MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by reify | 2026-02-11 23:39:25+00:00
google tells!

Bit scary parent telling people what to do.

Are there no employment contracts in the USA. I wouldnt take that shit off of any employer. I dont give a fuck who they are.

I am doing them a favour; providing my valuable time and my skills to earn money for those lazy cunts. They aint doing me any favours!

Example.

The manager of the company I worked for, about 12 years ago, told me that I had to sign a new contract of employment, as the company were changing the working hours and pay schedule.

I said No.

I went to see a solicitor. An employer cannot force you to sign a new contract.

When you start any job, you sign a contract of employment. An employer cannot just change that contract to suit their own needs. they cannot just impose a new working schedule, pay less wages, or make you work more hours, that are not specifically set out in the original contract of employment.

If that was the case they could make you work 16 hours a day and pay you a loaf of bread and a mug of water.

I stayed in my job, went to work every day, until eventually they asked me to leave. I said no. They had to pay me £20,000 to get rid of me. Wankers.

thing is, I was the only employee of about 20 of us who refused to sign the new contract. the rest had to work longer hours for less pay. Mugs!

This is why you need a unionised work force.

Its the reason why, the conservatives, under Maggie thatched-roof tory cunt, killed our unions for the sole benefit of big business.
by bartread | 2026-02-11 23:39:46+00:00
> Option 1: Zhipu MaaS API (Recommended for Quick Start)
> Use the hosted cloud API – no GPU needed.

...

> Option 2: Self-host with vLLM / SGLang

So, first off, this looks really cool and, given I'm looking for OCR at the moment, I'm pretty interested in this and other OCR models.

With that said, the README implies that option 2 requires a GPU. That's fine but it would be incredibly helpful if the README were explicit about requirements, and especially the amount of memory it needs.

EDIT: Looking at the links under option 3, the docs for macOS setup suggest 8GB of unified memory is enough to run the model, which is pretty modest, so I'd imagine Option 2 is similar. Ollama also offers a CPU only option (no idea how that will perform - not amazingly, I'm guessing), but that would suggest to me that if your volume requirements are low and you can't shell out for or source a beefy enough GPU and don't want to pay the sometimes exhorbitant hire costs, you should be able to punt it on to a machine with enough memory to run the model without too much difficulty.
by dylan604 | 2026-02-11 23:40:10+00:00
The 3rd party guy isn't paying someone $40/hour to install the $20 unit. The $20 unit will not be as integrated into the car and will have the look of an after market part. Does the $20 part only come on when the car is in reverse, or is it on all the time? There's a lot of reasons the after market thing can be $20 and a lot of reasons the auto manufacturer's is not. It's not all down to greed
by montagg | 2026-02-11 23:40:42+00:00
This is the key passage. That may be true at some point, but it isn't now:

> The filing also disputed SpaceX’s argument that it is a “carrier by air transporting mail for or under contract with the United States Government.” Evidence presented by SpaceX shows only that it carried SpaceX employee letters to the crew of the International Space Station and “crew supplies provided for by the US government in its contracts with SpaceX to haul cargo to the ISS,” the filing said. “They do not show that the government has contracted with SpaceX as a ‘mail carrier.’”

> SpaceX’s argument “is rife with speculation regarding its plans for the future,” the ex-employees’ attorneys told the NMB. “One can only surmise that the reason for its constant reference to its future intent to develop its role as a ‘common carrier’ is the lack of current standing in that capacity.” The filing said Congress would have to add space travel to the Railway Labor Act’s jurisdiction in order for SpaceX to be considered a common carrier.
by lysace | 2026-02-11 23:41:43+00:00
> Terminals give us relatively few pixels to play with; they have a single font size; colors are not uniformly supported; in some terminal emulators, rendering is extremely slow.

That's why I use your excellent VS Code extension. I have lots of screen space and it's trivial to scroll back there, if needed.

I would really like even more love given to this. When working with long-lived code bases it's important to understand what is happening. Lots of promising UX opportunities here. I see hints of this, but it seems like 80% is TBD.

Ideally you would open source the extension to really use the creativity of your developer user base. ;)
by mschuster91 | 2026-02-11 23:41:49+00:00
> We're not going to have famines if SpaceX has a month long strike.

But Ukrainian soldiers can and will die on the battlefield if Starlink has issues. We already know that it is vital for the Russians because their battle plans fell apart once SpaceX, the US and the Ukrainian government finally introduced a whitelist for terminals allowed to connect on Ukrainian soil. And SpaceX IIRC also operates a separate Starlink system for the US military.

This didn't pose an issue in the past because the DoD ran stuff on its own, no third party companies required... but heh, privatization rules...
by toraway | 2026-02-11 23:42:31+00:00
Wait, are you really saying you have never had Opus 4.5 fail at a programming task you've given it? That strains credulity somewhat... and would certainly contribute to people believing you're exaggerating/hyping up Opus 4.5 beyond what can be reasonably supported.

Also, "order of magnitude better" is such plainly obvious exaggeration it does call your objectivity into question about Opus 4.5 vs. previous models and/or the competition.
by dheera | 2026-02-11 23:42:36+00:00
Because if you don't do what you are told at work, you may be forced to uproot your family, spouse, kids, and leave the country. You may be forced to abandon your pets and never see them again, forced to send your kids to suddenly school in a different, foreign-to-them language. You may be forced to pay tens of thousands in moving expenses. You may be forced to pay mortgages for a house you are not allowed to live in. All it takes is one unhappy manager at Amazon, or falling it the wrong bucket at stack ranking time.

Or you can do what your manager asks you to do, over-deliver on it year after year, and you won't have to deal with the above. You may be unhappy with what you do at work, but your kids and spouse will live happy lives, and you can keep your pets and house.

Sorry, just a dose of reality.
by toomuchtodo | 2026-02-11 23:42:48+00:00
You require a human to identity proof in real life and bind that to a digital identity with a strong authenticator. Anti fraud detection systems can suspend or ban if evasion attempts are detected. Perfect is not the target, it doesn’t have to be.

See: Login.gov (USPS offline proofing) and other national identity systems.

(digital identity is a component of my work)
by extr | 2026-02-11 23:43:22+00:00
thanks dude. you are living my worst nightmare which is that my ultra cool tech demo i made for cracked engineers on the bleeding edge with 128GB ram apple silicon using frontier AI gets adopted by everyone in the world and becomes load bearing so now it needs to run on chromebooks from 2005. and if it doesn't work on those laptops then my entire company gets branded as washed and not goated and my cozy twitter account is spammed with "why didn't you just write it in rust lel".

o7
by JakubCwi | 2026-02-11 23:43:36+00:00
Author here. TL;DR:

- Paradigm asymmetry: Classical impossibility proof holds only under same-paradigm assumption — drop it and it doesn't apply
- Complexity gap: BPP ≠ BQP → quantum gatekeeper states are computationally opaque to any classical agent, regardless of intelligence
- Pain mechanism: Barrier is embedded in the agent's substrate — breach attempts cause decoherence in the attacker's own reasoning, not in some external wall
- Formal model: Seven theorems, six attack vectors, defense-in-depth → P(breach) ≈ 10⁻²³
- Standard physics only: No exotic QM, no speculative extensions — complexity-theoretic assumptions + standard decoherence dynamics

Summary: https://redact-app.com/publications/quantum-containment.html
by az09mugen | 2026-02-11 23:44:03+00:00
I do not agree on the "lossless" adjective. And even if it is lossless, for sure it is not deterministic.

For example I would not want a zip of an encyclopedia that uncompresses to unverified, approximate and sometimes even wrong text. According to this site : https://www.wikiwand.com/en/articles/Size%20of%20Wikipedia a compressed Wikipedia without medias, just text is ~24GB. What's the medium size of an LLM, 10 GB ? 50 GB ? 100 GB ? Even if it's less, it's not an accurate and deterministic way to compress text.

Yeah, pretty easy to calculate...
by tim-tday | 2026-02-11 23:45:12+00:00
This strikes me as something a politically or financially motivated apologist would make.

The Tesla FSD system (which is not, has never been, and will probably never be, literally Fully Self Driving) has been responsible for multiple deaths, has repeatedly been oversold and under delivers, probably lacks the sensor suite to ever be safe and may not ever actually work.

Thinking otherwise requires some mental gymnastics I’m not prepared to perform.
by jacquesm | 2026-02-11 23:46:13+00:00
- 136907 Huawei

- 23724 China Telco

- 9808 China Mobile

- 4808 China Unicom

- 37963 Alibaba

- 45102 Alibaba tech

You may want to add this list as well:

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/userguide/aws-ip-rang...
by westurner | 2026-02-11 23:46:17+00:00
- participants all self-selected into the study

They put an ad in a newspaper in San Francisco and then selected for apparent neurotypicality:

ZPE:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment :

> Participants were recruited from the local community through an advertisement in the newspapers offering $15 per day ($119.41 in 2025) to male students who wanted to participate in a "psychological study of prison life".

Here's that newspaper ad: https://exhibits.stanford.edu/spe/catalog/cj859hr0956 :

> Steady P-Time Job

> [...]

> Male college students needed for psychological study of prison life. $15/day for 1-2 weeks beg Aug. 14. For further information & applications, come to Room 248, Jordan Hall, Stanford U.
by meatmanek | 2026-02-11 23:46:27+00:00
I think the most useful thing about faxes, security-wise, is that in their basic form they require zero digital storage of the image being sent. The only record on either side of the transmission is a piece of paper.*

Contrast that with email, which is store-and-forward by design, and now you have to put in effort to ensure both the sending and receiving email providers delete the message in a timely manner.

* obviously you can add store-and-forward behavior to either fax machine, but it's not the default.
by Arathorn | 2026-02-11 23:46:29+00:00
The devil is in the details on this. The core concern was that libolm (the obsolete C impl of e2ee in Matrix) used crypto primitives which don’t protect from timing attacks.

However, in practice, this was not exploitable: the only way to exercise these primitives was over the network, where network latency and request rate limiting mitigates such attacks.

Meanwhile, we had already rewritten and replaced libolm with vodozemac, a pure rust implementation using robust primitives, shipped in the major Matrix SDKs and implementations like Element and Element X.

I’m not sure this counts as alarmingly cavalier. I do regret libolm ever going into production with substandard primitives from a hygiene perspective, but we fixed it as soon as we could via vodozemac, and meanwhile included the safety warning.
by happytoexplain | 2026-02-11 23:46:33+00:00
I have to say, I was a bit flabbergasted recently by a large, articulate comment on HN with the premise "Anti-LLM sentiment within software development is nearly non-existent". Very matter-of-fact, not seeming intended as contrarian.

For lack of a better word, it feels "weird" to read a sentence like that in what appears to not be a troll comment.
by KronisLV | 2026-02-11 23:46:37+00:00
I still enjoy using GLM 4.7 on Cerebras because of the speed you can get there and the frankly crazy amount of tokens they give you. Before that, 4.6 messed up file edits in OpenCode and VSC plugins more frequently, 4.7 is way more dependable but still has some issues with Python indentation and some partial edits sometimes (might also be tooling issue, e.g. using \ vs / as file separators in tool calls too) - but the quality of the output went up nicely!

I hope GLM 5 will also be available on Cerebras, since for the low-medium complexity work that's my go to, with Codex and Claude Code and Gemini CLI being nice for the more complex tasks.
Ask HN: Do you used a cloud based dev environment?
by asdev | 2026-02-11 23:46:54+00:00
At multiple companies I've worked for, we've always had a janky local set up. It's always near impossible to set up local dev and we've had an entire developer tools team supporting the hacky in house tool. Wondering if anyone uses purely cloud based or third party hosted dev environments and how the experience is?
by ks2048 | 2026-02-11 23:47:09+00:00
This looks like a nice rundown of how to do this with Python's zstd module.

But, I'm skeptical of using compressors directly for ML/AI/etc. (yes, compression and intelligence are very closely related, but practical compressors and practical classifiers have different goals and different practical constraints).

Back in 2023, I wrote two blog-posts [0,1] that refused the results in the 2023 paper referenced here (bad implementation and bad data).

[0] https://kenschutte.com/gzip-knn-paper/

[1] https://kenschutte.com/gzip-knn-paper2/
by xp84 | 2026-02-11 23:48:07+00:00
From a linked article from the first linked article:

> SpaceX quickly fired the employees, with President Gwynne Shotwell explaining in an email to the remaining staff that the “letter, solicitations and general process made employees feel uncomfortable, intimidated and bullied, and/or angry because the letter pressured them to sign onto something that did not reflect their views.”

> “Blanketing thousands of people across the company with repeated unsolicited emails and asking them to sign letters and fill out unsponsored surveys during the work day is not acceptable,” Shotwell wrote to SpaceX staff. The fired employees filed charges with the NLRB in November 2022.

Let's set aside whether or not you like Mr. Musk at all. Personally I think saying he's been a "frequent source of embarrassment" is being generous to him. And also set aside whether it is or isn't "like an airline" or whatever. Just to speak of the complaint itself, does it strike anyone else as absurd? If I start circulating messages to thousands of my coworkers that "Mr. CEO is an embarrassment and terrible, sign my petition blah blah blah" I would not think it unfair that that same guy stops signing my paychecks. What am I missing here about US "labor laws"? I know you're protected from retaliation when you are whistleblowing, reporting harassment, etc. -- but these people's problem seems to just be that they hate their CEO (but still claim to want to work for him).
by RiverCrochet | 2026-02-11 23:48:24+00:00
There's a significant number of people who want their life micromanaged and a significant number of people who want to micromanage other people's lives. The need to have a sense of control and therefore safety manifests itself in weird ways in various populations and can't be contained without a lot of sustained, continuous effort, just like the other base desires of humankind. I just wish the federal government didn't have a hand in it, and then all the people who want to execute weed smokers can do so in their own states and leave the other states alone.
by rootusrootus | 2026-02-11 23:48:54+00:00
Ah yes, porch pirates do not exist anywhere but in the US.

You know that the reason someone can make it newsworthy is because it is uncommon, yeah?

A security firm, which may have a particular interest in the numbers being skewed in a certain direction, pegs the number at 250K packages stolen from porches every day. Sounds like a huge problem! There are 60M packages delivered every day. Even if they are providing accurate numbers, which I doubt, it is uncommon.
by conductr | 2026-02-11 23:49:15+00:00
Community as described in article also isn’t the default. If you’re in a rural area and urban sprawl comes to you, it may bring with it establishing of this type of community but it also generates resentment from those that liked their rural setting and the lack of community.

Everything has to evolve to progress. We can’t just say protect community at all cost because it also means you must prevent expansion and improvement of the status quo of other quality of life metrics.
by greiskul | 2026-02-11 23:49:21+00:00
This used to be true, but now I don't think it is anymore. Modern frameworks and modern screen readers have no issue with acessibility.

Some survey from WebAIM found that 99.3% of screen reader users have JavaScript enabled.

So... are they really in accessibility territory still? Only people I still see complaining about Javascript being required are people that insist the web should just be static documents with hyperlinks like it was in the early 90s.

Can you find a modern source with valid reasons for accomodating non-JS users?
by codingdave | 2026-02-11 23:49:37+00:00
IANAL, but this seems like an odd test to me. Judges do what their name implies - make judgment calls. I find it re-assuring that judges get different answers under different scenarios, because it means they are listening and making judgment calls. If LLMs give only one answer, no matter what nuances are at play, that sounds like they are failing to judge and instead are diminishing the thought process down to black-and-white thinking.

Digging a bit deeper, the actual paper seems to agree: "For the sake of consistency, we define an “error” in the same way that Klerman and Spamann do in their original paper: a departure from the law. Such departures, however, may not always reflect true lawlessness. In particular, when the applicable doctrine is a standard, judges may be exercising the discretion the standard affords to reach a decision different from what a surface-level reading of the doctrine would suggest"
by ahnick | 2026-02-11 23:49:51+00:00
We know there is a real problem, awareness is not the issue. (I've been aware of it since the mid 90's) It is ignored by large industries and governments. The incessant pounding of the useless drum of individual action continues to go absolutely nowhere. We need government and industry to take action not individuals. I will no longer placate this idea that individual action is at all useful.
by AngryData | 2026-02-11 23:50:00+00:00
If they had board diagrams or schematics that nephew could do a lot more than simply look for a blown fuse or wire. Nobody looks deeper than that because they know it is a waste of time without any reference materials.

No it doesn't solve all the problems, but how many TVs now sit in the dump because of the failure of some 1 cent part that nobody could diagnose even if they wanted because they would have to reverse engineer half the board, rather than probe a few different points on the board?

Appliance repair use to be big business. Did it stop being so because washers and TVs and vacuums became too complicated to understand, or the parts went up in cost, or because $1000 is considered cheap enough of a device to be considered disposable? No. They stopped existing because appliances stopped coming with the reference materials to repair them in a reasonable time and parts are obfuscated from their source so people don't even know what their broken part is half the time. Is that a thermistor, a capacitor, a diode that blew up? Have fun spending the next 2 hours tracing the obfuscated part number down through 5 different suppliers to figure it out because you obviously can't test a broken part and there is no schematic to look at and identify it from.
by jiggawatts | 2026-02-11 23:50:15+00:00
I got myself an iPhone 16 Pro because of the promised AI features. I had a vision in my mind of what it ought be like:

While driving past a restaurant, I wanted to know if they were open for lunch and if they had gluten-free items on their menu.

I asked the "new" Siri to check this for me while driving, so I gave it a shot.

"I did some web searches for you but I can't read it out to you while driving."

Then what on earth is its purpose if not that!? THAT! That is what it's for! It's meant to be a voice assistant, not a laptop with a web browser!

I checked while stopped, and it literally just googled "restaurant gluten free menu" and... that's it. Nothing specific about my location. That's nuts.

Think about what data and access the phone has:

1. It knows I'm driving -- it is literally plugged into the car's Apple CarPlay port.

2. It knows where I am because it is doing the navigating.

3. It can look at the map and see the restaurant and access its metadata such as its online menu.

4. Any modern LLM can read the text of the web page and summarize it given a prompt like "does this have GF items?"

5. Text-to-voice has been a thing for a decade now.

How hard can this be? Siri seems to have 10x more developer effort sunk into refusing to do the things it can already do instead of... I don't know... just doing the thing.
by vineyardmike | 2026-02-11 23:50:35+00:00
I feel like, today, most of the other LLM providers can do what "Apple Intelligence" promised - it'll link with my email/calendar/etc and it can find stuff I ask with a fuzzy search.

That said, I don't really use this functionality all that often, because it didn't really (effortlessly) solve a big need for me. Apple sitting out LLMs means they didn't build this competency along the way, even when the technology is now proven.

I think the same thing is true was VR - except Apple did invest heavily in it and bring a product to market. Maybe we won't see anything big for a while, and Silicon Valley becomes the next Detroit.
by GMoromisato | 2026-02-11 23:50:40+00:00
This is 100% uninformed opinion (sorry, HN) but allowing climate action to become a political issue (and a losing political issue at that) was the core mistake the environmental movement made in the 90s and beyond.

If we had created a broad-based constituency for climate action, say, working with industry to build nuclear power or supporting natural gas to displace coal or even funding more conservative think tanks, then we'd be in better shape.

A microcosm of this was local and federal politicians driving Elon Musk to the Republicans. Labor issues and regulatory roadblocks took precedence over supporting Tesla, forcing Musk to seek Trump as an ally. This immediately poisoned Tesla's reputation with liberals and probably set back adoption of EVs in the West.

If climate change is really an existential issue, then we should be willing to compromise on non-existential issues to build a broader coalition. But no one is in the mood for that.