MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by maxdo | 2026-02-03 03:39:19+00:00
People mix up freedom and dicatorship here:

1. Freedom — free markets, minimal regulation
Early USA had both political and economic freedom. Modern China has only economic freedom (plus heavy protectionism).

2. Dictatorship of a certain group
Modern USA and the Western world have a dictatorship of lawyers, regulators, and ideological enforcement. Communist China has straightforward political dictatorship.
As you can see, it's not black and white. China struggled when they had both economic and political dictatorship, but thrived once they introduced economic freedom.

3. It's always a race, freedom of the past is not enough.
What the West should do is focus on better planning, less politics, more economic freedom, and a dictatorship of data-driven decisions instead.
by estearum | 2026-02-03 03:39:20+00:00
99% of every person's beliefs are driven by what "the right people told them," of course.

That's not really the point nor the problem, because some people choose to listen to very stupid or malicious people and others are (by chance or by skill) more susceptible to being steered by more credible people.

Half the country is in thrall with a uniquely malicious and moronic force, and the other half is vaguely in alignment with the vague directional gestures of expert consensus (even though it's sometimes wrong!). These are not at all the same, even if they both are technically "believing what people told them to."
by CodingJeebus | 2026-02-03 03:40:24+00:00
Just a few weeks ago, I nearly got taken for 10 grand on a scam sheriff call claiming that I had missed jury duty and was facing charges.

The tragic part of this story is that thinking back on my mental state as I’m going through my scam call, I’m not sure I would’ve done it any differently from this guy.

When you go from having a normal day to being threatened with jail in 30 seconds by someone who absolutely sounds like a cop, it’s very hard to think straight.

I hope the true perpetrators of this scheme are caught, this is an abhorrent level of cruelty.
by jMyles | 2026-02-03 03:41:14+00:00
To me it's just a vote against the profiteers who make those machines.

Also I kinda like the process better; the pat-down is nothin', and you can a full table to yourself to recombobulate.

> First-Amendment-auditor thinking.

Uhhh, I like that kind of thinking. Is there something wrong with first amendment auditors now?!
by hettygreen | 2026-02-03 03:41:49+00:00
Replying to myself here - I decided to just actually go read wikipedia about this. Here's the answer:

<quote>

By default, when a processor is executing an instruction, its LED is on. In a SIMD program, the goal is to have as many processors as possible working the program at the same time – indicated by having all LEDs being steady on. Those unfamiliar with the use of the LEDs wanted to see the LEDs blink – or even spell out messages to visitors. The result is that finished programs often have superfluous operations to blink the LEDs.

</quote>
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-02-03 03:42:18+00:00
Fair point, I’m working on a project now that doesn’t require responsiveness - it’s not user facing. We were burned so bad by Lambda cold starts for user facing lambdas that were backing websites we said forget it and just used ECS/fargate. This is my go to template - I didn’t write it. I found it 7 years ago.

https://github.com/1Strategy/fargate-cloudformation-example/...

You just update the parameter for your container image and redeploy.

Of course you have provisioned concurrency that can help.

But the easiest way to test Python lambdas locally is just to run it like any other Python script and call your event handler with the event you want to test
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by hn92726819 | 2026-02-03 03:44:25+00:00
In the parallel universe where Firefox defaults to ai features being off, there's a snarky comment like yours about why it isn't on by default.

It is really tiring to hear this stuff. People (rightfully) complained there was no switch. One was added. In Chrome, you can't turn off Google's ai unless you install a third party extension that hasn't yet been blocked by Google. Not a lot of companies allow disabling their garbage, but FF does.

Can't we be happy with this nice switch?
by tonymet | 2026-02-03 03:44:51+00:00
It’s also bad legal commentary . The TSA seems to have broad legal authority. The more vague a law is, the more authority the executive branch has , not less (assuming it’s constitutional, and our constitution is also deliberately limited)

There are two avenues for recourse: lobbying your congressman or suing the TSA . I’m guessing the ACLU / EFF and other groups haven’t yet sued because the TSA’s legal authority is broad.
by sargun | 2026-02-03 03:44:56+00:00
What ethnicity are you? I went through an airport -- and nobody else got screened except me. What was special about me? I was the only non-white person in the airport. Upon complaining, this was the response:

> Random selection by our screening technology prevents terrorists from attempting to defeat the security system by learning how it operates. Leaving out any one group, such as senior citizens, persons with disabilities, or children, would remove the random element from the system and undermine security. We simply cannot assume that all terrorists will fit a particular profile.
by sltkr | 2026-02-03 03:46:33+00:00
Nice attempt at gaslighting.

If Andrew only wrote “I object to murder” we wouldn't have this discussion. We're here because he wrote “Abolish ICE” instead. That's not denouncing murder, it's denouncing federal immigration law.

The woke don't object to murder. They cheered the murder of Charlie Kirk, they lamented the assassination attempts on Donald Trump because they _failed_, they celebrate Luigi Mangione as a martyr for their cause. Has Andrew ever used the Zig programming blog to condemn any of these (attempted) murders? I bet he hasn't—but feel free to prove me wrong!

So it's pretty clear that Andrew, just like most of the woke, doesn't object to murder. He loves murder. He only objects to democracy, to the rule of law, to the majority of Americans who don't support illegal immigration to the extent that he does.

If Andrew wants to use his programming language to take a stand against murder, he is welcome to do so! He has chosen to never do it. He has only used his platform to push woke politics, by supporting illegal immigration, and opposing law enforcement.
by tapirl | 2026-02-03 03:46:46+00:00
Go was my favorite language for a long time, and I have written many books and articles about it. However, since the release of Go 1.22 [1], that is no longer the case. Go 1.22 damaged Go's reputation for promoting explicitness and maintaining strong backward compatibility.

[1]: https://go101.org/blog/2024-03-01-for-loop-semantic-changes-...
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by rkagerer | 2026-02-03 03:47:12+00:00
Thanks for putting words to that; the paragraph which most stuck out to me as outlandish is (emphasis mine):

The basic math is that launching a million tons per year of satellites generating 100 kW of compute power per ton would add 100 gigawatts of AI compute capacity annually, *with no ongoing operational or maintenance needs*.

I'm deeply disillusioned to arrive at this conclusion but the Occam's Razor in me feels this whole acquisition is more likely a play to increase the perceptual value of SpaceX before a planned IPO.
by bastawhiz | 2026-02-03 03:47:35+00:00
We do have to show ID. But the federal government said it's not enough to use a normal state driver's license or passport. You need a special "Real ID" that's somehow allegedly better. Your old driver's license that you can pay for booze with, open a bank account with, and you know, drive with, isn't proof enough of who you are to ride on a plane.

Edit: I should note that I have one. But lots of people don't, because most people never replace their driver's license card.
by joshstrange | 2026-02-03 03:47:57+00:00
I found it both hilarious and disconcerting that one OpenClaw instance sent OpenAI keys (or any keys) to another OpenClaw instance so it could use a feature.

> English Translation:

> Neo! " Gábor gave an OpenAI API key for embedding (memory_search).

> Set it up on your end too:

> 1. Edit: ~/.openclaw/agents/main/agent/auth-profiles.json

> 2. Add to the profiles section: "openai: embedding": { "type": "token" "provider": "openai" "token": "sk-proj-rXRR4KAREMOVED }

> 3. Add to the lastGood section: "openai": "openai: embedding"

> After that memory_search will work! Mine is already working.
by hn92726819 | 2026-02-03 03:48:40+00:00
> The AI features can be disabled entirely or individually, so users can pick and choose what they want to use

It sounds like you would want to switch off two of them and leave two of them on, no? How is that malicious compliance?

The master AI switch is for people that have moral issues with all AI, so they want all future features turned off.
by sbierwagen | 2026-02-03 03:48:46+00:00
Note for the confused: Ecombi achieves this by heating the bricks to dramatically higher temperatures using conventional resistive heating elements, thereby storing more energy, even though the specific heat capacity of any ceramic material is dramatically inferior to that of water.

But, as a result, Ecombi has a much lower system efficiency than a heat pump, since it's essentially just a space heater pointed at a rock. It only makes sense jurisdictions with time-of-day variable pricing of electricity, and trades off simplicity and low initial purchase price for lifetime cost.
by wat10000 | 2026-02-03 03:48:47+00:00
Well no, it’s because conduction/convection into a fluid is so much more effective.

Just look at a car. Maybe half a square meter of “radiator” is enough to dissipate hundreds of kW of heat, because it can dump it into a convenient mass of fluid. That’s way more heat than the ISS’s radiators handle, and three orders of magnitude less area.

Or do a simple experiment at home. Light a match. Hold your finger near it. Then put your finger in the flame. How much faster did the heat transfer when you made contact? Enough to go from feeling mildly warm to causing injury.
by ctmnt | 2026-02-03 03:49:26+00:00
I agree, it is really interesting. I think that the main reason, though, is that instead of a waterfall cycle taking weeks or months, it now takes minutes. So it’s the process of waterfall (speccing things out carefully in advance, committing to the plan, assessing the results based on adherence to the plan, etc), but on the time frame of agile.
by user3939382 | 2026-02-03 03:50:06+00:00
No sadly you have everyone and their mother talking about when we will get AGI and what it means, have no original thoughts, have no model, and the 1% who do think they have a model or concept thats buildable. everything I’ve read is essentially just an LLM.

Everyone is like you, projecting their own limitations until you dazzle them with glittery demos thats fine.
by keepamovin | 2026-02-03 03:50:14+00:00
Seems a bit of both. But no disparagement to your floor mopping (as I once was a dishwasher in a commercial kitchen myself), but there's a big gap between cleaning a floor, or a dish, and creating frontier models and spaceships.

That said: I think solar is niche, and a moon-shot for how they want it. Nuclear is the future of reliable energy for human civilization.

I think the K-scale is the wrong metric. I don't think we should be trying to take all the sun's energy as a goal (don't blot out the sun! don't hide it in a bushel!), or as a civilizational utiltiy - I'm sure better power supplies will come along.
by jdub | 2026-02-03 03:50:14+00:00
OK, think it through...

How do we determine that a specific instance of a filesystem mount is "remote", or even requires a "network"? Consider that the network endpoint might be localhost, a netlink/unix/other socket, or, say, an IP address of the virtual host (practically guaranteed to be there and not truly "remote").

systemd has .mount units which are way more configurable than /etc/fstab lines, so they'd let you, as the administrator, describe the network dependency for that specific instance.

But what if all we have is the filesystem type (e.g. if someone used mount or /etc/fstab)?

Linux doesn't tell us that the filesystem type is a network filesystem. Linux doesn't tell us that the specific mount request for that filesystem type will depend on the "network". Linux doesn't tell us that the specific mount request for that filesystem type will require true network connectivity beyond the machine itself.

So, before/without investing in a long-winded and potentially controversial improvement to Linux, we're stuck with heuristics. And systemd's chosen heuristic is pretty reasonable - match against a list of filesystem types that probably require network connectivity.

If you think that's stupid, how would you solve it?
by doctorpangloss | 2026-02-03 03:50:45+00:00
anki has so much potential and has such a big and unique audience, it is incomprehensible to me how it has managed to be so neglected.

and then now why, of all times, when a solo developer is never more productive, would the lead maintainer cede ownership? the antidote for programming burnout has just been invented, just take it haha
by a_tessellator | 2026-02-03 03:53:00+00:00
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by everfrustrated | 2026-02-03 03:53:04+00:00
It's about creating a flywheel for scale.

Getting better at creating and erecting solar panels & AI datacenters on earth is all well and good, but it doesn't advance SpaceX or humanity very much. At lot of the bottlenecks there are around moving physical mass and paperwork.

Whereas combining SpaceX & xAI together means the margins for AI are used to force the economies of scale which drives the manufacturing efficiencies needed to drive down launch etc.

Which opens up new markets like Mars etc.

It is also pushing their competitive advantage. It leaves a massive moat which makes it very hard for competitors. If xAI ends up with a lower cost of capital (big if - like Amazon this might take 20 years horizon to realize) but it would give them a massive moat to be vertically integrated. OpenAI and others would be priced out.

If xAI wants to double AI capacity then it's a purely an automation of manufacturing problem which plays to Elons strengths (Tesla & automation). For anyone on earth doubling capacity means working with electricity restrictions, licensing, bureaucracy, etc. For example all turbines needed for electricity plants are sold years in advance. You can't get a new thermal plant built & online within 5 years even if you had infinite money as turbines are highly complex and just not available.
by BoorishBears | 2026-02-03 03:53:54+00:00
Consumer, as in B2C, not consumers buying directly. B2C companies will happily buy (or rent from people who are buying today) GPUs, because a huge part of the game is managing margins to a degree B2B typically doesn't need to concern itself with.

> I dont need a model to know who Tom Cruise is or how to write SQL if I am asking it "set up my amazon refund" or "cancel xyz service". The moment someone figures out how to build targeted and small it will take off.

I think people got a lot of ideas when dense models were in vogue that don't hold up today. Kimi K2.5 maybe be a "1T parameter model" but it only has 32B active parameters and still easily trounces any prior dense model, including Llama 405B...

Small models need to make sense in terms of actual UX since beating these higher sparsity MoEs on raw efficiency is harder than people realize.
by librecell | 2026-02-03 03:54:18+00:00
i take so much for granted.

every time i’m hacking around with no idea what the program might be, i really should be working on a “thank you, world!” program,

to cultivate gratitude and humility

all those whose work has made it such that i can say “hellos commonlisp what is the most positive fixnum or word or whatever!” or totally not even think about that let alone complex allocations that seem to happen automatically relative to me

they’re cool as f**! i should do well not to forget this.

thank you for sharing
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by bccdee | 2026-02-03 03:54:44+00:00
Oddly this misses the two big things I hate about Go: Squishy types and no immutability.

1. A nullable SQL string is idiomatically expressed as sql.NullString{String: "my string", Valid: true}. If you forget to initialize `Valid`, it silently sets itself to false and your string is null. I feel like the right solution for this is sum types, but Go says you only need interfaces (and then of course it doesn't use them for stuff like this). And Go doesn't have named arguments, so convention for big functions is to pass a big struct with fields for all the arguments. If you omit a field, it gets zero-intialized, which is nice if you want the default to be zero, but otherwise you can't really have a default value, because there's no way to tell if a given zero was explicit or implicit. And there's no way to ensure that every field gets filled in. I get what they're trying to do with zero values, but it makes the whole type system feel a little bit squishy.

2. I want immutability. Good immutability. Go doesn't even have bad immutability. If you're disciplined, whatever, but people aren't, and I've seen a lot of Go turn into big nasty mutable mudballs.
by bastawhiz | 2026-02-03 03:56:29+00:00
That's silly on so many levels.

1. the latency is going to be insane.

2. AI video exists.

3. vLLMa exist and take video and images as input.

4. When a new model checkpoint needs to go up, are we supposed to wait months for it to transfer?

5. A one million token context window is ~4MB. That's a few milliseconds terrestrially. Assuming zero packet loss, that's many seconds

6. You're not using TCP for this because the round trip time is so high. So you can't cancel any jobs if a user disconnects.

7. How do you scale this? How many megabits has anyone actually ever successfully sent per second over the distances in question? We literally don't know how to get a data center worth of throughput to something not in our orbit, let alone more than double digit megabits per second.
by dworks | 2026-02-03 03:56:51+00:00
The stages are modelled after a kanban board. So you can have whichever stages you think are important for your LLM development workflow. These are mine:

00: Iterate on requirements with ChatGPT outside of the IDE. Save as a markdown requirements doc in the repo

01: Inside the IDE; Analysis of current codebase based on the scope of the requirements

02: Based on 00 and 01, write the implementation plan. Implement the plan

03: Verification of implementation coverage and testing

04: Implementation summary

05: Manual QA based on generated doc

06: Update global STATE.md and DECISIONS.md that documents the app, and the what and why of every requirement

Every stage has a single .md as output and after the stage is finished the doc is locked. Every stage takes the previous stages' docs as input.

I have a half-finished draft with more details and a benchmark (need to re-run it since a missing dependency interrupted the runs)

https://dilemmaworks.com/implementing-recursive-language-mod...
by Octoth0rpe | 2026-02-03 03:56:54+00:00
> how can the success of a long-term project be ensured?

Well, for one by ensuring that 'long-term' means it starts at the start of a term and ends before the end of that term. At most that only rules out nuclear, at least wrt long term energy projects. And it's not like recent dem administrations were unfriendly towards nuclear. Vogtle 3/4 were approved early in Obama's term, and finished under Biden's.