MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-02-10 17:11:44+00:00
So I ask you the same question, should the minimum wage be $35 in Forsyth County for a single person and should they automatically get a raise to $45/hour if they have a child?

Everyone loves bringing up Walmart. But should that franchiser who is only netting $70k a year now also be paying $35 an hour?

And again, I find it rich that tech workers living off the tits of VC funding can tsk tsk about companies that need to actually have a profitable business model can’t pay their workers $75k a year (the living wage for Forsyth county, GA) no matter what their job is.
by nasretdinov | 2026-02-10 17:11:48+00:00
I've used a different approach to this: there's no real need to modify the compiled binary code because Go compiles everything from source, so you can patch the functions at the source level instead: https://github.com/YuriyNasretdinov/golang-soft-mocks

The way it works is that at the start of every function it adds an if statement that atomically checks whether or not the function has been intercepted, and if it did, then executes the replacement function instead.

My tool no longer works since it was rewriting GOPATH, and Go since effectively switched to Go Modules, but if you're persistent enough you can make it work with Go modules too — all you need to do is rewrite the Go module cache instead of GOPATH and you're good to go.
by mrguyorama | 2026-02-10 17:12:00+00:00
> programs built on a simplified version of brain neural networks

Not even close. "Neural networks" in code are nothing like real neurons in real biology. "Neural networks" is a marketing term. Treating them as "doing the same thing" as real biological neurons is a huge error

>that train on a corpus of nearly everything humans expressed in writing

It's significantly more limited than that.

>and that can pass the Turing test with flying colors, scares me

The "turing test" doesn't exist. Turing talked about a thought experiment in the very early days of "artificial minds". It is not a real experiment. The "turing test" as laypeople often refer to it is passed by IRC bots, and I don't even mean markov chain based bots. The actual concept described by Turing is more complicated than just "A human can't tell it's a robot", and has never been respected as an actual "Test" because it's so flawed and unrigorous.
by ajsnigrutin | 2026-02-10 17:12:03+00:00
Sure, there's a gajillion of those processors all over the world, and they somehow all work with mastercard and visa.

Diners club? Well.. "it depends". Many don't work with it.

Indian, russian, chinese, cards? Maybe in india, russia and china, but you shouldn't expect it to work "everywhere" like visa and mastercard. Same will be true for EU cards for quite a few years, especially if the system gets fragmented into many different companies using many different systems, and you'll always wonder if your german card will get accepted in Algeria like your friends' french card is.
by jhbadger | 2026-02-10 17:12:06+00:00
When I visit my parents, I often fly to the major airport a hundred miles or so from them and take a bus from the airport to their town. There used to be a desk in the bus station attached to the airport where you could buy tickets, ask the clerk when the next bus to your destination was, etc. A few years ago they got rid of the desk and have a sign with a QR code to download an app that gives schedules and let's you buy tickets. There is no other way to ride the buses now. This is just one example of how there's an assumption of "everyone has a smart phone" these days.
by epistasis | 2026-02-10 17:12:12+00:00
For anybody looking on, this sort of Big Lie behavior is extremely common in the US these days. All that crazy stuff Europeans are seeing with JD Vance and Trump's Greenland behvaior is what everyday Americans experience on a wide range of topics.

Having somebody link to a source that directly refutes their own claims, while acting indignant, is something I've experienced multiple times in the past week! It's quite shocking.

When the Trump administration went so hard on open lies that are directly contradicted by videos we all saw of ICE events, it was vice-signaling that started even greater amounts of bearing false witness. Openly lying seems to signal "in-group" status these days, like the sign in the green grocer's shop[1]. Get people to lie about the evidence they see with their eyes, and the become completely controlled, because to do so is to have total subservience to their master. No more eyes or ears except for those of their master. People that used to have values slowly abandon them, all in service to the lie that they are living. "The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."

That is the state of the US at the moment. I have hope that we can return to our former sanity, or at least ensure that the reigns of power are in the hands of normal, centrist people instead of the extreme fringes, but it is in no way certain.

[1] As Carney recently referenced from Vaclav Havel; here's a recentish essay on it: https://hac.bard.edu/amor-mundi/the-power-of-the-powerless-v...
by moregrist | 2026-02-10 17:12:30+00:00
I appreciate the reply and that it's been a while; I will give your podcast another listen.

It wasn't just the Jonathon Blow episode; that was just the point where I said "this is frustrating." For what it's worth, frustration came from knowing that this could be really good: your perspective is valuable, your topics were interesting, and your guests were excellent.

I find this a common mistake that people with strong opinions have when doing interview/guest style podcasts or shows. There's really an art to it; it's not easy to engage guests, keep the show interesting, and let the talk move in interesting ways. That's why Terry Gross and Howard Stern, in very different ways, have had such long and storied careers.

But it's something that people definitely get better at, and I have no doubt that you have. Again, I'll give it another listen.
by pmdr | 2026-02-10 17:12:41+00:00
What we really need to get rid of is platforms. vBulletin sells you software. It's up to you what you choose to use it for. Platforms like Discord and Reddit need to have final say on a lot of things because they need investor/advertiser cash at some point. And by 'get rid of' I mean avoid using them in settings that would be severely impacted by a platform's decision. For example, I don't want to have to upload my ID just to ask a question on the DaisyUI discord server.
by thewebguyd | 2026-02-10 17:12:47+00:00
> But maybe in other poorer countries it's something like "having sex is the only pleasure I get in this unbearable hellscape of an existance"

Also, in poorer countries, having kids becomes a necessity for survival. Places without safety nets, elder care, etc. You have kids to both take care of you as you age, and also as labor to help with survival.

That pressure/need doesn't exist in most of the west, so that incentive is gone.
by saulpw | 2026-02-10 17:12:48+00:00
config.sys was understandable. Now your computer has thousands (probably more) of config.sys-sized components and you are still only one person. The classic UI may improve your ability to find the components (sometimes) but can't reduce the complexity of either the components themselves or their quantity. AI makes it possible to deal with this complexity in a functional way.

Your last point is probably correct though, because AI will also allow systems to become orders of magnitude more complex still. So like the early days of the internet, these are still the fun days of AI, when the tool is overpowered compared to its uses.
by levxn | 2026-02-10 17:12:53+00:00
I architected an autonomous issue triage agent designed to filter noise and surface critical signals for open-source projects. Leveraging vector memory for duplicate detection and a custom "Novelty Scoring" algorithm, the agent intelligently distinguishes between redundant reports and genuinely new issues. It then compiles these insights into high-value, multi-channel digests (Email & Slack), ensuring maintainers focus only on what truly requires their attention.

Thought this can help all open source communities focus on real issues aligned to your goal and look out for enhancements and bugs of what severity it adds up to your existing code base. The plus point is that this can also be exposed as a github app bot which can be spun on your preferred duration (say 24hrs once) for the previous day's issue. It is compared with the entire history of other issues utilizing vectordb capabilities and helping you out with best ranked issues filtered and dropped in your inbox be it Email or any mode of communication.
by Der_Einzige | 2026-02-10 17:13:02+00:00
The reason we don’t have the right to be lazy is because of the people who find “meaning” in toil. I do not want to work and AI is the most anti work technology in human history.

Bertrand Russel literally wrote a book called “in defense of idleness” because he knew that heavy hitters like him had to defend work abolitionism. The “work is good” crowd is why we can’t have nice things. You guys are time thief’s and ontologically evil. May all work supporters reincarnate as either durian fruits or cockroaches.
by myth_drannon | 2026-02-10 17:13:13+00:00
Israel is a very complex case to say the least...

But one thing for sure is that despite wars and terror attacks, the mentality is that they are living the best life. Instead of living among Arabs as dhimmis or the disposable "other" among Europeans, they are a nation again and have the power to defend themselves. That's very powerful and one of the reasons for the extremely natalist society.
by mosburger | 2026-02-10 17:14:02+00:00
this is a great analogy despite it possibly coming off as snark.

I think it's hard for some people to grasp that programmers are motivated by different things. Some are motivated by shipping products to users, others are motivated to make code that's a giant elegant cathedral, still others love glorious hacks to bend the machine into doing things it was never really intended to do. And I'm sure I'm missing a few other categories.

I think the "AI ain't so bad" crowd are the ones who get the most satisfaction out of shipping product to users as quickly as possible, and that's totally fine. But I really wish they'd allow those of us who don't fall into that category to grieve just a little bit. This future isn't what I signed up for.

It's one thing to design a garden and admire the results, but some people get into their "zen happy place" by pulling up weeds.
by skydhash | 2026-02-10 17:14:02+00:00
Any change that I’ve done which resulted in more than a a 10 lines diff are done with tools (copy-paste, vim-fu, refactor tools or script, snippets, code generators,…) Why would I spend time babysitting an LLM when I could have just done it myself? The purpose of automation is to lighten my workload, not to add to it.
by eightysixfour | 2026-02-10 17:14:16+00:00
I tend to think people who argue about the economics or community issues tend to miss the forest for the trees. For the most part, other than biological drive, having kids is stupid. The systems that most people complain about failing - mostly around the community or economic costs of childcare - exist to make having children less stupid. We dramatically reduced teen and early 20s pregnancy rates, when hormones are yelling at us to make babies, and expected people to have them later in life when they're better at self-control?

Then, people who have a child that young are far, far more likely to have additional children. Outside of the first few years, a sibling often reduces the strain on the parents, and provides additional value. Your life starts to orient around the kid(s), and we get a couple of other hormone boosts so we love them and want more of them.

I am consistently confused that this conversation never seems to touch on just how many births are mostly because two people's biology overrode their judgement and that initial failure results in a feedback loop where you have another child or two. If that poor judgement doesn't happen, you don't kick off that loop, and then you're trying to rationally choose to do something that never made all that much sense in the first place.
by somenameforme | 2026-02-10 17:14:16+00:00
Exactly, 200ms is rather different than 'get to the point.' Here is a 'reaction speed test' site: https://reactiontimetest.net/ for somebody who doesn't intuit what 200ms is like.

You will likely be unable to click the screen in response to a box turning green faster than 200ms. To hook somebody on something within 200ms is largely appealing to casino like stuff where every single jingle, color, flash of light, and other aspect of their games is carefully researched in order to maximize addiction on a subconscious level.
by threethirtytwo | 2026-02-10 17:14:45+00:00
>No, your opinions bias toward negativity, and we can see it in this comment by the way you shift the goalposts for every achievement until you can poo-poo it. Oh, except for the ones you just omitted from your quote, maybe because even you can't rationalize why CRISPR isn't a step change.

Not true at all. CRISPR isn't a step change because it only made genetic engineering more efficient and it didn't effect the lives of most people. It's still a research thing.

I didn't poo-poo AI did I? That's the favorite thing for everyone to poo-poo these days and ironically it's the one thing that effects everyones life and is causing paradigm shifting changes in society right now.
by kraig911 | 2026-02-10 17:15:08+00:00
It's just hard now. Before I had kids I had a network of friends and had a great social life. Now it's just me and my wife. If I want more friends I'll have to have more kids I guess? I have 4 now. One (my first) is severely autistic.

Financially the cost?
I pay about 6,000 a month in daycare. 2k a month in healthcare expenses.

Then community wise. Every time I've gone to take them to the movies, or to a restaurant or hell now even the grocery store I always get shafted. Everything is so overstimulated and kids get in the way to strangers trying to ignore reality with their phones. So when one of my kids throws a tantrum everyone's looks and disdain doesn't help. It's a part of growing up that I think most young adults don't realize.

Then for your career it's the most destablizing thing there is. Everyone around me who doesn't have kids the sky is the limit. Midnight PR's and no problem handling oncall. I missed a pagerduty alert when I was careflly bottle feeding my 8 month old who caught pertussis from some idiot who thought they were above that. I had no choice in getting out of pagerduty because 'it's only fair'

Don't get me start on dog/cat people who equate their struggles to mine... or people who have no idea how hard life is already for a kid who is disabled.

Having a family sucks hard sometimes. But I wouldn't change my past for the world. They are my everything. The advantages of having kids are lost on most but I'll let others provide input if they feel like it.
by jimnotgym | 2026-02-10 17:15:29+00:00
> Honestly, your perspective feels a little out of touch.

As does yours too me. I have been a senior manager in finance and IT at companies from $15m and a middle-manager at a mega-corp (on the senior management team of a business unit with 600 staff). I have had staff in several countries, I work with people in many more. Honestly most people want to do a good job without their boss shouting at them.

> will compete in whatever internal currency the company culture has

You seem to be agreeing with me.
by elzbardico | 2026-02-10 17:15:31+00:00
I don't know what these people from our now traditional daily lamentation session are coding where Claude can do all the work for them just with a few prompts and minimal reviews.

Claude is a godsend to me, but fuck, it is sometimes dumb as door, loves to create regressions, is a fucking terrible designer. Small, tiny changes? Those are actually the worse, it is easy for claude, on the first setback, decides to burn the whole world and start from zero again. Not to mention when it gets stuck in an eternal loop where it increasingly degenerates the code.

If I care about what I deliver, I have to actively participate in coding.
by rconti | 2026-02-10 17:15:35+00:00
Yeah, most AEB systems I've used work quite well. I've had a couple false alarms (just at the warning stage) where I can at least understand why they happened from a system perspective, even if there was no risk.

I did find "normal" mode on the Model 3 was way too sensitive, but I set it to "late" and it's been fine ever since.
by tabbott | 2026-02-10 17:15:43+00:00
For what it's worth, essentially every main view surface was visually redesigned over the course of the last 2 years. So while I can't promise you'll like the new design, it certainly isn't the same as it was 2 years ago.

One of the other nice features of the new design implementation is there are handy settings for font size and line spacing. It turns out that different people have very different desires for how dense content is in chat apps, and empirically there's a significant portion of users with just about every combination.
by MattJ100 | 2026-02-10 17:16:09+00:00
There is a lot of confusion caused by overlapping terminology in this issue.

By "client certificates" I mean (and generally take most others in this thread to mean) certificates which have been issues with the clientAuth key purpose defined in RFC 5280. This is the key purpose that Let's Encrypt will no longer be including in their certificates, and what this whole change is about.

However when one server connects to another server, all of TCP, TLS and the application code see the initiating party as a "client", which is distinct from say, an "XMPP client" which is an end-user application running on e.g. some laptop or phone.

The comment I was responding to clearly specified " I don't see how TLS-with-client-EKU [...]" which was more specific, however I used the more vague term "client certificates" to refer to the same thing in my response for brevity (thinking it would be clear from the context). Hope that clarifies things!
by JCattheATM | 2026-02-10 17:16:41+00:00
> Executing people guilty of serious crimes is good and just.

Wrong. It's barbaric and primitive.

> execution is no more or less "barbaric" than the alternatives

Yes, it is. People make mistakes. People have infinite possibility to grow, change and contribute to society. Snuffing everything someone is out because of an arbitrary society rule that ultimately does less harm than murder is indefensible.

> "mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent."

Taken as far to defend murder it becomes nonsense.
by ehhthing | 2026-02-10 17:16:42+00:00
This would still rely on Visa/MasterCard allowing dual-branded credit cards for overseas transactions, which isn't a very common arrangement. The only market that has this is in Asia where there are UnionPay + Visa/MasterCard dual branded cards and I suspect that the reason they allow this is because the market is huge, especially compared to Canada.

Also Interac does not do online transactions outside of some very specific merchants that take Apple/Google Pay transactions. This is how Interac reduces fraud risk, which is why interchange rates for Interac are so low.
by hearsathought | 2026-02-10 17:17:08+00:00
> In many regions, 70-100% of male lineages were replaced within just a few centuries. The Yamnaya and their descendants didn't just rule; they moved in enormous numbers.

If only the male lineages were replaced, it generally means that the yamnaya did not move in enormous numbers. Rather it means that male yamnayans and their male descendants ruled and use their privileged positions to outbreed the local males.

Mass migration would indicated a major shift in both the male and female lineages. Predominantly male lineage shift indicates rule. It's the difference between the US and mexico. In the US we had a complete genocide of the natives ( male and female lineages ) due to mass migration from europe. Mexico never experienced a mass migration from europe. Instead, the europeans took over the leadership of the aztecs/mexico and use their privileged position to outbreed the local males. It's why in mexico today most male lineages are european while almost all the female lineages are native. Whereas in the US, most of the male and female lineages are european while almost none of the male and female lineages are native.

> but the DNA evidence has shifted the balance decisively toward mass migration as the primary driver in Europe.

This is easy to verify. Do they follow the pattern of the US or Mexico? What are the female lineages in europe?
by eddythompson80 | 2026-02-10 17:17:14+00:00
The problem is that when it comes to (commercial) developer tools and services, everyone can/wants to be everything, so why let a simple statement or a showcase limit you? "Hey, we are a container scanning service... But we can also be a container registry too, a CI, a KeyValue store, an agent sandbox provider, git hosting? We can do quick dev deployments/preview too. Want a private npm registry? Automated pull request reviews? Code Signing service? We are working on a new text editor btw"
by SV_BubbleTime | 2026-02-10 17:17:16+00:00
SOTA shifts, yes. But the average person doing the work has been very happy with SDXL based models. And that was released two years ago.

The fight right now outside of API SOTA is who will replace SDXL to be the “community preference”

It’s now a three way between Flux2 Klein, Z-Image, and now Qwen2.
by jodrellblank | 2026-02-10 17:17:17+00:00
The USA had those same protests a decade before the Netherlands, but collectively decided that they preferred to blame the parents more than they wanted to restrict car drivers:

From https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-08/the-hidde...:

> "all over America in the 1950s and 1960s, residents, particularly women, organized demonstrations against car traffic—and their street protests often closely resembled the Dutch Stop de kindermoord protests that would come in the 1970s. They demanded slower driving, usually seeking stop signs, streetlights, or crossing guards. Some demanded pedestrian over- or underpasses." ...

> "Many demonstrations—particularly the biggest ones—were triggered by the injury or death of a child. Against any tendency to blame the parents for permitting their children to have a life of their own beyond home and school, demonstrators consistently demanded streets that local children could use safely. And while the demonstrations were nearly always nonviolent, they were vocal and insistent, and sometimes confrontational. They included some degree of traffic obstruction, sometimes even full blockades that barred all motor vehicles." ...

> "Women bearing signs picketed streets and intersections, or set up folding chairs across the breadth of streets and sat in them. Children often participated. A mainstay of the demonstrations was baby carriages, occupied or not, which rhetorically associated the demonstrations with motherhood and with the safety of children. The technique was common enough to give the demonstrations a name: Some newspapers called them “baby carriage blockades.”" ...

> "the now-preferred path to child traffic safety: the two-car family, parental chauffeuring of children, a surrender to car dependency regardless of the costs or family income, and the abandonment of children’s independent mobility. Where streets were unsafe for children, the problem became the mother’s responsibility, and an injury or a death was the mother’s fault."