MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by fzeroracer | 2026-02-03 05:00:38+00:00
> I fail to see how this is a problem. Beggers can't be choosers. If you need help, it may not be the worst thing to follow some guidance from folks that have figured things out. Note: Christian faiths would likely preach against queerness but not use it as a disqualifying event. At most they would state that the lifestyle isn't consistent with scripture. (of course extremes exist).

No, but charities can be choosers and beggers don't get a choice. I literally just pointed out a charity which does exactly what I said, one of the biggest charities in the US and the greatest example of how just relying on charity doesn't work, especially as they behave contrary to the literal scripture.

> I'll have to look up on literature about means testing. I still fail to see how some person's poor decisions across the country should affect me.

It will always affect you unless you have zero understanding of how things work. Who do you think pays for when people have to go to the hospital and seek aid? Or when our 'charity' fails and people that would otherwise be fine with things like unemployment aid end up homeless? It's you and me. As I said above.
by rendaw | 2026-02-03 05:00:49+00:00
I wrote up some issues with service reliability here https://github.com/andrewbaxter/puteron/?tab=readme-ov-file#...

Design-wise, I think having users modify service on/off state *and* systemd itself modify those states is a terrible design, which leads to stuff turning back on when you turn it off, or things turning off despite you wanting them on, etc. (also mentioned higher up)

FWIW after making puteron I found dinit https://github.com/davmac314/dinit which has a very similar design, so presumably they hit similar issues.
by MandieD | 2026-02-03 05:00:56+00:00
Pre-9/11, security didn’t care who you were, as long as you had a boarding pass or ticket (they were usually paper back then). The airlines were the ones who cared.

In 1999, I lost my wallet while visiting a friend halfway across the country. For some reason, I had my ATM card in my jacket, and the airline was perfectly content to check my bag and issue me a boarding pass, and I don’t remember any issues at security.
by vel0city | 2026-02-03 05:01:59+00:00
My microwave is over 20 years old and still working fine even with its computerized automatic modes. Modern versions of the product line are inverter based. Whenever this unit fails I'll probably replace it with the modern inverter version. I've used it at friends places, it's quite nice.

It's a GE Profile model FWIW. It seems like a good product line from my experiences. The matching oven has also been a good performer overall.
by dang | 2026-02-03 05:02:21+00:00
I agree - it's clear that archive.is / archive.ph / archive.today / who-knows-what-else has been a lubricant in many HN threads, letting people read things they otherwise couldn't, and that increases the interest of the topic.

I suppose I should add that we prefer archive.org links when they're available, but often they aren't.

Edit: I suppose I should also re-add that we have no knowledge of or opinion about what's going on in the dispute at hand.
by neom | 2026-02-03 05:04:15+00:00
My mum is in her 80s, she worked as a psychologist, met my father who was a psychiatrist practicing in a mental institution in the 70s. She loves to get going on about technology and humans, and now AI. Recently asked her what she thought of the AI consciousness conversation, she looked at me as if i'd grown a 2nd head and grumpily said "If I can't feed it lysergic acid and have it see god, it's not conscious!" - I thought that was quite interesting actually, and amusing.
by rench321 | 2026-02-03 05:04:48+00:00
Thanks for the link! Atuin is a powerful tool, especially with their focus on command management and execution.

From my perspective, the main difference is the UI footprint and the intended use case. Sklad is intentionally 'passive' and limited to the system tray. It’s not meant to be a full window or a command runner/executor. I built it as a simple warehouse for static data — like passwords, specific IPs, or boilerplate templates — that I need to grab quickly and paste anywhere, whether it’s a terminal, a browser, or a GUI prompt.

I also focused heavily on the recursive folder hierarchy within the native tray menu itself to help with mental mapping, whereas Atuin (and its UI) feels more search-centric and terminal-focused. I think there’s definitely room for both depending on whether you need to execute a command or just grab a piece of secure data.
by dang | 2026-02-03 05:05:50+00:00
Please, let's not re-fight WWII on HN.

We know that the impact from that time is far from worked through, but to the extent it shows up here, commenters should make the effort not to fall back into war mode.

You're welcome on HN, and so are the users you disagree with—but you all (i.e. we all) need to stay within the site guidelines when discussing tough stuff. These include: "Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive." -
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

p.s. This comment is not just for the user I'm replying to but everyone else who's expressing strong feelings below. It's amazing, and totally human, how alive these feelings are after 80+ years, but at the same time, 80+ years of distance should give us the ability to relate to each other a little bit better than our grandfathers and great-grandfathers were able to.
by t312227 | 2026-02-03 05:07:31+00:00
hello,

as always: imho (!)

we are in a capitalistic economy: companies don't have "souls", they make profit.

tim cook did what nearly every large company in the 1990ties did: move your production to china.

why? mainly 2 reasons

* cheap production

* the back than still developing large chinese market

=?> more profit.

and he got rewarded and later promoted for this ...

just my 0.02€
by srinath693 | 2026-02-03 05:07:38+00:00
The embarrassing part isn't that Microsoft employees prefer Claude Code. It's that Microsoft had every advantag, the OpenAI partnership, the distribution, the enterprise relationships, the $13B investment and still built a product their own engineers don't want to use. That's not a model problem. That's a product taste problem. Anthropic built Claude Code with like 30 engineers. Microsoft has tens of thousands. At some point you have to accept that no amount of investment compensates for not actually understanding what developers need.
by YZF | 2026-02-03 05:08:44+00:00
Last I checked the Germans weren't invaded before WW-II and had their civilians massacred and abducted.

The European Jews are absolutely the Jewish people from the Torah. This is proven by DNA tests and is also a result of the Jewish people in Europe staying in their own separate communities. Very few people convert to Judaism. A Cohen in Europe is a descendant of biblical Aaron, there is no other way to become a Cohen (a priest), similar for Levy's. Because of all these complicated laws Jewish people have always kept track of their lineage which impact various religious laws. But yeah, that's the antisemitic lie the Palestinians are propagating amongst their many other lies.

The Israelites are likely descendants of the Canaanites. This was before anyone was Jewish. More antisemitism. Modern Jewish people and others (including some Palestinians and other people of the Levant) carry Canaanite DNA.

Israel can handle Iran. But I guess you couldn't care less about their oppressive regime and innocents being murdered.
by smelendez | 2026-02-03 05:09:07+00:00
Absolutely. With Real ID, the biggest pain for a lot of people is proof of residency.

Rich people just print out some combination of a bank statement, a pay stub, and a copy of their mortgage or lease or the electric bill, but poor people may not have much of that. Think of someone staying with family and getting paid by a gig economy job to a Cash App card or just working under the table/doing odd jobs.

Once you start with less common documents, there seem to be more arcane rules, and the documents poor people do have often don’t quite fit the rules that were basically written around what people middle class and up are likely to have.
by MBCook | 2026-02-03 05:09:10+00:00
Ooh I cracked the top 500. I’m at about 475k words.

Took me a few tries to find my user since I wasn’t expecting the case sensitivity.

Thanks for this. Another book you could add for comparison purposes would be James Joyce’s Ulysses. Or I guess the unabridged The Stand by Stephen King would be good too.

Ooh The Stand (unabridged) is estimated at 473,000 words! I wrote The Stand in comment length. Wow.
by defrost | 2026-02-03 05:09:23+00:00
I have nothing against Sikh's, I've known a few for decades.

> There's no reason to think that Sikhs are explicitly going out of their way to hide something.

... other than a small, curved sword or dagger that initiated (Amritdhari) Sikhs are required to wear at all times as one of the Five Ks (articles of faith) ordained by Guru Gobind Singh in 1699 you mean?

It seems reasonable, and a number of actual Sikh's would actually agree, to guess that a Sikh who holds their faith to be a matter of importance would absolutely hide a symbolic dagger the size of a letter opener and capable of slitting a throat.

The question facing any border agent tasked with checking Sikh's, of course, is this specific Sikh one that will always try to carry a Kiran, or one that doesn't hold with all that articles of faith guff.
by anupamchugh | 2026-02-03 05:09:27+00:00
Not a big use case outside of criminals and refugees" - the refugee use case alone matters to hundreds of millions living under capital controls or currency collapse. Argentinians escaping peso devaluation aren't criminals. Ukrainians moving value during invasion aren't edge cases.

Whether Bitcoin is good at this is debatable. Whether it's a real use case isn't.
by n8henrie | 2026-02-03 05:09:52+00:00
Amazing. A few nerdy med students and I started a student group for tech back in 2009 or so, a big part early on was preaching Mnemosyne (another SRS app), with shared decks syncing over a free Dropbox account.

Later used Repetitions (iOS / Mac / web) for the steps, EM boards, and informatics boards most recently.

Only within the last year finally tried Anki -- and this time for language.
by tgsovlerkhgsel | 2026-02-03 05:09:59+00:00
Our world is adapted for humans, so humanoid robots will fit in most places. They might not be the best choice, but the universality has a good chance of making it worth it through economies of scale.

Building a custom robot that can stock shelves at a supermarket won't be worth it for a long time, but programming an existing humanoid platform might work. Find a couple hundred tasks like this (including household use), and that platform now has huge economies of scale.

Now, when you're starting a small factory, using the existing humanoids might make more sense than getting custom tooling, at least for some tasks. You'll often see factories where some tasks that could, in theory, be automated are left to humans because they're relatively small tasks and not worth automating with a custom machine. Humanoids could fill that gap.
by Lammy | 2026-02-03 05:10:16+00:00
Great way to visualize the decline of software quality over the last twenty years: https://trends.google.com/explore?q=%22Something%20went%20wr...

Notable inflection point right around the time unlimited data became an afterthought and every piece of software decided it “needs” to spy on—— I mean needs to offer Fulfilling Connected Experiences at all times.
by eukara | 2026-02-03 05:10:48+00:00
They used to be gross, alright. Probably still are.

There was a PR campaign ("on their behalf" ? :] ), posting on certain websites in the first year of their launch or so.
(This was before the fraud in which Brave were taking donations in the name of someone else, without anyones consent.) It involved posting things like "Come home, white man" and other dog-whistles on image-boards along with the brave-lion logo imagery on a consistent, regular basis.
There's probably archives of these threads and people calling out they were very obviously automated and calculated. Who else at this point would even care to do it for them?

Eich got kicked out of Mozilla for his views not aligning with everyone else, so him weaponizing his own views like that isn't exactly what some would call unexpected. He might also not know the extent of which his PR goons go to promote his stuff, but come on now... the whole image is planned. There's a reason they choose to 'break a few rules' and they want their browser image to be that of a 'strong authoritative male leader' specifically. It appeals to a certain demographic also, wonder who... /s

I just think it's super fucking lame and plenty of people smell that shit a mile away. Which explains why plenty of people say "fuck no" without even knowing half of this shit.
by somenameforme | 2026-02-03 05:11:46+00:00
Not to go heads I win, tails you lose, but even if we go down this path - it's the same story because militaries are investing heavily in LLM stuff, both overtly and covertly. Outside of its obvious uses in modeling, data management, and other such things - there also seems to be a fairly widespread belief, among the powers that be, that if you just say the magic words to somebody, that you can make them believe anything. So hyper-scaling LLM potential has direct military application, same as Starlink and Starship.
by simplesagar | 2026-02-03 05:12:24+00:00
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by preston-kwei | 2026-02-03 05:14:51+00:00
Historical tracking is useful, but only if it’s dead simple. If it requires standing up a DB or service, I probably won’t use it.

I've been trying to track down cloud waste recently after realizing EC2 was storing 10GB snapshots every 12 hours for the past 8 months and I didn't realize. Obviously not a crazy 20k bill, but still annoying -- especially at small scale.
by nunez | 2026-02-03 05:16:33+00:00
The downfall of Reddit is so depressing to think about.

I trusted Reddit wholeheartedly in the 2010s. Redditors taught me the life advice I didn't learn growing up: how to shave, how to negotiate job offers, how to do things around the house, and so on. Huge subs aside, you could that every post you read had a human on the other side of it, and no-one wanted more than upvotes and Reddit Gold.

Once spez and crew decided to push the MAX GROWTH button, all of that flew out the window.

Now that LLMs make infinite content generation child's play and there are financial incentives for being a content provider, there's no going back. I'm doubtful that another service like that will exist ever again.

All that notwithstanding, I still search for stuff on Reddit because the rest of the Internet IS EVEN WORSE. SEO ruined websites, CPM ruined YouTube, and LLMs might not even tell you the truth! I wasn't expecting to start yelling at clouds in my late 30s, but I guess we're here now.
by s1artibartfast | 2026-02-03 05:17:11+00:00
Tax rates are not the same as effective taxes paid, and US taxes as a percent of GDP are at an all time high. This is besides the fact that gdp is many times higher, growing geometrically.

It is an interesting question of what changed in terms of ability to execute, but lack of funding isn't the answer. I suspect it is a combination of scope creep, application to intractable problems, and baumols cost disease at work.
by queenkjuul | 2026-02-03 05:20:19+00:00
We have these things called batteries, you charge them during the day, and drain them at night.

A solar+battery setup is already cheaper than a new gas plant. Beaming power from space is absolutely asinine, quite frankly. The losses are absurd, the sun already does it 24/7, and we know how to make wires and batteries to shuffle the sun's power around however we need to. Why on earth would we involve satellites?
by blakeashleyjr | 2026-02-03 05:20:22+00:00
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by deaux | 2026-02-03 05:20:23+00:00
Okay, so you are claiming "every single one of those 8 providers, along with all others who don't serve openrouter but are at similar price points, are subsidizing by more than 50%".

That's an incredibly bold claim that would need quite a bit of evidence, and just waving "$500k in gpus" isn't it. Especially when individuals are reporting more than enough tps at native int4 with <$80k setups, without any of the scaling benefits that commercial inference providers have.
by balgg | 2026-02-03 05:21:20+00:00
>We need this in europe.

I'm not against automated driving at all, but in my experience we actually don't have that much use for stuff like this in most (big) European cities, since almost all of them have good public transport options already. I think trams especially fill the hole of "low-friction transport in a city" perfectly. I think having less vehicles on the road is a benefit to us all, but I understand some cities are not as tightly packed for public transport to work that well.

Either way, less human drivers is better.
by SilverElfin | 2026-02-03 05:22:34+00:00
This is an important battle across all of society, not just National Parks. While I also use credit cards a lot, there needs to always be a way to function with anonymity and without needing to buy devices or be a customer of a private financial company. Cashless stores destroy all of that. In a world where the government is abusing surveillance powers, it is more important than ever to defend cash.
by vel0city | 2026-02-03 05:22:44+00:00
> That does not end the Court’s concerns, however. Attached to this order is an
appendix that identifies 96 court orders that ICE has violated in 74 cases. The extent of ICE’s noncompliance is almost certainly substantially understated. This list is confined to orders issued since January 1, 2026, and the list was hurriedly compiled by extraordinarily busy judges. Undoubtedly, mistakes were made, and orders that should have appeared on this list were omitted.
This list should give pause to anyone—no matter his or her political beliefs—who cares about the rule of law. ICE has likely violated more court orders in January 2026 than some federal agencies have violated in their entire existence.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mnd.230...

This is absolutely nuts to read, and yet isn't the first time we've read such kind of language in court opinions and publications with this administration.
by keeda | 2026-02-03 05:23:22+00:00
Fascinating study where they trained an AI model on a large dataset and then used interpretability analysis to figure out what biomarkers it had "learned" to look for.

"This is the contribution we want to highlight: interpretability as a tool for hypothesis triage. Foundation models learn from data at a scale humans can't match. If we can inspect what they've learned we can use that to guide experimental priorities, turning AI models into a source of testable hypotheses rather than a black box."
by tombert | 2026-02-03 05:23:25+00:00
You've written nearly a Bible's worth of content here! [1]

I wonder how much you and I singularly contribute to the training data being used for tech-focused AI bots now; presumably they're training on software-people-websites?

https://wordcounter.net/blog/2015/12/08/10975_how-many-words...
by anon291 | 2026-02-03 05:24:20+00:00
Typescript does not have a complete, consistent, or reliable type system, no. You can easily skirt around it. Indeed, there is no runtime guarantee at all. There is not even a function to enforce boundary conditions as far as I'm aware of. Contracts are better in every single way. Contracts are also type-checkable. Nix is deterministic and pure. You seem to be getting confused because contracts don't introduce new syntax.
by snailmailman | 2026-02-03 05:24:34+00:00
I didnt flag the article, but anecdotally, I was initially unable to load the article at all. It mentions how it ended up in an adblock list. The article makes it sound like this is a good thing, as it stops the DDOS, but it isn't preventing people from loading the page directly. That may be true for people using an adblocking extension, but my adblocking DNS seems to be blocking it based on that same list. I had to manually tweak my dns-based adblocker to allow the domain in order to read the article.
by SilverSlash | 2026-02-03 05:24:42+00:00
I've been thinking about this recently as I hear it often. Would people who want to buy a car in the Tesla price range really choose a slightly cheaper Chinese EV if those were available?

Personally I have a hard time believing this. But even if you had similarly priced Chinese options, I would guess the main reason for buying a Tesla is not just because you want an EV. While a Tesla will be a reliable baseline EV, surely the reason you (or at least I) would buy one is for the supervised self-driving feature.
by zpeti | 2026-02-03 05:24:43+00:00
Yeah, I remember people saying that about making 1m model 3s per year, landing rockets, getting 10k+ satellite privately into orbit, and getting millions of subscribers using internet via those satellites.

Maybe just maybe the guy does actually get things done, and if you didn't hate him you'd see that?

(yes, there are some things he hasn't gotten done. That doesn't take away from what he has gotten done)