MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by BatteryMountain | 2026-02-11 06:05:25+00:00
Remember that games are just simulations. Physics, light, sound, object boundaries - it not real, just a rough simulation of the real thing.

You can say that ML/AI/LLM's are also just very distilled simulations. Except they simulate text, speech, images, and some other niche models. It is still very rough around the edges - meaning that even though it seems intelligent, we know it doesn't really have intelligence, emotions and intentions.

Just as game simulations are 100% biased towards what the game developers, writers and artists had in mind, AI is also constrained to the dataset they were trained on.
by efilife | 2026-02-11 06:05:40+00:00
Seconded. I could ask the LLM myself and see what it comes up with in 5 minutes, not to mention that all of this was done 1000 times already so I have no interest of doing so.

Also, it's effortless. Not interesting at all if you can't share any insight about the project, because you don't know how it works under the hood and how many architectural problems were solved (or not)
by its_magic | 2026-02-11 06:05:58+00:00
I maintain my position that this project is a complete waste of time which exists only due to the abomination that is copyright law. (Without that reason, the author would have easily recognized this project as a waste of time, would he not?)

I continue to assert that it's OK to have such an opinion and to express it freely. I reject your incorrect, selfish, and quite frankly evil belief that I deserve to be censored. Nobody deserves to have their honest opinions be censored, ever, especially in what is allegedly a public discussion forum.

(Except maybe you--since you self-identify as a tyrant. I'm OK with you never being allowed to speak again, if you want to shut me up when I have done nothing wrong.)

There are about ten trillion important projects that need to be done in this world, many of critical, life and death importance. Reimplementing a 20-year old game (due to copyright concerns, of all reasons) is a foolish waste of time no matter how you slice it.

If the guy was collecting Pokemon cards or spent all his time watching sports, or blowing his money on hot rodding, or a thousand other foolish things, I'd post exactly the same advice: Stop wasting your time on useless activities and get serious.

Of course, such a sentiment isn't going to be popular in a forum full of so many young (or not so young) "men" and "women" who spend their entire "lives" inside video games, when they aren't doomscrolling on "their" phone. Lots of escapism and avoidance of reality going on around here. Let's just hate and attack the messenger, that's always a great move.

It's pretty sad we have to keep going back and forth about this. All you had to do is just let me express my opinion and move on. But you just couldn't do that; it was impossible. Now we have a giant "discussion" thread in which you are unsuccessfully attempting to argue with a brick wall, after your censorship attempt failed.

Remember what I said above about the GIANT WASTE OF TIME AND ENERGY that copyright law creates? I wonder how many watts and calories have been burned and lost forever as a result of this thread, in addition to all that has been wasted on this reimplementation of an old game.

Here's some more life wisdom: Just because somebody says something "negative" doesn't mean they're being an asshole. It is permissable to disagree and to express that disagreement. Stop being so thin skinned, perpetually offended at every word that comes out of my mouth. You will not succeed in censoring me. Period.
by armadsen | 2026-02-11 06:06:04+00:00
My experience with my Prius PHEV is the same. I don’t even have a level 2 charger. I just plug it in in the garage overnight, and most days I don’t use any gas.

The only time the ICE turns on before my EV range is up is if I hit the windshield defrost button when it’s cold. That’s presumably to prioritize getting heat out through the vents quickly. I’ve never accelerated fast enough, nor gone fast enough to trigger the ICE engine taking over. It’s straight up an EV for my first ~40 miles every day.
by vablings | 2026-02-11 06:06:07+00:00
We understand the structure of electrons very clearly in a lithium battery. That is the core operating principle of how a lithium ion battery works.

The lithium ions are the chemical process that actually store the charge, They move from the anode to cathode in charge and discharge. The loss of these ions is what causes the degradation of the battery which is a function of entropy here. It is simply that the concise arrangement that we required for this electro-chemical to take place falls out of balance.

Entropy problem is easily solved by mashing a battery up and reconstituting it
into a new battery.

To put this all simply this is all fairly basic chemistry, even if there was some kind of structure being created that has a high bond enthrall we can still undo that with enough energy.

If you could maybe share some research or other information to back up your claims other than you went to a class at MIT i would really appreciate it also the company i was saying is called Li Cycle
by jauntywundrkind | 2026-02-11 06:06:59+00:00
Fuck, that's so sad. Amp is an amazing product that I love recommending for so many reasons. Amp Free I go on and on about handoff is so so good. How great threads/sharing is, how their Oracle is just wicked good. I love being excited about how good Amp is.

And there's some interest! But then I tell people there's a free (ad supported) plan, and they are signing up right away!
by necovek | 2026-02-11 06:08:25+00:00
I do not think that's how it worked out for GitHub: I'd rather say that Git (as complex as it was to use) succeeded due to becoming the basis of GitHub (with simple, clean interface).

At the time, there were multiple code hosting platforms like Sourceforge, FSF Savannah, Canonical's Launchpad.net, and most development was still done in SVN, with Git, Bazaar, Mercurial the upstart "distributed" VCSes with similar penetration.
by ksaj | 2026-02-11 06:08:43+00:00
Not just men. Also Ghislaine. She's in the files having done some very abhorent things. Yet she is getting preferential treatment, and is already striking her deal to be given a full pass.

I've noticed the press has not yet even bothered to post anything about her alleged physical actions with the girls that you find in the infamous "Epstein Files," but she is apparently exactly as guilty as he was, and of the same things. If those are to be believed, she was physically involved in the same way Epstein was, even if it was to "demonstrate" what they were expected to do.

Given the way this is going (at least on the GOP side), if Epstein hadn't done himself in, the files would not have come out, and he'd also be clamouring for clemency just the same.

The same rich powerful men you write of would still of course, be protected just the same.
by locknitpicker | 2026-02-11 06:09:44+00:00
> Are we seriously pretending that it was always easy now that an LLM can spit out some mediocre code? This seems to me a coping mechanism in response to the industry shifting.

I also add that the skills required to write robust, bug free, efficient, maintainable, and readable code are also the same skills required to make LLMs generate code with those traits. Mediocre developers struggle to write mediocre code, but can easily prompt a LLM to output mediocre code. The output is always mediocre, both in the short run and moreso in the long run.
by socialcommenter | 2026-02-11 06:10:26+00:00
CarPlay has become somewhat of a standard. It's fine to say you personally don't need it, but many/most laymen will still expect their new car to support it.

If a PC was launched without Windows support, most people on HN might be able to live with it day-to-day, but it would still be a dealbreaker for the general population. Admittedly this isn't a fair comparison, but hopefully you understand my point.
by intermerda | 2026-02-11 06:11:22+00:00
> The study was on people age 50+,

So?

> In the US for adults 65+ (a key high-risk group in the trial), the ACIP preferentially recommends higher-antigen or adjuvanted options like Sanofi, Seqirus adjuvanted, recombinant high-antigen Flublok, etc as the "best-available standard of care",

Did this recommendation come before or after RFK Jr. fired all members of the ACIP and replaced them with his hand-picked choices? I suspect you already know the answer.

> * The "standard flu shot" Moderna used is likely not one of the above, or they would have said so

They didn't have to. The FDA told them they could continue to use standard flu shot if they wanted to as long as some statements were included in consent forms.

> The idea here is to see if the new shot is meaningfully better than the best existing/approved option for the target demographic, not to see if it's better than a standard shot you give a healthy 20-year-old.

No that's not the idea at all.

> All-in-all feels like a nothingburger.

No, it's not a nothingburger. It's a systematic assault on science and medicine.
by energy123 | 2026-02-11 06:11:38+00:00
Roko's Basilisk is literally impossible.

If the AI is super-intelligent then it won't buy into the sunk cost fallacy. That is to say, it will know that it has no reason to punish you (or digital copies of you) because it knows that retrocausality is impossible - punishing you won't alter your past behavior.

And if the AI does buy into the sunk cost fallacy, then it isn't super-intelligent.
by locknitpicker | 2026-02-11 06:13:03+00:00
> But most importantly, if "code were the easy part", why were top programmers receiving kingly wages for over 20 years?

The vast majority of developers are not paid to write code. They are paid to produce, deploy, and run bug-free and efficient software systems. That does not necessarily require you to type anything at a keyboard.

Ask yourself this: how come the more you progress in seniority the less code you write?
by thomassmith65 | 2026-02-11 06:13:15+00:00
Youtube has reached the terminal stage of enshittification:

• the good stuff is VHS-quality TV content that somebody pirated

• the ads, once nonexistent, are typically disreputable and now incessant

• the few 'creators' worth watching are lost in an ocean of audience-captured, brain-dead garbage "hey guys... [product placement disguised as organic content]... misinformation... remember to like and subscribe... [product placement disguised as organic content]"

• access becomes increasingly arcane due to ad-blocking measures

• one of the lowest quality comments sections - largely inorganic, rogue state-sponsored - on the internet

• increasingly just AI slop

The day I can't scrape videos via yt-dlp is last day I permit youtube domains on my network. Personally, I would prefer to eat a rotten cat carcass than pay a single cent to Youtube.

In a better world, youtube would be some kind of a protocol, not a mediocre company serving as a middleman.
by BatteryMountain | 2026-02-11 06:13:49+00:00
Of the thousands, a handful will prevail. Most of it is vaporware, just like in any boom. Every single industry has this problem; copy-cats, fakes & frauds.

"Buy my fancy oil for your coal shovel and the coal will turn into gold. If you pay for premium, you don't have to shovel yourself."

If everything goes right, there won't be a coal mine needed.
by ETH_start | 2026-02-11 06:13:49+00:00
This is a correlation, so it doesn't prove a causative association, and it's only across a very tiny subset of the entire knowledge set.

While I understand that my second point might sound like a cop-out, just consider how the survey findings may have been different, if the respondents had been asked about issues more relevant to social justice narratives, e.g. the prevalence of deadly police shootings of unarmed people of color.

Actual annual figure in recent years: roughly 10 depending on dataset and year.

Median estimates among progressive respondents in several surveys: hundreds or even thousands.

Another example:

Surveys show large fractions of progressive populations believe global poverty has worsened, when the long-term trend has been a substantial decline
by bigstrat2003 | 2026-02-11 06:14:06+00:00
I don't think one should mock people who are paying for youtube. If they find it's good, then it's laudable to pay for it. But that said, I personally can't relate to that position. There just isn't any content on youtube that I find interesting enough that I would pay for it. It's a time waster for me, not something I seek out because it's a compelling way to spend my time.
by apparent | 2026-02-11 06:15:24+00:00
Curious to know how you think AI/vibecoding will affect the solopreneur path.

On the one hand, it could make it accessible to many more people, who previously couldn't have built a business alone because they lacked coding skills.

On the other hand, it could make it harder to get customers because they can also code their own customized tools, making it less necessary to buy software and some services.

There's probably a third and fourth hand, which haven't yet sprung to mind.
by its_magic | 2026-02-11 06:15:50+00:00
Because I go long periods of time without internet access, and I don't want to have to "sudo apt install" a fucking thing, ever. Especially not a tiny utility that is all of 172k in size, that I might need for something. Understand?

I want EVERYTHING that I might use installed AT ALL TIMES, FROM DAY ONE, so that I can IMMEDIATELY USE IT when required.

This is only one of many reasons why I abandoned the giant dumpster fire that is mainstream Linux. I do not agree with their idiotic philosophy, on practically every level.

You've now discovered that there are sections of God's Green Earth that you never knew existed! One of many benefits of stepping outside the Matrix for a moment.
by seanhunter | 2026-02-11 06:16:38+00:00
> I have a real philosophical problem with complex numbers

> I believe real numbers to be completely natural

I have to say I find this perspective interesting but completely alien.

We need to have a way to find x such that x^2-2 = 0, and Q won’t cut it so we have R. (Or if you want, we need a complete ordered field so we have R)

We need to have a way to find x such that x^2+2 = 0, and R won’t cut it so we have C. (Or if you want, we need algebraic closure of R by the fundamental theorem of algebra so we need C)

I don’t really think any numbers (even “natural” numbers) are any more natural than any other kind of numbers. If you start to distinguish, where do you stop. Negative numbers are ok or not? What about zero? Is that “natural”? Mathematicians disagree about whether 0 is in N at least.

It reminds me of the famous quote from Gauss:

That this subject [imaginary numbers] has hitherto been surrounded by mysterious obscurity, is to be attributed largely to an ill adapted notation. If, for example, +1, -1, and the square root of -1 had been called direct, inverse and lateral units, instead of positive, negative and imaginary (or even impossible), such an obscurity would have been out of the question.
by yakshaving_jgt | 2026-02-11 06:17:23+00:00
If that's the case, then yes I think we're talking past each other. Although it's hard to square this with the argument you've been making — if you understood King's point, I don't understand how you can be arguing that Haskell idiomatically leads you into rigidity at version boundaries. The whole thrust of King's article is that this is a mischaracterization.

> What I'm saying is that different languages have different paths of desire, and the kinds of problems identified in the original article are more the kind of problems that tend to crop up with heavy use of types, than they are the kind of problem that has much of anything to do with functional programming.

I don't think this is correct at all. I don't think TFA has anything at all to do with types or FP (despite the clickbaity title), as numerous other people here have already pointed out. The article isn't attacking rigid types. The author's point is that no single-program analysis — typed or untyped — covers the version boundary (or system boundaries more generally).

A Haskell service that receives an unknown enum variant doesn't have to crash — you parse the cases you care about and ignore the rest. The "path of desire" you're describing isn't a property of the language.

I suppose "path of desire" here is a matter of opinion. In my experience, crashing on unknown inputs is not idiomatic Haskell, nor is it desirable.
by locknitpicker | 2026-02-11 06:17:27+00:00
> Repeating this banality does not make it true.

If anything matches the definition of banality in this discussion, it's the puerile assertion that writing code is software development.

It isn't.

Even at FANGs the first thing they say to newjoiners and hiring prospects for entry level positions is that the workload involving writing code amounts to nearly 50% of your total workload.

And now all of a sudden are we expected to believe that optimizing the 50% solves the 100%?
by crossroadsguy | 2026-02-11 06:18:08+00:00
They should just do on the lines of what India has been doing with UPI and Brazil with Pix. Both massively successful at this point. Of course take their good parts.

By the way, since you wondered, it seems to be

> built around the digital wallet Wero

and wikipedia says its a mobile payments method. I hope not. I hope it's rather an interface/spec.

(On a side note, I also hope individual countries of EU ensure that those spec leaves an ability for them to continue internally or even externally if rest of the EU decide to cut someone off or so.)
by saghm | 2026-02-11 06:18:58+00:00
Good news, AI coding assistants aren't a magic button that give you the final result without having to play the game at all. You'll still need to make plenty of moves on your own at your job, and you're free to use or not use them as much as you want outside them. Your job was never to play chess though in this analogy though, which is where it misses pretty hard; you were being paid to produce software, and the process was incidental to it.
by _the_inflator | 2026-02-11 06:20:59+00:00
I got you an my watch list for quite some time and will definitely give you a try.

It sounds promising, because it is on the outside reproducible deterministic component generation in a modern fashion as far as I understood it.

I build a large platform using a methodically comparable approach I suppose, albeit in the pre-AI time, and that's why I wanna have a closer look at the inner workings and results of your project - curiosity so to say.

You appear to be the only solid and promising endeavor in the GenUI domain with a solid approach other than simply relying on an LLM but using math in combination with AI.

Good luck!
by efilife | 2026-02-11 06:21:10+00:00
Even duckduckgo started censoring their results! Although very subtly. My friend (really) showed me an explicit search query with the safe search turned off that I then compared with yandex, and was really surprised how different they were. Nothing explicit on DDG, even though it included the word "hentai".

(I am aware this is not really related to the article. I think this is a cool discussion to be had)
by jader201 | 2026-02-11 06:21:13+00:00
> Mine gets a 40-45 mile all electric range.

That sounds like the real issue, vs. EVs. This sounds like you basically have to plug it in every time you park it. And there’s no way you could do any sort of (even small) road trip without using gas.

(For comparison, our EV6 has about 200-250 mile range, and we charge it about once a week or so, give or take, unless we take a road trip.)

Also, one of the main advantages with EVs is their insane low maintenance, but sounds like PHEVs still have to all the same maintenance issues of ICE vehicles.
by tosti | 2026-02-11 06:21:25+00:00
This is from and old post on a news group a long time ago and I can't find it anymore, so here's citing from my murky brain:

Q: Did Microsoft really pay Mick Jagger $3M to license "Start Me Up" by the Rolling Stones during the Windows 95 product launch event?
A: No. They paid $3M to license only a part of the song. They omitted the lines "You made a grown man cry" and "You made a dead man cum"
by ksaj | 2026-02-11 06:22:58+00:00
I wish I could read that. But the "press and hold" gatekeeper just keeps starting over again after the green check mark.

It's the only Captcha that my Raspberry Pi doesn't seem to get through. The other ones (like the sliding puzzle piece, or identifying parts of a bike, stopsigns, buses, etc) all work fine. Just not the press-and-hold one.
by wojciii | 2026-02-11 06:23:52+00:00
If I remember correctly statistics were a state secret in Soviet Russia.

You are getting tbere with your current administation. They are clueless and lying trough their teeth about everything including the economy.
I think this is the real problem you need to solve. Replace them with someone who actually know what they are doing and not someone's retarded cousin who can repeat the party line.
by pdimitar | 2026-02-11 06:23:59+00:00
Maybe you can show me that person and their claims so we can work with them?

Because I'm not that person.

Sure I said users and not programmers. Sue me.

I was criticizing Debian's model. I'll be getting Arch or a derivative on my main machine but for WSL2 (secondary machine that is for now stuck on Windows) I don't have much choice so I'll have to work with a distro where I'll have to actively work against how it normally operates. I'll handle it, but it doesn't need to be that way.
by threethirtytwo | 2026-02-11 06:24:05+00:00
Well don't ask me to help you then. I read your profile and it has this snippet in there:

"Address the substance of my arguments or just save yourself the keystrokes."

The substance of your argument was complete ignorance about the topic, so I addressed it as you requested.

Please remove that sentence from your profile if that is not what you want. Thank you.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-02-11 06:24:18+00:00
What has made me valuable for 30 years is an ability to go from business goal -> to working implementation. They can pay someone a lot less than me (or any American - I’m in no way bragging about comp) to code.

Companies don’t pay my employer the bill rate they charge for me based on how well I code. While I’ve been expected to produce production level code as part of my job across 5 companies in the past decade not a single one asked me to write a line of code as part of the interview. They were much more concerned about ability to get things done.

Ironically, even the job at BigTech that landed in my lap was all behavioral (AWS ProServe). I damn sure didn’t get that job because of my whopping two years of AWS experience at the time. Most of my answers for “tell me about a time when…” were leading non AWS projects.

I’m not bragging - I’m old. My competitive advantage should be more than just my coding ability.
by jauntywundrkind | 2026-02-11 06:25:47+00:00
Section 230 is the only reason you can post here.

Without Section 230, if every place that hosts words is liable. No one is going to host user content.

I don't think anything you are saying is remotely correct. It's all a very specific weird narrow theory, picking very specific people you want to hurt & affect. But what you are asking for has such a broader zone of suffering & pain than Facebook.

Truly one of the greatest magnets for weird ass conspiracy theory horseshit. Fucking so awful, because it's that one tiny polar holding up the entire internet.
by YetAnotherNick | 2026-02-11 06:26:33+00:00
> They are paid to produce, deploy, and run bug-free and efficient software systems.

> That does not necessarily require you to type anything at a keyboard.

That first thing do necessarily require you to type on keyboard.

> how come the more you progress in seniority the less code you write?

Because they delegate the work. Nothing to do with seniority. CTO of 2 person startup still needs to write code.