MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by npunt | 2026-02-25 21:42:05+00:00
Love the effort here, been thinking about what this kind of tool might look like for a while. Something like this coupled with better prosocial affordances in the medium will do a lot to improve discourse online. I wrote up one a while back [1] but things like that are only a small part of a much bigger picture.

The overall problem needs to be tackled from all angles - poster pre-post self-awareness (like respecify but shown to users before posting), reader affordances to reflect back to poster their behavior (and determine if things may be appropriate in context vs just a universal 'dont say mean words'), after-post poster tools to catch mistakes (like above), platform capabilities like respectify that define rules of play and foster a enjoyable social environment that let us play infinite games, and a broader social context that determine the values that drive all of these.

[1] https://nickpunt.com/blog/deescalating-social-media/
by margalabargala | 2026-02-25 21:42:15+00:00
That would be around 30kwh per day so probably not, but you could get close.

Assuming you're in the US, new solar modules go for about $0.28/watt.

If you dump the entire $1k into just modules, that will get you about 3.5kW of panels. Which will probably hit your target on sunny days during the summer.

But that doesn't include inverters if you want to do a grid tie, or batteries if you don't, or wiring, or whatever you're going to mount the panels on.
by MengerSponge | 2026-02-25 21:42:20+00:00
Technology developed after Smith's writing changed the calculus. The cotton gin made wide-scale cotton cultivation far more lucrative, and drove American slavery:
https://historyincharts.com/the-impact-of-the-cotton-gin-on-...

Without the cotton gin, chattel slavery would have probably ended at least one generation earlier in the US
by scoofy | 2026-02-25 21:42:36+00:00
I have been a Strong Towns follower/member for about 6 years. I really don't think people realize the world of pain we're signing up for by not actually fixing the underlying problem of lack of density and walk-ability and their effect on the municipal budgets of American cities.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong_Towns

I know municipal finance is about as exciting socks for Christmas, but if the Strong Towns thesis is correct, we've basically found ourselves in slow moving crisis, where city budgets start very slowly, but very surely, become unsustainable, and by the time anyone notices, it's mostly too late to do anything about it. Pipes cost money, repaving costs money, replacing your wastewater system costs money... lots of money. The fact that they only have to be replaced every 30-50 years doesn't mean the costs go away... they just disappear temporarily. Deferring that maintenance doesn't actually do anything except make the problem worse tomorrow.

The idea that LA literally can't afford to bring it's sidewalks up to ADA code is insane. The idea that they're engaging in penny-smart, pound-foolish solutions is a strong signal that the city budget is already deeply broken, and likely is not fixable under the current paradigm of LA politics.

California cities could trivially fix their budget problems by satisfying the demand for housing by adding density, but it seems they are determined to do nothing until the wheels finally fall off, and the city's budget crisis spirals out of control. Even then, I wonder if they will take the Detroit-route and declare bankruptcy before actually addressing the problem.
by NickHodges0702 | 2026-02-25 21:42:39+00:00
Hey, thanks so much for the feedback. We agree. ;-)

One of our goals is to just make the edgelords and trolls go away -- if they want to comment, they have to be nice. If they can't be nice, they can't comment (A gross over-simplification, but you get the idea.....)

One feature we are going to add is a "Here's your feedback, but press here to post anyway" as an option for users to have. At teh very least, make someone stop and think about what they are saying.
by bradchris | 2026-02-25 21:42:43+00:00
I’m pretty sure Los Angeles is a city in which residents would _gladly_ vote to tax themselves for better streets if they’d actually get done, like Orange County has.

In 2024, when Measure HLA passed via ballot measure (basically, legally requiring that the city must adhere to its own already decade-old repaving and mobility plan that had only been 3% implemented), the city tried to spook the public by saying it could ultimately increase taxes and cost $2bn over 10 years. That only increased support, with almost 66% of the city voting for it in the end. It’s worthwhile to note, measure HLA did not actually mandate anything new, just saying that the city must follow its own street plan, because for a decade the city has been pulling stuff like this rather than actually building ADA ramps or repaving.

People want their sidewalks and streets and will gladly pay for them, not to mention the city already lost a Federal ADA lawsuit requiring this too. The city just won’t do it. I’m hoping this is the year the city finally gets sued under HLA (which carries a bounty award for any litigant who lives on a street ignored by the mobility plan if they do a faux repaving and don’t adhere to the law), now that the 2-year grace period is up.
by wang_li | 2026-02-25 21:42:56+00:00
I am not attempting to describe the world. I am trying to define the expectations we should have of the citizens of our polity. It has nothing to do with illiterate people manage not to commit crimes. I am saying that before we decide to get "big money" out of politics or we let people vote for the seven people who promise them the most shit, we should decided to put people who chose not to acquire basic skills that any human within standard deviation of average intelligence can acquire, when given 12 years of free education, into jail. It literally is not a literacy test for voting. It's an "are you a lazy piece of shit who is going to drag all of society down" policy.
by shahules | 2026-02-25 21:43:02+00:00
Founder of Vibrant Labs here. We’re working on automating the synthesis of high-quality evals and RL data for LLM agents.

Some of the things we’re exploring:

1.Automated task and verifier generation

2.Synthesizing coherent worlds for evaluating and training agents

3.Continual learning setups for long-horizon agents

Would love to talk with anyone who's interested to know more!
by Barrin92 | 2026-02-25 21:43:36+00:00
>This is how most foreign services are run

It is not. The vast majority of the world has a professionalized diplomatic corps roughly modeled on a Prussian or French system. As Fukuyama points out in Political Order and Political Decay the US is an odd case because it democratized before it developed an administrative state and as a result is somewhere between "Greece and Prussia" and ended up with a spoils-based and clientelist system, somewhat moderated by the Progressive era.
by anthk | 2026-02-25 21:43:53+00:00
Ahem, just two words. Yamaha DX-7.

Synth music elevated electric bound tones to anything ever heard.

I remidn you that most of the rock and roll and rock music was about speed and mimicking the sound of a rumbling car engine, as it was a symbol of the freedom in America, being able to run away from your toxic communities to find yourself better anywhere else.

That was the message for the young with rock and roll: a speedy engine for your ears.

Electronic music was like replacing a car with UFO evoking you a space travel.

With the progressive subgenre of techno music you got the same feeling, but with no subtle hints. Heck, one of the most known songs in Spain ever, "Flying Free", literally remixes the sounds of drifting cars between the melodies, making the listener really happy in a very direct way as tons of youngs in the 90's got into the outskirt night clubs... by car. So they felt as driving an infinite highway rave with no end for days.
by vintagedave | 2026-02-25 21:44:02+00:00
Thankyou — I’d love to hear what you wrote, if you wouldn’t mind sharing?

We’ve tried to aim it not to enforce any specific view — that’s a design goal — but focus on how it will feel to the other person.

Also things like logical fallacies or other non-emotional flaws in comments (there’s a toxicity metric for example, or dogwhistles).

An echo chamber is the exact opposite of what we want. There are too many already. What we hope for is guided communication so different views _can_ be expressed.
by hinkley | 2026-02-25 21:44:04+00:00
I wonder if I still have the link.

One of the papers I had bookmarked when toying with my own language design was someone that had worked out how to make interfaces as fast or faster than vtables by using perfect hashing and using the vtable as a hash table instead of a list.

You can also, when inlining a polymorphic call, put a conditional block in that bounces back to full dispatch if the call occasionally doesn’t match the common case. The problem with polymorphic inlining though is that it quickly resembles the exact sort of code we delete and replace with polymorphic dispatch:

if (typeof arg1 == “string”) {
} else if typeof arg1 === …) {
} else if {
} else if {
} else {
}
by tencentshill | 2026-02-25 21:44:10+00:00
Once again, CNN fails to report vital context.

"Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei a Friday deadline to comply with demands to peel back safeguards on its AI model or risk losing a lucrative Pentagon contract."

Not only the contract, but the vast majority of their entire business by being marked as a “supply chain risk” and being banned from doing business with any company that has a contract with the government. Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47154983
by ceejayoz | 2026-02-25 21:44:24+00:00
"The comment mentions 'Cancel Culture' and uses terms like 'edgelords' and 'Nazi' in a context that dismisses and trivializes serious issues. This reflects a trend in discussions that equates legitimate critiques of harmful behaviors with extreme labels, undermining constructive dialogue and signaling acceptance of toxic rhetoric."

"Using phrases like 'Holy crap the edgelords' can come off as dismissive and disrespectful towards a group of people. It’s better to express concerns about behaviors or actions instead of labeling individuals harshly."

"Describing cancel culture as 'over the top' expresses a strong negative opinion without offering specific reasoning. It’s more effective to explain what aspects seem excessive to help others understand your perspective."

"Using phrases like 'the hypocrisy is unreal' can come across as dismissive and sarcastic, which may alienate others from the discussion. It’s beneficial to explain what seems hypocritical instead of making broad statements."

(I picked the "why it's hard to escape an echo chamber" context option, for full disclosure.)
by madjam002 | 2026-02-25 21:44:41+00:00
I have just today discovered zmx [1] which is like tmux but I always hated the tmux terminal emulation and how it hijacks scrolling, especially on Termius on my phone. It does session persistence but I think without the terminal emulator side of things, so scrolling works normally.

Been testing it today with Claude Code and it seems to work quite well switching between my laptop and phone.

[1] https://github.com/neurosnap/zmx
by FarmerPotato | 2026-02-25 21:44:42+00:00
@Shift838 made a ready configurator for the 99/4A MESS. He calls it OoeyGooey.

You might also try running Classic 99 under WINE. That works on my x86 MacBook. Classic99 has the legal license to ship with ROMs. (Well PC99 as well but it's hard to get.)

I'm not sure if JS99er runs standalone --that's a very good emulation in the browser, which you can load up anytime.
by giobox | 2026-02-25 21:45:21+00:00
People often make the mistake of treating .io like a gTLD, when it's actually a ccTLD for the "British Indian Ocean Territory" etc. ccTLDs have always had risks, especially when they are for a really tiny region.

Similar issues to .io happened with the popularity of .tv domains, which again is a ccTLD. The government of Tuvalu sought to increase income from sales of their ccTLD and prices went up. Tuvalu is such a small nation .tv domain sales ended up making a significant part of the State's income.

Another fun example of the mess you can get into with ccTLDs was when the UK left the EU. All UK registered .eu domain names were cancelled following the UK exit from the bloc.

gTLDs generally have some degree of insulation from State-level politics. ccTLDs permit the nation or territory they represent much more say in how they are priced and who they are sold to.
by array_key_first | 2026-02-25 21:45:59+00:00
I never said it was a sole check, I said it was a check. The reality is that app is not thoroughly tested and, even if it was, this would not catch all malware because, again, it's trivial to write malware that can pass a review period and flip on later.

First Google search
https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/08/77-malicious-...

Here's 77 found by researchers and then removed. Relying on researchers to find malware isn't a very good bet.

If I were a betting man, I would say there are thousands of apps on the play store that you can classify as malware.

We will never know the true number because one of the primary goals of malware is to be as difficult to detect as possible. They're not going to declare they're malware, duh.

If you know of some algorithm to detect malware, I'd love to hear it. Evidently even trillion dollar companies cannot come up with one. To this day, the best way to detect malware is source code analysis and thorough behavior testing.

Google and Apple do neither. Those are just the facts. Do with that what you will, I don't care.
by llm_nerd | 2026-02-25 21:46:09+00:00
>Bizarre that you hold the validity of the ICC's claim to jurisdiction up as some fundamental truth.

But...I didn't. The members of the ICC observe the findings of the ICC. Another bizarre non-sequitur. No one is demanding that the US honour the ICC's warrant.

The ICC has no authority in Israel. Nor do they claim to. But they do in the member countries, which thoroughly angers the Idiocracy.

>willingness to ignore customary international law

Absolutely delusional nonsense. The hypocrisy in the claim that state immunity is some overarching thing -- when neither Israel or the US honour such a ridiculous notion -- is amazing given the context.

>It seems to me that there is actually a great deal of confusion about what exactly "Palestine" means

Absolutely no one but Israelis and Americans have any (convenient) confusion on this. Palestine is the non-Israel parts of the former Palestine. Playing incredibly stupid is unconvincing.

>Conversing with you is a chore

Ah, the "you're all butthurt Europeans" American-exceptionalism guy thinks it's a chore. Good god.
by throwaway3060 | 2026-02-25 21:46:22+00:00
Given the track record of knowledge of the eastern front beyond the iron curtain, maybe he didn't. I don't know how anyone can read about Operation Barbarossa, the full scope of the plans to wipe out half of the continent, and come away with the impression that anything else, let alone a regional conflict, is even in the same universe.

But this isn't about Leibowitz, who isn't here to try to explain himself. This is about the idea that a falsity is "not up for debate".
by crazygringo | 2026-02-25 21:46:24+00:00
The vast majority of the comments here seem to be completely missing the actual reason. I see people claiming this is about heavier SUV's, about people moving to the suburbs, governmental incompetence, that we "can't figure out how to pave roads", that this is corruption...

...just no. What this is, is that the federal ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) has required wheelchair access (curb ramps) along roads since 1990. To comply, "Measure HLA" is a citizen initiative passed in 2025, which forces the city to build curb ramps WHENEVER it resurfaces a road.

But here's the kicker -- as the "Measure HLA" site explains [1], it promises "No New Taxes or Fees", claiming "improvements would be made during routine street maintenance".

But because it DIDN'T raise additional funds, but is a much more expensive process, and the city doesn't have the money, the city is getting around it by doing "large asphalt repair" which is lower-quality but avoids having to spend the extra money and time (which they don't have) to implement the curb ramps and other requirements.

All of this seems like an entirely predictable outcome when a law is passed that requires more work but doesn't pay for it. And in this case you can't blame a short-sighted legislature or a corrupt process -- it was a citizens' initiative. That promised voters they could have something for free, which isn't free. See this key quote:

> Per Mozee, “there’s approximately 14 ramps in a mile.” So for “one crew to build out those 14 ramps will take approximately three months.” In contrast, he said, “a paving crew on a good day … could pave that same mile in a weekend or one week, at most.”

So what exactly did people expect?

I'm all for accessibility, but demanding it without paying for it is not the way.

[1] https://yesonhla.com/
by mixmastamyk | 2026-02-25 21:46:27+00:00
I'm in agreement and receptive to this piece in its broad strokes. Although, as some have pointed out some of the examples are a bit too obscure, like ssh.

However, I think the bigger problem with it is what I used to call a "Slashdot Attitude." If you don't remember or are too young, it was the "users are idiots/lusers" and "people should suffer like I did" i.e. non-constructive perspectives that were often expressed there. (Getting that vibe, although may be my own perception.)

I'd argue that the main problem isn't the ease of use, but rather the elimination of freedoms and privacy that prevents learning. A friend and I wrote our thoughts and hopeful solution here: https://trustworthy.technology/
by ProllyInfamous | 2026-02-25 21:47:01+00:00
Absolutely: ERCOT's battery storage is worldbest.

As a fifth-generation former Texan, I understand "separatist mentality." ERCOT's buy/sell market is perhaps also the most purely capitalistic marketplace in existance (and among least-regulated, in first-world); for these reasons, winter-proofing funding is terrible and outages likely when the system is stressed (e.g. approximately every decade Texas loses power during winter storms) — which is also when generating profits are maximized (orders of magnitude increases).

Certain deregulated-market Texans are still paying off powerbills from years-old storms, a few cold days of billing often exceeding the rest of the year's usage.
by stared | 2026-02-25 21:47:16+00:00
I rerun it for GPT-5.2-Codex, for high and xhigh.

Finally, it matches my experience, and it is actually good (as good as the best models for localization, still impressive 0% false positive rate):
https://quesma.com/benchmarks/binaryaudit/

Will rerun it on GPT-5.3-Codex shortly, as API is out (yet, the effort does not work correctly, and for "medium" it is very low).
by ceejayoz | 2026-02-25 21:47:22+00:00
> The invention of the cotton gin increased the use of slaves; it didn’t decrease it.

Because the efficiency increase in that part of the process meant we could grow so much more cotton to be processed. It wasn't very profitable before that, because slave labor wasn't very efficient at the process.

(This led, eventually, to more automation of the planting/harvesting process.)
by jandrese | 2026-02-25 21:47:58+00:00
You just slightly missed the crux of the issue here.

The big "problem" with renewables like solar is that once you've installed enough for yourself you are done for like 30 years. There is no monthly sun fee you need to keep paying. There is no solardollar, because there's nothing that needs to be extracted, transported, and sold every single day. A lot of billionaires are in an existential crisis over a world where fossil fuels are no longer the driving force of the economy. That's why we have incessant propaganda against renewable energy.

Even the solar panel market is self defeating. Once there is enough installed power the demand will drop off sharply as the refresh cycle is too long. The feedback loop of capitalism means we are likely to reach that point sooner than you would expect.

That said, don't think I'm like the nuclear power guys of the 50s who claimed that electricity would be so abundant that we wouldn't even bother to meter it. There are still costs with maintenance, repair, administration, debt servicing, and profits. If you look at your power bill today it will probably list generation, distribution, and taxes. Renewables only eliminate the generation costs, which are usually about half of the bill.
by n8cpdx | 2026-02-25 21:48:37+00:00
I’m surprised at the chilly reception to this article.

I ride bus and MAX (light rail) in Portland and despite not being the worst offender, too frequent stops is quite noticeable. When the bus stops every two blocks to let one person on or off each time, it really slows things down.

You can also notice when playing Cities Skylines. It is quite intuitive that making your transit stop constantly is not efficient.

On the rail system, the system has been closing redundant stations and it has made it feel much faster. Small adjustments can make a big difference.

Sure I’d like more transit investment, but that can be paired with using resources well.
by bokohut | 2026-02-25 21:48:41+00:00
Happy to be a 5 year self generation participant contributing to these numbers. Given the very recent winter storms along the East Coast, that still has people without grid power at this very moment, such a residential generate and store system should be an eye opener to those impacted at times of greatest need. My own system was still generating during the storm as many erroneously believe the sun must be fully exposed to move electrons, nope.

I commented here in a recent HN energy post about my surrounding jurisdictions and the exploding utility costs per PJM that literally have governments suing each other. Just today one of those local jurisdictions announced a utility bill financial credit incentive for residents to attend a meeting to learn about what some already know intimately. Link is paywalled of course.

https://www.newarkpostonline.com/news/newarkers-can-earn-40-...

We are witnessing the accelerated adoption of local generation and storage driven by the economic costs of energy that has been directly and indirectly subsidized yet consumption is certainly not equal. As more and more move to self generate and store, per the meetings suggestion, the negative feedback loop is already in motion rising costs even more for those dependent on a centralized system.

For those that can see the light and where it is going; invest accordingly.
by angry_octet | 2026-02-25 21:49:11+00:00
Unless you're in the nebulous situation of being Hispanic in the US, in which case you might get profiled. Or you might have family with jobs that are subject to pressure -- and right now, that seems like most jobs, because calling employers spineless is an insult to worms. Or if you'd like to travel by air, because watchlists are back, and carriers may just refuse service.
by asdfman123 | 2026-02-25 21:49:15+00:00
You could argue that it's one of the most versatile instruments, sure. "Greatest" is completely subjective.

But is it one of the most versatile instruments? You can do signal transforms with any kind of audio input, although it's done more with the electric guitar than any other instruments.

I would say it in practice, it has the most versatile sonic profile.
by kllrnohj | 2026-02-25 21:50:00+00:00
Words also have origins and evolving meanings. Why should the preservation of the space be especially significant and load bearing? Why should "milkshake" be a word but "ice cream" isn't? Milkshakes were, after all, literally just milk shaken with ice. They had no resemblance to what we now call a milkshake, so at the time there would have been no particularly good reason to omit the space. Other than it just happened that way for milk shake, but didn't for icecream.