MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by alephnerd | 2026-02-18 01:45:51+00:00
Fred Sanford owned a small business and lived in Los Angeles in an era when the majority of African Americans were working unskilled wage jobs [0] and overwhelmingly living in the South.

He and Lamont were middle and upper-middle class by African American standards as was seen in the 1970 Negro (the then term for African Americans) Census by the the US Department of Commerce.

And by overall American standards back then they would have probably been around the 50th to 60th percentile of households by income and would have been earning at least 60% than their racial peers in the South at the exact same time.

If you go through US Census data from 1970 - almost a decade after the Civil Rights Act was passed - it is harrowing. Now imagine how much worse it was before that.

[0] - https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/1971/demographi...
by estearum | 2026-02-18 01:46:23+00:00
Well it's pretty easy to have a useless conversation if you're going to act as if the words your interlocutor are saying are "effectively nullified."

My solution does anticipate real-world human interactions: don't give rich landowners tax breaks. This is baked into the premise of having a high tax. A tax that is effectively not-high is by definition not a high tax, ergo is not the solution I am proposing. If I proposed a solution of "have a tax that is claimed to be high but actually is not," then your response would be valid. But my solution was: have a high land value tax.

Your solution is dismissible by your same logic. "While removing any and all subsidies is well-intended, in practice real-world human interactions dictate that will not occur."
by Ethiel97 | 2026-02-18 01:46:35+00:00
Creator here.

I built LucidClip because I wanted a clipboard manager that could be trusted with sensitive data.

LucidClip is fully local-first. Clipboard history stays on your machine. Nothing is uploaded to LucidClip servers.

Key differences:

• App-level exclusions (ignore password managers, banking apps, etc.)
• Retention control (clipboard as persistent working memory)
• Native desktop app, not Electron
• Future sync via user-owned cloud (iCloud), not LucidClip infrastructure

Most clipboard tools treat clipboard history as a convenience feature.

LucidClip treats it as core infrastructure.

Happy to answer technical questions.
by snickerbockers | 2026-02-18 01:46:57+00:00
I keep thinking back to all those old star trek episodes about androids and holographic people being a new form of life deserving of fundamental rights. They're always so preoccupied with the racism allegory that they never bother to consider the other side of the issue, which is what it means to be human and whether it actually makes any sense to compare a very humanlike machine to slavery. Or whether the machines only appear to have human traits because we designed them that way but ultimately none of it is real. Or the inherent contradiction of telling something artificial it has free will rather than expecting it to come to that conclusion on its own terms.

"Measure of a Man" is the closest they ever got to this in 700+ episodes and even then the entire argument against granting data personhood hinges on him having an off switch on the back of his neck (an extremely weak argument IMO but everybody onscreen reacts like it is devastating to data's case). The "data is human" side wins because the Picard flips the script by demanding Riker to prove his own sentience which is actually kind of insulting when you think about it.

TL;DR i guess I'm a star trek villain now.
by thunky | 2026-02-18 01:47:40+00:00
> But you didn't say that. You just said I didn't know what 'indulge' means.

Right. My objection was that you projected a negative meaning, which in my view was not demanded by the author. I could be wrong about what the author meant, but I didn't pick up any hint of "incredible weight the attitude of the writer puts on kids". So yes from my perspective that suggested that you probably didn't know the meaning of the word or didn't consider that there was another way to interpret it.

> Although I'm sure the irony of your final quip has escaped you

No, that was the point. The word can be used more than one way.

> Out of curiosity, do you think this is a geo-cultural difference?

Definitely could be. I'm from the US.
by 14 | 2026-02-18 01:48:21+00:00
My guess would be that for most people they already have a pretty good idea if you are an adult.
Like my account was created years and years ago not long after it was released so unless I was under 8 when I did so the odds are pretty good I am at least 18.
But to further my guess of why they are not bugging you is because they are not YET bugging you. By that I mean then want to make it seem like they only want to "save the children". That, in a lot of cases they basically already know you must be over 18. But in my opinion that is only to lessen the blow and not annoy everyone at once. Many escape ID requirements and continue to use the app and if all goes well not enough people push back or quit and a high enough number of people continue to use the app that it makes other people either use the user hostile app or not easily connect and communicate to a large community.
But also in my opinion once people calm down and move on they will continue to push more demand for user ID. It will be a slow push but knowing who you are is too valuable. There will be excuses as to why they need it and eventually there will be a reason why you a user of over a decade will also need to prove you are who you are.

One positive note I am actually old man wrinkly balls. I have been there for the rise and fall of many sites. Maybe it will happen for discord as well only time will tell. Cheers
by TMEHpodcast | 2026-02-18 01:49:35+00:00
It is a well-known fact that the moment YouTube goes down, the collective productivity of Earth increases by approximately 4,000%, which is immediately squandered by everyone going to Hacker News to read comments about YouTube being down. I myself have taken to podcasts… an ancient medium in which people simply talk at you for ninety minutes without a single sponsorship for a mobile game, and this is considered a failure
by ameliaquining | 2026-02-18 01:49:46+00:00
But presumably most of the 3,000 cars are on the road at any given time? In which case the point stands, namely, that their remote operations people can't be the ones driving the cars because there aren't enough of them on duty at any given time; therefore, the cars really do drive themselves. (Which I would have thought was never in doubt, but I suppose some people are really determined to be skeptics.)
by user3939382 | 2026-02-18 01:49:59+00:00
This is correct. An LLM is a tool. Having a better guitar doesn’t make you sound good if you don’t know how to play. If you were a low skill software systems etc arch before LLM you’re gonna be a bad one after as well. Someone at some point is deciding what the agent should be doing. LLMs compete more with entry level / juniors.
by iugtmkbdfil834 | 2026-02-18 01:50:15+00:00
<< When I reached my teens, I finally understood it was a callout by the writers trying to remind viewers that the Simpsons wasn't reality.

Interesting. This is not how I interpreted it at all in my initial viewing ( or subsequent ones for that matter ). If Grimes criticized anything, it was Homer and people like Homer. If it was a meta-commentary, it was certainly not drawing a distinction between reality of Grime's life and the imaginary one income head of the household doing surprisingly well given the circumstances. Grimes story was a story of a guy, who just had a bad luck.. over and over again, but even when the good luck did show, he failed the test and focused not on what he gained, but others have despite being, in his eyes, lesser than him.

That is the moral of the story. Don't be Grimes. He may wish he can be Homer Simpson, but he sure can't touch those high voltage signs.
by Aachen | 2026-02-18 01:50:51+00:00
My phone isn't my email server though? It's not exposed to the public internet. It connects outwards but you can't simply connect inwards to the IMAP client

You can invert your logic as well: Why care about security without privacy? If your apps are leaking everything to the internet, what's there to keep secure. One could argue this is the essential dependency, not the other way around, since security depends on the threat model but, without privacy, there's no more secrets

> I think you're talking about something like "freedom", here

In part, as well as a means to an end, yes. (GrapheneOS uses this as well, since without the freedom to bring your own OS, they couldn't run on Google's devices. I would think we all enjoy having the freedom to do what we want with our own hardware.) Note also the part where it says "provide fake data to tracking apps": that's privacy which GOS doesn't offer but a user root device / any desktop OS would
by satvikpendem | 2026-02-18 01:52:27+00:00
> Sonnet 4.6 is roughly as capable as Opus 4.5 - at least according to Anthropic's benchmarks

Yeah it's really not. Sonnet still struggles while Opus, even 4.5 succeeds (and some examples show Opus 4.6 is actually even worse than 4.5, all while being more expensive and taking longer to finish).
by mark_l_watson | 2026-02-18 01:52:36+00:00
I always buy every Lisp related book I see. I bought this book on Kobo as an eBook. So far, I have spent less than an hour looking through a few sections; fun stuff! I like the wide variety of code snippets mixed with background and history.

I will revisit our discussion here in a day or two after I finish reading this book.
by bathtub365 | 2026-02-18 01:52:45+00:00
The status history on the page makes it seem like this was intentional?

> 17 Feb 2026 11:32 PST A rollout is going to prevent issuance from occurring. We will provide an estimate on when issuance will stop.

> 17 Feb 2026 12:14 PST
Issuance is beginning to stop. A fix to resolve the issue will roll out in about 8 hours
by LPisGood | 2026-02-18 01:54:52+00:00
It is a co-op where creators make videos without the threat of being demonetized or algorithmically punished - and it’s not garbage in the way you might expect people fearful of being demonetized might be.

Lots of excellent legal analysis, history, logistics, engineering content there.

It was initially founded by some of the most popular information YouTubers like CGPGrey, but he mysteriously left the project (I suspect one side wanted to be evil and the other side did not)
by a_tartaruga | 2026-02-18 01:55:31+00:00
I don't disagree with everything you are saying. But you seem to be assuming that contributing to technology is a zero sum game when it concretely grows the wealth of the world.

> If everyone had an oil well on their property that was affordable to operate the price of oil would be more akin to the price of water.

This is not necessarily even true https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
by nradov | 2026-02-18 01:55:45+00:00
From the Russian perspective it actually does make a bit of sense, in a twisted sort of way. They were invaded from the west before, most recently by Hitler and before that by Napoleon. There are no good natural defenses to protect Moscow and so they seek to establish defense in depth with additional buffer territory. (I write this not to justify recent Russian acts of aggression but to explain some of their internal strategic thinking.)
by MarkusQ | 2026-02-18 01:56:32+00:00
Oh yeah. I'm not saying that's the only way things can go off the rails. But with regard to "When Prophesy Fails" specifically, TFA says:

"A new paper finds a different story in the archives of the lead author, Leon Festinger. Up to half of the attendees at cult meetings may have been undercover researchers. One of them became a leader in the cult and encouraged other members to make statements that would look good in the book."
by iamjfu | 2026-02-18 01:57:01+00:00
If I ask, "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?"

It says, "Walk — it's 50 meters, about a 30-second stroll. Driving that distance to a car wash would be a bit circular anyway!"

However, if I ask, "The car wash is 50 meters away. I want to wash my car. Should I walk or drive?"

It says, "Drive — it's a car wash! You kind of need the car there. "

Note the slight difference in the sentence order.
by Animats | 2026-02-18 01:57:10+00:00
Mandatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1235/

It's interesting that the proliferation of cell phone cameras has not improved the quality of UFO reports much.

Nor has the availability of automatic UFO-spotting cameras.[1] They pick up drones, flocks of birds, and the International Space Station. But no good UFO shots.

LINEAR and GEODSS, which find near-earth objects and satellites using a pair of large telescopes at each site, have been running for decades, somehow don't seem to be picking up UFOs.

[1] https://www.space.com/spotting-ufos-sky-hub-surveillance
by OhMeadhbh | 2026-02-18 01:57:24+00:00
I would be very interested to see how the Waymo cars fail when RA workers aren't available.

(I would recommend that we put the unit back in operation and let it fail. It should then be a simple matter to track down the cause.
We can certainly afford to be out of communication for the short time it will take to replace it.)
by dakolli | 2026-02-18 01:57:28+00:00
Its really wild how much good UI stands out to me now that the internet is been flooded with generically produced slop. I created a bookmarks folder for beautiful sites that clearly weren't created by LLMs and required a ton of sweat to design the UI/UX.

I think we will transition to a world where handmade software/design will come at a huge premium (especially as the average person gets more distanced from the actual work required to do so, and the skills become rarer). Just like the wealthy pay for handmade shoes, as opposed to something off the shelf from footlocker, I think companies will revert back to hand crafted UX. These identical center column layout's with a 3x3 feature card grid at the bottom of your landing page are going to get really old fast in a sea of identical design patterns.

To be fair component libraries were already contributing to this degradation in design quality, but LLM s are making it much worse.
by ctoth | 2026-02-18 01:57:52+00:00
> And sadly everyone has the same ideas, everyone ends up working on the same things

This is someone telling you they have never had an idea that surprised them. Or more charitably, they've never been around people whose ideas surprised them. Their entire model of "what gets built" is "the obvious thing that anyone would build given the tools." No concept of taste, aesthetic judgment, problem selection, weird domain collisions, or the simple fact that most genuinely valuable things were built by people whose friends said "why would you do that?"
by LexiMax | 2026-02-18 01:58:16+00:00
I'm already using Matrix for a number of open source communities. It's fine as far as it goes.

However, from a community space point of view, it seems to be more similar to IRC than Discord. Much like an IRC server, there's a public list of channels and you join them individually. There is voice and video chat, but as far as I can tell it's only person to person without any voice and video conferencing like Discord has, and I've never actually tried them to see how well they work.

Some organizations, such as Mozilla, run their own Matrix server in order to corral the community into one place, but more often than not I see communities creating a single channel on the primary matrix.org server, and "expand" by adding more channels, IRC style.

As an IRC replacement, I think it's perfect. But if you are expecting something more similar to Discord in terms of functionality, you'll likely be looking elsewhere. Stoat is what I see most frequently touted, but I haven't tested it before.
by jamesfinlayson | 2026-02-18 01:58:35+00:00
Australia recently locked under 16s out of social media and it seems like the social media companies used heuristics to determine if accounts were owned by under 16s... so I assume Discord will do something similar.

I'm in Australia and have not been prompted to verify my identity for any service (I'm assuming that one of the heuristics is average age of "friends" but I have no idea).
by datsci_est_2015 | 2026-02-18 01:59:37+00:00
> I think that mostly depends on how good a writer you are. A lot of people aren't, and the AI legitimately writes better.

Even poor writers write with character. My dad misspells every 4th word when he texts me, but it’s unmistakably his voice. Endearingly so.

I would push back with passion that AI writes “legitimately” better, as it has no character except the smoothed mean of all internet voices. The millennial gray of prose.
by estearum | 2026-02-18 01:59:45+00:00
They are actually "no human in the loop" driverless most of the time.

If an airplane did not have a human inside the airplane and they only "dialed in" for extraordinary events, then yes I do think we'd call them pilotless.

Anyway Waymo, to my knowledge, doesn't use the terms "driverless" nor "autopilot." They claim that they are creating an artificial driver or that their cars are autonomous. There's something driving the car, it's just not a human driver, ergo it's not "driverless."
by saltcured | 2026-02-18 02:00:02+00:00
At UC Berkeley in the early-mid 90s, I think I had two digital design courses. The first was low level basics like understanding logic gates, flip flops, gray coding, PROM, ALUs, multiplexers, etc., with a physical project using 7000-series chips on breadboard. The second was the whole 32 bit MIPS/SPIM pipelined CPU design and simulation project based on the Patterson and Hennessy text book.

But, I seem to recall there were ways to bypass most hardware background knowledge for a CS degree. You had to do intro math and physics that did classical mechanics, but you could stop short of most of the electromagnetic stuff or multivariate calculus. You could get your breadth credits in other areas like statistics, philosophy, and biology. I think you could also bypass digital design with mix of other CS intro courses like algorithms, operating systems, compilers, graphics, database systems, and maybe AI?
by nl | 2026-02-18 02:00:19+00:00
> Last I checked, the tractor and plow are doing a lot more work than 3 farmers, yet we've got more jobs and grow more food.

Not sure when you checked.

In the US more food is grown for sure. For example just since 2007 it has grown from $342B to $417B, adjusted for inflation[1].

But employment has shrunk massively, from 14M in 1910 to around 3M now[2] - and 1910 was well after the introduction of tractors (plows not so much... they have been around since antiquity - are mentioned extensively in the old testament Bible for example).

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/A2000X1A020NBEA

[2] https://www.nass.usda.gov/Charts_and_Maps/Farm_Labor/fl_frmw...
by Rapzid | 2026-02-18 02:00:56+00:00
The unified search (org wide, across issues/prs/code) and custom search backend works really well.

Honestly I don't understand all the GitHub hate. There was a decade where they barely innovated; I'll gladly take all the advances over the past 8-ish years for the odd issue they have. GH actions has evolved A LOT and I'm a heavy Copilot user at the org/enterprise level..
by simoncion | 2026-02-18 02:01:13+00:00
If you've some time to burn, write the author and/or his publisher and let them know that the guy's new ghostwriter sucks shit. If this is very seriously making your consider not picking up the next book in the series, be sure to mention that.

If folks just stop purchasing the new books, they can imagine a reason for the lost sales that's convenient for them, but if folks tell them why they stopped purchasing, there's a lot less room for that kind of nonsense.
by Aachen | 2026-02-18 02:01:13+00:00
Certainly not, but there's more goals than singular security from government agents at all cost

With the current mobile OS landscape, getting away from ubiquitous overseas dependencies, constant tracking, and closed-source mandatory apps is, to me, much more direct-impact than protecting against this extremely remote chance of having an exploit, customised to my software stack, finding its way onto my device somehow
by actinium226 | 2026-02-18 02:01:15+00:00
70 active on average at any given time per the article, which then lists total fleet size, as opposed to number of active cars on average, so it's not a fair comparison.

Although then it says they drive about 4m miles per week, which works out to 57,000 miles per active RA agent per week. A person driving ~25 mph on average 24/7 would do ~4000 miles (and we can assume 24/7 here because they reported active agents, so we assume a team of ~3 people swapping out as driver in this hypothetical), so that gives you a car/operator ratio of at least 14, and probably more since I bet the average speed is less than 25 mph.
by brandonb | 2026-02-18 02:01:24+00:00
This post summarizes four government programs that launched in the last 60 days:

* ARPA-H ADVOCATE: autonomous AI cardiologist.

* CMS ACCESS: pays for outcomes, not visits, with reimbursement set that you have to use AI to scale.

* FDA TEMPO: lets AI devices deploy before full clearance

* Utah: AI can prescribe medication (refills at first).

I've been working on AI in medicine for 10 years. I'm honestly surprised at how fast the regulations are evolving.
by maxbond | 2026-02-18 02:01:57+00:00
Unless I recall incorrectly, they were undercover researchers in Festinger's employ. Not that many researchers happened to converge on the same very small, obscure cult.

But perhaps I misinterpreted you? I took the impression from your comment you thought several groups of researchers were stepping on each other's toes, but reading it back, I see that you didn't explicitly say that. So perhaps I read that in.
by jgauth | 2026-02-18 02:02:19+00:00
I believe we already saw something like this happen with the PG&E power outage in San Francisco in December. The waymo post-mortem [1] describes the outage causing a backlog of RA requests, which seems to have resulted in cars blocking roads an intersections. I would imagine they've improved the system after that incident, however.

[1] https://waymo.com/blog/2025/12/autonomously-navigating-the-r...
by 14 | 2026-02-18 02:02:35+00:00
Well one must also argue the opposite. I myself have gained immense knowledge from YouTube. I have learned things like phone screen replacements or phone battery replacements. I call myself a mechanic from the school of YouTube and have saved myself at minimum $10k in repairs doing the work myself. I have learned to make endless food recipes or create things like giant bubbles or slime for my kids. My point is that I bet sure for some YouTube is a massive time sink waste of time. But I also wonder how much it has improved the knowledge, skills and ability of others.
My dad often mentions how had he had YouTube when he was younger how much it would have done for him. He talks about having to go to the library and if lucky there was a book that could show you the knowledge you were looking for. He says but now you can find not just the knowledge but for example specific knowledge like car make model and year and how exactly to do job xyz.
Ultimately I just can not imagine life without the wealth of knowledge YouTube has given me.
by jsheard | 2026-02-18 02:02:37+00:00
I couldn't say how many servers bother, but it's not difficult to set up if you're concerned about that possibility. Caddy lets you specify any number of ACME providers to try in sequence if the previous ones fail.

Frankly even with no CA redundancy, downtime would have to drag on for weeks to actually disrupt renewals. ACME certs usually get rotated after about 2/3rds of their duration has expired, so the upcoming 45 day certificates will still have about 15 days of wiggle room.