MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by verdverm | 2026-02-17 23:06:23+00:00
Yup, I paid less attention to the apology aspect, heard afterwards that it had, and more to see if I put it on the struggle bus at all, which it kind of looks like from Feb 12-14. If you look into the commits around then, it went into one of those fiddling with a few lines that are interrelated and getting them wrong across several commits. This is pretty typical stuff for them, so again I don't want to imply causation.

It seems like a good idea to (a) not let unchecked bots interact with humans (b) not have them blog or post their thoughts on the internet

FYI, when I said multiple repos, it's actually branches:
https://github.com/crabby-rathbun/mjrathbun-website/tree/gh-...
by lurquer | 2026-02-17 23:06:37+00:00
One shouldn’t expect the ‘joke’ to have identical tone. (As if that’s even measurable.)

The point was simply that these examples are not trending towards the average or ‘ablating’ things as the article puts it. They seem fairly creative, some are funny, all are gross… and they are the result of very brief prompt… you can ‘sculpt’ the output in ways that go way beyond the boring crap you typically find in AI-generated slop.
by mothballed | 2026-02-17 23:06:46+00:00
I'm more convinced that the LVT is the least invasive than it being the least bad in economic action, although I can somewhat understand the argument for it. If you eliminated all the other taxes and only used LVT then a large part of the financial surveillance apparatus wouldn't have a leg to stand on. The part about bean counting every bit of income, profit, and gain and then being made to report it to the government under the auspices of just paying your tax is absolutely dystopic compared to LVT.

The biggest challenges of Georgism are that it is basically communism for land (George straight up admits this in one of his books) and creates some issues with efficiently allocating land resources, especially bad with the fact that it can wipe out land speculators which perform an important role in doing time-allocation of land. But it's probably worth the tradeoff if you can eliminate the other taxes.
by XCSme | 2026-02-17 23:06:55+00:00
I made my own benchmarks, very basic questions, and Claude 4.6 is actually worse than the free Stepfun 3.5 version: https://aibenchy.com

It is smart, but it fails at basic instruction following sometimes.

I remember this is a Claude thing for quite a while, where I kept trying to make it output just JSON (without structured output), and it always kept adding quotes or new lines.
by h4kunamata | 2026-02-17 23:07:05+00:00
Real developer never depended on AI to write good quality code, in fact, the amount of slope code flying left and right is due to LLM.

Open-source projects are being inundated with PR from AIs, not depending on them doesn't limit a project.

That project owner seems pretty knowledgeable of what is going on and keeping it free of dependencies is not an easy skill.
Many developers would have written the code with tons of dependency and copy/paste from LLM. Some call the later coding :)
by maxloh | 2026-02-17 23:07:19+00:00
Because a phone running an unknown OS is significantly more dangerous than a phone that hasn't received security updates for years. For example, a malicious OS maker could add their own certificate to the root store, essentially allowing them to MitM all the traffic you send to the bank.

Liability works on the principle that "if it's good enough for Google, it's good enough for me." A bank cannot realistically vet every vendor, so they rely on the OS maker to do the heavy lifting.

Even if they wanted to trust a third-party OS, they would need to review them on a case-by-case basis. A hobbyist OS compiled by a random volunteer would almost certainly be rejected.
by ktoo_ | 2026-02-17 23:08:06+00:00
But you didn't say that. You just said I didn't know what 'indulge' means. Although I'm sure the irony of your final quip has escaped you, you have editorialised it into a valid criticism of my take, which I totally accept. Not everyone reads and uses the word with the tone it conveys in my vernacular, and which I'm sure must be, at least implied, in any respectable dictionary definition. Fair enough. Out of curiosity, do you think this is a geo-cultural difference? I am Australian. I imagine most commonwealth and formerly commonwealth countries read it the same way. Where are you from?
by GS523523 | 2026-02-17 23:08:15+00:00
Property taxes are the most evil of taxes because they force you out onto the street if you're unable to pay them. Qualifying it with the words "very valuable" to solve the problem creates an arbitrary two-tier system that is inherently unfair.

>Claiming that you have ownership over land on this planet is odd, you didn't create the land and governments change overtime.

The government didn't create the land either.
by 0x38B | 2026-02-17 23:08:34+00:00
In Essays in the Art of Writing (1), Robert Louis Stevenson says:

"And perhaps there is no subject on which a man should speak so gravely as that industry, whatever it may be, which is the occupation or delight of his life; which is his tool to earn or serve with; and which, if it be unworthy, stamps himself as a mere incubus of dumb and greedy bowels on the shoulders of labouring humanity. On that subject alone even to force the note might lean to virtue’s side. It is to be hoped that a numerous and enterprising generation of writers will follow and surpass the present one; but it would be better if the stream were stayed, and the roll of our old, honest English books were closed, than that esurient book-makers should continue and debase a brave tradition, and lower, in their own eyes, a famous race. Better that our serene temples were deserted than filled with trafficking and juggling priests."

And in the first essay, speaking on matters of style:

"The conjurer juggles with two oranges, and our pleasure in beholding him springs from this, that neither is for an instant overlooked or sacrificed. So with the writer. His pattern, which is to please the supersensual ear, is yet addressed, throughout and first of all, to the demands of logic. Whatever be the obscurities, whatever the intricacies of the argument, the neatness of the fabric must not suffer, or the artist has been proved unequal to his design. And, on the other hand, no form of words must be selected, no knot must be tied among the phrases, unless knot and word be precisely what is wanted to forward and illuminate the argument; for to fail in this is to swindle in the game. The genius of prose rejects the cheville no less emphatically than the laws of verse; and the cheville, I should perhaps explain to some of my readers, is any meaningless or very watered phrase employed to strike a balance in the sound. Pattern and argument live in each other; and it is by the brevity, clearness, charm, or emphasis of the second, that we judge the strength and fitness of the first."

AI doesn't "write" in the sense used above. It has no ear, no wit, no soul. "A reflection of a mind is not a mind", as Phillip Ball writes in "AI Is the Black Mirror" (2).

1: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/492/pg492-images.html#p...

2: https://nautil.us/ai-is-the-black-mirror-1169121/
by ars | 2026-02-17 23:08:42+00:00
The idea is that we give up the land tax revenues in exchange for the services the non-profit provides. (And of course the government does not decide which services are useful or not, the people do.)

One thing I might agree with is land tax for non-profits that charge fees for services, as opposed to those who work off of donations. I think that would fix the issue without destroying non-profits.
by cdegroot | 2026-02-17 23:08:58+00:00
Yes, the book doesn't do Lisp justice, it is too short. But at the current volume, I had something at least passing muster; I'm toying with extending it but that depends on feedback/success/etc. There are a lot of Lisp implementations I haven't mentioned (or dealt with in the depth they deserve), there is a lot more to say about the sort of AI work that was (and, I think, is) done with Lisp, etc. And I have written it with a "general techie" audience in mind more than "I'm already a hardcore Lisper", I will probably disappoint the latter group with a lack of depth. I haven't aspired to LOL or PAIP or similar great works.

It's a history through a lens, but if there is one I'd say "MIT/Stanford" as a central axis rather than a field of reesarch.

And Javascript? My own choice. The amount of "language" I needed was very small and I actually like the very minimalistic (lisp-y?) sort of Javascript you can write these days if you just ignore most of its history. It's accessible, that was more important to me than anything else - one of the few concessions where I wanted to make things digestible to as wide an audience as possible in a language that was good for the problem at hand. Strangely enough, it worked very well (I think).

I heard your (and others') request for a better sample chapter than the intro that Amazon shows, I'll put it on the site as soon as possible.
by ssl-3 | 2026-02-17 23:09:26+00:00
I've got a good friend that moved to an area like that, in Appalachia.

Cell phone is unilaterally spotty (all carriers; I've got the gear to check that).

The cable network doesn't reach that far. DSL doesn't exist there. There's a local WISP that keeps talking about maybe making a move there, but it hasn't happened.

For the first few years we did a cobbled together cellular thing with a grey-market AT&T corpo iPad SIM, an LTE modem, and a directional antenna about 30 feet up. That worked, usually, unless the SIM died again or the singular tower being aimed at needed maintenance. (This was before cellular providers started willfully selling home internet.)

Now he's got starlink as his only WAN. That does pretty well for him, actually. We chat often, and at length, with his phone on WiFi calling and it works fine almost always. And by that, I mean: There's sometimes an audio glitch, and it's hard to pin down what the source is when it happens. It never lasts long.

The cool thing about cheap starlink as a backup is that, aside from the purchase price, it's like no-brainer cheap. I'd use it at home myself if my connection from Spectrum were iffy. (But Spectrum here is astoundingly consistent, so I don't see a need.)
by zmmmmm | 2026-02-17 23:10:04+00:00
you could say that about natural language as well, but it seems like having computers learn to interface with natural language at scale is easier than teaching humans to interface using computer languages at scale. Even most qualified people who work as software programmers produce such buggy piles of garbage we need entire software methodologies and testing frameworks to deal with how bad it is. It won't surprise me if visual computer use follows a similar pattern. we are so bad at describing what we want the computer to do that it's easier if it just looks at the screen and figures it out.
by nofriend | 2026-02-17 23:10:27+00:00
In 1930, if a person starts paying into the pension at 30, at that point they have a life expectancy of 37 years, ie they will benefit from the pension for 2 years. Life expectancy at age 30 goes up to 48 in 2020, which gives them 13 years after retirement, 6.5 times higher. Assuming linearity, the average life expectancy after retirement during the time you are paying into your pension between 30 and 65 would be 7 years in 1930, and 17 in 2020.
by pljkv | 2026-02-17 23:10:31+00:00
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by simoncion | 2026-02-17 23:10:45+00:00
> This “Great Uncoupling” is well underway and will take us toward a less monocultural Internet.

Gentoo's Github mirrors have only been to make contributing easier for -I expect- newbies. The official repos have -AFAIK- always been hosted by the Gentoo folks. FTFA:

This [work] is part of the gradual mirror migration away from GitHub, as already mentioned in the 2025 end-of-year review.

These [Codeberg] mirrors are for convenience for contribution and we continue to host our own repositories, just like we did while using GitHub mirrors for ease of contribution too.

And from the end-of-year review mentioned in TFA [0]

Mostly because of the continuous attempts to force Copilot usage for our repositories, Gentoo currently considers and plans the migration of our repository mirrors and pull request contributions to Codeberg. ... Gentoo continues to host its own primary git, bugs, etc infrastructure and has no plans to change that.

we learn that the primary reason for moving is Github attempting to force its shitty LLM onto folks who don't want to use it.

So yeah, the Gentoo project has long been "decoupled" or "showing it can be done" or whatever.

[0] <https://www.gentoo.org/news/2026/01/05/new-year.html>
by cdegroot | 2026-02-17 23:11:00+00:00
That's why I said "arguably", of course.

But, to be honest: Forth is great, but... well... there's no "easy mode" Forth. Whereas there is "easy mode" Scheme - even SICP starts with a very simple and gentle up ramp - so I'd argue to give the honours to Lisp (I'm putting Smalltalk in second place). But that's my personal opinion, I get to put it on my book cover, that's all :-)
by cmiles8 | 2026-02-17 23:11:57+00:00
This is the elephant in the room nobody wants to talk about. AI is dead in the water for the supposed mass labor replacement that will happen unless this is fixed.

Summarize some text while I supervise the AI = fine and a useful productivity improvement, but doesn’t replace my job.

Replace me with an AI to make autonomous decisions outside in the wild and liability-ridden chaos ensues. No company in their right mind would do this.

The AI companies are now in a extinctential race to address that glaring issue before they run out of cash, with no clear way to solve the problem.

It’s increasingly looking like the current AI wave will disrupt traditional search and join the spell-checker as a very useful tool for day to day work… but the promised mass labor replacement won’t materialize. Most large companies are already starting to call BS on the AI replacing humans en-mass storyline.
by tamimio | 2026-02-17 23:12:15+00:00
> "Break free from Google" and buy a Pixel phone from them to do so.

Pretty much yeah.

Also, the surveillance tech is getting ahead of the people now, this article might make sense back in 2015, it’s not the case anymore, even if you use a full linux distribution, hardened too, but connected to the cellular network through a modem, the operator can pinpoint your location accurately, because all new cell modems are equipped with gnss and send the NMEA message either in demand or periodically to the towers.. not to mention if your software is open source and secure, your hardware isn’t, and until we reach that point, I would prefer to have a gray man model and blend in within the crowd rather than standing out like a sore thumb.
by GregorStocks | 2026-02-17 23:12:30+00:00
A lot of models (including Opus) keep insisting in their reasoning traces that going first can be a bad idea for control decks, etc, which I find pretty interesting - my understanding is that the consensus among pros is closer to "you should go first 99.999% of the time", but the models seem to want there to be more nuance. Beyond that, most of the really interesting blunders that I've dug into have turned out to be problems with the tooling (either actual bugs, or MCP tools with affordances that are a poor fit for how LLMs assume they work). I'm hoping that I'm close to the end of those and am gonna start getting to the real limitations of the models soon.
by ktoo_ | 2026-02-17 23:12:36+00:00
That last line was humor. Those are recognised "productive" activities. I guess if I had to really explain it, I was trying to offer a rephrased take on what I saw as the meaning of that line in the article. And so highlight that expecting children to do strictly productive things is silly. Dunno. Does that make sense now? I guess I've learned my lesson about my sense of humor not travelling well.
by disiplus | 2026-02-17 23:12:52+00:00
As a father of two boys, i can give you some feedback. The AI stories you will generate will probably be crap and not worth paying for. What my kids love is when i put them (like i take a picture of them, and then generate them in jungle or whatever setup it is with gemini banana) They want that i print them those out, i know it's temporary but its fun for us all. So you could combine those two things.
by beloch | 2026-02-17 23:13:07+00:00
I've heard similar theories put forth about amoral wall street bankers. The gist of it was that old-school WASP bankers were relatively trustworthy because most of them believed that God was watching them. They were smart enough to outsmart the law, but not their religious sensibilities. Then amoral papists, Catholics, and whatnot came in and everything went to pot. (Some of the people spouting this theory were explicitly racist on top of it all.)

This theory was mainly used for discrimination, but there might have been a small grain of truth. Some people will do the right thing because they see that society functions only if most people behave in the common interest. Some people only do the right thing because they fear consequences, and fear of God can be good enough for people who are firmly convinced they're too smart to be caught by anyone else. Perhaps a decline in religion has unfettered the inherently amoral. In reality, it may just have been that enough bankers started doing amoral things that the rest decided they had to as well in order to keep up.

We might be seeing something similar in U.S. colleges. Some students have no fear of the consequences of being caught in a lie, and many more are simply reacting to seeing obvious frauds being rewarded with real advantages. Prof's and TA's are probably quite aware of what's going on, but are afraid to call it out. If a prof denies a student's bogus disability entitlements they could be sued or fired.

So, how do you walk this back? Unlike finance scams, it's relatively easy to spot fake disabilities. Universities could do their own assessments instead of relying on whatever outside doctors students can get to say they have a disability. They could strongly support profs who take action against fakers. This may cost them donations from upset parents, but failure to reign the fakery in could tarnish the brand of elite colleges and, eventually, cost them even more. Then again, it may already be the case that an ivy league degree says more about connections than competence.

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Edit:

I just wanted to add that I really dislike the above theory and in no way endorse hiring religious people over non-religious people. In my experience, religious people are every bit as good as rationalizing immoral behaviour as everyone else, and are frequently even better at it.

The point I was trying to drive at is that some people act badly when there is no accountability. It's clear that both investment bankers and college kids need to be policed, but it's comparatively easy to catch college kids faking disabilities.
by dfsnow | 2026-02-17 23:13:26+00:00
Hi, I wrote this article and largely agree with you. 340B is important and without it many hospitals likely wouldn't survive. However, it's pretty evident at this point that 340B has expanded beyond its original intent.

For example, Northwestern University (in the middle of downtown Chicago) got itself reclassified as a rural hospital in order to participate in the program.

Moreover, it's grown extremely rapidly over the past ~5 years, and the gravity of the program is starting to create bizarre second-order effects like the one outlined.

My intent with this article is just to highlight some of those effects, not to advocate for eliminating 340B.

Also, not bankrolled by pharma, just a researcher for Turquoise Health (a healthtech startup). I get to dig around in their data and publish occasionally, but editorial control / opinions are my own.
by imiric | 2026-02-17 23:14:02+00:00
Weak fallacy fallacy.

Besides, you do realize that the film is a satire, and that the comet was an analogy, right? It draws parallels with real-world science denialism around climate change, COVID-19, etc. Dismissing the opinion of an "AI" domain expert based on fairly flawed reasoning is an obvious extension of this analogy.
by m4rtink | 2026-02-17 23:14:03+00:00
Fair enough but I still prefer people would be more concrete and really call it "open weight" or similar.

With fully open source software (say under GPL3), you can theoretically change anything & you are also quite sure about the provenience of the thing.

With an open weights model you can run it, that is good - but the amount of stuff you can change is limited. It is also a big black box that could possibly hide some surprises from who ever created it that could be possibly triggered later by input.

And lastly, you don't really know what the open weight model was trained on, which can again reflect on its output, not to mention potential liabilities later on if the authors were really care free about their training set.
by guyomes | 2026-02-17 23:14:09+00:00
> They can get rid of 1/3-2/3s of their labor and make the same amount of money, why wouldn't they.

Competition may encourage companies to keep their labor. For example, in the video game industry, if the competitors of a company start shipping their games to all consoles at once, the company might want to do the same. Or if independent studios start shipping triple A games, a big studio may want to keep their labor to create quintuple A games.

On the other hand, even in an optimistic scenario where labor is still required, the skills required for the jobs might change. And since the AI tools are not mature yet, it is difficult to know which new skills will be useful in ten years from now, and it is even more difficult to start training for those new skills now.

With the help of AI tools, what would a quintuple A game look like? Maybe once we see some companies shipping quintuple A games that have commercial success, we might have some ideas on what new skills could be useful in the video game industry for example.
by concinds | 2026-02-17 23:14:11+00:00
Where's the money for local services supposed to come from?

Why should you be allowed to monopolize a piece of finite and scarce resource, land, for free?

Since you think it's a scam, surely you support 100% capital gains taxes on homes? Since old people getting rich off of an unproductive asset, blocking supply to "preserve neighborhood character", and inflating the price of their artificially-scarce goods would be more of a scam?

There's nothing wrong with retirees being forced to sell and downsize. You don't need a family-sized home when you live alone. Property tax is the least unfair tax of them all.
by n_e | 2026-02-17 23:14:13+00:00
I didn't look too much into sqlc-gen-typescript because the project looks abandoned (no commits in 2 years, many open PRs).

Regarding sqlc in general, it is focused on having the SQL queries in .sql files, while pg-typed is focused on having the queries inline (though I plan to add .sql file support). I like the latter approach better, as for small queries used in only one place, it is a little cumbersome to add them to a different file and find a name for them.