MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by joquarky | 2026-02-07 06:10:39+00:00
My think/create/solve focus is on making my agentic coding environment produce high quality code with the least cost. Seems like a technical challenge worth playing with.

It probably helps that I have 40 years of experience with producing code the old ways, including using punch cards in middle school and learning basic on a computer with no persistent storage when I was ten.

I think I've done enough time in the trenches and deserve to play with coding agents without shame.
by vladdoster | 2026-02-07 06:10:46+00:00
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by 15charslong | 2026-02-07 06:11:39+00:00
Pretty much Non-US persons for Non-US Remote jobs. Almost all Remote Job boards prioritize US-based Remote Jobs, which can get a bit difficult for someone who just wants a job.

I am currently job hunting, and I also use WeWorkRemotely.

I was just wondering there are any others that are getting missed when I search on Google.

And yeah I've had to do that as well, even though they list it as Worldwide, it really is just from like 5 countries in Europe, no hate. I get it.
by quantumwoke | 2026-02-07 06:13:10+00:00
I'm confused by this post because it seems like his partner got best therapy possible with two surgeries followed by medications without going blind or having other major hormonal issues which can happen after surgery. As correctly stated in this thread prolactinomas aren't a death sentence or even (technically) a brain tumour, and the major risks have been avoided so far. What exactly is being accomplished by a VC deeply researching this case beyond satisfying the valid desire to help your life partner?
by ThrowawayR2 | 2026-02-07 06:15:10+00:00
"America Added 1000 Millionaires A Day In 2025, 40% Of World’s Millionaires Now In U.S." from https://www.forbes.com/sites/dougmelville/2026/01/05/america...

"Altogether, according to an estimate by UBS Wealth Management, the United States is home to ~22m millionaire households — roughly one of every six households." from https://thehustle.co/originals/the-insane-growth-of-americas...

Looks like the Americans have the right idea and Steinbeck ultimately didn't.
by themacguffinman | 2026-02-07 06:16:20+00:00
You don't need to ask people to assume every blue-state government was bad, Nick "name a Democrat city that's prospering right now" Shirley will do that after you, you just have to tee him up by saying the first part: "we need every government body we run to be completely on the ball".

I doubt you yourself are engaging in bad faith (of course I recognize your username) but it's still a bad-faith demand to expect "completely on the ball" behavior above reproach and your intentions don't matter when you echo the demand.

For the author, it wasn't enough to simply recognize a failure to prosecute fraud fast enough, such a failure must be characterized as the cause of the irresponsible demagoguery that followed. Then turns around and wonders why his article isn't treated as the apolitical dissection of fraud that he claims it to be.
by petterroea | 2026-02-07 06:17:38+00:00
Skilled engineers in an environment that doesn't care about quality may become dull, or simply be forced by the system they are in to not care. In practice they are just like us and so I assume they would find outlets in their free time.

I haven't spoken to a Microsoft developer in a while because there are few in the hacker communities I'm around (go figure?) so not entirely sure though. I want to understand.
by utopiah | 2026-02-07 06:20:06+00:00
Ah, I actually did something similar years ago. I basically hashed individual pages of my wiki and I think I published the hash of hashes on the Blockchain. Anyway I didn't need it and stop maintaining that system but definitely interesting explorations.

To clarify the hashing was to verify that the pages were indeed modified by me, to prevent tempering.

Damn, found it back, was in 2011!

in English https://fabien.benetou.fr/Slideshows/MemoryLoss

in French https://fabien.benetou.fr/Slideshows/MemoryLossPES
by jandrewrogers | 2026-02-07 06:22:18+00:00
None that are well-documented publicly. There are a multitude of DGGS, often obscure, and they are often designed to satisfy specific applications. Most don’t have a public specification but they are easy to design.

If the objective is to overfit for high-performance scalable analytics, including congruency, the most capable DGGS designs are constructed by embedding a 2-spheroid in a synthetic Euclidean 3-space. The metric for the synthetic 3-space is usually defined to be both binary and as a whole multiple of meters. The main objection is that it is not an “equal area” DGGS, so not good for a pretty graphic, but it is trivially projected into it as needed so it doesn’t matter that much. The main knobs you might care about is the spatial resolution and how far the 3-space extends e.g. it is common to include low-earth orbit in the addressable space.

I was working with a few countries on standardizing one such design but we never got it over the line. There is quite a bit of literature on this, but few people read it and most of it is focused on visualization rather than analytic applications.
by sublinear | 2026-02-07 06:24:31+00:00
Ending a bug bounty program seems like a mistake.

Why not just change the incentives? Don't pay for patches. Move the money over to human review of the infinite cesspool with an emphasis on how the findings are presented. Maintainers rank and filter by how concise the reviews are and how critical the bugs are. Stop allowing wide open pull requests for bugs and make that it's own new workflow.

Bugs rarely happen in isolation and many are regressions. Many are related to features added or refactors. Fixing bugs should be more about understanding the nature of the project than just playing whack-a-mole. LLMs don't have as good of a memory as humans and much of the meta discussion would be out-of-band for the LLMs. We shouldn't be paying for monkey work. We should be paying the humans that deeply understand "the lore" of the project and can apply it in a meaningful way.

In the first place, it's a long time coming that some maintainers feel the pressure to take the direction of the projects more seriously, and in some cases let others step up. So many open source projects need to be stop being the stereotype of lone genius pet projects or cultish power grabs. When people whine about open source not getting paid, this is the real reason why. It's not that the money or value isn't there, but a lack of confidence in the maintainers.
Show HN: Mermaid Formatter – CLI and library to auto-format Mermaid diagrams
by astm | 2026-02-07 06:25:42+00:00
I built a zero-dependency formatter for Mermaid diagram syntax. It normalizes indentation, whitespace, and arrow spacing across all diagram types.

Features:
- CLI tool (mermaidfmt) with stdin/file/in-place support
- Programmatic API for integration (e.g. format Mermaid blocks in Markdown)
- Nested block indentation (alt/loop/par/subgraph track depth)
- Context-aware parsing (else only inside alt, and only inside par)
- Arrow normalization: A->>B:msg → A ->> B: msg

npm install -g mermaid-formatter
by utopiah | 2026-02-07 06:26:26+00:00
> Why not just a tar with all the docs? How big are they? A couple MB?

fabien@debian2080ti:~$ du -sh /usr/share/man/ #all lang
52M /usr/share/man/

Yep... in fact there are already a lot of tooling for that, e.g. man obviously but also apropos.
by jillesvangurp | 2026-02-07 06:27:18+00:00
Elastisearch and Opensearch have a built in geo_shape type that is a bit more optimal for queries like this.

Before that existed (pre 1.0 actually), I did something similar with geohashes, which are similar to h3 but based on simple string encoded quad trees. I indexed all the street segments in openstreetmap with that (~800 million at the time) and implemented a simple reverse geocoder. Worked shockingly well.

The geo_shape type uses a bkd tree in binary format. It's heavily optimized for this type of intersects/overlaps queries at scale. Basically does the same thing but using a lot less disk space and memory. It's similar to what you would find in proper GIS databases. Elasticsearch/opensearch also support h3 and geohash grid aggregations on top of geo_shape or geo_point types.

I'm guessing the author is using something like postgresql which of course has similar geospatial indexing support via post gis.
by wasmainiac | 2026-02-07 06:27:19+00:00
For me music is a form of emotional expression. When I hear that was composed synthetically I feel like it has zero value. I’m fine with AI music that is labels as AI, but when someone markets that music as their own hand made art it feels, or at least I feel, like I’ve been scammed.

(A significant fraction of) musicians are certainly upset about this. I know a few who feel like their smallish income is threatened by this.
by bonsai_spool | 2026-02-07 06:28:59+00:00
> No new successful fundamental theory has even gotten off the ground since the Standard Model, which is half a century old at this point.

How long has scientific inquiry about physics been going on? In that frame, is 50 years a long time or a short time?

This feels a bit like the perspective of a non-specialist with access to the findings that end up in the popular press vs. things that are discussed at conferences/in journals.
by isitcontent | 2026-02-07 06:30:53+00:00
It should be possible to get most of it compiled for C3, C6, or P4. But xcc700 is specific to the Xtensa CPU, so that would be a bigger effort. And the ELF binaries you install with eget would need to be recompiled (with existing gcc) and published for RISC-V. When it gets to that, we should make some minimal manifest support to eget and the release conventions, to distinguish between ELF files for different platforms. Also keep in mind how much PSRAM is available, if any.
by judahmeek | 2026-02-07 06:31:05+00:00
Yes, actually. Insects have both garbage collection & memory transfer processes during sleep. They rely on the same circadian rhythm for probably the same reasons.

And the answer to "Why not always awake?" is very likely "Irreversible decision due to side effects". Core system decisions like bihemispheric vs unihemispheric sleep can likely only be changed in relatively simple lifeforms because the cost of negative side effects increases in more complex lifeforms due to all the additional systems depending on the core system "API".
by TheDong | 2026-02-07 06:32:07+00:00
Waymo has a blog post on what these remote assistance people do: https://waymo.com/blog/2024/05/fleet-response/

They effectively are answering questions like "is this road closed", or "is the object in front of me a solid object or a weird shadow".

These are not the sort of questions that US driver's license is really related to, it's not things like "can I legally turn right on red at this intersection".

Do we require a driver's license to solve Google reCapture questions like "what squares have a bike in them"? Because the waymo stuff is closer to image classification than driving.
by therealdrag0 | 2026-02-07 06:32:28+00:00
Honestly it’s not that hard. I already coded less and less as part of my job as I get more senior and just didn’t have time, but I was still easy to do code reviews and fix bugs, sit down and whip out a thousand lines in a power session. Once you learn it doesn’t take much practice to maintain it. A lot of traditional coding is very inefficient. With AI it’s like we’re moving from combustion cars to EVs, the energy efficiency is night and day, for doing the same thing.

That said, the next generation may struggle, but they’ll find their way.
by tptacek | 2026-02-07 06:33:50+00:00
I don't understand this at all. The DFL-controlled government of Minnesota royally fucked up and allowed fraud against a social services program on an industrial scale. That fraud isn't a small crime; it's a grave crime, victimizing the most vulnerable people in our society. It's a very big deal. This is a technical post discussing a variety of different ways in which program administrators could hope to prevent something like it from happening in the future.

How are people finding ways to downplay or dunk on this? I just don't understand. What do I care how "apolitical" it is? I don't care. I do not care. The fraud is what we should care about. That's what the post is about.
by Nevermark | 2026-02-07 06:36:45+00:00
As I noted, closeness has several meanings.

> The other low level languages such as C++, Rust, Zig, ... are equally close since you can express the same things.

C is not just low level friendly, but low level out of the box. That is the level that all C must be written in, even when creating higher abstractions.

Some higher level languages are also low level friendly, not low level strict. Which is a kind dual.

I would argue that what makes C lower level, is that it comes in at, or under, the low levels of other languages, and its high bar comes in much lower than the abstractions built into other languages.

Forth is a good candidate for being even lower level.

But if someone else doesn't see things that way, that is fine. It is just one lens for comparing languages.
by isitcontent | 2026-02-07 06:37:30+00:00
BreezyBox is at an early development stage. What you see in the demo is mostly all there is so far. There is no telling if it will catch on, with more developers adding apps and features.

Some sort of web access for remote config should be possible, if anyone cares to implement that. The web server is already there; getting it to run some server side code may take extra effort.
by seanhunter | 2026-02-07 06:37:41+00:00
Firstly, you would do well to read the guidelines about avoiding snark, and then actually say whatever it is you’re trying to say rather than make insinuations. As is, this response comes across as a very shallow read. It’s hard to get to the root of what you’re actually saying in your post other than it quotes two paragraphs about how it’s not fun to push through the bureaucracy of a large organisation, which - I would agree. Probably most people who’ve worked at a big company would.

So why does that make him a “big shot”? Are you perhaps envious of him?

Why does openAI deserve him or anyone? Hard to say.
by fishstamp82 | 2026-02-07 06:37:54+00:00
For example 1) Let's be clear about what we are doing.

If you are running in RC isolation, and perform a select sum() from table, you are reading values committed by other threads BEFORE the select statement began, you are not getting other threads committed values during the select, you are not breaking ACID.

If you are suggesting that running a simple BEGIN; select sum() from table; COMMIT is breaking acid in a default RC level, you are wrong and should best avoid commenting on isolation levels in RDBMS online, to not confuse people further.

If you are however suggesting that we are breaking ACID if we do app side stupidity such as:

value1=BEGIN; SELECT value from table where id=1;commit
value2=......

sum = value1+value2....+value10

Then yes obviously its not acid but nobody in their right minds should be doing that. Even juniors quickly learn that this is incorrect code.

If you are suggesting we do repeatable reads in RC then yes its obviously not ACID but your example does not mention repeatable summations only a single one.
by rswail | 2026-02-07 06:38:15+00:00
Maybe they were focusing on a real world use that basically requires AI, but not LLMs.

Tesla claimed that all their "real world" recording would give them a moat on FSD.

Waymo is showing that a) you need to be able to incorporate stuff that isn't "real" when training, and b) you get a lot more information from alternate sensors to visible spectrum only.
by maxbond | 2026-02-07 06:38:36+00:00
Of course not, especially when the security model is about access to resources like file systems that are outside the scope of what the Rust compiler can verify. While you won't have a data race in safe Rust you absolutely can have data races accessing the file system in any language.

Their security model, as explained in the README, is in not including the standard library and limiting all access to the environment to functions you write & control. Does that make it secure? I'll leave it to you to evaluate that in the context of your use case/threat model.

It would appear to me that they used Rust primarily because a.) they want to deliver very fast startup times and b.) they want it to be accessible from a variety of host languages (like Python and JavaScript). Those are things Rust does well, though not to the exclusion of C or other GC-free compiled languages. They certainly do not claim that Rust is pixie dust you sprinkle on a project to make it secure. That would clearly be cargo culting.

I find this language war tiring. Don't you? Let's make 2026 the year we all agree to build cool stuff in whatever language we want without this pointless quarreling. (I've personally been saying this for three years at this point.)
by steve_adams_86 | 2026-02-07 06:39:52+00:00
We're the leaves floating down the river. Sometimes we float through the sunshine in gentle water. Inevitably we crash through the rapids and down the waterfall. You can fight it, but you won't win. Like many in the thread are saying, the author of the post should be grateful for the good fortune that his partner is still alive, right now, and they can still be together. Every moment spent raging against the rapids means lost moments with the love of his life that he could regret forever.

There's something to be said for fighting for the people you love. We all should. But the fight needs to make sense, and I'm not sure fighting cancer on short order is the right fight.

Regardless, this situation hurts my heart. I feel for him, and her. Nature is ruthless.
by bombcar | 2026-02-07 06:41:28+00:00
> As many of them would survive as could be sustained. You don't get a situation where there are too many and then they all go out of business, you just increase the number until the constraint hits how to cover the now-lower costs instead of it being the locations where one can be built to begin with.

That's not actually guaranteed - it is possible for all or most of them to go out of business because of over-expansion - the key is that there are other sources of coffee that they're also competing against.
by bombcar | 2026-02-07 06:45:37+00:00
Even if we ignore freeways and such, a 15 minute drive at 30 mph is about 7 miles, which is a circle containing 176 square miles - or the entirety of the city of New Orleans or Denver.

A 15 minute walk is about a mile, so that's a 3.14159 sq mile circle - that's a small town or a neighborhood or two.
by TheDong | 2026-02-07 06:45:50+00:00
You've imagined a scenario around remote drivers having access to the internal microphones.

Waymo tells you explicitly that all the microphones inside the car are off unless you press the button to call rider support yourself.

If you'd ever ridden in waymo, perhaps you'd recall them telling you that the first time you rode one.

> if you can't think of more perhaps you should keep your comments out of the discussion, because at present you've contributed nothing but ignorance.

You really shouldn't end your comment with that if you're not going to read up on whether a hypothetical scenario you've imagined up is ignorant or not.
by abustamam | 2026-02-07 06:46:21+00:00
I think time is different because it's finite. I admit I'll still opt for store brand to save a few bucks even making an engineering salary. But I'll also do something "illegal" (like parking at a metered spot without paying) to save time or otherwise do what I want and just deal with whatever financial cost incurred if I know it won't break me.

A saying I've heard is that if the punishment for a crime is financial, then it is only a deterrent for those who lack the means to pay. Small business gets caught doing bad stuff, a $30k fine could mean shutting down. Meta gets caught doing bad stuff, a billion dollar fine is almost a rounding error in their operational expenses.
by jandrewrogers | 2026-02-07 06:47:53+00:00
In a highly optimized system, spatial joins are often bandwidth bound.

Congruency allows for much more efficient join schedules and maximizes selectivity. This minimizes data motion, which is particularly important as data becomes large. Congruent shards also tend to be more computationally efficient generally, which does add up.

The other important aspect not raised here, is that congruent DGGS have much more scalable performance when using them to build online indexes during ingestion. This follows from them being much more concurrency friendly.
by numpad0 | 2026-02-07 06:48:09+00:00
Practically ALL course introductory materials that regard robotics and AI that I've seen began with "you might imagine a talking bipedal humanoid when you hear the word `robot`, but perhaps the most commonplace robot that you have seen is a vending machine", with the illustration of a typical 80s-90s outdoor soda vendor with no apparent moving parts.

So "maybe cars are a bit of robots too" is more like 30-50 years behind the time.
by rswail | 2026-02-07 06:48:24+00:00
The drop in demand for Tesla's clapped out model range would have meant embarrassing factory closures, so now they're being closed to start manufacturing a completely different product. Bait and switch for Tesla investors.

I wonder how long they'll be closed for "modifications" and whether the Optimus Prime robot factories will go into production before the "Trump Kennedy Center" is reopened after its "renovations".