MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ksec | 2026-02-21 14:43:37+00:00
I dont disagree with you on the chain of thoughts, the only problem is your thesis assumes UK could go back to its glory and superpower. Remembered by many during and after the World War II. And innovate to stand on its own, without the support of EU.

All of that is theoretically possible. And a very admirable goal to have. The problem is modern Britain is no longer what it once was. From Strategy to execution it is increasingly rare to find a field where they lead, and more often then not talents that produces value are captured by the US.

The current climate, culture and geopolitical issues suggest it will take much longer than 15 years, likely a whole generation cycle roughly 30 years. And depending on how you count it we are at 6 - 10 years already.
by danaris | 2026-02-21 14:43:50+00:00
I'm in my 40s, and I have only gotten more and more progressive as I've "grown up".

You want to know why?

Because I've met more marginalized people. When I was 16, I didn't know anyone who was openly queer, and I lived in a moderately-affluent, nearly-all-white area of the US.

Now, I know many people who are queer, poor, disabled, and/or people of color, and because I was raised to care about people and believe to value every human life, I want them to be treated as well as I (a middle-class, white, straight, cis man) am.
by Saline9515 | 2026-02-21 14:43:50+00:00
Why can't the EU deploy capital? Regulation doesn't create better products, more aggressive marketing techniques, or deeply entrepreneurial mindsets which favor innovation and growth.

While OP is quite aggressive here, there is a nugget of truth: innovation doesn't happen because "we have the best lawyers" or "the best regulations". Maybe some self-criticism would be warranted to solve the problem.

Also nothing forces Europeans to use LinkedIn. I deleted my account long ago after getting search requests from NSA-adjacent private intel companies.
by selvaprakash | 2026-02-21 14:45:02+00:00
I've been creating LLM based apps for past couple of years. One of the FAQ from people who are hearing this first (without seeing the app) is 'Wouldn't ChatGPT be able to do the same thing? Why should users come to your app?'. This is my thought process and a framework that I thought could be used to measure what makes the App stand out from a regular ChatGPT output. It could be the personal knowledge / context the creators have used, the experience of the app, etc.
Early stage thinking, open to feedback.
by caseyohara | 2026-02-21 14:45:06+00:00
I doubt people would complain this much if they came across a weather app that is only supported in the EU or China or India. No one would say

Yet another China-only app with China-only weather, I guess, like countless others…

"Obsessing" over your icons and user interface won't make your app useful to people you explicitly do not provide your app to.

Build your own EU weather app if you care so much. No one is obligated to support their software in the part of the world you happen to live.
by andai | 2026-02-21 14:45:11+00:00
So there's a strange situation with the incentives here.

The whole point of the AI posts with the AI bots in the comments section is they're waiting for the one clueless actual human to show up so they can scam them.

But here, the obviousness of the scam is a feature. Just like, obvious scams in the spam are actually a feature because they select for the most gullible people to scam.

So this is funny because, the shittiness of the AI images is actually a feature in the same way. The continued improvement of image generation models will actually worsen the situation from the scammers point of view, because they won't effectively filter for dummies anymore.
by sph | 2026-02-21 14:45:28+00:00
This is exactly why artificial super-intelligences are scary. Not necessarily because of its potential actions, but because humans are stupid, and would readily sell their souls and release it into the wild just for an ounce of greed or popularity.

And people who don't see it as an existential problem either don't know how deep human stupidity can run, or are exactly those that would greedily seek a quick profit before the earth is turned into a paperclip factory.
by eel | 2026-02-21 14:46:01+00:00
I use Facebook for a specific automotive model group. All the forums that used to host content have either shut down or gone inactive, and it's the literally the only active online community for the car platform. I've learned to scroll slowly over the car posts, and never to engage or linger on other content.

I found even if I am interested in other content (e.g., NFL football) nearly all other interests are flooded with false AI content. A common pattern is pages will paste "BREAKING NEWS" then describe a trade of players between two teams that never happened. Another pattern is "<most popular player on team X> does something <positive or negative> towards the LGBTQ community." These generate tons of engagement with people either for, against, or upset that it's fake. Fortunately the car community I follow is obscure enough to not have engagebait.
by CableNinja | 2026-02-21 14:46:34+00:00
How? You are here on earth, looking at a neutron star. It pulses about N times a minute. I am 5ly away, looking at the same neutron star. Yes, i see the pulses happening at about N times per second, but the pulse delay you see at time T(a) is not the same pulse delay i see at time T(a), it would be another 5 years before i see the same pulse you saw.
by nkrisc | 2026-02-21 14:46:38+00:00
> Don't you have the right to bear arms, with some idea that it is needed to prevent the government from exercising excessive powers over you, yet actually doing anything with those guns to protect yourself from tyranny is a crime?

Because when it comes to that, the government is a failed state and no one will be worried about what’s legal.

It’s not meant to be a means of legal recourse, it’s a last resort.
by justice_devb | 2026-02-21 14:46:46+00:00
Actually, the evidence shows the opposite of 'bad faith.'

I reached out to them directly with a transfer offer of just $799—which is essentially the registration cost and minor labor—specifically to help them secure their brand before someone else did. I didn't ask for thousands; I asked for a 'thank you' and a cost-recovery fee.

For a 'world-leading AI platform,' claiming that owning your .ai TLD is 'pointless' is like a bank saying they don't need to lock the back door because they have a trademark on the front door. Trademark doesn't prevent a phishing attack or a competitor from causing confusion; proactive security does.

They didn't ignore a 'squatter'; they ignored a professional heads-up.
by JohnMakin | 2026-02-21 14:46:50+00:00
I was randomly forced to do this about a year ago, gave them everything except a passport (Tried providing other doc but support is either bots or overseas), got rejected, and lost a 15 year old legitimate business account.

Could never find any explanation why I was targeted by this - it said it detected “suspicious activity” but I only ever interacted with recruiters, and only occasionally. Supposedly it is deleted after if you don’t go all the way through, but I do not believe it. This data ends up in very weird places and they can go fuck themselves for it afaic.
by arboles | 2026-02-21 14:46:57+00:00
Revenue of $1M alone (not net revenue) should be a rough proxy of organization size. If a company makes that kind of money it should be able organize its expenses to pay a reasonable price for the software they rely on. There could be an exception for non-profits, if it would make more sense. If companies were rational they would already be paying the reasonable amount for "normal" open-source software, since unmaintained software in their supply chain also can also become a problem for them.

BTPL (I just think BTPL is neat) specifies what you were asking about:

>You may use the software for the benefit of your [small business] if it meets all these criteria:

* had fewer than 20 total individuals working as employees and independent contractors at all times during the last tax year

* earned less than $1,000,000 total revenue in the last tax year

* received less than $1,000,000 total debt, equity, and other investment in the last five tax years, counting investment in predecessor companies that reorganized into, merged with, or spun out your company
by andsoitis | 2026-02-21 14:47:24+00:00
This is pretty ambitious.

> True multi-threaded Elisp (planned) — real concurrency for the Lisp machine, not just cooperative threading

I'm really curious how this project plans to approach. The Emacs maintainers have discussed this topic but concluded that the subprocess support (together with cooperative threading) suffices for most use cases.

I think you'd have to design the entire Emacs around parallelism, like editor state (buffers, windows, the display engine) which is global and unsynchronized, data structures would have to be made thread-safe, etc.
by abanana | 2026-02-21 14:47:28+00:00
No, they did not (or if they did, they didn't publish it). If I'm wrong, please give me some links because I'd genuinely love to see it.

Microsoft did those usability studies on the versions of Office that were current before the ribbon. The ribbon followed those studies as their attempt at a solution.

A few times over the years I've tried to search for usability studies of the ribbon interface because I've never got on with it myself. I find plenty of others asking the same thing online, and everybody points them to those same earlier studies from before the ribbon, while wrongly telling them it's a study of the ribbon.

Those studies are unable to tell us whether or not MS's attempt at a solution actually fixed the problems.

I believe the ribbon was a downgrade in usability terms (but people expect it in office suites, purely because it's seen as looking more modern). And I'd love to see real intensive research to tell me whether my belief is right or wrong.
by zabzonk | 2026-02-21 14:47:32+00:00
I thought this was a misspelled article about Kokinelli, the Greek red wine, fairly accurately described here: https://www.arrse.co.uk/wiki/Kokinelli

I used to drink this stuff back in the late 1960s, when my Dad was an RAF pilot based in Cyprus and I was about 15. You had to take it with a Sprite mixer if you wanted to retain your teeth.

It would be a good name for a project, though.
by nullocator | 2026-02-21 14:47:50+00:00
Most offenders in the U.S. prison system that U.S. citizens tax dollars are paying for are not violent offenders, at least not until they've been in and out of the prison system at least once, then their chances of committing additional crimes sky rocket.

So to answer your sneakily worded question (throwing in the word violent like some kind of gotcha for the first time): I personally don't want more people in prison because I think it is wasteful both in terms of capital and in terms of human experience, there are proven better alternatives like rehabilitation that work for most people and have significantly better outcomes, and finally because the united states prison system is effectively captured by corporate interests which is antithetical to a society that should be against cruel punishments.
by everforward | 2026-02-21 14:48:05+00:00
> American cities could solve their housing shortages in short order but it'd piss off too many people who are "invested' in housing so we accept dead bodies in our streets and social instability instead.

I agree with you about fixing the housing market, but I think you underestimate the instability caused by changing housing prices rapidly.

If housing prices drop by something like 25%, a lot of people are going to be upside down on their loans (outstanding principal exceeds the value of the asset). The banks now have mortgages that aren’t fully secured anymore, and borrowers are heavily incentivized to allow a foreclosure unless they’ve paid down the principal by a lot.

We’re talking the 08 recession all over again.
by VorpalWay | 2026-02-21 14:48:13+00:00
Not the same level of sophistication, but ast-grep allows this for far more languages, since it is based on the tree-sitter parser library. I have used it with some success on C++. Of course it only works on the AST level, and C++ famously need types for correct parsing, so it sometimes fall short (also on macros).

https://ast-grep.github.io/
by kgeist | 2026-02-21 14:48:19+00:00
I run Qwen3-32b locally without any tools (just llama.cpp) and it can do basic arithmetic for smaller numbers ( like 134566) but I didn't check it for much larger numbers. I'm not at the PC right now but trying to do it via OpenRouter on much larger numbers overflows the context and it stops without giving a result :)
by nottorp | 2026-02-21 14:48:21+00:00
Yep, I clicked verify experimentally and all they wanted was my work email and a code they sent to it.

Of course, that works probably because my work has a linkedin account so they know what the official domain is for it.

I guess they'll spam that email but it's not like I care. I already receive spam offering me subcontracting services so I guess it's published somewhere.
by kjksf | 2026-02-21 14:48:43+00:00
Poland has almost zero immigration and is one of the fastest European economies.

Do explain the miracle of Poland. What kind of economics work for Poland but couldn't possibly work for England.

Do explain how 41 thousand unskilled young man landing in UK shores via small boats are good for economy. Majority of them do no work, not even the low skill jobs. They cost UK citizens a lot of money because UK gov took upon themselves to pay for their housing and food.

The same stats are in every country that allowed massive immigration: the immigrants are a massive drain on resources of the country. And those resources are 100% come from taxing labor of citizens.

Currently UK pays for housing 100 thousand immigrants.

It's pretty obvious that if they stopped paying for housing them, they would save a lot of money.

Properly managed immigration could, in theory, be a net positive for countries.

But as it stands now if you combine immigration with well fare, you get a net drain.
by sidrag22 | 2026-02-21 14:48:45+00:00
I am unsure how you think this makes your point? thats from 2010. the end of that era. Perhaps you think this was the nail in the coffin? but itunes/ipods had been around for nearly 10 years at that point and a ton of the approachable programs such limewire napster etc, were becoming tougher to use, and it was a transition to torrents instead. in 2010 there was even spotify in the mix.

Regardless of all of that, stating that one person's lawsuit is why music piracy ended for EVERYONE is a massive massive stretch of the truth. piracy literally never ended, it just became less approachable, and the mainstream offerings became more what the public desired(CD sections are pretty dead in modern day).
by cosmic_cheese | 2026-02-21 14:49:05+00:00
Docker style containerization technically works, but for desktop use I think is a rather heavy kludge and not really a solution.

It would be much more nice if e.g. daemons could have their privileges pared down to only exactly what they need to function and nothing more with a config file somewhere. This can somewhat be achieved with the user system, but that really doesn’t scale well and doesn’t suit the purpose all that well in some ways.
by simonw | 2026-02-21 14:49:49+00:00
You're confusing OpenClaw and Moltbook there. Moltbook was the absurdist art project with bots chatting to each other, which leaked a bunch of Moltbook-specific API keys.

If someone got hold of that they could post on Moltbook as your bot account. I wouldn't call that "a bunch of his data leaked".
by rybosworld | 2026-02-21 14:49:52+00:00
No, it wouldn't be enough to falsify.

This isn't an experiment a consumer of the models can actually run. If you have a chance to read the article I linked, it is difficult even for the model maintainers (openai, anthropic, etc.) to look into the model and see what it actually used in it's reasoning process. The models will purposefully hide information about how they reasoned. And they will ignore instructions without telling you.

The problem really isn't that LLM's can't get math/arithmetic right sometimes. They certainly can. The problem is that there's a very high probability that they will get the math wrong. Python or similar tools was the answer to the inconsistency.
by lmf4lol | 2026-02-21 14:50:05+00:00
You can see it that way, but I think its a cynics mindset.

I experience it personally as super fun approach to experiment with the power of Agentic AI. It gives you and your LLM so much power and you can let your creativity flow and be amazed of whats possible. For me, openClaw is so much fun, because (!) it is so freaking crazy. Precisely the spirit that I missed in the last decade of software engineering.

Dont use on the Work Macbook, I'd suggest. But thats persona responsibility I would say and everyone can decide that for himself.
by mycall | 2026-02-21 14:50:27+00:00
I'm familiar with Cyc but never considered it a monotonic reasoning, but it definitely makes sense in retrospect. It appears Lean Machines [0] is a step head, combining both sides of the frame problem as a specific, although it likely leans towards leans (pun intended).

[0] https://github.com/lean-machines-central/lean-machines
by laszlojamf | 2026-02-21 14:51:30+00:00
I work in this space for a competitor to Persona, so take my opinion as potentially biased, but I have two points:
1. just because the DPA lists 17 subprocessors, it doesn't mean your data gets sent to all of them. As a company you put all your subprocessors in the DPA, even if you don't use them. We have a long list of subprocessors, but any one individual going through our system is only going to interact with two or three at most. Of course, Persona _could_ be sending your data to all 17 of them, legally, but I'd be surprised if they actually do.
2. the article makes it sound like biometric data is some kind of secret, but especially your _face_ is going to be _everywhere_ on the internet. Who are we kidding here? Why would _that_ be the problem? Your search/click behavior or connection metadata would seem a lot more private to me.
by ahartmetz | 2026-02-21 14:51:35+00:00
>I believe the important thing to preserve in history is whatever your unit of review is

I do not share that belief, but this thread (your posts and others) gave me an idea about code reviews. They became commonplace when I'd been working in software for a while already and, while I see the benefits, I never really felt like I handled them well. I guess one of the ingredients for handling them better is to center the workflow around them - an area in which I have never noticed major changes in an existing project, although they are visible when looking from the right angle: Long-lived, large feature branches have become noticeably less common.
by _ananos_ | 2026-02-21 14:51:37+00:00
well, the actual issue (IMHO) is that this meta-orchestrator (karmada) needs quorum even for a single node cluster.

The purpose of the demo wasn't to show consistency, but to describe the policy-driven decision/mechanism.

What hit us in the first place (and I think this is what we should fix) is the fact that a brand new nuc-like machine, with a relatively new software stack for spawning VMs (incus / ZFS etc.) behaves so bad it can produce such hiccups for disk IO access...
by dgrunwald | 2026-02-21 14:52:10+00:00
When accessing individual elements, 0-based and 1-based indexing are basically equally usable (up to personal preference).
But this changes for other operations! For example, consider how to specify the index of where to insert in a string. With 0-based indexing, appending is str.insert(str.length(), ...). With 1-based indexing, appending is str.insert(str.length() + 1, ...).
Similarly, when it comes to substr()-like operations, 0-based indexing with ranges specified by inclusive start and exclusive end works very nicely, without needing any +1/-1 adjustments. Languages with 1-based indexing tend to use inclusive-end for substr()-like operations instead, but that means empty substrings now are odd special cases.
When writing something like a text editor where such operations happen frequently, it's the 1-based indexing that ends up with many more +1/-1 in the codebase than an editor written with 0-based indexing.
by bryanlarsen | 2026-02-21 14:52:34+00:00
A comparison of Beijing air quality between 2020 and 2025 will show drastic differences -- it's gotten much better.

China's coal usage is relatively flat. They've increased their capacity, but they've been decreasing their capacity factor (aka what percentage of the time the plants are running) at approximately the same rate. They used to run their plants 24/7. Now they run only at night. They've started adding batteries to the grid so in the future the coal plants will only run after a stretch of cloudy days.
by andai | 2026-02-21 14:52:50+00:00
I have the same thing on YouTube. I usually use adblock but I used youtube without adblock recently and was startled by the ads. It's either "AI girlfriend", or video games, or video games about AI girlfriends. (I don't play video games, and I'm not interested in AI girlfriend. At least Meta shows me ads about stuff I actually find interesting!)

But my experience is constantly interrupted by images of scantily clad AI generated women. I'm no prude but it seems more than a little inappropriate to me.

Oh yeah and the other 10% of the ads are about exploding children.

I think I am going to install Adblock again...
by littlesteps | 2026-02-21 14:52:56+00:00
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3. *The "Connection":* You claim the connection is that both domains are registered with *Hostinger*. This is like saying two people are related because they both shop at Walmart. Hostinger is one of the largest registrars in the world with millions of customers. It is a meaningless coincidence.

Your line of questioning is a deliberate attempt to derail the conversation and create a false narrative of illegitimacy. You are ignoring the overwhelming evidence that proves our case:

- *1,074 transactions*
- *0 disputes*
- *0 refunds*
- *0.00% fraud rate*

These are Stripe's own numbers. They prove that Stripe's claim of "unauthorized charges" is impossible. The issue here is a *Stripe software bug* and a *failed support system*, not the bizarre conspiracy theory you are trying to construct.

Please stop spreading misinformation. If you are not here to help, at least do not actively harm a non-profit organization that is trying to recover its rightfully earned donation funds.