MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by robocat | 2026-02-11 02:54:06+00:00
My point is that your opinions are not universal facts. Some of what you say might be true for the US, and we've heard of other countries with severe issues due to immigration. But your opinions appear to me to be just anti-immigrant.

Australia and especially New Zealand use immigration to help their economies and while that can cause problems, those problems have mostly been addressed over time. We are using immigration as a bandaid to help fix the demographic problem of too many retirees versus not enough workers. Many countries have the same problem, and the problem is getting worse as people choose not to have children. It is an unstable workaround given that those immigrants eventually become retirees. But it is a functional workaround.

Over the last decade, New Zealand’s housing stock has grown by approximately 16% (mostly through densification). I believe Australia is similar. The US administration or culture seems to lack the ability to do the same, but other countries are managing to do it so that's where it look for reasons why.

> That is such a ridiculously foolish mindset

No need to be rude. I have given you examples of how New Zealand and Australia have mostly successfully dealt with immense immigration. This is fact not fantasy.
by tavavex | 2026-02-11 02:54:42+00:00
I don't understand. In this hypothesis, in the elite's view, what is the purpose of the rest of society? If everyone has little to no productive output, why would they support us with a UBI? They could just hire whatever human skeleton crew they'd need to sustain their activities (if needed). The rest of humanity will either be mercifully left alone with absolutely nothing, or annihilated.
by adrianwaj | 2026-02-11 02:55:42+00:00
Big market. Good luck with that. How will it be hosted? Who will implement it?

Would you follow the Red Hat business model? https://gemini.google.com/share/2825b8ff67d6

Part open / part paid closed-source?
Fully open and charge on consulting/customization?

How will you stop LLMs from recreating it?
by linkregister | 2026-02-11 02:55:44+00:00
Are we really recreating elementary education from first principles here? American public education has always followed an instructor -> pupil format, beginning in New England for bible reading, accounting, and manufacturing.

There are probably some Montessori schools that opt for other formats, but I doubt that children are set up for success by neglecting math or other topics they are uninterested in. I would wager that even Montessori schools require study of the core tested curriculum.

If you have ever been a guest teacher then you would observe that a substantial minority of students must be guided to pay attention to the material. Autodidacts are not representative of the majority of people.

Re: sports: all things have negative aspects to them. Being a grump to such an extent as to discount all positive culturally cohesive aspects of a largely benign activity is a suboptimal way to live life. Choosing to build on commonalities in a community leads to better outcomes. Believing sports to be a net bad activity is a single-digit percentage minority opinion.
by aeneasmackenzie | 2026-02-11 02:55:47+00:00
I hold that the discovery of computation was as significant as the set theory paradoxes and should have produced a similar shift in practice. No one does naive set theory anymore. The same should have happened with classical mathematics but no one wanted to give up excluded middle, leading to the current situation. Computable reals are the ones that actually exist. Non-computable reals (or any other non-computable mathematical object) exist in the same way Russel’s paradoxical set exists, as a string of formal symbols.

Formal reasoning is so powerful you can pretend these things actually exist, but they don’t!

I see you are already familiar with subcountability so you know the rest.
by vunderba | 2026-02-11 02:56:26+00:00
That's definitely true, and the medium also really makes a big difference as well (photorealism, digital painting, watercolor, etc.).

Though in some cases, it is a bit easier to fix visual artifacts (using second-pass refiners, Img2Img, ultimate upscale, stylistic LoRAs, etc.) than a fundamental coherency problem.
by cedws | 2026-02-11 02:56:46+00:00
This is a shame, I’ve been running Bazzite on my gaming PC since Christmas and have been pretty happy with it. To the honest I don’t really care who is at fault, I don’t want the maintainers of my OS to be a drama show, so I’ll probably switch to Cachy. Building my own image would be cool but it’s not high on my list of priorities.
by whatl3y | 2026-02-11 02:57:11+00:00
Smart search engine for the Epstein files from the DOJ built on a RAG pipeline that indexes and makes them searchable via natural language (i.e. LLM style). Documents (PDFs, HTML, images) go through text extraction with OCR as a fallback for scanned pages, then get sliced into ~500-token chunks with 50-token overlap. Each chunk gets a metadata prefix baked in (document title, source section) before being embedded into 1536-dimensional vectors through OpenAI's text-embedding-3-small. Those vectors live in PostgreSQL with pgvector, sitting behind an HNSW index with ef_search cranked to 400 (default is 40, which misses too much).

Queries hit the same embedding model, and the system pulls the top-K most similar chunks by cosine distance. There's a hybrid search mode too: it over-fetches 5x candidates from the vector index in parallel with keyword search (full-text search via a GIN-indexed tsvector column, falling back to trigram ILIKE when FTS returns few results). Results are merged using a slot reservation system: 60% of the final top-K comes from vector results ranked by cosine similarity, with up to 40% reserved for keyword-only matches that the vector search missed. Retrieved chunks get stuffed into a prompt with source metadata and sent to Claude Sonnet or GPT-4o with instructions to cite sources in bracket notation.

On the backend, pub-sub workers handle the indexing pipeline: text extraction, chunking, batch embedding in groups of 100, and firing off face detection through AWS Rekognition on images pulled from PDFs (very good in some cases, not so much in others). The query endpoint is free with some rate limiting, but also sits behind x402 micropayments ($0.50) that bypass rate limits when valid (it's not cheap to run these queries as of now). There's also an MCP server so AI agents can query directly as a tool.

Built with the help of Claude, so some of the tech (RAG via LLM, pgvector, etc.) is newish to me. Was a fun exercise!
by gsf_emergency_6 | 2026-02-11 02:57:54+00:00
To be a bit meta using anecdotes:

US pipeline for metallurgical R&D broken (by financial/cultural incentives)

This guy studied metallurgy in Carleton U, Canada, switched to CS, founded YC, emotionalized the decision

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39600555

Who knows, he might have become John Carmack's John Carmack, building rockets better than Carmack or Elon
by MBCook | 2026-02-11 02:57:55+00:00
In my mind vigilante implies actually doing something to the criminal above and beyond documenting what they’re doing.

“a member of a volunteer committee organized to suppress and punish crime summarily (as when the processes of law are viewed as inadequate)”

That’s from Miriam Webster. I’d say he isn’t punishing crime, I could see an argument that he’s suppressing it, but it doesn’t really fit my normal view of the word.
by csomar | 2026-02-11 02:58:28+00:00
The fact that Asean and India did it, just like that, shows that the technical difficulty is no longer the issue.

Visa and Mastercard exists because of US hegemony. The Europeans just put their heads in the sand for a long time and accepted the "superiority" of American payment solutions because it benefited their geopolitical play at the time.

Some sources (Old and New):

- https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/exclusive-visa-comp...

- https://jakartaglobe.id/business/indonesia-expands-qris-reac...

- https://www.china-briefing.com/news/wto-china-unionpay-rulin...

- https://valorinternational.globo.com/foreign-affairs/news/20...
by smt88 | 2026-02-11 02:58:43+00:00
- Reduced demand on emergency rooms and other limited medical resources

- Decreased insurance claims, which are paid for by other patients in the form of premium increases

- Prevented burdens on taxpayers from illness or premature deaths of workers (welfare payments, orphanned children, lawsuits, etc.)

No one in a developed, Western society is an island. They borrow from society in childhood and pay society back as an adult. And they use common resources like drugs, hospitals, and (in the case of insurance) risk.
by slg | 2026-02-11 02:58:45+00:00
>who do you think ICE is going to look for?

They should do some actually police work. This kind of "Papers, please" approach to immigration enforcement is dystopian. If you genuinely feel that illegal immigration is a problem that needs to be fixed, attack it systemically. Go through government, business, and housing records, find people who aren't here legally, and then go detain them. Don't just round people up based on nothing but their ethnicity and make them prove their innocence to you. It's inherently unAmerican, at least according to the ideals we like to claim we have (even if our history often falls of those ideals).

>but they do arrest a significant amount of those as well.

Then arrest those people who commit crimes. If these people are guilty of something, why is ICE the one rounding them up? Why isn't the FBI or local police? If this is all motivated by a desire for lower crime, why are we treating it as an immigration issue instead of a crime issue?
by cyrusradfar | 2026-02-11 02:58:58+00:00
I don't have a strong view on whether this vaccine should be approved.

I do have a strong view that "we agreed to your trial design, then rejected your filing for the trial design" is not how a functioning regulatory process works.

The stated rationale -- wrong comparator vaccine for seniors -- is thin when you read the details. Moderna says FDA agreed to their trial design in 2024.

As recently as August, FDA indicated they'd review the filing and assess comparator issues during that process. Now it's a refusal-to-file.

I did some research and found a refusal-to-file letters hit about 4% of submissions.

For vaccines specifically, after years of sponsor-FDA dialogue, it's genuinely rare. The FDA didn't cite safety concerns. Didn't cite efficacy concerns. Just: wrong comparator.

Meanwhile Prasad's internal memo last year killed the streamlined flu approval process that's worked for decades — prompting a dozen former FDA commissioners to publicly object.

EU, Canada, and Australia accepted the same application. Not to claim they can't be wrong but...American biotech, built here, approved everywhere else first.

Doesn't feel like a win.
by nerdsniper | 2026-02-11 03:00:27+00:00
Hims offered semaglutide for $99/month. That’s a 90% discount on unsubsidized consumer prices for injectable semaglutide. I also don’t see any evidence that they sold a placebo, but I’m just catching up now, perhaps I missed where they’re selling something with a different active ingredient which does not work.
by threethirtytwo | 2026-02-11 03:00:36+00:00
No this is false. No one understands. Using big words doesn’t change the fact that you cannot explain for any given input output pair how the LLM arrived at the answer.

Every single academic expert who knows what they are talking about can confirm that we do not understand LLMs. We understand atoms and we know the human brain is made 100 percent out of atoms.we may know how atoms interact and bond and how a neuron works but none of this allows us to understand the brain. In the same way we do not understand LLMs.

Characterizing ML as some statistical approximation or best fit curve is just using an analogy to cover up something we don’t understand. Heck the human brain can practically be characterized by the same analogies. We. Do. Not. Understand. LLMs. Stop pretending that you do.
by ggm | 2026-02-11 03:00:53+00:00
I want to believe the FDA did a non-political thing here, and it's an argument about marginal benefits in the 40,000 patient survey, against methodology issues had they used the vax recommended for over 65s. Just 'you didn't test best in breed with your new better in breed'

But, I suspect thats not whats going on. I truly suspect, even though its conspiracy theory, they wanted a flex as the vaccine approvals board, and this is the flex they chose.

I don't respect this approvals board. I think its stacked.
by superkuh | 2026-02-11 03:00:56+00:00
And this is a prime example of development-centric thinking prioritizing developer comfort over the capabilities and usability of the actual software. Rather than targeting stable older feature sets it's always targeting the bleeding edge and then being confused that this doesn't work on machines that aren't their own and then blaming everyone else for their decision. 4 years is not a long time (LTS). 4 years is the minimum that software should be able to live.
by Telemakhos | 2026-02-11 03:01:02+00:00
I never sent root over telnet, but I spent too much vacation time browsing the web via lynx on my school AIX account from a library near my parents' home, because it had a telnet client in addition to the card catalogue program on the otherwise locked down desktop. It was just a more innocent time: you didn't assume your traffic was being logged six ways to Sunday. With telnet access to my AIX account, I could do all the internet things, like mail (pine) and the web (lynx) and irc, from a convenient command line anywhere in the world.
by 7e | 2026-02-11 03:02:05+00:00
Length and width wise, it's smaller than a Model Y. It's deceptively styled to look a big boy car, but it's a matchbox. That's why no reviewers will show themselves or anyone else towering over it. It's for those who want a big car, but without all that space. Rivian calls it a mid-size SUV, but that is straight up bullshit.
by emmelaich | 2026-02-11 03:03:10+00:00
I do not think Feynman was celebrating his activity in the book. From memory, he learnt the behaviour from other bar flies at the bars he hung out. And he expressed his surprise at how some women reacted. This was far from his upbringing and his experience with his fiancee.

The behaviour is hardly laudable, but "celebrated" it is not.
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by brokerjames | 2026-02-11 03:03:36+00:00
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It's currently in Beta. We are still tuning the parsing logic for edge cases in SEC filings.
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by hn_throwaway_99 | 2026-02-11 03:03:37+00:00
Man, these "hot takes" on the impact of AI are all becoming so tiring. I'm especially sick of all these "code was always the easy part" missives I see everywhere now, mostly because I think they're flat out wrong.

As another comment said, "easy can still be time consuming". I've seen plenty of projects that were well defined take months in implementation time (and then still sometimes fail for technical reasons). But most importantly, if "code were the easy part", why were top programmers receiving kingly wages for over 20 years? Because business people knew the difference between a successful tech company and an also-ran usually was, in huge part, due to the quality of their software engineers. If "code was the easy part", then you go write Google Maps in 2005, or Netflix streaming in 2007, or self driving cars in 2010, or, heck, ChatGPT in 2022.

Sure, good code for a bad product still fails, but this revisionist history trying to pretend coding was so easy, so LLM-assisted coding tools won't have a big impact, is nauseating.
by iambateman | 2026-02-11 03:03:43+00:00
The R2 was the first time I seriously thought about spending up on a vehicle.

It looks good.

But $45k++ is just wild to me. It seems like the market is undervaluing used EV’s, so hopefully the depreciation curve will bring these down to $30k in a couple years for us old-school folks who prefer not to have a $1000/mo car loan.
by threethirtytwo | 2026-02-11 03:03:59+00:00
LLMs are deterministic simply because computers are at the core deterministic machines. LLMs run on computers and therefore are deterministic. The random number generator is an illusion and an LLM that utilizes it will produce the same illusion of indeterminism. Find the seed and the right generator and you can make an LLM consistently produce the same output from identical input.

Despite determinism, we still do not understand LLMs.
by bee_rider | 2026-02-11 03:04:28+00:00
Hmm. Actually, I think the suggestion of a law puts this whole thing on bad footing where we need to draw an otherwise unnecessary line (to denote where this type of rhetoric should be legal). I suspect XorNot just put the line there because the idea that true statements should be illegal just seems silly.

Really it just ought to be a thing that we identify as a thought-terminating cliche. No laws needed, let’s just not fall for a lazy trick. Whether or not it is true that lots of people agreed, that isn’t a good argument that they are right.

The case of Nixon really brings that out. The “Silent Majority” was used to refer to people who didn’t protest the Vietnam War. Of course, in retrospect the Vietnam War was pretty bad. Arguing that it was secretly popular should have not been accepted as a substitute for an argument that it was good.
by otterley | 2026-02-11 03:04:35+00:00
Those alternatives are not worldwide payment networks with near-universal acceptance. They’re scoped much smaller. Even then, those independent efforts have either been implemented by law as a political strategic measure or are subsidized. They wouldn’t exist but for those supporting elements. Having federated payment networks may be good politics, but it’s not particularly efficient and it impedes world trade.

At any rate, making someone who haughtily trivializes a problem solve that same problem is a useful exercise both in the complexity of the subject matter, and—perhaps more importantly—in humility.
by cubefox | 2026-02-11 03:05:42+00:00
I was disappointed when Imagen 4 (and therefore also Nano Banana Pro, which clearly uses Imagen 4 internally to some degree) had a significantly stronger tendency to drift from photorealism to AI fake aesthetics than Imagen 3. This suggests there is a tradeoff between prompt following and avoiding slop style. Perhaps this is also part of the reason why Midjourney isn't good at prompt following.
by alsetmusic | 2026-02-11 03:05:45+00:00
Rightwing propaganda in the USA is part of a concerted effort by the Heritage Foundation, the Powell Memo, Fox News, and supporting players. These things are well understood by researchers and journalists who have produced copious documentation in the form of articles, books, podcast series, etc.

One excellent example is available here[0] in a series by the Lever called Master Plan. According to their website, a book has been written broadening the discussion.

They have played us for fools and evidence of their success is all over the news and our broken society. It's outrageous because none of this was by accident or chance. Forces didn't magically come together in a soup that turned out this way.

0. https://the.levernews.com/master-plan/
by Bender | 2026-02-11 03:06:25+00:00
As a mitigating control one can mount the thumbnails directory as tmpfs accepting that it can grow rather large so one must calculate what size to set that tmpfs mount. Also tmpfs is swap backed so one would have to disable disk based swap and use zram or just dont have swap if memory permits. Be sure to set the owner and group to that user or use autofs with variables.
by satvikpendem | 2026-02-11 03:07:53+00:00
Unimpressive doesn't mean incorrect, sometimes it's good to take the side of the most probable. And yet at the same time I am reminded of this quote:

> The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. - George Bernard Shaw
by BobbyTables2 | 2026-02-11 03:08:29+00:00
Well they are being exploited for potentially illegal purposes.

Forget self driving cars for a minute. If Domino’s wants to deliver a pizza to me, the delivery car driver needs to be licensed (pretty much in that state).

It doesn’t matter even if Domino’s extends some sort of liability insurance. Laws are laws. Legally driver must be licensed. It doesn’t matter if they drive while on a speakerphone call with a licensed driver.

It also wouldn’t matter if the delivery driver had no license but carried a licensed passenger at all times. It wouldn’t matter even if the passenger owned the car.

Having a person drive a car in a country in which they are not licensed to drive seems fundamentally illegal. It’s not a technology issue. It doesn’t matter if there are sensors and satellite links involved. The driver must be licensed.

Somehow society had decided in favor of a little convenience to forget all principles and let tech companies run roughshod over laws, societal norms, and basic human decency.

This is worse than the 1970s mentality of “if it came from the computer it must be correct”. Now it is AI…
by skissane | 2026-02-11 03:08:45+00:00
Currently minimum 4% of formal first preference votes, which gets you $3.499 per a first preference vote (indexed to inflation every six months)

Then you automatically get paid the first $12,791, and the rest of the funding is by reimbursement of substantiated election expenses.

This is per a candidate (lower house) or per a group (upper house). And this is just federal elections - state election funding is up to each state, but I believe the states have broadly similar funding systems.

https://www.aec.gov.au/parties_and_representatives/public_fu...

https://www.aec.gov.au/Parties_and_Representatives/public_fu...

Note the US also has public financing for presidential campaigns, which is available to minor parties once they get 5% or more of the vote. But in the 2024 election, Jill Stein (Green Party) came third on 0.56% of the popular vote. The only third party to ever qualify for general election public funding was the Reform Party due to Ross Perot getting 18.9% in the 1992 election and 8.4% in the 1996 election. There is also FEC funding for primary campaigns, and I believe that’s easier for third parties to access, but also less impactful.
by threethirtytwo | 2026-02-11 03:08:55+00:00
It’s no longer a break through because the breakthrough already happened. Everything subsequent to LLMs is an incremental increase in optimization and not a breakthrough. Even if some breakthrough occurs it will be dragged through shit and ridiculed for being overused for generating slop.

Smartphones required zero breakthroughs. It’s just existing technology made smaller and more efficient. What changed is how we used technology. Under your reasoning dating apps would be a breakthrough.