MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by drnick1 | 2026-02-21 02:14:48+00:00
The privacy cost of Facebook is too high. Even if you have "nothing to hide" today, sooner or later you will post something you wish you had not posted, or someone else will do it for you. Once data about you is out there, it is impossible to remove, and the only recourse is to wait for that information to become irrelevant or outdated (if ever). For example, some employers have been known to spy on their employees through Facebook. Others have been harmed when searching for jobs because of things they posted on FB or other antisocial media, often long ago.

Facebook should not have multiple high quality photos of 1/2 of the planet, their children, pets, friends and family, in addition to their real-time location obtained through the spyware companion app. Not even governments used to have this kind of insight into people's lives not so long ago, and it is certainly very alarming that a spyware/adtech firm now does.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-02-21 02:16:15+00:00
All of the call centers I’ve worked with have had America based agents. Most were public sector - state governments and colleges. I worked at AWS in the public sector division of their Professional Services division for about 4 years as a consultant.

(Yes full time direct hire “blue badge” employee with the same 4 year base + signing bonus + 4 year 5/15/40/40 RSU vesting).

I have heard of companies that have gotten it down to 50 cents per call using foreign customer service agents. But those aren’t the companies that are going to pay AWS ProServe bill rates or even the rate my current employee charges companies at my bill rate (not saying that’s what I make)
by selridge | 2026-02-21 02:16:23+00:00
Dijkstra also said no one should be debugging and yet here we are.

He's not wrong about the problems of natural language YET HERE ARE. That would, I think, cause a sensible engineer to start poking at the predicate instead of announcing that the foregone conclusion is near.

We should take seriously the possibility that this isn't going to be in a retrenchment which bestows a nice little atta boy sticker on all the folks who said I told you so.
by SideQuark | 2026-02-21 02:16:48+00:00
The question was for a specific example, not some moral vague strawman.

The question is a good one, right to the heart of the claim. Without specific examples, especially ones that are not post selected (i.e., pick all tariffs at a point in time and see of that was beneficial), it is silly to claim tariffs are useful when there is ample evidence of when they cause significant harm to the economy.

So, have a case for a timepoint where the set of tariffs ended up being demonstrably beneficial for an economy?
by lucb1e | 2026-02-21 02:17:15+00:00
Being more careful is an option, or owning up to it and saying "hey I just did this and noticed this thing unexpectedly happened, apparently you have an XSS here" (or whatever it was). In most cases, the organization you're reporting to is happy about this up-front information, and in the exceptional situation where someone decides to take it to court, there's a clear paper trail (backed up by access and email logs) of what actions were taken and why, making it obvious you did nothing wrong
by bathtub365 | 2026-02-21 02:17:34+00:00
I haven’t looked at the specifics but it’s seemed to me that for years anything that came out on Xbox also came out on PC on the same date, and the PC has titles that aren’t on either Xbox or PS5. There are a lot of games that come out on PS5 and then either never come to PC or there’s a year+ delay. Thats why I have a PC and a PS5 and haven’t considered buying an Xbox for a long time.
by meowface | 2026-02-21 02:17:40+00:00
Except Bondi was wrong and I am right, and also letting the economy collapse actually would be really, really bad and saying things like that is something only children and economically illiterate people do.

Also, most of the things I listed in my previous post had absolutely nothing to do with the economy. It's just that it's unethical and tyrannical for the government to dictate people's behavior in this way. "How is it unhealthy for the government to ban alcohol?" These statements would apply whether in a socialistic or fully neoliberal country.
by theturtletalks | 2026-02-21 02:19:30+00:00
Exactly, if the engineers know where to look for the solution in open-source code and point the AI there, it will get them there. Even if the language or the tech stack are different, AI is excellent at finding the seams, those spots where a feature connects to the underlying tech stack, and figuring out how the feature is really implemented, and bringing that over.
by whoami4041 | 2026-02-21 02:19:43+00:00
Yeah, it's one of those things that is hard to catch unless you've been bit by it before and know to look for it. Analytics teams at scale are at a much higher risk of this sneaking in, which is where automatic blocking with Lexega is helpful. No one wants to have to explain to their leadership why their dashboards were wrong from such a subtle SQL bug months down the road.
by apothegm | 2026-02-21 02:19:56+00:00
Do you already do any work over SSH? What do you do if you need to edit any files in that context?

Learning the essentials of vim was the sort of skill that for me took about 10 min per day over a couple months and has come in handy almost every day since then. Can you get by without it? I guess, if you do absolutely everything via a GUI. Or delegate all CLI work to LLMs without ever questioning or second guessing their output.

And yes, I use vim for almost every git commit or interactive rebase. Access to the full power of CLI git is something I value very much and has saved me countless hours. Not to mention using it for editing any config file that’s not part of a repo.

Every time you’re able to keep your fingers on the keyboard instead of reaching for a mouse saves you both time and precious context switching energy.
by soulofmischief | 2026-02-21 02:20:07+00:00
I do appreciate you taking the time to share your thoughts. I still believe that you and the two other commenters here are misreading or misinterpreting me.

That's a lesson for me to choose my words more carefully, but only to avoid misinterpretation in an online forum; everything I said, I 100% stand by, and it's honestly unsurprising that a comment about being provocative and to-the-point, not always progressively self-disclosing, has made some people uncomfortable.

> Unfortunately these types of attempts to hack our own feelings are usually worse than the problems in the first place

I want to stress that I mean this in the most constructive, positive way possible, but it feels like your comment projects a bit onto me in an attempt to find common ground. I welcome the attempt but I do want to point out that I don't try to "hack my feelings", and I don't organize my life and behaviors under some fear that my childhood is somehow going to happen again. I am very in touch with my feelings, I value emotional intelligence and reflection. I don't pathologically worry about others appreciating me.

I brought up my past to show how such a perspective might form, but the perspective is not some kind of defense mechanism. It is a playbook for how to live my life in a way that aligns with my ideals and goals, and it's one of the only good things to have come out of my childhood. I cherish my perspective and how it's allowed me to help both myself and others.
by nebula8804 | 2026-02-21 02:20:37+00:00
Do you really have a problem with VOA when they produce pieces like this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wto1IYLRRRE

Other big countries all have their propaganda outfits. Why shouldn't the US at least have something to promote their point of view? The alternative as we are experiencing now is that point of view is never even expressed among the competing points of view and thus any ideas deriving from it never get discussed.
by fluoridation | 2026-02-21 02:20:48+00:00
It's neither of those. Stalking refers to persistent, unwanted, one-sided interactions with a person such as following, surveilling, calling, or sending messages or gifts. Investigating a person's past or identity doesn't involve any interaction with the physical person. Harassment is persistent attempts to interact with someone after having been asked to stop. Again, an investigation doesn't require any form of interaction.
by tombert | 2026-02-21 02:20:59+00:00
Yeah, maybe a bad example on my end.

Still, I just find the idea of turning everything in politics into a casino kind of gross. Taken to the extreme it can get pretty disgusting.

Like, imagine that there were a Polymarket of "Will COVID deaths break 1 million?" or "Will <Insert Serial Killer> Take His Fifth Victim?".

These are hyperbolic examples and I'm not saying that anything on Polymarket is that bad, but even the stuff that's currently on there right now like "Khamenei out as Supreme Leader of Iran by March 31?" [1] or "Israel strikes Iran by February 28, 2026?" [2] seems kind of crass. These are real issues that have real consequences that affect many real humans (who are no less valuable than me) and people are treating this shit like a fucking game.

I'm not accusing you of that, to be clear, it's just why I find Polymarket to be gross and I'm not sure it should be legal.

[1] https://polymarket.com/event/khamenei-out-as-supreme-leader-...

[2] https://polymarket.com/event/israel-strikes-iran-by-february...
by intended | 2026-02-21 02:21:10+00:00
Why make gambling legal just to satisfy people who are circumventing the laws? That too by basing themselves outside of the country, as opposed to state lines.

Indian society is unconcerned, if not outright supportive of this law.

Your counterpoint zeroes in on the specific example, but in addressing it avoids the spirit of the issue.

People want certain laws and restrictions. You are arguing that if people choose to circumvent those laws, tough beans.

Heck, you could just have nations destabilize neighbors by this lassiez faire approach.
by littlesteps | 2026-02-21 02:22:53+00:00
Hi denuoweb, I am the founder of Little Steps Foundation. There seems to be a major misunderstanding, and your comment is making several incorrect and damaging accusations.

Let me clarify the facts:

1. *We are a U.S. organization, not Pakistani.* Our organization is *Little Steps Foundation*, a nonprofit corporation incorporated in the State of New Mexico, USA. Our legal address is in Albuquerque, NM, and our EIN is 41-3363451. All of this is clearly stated on our website: https://carebridgehealthinitiative.org/. We have absolutely no connection to Pakistan. You may be confusing us with a different organization.

2. *IRS Status vs. State Incorporation:* You are correct that our EIN does not currently appear on the IRS Tax-Exempt Organization Search tool. This is because obtaining federal 501(c )(3) status is a long process that we are undergoing. However, we are a legally registered *Domestic Nonprofit Corporation in the State of New Mexico*. These are two different things. Being a state-registered nonprofit is a valid legal status. Your conclusion that we are not a "legitimate" nonprofit is false.

3. *The Bank Account is American.* The bank account linked to our Stripe account is a U.S. bank account. The accusation that we are transferring money to a Pakistani bank is completely false.

4. *The Real Issue is the Stripe Bug.* The core of our post is not about our nonprofit status, but about Stripe's system failure. We have a perfect record with *1,074 transactions, 0 disputes, 0 refunds, and a 0.00% fraud rate*, confirmed by data exported from Stripe's own dashboard. Yet, Stripe's system closed our account for "unauthorized charges" minutes after we completed a routine identity verification. This is a clear software bug.

Your comment is unfortunately distracting from the real issue and spreading misinformation. The problem is not our legitimacy; it's Stripe's automated system making a catastrophic error and their support team refusing to engage with the evidence.
by soulofmischief | 2026-02-21 02:23:31+00:00
> A handful of enterprising activists could blind all the flock cameras in a region in a day or two, and without destroying them, which makes it less of an overtly criminal act

No, that would likely end in a RICO or terrorism case if it continued. Just because the cameras aren't destroyed doesn't mean CorpGov won't want to teach a lesson.
by inventor7777 | 2026-02-21 02:23:35+00:00
In my case, I don't currently have any capture software on my main computer at all.

Our routers are Asus, and so I'm able to install tcpdump and log traffic directly without the source device itself knowing anything. This makes it really easy to monitor the traffic of any device, albeit not knowing exactly what it is being sent.

But it is true that I really can't know much more than what tcpdump shows.
by littlesteps | 2026-02-21 02:24:30+00:00
Hi denuoweb, I am the founder of Little Steps Foundation. There seems to be a major misunderstanding, and your comment is making several incorrect and damaging accusations.

Let me clarify the facts:

1. *We are a U.S. organization, not Pakistani.* Our organization is *Little Steps Foundation*, a nonprofit corporation incorporated in the State of New Mexico, USA. Our legal address is in Albuquerque, NM, and our EIN is 41-3363451. All of this is clearly stated on our website: https://carebridgehealthinitiative.org/. We have absolutely no connection to Pakistan. You may be confusing us with a different organization.

2. *IRS Status vs. State Incorporation:* You are correct that our EIN does not currently appear on the IRS Tax-Exempt Organization Search tool. This is because obtaining federal 501(c )(3) status is a long process that we are undergoing. However, we are a legally registered *Domestic Nonprofit Corporation in the State of New Mexico*. These are two different things. Being a state-registered nonprofit is a valid legal status. Your conclusion that we are not a "legitimate" nonprofit is false.

3. *The Bank Account is American.* The bank account linked to our Stripe account is a U.S. bank account. The accusation that we are transferring money to a Pakistani bank is completely false.

4. *The Real Issue is the Stripe Bug.* The core of our post is not about our nonprofit status, but about Stripe's system failure. We have a perfect record with *1,074 transactions, 0 disputes, 0 refunds, and a 0.00% fraud rate*, confirmed by data exported from Stripe's own dashboard. Yet, Stripe's system closed our account for "unauthorized charges" minutes after we completed a routine identity verification. This is a clear software bug.

Your comment is unfortunately distracting from the real issue and spreading misinformation. The problem is not our legitimacy; it's Stripe's automated system making a catastrophic error and their support team refusing to engage with the evidence.
by Octoth0rpe | 2026-02-21 02:24:51+00:00
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by btrettel | 2026-02-21 02:24:53+00:00
I have a daily journal where I put every online post I make. I include anything I send to a LLM on my own time in there. (I have a separate work log on their computer, though I don't log my work prompts.) Likely I miss a few posts/prompts, but this should have the vast majority.

A few caveats: I'm not a heavy LLM user (this is probably what you're getting at) and the following is a low estimate. Often, I'll save the URL only for the first prompt and just put all subsequent prompts under that one URL.

Anyhow, running a simple grep command suggests that I have at least 82 prompts saved.

In my view, it would be better to organize saved prompts by project. This system was not set up with prompt disclosure in mind, so getting prompts for any particular project would be annoying. The point is more to keep track of what I'm thinking of at a point in time.

Right now, I don't think there are tools to properly "share the prompts" at the scale you mentioned in your other comment, but I think we will have those tools in the future. This is a real and tractable problem.

> Whats the worth of digging through that? What do you learn? How would you know that I shared all of them?

The same questions could be asked for the source code of any large scale project. The answers to the first two are going to depend on the project. I've learned quite a bit from looking at source code, personally, and I'm sure I could learn a lot from looking at prompts. As for the third question, there's no guarantee.
by stuckonempty | 2026-02-21 02:26:16+00:00
Those glasses state that they are the only pair that “blocked 100% of harmful blue light in the 400-450 range”

But melanopsin contained in the cells that regulate circadian rhythms have an absorption spectrum extends to slightly beyond 540 nm (see the OP’s post). As the author says, “It’s not sensitive to blue, it’s sensitive to cyan (and blue and green).”

Those glasses probably do what they say in terms of wavelengths they filter, but they are only partially filtering out light relevant for circadian rhythm regulation and sleep.
by kinnth | 2026-02-21 02:28:34+00:00
Why wont they actually allow users to control their own algorithms? Why can't we switch off "thirst" or "cat videos"?

I don't social media much but to not be on it, is FOMO for your social life. Someone out there needs to open up the algo to your own CHOSEN bias' not the ones they know get clicks.

I hate the whole damn thing!
by hshdhdhj4444 | 2026-02-21 02:31:07+00:00
It’s one of the few things in the U.S. constitution that is not ill defined. Tariffs are very explicitly the prerogative of Congress.

The fact that the administration of tariffs is so much better defined than really anything else shouldn’t be surprising because tariffs is the proximate cause of the Revolutionary war.

It’s embarrassing that the 3 justices put their partisanship ahead of the clear language of the constitution and explicitly stated intentions of the founders.
by seanmcdirmid | 2026-02-21 02:31:17+00:00
Autolanders are separate systems from autopilots, and there are definitely planes in production today with autopilots (pretty universal) and no autolanders (like almost all Cessnas, you need the garmin auto land system, and it’s only for emergencies). Autopilots have been a thing since the 1920s, when they were just a rope tied to a stick, they definitely didn’t do auto landing back then.

If you are trying to claim that all autopilots come with auto landers, thats absolutely not true. Even most, and again, they are always separate systems even if the auto lander can access the same servos used by the autopilot. Additionally, autolanders, unlike the autopilot, require the runways to support it (well, the ones used on commercial airplanes where it’s used sometimes in low visibility situations).

I really think only a few people on HN don’t get that autopilots are actually very much simple systems that have been around forever and do one thing well (keep the plane going in one direction at a specific altitude and speed).
by vorpalhex | 2026-02-21 02:32:29+00:00
Follow the money.

There's no money to be made arresting criminals. Sure you get a few police contracts, and you need to show enough results to keep them.. but your moat is mostly how hard it is to even submit bids.

There's a lot more money to be made knowing that Accountant Mary's Lexis is looking kind of banged up and she could be sold on a new one.
by jibal | 2026-02-21 02:32:38+00:00
You seem to have forgotten the point of your comment, which was to offer an analogous case where surely one wouldn't expect two different values ... but the fact that lists have reference semantics and numbers (not just "constants") have value semantics (that's the issue, not mutability--variables containing numbers are mutable in Python--they don't contain a reference to an unmutable number ... numbers are always copied into the cell) makes all the difference in the world. If one actually does analogize from your example, then one might well expect changing a to not change b since it doesn't in your example ... they might not realize that lists have reference semantics and thus think that a = b = [] copies an empty list to a and copies an empty list to b. That's how it works in Perl with `@a = @b = ();` ... changing @a does not change @b.

On top of all that, the OP made clear in the first paragraph that they didn't have the expectation that you ascribed to them ... they did understand that [] has reference semantics and changing a changes b all along ... but they apparently occasionally have a lapse in their mental model where they forget that (or perhaps they introduced the bug by naively/blindly converting some Perl code ... I've seen that happen.)

I won't offer corrections of additional errors or respond further in any other way.
by burnte | 2026-02-21 02:32:57+00:00
True., however I think it'll probably be more like the fiber buddle in the dotcom era, withsome bankruptcies and a lot of excess capacity. I don't think it'll spread as wide as 08 because that had bad debt sprinkled so far and wide that everything was infected. I think this is more contained. I think. I hope. Because the pop is coming...
by mncharity | 2026-02-21 02:33:38+00:00
There's an old idea of adaptive media. Imagine a video drama that's composed of a graph of clips, like an old "choose your own adventure" book ("Do you X? If yes, goto page 45"). With gaze tracking, one can "hmm, the viewer is more focused on character A than B... so we'll give clips and subplots with more A".

Now, when reading, the eye moves in little jumps - saccades. They last 10's of ms, the eye is blind during them, and with high-quality tracking, you know quite early just where that foveal peephole is going to land. So handwave a budget of a few ms for trajectory analysis, a few for 200 Hz rendering latency, and you still have 10-ish ms to play with. At 20k tok/s, that's 200 tok.

So perhaps one might JIT the next sentence, or the topic of the next paragraph, or the entire nature of the document, based on the user's attention. Imagine a universal document - you start reading, and you find the document is about, whatever you wanted it to be about?
by ChrisArchitect | 2026-02-21 02:33:48+00:00
(2019)

Some previous discussions:

2023 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34218591

2021 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26680839

2020 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25013103

2019 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19249373
by ouhamouch | 2026-02-21 02:33:58+00:00
We do not know what was important in that doxx.

Probably nothing and the DDoS hype was intentional to distract attention and highlight J.P.'s doxx among the other, making them insignificant.

J.P. might be the only one of the doxxers who could promote their doxx in media, and this made his doxx special, not the content?

Anyway, it made the haystack bigger keeping needle the same.
by magicalhippo | 2026-02-21 02:34:06+00:00
> Does this process work by having the main model compute the "probability" that it would generate the draft sequence, then probabilistically accepting the draft?

It does the generation as normal using the draft model, thus sampling from the draft model's distribution for a given prefix to get the next (speculated) token. But it then uses the draft model's distribution and the main model's distribution for the given prefix to probabilistically accept or reject the speculated token, in a way which guarantees the distribution used to sample each token is identical to that of the main model.

The paper has the details[1] in section 2.3.

The inspiration for the method was indeed speculative execution as found in CPUs.

[1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.17192 Fast Inference from Transformers via Speculative Decoding