MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Terr_ | 2026-02-19 09:09:56+00:00
> an efficient way. When the market ceases to be sufficiently free

I want to highlight that the freedom of the efficient market is not the same as the freedom of participants, and that in certain specific ways they are inherently opposed.

Contrast these two kinds of promotion:

1. "Our X system is the most efficient and our best chance for abundance, we proved it with math! ... Because "correct" prices are discovered through public prices where all transactions are open market transactions with public prices. I

2. "Our X system is the free-est because nobody's telling you what to do with your stuff! Economic liberty! ... Because two consenting parties can make all sort of private deals with secret or preferential prices and and non-disclosure agreements.

I feel there are certain blocs--sometimes certain individuals--that act as if both are equally and simultaneously true, despite the inherent contradiction.
by Alifatisk | 2026-02-19 09:11:48+00:00
This is such great news, we have seen mental health decline a lot this decade while social media among teens have become a commodity.My only concern is how this will be enforced, trusting private entities with IDs and passport doesn’t seem reliable with the recent leaks. We do not want to risk children like this. I don’t know which country started this trend, with banning social media though, maybe it was Australia but I am in favor of it. I hope next step is for schools to ban phones as a whole.
by michaelt | 2026-02-19 09:12:37+00:00
I've worked on much less expensive, much smaller humanoid robots.

These robots are certainly running through a scripted set of poses which has been extensively tested for the conditions (Humans would also be choreographed and have to hit certain marks at certain times). If you covered the stage in loose gravel or a thick carpet they'd all start falling over. The things the robots hold are almost certainly taped into their hands.

Despite that, this is a very impressive demo. Those robots are $40k+, they've got 20+ of them. And not a single one fell over. They're fast too - and there are a load of corners they could have cut, but they didn't.

The floor has two textures, it would have been easier without that. The humans right alongside them? Much less safety paperwork without them. The robot wearing trousers and a cape? Much easier without that. The fewer robots you have, the lower the chances on falls over landing their backflip. Lose the audience and record it in multiple takes. Hell, you could have human acrobats in robot costumes and it'd cost far less and be much easier.

So this demo is very much a costly signal of confidence.
by rixed | 2026-02-19 09:13:59+00:00
Last time I had to implement a typed programming language, it was for short programs only. So for typing I just converted the program into a large set of constraints and throw z4 at it, asking to optimize for smallest possible types. If z4 could find types for every expressions in less than a few seconds then it was well typed.

You had to use a few trick for larger programs, but basically it managed to type any real programs and I never encountered an ambihuous case that caused a problem in practice. In case of failure, the small set of unsatisfiable constraints was easy to translate into nice error messages. This also allows for typing rules that are easy to state and can accomodate operators that adapts nicely to their environment.

I would understand if this approach would be frowned upon, but I still wonder if any serious language ever used this approach?
by energy123 | 2026-02-19 09:14:10+00:00
> I don't want something with the arm strength of a forklift taking care of my parents or kids.

A risk I never hear discussed is falling over and injuring children. Even the petite Unitree models are like a 70kg piece of furniture. Each year thousands get injured because of furniture falling over. I'd buy one immediately, but if I had kids or pets, I would wait for safety data on falls.
by sevenseacat | 2026-02-19 09:14:25+00:00
In reality its a massive fucking problem. This is why so many women end up wearing men's clothing, which doesn't fit their shape at all, just because they're the only things they can find that they can actually fit into!

What special snowflake part of the world do you live in that any woman can walk into any clothes shop and find clothes that fit? Because I call bullshit on that.
by adrian_b | 2026-02-19 09:14:49+00:00
I am familiar with that site and the PCG PRNGs are based on a sound principle, so they are good for many applications.

However I have never seen a place where the author says something about finding a statistical defect in ChaCha. She only correctly says that ChaCha is significantly slower than PRNGs like those of the PCG kind (and that it also shares the same property that any PRNG with a fixed state size has, of limited high-dimensional equidistribution; this is also true for any concrete instantiation of the PRNGs recommended by the author; the only difference is that with PRNGs having a simple definition you can make the same structure with a bigger state, as big as you want, but once you have chosen a size, you have again a limit; the PCG PRNGs recommended there, when having greater sizes than cryptographic PRNGs, they become slower than those cryptographic PRNGs, due to slow large integer multiplications).

In the past, I have seen some claims of statistical tests distinguishing cryptographic PRNGs that were false, due to incorrect methodology. E.g. I have seen a ridiculous paper claiming that an AI method is able to recognize that an AES PRNG is non-random. However, reading the paper has shown that they did not find anything that could distinguish a number sequence produced by AES from a true random sequence. Instead, they could distinguish the AES sequence from numbers read from /dev/random on an unspecified computer, using an unspecified operating system. Therefore, if there were statistical biases, those were likely in whichever was their /dev/random implementation (as many such implementations are bad, and even a good implementation may appear to have statistical abnormalities, depending on the activity done on the computer), not in the AES sequence.
by tirant | 2026-02-19 09:16:07+00:00
There’s also another element: the shift of women from being stay at home mums to joining the workforce.

In the past there used to be always one family member staying at home and cooking food. That is not the case anymore for many families.

I knew since the beginning how important is to eat home made meals, so I told my wife when we started our family that we would always eat home made food every day unless we were out for another reason. We all have healthy weight levels.
by faeyanpiraat | 2026-02-19 09:16:56+00:00
I wash new clothes by themselves for the first time for this reason, it's a good enough solution.

I once had jeans with buttons and first I thought it was terrible, but after 2-3 uses I got used to it, so it's not a big deal I guess.

And about quality there is a youtube channel where they cut shoes in half and rate the quality of the build, and based on the couple of shoes I've checked out, the price and brand rarely correlates with good quality.

As with everything else, when buying expensive longterm items (like a leather boot), it is worth doing some research into which option is the best.
by kaon_2 | 2026-02-19 09:16:59+00:00
I was born in 1989. The most impressive sudden technological advance I have experienced have been LLMs. This video is a good candidate for second place. I am mindblown... That they even dare having children dance with them. The trust they must place. An acquantance bought a chess board with a robot arm, and it accidentally broke his finger because he picked up a piece that the robot arm wanted to pick up. China isn't just a few hours in the future, more like decades it feels like.
by NooneAtAll3 | 2026-02-19 09:17:09+00:00
> After a proud surgeon delivered a lecture on a procedure he’d performed many times, a medical student asked whether half of eligible patients had been set aside as a baseline for comparison.

> “Of course not!” thundered the surgeon. “That would have doomed half of the patients to death!”

> Stunned silence filled the lecture hall, and the student softly asked,

> “Which half?”

damn that was good
by StopDisinfo910 | 2026-02-19 09:17:34+00:00
The restricting law is mostly concerned with the age gating, not the how.

You can expect another law or directive to explain how it has to be done. In the EU, GDPR does apply so you can be sure that poorly storing ID copies for this purpose will not fly.

But, I think it's clearly what ID is for and a legitimate use case for electronic ID. ID is the tool the state uses to give you a way to prove you are who you pretend to be.

I think there's something a bit funny in worrying about giving a copy of your IDs to companies who already know everything about you from your full social graph to your political leanings and interests.
by nosianu | 2026-02-19 09:18:02+00:00
I used Application System Heidelberg's Script II on an Atari 1040STFM with 72 Hz SM 124 black/white monitor and an Epson LQ 550 24 pin printer. That was some superb publishing system for the time (1991), for a low budget.

1 MB RAM, 1.44 MB floppy drive

SM 124: 640x400 pixels, monochrome

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_ST
https://www.atarimuseum.de/1040st.htm

The software used a special driver to get better than standard quality from the then most common 24 pin printers (laser printers where much expensive) by kind of double-printing, I forgot the details. It looked really good though.

https://www.planetemu.net/screenshots/Atari%20ST%20-%20Appli...

https://stcarchiv.de/tos/1990/11/script-2 (German)

"Script" was the cheap version of their better product "Signum".

https://www.application-systems.de/signum/screenshots.html

https://www.atariuptodate.de/img/signum.png
by easyThrowaway | 2026-02-19 09:18:30+00:00
> The updates are over https. The default certificates are 10year expiry.

I wish I knew this last week while trying to restore a 2010 21" iMac.

Apart from this, I encountered another annoyance mid-way; the official download urls for Sierra and High Sierra were nowhere to be found. I somewhat remember being able to download the official dmg/disk image from some official repository, probably some App store public url?
by pmontra | 2026-02-19 09:18:35+00:00
I don't think it was luck. I think it was inevitable.

They positioned the company on high performance computing, even if maybe they didn't think they were a HPC company, and something was bound to happen in that market because everybody was doing more and more computing. Then they executed well with the usual amount of greed that every company has.

The only risk for well positioned companies is being too ahead of times: being in the right market but not surviving long enough to see a killer app happen.
by altairprime | 2026-02-19 09:19:00+00:00
Yeah, back waist pocket works incredibly well if you have a 'rear bust', so to speak — the waist-to-hip curve angle can be quite severe relative to men. I have bicyclist thighs so an extra quarter inch on one side is completely invisible — but the placement of jacket pockets is incompatible with my torso shape. I believe(?) on many women's jackets they come out of the factory sewn shut by default so that they don't gape from the angular pressure.
by derriz | 2026-02-19 09:20:11+00:00
At a certain point a bias in the prng just has to become significant? This will be a function of the experiment. So I don’t think it’s possible to talk about a general lack of “practical impact” without specifying a particular experiment. Thinking abstractly - where an “experiment” is a deterministic function that takes the output of a prng and returns a result - an experiment that can be represented by a constant function will be immune to bias, while one which returns the nth bit of the random number will be susceptible to bias.
by bilekas | 2026-02-19 09:20:17+00:00
> Facebook doing that is actually good, to protect consumers from data abuse after incidents like cambridge analytica.

There is nothing here stopping cambridge analytica from doing this again, they will provide whatever details needed. But a small pre launch personal project work that might use a facebook publishing application can't be developed or tested without first going through all the beuracracy.

Nevermind the non profit 'free' application you might want to create on the FB platform, lets say a share chrome extension "Post to my FB", for personal use, you can't do this because you can't create an application without a company and IVA/TAX docuemnts. It's hostile imo.

Before, you could create an app, link you ToS, privacy policy etc, very your domain via email, and then if users wanted to use your application they would agree, this is how a lot of companies still do it. I'm actually not sure why FB do this specifically.
by mentalgear | 2026-02-19 09:20:20+00:00
Of course he did: Zuckerberg has shown countless times that he's morally bankrupt: Each time, when given the choice (and regulatory landscape is gray) even with full knowledge of internal experts advising him against, he chose profits, even if "move fast and break things" includes the very society he and we all live in. (<- see current state of the world)
by joe_mamba | 2026-02-19 09:20:34+00:00
>Oh the right-wing propaganda of decrying "wokeness" in pop culture

It's not "right-wing propaganda" it's the reality, just look at viewer ratings, total views and cinema turnouts of Hollywood movies in the last 10 years compared to for example 1999-2005. The decline in quality is obvious and measurable. You can ignore that if you want, but reality and metrics disagrees with you.

>good old white christian culture is very much an export you fell victim to as well. It promotes far-right "alternative" political parties

Yes, the "far right christian ideologies", such as masculinity, traditional gender roles, patriarchal values, self sacrifice and fighting for your kin and country, protestant work ethic and entrepreneurship, protecting your borders against foreign invaders, hierarchical social structures based on merit, the same values and ideologies that built and made the western anglo-european civilizations the envy of the world superpowers, that got us to the moon, and where the rest of the world wants to emigrate to.

Those values weren't invented by Hollywood as propaganda, they were there in humanity before time immemorial, that's why they worked so well and why they transcended borders and languages because everyone from India to NA could associate with them, and why you fail when your entertainments goes against them injecting far left ideologies, because it's unnatural.
by pimterry | 2026-02-19 09:20:43+00:00
This exists, https://www.sonofatailor.com/ for example. You put in a full set of your measurements, pick a type of garment, and they make it to fit and ship it, takes a couple of weeks or so.

It is more expensive, but not impossibly so, and they fairly aggressively discount for larger orders which presumably amortizes some of the overheads.
by Toutouxc | 2026-02-19 09:20:58+00:00
I'm like 1 cm taller than you and the pain is real.

And pants are still kind of doable, but mountain bikes? My enduro rig is size XS on 27.5 rims and with manufacturers dropping 27.5ers I expect this to be the last bike that feels anywhere close to "nimble". Also RIP women riders, but that's been the case for years now.

I also have proportionally small feet (size 39 EU but wide as fuck, so I only wear expensive minimalist shoes with wide toe boxes) and small hands (RIP piano, I'm not hitting an octave ever).
by devtoolbox | 2026-02-19 09:21:20+00:00
Thanks for testing and reporting this! The QR endpoint itself works fine directly (POST /qr with {"text":"hello","format":"png"}), but sounds like the UI form may have an issue on mobile.

Can you tell me what happens – does the button just not respond, or do you get an error? I'll look into it now and push a fix if there's a mobile layout bug.

In the meantime, the raw API endpoint should work fine from any HTTP client.
by Otterly99 | 2026-02-19 09:22:15+00:00
To play devil's advocate, if you were serious about building a product, whether it was hand-coded or vibe-coded, you would iterate through the work and implement functionalities step-by-step.
But with vibe-coding, you might not give enough thoughts about the product to think of use cases. I think you can still build good software with varying degrees of AI assistance, but it takes the same effort of testing and user feedback to make it great.
by mosselman | 2026-02-19 09:22:44+00:00
I asked Codex 5.3 and Opus 4.6 to write me a macos application with a certain set of requirements.

Opus 4.6 wrote me a working macos application.

Codex wrote me a html + css mockup of a macos application that didn't even look like a macos application at all.

Opus 4.5 was fine, but I feel that 4.6 is more often on the money on its implementations than 4.5 was. It is just slower.
by tirant | 2026-02-19 09:23:21+00:00
And despite all of that, women keep buying those products.

I have difficulties believing that your observations are a real issue. If they were, rest assured the free market would have found out about it and would have offered the right product for those women.

Reality is that most women buy based on looks and not practicality. I really had not heard before your comment any women complaining about small pockets.
by dash2 | 2026-02-19 09:24:08+00:00
> “Specialisation” means that no innovation unrelated to AI gets mind share, investment, patent applications. And that's somehow a good thing?

I don’t think the authors claim we should have 100% specialisation. They just say that the fact that the EU has fewer AI-related patents as a proportion of the total (less specialisation) is evidence that it is behind in AI. That seems reasonable.
by lyu07282 | 2026-02-19 09:25:21+00:00
What is the "quality" you take issue with? The color correction? Or is it perhaps the far-left ideology that woke Hollywood shoves down your throat you are upset with?

Oh responded to before you edited, that's funny lol

Damn I saw that from a mile away, they all sound the same. Some terminally online european sounds the same as your average republican, it's the same talking points, it's wild. Just have to poke them a bit and hate and reactionary nonsense comes spewing out.
by devtoolbox | 2026-02-19 09:26:06+00:00
Update: just pushed a fix that adds a loading indicator and visible error messages to the QR UI, so if it's failing silently that should now surface the error. Deployed ~2 min ago.

If you can reproduce it again and see an error message, I'd love to know what it says. Could be a rate limit hit, a CORS issue, or something else entirely.
by JasonADrury | 2026-02-19 09:26:09+00:00
Voters overrule countless well-being experts to keep alcohol available everywhere.

This seems like entirely normal human behavior at every level of society, no? Of course asking Zuckerberg is a bit like asking a bartender, but we know very well that it's not only bartenders who'd be against stopping alcohol sales.

It is strange to condemn Zuckerberg for doing this unless you're also willing to implement the all the other (vastly more important) advice from wellbeing experts that we as a society have pretty decisively rejected.
by imtringued | 2026-02-19 09:26:10+00:00
I tried to think about and leap seconds on their own don't seem to be a real problem. The problem is that leap seconds, minutes, hours, days, years, etc are a human interface concept and therefore only make sense to humans, but we've decided to force machines to deal with these human interface concepts as the primary way of dealing with time, when only the presentation layer should even know what a leap second is.
by bildung | 2026-02-19 09:26:23+00:00
They paid about $10B on inference and had about $10B in revenue in 2025. The users and numbers of zeroes on those numbers are not relevant. What is relevant is the ratio of those numbers. They apparently are not even profitable on inference, wich is the cheap part of the whole business.

And cost of inference tripled from $3B in 2024 to $10B in 2025, so cost of revenue linearly grows with number of users, i.e. it does not get cheaper.

https://www.wheresyoured.at/oai_docs/
by codingbot3000 | 2026-02-19 09:26:53+00:00
Microsoft seems to be doing anything they can to get rid of Minecraft Java users having bought a Mojang license in the past. Either they are conspiring against their users, or they just don't care.

The dubious Mojang account migration. Their lack of support for kids who got their accounts phished recently. Migrating to Vulkan breaking old hardware.

Sad story, but it was to be expected MS bought Mojang.
by sfn42 | 2026-02-19 09:27:01+00:00
There's also the fact that most men aren't very healthy - you'll often see very fit men wearing "revealing" and tight-fitting clothes that show off their muscles etc, whereas everyone else wears less revealing clothes because whatever they may reveal isn't very flattering.

The same is true for most women of course but a lot of them seem to wear revealing clothing regardless of how flattering it actually is.
by ceteia | 2026-02-19 09:27:08+00:00
People made similar arguments regarding C++ versus Ada. The US military and defense industry even got something like a mandate in the 1990s to only write in Ada.

And then there was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariane_flight_V88 , where US$370 million was lost. The code was written in Ada.

And using seat belts and wearing helmets do not help in those cases where 'unsafe' is used to take the seat belts and helmets off. And that is needed in Rust in a number of types of cases, such as some types of performance-sensitive code.
by u_sama | 2026-02-19 09:27:13+00:00
Most of the world is conservative by Hollywood liberal standards. Also injecting ideology is the least of concerns, it is just that they objectively produce shit compared to movies in 1995. All reruns, and remasters and basically living on the rent of old glories. There is a palpable lack of talent due to the political climate as well as reduced risk appetite to bet on young or transgressive directors/writers/actors. Now more innovative and interesting movies are coming from Korea and Turkey for example.

You could produce the most uber-woke movie possible and it would be loved as long as it was good art or had a legitimate good story.
by janalsncm | 2026-02-19 09:28:07+00:00
Based on the article, several brands have clothes that range from the low 20s to the mid 50s which covers essentially all waist sizes. If a woman has a 55 inch waist or a 20 inch waist she cannot buy pants at American Eagle but I wouldn’t characterize it as a massive problem. In fact the article identifies exactly where such a woman could find pants.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-02-19 09:28:10+00:00
Chromium has so many LOC's of code and so much large in their size that it bypasses github limits.

What I mean by this is that github has a limit (in my understanding) on the sizes of public repos.

Chromium bypasses that & this is the reason why if you fork Chromium, you can get unlimited storage in github iirc

Github gets to start really wonky when you do this tho (iirc)

I can be wrong, I usually am but wanted to share this fact to just share the absurd scale of how large chromium is.
by ibotty | 2026-02-19 09:28:24+00:00
Well, double standard is of course a thing (like accusing the only democracy for not being democratic enough without saying anything about much more oppressive regimes around; but also about surveillance in one place and also another). I think it is to make a different point though.

This funding from the US was to get around surveillance (everywhere), so it makes sense to argue, that a rival global player exports surveillance tech, because the funded tech is to counter that. That argument would not work with Israeli surveillance tech.