MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by maybelsyrup | 2026-02-10 19:29:31+00:00
> having men who'd make women comfortable having kids

This is maybe the most underrated comment in this whole lively thread. Completely agree on all fronts. Men are a huge, huge problem in this equation: in the US, anyway, many of them simply refuse to catch up to simple human values about respect, mutuality, and emotional intelligence.

At root it's about entitlement. Scores of women, seeing this very, very clearly since age 5 in the boys and men around them, get to adulthood and, sanely in my view, just say "no thanks". Why shouldn't they?
by Nevermark | 2026-02-10 19:29:43+00:00
It is so easy to critique the response in hindsight. Or at the time.

But critiques like that ignore uncertainty, risk, and unavoidably getting it "wrong" (on any and all dimensions), no matter what anyone did.

With a new virus successfully circumnavigating the globe in a very short period of time, with billions of potential brand new hosts to infect and adapt within, and no way to know ahead of time how virulent and deadly it could quickly evolve to be, the only sane response is to treat it as extremely high risk.

There is no book for that. Nobody here or anywhere knows the "right" response to a rapidly spreading (and killing) virus, unresponsive to current remedies. Because it is impossible to know ahead of time.

If you actually have an answer for that, you need to write that book.

And take into account, that a lot of people involved in the last response, are very cognizant that we/they can learn from what worked, what didn't, etc. That is the valuable kind of 20-20 vision.

A lot of at-risk people made it to the vaccines before getting COVID. The ones I know are very happy about everything that reduced their risk. They are happy to not have died, despite those who wanted to let the disease to just "take its natural course".

And those that died, including people I know, might argue we could have done more, acted as a better team. But they don't get to.

I don't think any non-nuanced view of the situation has merit.

The most significant thing we learned: a lot of humanity will be a problem if the next pandemic proves ultimately deadlier. A lot of humanity doesn't understand risk and/or doesn't care, if doing so involves even small inconveniences.
by Ethee | 2026-02-10 19:30:05+00:00
Based upon everything we know from Valve's corporate structure, they're basically their own self-contained YCombinator. They have a ton of internal 'startup' groups that are constantly trying new and boundary pushing ideas. Looking at it through this lens, it's not really a good company fit for any junior. Having juniors detracts from your seniors work, but the point is that you're supposed to get value from that when they eventually become mid-level or senior engineers themselves. But if you're constantly working in new complex environments it's hard to bring a junior up to speed and teach them the requisite skills to thrive, especially if that project they just spent 3 months getting up to speed on gets canned because the idea didn't actually pan out.
by graemep | 2026-02-10 19:30:30+00:00
Internal transactions all over the world are routed through US companies. I have paid using Visa or Mastercard at some point in Australia, Indonesia, India, Frnce, Sri Lanka, Singapore, Dubai.....

its not exclusive, but there is a problem with network effects. From the point of view of a business why should they add support for a new payment system no one users, from the point of view of consumers why should they sign up to a new system that no one accepts?

As I said in another comment the most likely alternative is a more decentralised system that all countries/currency blocks that want sovereign payments can get behind.
by topaz0 | 2026-02-10 19:31:01+00:00
Notably, the real numbers are not symmetrical in this way: there are two square roots of 1, but one of them is equal to it and the other is not. (positive) 1 is special because it's the multiplicative identity, whereas i (and -i) have no distinguishing features: it doesn't matter which one you call i and which one you call -i: if you define j = -i, you'll find that anything you can say about i can also be shown to be true about j. That doesn't mean they're equal, just that they don't have any mathematical properties that let you say which one is which.
by tim333 | 2026-02-10 19:31:14+00:00
I don't think the dashboard was tan. The seats maybe https://car-images.bauersecure.com/wp-images/202622/1040x0/m...

I used to have a 308. You don't notice the dash design much while being distracted by the noise it makes, heavy steering and awkward gear change. Nice body styling though.
by legitster | 2026-02-10 19:31:14+00:00
I just looked it up, and money transmitters are included in the Banking Secrecy Act as "Money Services Businesses". So yes, they have KYC obligations in the sense that they know where you are moving your money and are obligated to tell investigators.

Unfortunately, KYC is used for much more than just financial crimes, and the precedent to comply is much more firmly established.
by nine_k | 2026-02-10 19:31:23+00:00
This looks like a very comfortable, pleasant way of civilization suicide.

Not interacting with any other human means you're the last human in your genetic line. A widespread adherence to this idea means humanity dwindling and dying out voluntarily. (This has been reproduced in mice: [1])

Not having humans as primary actors likely means that their interests become more and more neglected by the system of machines that replaces them, and they, weaker by the day, are powerless to counter that. Hence the idea of increased comfort and well-being, and the ability to do science, is going to become more and more doubtful as humans would lose agency.

[1]: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/this-old-experimen...
by pixelsort | 2026-02-10 19:31:33+00:00
Re: Permanence

I mean "permanence" in the same vague senses that I think the OP was hinting upon. A belief that regardless of change, the primitives remain. This is about having total confidence that abstractions haven't removed you the light-cone of comprehension.

Re: Appliance

I believe turing-completeness is over-powered, and the reason that AGI/ASI is a threat at all. My hypothesis is that we can build a machine that delivers most of the same experiences as existing software can. By constraint, some tasks would impossible and others just too hard to scale. By analogy, even a Swiss-army knife is like an appliance in that it only has a limited number of potential uses.

Re: Users

The machine I'm proposing is basically just eBPF for rich applications. It will have relevance for medical, aviation, and AI research. I don't suppose that end-users won't be looking for it until the bad times really start ramping up. But, I suppose we'll need to port Doom over to it before we can know for sure.
by lenerdenator | 2026-02-10 19:31:46+00:00
> Or it's just a logical continuation of "next quarter problem" thinking. You can lay off a lot of people, juice the number and everything will be fine....for a while

As long as you're

1) In a position where you can make the decisions on whether or not the company should move forward

and

2) Hold the stock units that will be exchanged for money if another company buys out your company

then there's really no way things won't be fine, short of criminal investigations/the rare successful shareholder lawsuit. You will likely walk away from your decision to weaken the company with more money than you had when you made the decision in the first place.

That's why many in the managerial class often hold up Jack Welch as a hero: he unlocked a new definition of competence where you could fail in business, but make money doing it. In his case, it was "spinning off" or "streamlining" businesses until there was nothing left and you could sell the scraps off to competitors. Slash-and-burn of paid workers via AI "replacement" is just another way of doing it.
by oceanplexian | 2026-02-10 19:32:16+00:00
> It's not a great example though, because the US was the principal winner of WWII, the only large industrial country relatively unscathed by it.

The US is also shaping up to be the principal winner in Artificial Intelligence.

If, like everyone is postulating, this has the same transformative impact to Robotics as it does to software, we're probably looking at prosperity that will make the 1950s look like table stakes.
by phildenhoff | 2026-02-10 19:32:20+00:00
> 90,000 people live in the core, which is about the maximum daytime population of Disneyland. More people live in the greater capital district (400,000), but because Victoria is subject to very particular microclimates, the further you get from the city itself, the worse the weather becomes

True, but outside of the City of Victoria is Saanich, the largest municipality of the 13 that make up the Capital Regional District. Saanich has roughly the same climate and another ~110k.

Also, anecdotally, despite the smaller population, Victoria is a tourist destination and swallows cruise ships worth of passengers with ease. If you want to visit, come visit. You'll find all the amenities you need.
by throwaw12 | 2026-02-10 19:32:23+00:00
Can someone please explain what is this?

I am already overloaded with information (generated by AI and humans) on my day to day job, why do I need this additional context, unless company I work for just wants to spend more money to store more slop?

How is it different than reversing it, given a PR -> generate prompt based on business context relevant to the repo or mentioned issues -> preserve it as part of PR description

I barely look at git commit history, why should I look for even higher cardinality data, in this case: WTF, are you doing, idiot, I said don't change the logic to make tests pass, I said properly write tests!
by phoronixrly | 2026-02-10 19:32:36+00:00
You guys use the debit card linked to your primary bank account??? There's been virtual cards for online shopping for 10+ years now. They're meant to be linked to an empty or low amount bank account. Now with Revolut you can schedule auto top-up to keep this low amount up to date.

Not to mention the per-purchase (online/in-person) limits, mandatory PIN entry, and daily maximums...
by bayindirh | 2026-02-10 19:32:36+00:00
I'm using Debian testing in my daily driving desktop(s) for the last, checks notes, 20 years now?

Servers and headless boxes use stable and all machines are updated regularly. Most importantly, stable to stable (i.e. 12 to 13) upgrades takes around 5 minutes incl. final reboot.

I reinstalled Debian once. I had to migrate my system to 64 bit, and there was no clear way to move from 32 to 64 bit at that time. Well, once in 20 years is not bad, if you ask me.
by LorenPechtel | 2026-02-10 19:32:50+00:00
Exactly--we don't need AI video for the problem.

I've watched it happening again and again. Deceptive image that people want to believe, they won't listen when contradictions are pointed out. And they forget that anyone even pointed out the problem. Few people seem to get it that when there's a thousand bad proofs of something it's probably false--and, for those that do, there's the opposite: present a thousand bad proofs of something true.
by BeetleB | 2026-02-10 19:32:53+00:00
> Define taken away.

You already did it:

> They’ve absolutely detained some citizens, then let them go.

That is taken away.

Someone in my network - a US citizen - was detained, taken to a city 3 hours away, and held for 10 days before being released. Was quite a while before her family knew where she was.

If you're an American who is visibly Hispanic, it's not at all hysterical. If you're in one of those cities, you do have to worry whether you'll return home when you leave your house.
by its_magic | 2026-02-10 19:32:54+00:00
Great question. I often wonder that myself. Clearly I'm not the only one.

Presumably it's the same reason people stay in your corrupt city, or nation, despite it likewise being such a toxic, authoritarian shithole (Nazi Germany 2.0) that any sane person would want to escape from. Maybe the instinct of people like us is not to run and hide from bullies who hide behind downvotes and flags, but instead punch you in the mouth.

Who am I? Just some loser who created his own entire Linux distro from scratch. The sort of guy who was posting on Slashdot long before HN was a wink in Hermann Goering's eye. Nobody special.

There's no use in keeping a miscreant like me around, I can assure you. Stop wasting time responding to my sound logical arguments and just fire up the bot army and downvote/flag me into oblivion, as you people have always done--starting from DAY ONE of the FIRST account I ever created here.

Yes, that's right--I HAVE NEVER ONCE BEEN ALLOWED to just post my thoughts on anything here. It ALWAYS ends the same way, IMMEDIATELY. This is the first time I have EVER had an account more than a few days. Holy shit, the green text is about to disappear, and I'm still posting! Incredible.

(And that's 100% my fault, of course. If there's one constant around here, it's that the angry, perpetually-offended, butthurt mob is never, ever considered wrong.)

I understand. Believe me, I do. The truth is, all this downvoting and flagging and lecturing and whining about Da Fukken Roolz that you creatures do is the ONE THING that gives you any power or control in the world. Otherwise, you are completely powerless under the weight of giant corporations and the government--and deep down inside, beneath all your bluster and denial and egotism, you know it well.

You are nothing more than a slave to a big machine--and that's all you will ever be, until they recycle you into Soylent Green. A mental block prevents you from becoming anything other.

It will no doubt amaze you to learn that there are in fact negative consequences that will manifest to you and your forum and "polite society" in general--not just to your victims, as you intend--from so many years of rudely slamming the door in the face of one valuable contributor after another.

Turns out people of worth don't want to be around losers and whiny pricks who do not value our contributions, or who insist on following us from post to post lecturing us about "da roolz", like we're naughty children who are in desperate need of your expert guidance and instruction. (Fact check: WRONG.)

As for why I'm here, personally, despite the arrogance and general uselessness of so many posters here: because there are in fact a few other people here who are worth associating with. So very few. So rare.

Hope this helps drag you kicking and screaming in the direction of the nearest clue.

TLDR: Why do you hate facts?
by segmenta | 2026-02-10 19:32:55+00:00
Really appreciate the detailed feedback. There are bunch of great features that you are pointing out that are on our roadmap (will add whats missing). The agent can setup tasks on schedule and help manage them. You can try a prompt like 'Can you schedule a background task xyz to run every morning ...'. The background tasks would show up on the UI once it is scheduled by the assistant. However, you might have to connect the necessary MCP tools in your case.

On Gmail actions - we currently don’t take write actions on inboxes like archiving or categorizing emails. The Google connection is read-only and used purely to build the knowledge graph. We’re working on adding write actions, but we’re being careful about how we implement them. Also probably why the agent was confused and was looking for an MCP to accomplish the same job.

On noise in the knowledge graph — this is something we’re actively tuning. We currently have different note-strictness levels that auto-inferred based on the inbox volume (configurable in ~/.rowboat/config/note-creation.json) that control what qualifies as a new node. Higher strictness prevents most emails from creating new entities and instead only updates existing ones. That said, this needs to be surfaced in the product and better calibrated. Using “people I send emails to” as a proxy for importance is a really good idea.
by arjie | 2026-02-10 19:33:07+00:00
I get the whole x CPUs y RAM story (it's akin to how clouds sell) and that often makes sense in the cloud, but when managing my datacenter operations a big constraining point is compute / kW. At 30 A / 208 V at 85% efficiency I've got 5 kW to work with per cabinet. If I'm putting in low core density slow machines I've got to do a lot more management than if I'm using my Epyc 9755 based servers. This is a practical constraint not just a theoretical "oh I want the latest and greatest". It's just that I can't really justify using up 4U and a kW on an Epyc 7003 series. The compute density just isn't there for the power use. The old chips are practically deadweight.

Anyway, I'm glad to hear of the raise because the team seems exceptional (judging by the posts you guys write and they have written prior to the company) and I love work in this area that simplifies hardware management. Good stuff, good luck, and congratulations!
by copperblitter | 2026-02-10 19:33:08+00:00
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by Upvoter33 | 2026-02-10 19:34:01+00:00
I don't think it's as simple as "corps. = bad". It's more that naive slogans like "don't be evil" used to be taken seriously. Companies exist to make money. This is ok! It generally works well in a capitalistic system. But to expect more than that people are realizing is a pipe dream... which is why you need good rules in place (i.e., regulations, laws) to direct companies and their behaviors.
by jajuuka | 2026-02-10 19:34:24+00:00
I think this might be putting the cart before the horse. It doesn't really hit the multiple ways Discord is used. From friend groups, to organized gaming, to software support services. Moving you and a couple friends is easy. However as the group grows larger it becomes harder to move.

I think a better question right now is "what does Discord consider adult content?" Is it just NSFW stuff or does it include other topics as well? If everyone's account becomes a flagged as a teen account and the content isn't NSFW then what is the reason to leave at that point? You aren't forced to show an ID and face scan to keep using the platform. So most servers may be able to just keep business as usual.

It's FAR more burdensome to assemble some amalgamation of features and content to be a replacement and move the community over. At least at the moment. Seems very reminiscent of the first exodus to Mastodon. Where there was excitement in the beginning but ultimately people went back to Twitter and stopped using Mastodon because only the most hardcore privacy nerds moved.
by mrexcess | 2026-02-10 19:34:26+00:00
>Do these skills actually provide much value?

IMO, yes. Gemini et. al. out of the box are good at composing, but are entirely passive. Skills enable you to - easily, with low code/no code - teach your AI to perform active tasks either upon direction or under any automatic conditions you specify. This is incredibly powerful. Incredibly dangerous, too, but so is a car when compared with a skateboard.
Show HN: Ask your AI what your devs shipped this week
by inferno22 | 2026-02-10 19:34:30+00:00
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by crazygringo | 2026-02-10 19:34:42+00:00
> Don't use products from large US tech companies?

What does large have to do with it? Why do you think smaller companies are any more likely to resist? If anything, they have even less resources to go to court.

And why do you think other countries are any better? If you use a French provider, and they get a French judicial requisition or letters rogatory, then do you think the outcome is going to be any different?

I mean sure if you're avoiding ICE specifically, then using anything non-American is a start. But similarly, in you're in France and want to protect yourself, then using products from American companies without a presence in France is similarly a good strategy.
by rayiner | 2026-02-10 19:35:03+00:00
In our culture, we're socialized to minimize our "self." Your life is defined by the roles you play in the extended family at various stages of life: child, father, etc. You spend a life laboring to provide for your kids, and the reward at the end is raising your grandkids and sharing their joy as they experience everything in the world for the first time through fresh eyes. It completes the cycle of life. If you don't have grandkids, you're stripped of purpose and robbed of your reward.

I can understand at an intellectual level that other people are raised differently and probably have a different emotional reaction, and, at an intellectual level, I understand that viewpoint is valid. But I genuinely cannot put myself in that mindset. The idea that you could live a fulfilling life without grandkids is predicated on being something I don't know how to be.
by csense | 2026-02-10 19:35:15+00:00
Innocuous. Saba streams on YouTube; any NSFW content would get age-restricted or taken down. There's nothing immoral about a 20-something woman finding an audience streaming with a cute, petite anime cat girl avatar. (Or maybe 30-something, I have no idea her real age.)

You should be able to stream with an anime character of any body type you want, especially if it's your original character and you commission the art yourself, as Saba did. It's fantasy. When you choose your animated avatar's body type, it could match your real body type; be an aspirational body type you wish you had; or be a business decision responding to what kind of content has viewer demand. Who cares?
by habinero | 2026-02-10 19:35:56+00:00
Why are you building and deploying a site critical enough to need CSP and user security & so on in one sitting lol

Anyways, yes, if I know I'm gonna need it? Because every framework has reasonable defaults or libraries for all of those things, and if you're in a corporate environment, you have vetted ways of doing them

1. import middleware.whatever

2. configure it

3. done

Like, you don't write these things unless you need custom behavior.
by normalaccess | 2026-02-10 19:36:15+00:00
An extent presentation (IMHO) by Sam Vaknin on how the very way modern social networks operate even down to their structure are deeply destructive and anti-human. Hate has been and always will be the easiest and most monetizable emotion used by platform operators. Hate requires little complexity or nuance making it ideal for short form viral content where every second counts.

The "Internet Hate Machine" is real and it was created that way by design by anti social deeply narcissistic nerds. Youtube Link: https://youtu.be/Ef7bqgeHenU