined than the middle console tablet glued to a Dacia Sandero.

Why do they go for OLED fake analog gauges? You don't need to switch between a million different faces for gauges. A Ferrari is supposed to be about the driving experience, not the gimmicks.
by ActorNightly | 2026-02-09 20:21:54+00:00
My other comment in the thread explains it.

Basically, driving policy needs to be MCTS search on a space that represents physical objects.

If I were to build a self driving system here is how I would do it:

* Define a 3d representation of the physical space around the car and how it evolves. Basically a very compressed simulator that has an input of initial conditions, and then predicts the evolution of the scene. The big difference here is that you would be manually coding this sim (i.e not training it), because you would be defining rules for things like collisions. You can also conveniently integrate your car control in this sim, with motion based on tire behavior that happens when you turn the steering wheel.

* Build probablistic behaviour of other objects (i.e cars/pedestrians) from real world driving data. I.e given a time span of driving, these essentially represent the probability of what the human pedestrian or the human driver would do.

* On the sensor side, you would train models to take lidar/camera and create the initial conditions for the sim. I.e things like big trucks would map to big trucks with a lot of mass and inertia, things like obstruction on the road would represent essentially "walls" that you cannot hit, and traffic control objects that represent "soft" boundaries.

* On the driver side, you would train something like MuZero to essentially play the driving game within the sim, building both the prediction model at training, and at inference time running MCTS to chose the best optimal policy. Scoring would be done based on things like following traffic control signals and not hitting things, minimizing traffic disturbance, following the GPS route, and so on e.t.c.

And this is how you would get superhuman driving. Just like in the cases where a neural net learns to play a particular game and finds really unique strategies, you would see similar things with this. For example, It would be able to avoid collision situations where you would get rear ended, because it would predict a collision, see that emergency lane is open, and create a control plan to move the car out of the way. And from a product perspective, you can imagine how advantageous this would be in terms of development and improvement.

And to answer your question, you wouldn't really even need to do end to end as a test for bugs, you would just need to make sure your sensor model is accurate, which can be done simply by driving the car and it observing the world. Its much simpler to do than comparable systems because you don't care about what the object is, you just care whether its part of the terrain or not, and if its not, you really just care about its size in terms of taking up space and its trajectory.
by asdff | 2026-02-09 20:21:59+00:00
Los Angeles Apparel is what you are thinking of (I believe owner of AA sold the brand and started this which is manufactured in los angeles). And their t shirts, blank t shirts not dress shirts mind you, are $28 or so depending on weight. Blank hanes or fruit of the loom t shirt made overseas can be had for basically an order of magnitude less than the american manufactured version.
by physicles | 2026-02-09 20:22:06+00:00
I’ve had a concept like this in the back of my mind for years. Happy to see someone executing it so well.

For me, it started when I spent a year and a half reading and digesting books for and against young earth creationism, then eventually for Christianity itself (its historical truth claims). It struck me that the books were just a serialization of some knowledge structure that existed in the authors’ heads, and by reading I was trying to recreate that structure in my own head. And that’s a super inefficient way to go about this business. So there must be a shortcut, some more powerful intermediate representation than just text (text is too general and powerful, and you can’t compute over it… until now with LLMs?)

That graph felt a lot like code to me: there’s no unique representation of knowledge in a graph, but there are some that are much more useful than others; building a well-factored graph takes time and taste; graphs are composable and reusable in a way that feels like it could help you discover layers of abstraction in your arguments.
by wwweston | 2026-02-09 20:22:12+00:00
You either win big enough under the current system, with its system problems, or you never win to improve it.

Imagining better systems before doing that is just a form of xkcd’s nerd sniping.

And the biggest challenge to representative government might well be that most people are terrible at engaging it productively. Voting is the bare minimum and most people don’t vote (let alone organize and lobby effectively). Some significant portion of those that do vote can’t correctly draw a line between policies they’d like and candidates who intend to work on delivering, and that’s before we get to the portion of the population that may not correctly anticipate policy outcomes or even really understand policy as a concept.

The system has actually been functioning surprisingly well considering, and as catastrophic as recent elections could be seen as, the outcome arguably represents a reasonable degree of fidelity to the input from the electorate.

If we still hold free and fair elections, the task of those who want representative government is to change enough of the electorate first.
by niccl | 2026-02-09 20:22:18+00:00
back working on my lighting desk, after a couple of years of hating it because the communications bus between the many different modules was flakey and so the whole thing wasn't fun to use. I bit the bullet last year and re-implemented everything with CAN-bus communications and it's actually fun to use now.

Current work has been improving boot time. Was nearly two minutes because of one board, and that's a long time for the lights to be out if you have to reboot during a show. I'd wanted to use buildroot to get a custom kernel that should boot much more quickly, but the buildroot learning curve was steep for me, particularly as I've no expectation of ever needing the knowledge again.

Independently but concurrently I decided I really ought to understand what all this AI stuff was about, for fear of getting left behind. That coincided with the release of opus 4.5, and holy heck has it made a difference! With a little guidance from me Claude got the buildroot environment working and the boot time down to less than 10 seconds. I've been _really_ impressed. I've had Claude write a few boring utilities that I could easily have done but Claude managed much faster and with less boredom on my part. Fortunately for my AI revolution I think I'm a better Business Analyst/writer than I am a coder, so it fits with my temperament.
by elevation | 2026-02-09 20:22:20+00:00
The big ad networks want a cut from business users and will actively suppress posts from business accounts that haven't paid up.

But instead of paying Instagram for reach, consider taking the same budget and spending it delivering samples and coupons to other local businesses mid/late morning. Bonus points if you make the coupons unique for each delivery so you can track which local businesses are your biggest fans. Office managers are generally receptive to this kind of cold call and you can leave a catering menu. Catering gigs can keep your kitchen busy during the off hours.
by WhyNotHugo | 2026-02-09 20:22:24+00:00
Who exactly is the target audience?

People who are really into e2ee and privacy use Signal.

People who want open, federated networks, use XMPP.

People who want something fancy with all the features, etc use Telegram or whatever.

Matrix basically has a lot of hype and marketing around it (presumably due to being VC funded), but it's hard to see any appeal beyond that. And the protocol and spec are an absolute mess.
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