MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mrandish | 2026-02-13 00:54:11+00:00
Chollet himself says "We certified these scores in the past few days." https://x.com/fchollet/status/2021983310541729894.

The ARC-AGI papers claim to show that training on a public or semi-private set of ARC-AGI problems to be of very limited value in passing a private set. <--- If the prior sentence is not correct, then none of ARC-AGI can possibly be valid. So, before "public, semi-private or private" answers leaking or 'benchmaxing' on them can even matter - you need to first assess whether their published papers and data demonstrate their core premise to your satisfaction.

There is no "trust" regarding the semi-private set. My understanding is the semi-private set is only to reduce the likelihood those exact answers unintentionally end up in web-crawled training data. This is to help an honest lab's own internal self-assessments be more accurate. However, labs doing an internal eval on the semi-private set still counts for literally zero to the ARC-AGI org. They know labs could cheat on the semi-private set (either intentionally or unintentionally), so they assume all labs are benchmaxing on the public AND semi-private answers and ensure it doesn't matter.
by steveBK123 | 2026-02-13 00:54:27+00:00
Vanity shops/restaurant projects by rich spouses are very much a thing in some rich towns as well.

People who are doing it for fun since they have nothing else to do with their time and this also hurt competing businesses that actually need to make money.

That said it would probably be fun way to engage with the community in whatever retirement hobbies you have. Like a daytime cafe / nighttime lounge / listening bar / art gallery thing haha.

You do need some staff you can trust to deal with all the not fun parts. Anyone who has worked retail as a teen knows what that’s like.
by MBCook | 2026-02-13 00:54:54+00:00
Trying to get Liquid Glass to work is such a clown show. Incredible.

The UI wasn’t perfect before. It’s slowly been getting worse with each of their dumb updates to make it look more like iOS over the years.

What we’re forced to use now is just a joke. Ignoring all the visual design issues they can’t even make basic stuff fully functional.
by aegissolis | 2026-02-13 00:55:10+00:00
This is a completed philosophical reference project that was intentionally closed and preserved as read-only across multiple independent archives (Internet Archive, Zenodo, GitHub).

The focus is on restraint, non-authority, and interpretive safety in the presence of increasingly capable AI systems.

I structured it as a static corpus rather than an evolving project to reduce drift and ambiguity over time. Interested in thoughts on long-term preservation design and whether this approach makes sense.
by ipnon | 2026-02-13 00:55:57+00:00
They're using the ride share app playbook. Subsidize the product to reach market saturation. Once you've found a market segment that depends on your product you raise the price to break even. One major difference though is that ride share's haven't really changed in capabilities since they launched: it's a map that shows a little car with your driver coming and a pin where you're going. But it's reasonable to believe that AI will have new fundamental capabilities in the 2030s, 2040s, and so on.
by rob-wagner | 2026-02-13 00:56:04+00:00
Good idea. I’ll try modifying the prompt to transcribe, identify the language, and translate if not English, and then return a structured result. In my spot checks, most of the errors are in people’s names and if the handwriting trails into margins (especially into the fold of the binding). Even with the data still needing review, the translations from it has revealed a lot of interesting characters as well as this little anecdote from the minutes of the June 6, 1941 Annual Meeting:

It had already rained at the beginning of the meeting. During the same, however, a heavy thunderstorm set in, whereby our electric light line was put out of operation. Wax candles with beer bottles as light holders provided the lighting.
In the meantime the rain had fallen in a cloudburst-like manner, so that one needed help to get one's automobile going. In some streets the water stood so high that one could reach one's home only by detours.
In this night 9.65 inches of rain had fallen.
by wat10000 | 2026-02-13 00:56:22+00:00
They can be made from large wafers. A defect typically breaks whatever chip it's on, so one defect on a large wafer filled with many small chips will still just break one chip of the many on the wafer. If your chips are bigger, one defect still takes out a chip, but now you've lost more of the wafer area because the chip is bigger. So you get a super-linear scaling of loss from defects as the chips get bigger.

With careful design, you can tolerate some defects. A multi-core CPU might have the ability to disable a core that's affected by a defect, and then it can be sold as a different SKU with a lower core count. Cerebras uses an extreme version of this, where the wafer is divided up into about a million cores, and a routing system that can bypass defective cores.

They have a nice article about it here: https://www.cerebras.ai/blog/100x-defect-tolerance-how-cereb...
by Tiktaalik | 2026-02-13 00:56:30+00:00
There is risk in choosing tenants for sure, though it is usually the case that the retailers themselves are putting in the expense and sweat equity into renovating a space. Sometimes this is cost shared, often it isn't.

I know my retailer friends painted their store themselves.

It is in the scarce retail environment where landlords have the least amount of risk around choosing a tenant because if one fails they can easily get another. So a city adding more retail zoning would increase vacancy, increase risk to landlords and hopefully reward good retail tenants.
by sbuttgereit | 2026-02-13 00:57:17+00:00
This is in California.

The hand-wavy explanation is that in the late 70's when this initiative passed (Prop 13), home values were rising rapidly due to an influx of people moving to the state and higher inflation rates of the times. Many people that owned homes, including those that had purchased their homes and retired, were getting priced out of their homes on the property tax rates. There are other rationales or rationalizations depending on where you come down on it. But Prop 13 was intended to slow property tax growth while you owned the property, with assessment reset to full market value at sale time.
by alex_w_systems | 2026-02-13 00:57:27+00:00
I’ve been working on something I call the EMIS Framework v0.5.2(Energy–Matter–Information-Spacetime)— Modeling Economics as a Low-Dimensional Energy System.

The core idea:

Treat the economy as a constrained 2D energy manifold where money is a bookkeeping layer over energy allocation, and macro structure emerges holographically from boundary-level discrete transactions.

Very roughly:

L1 — 2D Manifold Hypothesis
Social/economic systems behave like low-dimensional constrained surfaces rather than high-entropy volumetric systems. This reframes growth, inflation, and inequality as curvature problems rather than equilibrium problems.

L2 — JT-Gravity Analogy
Introducing a Jackiw–Teitelboim–like action to model macro constraints. Policy acts like boundary condition manipulation rather than “force injection.”

L3 — Holographic Mapping
Discrete micro-transactions at the boundary construct macroeconomic structure in the bulk. This attempts to dissolve the 100-year micro vs macro divide.

L4 — Random Matrix Regime
In high-complexity phases, the system transitions to random-matrix statistics (crisis, bubbles, phase shifts). Stability becomes a spectral property.

I’m currently working on:

- Formalizing the action functional (so it’s not just metaphor)

- Defining the admissible ensemble boundary for economic RMT

- Building a small simulation engine to test curvature vs liquidity stress

This is still early and probably wrong in 20 different ways.
But if the geometry holds, it could provide:

- A unification layer between econ and complex systems physics

- A compression model for macro indicators

- A path toward AI-native economic modeling (neuro-symbolic)

Would love to hear from:

- Theoretical physicists willing to sanity-check the gravity mapping

- Quant folks familiar with RMT edge cases

- Anyone who thinks this is obviously nonsense

Happy to share drafts if there’s interest.
by jamilton | 2026-02-13 00:58:15+00:00
Neat! I briefly tried digitizing some old VHS tapes for my family. I was just planning on giving them the files, maybe putting it on iCloud, it's a much smaller collection (and I don't have a NAS already!). I did a few, the time investment was the biggest issue, as well as figuring out the right encoding so as to not take up a ton of space, but still be compatible with everyone's (Windows + Mac) native video players while preserving video quality.
by mancerayder | 2026-02-13 00:58:46+00:00
I agree that's actually the problem. The problem with discourse in the US is that it comes in soundbites, division and confusion. This predates, arguably ENABLED Trump.

There could have been an argument for tariffs, done rationally and with a very specific program to rebalance trade. I'm not saying it's necessarily correct, but it could have entered as an option for voters to consider. But that's an alternative universe to people at this point, and we end up with an unpredictable waffling that scares businesses and doesn't appear to have obvious aims at this point beyond petty attacks.
by thenaturalist | 2026-02-13 01:00:18+00:00
Adverserial work (be it agent or human).

The one difference between "can do" and "should be trusted to do" is the ability to systematically prove that "can do" holds up close to 100% of task instances and under adverserial conditions.

Hacking and pentesting are already scaling fully autonomously - and systematically.

For now, lower level targets aren't yet attractive as such scale requires sophisticated (state) actors, but that is going to change.

So building systems that white-hat prove your code is not only functional but competent are going to be critical not to be ripped apart by black-hat later on.

One nice example that applies this quite nicely is roborev [0] by the legendary Wes McKinney.

0: https://github.com/roborev-dev/roborev
by siefca | 2026-02-13 01:00:35+00:00
Author here. This is an essay written in dialogue form about why "AI is/isn't conscious" debates often fail due to level confusion: we mix objective descriptions (models/behavior) with first-person investigation (what it's like).

I propose a stratified view of knowing. "Level zero" is the checkpoint where a thought is directly present in lived experience, independent of whether it was generated internally or externally.
by tonyarkles | 2026-02-13 01:00:59+00:00
It’s the chip they’re apparently running the model on.

> Codex-Spark runs on Cerebras’ Wafer Scale Engine 3 (opens in a new window)—a purpose-built AI accelerator for high-speed inference giving Codex a latency-first serving tier. We partnered with Cerebras to add this low-latency path to the same production serving stack as the rest of our fleet, so it works seamlessly across Codex and sets us up to support future models.

https://www.cerebras.ai/chip
by skolskoly | 2026-02-13 01:01:57+00:00
>Sarcasm happens when the observed irony does not extend to the speaker.

This seems... dead wrong. In the examples in the article, both comic frames function as sarcasm, because everyone involved has no illusion that anyone is going to die if they don't see the film. The irony is entirely in the speaker's statement, which everyone knows to be false, including them. People treat 'ironic insults' as sarcasm, but this only works amongst good friends who have the shared context necessary to understand the falsity of the insult. But, then socially incompetent see this and attempt it, and fail to achieve the sarcastic humour. Which is probably why people conflate sarcasm with... failed sarcasm, frankly.
by anon7000 | 2026-02-13 01:02:00+00:00
Lots of 3rd party tools to help, like Rectangle or Raycast. And at least the most recent macOS release has auto-snap and tiling features: https://support.apple.com/en-ca/guide/mac-help/mchlef287e5d/...

There is also this option you can enable to drag windows around when holding a shortcut: https://petar.dev/notes/drag-windows-on-macos/
by kipukun | 2026-02-13 01:02:44+00:00
I'd like to add to your point that private torrent trackers have had invite tree systems for awhile, and usually if your invitee breaks a rule, you get in trouble as well, so you are encouraged to only invite people you trust. The system has worked well for a long time, and some of these communities still thrive because of the trust that is built.
by adwf | 2026-02-13 01:02:45+00:00
Oh god, the bad mocks are the worst. Try adding instructions not to make mocks and it creates "placeholders", ask it to not create mocks or placeholders and it creates "stubs". Drives me mad...

To add to this list:

- Duplicate functions when you've asked for a slight change of functionality (eg. write_to_database and write_to_database_with_cache), never actually updating all the calls to the old function so you have a split codebase.

- On a similar vein, the backup code path of "else: do a stupid static default" instead of erroring, which would be much more helpful for debugging.

- Strong desires to follow architecture choices it was trained on, regardless of instruction. It might have been trained on some presumably high quality, large and enterprise-y codebases, but I'm just trying to write a short little throwaway program which doesn't need the complexity. KISS seems anathema to coding agents.
by rendx | 2026-02-13 01:03:25+00:00
> Stores have whole grain bread. Germany isn’t unique and there are plenty of bakeries in the US that make fresh bread.

That's a common misunderstanding. My last comment on the difference between "bread" and "bread" in different countries, from some months ago, including links and pictures: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45795914

Roughly, you could say any bread that you can squeeze and it temporarily loses its shape is a single category not considered very healthy in Germany ("white bread"), and not what a German would typically mean when they speak of bread.
by playhard | 2026-02-13 01:04:23+00:00
The headlines will tell you the market is "correcting." The pundits will call it a "seasonal adjustment." But on the ground, Friday, February 13, 2026, marks the moment the structural floor of the American economy finally gave way. We aren’t just looking at a recession; we are witnessing a synchronized deleveraging event where technology, climate, and debt have converged to create a "March Cliff" that no amount of traditional stimulus can bridge.
by komali2 | 2026-02-13 01:05:02+00:00
I admit, I went a bit through your post history, cause you're interesting, if unhinged.

First off, you make me think of an awakened and fully actualized version of Luke Smith.

So you're like, a hardcore American Libertarian? The no phone thing is incredibly based, and personally I think smashing a shopping cart into some asshole's truck is both hilarious and just. I do similar when I cone illegally parked cars.

So why libertarian and not anarchist? You seem to appreciate direct action. You seem to have opposition to all forms of oppression be they coming from the government or a bank or a corporation, you're willing to make what some would consider huge personal sacrifice to stand for your values. Is it an inherent distaste of leftist thought? If you are libertarian, that word was born in the most far left circles possible. It still is a synonym for "anarchist" in most places in the world.

I'm not trying to get your goat here. I like talking to people with completely different ideologies than me. Keeps me on my toes, prevents fossilization.
by a4isms | 2026-02-13 01:05:10+00:00
> Theoretically Apple can spend just as much. What are the outcomes though? All those giants have their own business that are established and profitable.

Ah! Well, if we put aside "The Innovator's Dilemma" and pick up Reis and Trout's "marketing Warfare," we get the answer. Apple does have an existing business, but investing in AI does not cannibalize it. They can throw money at it, try to find a way to make it work really, really well for consumers on very specific custom hardware in their devices...

Likewise, someone like Google has all the money in the world to throw at it, but they aren't investing in a new market, they're defending their search business against everyone just asking a generative AI Chatbot questions. I\But it's possible for them to screw this up internally over turf wards, just ask the engineers who tried to make search better but were kneecapped by Prabhakar Raghavan who demanded that search be poor enough to drive people to click sponsored results.

In the "Marketing Warfare" model, Apple is attempting a flanking attack: An outsider trying to disrupt the AI giants with an approach that they can't imitate without undermining their value proposition. On-device AI flanks the big giants that areservcie-centric.

And in that model, Google is playing defence, which is what every leader is supposed to do. Their job is to "cover every move," which they are doing in textbook fashion. If AI goes away, Google dry their tears and continue to mine ad revenue.
by apatheticonion | 2026-02-13 01:05:20+00:00
- Allows you to use async/await and generators (useful for pagination/infinite scroll)

- You can test the view model independently of the rendering logic

- Dramatically reduces the code that lives directly in the component (it's only TSX)

- Allows for better abstractions and state management (services)

- Clear path to leveraging threads in front end applications

- Simple "visual" components (like <Input />, <Button />) don't need view models, just orchestrating components.

In practice, when writing traditional React, I focus too much on rendering cycles and the nuances of managing component state while spending much less time on making the application look good and feel performant/nice to use.

Having a component be pretty much exclusively TSX gives me a clear separation of "view" and "what the view needs" - so I just think of the html structure and css. I tend to create much better looking and nicer applications this way.

> It's way more skipping around in the codebase to find the parts you actually care about

Not really. You cnt+click to an implementation. Say you have "await someApi.getItems()" - you just click and go directly there. Traditional React apps need to thunk with redux or have a bunch of custom hooks that quickly become a source of confusion.
by seabass-labrax | 2026-02-13 01:06:02+00:00
Indeed. It's an absolute pain in real life trying to go south to Gare Montparnasse when you've just arrived at Gare du Nord - your options are: to walk, which takes forever; to take a bus, which is still rather slow and awkward with luggage; or to take the Metro, which is only a bit faster and even more awkward with luggage - there aren't any lifts at the Montparnasse Metro station!
by xenadu02 | 2026-02-13 01:06:38+00:00
> who will have all their questions answered, correctly and in the way they can best understand

Highly unlikely as the feedback cycle used to train LLMs will choke off all future learning.

In other words if AI bots consume and regurgitate everything you publish on the internet what is the incentive to publish anything? No one will read it except the bots. The training datasets will either become stale (no longer learning anything new because nothing new and useful is published) or actively poisoned (because only bad actors will bother to publish).

And the generation constantly fed mostly correct information by AI will implicitly trust it further making poisoning of the models a high-value target.

Very few people will be left who understand how to think and have the motivation to do so. Even fewer will have the motivation and the means to publish to others.
by akersten | 2026-02-13 01:06:54+00:00
Yeah window management and the desktop experience in general on Mac just feels like I'm dragging my hands through tar.

For example, "open two file browsers, navigate to $home in one and $downloads in the other, move and rename a few files between them" is a 10 second task on Windows (Win+E x2, quick clicks on the explorer links, easy to scroll around, move files, drag, rename, anything you want). On Mac I get about 7 system ding sounds and Finder windows bugging off the side of my screen while simultaneously deciding the best way to show downloads in a list is alphabetically and with 256x256 tiled icons. It's just an indescribably bad and slow experience to do any kind of file management on Mac.

Another example. Take a screenshot and quickly redact some info with a black box. Easy on windows that I can type it out exactly (win+s, drag box, win key "paint" enter control v box tool save boom). On Mac?? After command shift 4 to take a screenshot I think it's actually physically impossible to edit it within 60 seconds.
by braebo | 2026-02-13 01:07:02+00:00
As a Svelte developer working with React at $DAYJOB I must say it is the most horrific kludge of terrible abstractions I’ve ever had to suffer through in my life. The sheer number of hoops you have to jump through to do literally anything is comically absurd, and even the nicest way of doing things is a dumpster fire of bad programming patterns. The worst part is, React devs are blind to just how much of their day is spent solving problems that are created solely by React itself, unrelated to any business logic or actual value.

One day my dream is to delete 75% of the code, sprinkle some svelte into the business logic, and be left with a strictly superior, more performant version of the platform.
by dylan604 | 2026-02-13 01:07:09+00:00
> Cloud connected doorbells must die as well as dragnet surveillance.

I'd disagree and restate that cloud services willing to make these kinds of deals must die, painfully, in a fire after being stung by a million killer bees, after receiving a million paper cuts and having lemon juice poured all over them.

It is possible for a company to charge a monthly fee to provide a service and only that service without attempting to leverage their users and their data for any other form of income. Companies used to do it all of the time. It just takes a C-suite/board/founder to have the moral fortitude to not sell out their users.
by kasey_junk | 2026-02-13 01:07:22+00:00
Google didn’t have a late start, they invented the tech, had bespoke hardware in place that supported it and have money to spend.

I don’t have any idea what comes next but Google and Microsoft look bad right now because they can’t execute a product strategy.

My personal bias is that either ms or Google or both will land just fine after it all shakes out but they started with a lead and are now playing catch up.
by baby_souffle | 2026-02-13 01:07:41+00:00
> Yep. Anyone got alternatives?

The self-hosted and home-automation and home-assistant subreddits are _full_ of discussion threads on this. The good news is that you have a TON of options to pick from. The bad news is that they're all deficient in one way or another so you really do have to spend a bit of time to figure out who executes best on the things you care most about.

If you don't mind the lock-in, Unifi is nice. Reolink (and the other DaHua re-brands) usually leave a lot to be desired in terms of software / quality but they are cheap and they reliably spit out a regular video stream that can be used with just about any software. Just don't let them onto the WAN!