MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hshdhdhj4444 | 2026-02-07 02:51:16+00:00
For one thing, as an administration insider says, it’s a twist on previous efforts that funded “specific causes”.

For another, most foreign funding was usually bipartisan otherwise it would have been killed by subsequent presidents from the opposite party.

For another, I’ve not heard of other such funding that was “causing consternation among allies”.

For another, “ Another senior Reform figure said they had been told that Rogers “had a state department slush fund to get Maga-style things going in various places”, adding that she was keen to “fund European organisations to undermine government policies””……undermining government policies of allies was likely never done on this broad scale (even if the US may have intervened on specific policies).

Why don’t you provide some examples of “Democrats funding into liberal NGOs and charities” that cause so much consternation among allies?
by cogman10 | 2026-02-07 02:51:32+00:00
> like roads, police, and firefighters

There are a lot of libertarians that would argue against all 3 of these things. They'd solve roads with tolls, police with private militia, and firefighters with private companies.

I agree that libertarian ideology is all over the board and that a broad generalization is impossible. That said the majority, and especially the load majority, are against basically all public spending and taxation. To the point where you'll find prominent libertarians arguing for things like private judicial systems.

The problem is that by being reasonable, you eventually arrive at a government that isn't considered libertarian by most libertarians. That's why I call libertarianism dumb. There are basic requirements and regulations needed. We've had governments without them, particularly in the US.

For example, libertarians have no solution to what the USDA solves. Go read up about the quality of milk in early america before the foundation of the USDA. That was a libertarian government. The best solution I've heard from libertarians is reviews and 3rd party verification that you pay for but, as we can see on amazon, those are very easy to manipulate. The force of law is the only thing that really solves problems like people selling unpasteurized and diseased milk. With raw milk we are already seeing the rollback of the enforcement of those laws and the impact of that rollback [1]

[1] https://www.boisestatepublicradio.org/health/2026-02-05/r-ba...
by D-Machine | 2026-02-07 02:52:34+00:00
Push notifications are in standard settings for all apps in iPhone, or in the same place for everything in e.g. Firefox/Chrome. Autoplay is also trivial to disable in e.g. FireFox, and in iOS it is a global setting (though hidden in Accessibility). Nothing custom required.

Being able to disable some other features via header would be fantastic. I too would prefer more fine-grained control over these things, and that they were opt-in rather than opt-out, but I am not sure the majority of people feel that way.

My main point about the clumsiness is that these are ubiquitous app features that are everywhere even on non-addictive apps, so the given reasons really need to be more specific, or the (attempted) ban is effectively just banning apps being useful.
by brendangregg | 2026-02-07 02:52:56+00:00
To answer a few people at once: I did mention compensation as a factor in the post, but I didn't elaborate details, so easy to miss. Comp is important of course, but so are the other factors. It feels like I can't go for a day without reading about the cost of AI datacenters in the news, and I can do something about it.
by generalenvelope | 2026-02-07 02:54:42+00:00
AFAICT, the majority (60%) of funding for roads doesn't come from direct user charges...

Roads are subsidized, free parking (and generally a lot of paid parking) is subsidized, and the sprawl encouraged by car dependence combined with the resulting infrastructure costs has and will continue to bankrupt cities.

I don't think we should "just only have trains", but the current US transit landscape is absurdly stupid and inefficient.
by giancarlostoro | 2026-02-07 02:55:17+00:00
Having been doing Python for over a decade and JavaScript. I would pick Python any day of the week over JavaScript. JavaScript is beautiful, and also the most horrific programming language all at once. It still feels incomplete, there's too many oddities I've run into over the years, like checking for null, empty, undefined values is inconsistent all around because different libraries behave differently.
by its-kostya | 2026-02-07 02:56:11+00:00
Right? Like what an incredibly naive thing to think, that BG is going to contain power consumption lmao. OpenAI is always going to run their hardware hot. If BG frees up compute, a new workload will just fill it.

Sure you might argue "well if they can do more with less they won't need as many data centers." But who is going to believe that a company that can squeeze more money from their investment won't grow?
by NOGoddess | 2026-02-07 02:56:56+00:00
Ah, but my old landlord did exactly this, with the back yard of his home and the lot behind it, which once upon a time held his first home. Until the city tore it down for neglect, at which point it became a vacant lot - that he still owned. Largely with the assistance of his unofficial husband, who’d moved into the backyard, partly due to them no longer getting along so well, and partly due to the house becoming overrun with their hoarder tendencies.

Said unofficial husband was dealing drugs out of the backyard, and, as time passed, the backyard, followed by the vacant lot behind - for some unknown reason referred to as “the sand lot” became home to numerous homeless junkies. It became a rodent infested, trash filled, needle strewn nightmare, abhorred by the neighborhood.

The landlord, bless his heart, was, once upon a time, a sweet, naive, hippy, and very talented artisan. Until “someone” introduced him to meth, and it all went downhill from there. He remained a kind soul - and unable to say no to anyone, even when he could no longer stand the situation himself, and knew he was close to losing his remaining house.

Well, actually, he’d started trying to by the end, with our help; we were happy to play the role of “the bad guys” so he didn’t have to. But it was too late, someone gave him a hotshot (meth and heroin) and that was the end of all that.

(Who were/are we? My partner and I rented the other half of his house in March 2020. It was rundown, but cheap, and we were still getting back on our feet after my partner spent several months in the hospital with bacterial pneumonia and we ended up quasi-homeless. We knew the landlord and his unofficial husband from many many years earlier, long before all the nonsense began, and were in a hurry to find a new place so we did not do our due diligence. Didn’t take long to figure out the hell we’d landed in, but thanks to that little pandemic that started around the same time, it became impossible to move.)

So, yes, people have done that with their house.
by kjs3 | 2026-02-07 03:02:18+00:00
It can be both.

But to your point, when some overconfident dudebro splatters himself all over the flats, we the people have to pay for the cops to show up, the medics and the ambulance even if the idiot is obviously dogfood, the body recovery, the coroner and the postmortem, and all the associated bureaucracy.

And someone will still sue because the Park Service didn't prevent the moron from killing himself. You can sue for literally anything in the US.
by chongli | 2026-02-07 03:02:30+00:00
I would say diplomacy is the most misunderstood feature of the series. Players constantly say they want a stronger AI that's smarter at diplomacy. But whenever they have built an AI like that, their play testers complained that it doesn't behave like a real world leader (too ruthless).

This experience led Soren Johnson (co-designer of Civ III and lead designer of Civ IV) to the realization that Civ AIs are supposed to "play to lose" [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJcuQQ1eWWI
by darthcircuit | 2026-02-07 03:03:48+00:00
You can run macOS in a docker container. There’s no hardware acceleration for gpu, but works well enough.

You can also try macinabox if you have unraid:

https://hub.docker.com/r/spaceinvaderone/macinabox

It’s probably the easiest way of setting up a Mac VM if you have unraid. I know there are similar options for qemu and kvm based hypervisors. If you have an amd gpu you should be able to pass it through.
by alephnerd | 2026-02-07 03:04:57+00:00
Don't worry, we can leave [7] and take BigTech [0][1], Big Oil [2], and Wall Street [3][8] with us.

Meanwhile, Trump has given Indian manufacturers very competitive trade terms [4] and is transferring semiconductor and REE IP to India [5][6].

The GOP doesn't care about you.

[0] - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-03/alphabet-...

[1] - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-11/india-dra...

[2] - https://www.wsj.com/business/energy-oil/big-oil-is-offshorin...

[3] - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-11/trump-vis...

[4] - https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/2026/02/unit...

[5] - https://x.com/USAmbIndia/status/2010718052992618815

[6] - https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/world/india-can-rival-chin...

[7] - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-23/us-loses-...

[8] - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-11-11/trump-s-h...
by fredwu | 2026-02-07 03:05:12+00:00
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My name’s Fred Wu, I’m an experienced Elixir and Ruby developer who has worked on multiple commercial projects as well as having contributed to many dozens of open source projects including Rails.

I’ve been using Elixir for ~10 years, ruby for ~15 years (used to actively contribute to Rails itself), lead and built multiple commercial B2B & B2C SaaS projects. I’ve always been very hands on, and have worked with multiple tech stacks in the past, including JS/React, PHP, Golang and Clojure.

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Have been working on three micro-saas, all built in Elixir/Phoenix:

https://feedbun.com - a browser extension that decodes food labels and recipes on any website for healthy eating, with science-backed research summaries and recommendations.

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by judahmeek | 2026-02-07 03:06:50+00:00
Those unable or unwilling to expend cognitive effort love black & white thinking & are also easily swayed by emotional manipulation.

It doesn't help that they attract power hungry sociopaths who seek to influence them for profit.

Of course, the only way I can think of to address this would be for the state to violate the first amendment & promote the concept that anyone who believes in Hell condemns themselves to Hell. (Matthew 7:1-2)
by AceJohnny2 | 2026-02-07 03:07:26+00:00
Apple has been slowly tightening the screws on app notarization (code signing) requirements for running apps on macOS. To do it properly you need to be a registered developer ($100/year), and they're certainly not making it easy if you don't have access to a Mac.

https://support.apple.com/guide/security/app-code-signing-pr...

> On devices with macOS 10.15, all apps distributed outside the App Store must be signed by the developer using an Apple-issued Developer ID certificate (combined with a private key) and notarized by Apple to run under the default Gatekeeper settings.

Re: Developer ID Certificates: https://developer.apple.com/help/account/certificates/create...

I suspect the friction that users are facing are due to dodging the above requirements.
by Grimblewald | 2026-02-07 03:08:02+00:00
How reliable is it? Do they have drivers licenses and are they vetted for safety? Do they have access to internal data like cameras and voice from passengers? There's a lot going in here beyind that, all of which needs answers and should be made clear upfront.

The phillipines is a major source of scams, having random anonymous pinoys with access to things many assume are private matters could become a massive problem. Say you're on your way to visit your daughter and you're discussing concerns about her health problems, say the scammer finds your daughter on SM, gets extra details and uses this to sift through any of the hundreds of leaked personal info databses. They cold call the daughter as a telemarketer and get her talking for as long as they can. They tanscribe her voice data using whisper and can now clone her voice through any number of tools. They call you, pretending to be your daughter, in a panic, asking if you could please help her pay the medical invoice that the clinic just emailed you, or they'll reposess her car. Why would you even think its a scam? You pay, only to find out a week later when ranting to your daughter about how outrageous it is they tried to repo a sick womans car, that it was all a scam.

That's just _one_ plausible scenario in which this is a problem, if you can't think of more perhaps you should keep your comments out of the discussion, because at present you've contributed nothing but ignorance.
by bdangubic | 2026-02-07 03:08:44+00:00
> I was already looking for that product, the billboard ad just helped me find it.

that is what ad-infested society does to everyone… everything you end up spending money on you sure think you were going to already :) you sound here exactly like my wife does when she gets pulled in bu an ad - “oh we really needed new curtains and these just came across the billboard, the ones we have are like 7 weeks old…”
by alephnerd | 2026-02-07 03:11:04+00:00
> Is the investment world also expanding to India

To a certain extent. For years now most founders in Cybersecurity, Enterprise SaaS, and DefenseTech in the US either have familial ties or immigrated from India, Israel, or CEE.

Additonally, it's much easier to publicly list in India now that the IPO market is fixed, so we can move startups that aren't going to perform in the US to India where US$50M-$100M in revenue can justify an exit that is better than a PE buyout.

> Seems like the Bay Area still has the strongest network effects, even if it doesn’t make sense.

Absolutely. Hell, I live here too and it cannot be beat.

But founders and operators are largely either immigrants or the children of immigrants. Half of Bangalore and Tel Aviv is here right now raising capital, but all the core strategic roles (Product, Engineering) are increasingly only located in India, Israel, and CEE.

> is this offshoring really a threat to America

To America, no.

To Americans not working in a Tier 1 hub and aren't upskilling (ie. most losers on HN) absolutely.

Why pay $160K for Joe in Cary who's a bootcamp grad when I can hire Jamila who has an MSCS from UIUC and worked at Google MTV on an H1B and is now returning to Koramangla in order to work as a staff engineer for $90K?

That said, for American politicans services offshoring does not matter. It's a mostly blue voting industry with a vocal red minority largely living in a blue states or blue bubbles in red states. IC SWEs are not a vote bank for the GOP nor the DNC.
by rs545837 | 2026-02-07 03:11:17+00:00
Git diffs are great for humans scanning line noise. But agents need to understand changes: "added function X", "renamed symbol Y", "moved block Z".

sem computes semantic diffs on top of your Git repo—no repo rewrite needed.

Repo: https://github.com/Ataraxy-Labs/sem

Key ideas:

Parses code to AST, computes tree‑edit ops (add/remove/move/change).

Outputs human‑/agent‑readable patches: "diff_sem" shows intent, not whitespace churn.

Applies deterministically via git apply --sem—survives formatting shifts or unrelated edits.

Use cases popping up:

Agent codemods: output semantic patches instead of brittle hunks.

Review tools: "explain this PR as semantic changes".

Stacked diffs / Graphite: semantic base for stacks.

Bulk refactors: apply "rename all X to Y" across noisy repos.
by anon291 | 2026-02-07 03:11:59+00:00
There is no 'so?' Haskell tends towards applicatives and monads because monads and applicatives are the preferences of haskellers. Just like JavaScript people may like dynamic typing, etc. These are design choices.

By modeling various things as monads, you get the various principled monad extensions. Unlike normal programming where leaky abstractions are the expectation, using algebraic structures with principled laws means things just work.

But this has nothing to do with monads in particular. Haskell's choice to do a lot with monoids provides a similar guarantee about things that combine . It's a preference. Nothing like monoids exist in other languages, because people are told they have to think with 'objects' of whatever.
by ted_bunny | 2026-02-07 03:12:34+00:00
You sure aggressive propaganda and espionage from the west aren't part of the reason for it? What sort of "cognitive capture" is necessary to maintain control of their population right now? The Chinese are often painted as brainwashed ideological drones in the west, and it says more about us that we tend to believe it than it does about them. You can download RedNote and talk to people in Xinjiang. You can travel there and talk to people in person. Mao is arguably deceased.
Make Trust Irrelevant: A Gamer's Take on Agentic AI Safety
by DesoPK | 2026-02-07 03:12:47+00:00
I wrote a short position paper arguing that current agentic AI safety failures are the confused deputy problem on repeat. We are handing agents ambient authority and trying to contain it with soft constraints like prompts and userland wrappers. My take: you need hard, reduce-only authority enforced at a real boundary (kernel control plane class), not something bypassable from userland. Curious how others are modeling this. What constraints do you think are truly non-negotiable?
by Nevermark | 2026-02-07 03:13:03+00:00
The answer to that is relatively simple to identify, difficult to acheive.

School system leadership at the very top. Instead focusing on fixes or specific initiatives at the top, needs to understand their job as creating the culture, climate and support for improvement by lower levels of leadership, with strong emphasis on everyone working to enable and support teachers support students.

That is how accountability and responsibility, and initiative get distributed together to everyone who can contribute. And power doesn't "choose" what is expedient.

But given education at the State and Federal levels is highly politicized, this necessity of enabling and supporting the organization, as apposed to controlling it, is hard to accomplish directly.
by calmbonsai | 2026-02-07 03:13:30+00:00
Intoxication, ill health, threats to other passengers/crew, assault, and battery are just a few of the many reasons an airline is well within its rights to "refuse service" and this includes not allowing the passenger to ever board the plane.

You're correct that any sort of federal no-fly list is not lawful and, so far, there isn't enough court precedence to make a general policy and the ACLU has won some (limited) court victories. IMO, it is unconstitutional.

In practice, a "banned" passenger is trespassed off of airline property (the plane or gate) and that prior trespass is noted in their customer registry. If the "banned" passenger attempts to fly with the airline again, they are advised verbally or with text that they will not be able to board the plane, but they can still book a ticket. The passenger is then "trespassed" (again) at the gate and not allowed to board.
by lesuorac | 2026-02-07 03:14:26+00:00
But why?

None of this should be unexpected. All construction requires permits so you know ahead of time what's being built and almost certainly can just extrapolate out how many new kids will be in the school system based on the current rates.

It's like how a bunch of cities approve new commercial construction but then don't also don't fast-track some residential construction; you're just going to generate traffic because nobody can live close to work.
by gsf_emergency_6 | 2026-02-07 03:15:27+00:00
More specifically, dice-inspired (positive integer-related) probability distributions

https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.11372

tilt maps [on dice polynomials].. that are measure-class-preserving and
commute with convolution. as an alternative to max entropy to derive Boltzmann law for "the ideal free market"
by anon291 | 2026-02-07 03:16:10+00:00
Well most people explain monads for no reason. I'm probably one of the rare Haskell developers who never explains them to anyone. It has nothing to do with IO.

If someone is concerned with how to do IO in a pure language then I show them how it actually happens in GHC, which is via the type system enforcing only one instance of RealWorld# is alive at once. There is ABSOLUTELY nothing you need to know about monads to understand IO in Haskell. It's just function composition and careful use of case to force the evaluation of a token of type RealWorld#. Nothing magic about it.. you're just passing the state of the world around.
Show HN: MCP-baepsae – MCP server for iOS Simulator automation
by oozoofrog | 2026-02-07 03:16:44+00:00
Author here. I built this because I wanted AI coding agents to test iOS apps directly.

Key technical bits:
- Uses XCTest private APIs for accessibility tree parsing
- Native Swift bridge for performance (no simctl overhead for UI ops)
- 32 tools covering most UI automation needs

Happy to discuss the architecture or answer questions.
by rmunn | 2026-02-07 03:18:07+00:00
For me it was Civ 4's modability that made it the best for me. Because when I got tired of playing Civ 4's normal game, I could install the Fall From Heaven mod and play a completely different game. Wizards, golems, angels, demons, spells, wild animals instead of barbarians (which could be tamed and turned into your own units if you had units with the right promotions)... it made for a completely different gameplay experience.

If I hadn't quit computer games cold turkey (when I realized I was showing all the signs of addiction) over a decade ago, I would still have Civ IV installed and still be playing it today. It just didn't get old, because of how varied the game could become.
by freakynit | 2026-02-07 03:19:12+00:00
The situation is actually worse than it looks.

This error exists because Apple has effectively made app notarization mandatory, otherwise, users see this warning. In theory, notarization is straightforward: upload your DMG via their API, and within minutes you get a notarized/stamped app back.

…until you hit the infamous "Team is not yet configured for notarization" error.

Once that happens, you can be completely blocked from notarizing your app for months. Apple has confirmed via email that this is a bug on their end. It affects many developers, has been known for years, and Apple still hasn't fixed it. It completely elimiates any chances of you being able to notarize your app, thus, getting rid of this error/warning.

Have a loot at how many people are suffering from this for years with no resolution yet: https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/118465