MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bluGill | 2026-02-23 01:12:39+00:00
If someone is contacting you in the middle of the night when it isn't a genuine emergency you need to apply social pressure. If something were to happen to my mom in the middle of the night I hope people don't wait until I'm awake to call. If a coworker sitting in an airport at 3am waiting on a transfer it is basic social norms that they will not call me.

You should leave your phone on when you are asleep with full trust and confidence that you won't be disturbed except in a real emergency. The do-not-disturb mode is for Friday nights where they is no way for someone to know if you are the theater or just chilling at home - the latter is an acceptable time to call.
by cyberax | 2026-02-23 01:13:07+00:00
> In the US too, reading is generally handled in Kindergarten, the year before first grade.

I keep hearing that students in the US struggle with reading. With something like 60% of students not being able to read proficiently.

Inlcuding a truly stunning case of a valedictorian high school graduate who couldn't read: https://www.kktv.com/2025/02/28/former-high-school-honors-st... Or the "whole language" approach to reading, which sounds completely bonkers to me.
by nurettin | 2026-02-23 01:13:14+00:00
I did earn some bread with vba as well, and always advocate for efficiency, but I just opened a 12MB xlsx file in LO, and it took a couple of seconds on a 2024 thinkpad.

As far as I remember, my Win 3.11 machine (a 486 DX with 4MB RAM and 30MB HDD) wouldn't be able to store or open such a file, let alone recognize the extension. Also, it would call the file 2026022~.XL~ or something. And it took more than a couple of seconds to load office programs for sure. It would take well over a minute to load a book from a 1.44MB floppy.

Anyway, software and computers have come a long way and I'm grateful for it.
by supern0va | 2026-02-23 01:14:25+00:00
My impression is that it's a lack of remixing. I don't think recreating the exact same joke with different people in the video is particularly novel. It seems less like meme/remix culture and more like how you find a slightly different version of the same item (or literally a repackaged item from the same factory) for sale on Amazon from fifty different "brands" that have random ass names.

The meme could be good. The mixes could be good. But...is that what is actually happening? Or is someone hoping to create their own version that gets view in competition with the original so they can squeeze out some monetization from a trend and hoping the algorithm lotto smiles upon them?
by fennecbutt | 2026-02-23 01:14:27+00:00
Ehehe look how downvoted you are - which literally proves the point.

Humans are a bunch of greedy selfish tribal bastards, aren't we?

Don't worry, I've had similar down voting whenever I've suggested that owning more than one home in a broken housing market shouldn't be allowed.

People make noises about being all in this together but will work against it actually happening, especially Americans (see: your tragic healthcare system).

Actually laughable that in 2026 we could automate most if not all basic human needs to the point that they're free. But you know, we don't.
by tptacek | 2026-02-23 01:15:06+00:00
I'm not sure how interesting you can make an axiomatic derivation of the claim that police departments widely have upper-end IQ cutoffs (or, more likely given that virtually no police departments administer actual IQ tests, high-end cutoffs on their existing domain-specific written tests).

The fact is that there are a very small number of cases where tiny departments decades ago (a) administered IQ tests for recruits, and (b) disqualified at least one candidate for exceeding a threshold. That's all the empirical evidence there is. That evidence cannot itself support the weight of the extraordinary claim that police departments generally disqualify applicants for exceptional cognitive skills.

In fact, the opposite thing is more likely to be the truth.
by ordu | 2026-02-23 01:15:18+00:00
> You can write a parser for org. See for example https://github.com/tgbugs/laundry.

Oh, there are a lot of incomplete parsers. This one is not an exception:

> Status

> Laundry can parse most of Org syntax, though there are still issues with the correctness of the parse in a number of cases.

> In particular there are a number of edge cases in the interaction between the syntax for various Org objects that have not been resolved.

I have my own parser as a pest grammar. It has just the basic features. This Laundry seems to implement more of org-mode, but I don't care anymore really, because I believe that org-mode will not be reimplemented.

> In part this is because the lack of a standard has not blocked most use cases since emacs is open source and can run almost anywhere.

I have some inexplicable aversion to an idea starting elisp interpreter just because my program needs org-mode parser. But even if I could integrate elisp into my program as easy as I do with lua, I probably wouldn't do it, because parser in lisp doesn't really solves the problem, it simplifies it a bit (I don't need to deal with the grammar) but shifts to another level: I need to learn how org-mode is represented as a lisp object. I need to reverse engineer the formal definition of that recursive object to deal with it, or turn on defensive programming expecting anything.

The only realistic way of dealing with org mode is to write code for emacs. There are exceptions of this rule, like pandoc, but I don't trust them.
by _pdp_ | 2026-02-23 01:15:23+00:00
They are not totally full of it.

But state of the art models are not free. GLM 5 and Kimi K2.5 are both open-source and they are much better models than the ones we used to pay for a year ago. Now we get them for free. This is certainly having an effect on all model providers which either need to adjust to new market realities or risk to loose market share and we know which thing they are not going to do.
by fakedang | 2026-02-23 01:15:32+00:00
Is it possible to acquire used refurbished laptops over new Chromebooks? A lot of companies tend to swap their corporate laptops every few years or so, and those usually happen to be solid Dells or ThinkPads with no faults whatsoever. If you can get a hold of any such corporate entity and work with them, you might be able to secure them for as low as ~$250 per piece.

I am currently using a refurb for personal use right now and I've been using it without any issues since 2023, not because I'm wanting for money but because you don't replace what hasn't broken yet.
by bigstrat2003 | 2026-02-23 01:15:35+00:00
That is unfortunately the truth of it. There are distressingly few people in the US these days who actually have a principled belief in freedom of speech. Both the left and the right talk up freedom of speech when they are out of power, but are quite willing to destroy it when they are in power. I would give my left proverbial for a political party that actually protects freedom of speech.
by ghssds | 2026-02-23 01:16:50+00:00
> not a single novelist has realized that such a singularity would almost surely be preceded by a world in which machines are 0.01% intelligent (say), and in which millions of real people would be able to interact with them freely at essentially no cost.

Aren't Asimov's Multivac stories basicaly this? Humans build a powerful computer with a conversational interface helping them doing all kind of science and stuff, then before they know they become Multivac's pets.
by martin-t | 2026-02-23 01:16:58+00:00
> I don't believe that punishment can be just

I've encountered such opinions before but never cared to engage with them since they seem utterly alien to me. Can you give me a summary of your opinions or links to some materials?

There are multiple goals to a punishment - e.g.:

- Deterrence
- Protection of others / prevention of re-offense
- Removal of aggressor from community to minimize further trauma for the victim by having to interact with him
- Restitution
- Retribution
- Vindication
- Removing any gains from the offense from the aggressor
- Further disadvantaging of the aggressor to make up for `expected_gains * probability_of_getting_caught`
- Further disadvantaging of the aggressor to put negative evolutionary pressure on such behavior
- Separation of the aggressor from others to prevent him from normalizing / spreading his behavior

These few are just off the top of my head, not all apply to all offenses, and not everyone will agree all of these are desired by their favorite society. But how do you achieve any, let along most, of them without punishment?
by hirvi74 | 2026-02-23 01:17:02+00:00
How exciting!

I am atrocious at mathematics and held much contempt for the field until I was in college and 'saw the light,' if you will. Since college, I have absolutely fallen in love with mathematics. I learned it was not mathematics I always hated, but the U.S. public education system's method of teaching mathematics.

While I am still quite weak in the matter, I do believe that I will be preordering a copy of this book. Thank you for sharing this.
by DiogenesKynikos | 2026-02-23 01:17:19+00:00
We don't really manage it with speaking. I don't understand highland Scottish dialects at all. I have trouble understanding Cockney.

Yet people who speak those dialects can write anything down and I'll understand it perfectly with no effort.

You don't understand the value of standardization. It's what makes reading fast and independent of dialect. People who read English don't literally sound out the letters. They recognize the whole word instantly. Sounding out the letters is only a fallback mechanism.

What you're proposing might work for a tiny language with only one main dialect. English is a global language with a huge number of dialects. Major languages like this need standardized writing systems, and to no one's surprise, they all have them.
by fluidcruft | 2026-02-23 01:18:24+00:00
In the US generally it's "oh hey there do you wanna pay to play charades for a decade with our sadistic jackal lawyers who enjoy nothing less than finding ways to cause pain and bankrupt you so that if you somehow manage to survive financially long enough to prevail in court you will at best enjoy a pyrrhic victory while we shrug off the loss as a rounding error?"
by locusofself | 2026-02-23 01:19:13+00:00
I realize this does nothing to solve your problem, but for the sake of discusion, internally at Microsoft, pretty much all the developers I know have switched to using "Devbox", which means we use a remote desktop client to access our dev machine.

A lot of us resisted this at first, but then just kindof came to accept it, and it made it so we have a lot more capable machines to do development on than the laptops that we would have to recycle every couple years.

I know there have probably been a lot of "thin client" products/services in the education space in the past, but I think it might be time to try again.

Like another poster here, I think it's "sad" that kids are using laptops. Laptops have small screens and poor ergonomics.

A thin client setup with a good keyboard, mouse and monitor could be better and more affordable / future proof.
by runarberg | 2026-02-23 01:20:14+00:00
When I searched for "its in the tfa meaning" this was my third result on Duck Duck Go:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19781756

When I searched for "tfa internet meaning", The fifth result looked helpful so I clicked it, and it was:

https://www.noslang.com/search/tfa

Searching the internet wasn’t hard before AI, and it isn’t hard today.
by hogwasher | 2026-02-23 01:20:14+00:00
I think it is important to remember that only a tiny, tiny fraction of most facebook groups is actually posting, commenting, or even viewing the group at any given moment. Most people who view don't post/comment. (True of reddit and other social media as well.)

And the thing about poorly moderated groups (especially on platforms with rage-boosting algorithms) that let assholes go off without consequences is: the people who both a) actually look at the group ever and b) aren't assholes either leave entirely, stop looking at the group, and stop posting/commenting to the group (if they ever did in the first place). They go find places to hang out where there aren't a bunch of assholes. Nobody wants to hang out with the assholes when they can easily just not.

And at the same time, the assholes all gravitate to the same few places because they get kicked out of all the other places. Or if they don't get kicked out outright, they get shouted down or ignored, which they hate. So instead they congregate where they can get away with or get praised for saying whatever vile things they want.
by bluGill | 2026-02-23 01:20:22+00:00
That depends on how much time it takes. Newborns grow up fast, in a few years he (she? - I'll assume he for convenience, adjust if you have better information) will have a kid needing to get between soccer and violin (or some such things). If there isn't too much effort he can find time for this project and it will help his life to have it all working.

We have no way of knowing, but it would not be at all a surprise if he has more kids in a few year - which makes accurate calendars around the house even more useful as everyone needs to know what everyone else is doing.
by ocdtrekkie | 2026-02-23 01:20:26+00:00
The issue with them being a monopolist is less about competition and more about the fact them penalizing you on one of their products can result in them deleting you from the Internet. You can lose decades of email history, the ability to publish apps on over half of the mobile devices on the globe, etc.

In Europe the Digital Services Act (DSA) is beginning to set expectations, particularly for large platforms about not just clear documentation of their terms, but also a meaningful human appeal process with transparency and communication requirements for actions taken.

The DSA is more focused on social networks, but if you were to apply the concepts of the DSA to this story, Google would have violated it several times over.
by marojejian | 2026-02-23 01:21:01+00:00
OK, I admit to posting this mostly for immature reasons. And TFA is light light on detail. But it is still interesting to learn such details, and fun that someone (hopefully still) gets funding for this.

Also, I had thought grinning in animals, including primates, was usually a sign of aggression. It's like unsheathing your knife. I'm curious how that would relate here.
by rfv6723 | 2026-02-23 01:21:19+00:00
This scenario echoes the fatal flaw of 19th-century Marxist theory by assuming that surging productivity leads to a permanent reserve army of the unemployed and systemic collapse. Marx failed to foresee how the 20th-century economy would elastically adapt through the birth of a massive service sector that absorbed labor displaced by industrial automation.

While this Global Intelligence Crisis assumes a rigid endgame where machines spend nothing and humans lose everything, it ignores the historical reality that human desires are infinite. As AI commoditizes current white-collar tasks, the economy will pivot toward new and currently unimaginable domains of human value. A 19th-century economist could never have predicted the rise of cybersecurity or the creator economy, and we are likely in a similar pre-prediction stage today. Betting against human adaptability has been a losing trade for two hundred years because our social and economic structures have always evolved to find new utility for human agency.
by rramadass | 2026-02-23 01:21:28+00:00
From Book Details;

a brief tour of six core ideas—numbers, algebra, geometry, probability, analysis, and dynamics—that capture the beauty and power of mathematical thinking for everyone.

In Six Math Essentials, the renowned mathematician and Fields Medalist Terence Tao introduces readers to six central concepts that have guided mathematicians from antiquity to the frontiers of what we know today and now help us make sense of our complex world. This slim, elegant volume explores

numbers as the gateway to quantitative thinking;

algebra as the gateway to abstraction;

geometry as a way to calculate beyond what we can see;

probability as a tool to navigate uncertainty with rigorous thinking;

analysis as a means to tame the very large or the very small; and

dynamics as the mathematics of change.

Six Math Essentials—Tao’s first popular math book

Terence Tao's comment :- This book is for a general audience, without necessarily having a college-level math education. It is aimed more at adults than at children, but some children with an interest in mathematics may be able to get something out of it.

It is just 160 pages so must be information dense with no fluff. I am sold !

PS: Another book in the same (but easier) vein would be Ian Stewart's classic Concepts of Modern Mathematics - https://store.doverpublications.com/products/9780486284248
by carshodev | 2026-02-23 01:22:04+00:00
It's not unfair its how every business works. When your product is new or not yet good enough and you want people to try it you give them discounts, or if you want to drive traffic to your service you also do the same.

Even traditional businesses do this with coupons. Is it unfair that Costco sells chickens for under cost because it drives usage to them?

Companies like Uber did use massive funding and price subsidization to try and kill competition and then take a monopoly, but it is hard to assert that this is what google is doing now. And given that other competitors in the space, Anthropic are doing the exact same thing again its not as though they are alone.

Also they could be subsidizing it because they want that usage type as it helps them train models better.

Chatgpt and gpt4 were all ran at a loss and subsidized people just didn't know that. Almost all of the llm companies have been selling 1 dollar of llm compute for 50 cents as they valued the usage, training data, and users more than making profit now.

This next generation of MOE and other newly trained models. Like opus 4.6, Cursor Composer 1.5, gpt 5.3 codex, and many of the others have been the first models where these companies are actually profitably serving the tokens at the api cost.

This year has been the switch where ai companies are actually thinking of becoming profitable instead of just focusing on research and development.
by dotancohen | 2026-02-23 01:22:07+00:00
> Imagine the cost of installing 1MW chargers on, say, half the wide spots on every highway.

Do those spots have lighting? If so, a significant portion of the work has already been done. Even if the electrical wiring must be supplemented or replaced, just having already the subinfrastructure to snake high voltage wiring up there is the major hurdle.
by NewsaHackO | 2026-02-23 01:22:17+00:00
> Essentially these are unfair business practices, product cross subsidization to ensure market dominance.

Offering a different discounted rate for a service, though their first-party platform is not an unfair business practice whatsoever, though. The bar isn't what you disagree with, or what you think their motives are without any substantial proof. They could even make a honest argument that they can aggressively key-value cache default prompts from their own software reducing inference costs.

>See also: Microsoft and a whole bunch of other companies.

What does that have to do with Google?
by wizzwizz4 | 2026-02-23 01:23:21+00:00
By its own logic (which, I will note, is also wrong):

> Strip them out and you get the words wrong — you miss the referents, the implications, the connections between sentences.

this proves that ProofOfConcept doesn't comprehend this topic. And since:

> The comprehension is the demonstration.

this means ProofOfConcept fails the demonstration.
by scuff3d | 2026-02-23 01:23:29+00:00
You might get access to the model for free. The hardware to do anything useful with it certainly isn't.

Anthropic and Google shutting down access to their API for third party tools, OpenAI inserting ads into the platform... I'm sure it will stop here. Absolutely no more fuckery. And all these huge LLM companies are going to go from burning literally billions (in some case trillions) to being insanely profitable without putting the screws to users. We definitely aren't going to see the same pattern that's played out across essentially every other platform play out again... Nope definitely not.
by danielheath | 2026-02-23 01:23:37+00:00
I did a similar thing with a regular backlit computer screen.

It automatically shuts off after 30 seconds of inactivity.

I added a $3 webcam, and use openCV to detect motion. If three consecutive frames (sampled 0.5s apart) are each sufficiently difficult from the previous one, it attaches a virtual USB mouse, then moves it one pixel.

This wakes up the display whenever you walk past, then puts it back to sleep again when you stop moving.

The motion-detection pipeline uses less than 0.3% CPU on an intel N100 (6w TDP).
by ordu | 2026-02-23 01:24:27+00:00
> Work toward standardization has been stalled because I (among others) have not had time to circle back to work on it.

I tried to not to react to this, but, I'm sorry, I'm too much of a troll to just leave it without commenting.

Of course you have no time to write a formal definition. No one has time for that, and no one will have time for this. Because at this stage it is practically impossible. The parser was written as a bunch of regexps intermixed with lisp code. All edge cases were baked into org-mode because those regexps are the definition of org-mode. To write a formal grammar you need to catch all those edge cases, and to reproduce the behavior of the existing parser.

In retrospect, the parser should've been replaced with a formal grammar definition at much earlier stage, when it was possible to replace parser with another one, which is similar but generally incompatible because it deals with edge cases in a different ways. When the time was missed those edge-cases became a legacy you cannot fix.
by armchairhacker | 2026-02-23 01:24:33+00:00
Laptops can be useful: they can (and should) be locked down, and there’s lots of digital media that teaches effectively, probably even better than anything on paper.

(EDIT: Actually, probably not better than paper. I remember a study that note-taking by hand produced significantly better scores than typing; moreover, drawing is easier on paper, and some assignments are better drawn. But laptops can still be useful, and some assignments (like coding) are better digital. So ultimately, I think laptops should be incorporated alongside pen-and-paper.)

For 2) I agree with the general idea (“static” websites should never be slow), but the aforementioned digital media includes some that can run on low specs. Worst case, you can give students PDFs of physical assignments (with form elements to put answers); but I’m sure there are some minimal websites with K-5 material.
by rramadass | 2026-02-23 01:24:43+00:00
You might find the couple of books that i mention in my other comments here useful;

Concepts of Modern Mathematics by Ian Stewart - https://store.doverpublications.com/products/9780486284248

Elements of Mathematics: From Euclid to Gödel by John Stillwell - https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691171685/el...

Both of them give a nice tour of various domains within modern mathematics and their inter-relationships which is what i believe is most important to understand for a general reader.
by vx_r | 2026-02-23 01:25:21+00:00
To be honest, on android there are a plenty options that work quite well within OS to reduce typos to almost 0%. Once I switched to iOS, the experience has been shockingly instable with no proper custom keyboard support. I mean, it is 2026. But just got too old to be switching OS back and forth. Physcial keyboards coming back for the save seems like one company doing one simple thing so wrong that people yearn for it. Maybe that was the play to make even more revenue. Sounds like an idea for new apple accessory. Create problem, sell the solution.