MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hackeraccount | 2026-02-06 23:31:25+00:00
NIMBYism is frequently driven by a small number of people who feel very strongly and use rules designed to protect minority rights to get their way. Is it democratic? I don't know... much of what's going on if put to a vote would be split 3 ways. A minority in favor, a large number who don't really care and another minority against (but they either don't get a vote or the default result is to go against their wishes).
by eek2121 | 2026-02-06 23:31:43+00:00
Something like 70% of the comments I've seen on this thread show that either:

1) The user has never owned an Apple Device in their life.
2) They are trolling super hard.

There are complaints to be had that I definitely agree with, however, I see a TON of fiction for every single legitimate complaint.

No, not an Apple employee, shareholder, etc. (I am broke and dependent on my wife because I am disabled lol)
by ddtaylor | 2026-02-06 23:32:01+00:00
As ytcracker says:

Lost a lot of my people to drugs and jail
And suicide cause we do or die
Thats the way this thing goes with my crew and i
But i guess that we all keep it moving right
Terminal eternally but you know that i ain't sick
Out here idling on my nick
While i go ahead and do another magic trick

I'm sorry for your loss. I've lost many to all of these. The worst is someone I was in federal prison with and would hang out with daily. He got out and got on Fentanyl and was so messed up he literally burned alive after his house caught on fire. Rest in piece Daniel.
by wakawaka28 | 2026-02-06 23:32:01+00:00
Their socialized medicine generally sucks. I don't think there's anywhere in the world where medical is cheap and easily available in a timely manner. In countries with "free" (as in "government robs you at gunpoint to pay for it whether you want it or not") healthcare, people often end up paying for expensive private services anyway because of inadequate treatment under the government plan. Since you have to pay for it anyway, and there's no free lunch, I'd rather be able to decide how important my problem is and seek the appropriate treatment whether it is cheap or expensive. Also, insurance companies and providers play an elaborate game to maximize their profits and also scare people into getting insurance. Providers would rather deal with insurance companies than poor people and will cut these huge and exclusive discounts that don't apply to private pay.
by scherlock | 2026-02-06 23:32:25+00:00
Same. Small units if work, iterate in it till it's right, commit it, push it, then do the next increment of work. It's how I've always worked like that, except now, I sometimes let someone else figure the exact API calls (I'm still learning react, but Claude helps get the basics in place for me). If the AI just keeps screwing up, I'll grab the wheel and do it myself. It sometimes helps me get things going, but it hasn't been a huge increase in productivity, but I'm not paying the bill so whatever.
by lucb1e | 2026-02-06 23:33:54+00:00
A quarter of your password manager's password means it needs to be really long for it to not be bruteforceable if one or two quarters are recovered (on the order of 24 completely random alphanumeric characters)

Shamir's secret sharing scheme does not allow anyone to bruteforce it, no matter if they have 99 out of the 100 required pieces that unlock a 10-character password. If you want to do this sort of thing, I would recommend using a secret sharing scheme instead
by ColeW | 2026-02-06 23:33:56+00:00
I built mantic-thinking for consistent multi-factor analysis. 14 tools (7 friction, 7 emergence), immutable kernel: M = (sum(W * L * I)) * f(t) / k_n.

Ran 5 tests. Key findings:

The "critical window" pattern

Friction M > 0.7 AND emergence M > 0.7 = unstable equilibrium. High risk + high alignment for action. Neither tool alone catches this. Tested on Tesla: regime c
onflict (0.715) + confluence window (0.810) → "small position, tight stops."

Cross-domain transfer works

86% pattern consistency across healthcare, finance, cyber, climate, legal, military, social. Same mental model, different domain weights.

Temporal kernels enable timing

8 kernels model evolution. Exponential decay = "monitor." S-curve = "act at inflection." Makes "when to act" explicit.

LLM integration is load-bearing

Framework needs LLM front (NL → parameters) and back (M-scores → recommendations). Tested cyber attribution: extracted params, calculated, synthesized "attribut
ion gap—isolate server, 48-hour window."

Architecture holds up

Zero-variation core kernel. Graceful NaN handling. 0 crashes. Boundary conditions handled.
by TheGRS | 2026-02-06 23:34:28+00:00
Every now and then I stumble on video game developers who have been chugging along for many years, even decades with a handful of dedicated fans. They make obscure niche games that play so well into that niche that they can sustain themselves. Honestly this is something I'd aspire to get to eventually, building a niche product that I love and that just enough people love that I could live sustainably on it, not trying to please anyone but a little collective of people who all agree on what the product should be.
by randycupertino | 2026-02-06 23:34:37+00:00
I interviewed and had an offer from Theranos. They were super slimey, and this was before they were known as a fraud.

- Sunny asked me why I went to such an unprestigious academic institution for undergrad

- Sunny flipped out at an extension cord going to the table AV setup in the meeting room. He called in 5 IT people and yelled at them during my interview about the extension cord and yanked it out of the wall.

- Elizabeth and Sunny parked their Lamborginis in the handicapped parking spaces directly in front of the office

- When I got the offer, the fine print noted the location my office would actually be located in was NOT at the fancy HQ in Palo Alto where they had recruited me at and showed me that I would be working, it was at a trailer park on the east side of highway 101 in Menlo Park (um, no thanks. Part of the reason I passed).

- part of the hiring process was to go get your blood tested by them and my lab results were discordant with my lab results from Stanford so it showed their testing didn't actually work

- security stood outside the restroom stall while I peed before the interview and came in with me while I washed my hands.

- Elizabeth rescheduled my interview with her 4x, once with 18 minutes notice. Their entire process took 3 months and 7 rounds.
by tamimio | 2026-02-06 23:34:40+00:00
Yeah I have some videos of these drivers in action, I think the sensors are as assistance and but not the whole story, so yeah there’s models lidars etc etc but human factor is there, unfortunately this means we should see soon many cobitics are teleopetated remotely from India and Philippines and the likes to satisfy the greed of these companies to pay peanuts to operate them.
by NikolaNovak | 2026-02-06 23:35:06+00:00
Is SoR as you described it a Venn diagram of enterprise resource applications such as sap, peoplesoft, etc - or a different beast entirely?

ERP world is legacy beyond belief and the technology is neither amazing nor fast as you mention. The trick here is the profound awareness of business processes. I'm a techie in ERP world and deeply aware the business transformation team are the important ones (on implementation... Sales, otherwise,of course :/). The business rules for what we as techies think is simple (payroll, taxes, accounting - how complicated can it be??) are mind blowingly complex yet often poorly documented. I honestly don't know yet if today's LLM can grok them both deeply and safely / consistently enough
by rootusrootus | 2026-02-06 23:35:10+00:00
That is a fair point, since it is fairly safe to make "this absolute claim will never happen." And the person I replied to did say 'exclusively', which implies 100% elimination of human drivers. But still, I appreciate your nuance.

And in the spirit of that nuance, I will revise my statement slightly. I think it is entirely possible we will eliminate drivers on 10% of roads. We have rules that are analogous to that already with limited access highways. Though I would rate this still as unlikely, since such roads only make up just over 1% of all the roads in the US as it is. Not sure what the % is for other countries, probably less.

> some really dense city will decide to make a tiny core autonomous vehicles only

Agree 100%, this kind of thing I do expect to see happen. We already have exclusions for cars altogether in favor of pedestrians, so the precedent is set.
by int_19h | 2026-02-06 23:35:12+00:00
> That implies that it’s guaranteed you will pass, which is false.

It is not a "may issue" situation. You're guaranteed to pass so long as you are not in any specifically defined disqualifying categories, which are the same as for regular firearms.

Anecdotally I can tell you that I've had more (false positive) rejections on my 4473 than I did on my NFA applications.
by ossm1db | 2026-02-06 23:35:17+00:00
Have you given any thought to using symbolic regression? Copilot suggested looking for:
1. Leptonic CP‑violating phase δPMNS
2. θ₂₃ octant (PMNS)
3. Neutrino mass ordering (NO/IO)
I admit I am not qualified even to understand what my post means let alone find the answer, but it sounded pretty convincing.
by avaer | 2026-02-06 23:36:09+00:00
This feels like the time I was a Mercurial user before I moved to Git.

Everyone was using git for reasons to me that seemed bandwagon-y, when Mercurial just had such a better UX and mental model to me.

Now, everyone is writing agent `exec`s in Python, when I think TypeScript/JS is far better suited for the job (it was always fast + secure, not to mention more reliable and information dense b/c of typing).

But I think I'm gonna lose this one too.
by fvdessen | 2026-02-06 23:36:20+00:00
Unfortunately not, it's private company code. But I can share the prompt I used for the refactoring:

- 1. Read the whole code of the repository.
- 2. Read the TASKS.md file if it exists.
- 2.1. If it exists and is not empty, pick a refactoring task from the list. Choose the most appropriate.
- 2.1.1. Refactor the code according to the task description.
- 2.1.2. Commit the changes to git.
- 2.1.3 Remove the task from TASKS.md
- 2.1.3. You are done.
- 2.2. If it doesn't exist or is empty:
- 2.2.1. Identify the parts of the code that could be refactored, following the following principles
- A class should have a single responsability
- The dependencies of the class should be mockable and injected at class instanciation
- Repeated code should be factored into functions
- Files shouldn't be longer than 1.5K lines
- 2.2.2: If using the previous insights you think there is valuable refactoring work to be done:
- 2.2.2.1 Write a list of refactoring tasks in TASKS.md
- 2.2.2.2: You are done.
- 2.2.3: If there is no more refactoring to be done, notify me with 'say "I am done with refactoring"'
by godelski | 2026-02-06 23:38:02+00:00
As a reminder to everyone, here's what the guidelines say[0]

> Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.

There are reasons to edit the title other than this quote, but this article is not one of such cases. The original title "Hard Lessons from the New NAEP Results" is meaningful enough. Changing it has made it clickbait.

I'm also a little surprised that more people aren't talking about it and that it hasn't been changed. There's definitely a culture shift happening in HN...

If you've never read the guidelines, now is a great time. Seriously, it isn't that long and captures why many of us come to HN over other sites.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by paristran403_ | 2026-02-06 23:38:06+00:00
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by giovannibonetti | 2026-02-06 23:38:23+00:00
> OTOH, if and only if you design your schema to exploit MySQL’s clustering index (like for 1:M, make the PK of the child table something like (FK, some_id)), your range scans will become incredibly fast. But practically no one does that.

You can achieve that with Postgres as well if you accept duplicating the data by adding an index with an include clause containing all the non-key columns you want to return in the SELECT clause. This way, you'll get fast index-only scans.
by mekod | 2026-02-06 23:38:24+00:00
This came out of recent hands-on use with multiple LLMs.

Benchmarks keep improving, but in real workflows the biggest productivity hit isn’t hallucination — it’s refusal or excessive caution at exactly the wrong moment (scripts, debugging paths, concrete next steps).

Curious how others here think about the safety vs usability tradeoff, especially for long-running or agent-style workflows.
by rootusrootus | 2026-02-06 23:38:28+00:00
> There will be automated minibuses that are more flexible and frequent than today's buses.

In my sleepy metro area that has at least mid-tier respectable public transit (by US standards only), otherwise known as Portland, I think a lot of the routes would be better served by minibuses than full size. I wonder how the economics work out on that. Maybe dominated by labor? Tri-met drivers have a reputation of being paid handsomely as they gain seniority.
by estearum | 2026-02-06 23:38:36+00:00
Sorry I guess what I'm getting at is more specifically: why should anyone care if people are priced out of the absolute upper echelons of sports?

I actually think it's probably better that tier of athletics is predominantly (and obviously) a bunch of trust fund babies. It's immensely high risk and low utility (both internally and externally to the athlete themselves) for anyone else to be pursuing those ambitions.
by eek2121 | 2026-02-06 23:38:36+00:00
Taste is subjective. I get it. There are Triple A games on Arcade. Things like Civilization 7, for example. I don't know what the current standalone price is because we use Apple One Family, however, it used to cost $5/mo.

Apple one is a steal IMO. Apple TV, Fitness+, 2TB, Arcade, and other smaller perks like News+ make it an easy sell. Compared to something like Netflix? Netflix is $25/mo for their top tier streaming alone. Apple TV consistently has higher quality content. So does Apple Arcade and Apple Fitness...then you get 2TB of storage to back your crap up to.

Ask Google or Samsung what they are doing for the cost of an Apple One subscription.

Not a fanboy or anything. I'm basically critical of all tech companies, however, Apple is doing something that is working well for them.
by bluegatty | 2026-02-06 23:38:38+00:00
That's not how training works - adjusting model weights to memorize a single data item is not going to fly.

Model weights store abilities, not facts - generally.

Unless the fact is very widely used and widely known, with a ton of context around it.

The model can learn the day JFK died because there are millions of sparse examples of how that information exists in the world, but when you're working on a problem, you might have 1 concern to 'memorize'.

That's going to be something different than adjusting model weights as we understand them today.

LLMs are not mammals either, it's helpful analogy in terms of 'what a human might find useful' but not necessary in the context of actual llm architecture.

The fact is - we don't have memory sorted out architecturally - it's either 'context or weights' and that's that.

Also critically: Humans do not remember the details of the face. Not remotely. They're able to associate it with a person and name 'if they see it again' - but that's different than some kind of excellent recall. Ask them to describe features in detail and maybe we can't do it.

You can see in this instance, this may be related to kind of 'soft lookup' aka associating an input with other bits of information which 'rise to the fore' as possibly useful.

But overall, yes, it's fair to take the position that we'll have to 'learn from context in some way'.
by canjobear | 2026-02-06 23:39:07+00:00
I wonder about the accuracy of critical text methods like the ones that have been putatively used to reconstruct the Q document and to argue about authorship and dates. Have these methods ever been validated against a ground truth that the arguers didn't know about beforehand? Like, have we ever philologically reconstructed a text from other texts, and then found exactly that text buried somewhere? Or even something close to it?

In the case of Q, you could argue that the Gospel of Thomas validates that there were texts of that kind (sayings gospels) floating around, but Thomas doesn't match the content of Q.

Outside biblical scholarship, another area where people have tried to reconstruct what is going on in ancient texts is the Chinese classics, especially the really cryptic ones like the Yijing. But whenever some actual ancient manuscript gets dug out of an old grave or a bog, it seems like it just brings up more questions and complications, instead of validating anyone's theories.

Compare to the philology methods that people use to reconstruct ancient languages. These have been validated pretty well. For example in the 19th century linguists were able to deduce that the Proto-Indo-European language must have had guttural consonants not found in any extant language, and then later when the Hittite language was decoded, the guttural consonants were right there. The theory was validated on held-out data. Has this ever happened for critical methods for discerning authorship and sources and missing texts?
by jayd16 | 2026-02-06 23:39:32+00:00
I don't think you say "ok now the car is ball bearing proof."

Think of it more like unit tests. "In this synthetic scenario does the car stop as expected, does it continue as expected." You might hit some false negatives but there isn't a downside to that.

If it turns out your model has a blind spot for albino cows in a snow storm eating marshmallows, you might be able to catch that synthetically and spend some extra effort to prevent it.
by FrojoS | 2026-02-06 23:39:59+00:00
In fact there are even more depth perception clues. Maybe the most obvious is size (retinal versus assumed real world size). Further examples include motion parallax, linear perspective, occlusion, shadows, and light gradients

Here is a study on how these effects rank when it’s comes to (hand) reaching tasks in VR: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29293512/
by threecheese | 2026-02-06 23:40:27+00:00
Vercel also released a similar tool with a unique interface/dsl - https://github.com/vercel-labs/agent-browser

> agent-browser click "#submit"
> agent-browser fill "#email" "test@example.com"
> agent-browser find role button click --name "Submit"

I appreciate that there’s innovation in the space, we will get closer to the interface that’s most appropriate for models to tool-call. I’m going to check your link out, sounds interesting.
by ssl-3 | 2026-02-06 23:40:46+00:00
A lot of the information is indeed old, but then so are a lot of bikes. :)

Things are still being updated, primarily by John Allen. There's some writing about changes on the blog: https://sheldonbrown.com/blog/

(I have every expectation that he'd be quite pleased to entertain well-written updates from other parties, if anyone feels like being constructive. John is pretty easy to contact.)
by SilverElfin | 2026-02-06 23:41:51+00:00
The craziest thing I’ve seen today are all the MAGA aligned people who DEFENDED the video before it was taken down. Influencers, Twitter users, and even the press secretary:

> White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt initially defended the video, which amplified false claims about the 2020 presidential election.

These are dangerous people who will defend any atrocity that the administration commits. Unbelievable.
by isitcontent | 2026-02-06 23:42:05+00:00
Right, people were asking about the shell used in the xcc700 demo, so that is released now too, and I tried to make it convenient to reuse as a component.

Esp32-s3 can do so much more, we are just scratching the surface. You might remember FabGL, that ran some nice demos in the realm of games and DOS emulation. Unfortunately, seems to be hard to update for modern versions of ESP-IDF. I am trying to build something more modular, with hope that some parts of it will survive longer.

I think someone also ran an old version of MacOS simulated on it, too, that is also an indication of the general capability.
by ddtaylor | 2026-02-06 23:42:35+00:00
That personal freedom comes at a cost to the safety of your family.

Property crime rates skyrocketed.

Most stores have to have locked port access.

Go walk around Salem or Portland and access some public places. It's not safe to do so and anyone can verify that in seconds.

I have actually a much better understanding now in DC of how people can actually be compassionate. What Oregon is doing is not compassion, it's actively causing harm and destroying thirty thousand lives as we speak right now and climbing. Those are real people dying on your sidewalks in front of you. Someone else's daughter or son.

The environment has been distorted and the problem is bigger now than the appetite for compassion.

I hope you stay safe.
by florilegiumson | 2026-02-06 23:42:38+00:00
As a musician, I find there are a lot of obsessions one can succumb to that can lead to mastery. There are those who are obsessed with the body and it’s perfect positioning and movement those who indulge in extensive experimentation (trying everything), those who listen to absolutely everything, those who meditatively repeat and repeat (sometimes at glacial tempi), and then there are those who collect every musical idea they can and gift listeners with only the best treasures they encounter. AI musicianship, if it is something that can be mastered, probably would rely on some combination of the above. It’s going to suck for a while, certainly, as there hasn’t been time for someone to put in their 10000 hours
by socalgal2 | 2026-02-06 23:43:01+00:00
This is something I like about lots of web apis.

Want to generate a video, it's just a few lines of code. Want to connect the user's camera (with permission), it's just a few lines of code. Websockets? About 4 lines of code.

There could be 1000s of options for each of those but they mostly distilled it down to what most people need, and they're cross platform.
by alsetmusic | 2026-02-06 23:44:22+00:00
The part about interacting with people really resonates with me. I went from a support and repair position to a SWE role. It should have been great. But I burned out really quickly because the contributions I was making were going off into a void (from my perspective). I didn't see our customers engaging with what we built so I had almost zero job satisfaction.

I moved into another support role sort of by accident when I really wanted a sysadmin job but didn't have the years of experience needed to get through the door. I found out (again, by accident) that engaging with our customers directly gave me the feedback and sense of accomplishment that I was missing. I now know that it's an essential component for me. I'm much happier having figured that out.