MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by iberator | 2026-02-11 07:27:22+00:00
In one of the books he explained perfectly (to me) how to treat women at clubs in order to be respected and have attention from the gals. WORKS LIKE A CHARM despite being like 40,50 yr old boom now. ("You clearly must be joking ..." book)

His hints:
- NEVER EVER buy drinks for random gals
- Have a female companion(friend)
- Ignore them

Saved me a ton of money haha
by Quothling | 2026-02-11 07:27:28+00:00
24. Check your attic. If snow blows in there because your roof is damaged then it will melt and slowly turn your entire house into fungi. The damage to your roof can be so tiny you wouldn't spot it and your attic could still fill up during a snow storm.

It should frankly be nr 1. At least if you ask any Scandinavian dad.
by microtonal | 2026-02-11 07:28:56+00:00
The problem isn't just getting something that works across all European countries. It's getting something that works globally.

The Dutch iDEAL, on which Wero is based, already works for a lot of global payments. E.g. Stripe and Shopify support iDEAL:

https://stripe.com/en-nl/payment-method/ideal?__=

https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/payments/shopify-payments...

I regularly get offered iDEAL as a payment option when ordering outside of Europe.
by marcus_holmes | 2026-02-11 07:29:23+00:00
It's not that none of my colleagues care, or that management is necessarily bad. That doesn't help, but it's not the cause.

It's the nature of the job. A CRUD REST server needs to be built. It's a shitty job, but someone has to do it. The interesting part of the job is over there, in whatever actually-novel part of the system is being built. But someone still has to build the CRUD REST server. There are frameworks and patterns that help, but not as much as you'd think, or they claim.

It's just part of the job. By far the largest and least interesting part of the job.
by friendzis | 2026-02-11 07:29:26+00:00
> What are the odds they're using this on-shore tech grab to implement their own domestic version of China's social credit score system, to easily get data on their own citizens who commit "wrong-think", without having to through the effort to twist the arm of US entities every time they want to do that?

What are the odds that once shut down "chat control" will come up under a new name?
by bambax | 2026-02-11 07:30:18+00:00
> When I tell friends and family I’m working on a book, they innocently ask, “Oh, so you’re still on paternity leave?” -- No! I’m writing a book. It’s a real job!

"Real job", yes and no. Writing a book is an enormous amount of work, and people probably understand that. But, in most cases, it doesn't bring any real money, and that's what's confusing to strangers. "How do you make a living then?" is what they mean, I think.
by curation | 2026-02-11 07:30:49+00:00
I grew up in Canadian snowbelt (Great Lakes) and never lost power. If there is an ice storm - then we all freak out. I'm not saying it can't happen if a lot of snow falls and then there is wind but we lose power in summer more often from squirrels trying to nest in transformers. The biggest blackout I experienced was in Toronto in a summer heatwave.
by accounting2026 | 2026-02-11 07:31:12+00:00
No one ever made the claim it was magic, not even remotely. Regarding the rest of your commentary: a) The original claim was that LLM's were not understood and are a black box. b) Then someone claims that this is not true, and they know well how LLM's work, it is simply due to questions & answers being in close textual proximity in training data. c) I then claim this is a shallow explanation because you then need to invoke additionally a huge abstraction network - that is a black box, d) you seem to agree with this while at the same time saying I misrepresented "b" - which I don't think I did. They really claimed they understood it and only offered this textual proximity thing.

In general, every attempt at explanation of LLM's that appeal to "[just] predicting next token" is thought terminating and automatically invalid as explanation. Why? Because it is confusing the objective function with the result. It adds exactly zero over saying "I know how a chess engine works, it just predicts the next move and has been trained to predict the next move" or "A talking human just predicts the next word, as it was trained to do". It says zero about how this is done internally in the model. You could have a physical black box predicting the next token, and inside you could have simple frequentist tables or you could have a human brain or you could have an LLM. In all cases you could say the box is predicting the next token and if any training was involved you could say it was trained to predict the next token.
by shubham32134 | 2026-02-11 07:32:16+00:00
Latency testing measures the time delay between a user action and the system’s response. It is important because high latency makes applications feel slow even if they don’t crash. By identifying delays in the network, server, or database, latency testing helps teams improve speed, user experience, and customer retention. Latency testing measures the time delay between a user action and the system’s response. It is important because high latency makes applications feel slow even if they don’t crash. By identifying delays in the network, server, or database, latency testing helps teams improve speed, user experience, and customer retention.
by socialcommenter | 2026-02-11 07:32:47+00:00
Not the person you replied to, but I'm not sure how you arrived here. Brakes, coolant, washer fluid, diff oil, gearbox oil, cabin air filter, wiper blades. Did you know EV motors can also require oil changes (at hundreds of thousands of miles, in fairness)?

Nice Michelins for my ICE have been something resembling 1/3 of service costs. Not 2/3 but not negligible either.
by anthk | 2026-02-11 07:33:17+00:00
To me the jump from my GF's celeron laptop with 2GB to her current 8GB high end Celeron (i5-i7 speeds, almost) and a Intel UHD was as big as a Pentium III 500 with a TNT2 compared to a Pentium 4 with SSE2 and a Geforce 2ti/3. A big jump in very few years from the PIII, for 12 years the gap of the laptop and the current one it's nothing.

By comparison the El Cheapo laptop she bought should have been able to play RTX bound games, and yet we are stuck there. Remember, 12 years it's 2x the time.
Except for the GL 2.1 ->Vulkan/GL 4.6 jump and videos from 1080p to 4k, the jump isn't that big. I would expect more. For young HNers, if the progress was like the 90s, in 12 you would buy a laptop for $300 and maybe play an RTX raytraced Quake... virtualized.
by para_parolu | 2026-02-11 07:33:43+00:00
Of course everyone has different needs. This is the reason why there are so many different makers and models. I commute a lot (100 miles a day) and tesla self driving is hard requirement. But almost everything else in car sucks compared to other cars. And compared to rivian it sucks big time. The moment rivian gets what tesla have now with fsd I will switch immediately. And some comments suggest rivian is working on that.
by microtonal | 2026-02-11 07:33:51+00:00
I never paid for SEPA transfers. Some countries are weird. I am not sure if it is still the case, but Germans had to pay a transfer fee when they used an ATM from another bank. In The Netherlands, you can use ATMs from any Dutch bank without extra cost. In fact, you can also use ATMs of German banks without additional cost. So, a having a Dutch debit card in Germany was/is(?) cheaper than a German debit card in Germany.
by DiogenesKynikos | 2026-02-11 07:34:13+00:00
I've watched large sections of this video before, because it gets posted often. It's a 2-year-old video.

Based on that viewing, I think the author has a chip on her shoulder about Feynman, and is dismissive about his teaching and books, and is set on convicting him of being a very naughty boy.

One of the things that stand out from the video: The speaker says that Feynman didn't write the Feynman lectures. Wrong. He wrote and delivered the lectures. If you go to Caltech's Feynman lectures website, they even have audio of him delivering the lectures [0] and photographs of the chalk board [1]. How could someone make a 3-hour-long video about Feynman and not even know this?

Feynman was an immensely gifted physicist and one of the most (maybe the most) engaging and innovative physics teachers of the last century. You can criticize him for embellishing stories about himself, but those stories are incredibly entertaining and quirky, which is why so many people like them. He was a big personality, and it comes out in his stories. He wasn't a perfect person, but no one is, and there has been a movement in the last few years to try to demonize him (mostly unsuccessfully, given Feynman's continued popularity).

Finally, if one makes a video with a title like, "the sham legacy of Richard Feynman," one can't complain about getting pushback.

0. https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/recordings.html

1. https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_01.html
by keiferski | 2026-02-11 07:34:16+00:00
It’s interesting that for how successful Jobs was, there really aren’t many young people who seem to emulate his life path. The guy went to an extremely unorthodox college, took some “impractical” courses like typography, dropped out, and basically lived a hippie-esque existence until Apple worked out.

This seems to me like the opposite of the typical ambitious young person’s plan today, over filled with extracurriculars, prestigious degrees, and well-worn paths to success. You’d think that Jobs’ success would lead to more people trying to emulate his roundabout path, at least superficially.

Maybe you could make the argument that Jobs was just too unique to serve as a role model for everyone else. And the labor market is a lot different today vs. back then. But I do think that his apparent lack of institutional hyper-optimization contributed to his success in a fundamental way.
by fredilo | 2026-02-11 07:34:17+00:00
The real numbers have some very unreal properties. Especially, their uncountable infinite cardinality is mind boggling.

A person can have a finite number of thoughts in his live. The number of persons that have and will ever live is countably infinite, as they can be arranged in a family tree (graph). This means that the total thoughts that all of mankind ever had and will have is countably infinite. For nearly all real numbers, humankind will never have thought of them.

You can do a similar argument with the subset of real numbers than can be described in any way. With description, I do not just mean writing down digits. Sentences of the form "the limit of sequence X", "the number fulfilling equation Y", etc are also descriptions. There are a countably infinite descriptions, as at the end every description is text, yet there are uncountably many real numbers. This means that nearly no real number can even be described.

I find it hard to consider something "real" when it is not possible to describe most of it. I find equally hard when nearly no real number has been used (thought of) by humankind.

The complex extension of the rational numbers, on the other hand, feel very natural to me when I look at them as vectors in a plane.

I think the main thing people stumble over when grasping complex numbers is the term "number". Colloquially, numbers are used to order stuff. The primary function of the natural numbers is counting after all. We think of numbers as advanced counting, i.e., ordering. The complex "numbers" are not ordered though (in the sense of an ordered field). I really think that calling them "numbers" is therefore a misnomer. Numbers are for counting. Complex "numbers" cannot count, and are thus no numbers. However, they make darn good vectors.
by yakshaving_jgt | 2026-02-11 07:34:31+00:00
I've spent the past month in the mountains in Ukraine, and it's between as low as -18ºC at times. Terrorists from russia have repeatedly knocked out power generation, and so on many days we have very little access to electricity in the house. Today we have 15.5 hours without power.

During the day, we'll be somewhere where they have a generator. At night, it's cold. But you can somewhat prepare for this. Two or three layers of duvets and blankets, paired with a hot water bottle somewhere in the middle of the bed under the covers will get you through the night.
by danaris | 2026-02-11 07:35:12+00:00
> If they're just collecting data to train LLMs, these seem like exceptionally poorly written and abusive scrapers written the normal way, but by more bad actors.

Right, this is exactly what they are.

They're written by people who a) think they have a right to every piece of data out there, b) don't have time (or shouldn't have to bother spending time) to learn any kind of specifics of any given site and c) don't care what damage they do to anyone else as they get the data they crave.

(a) means that if you have a robots.txt, they will deliberately ignore it, even if it's structured to allow their bots to scrape all the data more efficiently. Even if you have an API, following it would require them to pay attention to your site specifically, so by (b), they will ignore that too—but they also ignore it because they are essentially treating the entire process as an adversarial one, where the people who hold the data are actively trying to hide it from them.

Now, of course, this is all purely based on my observations of their behavior. It is possible that they are, in fact, just dumb as a box of rocks...and also don't care what damage they do. (c) is clearly true regardless of other specific motives.
by vanviegen | 2026-02-11 07:35:12+00:00
No.

You'd add a lot of technical complexity, especially if you need this to be instant. You'd loose the ability to effectively fight fraud, and because of this get a huge target on your back attracting all sorts of unwanted behavior.

On the other hand, you'd gain... nothing? Especially since consumers cannot be expected to run their own blockchain stack, they'd need to fully trust their banks and intermediaries anyhow.
by MrDresden | 2026-02-11 07:35:26+00:00
If BLIK is better then it will prevail over Wero. There is no law mandating Wero.

Just looking at the banks that make up each - 16 for Wero and spread over Germany, Belgium, France and the Netherlands versus 6 Polish banks - it feels like the systemic risk is higher with the latter. But time will tell.

Last year BLIK also signed a letter of intent to join the EuroPA which has Italian, Spanish and Portuguese banks involved.
by jve | 2026-02-11 07:36:22+00:00
> 5. Snow is easiest to shovel when it’s just fallen. The more time passes, the more freeze-thaw cycles – even gentle ones – build up and make the fallen snow denser and tougher. (This might be less true in very cold places where it never gets above freezing during the day? I don’t know, honestly.)

If it is very cold and no freeze-thaw cycle, the snow is very... Dry and grainy and still OK for shoveling.

But yes, the puffy stuff just fallen from sky is very nice for shoveling.
by galaxyLogic | 2026-02-11 07:36:45+00:00
I much agree, especially on the importance of defining what we mean by the word "conscicousness", before we say we cannot explain it. Is a rock conscious? Sure according to some deifinition of the word. Probably everybody would agree that there are different levels of consciousness, and maybe we'd need different names for them.

Animals are clearly conscious in that they observe the world and react to it and even try to proactively manipulate it.

The next level of consciousness, and what most people probably mean when they use the word is human ability to "think in language". That opens up a whole new level, of consciousness, because now we can be conscious of our inner voice. We are conscious of ourselves, apart from the world. Our inner voice can say things about the thing which seems to be the thing uttering the words in our mind. Me.

Is there anything more to consciousness than us being aware that we are conscious? It is truly a wondrous experience which may seem like a hard problem to explain, hence the "Hard Problem of Consciousness", right? But it's not so mysterious if we think of it in terms of being able to use and hear and understand language. Without language our consciousness would be on the level of most animals I assume. Of course it seems that many animals use some kind of language. But, do they hear their "inner voice"? Hard to say. I would guess not.

And so again, in simple terms, what is the question?
by Marsymars | 2026-02-11 07:37:55+00:00
This is a concern of mine, and my attics (3 of them due to the way the house is built) are pretty inconvenient to check, so I put some battery-powered temp/humidity sensors in them.

Haven't gotten around to setting up any alerting thresholds though... I'm not actually entirely sure what temp/humidity thresholds would actually be useful.
by alex43578 | 2026-02-11 07:38:34+00:00
Except herd immunity for COVID isn’t feasible or even possible. It mutates too much, the vaccines don’t confer effective enough immunity, etc.

It’s unfortunate, but it’s the reality of this disease. I’m not immunocompromised, but I still modify my behavior to try and protect myself: mask on planes, avoid certain situations, etc.
by msl | 2026-02-11 07:38:46+00:00
No, the worst outcome is much worse than that. You need to keep track of what is going on around, or you won't be able to account for you surroundings when you start moving again. I see these failures all the time: a driver of a stopped car is distracted, then realizes that the lights have turned green (or, even more commonly in these types of situations, a space has opened for them to merge into or pass through) and they "have" to get moving, now. Now they are in a hurry, and obviously can't afford to take a moment to take a careful stock of everything going on around them, so inevitably, they end up missing something. Usually someone else (such as myself, pushing a stroller) will be able to react in time and an accident is avoided, but it should not go like that. If you can't or aren't willing to attend to traffic, get out of it.
by keiferski | 2026-02-11 07:39:44+00:00
I grew up in a snowy place and I still live in one. I tell myself every year that this negative experience “builds character”, that being stuck inside forces one to be more intellectual, read more, etc.

I kind of still believe that story, but as I get older it starts to feel like cope, and the sunny shores of Miami / Spain / Warm Place seem more full of life.
by freetime2 | 2026-02-11 07:40:04+00:00
It's an interesting article - thanks for sharing! The original report is worth reading too. [1]

I basically agree with the premise. The "utility factor" used to estimate fuel efficiency for PHEVs does not line up with real-world data, which effectively creates a loophole to avoid emissions standards and keep selling gas guzzlers. This is a problem, and should be fixed.

In regards to which cars are most to blame:

> Volkswagen, Mercedes-Benz and BMW account for the lion’s share of fines avoided over the past three years, together responsible for 89% of the total.

This is a recent trend where luxury carmakers are using PHEVs to circumvent emissions regulations. The latest BMW M5 [2], for example, is a PHEV with a 4.4L V8 engine that puts out 500+ horsepower (700+ hp including the electric motors)! Car enthusiasts actually hate it compared to the old model because the hybrid system increased the weight by 1000 lbs. But making it a PHEV is probably the only way that BMW is still able to sell a V8. It seems kind of stupid all around.

The RAV4 PHEV is also a big, heavy (4,500 lb) car with a large (by European standards) 2.5L engine. But I would hesitate to lump it in with luxury cars from BMW, Mercedes, Land Rover, etc. I would also hesitate to apply findings from a European study to the US market, where large gasoline cars are currently very popular (not that every discussion needs to be about the US - but the RAV4 is the best selling car in the US so it's important to that market). Not saying you're wrong about RAV4 PHEV emissions relative to the gasoline RAV4, just that the study you linked doesn't really support making any specific claims about that model. The report only mentions Toyota once, where it is lumped into an "others" category along with Ford, Hyundai, JLR, Kia, Mazda, Mitsubishi, Nissan, and Suzuki.

[1] https://www.transportenvironment.org/articles/smoke-screen-t...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4Q_dlfQFyg
by doctorpangloss | 2026-02-11 07:40:45+00:00
i haven't read the article. is the question, can hims ship a clone of 25mg oral wegovy? yes, it can.

> ... at oral doses <15mg/day.

well it's not a clone of rybelsus, it's a clone of wegovy 25mg. so i suppose it will be bioavailable at 25mg.

> That's a very brand-new interpretation of rules

this is true. Tidmarsh, the whole Novo Nordisk deal with Trump, it's now about, well we'll do the patent enforcement we didn't want to do before. The simple fact of the matter is, these are lifestyle products, so it's not so black and white if they ought to have the same patent and payment protections as typical therapeutics.
by alex43578 | 2026-02-11 07:40:56+00:00
If we made everyone over 300lbs lose 100lbs, we’d also see those benefits.

Same if we limited the amount of cigarettes or alcohol people purchased.

Certainly the same if we enforced our drug laws around things like fentanyl (although ODing in a Waffle House parking lot at 32 might actually save the taxpayer some money in the long run).
by jFriedensreich | 2026-02-11 07:40:58+00:00
I don’t use native apps as general principle, while i happened to be on ios safari when i tried and i am the first to criticize that browser, the bugs i am seeing do not happen in other apps and should be easily fixable in a proper build webapp. Also keep in mind that this was just a coincidence, every other browser and platform i had to use zulip in had a bad experience.
by microtonal | 2026-02-11 07:45:01+00:00
My debit card is a direct line to my primary bank account. If something goes wrong there and an attacker gains access, my cash is simply gone.

Your bank lacks proper security protections then. Here most banks have limits on debit card transactions. If you want to do a very large transaction, you have to increase the limit for a short time period in your banking app, and there is a delay of a few hours (they'll warn you when the spending limit is increased).

IANAL, but also consumer protection is much stronger in Europe. E.g. in NL if you stick to 5 basic rules, which are sensible things like not intentionally giving away your banking card or PIN code, the bank has to refund stolen money:

https://www.consumentenbond.nl/betaalrekening/bankvoorwaarde...
by ben_w | 2026-02-11 07:45:27+00:00
Raw gruel and a vitamin pill: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gruel

Or whatever's cheapest for your local food supply. Every time I've done this game with supermarket produce, it comes under £1/day, currency tells you which supermarkets were involved.

McD is pretty expensive these days, I've seen cheaper even in the caregory of fast food.
by psychoslave | 2026-02-11 07:45:30+00:00
https://medium.com/@kin.artcollective/the-fundamental-flaws-...

So when things are told to be accelerating, we have some choices to do.

First, what is accelerating compared to what other regime in which referential?

Who is telling that things accelerate, and why they are motivated to make us believe that it's happening.

Also, is accelerating going to be forever and only with positive feedback loops? Or are the pro-acceleration sending the car quicker in a well visible wall, but they sell the speech that stopping the vehicle right now would mean losing the ongoing race. Of course questioning the idea of the race itself and its cargo cult is taboo. It's all about competition don't you know (unless it threat an established oligarch)?