MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by DaSHacka | 2026-02-16 17:45:00+00:00
Not GP but I've also had issues with the Signal Desktop app (installed from the Arch repos).

Its overall a little sluggish in general (like most Electron apps though, in fairness) and occasionally clicking and dragging images onto the application will cause it to freeze and eventually crash.

Plus, the general usability issues present in all variants of the signal client (like no easy way of restoring previous messages on a new device).

It's not terrible or anything, but it's just a solid 6/10 application. I personally wish they were more open to 3rd party clients, so I could have something that integrates with my desktop environment a little better and is snappier, like my Matrix clients.
by Retric | 2026-02-16 17:45:21+00:00
Winning a title is never about facing the greatest possible opponent. Even the people who show up aren’t at their absolute best, but consider everyone who doesn’t devote their lives to the sport. The greatest potential chess player of all time likely does something else with their lives.

Without prep Magnus would be vastly less likely to win, and he’s not doing the prep because he’s not competing. How exactly is that different than someone not devoting themselves to the sport 20 years ago?
by azamsayeedit | 2026-02-16 17:46:07+00:00
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by pixl97 | 2026-02-16 17:46:21+00:00
Most chunks of the computing market should be thought of as a text book example of a 'free' market that operates with collusion with the few well monied "competitors" ensuring they don't put each other out of business.

Lets say you wanted to jump into the hard drive producing market. It's going to take you a few years to get there and a lot of billions of dollars. By the time you're close to producing units the existing players will suddenly drop the prices to the point where you cannot produce profits for as long as they need to. Aka, your competitors can collude longer than you can remain solvent. And yes, in two decades you will win the court case against them. And other than a fine nothing will happen because they're are so few manufactures that they are too big to fail.
by bluerooibos | 2026-02-16 17:46:47+00:00
I've seen the same result play out a few times on LinkedIn - random person studying for an MS in CS or AI, blogs and posts about stuff they're vibe coding with Lovable or whatever, builds a decent following, and then, from tagging various AI-related firms, lands a job at one of them.

The field has kind of been like this for a while - people with portfolios of proven work done, showcasing yourself and your personality via blogs or vlogs makes you sort of a known quantity, versus someone with just a CV and a LinkedIn page.

This is yet another example of an area where extroverts have an advantage. You could be 10x the engineer that the creator of OpenClaw is, but that's irrelevant in this timeline if nobody has ever heard of you.
by djkurlander | 2026-02-16 17:46:57+00:00
It has been 24 hours since this post went up, so here are some fun stats.

During this time, there were 13,024 knocks on the server from 368 unique IPs. That's ~35 knocks per bot.

During this time, thanks to Hacker News, there were 23,556 visits to knock-knock.net by 15,946 humans. That's ~1.5 visits per human.

So in the last 24 hours, we actually had nearly twice the number of human visits than bot visits, and 368 bots put on a show for 16,000 humans!
by dylan604 | 2026-02-16 17:46:58+00:00
You've taken the wrong interpretation from what I was being somewhat snide about. I don't know the Apple hierarchy and who is actually responsible for what. The point was that anyone presenting for Apple is going to come across as having drunk the kool-aid, otherwise, they would not have been picked.

At the end of the day, I don't care who was/wasn't responsible for any of the decisions. I have no say in the matter, and unless you're part of the management at Apple, neither do you. Lots of people wrote the code to make whatever debacle has happened. They all have skin in the game.
by jayd16 | 2026-02-16 17:46:59+00:00
Crypto didn't need vram did it? It was just about hash rate no?

Besides, a 1080 had 8GB, a 5080 has 16GB. Double in 10 years isn't ground breaking. The industry put VRAM into industrial chips. It didn't make it to consumer hardware.

What games have had to deal with instead is inference based up-scaling solutions. IE using AI to sharpen a lower rest image in real time. It seems to be the only trick being worked on at the moment.

I can't think of anything useful crypto did.
by hshdhdhj4444 | 2026-02-16 17:47:13+00:00
Apple’s keyboard problems are very evident. There are videos showing some very blatant flaws.

But I suspect there are Apple homers who are gonna defend Apple just like they defended the butterfly keyboards, right until the day Apple finally accepted it was broken and surprise, here’s a new laptop you can buy from Apple without the butterfly keyboard to replace your existing broken one.

Or alternatively Apple will accept that the device was indeed broken but 5 years later, when people barely have their device anymore and if they do it’s not worth getting the replacement from Apple anyways because it’s outdated, like they did with the graphics cards in the laptops for several years.
by lenerdenator | 2026-02-16 17:47:24+00:00
> Palantir still doesn’t make sense as a company.

It makes perfect sense as a company. Low-tier software consultancy that has ties to the most powerful government in the world and can acquire lucrative contracts is an absolutely valid business model.

> And it’s the job of the CEO to convince them with real information not insults.

Why? What happens if the CEO doesn't take the high road? Is Trump going to say "your lack of decorum and decency has lost you the US government as a customer"? Hell no. He's the guy who kicked this sort of schtick off.

The job of the CEO is to create value for shareholders in any way possible. That's where it starts and stops. Right now there's a lot of money in creating a panopticon to be exploited by various governments and well-heeled elites. Karp does this. Therefore he is doing his job.

Is this the logical conclusion of everything people have been saying about reducing government regulation of business since the 1970s? Yeah, but the money was right, so we ignored them.
by moltonel | 2026-02-16 17:47:48+00:00
> Gettext is functionally limited to source code being English (or alike). It handles all translation languages just fine, and competently so.

The *ngettext() family of functions take two strings (typically singular/plural) and rely on a language-wide expression to choose the variant (possibly more than 2 variants). There's no good reason for taking two strings, this should be handled in the language file, even without a DSL. Ngettext handling a single countable makes some corner-cases awkward, like gendering a group with possibly mixed-gender elements. The Plural-Forms expression not being per-message means that for example even in English "none/one/many foo" has to be handled in code, and that a language with only a rare 3rd plural has to pay the complexity for all cases.

Arguably, those are all nitpicks, Gettext is adequate for most projects. But quality translations get cumbersome very quickly.

> You can’t reasonably expect translators to write correct DSL expressions.

This feels demeaning. Translators regularly have to check the source code, and often write templates, they're well able for a DSL like MessageFormat's, especially when it's always the same expressions for their language. It saves a trip to the bugtracker to get developers to massage their code into something translatable. You can't reasonably expect a English-speaking developer armed with ngettext to know (and prepare their code for) the subtleties of Gaelic numerals.
by mmooss | 2026-02-16 17:48:23+00:00
> Creates undo points on common punctuation during Insert mode, including deletion via line <C-U> and word <C-W>

When I've used Vim, the undo points frustrated me: One undo covers a much larger set of events / longer time than in other writing applications. I think it 'undoes' until the last command.

Every other program does it more granually and, once I thought about it, amazingly intuitively - I've never had to think about it. Is there a general algorithm they all use?

> soft line wrap

Also, is there a way to make Vim's soft line wrap break lines at standard points, such as between words and at hyphens? Vim seems to break lines at the line character limit, regardless of where that is in the word or sentence.
by jjk166 | 2026-02-16 17:48:36+00:00
> Blocking (or more accurately: restricting) access works pretty well for many other things that we know will be used in ways that are harmful. Historically, just having to go in person to a court house and request to view records was enough to keep most people from abusing the public information they had.

If all you care about is preventing the information from being abused, preventing it from being used is a great option. This has significant negative side effects though. For court cases it means a lack of accountability for the justice system, excessive speculation in the court of public opinion, social stigma and innuendo, and the use of inappropriate proxies in lieu of good data.

The fact that the access speedbump which supposedly worked in the past is no longer good enough is proof that an access speedbump is not a good way to do it. Let's say we block internet access but keep in person records access in place. What's to stop Google or anyone else from hiring a person to go visit the brick and mortar repositories to get the data exactly the same way they sent cars to map all the streets? And why are we making the assumption that AI training on this data is a net social ill? While we can certainly imagine abuses, it's not hard to imagine real benefits.

> What do you think the "right way" to deal with the problem is because we already know that "hope that people choose to be better/smarter/more respectful" isn't going work.

We've been dealing with people making bad decisions from data forever. As an example, there was red lining where institutions would refuse to sell homes or guarantee loans for minorities. Sometimes they would use computer models which didn't track skin color but had some proxy for it. At the end of the day you can't stop this problem by trying to hide what race people are. You need to explicitly ban that behavior. And we did. Institutions that attempt it are vulnerable to both investigation by government agencies and liability to civil suit from their victims. It's not perfect, there are still abuses, but it's so much better than if we all just closed our eyes and pretended that if the data were harder to get the discrimination wouldn't happen.

If you don't want algorithms to come to spurious and discriminatory conclusions, you must make algorithms auditable, and give the public reasonable access to interrogate these algorithms that impact them. If an AI rejects my loan application, you better be able to prove that the AI isn't doing so based on my skin color. If you can do that, you should also be able to prove it's not doing so based off an expunged record. If evidence comes out that the AI has been using such data to come to such decisions, those who made it and those who employ it should be liable for damages, and depending on factors like intent, adherence to best practices, and severity potentially face criminal prosecution. Basically AI should be treated exactly the same as a human using the same data to come to the same conclusion.
by mlapeter | 2026-02-16 17:49:04+00:00
Thanks! The bloat problem is exactly what pushed me toward forgetting-as-a-feature rather than just accumulating everything.

Salience is scored on four dimensions when a memory is first ingested: novelty (how surprising/new), relevance (how useful for future interactions), emotional weight (personal significance), and predictive value (does this change expectations). A Sonnet instance does the scoring, so it adapts to context.

For retention vs forgetting, each memory's strength is calculated dynamically:

strength = avg_salience + retrieval_boost + consolidation_bonus - (decay_rate × age_in_days)

Decay rate is 0.015/day, so an unaccessed memory with average salience of 0.3 fades to near-zero in about three weeks. But accessing a memory boosts it (+0.12 per access, capped at 0.5), and consolidated memories get a flat +0.2 bonus. So memories that keep being relevant naturally survive.

The consolidation cycle (modeled on slow-wave sleep) is the other half. It merges redundant memories into stronger single entries, extracts generalized patterns from recurring themes, and prunes anything below threshold. This is what prevents bloat at scale while preserving the signal.

Honestly the balance isn't perfectly tuned yet. The decay rate and consolidation frequency are constants right now. Ideally, they'd adapt based on how the user actually interacts with their memories. That's on the roadmap.
by SimianSci | 2026-02-16 17:49:19+00:00
Palantir is a fantastically straightforward example of how a country experiencing an era of averice quickly degrades in the quality of its leadership.
Karp and Thiel are examples of certain types of personalities that make their way into positions of influence where they start to expel toxic cultural pollutants responsible for an empire's decline.

More people need to realize the parasitic relationship the wealthy in America currently occupy.
by hshdhdhj4444 | 2026-02-16 17:49:36+00:00
Safari is literally unusable on some websites.

So, for example, since the toolbar at the bottom is not a separate interface but hovers over the rendered page, if the page has a button or link that only sits at the bottom of the page, it can literally be impossible to click it because the hovering toolbar will cover it. I’ve come across 2 websites in the past week itself where I had to switch to mobile Firefox to actually do something.
by ddevnyc | 2026-02-16 17:49:45+00:00
I've met countless Juliuses over the years. I kept track of the companies, and the Juliuses. My biggest revelation is that every company that was being in some substantial capacity led by a Julius (either at C level, VP, or high up in management) ended up one of two ways:

1. Shut down or shutting down (e.g. team reduced by > 50% since I've been there)

2. Julius removed, endlessly seeking work, keeps getting fired, and can't find a place to call home

The meteoric rise of the Julius is an exception - sooner or later their lucky streak ends and they face the cliff of adversity, towering above them with no way to climb it - no skills to help him actually do it.
by unshavedyak | 2026-02-16 17:50:24+00:00
Sidenote, i do that frequently. I also do varying levels of review, ie more/less vibe[1]. It is soul sucking to me.

Despite being soul sucking, I do it because A: It lets me achieve goals despite lacking energy/time for projects that don't require the level of commitment or care that i provide professionally. B: it reduces how much RSI i experience. Typing is a serious concern for me these days.

To mitigate the soul sucking i've been side projecting better review tools. Which frankly i could use for work anyway, as reviewing PRs from humans could be better too. Also inline with review tools, i think a lot of soul sucking is having to provide specificity, so i hope to be able to integrate LLMs into the review tool and speak more naturally to it. Eg i belive some IDEs (vscode? no idea) can let Claude/etc see the cursor, so you can say "this code looks incorrect" without needing to be extremely specific. A suite of tooling that improves this code sharing to Claude/etc would also reduce the inane specificity that seems to be required to make LLMs even remotely reliable for me.

[1]: though we don't seem to have a term for varying amounts of vibe. Some people consider vibe to be 100% complete ignorance of the architecture/code being built. In which case imo nothing i do is vibe, which is absurd to me but i digress.
by ericmcer | 2026-02-16 17:51:02+00:00
I wouldn't call it good, but Go was designed for applications performing large numbers of concurrent processes. It is really easy to just wrap a block of imperative code in a try/catch, but it becomes much more difficult when you have a bunch of different goroutines communicating over channels producing outputs at indeterminate times. Like you need bespoke error handling for every use case, you can't just say: "400 try again later".
by postexitus | 2026-02-16 17:51:43+00:00
I don't care when somebody doesn't like aesthetics or look and feel of a new theme. It is subjective. Giving people an option to turn it off is kind. But Liquid Glass is usability terror. Just bring up the onscreen controls when you are playing video and compare that with what it was before. What is incredibly disappointing is people like you who defends new things just because they are new without paying any attention to usability, ergonomics or -sadly- performance. There is nothing good about Liquid Glass. Half of this site could just be a bot complaining.
by IanCal | 2026-02-16 17:52:08+00:00
I have an issue with these kinds of cases though because they seem like trick questions - it's an insane question to ask for exactly the reasons people are saying they get it wrong. So one possible answer is "what the hell are you talking about?" but the other entirely reasonable one is to assume anything else where the incredibly obvious problem of getting the car there is solved (e.g. your car is already there and you need to collect it, you're asking about buying supplies at the shop rather than having it washed there, whatever).

Similarly with "strawberry" - with no other context an adult asking how many r's are in the word a very reasonable interpretation is that they are asking "is it a single or double r?".

And trick questions are commonly designed for humans too - like answering "toast" for what goes in a toaster, lots of basic maths things, "where do you bury the survivors", etc.
by freehorse | 2026-02-16 17:52:38+00:00
Imo what many discussions on IF miss is that one of the most challenging aspects in dieting, including in studies/interventions, is adherence rates. You can make a lot of different diets that are more healthy and/or have lower calories than a baseline diet of somebody and lead to losing weight, but the biggest challenge is how one adheres to them.

My experience with IF is that it makes it easier to schedule meals as well as to deal with whatever insatiety feelings come from reducing calories, and this made it easier for me to stay with IF diet than with other diets. I have read research where adherence is significantly higher in IF groups, other where it is lower. Essentially, adherence is firstmost about what works for a specific person. If the diet logistics don't work for you personally, it matters little what statistics say. The point (of any diet for weight loss/management) is always to reduce/control calories intake.
by mindslight | 2026-02-16 17:53:16+00:00
> I'm very much talking about talibanized socialists/communists/whatever they want to particularly call themselves.

So you're just bashing a strawman that you've pigeonholed all opposition into? Okay then...

We had a previous exchange that I ended up dropping. I was a bit sorry about that because I thought it would have been interesting to critique "universalism" on its own merits, rather than the term generally only being mentioned by its detractors.

(For context here I was reading Moldbug while he was writing, spent a bunch of time internalizing other reactionary writings. I actually credit Moldbug with my transition from a right-sympathizing Libertarian to an unaligned libertarian that sees left vs right as mere modes of thinking, each with their own merits)

But after seeing how quickly this conversation went downhill, I'm not sure that conversation would have been terribly productive either!
by HillRat | 2026-02-16 17:53:21+00:00
In general, I would expect an identity verification firm that I'm hiring to secure and then physically delete any sensitive records my customers are uploading, unless I explicitly opt-in otherwise. My guess is in this case that Discord is attempting to train its own models for first-pass verification, so this is a training corpus; there's no evidence that Persona's doing anything with Palantir, other than proximity of funding.

The broader issue here is that SV VC is starting to feel mildly radioactive when it comes to public opinion; Persona's previous lead fund (up through its Series B) was Index, run by the more conventionally-liberal Neil Rimer, and no one worried about that. The entanglement of Silicon Valley's oligarch class in very extreme politics* at a time of very fraught national political upheaval is making VC money politically-exposed money; if you take FF or Sequioa cash, how certain are you that they won't just get involved in your business, but push you to take specific political or social positions that serve their non-fiscal interests? How certain are your customers that that isn't happening to you?

For decades, SV venture capital has been tech money, and generally smart tech money (I don't like Thiel, but the man is absolutely the smartest of the PayPal Mafia set, and his success bears that out). Now, for various reasons (the end of ZIRP, the failure of major tech bets since 2016 or so to pay off, COVID overvaluations), VCs have moved into rent-seeking, particularly on government and military contracts. It's no longer tech money, it's political money, and, compared to traditional prime vendors, it's not clear that it's smart political money. After all, when the political winds turn, possibly as soon as this November, is it a smart strategy to have worked aggressively and incessantly to alienate the party coming into power? For a lot of startups with regulatory, legal, or political exposure risk, getting entangled with that might be more trouble than it's worth.

* There is no other term that suits the mix of open white supremacy and anti-democratic policies -- repealing the 19th Amendement, for example! -- that we see emerging from the PayPal Mafia.