MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by stetrain | 2026-02-11 19:07:17+00:00
Part of what has made modern EVs successful in the wider market is the connected navigation system that knows your battery level, current consumption, planned navigation route, and what charging stations are available along the way.

To have a decent travel experience in an EV you'd likely at least need this data ported out to your phone via an OBD adapter or CarPlay / Android Auto integration with an in-car infotainment display.
by roywiggins | 2026-02-11 19:07:26+00:00
I think most people feel differently about an emergent failure in a model vs one that's been deliberately engineered in for ideological reasons.

It's not like Chinese models just happen to refuse to talk about the topic, it trips guardrails that have been intentionally placed there, just as much as Claude has guardrails against telling you how to make sarin gas.

eg ChatGPT used to have an issue where it steadfastly refused to make any "political" judgments, which led it to genocide denial or minimization- "could genocide be justifiable" to which sometimes it would refuse to say "no." Maybe it still does this, I haven't checked, but it seemed very clearly a product of being strongly biased against being "political", which is itself an ideology and worth talking about.
by lock1 | 2026-02-11 19:07:43+00:00
> Or is a big part of this concept only relevant for strong functional languages with sum types and pattern matching?

It need not strictly be a pure functional language for type-driven style to be usable. Type-driven style only requires the fact that some type cannot be assigned to another type, so it's kind of possible to do even in a language like C, as `int a = (struct Foo) {};` would get rejected by C compilers.

However, I don't think it's doable in languages with structural type systems like Typescript or Go's interface without a massive ergonomic hit for minimal gain. Languages with a structural type system are deliberately designed to remove the intentionality of "type T cannot be assigned to type S" in exchange for developer ergonomics.

> However, is there a similar article but written with more common languages (C#, C++, Java, Go) in mind?

For C#, there's F#-focused article, which I believe some of it can be applied to C# as well:

F# - Railway Oriented Programming - https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/rop/

F# - Designing with Types - https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/series/designing-with-type...

For modern Java, there is some attempt at popularizing "Data-Oriented Programming" which just rebranded "Type-driven design". Surprisingly, with JDK 21+, type-driven style is somewhat viable there, as there is algebraic data type via `record` + `sealed` and exhaustive pattern match & destructuring.

Inside Java Blog - Data-Oriented Programming - https://inside.java/2024/05/23/dop-v1-1-introduction/

Infoq - Data-Oriented Programming - https://www.infoq.com/articles/data-oriented-programming-jav...

For Rust, due to the new mechanics introduced by its affine type system, there is much more flexibility in what you could express in Rust types compared to more common languages.

Rust - Typestate Pattern - https://cliffle.com/blog/rust-typestate/

Rust - Newtype - https://rust-unofficial.github.io/patterns/patterns/behaviou...
by heywoods | 2026-02-11 19:07:50+00:00
https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/24537

Seems like a dashboard mode toggle to run in a dedicated terminal would be a good candidate to move some of this complexity Anthropic seems to think “most” users can’t handle. When your product is increasing cognitive load the answer isn’t always to remove the complexity entirely. That decision in this case was clearly the wrong one.
by rsrsrs86 | 2026-02-11 19:08:27+00:00
It’s convoluted because it’s slop. You can’t even be sure the text came out as intended. It is full of GPT style markers that tell me the author wasn’t careful enough in review. Jolting bullets in markdown and asking for a full article is not good enough for publication. It’s today’s version of let me google that for you. No one publishes half ass markdown notes for a reason. Asking LLM to finish it doesn’t cut it.
by ShamLegacyTldr | 2026-02-11 19:09:01+00:00
> Not exactly in the spirit of intellectual curiosity HN tries to foster.

I could not disagree more. If you don't see how a comprehensive, warts and all look at the man's life and legacy doesn't add context and foster curiosity, I'm not even sure what to tell you.

It didn't derail the conversation, it expanded it. There's still plenty of discussion about the lectures. This isn't even particularly close to the top of the thread.

What's opposed to curious discussion is knee jerk reactions and middlebrow dismissals.
by colinsane | 2026-02-11 19:09:11+00:00
Windows and other OSes have application launchers that open whatever app you want, and those apps may have issues that cause it to download and run arbitrary code. if that's the logic here, then every application launcher is vulnerable to similar RCE.

if there's really nothing more to this 8.8 RCE CVE than that, this will finally be the thing that's makes me blackhole cve.org.
by locusofself | 2026-02-11 19:09:29+00:00
Working at Microsoft, I've just now hooked up to Claude Code (my department was not permitted to use it previously), through something called "Agent Maestro", a vscode extension which I guess pipes claude code API requets to our internally hosted Claude models, including Opus 4.6.

I do wonder if there is going to be much of a difference between using Claude Code vs. Copilot CLI when using the same models.
by qwerpy | 2026-02-11 19:09:37+00:00
Agree, many of my peers are on track to reach financial independence around 45. No compromises needed: Nice large home, good schools, safe neighborhood, plenty left over for luxuries and travel. I don’t know of anywhere else in the world where fairly normal but hard-working people can reliably do this (provided you got lucky enough to get hired at and survive a FAANG for ~10 years).

From here we can then move to a lower CoL place or stay put, whatever makes sense for our families.
by philistine | 2026-02-11 19:09:55+00:00
What are you talking about? The WiiU sold like crap! It was a disaster! And a big reason it was a disaster was because the Wii itself was not selling anymore. It was over and out, people were fed up with it. Nintendo is a very very very bad economic indicator, they're on their own planet, and they're far from selling nostalgia. They're selling well known characters in new environments. They completely redesigned Donkey Kong, that's not what a company coasting on nostalgia would do!
by phendrenad2 | 2026-02-11 19:09:56+00:00
I'm not familiar with Nest, if you don't have a subscription to store video, and someone rings your doorbell, and you take 5 seconds to bring it up in the app, can you scroll back and see those 5 seconds? Or is it literally a feed from the camera to the app over bluetooth? Probably not. The video stream probably gets sent to some backend system and, while she didn't pay for storage, it probably persists for a few hours to days in cache.
by Brian_K_White | 2026-02-11 19:10:01+00:00
I tried "DHO804" (a popular oscilloscope that has printable accessories), got all screws.

Ok too niche, except that's exactly the use-case as I see it so if that's too niche then what good is it? Whatever call it pre-alpha poc and move on...

Tried "grommet", got all finger rings. Closer but not close enough to be useful. It wasn't a mix of ringular-shaped objects including grommets, and grommets aren't only round either. None of the rings were even slightly grommet shaped, purely tori and belts, some with add-ons and cut-outs.

Perhaps it needs a couple orders of magnitude more input samples before it becomes useful. And by "useful" I do mean even just as a proof of concept, because I don't see any concept proven here.
by matthewdgreen | 2026-02-11 19:10:22+00:00
Because there's a good chance it does have something to do with Trump? Gallup has Federal contracts, which means that a vindictive administration could potentially hold them hostage for reporting bad approval numbers. Eliminating their famous (yet inconvenient) poll removes that threat. This is more or less why the Washington Post is being destroyed, as well.

The company's own explanation is a pile of Gish gallop.
by kommunicate | 2026-02-11 19:10:29+00:00
I realize there's only so much you can fit into an article, but this article glosses over a monumental shift in welfare spending in the US: the transition from defined benefit retirement plans to defined contribution. It's not so simple as a split between private and public directed asset allocation: it affects the growth of companies that offer these plans and the wealth of participants in the plans.

The US has pushed the burden of retirement onto individuals, hoping that the private sector will offer incentives like 401k matching and generous health care plan subsidies, but this is a fundamental difference in who qualifies, what they receive, and how it's funded. These effects compound wealth and income inequality. If, for whatever reason, you're locked out from a job that would help pay for these programs, there's no coming back. You are dependent on the government at the same time as the government is underfunding the program you rely on. It's not a great situation.
by bsimpson | 2026-02-11 19:10:29+00:00
It does look like Filament has a web target:

https://github.com/google/filament

but if they're targeting embedded systems, maybe they haven't prioritized a public web demo yet. If the bulk of the project is actually in C++, making a web demo probably involves a whole WASM side-quest. I suspect there's a different amount of friction between "I wanna open source this cool project we're doing" and "I wanna build a rendering target we won't use to make the README look better."
by birthdaywizard | 2026-02-11 19:10:43+00:00
Not every gas station, convenience store and pharmacy is stocked with aisle after aisle of cocaine. I don't know I would call it 'evil' but I agree it is a system most people are forced to exist in.

If we're appealing to authority, my mother, my father, and my sister are all highly accomplished doctors, and they believe GLP-1s will become part of a standard drug package to older adults like Statins because it's far more achievable than education we don't have and wouldn't work in the food system that exists in the US.
by balderdash | 2026-02-11 19:10:44+00:00
The key word your looking for is a "pac boot" depending on where you live you can get insulated, but honestly unless your live somewhere super cold and snowy, you probably don't need insulation. if you put on warm socks, keep snow out of them, are moving around, and aren't outside for hours on end you'll probably be fine even in really cold weather.
by bluGill | 2026-02-11 19:11:05+00:00
In the worst case no pension (either personal/private or public) is better than a pension. At least if you have no pension you got to use/spend your money today - it didn't go to whatever the corrupt pension manager did with your money.

Before pension reform in the US I had some distant relative who was laid off 3 months before his planed retirement when the company went bankrupt - it then came out the pension he was counting on was entirely invested in the now worthless company stock. This is the real risk you need to worry about if you have any form of pension.
by mothballed | 2026-02-11 19:11:10+00:00
Adam Smith had a bit of a Marxist view (though, he did come up with it first) on the land value of real property, considering deriving rent from it as "unearned" without labor, which looks a little too close to comfort to appealing to what we would call today the "labor theory of value" which we now know is a largely useless device for creating or observing markets intended to provide voluntary ~free exchange of the fruits of capital and labor.

Most modern capitalist views do not subscribe to labor theory of value or "earned" value. Though views on landlordism do originate more with Smith than with Marx, it's not wrong to also attribute many of those thoughts to Marx.
by mikkupikku | 2026-02-11 19:11:36+00:00
Decriminalization without legalization is something I can't support. If it's not illegal for me to have and use a drug, them why should I be forced to buy it from criminals? Either legalize it, or go whole hog on criminalizing it. Execute the dealers and put users into mandatory rehab, or let people buy it in shops. Any of these half measures are intolerable, they exist to make sure the situation is in a constant state of tension, to nobody's benefit but the governments.

Ideally we would pick one or the other on a drug by drug basis. Executing people for selling weed isn't something I actually want, but neither do I want them simply imprisoned or fined either. But with shit like fent? Trying to find a single policy to fit both drugs is inane.
by 12_throw_away | 2026-02-11 19:12:23+00:00
> How can I detect if my router is backdoored, or being used as a residential proxy?

Aside from the obvious smoke tests (are settings changing without your knowledge? Does your router expose access logs you can check?), I'm not sure there's any general purpose way to check, but 2 things you can do are:

1. search for your router's model number to see if it's known to be vulnerable, and replace it with a brand-new reputable one if so (and don't buy it from Amazon).

2. There are vendors out there selling "residential proxy IP databases", (e.g., [1]) no idea how good they are, but if you have a stable public IP address you could check whether you're on that.

[1] https://ipinfo.io/data/residential-proxy
by h4ch1 | 2026-02-11 19:12:28+00:00
I personally don't "hate" LLMs but I see the pattern of their usage as slightly alarming; but at the same time I see the appeal of it.

Offloading your thinking, typing all the garbled thoughts in your head with respect to a problem in a prompt and getting a coherent, tailored solution in almost an instant. A superpowered crutch that helps you coast through tiring work.

That crutch soon transforms into dependence and before you know it you start saying things like "Once you vibe code, you don't look at the code".
by scottyah | 2026-02-11 19:12:36+00:00
Yeah after my switch to Opus 4.6 I noticed a lot of this. I've been wary that eventually models are going to optimize for token usage increases, since that's how the company makes money. I told it to read the files in my directory (4 files, longest was like 380 lines) and caught it using 14 tool uses- including head -n 20 and tail -n 20 on a file. Definitely a what are you doing moment.
by tistoon | 2026-02-11 19:12:39+00:00
Interac strong? Are you serious? That thing can take up to 30 minutes to receive your money! (source: interac.ca)

<< Interac e-Transfer is a fast, secure and convenient way to send money to anyone in Canada using online banking. The participating bank or credit union transfers the funds using established and secure banking procedures. Transfers are almost instant, but can take up to 30 minutes depending on your bank or credit union. >>
by staticman2 | 2026-02-11 19:13:03+00:00
I've been doing small PDFs- usually 5 or 6 pages in length.

I never tested Gemini 3 PDF OCR compared to individual images but I can say it processes a small 6 page PDF better than the retired Gemini 1.5 or 2 did individual images.

I agree that OCR and analysis should be two separate steps.
by handedness | 2026-02-11 19:13:04+00:00
Clearly you also learned the messaging principles so clearly demonstrated in the great Basket of Deplorables debacle of 2016. Maybe you can be GGP's deputy.

Anyway, do you have a source for that? My understanding of American evangelical protestant theology is that they don't view rapture as triggerable in nature. Not being one, I can't state that confidently, so I'd love to see your source for your stats, and understand your definition of what it is they feel they can do to trigger rapture.
by bikenaga | 2026-02-11 19:13:54+00:00
"Abstract. A substantial share of workers are self-employed, but there is a dearth of data on heterogeneity in these work arrangements. To address this gap, the authors identify the variety of self-employment work arrangements in novel data produced using machine learning, leveraging 2003–2019 Panel Study of Income Dynamics respondents’ narrative descriptions of their industry, type of work, and employer names. The authors examine trends in the prevalence and nature of these forms of self-employment, transitions across them, and who works in them. Findings show disparate trends in the prevalence of different work arrangements and in transitions across work arrangements that would otherwise be masked. Further results suggest that the informally self-employed are less likely to have business assets, engage in more routine and less abstract skills on their jobs, are less educated, are less likely to be male and non-Hispanic White, have less labor income, and have worse well-being."

PhysOrg article: "Not all gigs are equal: Informal self-employment linked to lower pay, poorer health and instability" - https://phys.org/news/2026-02-gigs-equal-employment-linked-p...
by mac3n | 2026-02-11 19:13:57+00:00
see also Floyd Kemske, "Human Resources: A Corporate Nightmare"

https://archive.org/details/HumanResourcesPdf

> Corporate management is the use of humans as resources. So is vampirism.

>Biomethods, Inc. is a struggling biotechnology company whose venture capital group is growing tired of pumping in new blood every quarter.
by nilslindemann | 2026-02-11 19:14:02+00:00
This is also interesting regarding to how we treat animals. If a man can live like a normal human using just 10% of his brain, then it may be possible that an animal with a small brain may be much smarter than we thought, because it uses its brain more efficient. It may actually speak and think and whatnot, but we are not recognizing it. In other words, it may not be dumber, but just different. And then the fact that we kill or enslave it it is of course an ethical issue (it is anyway).
by CGMthrowaway | 2026-02-11 19:14:18+00:00
Looking at migration trends for billionaires (so not billionaire creators but rather billionaire magnets) over the last 30 or so years - synthesis of various sources:

Top attractors are London (non-dom era), Singapore, Dubai, Miami, Austin, SF, NYC, Hong Kong (pre-[1])

Top repellers/outmigration are London (post-abolition of non-dom), Moscow, Hong Kong (post-[1]), China, high-tax zones in Europe, India, developing nations

For places that are in both lists but at different times, you can see the massive impact of public policy (non-dom tax haven, Chinese hand)

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Hong_Kong_national_securi...
by _DeadFred_ | 2026-02-11 19:14:42+00:00
Imagine how quickly we could end the national debt if Americans weren't so stingy with their labor like this.

"Dr. Oz Says Americans Starting Work 'Right Out Of High School' Or Retiring One Year Later Would 'More Than Remove' The National Debt"

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/dr-oz-says-americans-starting...
by vintagedave | 2026-02-11 19:14:45+00:00
> That’s it. “Read 3 files.” Which files? Doesn’t matter. “Searched for 1 pattern.” What pattern? Who cares.

Product manager here. Cynically, this is classic product management: simplify and remove useful information under the guise of 'improving the user experience' or perhaps minimalism if you're more overt about your influences.

It's something that as an industry we should be over by now.

It requires deep understanding of customer usage in order not to make this mistake. It is _really easy_ to think you are making improvements by hiding information if you do not understand why that information is perceived as valuable. Many people have been taught that streamlining and removal is positive. It's even easier if you have non-expert users getting attention. All of us here at HN will have seen UIs where this has occurred.
by charcircuit | 2026-02-11 19:14:47+00:00
>Did companies actually send out memos saying "We're going to be a company that uses debuggers!"

I could believe it. Especially if there are big licensing costs for the debuggers.

>the people falling behind would adapt or die.

It is better to educate people, make them more efficient, and avoid having them die. Having employees die is expensive for the company.
by bluGill | 2026-02-11 19:15:45+00:00
As genX this was my experience too. The numbers have been clear for decades, SS is unlikely to be a great option by the time anyone working today gets it. (including people who retire in a month). Generally I think there will be SS when I'm old - but it will barely be enough to live on. I'm trying to save money so I can not only eat but also do other things I enjoy [that cost money] when I retire.
by maybelsyrup | 2026-02-11 19:15:53+00:00
Thanks for your comment!

I'm not the author, of course, so I can't say for certain that I have the most correct reading of it. But, if I'm reading your interpretation right, here's what I'd say:

The story analogizing women to land -- which has no voice, no agency, no mind -- is the critical part. If one is consensually "limiting public access" with another sentient human being, that's wonderful -- because you'd be doing that in dialogue, in true partnership, on the same footing, etc. "Hey, we're in a marriage now, that means we agree to not sleep with other people. Deal? Deal." I think the author (and certainly I) would heartily endorse that sort of "wanting some space that is public and some that is private".

The key word in your comment, to me, was "healthy" -- as in "healthy boundaries," and honest communication etc. You're right, it's not boundaries as such that describes abuse or even the entitlement on which abuse rests. It's the kind of boundaries.

What Bancroft is saying in the parable is that, if men see women as pieces of land -- private land, at that -- that they have a god-given right to, then anything healthy between men and women is by definition impossible. That's why, in the parable, the boy's compromises and concessions are in fact no such thing: because they're still founded on inhuman premises.

There are aspects of the parable here that the book goes into a lot more detail on -- male jealousy, in particular -- that overlap a lot with what you and me are talking about. I urge you to read it! The boy limiting public access on these entitled premises is what a lot of men will do, on either side of the "abuse" line: losing their shit when their attractive girlfriend, who they chose in part because of her attractiveness, goes out in public looking attractive, and he sees other people (other men) looking at her. Maybe next time he tells her "you're not wearing that outfit", thus "limiting public access" but not in the healthy sense that you mean it, because she's not treated as sentient, she's not part of a conversation. She's just coerced. (This is excused or minimized as "culture" or "values" by many!)

But again, if I'm reading you right, I think the part where you got lost is just that. Ironically, it's probably because you have a pretty healthy view of relationships that just how fucked up the boy in the story is confused you!

(If I haven't read you right, let me know.)
by nandomrumber | 2026-02-11 19:15:59+00:00
Absolutely, of course there are secenarios where it can work well.

Where it fails is when one major party is saying: we will drive up energy prices with Net Zero ideology, make housing unaffordable, import foreigners at a ratio of 5 to 1 local births…

And that other party is offering the same to a higher degree.

There are other options. Pauline Hanson’s One Nation party is polling strongly. Let’s see if that results in actual votes.

South Australian state election coming up 21st March this year - I’m encouraging everyone I know who lives there to at least listen to Michelle Grattan podcast.

https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/politics-with-michelle...