MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rootusrootus | 2026-02-10 01:02:01+00:00
> conservative talking point

The problem with your accusation is that I am a long ways from conservative, and what I said is a pop culture reference straight from South Park.

> In 2024, it wasn't about politics

It wasn't? The dems took a candidate so weak in charisma [0] that she lost her first primary to another candidate also historically weak in charisma (Biden) who himself tried multiple times to run for president and only won in 2020 because he barely edged out the most historically unpopular president in memory. The cherry on top was that she didn't have to win a single primary to become the nominee, and her party had just spent months insisting that the guy at the helm, who promised to be a one term president, was losing his already unfortunately weak ability to speak clearly before realizing how badly he was going to lose to Trump and just gifting the nomination to his VP. What a shit show.

As a long time democrat I remain astounded at how horridly incompetent the leadership is and the lengths to which rank-and-file supporters will go to make excuses for them. Followed closely by the insistence of democratic voters to focus on narrow cultural priorities that resonate with a small number of people and don't move the needle at all for like 80% of the population. What on God's green earth happened to being, you know, progressive? What about labor, or healthcare, or affordable groceries, housing, etc?

[0] yes, charisma isn't the ideal requirement for a presidential candidate, but failure to recognize that this is basically how all presidents win election just means you are going to lose more often.

Plus, we still have people insisting that Kamala lost because she was a woman. No, she won because she sucks as a political candidate. Hillary had precisely the same issue. There are strong women who communicate well who would perform much better, but they have thus far decided to avoid the circus.
by digiown | 2026-02-10 01:02:41+00:00
Facebook+Instagram+Whatsapp/iMessage is a "natural monopoly" because of their network effect, just like the older monopolies. You can run a telephone cable to your neighbor, but good luck reaching anyone else. I can run a chat server to talk with a few specific friends too in the same way, but will you be able to use it to talk to a random company/store/stranger?

> It seems like there's a lot of easy to access competition in this space.

If I give you the money to buy and operate the required amount of servers and a couple developers, will you be able to launch a Facebook competitor in the next year? I doubt so.

Fundamentally the idea is that you ought to be able to participate in society without undue hardship solely by the whim of the (power,phone,water,communications) company. I don't think it is that unreasonable to regulate Facebook in that sense.

Also a lot of government agencies themselves basically only post up to date information on Facebook/Twitter. Do you think I should have to go through a hostile third party just to receive information from the government?
by cucumber3732842 | 2026-02-10 01:03:46+00:00
This algorithm is garbage because it puts no value upon the danger cause by other traffic changing lanes when they would not have otherwise.

You're just going to wind up being approximately the slowest person on the road, which is fine if you're constantly trying to go slower to build space but this means that a bunch of traffic that would have not gone around you will do so. This ups the danger vs a steady flow less all these lane changes because every "thing" other people do is an opportunity to do it badly.

Kinda ironic when you consider that TFA was about detecting dangerous merge situations in the data.
by refulgentis | 2026-02-10 01:03:46+00:00
> We are nowhere near an actual breakeven fusion reactor.

This isn't true.

I understand why you said it. Always 5 years away from being 5 years away. Years and years and years of nothing and hopecasting. Post-COVID market and startup antics. Data center power antics. Well-educated people pointing out BS and that even the best shots we had were example systems that were designed to be briefly net-positive in the 2030s.

But it's just not true.

Commonwealth Fusion Systems. Book it. 2027. They've hit every milestone, on time, since I started tracking in...2018?
by Latty | 2026-02-10 01:03:47+00:00
This isn't true, self-hosted Android push notifications in ntfy are provided using a "foreground service" by default (i.e: the app keeps a websocket open and listens), unless you set up firebase for yourself and build a custom version of the app with the cert baked in.

https://docs.ntfy.sh/subscribe/phone/#instant-delivery
by Wowfunhappy | 2026-02-10 01:04:53+00:00
It's really close for me. I listened to the accurate version, then the enhanced one, and my first thought was "oh, yeah, this sounds better."

Then I listened to the accurate version again, and thought "wait, never mind, this one sounds better."

After going back and forth a few times, I think I still agree the original/accurate one is better, but it's pretty close. I really encourage people to listen for themselves.

For what it's worth, I have little to no personal nostalgia for the Game Boy Advance.
by dwd | 2026-02-10 01:04:58+00:00
There are some Australia startups with the American flags everywhere.

Resolution Minerals (which has some dodgy connection to the Trump boys) might have been the first to go with the heavy US patriotic tilt.

Trigg Minerals was more normal, but have recently rebranded as American Tungsten and Antimony and has gone full patriot as well to attract US buy-in.
by Legend2440 | 2026-02-10 01:05:52+00:00
Typically whenever you look closely at an object with complex behavior, there is a system inside made of smaller, simpler objects interacting to produce the complexity.

You'd expect that at the bottom, the smallest objects would be extremely simple and would follow some single physical law.

But the smallest objects we know of still have pretty complex behavior! So there's probably another layer underneath that we don't know about yet, maybe more than one.
by sneak | 2026-02-10 01:05:59+00:00
My doctor’s office has my email
and knows to use it. Half of the time I’m not even in the country where that phone number works.

I just buy 90 day prepaid SIM cards. At the end of the 90 days I’m usually in another country.

My Google Voice number is sufficient for authing to Signal, but I don’t give it out to vendors/services or use it for phone calls.

I never receive any voice calls to my SIM card itself. Anyone who would want to call me knows to reach me on Signal. Anyone else, I don’t need to speak to them.

Most of the time my voice conversations are in Google Meet calls, anyway. It’s almost always for clients who don’t like to type and would prefer to be synchronous instead of using their device’s built in dictation software.
by digiown | 2026-02-10 01:06:43+00:00
I can spam or send misinformation here just fine without being a corporation. And it's legal speech. Should platforms not be able to moderate this?

> news organization and such to have unrestricted speech [...] by keeping them in a separate category and excluding corps

This is an misunderstanding of "freedom of the press". The "press" is a reference to the printing press as a device itself. News organizations (which are usually for profit) have the exact same rights to free speech as anyone else. The natural analogy is printers and the right to publish information online.
by zeroq | 2026-02-10 01:07:24+00:00
World did nothing (meaningful) for Gaza. It's hard to believe anyone will be willing to act against China which is much more powerful than Israel.

It was easy to turn the blind eye on Iraq, Iran, Syria, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, etc. because for most people in western hemisphere it's a different culture and it's somewhere else.

It was heart breaking when Russia invaded Ukraine and western media were doing lengthy coverage on every single civilian casualty when thousands of people were silently dying in Gaza without a single mention.

And the initial reaction to the invasion was that the Ukraine should simply surrender. It's like calling police about home invasion only to hear "oh, just give them what they want and stop calling us already".

And now US is doing exactly the same. The attack on Venezuela was a carbon copy of what Putin did, only difference was that the US succeeded. And now Greenland.

It's time to stop pretending there are good and evil forces out there. There's no difference.
by bigyabai | 2026-02-10 01:07:34+00:00
That ticks both the boxes. Plane nerds are blogging online, and the Saudi princes are doing napkin math in the VIP booth.

3,000lbs of avgas is only a few thousand dollars, you can run a formation flight for less than $15,000 plus maintenance. Cynically speaking, that's a bit of a steal when you've got the private sector paying millions for a 30-second ad spot.
by ggm | 2026-02-10 01:08:55+00:00
I am sure others will say it better, but the cat-in-the-box experiment is a shockingly bad metaphor for the idea behind quantum states and observer effect.

I will commit the first sin, by declaring without fear of contradiction the cat actually IS either alive or dead. it is not in a superposition of states. What is unknown is our knowledge of the state, and what collapses is that uncertainty.

If you shift this to the particle, not the cat, what changes? because if very much changes, my first comment about the unsuitability of the metaphor is upheld, and if very little changes, my comment has been disproven.

It would be clear I am neither a physicist nor a logician.
by Melonai | 2026-02-10 01:09:00+00:00
As someone completely unaffected by both the protests and deportations, I still feel quite sad about the current situation.

I feel like we should still have empathy, not only for the people who are completely clean legally, but also for the illegal immigrants. Sure, they made a choice which put them at odds with the legal system, and yet I still don't want them beaten up, stripped of any of their rights (as non-citizens), with their families destroyed.
I keep thinking, if I was in their situation, I could've made that same choice, it's certainly possible, if I was just born somewhere else.

Now I don't think illegal immigrants are guilt-free I suppose, some of them are horrible people I'm sure, and they still deserve humane treatment, I have a lot of faith that that's still one of the most important pillars of a good society.

Obviously we can argue about numbers, maybe abuse doesn't even happen often at all, maybe every single person abused has committed a crime. It could be, and even then we should try to be humane, if we can...

I am always happy to hear when people are doing well though! Most of us won't be directly affected, luckily, and I really hope it will stay that way as well. The less people in duress, the better.
by sneak | 2026-02-10 01:09:05+00:00
Somewhat related: I created an HN users Signal group, following the massive success and utility of creating a friends-and-associates Signal groupchat (that ends up discussing privacy/security/AI/etc).

HN User Chat: https://signal.group/#CjQKICCPlygJ6YXA0jqqOcE0K3AHovCOX4WKEN...

If you follow me and want to join my friends-and-associates one, I’m @sneak.07 on Signal.
by olivia-banks | 2026-02-10 01:09:10+00:00
I use OCaml, occasionally, especially for data/transpiler work. I've always wanted to try F#, but it being .NET sort of scares me away. I've always sort of admired the pragmatic beauty of the OCaml ecosystem--at least as much as one can call an ML-derivative 'pragmatic'--though I don't get that same feeling from F#.

Task expressions look neat though, and might give me a reason to try.
by mikkupikku | 2026-02-10 01:09:21+00:00
The demise of the Roman Republic was an inevitability. It could have been Sulla rather than Caesar, and if not Caesar it could have been another, but one way or the other the situation was fundamentally unstable and the public was deeply discontent. Would be reformers like the Gracchi were finding enormous popular traction only to get assassinated.

Also, the Roman Republic were prolific slavers too. I say this because you speak of the Empire and slavery but then go into a "But the Republic.." This isn't Star Wars, you can't divide it into good guys and bad guys, the Republic and Empire were both imperial sons of bitches who conquered territory and took civilians as slaves. The demand for reform that would eventually motivate mass conversions to Christianity was already well established before Caesar was even born.
by tasty_freeze | 2026-02-10 01:09:29+00:00
I'm aware of the charge coming from quarks, but my point remains.

> you have to accept there will eventually be (hopefully simple) coincidences between certain fundamental values, no?

When the probability of coincidence is epsilon, then, no. Right now they are the same to 12 digits, but that undersells it, because that is just the trailing digits. There is nothing which says the leading digits must be the same, eg, one could be 10^30 times bigger than the other. Are you still going to just shrug and say "coincidence?"

That there are 26 fundamental constants and this one is just exactly the same is untenable.
by ChatEngineer | 2026-02-10 01:10:04+00:00
This is excellent timing. I've been running production agent workloads on K8s for a few months now and the isolation patterns you've implemented are exactly what prevents midnight debugging sessions.

A few things I've found that pair well with container isolation:

*Resource constraints*: Not just CPU/memory, but ephemeral storage too. Agents can generate surprising amounts of log/output data during long-horizon tasks. I set 5Gi ephemeral limits by default.

*Network policies*: Your Helm chart should probably include a default NetworkPolicy that blocks egress except to specific API endpoints. Agents will enumerate and try to reach anything they can see.

*Memory persistence*: The trickiest part. OpenClaw's memory system (MEMORY.md + memory/.md) assumes a persistent filesystem. Running in K8s means you need either:
- StatefulSet with persistent volume
- External memory store (S3/minio with sync back)
- Network file system for the workspace directory

I went with StatefulSet + EBS volume for the workspace. The agent restarts with Pods, but memory persists.

*Observability*: Since you're isolating the agent, you should also be exporting metrics. The heartbeat/execution loop in OpenClaw can emit structured logs that Prometheus can scrape if you add a sidecar.

Curious - did you tackle the CDP (browser automation) piece? Running Chrome in a sidecar container and connecting over the Pod network works, but the USB/keyboard simulation pieces get weird in containers.
by rootusrootus | 2026-02-10 01:11:06+00:00
I think he's guilty, and even so I don't believe we actually have anything that proves him a pedophile any more than Bill Clinton, for example. Continuing to call him a pedo just looks like more partisan politics, which uninterested people (who still bother to vote) tune out.

Dems need to figure out how to run more interesting candidates. In 2024 they thought everyone wanted status quo, and it turns out that as housing prices go up and up, along with wages staying flat, people want to blow things up. And Trump seems to be that guy for them.
by westurner | 2026-02-10 01:11:11+00:00
Isn't there a curved photonic beam method that technically, in space, can send a photon around the world at least once?

Airy beams curve

This type of amplification preserves the curvature of Airy beams FWIU:

"Low-power integrated optical amplification through second-harmonic resonance" (2026) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46824978

What kinds of sensing would be possible given a round-the-world photon trajectory?

Quasiparticles have mass, and so might be easier to send around the world than purportedly massless photons.

SQR Superfluid Quantum Relativity with a dilatant fluid says that the effects of mass energy equivalence at high velocities approaching c are actually due to the (atmospheric to superfluiic) viscosity of spacetime nonlinearly pushing back.

But does that matter for a photon or a massless quasi-particle like a photon that we're trying to curve initially to send around the earth at least once to win teh line of sight distance ranking?
by Latty | 2026-02-10 01:11:11+00:00
The default behaviour for self-hosted on Android is to have a foreground service which holds a websocket open, so it does get pushed from the server and doesn't rely on your phone being awake.

https://docs.ntfy.sh/subscribe/phone/#instant-delivery

The upstream approach you describe is only necessary for iOS devices that don't permit apps to do that.

https://docs.ntfy.sh/config/#ios-instant-notifications
by estearum | 2026-02-10 01:11:12+00:00
Neither you nor anyone else believes this is how immigration enforcement has been done "for decades under all sorts of administrations."

You can make it appear as if you have a better grasp on reality by just acknowledging that this is a much different enforcement mechanism than we've seen in the past, but you think that's okay.

Anyway there are now several known cases of people being detained or deported without deportation orders. This is another point that you could at least give the appearance of honesty and grasp on reality by acknowledging.
by alephnerd | 2026-02-10 01:11:43+00:00
IK. Jane Street - like other Western financial institutions - has been de-risking out of China for a couple years now.

That's why I wrote the comment below:

"If you were a company that was primarily and overwhelmingly operating within China, after the changes there was no incentive not to shift most of your operational and executive staff to Shanghai.

If you weren't one of those, then shifting to Singapore makes sense."

Jane Street isn't dependent on Chinese markets. It primarily operates in Western markets with speculative bets in Asian markets excluding China such as SGX and NSE+BSE in India (albeit with a massive regulatory target on their back).

China has done infringed on it's agreement with the HK people, but not all capital in Greater China is Western and is increasingly Chinese originated.
by glerk | 2026-02-10 01:12:01+00:00
I’m not a medical professional. I know nothing about your biopharmacological profile and I don’t know what I am talking about in general.

Micro-dose (sub-threshold) 5-MEO-DMT for a couple of days then solidify during re-integration with something that increases BDNF like intranasal Semax. Can mix and match substances, but I found principle that works well is similar to training a muscle (break and rebuild)

The most important is to stay grounded, always keep learning and engaging in mentally challenging tasks, don’t completely isolate socially, and watch hard biological limits like nutrition and sleep. Otherwise you might go psychotic.
by its_magic | 2026-02-10 01:12:12+00:00
Are you kidding? Driving all over Creation trying to shake some crazy off my tail, getting on/off the interstate, calling the cops ("please sir, drive across town to handle my problem for me!"), and so on is what you consider normal, acceptable way of Handling Business, but simply throwing a lug nut at the son of a bitch is too much? Really strange culture you've got there.
by jbmsf | 2026-02-10 01:13:03+00:00
I can't speak to the accuracy, but I just integrated stripe's offering for our product (which involves banking). We were small enough for a while not to need it, but eventually the fraudsters find you.

If you don't take these measures, you will lose money to fraud. You may also lose your business because you aren't meeting your AML/anti-terror obligations. (I also just had to take my annual training course).

There are a bunch of mitigations, of which identity verification is just one, and all of them are lousy for our good customers. I wish the banking systems were better and we didn't need to do any of it.
by ylow | 2026-02-10 01:13:37+00:00
Most tech startups will be Delaware. And a lot comes down to the definition of "own" which is ambiguous especially as a C-Corp. One may not be CEO, but can be a H1B Co-founder with a non-trivial (for some amount of non-trivial) number of shares. The O-1 far as I can tell allows for startups, and there may be other visa types which I am unaware of.

Really, I am just saying that the statement "you need a GC to own a business" is far too broad a claim to be true.
by drzaiusx11 | 2026-02-10 01:13:48+00:00
Then you and I are not the same. If a platform asks for more than I'm willing to give it, it's time to leave. I've done this enough times that it's simply routine. If it means I suffer "defacto social isolation", whatever that is, so beit. I'm old and I've cultivated a group of close nit friends that live nearby most of the year, we'll manage just fine without discord.
by tabbott | 2026-02-10 01:14:05+00:00
You should stop by #feedback in chat.zulip.org and share your ideas!

Regarding the history: Slack had very effective marketing, powered by a lot of venture capital. And HipChat was a weak product that had an embarrassing total hack, which did not leave customers with confidence that their data was safe there.

Zulip is not venture-funded, so we're reliant on people sharing it with others to get the word out.

As a side note, I don't think Slack could have succeeded if it launched today. Microsoft Teams has far far more users as Slack, and it's slopware. You can thank the end of anti-trust enforcement for that.
by hackingonempty | 2026-02-10 01:14:47+00:00
Yes, for all practical purposes. This is the position of physicist Sean Carroll and probably others. We may not know what is happening in the middle of a black hole, or very close to the big bang, but here on Earth we do.

"in the specific regime covering the particles and forces that make up human beings and their environments, we have good reason to think that all of the ingredients and their dynamics are understood to extremely high precision"[0]

0: https://philpapers.org/archive/CARCAT-33
by scotty79 | 2026-02-10 01:14:59+00:00
It's kind of weird that e2ee is kind of afterthought everywhere. If I was making a chat system I'd obviously didn't want to keep anything that the users talk about on my servers unencrypted or decryptable. Why would you? If something is supposed to be public then keep it. If not, don't.

The weird "we pinky promise to try to keep it non-public for some time" is a weird idea.
by DonHopkins | 2026-02-10 01:15:06+00:00
One nuance that helps: “async” in the turn-based-telephone sense (you ask, it answers, you wait) is only one way agents can run.

Another is many turns inside a single LLM call — multiple agents (or voices) iterating and communicating dozens or hundreds of times in one epoch, with no API round-trips between them.

That’s “speed of light” vs “carrier pigeon”: no serialization across the boundary until you’re done. We wrote this up here: Speed of Light – MOOLLM (the README has the carrier-pigeon analogy and a 33-turn-in-one-call example).

Speed of Light vs Carrier Pigeon:
The fundamental architectural divide in AI agent systems.

https://github.com/SimHacker/moollm/blob/main/designs/SPEED-...

The Core Insight: There are two ways to coordinate multiple AI agents:

Carrier Pigeon
Where agents interact: between LLM calls
Latency: 500 ms+ per hop
Precision: degrades each hop
Cost: high (re-tokenize everything)
Speed of Light
Where agents interact: during one LLM call
Latency: instant
Precision: perfect
Cost: low (one call)
MCP = Carrier Pigeon
Each tool call:
stop generation →
wait for external response →
start a new completion
N tool calls ⇒ N round-trips

MOOLLM Skills and agents can run at the Speed of Light. Once loaded into context, skills iterate, recurse, compose, and simulate multiple agents — all within a single generation. No stopping. No serialization.