MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by AnEro | 2026-02-18 22:59:30+00:00
This feels like a way to feel superior over people that have different interests, issues and expectations on them

A few concrete issues:

(1) International standards: Some people actually like expressing themselves and see fashion as an art. Not being able to easily access that art when it is at the tip of your fingers and don't want to risk international returns.

(1.1) Fit matters sometimes you need a tight or baggy fit for the clothes to look good. With measurements also are sometimes shown as a radius not diameter, and different materials sit and stretch differently. I've fit size 4 as a size 6 at the same store with type of clothes.

(2) Health wise, countless studies show involving shame and weight just increases issues mental and physical rather than being motivating. Weight as a health issue also is tied to Visceral fat vs Subcutaneous, visceral fat is more common in men than women. So one could say woman at the higher end of healthy body fat % range is more likely to have healthier fat than a man at the equivalent

(3) People at different sizes are allowed to have money, and like nice things? Size of clothing doesn't indicate quality, so this is a false equivalence. xyz sports car only being comfortable if you are under 30% body fat and between 5'11-6'3 would be around a very rough equivalent of the sizing rarity.

(3.1) Losing weight is actually complex to do sustainably though it is calories in calories out, women have much more variance in their bodies metabolisms that make it hard without doctors or research to nail down. Hormones periods/birth control etc. that can effect 'calories out' and level of 'food noise' one would have.

(4) It is annoying to have to constantly verify the same store is selling something at the same size as you have traditionally bought from.

(4.1)Appearances matter for men and women, women have different expectations on beauty that do affect their income, work place and family life. When purchasing a good that is often a premium/luxury item, you'd prefer them to not take advantage of the fact in the back of your mind you as a person will be seen as lessor if you aren't fitting xyz standard. imagine inseems instead of listing 26-34' for mens pants it sudden catagorized them as small, mid, tall and then that shifts constantly

(5) To make a comparison you may empathize with... Making another standard doesn't solve the too many standards problem, especially when you aren't an enterprise
by lilyball | 2026-02-18 22:59:40+00:00
The argument against PRNGs this paper makes isn't that the PRNG produces results that can be distinguished from TRNG, but that the 256-bit seed deterministically chooses a single shuffling. If you need 300 bits to truly shuffle the assignment but you only have 256 bits, then that's a lot of potential assignments that can never actually happen. With this argument it doesn't matter what the PRNG is, the fact that it's deterministic is all that matters. And this invalidates the p-value because the p-value assumes that all possible assignments are equiprobable, when in fact a lot of possible assignments have a probability of zero.

I imagine you could change the p-value test to randomly sample assignments generated via the exact same process that was used to generate the assignment used by the experiment, and as you run more and more iterations of this the calculated p-value should converge to the correct value, but then the question becomes is the p-value calculated this way the same as the p-value you'd get if you actually went ahead and used equiprobable assignment to begin with?

Ultimately, this all comes down to the fact that it's not hard to use true randomness for the whole thing, and true randomness produces statistically valid results, if you use true randomness for assignment then you can't screw up the p-value test, and so there's no reason at all to even consider how to safely use a PRNG here, all that does is open the door to messing up.
by toomanyrichies | 2026-02-18 23:00:05+00:00
I mean, if you want to quote the guidelines [1]:

> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

"Most" leaves some wiggle room here, and I'd say CBS's censoring of Colbert post-acquisition is evidence of an "interesting new phenomenon". You might not find the story interesting, but that just means you're not the target audience. Not everything will be posted with you specifically in mind.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by 1necornbuilder | 2026-02-18 23:00:09+00:00
This matches something I've observed from the opposite end of the spectrum — I'm not a developer, I build production software entirely through AI chat (no IDE, no manual commits). My codebase is a computer vision system running on Google Cloud Run that monitors industrial cranes in real time.
The strict-guardrails effect you describe is real, but from my vantage point the mechanism is slightly different. When I'm prompting Claude to build or fix something, a codebase with strict typing and tight lint rules gives the model a much narrower solution space. It's not just that the model anticipates constraints — it's that the constraints eliminate a whole class of "plausible but wrong" outputs that I, as a non-developer, would have no way to catch in review.
Your cross-file invariant problem is exactly where things break down for me too. Individual files come back clean, but interactions between components — especially across my Flask routes, WebSocket handlers, and GCS integrations — is where silent failures happen. I've started adding explicit integration tests as part of my prompts ("before you return code, verify this function's output will be consumed correctly by X") but it's still the hardest part of building production systems this way.
Curious whether your team has found any tooling that helps surface cross-file contract violations earlier in the loop.
by zzrrt | 2026-02-18 23:00:14+00:00
> Even the crotchetiest and most out-of-touch people I know basically accept that the Earth is warming now.

POTUS tweeted "WHATEVER HAPPENED TO GLOBAL WARMING???" a few weeks ago when a record cold wave came in. I suppose you were talking about people you personally know, but it seems like there's a good chance many who voted for him would say it too.

Anyway, I guess there is a growing collective admission that the climate is changing even if the crotchety ones will still quip about it not being warmer at some given time and place. It's unfortunate that "global warming" caught on instead of "climate change."
by bubblewand | 2026-02-18 23:00:28+00:00
I'm pretty sure everyone who cares about getting a good fit (and isn't simply trying the clothes on in person) is looking at measurements, which you can usually find for any half-decent vendor (though it may take some poking around their site). The best have it per-garment (or per-cut), less-good but usually still alright is having a guide to the measurements they base their sizing off of.

Even guys can't really get away with just "Small, Medium, Large" if they want a decent fit that they can predict from just the label. Modifiers for the cut become necessary (regular, slim, relaxed, extra-slim, that kind of thing). And that's for clothes that are pretty forgiving on the fit, like knits...

Women's clothes are even trickier. It's basically impossible to boil them down to one or even two size metrics or labels unless you're relying on a shitload of stretch in every other part of the garment, which is something that usually only very bad garments do (think: Temu). Women's proportions are also far more variable. Shoulder-bust-waist-hip often sees some pretty wild differences, like two women will match on a couple of those measurements and be way far apart on the others. Then you've got height to worry about. Dudes can be similarly far outside the norm of distributions for the relations between their key measurements, but it's not as common—most of us have it relatively easy.

Looking at the actual measurements, though, I've found to be very reliable. I buy almost all my clothes on eBay and directly from brands on their websites, with great success, because I know both my own key measurements, and the dimensions of clothes that fit me well (I have some notes, doesn't take a lot of data points to have enough to be pretty accurate). I've also ordered for my wife with a similar strategy, works well there, though you're way more likely to run into cases of "OK there are zero sizes of this garment that will work for you, just gotta give up on this one" because of the issue above.
by alexwennerberg | 2026-02-18 23:00:59+00:00
I've experimented with it and after some initial skepticism, I've been impressed -- because a simple Forth is implemented relatively concisely, it can get a "full" picture of the language by reading the implementation. The issue I've encountered is that it tends to treat forth as a single specified programming language, using non-existent words in some specific forth. With coaxing, it can correct this, though. I may write something up, but I am interested if anyone else has experimented with this -- culturally, Forth programmers tend to be very anti-AI (and I feel a bit ambivalent about my experiments)
by jdranczewski | 2026-02-18 23:01:32+00:00
If anyone in the comments is in a similar predicament to the author and would like a book logging app, I will say that I disagree on their judgement of StoryGraph - I've found it a pretty decent interface, the search function is very good, and the (anti)features mentioned in the footnote are incredibly easy to not use, as the creators seem to understand that many of their users have a very strong preference to avoid AI bloat.
by exmadscientist | 2026-02-18 23:02:03+00:00
> pants are sized in inches

I wish! That number is kinda-sorta-related-to inches, but it's not, at least not anymore. I wear a 31 or 32 jean, but my waist is about 34.5 inches. And any jeans which fit my thighs properly (turns out to be about size 34) will fall off my waist.

Measure your own waist and pants, see what you find!

Sizing is chaos.
by felixding | 2026-02-18 23:02:21+00:00
The UI looks so good. Why can’t we have good looking things anymore?

I spent hours each month looking for a way to bring back Aqua on Mac or Linux through theming or alternative DE but nothing comes close to the real thing.

If one day I have enough money I’ll just start work on a new DE to faithfully recreate Aqua. One can dream.
by netsharc | 2026-02-18 23:02:47+00:00
I agree, but it seems most of the "messaging" nowadays is "Well, the outlook is 'we're fucked', but we still need to do something, or the outlook will be 'we're very fucked!'", which still falls on deaf ears...

I remember someone saying another form of denial is the denial that "we" will be affected badly. A friend said "Well, I'll turn on my AC, I'll be fine!". Or "I'm sure some technological Deus ex Machina will save us! Any day now!".
by bhk | 2026-02-18 23:03:24+00:00
Funny enough, vanity sizing strikes there too. The purported waist size of a pair of Levi's is off by almost three inches.

One might argue that the size on their label is not supposed to indicate the size of the garment waistband, but the waist size of the wearer who would find it comfortable, but even with that interpretation it doesn't work out right.
by ericdykstra | 2026-02-18 23:03:54+00:00
I won't ever put my name on something written by an LLM, and I will blacklist any site or person I see doing it. If I want to read LLM output I can prompt it myself, subjecting me to it and passing it off as your own is disrespectful.

As the author says, there will certainly be a number of people who decide to play with LLM games or whatever, and content farms will get even more generic while having less writing errors, but I don't think that the age of communicating thought, person to person, through text is "over".
by randusername | 2026-02-18 23:04:05+00:00
> Could such a statement ever apply to something as crass as software development?

Absolutely. I think like a Python programmer, a very specific kind of Python programmer after a decade of hard lessons from misusing the freedom it gives you in just about every way possible.

I carry that with me in how I approach C++ and other languages. And then I learned some hard lessons in C++ that informed my Python.

The tools you have available definitely inform how you think. As your thinking evolves, so does your own style. It's not just the tool, mind, but also the kinds of things you use it for.
by gzread | 2026-02-18 23:04:30+00:00
If you have 300 bits of shuffling entropy, you have a lot of potential assignments that can never happen because you won't test them before the universe runs out. No matter how you pick them.

Of course a PRNG generates the same sequence every time with the same seed, but that's true of every RNG, even a TRNG where the "seed" is the current space and time coordinates. To get more results from the distribution you have to use more seeds. You can't just run an RNG once, get some value, and then declare the RNG is biased towards the value you got. That's not a useful definition of bias.
by pranav_rajs | 2026-02-18 23:05:37+00:00
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by techblueberry | 2026-02-18 23:05:44+00:00
As usual, I don't know enough about everything to say these people are wrong. But it's interesting that working class Catholics and like millionaire tech entrepreneurs are both worried about the Apocalypse.

It definitely feels like we're in this general scarcity-vibe in America, but it's also interesting how intellectualism can mask what is just base level fears and anxieties people have. Maybe specifically that like, this version of "AGI will destroy all people and destroy all the jobs" feels like a uniquely American viewpoint. It doesn't make it wrong, but then if people are being truly rational, why does it feel so embedded in it's cultural context?

It's also interesting to me, maybe I need to read more about China, but it feels like China is having their abundance moment just as we're heading into our own scarcity moment.

But in general, I'd say there's too much going on macroeconomically and otherwise to think that fears of AI creating this jobpocalypse are definitely logical.
by eszed | 2026-02-18 23:05:53+00:00
Men's clothes have gone through the same process over the course of my lifetime. For instance, I wear the same brand and size of jeans that I did in college. The waist size back then was broadly accurate to the actual size in inches, but today, thirty years on, I weigh ~20lbs more, and that waist "measurement" has up-sized along with me. I guess it's meant to flatter me, but is it really fooling anyone? I guess, based on other's comments in this thread, that it does, and vanity sizing works, which is just sad.

(Then there are men's "relaxed" fits, which bear even less relationship to actual measurements. Maybe "slim" sizing is closer to the old system? Even when they fit my waist - like, six nominal inches bigger than standard! I'm not that much wider - they don't fit my legs, so I don't know.)

None of that's anywhere close to as ridiculous as women's sizing, but give 'em time and I'm sure it will be.
by gpm | 2026-02-18 23:06:24+00:00
Hmm...

Ok I checked the pricing page and funnel is available in the free tier (limited to 3 users) but not the $6/user/month tier - which you need for more than 6 users... strange pricing structure but I guess I see the logic.

Any chance you were asked to upgrade from $6/user/month to $18/user/month and not free to $18/user/month?

https://tailscale.com/pricing#application-networking
by altairprime | 2026-02-18 23:06:33+00:00
Anecdotally, I discovered recently that I’m a full three sizes down in Vivobarefoot shoes versus normal shoes — but for a really interesting reason. It turns out that modern runner’s shoes actually are often shaped like a foot, rather than like a spatula, and so now that I don’t have to size up for my toebox width thanks to them creating shoes that are foot shaped in disregard to fashionable propriety, I now fit much better into a 3-sizes smaller shoe than I did into their older shoes at my prior size.

Part of why retailers are afraid to change sizing is that lots of women install their clothing into their ego and brag about it socially. I don’t approve, but I recognize the extrinsic cultural circumstances* that pressure them to do so. It’s a a lot harder to brag about being a size 49-42-48–8-30 than it is to brag about being a 20UK. (The /22 in 20/22 UK, the common size these days, is silent, because size lying is normalized.)

It would make more sense instead for them to choose an anchor measurement and a body type modifier; but that gets into the problems of having to annotate nine different body type letters onto a numeric size, not to mention having to design clothing that looks good on nine different body types, and having to hire models of nine different body types. The modeling industry is unprepared to staff that need, too!

* The phrase “pinup-hourglass male-gaze body-shape imposed-ideal” serves as an excellent starting point for research on that nightmare. For those unfamiliar, ask your friends who are women about that exact phrase, and remember to listen rather than critique their potentially-lengthy reply. I’m focusing on the sizing discussion and leave that topic as an exercise for the reader.
by cedws | 2026-02-18 23:06:39+00:00
It feels like everyone is just collectively ignoring this.
LLMs are way less useful when you have to carefully review and approve every action it wants to take, and even that’s vulnerable to review exhaustion and human error. But giving LLMs unrestricted access to a bunch of stuff via MCP servers and praying nothing goes wrong is extremely dangerous.

All it takes is a tiny snippet from any source to poison the context and then an attacker has remote code execution AND can leverage the LLM itself to figure out how best to exfiltrate and cause the most damage. We are in a security nightmare and everyone is asleep. Claude Code isn’t even sandboxed by default for christ sakes, that’s the least it could do!
by Dylan16807 | 2026-02-18 23:07:13+00:00
> Did I say or imply that breaking DRM was bad? It is a neutral description of what was done.

Well you said it's supposed to be an "alternative term". If it's valid to reword your statement as "seeding Anna's Archive is showing support for large scale DRM breaking", then everyone should be huge huge supporters of them with no downside whatsoever. Which I think is pretty different from your actual argument.

> Why? GP is arguing that as long as you're not depriving the original owner of access to the data, it can't be called stealing.

They didn't say that, they said a much simpler sentence applying to this specific context.
by alexgarden | 2026-02-18 23:07:33+00:00
Close but not quite — it's not re-steering the model. AIP doesn't modify the agent's behavior or inject corrections back into the context. It's a passive observer that reads the thinking trace and produces a verdict. What happens after the verdict is up to the operator — you might block the action, escalate to a human, log it, or let it through with a flag.

Think of it less as a feedback loop and more as a conscience that watches but doesn't control. The agent doesn't know AIP is there (by design — if the agent knows it's being watched, you change the behavior you're trying to observe).

Benchmarks are actually coming shortly along with proofs. Noted on model outputs. FWIW, 90% of what I wrote here was me typing BUT using grammarly on my cleanup.

[EDIT] - overly specific answer. AIP doesn't re-steer, but our gateway implementation smoltbot does re-steer. That was our choice of how to implement AIP.
by benoau | 2026-02-18 23:07:53+00:00
Not only that they go out of their way to obstruct running software, which is arguably what is important about the hardware.

PPC software is gone, 32 bit apps are gone, x86 apps are next, virtualizing or emulating platforms on iOS devices seems to be eternally damned, and what that looks like on Mac after Rosetta 2's quasi-retirement could only be inferior.

In an alternative universe you could connect an eGPU to a Mac or iPad and simply enjoy being the best platform for practically all software that ever existed. Run anything but the most intensive games directly on an AVP or iPad or MacBook Air or even an iPhone.
by rmast | 2026-02-18 23:08:14+00:00
To be honest, I’m kinda feeling discouraged from sharing on HN — there’s some stuff I thought was interesting and got received well when shared elsewhere like Reddit, but went completely unnoticed here.

Though I guess this makes Show HN essentially like the rest of HN where interesting content gets buried and the outcome is entirely random chance. As an example https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46648740 went more or less unnoticed, then someone else shared the exact same link less than 10 hours later with the opposite result in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46654749
by jeroenhd | 2026-02-18 23:08:19+00:00
How on earth do you hook up an iBook to a WPA3 network? Even in WPA2 compatibility mode you'll barely be able to see the SSID?

I suppose it's cool of Apple to not take down their old update servers, although I hope they do keep an eye on the use of HTTP or vulnerable ciphers for that purpose and segment the old hosting off from their more secure modern hosting.