MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by magicalhippo | 2026-02-08 10:13:28+00:00
Don't know about Tate and other countries, but that's literally how public pensions work here in Norway. The government relies on taxes paid each year to fund all the pensions they have to pay each year.

Worked well when the country was growing in population, not so much now that the growth is negative (especially working population). Hence it's the primary reason why we renamed our "Oil fund" to "The pension fund"[1].

For private companies it's different, they have to actually put money in a personal pension account for each employee. The company can't fool around with it afterwards.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Pension_Fund_of_Nor...
by themafia | 2026-02-08 10:13:41+00:00
> practical to adapt life to space

This is not practical in terms of microgravity environments. You just have to read the space shuttle manual to learn how to correct a broken toilet before you understand how poorly equipped we are to handle this challenge. If you can't fix it you're back to the Apollo style bags. The toilet has a 21 day lifetime anyways. Reading the manual further shows why. Turns out lots of holes between the inside and outside are so terrible you'd rather hold onto your waste than build a convenience. Even so turds at suborbital velocities are a terrifying thought on every level.

Any loose item in the ship is an _immediate_ choking hazard. There's no gravity. Surface tension does strange things. Even to your throat. You have to trust that every person on board is going to reliably capture and contain all debris at all times. God help you if you have to fire the engines for a short period because suddenly there's "gravity" again. You can rotate a space station but you can't go anywhere really.

Medically you can't do any imaging other than weak ultrasound. No X-Rays even. Surgery is effectively impossible without gravity anyways. Not that you'll ever get that close to the effort. It's absurd how brightly we paint this dim picture in our culture and our military style propaganda.

Until we have artificial gravity I personally think we have no business in space as a civilian effort and we're not going to get particularly far from Earth because of it.
by direwolf20 | 2026-02-08 10:14:25+00:00
That's fine, you can leave it to philosophers if you want or you can go and learn it. I only referenced two principles and they both have Wikipedia pages. But don't make no effort to learn how people think about objective morality and then complain nobody knows anything about objective morality.

I'll even link them for you:

The veil of ignorance says you should design morals for a society as if you don't know which position you'll be in in that society. If you want to know if it's moral to feed people to crocodiles, imagine that your mind and soul is placed into a random body in the world where people are fed to crocodiles. You might be feeding someone to a crocodile, you might be fed to a crocodile, and in some versions you might be the crocodile. If you had the choice to live in that world but you don't know which one you'll be, would you take it? If you wouldn't because the chance feels bad to you, that's a sign it's objectively immoral.

Categorical imperative: follow rules that you'd be okay with everyone following all the time. Suppose you're very hungry and you see a supermarket and you steal a loaf of bread. Is this moral? "Everyone should steal food" quickly breaks down commerce and isn't good. "Very hungry people with no money should steal bread" works well enough because most people aren't very hungry with no money. We can say it's moral for very hungry people with no money to steal bread. "Very hungry people with no money should just die" works too, but it fails the other principle: that could be you who dies, and you'd rather be allowed to steal bread to prevent death.

These might be different versions of the same principle but I'm not philosophically savvy enough to know that so I'm stating both.
by herodoturtle | 2026-02-08 10:15:39+00:00
I didn’t catch this reference, so adding the below for other folks in the same boat:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September

“Eternal September or the September that never ended was a cultural phenomenon during a period beginning around late 1993 and early 1994, when Internet service providers began offering Usenet access to many new users. Before this, the only sudden changes in the volume of new users of Usenet occurred each September, when cohorts of university students would gain access to it for the first time, in sync with the academic calendar.”
by cess11 | 2026-02-08 10:15:58+00:00
Yeah, sure, it can be perceived like that. The message I'm responding to shows a blatant disregard for millenia of scriptural knowledge traditions. It's a 'I have a pocket calculator, why should I study math' kind of attitude, presenting itself in a celebratory manner.

To me it is reminiscent of liberalist history, the idea that history is a constant progression from animalistic barbarism to civilisation, and nothing but the latest thing is of any value. Instead of jumping to conclusions and showing my loathing for this particular tradition I decided to try and get more information about where they're coming from.
by rob | 2026-02-08 10:16:08+00:00
It's 100% another bot account:

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=Zakodiac

This one's a bit clever in that it actually comments back.

I feel like I've been pointing them out too much lately so I wanted to wait until somebody else did first.

They all seem to take advantage of accounts that are a few years old with zero posts and then suddenly make a bunch of AI-generated comments on a single day, like this one did (account from 2023, no posts until today.)

The last bot I pointed out that did the same thing ended up having its "owner" make a post about it that didn't get any attention:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46901199
by Thiez | 2026-02-08 10:16:27+00:00
The VOC and EIC would like a word. While under these so-called 'Judeo-Christian values' Europe was wildly antisemitic, colonised most of the known world, and subjugated, genocided, and enslaved indigenous populations. The UK even wrote a slave bible. Slavery in the US also happened while these 'values' were held in high regard.

If your personal religious beliefs help you be a good person then that's great for you, keep believing. But historically it doesn't appear that more religious societies are more moral societies.
by atombender | 2026-02-08 10:17:18+00:00
Well, it worked for Amazon — Berkeley DB was used extensively there as the makn database, right from the beginning. I remember talking to an ex-Amazon engineer in 2006 who said BDB was still the main database used for inventory, and complained that everything was a mess, with different teams using different tech for everything. Around that time Amazon made DynamoDB to solve some of that mess — and it sat on top of BDB.

An old thread about this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29290095.
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by bryanrasmussen | 2026-02-08 10:19:13+00:00
he could or could not be correct depending on how any particular pension is constructed, but as I understand most pensions are constructed as taking the money you put in and investing it and then paying you out of what gets returned from the pension.

Why don't you just invest yourself?

Well first because pensions being large scale investors can get better results and second because most people don't do the smart thing and put some money aside for a rainy day, a pension forces that.

In such a scenario the incoming people function more as a failsafe, the investment should handle paying out for your pension but in cases where there have been a problem in the market, you have outlived your pension expectations etc. you then end up having the failsafe of new people always putting money in. Thus giving the pension an extra layer of security than just investing for yourself.

on edit: of course there can be difference between governmental and company pensions.
by andersmurphy | 2026-02-08 10:19:54+00:00
Assuming current prices are heavily subsidised (VC money) and there is a supply shock (because we don't have enough GPUs/energy). If that leads to double the price that means 500k/year, and if we see a 4x price increase that's 1000k/year.

Suddenly, it starts to look precarious. That would be my concern anyway.
by tomgag | 2026-02-08 10:21:06+00:00
Hi, I wanted to share this because at first I found it super ridiculous that a "green, open and ethical Switzerland-hosted AI" spews so obvious CCP propaganda like that, but then I realized the issue runs deeper. I always see a lot of interesting conversations on HN about AI, so I guess a starting question I would like to ask you is: what is, today, the "best" general-purpose open-source model one can self-host on expensive but consumer-grade hardware? Thanks!
by zozbot234 | 2026-02-08 10:21:30+00:00
Yes, but note that very old devices will need mainline kernel support before newer AOSP/LineageOS releases can be ported to them. (Of course, this is also desirable as a way of supporting non-AOSP mobile Linux releases there, which are by far the most exciting development in the custom modding scene.) Old downstream kernels don't cut it any more.
by mytailorisrich | 2026-02-08 10:21:34+00:00
You seem to be arguing for the sake of argument while avoiding the substance of my point by discarding it as "unrelated" while it is fundamentally on point.

If the aim is indeed sovereignty, data and software (and this is software not data), and in general, then they need an effective and comprehensive plan. I think taxpayer-funded state-developed open-source software brings very little at a high cost and can even be counter-productive. Frankly I think it is apolitical move internal to the French state to keep the gavy train coming to government agencies.

Rather I think the US, and also China that does it even more, are much more effective at this by throwing money at the marketplace to develop a whole ecosystem competitively that can also compete globally. An important thing to note here is that EU rules prevent a lot of state action (for instance they would not be allowed to buy only French cars or do things seen as direct subsidies, etc)

France will continue to fall further behind unless it really gets it act together, which is unlikely TBH.
by danaris | 2026-02-08 10:22:25+00:00
> Those prawns can be replaced by food that is grown in other places that are viable, whether newly viable or always viable is irrelevant.

But those prawns are gone. The people whose livelihood depended on them have lost that. The people for whom they were a staple have lost that, no matter how replaceable they may be.

Sure, given time, we may be able to find replacements for the things we lose to this drastic climatic shift. But that's not a guarantee, and even if we do, there's huge damage and upheaval in the meantime.

> I find it unlikely that all areas become non-arable at the same time.

It's not about "all areas". Nowhere did I say that everywhere on the planet would become non-arable land at the same time. It's about having more land lose viability than gains it within a short span of time.

What you're positing—that as various areas of the planet warm and cool, there will be perfect balance in what arable land we lose and gain—seems much, much less likely than the scenario where land we have farmed for literally thousands of years becomes wasteland, and we do not immediately gain enough new arable land in other areas to replace it. In fact, every projection I have seen has suggested that while we may gain some new arable land, it will be much, much less than what we lose in a scenario like the one described.

What it looks like to me is that you are either handwaving the decades (or more!) of turmoil, hardship, and loss of life for people in the areas that will be most affected by this, or you're engaging in seriously magical thinking to posit that every acre of farmland lost will be perfectly balanced by an acre of farmland gained somewhere else, and no one will be seriously negatively affected by the move from one to the other.
by zeristor | 2026-02-08 10:23:30+00:00
The Winter Olympics, wrecked the train system it’ll take the edge off of the Olympics.

Or frustrate people who travelled across the world to see it.

The Olympics to some extent is soft power, and this goes some way to curdle that.

Isn’t USA hosting the World Football thingy in a few months, I’m guessing most people would be flying for that.

I’m guessing that the flip side is some countries being prepared for this, and extra security deters any attack.

Strangely there was a missile battery placed on top of my local council building to safe guard the Stratford Olympics back in 2012.
by danaris | 2026-02-08 10:24:37+00:00
So you're really just full on board with the Ebenezer Scrooge "if they would rather die, then let them get on with it!" school of thought, then, huh?

It's been a while since I had to break out the I Don't Know How To Tell You You Should Care About Other People; most people at least pretend that they're not absolute moral voids.
by bryanrasmussen | 2026-02-08 10:26:30+00:00
the pension that the government provides in most places is not enough to support someone in a continued middle class life, therefore you may often get a pension on top of your governmental pension from a company. The money paid in to this pension is often beneficial to you in that it will not be taxed as part of your income therefore you are deriving a benefit for your work that you do not get taxed on presently. Obviously when you get your pension you will be taxed but probably at a lower rate than when actually working.

These pensions that invest and compound your investment over time can turn a comfortable middle class life into a very comfortable retirement, the American model instead of the European model of these kinds of company investments tends to be more risky however, and so there can often be scandals where you were supposed to be getting a pension but the rich company looted you and you're screwed hah hah.
by sensanaty | 2026-02-08 10:26:37+00:00
But who's going to be buying any of these products if everyone is out of a job? Other rich people?

Sure I assume there's a good market there, luxury yachts exist after all, but what is a company like Netflix going to do when people are too poor to even afford the streaming services that cost 10 bucks a month?

Not to get conspiratorial, but the only logical thing for me here is that They want as many of the plebs dead as possible so that the remainder of us are beholden to them and their money, once they own all the AI factories.
by ndsipa_pomu | 2026-02-08 10:27:13+00:00
Naming a file with a "-" as the first character means you have to be careful to use "--" with commands to signify the end of options as otherwise the filename will be interpreted as being additional options with unexpected results.

e.g. ls -l -- *

Even when you're not deliberately operating on the commands, it's too easy to get caught out by it with wildcards etc.
by speedgoose | 2026-02-08 10:27:35+00:00
It is figured out though. Pre-heat the battery, or drive a little while before charging. A fast charging stop will significantly heat up the battery, heat that can then be transferred to the cabin.

I live in Norway and for most people, EVs are an improvement during cold weather in my opinion. They get warm inside much faster, drive better, and while the range is obviously a lot lower, it isn’t a deal breaker if you buy a good EV.

EV wouldn’t represent 97% of new car sales in Norway if they were worse in the cold IMHO. The country put incentives but they are phased out and many people don’t mind paying a lot.
by imtringued | 2026-02-08 10:27:56+00:00
I agree. This visualization gets the basic idea across, but it doesn't actually tell you how they are implemented mathematically.

It doesn't tell you that each neuron calculates a dot product of the input and neuron weights and that the bias is simply added rather than a threshold, nor does it tell you that there is an activation function that acts as a differentiable threshold.

Without this critical information there is no easy way to explain how to train a neural network since you can't use gradient descent anymore. You're forced to use evolutionary algorithms for non-differentiable networks.
by bryanrasmussen | 2026-02-08 10:29:07+00:00
so for the case of negotiating for a job in Europe, if it is a good job, you should often consider not just the present wage but what the pension gives you.

For example you may get a pension of 5% of your wage goes into the fund, and the company you work for matching that, indicating 5% extra wage that is not part of your taxed income. Depending on how your life is structured it may be smarter to go for a pension.
by K0balt | 2026-02-08 10:29:19+00:00
It absolutely can be pointed to any standard endpoint, either cloud or local.

It’s far better for most users to be able to specify an inference server (even on localhost in some cases) because the ecosystem of specialized inference servers and models is a constantly evolving target.

If you write this kind of software, you will not only be reinventing the wheel but also probably disadvantaging your users if you try to integrate your own inference engine instead of focusing on your agentic tooling. Ollama, vllm, hugging face, and others are devoting their focus to the servers, there is no reason to sacrifice the front end tooling effort to duplicate their work.

Besides that, most users will not be able to run the better models on their daily driver, and will have a separate machine for inference or be running inference in private or rented cloud, or even over public API.
by G8WyaX | 2026-02-08 10:29:20+00:00
"It is often emphasised that the data belong to the Member States. A State Signatory has the right of full access to all monitoring data and data bulletins, which can assist a country in exercising its prerogative to make the final judgement in the case of a suspicious event." https://www.ctbto.org/our-work/international-data-centre

Is there an open-source alternative that serves the same purpose?
by versteegen | 2026-02-08 10:30:21+00:00
> The only valid ARC AGI results are from tests done by the ARC AGI non-profit using an unreleased private set. I believe lab-conducted ARC AGI tests must be on public sets and taken on a 'scout's honor' basis that the lab self-administered the test correctly

Not very accurate. For each of ARC-AGI-1 and ARC-AGI-2 there is training set and three eval sets: public, semi-private, and private. The ARC foundation runs frontier LLMs on the semi-private set, and the labs give them pre-release API access so they can report release-day evals. They mostly don't allow anyone else to access the semi-private set (except for live Kaggle leaderboards which use it), so you see independent researchers report on the public eval set instead, often very dubious. The private is for Kaggle competitions only, no frontier LLMs evals are possible.

(ARC-AGI-1 results are now largely useless because most of its eval tasks became the ARC-2 training set. However some labs have said they don't train LLMs on the training sets anyway.)
by lII1lIlI11ll | 2026-02-08 10:31:36+00:00
> Every test of UBI so far shows that people continue to work.

I'm not aware of any realistic UBI tests. Could you point me to any?

The ones I'm aware of were either or both:

1. Time limited, so participants were aware that they needed to still have a job or at least be employable after the experiment has concluded.

2. Were funded externally, so participants only reaped the benefits of UBI but didn't incur the drawbacks (i.e. didn't have to fund the program by much higher income taxes) which could have discourage them from working.

It was basically a supplementary source of income - money for nothing for a limited time period, not an actual UBI program.
by jacquesm | 2026-02-08 10:31:54+00:00
> I wouldn't support Musk if he was a fascist nazi.

That's not how that works.

Musk is, by many definitions well across the line distinguishing the 'fascist nazi's' from the rest of us.

Normalization of deviance slowly shifts the window to the point where his behavior is excused. Some people think it is acceptable because of all of the (potential) good a person could do or has already done. That's roughly the equivalent of 'Hitler was a vegetarian, and liked animals, how bad could he be?'. But The country that spawned the movement (so I think they get to make the call) thinks he is. And Musk's support for the German AfD (which is a thin layer of veneer over a despicable group) speaks volumes, yes, let's 'Make Germany Great Again' ffs. Even the Neo Nazi's think he is a Nazi. Elon has made Twitter (sorry, 'X') into a safe haven for the alt-right and various hate groups.

If it quacks like a Nazi and moves like a Nazi it probably is a Nazi. Whether you support him or not changes nothing about Elon but it does say something about you that you continue to support him and I'm disappointed, to put it mildly.

"never meet your heroes".
by PhilipV | 2026-02-08 10:32:20+00:00
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Look forward to hearing from anyone who may find this helpful.
by heikkilevanto | 2026-02-08 10:33:12+00:00
If we consider the prompts and LLM inputs to be the new source code, I want to see some assurance we get the same results every time. A traditional compiler will produce a program that behaves the same way, given the same source and options. Some even go out of their way to guarantee they produce the same binary output, which is a good thing for security and package management. That is why we don't need to store the compiled binaries in the version control system.

Until LLMS start to get there, we still need to save the source code they produce, and review and verify that it does what it says on the label, and not in a totally stupid way. I think we have a long way to go!
by wzbtoolbox | 2026-02-08 10:33:12+00:00
This is the kind of project that reminds you how far removed modern development is from the actual machine. We pile abstractions on abstractions until "Hello World" needs 200MB of node_modules, and then someone fits a C compiler in 512 bytes.

Not saying we should all write boot sector code, but reading through projects like this is genuinely humbling. Great educational resource too.