MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mrandish | 2026-02-02 20:24:45+00:00
Deepak... is that you?

Dammit! In trying to link to it, I just discovered the wonderful site wisdomofchopra.com is no more. Probably because Chopra recently expanded his grift from books and seminars to an online AI, so the old 2012 random sentence generator site was competition. Oh well. Here's the WisdomofChopra Twitter feed: https://x.com/WisdomOfChopra

Which reminds me, inspired by Deepak Chopra's sayings, actual philosopher Daniel Dennett, who was known for saying things which were not only coherent but often quite insightful, coined the term Deepity: "A statement that is apparently profound, but is actually trivial on one level and meaningless on another."
by nkohari | 2026-02-02 20:24:50+00:00
> I don’t understand why we are getting these software products that want to have vendor lock in when the underlying system isn’t being improved.

I think it's clear now that the pace of model improvements is asymptotic (or at least it's reached a local maxima) and the model itself provides no moat. (Every few weeks last year, the perception of "the best model" changed, based on basically nothing other than random vibes and hearsay.)

As a result, the labs are starting to focus on vertical integration (that is, building up the product stack) to deepen their moat.
by ps2026 | 2026-02-02 20:25:00+00:00
That is a great idea! So I actually have two "meta" tags that will be used as I get going more. One is "revisited". This one will tag statements that have been asked before and I'll then add in more analytics to see how sentiment shifts. The other one is "recurring". I'll likely ask some of the more boring straightforward "The country is headed in the right direction" statements. Then set up some charts to see how it tracks over time.

I am hoping the general public finds this interesting as a lot of the major polls (who to be fair do it scientifically) only ask a couple thousand people. Many never get to participate. While this is not scientific, anyone can participate and eventually with enough people, we can maybe gauge and see how sentiment shifts after time.
by qq66 | 2026-02-02 20:25:30+00:00
Sure, removing parking essentially requires the neighborhood to become more self-sustaining. This works in really dense cities like New York and San Francisco but it requires enough desirability to fill the housing with people who have enough disposable income to replace the far bigger "catchment area" that the parking used to serve.

Which in turn affects the kind of economies that the new development can support. A car dealership? Needs parking and a large catchment area. Burrito shop? Probably not getting much destination traffic and can support itself on locals.
by bluGill | 2026-02-02 20:25:40+00:00
If you don't like parking you need to start with cars: give people a reasonable alternative. Too many are looking at this from a standpoint of "lets just get rid of parking" - without asking what people will do instead. All too often the answer is they will drive someplace in the suburbs instead where they get free parking.

If you want your downtowns to not have parking you need an alternative. In most cases that means you need to improve your transit in the entire city so people can get there.
by Jare | 2026-02-02 20:25:41+00:00
From their FAQ:

> Starting March 1, 2026, the app will no longer be available for purchase.

>> I have already downloaded Animate. Will the app still work?
> Yes. Animate will continue to work.

I wish they were more explicit in describing exactly for how long - being subscription-based, it's not really something you purchase and own to run for eternity regardless of Adobe. So, will new CC subscriptions have access to Animate? Will the Animate app even run after March 2027?
by beautiful-ai | 2026-02-02 20:25:44+00:00
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by clickety_clack | 2026-02-02 20:26:03+00:00
I lived in Vancouver for years, near the downtown, near the SkyTrain and it was amazing. Back then I thought I would never live anywhere but the downtown of a city.

But, you know what, life changes. I know there’s hardcore folks out there who will cycle miles with their kids, or take them on transit, or even live with them in a 2 bedroom downtown apartment, but it is just too hard to live that way for many people. With a family, most people need more space, and they need to be able to get from their suburban home to some kind of shopping or work, in minimum time so that they can both take care of kids, maintain a career, and have a glimpse of a life for themselves.

We don’t need to have surface lots right in the middle of every downtown, but there needs to be somewhere for people to park.
by dbvn | 2026-02-02 20:26:11+00:00
"That is, how much value a parcel creates for the community compared to how much value it consumes simply by existing as land. Think of it like this:

Net Contribution=(Economic Output in $)−(Land Value in $)"

This calculation is shady. Land value fluctuates and already "bakes in" the predicted economic output... but multiplied across decades. Not to mention, land doesn't consume value by existing. the value never goes anywhere. Its opportunity cost, not a decrease in actual value.

Yes, there is value "missed out on", but it hasn't been destroyed. Because it never existed. And that value wouldn't have appeared out of nowhere. it would've required using up other resources that the parking lot wasn't.
by legitster | 2026-02-02 20:26:50+00:00
I cannot recommend this Road Guy Rob video enough:
https://youtu.be/K1TFOK4_07s?si=IwCK4sxVgw5Konu4

TL;DW: The difference in tax revenue between a surface parking lot and a business with subterranean parking is so vast, that cities can justify using value to underwrite the loans necessary for developers to do the work. (Called "Tax Increment Financing") This model is proving extremely successful with cities that try taking it on.
by Zachzhao | 2026-02-02 20:26:51+00:00
Thanks for asking! We're using a multi-source approach:

Case law: Google Scholar + CourtListener's bulk data (great coverage of federal and state appellate decisions).

Statutes & regulations: Currently using Justia for state statutes, but working on scraping directly from state legislature sites. U.S. Code from the Office of Law Revision Counsel's XML releases, and eCFR's APIs for federal regulations.
by gruez | 2026-02-02 20:27:05+00:00
Right, because LLMs aren't spitting out textbooks verbatim, or at least are vaguely adding safeguards against it. The students aren't being sued for ingesting pirated books, they're getting sued for sharing them.

>The Rights Alliance confirmed it will begin filing civil lawsuits against individual students who are caught sharing even a single digital textbook.
by its_magic | 2026-02-02 20:27:07+00:00
No, not even close. Totally different projects. This one is for experts only, or those who want to become experts. The type of person who has been toying with the idea of building a LFS system, but doesn't really want to go through all the work and headache (and it's a ton, to build a full system.) It also supports cross compiling to other architectures, which LFS does not.

This system has many powerful features like built in ccache/distcc support for the build, support for building in QEMU, etc. Eventually it will be fully sandboxed.

There is a heavy emphasis on Doing Things Right according to an old school way of thinking. Everything is kept as simple as possible, yet as full featured as is practical. A major goal is to have everything documented and explained, starting with the shell scripts which build the system step by step in an easy to follow manner.

No package manager currently, though a simple one is in the works which is integrated into the build scripts. It's not really needed. You just build a complete system with all packages you want installed in a single run, with your own configuration pre-loaded. This gets compressed to a tarball. Then to install, create a partition, extract the tarball, edit a few files, install the bootloader, set passwords, and go.
by smeej | 2026-02-02 20:27:12+00:00
At the bottom of each Logseq page, there's a "Linked References" section that just lists every use of that page tag in reverse chronological order. I can collapse any heading if I want. I can review it very quickly and find out what I thought was important last time I was working on that topic. I can also filter by other tags so I can narrow it down to "[[this tag]] and also [[this other tag]]" if my interest is something specific.

Works great for my purposes. Doesn't need any improvement for my use.
by saubeidl | 2026-02-02 20:27:12+00:00
The difference is, imo, the Constitution.

Had the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe succeeded, I would agree with your point.

Since it hasn't, it's all just a bunch of treaties between countries. Yes, there is European politican entities. But they all just exist by the power of the member states instituting them. They are not (yet?) established as powers in their own right.
by gautam_panakkal | 2026-02-02 20:27:23+00:00
Location: SF Bay Area

Remote: Yes (Also open to on-site)

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: TypeScript, React, Express, SQL, PostgresQL, MongoDB, GraphQL, Docker, RAG

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1V6vQ4hg2yyr88TUJMeP0eWmgiKs...

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by ps2026 | 2026-02-02 20:27:25+00:00
So the site does use Plausable analytics. I chose that one because it does not use cookies, does not identify the user in any way, and does not follow you across the internet.

It counts raw aggregate statistics and is compliant with GDPR without requiring a banner. While it is "tracking" I suppose, it doesn't "track you". Do you think my wording doesn't work? I am open to suggestions.
by oersted | 2026-02-02 20:27:32+00:00
Cool project! The results of all the archived votes made sense to me, but I was most surprised by this one:

> The U.S. was right to withdraw from the World Health Organization (WHO)

> 62% Agree - 38% Disagree

I didn't know that the WHO had such a negative reputation. We are quite fond of such international institutions in the EU at least (ranging from a force for good to fairly harmless). What's the context? The rest of the votes seem quite liberal leaning otherwise.
by cyberax | 2026-02-02 20:27:36+00:00
They're already reported. And ignored. Have you _seen_ the systemd issue backlog?

The iSCSI loop issue: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/34164 It keeps popping up again and again and is summarily ignored.

The remote FS detection also came up multiple times, and the maintainers don't care.
by bsoles | 2026-02-02 20:27:42+00:00
Over the last 25 years of building commercial software, but being a programming enthusiast since I was 15 years old, I came to the conclusion that self-improvement (in the sense of gaining real expertise in a field, building a philosophy of things, and doing the right things) is in direct opposition to creating "value" in the corporate/commercial sense of today.

Using AI/LLMs, you perhaps will create more commercial value for yourself or your employer, but it will not make you a better learner, developer, creator, or person. Going back to the electronic calculator analogy that people like to refer to these days when discussing AI, I also now think that, yes, electronic calculators actually made us worse with being able to use our brains for complex things, which is the thing that I value more than creating profits for some faceless corporation that happens to be my employer at the moment.
by NetToolKit | 2026-02-02 20:27:58+00:00
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by whatis991 | 2026-02-02 20:28:28+00:00
Does your country allow suing him for a large monetary amount? Have you talked to the media? A lawyer? Maybe together with others? Made it as easy as possible for the police to get him, paper trail, receipts and all?

You do have points, though, but there might at least be some actions that you and others can take in this case. Maybe a medium change like changing the law on this specific point might make sense.
by seany | 2026-02-02 20:28:35+00:00
Depending on what is being done; it would seem like a 25-50hp electrical system with a little 5-10kw diesel generator would work great. You're almost never running these things at truly 100% duty cycle, so you just need a way to bank the power.

Edison Motors up in Canida is going this with OTR trucks for the logging industry.
by lucideng | 2026-02-02 20:29:05+00:00
For security (or anything else really), you can ask the LLMs to implement those features, but it is up to you to verify that they are implemented correctly. The OWASP Top 10 are a good place to start.

Don't just trust it. I've done websites as sample projects to work with LLMs to understand them better.... and while sometimes brilliant, they can miss really obvious things. One time it did user login but never actually verified the password set for a user login.

Treat it like an intern/assistant, not a magical thing that does work for you. While sometimes brilliant, they can miss obvious things, especially if you don't hold its hand. Verify, verify, verify.
by kube-system | 2026-02-02 20:29:28+00:00
I guess that's technically true, because "most businesses" are sole proprietorships without any employees... but they could get by just fine with a checkbook and a note pad.

But the reasons the business software sector grew far beyond Excel of the 1990s is because of the inherent limitations in scaling solutions built by business analysts inside of Excel. There's a vague cutoff somewhere in the middle of the SMB market where software architecture starts to matter and the consequences for fuckup are higher than the cost of paying for professionally made software with, importantly, a vendor on the hook for making sure it doesn't fuck up.
by stubbi | 2026-02-02 20:29:33+00:00
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Realm.fun is a game server hosting platform - think "Vercel for game servers." We make it dead simple to spin up Minecraft, Valheim, Palworld, and 25+ other game servers in seconds.

Stack:
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What we're looking for:
- Strong TypeScript skills
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by its_magic | 2026-02-02 20:29:44+00:00
I got rid of dbus in GTK3 by patching the code so that the "accessibility bridge" (to ATK) can be disabled.

The system uses GTK2 wherever possible, or GTK3 when not. I will either port everything to GTK2 later or create some kind of shim library. Help wanted here. Porting back to GTK2 isn't hard, I just don't have time to work on any of that at the moment.
by jakelazaroff | 2026-02-02 20:29:53+00:00
Of course it is — unproductive land use creates negative externalities that affect the entire surrounding community. It's like saying "a factory dumping waste into a river doesn't pollute the commons if the river runs through their property".

The article explains this well:

> The office, filled with workers and transactions, generates far more in economic activity and value creation than its land value and, therefore, rises the highest. The apartment, where dozens of residents live, stands nearly as high. The rowhomes add steady, smaller value. But the parking lot does something different. It dips below the surface, shown as a red bar sinking into the ground.

> Why below ground? Because in economic terms, a parking lot doesn’t simply fail to add value; it actively subtracts value. Every year it sits idle, it consumes some of the most valuable land in the city.

> When valuable downtown land lies idle, it blocks the housing, jobs, and amenities that could exist there. The costs ripple outward: higher rents, longer commutes, fewer opportunities nearby. What could have been a productive part of the community instead becomes a hole in its fabric.
by tanseydavid | 2026-02-02 20:29:53+00:00
> Uber and Lyft will survive exactly to the extent they successfully adopt self-driving.

I think this is correct and I want to point out something that I have not seen mentioned elsewhere in the thread.

If and when Uber/Lyft move heavily in this direction, the cost/operational benefits of having their "fleet" of vehicles be privately owned-vehicles will almost certainly disappear.
by wpm | 2026-02-02 20:30:29+00:00
Maybe I'm just not getting it, but I just don't give a flying fuck about any of this crap.

Like, seriously, this is the grand new vision of using a computer, this is the interface to these LLMs we're settling on? This is the best we could come up with? Having an army of chatbots chatting to each other running basic build commands in a terminal while we what? Supervise them? Yell at them? When am I getting manager pay bumps then?

Sorry. I'll stick with occasionally chatting with one of these things in a sandboxed web browser on a single difficult problem I'm having. I just don't see literally any value in using them this way. More power to the rest of you.
by ps2026 | 2026-02-02 20:31:00+00:00
The Plausible does count raw statistics without "tracking" specific users. That is just used for general website analytics. The first-party functional cookie that I am using (very similar to the auth login cookie) is used to prevent duplicate anonymous votes. Neither of these track the user and both are for on-site only. The functional cookie works much better than the fingerprint (actually less invasive too), but isn't full proof. You can switch browsers, go to incognito mode in some browsers, etc.. to bypass it, but it works for most casual users. Since it isn't election level polling, I figured it is fine. I do have an in memory rate limit to prevent excessive voting spam.
by kingkongsatan | 2026-02-02 20:31:03+00:00
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by strongpigeon | 2026-02-02 20:31:27+00:00
I fully believe that if I didn’t review its output and ask it to clean it up it would become unmaintainable real quick. The trick I’ve found though is to be detailed enough in the design from both a technical and non-technical level, sometimes iterating a few time on it with the agent before telling it to go for it (which can easily take 30 minutes)

That’s how I used to deal with L4, except codex codes much faster (but sometimes in the wrong direction)
by floxy | 2026-02-02 20:31:56+00:00
>I’m not even convinced humanoid robots are going to pan out in general.

I want one personally, so it can rake the leaves, mow the lawn, tend the garden, do the laundry and dishes, replace the roof, etc., when I'm old. But they should also be used to pick up litter along the highway, paint over graffiti, etc..
by EugeneOZ | 2026-02-02 20:32:00+00:00
Location: Spain

Remote: Yes, only remote

Willing to relocate: No

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Types of projects I've worked on:

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by karols | 2026-02-02 20:32:10+00:00
Location: Bratislava/Slovakia

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Rust, Erlang/Elixir, Distributed Systems, Performance sensitive systems, Linux, ...

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/karolskocik/

Email: karol [dot] skocik [at] gmail [dot] com
by kjshsh123 | 2026-02-02 20:32:11+00:00
That is exactly wrong. Real wealth is goods and services available.

You live way better than a king. Your expected lifespan is higher than kings because of access to better food, nutrition, and medical care. You have access to luxuries like chocolate, and coffee that kings might have tasted once in their life, or at best every few weeks.

Not understanding what wealth is, is precisely what leads to this mistaken thinking.

As for gentrification, it is often just confusing correlation and causation. People blame rich people moving in, when really a place just actually became better due to improvements in goods or services like public transit exapansion.
by mopedtimo | 2026-02-02 20:32:23+00:00
Location: Berlin, Germany

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Clojure, Java, Python, Bash, Linux, Containers, Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, Terraform, Pulumi, Azure, AWS, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL, Datomic, Datalog, RabbitMQ, CQRS, REST, RPC, Elastic Stack, OpenObserve, SRE

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