MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jibal | 2026-02-15 19:52:40+00:00
There are no gods ... the very concept is incoherent. There are, rather, narratives that our brains create (or that are provided to us) which can seem very convincing, especially if the verification processes in our brains are turned off or bypassed--as happens during dreaming, with some drugs, in trance states, from social pressures and practices of some cults and churches, etc. And even our normal conscious verification processes can be fooled--overcome by illusions and "hallucinations", misperception, déjà vu, etc.

> I don’t know if everything happens for a reason

Another incoherent notion--events are locally caused, but there are no free-floating global "reasons". Aside from the sense of physical causation, reasons are intentions by intentional agents, e.g., we offer reasons for our beliefs and actions. Lacking an accurate metaphysical framework can apparently cause one to seek "God" via a tank of nitrous oxide that results in taking the narratives one's brain generates as being inherently veridical.
by jitbit | 2026-02-15 19:52:45+00:00
I tried doing something like that in my app, and quickly discovered that some modern semantic/functional tags are STILL not supported in some browsers. Or work badly.

For example, in Safari showModal for a dialog tag causes recalculating layout for EVERY element on a page, it’s up to 59x slower than chromium…. :(

But I love the idea
by alexisread | 2026-02-15 19:52:49+00:00
Apart from transputers mentioned already, there’s https://greenarrays.com/home/documents/g144apps.php

Both the hardware and the forth software.

APIs in a B2B style would likely be much more prevalent, less advertising (yay!) and less money in the internet so more like the original internet I guess.

GUIs like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SymbOS

And
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton_OS

Show that we could have had quality desktops and mobile devices
by onesandofgrain | 2026-02-15 19:53:12+00:00
There is no reason code should be free.

Are building materials free?
Is food free?
What about electricity?

Did you get anything back after Anthropic hooved up every single line of code on GitHub and reached a valuation of $380 Billion dollars? Nopes.

They'd be worth nothing without YOUR code.

Codeberg says it gives your code a "...a safe and friendly home.".. More like a free funnel of unlimited code to train AI models on.

Codeberg even states in its own policy that private repos are only allowed temporarily. Everything is expected to go public eventually.

Your code is your blood, your sweat and your tears.
You should decide who sees it and who has access to it. It's your IP.

Therefore...
Don't use GitHub.
Don't use Codeberg.
Don't use GitLab.

Spin up your own VPS with Gitea or Forgejo and own what you've created.
It's yours and should never be given away for free.

If you need to share it, use https://sharemygit.com

Self-host your repos.
Share on your terms.
Stop giving your work away for free.
by aidenn0 | 2026-02-15 19:53:18+00:00
Note that PDF :

1. Supports JPEG2000 compression, which is very similar to what DjVu uses for images

2. Supports JPEGs compressed with jpegli which is competitive with DjVu at higher quality settings

3. Supports JBIG2 for bi-level images, which is very similar to what DjVu uses for bi-level layers.
by swyx | 2026-02-15 19:53:20+00:00
thank you for listening!! team works hard on it. Jeff was an absolute bucket list GOAT to have on the show and to launch the pod with the new Deep Think is just icing on the cake. Every 3-4 months people remember that Google (and Jeff) has low key been accumulating basically every advantage under the sun that all the other AI majors are struggling to pull together themselves.... and then constrained by bigcorp politics. it seems like they are figuring things out though.
by InsideOutSanta | 2026-02-15 19:53:44+00:00
I don't think the article was written by an LLM; it doesn't read like it, it reads like it was written by actual people.

My assumption is that one of the authors used something like Perplexity to gather information about what happened. Since Shambaugh blocks AI company bots from accessing his blog, it did not get actual quotes from him, and instead hallucinated them.

They absolutely should have validated the quotes, but this isn't the same thing as just having an LLM write the whole article.

I also think this "apology" article sucks, I want to know specifically what happened and what they are doing to fix it.
by krackers | 2026-02-15 19:54:07+00:00
>Only an updated model has grown, and even then it lags behind reality

That's an irrelevant type of growth though, what you really need is growth in relation to the bond. The model having a newer knowledge cutoff about the external world and knowing stuff about Angular v22 doesn't really matter.

In-context learning gets you most of the way there. But context length and ability to actually make effective use of that context seem to be the current main blockers (whether for "agentic coding" or for "healthy emotional bonding").
by llm_nerd | 2026-02-15 19:54:23+00:00
>This is standard antisemitic MO ... The intellectual garbage is coming from people who claim this is not antisemitic.

This is that fun catch-22 where Israel-defenders use Jewishness as a pathetic human shield over any criticism of Israel, or relations with the same.

It's worn out its effectiveness. At this point it just looks pathetic.

>Post 9/11 and with the rise of organizations like ISIS it also benefited the US greatly to have a partner in this unstable region called the middle east.

Jordan, Qatar, Iraq, UAE, Saudi Arabia, and on and on. Boy, if only the US had partners in the region. Bases all over the place. What they really need is to coddle the primary antagonist of the region and that should really help!

>friends support their friends

Lets recap all the things Israel has done for the US. I will summarize the entire list below-

...

-fin

This is an entirely one-way relationship. And it's a bizarre, supplicant relationship that just boggles. Try-hard patriots will literally declare "We only fly the American flag"...and then fly an Israeli flag.
by maxbond | 2026-02-15 19:54:25+00:00
I think you're reading a lot of intentionality into the situation what may be present, but I have not seen information confirming or really even suggesting that it is. Did someone challenge them, "was AI used in the creation of this article?" and they denied it? I see no evidence of that.

Seems like ordinary, everyday corner cutting to me. I don't think that rises to the level of malice. Maybe if we go through their past articles and establish it as a pattern of behavior.

That's not a defence to be clear. Journalists should be held to a higher standard than that. I wouldn't be surprised if someone with "senior" in their title was fired for something like this. But I think this malice framing is unhelpful to understanding what happened.
by tengada1 | 2026-02-15 19:55:13+00:00
Thank you so much for posting this!

I've always been so fascinated with this phenomenon since I was a kid and would spend a long time looking at this lying on my back in the sun.

I remember telling an adult sometime and they said very authoritatively that light wouldn't bend noticeably at that scale and that it was probably some kind of optical illusion, and accepting that at face value.

But now I'm looking at it again and it's so fascinating and there's so much there – love this conversation! Especially pleased that there's no scientific consensus about this.
by johnnyanmac | 2026-02-15 19:55:14+00:00
>I am certain that I went through the same problems you did in the past,

And I'm certain you haven't if you really, never wanted a layer of separation between certain clients over behavioral issues that got in the way of the actual work. And I'm still male, so I'm sure I still have it better than certain other experiences I only heard third hand in my industry.

I don't see it as a cheap attack. Any teacher would love to be in a classroom exclusively made up of motivated honors students so they can focus on teaching and nurturing. Instead, most teachers tend to become parental proxies without the authority to actually discipline children. So they see a chair fly and at best they need to hope a principal handles it. But sometimes the kid is back in class the next day.

Its envy more than anything else.
by dheera | 2026-02-15 19:55:49+00:00
> Would we still get web browsers?

Yes, just that they would not run millions of lines of JavaScript for some social media tracking algorithm, newsletter signup, GDPR popup, newsletter popup, ad popup, etc. and you'd probably just be presented with the text only and at best a relevant static image or two. The web would be a place to get long-form information, sort of a massive e-book, not a battleground of corporations clamoring for 5 seconds of attention to make $0.05 off each of 500 million people's doom scrolling while on the toilet.

Web browsers existed back then, the web in the days of NCSA Mosaic was basically exactly the above
by swyx | 2026-02-15 19:56:04+00:00
Author here. You guys are reacting like engineers - it's not the raw features, it's the critical mass that only a rare few like openai can attract.
I don't care that someone else is already trying to build a slack killer. They do not have critical mass.

> A lot of success relies on network effects and familiarity, and the product looks deceptively simple. It's unlikely you can build one that is better than Slack

i agree that you and i can't build one. openai can. article argues that because it can, it should.
by mxuribe | 2026-02-15 19:56:10+00:00
I used to think bootstrap was bloated too...and then i had heard - now, i don't know if its true - that bootstrap was originally intended *ONLY* as an internal prototype building tool, and any bloat did not matter...because expected audience, usage would be totally fine for a bloated framework...When i heard, i gave boostrap more of a pass...but, then again, i stopped using it, and began using other, lighter weight frameworks...and nowadays, i so rarely touch any web stuff...and when i do its only for me so then use zero frameworks, and merely display whatever default the browser shows with zero CSS, javascript...then again, my private web page needs are so basic anyway.
by smt88 | 2026-02-15 19:56:15+00:00
What country has a clothing shortage? Be specific.

The most desperate povert I've ever seen was in India. You know what people were using to make tents to live in? Clothes.

Poor people have been making clothes for thousands of years without any help from heavy industry, and it's incredibly cheap to produce long-lasting cotton clothing.

Clothing isn't really a perpetual need the way you frame it. A single garment can last decades if it's synthetic or allowed to fully dry between uses.
by Paianni | 2026-02-15 19:56:29+00:00
Their hardware business was doomed by 1998, FF7 and Gran Turismo had given PlayStation momentum that neither Sega or Nintendo could hope to match, but Sega was in a particularly tough spot because of years of misguided decisions.

They could have extended the Saturn's lifespan to 2000 and thrown their lot in with the PS2 after release, but it seems many people at SoJ were emotionally attached to the idea of selling consoles.
by alterom | 2026-02-15 19:56:35+00:00
> Example 364023 of high prevalence of autism

Excuse me!

As an autistic/ADHD[1], I can assure you that we do get sarcasm, and it's not autism that hinders that ability. In fact, this very post is peak autistic humor. (Deadpan comedy is trademark autism[2]).

>accompanied by an arrogant need to weigh in aggressively

Ding-ding, that's the winner! A necessary and sufficient condition for comments of that sort to appear.

Not exclusive to people on the spectrum either, mind you.

[1] https://romankogan.net/adhd

[2] https://autisticamber.substack.com/p/deadpan-literal-and-loy...
by dlcarrier | 2026-02-15 19:56:36+00:00
Resellers fraudulently claiming a liquidated item is new, or that they are an authorized distributor allowing for the product to be warranted, is its own problem. It's usually not a large enough fraud that it's worth it for law-enforcement to follow up on, but generally online marketplaces, like eBay, have their own enforcement practices to keep traffic away from fraudulent sellers.

On the author hand, Amazon has made it difficult to avoid fraudulent sellers, but they also don'e even sort items by price when that option is selected, so I avoid buying through their site.
by runarberg | 2026-02-15 19:57:37+00:00
In the USA stores are allowed to use the words “discount” and “price“ interchangeably. A new product can come to the shelves and immediately be “on discount” and a product can be marked as “being on discount” for months, and even years.

In Europe you are not allowed to do that. Discounts are regulated, for a product to be on discount you have to selling it at a lower then usual price. This product must have been sold for a particular price for a particular time, and then if you lower it you can claim it is “on discount”. If you are selling it “on discount” for longer then x days (I think it is 2 weeks) that “discount” price simply becomes the new price and you are no longer allowed to mark it as being on discount.
by igor47 | 2026-02-15 19:58:07+00:00
I see your comments in all these threads, and I see that your take is generally, "these are the laws and laws should be enforced." I think there's a disconnect between this argument and what other people in these threads are unhappy about.

Question: have you never broken any laws? Maybe a technical error in a tax filing? Have you ever driven faster than the speed limit? If not you, how about the people you care about?

Do you think it's okay for the administration to go after you or your loved ones on the basis of these violations, simply because you spoke out against them? For example, the "mortgage fraud" allegations against Lisa Cook, which is something Trump himself is alleged to have done. Most people get off scott-free, but some people get the book thrown at them, and the only difference is they're on the wrong team. It's a separate conversation whether it's legal to go after that person, or if the law that's being used as pretext is or is not a good law. What I'm specifically curious about is whether you endorse lawfare, the weaponization of the legal system against political enemies.

The reason the "stripping your citizenship" thing particularly gets to me is that it's a way to destroy someone's entire life. Like, okay, maybe they go after you for the "mortgage fraud" and you end up owing fines or something, but life can generally continue. If they strip your citizenship, you have to leave your job, community, and any possessions you've accumulated, and start over somewhere else -- unless you're detained in an El Salvadorian gulag. Okay, maybe this is a tools been available to past administrations -- I haven't looked into it. I do think it's a bad tool. More importantly, I know it's a tool that's being wielded not by impartial administrators of justice but by corrupt political hacks. I submit this is... not good. What do you think?
by fragmede | 2026-02-15 19:58:58+00:00
I agree with you. Words still mean things. "Open source" wrt AI model files being available is another term I fight the losing battle of policing, as is the word "Nazi", and even "scam". People are way to quick to use words that don't actually apply because they're in the right direction of good/bad. On the flip side I got accused of using the phrase Stockholm syndrome just to sound edgy and not because it was an appropriate description of the situation. I was also trying to define the phrase "serious program" wrt vibe coding, in order to have a conversation, and got made fun of for trying to do so. People sometimes are just trying to get one over on you and prove they're smarter than you, or that I'm an idiot. Which like, okay, not super cool, but I'm just trying to find common ground, or how you came to your beliefs.
by YZF | 2026-02-15 20:00:18+00:00
It is a democracy within its legal internationally recognized borders. There is no apartheid in Israel. It's no more "ethno-state" than let's say Japan or Switzerland, in fact it is a lot more ethnically diverse with 2 million Arab citizens.

There is the problem of the occupied territories (which Israel's law considers occupied in alignment with international practices) where people in limbo due to the unresolved status. That's not apartheid (despite Israeli citizens being treated differently in those territories). Maybe legally and morally questionable but how we got here and why we can't fix this is also relevant.
by ragebol | 2026-02-15 20:00:49+00:00
> micro-targeted
> mandated USB-C on Apple devices

There is no law that states specifically Apple must specifically use USB-C. IIUC, the law is that all brands/manufacturers should use the same type of charger, an industry standard. That was apparently USB-C. Apple was the odd one out and had to change.
If something better comes along, the industry as a whole can upgrade.
by mistrial9 | 2026-02-15 20:00:50+00:00
in Western history, culturally, Church was a founding force for the existance of hospitals, full-stop. Repeat with more money and more fallable humans and yes some of what you say is accurate. But, if you start naming the behavior as if it is synonymous with the original founders of Hospitals, you a) create an intellectual dishonesty on your part, b) attract wing-nuts and sociopaths who are looking for a place to join in the chanting, c) obscure important details while the casual readers focus on the glaring finger pointing.

If you want to actually contribute to this very difficult topic, please refrain from welding disparate labels together in the introductory materials.
by CyreneOfCyrene | 2026-02-15 20:02:26+00:00
Not an Irish speaker, but I've seen some of the names and terms while reading folklore. Is it possible that Lug Lám-fada is a proper name/epithet for "Long-armed Lug" (alluding to the god Lug) instead of a descriptor of a "long-armed lug" object?
by LorenPechtel | 2026-02-15 20:02:31+00:00
You have already gotten two answers showing why this causes the manufacturer to lose money. A third: I hike, enough that pretty much all my gear out there is the good stuff. I do not care one bit about brands and would prefer not to be an ad for the outdoor companies--but I am anyway because it's not just a name.

Suppose Big Brand X fails to sell all of this year's design and offloads them as discount brand Y. People like me don't want that big X on our stuff, if we learn Y is the same thing we are going to buy Y. And next year their sales of X drop because people like me waiting for the secondary stuff. Thus even if you do not consider brand dilution it's still in their interest to not sell the technical stuff in the secondary channels. When you produce quality a policy of not having sales or setting limits on sales makes a lot of sense.
by general1465 | 2026-02-15 20:03:14+00:00
> The article cites armed guards. I would think there are very few people out there that are stable enough to be trusted to bear arms and patrol around your family...

Armed guards will be the ones running the show the moment when something will happen. Rich guy is respected only because he has money, if survival is on the line, rich guy becomes bottom feeders, because most of these rich guys can't survive in a real world.
by seanhunter | 2026-02-15 20:04:39+00:00
That doesn’t at all refute my statement. That is the scenario I talk about where your assets go into the waterfall. The broker doesn’t get to seize anything - the other creditors are making a claim against your assets and as I said, they very likely rank behind you in the waterfall, and either way there is a lot of messy and expensive legal wrangling before anyone gets anything.

It’s pretty dispiriting that you think that your conversation with gemini is worth posting to this site btw.
by jjjjjjjjoe | 2026-02-15 20:05:12+00:00
Hello everyone! It’s my first time posting, and not sure if this is the right place, as it’s fiction. But I enjoyed writing this, and I suspect if anyone would enjoy reading it, those people are likely to be here. Like many of us I grew up on Asimov and Bradbury, and later Borges and Hofstader, to which this owes obvious debt. Inspired by GEB’s tactic of placing abstract ideas in fantastical space, I wrote a narrative reflection on our current moment, whose boundary to science fiction no longer feels distinct.
by b00twhy | 2026-02-15 20:06:20+00:00
Oh no! A meaningless social credit score!

I have run afoul of the sensibilities of a sweatshop labor exploiting class of low-skilled but literate meat suits I have no obligation to serve!

How will I ever recover! My entire identity was wrapped up in being validated by people who will live and die without my noticing they ever were!
by jesse__ | 2026-02-15 20:06:36+00:00
> Here, we don't have winter, fall or anything anymore.

I was in the bar in Revelstoke (where I lived, at the time) chatting with an old-timer the other year, and I asked him "is it just me, or did it used to snow more?"

He laughed, and told me that when he was a kid growing up, they weren't allowed to play on the tops of snowbanks because you'd get electrocuted by the high tension power lines. At the time, mid-winter, it was raining outside with a sad pile of slush maybe 1 foot deep.

Even when I was a kid in Revy, snowbanks were 10' deep mid-winter, every winter. It's been raining in town for the last 5 years, all winter. Winter's over. Time to start surfing, I guess.
by u1hcw9nx | 2026-02-15 20:07:53+00:00
>The results of this paper should not be interpreted as suggesting that AI can consistently solve
research-level mathematics questions. In fact, our anecdotal experience is the opposite: success cases
are rare, and an apt intuition for autonomous capabilities (and limitations) may currently be important
for finding such cases. The papers (ACGKMP26; Feng26; LeeSeo26) grew out of spontaneous positive
outcomes in a wider benchmarking effort on research-level problems; for most of these problems, no
autonomous progress was made.
by iugtmkbdfil834 | 2026-02-15 20:08:00+00:00
<< ICE has been executing US citizens

Shot. Killed. Executing is a ridiculously inaccurate framing bordering on rage baiting. And that is before we get to whether Pretti or Good were committing felonies, when they were willfully obstructing federal agents from doing the job they were assigned.
by brandensilva | 2026-02-15 20:08:24+00:00
Palantir is a threat to all American privacy and likely Democracy given Thiel wants to tear it down and owns Palantir.

This is why government and corporations should not be embedded together as they have near zero laws or punishment for spying on Americans.

It isn't even just about the invasion of our rights but the government shouldn't choose winners and losers like we are seeing. It eliminates the open nature of competition.
by tadfisher | 2026-02-15 20:08:59+00:00
We are demonstrably not free to reimplement all closed applications. Slack and Discord are two notorious offenders who consider third-party clients a TOS violation. We can argue over the technical feasibility of enforcing this policy, but plenty of people are forced to use these applications as a condition of their employment and are unable to replace them with native counterparts.

We can also argue that employment and computing in general are voluntary activities, simultaneously preserving and significantly weakening your argument.
by johneth | 2026-02-15 20:09:26+00:00
Comments as short-sighted as this give me confidence in the future job security of people who actually know how to write software.

> the gatekeeping has now been removed

'Gatekeeping' being 'knowing'... nobody was stopping you from learning.

> The security and maintenance aspect of apps is just a claude skill away to be a solved problem.

Incredible joke. Got a good laugh from me.