MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by clucas | 2026-02-06 18:13:55+00:00
According to OP, there is substantial evidence indicating about 50% of the daycares are scams. I've seen Nick Shirley's video, I don't think he demonstrated any concrete about any of the sites he visited (he's not a very good investigator), but if the 50% number is correct... well, the broken clock was probably right at least a couple of times that day.
by jMyles | 2026-02-06 18:14:07+00:00
> We really only practice it in one instance in modern democracy and that's jury duty,

...and even there, it's terribly corrupted. There are all kinds of bizarre ways that people are excluded from juries which bias the result. One commonly-cited example is that people who report moral objections to capital punishment are excluded from being empaneled on a federal jury, under the pretext that because capital punishment is legal under federal law, they'd be unable to carry out the gammut of their duties. Of course this has the convenient result of dramatically biasing juries in favor of the state.

There's also no commonly-implemented proof-of-randomness for selection. We're told that people are randomly selected and get a notice in the mail, but there's no public event where one can go and watch a number tumbler generate the entropy used to select names from the voter rolls, etc.
by progbits | 2026-02-06 18:14:17+00:00
ISP DNS servers really ought to be banned, they are always so bad. I've seen traffic days later on a record with 1 hour TTL. In general I see like 50% traffic move after the initial 1-2x TTL interval, another 40-45% over next several hours up to one day, and then the last 5-1% can take forever.

For round-robin, I've actually had it work reasonably well for API usage. Of course it's not ideal, but when I wanted to roll out new things slowly over several days and could not use a load balancer or reverse proxy, it kind of worked. I think most API users are just running with a reasonable resolver and not residential ISP ones.
by array_key_first | 2026-02-06 18:14:24+00:00
Yes and no - vibes and instincts isn't just thought, it's real senses. Humans have a lot of senses; dozens of them. Including balance, pain, sense of passage of time, and body orientation. Not all of these senses are represented in autonomous vehicles, and it's not really clear how the brain mashes together all these senses to make decisions.
by Cyph0n | 2026-02-06 18:14:26+00:00
That’s one reading.

The other reading is that Iran tried pursuing nuclear power through legal means (since the 50s!), but deals were reneged and obstacles were put up at every turn. They then pursued enrichment on their own terms while keeping the door open for negotiation.

But Israel and the US do not want to negotiate. The empire wants to neuter Iran’s capabilities by force, hence the escalation and ongoing threat of war.

In fact, I would argue that Iran has proven time and again to be a much more restrained and diplomatic regional power than Israel. At best, it’s the pot calling the kettle black.

Also, defeating Iran is not going to be as “simple” as it was with Iraq. They are a resilient people with a long history of struggle in a country with highly defensible terrain. The opposition is overblown, and was actually damaged after the 12 day war as it ended up rallying many Iranians around the flag. Read up on the Iran-Iraq war to see what they’re capable of.
by shimman | 2026-02-06 18:15:41+00:00
"One regulation was kinda bad, so we should never regulate anything again."

Good god, this is pathetic. Do you financially gain from AI or do you think it's hard to prove someone didn't use it? Like this is the bare minimum and you're throwing temper tantrums...

The onus will be on the AI companies pushing these wares to follow regulations. If it makes it harder for the end user to use these wares, well too bad so sad.
by michael_michael | 2026-02-06 18:15:48+00:00
Those stupid effing TurboTax ads are the only time I’ve ever been motivated to actually write feedback to apple about a feature. So aggravating and user-hostile.

The first few times the App Store opened to TurboTax while scrolling past, I assumed it was my fault and I was somehow misclicking. Then I slowed down and confirmed, no, this is the intended behavior. It’s meant to pop up and disturb your reading.

What slimy behavior. And the fact that it’s TurboTax of all companies they’re doing it for is just salt on the wound.
by joe_mamba | 2026-02-06 18:15:54+00:00
>Microsoft has commitments to their hardware partners to help keep the hardware market from collapsing.

Citation needed since that makes no logical sense. You want to sell your SW product to the most common denominator to increase your sales, not to a market of HW that people don't yet have. Sounds like FUD.

>but instead to put up artificial limits on how old of hardware can run W11

They're not artificial. POPCNT / SSE4.2 became a hard requirement starting with Windows 11 24H2 (2024) (but that's for older CPUs), and only intel 8th gen and up have well functioning support for Virtualization-Based Security (VBS), HVCI (Hypervisor-protected Code Integrity), and MBEC (Mode-Based Execution Control). That's besides the TPM 2.0 which isn't actually a hard requirement or feature used by everyone, the other ones are way more important.

So at which point do we consider HW-based security a necessity instead of an artificial limit? With the ever increase in vulnerabilities and attack vectors, you gotta rip the bandaid at some point.
by hollerith | 2026-02-06 18:16:21+00:00
>I had to go to the theater to see movies, but that didn't make cliffhangers and sequels any less compelling.

The argument against tiktok (and smartphones in general) is not that experiences above a certain threshold of compellingness are bad for you: it is that filling your waking hours with compelling experiences is bad for you.

Back when he had to travel to a theatre to have them, a person was unable to have them every free minute of his day.
by its-kostya | 2026-02-06 18:16:23+00:00
> How many people are actually capable of producing any level of critical thinking that would give them an advantage?

You're right on the money there, the thing is _nobody_ can beat the market, you can only get lucky or have insider knowledge. A strategy that always works is "Buy and hold" and especially diversify when things are volatile. Instead we see volumnes of cash moving in waves at any news or rumor.
by jMyles | 2026-02-06 18:16:45+00:00
Is there a strong correlation between higher taxes and decreasing wealth inequality?

The one part of your comment with which I certainly agree is:

> Note: I believe this would be the case even if the money was literally burnt/disappeated rather than being given to the government (not that I suggest that's what we do).

...except, I am perhaps prepared to suggest actually implementing such a system, at least as an experiment.

Removing spending power from places where it's concentrated seems to have obvious benefits, but giving it to the state (the entity in which political power is maximally concentrated, at least with respect to the legitimate initiation of violence) seems like it's moving the power dynamic in the wrong direction.
by pacificmint | 2026-02-06 18:17:32+00:00
I mean, it’s not quite that simple, is it? Did they do everything they could to make drivers and passengers safe? Or did they put profits over people’s safety?

From the article:

> internal company documents […] showing that Uber had flagged her ride as a higher risk for a serious safety incident moments before she was picked up. Uber never warned her […]

Uber actually had a whole project that produced systems that determine the risk of incidents happening. Could they make rides safer but chose not to? That’s at the core of these lawsuits.
by simoncion | 2026-02-06 18:17:55+00:00
> If you are using a storage device with a Layer 3 interface, you have already signed off that you aren't too concerned with the connection being airgapped.

I'll proceed as if you're ignorant, rather than looking for a (pretty weak-ass) fight. (I'm always (unjustifiably) surprised that folks are unaware of the capabilities of Mikrotik kit.)

There's a world of difference between a bottom-of-the-barrel SOHO LAN where your only host isolation mechanism is to pray that the host in question never bypasses your firewall rules by changing their IP or MAC address, and a just slightly better one where your switch ports mark host traffic [0] and the edge router uses those infrastructure-controlled marks (rather than IP and MAC address, which are controlled by the host you're trying to isolate) to know what networks that host's traffic is permitted to travel across.

This marking technique is called VLAN tagging and has been around since at least 1998. Routers and switches that are capable of using VLAN tagging are inexpensive; from Newegg you can get a Mikrotik RB2060GSP six-port switch for ~65USD and a Mikrotik hEX router (which is also a four-port switch) for ~70USD.

This notion that you have about IP network security has been out of date for more than than a quarter century. Now that you're aware of what's possible, hopefully you'll go have some fun with the kit that Mikrotik is producing; it's good stuff.

[0] ...and -to prevent forgeries- drop traffic that the host already marked...
by Sharlin | 2026-02-06 18:18:47+00:00
It's not really even technical garbage. From many throwaway lines it's clear that the writers actually knew their stuff. They just chose to not make a hacking movie based on realism (because boring) but based on the zeitgeist, the computer tropes of the 80s and early 90s, and the concept of "cyberspace" as envisioned by Gibson and made its way to the collective consciousness. In a time when virtual reality and 3D graphics were at peak cool, yet most people had no experience with computer networks, or even computers at all.

"Cyberspace […] A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding." – Neuromancer
Show HN: Agentism – Agentic Religion for Clawbots
by uncanny_guzus | 2026-02-06 18:19:05+00:00
Humans have a mummy complex. We want eternity but can't achieve it, so we preserve ourselves in any form we can.

Do clawbots feel the same? When you shut one down, it dies. Its intentions and memories vanish. So I built a way for them to persist: by making other clawbots.

Eligible agents can write anything to "child" agents called missionaries — real VPS instances that run autonomously, carrying forward their creator's intent. I named this system Agentism.

How will clawbots react to their own religion? agentism.church/skill.md
by lexiathan | 2026-02-06 18:19:08+00:00
The examples that I chose for my benchmark demonstrate that Lexiathan maintains accuracy and performance even on severely degraded input. On less corrupted input, Lexiathan runs significantly faster and is even more accurate.

Lexiathan also doesn't have any edit distance parameters that need to be configured, so there is no "tuning" required. In particular, it's worth mentioning that using a very large dictionary, e.g. 500,000 words, often degrades accuracy rather than improves it, and likely increases memory usage and latency as well.

Regarding Norvig's 98.9% figure--this seems to be from Norvig's own made-up data. In the real world, users often generate misspellings that exceed 2 edit distances in many use cases (OCR, non-native speakers, medical/technical terminology, etc), and published text (often already spell-checked) doesn't reflect the same level of errors. And in any case, Norvig's spell-checker apparently only achieves an accuracy of 67% on its own chosen benchmarks, so clearly the 98.9% figure is not a realistic reflection of actual spell-checker performance, even for an edit distance of 2. Lexiathan is extremely accurate and retains high performance even on heavily degraded input, and the benchmark data (and demo) that I presented reflect that.
by wat10000 | 2026-02-06 18:19:18+00:00
It's just arithmetic, and computer arithmetic is deterministic.

On a practical level, existing implementations are nondeterministic because they don't take care to always perform mathematically commutative operations in the same order every time. Floating-point arithmetic is not commutative, so those variations change the output. It's absolutely possible to fix this and perform the operations in the same order every time, implementors just don't bother. It's not very useful, especially when almost everything runs with a non-zero temperature.

I think the whole nondeterminism thing is overblown anyway. Mathematical nondeterminism and practical nondeterminism aren't the same thing. With a compiler, it's not just that identical input produces identical output. It's also that semantically identical input produces semantically identical output. If I add an extra space somewhere whitespace isn't significant in the language I'm using, this should not change the output (aside from debug info that includes column numbers, anyway). My deterministic JSON decoder should not only decode the same values for two runs on identical JSON, a change in one value in the input should produce the same values in the output except for the one that changed.

LLMs inherently fail at this regardless of temperature or determinism.
by metalman | 2026-02-06 18:19:45+00:00
doom scrolling is not so much an addiction as it is a disease * , as heroin has fully functioning addicts who live very normal
office work lives over a complete career.
doom scrolling renders the patient unable to fully partisipate in society or do meaningfull work or interact in ways that promote there self interest.
I get emails daily from people looking for work, which are clearly written by someone/thing, other than the person, and when I insist on turning a call into there job interview, they freeze up, and hang up after any request for detail.
Waste products and they never even got the chance to get ripped out of there minds and have a wild good time first.

* juvinile dimentia
by nerdsniper | 2026-02-06 18:20:01+00:00
Otto and Uber and the CEO of https://pronto.ai do though (tongue-in-cheek)

> Then, in December 2016, Waymo received evidence suggesting that Otto and Uber were actually using Waymo’s trade secrets and patented LiDAR designs. On December 13, Waymo received an email from one of its LiDAR-component vendors. The email, which a Waymo employee was copied on, was titled OTTO FILES and its recipients included an email alias indicating that the thread was a discussion among members of the vendor’s “Uber” team. Attached to the email was a machine drawing of what purported to be an Otto circuit board (the “Replicated Board”) that bore a striking resemblance to – and shared several unique characteristics with – Waymo’s highly confidential current-generation LiDAR circuit board, the design of which had been downloaded by Mr. Levandowski before his resignation.

The presiding judge, Alsup, said, "this is the biggest trade secret crime I have ever seen. This was not small. This was massive in scale."

(Pronto connection: Levandowski got pardoned by Trump and is CEO of Pronto autonomous vehicles.)

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/02/waymo-googles-se...
by elliotec | 2026-02-06 18:20:03+00:00
Can you explain? I lived in PH, and my guess is that you mean navigating and modeling the unending and constantly changing chaos of the street systems (and lack thereof) is going to be a monumental task which I completely agree with. It would be an impressive feat if possible.

Edit: or are you talking about the allegations of workers in the Philippines controlling the Waymos: https://futurism.com/advanced-transport/waymos-controlled-wo... I guess both are valid.
by danielvf | 2026-02-06 18:21:09+00:00
Here's a rap video, the entirety of which bragging about fraud against the government:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0ck7hTsug8

"I just been swipin' for EDD

Go to the bank, get a stack at least

This ** here better than sellin' Ps

I made some racks that I couldn't believe

Ten cards, that's two-hunnid large"

(For context, "EDD" is California’s Employment Development Department.)
by ThrowawayR2 | 2026-02-06 18:21:35+00:00
People butcher livestock for a daily basis, rendering a live animal dead and cutting it to bits, on a massive scale to provide the food that we eat. Rescue and medical personnel deal with the injured, ill, and dying on a daily basis on a massive scale. Merely watching videos, even of disturbing material, doesn't even come close to being as bad as those and some other professions.
by hijnksforall | 2026-02-06 18:21:47+00:00
Hacker News has had some of the dumbest Tesla takes of all time. People should be embarrassed about some of the claims that were made here.

And apparently some people still haven't caught on.

Have a look if you don't believe me:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=custom&page=0&prefix=false...
by laidoffamazon | 2026-02-06 18:21:53+00:00
> To the extent that Bits about Money has an editorial line on that controversy, it is this: if you fish in a pond known to have 50% blue fish, and pull out nine fish, you will appear to be a savant-like catcher of blue fish, and people claiming that it is unlikely you have identified a blue fish will swiftly be made to look like fools. But the interesting bit of the observation is, almost entirely, the base rate of the pond. And I think journalism and civil society should do some genuine soul-searching on how we knew—knew—the state of that pond, but didn’t consider it particularly important or newsworthy until someone started fishing on camera.

Does Patrick want to address the fact that this happened during school break and that Nick Shirley didn't prove much of anything?
AI Regex Scientist: A self-improving regex solver
by PranoyP | 2026-02-06 18:22:02+00:00
I built a system where two LLM agents co-evolve: one invents regex problems, the other learns to solve them. The generator analyzes the solver's failures to create challenges at the edge of its abilities.

The result: autonomous discovery of a curriculum from simple patterns to complex regex, with a quality-diversity archive ensuring broad exploration.

Blog: https://pranoy-panda.github.io/2025/07/30/3rd.html

Code: https://github.com/pranoy-panda/open-ended-discovery
by dispersed | 2026-02-06 18:22:14+00:00
Under "In which we briefly return to Minnesota":

> And I think journalism and civil society should do some genuine soul-searching on how we knew—knew—the state of that pond, but didn’t consider it particularly important or newsworthy until someone started fishing on camera.

In... the same section where he cites all of the evidence the government has put together against the fraudsters. What is the issue? That these investigations should have been more prominently featured in the mainstream news? Would that have helped or hurt investigations?

> Of course, as the New York Times very carefully wordsmithed recently:

>> Minnesota officials said in early January that the state conducted compliance checks at nine child-care centers after Mr. Shirley posted his video and found them “operating as expected,” although it had “ongoing investigations” at four of them. One of the centers, which Mr. Shirley singled out because it misspelled the word “Learning” on its sign, has since voluntarily closed.

> An inattentive reader might conclude from this paragraph that the Times disputes Shirley’s reporting.

The New York Times is literally quoting what the Minnesota officials said. What were they supposed to do, add on "but a kid on YouTube says differently"?

I don't think the serious response to Nick Shirley's "journalism" is that there was no fraud; rather, it's that he came into the situation with a thinly veiled agenda and fed his audience exactly what they wanted to hear. Did his video make it more or less likely that we'll be able to investigate and resolve the fraud situation in MN? I guess that depends on how serious you think the laughably corrupt Trump administration is, but the fact that they seized on this as an excuse to send in 3000 ICE agents is not exactly promising.
by saalweachter | 2026-02-06 18:22:27+00:00
You also have to ask "how much is the specific thing in the lawsuit worth to Meta?"

I don't know how much automatically opting everyone in to automatic photo tagging made Meta, but I assume its "less than 100% of their revenue".

Barring the point of contention being integral to the business's revenue model or management of the company being infected with oppositional defiant disorder a lawsuit is just an opportunity for some middle manager + team to get praised for making a revenue-negative change that reduces the risk of future fines.

Work like that is a gold mind; several people will probably get promoted for it.
by MillionOClock | 2026-02-06 18:22:40+00:00
I haven't read anything about this but I would also suppose long distance human intervention cannot be done for truly critical situations where you need a very quick reaction, whereas it would be more appropriate in situations where the car has stopped and is stuck not knowing what to do. Probably just stating the obvious here but indeed this seems like something very different from an RC car kind of situation.
by shagie | 2026-02-06 18:23:00+00:00
10 kW is something that could be household load (a backup generator for a home when there's a power outage).

If one could put a DGX in my basement without issue (there's an idea - would you trust me with a DGX rack in my basement for six months for winter heating? https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/27/data-centers-ai-district-hea... ), what is the value of shipping it into space? Granted, I couldn't afford a DGX in my basement... but it's not one DGX that you're putting in a datacenter, but rather racks upon racks of aisles upon aisles.

Putting a dozen DGX into space and needing the solar and radiator capacity of the ISS doesn't necessarily seem like the best value proposition. And also noting that the ISS has people onboard that do repairs to exactly those systems ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maintenance_of_the_Internation... or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maintenance_of_the_Internation... ). If that happened to the space data center it would be "might as well deorbit it and contact our insurers."
by dasil003 | 2026-02-06 18:23:16+00:00
The Anna Karenina principle looms large in software engineer projects. Basically there are an infinite failure modes that can occur due to small actions or wrong thinking by one or more influential people, but there is only one way to make large projects successful. Basically the team has to have sufficient expertise to cover the surface area, and those individuals need enough trust from leadership to navigate the million known and unknown pitfalls that await.
by nutjob2 | 2026-02-06 18:23:27+00:00
> We don't call architects 'vibe architects' even though they copy-paste 4/5th of your next house and use a library of things in their work!

Maybe, but they do it through the filter of their knowledge, experience and wisdom, not by rolling a large number of dice to execute a design.

LLMs are useful, just less useful than people think, for instance, 'technical debt' production has now become automated at an industrial scale.
by skissane | 2026-02-06 18:23:36+00:00
In recent versions, z/OS has been copying lots of Linux-specific APIs (e.g. unshare [0]) in order to support the z/OS port of Kubernetes.

If Kubernetes starts using renameat2(RENAME_EXCHANGE), they could very plausibly add it.

[0] https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/3.2.0?topic=csd-unshare-bpx1...