MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by protocolture | 2026-02-25 23:12:06+00:00
I like the tool, I respect the tool, and I wouldnt use it in its current form.

However: Something that would make me sit up and take notice. Have this tool police more formal debates. Have it tweakable rule out comments that dont present supporting evidence, or fall into formal (or even informal) fallacies.

That would probably need to be its own website.
by maxloh | 2026-02-25 23:12:16+00:00
Quoting einpoklum's comment 20 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46901930

> There has been a conflict building up within the LibreOffice ecosystem, with Collabora publishing a desktop version of their web-focused LO-based suite, while TDF (The Document Foundation) has decided to hire several developers to work on an on-line and potentially mobile version. So, essentially, both "sides" are taking each other on, even though a plurality of LibreOffice commits are made by Collabora employees. There have also been some "beheading" in the form of the expulsion of a few members of the TDF, particularly the former long-time TDF board-of-directors chairperson who is with Collabora (previously Allotropia) and a couple of others - a highly contentious decision which some argue is contrary to the TDF statutes.

> This is a no way a complete or a fair summary of everything that has gone on; and it's been simmering for a number of years now.

> Due disclosure: I am a TDF trustee.
by smackeyacky | 2026-02-25 23:12:49+00:00
Seems weird. The I6 has a few packaging issues that made them unpopular in the 1980s when front drive vehicles became the standard.

Australia was awash in I6 motors, from the GM Holden motors, the Ford Falcon engine and the Chrysler slant 6 that got replaced by a locally developed version of a Chrysler 6 that was never finished by the US corp. they were all boring, mostly durable, mostly reliable engines for a family car.

Even BMC/Leyland had one. Uniquely they fitted it across the chassis of a land crab derived vehicle which showed why the I6 was ill suited to being packaged as anything other than in line with a rear drive drivetrain.

The V6 fits better in front drive cars for obvious reasons.

Hybrid cars change the equation somewhat, the skateboard chassis doesn’t seem all that suited to an I6 but here we are.

Chrysler have unfortunately found out that no matter how good you make one, customers still want a V8 and I concur.
Ask HN: What will happen with Anthropics ultimatum?
by maniacwhat | 2026-02-25 23:12:59+00:00
As we are all aware, anthropic has it's ultimatum from the US government: drop their anti-killing TOS or else get in trouble this Friday.

I'm sure whatever happens it'll seem much more obvious that that's what was always going to happen, in hindsight, than it does now.

So as an experiment, I'm curious to hear from the hn community, in advance of Friday, what we think will happen.

Will they concede? Will they ignore and suffer the consequences (and what might those be)? Will we even find out or will it be shrouded in mystery for the foreseeable future?...

This is admittedly somewhat sensationalist so I'm not sure whether it fits with hn guidelines, but as one of the best places I know of for genuine online discussion, I think it would be interesting to hear reasoned predictions.
by altairprime | 2026-02-25 23:13:10+00:00
> No on falls all over themselves to say “I am not a doctor, but”

This is precisely why I’m pointing this out: IANAL is a very curious case of people self-labeling their statements as “not trustworthy for the topic”. I can think of perhaps no other cases where it is so popular to claim to not be a professional in the relevant field, which suggests that IANAL is a ‘badge of honor’ rather than a proper legal disclaimer. Certainly few (if any) claim IANAD before writing about their experiences with medical issues, body things, or nutritional supplements here, even though those topics are (as you correctly indicate) potentially lethal.

Thus, IANYL: if your goal is to ensure that the recipient of your advice / opinion / whatever does not have grounds to claim that you provided legal advice, and therefore are their lawyer, then you can either do so weakly with TINLA (“this is not legal advice”), which still leaves the door open for awkward claims by some desperate grifter-rando to reach a bench, or you can do so strongly with IANYL (“I am not your lawyer”), which closes that vulnerability in full.

Not once in years of using IANYL have I seen anyone else properly protect themselves from this vulnerability; meanwhile, “IANAL but” remains in use as a badge of honor. So, yeah, I don’t think anyone considers the particular avenue of vulnerability a serious threat, and yeah, the general context of IANAL here is prideful rather than protective. But after twenty years of dealing with a stalker who was adept at internet and tried to fuck with my job at one point, I do now tend to value closing off legal vulnerabilities with certainty, and as a bonus it doesn’t imply insult to the professions of law.

IANYL, YMMV :)
by akoboldfrying | 2026-02-25 23:13:17+00:00
> using the vtable as a hash table instead of a list.

Could you explain this a bit more? The word "list" makes me think you might be thinking that virtual method lookup iterates over each element of the vtable, doing comparisons until it finds a match -- but I'm certain that this is not how virtual method invocation works in C++. The vtable is constructed at compile time and is already the simplest possible "perfect hashtable": a short, dense array with each virtual method mapping to a function pointer at a statically known index.
by dataflow | 2026-02-25 23:13:42+00:00
> Windows 10 explorer.exe is 100x faster than Windows 11 explorer, it's not even close.

I have a hard time believing this. I'm pretty sensitive to performance losses and I haven't noticed any difference between those. It wouldn't make sense either, given they should both host the same shell icon views. Are you sure the difference you're seeing is in explorer.exe? As opposed to something else, like a new shell extension or a new filesystem filter driver on Windows 11?
by iwontberude | 2026-02-25 23:13:51+00:00
I am glad I formed an active hacker community on Matrix before the proliferation of bots. I will miss Hacker News but I can tell it's going the way of Usenet in 1993. Much love to dang, I will always remember him and his effort fondly. Today's situation is reminiscent of Russ Allbery's famous usenet rant: https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/writing/rant.html
by GorbachevyChase | 2026-02-25 23:14:41+00:00
This is very well thought out comment and that’s probably why there’s poor engagement with it. This is exactly the problem. The city has an unfunded mandate. The street department is triaging. The problem is best they can. I wouldn’t be shocked if city council members were directing this workaround so their voters would actually see some work getting done in their neighborhood.
by donmcronald | 2026-02-25 23:14:44+00:00
> But my point is that any knock on effects like domain suspension, email deliver-ability, etc. stem from 3rd parties misusing the safe browsing list outside the scope of safe browsing.

That's fair and I agree. My opinion is that both should be liable in a case like this. If I had to attribute it, my starting point would be that Google is liable for the loss of website traffic and the registry is liable for the loss of email and all other lost services due to the domain suspension.

It spirals though because, like you pointed out, no one forced (ex:) Mozilla or Apple to adopt the blacklist. They did that voluntarily, so they should be responsible for their share. That's why nothing ever gets fixed. It's broken, but there's so much potential for finger pointing that no one gets pinned down and held responsible.

The answer is always the same IMO. Break up big tech companies into a million little pieces.
by pibaker | 2026-02-25 23:15:26+00:00
The problem with every service targeting "safety conscious" people is that by virtue of using that service you mark yourself as someone with something to hide and draws attention. The lack of signal is a signal in itself.

It's like walking into a bank wearing a ski mask. Yeah we don't know who is under the mask but we know there is probably something fishy going on.

Your best bet at staying safe is always to not raise any attention at all, and that usually means doing what the average citizen with 2.4 kids does.
by linkregister | 2026-02-25 23:15:57+00:00
The fall of the Bretton Woods system was inevitable due to trade imbalances that ballooned in the 1960s. The U.S. Dollar was pegged to an artificially high value and the French central bank was right to arbitrage it by withdrawing specie. Simply resetting all the exchange rates was not sufficient, especially since the Federal Reserve under Nixon continued inflating the currency. The need to have variable rates was decades in the making.
by legitster | 2026-02-25 23:15:58+00:00
It's true the first mills were in the north because they had some good sites, but there are good mill sites throughout the South as well. More tellingly, when the first steam engines in the US were imported from Europe - they could have been just as easily installed in the South.

I think more importantly, steam mills solved for a problem the south did not have. If one was to tell a southerner, I have a technology that will save on labor costs, the southerner's response would have been "what are labor costs?"
by johnnyanmac | 2026-02-25 23:16:13+00:00
> and most importantly don't care

That's the depressing part in modern (western) society. The lack of curiosity is one thing, but it seems to spread to a overall lack of care for anything these days. First it's lack of knowledge, then it's lack of care for fellow beings, then it's lack of care for the broken windows everywhere. Community breaks down in real time with the reaction of a shrug.

>If a person doesn't know (except in the vaguest terms) where their water comes from, where their poo goes when they flush, where their food comes from (the supermarket!), or the energy that heats their home... what do they really know?

What are our schools teaching us? I don't expect perfect domain knowledge, but I learned the bare basic supply chains in middle and high school. Food comes from trucks distributing from a factory that gets ingredients from farms and other types of food procurement. Water comes from pipes connected to the house connected to a grid filtered through government purification systems that is retrieved through ravines and dams (and then the water cycle comes in).

Not knowing that much just feels odd.
by pksebben | 2026-02-25 23:16:38+00:00
It really comes down to granularity at the end, and whether you attempt to look as closely as possible or you accept a certain lack of fidelity because it makes the abstraction work for you.

In this case, I frequently hear people talk about how "the greeks and romans had slaves! and they were white! See, it's fine!" but that fails to take into account that there's a gigantic difference between slavery-as-a-legal-status like they had (entered into by contract or as legal punishment, exit conditions, no real social meaning), and chattel slavery based on race (the 'fuck you got mine' of ethos). I think the idea is that if you squint real, real hard; you can make it look like "not being racist" and "human rights" are somehow newfangled, 'woke' ideals, which is the kind of hilariously wrong misunderstanding we once saw embodied by cletus the slackjawed yokel.

I can call my ma from up here. Hey, ma! Get off the dang roof!

Slavery as we talk about it has been around since roughly the 1600s, and even then didn't peak until the 1800s. Everything prior to that was a totally different beast.
and a quick sidebar - wth is supposed to be wrong with being alert to your surroundings? Do we really value being asleep that much?
by aucisson_masque | 2026-02-25 23:17:01+00:00
That's extremely condescending and naive. I'd say Europe citizen are in much better situation than the usa citizens, don't care about tech sector or shareholder revenue.

Usa still don't even have universal social security and medications are overpriced 10 time more. Just to name a few.

Then there is the American debt. Good luck with that when countries are switching from dollar to yen and euro. No really, I think that there are enough challenge to overcome in the states that you don't need to be condescending.
by sech8420 | 2026-02-25 23:17:05+00:00
"We've seen this with photogrammetry before" - I do not believe we have. It's progressed but even a good scan is still not close to being something you would put on a legitimate eCommerce product page.

I honestly hope you are right and that I'm full of copium. Truly. But the progression has been nowhere near as fast as code, text, image, or video generation. And as it stood 2 years ago vs now is the same conclusion - unusable slop for most use cases.
Show HN: OrangeWalrus, an aggregator for trivia nights (and other events) in SF
by gjtrowbridge | 2026-02-25 23:17:25+00:00
Two problems I encountered personally:

1) Some buddies and I went to a trivia night late last year, only to arrive to find it cancelled (with signs still on the walls saying it happened every Tuesday, etc)

2) Sourcing ideas for fun things to do in the city on a given night, in a given neighborhood. Some sites help a ton (e.g. funcheapsf), but often don't have everything I'd want to see, so we decided to build that out a bit.

Anyway, I built this originally to solve #1, then a buddy and I expanded it to also start addressing #2 (still in progress, but we've added more event types already). Thanks for checking it out! We're very open to thoughts / feedback.
by skybrian | 2026-02-25 23:17:47+00:00
I like the concept. Not sure about the specifics.

I read somewhere that much of the market for robot vacuum cleaners was people who already had pretty clean houses and wanted to do even better. Similarly, I imagine this will appeal more to people like me who genuinely want to improve how they interact?

If someone started a forum for people who like this sort of tool, maybe I'd be into it.

I'm not wild about the name. It seems more confrontational than aspirational, like it's for people who want others to treat them with respect. But we do need moderation tools so maybe it's good.
by RGamma | 2026-02-25 23:17:51+00:00
Years ago I wrote my bachelor's thesis in it. Discovered then that it has a steep learning curve and not too much helpful info if you want to do something not preconfigured.

I still pulled through but the thesis looked really basic in the end, and I learned an important lesson that semester.

Still like what is being attempted though! And yeah, the naming doesn't do it any favors...
Fix cron routes: POST → GET (Vercel cron sends GET)
by nishiohiroshi | 2026-02-25 23:18:06+00:00
Our drip email cron ran its first day and sent zero emails. The cron hit the endpoint, got a 200 back, everything looked healthy. Turns out Vercel cron sends GET requests, but we put the email logic in a POST handler. The GET handler was just a health check returning {"status":"healthy"}. Two of three cron routes had this bug - the third one happened to use GET and worked fine.
by tzs | 2026-02-25 23:18:12+00:00
Interesting argument but not likely to go far. As far as I can tell US copyright law has never been taken to include brains as machines or devices.

This is actually relevant in some real cases, namely improvised works. Attempts to claim copyright on improvised works that were not recorded have generally failed. If brains counted as machines or devices than the work inside the performer's head would be a recording and the work would have copyright.

That is one of the reasons it is usually recommended that musicians should record their live performances. That gets them copyright on anything they improvise during the show. Also it gets them copyright on that particular performance of their music, which helps them go after anyone who makes an unauthorized recording of the show. (Copyright is only automatic upon recording when the recording is by or under the authority of the creator).
by greatgib | 2026-02-25 23:18:17+00:00
> Not adding the domain to Google Search Console immediately. I don't need their analytics and wasn't really planning on having any content on the domain, so I thought, why bother? Big, big mistake.

That should be enough to trigger an antitrust case against Google and a split of its activities. When despite unrelated, it becomes the gatekeeper of your presence in internet.
by Karrot_Kream | 2026-02-25 23:18:33+00:00
> If you have enough density to support a bus lane, you have enough density to support a subway.

Not at all. Building a subway in most US cities right now is very expensive. Raising the tax revenue alone is probably a non-starter.

Moreover you're going to have to close the road down anyway to do any form of cut-and-cover or even deep bore construction, which means every business on the corridor and every person who lives on it is going to get angry for as long as the subway is being built.

There's no painless way to do infill public transport. The problem is that nobody in the US is willing to compromise.
by toast0 | 2026-02-25 23:19:22+00:00
> replacing your wastewater system costs money... lots of money. The fact that they only have to be replaced every 30-50 years doesn't mean the costs go away... they just disappear temporarily. Deferring that maintenance doesn't actually do anything except make the problem worse tomorrow.

I kind of disagree. Deferring maintenance does make emergency repairs more likely, but if you need to replace your sewer piping (for example) every 30-50 years, doing it at 33 year intervals means three installs in 100 years, and doing at 50 years means two installs in 100 years.

As long as you don't push the deferral so long that you end up having emergency repairs and remediation of significant leaks, deferring maintenance reduces the burdens of maintenance.

You do need to invest more in surveillance if you want to run your installed infrastructure longer, but surveillance is a good practice regardless, because sometimes 30-50 year infrastructure fails early. For sewers, the idea is camera inspections of all the municipal lines every 3-5 years to generate a prioritized list of maintenance/replacement projects; do the work as budget allows, rinse and repeat. Older sewer systems will benefit from more frequent inspections and newer systems can get by with less. You really shouldn't fully eliminate inspections on new systems, because earth movement and early material failure due to manufacturing error don't always happen on your schedule.

That said, a lot of sewers were initially installed in the post war boom times of the 1950s and deferred maintenance is coming due -- many portions may have been replaced as needed, but a lot of original pipes are hitting 70+ years of service life and are likely nearing the end of their life. There's an argument to be made that if they had been replaced at their forecast service life, things would be better now ... but that really just brings forward the next replacement.

IMHO, The City of Los Angeles really should be multiple municipalities. The boundary is pretty wonky, in part to capture the port of Los Angeles and Los Angeles International Airport, but also downtown vs San Fernando Valley; and that has got to make a lot of administration stuff significantly harder than if it were multiple geographically focused municipalities.

> California cities could trivially fix their budget problems by satisfying the demand for housing by adding density

I agree that density is likely the right way forward, but I don't think it's trivial. Especially since organic density increases have been suppressed for so long, it's helpful to coordinate rapid increases in density so that dense housing lands in places with appropriate transit and other services; but coordination is difficult.
by paulpauper | 2026-02-25 23:19:42+00:00
I observed this pattern of Bitcoin dumping when the stock market is open, typically in the morning, as far back as 2 years ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39097752

Very profitable and easy pattern. still is profitable. I don't think Jane Street is to blame. It has more to do with Bitcoin fundamentally being weak and hype fading. Bitcoin has tended to dump randomly a lot.
by asaiacai | 2026-02-25 23:20:18+00:00
its cool to see the iterative improvements to your model laid out, but for everything that workedm i imagine there were at least a million other things you also tried but didnt work out. whats your process of trying these different techniques/architectures? do you just wait for one experiment to finish and visually inspect the results everytime. seems hard since these take a while to train. how do you shorten the feedback loop in this space?
by LorenPechtel | 2026-02-25 23:20:38+00:00
Disagree on always being cheaper. Military planners are obsessed with the best weapons, such interceptors are pricey. But look at Israel: Iron Dome. ~$50k/shot. They deliberately built a dumb SAM because it was designed to go against dumb opponents--objects falling freely on a ballistic trajectory. While they are usually facing light stuff that isn't even worth that they have successfully engaged longer range stuff that costs many times what the interceptor costs.

Overall, though, the offense always wins this one because interceptors can only protect a limited area whereas missiles can go anywhere.
by tempaccount5050 | 2026-02-25 23:20:39+00:00
> Is there some evidence of systematic analysis of component parts?

Music theory, Nashville notation

> attempts to model elements of the problem?

Ditto

> data gathering and data analysis?

Listening to a wide variety of music and understanding what make a genre a genre

> simulation?

Cover songs, writing to a style

> Intentional application of principles of physics or some other pure domain to a real world problem?

Literally sound engineering
by sailingparrot | 2026-02-25 23:20:39+00:00
Sorry, in the case of the bus there are too many bus stops (although there are more express lines now), so the bus stops a lot instead of having less stops where more people get off and walk one more block (what the article talks about).

The muni (tram), stops at stop signs at every block on the west side like the N line, so it’s extreeeemly slow. A system where the tram has priority over cars and does not need to stop at every single block would be life changing.
by Retric | 2026-02-25 23:20:47+00:00
Roads still need maintenance even if nobody uses them, so a significant portion is split evenly across all traffic.

Busses are light compared to 18 wheelers and other heavy equipment, they also replace many cars and SUV’s which keep getting heavier.

Finally that rule of thumb isn’t really that accurate, “A 1988 report by the Australian Road Research Board stated that the rule is a good approximation for rutting damage, but an exponent of 2 (rather than 4) is more appropriate to estimate fatigue cracking.” Rutting really isn’t that significant in most cases, but can instantly destroy road surfaces when fully loaded construction vehicles etc drive over something once.