MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by exceptione | 2026-02-06 19:27:39+00:00
Even with Defender etc off, it is not fun. Lots of small file IO brings it on its knees. Some wants to blame the Windows I/O system, I don't know, but what I do know is that when people choose NTFS it is because they haven't an alternative. Nobody chooses it based on its quality attributes. I dare to say there is no NTFS system that is faster than an EXT4 system.

If even MS internal teams rather want to avoid it, it seems like it isn't a great offering. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41085376#41086062
by titzer | 2026-02-06 19:28:00+00:00
> but misses the mark

It doesn't match the pictures in your head, but it nevertheless does present a mental representation the author (and presumably some readers) find useful.

Instead of nitpicking, perhaps pointing to a better visualization (like maybe this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChfEO8l-fas) could help others learn. Otherwise it's just frustrating to read comments like this.
by randusername | 2026-02-06 19:28:25+00:00
> I'm a software craftsman

This perspective is why I think this article is so refreshing.

Craftsmen approach tools differently. They don't expect tools to work for them out-of-the-box. They customize the tool to their liking and reexamine their workflow in light of the tool. Either that or they have such idiosyncratic workflows they have to build their own tools.

They know their tools are custom to _them_. It would be silly to impose that everyone else use their tools-- they build different things!
by naravara | 2026-02-06 19:29:04+00:00
That seemed more like experimenting with interesting industrial design approaches and materials though. It’s not as much like, a very distinct side-hustle to design stuff that’s completely different.

They sort of do this with Beats as a parallel business to their own Apple speakers with products that aim at a totally different market. They need to start doing that with computers too. The entire Mac lineup is designed to be, like, a Honda Accord or Camry. But the Mac Pro is crap, they need a business-line that makes a computing equivalent of a pickup truck but they don’t want to commit.
by wredcoll | 2026-02-06 19:30:49+00:00
Look, this is a mostly reasonable, if slightly vague, article about investigating fraud and mechanisms by which you do so.

What it lacks is any concrete suggestion as to what should change, beyond some vague allusions that perhaps racial/ethnic profiling should make a comeback.

The real problem here though is that the entire article ignores the duty[1] the government owes its citizens.

It's "fine"[2] if stripe or visa or whoever flips a coin and if it's tails they decide this person isn't allowed to be a customer of their company. The company loses any profit they might have made and life goes on.

It's considerably more problematic when the government refuses to serve a citizen (or even worse, levies an accusation).

There's some famous quotes about how many innocent people are appropriate to harm in the pursuit of the guilty but I'll leave those up to the reader.

[1] duty feels like too weak of a word here. Obligation? Requirement? The only reason the government even exists is to benefit the citizens.

[2] it becomes rapidly less fine when the company essentially has a monopoly over a system requires to participate in modern life, but that's a different topic...
by mvr123456 | 2026-02-06 19:30:58+00:00
I suppose evangelism still has some value if you have a big enough platform. There's always frog-boiled obliviousness to deal with or the next gen coming up and trying to figure out which problems are real and which are old people yelling at clouds. But most people know about the problems now.

So taxonomies and other nit-picking feels like a distraction. Enshittification, bullshit fees, extraction/exploitation, monopolies, rot-economy, harmful business models. Call it what it is, late-stage capitalism is bad. The alternative isn't some commie thing.. it's just normal capitalism, and it works better for absolutely everyone except billionaires.
by Jensson | 2026-02-06 19:31:16+00:00
> Similarly, some use the same word for blue and white, and are unable to perceive them as different colors.

You really think they can't see clouds in the sky because they have the same word for white and blue? I think you take those studies as saying more than they said.

We do adapt our perception a little bit to fit what we need for our every day life, not for language but whats useful for us. Language matches what people need to talk about, not the other way around, if a cultures language doesn't differentiate between blue and green its because they never needed to.
by ceejayoz | 2026-02-06 19:31:28+00:00
That's not actually what's happening here.

They're the same self-pay deals the companies offer to the public already.

Wejovy, for example: https://www.novocare.com/content/dam/novonordisk/novocare/re...

(Or you can go through a compounding pharmacy for even cheaper. https://www.marketwatch.com/story/hims-hers-launch-of-compou...)
by omnicognate | 2026-02-06 19:31:54+00:00
> using complementary overhangs and toehold sequences to generate a 3-way heteroduplex, ligate knick, and then remove barcode duplex

At first I thought this was about olympic figure skating, but after a bit of googling I think:

Complementary overhang - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sticky_and_blunt_ends

Toehold sequences: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toehold_mediated_strand_displa...

Ligate (ligase?) knick (nick?) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_(DNA)

Barcode - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_barcoding

Heteroduplex - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heteroduplex
by credit_guy | 2026-02-06 19:32:01+00:00
> Iran has claimed this January to have tested a 10,000 km ICBM with Russia allowing it to fly towards Siberia.

It didn’t happen. Suborbital flights don’t go unnoticed. Wikipedia has the list [1], there were 5 in January, and an Iranian one was not among them.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spaceflight_launches_i...
by ddtaylor | 2026-02-06 19:32:04+00:00
I'm well aware. I left Oregon 3 weeks ago and live in DC. Junkies spit on your wife and children while the police watch and say "not enough spit landed" and refuse to arrest anyone. When your property is stolen they will look at you like you're crazy for wanting it investigated or recovered. It has a tracker in it and the device says it's in that pile of stolen stuff near those tweakers. Good riddance Oregon!
by amarant | 2026-02-06 19:32:06+00:00
Sure! They do anyway, or did you think heroin disappeared since it was banned?

It does need to be regulated. Doing it well will be difficult in a lot of places. I'd suggest modeling heroin sales after Nordic alcohol market: there's a single state-owned company that has a legislated monopoly, and no profit goals whatsoever. This makes it available, you can know that it's not mixed with anything cheap and deadly, and you also avoid anyone trying to push people to buy something that is quite obviously bad for them. I'm not saying it's an ideal situation that people do heroin, it is _quite_ destructive. But people do it anyway so let's make the best of that situation.

The harsh truth of reality is that people will make bad choices no matter what you do. Thinking you can ban something out of existence is naive and harmful. Best you can hope for is the entity selling drugs not using peer pressure to push it on kids who were only looking for weed. Which is what we have now if that wasn't clear.

To be perfectly clear, I do not encourage anyone to inject heroine, it's a terrible idea! Don't do it! But I'm realist enough to realise that some people are going to anyway, bans and common sense be damned,and I want to make that bad choice as safe as possible for them. I do not condone throwing drug addicts under the bus as we currently do, pretending that they're less than human and that they have no place in our society. I don't think the "outcast" status has ever helped anyone quit, in fact I'm quite sure it makes it harder. For example in Sweden being under the influence is illegal, so you could get in trouble for seeking help with your addiction. No wonder the druggies hide!

Well out of sight != Out of mind. At least not for me.
by undyingtrillion | 2026-02-06 19:32:25+00:00
Are there any resources on how to colocate as a hobbyist? Every colocation service makes it seem they only deal with big contract.

I'm imagining a setup that can work like this:

- I can purchase/lease from some vendor (maybe even a used dell 1U) and have it sent directly to them and they construct and install (same with ssd replacements, ram upgrade, etc.).

- They can setup remote KVM over IP access if needed.

- I never have to drive to their facility, but based in the US.

I'm willing to trade off some control and turnaround time here. The idea is to have something like a $500/month VPS but with a higher upfront cost and lower monthly cost for space, power, and bandwidth.
by mlyle | 2026-02-06 19:32:58+00:00
> [2] it becomes rapidly less fine when the company essentially has a monopoly over a system requires to participate in modern life, but that's a different topic...

That's the real thing here. Concentrated power is scary-- whether it's the federal government, Visa/Mastercard, Google, etc.

At least power concentrated under the control of a government might be held accountable to the people. With private, concentrated power: fat chance.
by vee-kay | 2026-02-06 19:32:59+00:00
Do your evil experiments in your country. And face the punishments for those crimes.

Don't kill or hurt poor people in other countries with those evil experiments ("clinical trials" disguised as "study", unproven drugs given to tens of thousands of minors, without informed consent and under false aegis), just because you are wealthy and powerful so you think you can get away with such crimes there (by bribing the officials of the poorer nation, paying off to silence the families of the dead victims, etc.).

Evil is, as evil does.
by bpt3 | 2026-02-06 19:33:10+00:00
> Communities are fully in control how they manage themselves, as long as they do it within the law of the state.

Yes, and my point is that continued trend of state and national laws overriding local jurisdiction over things like land use is not a positive one for residents of desirable areas (and arguably any land owner) and not something I agree with philosophically, not the litany of things you decided to rail about that have nothing to do with my comment.
by mbreese | 2026-02-06 19:33:11+00:00
We’ve been able to do this type of nucleotide 3D engineering for a while. I used to use large DNA branched complexed fluorophores to label cDNA back when I was in grad school. They were more or less mixed of DNA that self assembled into larger hairballs.

But branched DNA is really interesting. It’s a bit hard to get my head around. We spend so much time thinking about DNA in the 2D sequence sense, it’s easy to forget that it exists in 3D space.

I’m honestly not sure how different this really is to the traditional ways of doing this (with custom oligos). The common set of large self-hybridizing oligos is definitely easier, but you still have to have compatible tag overhangs between your two fragments. Meaning, it isn’t quite as universal and you’ll still need work to pair the fragments together. But where I think it might be useful is if you have a set of common hybridizing pairs that can be easily located onto the custom flanking oligos. You’ll still need some sequence analysis to get your custom oligos, but it would make the process more “standardized”.

I think the main bonus here is the self correcting selection… that you only end up with matching pairs linking together, so you could really have a mix in a one tube reaction that links many kilobase fragments together. That’s quite nice. And useful. And still cool.

One thing that is interesting is that this is another step towards getting the “writing” step of DNA analysis better. For the past 50+ years, we’ve developed all sorts of tools for reading DNA. It’s only really been the past 20-ish or so that we’ve had tools for writing. And now we can write longer chunks. That’s all a good thing.

Not sure I think it’s revolutionary (yet), but that’s a university PR release for you! I’m still thinking about the paper.
by coffeemug | 2026-02-06 19:33:41+00:00
The vertical integration argument should apply to Grok. They have Tesla driving data (probably much more data than Waymo), Twitter data, plus Tesla/SpaceX manufacturing data. When/if Optimus starts on the production line, they'll have that data too. You could argue they haven't figured out how to take advantage of it, but the potential is definitely there.
by 650 | 2026-02-06 19:34:07+00:00
This article isn't vague at all. It references various sources, and uses precise language (if you can recognize it) to convey its message. Yes, innocent until proven guilty, but the fact that the government has "lesser" educated Fraud analysts, chooses to ask for reimbursement of overbilling, and many more nuanced topics talked about in the article is not vague.
by KPGv2 | 2026-02-06 19:34:11+00:00
Yes, I 100% agree. But I want to mention something that isn't a disagreement, just a further nuance:

1. my explanation of monad is sufficient for people who need to use them

2. your explanation of monad is necessary for people who might want to invent new ones

What I mean by this is that if you want to invent a new monad, you need to make sure your idea conforms to the monad laws. But if you're just going to consume existing monads, you don't need to know this. You only need to know the functions to work with a monad: flatmap (or map + flatten), ap(ply), bind/of/just. Everything else is specific to a given monad. Like an either's toOptional is not monadic. It's just turning Left _ into None and Right an into Some a.

And needing to know these properties "work" is unnecessary, as their very existence in the library is pretty solid evidence that you can use them, haha.
by rekabis | 2026-02-06 19:34:27+00:00
Exhibit A: a prime example of gender bigotry.

So, so much of this is either wholesale mis-application of examples that transfer badly if at all, or outright falsehoods.

> Many men join the military specifically because they crave following orders; they want to be able to ditch accountability because they were “just doing their job.”

This is the horrifically biased example that made me stop in my tracks.

Take any thoroughly socialist country that generously supports its citizenry, and look at their military: it’s struggling to attract members. And a good chunk of applicants are women as well.

Now take a look at America, and ask applicants why they are joining. The vast majority of entry-level recruits going into basic training cite economic and educational concerns. The enhanced and specialized training have more focused recruits, yes. They have gone into specializations such as marines or rangers because they want to be there; because those disciplines provide challenges and brotherhood and a sense of purpose that has been eviscerated out of modern life through pervasive misandry.

But the masses of initial applicants? They’re trying to escape poverty and economic inequality, because no woman will look twice at a poor man. Most will cite the GI bill and its free post-secondary education as their primary reasoning. It’s why army recruitment is always within the poorest communities in America.

At this point, I am sorely tempted to treat this entire article like the bullshit that is seeping out of its woodwork. It stinks of anti-male gender bigotry something bad.
by PJones2000 | 2026-02-06 19:35:15+00:00
"Customer spent an hour chatting with it, talked it into showing how good it was at maths and percentages, diverted the conversation to percentage discounts off a theoretical order, then acted impressed by it.

The chatbot then generated him a completely fake discount code and an offer for 25% off, later rising to 80% off as it tried to impress him."
by lisper | 2026-02-06 19:35:17+00:00
> You need a Monad type in order to express that certain things are supposed to happen after other things

This is the kind of explanation that drives me absolutely batshit crazy because it is fundamentally at odds with:

> Do you understand "flatmap"? Good, that's literally all a monad is: a flatmappable.

So, I think I understand flatmap, assuming that this is what you mean:

https://www.w3schools.com/Jsref/jsref_array_flatmap.asp

But this has absolutely nothing to do with "certain things are supposed to happen after other things", and CANNOT POSSIBLY have anything to do with that. Flatmap is a purely functional concept, and in the context of things that are purely functional, nothing ever actually happens. That's the whole point of "functional" as a concept. It cleanly separates the result of a computation from the process used to produce that result.

So one of your "simple" explanations must be wrong.
by jellojello | 2026-02-06 19:35:37+00:00
Sensor fusion is an issue, one that is solvable over time and investment in the driving model, but sensor-can't-see-anything is a show stopper.

Having a self-driving solution that can be totally turned off with a speck of mud, heavy rain, morning dew, bright sunlight at dawn and dusk.. you can't engineer your way out of sensor-blindness.

I don't want a solution that is available to use 98% of the time, I want a solution that is always-available and can't be blinded by a bad lighting condition.

I think he did it because his solution always used the crutch of "FSD Not Available, Right hand Camera is Blocked" messaging and "Driver Supervision" as the backstop to any failure anywhere in the stack. Waymo had no choice but to solve the expensive problem of "Always Available and Safe" and work backwards on price.
by stmw | 2026-02-06 19:35:37+00:00
" C/C++ is a prevalent programming language. Yet, it suffers from significant memory and thread-safety issues. Recent studies have explored automated translation of C/C++ to safer languages, such as Rust. However, these studies focused mostly on the correctness and safety of the translated code, which are indeed critical, but they left other important quality concerns (e.g., performance, robustness, and maintainability) largely unexplored. This work investigates strengths and weaknesses of three C-to-Rust translators, namely C2Rust (a transpiler), C2SaferRust (an LLM-guided transpiler), and TranslationGym (an LLM-based direct translation). We perform an in-depth quantitative and qualitative analysis of several important quality attributes for the translated Rust code of the popular GNU coreutils, using human-based translation as a baseline. To assess the internal and external quality of the Rust code, we: (i) apply Clippy, a rule-based state-of-the-practice Rust static analysis tool; (ii) investigate the capability of an LLM (GPT-4o) to identify issues potentially overlooked by Clippy; and (iii) perform a manual analysis of the issues reported by Clippy and GPT-4o. Our results show that while newer techniques reduce some unsafe and non-idiomatic patterns, they frequently introduce new issues, revealing systematic trade-offs that are not visible under existing evaluation practices. Notably, none of the automated techniques consistently match or exceed human-written translations across all quality dimensions, yet even human-written Rust code exhibits persistent internal quality issues such as readability and non-idiomatic patterns. Together, these findings show that translation quality remains a multi-dimensional challenge, requiring systematic evaluation and targeted tool support beyond both naive automation and manual rewriting. "
by avallach | 2026-02-06 19:35:39+00:00
If I wanted to make ad blocking hard, I'd first keep serving an easily blockable ad system while getting everyone used to extension API which only can block such simple systems. Only once it is fully adopted, I could switch to hard to block system.

Doing that in the opposite order would obviously harm adoption of my crippled extension API and push users to competing browsers which kept supporting the advanced API.
by joe_mamba | 2026-02-06 19:36:41+00:00
>I start by wandering around the facilities with a camera man

How does one wandering around with a camera affect the fact that the daycares had blacked out or boarded up windows, misspelled signs, and if you went in to ask for enrollment 3 angry men would come out shouting at you?

Do you even hear yourself? Are they Schrodinger's daycares? Do they become compliant the moment you stop filming them?
by wredcoll | 2026-02-06 19:36:46+00:00
My ultimate take on the article is "so what?"

Yes, fraud is bad. I agreed before I read the article.

I've learned (from the article) that there was apparently some fraud in Minnesota, some of which was successfully prosecutes and, possibly, some that wasn't.

If pressed, I would say the take away from the article is that the fraud investigators should have been more willing to use race/ethnicity and accept a lower standard of evidence before taking action.

Is there something I'm missing?
by dateko | 2026-02-06 19:36:55+00:00
Interesting idea that gets humans out of the loop for all those surveys and marketing research solicitations we get every other day.

If my Moltbot knows me well enough from working with me every day, then it should be able to answer surveys for me too.

It reminds of the poll back in the last election where pollsters asked not who you'd vote for, but who you thought your neighbor would vote for and that poll turned out to be more accurate at predicting the winner.
by notahacker | 2026-02-06 19:36:59+00:00
I doubt Patrick is the world's biggest Nick Shirley fan, but that's not really how it's conveyed in the article.

Shirley gets acknowledged to have "poor epistemic standards" (which is an almost euphemistic way of describing his approach) but Patrick goes on to say that "the journalism develops one bit of evidence...." and even appears to insinuate the NYT erred in reporting it in the context of the Minnesota government's response that the state's own compliance checks had found them open shortly afterwards but that some of them were under investigation.

There's an interesting point to be made detailed, bipartisan evidence collected by suitably qualified officials that some daycenters were closed at times they were claimed to be open gets less attention than a YouTuber with an agenda rocking up at nurseries at what may or may not have been their opening times, but that's not how it's actually expressed. Rather it seems to be arguing for face value judgements of his video and against journalists that felt compelled to point out that whilst evidence of daycare fraud by Somalis in Minnesota definitely existed, Shirley's videos probably shouldn't be considered part of it.
by ericskiff | 2026-02-06 19:37:30+00:00
This is so lovely! If the original author is here in the comments, some feature requests that would absolutely make my day, presumably from easiest to hardest :)

I love this so much, thank you for sharing!

* Slow down the motion to about .5 of what it is currently, with easing/acceleration on the speed to emulate the camera dolly and jib effects used in the film

* Add a random motion setting that allows me to run it full screen just sliding through the aisles, banking around turns, flying up and then back down the aisles.

* optionally lock the framerate to 24fps to give it a film feel

* optional shaders on the main viewport to emulate lens distortion, film grain, etc

* raytracing with reflectivity on the glass, refraction, diffusion, etc.