MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tmp10423288442 | 2026-02-26 23:47:23+00:00
Could you link where you're getting the PISA scores from? I've seen references that PISA was not conducted in all 50 states, at least recently. Also, I can't get a breakdown of "US States and Territories" for 2022 on the PISA website at https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/pisa/idepisa/report.aspx
by tomhow | 2026-02-26 23:47:23+00:00
Sure, I was just addressing the apparent dissatisfaction that some accounts remain active despite posting “moronic” comments, and pointing out that we can't moderate HN according to our judgement of someone's comments being “moronic”, we can only apply the guidelines that everyone on HN agrees to be governed by. (To expand on that: “moronic” will mean different things to different people depending on their worldview; whereas the guidelines and our application of them need to be defensible, regardless of the position.)

We hope that people will take the opportunity that HN offers, to be exposed to different points of view, if only because it helps you to become more knowledgeable and confident about your own positions. We understand not everyone is here for that!
by kazinator | 2026-02-26 23:47:26+00:00
It's not inconsistent. The & is attached to the redirection operator, not to the 1 token. The file descriptor being redirected is also attached:

Thus you cannot write:

2 > &1

You also cannot write

2 >& 1

However you may write

2>& 1

The n>& is one clump.
by joshhart | 2026-02-26 23:47:38+00:00
If you have good ideas that have a nice return on investment and leverage existing skills, sure. If you don’t have good opportunity laying around, best for the business to switch to maintenance mode, which means cutting staff. Or maybe cut staff, then use equity to buy growth via acquisition. It really depends on the business. Block’s growth has slowed so perhaps this would have happened anyway and AI is just what’s getting the blame.
by bdangubic | 2026-02-26 23:48:04+00:00
the both sides does not hold water … imagine if Kamala was elected President and did 0.1% of the shit that was done in the last 14 months - like just imagine if she sent military to places where we have actual crime like Houston TX … the country would be literally burning right now. so “both sides” is very played argument I would stay away from
by Refreeze5224 | 2026-02-26 23:48:06+00:00
A fundamental attribute of capitalism is that labor costs are a regrettable cost center, and any reduction in labor costs without a resulting loss in profit/perceived productivity is a big win. AI is a big win for capitalists, and not so much for anyone who is now suddenly "made redundant". And since we treat shareholder value as sacred and inviolate, too bad for workers who lose their job in this deal.
by signatoremo | 2026-02-26 23:48:10+00:00
Standing up to the US government has real and serious sequence. Peter Hegseth threatened to make Anthropic supply chain risk, meaning not only is Anthropic likely dropped as Pentagon’s supplier, but also risk losing companies doing business with the military as customers, such as Boeing or Lockheed Martin. Whatever tactic you think he is doing, that’s potentially massive revenue lost, at the time they need any business they can get.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-02-26 23:48:18+00:00
metalman's comment is great as well but if you are interested here is the archive.org link to the article.

https://web.archive.org/web/20260226214404/https://garymarcu...

I think this should just go work. Hope this helps.

Edit: this is my first time using archive.org for susbtack and looks like it doesn't work/ shows page not found after some time.

I have now used singlefile to get the index.html and put it to github pages for anyone to see.

https://serjaimelannister.github.io/american-article/

And I have also created an archive of the GH page itself, here's the link to archive.org itself as well which should work

https://web.archive.org/web/20260226235745/https://serjaimel...
by Liftyee | 2026-02-26 23:48:37+00:00
It's a pervasive Chinese phone problem. I've used many and they all have "Battery saving" features on by default, which means killing background apps after a while apparently. Battery life is great, but newly installed apps sometimes don't work as they should.

The market demands must be different there. I've disabled "battery optimisation" for all the apps I need to stay open (and some apps even prompt me to disable it!), and I don't have any issues in daily use.
by garciasn | 2026-02-26 23:49:02+00:00
TIL of Bikeshedding, or Parkinson’s Law of Triviality.

Defined as the tendency for teams to devote disproportionate time and energy to trivial, easy-to-understand issues while neglecting complex, high-stakes decisions. Originating from the example of arguing over a bike shed's color instead of a nuclear plant's design, it represents a wasteful focus on minor details.

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

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I deal with this day in and day out. Thank you for informing me of the word that describes the laughable nightmares I deal with on the regular.
by gib444 | 2026-02-26 23:49:24+00:00
Funny you say that, I actually just did a company tax return and confirmation statement a couple of days in the midst of bad COVID (2 hours sleep per night) and I was still annoyed about the multi-step process:

1) gov.uk, search for 'file confirmation statement'

2) Despite there being a sole autocomplete result and clicking on it, taken to the search results page

3) Click the first result. Turns out it's the guidance page

4) Go back, click the second result. We're getting warmer

5) Click "Start Now"

6) Get redirected to the 'Sign in to WebFiling' landing page. You can't actually sign on on this page.

7) Click 'Continue'

8) Another landing/explainer page! ("We're taking you to GOV.UK One Login to sign in to this service")

9) Click 'Go to GOV.UK One Login'

10) You think we're done yet? Think again. Another landing page!

11) Click "Sign in"

12) Think they'd let you just enter an email and password on one page? Nope! Enter email

13) Click Continue

14) Enter password

Finally...

No idea how anyone who doesn't work for GDS can justify this. It's mad
by slg | 2026-02-26 23:49:50+00:00
I disagree. There is a class of leaders in this country that is complicit with the administrations use of violence on the tacit understanding that the violence not be directed at them. Arresting one of those people would be an act of desperation that would likely cause the rats to flea the sinking ship. And it isn't even clear if Trump could actually manufacture any charges here. Look at the dropped charges against Mark Kelly and those other politicians as an example. The administration might be able to make up stories to arrest random immigrants and college kids, but they clearly haven't been able to indiscriminately jail powerful political opponents.

Meanwhile, Dario knows his product can't be trusted to actually decide who should live and who should die, so what happens the first time his hypothetical AI killing machines make the wrong decision? Who gets the blame for that? Would the American government be willing to throw him under the bus in the face of international outrage? It's certainly a possibility.
by ishandeveloper | 2026-02-26 23:50:47+00:00
I totally resonate with you. Craft takes time, and that's completely valid. We're not focused on filmmakers right now, though we'd love to have them eventually.

That's also why we built a full editor alongside the agentic experience. Use AI where it helps, like finding the right shot or removing silences, and do the rest manually. And if you'd rather finish in your editor of choice, we support XML export for Premiere, DaVinci, etc.

And agreed, there's really no substitute for the kind of intentionality Herzog brings to his work :)
by post-it | 2026-02-26 23:50:50+00:00
I've never felt nagged. Every time I get one of those popups, which isn't too often, I think "neat, good to know."

It's inconvenient that apps can't do long-running operations in the background outside of a few areas, but that's a design feature of the platform. Users of iOS are choosing to give up the ability to run torrent clients or whatever in exchange for knowing that an app isn't going to destroy their battery life in the background.
by serf | 2026-02-26 23:51:04+00:00
"Sam Altman reports GPT4o asking about rabbits before execution"

"Elon Musk reportedly sobbed while watching Grok 4's aflame viking boat sink to the bottom of the sea."

the anthropomorphization that's normal now is just fuckin ridiculous. it reminds me of the furby craze , and i'm like one of the most optimistic people I know of regarding AI.
by senko | 2026-02-26 23:51:11+00:00
This is one of the best (if not the best) layoff letters I've seen online (no affiliation, don't know anyone working there, purely outsider perspective).

* Severance packages upfront because realistically that's what everyone worries about first.

* Reasoning second. I appreciate the one clean cut vs prolonged bleeding.

* Owning the decision and respecting the people that got you there. Opting for an awkward allhands vs breakup-via-text-message.

* Giving people a chance to say goodbye.

Not gonna go into strategic analysis of this, or Jack's leadership style in general.

But realistically, you can't pen a better (or, well, less bad) layoff announcement.
by kazinator | 2026-02-26 23:51:12+00:00
The point is that the order in which that is processed is not left to right.

First the | pipe is established as fd [1]. And then 2>&1 duplicates that pipe into [2]. I.e. right to left: opposite to left-to-right processing of redirections.

When you need to capture both standard error and standard output to a file, you must have them in this order:

bob > file 2>&1

It cannot be:

bob 2>&1 > file

Because then the 2>&1 redirection is performed first (and usually does nothing because stderr and stdout are already the same, pointing to your terminal). Then > file redirects only stdout.

But if you change > file to | process, then it's fine! process gets the combined error and regular output.
by garciasn | 2026-02-26 23:51:17+00:00
Remember, this is the same administration that barred the AP from the Oval Office because they wouldn't rename the Gulf of Mexico. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/11/associated-p...

While this action may indeed cause the DoD to blacklist Anthropic from doing business w/the government, they probably were being as careful as they could be not to double down on the nose-thumbing.
by ai-christianson | 2026-02-26 23:51:54+00:00
It's really interesting to see Anthropic taking such a firm stance here. Given their focus on AI safety and constitutional AI, this feels like a major test of those principles in the real world. I wonder how this will affect their future relationship with government contracts, or if we'll see a shift toward other providers who might be more flexible. It's a tough line to walk between innovation and ethics.
by jpollock | 2026-02-26 23:52:12+00:00
There are a couple of ways to figure out.

open a terminal (OSX/Linux) and type:

man dup

open a browser window and search for:

man dup

Both will bring up the man page for the function call.

To get recursive, you can try:

man man unix

(the unix is important, otherwise it gives you manly men)
by anitil | 2026-02-26 23:52:18+00:00
I ran in to a couple problems when trying that script (details below), but I'm really happy that you shared it, because I had not seen ':windo diffthis' before, and that method of scripting diffs. I'll definitely be customising it!

(I found that my mac machine doesn't support the '-printf' option, and also I was attempting to run 'git bvd main' on a branch but it seems it does a recursive directory diff, so I'll use 'git diff --name-only' as the input to the awk command).
by scannyai | 2026-02-26 23:52:57+00:00
Let's have an honest conversation.

You've seen the headlines. "AI Will Replace 300 Million Jobs." "Automation Is Coming For Your Career." "The Rise of the Machines." If you work in data entry, document processing, administrative support, or any role that involves repetitive tasks—you've probably felt that knot in your stomach.

We build automation software. And yes, we're going to give you an honest answer to the question you're really asking: "Is this going to replace me?"

The short answer: No, but it will change your job—and that change might be exactly what you've been waiting for.
by brooke2k | 2026-02-26 23:53:00+00:00
The constant reference to "democracy" as the thing that makes us good and them bad is so frustrating to me because we are _barely_ a democracy.

We are ruled by a two-party state. Nobody else has any power or any chance at power. How is that really much better than a one-party state?

Actually, these two parties are so fundamentally ANTI-democracy that they are currently having a very public battle of "who can gerrymander the most" across multiple states.

Our "elections" are barely more useful than the "elections" in one-party states like North Korea and China. We have an entire, completely legal industry based around corporate interests telling politicians what to do (it's called "lobbying"). Our campaign finance laws allow corporations to donate infinite amounts of money to politician's campaigns through SuperPACs. People are given two choices to vote for, and those choices are based on who licks corporation boots the best, and who follows the party line the best. Because we're definitely a Democracy.

There are no laws against bribing supreme court justices, and in fact there is compelling evidence that multiple supreme court justices have regularly taken bribes - and nothing is done about this. And yet we're a good, democratic country, right? And other countries are evil and corrupt.

The current president is stretching executive power as far as it possibly can go. He has a secret police of thugs abducting people around the country. Many of them - completely innocent people - have been sent to a brutal concentration camp in El Salvador. But I suppose a gay hairdresser with a green card deserves that, right? Because we're a democracy, not like those other evil countries.

He's also threatining to invade Greenland, and has already kidnapped the president of Venezuela - but that's ok, because we're Good. Other countries who invade people are Bad though.

And now that same president is trying to nationalize elections, clearly to make them even less fair than they already are, and nobody's stopping him. How is that democratic exactly?

Sorry for the long rant, but it just majorly pisses me off when I read something like this that constantly refers to the US as a good democracy and other countries as evil autocracies.

We are not that much better than them. We suck. It's bad for us to use mass surveillance on their citizens, just like it's bad to use mass surveillance on our citizens.

And yet we will do it anyways, just like China will do it anyways, because we are ultimately not that different.
by benlivengood | 2026-02-26 23:53:04+00:00
Without 802.1X (EAP), there isn't really a way to achieve client isolation against inside attackers who can mount mc-mitm [0] attacks against base stations and clients. The basic problem is single shared secrets that allow anyone who knows it to act as any of the participants (which also breaks privacy). Unfortunately the infrastructure for EAP is unwieldy for unmanaged devices.

The real solution is zero-trust network access which gets closer to reality with passkeys; the last mile will be internal (LAN) devices that need a way to provision trusted identities (Bluetooth proximity, QR codes, physical presence buttons, etc.). Quite a pain for smartbulbs or other numerous IoT. If ZTNA is solved then 802.1x is trivial as well for e.g. preventing bandwidth stealing.

EDIT: I guess Matter is leading the way here. I need to do some more reading/learning on that.

[0] https://www.rit.edu/wisplab/sites/rit.edu.wisplab/files/2022...
by jjcm | 2026-02-26 23:55:02+00:00
This is the strongest statement in the post:

> They have threatened to remove us from their systems if we maintain these safeguards; they have also threatened to designate us a “supply chain risk”—a label reserved for US adversaries, never before applied to an American company—and to invoke the Defense Production Act to force the safeguards’ removal. These latter two threats are inherently contradictory: one labels us a security risk; the other labels Claude as essential to national security.

This contradictory messaging puts to rest any doubt that this is a strong arm by the governemnt to allow any use. I really like Anthropic's approach here, which is to in turn state that they're happy to help the Governemnt move off of Anthropic. It's a messaging ploy for sure, but it puts the ball in the current administration's court.
by parl_match | 2026-02-26 23:55:03+00:00
> Show me the hobby, and I will show you the whales that all businesses in that specific hobby will target.

Sure, they can exist. Does that mean you are obligated to purchase?

> And you see plenty of movie enthusiasts optimizing for 4K displays, high fidelity sound, or falling deep into IP-driven subcultures like Disney-fanatics

It almost sounds like the most exciting part of a hobby for you is buying things.
by adastra22 | 2026-02-26 23:55:26+00:00
You’re getting many replies, and having scrolled through much of them I do not see one that actually answers your question truthfully.

The reason why there is an explicit call out for surveillance on American citizens is because there are unquestionable constitutional protections in place for American citizens on American soil.

There is a strong argument that can be made that using AI to mass surveil Americans within US territory is not only morally objectionable, but also illegal and unconstitutional.

There are laws on the books that allow for it right now, through workarounds grandfathered in from an earlier era when mass surveillance was just not possible, and these are what Dario is referencing in this blog post. These laws may be unconstitutional, and pushing this to be a legal fight, may result in the Department of War losing its ability to surveil entirely. They may not want to risk that.

I wish that our constitution provided such protections for all peoples. It does not. The pragmatic thing to do then is to focus on protecting the rights that are explicitly enumerated in the constitution, since that has the strongest legal basis.
by GeoAtreides | 2026-02-26 23:56:02+00:00
I wrote this, currently at -2 points, a mere 24 hours ago, as a response to simonw unbounded and unwarranted optimism:

>>We're three years into the ChatGPT revolution now and so far the main observable impact on the craft that I care about is that I can build more ambitious things.

>I think you refuse to extrapolate the obvious consequences and have forgotten (if you ever knew) how it's like to be in trenches. You put on the horse blinders of 'easy to build' on the left and 'so much fun' on the right and happily trot on, while the wolves of white collar job automation are closing in for the middle class.

>You believe that we'll all become cyborg centaurs, while the managers believe we'll all become redundant. You think people will care about the sideslop everyone will build, not seeing that 'everyone will build' means 'no one will care'. Worse, means no one will buy (knowledge| skill|creation).

>Indeed we have not tipped over into the abyss, but we're teetering and the wind is picking up. It's not the end times, it's not AGI, it doesn't have to be AGI to wreck great damage on the economy, our craft and, ultimately, our way of life and our minds.

>And the wind is picking up, faster and faster.

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47159008
by tetha | 2026-02-26 23:56:05+00:00
Also, I have been called a bit of a hard-ass for this, but if the junior author of some piece of code is not able to explain to me why it is written that way or how they would extend it in a few reasonable cases, I consider that a problem.

This is orthogonal to both if it is well thought-out/naive/really strange code, or LLM generated/LLM assisted/hand written code. If there is a good understanding of the task and the goals behind it, the tools become secondary. If skills are lacking, it will end up a mess no matter the tools and it needs teaching.

Most of us could run stable servers with just ssh and vi. Would suck a lot though.
by giobox | 2026-02-26 23:56:17+00:00
> Is X profitable?... the issue was whether Twitter could make money and remain a viable business. It seems that Twitter is no longer a viable business...

In fairness, this issue was extremely live before Musk bought the company in '22. While I'm prepared to accept Musk has made things worse, Twitter was hardly a "viable" or money-making enterprise under prior ownership either - it lost money in six of the eight years it was a publicly traded company, and had been losing large amounts in the two years prior to Musk buying.
by pbnjeh | 2026-02-26 23:56:32+00:00
1) As I saw Rossman recommend the other day, once Android phones are locked down, just get an iPhone. I’ve had a Pixel 8 Pro and was considering the upcoming 11. If this lockdown goes through, I guess not.

2) I hope the lockdowns don’t strangle tethering. My other consideration is to use whatever phone for calls, texts, and “secure” apps. The rest I’ll do on an unrestricted device that just uses the phone as a data connection. More crap to carry, but crap that does what I want and need and not what “they” insist upon.
by atleastoptimal | 2026-02-26 23:56:46+00:00
I was concerned originally when I heard that Anthropic, who often professed to being the "good guy" AI company who would always prioritize human welfare, opted to sell priority access to their models to the Pentagon in the first place.

The devil's advocate position in their favor I imagine would be that they believe some AI lab would inevitably be the one to serve the military industrial complex, and overall it's better that the one with the most inflexible moral code be the one to do it.
by Fischgericht | 2026-02-26 23:56:55+00:00
No, China wasn't "on my mind". Last been there two weeks ago. I am well aware that China in most areas is lightyears ahead of the Western world. I like highspeed trains ;)

I really meant what I wrote: Compare the environment. Pretty much everybody in Shenzhen hates Shenzhen. People live in tiny apartments. And not because they are poor: Even if you have money, you live in such a tiny box. Because everybody understands that Shenzhen is a Machine, and you are a part of that machine. Your goal is to one day be able to have made enough money to be able to exit that system, and unlike the USA, that actually really works.

Want to build electronics manufacturing and be able to compete with Shenzhen? Start by first building 50,000 box apartments of 200 square feet in size. Next step: Find 50,000 US Americans who want to work in that machine.

So yes, when it comes to electronics, it's not so much about getting poisoned by a poisoned nature, but by suffering in another way.

For clothes it's a different matter, for example. There you still have the oldschool stuff - want the US to be able to compete? Let's give the kids some cancer!

Let me try to re-phrase: Go to the place where stuff is successfully made that you want to in-source into the USA. Then make an informed decision if you really want the baggage that comes with it at home.

I am massively benefitting from something like Shenzhen existing on this planet. It is so effective and productive because it was designed for that from the ground up. Would I want anything like Shenzhen anywhere near me? Hell no!

Most US Americans asking for re-industrialization have neither worked in those industries nor even have a clue what it feels like working in those industries. The people who are asking for these industrial jobs to be re-created are those who do not have any intention to take one of those jobs.