MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by toomuchtodo | 2026-02-04 18:05:36+00:00
Voters should exercise their second amendment constitutionally protected right when they arrive to vote.

(As of early 2026, 29 states allow permitless (constitutional) concealed carry of firearms in most public spaces, while 21 states still generally require a permit. Major permitless carry states include Texas, Florida, Georgia, Ohio, Indiana, and Arizona. While 47 states allow some form of open carry, California, Illinois, and New York prohibit it)
by mananaysiempre | 2026-02-04 18:05:44+00:00
> [No-caps text] sort of grates on the ear for anyone over 35 [...] Incidentally, millenials also used the "no caps" style but mainly for "marginalia" (at most paragraph-length notes, observations)

I (a millenial) carried over the no-caps style from IRC (where IME it was and remains nearly universal) to ICQ to $CURRENT_IM_NETWORK, so for me TFA reads like a chat log (except I guess for the period at the end of each paragraph, that shouldn’t be there). Funnily enough, people older than me who started IMing later than me don’t usually follow this style—I suspect automatic capitalization on mobile phones is to blame.
by _aleph2c_ | 2026-02-04 18:05:56+00:00
Defending your voting system from foreign influence should be a strategic concern for any democracy.

Under the previous American regime 8 to 22 million illegal immigrants were let into their country. This was managed by cartels acting as travel agencies, so why is it controversial to remove the criminals from this cohort? Why is it controversial for the American's to want to protect their political system from outside influence?

The idea that black Americans have no ID is ridiculous. Asking for ID to vote is something any sane democratic system requires. I think it's perfectly reasonable for people making less money in their economy, not to have the rug pulled from them, by introducing millions of desperate-competitors who work for cash and haven't paid taxes into their existing system. Massive illegal immigration does not help the American poor---who are trying to climb that ladder they call "The American dream". (supply and demand)

But, I can see why people would want ICE to receive more training, an untrained police force is dangerous. I could see why they would want them bound by law, this is obvious.

Bannon is a controversial figure, but defending the system of democracy shouldn't be controversial.
by dfabulich | 2026-02-04 18:06:22+00:00
In 2024, Starcloud posted their plans to "solve" the cooling problem. https://starcloudinc.github.io/wp.pdf

> As conduction and convection to the environment are not available in space, this means the data center will require radiators capable of radiatively dissipating gigawatts of thermal load. To achieve this, Starcloud is developing a lightweight deployable radiator design with a very large area - by far the largest radiators deployed in space - radiating primarily towards deep space...

They claim they can radiate "633.08 W / m^2". At that rate, they're looking at square kilometers of radiators to dissipate gigawatts of thermal load, perhaps hectares of radiators.

They also claim that they can "dramatically increase" heat dissipation with heat pumps.

So, there you have it: "all you have to do" is deploy a few hectares of radiators in space, combined with heat pumps that can dissipate gigawatts of thermal load with no maintenance at all over a lifetime of decades.

This seems like the sort of "not technically impossible" problem that can attract a large amount of VC funding, as VCs buy lottery tickets that the problem can be solved.
by dbbk | 2026-02-04 18:06:23+00:00
While this is very welcome, I am baffled that there is STILL no plan mode support. Neither Copilot Coding Agent nor Claude Code Web can do this. Why? We have the technology. The model output is far, far better when you develop a robust plan first. And both GitHub and Anthropic know this... so I don't know why they aren't prioritising it.
by chickensong | 2026-02-04 18:06:31+00:00
Oakland CA had a pothole vigilante group doing good work several years ago, bless their hearts. Not sure if they're still around, but their DIY approach was commendable and could be replicated. I believe they used "cold patch" asphalt which can be purchased at Home Depot and the like.

It sucks that illegal DIY approaches are necessary, but at some point people just need to take matters into their own hands. It feels like road repair is one of the most visible and perhaps common indicators of local government corruption. My personal favorite is when a perfectly good stretch of road gets repaved to use up tax dollars, while streets in terrible condition get ignored.
by regularization | 2026-02-04 18:07:00+00:00
The EU and US have imposed sanctions on Iran, crippling its economy, Israel has killed much of its military high command. The US and Israel have rallied the usual internal opposition. Joined no doubt, by some who have been hit in the wallet and stomach by crippling sanctions. Just like the Scandinavians focused on Venezuela with their prize and Trump murdered Maduro's bodyguards and whoever else was standing around in an attempt to wrest Venezuela's sovereignty, or now Cuba's or even Greenland's, Iran is a current focus of western imperial focus to destroy their sovereignty. The US and UK succeeded in the 1950s when the Iranian parliament tried to nationalize Iran's oil, but they were tossed out in 1979 and the imperialists have been hell bent to put Iran under their thumb again.

While children in Gaza starve, ICE roams the streets killing even non-immigrants, and Greenland is in the crosshairs, white, professional-managerial put their focus on replacing Iranian sovereignty with being under the West's boot, for very liberal, humanitarian reasons of course.
by jmathai | 2026-02-04 18:07:12+00:00
> all we want to do is advance the concept of direct cash transfer

I love the simplicity of this. I've been thinking a lot about generosity myself.

And while I don't have $100m, our family also has everything we need. What ideas, resources and tools are there for folks like me who want to be as generous as possible with what we have?

To start, I've set up a Donor Advised Fund because I learned that it's a great way to do something with a bunch of appreciated stock that I don't want to pay taxes on. What other tips do you all have?
by rxt_ian | 2026-02-04 18:07:12+00:00
Yup this is a very inefficient way of reaching a target illuminance.

Multiple sources spread over an area would be more efficient, as each LED could run at lower current and temperature, which increases their efficacy.

The light would also not have to bounce off ceilings/walls multiple times, while some are nice for diffusion, every reflection is lossy.

I suspect you’d also get better reliability.
by shrubble | 2026-02-04 18:07:35+00:00
I don’t agree with this analysis.

The reason I don’t agree is that moot banned any Gamergate discussion and those people then went to 8chan, a site which moot had no control over.

And it was Gamergate that put some fuel on the fire which (IMHO) increased support for Trump. The 8chan site grew a great deal from it, then continued from that first initial “win”.
by watwut | 2026-02-04 18:07:49+00:00
Having registered disability is not the same as getting generous accommodations. The article has no data on accommodations themselves. At best, it has a few anecdotes about rooms allocations.

I am totally fine with people avoiding expensive or bad meal plan. The fact that you have to pay for an expensive or bad meal plan should be the scandal, not the fact that students avoid it.

And I am even fine with accommodation from class participation. Too much of it is activity for points only which wastes everybody's time.
by ifwinterco | 2026-02-04 18:07:50+00:00
Recently had to download actual Adobe Reader for the first time in at least a decade and... christ. Requires most of an H100 in resources and you can't do what you actually want to do because of multiple AI related popups and attempt to get you to subscribe to some Adobe cloud nonsense.

I knew it would be bad but I couldn't believe the state of it, just utter garbage
by ryanrasti | 2026-02-04 18:08:10+00:00
Precisely! There's a fundamental tension:
1. Agents need to interact with the outside world to be useful
2. Interacting with the outside world is dangerous

Sandboxes provide a "default-deny policy" which is the right starting point. But, current tools lack the right primitives to make fine grained data-access and data policy a reality.

Object-capabilities provide the primitive for fine-grained access. IFC (information flow control) for dataflow.
by ekjhgkejhgk | 2026-02-04 18:08:11+00:00
> It's troubling that most of the free world stands by and watches as a genocidal-level massacre takes place in Iran. Persians don't expect China/Russia to respond, but come on, no action from the West?

I find it surprising that you're troubled. The West helped Israel with its genocide in Gaza; why did you expect that the West would intervene in what's happening the Iran, which by death count is significantly smaller?
by epolanski | 2026-02-04 18:08:11+00:00
> How to keep asking customers for renewal, when every customer feels they can get something better built with vibe-coded AI products?

Wrong take. You don't need to build something better, you only need something good enough that matches what you actually need. Whether you build it or not and ditch the SaaS is more of an economic calculus.

Also, this isn't much about ditching the likes of Jira not even mentioning open source jira clones exists from decades.

This is more of ditching the kind of extremely-expensive-license that traps your own company and raises the price 5/10% every year. Like industrial ERP or CRM products that also require dedicated developers anyway and you spend hundreds of thousands if not millions for them. Very common, e.g. for inventory or warehouse management.

For this kind of software, and more, it makes sense to consider in-housing, especially when building prototypes with a handful of capable developers with AI can let you experiment.

I think that in the next decade the SaaS that will survive will be the evergreen office suite/teams, because you just won't get people out of powerpoint/excel/outlook, and it's cheap enough and products for which the moat is mostly tied to bureaucratic/legal issues (e.g. payrolls) and you just can't keep up with it.
by toomuchtodo | 2026-02-04 18:08:23+00:00
Only within X feet of a polling place typically. Check your local laws for compliance. Print them out, have them on your person. I am advocating for protecting yourself against unlawful federal force, including lethal force, while remaining within the letter of the law while exercising your right to vote. Definitely don't break the law as it relates to crossing a threshold (distance, whatever) with a firearm at a polling location, if that is the law in your jurisdiction. Certainly a better option than being dead and having ProPublica have to release the names of those who caused harm, imho. Alternatively, you should be talking to your governor already about local police and national guard being stationed to protect voters from federal agent intimidation, if needed. Pick your risk appetite.

You are responsible for protecting you, no one else is or will. Know the law, operate within it to the best of your ability and from a position of good faith.

https://www.thetrace.org/2024/10/state-gun-bans-polling-plac...

Lawyer. Passport. Locksmith. Gun. (A Talk About Risk and Preparedness) [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33509164 - November 2022
by firasd | 2026-02-04 18:09:03+00:00
It's helpful to keep in mind that 'AI Twitter' is a bubble. Most people just don't have that many 'important' notes and calendar items.

People saying 'Claude is now managing my life!11' are like gearheads messing with their carburetor or (closer to this analogy) people who live out of Evernote or Roam

All that said I've been thinking for a while that tool use and discrete data storage like documents/lists etc will unlock a lot of potential in AI over just having a chatbot manipulating tokens limited to a particular context window. But personal productivity is just one slice of such use cases
by undersuit | 2026-02-04 18:09:08+00:00
The solar panels on the newest satellites can deliver 6kW but the power that satellite actually uses is less. The satellite is only using 300W[1] during the dark phase of it's orbit when it can use it's entire mass to cool down. Is that limit because of the battery or is it because the satellite needs to radiate all the heat it acquired from the other half of the time in the sun?

[1] https://lilibots.blogspot.com/2020/04/starlink-satellite-dim...
by pjmlp | 2026-02-04 18:09:27+00:00
Until they messed up the whole UWP / WinRT developer experience in Visual Studio.

Also VS 2026 was released with a hard milestone, thus while there is a new settings experience, many options show a dialog from VS 2022, because the new UI is still not implemented for the new experience.

Note that most organisations have to pay for Visual Studio licenses, and get rewarded with such quality.

Slop has also arrived into DevDiv.
by Y-bar | 2026-02-04 18:09:29+00:00
CENELEC Guide 29, referenced in EU harmonized standards sets burn thresholds:

For brief contact (e.g., 1-3 seconds on adult-accessible parts), temperatures should stay below ~48-55°C depending on material; longer reflexive contact requires even lower limits (e.g., 43°C for extended exposure). A surface hot enough that hands can only tolerate it for "a couple of seconds" implies it's above this (likely 60°C+), risking second-degree burns.

I practice this means this product would not be allowed to be sold in EU. This would have been thoroughly tested to get the CE mark.

> All LED lights sold in Europe must carry the CE mark

https://wwbridge-cert.com/blog/posts/is-ce-marking-for-led-l...
by JasonADrury | 2026-02-04 18:09:39+00:00
You would at the very least make them guess which finger, there's no indication that happened here.

The court can compel you to make your fingers available, it can not force you to disclose which finger or the manner in which you touch that finger on the fingerprint sensor. Apple devices allow only limited attempts.

If you're not being actively helpful, the investigators may end in a rather awkward position.
by krick | 2026-02-04 18:09:59+00:00
To me, the most worrying part of the whole discussion is that your comment is pretty much the most "daring", if you can call it that, attempt to question if there even is a crime. Everyone else is worried about raids (which are normal whenever there is an ongoing investigation, unfortunate as it may be to the one being investigated). And no one dares to say, that, uh, perhaps making pictures on GPU should not be considered a crime in the same sense as human-trafficking or production of weapons are... Oh, wait. The latter is legal, right.
by anigbrowl | 2026-02-04 18:10:24+00:00
I found this part interesting:

There are also other documents that appear to simulate a scanned document but completely lack the “real-world noise” expected with physical paper-based workflows. The much crisper images appear almost perfect without random artifacts or background noise, and with the exact same amount of image skew across multiple pages. Thanks to the borders around each page of text, page skew can easily be measured, such as with VOL00007\IMAGES\0001\EFTA00009229.pdf. It is highly likely these PDFs were created by rendering original content (from a digital document) to an image (e.g., via print to image or save to image functionality) and then applying image processing such as skew, downscaling, and color reduction.
by gwbas1c | 2026-02-04 18:11:29+00:00
Either the parties involved in the sale who should have known better, such as the relator and/or seller's attorney; or the party that took the trees down.

Furthermore, at least in Massachusetts, when you purchase property you also purchase title insurance that protects you against this. I remember very specifically, at closing, that my attorney explained that the insurance was in case someone came around with an old claim to the land.

It would be interesting to find out who and what paid out, because these scams have been going on for a bit. (There was one linked to where a property owner drove by and found a house being built on their land.)
by vunderba | 2026-02-04 18:12:07+00:00
As somebody who just built an online WebGL-based chess web app (2D/3D voice controlled chess game with invisible pieces to practice blindfold), just wanted to chime in and say this is super cool!

Path tracing crushed my Mac M1 - around 8fps, but Rasterization Standard Quality performance was steady at around 30fps.

The camera controls were kind of driving me kind of crazy. I'd recommend adding a "Camera" button that toggles between three or four different views, something like Over the shoulder, Zoomed out, Zoomed In, and Top-Down.
by behnamoh | 2026-02-04 18:12:15+00:00
> which by death count is significantly smaller

In 48 hours, the islamic regime in Iran massacred more than 40,000 protestors (and left tens of thousands of people blinded/wounded, often "finishing them off" by raiding hospitals...). Some figures even show more than 40,000, but even assuming the low-park, that's 833 people per hour, or 13 people per minute who got killed.

Whatever Israel did (to defend itself) was by no means even near those numbers.
by yorwba | 2026-02-04 18:12:37+00:00
> But the reason that attention is quadratic is that each token gets evaluated with respect to each other token. They haven't changed this at all. Section 2.5 seems like it's deferring this to an appendix.

They defer it to the appendix because it's a standard construction (Q'K)V = Q'(KV), where Q'K is an n×n matrix and requires O(n²) to compute, but KV has a constant size and can be computed in O(n) time, and the multiplication with Q' can also be done in O(n) time.

> Section 2.6 gives the hidden state size per token, which, on first read, is strictly larger than the hidden state in normal attention (in normal attention it's d_v * d_k -- I'm not sure where their +1 comes from).

Actually, their hidden state has a (large) constant size, so strike the words "per token" from section 2.6. In normal attention, the total state is n(d_v + d_k), but their state is basically (d_v + 1)D_k, where D_k is much larger than d_k, but independent of n. The +1 is because they also need to compute the normalization factor for the softmax.

It's true that a constant state size implies that you cannot use it to losslessly store arbitrarily large databases, but LLMs in practice cannot do this either, so there's no loss of capability in that sense. (In fact, if you use enough terms in the Taylor expansion to get the same result as standard attention to within machine precision, the resulting constant state size should give you an upper bound for the amount of data the LLM can effectively retrieve from its context.)
by hearsathought | 2026-02-04 18:12:40+00:00
> But because this is not the case, we appreciate Tarantino more than we appreciate gangster movies.

Do we? I don't think people appreciate tarantino more than gangster movies. Don't think people appreciate tarantino more than pulp fiction. Frankly, tarantino doesn't factor in at all.

> It is about the process.

I never considered the process when watching pulp fiction. It's the finished product, not the process, that matters.

Put it this way, we know who tarantino is because of pulp fiction. Not the other way around.
by ebruchez | 2026-02-04 18:12:45+00:00
Not criticizing your decision, but I went the opposite way, deciding that I was ok spending a certain extra amount initially in order to encourage a non-Chinese manufacturer. But I understand not everyone has this luxury.

I bought the Core One kit to understand better how the machine works, which reduced the price delta somewhat.

It remains to be seen over the long term which way is actually better financially, as Prusas have historically had long lives, while there is only limited data on the Bambu Lab side yet.

So far, I am quite happy with my decision. But competition is on. I am excited about the upcoming INDX system for the Core One: if it delivers on its promise, it will be fantastic!
by jstummbillig | 2026-02-04 18:12:46+00:00
I appreciate taking a stance, even if nobody is asking. It would be great if it was less of a bad faith effort.

It's great that Anthropic is targeting the businesses of the world. It's a little insincere to than declare "no ads", as if that decision would obviously be the same if the bulk of their (not paying) users.

There are, as far as ads go, perfectly fine opportunities to do them in a limited way for limited things within chatbots. I don't know who they think they are helping by highlighting how to do it poorly.
by cosmic_cheese | 2026-02-04 18:13:03+00:00
These statements paint with a rather broad brush. There are parts of the US that are so impoverished that it defies belief and more closely resemble pre-industrialization countries than they do what most associate with the United States.

They also ignore that even if other rural areas are technically speaking more rich than the rest of the world, still struggle with an extreme shortage of opportunity, upward mobility, and sense of purpose.

I speak from experience, having been raised in one such area. Had I not moved to a tech hub in search of greener pastures (which is not something everybody is capable of), my life would look so different now as to be unrecognizable. Instead of earning the upper end of the salary band for my line of work with numerous upward trajectories to pursue and a solid bit of retirement stuck away, I'd be working a job earning maybe ~20% as much that doesn't keep track with inflation with zero mobility and a fraction of much retirement funds, and that's one of the best possible outcomes in that region and inaccessible to most.

I've not aligned with the area I hail from politically for a long time now, but clearly it needs help.
by robert-sanders | 2026-02-04 18:13:07+00:00
Managing reactive state and dependent computations in JavaScript can get complex, especially when combining asynchronous and synchronous data. RS-X is a library that allows you to bind expressions to plain objects and makes the parts of the model used by those expressions fully reactive. Dependent computations automatically update when the underlying data changes.

RS-X is framework-agnostic. While it can drive UI updates (Angular integration is available, React integration planned), it works equally well for server-side logic, business rules, or any reactive workflow. Expressions are parsed and managed with a reactive engine, and developers can subscribe to `changed` events when needed.

You can explore RS-X angular integration here: https://stackblitz.com/~/github.com/robert-sanders-software-...
by ghusto | 2026-02-04 18:13:42+00:00
> "Genocidal" is not an order of magnitude; it's a description of purpose. What's going on in Iran is an atrocity, but it's not "genocidal."

Oh, well that's alright then. Hey fellers, we got off on a grammatical technicality.

> We're not the world police.

It's your mess, now clean it up.
by Taek | 2026-02-04 18:13:59+00:00
I'm late to this thread but I've manufactured about a dozen SKUs and I think you could have saved an enormous amount of grief with one simple step:

If you are American, and you are manufacturing 500 units, do it in America. Yes, it's more expensive per-unit, but at 500 units you don't need a tiny per-unit cost.

American manufacturing is more flexible, higher agency, and people tend to adapt to underspecified instructions better. The communication loops are stronger.

That said, America has enormous tradeoffs. If you need 10,000 of a part in 4 hours because something weird happened, China can make it happen. America... might take months. But if your batch size is 500, it's better for an American living in America to cut their teeth on American manufacturing and go to China when you need 10,000+ units per run.