MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by salawat | 2026-02-27 19:41:48+00:00
RDD is using an external object, the rubber duck, as an external anchor from which to project sub/unconscious processing elements onto. Think about it. Your brain doesn't know the difference between imagining an interaction, and actually having the interaction. The passive duck, even as little more than a passive anchor to project mental faculties not currently employable without consciousness destabilization, still gets you into an "effective collaboratory mode" with yourself. Like have you ever tried and succeeded at RDD without the external focus? Tis' a pain in the ass. The addition of a model that isn't your brain* spitting out output just gets registered as just another message from somebody's brain matter, not yours. I am increasingly looking at generative coding with an LLM as having a substantive rewriting effect on expectations around how computers are capable of behaving. This isn't just transform hiding a pile of abstractions that our brains mirroring systems can accurately feed forward, giving us a sense of interoception and the ability to kinesthetically navigate and "feel" what we're doing with the machine or how the machine should behave given our inputs. It just does. It breaks the rules. We're helpless in the face of knowing or simulating what's next. This forces neurons to start to rewire. Rewiring and severing of old connections in times of great change, at least to me, comes with feelings indistinguishable from acute depression. Please don't ask how I know. It should, in theory, settle down given enough time to learn the quirks of a specific snapshot of a model, and probably flare up again after substantial changes to weights occur. Our brains, like it or not, are specifically designed to use anything outside themselves to "pour" subconscious faculties into.

Just started messing with these things, and it at least to me seems to resonate.
by nowittyusername | 2026-02-27 19:42:25+00:00
For me at least its an interesting project I can take apart and build on top of. I've built 100% my own agent frameworks from scratch and have learned a lot from them. There is something to be said on learning from others projects as well, also because its an ever evolving project with so many contributes whatever fork you go with of your own, theirs a good chance the new goodies will work with your own modified version. For example I'm looking in to LCM right now, and woo-dent you know it someone ported it to openclaw. But nanobot doesn't have it, so I'm considering working on the LCM port to that. If i succeed i will learn a lot and also contribute to progress in my own little ways.
by scott_w | 2026-02-27 19:42:33+00:00
> You say the consultancy “absolutely can substitute one worker with another.” In practice, clients regularly contract for named individuals, reject substitutes, and retain the same person for years. But it does not matter, because the substitution test is never applied to them. A one-person company in identical working conditions has to defend its right of substitution. A large firm placing a single named worker in the same arrangement is never asked the question.

It's a good thing that HMRC don't apply this as the only test then.

> From a pure tax yield perspective,

This is totally irrelevant to the discussion. In fact, the rest of this paragraph is irrelevant because it's just you going off on some rant you derived from a Communist Party pamphlet or something.

> Because the legislation is scoped by ownership.

Not only ownership, it's a mixture of factors. I've worked with other IT workers who fall outside the scope of IR35.

Plumbers and electricians fall outside the scope of IR35 in most situations, despite being single person limited companies. You say it's triggered by ownership structure, yet these businesses follow the same ownership structure without triggering IR35. If it's triggered by ownership structure and classism, how does this fit into your thesis?

> If you think that framing is wrong, explain why the ownership trigger exists rather than a universal status test applied equally to all companies supplying labour. That is the question.

I already did and so did you right here:

> Picture three people sitting next to each other doing the same job at the same client. One is employed directly on £70k. One works for a large consultancy, earns £60k, and has no idea the consultancy charges £2k a day for their labour. One runs their own company and charges £600 a day. The employee pays income tax and NI on £70k. The consultancy worker pays income tax and NI on £60k

These three situations create three completely different contracts, working structures and, thus, tax arrangements! It's wild how you seem to get it but your brain won't allow you to see the answer that's staring you in the face.
by thewebguyd | 2026-02-27 19:43:00+00:00
I don't use e-ink, but I have astigmatism and dark themes are difficult for me to read, especially really dark high contrast themes (white text on black background), so I pretty much use light themes almost exclusively, even at night (I just turn my brightness down).

So I agree, default to whatever you want but definitely keep an option for a light theme available for those few of us that prefer it.

FWIW I don't prefer white themes either, I like something like solarized light or gruvbox light
by thangalin | 2026-02-27 19:43:02+00:00
The first life-like sketch of an amniote shows a critter chasing a dragonfly. Sir William Dawson's diorama from "Air Breathers of the Coal Period" (1863), is based largely on the fossil record at Joggins, Nova Scotia, and is one of the earliest reconstructions of the Coal Age wetlands.

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Sir-William-Dawsons-dior...

Our knowledge of that time period has expanded so much since 1863. In my book, I asked the illustrator to give a nod to Dawson's drawing by having an amniote chase a dragonfly:

https://impacts.to/downloads/lowres/impacts.pdf#page=18
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2026-02-27 19:43:51+00:00
> When you’re up against an authoritarian regime, that’s willing to abuse all the levers of power against you, you very carefully pick your fights and don’t give them any reason to complain about anything that isn’t essential.

While I am not claiming that you're wrong in this particular instance, or in general, I think it is important to note that there are people who absolutely disagree with you about this, some of whom who have lived in extremely authoritarian regimes. I'm not saying they're right, either, but just highlighting that there is no clearly obvious right/wrong on this point.
by johnnyanmac | 2026-02-27 19:44:34+00:00
These feel like all the things a proper "Web 3.0" should have solved. We have decades of lessons learned that we could apply with a soft reboot to how we envision the web.

Instead it's just piling on a dozen layers of dependencies. Webassembly feels like the only real glimmer of what the "next generation" could have been like.
by Scoundreller | 2026-02-27 19:44:37+00:00
That’s the mark-to-market change, no?

Since they bought bitcoin while their stock was worth ~2-4x what it is today, I’d say the “arbitrage paper certificates for digital 1s and 0s” play worked out pretty well overall.

Bought btc for $10k and $51k (about 60/40 respectively) and it’s trading for $65k 5 years later. Dunno what other buying/selling they may have done.

From Wikipedia:

> In October 2020, Square put approximately 1% of their total assets ($50 million) in Bitcoin (4,709 bitcoins), citing Bitcoin's "potential to be a more ubiquitous currency in the future" as their main reasoning.[52] The company purchased approximately 3,318 bitcoins in February 2021 for a cost of around $170 million, bringing Square's total holdings to around 8,027 bitcoins (equivalent to around US$500 million in 2021, around US$481 million as of July 2024).[53]
by yoyohello13 | 2026-02-27 19:44:44+00:00
It's hilarious watching people discover security again. Everyone plugging their favorite sandbox technology. Yes, sand boxing processes is a thing that has existed for a long time and there are a million tools that do it. Systemd has it built in for example. Even claude code itself has sandboxing and permissions built in.

Process isolation is not the danger with OpenClaw. Giving an LLM access to all your shit is the problem. My solution is to treat it like a human, give it it's own accounts, scoped to what you want it to do and accept the risks associated with that. If I had a human assistant I wanted to read my email, I'd set up an inbox for them specifically and forward what I want them to screen. I don't use OpenClaw, but have a similar harness I built that runs as an unprivileged Linux user with access to just what I want it to access.

I know it's not in vogue to actually know how technology works anymore, but we have literally decades worth of technology solutions for authentication/authorization, just fucking use it.
by mrwh | 2026-02-27 19:45:02+00:00
It's cold outside

There's no kind of atmosphere

I'm all alone

More or less

Let me fly
Far away from here

Fun fun fun

In the sun sun sun

I want to lie

Shipwrecked and comatose

Drinking fresh

Mango juice

Goldfish shoals

Nibbling at my toes

Fun fun fun

In the sun sun sun

Fun fun fun
In the sun sun sun
by al_borland | 2026-02-27 19:45:29+00:00
I had to go to the screenshots to see what you thought the expected answer was (left).

This is one of those questions that could have multiple answers, or require follow up questions, depending on how pedantic the asker wants to be.

Trick question, the island was in a lake, you’re nowhere near the ocean.

Trick question, it’s a small island and the ocean is all around you, not just on the left. How big must an island before this isn’t true? Is it a line of sight question?
by tony2016 | 2026-02-27 19:45:46+00:00
10,000 employees for what? I never thought of Block to be that big.
If Elon came in, he would probably fire 80% meaning 8000. Like he did with Twitter/X and Twitter ran fine this whole time.

It's nice that the laid off employees are treated better than many other places. Everywhere I worked, laid off employees were instantly cut off from all access. I would say my goodbyes to them later through LinkedIn.
by Frannky | 2026-02-27 19:46:19+00:00
I recently installed Zeroclaw instead of OpenClaw on a new VPS(It seems a little safer). It wasn’t as straightforward as OpenClaw, but it was easy to setup. I added skills that call endpoints and also cron jobs to trigger recurrent skills. The endpoints are hosted on a separate VPS running FastAPI (Hetzner, ~$12/month for two vps).

I’m assuming the claw might eventually be compromised. If that happens, the damage is limited: they could steal the GLM coding API key (which has a fixed monthly cost, so no risk of huge bills), spam the endpoints (which are rate-limited), or access a Telegram bot I use specifically for this project
by guywithahat | 2026-02-27 19:47:03+00:00
I will say, to his credit, he has tried to make it clear the cuts weren't about money but do to tech and organizational shifts. https://x.com/jack/status/2027129697092731343?s=20

He phrases it as due to redundant overhead for cashapp and square, plus a move to smaller, flatter teams as a result of AI. Not saying he's going to be right just that they're profitable and I believe this isn't a money thing.
by gzson79 | 2026-02-27 19:47:14+00:00
Dashboard is a Qt6 desktop overlay where widgets are shared libraries
(.so files) loaded at runtime via QPluginLoader. Drop a plugin into the
plugins/ directory and it appears in the picker immediately — no rebuild,
no restart.

**Why I built it**

I wanted glanceable system info (CPU, memory, logs) alongside productivity
widgets (todo, pomodoro, AI chat) in a single persistent window I could
arrange freely. Existing solutions were either too rigid or required a
specific DE.

**Architecture**

Each widget implements a small C++ interface (IWidget):

QString name() const;
QWidget* createWidget(WidgetContext*, QWidget* parent);
void saveState(QJsonObject&);
void loadState(const QJsonObject&);

The host application (PluginLoader → WidgetManager → WidgetCanvas) handles
discovery, layout, and serialization. Widget state is stored as per-instance
JSON files under ~/.config/Dashboard/widget-data/.

**Widgets included (12)**

Clock, Calendar, Todo, Notes, Pomodoro, Countdown, Links, Weather
(Open-Meteo — no API key), System Status (/proc), Htop, AI Chat (OpenAI),
Log Tail (file or systemd journal).

**Distribution**

AppImage built on ubuntu-22.04 (GLIBC 2.35) and Flatpak (org.kde.Platform
6.9, app ID io.github.duh_dashboard.Dashboard). Both bundle Qt and all 12
plugins. The AppImage build uses linuxdeploy + patchelf to fix up plugin
RPATHs so Qt is found at $APPDIR/usr/lib/.

**SDK**

There's a widget-sdk package (CMake, installs headers + a cmake target) and
a Python scaffolding script that generates a complete, buildable widget
skeleton from a name. Each first-party widget is its own independent repo.

Repo: https://github.com/duh-dashboard/dashboard
Releases: https://github.com/duh-dashboard/dashboard/releases
SDK: https://github.com/duh-dashboard/widget-sdk
by FrustratedMonky | 2026-02-27 19:47:25+00:00
this "The start of a slide into a new post-truth dark age?"

Not sure we'll evolutionarily get out of the loop this time.

From 2016 to 2026. That is 10 years for Republicans to realize they are being grifted, scammed, etc... Not sure they will ever be realizing it. Will take another generation. Which I guess is the point, another generation of evolution cycles might break the loop.
by Aurornis | 2026-02-27 19:47:28+00:00
> A doctor is typically scheduled at 6 patients/hour.

This is untrue. General practice physicians are usually at 3 patients per hour. Some specialists can get in the range or 5 or more per hour if assistants handle most of the prep and work.

The average across all specialties is around 3, though.

> In that time they also have to chart, walk between rooms, make up time for the other patients that inevitably went over time, et cetera. The doctor you're seeing probably has a goal of only talking to you for 3 minutes.

I've been through two different medical systems due to job changes/moving. Both of them gave me the option of a 20 minute or 40 minute appointment slot, with the latter requiring some pre-screening to be approved by the staff. I got the time every time I went.

If your doctor is only giving you 3 minutes you need to find a new one.
by Flashtoo | 2026-02-27 19:47:37+00:00
This is true beyond software. It used to be that the proof of the thinking process was in the resulting artifact. No longer can you estimate from the existence of a piece of text and the level of polish behind it that the apparent author has put at least a reasonable amount of thought into it. This applies to comments, blogs, emails, and most troublingly I've seen this happen at my job with things like requirement specs. Now, the veneer of quality makes it much harder to know what is the appropriate amount of skepticism to judge the contents with. And it's too tiring to be maximally skeptical about everything.
by mghackerlady | 2026-02-27 19:47:48+00:00
I meant the userland specifically. By calling what is fundamentally a GNU system running on a different kernel just "linux" it makes people think linux and his crew made all of the userland, in part because saying a college student made "an entire operating system" is far more profitable for news agencies than acknowledging his important but overall relatively small role in what they call "linux"
by ai_fry_ur_brain | 2026-02-27 19:48:19+00:00
Lmao, press briefings from the office of the führer is such a solid source to base your reality off of.

By the way if Kamala, Biden or Newsom was in office id also call them führer.

We live in a technocratic authoritarian state, the worlds largest prison population, the most police executions, we are actively sponsoring multiple genocides, we've killed over one million civilions in the middle east in two decades.

our politicians on both sides will go out of their way to protect pedophilic members of the ruling class...

But you want to tell us we're exaggerating or interpreting a reality that doesnt exist, i think youre the one who's been convinced through the regimes doublespeak that everythings alright.

Please revaluate. The US government is literally the 4th reich and actively committing halocausts on multiple fronts.
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2026-02-27 19:48:29+00:00
Under US Code, it is the US Congress that names departments. It is not up to an individual officer in the US military, or the administration, to rename them.

I'm expending a fraction of a fraction of 1% on this, and I am in no way defending the euphimism. I am defending the actual written down, legal way in the US government is supposed to operate, which despite its many failings, seems worth defending to me.
by k310 | 2026-02-27 19:48:57+00:00
Sounds to me that this is how kids learn to spin their own operating systems (a la LFS, Gentoo)and apps.

This is how people bought personal computers when the mainframe priesthood banned them.

It appears that very soon, young people will "de facto" need to have this level of competence in order to survive and thrive in a world of "in loco parentis" operating systems and apps.

The latin reveals my age, but one thing about my age:

People my age did exactly that. We built our own hardware when there was none. We compiled (or copied) operating systems and apps. A couple of my friends wrote an operating system and a C compiler.

"My generation" created this entire internet thingy, installed and web-based apps.

Indeed, dumb-asses are going to level up young people.
by mftrhu | 2026-02-27 19:49:23+00:00
Yes. In five years, once the PMOS devs manage to get a 2025 device in working state, they might have less devices to play around with, so there could be an indirect effect on the project.

What I struggle to believe - what I don't believe - is that there any sort of connection between the report about likely declining sales and PMOS' announcement.
by davorak | 2026-02-27 19:49:51+00:00
I do not think the law provides guidance here. The signal is only required when children are the primary device/account users. So one model would be any initial account set up is automatically considered the 'account holder' and not a child account. Then it would be prerogative of the 'account holder' to set up child accounts or not. That seems to fit into the spirt and literal parts of the law.

So grep/ls/etc are all installed as part of that 'account holder' and do not need to do any age verification.

The signal only needs to be checked when the device/account user is a child and when downloading apps. I think an unfortunate consequence here is that the literal definition of the law says package managers probably can not run on children accounts without jumping through a bunch of hoops. Which is bad for children learning code/computers/etc.

The first thing I would change about this law would be:

> (b) (1) A developer shall request a signal with respect to a particular user from an operating system provider or a covered application store when the application is downloaded and launched.

Any application that does not need to know a users age should not be required request the 'signal'
by a4isms | 2026-02-27 19:49:53+00:00
A very famous application of QuadTrees was Bill Gosper's HashLife algorithm for computing Conway's Game of Life. The Life universe is implemented as a quadtree, taking advantage of precomputed smaller squares to compute larger squares.

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

https://raganwald.com/2017/01/12/time-space-life-as-we-know-...
by maxglute | 2026-02-27 19:50:36+00:00
>the hundreds of ghost cities

There's a reason ghost city wiki article got renamed to underoccupied developments. There't aren't 100s of ghost cities. Either way this case of building housing runway, considering PRC urbanization rates = 100s of millions still need to urbanize, prebuilding housing stock is just runway.

RE bubble did not nearly destroy PRC economy, it's the 2-3% difference between 5% gdp and 7-8%. 2-3% of gdp is misallocation, but compared to US spending 8% more on healthcare vs oced peers for worse results, it's not gross misallocation. BTW the 1T+ HSR network in PRC? That's 6 months of US surplus health spending. Even the most wasteful shit in PRC west harps about is basically moderate waste that delivers abundant surplus. VS west's moderate-extravagant waste that delivers paperwork.

>that apply in the U.S

See PRC nail houses. PRC eminent domain in many ways stricter than US, difference is PRC can afford to pay peasants lavishly to gtfo.

>plenty of lobbying in China as well.

Yes of course, lobbying/corruption/capture, it's part of any system. The point is system can use it to boost abundance, others scoliosis. What's better, corruption that builds more infra or corruption that bills more meetings.

And to circle back on topic, vis as vis PRC MIC, corruption = more hardware because more hardware = more graft. The side effect of more hardware = cheaper per unit cost due to economies of scale.
by Bender | 2026-02-27 19:50:58+00:00
Results will vary wildly by the individual and how deficient in magnesium and other elements they are in addition to the root causes of their stressors such as hormone imbalances and specifically Cortisol levels and root causes for these levels. Not a doctor not that they would know. I am an arrogant principal armchair commander.

There are things that induce relaxation but the affects of those will also vary wildly and come with some minor risks such as Kava,
Valerian root, Ashwagandha, Passionflower, CBD, and L-Theanine but all of those can have paradoxical effects depending on the person. It is quite literally impossible to generalize. People must study themselves and experiment if they are not risk averse.
by ai_fry_ur_brain | 2026-02-27 19:51:01+00:00
We've killed over 1mm civilians in the middle east over the last two decades, have hundreds of our own concentration camps (prisons). You would have been rooting for the nazis if born i. Germany in the 1930s like you are now. You are a nazi, sorry you will be remembered as one in history. I could care less about what a Nazi thinks about himself
by asdff | 2026-02-27 19:51:06+00:00
Even today seems like speech to texts works like it did 25 years ago where its breaking up sentences into individual words and trying to match the individual words. So you might get these stupid nonsense sentences from similar sounding words. It isn't like an old school human transcriber where they might miss words on the recording but they can fill in the blanks using their own knowledge of the language or how the speaker talks.
by morpheuskafka | 2026-02-27 19:51:33+00:00
How is trading a stock "skimming money from your retirement account." You choose to put your retirement money in the market, that doesn't imply others shouldn't be able to trade in that market for other reasons. Not sure what you mean by "legitimate business settles daily" -- are you suggesting stocks should trade only once a day? (They already do settle as opposed to trade daily, not instantly, but I know that's not what you meant.) If you want a lower liquidity asset that's not volume traded for whatever reason, you're welcome to buy bonds, preferred, etc.
by johnnyanmac | 2026-02-27 19:52:14+00:00
We get into transpiling and we essentially start to rebuild yet another cross platform framework. Starts with "read this filetype and turn it into this layout" and it ends up with "we'll make sure this can deploy on X,Y,Z,W..."

It'd be nice if companies could just play nice and agree on a standard interface. That's the one good thing the web managed to do. It's just stuck to what's ultimately 3 decades of tech debt from a prototype document reader made in a few weeks.