MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by D-Machine | 2026-02-12 01:53:08+00:00
People who don't care about definitions are always in over their heads and desperately trying to save face.

Current edge models literally can't do what I said, because they are single-channel and either recursively applied transformers, or most-likely Vision Transformers (setting aside generative image / video models, which are generally diffusion-based). The architectures are all wrong for handling certain kinds of data, tokenization is deeply harmful when dealing with continuous data (destroys relative meaning of magnitudes), and self-attention can be hugely inexpensive and encourage over-fitting when the problem is such that long-term dependencies are not relevant.

Try actually reading some papers and building some models using e.g. PyTorch. You can't understand these things by metaphor and analogy.
by wahern | 2026-02-12 01:53:37+00:00
In Federal courts mandatory minimum sentences were judged to be unconstitutional, as the ability to individualize sentencing was considered a prerogative intrinsic to the role of [Federal] judges. Though, a judge cannot impose a sentence greater than the maximum allowed under law. Federal courts still have sentencing guidelines that are almost always applied, but strictly speaking they're advisory.

More fundamentally, individualized justice is a core principle of common law courts. It's an obscure principle, but you can't fully understand the system without it, including the wide latitude judges often wield in various (albeit usually highly technical) aspects of their job.
by mandevil | 2026-02-12 01:53:39+00:00
I think it's the rise of authoritarianism: we are losing trust in truth, in what is said, the day to day social trust is dissolving. It worries me an awful lot, but it seems like we're (1) destroying the basis for much of our society and prosperity. All of the social technology we've amassed over the past century and a half seems to be in decline.

1: American English language culture I can read as an insider, and I pay some attention to the UK culture as well. I'm sadly monolingual so I have vague understanding of other countries, but they seem on a broadly similar path.
by johnnyanmac | 2026-02-12 01:55:35+00:00
>why did they give up their agency to these shadowy media oligarchs

decades tearing down education is paying its dues. Once again, from the people who are making you feel like democracy isn't working.

>I'm tired of giving stupid people so much power over my life.

If power is money, boomers still have a lot of power. And they leveraged politics their whole lives to benefit them (even if destruction of the younger generation is a side effect)

If power is votes, then millenials should be the bloc in charge now... but we still had worse turnout than boomers. That really says something.
by jodrellblank | 2026-02-12 01:57:07+00:00
I love the question; James Lovelock came up with Gaia Theory, the idea that Earth was a self-regulating system, illustrated by a warming Earth evolving flowers which reflect more sunlight so they can stay cooler, and a cooling Earth evolving flowers which absorb more sunlight so they can stay warmer, which act to cool/warm the planet (sortof; IIRC). In one of his last books before he died (written at age ~100) he suggests that the warming and expanding Sun means there isn't enough time for Earth to re-evolve sentient life again.

We used oil that seeped out of the surface, and coal that was accessible by pick and shovel. That's become much harder to find now, we have to make floating oil rigs and drill kilometers under the Gulf of Mexico to extract oil, and ship it internationally to refine it. There's no way primitive people could do that again.

Buckminster Fuller was thinking about this 75 years ago when he came up with the idea of 'energy slaves', nicely illustrated by this online comic[2] about how much oil energy we use to keep modern comfortable civilisation going.

So I guess it depends how far the collapse goes! And whether there is heavy farming and earth moving machinery still around and the resources to fill them with biodiesel to pick up from existing farms and mines, and if there are nearly working industries to feed electricity into, or if we have to fall back to making charcoal from wood, or if we're back to a few remote tribes a few generations removed from anyone who lived in a high civilization with no knowledge of any of it or the languages used to write the rotting textbooks.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novacene

[2] https://www.stuartmcmillen.com/comic/energy-slaves/
by snitty | 2026-02-12 01:57:54+00:00
So here the test was effectively given a set of relevant facts, can we influence the way a judge (or LLM) rules based on superfluous facts. The judges were either confused or swayed by the superfluous facts. The LLM was not. The matter was one where the outcome should have been determinative, not judgment-based, under US law.
by stubish | 2026-02-12 01:57:55+00:00
Grants operate differently over here. You have to write a submission, proposing works and budget and generally justifying. It is assessed by a committee. Politics gets involved. And a few people get larger chunks of money and the people holding the purse strings retain control on what is produced. It is essentially work on commission for the government, except you rarely get 100% of your costs covered.

Whereas in this Irish program, it is less money for more people chosen by lottery. The only editorial control is who is qualified to enter the lottery. It is also subsidizing the artist and not the art work, with artists working in cheap mediums receiving the same as artists dealing with high costs. So you are still going to need a grant or commission if you work in monumental bronze.
by Schmerika | 2026-02-12 01:58:12+00:00
> the very thing you are saying won't get exposed got exposed but the system your condeming.

Hate (well, love) to break it to you but the Exxon thing was exposed by... One person, doing research.

Neela Banerjee. And she didn't work for one of the media giants.

After she brought the hard proof which had lain dormant for 40 something years, yeah the mainstream media eventually put it out there. They didn't have much choice at that point, did they.

The scientists didn't expose it. The business people didn't expose it. The mainsteram media didn't expose it. They all got paid, all while the Earth got hotter, and hotter, and hotter; more and more reliant on fossil fuel.

> I'd argue (in agreement with the other guy) that do your own research on everything becomes a distraction to actually getting the above things passed to handle this problem. How do enforce the monopoly laws when you haven't done your own personal Market wide analysis the conditions of beef after all we cannot trust others to do that.

Mainstream media isn't ever going to tell you how to end the media monopoly. The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house.

> not trusting anyone doesn't necessiarly produce higher quality results boardly

I didn't say not to trust anyone. I said that believing everything from rather obviously compromised and corrupt institutions isn't a rational way to get to grips with reality. That's as true of fossil fuel science as it was our pandemic response.
by contrarian1234 | 2026-02-12 01:58:32+00:00
Sorry but that seems like an insane system where whole classes of actions effectively are illegal but probably okay if you're likeable. In your scenario the obvious solution is to amend the law and pardon people convinced under it. B/c what really happens is that if you have a pretty face and big tits you get out of speeding tickets b/c "gosh well the law wasn't intended for nice people like you"
by internetter | 2026-02-12 01:59:24+00:00
No. What they're saying is ISO multiplies brightness, essentially exasperating differences. Roughly, ISO 200 is 2x gain and so on. So if you have one pixel with a brightness value of 1, and the pixel to the left has a brightness of 5, and an ISO of 500, then it becomes brightness 5 and 25 respectively. Oversimplification.
by treis | 2026-02-12 02:01:34+00:00
Not really. Ultimately it's just a job and a job without any tangible benefit to doing well.

Most regular folk that end up in front of a judge would do well to have a quick and predictable decision. It's months to years before things happen in court and are usually gated behind 10s of thousands in legal fees or a ton of effort. To have a judge bot available for a decision immediately is enormously beneficial.
by theturtletalks | 2026-02-12 02:01:40+00:00
The conversational commerce agent can use MCP-UI[0] to show the payment UI (Stripe Elements and Paypal Button) directly in the chat and that taps into the same payment API the shop's storefront uses.

I'm kind of building this already[1].

0. https://mcpui.dev/

1. https://marketplace.openship.org
by kadabra9 | 2026-02-12 02:02:05+00:00
The government is taking 22% of your INCOME. Not your entire net worth. This is vastly different.

HNW don’t have their net worth sitting in a pool of cash like Donald Duck as much as Reddit would like to believe. Its property, company stock, any unrealized gains in different equities, etc.

to have to go through the administrative burden of valuing all that, and then attempting to liquidate at some reasonable market value just to pay one time levy (allegedly lol) is insane, and will rightfully be challenged in court
by stinkbeetle | 2026-02-12 02:02:08+00:00
> Rest assured that the UK would have damaged manufacturing and living standards regardless of renewables. It is just too complicated and expensive to build things. That not only damages the things you mentioned but renewables, gas and nuclear deployment.

High energy prices unquestionably make most primary and manufacturing production less competitive, and they reduce living standards. What are you even trying to say?

> But yeah bet against the Chinese solar and battery industries. And bet in favour of cheap plentiful gas in northern Europe.

This does not address what I wrote.
by its_magic | 2026-02-12 02:02:35+00:00
Your perspective is you want to take my hard-earned money and give it to some pothead to sit at home and "do artwork."

My perspective is I'd rather keep my weed money to myself.

And that's exactly what I shall do. Want to fight about it?

Your plans to rob society even more than your ilk already do are selfish, idiotic, and will end in ruin--deservedly so.

I have spoken.
by duskwuff | 2026-02-12 02:03:24+00:00
Concur. Zstandard is a good compressor, but it's not magical; comparing the compressed size of Zstd(A+B) to the common size of Zstd(A) + Zstd(B) is effectively just a complicated way of measuring how many words and phrases the two documents have in common. Which isn't entirely ineffective at judging whether they're about the same topic, but it's an unnecessarily complex and easily confused way of doing so.
by projektfu | 2026-02-12 02:03:39+00:00
Fentanyl is the drug for effect, but it's being sold as a cheap alternative to heroin, or as counterfeit heroin. Unfortunately for users, the effect is short-lasting and it is about 30x as potent, so it is difficult to for them to dose properly. The traffickers like it because many more doses fit into a small space.

I'm not sure I believe that making heroin legal and available for "recreational" use would solve the problem. People who propose it usually say that it's working in another country (such as Portugal), but then you look at that country and it's not really legal or available, it's just that they do not jail people for personal use anymore. I can agree with that, but it doesn't solve the trafficking problem. The only way to get rid of trafficking is to either allow people to easily buy it legally without onerous taxation, or to reduce demand to zero. If you do the former, you will still be stuck with lots of addicts, the associated crime and suffering, and probably many overdoses. Most likely, the number of addicts will increase, as they did with OxyContin, Actiq, etc. Worth mentioning that Actiq is fentanyl and it was in demand.

Reducing demand is a multifaceted problem with complicated solutions, many of which are politically unpopular.

Interestingly, some drugs can simply be taken off the market and the demand plummets. Quaalude is one example. Nobody stepped in to make an illicit version and the users probably just stopped using or switched to benzodiazepines and then hopefully stopped those. Unfortunately, it seems like we have a persistent demand for opioids.
by DiogenesKynikos | 2026-02-12 02:04:24+00:00
You can literally listen to audio recordings of Feynman delivering the lectures. The book follows those lectures closely.

All lectures that professors deliver have mistakes in them. He produced a massive lecture series covering huge areas of physics over hundreds of hours of class time. There are bound to be typos and small math mistakes.

The complaint that Feynman had an editor makes me think the person who created this YouTube video has no idea how publishing works, not to mention academic publishing.
by user3939382 | 2026-02-12 02:04:43+00:00
I think scoffing at plaintext protocols is silly. Contemporary security architecture is a nightmare. It’s like scoffing at keyboards for sending key codes in the open to the HID controller because you’ve failed to secure your machine so badly you have adversaries in your HID controller.

If you have a well secured LAN where trust is social SSH gets
you nothing. SMTP telnet http being plain were from days when users were able to actually reason about what was happening within their OS. If there’s anything that should be scoffed at its us now with our bloated opaque corporate controlled OSes.
by Terr_ | 2026-02-12 02:04:57+00:00
> what they are buying is the justice

From The Truth by Terry Pratchett, emphasis on the book's footnote:

> William’s family and everyone they knew also had a mental map of the city that was divided into parts where you found upstanding citizens, and other parts where you found criminals. It had come a shock to them... no, he corrected himself, it had come as a an affront to learn that [police chief] Vimes operated on a different map. Apparently he'd instructed his men to use the front door when calling on any building, even in broad daylight, when sheer common sense said that they should use the back, just like any other servant. [0]

> [0] William’s class understood that justice was like coal or potatoes. You ordered it when you needed it.
by koakuma-chan | 2026-02-12 02:04:59+00:00
It's not psychological. I know because there is this one absolutely OP trick I learned from a gym coach, if you feel like you are fainting, lie down on the floor, raise your legs and put them on the wall. Apparently this makes blood flow into your brain or something, and it's magic. You get much better almost instantly. Anyway, I was also told to take sugar before giving blood, so next time I do I'm gonna try both, thanks.
by BuleBule | 2026-02-12 02:05:06+00:00
I've been using Claude Code heavily for the past few weeks on a
production project. Opus 4.6 is noticeably more capable than what
I was using before, longer autonomous runs, better contextual
awareness across files, fewer hallucinated edits. The UX changes I'm less sure about. The progressive disclosure thing makes sense in theory but sometimes I want to see exactly what it's doing without clicking through. The terminal is where I work, don't hide things from me.

Boris's response here is the right move though. Acknowledging the
miss and committing to a fix in the next release is how you build
trust with a dev audience.
by wlesieutre | 2026-02-12 02:05:08+00:00
Very loose relationship, don't repeatedly contact the same groups of external people over time. We manufacture and sell physical products, and customers ask us questions about them. Sometimes directly, sometimes via their contact at one of fifty-ish local rep agencies depending on where they're located.

Frequently email threads have an assortment of people from 3-4 different companies on them, the specific set of which I will never talk to again outside of that inquiry.

On the rep agency side, they might each represent 50-100 different manufacturers and I'm sure are not eager to have a different ticketing system or chat app channel for contacting each one of them.
by infecto | 2026-02-12 02:05:38+00:00
When did I dismiss the violence? You’re flapping with hyperbole.

When the cartels make their first major attack we can circle back on this until then I don’t think there is much to mention. Cartels are powerful but still not as powerful as a first world military. Air assets work wonders against ground targets. Isolated violence or the memo (has not happened yet) that CJNG has authorized hits on border agents are only memos until it starts happening at frequency.
by DivingForGold | 2026-02-12 02:06:00+00:00
Don't have to time sit and watch a talking head video for 10 to 15 minutes ?

Text summary of this video:

Key Explanations for Economic Resilience

AI Investment Boom
Significant capital is being funneled into AI-related infrastructure such as data centers, semiconductors, and software development. This sector contributed a substantial portion of GDP growth and private demand in 2025, providing a strong economic floor.

Fiscal Policy Tailwinds
Tax cuts, especially favoring wealthy households, alongside deficit spending, maintain high demand. The top 10% of earners drive approximately half of consumer spending, supported by elevated asset prices and strong stock market valuations.

Political Backstop Hypothesis (Weaker Claim)
Markets and investors believe Donald Trump will take extraordinary measures—sometimes beyond traditional presidential authority—to avoid an economic downturn. This belief acts as a “backoff button” for the market, reducing perceived risks because the administration prioritizes keeping the economy stable to maintain political power.

Stronger, More Concerning Hypothesis: Oligarchic Patronage System

Large corporations may engage in demonstrations of loyalty to the Trump administration (e.g., hefty donations, high-visibility support events) to secure favorable regulatory treatment and reduced enforcement risk.
This creates a system where political allegiance supersedes competition and innovation as the primary business strategy.
The economy risks drifting toward an oligarchy, where power consolidates around a few dominant firms rewarded for loyalty rather than performance or consumer service.
Such a system, while stabilizing markets short-term, undermines long-term economic dynamism, innovation, and resilience, turning the market into a rent-seeking, extractive environment rather than a competitive, productive one.

Insights from Expert Conversation (with Economist Kyla Scandlin)

Wealth Effect and Stock Market Influence
Rising asset prices and housing wealth underpin consumer spending, especially among the wealthy. The top 10% wealthiest Americans sustain a significant portion of economic activity.

AI Sector’s Dominance
AI-related industries dominate GDP growth and stock market earnings but create fewer jobs relative to the investment scale. This sector benefits disproportionately from favorable policies and serves as a key pillar of current economic strength.

Credit Accessibility
Consumer credit products, including installment plans and credit cards, help maintain spending despite lower confidence and wage stagnation for many.

Market Vulnerabilities
The economy exhibits a K-shaped recovery, with lower-income groups struggling while wealthier consumers are insulated by asset holdings. A significant stock market correction could trigger a large contraction due to the wealth effect.

Political and Financial Dynamics
Some large firms strategically align with the Trump administration to reduce risk exposure, while smaller companies and ordinary workers face uncertainty and hardship.
by BuleBule | 2026-02-12 02:06:55+00:00
The jump from "we can compute this" to "we computed it for the
entire planet" is what makes this impressive. A lot of projects
stop at the proof of concept. Running hundreds of AMD Turin cores
for two days straight to actually finish the job is a different
kind of commitment. Curious about the edge cases, how do you handle atmospheric
refraction at those distances? At 530km the curvature of the
earth and atmospheric bending would meaningfully affect whether
a line of sight is actually visible to a human observer versus
just geometrically unobstructed.
by barelysapient | 2026-02-12 02:06:58+00:00
It’s funny I’ve been pondering something similar. I’ve started by writing an agent first api framework that simplifies the service boundary and relies on code gen for sql stubs and APIs.

My next thought was to implement a multi agent workforce on top of this where it’s fully virtuous (like a cycle) and iterative.

https://github.com/swetjen/virtuous

If you’re interested in working on this together my personal website and contact info is in my bio.
by Humphrey | 2026-02-12 02:08:03+00:00
Have they fixed all the keyboard bugs introducted in iOS 26.0 yet? I’m not sure how much longer I can put up with issues like this - I might need to switch back to Android if they don't fix these soon.

Seriously, how hard is it to correctly measure the keyboard height and not render important UI elements, such as submit buttons, underneath it so you can’t click “Send”? It's getting close to unusable.

Update: No they haven't
by dgently7 | 2026-02-12 02:08:11+00:00
i have that rule and the same exception for the 0. it feels like its "cyber" look done actually right with proper design (i dont let other inferior designs steal the word cyber). i would also add any decently good* ev minivan that is actually available to buy in the us.

*vw buzz fails the good test for no one pedal driving and the price for what you get is outta wack. though lots of the 1st gen ones are still sitting on car lots so maybe that could cross the exception barrier if they go for cheaper.
by opello | 2026-02-12 02:08:27+00:00
Certainly. But you're missing the point. Feynman chose to tell the stories to Ralph Leighton who then recorded them in the "Surely" book which was published in 1985, well after Feynman's own perspective seems to have changed about the more offensive things he'd said.

By many other accounts he was a kind, caring, thoughtful person, but some of the selected stories in "Surely" paint a significantly different picture. To me it's unclear, not having studied the life of Richard Feynman, what parts are exaggerated. But it does seem clear that these stories were refined and selected for inclusion, and were therefore considered endearing or representative for the intention of the book. And in the time and culture in which it was published that seems like a bit of a miss at the very least.
by mrob | 2026-02-12 02:09:15+00:00
>The bugs have no technology.

The bugs are shown firing projectiles to orbit. This is a setting with FTL travel; it's clearly not hard sci-fi. By the standard narrative conventions of soft sci-fi action movies, the bugs are capable of firing asteroids at Earth.

>The true cause of the destruction is irrelevant

It's critically important to the ethical justification for military response. According to the information actually presented in the movie, the destruction was deliberate murder of millions of civilians. Any other interpretation is fan-fiction.

>no rational person would blame the bees for stinging you.

They'd blame them for killing everybody they know. And that initial provocation was not the fault of the United Citizen Federation.

>Any discussion of the actual society they live in paints a clear picture of fascism.

It has objectively more freedom in times of war than any real life society.