MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by littlesteps | 2026-02-21 14:53:34+00:00
Your attempt to connect two completely unrelated organizations based on them using the same domain registrar is a perfect example of a logical fallacy. Let me break it down for you.

1. *Our Organization:* We are *Little Steps Foundation*, a U.S. nonprofit incorporated in New Mexico. Our website is *carebridgehealthinitiative.org*. This is the website registered with Stripe.

2. *The Other Organization:* You found *littlestepsfoundation.org*, which is a completely different NGO based in Pakistan. We have absolutely no connection to them.

3. *The "Connection":* You claim the connection is that both domains are registered with *Hostinger*. This is like saying two people are related because they both shop at Walmart. Hostinger is one of the largest registrars in the world with millions of customers. It is a meaningless coincidence.

Your line of questioning is a deliberate attempt to derail the conversation and create a false narrative of illegitimacy. You are ignoring the overwhelming evidence that proves our case:

- *1,074 transactions*
- *0 disputes*
- *0 refunds*
- *0.00% fraud rate*

These are Stripe's own numbers. They prove that Stripe's claim of "unauthorized charges" is impossible. The issue here is a *Stripe software bug* and a *failed support system*, not the bizarre conspiracy theory you are trying to construct.

Please stop spreading misinformation. If you are not here to help, at least do not actively harm a non-profit organization that is trying to recover its rightfully earned donation funds.
by Saline9515 | 2026-02-21 14:53:35+00:00
The US is not just alone, EU governments are fully cooperating, happily.

A Microsoft official explained during a french parliamentary session that he couldn't guarantee that the State data was safe from US requests. It created a shockwave, as everyone discovered what was evident from the start.

Of course, nothing happened, and they renewed every contract since then. We could talk about the F35 procurement.
by arboles | 2026-02-21 14:53:36+00:00
To give credit, this a question I'm asking after reading this blog post, but a solution for the stifling unfairness of commercialization in open-source is something I've been thinking about for a good while. The essay "The Cathedral and the Bizarre" on https://marktarver.com is also worth reading, despite that I find some of the arguments to be in bad faith.

https://pointless.one/my-next-project-wont-be-floss/
by dxdm | 2026-02-21 14:54:45+00:00
Of course you can now set up your own trade agreements, but so can Fiji, I suppose. The point is that you have a lot less negotiating power going it alone, instead of as part of an economic superbloc that you can influence as one of its biggest members.

The time of individual European "great powers" has long gone, but somehow, large fractions of the respective populations do not realize it. Band together, or be swept aside. That nationalistic reflex is not helping.
by ms_sv | 2026-02-21 14:54:56+00:00
Thank you for the feedback. It is meant to be all kinds of engineering, the vision is to have all type of engineers from software engineers(which you are correct it is focused full on that).

> How would this platform measure real engineering skills? Critical thinking, problem solving, etc.? What about Electrical Engineering? Civil Engineering? Robotics design? Etc

- This will be all up to the hand picked person to measure your skills, for example the verifier will be assessing everything required to determine if someone is really good or not, that includes critical thinking, problem solving so on. Let's say this verifier they work/ed for Google, they will bring Google's interview framework to this candidate software engineer in our case to asses their skills, the expected result would be "I passed the assessment, I could be good as an engineer at Google" which helps with credibility.
The platform itself will store the final decision on your profile (you can hide or show anything up to the user).

> I didn't open an account, but on the first page it asks for LinkedIn.. really? I don't trust most of what I read there. GitHub? Not only does it bring us back to software-related topics, but what if I don't use GitHub?

- Linkedin, github or gitlab are all optional fields, I have pushed a fix on that to communicate it better, thank you. I am thinking of making it a free link field to be portfolio rather than profile from github, gitlab or whatever else. Personally I understand this, not a fan of github at all, I just put it there since it is the most used.

This is how I imagine it and actually tested this concept and it worked and you are 100% right it brings a lot of results. What I did was fist meet and greet talk, then assign take at home project, after the project was done, then we discussed the decisions made and approaches and how the problem was solved, and talked about past projects from the portfolio. This reduced the chance significantly of a bad hire, and the candidates liked the concept a lot.

What don't you like the most from the current hiring processes? For example in software engineering for me is solving meaningless problems during interviews like reverse a binary tree that have nothing to do with the actual role.
by Simulacra | 2026-02-21 14:55:16+00:00
I'm more interested of what employees can read of chat logs. Is everything that's put into OpenAI access accessible by the employees? These kind of stories imo may dissuade people from LLMs unless there is greater privacy control. But ultimately... to have total privacy.. how long until we see people building off-line personal LLMs with no guard rails?
by simonw | 2026-02-21 14:55:20+00:00
> Most of the time, users (or the author himself) submit this blog as the source, when in fact it is just content that ultimately just links to the original source for the goal of engagement.

I encourage you to look at submissions from my domain before you accuse me like this: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=simonwillison.net - the ones I submitted list "simonw" as the author.

I'm selective about what I submit to Hacker News. I usually only submit my long-form pieces.

In addition to long form writing I operate a link blog, which this Claw piece came from. I have no control over which of my link blog pieces are submitted by other people.

I still try to add value in each of my link posts, which I expect is why they get submitted so often: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/22/link-blog/
by upghost | 2026-02-21 14:55:36+00:00
So I have been doing formal specification with TLA+ using AI assistance and it has been very helpful AFTER I REALIZED that quite often it was proving things that were either trivial or irrelevant to the problem at hand (and not the problem itself), but difficult to detect at a high level.

I realize formal verification with lean is a slightly different game but if anyone here has any insight, I tend to be extremely nervous about a confidently presented AI "proof" because I am sure that the proof is proving whatever it is proving, but it's still very hard for me to be confident that it is proving what I need it to prove.

Before the dog piling starts, I'm talking specifically about distributed systems scenarios where it is just not possible for a human to think through all the combinatorics of the liveness and safety properties without proof assistance.

I'm open to being wrong on this, but I think the skill of writing a proof and understanding the proof is different than being sure it actually proves for all the guarantees you have in mind.

I feel like closing this gap is make it or break it for using AI augmented proof assistance.
by bjackman | 2026-02-21 14:55:46+00:00
Yeah I have been planning to give it its own accounts on my self hosted services.

I think the big challenge here is that I'd like my agent to be able to read my emails, but... Most of my accounts have Auth fallbacks via email :/

So really what I want is some sort of galaxy brained proxy where it can ask me for access to certain subsets of my inbox. No idea how to set that up though.
by al_borland | 2026-02-21 14:55:49+00:00
If there is no real penalty for being a career criminal, people will continue to be career criminals.

If someone knows they can rob people and get away with it, why would they do honest work for a living?

What is your solution to prevent crime without incarceration as a possible outcome for people breaking the law… especially those who do it repeatedly? It’s easy to talk down to solutions being used today, but without offering up a realistic alternative, this provides no value.
by Someone | 2026-02-21 14:56:11+00:00
> The EU directive doesn't even compel them to have those kinds of removable batteries in the EU, because being removable with commercially available tools is considered compliant

This is a follow-up directive that goes further. https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CEL...:

“Any natural or legal person that places on the market products incorporating portable batteries shall ensure that those batteries are readily removable and replaceable by the end-user at any time during the lifetime of the product. That obligation shall only apply to entire batteries and not to individual cells or other parts included in such batteries.

A portable battery shall be considered readily removable by the end-user where it can be removed from a product with the use of commercially available tools, without requiring the use of specialised tools, unless provided free of charge with the product, proprietary tools, thermal energy, or solvents to disassemble the product.

Any natural or legal person that places on the market products incorporating portable batteries shall ensure that those products are accompanied with instructions and safety information on the use, removal and replacement of the batteries. Those instructions and that safety information shall be made available permanently online, on a publicly available website, in an easily understandable way for end-users.”
by troupo | 2026-02-21 14:56:22+00:00
> We have a long list of subprocessors, but any one individual going through our system is only going to interact with two or three at most.

So, in aggregate, all 17 data leeches are getting info. They are not getting info on all you users, but different subsets hit different subsets of the "subprocessors" you use.

And there's literally no way of knowing whether or not my data hits "two" or "three" or all 17 "at the most".

> but especially your _face_ is going to be _everywhere_ on the internet. Who are we kidding here? Why would _that_ be the problem?

If you don't see this as a problem, you are a part of the problem
by windexh8er | 2026-02-21 14:56:27+00:00
Oh, yes. The trope of "but what does it even mean to think".

If you can't speak, can you think? Yes. Large Language model. Thinking is not predicated on language.

A few good starts for you. Please refute all of these arguments in your spare time to convince me otherwise:

* https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/illusion-of-think...
* https://archive.is/FM4y8
* https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/secondary-school-maths-show...
by UqWBcuFx6NV4r | 2026-02-21 14:57:19+00:00
Yep. This attitude is utterly pervasive. We may as well just give up and start saying “science says…”, the way some people, especially some people here, seem to misunderstand what role studies play, what their limitations are, etc.

Imagine if you have a rare genetic mutation that causes Night Shift to be extremely, extremely effective, and you don’t even try to use it because A Study Didn’t Tell You To.

You are indeed allowed to just…try things and see for yourself, especially such ostensibly low-risk things like this. The literature is not a bible.
by vladvasiliu | 2026-02-21 14:57:30+00:00
>Modern phones are smaller, need to be more water proof, stuffed to an unimaginable degree with components -- and modern batteries last a really long time.

This argument always comes up when talking about replaceable smartphone batteries and headphone jacks. But Samsung had waterproof phones before Apple, and they still had replaceable batteries and, gasp a headphone jack.

I actually had a Galaxy S5 which I used as a GPS attached to my motorcycle's handlebars under heavy rain. It never skipped a beat. The only problem I had was that raindrops on the screen made it difficult to see the map. It was also thinner than the iPhone 7 which replaced it. Now I have an iPhone 14 pro which is even thicker than the 7.

I also had to replace the battery on that iPhone 7, which was an unbelievable PITA. Had to stand in line to talk to the service person even though I had an appointment, go away for a few hours, come back, stand in line again to pick up my phone. Fuck that. I'd much rather go to some store, buy a new battery, and replace it in less than one minute, on my terms.

So, yeah, pardon my French, but these tired arguments are just bullshit. There is prior art that proves them wrong.
by Terretta | 2026-02-21 14:58:00+00:00
Simplifying for brevity -- there are three levels in the GitHub entity:

- accounts (personal)
- orgs (companies, directories, teams, roles etc.)
- enterprises (sets of orgs)

Even with enterprise SSO, the initial connect to GH can (is typically) "you" (just as you have the same driver license to show at the front desk when registering to visit a secured firm or random hotel), then you elevate "you" into the org through SSO, and what policies apply to you via your org can be 'governed' at the enterprise.

The idea behind this model is that no, you don't have to manage lots of those as you, you're just you, and each of those you aim to use has an elevation that entity controls instead of you controlling it.

This ultimately results in way less key material floating around, and you losing, leaking, or lousing up your own GH cred doesn't auto-give an attacker the SSO elevation.
by hshdhdhj4444 | 2026-02-21 14:58:57+00:00
Most research on animals is conducted after we’ve placed them in mind numbing cages and in non social environments (and if they are with other animals they’re crammed in together).

Imagine living your entire life either in solitary and/or packed in a Japanese subway car, and someone doing research being shocked you’re acting in anti-social ways.
by thisisit | 2026-02-21 14:59:15+00:00
Most of the politics comes down to tribalism. And within this tribalism nothing works better than Us vs Them. Immigration is one of the best "us vs them" debates. It rallies lot of support.

But then often immigration isn't the problem. It is a solution preying on the fear of people that "outsiders" are harming their opportunities, housing, way of life etc. The real problem is that people are not making living wages and wages are not catching up to cost of living.

As politicians pushing anti-immigration come to power they also realize this problem. They'd rather not solve immigration because then they need to face up to the actual living wage crisis issue. It also helps keeping the immigration talking point open so that it can be used in next election.
by mrweasel | 2026-02-21 15:00:00+00:00
Brexit was six years ago, well ten if you go by the date of the referendum, it's hardly a generation. The negative affect has been felt pretty much instantly after the UK left and the benefits are mostly either a bit fluffy, scheduled for the future or down right lies.

The article also says nothing about how the same age group votes at the time, but the numbers I can find suggests that over 70% votes remain. The leave side was pretty much fueled by an age group that has felt a decline in British industry and employment, much of which would have happened regardless of the EU. Immigration and Eastern European workers was just a convenient scape goat for the right, but it was believable for those who had suffered through the UKs decline in areas such as manufacturing. The younger demographics never saw this, they primarily saw the benefits the EU provided.
by kingleopold | 2026-02-21 15:00:37+00:00
this is a flawed logic. Because almost any country is better than decades ago. you need to compare BE to top countries now and places in ranking, to see if it's better. UK, is it better than Norway, Switzerland or Japan? No. Not even top 10 in any metric, cleearly huge fall. Only top level thing left is universities and scientific research.
by redclaw | 2026-02-21 15:01:41+00:00
Karpathy published microGPT.py on Feb 11 – a complete GPT in 243 lines of
pure Python, no dependencies. I spent 20 minutes porting it to Rust.

Result: 0.065s vs 297.7s for 1000 training steps on the same machine.

A few things I found by reading his actual source carefully that our first
version got wrong:

1. KV cache – Karpathy accumulates keys/values across positions (real causal
attention). Our v1 processed each token independently. This is why v1
generated "ioeanaa" and v2 generates "naomi".

2. beta2 = 0.95, not 0.999 – he doesn't use the PyTorch default.

3. Linear LR decay to zero – not constant LR.

4. attn_wo and mlp_fc2 are zero-initialized (GPT-2 scaled init). We had
both at std=0.02.

5. Loss is normalized by seq_len before backward(), not after.

No external dependencies – implemented xoshiro128+ and Box-Muller from
scratch rather than pulling in rand. Analytical gradients instead of a
dynamic scalar graph – same math, no graph traversal overhead.

Final loss after 5000 steps: 0.69 vs ~2.4 in Python. Generates actual names
(ryan, ava, naomi, caleb) vs garbled output from the broken v1.

Repo: https://github.com/rustystack/zeroclawgpt

Curious if anyone has pushed further – SIMD on the matmul would be the
obvious next step.
by swat535 | 2026-02-21 15:01:49+00:00
I’m not sure Canada is doing well right now. Young people are really struggling and we are dealing with housing crisis. There is also trade conflicts with the United States.

An anti immigration sentiment has also taken over half the country due to rising costs and shortages, which is trickling down to various aspects of the life here.

The harsh weather is not pleasant either. Ironically, young Canadians are looking to move elsewhere.
by maltalex | 2026-02-21 15:01:53+00:00
> Dependabot has some value IME, but all naïve tools that only check software and version numbers against a vulnerability database tend to be noisy if they don’t then do something else to determine whether your code is actually exposed to a matching vulnerability.

For non-SaaS products it doesn’t matter. Your customer’s security teams have their own scanners. If you ship them vulnerable binaries, they’ll complain even if the vulnerable code is never used or isn’t exploitable in your product.
by jorvi | 2026-02-21 15:01:55+00:00
Yes, I am very sure. And it isn't that difficult to understand, it is skill input graphed against effectiveness. A higher floor just means that with 1 skill, you are guaranteed at least X (say, 20) effectiveness output.

https://imgur.com/tOHltkx

The confusion comes from people using "skill floor" for "learning curve" instead of "effectiveness".
by 05 | 2026-02-21 15:02:00+00:00
It’s easy to build your own, but it’s impossible to build one to be as stable as a DJI one, or as cheaply. E.g. with an FPV drone hitting the lens would be much harder (but you could use spray instead of a stick to make it easier). Removing remote id ‘chip’ is plain impossible since it’s implemented by the same radio that does video link.
by alexhans | 2026-02-21 15:02:06+00:00
Thanks for the insights.

You don't change your priorities based on my opinion but adding an RSS should be quite easy as it's just an auto-generated XML.

I don't have any concrete answers but some things to consider:

- Are you really targeting unknown people who stumble onto your site? Why not literally try to see if the parents of your daughter's school would like it? What's a payment plan or type they'd be willing to consider to justify the product subscription or purchase. What's the real barrier at this stage? They might not use it even if free? (Discoverability) Or is it cost/the model for the perceived value?

> Since I’m self-funding the API costs, I can't afford big ad spends.

I'd be very careful with ad spends without talking to a trusted person who has gone through the journey and forced you to ask the right questions about expectations and the path to get there. Being very harsh on your pitches/answers might get you to different decisions.

One invariant in marketing is networking and audience. If you have it already, you can leverage it and they can help you expand. If you don't have it, how do you build it overtime without feeling unseen? I think that's a lot of market study at the personal level.

> If you have any advice on organic growth for a tool that's intentionally designed to be "harder" (more friction) than the competition, I’d love to hear it.

Who do you think would resonate with this and agree that your product meets that goal?
by Nextgrid | 2026-02-21 15:02:58+00:00
> the maximum fine for this is 4% of last years total revenue or 20 mio €, whichever is the larger number.

The maximum fine wasn't even achieved by Facebook, after years and many blatant GDPR cases. Do you really think someone is getting a fine for not replying to a subject access request in due time? If so I have a very good bridge to sell you, and that bridge has more probability to exist than Amazon getting any kind of GDPR fine for not acknowledging a SAR.
by YeGoblynQueenne | 2026-02-21 15:03:01+00:00
I think this is absolute madness. I disabled most of Windows' scheduled tasks because I don't want automation messing up my system, and now I'm supposed to let LLM agents go wild on my data?

That's just insane. Insanity.

Edit: I mean, it's hard to believe that people who consider themselves as being tech savvy (as I assume most HN users do, I mean it's "Hacker" news) are fine with that sort of thing. What is a personal computer? A machine that someone else administers and that you just log in to look at what they did? What's happening to computer nerds?
by muzani | 2026-02-21 15:03:15+00:00
It's the other way around. It won't work in expensive places like SF or NYC, because the people who move there are happy to pat paprika on a chicken and toss them into an air fryer. Or live on rice and beans.

Here there's some cultural pressure on people to cook for their families. Especially Asian moms. Someone feeding their kids McDonald's and frozen meals is going to be judged, but what's a parent who works 996 supposed to do? Though back when I was in uni, we'd take turns preparing dinner; I can see it working for students as well.

Cooking is also always cheaper than buying it off the shelf. We buy the frozen spinach despite it being 3x the cost of fresh spinach because we don't want to wash the sand out of spinach and then wash the sand out of the sink.

My problem is we have a bunch of stuff in the fridge. Prep is less about time, more about energy. I'm hungry, I don't want to peel carrots. We buy large batches of fish over the weekend and clean them up and prepare them, but they're in the sink 4 days a week and 2 of those days we just end up eating outside.

I think everyone wants healthy food as a core meal. We're talking something other than pasta with butter - the health ministry suggests dishes of 1/4 carbs, 1/4 protein and 1/2 veggies. But what choices do you have here? Nobody wants to retrofit their usual dishes to have less carbs and more veggies, lol. Cutting down on protein also cuts cost. Tim Ferris says eat the same thing every other day but most people don't do this, especially not kids. There are plenty of healthy options. Grilled veggies do taste great and so are things like minestrone. Burgers can pass the health food bar too.
by mrweasel | 2026-02-21 15:03:31+00:00
It's funny how people say that: "You'll get more conservative as you grow older". So far that hasn't happened. I basically know zero queer, poor, coloured, disabled or other types of people that might struggle to fit in to modern society, but in the past 30 years I've only become more and more accepting of the choices of others.

Only weird twist is that I have become a royalist.