MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by throwaway77385 | 2026-02-10 16:33:58+00:00
Yuck.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.

> Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

> When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

Honestly, if you just made your profile a day ago to yell overly confident and meaningless statements into the void, like a Mandrill in the jungle trying to shout over all the others, go back to LinkedIn, they like that kind of stuff there.

I even agree that AI has a place in our world and can greatly increase productivity. But we should talk about the how and why, instead of attacking others ad hominem and just stopping any discourse with absolutist nonsense.
by its_magic | 2026-02-10 16:33:58+00:00
For this entire time, my position has been that the people trying to put everything in the cloud were idiots who would come to regret this. Thus explaining my sarcasm. It's time to fire back with both barrels at the dumbasses who rolled their eyes and said I was stupid, wrong, had no idea what I was talking about, blah blah blah. (Same shit they always say about every word that comes out of my mouth. So tiring.)

Laughs in Linux
by tromp | 2026-02-10 16:34:10+00:00
> let weighted_reward = (volume_factor * 0.4) + (count_factor * 0.3) + 0.3;
> MIN_BLOCK_REWARD + ((current_max - MIN_BLOCK_REWARD) * weighted_reward)

Making reward increase with tx count will strongly incentivize the miners to fill the blocks with dummy txs, needlessly wasting everyone's resources.
by webdoodle | 2026-02-10 16:34:16+00:00
The public got a peek at it with Cambridge Analytica creating hundreds of thousands of personality profiles, they then used to create Trump's MAGA army of flying monkeys. The Democrats could have done something about it, and made it illegal, but instead they just decided to build there own armies of flying monkeys. Why? Because both sides are bought and paid for by the same rich parasites trying to reprogram us.
by daveguy | 2026-02-10 16:34:18+00:00
Not sure what you're trying to say and I'm not going to click your random link.

I was saying that in addition to the now-hilarious claim that US Right communities are based on morals, the US Left description was also incorrect from the beginning.

Only in the US Right's propaganda addled minds did the Left in the US ever put equality ("a level playing field") over "freedom from power abuse".

Not sure what that has to do with Ghislaine. Or why you seem to imply that I think Ghislaine should be anywhere other than a supermax. So I guess you were promoting your own views there, because mine are the opposite of your stated position of "free Ghislaine".
by pessimizer | 2026-02-10 16:34:26+00:00
At this point, it's just something stupid people say. It used to mean that when you pointed out that my people were desperate for the freedom of living under capitalism, I would point out that you lived in an apartheid state.

Somehow, here, "whataboutism" means that if after you point out that the EU is coming up with an age verification system that they claim preserves personal privacy, I point out that the EU is also very much, openly, against any sort of personal privacy. Somehow that's some form of communist propaganda. Or Russian propaganda. Terrorist? Whatever. The important part is that I'm someone who should be watched or arrested if I continue to question your motives on behalf of our enemies.
by SpicyLemonZest | 2026-02-10 16:34:51+00:00
I'm open to the possibility that I'm missing some key insight and if I ever do have a daughter I'll understand. But I think we also have to be open to the opposite possibility, that we don't like to see preteens and teenagers hurt so deeply and are highly motivated to search around for a structural lever we can pull to stop it from happening.
by mordechai9000 | 2026-02-10 16:34:56+00:00
I can only speak for myself, but 2 was a good number for me. This amounts to somewhat less than a replacement rate. My wife and I had enough time and energy to give the kids what they needed, and still have some for ourselves at the end of the day. And if either of the kids needed extra resources or attention, we were able to do it without neglecting the other one.

I am not worried about a population decline, to be honest. Even disregarding AI, improvements in technology and food production mean we can leverage resources in a way that would seem like magic to the people alive when my grandparents were born. I would rather take care of the people we have in this world - the whole world, not just my country - than see more people born into slums and poverty.

Even if there is a cliff, I don't think it's an existential crisis. I say without irony, I believe the market will adjust. Wages will go up in jobs that are needed, and workers will have more leverage and more mobility, socially and geographically. It's hard for me to see that as a bad thing.

Even if you believe that technology will let us keep pushing the earth's carrying capacity indefinitely, to what end? It doesn't seem like anyone has a real plan for expanding beyond 8 billion that isn't just a promise that we'll figure it out when we get there. We aren't taking care of the people we have now. Never mind the ones yet to be born.

I don't want to live in Brave New World and I also don't want to live in The Dosadi Experiment. And I don't want to condemn the future people to live like that either. I know those are works of fiction, but both seem plausible (in the general sense) at this point.

(Edit: not Brave New World. I am thinking about a story where people lived in dense arcologies with tight surveillance and social control surrounded by robotic farms. Sorry I can't remember.)
by mullingitover | 2026-02-10 16:35:00+00:00
> there is nothing in this world that brings people more joy than their families and their children. Nothing.

Counterpoint: Yes, you're giving the standard apologetic we all hear from parents. However, plain and simple, objectively it's typically the most stressful thing you will do in your entire life. It's so bad the US Surgeon General had to put out an entire advisory paper about it[1]:

> 41% of parents say that most days they are so stressed they cannot function and 48% say that most days their stress is completely overwhelming compared to other adults (20% and 26%, respectively).

[1] https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/parents-under-pressu...
by alt227 | 2026-02-10 16:35:01+00:00
What assembly lines and factories did for other manufacturing processes is to make it feasable for any person to be able to make those things. In the past only very skilled professionals were able to create such things, but mechanisation and breaking down manufacturing processes into small chunks made the same things be able to be achieved by low skilled workers.

IMO that is exactly what is happening here. Ai is making coding apps possible for the normal person. Yes they will need to be supervised and monitored, just like workers in a factory. But groups of normal low skilled workers will be able to create large pieces of software via ai, whic has only ever been possible by skilled teams of professinoals before.
by ericmay | 2026-02-10 16:35:35+00:00
Ha, well I was just in France last April and didn't have an issue at the machine to buy the train ticket. Though, unfortunately the train just so happened to cease to function on our last night there so we had to take an Uber in to Paris [1].

The wonderful French train company wouldn't refund the ticket either and instead insisted that we might use it one day on another trip to France. Thankfully by the time I got to the front of the line to chat in broken French to the ticket administrator, I had already accepted my fate after hearing a number of tourists (not Americans mind you) yell and stomp their feet uselessly in hopes of obtaining a refund.

[1] That was a fun adventure too. At CDG, well I found out later that taxis are "allowed" and are the same price as the Uber ride and so we could have avoided this by just taking a taxi through Uber, but a group of folks from Great Britain were ahead of me in line and I came across them later when looking for where to get a taxi/Uber. There were rideshare signs or something but they didn't lead anywhere that made sense. They seemed rather aspirational. Well, one of the members of the British group spoke good French (or good enough) and found out the secret spot to go after chatting with an airport employee I think it's at Terminal E (someone else may know for sure) or something and so my wife and I befriended the same British group and went along with them for the long walk over.

We were able to get a ride, though not cheap. Of course the bus was an option and we're no stranger, but we were on vacation and the $50 ride was just chalked up to the cost of doing business. We were already 2 hours behind schedule because of the train fiasco.

All that to say, I think using an American credit card these days is the least of your concerns. I was surprised to see American Express taken rather much more widely than anticipated. Be careful getting gas though as they place holds on your card for $250 or something like that, and once you get enough holds you can't get any more until the prior ones "roll off".
by throwaway_ocr | 2026-02-10 16:35:44+00:00
In the incident case, it's a post-mortem on the incident. The incident itself is (hopefully) resolved and can now be dissected to learn about what went wrong and how things can improve in the future.

That's what a post-mortem implies to me in the tech industry. A thing happened, it's over now, here are the lessons we learned to take into the future.
by anal_reactor | 2026-02-10 16:36:12+00:00
Fun fact: until about a year ago it was not possible to pay using normal debit cards in most Dutch shops, you had to have a local card. I distinctly remember that AH, Vomar and Jumbo would typically reject foreign cards while Lidl and Dirk would typically accept them. Of course there were exceptions, but that was the rule of thumb.

Most Dutch people were unaware of the issue (because Dutch cards worked abroad), and those who were, were fully convinced that it's because Dutch system is objectively better (it wasn't, it was just a separate network). Then in like 2024/2025 Visa and Mastercard finally retired their special V-Pay and Maestro brands, and now most terminals in the Netherlands accept most normal cards.
by edmundsauto | 2026-02-10 16:36:16+00:00
If I may offer a marketing suggestion - make it easy for people to do a “proam” workflow to setup their own network. A “one click to diagnose and visualize your Wi-Fi setup”. And then write content around that.

This tool looks more powerful than what I would use, but if there were a kid version, I’d like someone to tell me how to improve my network performance.
by lotsofpulp | 2026-02-10 16:36:36+00:00
Everyone I know who wanted more kids wanted them before having 1 or 2. And it is almost always the men who wanted more kids, as women are more cognizant of the sacrifices and risks.

And this applies to financially secure couples in the US who willingly stop at 1 or 2.

“Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face.”
by postflopclarity | 2026-02-10 16:36:41+00:00
such annoying pedantry to point out that "akshually houses are cheap in southern missouri"

I mean, sure. but then there are 0 jobs and 0 community.

the housing shortage is a shortage of housing in the same places that there is industry and opportunity. the fact that there are ample plots of land upon which one could theoretically erect a tent is irrelevant
by Aurornis | 2026-02-10 16:36:46+00:00
> They're all trying to share ideas and jumping on the latest research findings from reputable and crackpot sources.

I’ve had glimpses of this part of Twitter spill into my feed. It was always obvious that everyone was just using fertility as an excuse to push their chosen hobby horse. The logic barely mattered, they just used it as a reason to push their ideas.

From hanging out with younger generations (tech biased) I have a different perspective: A lot of the younger people I talk to just have no idea what it’s like to have kids or a family in reality. They grew up when Reddit was hardcore anti-kid and /r/childfree (remember that cesspool?) was hitting the front page and their feeds every single day with unhinged takes about parenting and child raising from angry people who weren’t parents.

When I had kids a lot of the younger people I was around acted like they needed to give me condolences because my life was over. Then when I was actually happy and fulfilled they thought I was lying to them or secretly harboring resentment that I couldn’t share for social reasons. Like they genuinely couldn’t believe that I liked my kids and spending time with them. Years of Reddit has convinced them that all parents were unhappy and full of regret.
by its_magic | 2026-02-10 16:36:51+00:00
What a waste of time.

Why not just compile the original released HL2 source code? I got the code from Github that someone fixed up and got building. Just played through the game again plus both expansions a few months back. It has one annoying input bug that needs to be fixed and that's all. Otherwise it's flawless.

Please, don't anyone respond with any noise about "licensing issues" or whatnot. Then you'll get me on a rant about how copyright law is an abomination exactly because of all the time and energy it causes people to waste, with this project being the perfect example of such.

EDIT: And of course someone was immediately offended by my viewpoint. Here come the downvotes. OH NO!

EDIT2: And now I'm "posting too fast", so I don't get to respond to anyone, but just have to sit and be lectured by some nanny on my commenting style, with frequent wild gesticulations in the general direction of "da roolz." lol

Are you people aware that your forum is a toxic, authoritarian shithole? It does not seem you are aware of this. Right now as we speak Nazis from 1933 are inventing a time machine to get away from their failed nation and teleport themselves to yours, where you have at long last finally mastered the art of censorship.

Flag incoming in 3...2...
by compounding_it | 2026-02-10 16:36:58+00:00
Small businesses generally dont because the setup for a merchant POS is quite a bit of hassle. In fact maintaining that device also costs money. A UPI merchant on the other hand is quite easy and free from what I know. This setup with visa mastercard might change in the future (with square like devices). However there is also a security problem so fraud might increase with that. Very interesting times for visa and mastercard who have basically not innovated since their existence and yet somehow have grown so big.
by WorldMaker | 2026-02-10 16:37:03+00:00
Modability and repairability aren't exactly apples-to-apples between fossil fuel cars and electric cars.

There's a great potential for modability as electric cars are essentially software-defined cars. If you can get low level enough in the software there's a huge capability to change all sorts of interesting characteristics of how the pedals respond and even sometimes down what each wheel is doing in a particular moment. However, most manufacturers for safety and other reasons are generally going to want to lock down low level access to the software.

If you want to watch highly skilled people explore the modability space of EVs in real time, there's a lot of neat stuff going on in Formula E, the electric relative to Formula 1. Formula E is still using "standard cars" across all of the teams, so a lot of the "game" of that sport is live and often real time software tuning. Including some of it is directly gamified at this point, such as a portion of the car's battery is reserved for special "speed boosts" that unlock with audience participation or other goals/milestones.

Repairability is a more complicated comparison. EVs generally have fewer easy to repair parts, but partly because EVs generally have a lot fewer parts period. A typical electric motor is "solid state". It is magnets and high voltage wires. There's nothing to lubricate. We don't generally classify it as having moving parts subject to wear down over time. Electric motors and EV batteries are generally "replace, don't try to repair" parts should the worst happen to them. Not that there wouldn't be ways to repair them in place, but a lot of those techniques won't be "industry standardized" and it will take different skills than traditional mechanics are used to.

But at the same time, there's no fuel injection system or exhaust or catalytic converter to ever need repair. There's often no transmission or clutch; if there are physical gears there are often fewer of them. Electric motors support regenerative braking (running the motor in "reverse" and converting speed back to battery energy), so the physical brakes on electric cars generally see a lot less wear and tear of the same number of years than a fossil fuel car, so often need to be repaired less often.

Electric cars are most associated with the shift to screen-based dashboards and related cabin changes, but those changes are happening industry-wide at this point and the repairability of those components is shifting as they become "standard" features across many models of an automaker.
by koolba | 2026-02-10 16:37:11+00:00
> Since then, we have seen indiscriminate violence against people and families following the rules.

I'm not aware of any such thing, especially anything "indiscriminate". For sure there are causalities when protests go from speech to violence or directly interfere with the ability of law enforcement to enforce the law. But your framing makes it sound like roving bands of beat down squads.

> And a bizzare hate campaign against H1B.

There's nothing bizarre about workers being angry at a system that is being abused to drive down wages. The reality is that there are segments of workforce in the USA that will only hire H1Bs workers because they know they can treat them illegally. This happens all over the place but is particularly prevalent at larger orgs (both in tech and finance). The behavior is implicitly authorized by the companies as they outsource the "being the jerk" to those managers.

The non-H1B workers rightfully feel angered by this because it directly lowers their wages. It's like scabs flooding a union shop. Only worse as the scabs are scared of not only losing their jobs, but their visas.

> And court judgements explicitly enabling masked government agents to target someone solely on the basis of skin color.

If there was not a concerted effort to interfere with law enforcement or dox the people that work at those places, the masks would not be necessary.
by WhereIsTheTruth | 2026-02-10 16:37:25+00:00
You like me for my (always right) conspiratorial takes

I got another one:

Look, follow the money, Microsoft knows Windows 11 on handhelds is a dumpster fire right now, and they are not ready to drop their own "Xbox Portable" yet

So how do they keep the market from moving to the alternative SteamOS/Valve?

They trojan horse the "alternative"

Think about it: Bazzite pops up, gains massive community "trust", every traditionally pro-MSFT media talk about it, and then coincidentally becomes the loudest voice trashing GPD's HW support, why would they do that?

It's a classic Embrace, Extend, Extinguish play

FUD: Use Bazzite as an "undercover" $MSFT project to make GPD look like a risky, unoptimized mess

Damage: GPD takes the hit because they are actually trying to innovate, while the "community" devs (who are definitely on a $MSFT gang) tell everyone to just buy an Rog Ally ($MSFT Partner) or wait for the next Microsoft Xbox handheld

Pivot: Once GPD is sidelined as a "niche hobbyist risk", Microsoft drops a polished Handheld UX for Windows, Bazzite magically "loses funding" or support, and everyone gets funneled back into the Game Pass ecosystem on "approved" hardware

Bazzite isn't a "community project", it's a trojan hose

GPD bet on the wrong horse thinking that community was neutral
by Joel_Mckay | 2026-02-10 16:37:31+00:00
People get bored if they don't find real meaning in their work.

https://medium.com/ideas-into-action/ikigai-the-perfect-care...

Fact is, the tech sector is filled with folks that find zero joy in what they do, chose a career for financial reasons, and end up being miserable to everyone including themselves.

The ex-service people would call these folks entitled Shitbirds, as no matter the situation some will complain about everything. Note, everyone still does well in most large corporate settings, but some are exhausting to be around on a project. =3
by ImJasonH | 2026-02-10 16:37:34+00:00
Checkpoints sounds like an interesting idea, and one I think we'll benefit from if they can make it useful.

I tried a similar(-ish) thing last year at https://github.com/imjasonh/cnotes (a Claude hook to write conversations to git notes) but ended up not getting much out of it. Making it integrated into the experience would have helped, I had a chrome extension to display it in the GitHub UI but even then just stopped using it eventually.
by hnfong | 2026-02-10 16:37:57+00:00
There is the autistic spectrum, and there is understanding of people and psychology. Autistic people might have a hard time understanding people, but it's not like everyone else is magically super knowledgable about human psychology and other people's thought patterns. If that were the case, then any non-autistic person could be a psychologist, no fancy study or degrees required!

Unless your point is to claim that Karpathy is autistic. I don't know whether that's really relevant though, the original issue was whether/how he failed to recognize the alleged hype.
by benlivengood | 2026-02-10 16:37:58+00:00
The contrast between this and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46923543 (Software engineering is back) is kind of stark. I am using frontier models to get fun technical projects done that I simply didn't have time for since my late teens. It is still possible to understand an architecture down to the hardware if you want to, but it can happen a lot faster. The specifications are queryable now. Obscure bugs that at least one person has seen in the past are seconds away instead of minutes or hours of searching. Even new bugs have extra eyes on them. I haven't written a new operating system yet but it's now a tractable problem. So is using Lean or Julia or some similar system to formally specify it. So far I've been digging into modern multithreaded cache performance which is just as fascinating as directly programming VGA and sound was in the early PC days. Linux From Scratch is still up to date. You can get FPGAs that fit in your USB port [0]. Technical depth and low-level understanding is wherever you want to look for it.

[0] https://www.crowdsupply.com/sutajio-kosagi/fomu
by shevy-java | 2026-02-10 16:38:05+00:00
This is weird because ... at which point does an addiction start?

People used to be addicted to watching TV, right? Well, nobody
was made responsible for that. If it is addiction, and I am not
necessarily saying this is not, then all websites would fall
under the same category IF they are designed well enough to
become addictive. Most games would fall under that category
too. I don't think this is a good category at all. Both Meta
and Google should pay simply for wasting our time here, but
the "you designed your applications and websites in an
addictive manner" ... that's just weird.