MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
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by ramuel | 2026-02-04 02:30:02+00:00
Lol at all the publicly traded companies noted there...they produce some of the worst homes possible. Shoddy materials and two-bit GCs whilst charging a fortune. Also there is no addressing where these are going to be built? There is a housing crisis in places people want to live. I have a feeling they aren't going to be making anything new in those places though.
by topaz0 | 2026-02-04 02:30:49+00:00
Life expectancy vs GDP per capita: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/life-expectancy-vs-gdp-pe...

I don't have an R^2, but clear to me that it's far from one.

Likewise for infant mortality rate: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/child-mortality-gdp-per-c...

Edit to add: point being that a weak correlation, even if it is indisputably real, leaves a lot of room for other factors to be operative when it comes to particular differences.
by userbinator | 2026-02-04 02:31:08+00:00
At the TB level, the difference is closer to 10%.

Three binary terabytes i.e. 3 * 2^40 is 3298534883328, or 298534883328 more bytes than 3 decimal terabytes. The latter is 298.5 decimal gigabytes, or 278 binary gigabytes.

Indeed, early hard drives had slightly more than even the binary size --- the famous 10MB IBM disk, for example, had 10653696 bytes, which was 167936 bytes more than 10MB --- more than an entire 160KB floppy's worth of data.
by DeveloperErrata | 2026-02-04 02:31:08+00:00
Not quite, most of the recent work on modern RNNs has been addressing this exact limitation. For instance linear attention yields formulations that can be equivalently interpreted either as a parallel operation or a recursive one. The consequence is that these parallelizable versions of RNNs are often "less expressive per param" than their old-school non-parallelizable RNN counterparts, though you could argue that they make up for that in practice by being more powerful per unit of training compute via much better training efficiency.
by KPGv2 | 2026-02-04 02:31:25+00:00
Also you can probably still write. Just not by hand. Which is a vanishingly useful skill.

Unless you're applying for something in China, you don't need to know how to write hanzi ever, except for very one-off instances like "I can write happy new year in Chinese"

You know how many times I've written "real" Japanese by hand since 2005? Zero. I've written my name and stuff, sometimes I'll write 愛 to show my daughters. Nothing else. Because it's a worthless skill unless you live in Japan. Not even visiting. You live there.

Of course I type all the time. But typing is speaking + reading. It's not writing. You type phonetically (i.e., you know how to say the word), and then you hit spacebar until the correct kanji comes up (i.e., you can read kanji).
by alephnerd | 2026-02-04 02:32:53+00:00
Conversations are conversations, and that's my point. This is the "MoU"fication of the US, and honestly, it's not a bad thing.

Reincentivizing states to compete with each other for FDI is not a bad policy. If TX and CA talk with energy speicifc SWFs and go on roadshows abroad, there's nothing wrong with that.

It lights a fire under other state legislator asses.
by Kiboneu | 2026-02-04 02:33:39+00:00
Currently Gentoo has good support for systemd. If KDE has a hard dependency on systemd, then it won’t (as the author wrote) “cut out including everything from Gentoo …” because Gentoo does maintain systemd stage3s.

But I actually see what you mean about the degradation of options. Gentoo sort of supports 32 bit, but most modern packages are not tested against these systems anymore and receive little attention. That caused me more work recently getting one of my old machines set up.

I mean, there is so much that maintainers can do, and portage specializes in helping you make a “niche” system that no-one else bothers to create. I’m not sure if that means that the spirit of Gentoo fundamentally changes as a distribution. I think what makes Gentoo Gentoo is that it is un-opinionated.

Honestly, I see the list as a category problem, because Gentoo is kind of a meta-distribution.
by bccdee | 2026-02-04 02:33:55+00:00
The trouble with Go is that, because the language is so simple, the obvious way to do a thing always has a bunch of drawbacks. Taking care of gotchas at a language level means complicating the language, but refusing to do so means complicating code written in your language.

There's a balance to be struck here, but Go is stingy, so you don't get things like error traces and automatic destructors and const semantics even when they would make Go a much simpler language to use.
by mapontosevenths | 2026-02-04 02:35:08+00:00
> Who out there is working on really new unique ways to deal with infinite history, other than me of course :)

I'm working on a novel (I think) linear attention mechanism in my personal lab that's O(L) for effectively infinite context. I haven't yet decided how much of it is going to be open source, but I agree with you that it's important to figure this out.

Was your work open? Is there some place I can read more about it? I'm trying to figure out what to do with my thing on the off-chance that it actually does turn out to work the way I want it to.
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-02-04 02:35:32+00:00
> since building a datacenter almost anywhere on the planet is more convenient than outer space, surely you can find some suitable location/government

More convenient. But I'm balancing the cost equation. There are regimes where this balances. I don't think we're there yet. But it's irrational to reject it completely.

> Or put it on a boat, which is still 100 times more sensible than outer space

More corrosion. And still, interconnects.
by nosuchthing | 2026-02-04 02:35:49+00:00
The game is social engineering to "exit" for early investors to bag holders through an IPO just like an ICO. The irony is with crypto everyone knows it's a scam, but with IPO's there's still true believers who think the business operations will be sustained. Uber is the case study. They've just hid their financials in shell companies that assume a future monopoly of the entire planet.

https://boingboing.net/2019/05/08/forever-unprofitable.html
by rockinghigh | 2026-02-04 02:37:17+00:00
Tariffs were a huge point of debate in his first administration. The government had to pay $30 billion to farmers to offset the impact of tariffs.

> China implemented retaliatory tariffs equivalent to the $34 billion tariff imposed on it by the U.S. In July 2018, the Trump administration announced it would use a Great Depression-era program, the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC), to pay farmers up to $12 billion, increasing the transfers to farmers to $ 28 billion in May 2019. The USDA estimated that aid payments constituted more than one-third of total farm income in 2019 and 2020.
by scrubs | 2026-02-04 02:37:34+00:00
Nah. I think russia and putin needs a proper, serious case of getting their nose bloodied. Ie missiles into Russia, missiles for ukraine, and far better air support.

Clearly Ukranians have the muscle and want-to to put it to good use for their own.

You plead recognition of realistic constraints, but Europe hasn't even seriously tried moving the bar beyond check writing (We, the US, haven't either. Under Biden we were concerned about giving plausible excuses to russia by direct involvement so we gave money too. Ok, we gave some hardware but not the serious stuff.)

I have during trump's administration and Ukraine/Russia war reluctantly come to face the truth others have worked out long before: Europe can't make a damn decision then do it. Who's in charge there?

Nato will be better when Europe is more coequal and we Americans get our own house in order. We put a clown show into office twice. Our own democrats sucked so bad, voters actually bought trump's BS (listen to Marshal tucker's "heard it on a love song" to see what I mean.)

Without for one moment saying trump's whining about nato and Europe is right --- it's counter productive for all; it's rank stupidity; nato helps the US a lot --- there remains a kernel of truth Europe needs to change their tune and be more offensive/defensive.

Here in the US I've heard too many morons tell me the west brought this on ourselves leaving russia no alternative but try to create buffer room in ukraine. Some by plain Americans, several times by one generation ago immigrants from Russia.

I don't buy that for a nyc minute. Eastern Europe dealt with russia through two world wars and being part of the USSR.

Forget the US: they had they're own experiences and wanted something better for them: closer relations to western Europe maybe the US and better security guarantees. No amount of russian BS will gain say that. If they want better, they should try. Russia isn't entitled to stop them, and they are not obligated to play along with this russian hussle. You know damn well kissing the Russian ring won't work.

In short Ukraine needs better hardware.
by eggy | 2026-02-04 02:37:48+00:00
I built an 8'x4' CNC router table in 2004. I bought rack and pinion, steppers, drives, aluminum extrusion, and I had it built in one week. What would stop someone from building their own printer and building and selling printers to others who don't have the skill set? They would make it illegal to make 3D printers or CNC machinery without a license, and if you are caught it is tantamount to making guns.
by nikhiljay7 | 2026-02-04 02:38:28+00:00
Vitalize | SF | ONSITE | Product Engineer

We're building truly autonomous hospital operations, starting with labor optimization. You would be working on vitalize.care/intelligence as a product engineer. We hit 8 figures in revenue in 2 years and closed a Series A last month. Tech stack: Effect, Typescript, Planetscale, Drizzle, Bun. If this excites you, apply here: jobs.ashbyhq.com/vitalize
by winrid | 2026-02-04 02:38:57+00:00
Hardware startups are such a pain in the ass

One recent run fun issue I had was a pneumatic timer that worked fine in testing in the shop and outside my house

But once in the field the sun heated up the tube enough to trigger the sensor and get stuck in an on state requiring a plug on one end with a hole big enough to let the pressure out but small enough to let pressure trigger the sensor
by avidiax | 2026-02-04 02:39:27+00:00
The scammer will show up to a bar in Bucharest. They are probably not even legally allowed in the U.S.

None of this scam requires the scammer to be in the U.S.

Even the New York driver's license, even if it is real, could be muled. More likely it is just a photoshop.

And even if they do show up to the meet, what are you going to do? Call the police? Will they even show up quickly? When they do, whose photo ID will the believe? Seems like a good way to spend a night at the station while the police sort some things out.
by Lammy | 2026-02-04 02:39:52+00:00
Backpedaled lol https://old.reddit.com/r/adobeanimate/comments/1qv5yju/updat...

copy/paste for posterity:

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Hey everyone, my name is Mike Chambers, and I work on the community team at Adobe (and am a long time Flash / Animate user). Yesterday, Adobe shared an email with Adobe Animate customers on the future of Animate. What we shared did not meet our standards and caused a lot of confusion and angst within the community. On behalf of Adobe, I want to apologize.

While an email to all Animate customers will go out shortly, I wanted to quickly share a few things: 1) our standard approach for applications in maintenance mode, 2) changes to our plans for Adobe Animate and its status, and 3) our commitments to ensuring that you always have access to your content, regardless of the state of development of an application.

# Standard Approach for Applications in Maintenance Mode

If we deprioritize active development of an application, our approach is to move that application into maintenance mode with continued support. Under maintenance mode, the application will continue to be available, will continue to receive security and bug fixes, but will not get new features.

If we decide to go a step further and discontinue a product, we will work closely with the community to ensure they have adequate time to plan in order to minimize disruption and will take steps so that the community continues to have long-term access to their content.

# Current State of Adobe Animate

Adobe Animate is in maintenance mode. While we are no longer adding new features to Animate, we will continue to support it and provide ongoing security and bug fixes. More importantly, Animate will continue to be available for both new and existing users. This is a change from what we communicated in the email yesterday for the status of Adobe Animate, its time-frame, and availability.

To be clear, we are not discontinuing or removing access to Adobe Animate and it will continue to be available to both existing and new customers.

# Commitments for long-term content/file Access

For Adobe Animate, our commitment is to work with the community to ensure users continue to have long term access to their content, regardless of the state of development of the application.

You can find the latest information on our website:

https://helpx.adobe.com/animate/kb/maintenance-mode.html

On a personal note, as someone who started their career with Macromedia Flash 3 and Macromedia Generator, Adobe Animate has a special place in my heart. I know how frustrating and stressful this has been and we clearly could have handled and communicated this better. I might not have answers to everything, but I will try to answer any questions you might have.
by fc417fc802 | 2026-02-04 02:40:01+00:00
> protest outside of their homes.

I don't think that should be permissible.

> investigate them for corruption and fraud.

Why does that involve a home address? That sounds like stalking to me. I'm fairly certain that's explicitly illegal in any reasonable justification.

> enforce laws that require residency in order to hold certain positions.

Again, stalking. What are you going to do, stake the address out? If fraud regarding residency is suspected it can be investigated via official channels.

> An open/transparent government means no secret employees allowed.

Can't say I agree. Can't say I see "private home address" as equivalent to "secret employee".
by jwalton | 2026-02-04 02:40:31+00:00
LLMs do a cool parlour trick; all they do is predict “what should the next word be?” But they do it so convincingly that in the right circumstances they seem intelligent. But that’s all it is; a trick. It’s a cool trick, and it has utility, but it’s still just a trick.

All these people thinking that if only we add enough billions of parameters when the LLM is learning and add enough tokens of context, then eventually it’ll actually understand the code and make sensible decisions? These same people perhaps also believe if Penn and Teller cut enough ladies in half on stage they’ll eventually be great doctors.
by zelphirkalt | 2026-02-04 02:40:36+00:00
> Why do you keep harping on Mandarin in particular?

The original claim was about 20 Mandarin words.

> The learner already knew how to spell "light" and "house" so it was effortless to learn "lighthouse."

This kind of comparison doesn't work properly for learning Chinese characters. Simply combining characters like that only works ~half of the time or less.

> EdIT: One hour a day devoted to language study will yield 20 new vocab words a day that, over time, you'll have around 85% recall, which translates to over 6,000 new words per year (over 7,000 but then you adjust downward because of the 85% factor).

Delusional for Mandarin, unless you have some kind of special brain putting you in some 0.001% of the population. Not even natives learn that many words in a year. That many characters they might know when reaching university, and then later forget many again. Most native adults don't know that many.

> The issue is that people want to learn a language in five minutes a day, but they don't bat an eye at playing a video game an hour a day to be able to beat some level. I remember playing for hours to be able to get good at 1942 on the NES back in the early 90s.

Well, at least on that we agree. If one doesn't put in the time and effort, then the results will reflect that.
by _pdp_ | 2026-02-04 02:42:30+00:00
Very interesting. Might copy it.

We recently built our own sandbox environment backed by firecracker and go. It works great.

For data residency, i.e. making sure the service is EU bound, there is basically no other way. We can move the service anywhere we can get hardware virtualisation.

As for the situation with credentials, our method is to generate CLIs on the fly and expose them to the LLMs and then they can shell script them whichever way they want. The CLIs only contain scoped credentials to our API which handles oauth and other forms of authentication transparently. The agent does not need to know anything about this. All they know is that they can do

$ some-skillset search-gmail-messages -q "emails from Adrian"

In our own experiments we find that this approach works better and it just makes sense given most of the latest models are trained as coding assistants. They just love bash, so give them the tools.
by strken | 2026-02-04 02:42:43+00:00
I notice that the two most obvious outliers for low GDP high life expectancy countries are North Korea and Syria, and the low GDP low life expectancy outliers are three African petrostates.

My interpretation is that this confirms both points. Yes, petrostates with concentrated wealth, states with dubious truthfulness, and those ravaged by war are all cases where GDP doesn't tell the full story. I'm not sure that tells us GDP is useless when applied to where most HN users live, though.
by easton | 2026-02-04 02:43:55+00:00
You can and can’t, at least in AWS. For instance, you can’t launch a EC2 to a point you can ssh in less than 8-10 seconds (and it takes a while to get EBS to sync the entire disk from s3).

Many a time I have tried to figure a self scaling EC2 based CI system but could never get everything scaled and warm in less than 45 seconds, which is sucky when you’re waiting on a job to launch. These microvm as a service thingys do solve a problem.

(You could use lambda, but that’s limited in other ways).
by ddtaylor | 2026-02-04 02:44:07+00:00
Thank you! Everything you say is accurate and matches up with my experience. The connectors and stuff you can purchase as a regular consumer barely offer the ability to read or clear diagnostic codes and swapping almost any part requires a specialized connector or thing to connect to. For example, doing even the most basic sensor replacement or heaven forbid a ECM swap. I am thinking of scenarios where Grandma calls and has a Kia where a basic sensor is malfunctioning. You'll be paying out the nose to do Kia authorized things that only Kia will let you do, and the change of that being under $1000 is virtually zero.
by deaux | 2026-02-04 02:44:15+00:00
It looks like you do pull shenanigans like these [0]. The person you're replying to even mentioned "ChatGPT 5.2", but you're specifically talking only about the API, while making it sound like it applies across the board. Also appreciate the attempt to further hide this degradation of the product they paid for from users by blocking the prompt used to figure this out.

Happy to retract if you can state [0] is false.

[0] https://x.com/btibor91/status/2018754586123890717
by rayiner | 2026-02-04 02:44:48+00:00
Who did Singapore exploit to get rich? Taiwan? Korea?

You could be forgiven for believing that if we didn’t have literal real-world experiments in the 20th century where countries went from dirt poor to rich without doing any of the shit you think makes countries rich.

What’s most offensive about your virtue signaling is that it helps keep people poor. If we had kids in college studying how Lee Kuan Yew systematically made his country rich, instead of studying fucking socialism, you’d save literally millions of lives.
by cookiengineer | 2026-02-04 02:45:05+00:00
If you don't understand how a democracy with actual police reports work, maybe just shut up? Maybe just check the police reports? Maybe build a platform where no morons auto delete everything that's against their extremist belief?

Just some hints, kid.

@dang are you effing serious? Why are you tolerating users like this guy but then strike me for pointing out that there's a doxxing campaign going on against the author, which the author literally mentions in the linked article?

I'm really disappointed by the moderation double standards here.
by raincole | 2026-02-04 02:45:10+00:00
FYI, when people talk about stablecoins, they usually mean fiat-backed stablecoins, which are coins that are expected to maintain the same exchange rate against fiat currencies, and which is usually just USD. Some literally have 'USD' in their names.

> There's lots of reasons to be concerned about relying on USD.

So no, even if this statement is true it's irrelevant to this thread.
by jychang | 2026-02-04 02:45:54+00:00
On the other hand, Deepseek V3.2 is $0.38 per million tokens output. And on openrouter, most providers serve it at 20 tokens/sec.

At 20t/s over 1 month, that's... $19something running literally 24/7. In reality it'd be cheaper than that.

I bet you'd burn more than $20 in electricity with a beefy machine that can run Deepseek.

The economics of batch>1 inference does not go in favor of consumers.
by wcdcio | 2026-02-04 02:45:55+00:00
Author here. Built this out of frustration.

There's so much confusion in the agent space – frameworks, patterns, "agentic" this and that. I kept finding myself unable to clearly explain what was actually happening in these systems, or where to look when something broke.

So I took a different approach: reverse-indexed from typical "intelligent" agent behaviors and asked "what code patterns actually implement this?"

The result is 10 elements that map behaviors like "remembers what I said" or "works while I sleep" to concrete code – conversation arrays, cron jobs, retrieval pipelines, etc.

It's a conceptual map, not a how-to guide. Hopefully useful for anyone trying to make sense of this space.

Elements 8-10 are still drafts. Feedback welcome.
by javascriptfan69 | 2026-02-04 02:46:43+00:00
Current cost to LEO is $1500 per kg

That would make your solar panel (40kg) around $60K to put into space.

Even being generous and assuming you could get it to $100 per kg that's still $4000

There's a lot of land in the middle of nowhere that is going to be cheaper than sending shit to space.