MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bluGill | 2026-02-10 20:57:29+00:00
Sort of. A truck has a frame that you can drill a hole in and bolt the thing to. Simple and easy.

A typical uni-body car is most than strong enough for the weight, but there is likely no place where the sheet metal is strong enough to support the bolt. You can make it work if you want, but it requires a more complex mounting system. (of course a truck has a nice open bed which has other advantages for mounting a gun - the typical car doesn't have a good place to mount the gun even if you build the mounting system).

ATVs can carry the weight, but finding a place to put the bolts will be a pain.
by boelboel | 2026-02-10 20:57:56+00:00
Yes, I feel like it's far less harmful than the other sites for this reason. These bad parts of 4chan aren't the majority of the site either, a large minority maybe, but the site in general is much smaller. They're also attracted to the image of 'extremism', 4chan in the far past didn't have this as its main audience of newcomers in its early stages.

It's also more easily to control for governments compared to facebook/reddit/... because it's really easy to track.
by JCattheATM | 2026-02-10 20:57:56+00:00
> Source?

Do you know what an opinion is?

> as I understand this policy mostly serves to deter foreigners from attempting the potentially very lucrative business of smuggling drugs into Singapore.

So what? That's not a justification.

> Why should they bear this burden for people who have no ties to Singapore and will never contribute anything to it?

Singapore is perfectly able to control their borders better than most countries. It's not like the US where it's relatively easy to sneak in. 'They might come back' is a poor justification for murder.
by horsawlarway | 2026-02-10 20:58:28+00:00
I find this a very reasonable take.

I'll add - I think the complexity is somewhat "over-stated" for Arch at this point. There was absolutely a period where just reading the entire install guide (much less actually completing it) was enough to turn a large number of even fairly technical people off the distro. Archinstall removed a lot of that headache.

And once it's up, it's generally just fine. I moved both my spouse and my children to Arch instead of Windows 11, and they don't seem particularly bothered. They install most of their own software using flatpaks through the store GUI in Gnome, or through Steam, the browser does most of the heavy lifting these days anyways.

I basically just grab their machine and run `pacman -Syu` on it once in a while, and help install something more complicated once in a blue moon.

Still requires someone who doesn't mind dropping into a terminal, but it's definitely not what I'd consider "all that challenging".
by mhurron | 2026-02-10 20:58:40+00:00
> A drug that cures obesity and addiction alone would be a wonder drug.

A drug that influences a hormone causing effects on everything that hormone is involved in shouldn't be considered a wonder drug, it should be expected functionality.

It's only a wonder drug that does all these miraculous things if you think GLP-1 is only a weight management hormone. It's not, and you should expect effects anywhere it is involved in. A short list of tissues we know GLP-1 is involved in processes is:

- heart
- tongue
- adipose tissue
- muscles
- bones
- kidneys
- liver
- lungs

Effects on these aren't miracles, they should be expected.

I am happy to hear you saw so many improvements, but it's because you had an issue with a hormone that is involved in a lot of things in the body. So it was going to express a lot of problems. It's not surprising that you see a lot of improvements when you begin to manage the underlying cause.
by adrian_b | 2026-02-10 20:59:06+00:00
For me, the complex numbers arise as the quotients of 2-dimensional vectors (which arise as translations of the 2-dimensional affine space).

When you divide 2 collinear 2-dimensional vectors, their quotient is a real number a.k.a. scalar. When the vectors are not collinear, then the quotient is a complex number.

Multiplying a 2-dimensional vector with a complex number changes both its magnitude and its direction. Multiplying by +i rotates a vector by a right angle. Multiplying by -i does the same thing but in the opposite sense of rotation, hence the difference between them, which is the difference between clockwise and counterclockwise.

Both 2-dimensional vectors and complex numbers are included in the 2-dimensional geometric algebra, whose members have 2^2 = 4 components, which are the 2 components of a 2-dimensional vector together with the 2 components of a complex number.

A similar relationship like that between 2-dimensional vectors and complex numbers exists between 3-dimensional vectors and quaternions.
by ImPostingOnHN | 2026-02-10 20:59:10+00:00
> Your views are inconsistent

All people hold inconsistent views. We are squishy meatbags.

That said, is this an example of that? Instead of declaring it so, try asking a question like "what is different about this time?" of one of the people you believe are holding inconsistent views. You might learn that your prior assumptions were reductive, for example.
by verelo | 2026-02-10 20:59:22+00:00
I'd love to learn more about your process of the sale. And in your graphs, is that attributed to profit/revenue in 2024?

I'm on a super similar journey. Started in 2022, did about 400k in revenue in 2025 at 79% margin, we'll se how this year goes. Theres a world where i'd love to add a lot of scale, but that'll rely on some experiments (underway) panning out. It's 'failure' in most peoples books but 2x'ing would be great too?!

How did you find a buyer? How did you come to a sale price? Why didn't you keep going?
by jacquesm | 2026-02-10 20:59:26+00:00
Vacuum cleaner -> sell appliances -> sell electric motors

But there was a clear advantage in quality of life for a lot of people too.

Automobile -> part of industrialization of transport -> faster transport, faster world

Arguably also a big increase in quality of life but it didn't scale that well and has also reduced the quality of life. If all that money had gone into public transport then that would likely have been a lot better.

Airplanes -> yes, definitely, but they were also clearly seen as an advantage in war, in fact that was always a major driver behind inventions.

Steam engine -> the mother of all prime movers and the beginnings of the fossil fuel debacle (coal).

Definitely a quality of life change but also the cause of the bigger problems we are suffering from today.

The 'coffin corner' (one of my hobby horses) is a real danger, we have, as a society, achieved a certain velocity, if we slow down too much we will crash, if we speed up the plane will come apart. Managing these transitions is extremely delicate work and it does not look as though 'delicate' is in the vocabulary of a lot of people in the driving seats.
by JCattheATM | 2026-02-10 20:59:26+00:00
> experience discomfort toward your framing, which implies a desire or at least apathy to the harm of this Youtuber.

Apathy certainly, because:

> This content creator is undoubtedly seeking conflicts with people and shrouding it in concerns for traffic safety.

My attitude then, is that whatever happens he brought on himself.
by paulddraper | 2026-02-10 20:59:55+00:00
> In particular, they arose historically as a tool for solving polynomial equations.

That is how they started, but mathematics becomes remarkable "better" and more consistent with complex numbers.

As you say, The Fundamental Theorem of Algebra relies on complex numbers.

Cauchy's Integral Theorem (and Residue Theorem) is a beautiful complex-only result.

As is the Maximum Modulus Principle.

The Open Mapping Theorem is true for complex functions, not real functions.

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Are complex numbers really worse than real numbers? Transcendentals? Hippasus was downed for the irrationals.

I'm not sure any numbers outside the naturals exist. And maybe not even those.
by mywittyname | 2026-02-10 21:00:11+00:00
The Hilux isn't "banned" from the USA. Toyota can federalize it and sell it here at any time. Toyota doesn't bring it here because we have the Tacoma - a truck designed to be more inline with American consumer tastes.

If Toyota wanted to, they could readily start manufacturing Hiluxes in Mexico and importing them into the USA. Presumably, the reason they don't do this is because Americans hate small pickup trucks. Every single truck on sale in the USDM sells better in larger footprint spec.

There's maybe 20k American who are willing to buy a new truck with the wheelbase the size of a Mustang (smallest Hilux). Even small BoF SUVs have the same problem. Take the FJ Cruiser, despite being a cult classic, it sold terribly in the USA, likely due to being too small.

Plus, they are expensive. In Australia, the cheapest non-work-spec Hilux trim is ~$55k - which is like $38kUSD. A Tacoma starts cheaper than that and is much larger.
by lynndotpy | 2026-02-10 21:00:28+00:00
Keep in mind that I am an IRC user, and I am not advocating for staying on Discord. I'm just stating that IRC is not - and probably never will be - a contender for "Discord alternatives", even among developers.

I can still see other peoples IPs on IRC today. When writing this comment, I can see people on major IRC servers with IP addresses that appear to correspond to consumer ISPs.

Another benefit of not being on IRC is that they don't have to interact with people who will disregard their contributions as "worthless". That's so dismissive of other people that I can't really take your comment seriously on the topic of interpersonal collaboration and communication.

And yes, even sharing screenshots becomes difficult. What host would you use that works in every country the IRC server operates in, works with people using any given VPN, and has a ToS and PP that is at least not worse than Discord's? Keep in mind this excludes Imgur and Catbox.

IRC is not simple and its many problems are not trivial.
by Herring | 2026-02-10 21:00:31+00:00
The poor have nothing to lose. It's the same around the world today, poor countries have high fertility. The OECD middle class has low fertility because they're worrying about other stuff (lost wages, career stagnation, etc). The rich have plenty of money for private schools, nannies, housekeepers, extracurriculars, etc. It's weird to say the poor are more secure than the middle class, but that's what the data shows.
by gethly | 2026-02-10 21:00:47+00:00
I want someone to index youtube and provide independent search engine that actually works and can also hook into my account and build recommendations to what i watch or search without google's bs. I think it is perfectly doable to turn youtube into pure video storage service and do everything else outside of it(which is finer since there is no ad bypass or anything nefarious). But definitely not commercially viable and likely google would block the services from its api.
by schaefer | 2026-02-10 21:01:20+00:00
okay.
But is there a place I can actually look up known jump points that are steep enough to be viable base jumps but are not also in a Park?

I am not a base jumper (I am a rock climber), but it's my observation that many base mountains with faces steep enough for base jumping are also in the parks and therefor restricted to base jumping.

Or are so remote they require some serious skills to summit in the first place.
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Not quite the tram ride you can get to the jump point in Europe.
by ericmay | 2026-02-10 21:01:25+00:00
> Who all stop in chain hotels, who will accept whatever you bring.

No, that's pretty much all European hotels actually. Hotels require credit cards for three reasons:

1. Security - if you leave the room a mess or destroyed there's an avenue for recourse.

2. To make more money - having a card on file for "incidentals" increases purchases from hotel guests.

3. Obtain payment - most people don't have the cash laying around to pony up to pay full nightly rates, nor do they have any desire carry thousands of Euros around on their person just to go pay in a large purchase at this conjured up local cash-only inn. It also makes your hotel property an easy target for robbery.

It's strange to me that you're taking such a hard stance over something that is obviously incorrect in order to... make fun of people from around the world who can only afford to stay in chain hotels on vacation?

I usually stay boutique properties which are sometimes, but not always managed by boutique property groups. They take credit cards. Every. Single. Time.

Can you provide the name of a single hotel in Europe that doesn't take credit cards?
by Telaneo | 2026-02-10 21:01:33+00:00
> It's also free.

Only if you don't care about your time or if your media collection is tiny.

Don't get me wrong, I love my 20 TB hard drives full of Linux ISOs, but it's a hard sell on anyone who doesn't have 'dicking about with computers' as their hobby. Regular old piracy using torrents has been a easier sell in my experience, once you can get over the hurdle of getting someone familiar with using a torrent client and the relevant search bar. Popcorn Time back in the day made that hurdle trivial. Getting people to use Jellyfin isn't hard. Getting someone to be the family/friend group Jellyfin sysadmin is a significantly tougher sell.

Pihole and the like is an easier sell, since it can be mostly set and forget, but it's not free unless you already have a computer which isn't doing anything, and even if you do, that computer isn't guaranteed to be one which has near-zero running costs when you factor in electricity.

The same sorts of problems apply to most things you can self-host.
by torginus | 2026-02-10 21:01:39+00:00
Is it possible to support OpenGL on top of Vulkan well? It has been pointed out that Vulkan requires you to completely freeze and compile a graphics pipeline before using it, while OpenGL's state machine is more flexible, and the underlying hardware is somewhat more amenable to these state transitions at runtime, than the Vulkan API would suggest.

Don't these compatibility layers run into issues with constant pipeline recompilation related performance issues, when emulating OpenGL?
by embedding-shape | 2026-02-10 21:01:42+00:00
> Hate the game, not the players.

No, I'm sorry, but fuck that. I've been one of the players, and it's definitively possible to not play the game, especially when you see what's going on around you, and still live a perfectly fine life that is above the living standards of most others in your country, if you're working as a software engineer. And I'm saying this as someone who never came close to FAANG salaries yet was lucky enough to paid enough to live better than I thought I'd ever do, but initially had really shit living situation and have had to steal at one point to feed myself. I've had chances that could mean I'd live a life of luxury earlier than what it ended up being, but I couldn't live with myself if I did those things, when I had anything resembling of a choice.

There is almost always a choice, and "hate the game not the player" is such a bullshit excuse for people to just participate because everyone else is. It's spineless and the answer of a chicken who doesn't want to consider the consequences of their actions.

Hate the players and the game.
by yxhuvud | 2026-02-10 21:01:49+00:00
Essentially all the most important functions to interact with rings during runtime is static inline. The prep_* methods for sqes are so simple they are not problematic to reimplement, but all the other interactions necessary - submit, advance, peek, wait etc are all static inline, nested several layers. Those are not trivial and details have changed over time.

Thankfully that particular library do nowadays also provide a _ffi version of the .so as it is such an horror otherwise. But there are other libraries out there that don't do that, where it is almost as big of a hurdle to bind with.
by cowboylowrez | 2026-02-10 21:01:53+00:00
The article also has some dismal numbers regarding how much AI actually contributes, and these numbers look much worse when read in context of the investments the big guys are making. Add in the economic and environmental concerns and it just looks like the wrong tech at the wrong time but humans are stupid like that. Burn the planet up, we can move to mars when we run out of earth!
by tskulbru | 2026-02-10 21:02:06+00:00
I also just shipped two more apps today:

- Biblewise — a Bible trivia game I originally built for my niece and nephew but ended up with three modes: adventure (progressive levels across 6 categories), daily challenges with streak tracking, and a timed mode. Built with SwiftUI + SwiftData, offline-first. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/biblewise-bible-quiz-game/id67...

- Neimr — a collaborative naming app with Tinder-style swiping. Create a survey for baby names, pet names, business names, etc., invite your partner/friends, and it finds which names you all agree on. Built with Flutter + Firebase. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/neimr-find-names-together/id67...
by the__alchemist | 2026-02-10 21:02:09+00:00
For those who switched in the past few years: Has Wayland given you trouble? I was on a journey this morning after testing my software. It's a GUI CAD-style program for structural biology. I test it on Linux periodically to make sure it's cross-platform. The checks usually pass, with some subtlety regarding linking Cuda. Today, I observed that mouse + keyboard inputs to the 3D portion stopped working.

Root cause: Ubuntu and some other distros recently switched to a GUI backend called Wayland. I don't remember upgrading, but maybe it happened during a system update? It has disabled low-level device inputs except for mouse movement. You can use window-based events instead, but IMO this is a mistake. An OS-level function shouldn't block hardware access. I want the OS to facilitate software and hardware; not create friction.
by arjie | 2026-02-10 21:02:16+00:00
A large number of people read a work of fiction and conclude that what happened in the work of fiction is an inevitability. My family has a genetically-selected baby (to avoid congenital illness) and the Hacker News link to the story had these comments all over it.

> I only know seven sci-fi films and shows that have warned about how this will go badly.

and

> Pretty sure this was the prologue to Gattaca.

and

> I posted a youtube link to the Gattaca prologue in a similar post on here. It got flagged. Pretty sure it's virtually identical to the movie's premise.

I think the ironic thing in the LLM case is that these people have outsourced their reasoning to a work of fiction and now are simple deterministic parrots of pop culture. There is some measure of humor in that. One could see this as simply inter-LLM conflict with the smaller LLMs attempting to fight against the more capable reasoning models ineffectively.
by bentt | 2026-02-10 21:02:30+00:00
Some farmers probably lamented the rise of machines because they feared their strength would no longer be needed in the fields. These farmers were no doubt more concerned with their own usefulness as laborers than in the goals of the farm: to produce food.

If you program as labor, consider what you might build with no boss. You’re better equipped to start your own farm than you think.
by Flux159 | 2026-02-10 21:02:38+00:00
I'm currently a solo bootstrapped founder, have done short stints in the past - 1 year in 2022, then became cofounder of a funded startup for a year. Now doing it again.

Question is how you stay motivated to keep at it - looks like it took about 4 years before you made similar to your Google salary, did family pressure or external pressure ever impact you? Or is it mainly just keep your eyes on the longer term goal?

I'm also quite lucky that I was aiming for lean-FIRE before I left Facebook, so I have the luxury of being able to keep at it, but sometimes it is demotivating seeing peers / others.
by linkregister | 2026-02-10 21:02:48+00:00
Being de-Googled is a hardship, though there are replacements for virtually all its services. I acknowledge you are well informed on this topic.

It is not unreasonable for governments to pursue avenues for laundering money. I recognize that you likely don't believe governments should prosecute money laundering, but that view is not aligned with the majority of citizens in your country.
by manjuc | 2026-02-10 21:02:58+00:00
Same, been a product designer for years, still love design deep down but the essence is somehow not there anymore. reading this hit different. It's refreshing to see someone put it into words instead of the usual "stuff".

It lines up a lot with what I've been thinking as well and this is what I wrote today on my blog.
https://www.immaculateconstellation.info/why-ai-challenges-u...
by punnerud | 2026-02-10 21:03:28+00:00
“Has begun” as in recent? BankAxept has been in use in Norway since 1991 to avoid the VISA/Mastercard “tax”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BankAxept

Biggest banks here refused to support Apple Pay and worked hard on legislations to open NFC access. Now we can pay with no fees to Visa/Mastercard or Apple even from our phones.
by _aavaa_ | 2026-02-10 21:03:28+00:00
> If you state “in 6 months AI will not require that much knowledge to be effective” every year and it hasn’t happened yet then every time it has been stated has been false up to this point

I think that this has been true, though maybe not quiet a strongly as strongly worded as your quote says it.

The original statement was "Maybe GP is right that at first only skilled developers can wield them to full effect, but it's obviously not going to stop there."

"full effect" is a pretty squishy term.

My more concrete claim (and similar to "Ask again in 6 months. A year.") is the following.

With every new frontier model released [0]:

1. the level of technical expertise required to achieve a given task decreases, or

2. the difficulty/complexity/size of a task that a inexperienced user can accomplish increases.

I think either of these two versions is objectively true looking back and will continue being true going forward. And, the amount that it increases by is not trivial.

[0] or every X months to account for tweaks, new tooling (Claude Code is not even a year old yet!), and new approaches.
by epiccoleman | 2026-02-10 21:03:28+00:00
It's not really that the 4th amendment is less applicable, it's that the procedural protections are lower in civil proceedings.

I think it's a pretty big undersell to describe ICE as "marshals" too - they've got plenty of discretion in how they prioritize targeted people and who they detain. They are not just a neutral party executing court orders.
by mlochbaum | 2026-02-10 21:03:37+00:00
I was interested in how it would make sense to define complex numbers without fixing the reals, but I'm not terribly convinced by the method here. It seemed kind of suspect that you'd reduce the complex numbers purely to its field properties of addition and multiplication when these aren't enough to get from the rationals to the reals (some limit-like construction is needed; the article uses Dedekind cuts later on). Anyway, the "algebraic conception" is defined as "up to isomorphism, the unique algebraically closed field of characteristic zero and size continuum", that is, you just declare it has the same size as the reals. And of course now you have no way to tell where π is, since it has no algebraic relation to the distinguished numbers 0 and 1. If I'm reading right, this can be done with any uncountable cardinality with uniqueness up to isomorphism. It's interesting that algebraic closure is enough to get you this far, but with the arbitrary choice of cardinality and all these "wild automorphisms", doesn't this construction just seem... defective?

It feels a bit like the article's trying to extend some legitimate debate about whether fixing i versus -i is natural to push this other definition as an equal contender, but there's hardly any support offered. I expect the last-place 28% poll showing, if it does reflect serious mathematicians at all, is those who treat the topological structure as a given or didn't think much about the implications of leaving it out.