MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kcplate | 2026-02-27 21:38:54+00:00
> So is your view is that a bunch of people much less wealthy than Larry Page paying taxes and giving to charities is equivalent to Larry Page paying taxes and giving to charities???

What I said was his impact on California has been significant in part because of the business he created and the people that business employs having a significant impact.

> In other words, rich people don't have to pay taxes as long as their employees do? Bizarre

I never made this claim. Not sure why you are.

> Does he for some reason get a free pass on taxes forever

I hope you are not suggesting that he is breaking some law here by choosing to relocate to a more favorable financial environment for him. People of all incomes make (legal) financial decisions every day for their own benefit. Of you feel the laws are in some way unfair, elect people who will change them.

> appealing to economic theory…

There are lots of economic theories (especially around capitalism). You are assuming laissez-faire somehow trumps others? Why?
by lukeschlather | 2026-02-27 21:38:55+00:00
Orion is actually pointless, I don't understand why the mission goals are valuable. Partial success would be meaningless. Success is meaningless.

Starship in contrast has a variety of meaningful objectives. Even if Starship only achieves proving that cryogenic fuel transfer in LEO is possible that's a valuable mission goal in and of itself.

If you really think "the whole moon thing is pointless" NASA is pointless.
by hyperion2010 | 2026-02-27 21:38:56+00:00
To me, the Hyperion Cantos present a vision of the future that is incredibly hopeful. The path along the way may at times be bleak, and I find the handling of the TechnoCore to reveal echos of the great chain in a work that otherwise seems to totally reject it. Despite those and a few other shortcomings the Cantos are essential guides for charting our way toward a distant future that is filled with warmth, love, and compassion rather than the cold empty void of hate. To receive such a vision is a rare gift. Thank you Dan. Choose again.
by toast0 | 2026-02-27 21:39:10+00:00
What I found was that when I first started using DDG, using !g to take me to Google would get good results. But over time, it stopped working. I'm not totally sure if it's because Google's profile on me timed out and it's not getting enough searches or because Google search quality has gone down. Now, several years into using DDG as primary, when I can't find it at DDG, I expect I won't find it at Google either... but they do give me different bad results.
by Applejinx | 2026-02-27 21:39:13+00:00
Shucks, I'm only 1000 stars singlehandedly. Curse my woeful irrelevance :D

I guess I will just have to NOT sign on to this nonsense and allow it to atrophy my ability to think of things independently, thus ending up completely dependent on an outside tool of ever-increasing price.

Gosh darn it, of all the luck.
by bikeshaving | 2026-02-27 21:39:28+00:00
Yes, the callable promise abstraction is just a bit of effort:

let resolveRef;
const promise = new Promise((res) => { resolveRef = res; });

const callback = (data) => {
// Do work...
resolveRef(data); // This "triggers" the await
};

Object.assign(callback, promise);

There’s a real performance cost to awaiting a fake Promise though, like `await regularPromise` bypasses the actual thenable stuff.
by yacthing | 2026-02-27 21:39:34+00:00
This is about as useful of an argument as when people say taxpayer funded services aren't free.

Those who are wealthier pay more into the tax system, allow those who are less well off to gain access to things they normally wouldn't. This is a good thing.

Likewise, those who are wealthier are buying more products that are advertised, allowing those who are less well off to gain access to the internet for closer-to-free. This is also a good thing.

We can put limits on how advertising is done, give control over your data, etc etc. But the fundamentals stay the same.

So no: paying your way towards internet products won't save the average person money.
by elxr | 2026-02-27 21:39:43+00:00
This isn't anymore of a "ploy" then releasing new features for claude code, or acquiring bun, or any other random improvement or promotion that essentially boils down to offering more value to claude users.

All the big LLM labs do promos constantly. Sure, this one's on the stingy side considering the amount of work OSS maintainers just give out, but there's nothing wrong with promotions.
by tsimionescu | 2026-02-27 21:39:57+00:00
Starship has not yet flown even a fraction of what SLS has, so I think the comparison is premature. If it takes another ten years to get to a point that it can successfully achieve its Artemis objectives, I doubt it will remain cheaper than SLS. And given that it has already been delayed way beyond the first estimates for when it might be ready (it was supposed to have flown to Mars with astronauts on board by 2022, I believe), I don't see why another 10 years is any worse an estimate than others.
by cxr | 2026-02-27 21:40:13+00:00
You're trying to be clever, but the context from the drop has been to distinguish "a sincere belief" from… the kind of rhetorical underhandedness that you are indulging in.

Not only is this not going to convince anyone that there's anything behind it other than an attempt to formulate a winning argument (having set that as your goal) irrespective whether there's any actual sincerity to the words you're choosing, but it comes across as the opposite of clever: that anyone who's convinced themselves that it really is clever and that no one can possibly permeate this forcefield of insincerity is a perhaps-delusional, and definitely-insufferable halfwit.
by tencentshill | 2026-02-27 21:40:55+00:00
This only ends this deal and the existing contract worth about $200m. Not a game-changer for Anthropic. No information on if they have been labeled a "supply chain risk" as threatened. Considering Anthropic has been seen within the government as actually useful and needed, I'll bet on TACO (too bad putting real money on it is illegal in my state).
by lxgr | 2026-02-27 21:41:08+00:00
This seems to be the source report: https://openai.com/index/disrupting-malicious-ai-uses/ (since it would of course kill CNN, like almost all media outlets, to link to a non-affiliated primary source...)

Does this level of detail seem strange to anybody else? Shining such a strong light on OpenAI's moderation/manual review efforts seems like it would draw unwanted attention to the fact that ChatGPT conversations are anything but private, and seems somewhat at odds with their recent outrage about the subpoena for user chats in the NYT case.

Manual reviews of sensitive data are ok as long as their own employees are the reviewers, I suppose?
by jbverschoor | 2026-02-27 21:41:33+00:00
1) can access/write local files?

2) can access/write a specific folder?

3) can access network?

4) can access gateway/internet?

5) can access local network? (vlans would help here)

6) give access to USB devices

7) needs access to the screen? -> giveframebuffer access / drawing primitive

8) Need to write? Use an overlay FS that can be checked by the host and approved

9) sub processes can never escalate permissions

By default: nothing. But unfortunately, it’s always by default allow.

Also, make it simple to remove the permissions again.
by cyrusradfar | 2026-02-27 21:41:47+00:00
OP/Author here with the TL;DR

To frame this post, my intent isn't to be yet another post on Anthropic and OpenAI calling out Chinese labs.

I was interested in the pattern, which isn't new. Edison, Apple, the record labels, and even Disney did it.

Build on everyone else’s work, then lobby to stop anyone from building on yours.

Was hopeful for a discussion on more history and, potentially, more solutions that could help us be more innovative and less exploitative.

Chime in, would love more perspectives.
by dang | 2026-02-27 21:42:34+00:00
Please don't cross into being a jerk. Posts like this one and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47175955 are the kind of thing we ban accounts for, regardless of how right you are or feel you are.

It's true that there's a lot of grey area and turbulence right now around which HN posts have been LLM-generated or LLM-edited, and it's compounded by the fact that there's no way to tell for sure. We all have to find our way through this—both the community and the mods. But we can and need to do so without breaking HN's rules ourselves in the process.
by elteto | 2026-02-27 21:42:41+00:00
You don't test the nozzle on _launch day_, what kind of ridiculous statement is that? You think the Air Force is paying SpaceX so they can test things the day it flies?

All components go through several test campaigns on the ground, while iterating on the design to address issues. These campaigns take months/years. That's why changes are stacked into "blocks", which are the equivalent of rocket versions. Each block must be certified by the Air Force and NASA to be deemed worthy of flying their payloads.
by StillBored | 2026-02-27 21:43:14+00:00
RIP, truly one of the greats.

His early stuff contains some real masterworks. Hyperion is still to this day, going to show up at the top of my scifi recommended reading list, most of his horror novels were also great in their own ways.

PS: I thought Fall of Hyperion should have been the end, it was just too final. There was plenty of space for some prequels but while the sequels contained some interesting ideas, they just never got to the level I felt justified reversing the finality of Fall. And Olympus/etc was pretty forgettable, but I don't regret the time I spent reading pretty much everything he wrote, sometimes more than once. So again, RIP.
by cc-d | 2026-02-27 21:43:19+00:00
There is mass neurocompromise, assigning agency to specific state actors does not make much sense.

Big tech is well aware of this, and much of their industry, relies on this. Many people reading this will know this to be true, and are very saddened by this, but keep their mouths shut, because they are 1. comfy 2. smart (we all know it does not matter)

This is such common knowledge that I feel kind of cringe even posting about this, but I am not being given a choice, nor a choice in this edit.

Edit: If anybody wants to chat to somebody who has had his organism compromised by what is, very deniablely, an intelligence agency (or a system/organization intelligence agency adjacent), just reply to this comment. They have not treated me too poorly.
by ACCount37 | 2026-02-27 21:43:31+00:00
You can redesign every single actuator, sure. Or you can design a wrist camera and use it to close the loop. Or just run enough imitation learning + "RL IRL" and fold the imperfect real world actuators into the policy implicitly.

Robotics doesn't have a single silver bullet - the design space is vast and underexplored.
by hinkley | 2026-02-27 21:43:37+00:00
Essentially for loop of 10k iterations comparing `fn()` versus `await fn()` fed into a microbenchmark tool, with some fiddling to detect if elimination was happening or ordering was changing things.

I was bumping into PRs trying to eliminate awaits in long loops and thinking surely the overhead can’t be so high to warrant doing this, especially after node ~16. I was wrong.
by groundy | 2026-02-27 21:43:56+00:00
The Stargate Project is a $500 billion joint venture—backed by OpenAI, SoftBank, Oracle, and MGX—launched in January 2025 to build AI data centers across the United States. Starting with $100 billion deployed immediately, Stargate targets 10 gigawatts of compute capacity by the end of 2025. It is the largest concentrated AI infrastructure investment ever announced by private entities.
by yardstick | 2026-02-27 21:44:39+00:00
I agree.

20-something years ago, when I paid for my internet connection, I also got an email address (or 5…) and some personal web space (5MB maybe?) and access to their NTP servers as part of that. No ads.

Of course if I left the ISP I would lose access to it, as I stopped paying for it. I’ve long since left the ISP, and they’ve dropped all these value adds.

Presumably because people wanted cheaper plans and jumped to other providers which did internet access and nothing else.

There are people willing to pay a reasonable amount for fair services. I pay for various Google and Apple services, including for email. Those that don’t, have ads based plans.
by andrewk17 | 2026-02-27 21:45:34+00:00
I spent the effort to de-google a several years back and switched to Proton. After years of being on Proton, I recently switched back to GMail.

It didn't really make my life any better. And at this point, I think I see more value in having AI be able to piece together information to serve me up useful information than trying to protect my privacy within email (I couldn't get off Google Photos, it's just too useful).
by y-c-o-m-b | 2026-02-27 21:45:52+00:00
Diplomacy is too slow in the eyes of this administration, that's why we're in this predicament. It's not cold war nonsense nor is it anything new; our military and intelligence agencies have been working against China via geopolitical proxy wars long before the Trump administration. This is just a natural extension of the Peter Thiel "remove all bureaucracy, we're not moving fast enough" strategy.
by ZenoArrow | 2026-02-27 21:46:00+00:00
> Aren't we all in a sense?

Once you get good enough at a programming language, you can code a lot from memory and logic. As in, you can think of a design and how to build it without having to look up someone else's code. It's still useful to keep notes to refer back to, and look up information online to jog your memory, but it's not always a question of finding other people's code to modify.
by sarchertech | 2026-02-27 21:46:09+00:00
>And as for foreigners, our view of China is far worse than it actually is, China doesn’t need to hide anything, people who visit China will come away with a more positive view of the country than those who do not visit.

To the extent that's true, it's because they won't let you see the uyghur reeducation camps.
by parl_match | 2026-02-27 21:46:41+00:00
An increasing use of AI is to gather user feedback. The Chatbot UI detected an error state, and then loaded a feedback vendor, who then popped the camera open for their interactive feedback session

I've run into this a few times, now.

So what OP is saying is plausible, I just don't appreciate their added and probably incorrect conclusion that it's because the government of China wants to do something to them
by varispeed | 2026-02-27 21:47:03+00:00
I have not agreed with you. I said the plumber providing services to individuals falls outside Chapter 10 entirely, which is why your example was irrelevant. I then pointed out that if that same plumber provided services to a corporation, they would be subject to the same status determination as anyone else, because IR35 does not care what trade you are in. You claimed plumbers fall outside IR35 because of the nature of their work. They do not. When providing services to individuals they self-declare their status, which can still be challenged. When providing services to a corporation meeting Chapter 10 criteria, the client performs the determination. The distinction is about who the services are provided to, not what the trade is. Those are different things.

Where you have been inaccurate, since you asked: you claimed IR35 does not apply to self-employed workers as though that were a meaningful distinction. You claimed number of clients determines IR35 status. It does not. Each engagement is assessed individually. You presented plumbers as categorically outside IR35 by nature of their trade. They are not, as above. You have consistently described IR35 as a simple checklist when it is an engagement-by-engagement assessment triggered by the ownership structure of the supplying company.

You say "three different types of contract create different working structures." The working structure is the day-to-day reality of how the work is performed. Three people doing the same work, at the same desk, on the same equipment, during the same hours, for the same client, have the same working structure. They have different contracts because the law imposes different requirements depending on who owns the company supplying the labour. The contract is the product of the legal framework, not the other way around.

You say the law is trying to "ensure an employer/employee cannot reduce the tax they pay." A worker running their own company is not an employee reducing anything. They are a business owner retaining the value of their own labour. The legislation starts from the assumption that a worker's natural state is employment and their company is an artificial structure to be looked through. That assumption is never applied to any other type of business. Nobody asks whether a consultancy's corporate structure is artificial, or whether its employees would be the client's employees "if engaged directly." The question is only asked when the worker owns the business, because the underlying assumption is that workers do not legitimately own businesses - they merely operate through them. That is the class assumption I have been describing from the start.

Same question, still unanswered: why is the test scoped by ownership of the supplying company rather than applied universally?
by Slaboli | 2026-02-27 21:47:08+00:00
I appreciate your perspective! The social misfit issue is definitely amplified in towns where local Portuguese life is dominant. No matter what I do, I will likely remain an outsider, even though the Portuguese people are genuinely friendly and understanding.

You're right that Portugal isn't a step up in the same way moving to a global hub like London or New York would be. It’s starting to feel like a lot of mental effort for a "sideways move," especially when I already have an established network at home.

Regarding the 10k EUR, I’ve definitely been thinking about the sunk cost fallacy. It's a lot of money to leave behind, but throwing another year of my career away just to justify the spend might be the bigger mistake. I suppose this is where I’ve been feeling trapped financially.

Taking it one step at a time seems like the only way to avoid burnout.Maybe a very short trial as you suggested at least until I find a suitable accounting role back home can be attempted. Thank you!
Discussion: What would an AI government look like?
by philipfweiss | 2026-02-27 21:48:26+00:00
I haven't really heard anyone bring up this topic, so I thought I'd open a discussion here.

To me the appeals are obvious. AI governments could theoretically be incorruptible, tireless, consistent, and capable of processing vastly more information than human bureaucracies. They wouldn't accept bribes, play favorites for personal gain, or make decisions based on re-election anxiety. Policy could be optimized across decades rather than election cycles.

Practically, I don't know how it would work. What do people here think?
by claugo | 2026-02-27 21:48:28+00:00
I've implemented a segmented wheel sieve with orthogonal
prefilter (mod-60 base + mod-7 independent extension)
that demonstrates unusual linear performance scaling.

*Benchmark Results (C++, i7-6700K, consumer hardware):*

| Range | Time | Primes Found | Density |
|-------|------|--------------|---------|
| 10^7 | 1.5ms | 664K | 6.64% |
| 10^8 | 18ms | 5.7M | 5.76% |
| 10^9 | 212ms | 50.8M | 5.08% |
| 10^10 | 3.12s | 455M | 4.55% |
| 10^11 | 106.6s | 4.1B | 4.12% |
| 3×10^11 | 484s | 11.8B | 3.95% |

*Key Observation:*
Nearly perfect linear O(n) scalability across 4 orders of
magnitude. All results validated with Miller-Rabin
primality testing (100 iterations, zero false positives).

*Why This Matters:*
Traditional segmented sieves show sublinear but not linear
performance at extreme scales. The orthogonal extension
approach (mod-60 + mod-7) appears to avoid the structural
overhead that typically emerges at billion+ ranges.

*Open Research Questions:*
1. Does linear scaling continue beyond 10^12?
2. How do other languages (Rust, Java, Julia) perform
on the same algorithm?
3. Where are CPU/memory bottlenecks on modern architectures?
4. What's the theoretical limit of orthogonal extension
beyond mod-7?
5. Can SIMD/GPU acceleration further improve performance?

*Reference Implementation:*
Full C++ source, benchmark methodology, and validation
suite available. MIT licensed, contributions welcome.
by SV_BubbleTime | 2026-02-27 21:48:53+00:00
OK, so absolutely good faith here what is the end game?

Obviously, there’s a scenario of super power AI and then it’s a matter of continuing course. Electricity and silicon.

What if you are right, and the scaling doesn’t work. It is too much power, time, hardware to improve… does openAI fold?

Do they just actual use the models they have?

Does everyone just decide that AI didn’t work and go back 5 years like it didn’t happen?

Does the price change so that they have to be profitable making AI services expensive and rare instead of today where they are everywhere pointlessly?

Or does this insane valuation only make sense with information you don’t have like insider scaling or efficiency news?

Does China’s strategy of undercutting US value of models pay off bigly?
by eth0up | 2026-02-27 21:49:25+00:00
I see a need for something similar for Perplexity. Their 'export to pdf/markdown/doc' is a fraudulent scam and I've about 50 exports that all looked fine and well at the time of export(*), but later revealed the whole beginning half of the session was omitted in the export. Or worse.

I've lost many days of work because of this. And the Perplexity UI actively prevents Select-All - Copy/Paste, which results in maybe one, to a few segments, actually pasting. There is no direct method of exporting or saving a long session. Test it.

And trying F12 Network etc, etc, reveals even XHR is a dead-end. Effectively. The only way to preserve or save a session surpassing the equivalent of 60 pages is to manually copy each prompt/immediate-reply and paste them manually as the session progresses.

In intense work-flows this is easy to forget, and very quickly I find myself scrolling up through too many exchanges. Severely distracting.

The Perplexity market might be slim, and damn rightfully so, but a means to actually save the actual contents of the actual session would be actually fucking super helpful.

Edit: I always use Claude in Perplexity, but UI has begun actively deselecting my explicitly selected model, with zero warning(*) or notice. I have video of this. I select Claude, query the model for ID, and it says GPT5.1 as I watch my selected model disappear in real time.
by roenxi | 2026-02-27 21:49:48+00:00
Deciding whether A is an X or a Y is a really basic part of why we're all communicating. Suspicion of em dashes is one thing, but once you start getting nervous on seeing "It’s not X. It’s Y." then you're just going to get paranoid.

The fundamentals of an LLM is to statistically match their output with the corpus. The tics they have are really common in natural human usage too.
by ZenoArrow | 2026-02-27 21:49:55+00:00
> You are also strangely fixated on today's capabilities

I am talking about today's capabilities because this comment thread started with the suggestion that the benefits of AI for coding was no longer avoidable after the launch of Codex 5.3.

> In a few months will have posts here from device driver writers explaining how they hooked up a phone to an Arduino and a video camera and how the AI is automatically writing device drivers.

A few months? Almost zero chance. If it happens in the next 5 years I'd be less surprised, but I suspect it'll take longer.