MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mannanj | 2026-02-03 18:03:50+00:00
That's great, yes. We all draw the line somewhere, subjectively. We all pretend we follow logic and reason and lets all be more honest and truthfully share how we as humans are emotionally driven not logically driven.

It's like this old adage "Our brains are poor masters and great slaves". We are basically just wanting to survive and we've trained ourselves to follow the orders of our old corporate slave masters who are now failing us, and we are unfortunately out of fear paying and supporting anticompetitive behavior and our internal dissonance is stopping us from changing it (along with fear of survival and missing out and so forth).

The global marketing by the slave master class isn't helping. We can draw a line however arbitrary we'd like though and its still better and more helpful than complaining "you drew a line arbitrarily" and not actually doing any of the hard courageous work of drawing lines of any kind in the first place.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-02-03 18:04:36+00:00
Hey just wanted to share that I have now fixed this. A lot of people actually wanted this. I wish to write to each and everyone of them but I feel as if but I feel as if it might (degrade?) some conversations happening here which I don't intend to degrade if I write the same comment essentially many times but just wanted to say it to you as well & if anyone else who wanted me to fix the case sensitive issue that It's finally fixed now :D.

Have a nice day once again (although its night for me, going to add a few more things / maybe one thing right now in the website before I go to bed)
by palmotea | 2026-02-03 18:04:37+00:00
So? You made up a story.

Here's mine: the island has a leader/owner, he takes the stone for himself. He tells the 18 incanters that they're obsolete, and lectures them about how the future is glorious and its all their fault they can't change with the times. Then he allocates more of the resources to himself. Sure, he doesn't "need" more, but it's abhorrent to pay moochers who are providing no value to him. He owes them nothing. The moochers die off, slowly or quickly, it doesn't really matter.
by magicalist | 2026-02-03 18:04:57+00:00
> Programmers on staff were likely engaged in what was at least perceived as higher value work, and replacing the $250/mo subscription didn't clear the bar for cost/benefit.

Agreed absolutely, but that's also what I'm talking about. It's very clear it was a bad tradeoff. Not only $250/month x three seats, but also apparently whatever the opportunity cost just of personnel tied up doing "2-3 files a day" when they could have been doing "2-3 files an hour".

Even if we take at face value that there are no "programmers" at this company (with an employee commenting on hacker news, someone using Claude to iterate on a GUI frontend for this converter, and apparently enough confidence in Claude's output to move their production system to it), there are a million people you could have hired over the last decade to throw together a file conversion utility.

And this happens all the time in companies where they don't realize which side of https://xkcd.com/1205/ they're on.

It's great if, like personal projects people never get started on, AI shoves them over the edge and gets them to do it, but we can also be honest that they were being pretty dumb for continually spending that money in the first place.
by emsign | 2026-02-03 18:05:12+00:00
> Most US Citizens are not voting on what you think they're voting on. Most are worried about things that affect their day-to-day life like cost of eggs, the cost of gas, taxes going up, my 401K going in the dumpster.

Haha, oh no no! Apparently they don't vote for those things either. I mean maybe now that they are actually made to feel the consequences of their own 2024 votes some of the Republicans have changed their minds. If they had looked into Trumps economic policies they could have learned that tariffs are paid by the consumers of the country issuing the tariffs for example. But they didn't look into it and if they had, they wouldn't have believed it and most of all they wouldn't have cared.

Because after looking at the polls I feel my thesis confirmed that in their personal cost benefit analysis these personal sacrifices are worth it because Trump does deliver on his racist and revenge policies he promised. Republicans are so racist and sexist, that they are willing to pay the price as long as the people they hate are made to suffer more than them. You can downvote me but I know it's true. The USA has a racist white culture, maybe not in the cities but in the rural areas, and it's so unhinged that more and more countries, companies and people around the world just don't want to have anything to do with the USA anymore. It disrespects European laws, with rich companies pressuring to declare economic war on Europe. The USA is not an ally anymore towards me and my country, it behaves like an enemy. And the root cause is racism and insane billionaires who think no law applies to them.

It's the Epstein class that rules the USA.

I feel sorry for the upright and sane citizens in America and I wish them the best of luck and lots of love. My country was on that insane path once and it ended in ruins not just for itself but the entirety of Europe, that's why I know they will need strength, persistence, luck and love.
by fluoridation | 2026-02-03 18:05:38+00:00
No, the difference is that IMAP doesn't store anything other than headers on the client (at least, not until the user tries to read a message), while POP3 eagerly downloads messages whenever they're available. A POP3 client can be configured with various remote retention policies, or even to never delete downloaded messages.

I don't have an IMAP account available to check, but AFAIK, you should not have locally the content of any message you've never read before. The whole point of IMAP is that it doesn't download messages, but instead acts like a window into the server.
by pc86 | 2026-02-03 18:05:46+00:00
Fair point; but to take one of the less divisive ones in your list, I don't think I've ever heard someone say that stock buybacks are integral components of the country. I have, however, heard pretty convincing arguments that the government should not in general prevent a company from spending its money the way it sees fit. It's not a straight line from "stock buybacks are generally bad" to "the government should ban them," and it seems to me a pretty consistent opinion to think both that stock buybacks are bad and that the government should not have anywhere near enough power to prevent companies from doing them if that's what they want to do.
by tech_ken | 2026-02-03 18:05:57+00:00
> No, they're 1 order of magnitude off. (22 MW total capacity of the constellation vs your bar of 100 MW for a single DC.)

Why on earth would you compare their entire fleet to one project? Power generation trivially parallelizes only if you can transmit power between generation sites. Unless they've figure out how to beam power between satellites the appropriate comparison is 6Kw to 100Mw. And again, the generation is the easy side; the heat dissipation absolutely does not parallelize so that also needs to go by 3-5 orders of mag.

And also: radiation. Terrestrial GPUs are going to be substantially more power and heat efficient than space-based ones (as outlined in TFA). All this for what benefits? An additional 1.4x boost in solar power availability? There's simply no way the unit economics of this work out. Satellite communications have fundamental advantages over terrestrial networks if you can get the launch economics right. Orbital DCs have only the solar availability thing; everything else is cheaper and easier on land.
by its_magic | 2026-02-03 18:05:58+00:00
I'm confused as to which OS is the one that passed the other with dominant market share. Last I checked, Linux is everywhere, and Windows just keeps getting worse with every iteration.

I'm not sure I'd be smugly pronouncing anything about the superiority of Windows if I were a Microsoft guy today.

It's not surprising that systemd was heavily inspired by NT. That's exactly what Poettering was paid to create, by his employer Microsoft. (Oh, sorry--RedHat, and then "later" Microsoft.)
by floren | 2026-02-03 18:06:02+00:00
As I understand it (this may be apocryphal but I've seen it in multiple places) the print head on simple-minded output devices didn't move fast enough to get all the way back over to the left before it started to output the next character. Making LF a separate character to be issued after CR meant that the line feed would happen while the carriage was returning, and then it's ready to print the next character. This lets you process incoming characters at a consistent rate; otherwise you'd need some way to buffer the characters that arrived while the CR was happening.

Now, if you want to use CR by itself for fancy overstriking etc. you'd need to put something else into the character stream, like a space followed by a backspace, just to kill time.
by _DeadFred_ | 2026-02-03 18:06:06+00:00
When left to their own cigaret companies tell congress cigarettes are safe and non addictive. Left alone companies pay in scrip only usable at the company store.

The 'greater good' has arguably PREVENTED much more hurt of people than it has ever hurt. Meanwhile companies have PROVEN time and time again that they WILL hurt people when left to their own devices. In environmental policies. In pay policies. In employment policies. In EVERY aspect possible.
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by shraey96 | 2026-02-03 18:06:09+00:00
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by sigmoid10 | 2026-02-03 18:06:18+00:00
As someone who has gone from 100% Slack in startups to all-in Teams in big corpo, I disagree. Teams won't even display all office file formats without you having to open the dedicated app. And if it does it's usually a half-baked browser mess. And don't even get me started on the UX or meeting options or mobile support or the complete lack of a dedicated Linux client. I don't need one app to do everything half-assed, I need one app that does exactly what it's meant for well. Preferably on every platform.
by raverbashing | 2026-02-03 18:06:30+00:00
Honestly I'd think about several "worse" companies to annoy with such "a test" first than Prusa, but anyway

> A company can list an email address as their official GDPR contact in their privacy policy, and if their own spam filter eats your request, it legally never happened. There is no obligation to check. There is no obligation to ensure delivery. The burden is entirely on you to prove they received it.

That's you being silly. The correct way is to send a letter with a Reception Receipt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avis_de_r%C3%A9ception which is the way lawyers like to do
by asdf_snar | 2026-02-03 18:06:40+00:00
I think this is where my confusion lies. It seems like many people are saying no ID of any kind -- passport, "real ID", driver's license, ... -- should be provided, period. So ostensibly a 10 year-old could show up at the airport and decide to travel on their own (and if we only ID "young-looking people" then we get into a similar discussion as to why one should always ask for proof of age when buying alcohol).

To be clear, I'm refraining from judgment on this (despite what the downvotes seem to suggest), I just want to make sure I'm understanding the distinction is not plain driver's license vs. Real ID. I don't like it very much that I have to show my ID (such as passport or European ID card) when I'm on a train in Switzerland. It seems like the majority perspective is that we shouldn't _at all_ be controlling the ID of people who get on a plane, and that's just interesting to me (it would force me to articulate what the difference is between a plane and a train ride).
by lo_zamoyski | 2026-02-03 18:06:54+00:00
> It is fair and reasonable to demand that environmental regulation justify its existence with hard, scientifically verifiable data or else get chopped.

This sounds good as a general default, but there are differences of approach. The US, for example, tends to be more permissive with new chemicals while the EU tends to take a more precautionary approach. Which is better on the whole, weighing the various competing goods, I don't know. I generally favor health over economic prowess, however.

> a manipulative political maneuver

Yes, under the pretext of concern for the environment. There are well-known cases where the political opposition will commission a bogus ecological studies to stifle construction projects they either don't agree with or as a petty way to simply make the ruling party appear less successful. And naturally, the ecological study will find something, as virtually no major construction project will leave the environment unaltered, which is not to say seriously or irretrievable damaged.
by D-Machine | 2026-02-03 18:06:58+00:00
Heritability IMO falls into the same bin as "standardized/relative effect sizes" (e.g. correlation coefficients, Cohen's d, odds-ratios, "explained variance", relative risk, etc), in that a division / re-scaling is introduced to supposedly increase interpretability, but, in reality, this has precisely the opposite effect.

Heritability is a bit worse though because the variance is partitioned into three giant piles of mush, at least two of which piles are very poorly measured / controlled at all.
by Uhhrrr | 2026-02-03 18:07:06+00:00
"Manipulated by Musk to destabilize Europe and move it towards the far right" - this is a very strong claim to make about a fairly open platform where people can choose what to post and who to follow.

Also, could you clarify what the difference is between the near right and the far right? Do you have any examples of the near right?
by tizzzzz | 2026-02-03 18:07:40+00:00
To be honest, GPT-4o wasn’t always the “overly friendly” or sycophantic model some describe—it only started leaning that way after a specific update later on. Even so, at its core, 4o always felt much better at real human connection and empathy than other models out there. Now, though, OpenAI is just dropping them.
by gwbas1c | 2026-02-03 18:07:40+00:00
> If there's a specific regulation that can be shown to be doing more harm than good

In Massachusetts you can't clear shoreline. Specifically, if you buy waterfront property on a pond / lake, you can't clear the shoreline to make a beach in your backyard. You can only use what used to be there before the law was passed. There's even restrictions on building close to shorelines, so if you want to build, you need to find an existing building and renovate.

Now, I'm not a wetland expert, so maybe someone will chime in and tell me why every inch of freshwater shoreline must be undisturbed. But I like freshwater swimming and suspect that we can allocate some space for human recreation.
by giardini | 2026-02-03 18:07:55+00:00
The HOA would merely assume control of your unit and sell it to someone else (even at a loss) who could follow the rules.

But the parent post is an example of the human detritus that floats ashore when condos sell: idiots with no concept of ownership, the law or cooperative behavior. Put a bunch of them together in an HOA and you get a real view of why pure democracy is such a PITA.
by goodcanadian | 2026-02-03 18:08:01+00:00
. . . it seems weird that these are reported with a lowercase 'k' but 'M' and so on remain uppercase.

For SI units, the abbreviations are defined, so a lowercase k for kilo and uppercase M for mega is correct. Lower case m is milli, c is centi, d is deci. Uppercase G is giga, T is tera and so on.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_System_of_Units#...
by angst_ridden | 2026-02-03 18:08:06+00:00
It was earlier than the 90s, and came with popular 8-bit CPUs in the 80s. The Z-80 microprocessor could address 64kb (which was 65,536 bytes) on its 16-bit address bus.

Similarly, the 4104 chip was a "4kb x 1 bit" RAM chip and stored 4096 bits. You'd see this in the whole 41xx series, and beyond.
by genuser | 2026-02-03 18:08:10+00:00
The smart ring category, once a frontier of wearable tech, has rapidly matured into a landscape dominated by health-centric devices from Oura, Samsung, and others. Their value proposition is clear: passive, 24/7 biometric tracking in an unobtrusive form factor. However, this focus has led to a certain uniformity in function. Enter the Aivela Ring Pro, launched at CES 2026, which seeks to redefine the category’s purpose by introducing a compelling new dimension: active, stealth gesture control. While maintaining comprehensive health monitoring, the Ring Pro’s primary ambition is to reduce our constant reach for the phone by turning simple finger motions into commands, offering a novel spin that could make smart rings interesting again as tools for interaction, not just observation.
The Core Innovation: A Touchpad on Your Finger

At first glance, the Ring Pro’s design is familiar a metallic, scratch-resistant band with a slightly thicker sensor housing. The key differentiator is a small, diamond-shaped engraving on the top. This marks the location of an integrated touchpad, the hardware enabler for its unique feature set.
by Mumps | 2026-02-03 18:08:15+00:00
Thanks for putting this together!
Couple QoL features I'd love to see:

1. filter slider, decreasing on price, to see places closest to me disappearing
2. on the left panel, when I click on a low priced area, it should highlight it on the map, so I know where it is. The 'go to pump' button, I guess is good. but I'd only want to commit to gmaps if I already know that it's a reasonable place for me to. be going.
by at1as | 2026-02-03 18:09:07+00:00
> Personally I feel that the excessive duration of copyright just weakens authors arguments against AI.

That excess exists precisely because of the industry’s clout. For decades, rightsholders successfully lobbied Congress to extend copyright term again and again. That process appears to have finally plateaued, which is why early Mickey Mouse has now entered the public domain.

And notably, since the rise of AI, the government has not been especially quick or eager to step in and defend rightsholders.
by nayuki | 2026-02-03 18:09:08+00:00
> 1 kilobyte is precisely 1000 bytes

Agreed. For the naysayers out there, consider these problems:

* You have 1 "MB" of RAM on a 1 MHz system bus which can transfer 1 byte per clock cycle. How many seconds does it take to read the entire memory?

* You have 128 "GB" of RAM and you have an empty 128 GB SSD. Can you successfully hibernate the computer system by storing all of RAM on the SSD?

* My camera shoots 6000×4000 pixels = exactly 24 megapixels. If you assume RGB24 color (3 bytes per pixel), how many MB of RAM or disk space does it take to store one raw bitmap image matrix without headers?

The SI definitions are correct: kilo- always means a thousand, mega- always means a million, et cetera. The computer industry abused these definitions because 1000 is close to 1024, creating endless confusion. It is a idiotic act of self-harm when one "megahertz" of clock speed is not the same mega- as one "megabyte" of RAM. IEC 60027 prefixes are correct: there is no ambiguity when kibi- (Ki) is defined as 1024, and it can coexist beside kilo- meaning 1000.

The whole point of the metric system is to create universal units whose meanings don't change depending on context. Having kilo- be overloaded (like method overloading) to mean 1000 and 1024 violates this principle.

If you want to wade in the bad old world of context-dependent units, look no further than traditional measures. International mile or nautical mile? Pound avoirdupois or Troy pound? Pound-force or pound-mass? US gallon or UK gallon? US shoe size for children, women, or men? Short ton or long ton? Did you know that just a few centuries ago, every town had a different definition of a foot and pound, making trade needlessly complicated and inviting open scams and frauds?
by devilbunny | 2026-02-03 18:09:29+00:00
> no risk in submitting false documents

Except the risk you'll miss your flight, which in most cases is the screw that is turned.

My wife and I both have RealID driver's licenses. She had to get a replacement, and apparently the machines used to print them for mailing out later (as opposed to going down to their office and getting a replacement in person) are just ever so slightly off - so her license won't scan. She was given a surprising amount of harassment on a flight not long ago over this matter. She got me to take a photograph of her passport and send it to her so she could show it on the return trip - where her license again failed to scan. This is a fairly well-documented problem. Reports from all over the country have it, and it always seems to be certain license printers that just fail.

So now she carries her Global Entry card, which is otherwise only used for access to the expedited line for land and sea border crossings but is a valid RealID in itself, for domestic flights. It scans correctly.
by jama211 | 2026-02-03 18:09:59+00:00
I’m not going to take bitter advice from someone who either hasn’t used them in a long time, or is terribly bad at using them. Especially as it seems like you hate them so much.

I don’t particularly like them or dislike them, they’re just tools. But saying they never work for bug fixing is just ridiculous. Feels more like you just wanted an excuse to get on your soapbox.
by apineda | 2026-02-03 18:10:24+00:00
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by magicalist | 2026-02-03 18:10:26+00:00
> No one is arguing it was impossible to do before. There's a lot of complexity and management attention and testing and programmer costs involved in building something in house such that you need a very obvious ROI before you attempt it especially since in house efforts can fail.

I mean, I'm absolutely familiar with how company decision making and inertia can lead to these things happening, it happens constantly, and the best time to plant a tree is today and all that, but the ex post facto rationalizations ring pretty hollow when the solution was apparently vibecoded with no programmers at the company, immediately saved them $750 a month and improved their throughput by 8x.

Clearly it was a very bad call not to have someone spend a couple of days looking into the feasibility of this 10 years ago.
by jrop | 2026-02-03 18:10:34+00:00
I don't buy this. I've long wondered if the larger models, while exhibiting more useful knowledge, are not more wasteful as we greedily explore the frontier of "bigger is getting us better results, make it bigger". Qwen3-Coder-Next seems to be a point for that thought: we need to spend some time exploring what smaller models are capable of.

Perhaps I'm grossly wrong -- I guess time will tell.
by sunshine-o | 2026-02-03 18:11:11+00:00
Simply because if you were to ban this type of platform you wouldn't need Musk to "move it towards the far right" because you would already be the very definition of a totalitarian regime.

But whatever zombie government France is running can't "ban" X anyway because it would get them one step closer to the guillotine. Like in the UK or Germany it is a tinderbox cruising on a 10-20% approval rating.

If "French prosecutor" want to find a child abuse case they can check the Macron couple Wikipedia pages.