MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jiggawatts | 2026-02-05 00:55:39+00:00
Sure, but the technology lifetimes and adoption rates have compressed exponentially despite that.

Efficiency is not the only relevant metric, there's also cost, flexibility, lifetime/durability, CRI, etc...

For example, OLEDs are (literally) flexible, but burn out faster then LEDs and are less efficient.

As another example, the light sources for televisions have undergone nearly annual changes! They started with CFL backlights, then side-illumination with white LEDs, then blue light with quantum dots, OLED panels, backlights as controllable grids of LEDs, mini-LED, micro-LED, RGB micro-LED, etc...

We're up to something like 10K dimming zones with the latest TCL panels and 100K is just around the corner.
by latchkey | 2026-02-05 00:55:55+00:00
wow, you downvoted me.

this is still devops. we use cloud-init to setup the vm.

i run the underlying hardware infrastructure and we've automated the provisioning such that we have an api that can start/stop compute at will. even bare metal.

the point of this is that the current $/token model is awful, especially if you're using a lot of tokens. it should be $/minute. pay for what you use.
by sathish316 | 2026-02-05 00:56:04+00:00
Some native Claude code options when your quota runs out:

1. Switch to extra usage, which can be increased on the Claude usage page: https://claude.ai/settings/usage

2. Logout and Switch to API tokens (using the ANTHROPIC_API_KEY environment variable) instead of a Claude Pro subscription. Credits can be increased on the Anthropic API console page: https://platform.claude.com/settings/keys

3. Add a second 20$/month account if this happens frequently, before considering a Max account.

4. Not a native option: If you have a ChatGPT Plus or Pro account, Codex is surprisingly just as good and comes with a much higher quota.
by thwarted | 2026-02-05 00:56:06+00:00
If this is the case is discoverable, for at least one direction. Reproducability is known to be a problem in some of the sciences, for various reasons. Find a paper that includes its data and software/methodology used for analysis, and try to get it running and producing the same results. Evaluate the included software/methodology on whatever software quality standards you feel are necessary or appropriate.
by nicolehu08 | 2026-02-05 00:57:08+00:00
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by nakovet | 2026-02-05 00:57:11+00:00
We are using a service that abstracts redis from us and requires to be treated like a critical dependency, think RDS, Aurora, Postgres, if they are down the whole site is down. Every job push is a call to this service. Upgrading the service = downtime.

For us this is resulted in a big weak point on our architecture because when the service reboots both job pushing and job pulling stops, with the pushing being on the API side bringing the API down. With containers we could have multiple of them running at the same time, but the shared reading/writing of the abstract Redis locks itself.

We are considering BullMQ, because the architecture is sane:
* job push: API writes to Redis
* job pull: Worker reads from Redis then writes the completion.

How do you see this issue for Bunqueue? What happens when it goes down for 5 minutes, can the jobs be enqueued? Can you run multiple instances of it, failover?

Our throughput (jobs/sec) is small we do have 100k+ scheduled jobs anywhere from minutes to months from now.
by dragonwriter | 2026-02-05 00:57:38+00:00
The EITC was inspired by advocacy for a Negative Income Tax (which is generally isomorphic to UBI, despite coming from the opposite side of the political spectrum.) But the designers couldn't avoid giving in to all the same problems with means-tested welfare that both UBI and NIT seek to eliminate, except or the separate eligibility bureaucracy, which integrating it into the income tax system avoided.
by gsf_emergency_6 | 2026-02-05 00:58:17+00:00
(orthogonal, but to the broken processes and sucking up to donors)

Because telling your buddy that they don't know what they are talking about is the kindergartner's^W^W rationalist way of building solidarity /s :)

Strangely, a variant of the same stance works for "fascists" ;)

Ps: just realized I was expected to weave peptalk about "envy" into "enby"
by XorNot | 2026-02-05 01:00:02+00:00
Fridge cataloging is actually a great use case for usage recognition, the problem is fridges no accommodations to power accessories inside them.

I have a couple of temperature sensors to alert Home Assistant if the fridge gets too warm. It would be easy and cheap to add some ESP32-camera modules to track contents...but there's no way to power them nicely (I simply don't know where I could pull USB power through).
by dougthesnails | 2026-02-05 01:00:18+00:00
Why have a spec when I have the concrete implementation and a system ready and willing to answer any questions I have about it? I don't understand why people value an artifact that can be out of sync with reality over the actual reality. The LLM can answer questions based on the code. We might drift away from needing a code editor, but I likely won't be drifting to reading specs in a world where I can converse with the deployed implementation.
by panick21_ | 2026-02-05 01:00:48+00:00
Consuming less is simply not a solution that anybody would ever agree to. Anything that you cut out would just be replaced with other consumption. Maybe consumtion can be slightly more local, but the idea that most consumption can be replaced with something that is local a pipedream. And even if you did that, to produce all that stuff locally the inputs for that production would still need to be transported.

The only way to reduce consumption is people getting poorer or people increasing their savings. And that's just future consumption.

Building more and more infrastructure is actually sustainable. And arguably we are not even building more and more as things like rail infrastructure is less now then it was in many places.

> It's been shown time and time again that more infrastructure only leads to more usage of said infrastructure.

And that is actually good if the infrastructure usage does not have massive negative externalizes, like ... trains. It actually reduces externalizes because it takes away from car and air traffic.

> The number of lorries on the road will not decrease, we'll just start carting around even more stuff than before.

Switzerland is prove that you can reduce the amount of lorries. But even if you don't, it will at least reduce the growth. And it makes it so you don't have to invest in highway expansion.

You might be against that anyway, but most people would demand it if existing highways are always full of lorries.

> But to stop the road usage we need to tax it more heavily, especially for heavier vehicles, and not just lorries. So far I haven't seen any evidence of replacing roads with rail, it's just more, more, more.

If you tax heavy transport without providing an alternative you simply drive up cost of living and make peoples live worse.

But you are right, taxing lorries and putting that into a fund that helps rail expansion is exactly what Switzerland did.
by botflyio | 2026-02-05 01:01:22+00:00
> We recently unveiled Sprites. If you don’t know what Sprites are, you should just go check them out. They’re one of the coolest things we’ve ever shipped.

Been about two weeks now since the linked article was published.

Hey fly, what are the internal usage numbers on "sprites"?

Is anyone using them? To do what? Worth the effort?
by jancsika | 2026-02-05 01:01:33+00:00
A sibling comment with a bunch of ostensible counterarguments to Haidt appeared earlier, with at least seven annotated footnotes. I was about to dig into it, but they deleted it!

In an attempt to summon the comment back, I'll just close by saying the negative effects are significant and there is no good reason to doubt Haidt's research. :)
by ammojamo | 2026-02-05 01:02:43+00:00
This is great news for me. Recently I have been trying to set up a simple
solution to replicate a MySQL database into DuckDB, without the whole CDC shebang (kafka, debezium etc.). The biggest problem I faced was the fact that
cascaded operations are not captured in the logs and so they would not make it into the replica. Every workaround I could come up with was slow and/or fragile. It sounds like these up-coming changes will simply make that problem disappear - hurrah!
by JumpinJack_Cash | 2026-02-05 01:03:34+00:00
I can't see how Google turned to become evil or how OpenAI did for that matter.

Google delivered on their promise, and OpenAI well it's too soon but it's looking good.

The name OpenAI and its structure is a relic from a world where the sentiment was to be heavily preoccupied and concerned by the potential accidental release of an AGI.

Now that it's time for products the name and the structure are no longer serving the goal
by akst | 2026-02-05 01:03:41+00:00
The argument here is founded on motivated reasoning.

Copyright was founded on similar principles to property rights, it encourages desirable economic by ensuring investment in RnD doesn’t have a free-rider disincentive. Whether it’s the right tool for the job and how enforcement carries out its a another matter. While these laws for property and IP aren’t without issues they do address actual problems.

Personally I would be more open to the idea of open AI flouting copy rights if they weren’t planning on taking a portion of the claim of other peoples creations used via the product while failing to properly compensate the sources of its training data.
by halfnormalform | 2026-02-05 01:04:20+00:00
It doesn’t seem that leftist to me. Are you a shrink? Or are you using some kind of folk diagnosis to determine she’s mentally unwell?

What kind of ideology strips individuals of the right of self determination to live and be called whatever they want? That’s what most civilized people call extreme.

Can you give an example of “valid” scare quotes? Or a definition even?
by dengsauve | 2026-02-05 01:04:33+00:00
I use Pulumi for work, and their AI solution (Pulumi Neo) works amazingly well in troubleshooting cloud issues. It's informed of the cloud state and recent changes right from their platform, which is pretty amazing. Compared to using Azure CoPilot for the same purposes, Pulumi Neo was faster in generating responses, and these responses were actionable and solved my issues. CoPilot was laughably useless comparably.
by verdverm | 2026-02-05 01:04:48+00:00
It's a peer review platform build on atproto tech (aiui the vision), not to be social media, though I would not be surprised if it has elements of that

Peer review goes beyond the formal process, in the court of IRL. Social media is one place people talk about new research, share their evaluations and insights, and good work gets used and cited more.

Arxiv has been invaluable in starting to change the process, but we need more.
by xenadu02 | 2026-02-05 01:05:11+00:00
Need historical data for comparison and percentages would make it nicer.

K-12 spending: the same dilemma afflicting everywhere. Despite spending more dollars not getting an equivalent return. Yet teachers are not raking it in. The money is disappearing somewhere. Is it similar to university level: top-heavy administration? Excessive spending on facilities?

I don't know where these estimates are coming from. They seem high. Sometimes an investment in services pays off long-term. CA's cuts to early childhood services only ends up with a bigger bill down the road as more kids fall off and end up either needing help later or getting into trouble.

But I agree with you: in all these areas how much are we spending, in adjusted dollars, per beneficiary and what are the outcomes? If possible how much "overhead" exists in each program? I suspect there is a lot of fat to be trimmed in these areas as admin/management gobbles up bigger slices of the pie while delivering nothing of value. You can see this writ small in San Francisco housing programs. Quite a number of non-profits that claim to be about housing, sucking up funding, then a) opposing all new housing where they don't get to wet their beak b) not actually putting a single person in a home.
by zozbot234 | 2026-02-05 01:05:12+00:00
AIUI, in most lines of work AI is being used to replace/augment pointless paper-pushing jobs. It doesn't seem to be all that useful for real, productive work.

Coding may be a limited exception, but even then the AI's job is to be basically a dumb (if sometimes knowledgeable) code monkey. You still need to do all the architecture and detailed design work if you want something maintainable at the end of the day.
by codinghorror | 2026-02-05 01:05:27+00:00
I'd like to add that I feel quite strongly "Universal" and "Basic" are hugely probematic words. You end up with massive digressions immediately.. case in point.. look at this AMA for proof:

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1onb5y8/can_guarantee...

How much of that MASSIVE SET OF DIGRESSIONS (which Neil handled like a gentleman, because he's a truly nice person) could have been avoided by not using "universal" (like, every atom in the universe? every person in the world? every mammal in this country) and "basic" (what is basic, even?) ..
by ImPostingOnHN | 2026-02-05 01:05:35+00:00
> Are these the people supposedly getting added to the database?

Yes, see the article. There would need to be evidence to the contrary to say otherwise.

> We have no evidence of who's actually being added

That is the nature of a secret enemies list. Keeping it secret is itself malicious, but the directive orders the addition of "agitators, protestors, etc.", making it clear that non-"agitating" protestors are included.

> Like them or not, reporting federal police activities to the people they are investigating is in fact disrupting a federal investigation.

I didn't see any law you cited which says that recording and reporting on those masked, armed thugs who are assaulting and killing lawful protestors and other innocent civilians is illegal. That's why I asked.

> This one's gonna vary a lot based on your location, but generally the 287(g) program that most states signed up for does.

287(g) does no such thing. As for location: Let's use Minneapolis as an example here, so you can be more specific.
by sandworm101 | 2026-02-05 01:06:08+00:00
Facts are, today, a threat. An encyclopedia of facts about various countries, published by a respected US agency, is dangerous.

What if public policy changes? What if it is announced that there are millions of jewish people living in Iran? A CIA website claiming that there are in fact far fewer than millions would fly in the face of declared national policy. We cannot have a list of official "facts", not when new facts are being announced almost daily.

How could one ever justify invading greenland to save all those penguins when the CIA's own website states that the penguin popultion of greenland increased by 27% in the last five years?
by eitally | 2026-02-05 01:06:22+00:00
I predict the fallout from this is companies being nickel & dimed to death by a million smaller subscriptions (rather than just cutting a huge check to Workday, ServiceNow, SAP, Oracle or similar). There is such a glut of AI ISV startups that are filling highly specific niches, and some are quite good, but they're all usually in the $10-50/mo/user. Gets to be big numbers pretty quickly in a large enterprise.
by measurablefunc | 2026-02-05 01:07:17+00:00
If you think the facts are "good" or "bad" then take it up w/ the people who can do something about it to make them "better". Typical discussions about stuff like this becomes nonsensical & incoherent b/c whether you think the facts are "good" or "bad" makes no difference to the material reality & again, those are as I have stated them.
by avaer | 2026-02-05 01:07:30+00:00
> An AI agent that clicks buttons.

Are people's agents actually clicking buttons (visual computer use) or is this just a metaphor?

I'm not asking if CU exists, but rather is this literally the driver of people's workflows? I thought everyone is just running Ralph loops in CC.

For an article making such a bold technological/social claim about a trillion dollar company, this seems a strange thing to be hand wavey about.
by sevensor | 2026-02-05 01:08:31+00:00
Access is not as dead as you might hope. The long tail of internal tools written with Access continues to shamble along. I had to figure out how to dump MDB files on Windows last year for just this reason. As an industry I think we often fail to grasp how much outsider art there is, in the form of internal departmental tools.

LLM coding is going to create a cambrian explosion of these tools. It’s going to be very interesting to see the remnants of this wave 30 years down the line.
by eek2121 | 2026-02-05 01:09:06+00:00
I do feel like many folks here and elsewhere are missing the mark with LLMs.

1) Yes, they are absolutely useless in a consumer setting.
2) If you want to be a software developer, you absolutely need to know how to understand/interact with one, and you more than likely will need to understand things like https://continue.dev.

I am no longer in software development due to my body slowly (quickly) dying, however I see it all from the sidelines:

1) New tech was rushed to the front lines way too quickly by big tech.
2) Big (and small tech) rushed layoffs way too fast rather than let we devs explore the advantages vs. disadvantages.
3) Companies blame "AI" (LLMs) for layoffs.
4) Most senior devs (including myself) soundly reject AI due to the above.
5) New generation of devs uses AI tools, some struggle occurs where morons don't bother reviewing code that was written by an auto completion engine.
6) We nerds begin to understand the usefulness of LLMs for "the boring part"

Not a shareholder of any company. I'm permanently disabled. Just watching this stuff from the sidelines.
by doctorpangloss | 2026-02-05 01:09:40+00:00
here's reality before claude:

- nearly every enterprise IT project is a failure anyway

- "can i do this for free?" savvy people write "thing i don't want to pay for github".

- ??? "stupid smelly nerds!" (https://www.reddit.com/r/github/comments/1at9br4)

okay, what was the actual obstacle? it's really simple: in order to use something FREE, you had to touch GITHUB, which meant GIT. and people hate git.

today, with LLMs:

- "can i do this for free?"

- LLM dutifully does the needful, using projects it finds and code it learned from github, and doing the prosaic tasks of launching them for you, whatever that means.

people are getting way up into their heads about what matters, psychosocial and management and whatever bs. chatgpt is FREE. it will fix your problems for FREE. people will put up with ANYTHING for FREE.

the real innovation is laundering all that inaccessible, pre-existing solution space into a format that doesn't require transiting git and giving it away for free.

don't believe me? all of the most profitable SaaS businesses in technology are the packaging, deployment and customization of pre-existing open source free software, whether it is linux, kvm, postgres, etc. they are factories to turn stuff that is inaccessible because it is in GIT, which SUCKS - that is the hard part for people to wrap their minds around, that GIT sucks - into websites you can pay for. now LLMs do that.
by pulsartwin | 2026-02-05 01:10:54+00:00
That's not great, although at least a splash screen is purely cosmetic. More disappointing is that, even in 2026, the move to Wayland still comes with issues like this:

> Some popups, such as Search Everywhere and Recent Locations, may not be moved outside of the main frame.

and

> Some windows and dialogs, e.g. Project Structure and Alerts, may not be centered on the screen or keep their previous location. This is due to the window manager having total control over windows’ locations in Wayland, which it is not always possible to override on the application side.
by crazygringo | 2026-02-05 01:11:45+00:00
> This is exactly what Apple Intelligence should have been... They could have shipped an agentic AI that actually automated your computer instead of summarizing your notifications. Imagine if Siri could genuinely file your taxes, respond to emails, or manage your calendar by actually using your apps, not through some brittle API layer that breaks every update.

And this is probably coming, a few years from now. Because remember, Apple doesn't usually invent new products. It takes proven ones and then makes its own much nicer version.

Let other companies figure out the model. Let the industry figure out how to make it secure. Then Apple can integrate it with hardware and software in a way no other company can.

Right now we are still in very, very, very early days.
by tptacek | 2026-02-05 01:11:52+00:00
Obviously, people are using them, but I feel like you're trying to bait me into talking about something that doesn't have anything to do with running a SQLite database directly off an S3 bucket. I'm sure we'll write something else soon where it'll make more sense to talk about how Sprites are going.

If you haven't played with them yet, my best and for now only answer is: go kick the tires. They're very fun.
by andai | 2026-02-05 01:12:06+00:00
Yeah this is why I ended up getting Claude subscription in the first place.

I was using GLM on ZAI coding plan (jerry rigged Claude Code for $3/month), but finding myself asking Sonnet to rewrite 90% of the code GLM was giving me. At some point I was like "what the hell am I doing" and just switched.

To clarify, the code I was getting before mostly worked, it was just a lot less pleasant to look at and work with. Might be a matter of taste, but I found it had a big impact on my morale and productivity.
by pkancharla | 2026-02-05 01:12:14+00:00
I’ve been noticing the “it’s not X, it’s Y” (or “it’s X, not Y”) framing frequently in articles, posts, and ChatGPT outputs, and was curious if others see this too.

Most of my exposure comes from using ChatGPT, so I’m not sure whether this appears as strongly in other models (e.g., Claude, Gemini)
by Telaneo | 2026-02-05 01:12:45+00:00
Maybe this is just me only subscribing to channels where people behave in the comments and the channel owner actually does some moderation, but I actually kind of agree.

Sure, you find disagreements and arguments, but you don't get the 'ur mum gae', the reductio ad Hitlerum, the dongers, and the outright insane takes and paragraphs of all caps that I would expect from Youtube comments. Meanwhile, every time I open Facebook because of some event I need to press 'going' on, I get a glimpse of some inane take or someone writing in all caps because reasons.

There have been a few waves of comment spam, but maybe Youtube actually managed to curb that now? Only took them two or so years.
by jezzamon | 2026-02-05 01:12:45+00:00
I think you're already getting at the "why", which for many situations you can view it as a leveraged investment. This site shows education as the biggest expenditure, and there's some argument about that resulting in an overall return on investment. If that is really the case then there's a large opportunity cost in not overspending.

The analysis is not always done sufficiently (or without bias) but that's the idea.