MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nosman | 2026-02-09 18:28:12+00:00
What do you mean by public services?

All kinds of companies lose millions of dollars of revenue per day if not hour if their sites are not stable.... apple, amazon, google, Shopify, uber, etc etc.

Those companies have decided the extra complexity is worth the reliability.

Even if you're operating a tech company that doesn't need to have that kind of uptime, your developers probably need those services to be productive, and you don't want them just sitting there either.
by MisterTea | 2026-02-09 18:28:15+00:00
Safe following is super important. Few years back about a month after I bought a new car I was driving to work keeping a larger than normal gap thanks to a bit of "new car" anxiety. I was in the left lane, keeping pace with a cluster of three cars ahead of me, two of them tailgating. I don't know what happened but within seconds the middle car swerved, side swiped a car in the middle lane then rear ended the lead car while the trailing car rear ended them. Four cars smashed up right in front of me. I was fine because I had plenty of time to slow down and pull onto the shoulder to clear the chaos.
by rmoriz | 2026-02-09 18:28:17+00:00
This is not sustainable IMHO. RIPE fees are:

€75 per assignment / sponsored resource
€50 per ASN assignment

So in your case it's only €50 for the AS-object but your LIR needs to allocate their LIR base fee costs (which includes the IPv6 PA that they assigned to you), also infrastructure, the VM, support.

I really like the couple of LIRs that are very active in supporting one-person-multihoming setups, but IMHO RIPE should directly do that at a low entry fee. RIPE has also education/training offerings for LIRs and that would increase the knowhow and reach of RIPE. Most home lab enthusiasts will apply the gained knowledge in their job, at customers and bring new customers to RIPE.
by sigseg1v | 2026-02-09 18:28:19+00:00
To add on to this, I see many complaints that "[AI] produced garbage code that doesn't solve the problem" yet I have never seen someone say "I set up a verification system where code that passes the tests and criteria and code that does not is identified as follows" and then say the same thing after.

To me it reads like saying "I typed pseudocode into a JS file and it didn't compile , JS is junk". If people learn to use the tool, it works.

Anecdotally, I've been experimenting with migrations between languages and found LLMs taking shortcuts, but when I added a step to convert the source code's language to an AST and the transformed code to another AST and then designed a diff algorithm to compare the logic is equivalent in the converted code, and to retry until it matches within X tolerance, then it stopped outputting shortcuts because it simply would just continue until there were no shortcuts made. I suspect complainants are not doing this.
by AnthonyMouse | 2026-02-09 18:29:15+00:00
It seems like the answer is pretty obvious. That subset of the community stops using it and uses something else, and the others either follow them or don't.

You, if you're not in the first group, can continue to use both to communicate with everyone, but some of them lose the ability to communicate with each other.

The ideal outcome is for everyone to stop using the intolerable thing and switch to a tolerable thing. That's even what often happens over time, but not always immediately. Probably do anything you can to make it happen faster.
by rootusrootus | 2026-02-09 18:29:21+00:00
Despite breathless claims to the contrary, I strongly suspect that he could volunteer today to be deported, sign the paperwork and be on a plane back to Ireland within days. The gov't would be perfectly happy to rid themselves of the problem, ban him from returning, and send him on his way.

Though I could believe it would take a little longer right now due to the volume of detentions and the apparent incompetence of ICE.
by ninalanyon | 2026-02-09 18:29:23+00:00
800 km from 253 kWh is 316 Wh/km somewhat worse than my ancient (2015) Tesla Model S. newer versions, models, and brands do better. So for most buyers this is not an improvement. Also performance at -40 C is irrelevant to the vast majority of drivers.

You are correct that range for many cars with Lithium (NMC) batteries is halved when the ambient temperature is below about -10 C. But an important caveat is that this applies principally to short trips where the battery never warms up such as driving 10 km into town and back to do some shopping. On long continuous journeys the decrease in range is much less marked.
by mountain_peak | 2026-02-09 18:29:36+00:00
It used to be more of an issue when I was younger. Now that I'm older and more 'seasoned' (plus reflexes do slow down), I'm far more patient and have no issue maintaining a healthy following distance. I think the statistics reflect this in age vs. accident rate as well.

Unfortunately, sometimes over a 45 minute freeway commute, dropping back repeatedly means arriving 15 minutes or more later. Again, no big deal now, but it was somehow unacceptable when I was younger.
by sublinear | 2026-02-09 18:29:56+00:00
I don't know why you're getting downvoted, but I totally agree.

I used to smoke a pack a day for years, but switched to vaping in the 2010s when nicotine salt juice became more available. It was a massive quality of life improvement. Though initially this unlocked a much higher dose of nicotine I'd ever get smoking, I eventually brought it down and regardless my lungs were doing better.

Around 2020, I switched to the pouches and since then I'm down to using maybe like two a day if any at all. Since they are a slower delivery method, the nature of the cravings has changed too. I can easily hold off for hours or even days since they're less intense. I have zero desire to go back to smoking or vaping ever again. I've never experienced any oral health issues from the pouches either. X-rays on my mouth and lungs now show no damage.

The only thing I will say is nicotine itself isn't entirely harmless and can trigger some mild anxiety. It seems to be related to keeping blood cotinine levels in check.

I'd never recommend people start a nicotine habit, but I think we're at the point where it's not much worse than caffeine if you take it orally. There is some research out there about the potential benefits of both preventing dementia, but I won't link anything. People can argue about that somewhere else.
by observationist | 2026-02-09 18:30:03+00:00
They're a nonsense company, and trusting them with any information is foolish.
They'll store everything and anything, because data is valuable, and won't delete anything unless legally compelled to and held accountable by third party independent verification. This is the default.

The purpose of things is what they do. They're an adtech user data collection company, they're not a user information securing company.
by oasisbob | 2026-02-09 18:30:13+00:00
> The problem is that the vulnerability exploited by salt typhoon is a systemic flaw implemented at the demand of Cantwell and other of our legislative morons.

Assuming you're talking about CALEA, I find it hard to blame Cantwell personally given that she first joined the House in 1993, and CALEA was passed in 1994. She wasn't in much of a position to "demand" anything against the headwinds of a bipartisan bill passed in both chambers by a voice vote.
by mackross | 2026-02-09 18:30:27+00:00
- A phoenix/ecto inspired batteries included framework for Golang. Uses data-star for real time bindings (can do live view like things but my personal favorite is just real time form validation out of the box). Hot reload with templ, daisy, and tailwind (no npm required). Routes file provides metadata on routes so type safe route helpers are generated for views and handlers.
by maxglute | 2026-02-09 18:30:31+00:00
PRC generating as much STEM/skilled talent than OECD combined... that's enough for entire semi supply chain and 2 civil aviation companies.

Aviation is functionally caught up, as in if PRC wants to throw together a narrow or wide body on domestic components short term, they can at scale and service domestic market with less fuel efficiently. The primary reason COMAC uses western components is for faster global certification.

PRC Semi progress beating western analysts of catchup, instead of 10 years to EUV they're looking ~7/8 years. Again global semi supply chain is just a handful of countries with fraction population as PRC. And all western semi players projected to have talent shortage in the 100,000s, so that moving goal post likely going to move slower and slower vs PRC convergence.

Semi easier medium/long term problem since PRC _only_ country projected without semi talent shortage, i.e. current trends and forces point to inevitable convergence and PRC.

Ironically aviation harder problem because exporting outside of PRC market is matter of geopolitics vs pure technical/state capacity.

Looking at trend lines, west simply not capable of staying ahead.
by sigseg1v | 2026-02-09 18:31:31+00:00
I have an engineering degree but don't call myself an engineer because it's illegal to do so in my country unless I hold a PEng.

That aside, I fail to see how code where I have reviewed every single line, tested all edge cases as normal, had 2 other devs also test this, had a QA test, and had a PO run and approve the behaviour as "rolling the dice" but you're entitled to your opinion.
by raviisoccupied | 2026-02-09 18:31:54+00:00
I have been working on a web app called Beval - Simple evaluations for your AI product.

In my day to day as a Product Manager working in a team that ships AI products, I often found myself wanting to do 'quick and dirty' LLM based evaluation on conversation transcripts and traces. I found myself blocked by 'Gemini in Google Sheets', it was too slow and cumbersome, and it didn't handle eval changes well. And because I was exploring, it wasn't helpful to try and set up something more robust with the team.

To fix the problem I eventually learned to call the OpenAI API in python, but I really felt that I wanted a 'product' to help me and potentially help others.

So this weekend I built https://beval.space
by kazinator | 2026-02-09 18:32:05+00:00
Generators don't have to put out portable code. You document what compilers are required for the output and that's something you can change with any given release of your generator. Then the generated code uses whatever works with those compilers. If you use the output with some other compiler, then that's undefined behavior w.r.t. the documentation of the generator; you are on your own. "Whatever works" could be something undocumented that works de facto.
by MichaelRo | 2026-02-09 18:32:22+00:00
Strange that noone noticed the article saying "Nobody said 'Google did it for me' or 'it was the top result so it must be true.'"

Because they did. They were the quintessential "Can I haz teh codez" Stack Overflow "programmer". Most of them, third world. Because that's where surviving tomorrow trumps everything today.

Now, the "West" has caught up. Like they did with importing third world into everything.

Which makes me optimistic. Only takes keeping composure a few more years until the house of cards disintegrates. Third world and our world is filled to the brim with people who would take any shortcut to avoid work. Shitting where they eat. Littering the streets, rivers, everywhere they live with crap that you throw out today because tomorrow it's another's problem.

Welcome to third world in software engineering!

Only it's not gonna last. Either will turn back to engineering or turn to third world as seemingly everything lately in the Western world.

There's still hope though, not everybody is a woke indoctrinated imbecile.
by infecto | 2026-02-09 18:32:39+00:00
Have you used one of these apps before? They capture a lot more than emergency stops, what I would classify as the above normal brake effort but not hard braking. Im sure the data exist to set the cutoff but its a lot more than “jam your foot on the pedal braking”.

It’s still out of the norm braking for my style of driver but from what I see on the road, people drive aggressively like this. Especially in the US.
by apparent | 2026-02-09 18:32:39+00:00
If you're talking about CA's state laws, you're right that they supersede local laws. You'll notice that I used the word "should" in my comment, indicating a normative view. I think CA's state legislators have passed many laws that were unwise, including several that voters have had to undo via constitutional amendments.

While I would place state laws passed by popular vote above local laws passed by popular vote, I would say that laws passed by representatives, without much awareness of voters that this was their intention, should not necessarily be put above local laws passed by voters themselves.
by yial | 2026-02-09 18:33:14+00:00
It doesn’t - but people don’t necessarily make rational choices regarding speed and driving. There’s a tendency to de personalize other drivers.

A slight increase in average speed really only makes a significant difference over long drives. (5 mph increase over a 10 hour drive can cut off 50 minutes).

Otherwise we are talking about small differences in efficiency.

(I would be very open to another opinion here.).

My opinions are formed by nearly ~2 million miles driven at this point, two different driving courses, and the motorcycle safety course.

One thing I truly think that’s overlooked is how reduced road noise in the vehicle cabin can both reduce driver fatigue, but also frustration in traffic.
by Herring | 2026-02-09 18:33:19+00:00
Yes, because you don't understand them. That's basically the difference between Western and Eastern style religions. Here it's not a theory, it's a path. It's about you. When she writes “To light a candle is to cast a shadow”, what does that mean to you? How does that affect the way you live your life? Your relationship with others? To take it as a simple "message" is like going to the gym to stare at the weights.
by geboss | 2026-02-09 18:33:22+00:00
Fair point. When I said “operating system,” I meant that car buying today is super fragmented. Most people end up juggling a bunch of tabs and tools at once, plus a bunch of calls.

What I’m trying to build with Vehique is to put all that in one place. Users just describe what they want, it searches live inventory, finds matches, tracks new listings daily, and lets you compare cars side by side. When they’re ready to buy, we help with dealer communication via AI-assisted calls.

I’m trying to make it so you don’t need to visit other tabs or make calls anymore, by bringing the whole journey into one interface.

But yeah, “operating system” might be too much. Maybe “the only tab you need” is more honest. What would you call it?
by pixl97 | 2026-02-09 18:33:28+00:00
>Does everything I just rambled about matter? Do 99% of city-builder players care what shape the corner radius of the intersection has? Most likely, no. Then why bother?

To me, yes, then again I may end up with a basement full of model trains when I'm old.

Still annoys me to no end when the game model builds something unrealistic and would be an absolute traffic nightmare in the real world.
by imglorp | 2026-02-09 18:34:15+00:00
I'm pretty sure they don't GAF about GH uptime as long as they can keep training models on it (0.5 /s), but Azure is revenue friction so might be a real problem.

Something this week about "oops we need a quality czar":
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46903802
by asveikau | 2026-02-09 18:34:26+00:00
> I vaguely remember hearing about someone trying to use .Net in the Windows kernel.

Microsoft did that, it was called Longhorn. That release cycle was long delayed and they abandoned most of its ambitious projects, especially C# in the kernel, and the result was Windows Vista.

GC was not the only reason for the failure of that project. Someone could write a book about it. A lot of it was actually more about the organization of people. I also had heard from insiders that lack of ahead of time compilation was an issue. The other issue I remember hearing about was a complaint that Windows components were not layered cleanly and they ended up with circular dependencies when they tried to rewrite them.

I think it's possible to write a kernel with GC, and to still be judicious about memory usage with a GC language. And I say that as someone who happens to think that a big issue with modern software is that too many programmers are spending their whole education and career to depend on GC without thinking about it carefully. That is to say I'm already a skeptic of high-level languages and GC, but I will still afford that it is technically possible.
by dismalaf | 2026-02-09 18:34:43+00:00
> I doubt the monks realized the gravity of their choice so long ago.

I mean, the star chart was probably something equivalent to a text book for us. Many texts were uniquely preserved at St. Catherine's since they had Mohammed's letter of protection not to mention being a fortress in the middle of a desert.

At the time the monks probably thought it was a common enough text to not worry about.
by palmotea | 2026-02-09 18:35:07+00:00
> Originally from County Kilkenny, Culleton has lived in the US for more than 20 years, is married to a US citizen and runs a plastering business in the Boston area.

> ...

> Culleton said that when he was arrested he was carrying a Massachusetts driving licence and a valid work permit issued as part of an application for a green card that he initiated in April 2025. He has a final interview remaining.

Something doesn't add up. How do you live in the US for 20 years (I assuming doing plastering work), and only just apply for a green card? Is it common for people to get an H1-B or something like that for such work? Even so, I'd think it would be relatively easy for an Irish person to jump from that to a green card (unlike someone from India or China).
by gruez | 2026-02-09 18:35:20+00:00
>I think if people take out their phone and start pointing the camera at others in the changing room, most people would interpret that to not be ok and that's what we're discussing here.

Right, because there's very few plausible justifications for why someone would be aiming their phone in a changing room. The same doesn't apply to airpods.

>You're essentially setting the scene to where people cannot know if they're being recorded or not while a camera is always pointed at them. That's a problem. Least of all because law enforcement will need to investigate to determine if the law was broken on each complaint.

Is there any indication that you'll be able to get a video feed from airpods? If not, and you basically have to jailbreak them to do surreptitious recordings, what makes them more or less notable than all the other spy cameras you can get today and are more or less tolerated by the authorities?

>"But internal processing!" isn't quite the slam dunk defense you seem to think it is. It won't work like that in the real world, people being recorded while changing won't care about that distinction.

Do you think it's some outrageous breach of privacy that face id (and similar face scanning technologies) are constantly on the lookout for faces, including in bathrooms?
by robocat | 2026-02-09 18:35:55+00:00
> customer pain > driving away your customers > company death

You are implying efficient market theory, which is bunk.

Example: Our banks have endless painful papercuts yet most of us don't change banks just because of one pain.

We each respond to our own complex of costs and benefits (or risks versus rewards).

Second example: I use an iPhone because I judge it to be more secure yet I'm constantly fighting the same bugs and misfeatures that seem to never get fixed/improved.

Your chain of reasoning is broken? Or is it your model of the world?
by wk_end | 2026-02-09 18:36:44+00:00
I think you're (understandably) interpreting "technocrat" differently than what the author intends and what it's historically meant.

Technocrats form the foundation of the so-called "deep state" that Trump rails against: unelected bureaucrats - scientists, economists, doctors, researchers, engineers, statisticians - controlling low-level government policy (ideally) on the basis of data and knowledge of their particular field.

What it doesn't mean is "a government run on the insane whims of coked-up techno-utopian billionaire tech CEOs", which is what the current right seems to be interested in.
by alex1138 | 2026-02-09 18:36:50+00:00
You can, of course, not do this (you meaning the company, Discord)

You can choose to be respectful of people who have valid reasons for not providing ID

But you want that sweet IPO money (as stated elsewhere in this thread). You don't actually care about the internet and how anonymity is a cool thing for certain vulnerable groups

All these tech CEOs should face prison time and I'm not joking. They've displayed a complete laissez faire attitude to all of these concerns
by infecto | 2026-02-09 18:37:07+00:00
No doubt but I think it’s two fold. Lights stink in that so many are setup not for safety so they rip through the yellow quick as possible. Second, I don’t think of these as hard breaking even but I am sure from a data perspective the cutoff is probably correct. Hard invokes a vision of an emergency brake event. These apps really capture any medium to hard brake event.
by jama211 | 2026-02-09 18:37:12+00:00
Running it entirely unsupervised with “some refactoring principles” is the exact recipe for such a disaster, which supports my point.

That said, this is a very different kind of mistake to make compared to overwriting a file and then insisting it didn’t do that. Any modern model with reasoning would check the git history immediately if you mentioned this had happened, if it had somehow even made the mistake in the first place, but I digress.
by jauntywundrkind | 2026-02-09 18:37:25+00:00
Wrong. Journalists have an obligation to favor the truth.

If a party is not being honest or truthful, they should disfavor that party very strongly. That party is acting against the spirit of what journalism ought to be about, and is making itself a traitor to democracy, the people, and journalists.

The WaPo lost significant double digit percent of subscribers because it spiked a Kamala endorsement. That was a clear and obvious and correct position to take, and that favoring was objectively clear a choice. Sitting on the fence pretending like both parties are equal is a great misdeed sometimes. Your obligation as journalists does include assessing & grasping a situation; it's more than being a steganographer for both sides, it does mean actually considering and helping shape opinion to steer people away from lies and misportrayals, it involves reminding people of whatever downsides they are at length.
by OkayPhysicist | 2026-02-09 18:37:43+00:00
A national curriculum is a deeply suspicious idea. The US has an insane range of socioeconomic, and thus educational, environments, ranging from high-performing states like Massachusetts, to deeply alarmingly under-performing states like West Virginia. Any standard that could be established would at best suffer from being either unreachable with the resources available on the low end, or a pointless bureaucratic headache for states that would completely eclipse it.

At worst, it would become a cudgel to be used by federal governments sympathetic to the over-represented and under-educated states against the ones that actually provide value to the nation and an education to their residents.
by tharmas | 2026-02-09 18:37:59+00:00
Don't forget the people who voted for "Get the Government off the [rich] people's back". Ronald Reagan and every subsequent government since. Neoliberalism. The rest of the Anglosphere followed suit.

It (Neoliberalism) was supposed to re-energize American Capitalism. Instead it gave birth to Rentier-Capitalism. See Brett Christophers for a more detailed analysis.