MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by gnull | 2026-02-25 08:10:56+00:00
> It's no accident that there's such a developmental gap between those of the former communist states which turned to the west

You've established a link between the two, but you've not shown which of the two is causing the other if any. Put aside your fatalist racist "Russia bad" for a moment and think. Maybe the reason is not that EU magically turns everything it touches into gold (while Russian orcs turn it to crap, obviously), but that EU is carefully choosing who joins and doesn't let the bad prospects in? EU countries are all close to each other, were already connected historically with logistics and culture, this reduces integration's overhead and makes it super beneficial.

Georgia, on the other hand, is surrounded by non-EU countries its cultural and economic ties have historically been outside of EU. Not all of Georgian population today is happy about EU. Georgia is super patriarchal and conservative, I won't be surprised if it's more anti-LGBT than Poland. Georgia exited USSR poorer and less industrialized than Eastern Europe, keep that in mind when you try to stretch your "Russia bad" to explain its trajectory.

> Former eastern block members that are currently in the EU beg to differ.

Also, mind that flirting with EU is not the same as entering it. Sometimes EU may use the prospect of someone entering it to gain leverage and cause instability to its rivals and sway its allies. To answer the quote: Ukraine begs to differ. Ukraine is much worse than it was before 2014, and is arguably much worse that it would have been without the 2014 revolution/coup if Yanukovich kept his course towards Russia. Almost any option would be better than what is now.
by AxiomLab | 2026-02-25 08:12:29+00:00
The exact same architectural pathology exists in enterprise visual systems.

We correctly diagnose 'core banking' as an unmaintainable big ball of mud because it lacks rigid, compile-time constraints. Yet, we somehow tolerate the exact same entropy in how B2B enterprises build their digital interfaces and brand assets.

When a design system relies on post-facto human validation rather than discrete mathematical parsing (Parse, don't validate), you don't get a scalable system—you just accumulate visual technical debt. The root cause of decay, whether in a banking backend or a brand's data topology, isn't age. It's the absence of absolute axioms from day one.
by pudsbuds | 2026-02-25 08:14:10+00:00
You just have to give up and drink the koolaid...

But for real... My company started tracking commits per hour as a metric so I just commit as many times as I can. I don't get the luxury of even looking at my work now. They say it's faster but I've never seen so much tech debt delivered so quickly in my life.

Its going to be an interesting few years...
by KeePassium | 2026-02-25 08:14:11+00:00
Breaking format changes is not such a major issue, they happened before: kdb → pre-2.08 kdbx → kdbx3 → kdbx4. If the new format is worth it, popular apps will adopt it within a few years — while still supporting older formats. Users would just stick with their current format until the ecosystem catches up, as it happened with KDBX and KDBX4.
by imtringued | 2026-02-25 08:14:33+00:00
I could have gotten behind the first three paragraphs until you started mentioning systemd. After that everything you've written sounds like the rambling of a crazy person.

systemd won the init system wars because it is pretty damn good from a technical perspective. The competition didn't even try to participate.

>Barely functional, broken in inane ways, and leaving any professional in a situation of endless masking of a myriad of barely cogent and horribly malign services.

Everything you're complaining about was even more true of previous init systems and barely true for systemd at all.

Meanwhile Ubuntu is a garbage fire from a technical perspective. Snaps are garbage and forced down your throat.
by Animats | 2026-02-25 08:15:16+00:00
Fry's owner had a strange side business. It was called the American Institute of Mathematics.[1] Its headquarters was originally behind a small door in the Palo Alto Fry's Electronics building.

This was followed by a project to move the Institute into a replica castle in Morgan Hill with a private 18-hole golf course. Really.[2] "The plans for the four-level castle include a 76-car underground garage, large wine storage facilities, a library, a 145-seat auditorium, 20 guest suites, dining facilities, lecture halls and conference rooms, locker rooms and exercise facilities and a gift shop."
There was some construction, but the $60 million castle was never actually built. The private golf course was built, and there are a very few reports of play there, although it's so private that golf sites aren't sure if it's still operating.

In 2022, the Institute of Mathematics moved to Caltech.[3]

Whether the whole thing was a tax shelter for a golf course remains a good question.

[1] https://www.ams.org/notices/200511/fea-aim.pdf

[2] https://morganhilltimes.com/frys-golf-in-rough/

[3] https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/american-institute-of-mat...
by somenameforme | 2026-02-25 08:16:05+00:00
The logic in my claim is that the overwhelming majority of people will reach nowhere even remotely near to their genetic potential in literally anything. You can see this in any endeavor where performance can be objectively measured - chess is the obvious one. A 2000 rated player is not much more than a strong amateur, but that already leaves one in like the 90th+ percentile for a game that millions of people work and study at.

It's not like the other 90% of people lack the intelligence or whatever else to be much stronger than they are, but it requires extensive dedication, work, and suffering that many just uninterested in tolerating for the sake of improving at a single domain. I think your example largely proves the point. Anybody of average intelligence can obviously excel at undergraduate math if they're willing to dedicate themselves to it, but many people aren't. If somebody was failing at math it's probably because they were just treating it like you might e.g. literature, and trying to do cram sessions relatively shortly before each exam, whereas by the time somebody gets to stuff like diff eq math starts turning more into a puzzle game that requires developing things on a subconscious/intuitive level.
by robbomacrae | 2026-02-25 08:16:34+00:00
“so the API use is in addition to the subscription, but it can't be helped.” - I beg to differ. OrcaBot.com is a claws that runs using vanilla Claude Code so you can do all that with your regular subscription. Disclosure: I’m the author. The only reason these other claws can’t offer that is because they front it with their own AI.
by mcpmessenger | 2026-02-25 08:16:47+00:00
For anyone wanting the deep-dive on the binary hardening and Viz sub-system patches I mentioned, I just offloaded the full technical analysis here:https://glazyrviz.blogspot.com/2026/02/inside-zero-copy-engi....
Also, I’ve officially bumped the sponsorship pool to 500 free frames for everyone testing npx -y glazyrviz today.
by namibj | 2026-02-25 08:16:55+00:00
I'm looking to switch from feeding the default android "recorder" app's .WAV into Gemini 3 Pro (via the app) with (usually just) a `Transcribe this please:` prompt; content is usually German voice instructions/explanation for how to do/approach some sysadmin stuff; there does tend to be some amount of interjecting (primarily for clarifications(-posing/-requesting)) by me to resolve ambiguity as early as possible/practical.

If e.g. parakeet can be run on my phone in real time showing the transcript live:

- with latency low enough to be "comfortable enough" for the instructor to keep an eye on and approve the transcribed instructions

[not necessarily every word of the transcript, i.e., a commanded "edit" doesn't need to be applied in the outcome as long as it's nature is otherwise clear enough to not add meaningful amounts of ambiguity to the final "written" instructions]

by glancing at the screen while dictating the explanation (and blurting out any transcription complaints as soon as that's possible without breaking one's own string-of-thought or spoken grammar too much)

, I'd very happily switch to that approach instead of what I was doing.

Bonus if there's a no-bulky-or-expensive-hardware way to accommodate us both speaking over each other so I won't have to _interrupt_ his speaking just to put a clarifying comment (on what he just said) in the transcript for him to see and sign off, where the at least "only" briefly interrupts his thoughts right while he actually reads my transcribed words (he doesn't have to hear them, and it's better if he won't; I can probably get him to put on earmuffs to not hear me louder than he hears his thoughts, and a sufficiently-smoothed SNR meter for specifically his voice should take care him regulating his volume while the earmuffs mute it and I occasionally talk over him)...
by yoavm | 2026-02-25 08:17:19+00:00
I know Zionism as the idea that Jewish people have the right to self-determination.

Do you:
1 - Think that it is something different?
2 - Think that it is, but Jewish people specifically do not have it? (I believe this is racist)
3 - Think that no people have it?
4 - Something else?

If you think that Jewish people have it but just not in Palestine, where in the world do you think they should have had it?
by moring | 2026-02-25 08:17:27+00:00
> That's just because corporations got greedy and made their apps suck.

It is true for me with Linux. I code for a living and I can't change anything because I can't even build most software -- the usual configure/make/make install runs into tons of compiler errors most of the time.

Loss of control is an issue. I'm curious if AI tools will change that though.
by MattPalmer1086 | 2026-02-25 08:17:33+00:00
> And not scoring means that the security triage teams everywhere have to spend their time to assess the severity on their own,

We have to do that anyway because a worst case assessment is almost never worst case or even close.

CVSS is just the wrong tool for the job anyway. It's like assessing individual car parts on dimensions like "steering" and "acceleration" when most parts have no direct relationship to the completed product's high level qualities. And then you construct "worst case" stories that go "well, in the event that you are not steering while accelerating sharply, a fault in this seat cover could make that whole thing worse and cause a fatal crash: CVSS 9.9!"
by pseudohadamard | 2026-02-25 08:17:37+00:00
It goes back a lot further than that, to at least the early 1970s when it was known as "ad hoc compression". Then once the Ziv-Lempel family appeared it was a standard aspect of the LZ algorithms. So the title should really be "We hacked pre-primed dictionaries into xyz and in the situations where this sort of thing performs really well, it performs really well".
by helloplanets | 2026-02-25 08:19:36+00:00
It's not like that happened out of the blue. (Which could've also been the case in today's day and age.) Anthropic shouldn't have gotten involved in government contracts to begin with.

They inserted themselves into the supply chain, and then the government told them that they'll be classified as a supply chain risk unless they get unfettered access to the tech. They knew what they were getting into, but didn't want the competitors to get their slice of the pie.

The government didn't pursue them, Anthropic actively pursued government and defense work.

Talk about selling out. Dario's starting to feel more and more like a swindler, by the day.
by nly | 2026-02-25 08:20:47+00:00
Once you've been laid off for the first time you soon learn to be prepared.

Once you've been laid off 2-3 times in your career your entire perspective on work will change.

The last time I got laid off I had a settlement payment of one years pay, some of which was tax free, it took me 4 months to find a new job, and it resulted in a pay rise. I was lucky... I have a friend who had unstable employment for 2 years after his layoff.

I was anxious as fuck for the whole time and felt like an absolute failure. As a result of that experience, I have carefully piled up enough liquid savings and investments to pay my living expenses for many years without working, with ~2-3 years worth sat in cash equivalents.

Anyone in tech following the 3-6 months savings advice is living on the edge.
by pu_pe | 2026-02-25 08:21:46+00:00
There will be a lot of those scams from now on. Take millions in funding for allegedly training a "sovereign AI" and buy a bunch of GPUs, delivering an actual good model is optional.

The EU is about to fall for the same trick, maybe multiple times over, by funding multiple toy model initiatives that are far behind SOTA. I believe they will also impose ideology on every model trained in the EU, similar to what reported in the article.
by burnt-resistor | 2026-02-25 08:22:48+00:00
Re: Campbell, CA location (King Tut themed). Their PC component prices were often haphazardly high and tended to not to be the latest/greatest compared to ISVs down the street like Pixel USA. Central Computer Systems was more expensive but had/has almost everything. The funny thing is they had perpetually old and overpriced items on the components "menu" wall. And don't forget the shoddy signage and the antique POS system. Fry's Electronics was like a flea market seller got $400M, built some stores, and then hired random people from Circuit City to run it while they sipped piña coladas in absentia. I think they traded on the half-assed outlet appearance plus sensory overload like a Vegas casino to hit people with randomly high prices except for loss leaders and promos. I'll never forget that their San Jose Mercury News promo for OS/2 4.0 spelled it "WRAP" instead of "WARP" in a ridiculously giant, red font on the last page of the business section.

PS: I worked at Egghead Software until it closed (killed by Fry's and CompUSA) before starting my own IT consulting company that put me through college.
by gnull | 2026-02-25 08:23:16+00:00
Not sure where you got that. Sounds like trying to use tropes from a superficial Hollywood action movie in real life, not my thing.

I think that a Ukrainian in his sane mind would want to look at options he's dealt and pick the one that leads to most safety and prosperity to him and his family. At the same time the government ideologues are trying to indoctrinate him with nationalism to sacrifice it all for their goals. More or less the same for an average Russian in his sane mind.

I personally believe that 2014 (and not complying with Minsk 2) has set Ukraine on course that's much worse for the safety and prosperity of an average citizen (albeit better for the nationalist ideologues). Complying with Minsk 2 would give Russia a lot of control over Ukraine (pro-Russian East gets autonomy, but gets to vote on national elections), which would be bad for nationalists who are afraid (and rightfully so) of Ukraine's young statehood sink into oblivion. But would be alright for a citizen: no dramatic change, you keep gradually improving your life, no war, you don't die for nothing.
by osmsucks | 2026-02-25 08:23:53+00:00
...What an odd and dishonest framing of the problem. Do you define "hospital not destroyed" as "some walls are still standing"? Because an easy counterpoint to your claim is the Al-Shifa Hospital, which you will certainly agree cannot be operational in this state and thus can be defined as "destroyed":

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5a/%D9%85%D...

And this is one example out of the many: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attacks_on_health_facilities_d...
by kakacik | 2026-02-25 08:23:53+00:00
Its entirely possible to despise hamas and wishing them horrible death, while despising what state of israel was and is and will be doing there. Defenders of israel often bring the masacre of 2023 like its good enough excuse to perform another civilian masacre. Heck, you want to drag people who dare to speak out into automatic hamas supporters, thats a bit cheap trick. What about focusing on civilians here, on all sides, like a normal moral human being should do? What did those murdered kids and rest of civilians on both sides did to deserve any of this?

Yes it is a concentration camp, the very definition of it. Maybe you are mixing this with nazi extermination camps, those were a different category - then I suggest some reading on that topic.

Let me ask - how easy it was, even before current war for regular palestinian to lets say move to another part of the world? I don't mean som israeli farmers using/abusing them as extremely cheap labor, I mean normal travel. Stateless people, kept in utter poverty by design, almost malnourished, effectively forbidden to leave what looks like the definition of open prison or what say US did to its japanese population during WWII. Some digged tunnels don't change anything here.
by kzahel | 2026-02-25 08:24:29+00:00
It's not an argument whether you can be more productive on phone or desktop. Some people (like myself) simply don't have much time to be dedicated at desks so we have to build workflows that support being able to at least be reasonably productive from our phones.

I'm super happy Anthropic finally releases this tool. It's a starting point and I hope they'll improve it. I did a comparison with its features / capabilities here: https://yepanywhere.com/claude-code-remote-control.html
by PlanksVariable | 2026-02-25 08:25:00+00:00
They replaced all the workers at our local Fry’s with people who knew nothing about the products, weren’t friendly, and often spoke little English. It was odd. I don’t know that it happened at all Fry’s our just ours.

But online shopping became so convenient, more and more of my purchases started going through Newegg and Amazon.
by wendy77kayser | 2026-02-25 08:25:02+00:00
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by musicale | 2026-02-25 08:25:18+00:00
We may never know why ChatGPT usage mysteriously drops during summer vacation...

> By categorizing the 100 most popular searches containing the character string “chatgpt” he found that the top usage was for job applications, characterized by searches like “chatgpt resume” and “chatgpt cover letter.” But homework finished in second place, identified by searches like “chatgpt essay,” “chatgpt history,” and “chatgpt math.”

https://www.onlineeducation.com/features/chatgpt-demand-decl...
by moxifly7 | 2026-02-25 08:25:56+00:00
Do you want to comment on the point where the IDF presumably realised what happened and decided to (physically) bury the evidence, and then gaslight the world until video evidence emerged?

I think you're being a bit too forgiving to what's become a clear documented pattern of behaviour during this genocide [1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_genocide
by kakacik | 2026-02-25 08:26:16+00:00
You keep deleting and entirely rewriting your posts here, so posting something so its not lost (own your opinions and don't be ashamed of them, how else you want to discuss this?) :

> It was not any of these things. It was not an open air prison or a concentration camp. That's the truth. Both these accusations are cheap propaganda that doesn't stand the most cursory fact checking. Look into how many people traveled to and from Gaza a year. Check out the vast tunnel network and rocket arsenal Hamas manged to build. That Hamas preferred to smuggle CNC machines and lathes and explosives from Egypt instead of food for the Gazan population is on them.

> Hamas took over Gaza by force, killing their Palestinian brothers, tossing them from roof tops. Israel just responded to Hamas' war on it. You know, rockets and such. All along Gaza had a border with Egypt which Israel did not control.

> Don't defend Hamas. Just don't do it.

Its entirely possible to despise hamas and wishing them horrible death, while despising what state of israel was and is and will be doing there. Defenders of israel often bring the masacre of 2023 like its good enough excuse to perform another civilian masacre. Heck, you want to drag people who dare to speak out into automatic hamas supporters, thats a bit cheap trick. What about focusing on civilians here, on all sides, like a normal moral human being should do? What did those murdered kids and rest of civilians on both sides did to deserve any of this?

Yes it is a concentration camp, the very definition of it. Maybe you are mixing this with nazi extermination camps, those were a different category - then I suggest some reading on that topic.

Let me ask - how easy it was, even before current war for regular palestinian to lets say move to another part of the world? I don't mean som israeli farmers using/abusing them as extremely cheap labor, I mean normal travel. Stateless people, kept in utter poverty by design, almost malnourished, effectively forbidden to leave what looks like the definition of open prison or what say US did to its japanese population during WWII. Some digged tunnels don't change anything here.
by leokennis | 2026-02-25 08:26:20+00:00
> They will agree to make some high margin simple to assemble thing in the US to appease government

I chuckled out loud at the huge-ass-safety-hazard-in-any-manufacturing-environment US flag thumb tacked to the factory wall. It's all wafer thin gold leaf to appease the toddler in command.

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/images/2026/02/apple-accelera...
by eru | 2026-02-25 08:27:01+00:00
Wouldn't this need to know what I actually did instead?

When I use it, it tells me that the form was incomplete. I tried to figure out how much I regret having bought 0 bitcoin so far.

Perhaps needs a better error message? I think it actually doesn't like the zero, but prevents it doesn't like incomplete data. Zero is also a number.

> CAUSALITY_ERROR: You cannot SELL before you BUY.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_(finance)

Needs at least a better error message that short sells aren't supported, instead of trying to be too clever by half about causality.
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by ShadowValue | 2026-02-25 08:30:53+00:00
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