MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by TZubiri | 2026-02-07 03:20:21+00:00
I often think that I would do the same thing if I or someone I loved had a chronic disease, either go all in in a specific project before I die, or go all in on a moonshot to accelerate a cure.

A subtle change that I think could have a lot of potential impact is changing it to "I'm going to try to cure".. instead of "I'm going to cure".

It will still be true, it will still be an act of love, but it removes the aspect of being a way to avoid the pain of a loss. In fact, if you face the likelihood of loss, then you will be able to actually optimize for increasing likelihood of a cure instead of risking optimizing for maximal coping mechanism.
by tpmoney | 2026-02-07 03:22:49+00:00
The article also says that Uber sets various thresholds around this already and that their system flagged it at a score that was "higher than the late night average". What it doesn't tell us is what the threshold is/was for Pheonix, or how that threshold compares to other cities, or even how much higher the score was over the "average". Maybe their threshold for canceling a ride is 0.85, and the late night average is 0.8 in this system. So 0.81 puts the driver over the late night average as per the article and under the threshold for canceling the ride.

Your email provider has systems for detecting spam and removing it from your email. If an email comes into their system and falls under the threshold for being declared spam, but is over the average spam rating for emails in your account, have they done something wrong by allowing it through if it's spam? What if it wasn't spam and they removed it?

These sorts of headlines that espouse a "they knew something and so therefore they are liable" viewpoint seem to me to be more likely to result in companies not building safety measurement systems, or at a minimum not building proactive systems, so that they can avoid getting dragged and blamed for an assault because they chose thresholds that didn't prevent the assault. And not all measurement systems are granular enough or reliable enough to be exposed to end users. Imagine if they built a system that determined that if your driver was from a low income part of town and the passenger lived in a high income part of down the chance of an assault was "higher than the late night average". How long would it be before we saw a different lawsuit alleging that Uber discriminated against minority drivers by telling affluent white passengers that their low income minority drivers were "more likely than average" to assault them? I would hope that this verdict was reached on stronger reasoning than "they had an automated number and didn't say anything" but if it did, none of the articles so far have said what that reasoning was.
by zozbot234 | 2026-02-07 03:23:02+00:00
> focus most of your resource on the lowest performers as they are the easiest to improve

That depends heavily on the pedagogical approach. There are approaches that are quite effective in bringing low performers up to near-par (so-called "direct instruction", in a broad sense) but teacher actively hate them because they're viewed as "demeaning" the profession, and ed schools don't teach them. Special Ed teachers actually get extensive instruction in these approaches, but obviously we cannot and should not treat every low performer as Special Ed.

> Proper student:teacher ratios

What's "proper"? Teacher-centered and direct approaches cope quite well with greater class sizes, but again they're unpopular among teachers.
by whartung | 2026-02-07 03:23:22+00:00
My (large) bank is yanking their safety deposit boxes out. They let subscribers know that they have, like, 1 or 2 years to go. They're doing it across the branches. They basically feel it's not worth the liability any more, and the way it was presented to me, it's not just them, but other banks are also doing (or at least considering) this.

Things we take for granted. When my father passed, I was digging stuff out of SDBs that he had for decades.
by gsf_emergency_6 | 2026-02-07 03:24:06+00:00
You mean prpaldehyde

Btw:

Ehud-kun had a Spidey sense for the (entirely incidental?) but deeprooted Slavic flexhumility/low-expressivity

https://archive.ph/2026.02.07-024423/https://www.aljazeera.c...

(Let me go and lolsob now :)
by gsf_emergency_6 | 2026-02-07 03:25:04+00:00
>younger audiences there are also not nervously laughing

This, probably. Maybe feeling a bit of "cringe" (trendy word), but not the same reaction as yours

Note Tarantino has a knack for expressivity yori confrontation:

"And I was shocked when I wrote it, because that’s not how I feel. But I was just doing what a writer does: I was being the character and that came out of Chris. This isn’t my philosophy, of course, but that is Chris’s philosophy [but] I didn’t judge Chris."

https://archive.ph/2026.02.04-125052/https://thenewbev.com/b...
by kgraves | 2026-02-07 03:25:27+00:00
> I stood on the street after my haircut and let sink in how big this was, how this technology has become an essential aide for so many, how I could lead performance efforts and help save the planet.

Brendan.

First of all congratulations on your new job. However,

It is easier to just say to everyone it is about the money, compensation and the stock options.

You're not joining a charity, or to save the planet, this company is about to unload on the public markets at an unfathomable $1TN valuation.

Don't insult your readers.
by cfiggers | 2026-02-07 03:27:20+00:00
We're literally talking about the capacity of vibes-based regulations to turn out doing more harm than good.

"We need to reduce single use plastics" + "Banning plastic drinking straws reduces single use plastics" => "We need to ban plastic drinking straws" is a logic trap, and we've got to stop falling for it and ones that pattern match to it.

Does it feel good? Does it have good optics? Will it get someone somewhere reelected? These are not scientific questions.

Is this an effective thing to mandate? What does it actually do (as opposed to what it seems like it will do)? Is it literally even better than doing nothing instead? These are scientific questions.

I believe policy decisions should be governed by the latter far more than by the former.
by borroka | 2026-02-07 03:28:09+00:00
While I find the aspiration noble, it seems to me that we don't even know ourselves what we want, or, alternatively, we re-discover every day how our revealed preferences differ from our stated ones. We don't even trick other people, we trick ourselves.

There was also some evolutionary biology/psychology theory developed by Robert Trivers years ago on self-deception and fitness.

We buy a book thinking we are going to like it, and then we don't even open it. The recommender systems give us more of what we interact with (with some quite extreme funnel effects at times, like when we curiously look at a pimple popper video and for the next ten minutes the algo gives us pimple after pimple), but we find out, as stated but not as revealed, that we don't want more of what we interact with.

Nobody wants, in theory and as stated, to be constantly enraged by social media, but most of us, since numbers don't lie, are revealed to enjoy getting enraged.

I don't think AI will have a different effect in the near future, as the main problem is that we don't know, broadly speaking, what we want, apart from the obvious, e.g., I want to watch a football game and I am going to turn on the tv and watch it.
by brdd | 2026-02-07 03:29:10+00:00
OP here!

i am actually very anti-notification (almost all are disabled; i use the iphone "notification summary" feature to get them delivered a few times a day only).

i do want to be on top of things and hate the feeling when i've double-booked myself or promised someone something that i forget. (i don't catalog everything in my fridge; the example was for a "deep freezer" i keep in the back room. this is super common for most suburban households but maybe lost on international audiences)

i am a normal level of busy and i think i was trying to have a bit of fun with creating things with a very low threshold for how good they had to be. i'm not bothered by everyone's speculations about me — i wanted to provoke some conversation — but this really is just about a bit of joy and building things i use every day makes me happy. people think it's cool that my calendar events make themselves.

hope this context helps :)
by ggerman2025 | 2026-02-07 03:30:45+00:00
Not exactly.

That link looks like a Ruby-level drawing demo (and I don’t see a public repo or docs behind it).

ruby-libgd is a native, in-process binding to libgd, focused on deterministic rendering and explicit pixel-level primitives, released under the MIT license.

On top of that, I built libgd-gis (also MIT) as a higher-level standard: map rendering, GeoJSON ingestion, layers, tiles, and reproducible output for GIS-style workloads.

ruby-libgd is the low-level graphics engine; libgd-gis is the map renderer built on it.
by k310 | 2026-02-07 03:31:30+00:00
Ron Filipowski ‪@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social‬ reports [0] that Trump admits he was the one who found the video and asked that it be posted from his Truth Social account. Refuses to apologize.

> Reporter: The WH says a staffer sent that video. Are you going to fire the staffer?

> Trump: No. I looked at it. I didn't see the whole thing. I gave it to the people, they posted it.

> Reporter: Are you going to apologize?

> Trump: No, I didn't make a mistake.

[0] https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:t6ubj2wlhc34awzcymh3qpur/po...
by LargoLasskhyfv | 2026-02-07 03:31:36+00:00
Which FreeCiv? The one you install locally, or the one you play via browser on the Web?

https://freecivweb.com/

The latter has more, like Multiplayer 2.4 Dragoon, and Multiplayer 2.5 Elephant(in development), which weren't available locally when I last looked.

There is also https://github.com/longturn/freeciv21 which has an acceptable local client, and finally does not slow down so much when playing larger maps with many AIs, like both FreeCiv and FreeCivWeb tend to do.

https://longturn.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html

I tried that, recently, and barely espcaped a relapse. (Phew!)
by Folcon | 2026-02-07 03:32:19+00:00
I'm just going to chime in here and say thank you, there still really isn't in my mind a comparable offering to heroku's git push and go straight to a reasonable production

I honestly find it a bit nuts, there's offerings that come close, but using them I still get the impression that they've just not put in the time really refining that user interface, so I just wanted to say thank you for the work you and the GP did, it was incredibly helpful and I'm happy to say helped me launch and test a few product offerings as well as some fun ideas
by jcgrillo | 2026-02-07 03:32:52+00:00
Interesting. Out of curiosity, how long do you think OpenAI can survive as a company? Put another way, what would be your guesses for probability of failure on 1yr, 3yr, and 5yr horizons?

EDIT: possibly a corollary--does Mia pay money for chatgpt or use a free plan?
by tasty_freeze | 2026-02-07 03:32:54+00:00
Bible scholar Dan McClellan is on youtube and does short videos rebutting popular youtube/tiktok videos that make claims that aren't historical. Dan has said that the four names were not assigned to the texts until the second half of the 2nd century, probably around 180CE or so. That leaves 80-100 years where the books were in circulation before the naming convention was established.

The subject of authorship comes up frequently so he has addressed it a few times, but here is a short (under 7 minute) video. It isn't just an assertion, he gives reasons why he makes these claims:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxyiUg1D6N0
by ryantgtg | 2026-02-07 03:33:02+00:00
This is my experience, too. Heroku didn’t stay competitive price-wise with alternatives. And scaling even slightly from the basic dynos quadrupled (or whatever) the price.

Feature and experience-wise, we were always really happy with heroku.

I don’t know if this fits with the “salesforce purchased and let stagnate” narrative that nearly everyone here is pushing.
by permo-w | 2026-02-07 03:33:10+00:00
I'm sorry to point out the obvious here, but who is going to perceive their recommended feed as slow or unfresh if it doesn't learn from exactly the last video you clicked on within 1 second? The bar simply is not that high. The special sauce of TikTok is how it chooses the videos, not the speed it does it at. I'm sure the speed helps to give it that "spookily intelligent" feeling, but that's a cherry on the recommendation cake, a cake which is already twice as good as the nearest competitor. I'm sure your talk goes deeper than this, but if this is the main focus, then you've missed the point.
by EvansWilson | 2026-02-07 03:33:27+00:00
While the world is obsessed with Microsoft’s massive pivot toward AI and its multi-billion dollar OpenAI partnership, there’s a quieter story playing out in the SEC filings. When it comes to a tech titan like Redmond, the "smart money" isn't just in the institutions—it's in the executive suite.

If you're holding a bag of MSFT or looking to enter, you need to know who’s cashing out and why.

Decoding the Recent MSFT Insider Trading Signals

In the high-stakes world of Big Tech, MSFT insider trading data often serves as a "reality check" for the hype cycles we see on X (formerly Twitter). Over the last several months, the trend among Microsoft’s top brass has leaned heavily toward one direction: Selling.

High-profile names like CEO Satya Nadella and Vice Chair Brad Smith have made headlines with significant share disposals. For instance, Nadella recently offloaded over 149,000 shares in a series of transactions, totaling roughly $75 million. Meanwhile, other key players like CFO Amy Hood and EVP Judson Althoff have also been active in trimming their positions.

So, is the ship sinking? Not quite. But when the net insider power score turns negative, it’s a signal that the people with the best view of the internal "books" are locking in profits near historical highs.

Why the Selling Spree Might Not Be a Red Flag

Before you panic-sell, it’s important to understand the why behind the move. Not all MSFT insider trading is created equal.

1. The 10b5-1 Safety Net
Most of these large-scale sales are executed under Rule 10b5-1 trading plans. These are pre-scheduled sells set up months in advance to avoid any "insider trading" accusations. If Satya Nadella scheduled a sale six months ago, he’s selling today regardless of whether he thinks the stock is going to the moon or the basement tomorrow.

2. Diversification is Real
Let’s be honest: when 90% of your net worth is tied up in one company, you’d want to diversify too. For Microsoft executives, selling shares is often just a routine way to fund a lifestyle or balance a personal portfolio.

3. The "Institutional Accumulation" Counter-Balance
While insiders are trimming, many big-name "Gurus" and institutional funds are still scooping up MSFT. They view the current "Azure + AI" growth story as a decade-long play, making the executive sell-offs look like minor blips on a much larger radar.

The Final Verdict: Watch the Cloud

The real test for Microsoft isn't just about who is selling; it's about whether the Azure growth can keep pace with the massive AI spending. If the insiders keep selling while growth starts to decelerate, that is when you should worry.

For now, treat the recent MSFT insider trading activity as a reminder to stay disciplined. It’s a signal to take some profits when the sun is shining, just like the pros do.
by username223 | 2026-02-07 03:34:47+00:00
> Comp is important of course,

The string "compens" appears exactly once in your post:

> But there are other factors to consider beyond a well-known product: what's my role, who am I doing it with, and what is the COMPENSation?

You did it for the money; don't try to rationalize it, because no one believes you. For that amount of cash, I'd probably jump on Altman's bubble for a year or two.
by dhdjfhfjfn | 2026-02-07 03:34:51+00:00
> But it doesn't matter, because LLMs that try to use a class will get an error message and rewrite their code to not use classes instead.

It seems that your response to accusations of becoming a vapid propagandist are to lean into it so far that people start thinking you’re joking.

Very odd strategy. Very odd way to manage a reputation that you built over 20 years, but I guess it’s a great lesson in how AI psychosis can affect the best of us.
by ndriscoll | 2026-02-07 03:35:33+00:00
Not really? The phone that breaks early or the bank scamming their customers on interest rates probably scams any individual mark for more than the fake boner pills. Gambling, which mainstream companies like "family friendly" Disney advertise and participate in, scams more people out of larger sums money than whatever crypto thing you're thinking of.

Regardless, imagining there were a difference in the direction you believe, it would be one of degree, not kind. Scams by large companies backed by large advertising campaigns are still scams.
by KevinChasse | 2026-02-07 03:38:03+00:00
Most prior attempts reduce to hash(master || site). Bastion treats password generation as a cryptographic protocol with explicit invariants, not a convenience function.

An important note is
Hashing ≠ memory-hard
Hashing ≠ unbiased sampling
Hashing ≠ domain separation
Hashing ≠ rotation without storage
by robby_w_g | 2026-02-07 03:39:07+00:00
Reminds me of when I was younger and thought of companies like Google and Tesla as a force for good that will create and use technology to make people's lives better. Surely OpenAI and these LLM companies will change the world for the better, right? They wouldn't burn down our planet for short-term monetary gain, right?

I've learned over the years that I was naive and it's a coincidence if the tech giants make people's lives better. That's not their goal.
by IhateAI | 2026-02-07 03:39:08+00:00
Why do SWE build tools in the open that are openly hostile to their own trade? Like I can understand someone selfishly building tools for themselves, but by contributing to these efforts you're basically donating free software tools to companies that will only be used to shrink their own engineering teams by making llms more capable/efficient.

While I think all LLMs are shit, they probably eventually will not be shit, and it will because people like you contributed to their progress. Nothing good will come of it for you or your peers. The Billionaires who own everything will kick you out to the curb as soon as you train your replacement that doesn't sleep, eat or complain. Have some class solidarity.
by D-Machine | 2026-02-07 03:40:11+00:00
The difference is that I have a few sites and resources I already know that are NOT useless. With an LLM output, I have to check and verify every time, and, since LLMs are based on junk, almost always produce junk. But with the trusted sites, I do not have to check, and almost always get something decent and/or close to authentic!

The difference is between a trusted source that is good most of the time, vs. an LLM recipe that is trash 99% of the time.
by dooglius | 2026-02-07 03:41:33+00:00
Much more elegant: consider every circle that fits inside the unit circle, and we will work backward to find combinations of points. We only need consider centers on the x axis by symmetry, so these are parameterized by circle center at (0,c) and radius r with 0<c<1 and 0<r<1-c. Each circle contributes (2 pi r)^3 volume of triples of points, and this double integral easily works out to 2 pi^3/5 which is the answer (after dividing by the volume of point triples in the unit circle, pi^3)
by embedding-shape | 2026-02-07 03:42:40+00:00
Seems like a nothingburger? Mostly a spammy GitHub thread of people not reading the rest of the responses.

> Works if you supply the correct include path(s)

> Can confirm, works fine:

> You could arguably fault ccc's driver for not specifying the include path to find the native C library on this system.

> (I followed the instructions in the BUILDING_LINUX.txt file in the repo and got the kernel built for RISC-V. You can find the build I made here if someone is just interested in the binaries)
by mcmcmc | 2026-02-07 03:43:00+00:00
What a ridiculous excuse. People who join ICE to brutalize minorities and protestors are just trying to feed their families too, then. No?

Working for Microsoft doesn’t make them bad engineers or bad people, but it does make them Microsoft employees. And they get to bear its reputation whether they want to or not. If it makes them uncomfortable then they should make a change or grow thicker skin.

Oversaturation of the labor supply for software engineers has been looming for a while now. Gen Z was sold on infinite growth in the ZIRP era which was never going to happen, but everyone still jumped in. What we’re seeing is structural unemployment. Not everyone’s gonna make it.
by refulgentis | 2026-02-07 03:43:14+00:00
My dynamic range of professional experience is high, dropout => waiter => startup => acquirer => Google.

You're making an interesting point that I somewhat agree with from the perspective of someone was...clearly a little more feral than his surroundings in Google, and wildly succeeded and ultimately quietly failed because of it.

The important bit is "great man" theory doesn't solve lack of dynamism. It usually makes things worse. The people you read about in newspapers are pretty much as smart as you, for better or worse.

I actually disagreed with the Sergey thing along the same lines, it was being used as a parable for why it was okay to do ~nothing in year 3 and continue avoiding what we were supposed to ship in year 1, because only VPs outside my org and the design section in my org would care.

Not sure if all that rhymes or will make any sense to you at all. But I deeply respect the point you are communicating, and also mean to communicate that there's another just as strong lesson: one person isn't bright enough to pull that off, and the important bit there isn't "oh, he isn't special", it's that it makes you even more careful building organizations that maintain dynamism and creativity.
by Mawr | 2026-02-07 03:43:22+00:00
> Once there is a robotaxi available to pick up and drop off every passenger directly from a to b, the whole system could be made to be super efficient.

Fundamentally impossible. You're moving some 2 tons of mass in a 2x5m box on polluting rubber tires to move a single 100kg human.

I can always take whatever efficiency gain you've thought up and simply make the vehicle bigger, decreasing the cost and space used per passenger, and maybe even put it on rails, making it less polluting, and more energy efficient.

You can't engineer your way out of the laws of physics.

And don't even get me started on e-bikes.
by tempest_ | 2026-02-07 03:43:25+00:00
The front runner is not always the winner. If they were able to keep pace with openai while letting them take all the hits and miss steps, it could pay off.

Time will tell if LLM training becomes a race to the bottom or the release of the "open source" ones proves to be a spoiler. From the outside looking while ChatGPT has brand recognition for the average person who could not tell the difference between any two LLMs google offering Gemini in android phones could perhaps supplant them.
by wewtyflakes | 2026-02-07 03:43:29+00:00
That makes sense, but at the end of the day, it may be more fun to play around with opponents that act more relatedly. This could take the form of in-game/session-appropriate diplomatic responses that don't read like pre-canned text, or, having explanatory text for why the AI is acting perhaps in goofy ways (which comes up a lot).