MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bonsai_spool | 2026-02-07 07:42:23+00:00
> I have a physics degree and I regularly read the latest published research. Please don't make ad hominem attacks.

It was not an attack, I just don't know the authority from which your comments derive (and there wasn't really evidence provided outside your opinion which I think others disagree with).

> The point is that we made giant strides every few years for decades, and then... nothing. The field has hardly advanced since the 1970s!

I think my subtle argument is that we've been writing for about 4,000 years, so something discovered in the last 50 years is relatively new.

Even limiting yourself to the current era of post-Enlightenment inquiry, 50 years is still relatively new.

Separately, if you truly accept that physics is completely knowable, then it would stand to reason that as we asymptotically approach knowing 'everything', the marginal rate of acquiring new knowledge would slow.

So I guess I don't see which way you are leaning - are we not learning things because we know everything, or are we being impatient and not recognizing how fast our progress has been?
by Zopieux | 2026-02-07 07:43:00+00:00
This post is about some highly interactive software with a lot of design decisions, and this thread is about finding whether or not your 20% feature niche is supported.

Let's be real, unless some soul somehow had the same 20% as yours and left a review somewhere, you won't know if the features you need, or their implemention, fit your need until you try.
by siliconpotato | 2026-02-07 07:43:59+00:00
I often experience this. I saw that a co worker had written something about God in their Twitter bio. "Are you a Christian?" "I'm a Catholic" they replied. Any other denomination would say "yes I'm a Christian" (there are no denominations in heaven, nor was there in the early church).

To understand this behaviour, it should be known that Catholics have introduced man made rules that they have additionally decided are not up for discussion (infallible) even if the Bible appears to say otherwise. Catholics teach that there is no salvation outside the church. By definition, this makes sense - the church is by definition a body of people who belong to Christ.
However what the catholics actually mean is "the Roman Catholic church". Whether your average Catholic realises this or not it's debatable, but the common clarification "I'm a Catholic" is because they have absorbed a corrupt teaching that only catholics can be saved.
Read this and the linked article at the bottom https://www.catholic.com/magazine/online-edition/is-there-re...
by jaredklewis | 2026-02-07 07:45:13+00:00
It’s the same man.

1) the business owner has to operate a business behind the camp

2) the business owner tanks the value of their own property

3) what code? The building code? If we can apply a “code” to a home, then we can apply it to a business. So if there really is such a disparity where you live, the issue is that disparity in application of building codes, not zoning laws.

Re: Houston, what does zoning have to do with anything? My story could have happened i”anywhere. Zoning doesn’t control whether you are allowed to cover your property with trash. My point is that even in an area with nothing but houses, you can have horrendous neighbors.
by pyrale | 2026-02-07 07:45:18+00:00
Probably because "making the world a better place" has been a trope used so much in the industry that it's made it to a TV show [1]. It's fine to be passionate about your job. It's fine to be paid well. You don't need to make us believe that you're mother Theresa on top of it.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8C5sjjhsso
by dpe82 | 2026-02-07 07:45:21+00:00
Having been on a bigco team that underwent the same sort of headcount growth in a very short time I have to imagine that "more than tripling our headcount in that first year" was likely more a driver of the inability to keep up than a solution. That's not a knock on the talents of anyone hired; it's just exceedingly difficult to simultaneously grow a team that fast and maintain any kind of velocity regardless of the complexity of the problems you're trying to tackle. The culture and knowledge that enabled the previous team's velocity just gets completely diluted.
by Fizz43 | 2026-02-07 07:45:26+00:00
Because the outcome of that is revolting. Its an insult to humanity. Take a look at the clip of Joe rogan crying over some terrible AI 50cent remix. Its delusional, why would you want people to be like that? I'd never listen to music again if that was all I could listen to.

Think about a world where AI creative works are on equal playing field to human works. The AI can tailor an entire library of work for an individual spitting out hundreds of albums per day. Humans would end up listening to majority AI works just out of sheer volume of production. Any human still creating music would just be making data for AI's to steal and repurpose.
by hn_acker | 2026-02-07 07:45:44+00:00
> And yes, many want to get rid of it, because it’s a loophole in the skilled immigration system.

Why does "the skilled immigration system" represent the whole immigration system? What makes family sponsorship a "loophole" to H1Bs, when family sponsorship could instead be framed as an equivalent form of legal immigration with a different purpose?

> and hundreds of thousands of low skill people come over because they’re someone’s cousin.

Accepting the "low skill" framing and setting aside the fact that family-sponsored immigrants can have "high skill" without proving it through the H1B process, I don't think it makes sense to have an immigration system based solely on "high skill", because not every member of a family should have to be "high skill" for the entire family to move to the US.
by deepsun | 2026-02-07 07:46:17+00:00
I worked with some of the folks from there, and honestly you make it sounds like tech debt is inevitable consequence haunting projects from year one.

I disagree, I think the folks just did a sloppy job of "let's bungee strap it all together" for speed, instead of more serious planning and architecturing. They self-inflicted the tech debt on them and got drowned in the debt interest super fast.
by TacticalCoder | 2026-02-07 07:46:59+00:00
> If joins are a critical performance-sensitive operation, the most important property of a DGGS is congruency.

Not familiar with geo stuff / DGGS. Is H3 not congruent because hexagons, unlike squares or triangles, do not tile the plane perfectly?

I mean: could a system using hexagons ever be congruent?
by ShinyaKoyano | 2026-02-07 07:47:12+00:00
It's an image gallery, but without the gallery server.

Think of it as a "RAM-only, ephemeral Bittorrent for art." Instead of uploading images to a server (like Imgur or S3), you broadcast them directly from your browser to other peers viewing the same "room."

How it works:

1. No Storage: The server is just a dumb signal relay (Rust/Axum). It stores 0 bytes.

2. Presence is Storage: The images exist only in the browser memory of active peers.

3. Sovereign: If you close the tab, your "hosting" stops. There is no central admin to censor content, and no hosting bill to pay.

It allows communities to share high-fidelity art autonomously, without relying on (or fearing) centralized platforms.
by znnajdla | 2026-02-07 07:47:26+00:00
Few days ago I built something like this for a personal project because it’s just the obvious thing to do - abstract away the gory details of using a browser. I found it was surprisingly easy to build and I soon had a browser agent that worked as you describe Smooth. Just surprised that the other browser agent frameworks like Browser Use and claude —chrome haven’t caught up to this yet, it’s so obvious and easy to do.
by disillusioned | 2026-02-07 07:47:33+00:00
To this point, one of the coolest features Teslas _used_ to have was the ability for it to determine and integrate the speed of the car in front of you AND the speed of the car in front of THAT car, even if the second car was entirely visually occluded. They did this by bouncing the radar beam under the car in front and determining that there were multiple targets. It could even act on this: I had my car AEB when the second ahead car slammed on THEIR brakes before the car ahead even reacted. Absolutely wild. Completely gone in vision-only.
by k310 | 2026-02-07 07:48:21+00:00
Whoever is still benefitting (ahem) from the blackmail and money laundering stands to lose control over the blackmailed, including many of the wealthy, world leaders, business people and (ahem) legislators and judges (should they be so connected) as well as vast amounts of money/crypto from money laundering, presumably Putin's life support.

One cannot "move on" from a sex, blackmail and money-laundering enterprise, the largest in recorded history, of which parts may still be operating, and with countless uncompensated victims, both alive and allegedly rubbed out. The first domino to fall (gently) was a mere prince.

Others stll remain beyond real justice.
by seanmcdirmid | 2026-02-07 07:48:26+00:00
The city should have gone after the property owner, they are responsible for any encampments on their property, and nuisance is definitely included in that, even here in liberal Seattle, and let’s not get into liability (your fire insurance has to cover them, so your insurance company gets involved and jacks your rates up really high). So in Seattle if they setup on private property, the property owner is in big trouble, so they mostly setup on public land.
by wasmainiac | 2026-02-07 07:48:37+00:00
> Only for people who think comparing TikTok to heroin is some kind of gotcha.

Do you have family? My cousins, aunts, even my mom is on it. And they all watch the most brain dead garbage. Even when they come to visit me out in the middle of no where, they still do it. The only explanation I have is that it is addictive, to not to all, but some (like you pointed out with H). Now based on how much time they spend on it I think it is harmful for them and society at large. It’s worth regulating like some non physical drug, afaik I think that is the comparison people here are making.
by mindslight | 2026-02-07 07:49:35+00:00
All the damage that Trump caused, as it becomes unavoidably apparent and the propagandists pin it on the next administration. Remember the cries about price inflation during Biden's term, after Trump had turned the money printing press to 11 during Covid? Republicans have been running this sabotage-then-criticize scam for decades now. Trump has just embraced it whole hog during his second term and it's an open question whether Democrats will even be able to stem the hemorrhaging after this one.
by nunez | 2026-02-07 07:49:55+00:00
I hope you like being on call and having to tell management why you're not hitting your number and "forecasting" your way to close the gap.

I also hope you like golf! And drinking!

There can be UNREAL amounts of drinking as an AE.

You'll also be on a plane A LOT. The folks in suits and sneakers waiting first in line to board with their roller bags? Almost all of them are AEs.

Most of your customers will see you as a walking credit card.

You can also make 6+-figure commission checks and deep friendships if the deals are right, so there's that.
by carlmr | 2026-02-07 07:49:58+00:00
>but the code to me is a forcing mechanism into ironing out the details, and I don't get that when I'm writing a specification.

This is so on point. The spec as code people try again and again. But reality always punches holes in their spec.

A spec that wasn't exercised in code, is like a drawing of a car, no matter how detailed that drawing is, you can't drive it, and it hides 90% of the complexity.

To me the value of LLMs is not so much in the code they write. They're usually to verbose, start building weird things when you don't constantly micromanage them.

But you can ask very broad questions, iteratively refine the answer, critique what you don't like. They're good as a sounding board.
by disillusioned | 2026-02-07 07:51:07+00:00
Easiest example I always give of this is pulling out of the alley behind my house: there is a large bush that occludes my view left to oncoming traffic, badly. I do what every human does:

1. Crane my neck forward, see if I can see around it.

2. Inch forward a bit more, keep craning my neck.

3. Recognize, no, I'm still occluded.

4. Count on the heuristic analysis of the light filtering through the bush and determine if the change in light is likely movement associated with an oncoming car.

My Tesla's perpendicular camera is... mounted behind my head on the B-pillar... fixed... and sure as hell can't read the tea leaves, so to speak, to determine if that slight shadow change increases the likelihood that a car is about to hit us.

I honestly don't trust it to pull out of the alley. I don't know how I can. I'd basically have to be nose-into-right-lane for it to be far enough ahead to see conclusively.

Waymo can beam the LIDAR above and around the bush, owing to its height and the distance it can receive from, and its camera coverage to the perpendicular is far better. Vision only misses so many weird edge cases, and I hate that Elon just keeps saying "well, humans have only TWO cameras and THEY drive fine every day! h'yuck!"
by snayan | 2026-02-07 07:52:06+00:00
I think about this often. I've really come to appreciate over the past year the ways language can limit and warp our perception of reality. I think we under appreciate preverbal thought, as it seems to me that verbal thought by it's very nature has passed through our egoic filter, and our perception tends to be biased by our previous lived experience.

Socrates, Einstein, Nietzsche, Mozart.... So many of the greats described some of their most brilliant flashes of inspiration as just having come to them. Einstein's line about pure logical thinking not yielding knowledge of the emperical world, I really think these guys were good at daydreaming and able to tap into some part of themselves where intuition and preverbal thought could take the wheel, from which inspiration would strike.
by tkel | 2026-02-07 07:52:07+00:00
I'm sorry, but LLMs aren't a magic spell that can solve the world's problems. If you are not a stranger to the biomedical world, then you understand that new treatments take at least a decade before they are treating patients with them out of trial. And the experts, they need experience actually administering these treatments in order to form the kind of opinions you describe them differing on. Plus there is a systemic logic to the way these things are developed. Profit. For example, no new anti-anxiety drugs have been created in 20 years, because it is cheaper to just test SSRIs that have passed FDA trials for other things like depression.

LLMs might be useful at generating text, but they cannot research, fund, develop, manufacture, educate, distribute, treat.

Like others have said, focus on speaking with your partner and deciding your plans together.
by rvz | 2026-02-07 07:52:13+00:00
> Yes, there's some unknown sources of non-determinism when running production LLM architectures at full capacity. But that's completely irrelevant to the point.

It is directly relevant and supports my whole point which just debunked your assertions on LLMs being ‘deterministic’ which doesn’t exist at a fundamental sense which you can’t guarantee that the behaviour and even the outputs will be the same.

> The core algorithm is deterministic. And you're still conflating deterministic and predictable.

The entire LLM is still non-deterministic and it is still considered to be unpredictable even if you take that to account.

> It's strange to have such disregard for the meaning of words and their correct usage.

Nope. Not only you have shown absolutely zero sources at all to prove the deterministic nature of LLMs to where it can function as a “compiler”, you ultimately conceded by agreeing with the linked paper(s) recognising that LLMs still do not have deterministic or predictable properties at all; even if you tweak the temp, parameters, etc.

Therefore, once again LLMs are NOT compilers as even feeding them adversarial inputs can mess up the entire network up to become useless.
by scoofy | 2026-02-07 07:52:31+00:00
> Cutting services means less ridership means less revenue means cutting services means...etc.

That's not true. If you have stations that are revenue positive and stations that are net negative, then cutting ridership at the net-negative stations can put the system in a much better financial position. E.g. If BART didn't end at Antioch, and instead continued to Rio Vista, it's entirely likely that the Rio Vista station would just cost more to operate than is worth operating. It takes time to go back and forth, nobody will ever want to be picked up there because it's car-dependent sprawl. Maybe have one or two stops there during rush hour, but you'll likely be better financially cutting most service.

>headways from SF to West Oakland are often 5m

Nobody is suggesting cutting service between SF and Oakland. I'm sure it's a wildly profitable route. Crossing the bay is the main benefit of BART.

>The point of government is, at least in part, to serve those who can't serve themselves. I don't expect Bart to be revenue neutral for the same reason I don't expect CalFRESH to be.

I also don't expect BART to be revenue neutral. I expect it to be funded -- in very large part -- by taxes. I'm only arguing it should be sustainable. It shouldn't get to the point of literal collapse during economic downturns (again, it's already been bailed out by the state and feds, twice, in the last six years).

I really don't think people realize what I'm getting at. I'm saying the system needs to be functional and needs to function long term. Yes, I think we should subsidize low-income users. Yes, I think people who can't afford it should still be able to use it. But that has to happen in a way that doesn't drive away significant numbers of other users. There's nothing about being low-income that means anti-social. I'm talking about anti-social behavior. I'm talking about people smoking cigarettes and using drugs on BART platforms and in BART cars. I'm talking about people who are actively bothering significant numbers of people around them by their behavior -- behavior that is against BART policy, but is tolerated.

You can't sit here and tell me the current system is working when BART is perpetually collapsing. I care about BART. That's why I'm articulating the systemic problems in the system.
by Roark66 | 2026-02-07 07:52:55+00:00
>Well, I don't think you'll be able to avoid testicle atrophy even if it minimizes it

I only take 250iu twice a week. 6 months in I can't see any atrophy. Some people take it every other day.

This hormone HCG is very interesting. In fact it is what many urine pregnancy tests test for. I wonder if I did a pregnancy test it would cone out positive :-)

But, the reason why I'm talking about it is to explain that it works the same as another hormone called LH produced by the pituary gland that regulates natural testosterone production by testes

So when one takes external testosterone the mechanism through which body shuts its production down is by shutting down this LH hormone.

By taking HCG ones testes are told to make testosterone. Not a lot of it, but it seems to be enough to prevent atrophy so far.

> Particularly, that adding testosterone will cause changes throughout your entire body (including, for example, shortening life expectancy a bit), and that adding other hormones to the mix will likewise cause changes around the entire body and not just one single process or organ.

For sure. Many of these effects are very positive. For example I was a little pre-diabetic, this has improved a lot (but one may argue via exercise - then again I manage to be consistent with the exercise thanks to psych. changes caused by the testosterone).

Another is these psychological changes. I feel more "stable". I never was really unstable, at least I never noticed, but it feels better. Like, whatever happens I can most likely solve it kind of feeling, even when things go wrong.

Finally about the shortening of lifespan. I think I offset this by exercising, but another factor is getting regular blood tests. The doc monitors things like hematocrit etc. I'm told to drink a lot more water, to measure blood pressure even though I never had high pressure etc to keep it in check.

I think most problems happen with people that do not realise their blood gets "too thick", they get high blood pressure, miss it for years and end up with circulatory system issues.

It is a tradeoff. Not everything is ideal. One negative side effect I did get is worse skin until I found a procedure to exfoliate/moisturise and so on. It's a bit of a pain in the arse as before I'd just have quick showers. Now it takes longer. But so far it is worth it.
by refulgentis | 2026-02-07 07:53:23+00:00
The charged language (“get all the way off his back”) is unnecessary. You are responding as if I am attacking him personally or the post in general.

I am not. I am repeatedly enthused about it. You are in fact, parroting positive things I am saying about it.

I am on Hacker News, responding to him responding to a critic on a particular point.
by gspr | 2026-02-07 07:54:37+00:00
I hear you. And maybe you're right. Maybe I'm deluding myself, but: when I look at my skilled colleagues who vibecode, I can't understand how this is sustainable. They're smart people, but they've clearly turned off. They can't answer non-trivial questions about the details of the stuff they (vibe-)delivered without asking the LLM that wrote it. Whoever uses the code downstream aren't gonna stand (or pay!) for this long-term! And the skills of the (vibe-)authors will rapidly disappear.

Maybe I'm just as naive as those who said that photographs lack the soul of paintings. But I'm not 100% convinced we're done for yet, if what you're actually selling is thinking, reasoning and understanding.
by permo-w | 2026-02-07 07:55:14+00:00
I absolutely get what you're saying in theory--discussions about how and why are far more valuable than dialectic no yes no yes no yes debates--but in practice for this case, I feel like those how why conversations would perhaps feel a bit redundant? I think almost anyone on the site could quite easily come up with an effective legal method for reducing the addictiveness of short form videos. The issue lies more in the action/inaction of regulators than the makeup of the actions they should take. Then again, this is all recreational anyway, so why not see who can optimise for the absolute best method?

I also wonder if these discussions are going on, just further down the thread
by troupo | 2026-02-07 07:56:03+00:00
> no one makes their compilers deterministic

I was typing too fast. "No one makes their compilers nondeterministic.

> Even the most widely recognized and used compilers, like gcc, clang, even rustc, are non-deterministic by default.

Wat?

In which world are these compilers producing non-deterministic output if you run them again and again?

> It's fascinating that anyone on HN thinks that compilers converge on always being deterministic

It's called reality that is also very trivially verified.

> I thought we were supposed to know things about computers around here?

That's what I thought, too.
by avereveard | 2026-02-07 07:57:33+00:00
nice writeup, terrible website garbling the page history

I wonder how it compare with geohashing, I know it is not as efficient in term of partitioning and query end up weird since you need to manage decoding neighbor cells but finding all element of a cell is a "starts with" query which allow to put data effectively on most nosql databases with some sort of text sorting
by DeathArrow | 2026-02-07 07:57:37+00:00
I got a Mac only because of the excellent battery life. But I dread Os X. Not only it is dumbed down and it is harder to accomplish what is trivial in other operating system, but I have to actively fight against it if I want to run software that is not downloaded from the app store or I want to open files with apps I downloaded from elsewhere. And the UI is broken.