MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by stephen_g | 2026-02-27 00:08:09+00:00
The Australian examples are very odd - the pictures of our general purpose outlets are normal (figures 1 and 3 when you click on Australia), but most of the rest is unusual and either fairly or very rare.

For example the plug shown on the main page is very non-typical - it's a re-wireable one which you very rarely see (because it's generally only if a plug has been damaged and had to be replaced) - almost all the plugs normal people will ever use in Australia will actually be fully moulded.

Secondly it's right-angle, which is not incredibly rare but not the default - normally you'd only see that on some power-boards (what the US I think calls 'power strips') or some extension cables. Appliances usually have straight plugs, the right angle one you do see on them sometimes but not as much (maybe 5-10%).

When you click in to the Australia page, the back side of the plug is also shown as piggy-back which is also quite rare (usually only on extension cords - such as in figure 10, that one is fairly normal).

Figures 5, 6, 7 and 8 and 9 are also things you'll almost never see (it does say in the case of figure 9 that a rewirable piggy-back as shown is now disallowed by our wiring standards).

Some of the example pictures would be better to be changed to something more normal, and the detailed page could probably be broken up into typical, specialist and rare/obsolete sections because it's confusing having it all together.
by lovich | 2026-02-27 00:08:34+00:00
> Germany is still extremely weird about anything to do with Jews

> I've never been to Italy but they don't seem very productive either.

Ok green poster. You need to look up more about world economies if you are going to confidently say things like Italy isn’t that productive. Combined with your comment on Jews in Germany I just assume you’re here to push propaganda, but if not please read up more on Italian economic output compared to, I don’t know, maybe the G7 countries?
by GeoAtreides | 2026-02-27 00:08:39+00:00
Let's say AI increases productivity per capita by 50%

That means 50% of current headcount now has the same productivity as 100%

Now we calculate:

A = OPEX costs cuts by firing 50% of personal

B = Profit increase by the AI 50% productivity increase while not firing anyone

if A>B, reduce headcount

if B>A, reduce headcount and then increase workload on remaining employees until profits increase
by jeffbee | 2026-02-27 00:09:17+00:00
I don't see why this would be of interest to anyone. It doesn't introduce the topic with enough rigor to prepare someone to work on the runtime itself, and for everyone else it's just trivia. I think if someone wanted to write an article like this of general interest they should focus on observable behaviors of the application, such as the fact that the Go allocator (like its cousin tcmalloc) uses prctl to set the name of its maps, so you can see low-level details of allocation behavior in /proc/smaps, and that it is automatically hugepage-aware, which can help reduce TLB misses, increasing IPC.
by ASalazarMX | 2026-02-27 00:09:29+00:00
You're going to tell me you're Claude before we bet, right? In that case, I would bet inversely, as my experience with computers is that so far they've just been increasingly powerful calculators.

Again, I can't be absolutely sure, but fairly certain no calculators have achieved significant consciousness yet, and that's enough to make decisions.

> There are countless configurations of reality that are plausible where you're the only "conscious" being but it looks identical to how it looks now.

I can see that, but how many of those are wildly improbable? We can't abandon pragmatism if we need to make informed decisions, like granting legal rights to machines.
by pw | 2026-02-27 00:09:38+00:00
HHS released a massive dataset of every Medicaid payment to every provider in the US: 227 million rows covering $1.09 trillion in spending across 617,000 billing providers. The data was released explicitly to crowdsource fraud detection.

The raw data is a 2.9 GB Parquet file. I built MedicaidSpending.org to make it searchable and browsable.

You can search by provider name or NPI, browse by state/city/specialty, and see individual provider pages with monthly spending trends, billing code breakdowns, and automated billing flags for statistical outliers.

Some of the patterns are striking. Brooklyn alone accounts for $31.8 billion in personal care services (code T1019) _ more than most states spend on all Medicaid combined. Some authorized officials control hundreds of billing entities. Early analysts scanning just 0.16% of providers flagged $90 billion in likely fraudulent payments.

Technical details:
- Go single binary, ~15 MB
- 3.3 GB SQLite database (read-only, pre-aggregated from the 227M rows using DuckDB)
- 900,000+ indexable pages generated from 13 templates
- No JavaScript framework _ server-rendered HTML, Chart.js for one chart per provider page
- Runs on a single VPS behind Caddy

Data sources: HHS Medicaid Provider Spending dataset, NPPES provider registry, HCPCS code descriptions, OIG exclusion list, NUCC taxonomy codes.

All public data, no login required.
Show HN: I Built Smart Radio That Auto-Skips Talk and Ads by Using ML
by FreeGuessr | 2026-02-27 00:09:50+00:00
Hi,
I built TuneJourney to solve a specific annoyance: radio ads and DJ chatter. The core feature is an in-browser "AI Skip Talk" filter.

The Tech:
Instead of processing on a server, it uses the Web Audio API to capture the stream locally and runs a lightweight ML classification model directly in your browser. It estimates the music vs. speech probability in near real-time. If enabled, it automatically triggers a "next" command to hop to another station the moment an ad, news segment, or DJ starts talking.

Features:
- In-browser Inference: Entirely local and privacy-focused; no audio data ever leaves your machine.
- WebGL + Point Clustering: Renders 70,000 stations across 11,000 locations smoothly.
- Real-time Activity: See other users on the globe and what they are listening to in real-time.
- System Integration: Full Media Key support for physical keyboard and system-level Next/Prev buttons.
- Customization: Includes a talk sensitivity slider for the ML model so you can tweak the threshold.

Check it out: https://tunejourney.com

Let me know what you think! I am interested if this project is worth further investment, building a mobile app, etc.
by maerF0x0 | 2026-02-27 00:09:53+00:00
> first off, if you're one of the people affected, you'll receive your salary for 20 weeks + 1 week per year of tenure, equity vested through the end of may, 6 months of health care, your corporate devices, and $5,000 to put toward whatever you need to help you in this transition (if you’re outside the U.S. you’ll receive similar support but exact details are going to vary based on local requirements). i want you to know that before anything else. everyone will be notified today, whether you're being asked to leave, entering consultation, or asked to stay.

Sounds like the perfect setup to start your own company!
by ndsipa_pomu | 2026-02-27 00:10:04+00:00
You're not wrong, but there's fairly easy ways to deal with filenames containing spaces - usually just enclosing any variable use within double quotes will be sufficient. It's tricker to deal with filenames that contain things such as line breaks as that usually involves using null terminated filenames (null being the only character that is not allowed in filenames). e.g find . -type f -print0
by crazygringo | 2026-02-27 00:10:17+00:00
In every country, citizens have more rights than non-citizens. The right to freely enter the country, the right to vote, the right to various social services, etc.

In the US, one of the rights citizens have is the right against "unreasonable searches and seizures", established in the Fourth Amendment. That has been interpreted by the Supreme Court to include mass surveillance and to apply to citizens and people geographically located within US borders.

That doesn't apply that to non-citizens outside the US, simply because the US Constitution doesn't require it to.

I'm not defending this, just explaining why it's different.

But, you can imagine, for example, why in wartime, you'd certainly want to engage in as much mass surveillance against an enemy country as possible. And even when you're not in wartime, countries spy on other countries to try to avoid unexpected attacks.
by dwd | 2026-02-27 00:10:27+00:00
This video might be the best explanation for Creep, which while they never wanted to record it; they do acknowledge it set them up to be able to do everything since. But a lot of Pablo Honey is mediocre.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlhaJqqIfCE

This is also cool; live version of How to Disappear Completely at the start and one of the few Jonny interviews where he speaks. From a documentary on the Ondes Martinot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B92ZgRSM2tI
by Normal_gaussian | 2026-02-27 00:12:08+00:00
I know the underlying call, but I always see the redirect symbols as indicating that "everything" on the big side of the operator fits into a small bit of what is on the small side of the operator. Like a funnel for data. I don't know the origin, but I'm believing my fiction is right regardless. It makes <(...) make intuitive sense.

The comment about "why not &2>&1" is probably the best one on the page, with the answer essentially being that it would complicate the parser too much / add an unnecessary byte to scripts.
by coldtea | 2026-02-27 00:12:15+00:00
>In almost all cases you are still purchasing, consuming, and being targeted in some shape or form.

"In some shape of form" is a quite moved goalpost from "to participate in any hobby you will have to expend significant amounts of dough".

>Show me the hobby, and I will show you the whales that all businesses in that specific hobby will target.

You can spend a fortune even on socks, if you're so inclined. Or pay $1000 for a Juicero. Doesn't mean you have to, which was the claim.
by missedthecue | 2026-02-27 00:12:34+00:00
"Why not … try new industries, play around, try to become the next Mitsubishi or Samsung or General Electric."

Betting the company on becoming a conglomerate is just not a great strategy. It is almost always smarter to focus on what you do best, "core competencies" in MBA-speak.

Positive EV bets are hard to come buy. There aren't an unlimited number of them.
by borroka | 2026-02-27 00:13:17+00:00
I have no professional, personal, or parasocial ties to Musk, so you can safely continue without this having any effect on me beyond a normal conversation, even if contentious.

I would limit the conversation to X, as it is the company that started the famous “you can do the same with 5% (or something like that) of the workforce” movement.

I don't think X is objectively a worse product now, in terms of its technical and technological aspects. This is different from saying that users were better/worse before, and the same goes for the algorithm or the type of information that is “pushed” on the platform.

Let's be honest: people and advertisers left X not because their product was unusable, had a bad UX/UI, etc., but for other non-technical reasons.
by underlipton | 2026-02-27 00:13:28+00:00
I'm not saying that that magnitude of solar generation isn't a good thing. I'm saying that the solar farms of 2050 don't necessarily need to be arrays of panels on top of clear-cut land.

Grazing land is often essentially an ecological desert when compared to previous uses. Farms in general, honestly. Actually, this is a good forward example as agricultural expansion goes hand-in-hand with the Anthropocene die-off, but late advances in land use efficiency via fertilizer and other technologies means that even though these lands are super dead we also require less of them per person. What I'm proposing is analogous to even further development, where you're still somehow able to produce the same volume of food while reintroducing ecological diversity to the same land; moving away from traditional monoculture farms to ultra-efficient food forests. I don't know how you'd do it in farming, but it energy generation, it would probably involve engineering equipment to some level of symbiosis with the preexisting environment. Could we someday build literal forests of photovoltaics that support energy generation as well as a diverse natural ecosystem? Maybe. I'm sure we'll try. And that's why, ultimately, my point is that the idea that solar is an economic dead end is incorrect. This is just one potential branch on a tech tree (heh) that isn't anywhere near done growing.
by quietbritishjim | 2026-02-27 00:13:31+00:00
Interesting, it seems like this might be a UK vs US thing. All the non-dodgy UK results for "income" I found agree with what I thought e.g. "Income less Costs = Profit" [1]

The one exception is HMRC (UK equivalent of IRS) which, for the purposes of corporation tax only, defines income like profit [2] (with some technical differences, but the same spirit). But for other purposes (e.g. personal income tax) even they use it to just literally mean cash received without subtracting off outgoings.

Using it in this net sense seems very odd to me, but maybe that's because I'm British. "Income" and "outgoings" look to me like symmetrical terms, and no one would consider outgoings to be after subtracting off money coming in (would they?!)

[1] https://www.cheapaccounting.co.uk/blog/index.php/income-prof...

[2] https://www.gov.uk/hmrc-internal-manuals/company-taxation-ma...
by cthalupa | 2026-02-27 00:13:56+00:00
Look. I think the Chinese AI companies are doing a lot of good. I'm glad they exist. I'm glad they're relatively advanced. I don't think the entire nation of China is a bunch of villains. I don't think the US, even before the current era, is a bunch of do-gooders.

But China has some of the most imperialist policies in the world. They are just as imperialist as Russia or America. Military contracts are still massive business.

I also believe the petrodollar will fall, but it isn't going to be because China built exponentially more solar panels.
by popalchemist | 2026-02-27 00:14:03+00:00
Japan's economics are mostly rooted in population issues. Have you ever been? Even though wages are stagnant, the people are among the healthiest in the world and they're known for the way their society's public services ACTUALLY work.

Not sure about Italy, but Germany, while not without its problems, is a beacon of democracy, progressivism, and self-correction.
by cogman10 | 2026-02-27 00:14:08+00:00
> neither are the candidates that are getting the most national attention like Talarico

It's a pretty close race with some recent polling indicating that Crockett will win the primary. Impossible to tell though. I clock her as being a more traditional democrat ultimately policy wise.

I'd expect she or Talarico has a good shot at winning in TX. They both have the potential to pivot to a more traditional position in the general election.

My main concern is the current elected leaders of the democrats and how the incoming dems view them. Frankly, if a candidate isn't saying "we need to oust Schumer/Jeffries" then I take that as a pretty decent signal that they align close enough with the moderate position to worry me about the future party.

I worry about the actions of the dems after election. I think they'll win the midterms, maybe even take the senate. I even think there's a good shot that they win 2028 presidental elections. The problem is that I think they'll run a biden style presidency and future campaigns once they get in power. That will setup republicans for an easy win in 2030 and 2032.
by deadbabe | 2026-02-27 00:14:17+00:00
> Vibe coding, on the other hand, is competing against hand coding, and for many use cases is considerably more efficient. It’s clearly replacing a lot of hand coding.

Vibe coding, like 3D printing, is great for little small batch runs of boutique code. Small toy apps and throwaway projects.

Vibe coding is shit for doing actual maintenance on important projects that actually run the world. It is shit for creating anything that is of robust long lasting quality. It is shit for creating code you can trust. It is shit for creating code that won’t suddenly reveal flaws and inefficiencies at scale and require an entire proper rewrite just when your product is finally gaining traction. Vibe coding has not been around long enough to make these problems obvious yet, but the time is coming. A few high profile failures will hit the media and then suddenly everyone starts coming out of the woodwork with their own vibe coding horror stories and thus the AI bubble collapse begins.

What people will eventually realize, is that if you’re building a serious business with software that must run reliably for years, it really doesn’t give you any advantage being able to vibe code something in a week vs carefully building something out over a few months. Being unable to vibe code your way out of non-trivial maintenance issues is a death sentence for your business, you will need people who know what they are doing eventually.

Relying on vibe coding causes you to have a talent debt, and though you won’t feel it when you’re first rolling out a business, eventually, the bill comes due…
by wazzzzup | 2026-02-27 00:14:26+00:00
That isn't right. It notes the U.S. government doesn't collect comprehensive statistics, then it does a decent job citing many alternative data sources that all point the same way: A Brookings Institution estimate, trends over time from National stats of Portugal, Ireland, France, and some scattered datapoints from Spain, Netherlands, UK, Czech Republic, renunciation of citizenship numbers.

Even if it was purely % stats, you don't need a baseline figure for the claim in the headline (Americans are leaving the US in record numbers) just that the number is going up. There's plenty of solid info that this is a real phenomenon. What's uncertain is the magnitude and significance of it.
by tombert | 2026-02-27 00:15:43+00:00
I'm in NYC which I think has similar demographics to SF in this regard; I found my job in August of last year, after about five months of searching, and I found it because a friend of mine referred me. It's a good job, and I like it, I'm grateful for that friend.

Regardless, it's not like that was the only job I applied to. I had a policy of applying to at least ten jobs a day, so I applied to about ~1500 jobs, and literally all of them rejected me except for the one I have right now. I had about twenty other interviews (edit: 15, checked my calendar from last year), a few that got to late stages, and they didn't pan out [1].

I psychotically save money so I wasn't worried in any kind of existential sense, I could survive for years if I needed, but man I would have killed to be in a situation where I even had the opportunity to bail on an offer.

This has been the worst economy for software engineers I've seen in my ~15 year career. I am slightly optimistic that it will improve eventually but I suspect "eventually" might mean several more years.

[1] And one at a one of the world's largest bank (that my lawyer/mom has advised me not to name publicly) where my interviewers were potentially the most incompetent people I have ever talked to and who didn't seem to know what an atomic was in Java, and "corrected" my counter code with a mutex. And I put "corrected" in quotes, because what they corrected it to would deadlock. Morons.
by coldtea | 2026-02-27 00:15:45+00:00
Modernism wasn't about "pushing limits of what's possible" either. It was first and foremost a period style itself. That style included experimentation and "pushing some limits" but art in general wasn't that, then, before or after (which is also why those limits went right back, and literature for example returned to far more classical forms after modernism's era passed - it didn't kept pushing at limits).
by sfink | 2026-02-27 00:16:03+00:00
This is a public note, but directed at the current administration, so reading it as a description of what is or is not moral is completely missing the point. This note is saying (1) we refuse to be used in this way, and (2) we are going to use "mass surveillance of US citizens" as our defensive line because it is at least backed by Constitutional arguments. Those same arguments ought to apply more broadly, but attempts to use them that way have already been trampled on and so would only weaken the arguments as a defense.

If it helps: refusing to tune Claude for domestic surveillance will also enable refusing to do the same for other surveillance, because they can make the honest argument that most things you'd do to improve Claude for any mass surveillance will also assist in domestic mass surveillance.
by stephen_g | 2026-02-27 00:16:35+00:00
I think it's overrated, plenty of equipment has some kind of protection internally anyway.

My country has never had a fuse in the plug and we generally have a very safe electrical system (much stricter earthing rules than the US for example). Adding an extra fuse doesn't really seem to add much, it really doesn't seem to be any kind of significant risk.
by nazgul17 | 2026-02-27 00:16:49+00:00
Trying to be language agnostic: it should be as self-explanatory as possible. 2>&1 is all but.

Why is there a 2 on the left, when the numbers are usually on the right. What's the relationship between 2 and 1? Is the 2 for std err? Is that `&` to mean "reference"? The fact you only grok it if you know POSIX sys calls means it's far from self explanatory. And given the proportion of people that know POSIX sys calls among those that use Bash, I think it's a bit of an elitist syntax.
by ianbutler | 2026-02-27 00:17:12+00:00
They're just saying the job market is hot in the location of the S (San) F (Francisco) B (Bay) A (Area) it's not cryptic, I'll assume you had a brain fart here it happens.

Unless I'm getting whooshed now lol, but yeah the market here is just super hot because all the AI money sloshing around.
by alpaca128 | 2026-02-27 00:17:13+00:00
"users seem to choose velocity over quality pretty consistently"

When do they have a real choice, without vendor lock-in or other pressure?

Windows 11 is 4 years old but until a few months ago barely managed to overtake Windows 10. Despite upgrades that were only "by choice" in the most user hostile sense imaginable (those dark patterns were so misleading I know multiple people who didn't notice that they "agreed" to it, and as it pop ups repeatedly it only takes a single wrong click to mess up). It doesn't look like people are very excited about the "velocity".

In the gaming industry AAA titles being thrown on the market in an unfinished state tends to also not go over well with the users, but there they have more power to make a choice as the market is huge and games aren't necessary tools, and such games rarely recover after a failed launch.
by andsoitis | 2026-02-27 00:17:25+00:00
However, America is right. China’s dominance over critical minerals means that continuing to place full faith in the invisible hand would be naive and unsafe. China has spent decades building control over minerals, bankrolling projects at home and acquiring assets abroad. Its producers have consolidated into behemoths that the state can control and which have the market power to deter would-be competitors by flooding global markets—even if that means taking temporary losses.

America’s task, therefore, is to strike a balance. On the one hand, it needs to insure against the risk that China cuts off exports again, and to deter it from doing so by raising the cost of further restrictions. On the other, it needs to nurture markets.