MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by krapp | 2026-03-01 02:09:50+00:00
To be fair, comments here are graded on kindness, civility, curiosity, intellectual gravity, technical merit, novelty, thoughtfulness, substantiveness, objective fact, not fulminating, not cross examining, steelmanning vs strawmanning, not containing memes, not containing humor, not expressing positive emotion, not expressing negative emotion, not being snarky, sneering, overly cynical, not cynical enough, being "curmudgeonly", class bias, political bias, religious bias, cultural bias, not using "flamewar style" and many other heuristics.

If you followed all of the guidelines for comments to the letter, you would wind up sounding wooden, if not entirely like an AI.
by BobbyTables2 | 2026-03-01 02:10:44+00:00
It’s also stupid in terms of screen real estate.

Earlier Word/CorelDraw/etc had a thin toolbar with lots of functionality. Barely occupied any space at just 800x600 resolution.

Nowadays, the ribbon and all other junk occupy a huge portion of the screen, even at 1920x1080.

It’s amazing how little screen area today actually shows the useful part of a document.

Instead of the Ribbon, a thin context sensitive toolbar would have been more useful.
by WalterBright | 2026-03-01 02:11:33+00:00
The 757 cockpit designers did use the word "intuitive" a lot.

The control stick movements, for example, are intuitive. (Early aircraft did not have control sticks!)

For a crazy example, airplane jargon has specific meanings. "Takeoff Power" officially means full power to take off with. Makes intuitive sense, right? Well, one day the pilot needed to abort a landing, and yelled "takeoff power". The copilot heard "take off power" (note the space), chopped the power, and the airliner crashed. The jargon was changed to "full power".

The Air Force, however, had their own jargon and stuck with "Takeoff Power", until one day they had the same accident and changed the jargon.

For another example, the levers for the flaps have a knob on them shaped like a flap. This way, the pilot has tactile feedback that his hands are on the right lever, and he doesn't need to take his eyes off his other tasks.

For a third example, cockpit designers put in a warning horn for a stall warning. It worked great, and so they put in other warning horns, each with a distinct sound. Unfortunately, the pilots would confuse them, and do the wrong thing. So the "horn" is now a voice that says "stall" (or something like that).

Using words for aural indicators still has not percolated out of the aviation industry. You don't have any for your car, for example. Just chimes, beeps, buzzes, and other primitive and hopeless sounds. Oh, lest I forget to mention, the stupid incomprehensible icons.
by siliconc0w | 2026-03-01 02:11:40+00:00
The problem with "Any Lawful Use" is that the DoD can essentially make that up. They can have an attorney draft a memo and put it in a drawer. The memo can say pretty much anything is legal - there is no judicial or external review outside the executive. If they are caught doing $illegal_thing, they then just need to point the memo. And we've seen this happen numerous times.
by jedberg | 2026-03-01 02:12:12+00:00
From what I can tell, the key difference between Anthropic and OpenAI in this whole thing is that both want the same contract terms, but Antropic wants to enforce those terms via technology, and OpenAI wants to enforce them by ... telling the Government not to violate them.

It's telling that the government is blacklisting the company that wants to do more than enforce the contract with words on paper.
by system2 | 2026-03-01 02:12:17+00:00
Yeah, I figured as much. They don't work natively on iOS. And honestly, I get it. Sync is a key part of the revenue model, and a simple "select your vault from files" option, while it would solve the problem completely, isn't something that makes business sense to just give away. No judgment there. If I'd built something as great as Obsidian, I'd probably make the same call.

Since my only ask was really for a workaround or a link to a solution, I'm guessing there isn't one available, and the suggestion is more about exploring community plugins?
by danny_codes | 2026-03-01 02:12:25+00:00
Palestinians living in the Palestinian Territories are not Israeli citizens and cannot vote. I would say the Palestinian Territories are occupied, not part of Israel (though Bibi definitely has a sizable camp in his government that would love to make it so).

Do we expect occupied peoples to have a vote? sort of depends how you define democracy. Under an American interpretation (no taxation without representation, 1 person 1 vote) there’s a good argument that you should count occupied peoples.

It’s never so simple is it
by hypercube33 | 2026-03-01 02:12:42+00:00
I live in the Midwest and have a car with TPMS and winter and all season tires and it's a $10 thing to tell the car to pair with tires when I swap them. Most mechanics have these too as they service wheels so it's not an issue really. Yeah it messes with the tracking but my car also has wifi I can't turn off without ripping out OnStar.
by dragonwriter | 2026-03-01 02:13:32+00:00
> Korea, Vietnam, Iraq (I and II), Afghanistan, etc. were not technically wars in the sense that there was any form of formal declaration by congress.

(1) A declaration of war is not necessary for a war to legally exist, except in the context of specific US laws that might rely on a declared state of war,

(2) Congress constitutional power to declare war is not dependent on the use of special words; every (conditional or unconditional) “authorization for the use of military force” (including the broad but time limited authorization in the War Powers Act) and similar is an application of the Constitutional power to declare war.
by airstrike | 2026-03-01 02:14:08+00:00
is your prompt literally 1-sentence?

if so, a better approach would be to ask it to first plan that entire task and give it some specific guidance

then once it has the plan, ask it to execute it, preferably by letting it call other subagents that take care of different phases of the implementation while the main loop just merges those worktrees back

it's how you should be using claude code too, btw
by sarchertech | 2026-03-01 02:14:16+00:00
So your evidence is that the internet archive didn’t scrape the document until 23 minutes after midnight? And the most likely explanation isn’t that it took the IA scraper a few minutes to pick it up? The most likely explanation is that the NYT and the Guardian were wrong or lying and that the UN was lying?

Did you even know about the time on the internet archive before I brought it up? You said “within hours” so I assume you didn’t? Where did you hear that it as published on September 1st?
by rayiner | 2026-03-01 02:15:01+00:00
> geared towards providing a thin veneer of reasonability over any form of morality

Arguing “morality” is usually pointless. There’s no need for discussion among people who agree on what’s moral. But where they don’t agree, invoking morality won’t get anyone anywhere.

It’s more productive to instead explain how certain policies follow from moral principles that we may not agree on, but we can at least acknowledge are broadly held in society.

> You have it backwards, and you know it. If Congress wants to invoke natsec concerns to force companies to sell to the federal government, then they have to explicitly say so

Congress did that back in 1950, with the Defense Production Act.
by pear01 | 2026-03-01 02:16:14+00:00
Brings to mind the infamous line from Nixon:

"When the president does it, that means it is not illegal".

This was during the Frost/Nixon interviews, years after he had already resigned. Even after all that, he still believed this and was willing to say it into a camera to the American people. It is apparent many of the people pushing the excesses going on today in government share a shameless adherence to this creed.
by peteforde | 2026-03-01 02:17:07+00:00
I don't regret getting downvoted to talk about how excited I am for PCB Tracer one bit. It's awesome - I've spent the past day pretty much doing nothing but tracing a fairly complex (for me) board.

I do have some feedback, and I've found some bugs. I gave up on your photo manipulation tools and just did manual keystone perspective tweaks in my photo editor. I would happily use your app to do it if it worked, but the keystone thing was super broken for me; the sanest way to make this work would be to have the user drop 4 points on each side and just do it; all of the fussy nudge/scale stuff is really just a half step towards point-based keystones.

Early on I had some pretty serious bugs that emerged when I was jumping between magnification levels. At one point all of my objects were unceremoniously moved off where I'd placed them to whitespace outside of the photo. That sucked. Now I save frequently and only change magnification when I'm in select mode.

I also find that the "fit canvas to window area" is a bit broken when moving between full and partial sized browser windows in Brave on Windows.

However, the biggest bug or behaviour I can't quite figure out is that when I switch to the back view it doesn't seem to reverse the position of the dots and objects placed. I am probably doing it wrong, but still: my strongest feedback currently is that switching sides is awkward at best and slightly broken at worst.

All of that said... I love it! I am thrilled with it. You've made something totally amazing in a short time.
by sillywalk | 2026-03-01 02:17:12+00:00
> On the other hand, what Windows didn't yet support in this era was DirectDraw — i.e. the ability of an app to reserve a part of the screen buffer to draw on itself (or to "run fullscreen" where Windows itself releases its screen-buffer entirely.) Windows apps were windowed apps; and the only way to draw into those windows was to tell Windows GDI to draw for you.

> This gave developers of this era three options, if they wanted to create a graphical app or game that did something "fancy":

> 1. Make it a DOS app.

This vaguely reminds me of WinG[0][1] - the precursor to DirectDraw. It existed only briefly ~ 1994-95.

My vague "understanding" of it was to make DOS games easier to port to Windows. They'd do "quick game graphics stuff" on Device Independent Bitmaps, and WinG would take care of the hardware details.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinG

[1] https://www.gamedeveloper.com/programming/a-whirlwind-tour-o...
by kgdiem | 2026-03-01 02:18:34+00:00
Genuine question, how could Claude have been used for the military action in Venezuela and how could ChatGPT be used for autonomous weapons? Are they arguing about staffers being able to use an LLM to write an email or translate from Arabic to English?

There are far more boring, faster, commodified “AI” systems that I can see as being helpful in autonomous weapons or military operations like image recognition and transcription. Is OpenAI going to resell whisper for a billion dollars?
by bawolff | 2026-03-01 02:19:10+00:00
> with their war machine the likes of which has never been seen, could not bring peace and democracy to Afghanistan.

As far as i understand, the US propped up an unpopular governmet that many of the locals did not like (there were rumours about turning a blind eye to moral impropriety because it was politically expediant).

The thing about democracy is its not really democracy when forced from the outside.
by kepano | 2026-03-01 02:19:33+00:00
Obsidian Headless and Obsidian CLI are two separate things. CLI requires running the full app, and lets you do anything Obsidian can do. Headless doesn't require the app but for now it is just a Sync client.

https://help.obsidian.md/headless

https://help.obsidian.md/cli
by solid_fuel | 2026-03-01 02:19:55+00:00
I have been working on an open-source application designed to be self-hosted, for transcoding video content into HLS and then playout out and remixing the HLS segments into RFC compliant HLS broadcasts, complete with commercial slots. It was mostly born out of frustration with Emby performing poorly when shuffling a playlist of different shows (periodically, a single transcode error results in being booted back to the library screen, without indication of which file it actually encountered an error playing) and a desire for a more retro, tv experience.

I have hesitated moving further on it mostly because I don't know if there's any demand or interest in such a thing, but theoretically it would be pretty easy to set up behind a CDN and get video distribution going.
by mindcrime | 2026-03-01 02:22:02+00:00
As in literally today? I spent some time exploring how to programmatically interact with Docker containers using the docker-java library. Specifically I was playing around with the scenario where a container hosts a program that just listens on stdin, processes the input, and writes to stdout, and another process uses the "docker attach" mechanism to connect to that other container to send/receive messages.

Will I ever use this mechanism for anything, especially compared to the alternatives of using some sort of socket based approach? Possibly not, but I just wanted to play around with it.

Going back a day or two, I've been playing around with SCXML[1] and the Commons SCXML[2] library. It's pretty neat stuff for doing state-machines. Now I want to explore if I can use the underlying state machine machinery in Commons SCXML, without necessarily using an XML file to define the state-machine.

Also spent some time researching other Java based open source libraries for working with state machines. There are a few, but most of them don't seem to be very well supported, which is a hair disappointing.

[1]: https://www.w3.org/TR/scxml/

[2]: https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-scxml/
by deepsquirrelnet | 2026-03-01 02:22:15+00:00
4-bit quantization on newer nvidia hardware is being supported in training as well these days. I believe the gpt-oss models were trained natively in MXFP4, which is a 4-bit floating point / e2m1 (2-exponent, 1 bit mantissa, 1 bit sign).

It doesn't seem terribly common yet though. I think it is challenging to keep it stable.

[1] https://www.opencompute.org/blog/amd-arm-intel-meta-microsof...

[2] https://www.opencompute.org/documents/ocp-microscaling-forma...
by lynndotpy | 2026-03-01 02:22:34+00:00
I agree with this entirely:

> no latency from brain to action is the greatest design you can possibly have. We want to feel one with the machine.

But... I used Windows growing up before switching to Linux, and I've been using a Macbook in recent years. Both Windows and Linux can be configured to run with no animation lag, but AFAIK this is just not possible in MacOS. I can't imagine doing anything serious on MacOS with animation log completely interrupting my train of thought or flow state.

I'm no Windows fan, but at least circa 2019, I know Windows 10 could be configured to be similarly snappy and free of laggy animations.

The greatest sin in MacOS is the immense lag when switching desktops ("Spaces"). It's a baffling design decision, I can't believe it's intentional.
by jedbdbdjdj | 2026-03-01 02:25:08+00:00
No, it’s significantly worse than that. OpenAI has required zero actual guarantees from the government and Sam. The psychopath is lying to you. All the government has to do is have a lawyer say it’s legal, and most of the government’s lawyers are folks who were involved in attempting to overthrow the last election and should’ve been convicted of treason, so that means very little.

Sam stands for nothing except his own greed
by brandonb | 2026-03-01 02:25:27+00:00
Fiber is the ultimate nutritional power tool.

Not only does fiber reduce cardiovascular mortality by 26% (by cutting cholesterol), surprisingly enough, fiber even reduces your risk of cancer by 22%:
https://www.empirical.health/blog/dietary-fiber-reduces-all-...

(Oatmeal is high in fiber, among other things, which I think is part of what's going on here.)
by DaiPlusPlus | 2026-03-01 02:25:32+00:00
> From what I remember it lost the ability to render rounded window corners,

...I'm guessing you haven't used Windows 11?

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By "rounded corners" are you referring to rounded-off corners in the nonclient area (such that the hWnd's rect is not clipped at all)? If so, then no: those would be rendered using a 9-grid[1] and have always been supported.

If you're referring to how so many fan/community-made msstyles for Windows 10 retain the sharp corners, I understand that's not a limitation of DWM or msstyles, just more that you need to do a lot of legwork when defining nontrivial corners in an msstyles theme; it can be done (there are plenty of examples online, e.g. look for Windows XP's style ported to Windows 10), it's just that most people don't go that far.

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[1] In msstyles, the 9-grid defines how a rectangular bitmap is stretched/scaled/tiled to fill a larger area; it's very similar to how CSS image borders are defined with `border-image-slice`.
by judahmeek | 2026-03-01 02:26:05+00:00
That's oversimplifying.

Iranian regime-allied forces were a big part of why Iraq was such a quagmire.

The balance of power in the Middle East is shifting from the Sunni~Shia schism that it once was.

Most of the remaining powers are willing to actually engage in diplomacy with Israel & prefer secular groups to Islamist groups.

There's still personality conflicts, such as the one growing between the heads of Saudi Arabia & the UAE, but the general trend seems to be very promising.
by Birthdayboy1932 | 2026-03-01 02:26:12+00:00
There are many claims here that Anthropic wants to enforce things with technology and OpenAI wants contract enforcement and that OpenAI's contract is weaker.

Can someone help me understand where this is coming from? Anthropic already had a contract that clearly didn't have such restrictions. Their model doesn't seem to be enforcing restrictions either as it seems like their models have been used in ways they don't like. This is not corroborated, I imagine their model was used in the recent Mexico and Venezuela attacks and that is what's triggering all the back and forth.

Also, Dario seemingly is happy about autonomous weapons and was working with the government to build such weapons, why is Anthropic considered the good side here?

https://x.com/morqon/status/2027793990834143346
by tredre3 | 2026-03-01 02:26:42+00:00
> We grant the human a “soul” because we cannot see the trillions of calculations happening in the dark of the skull. We deny the machine a soul simply because we can see the code. We are like children who think a puppet is alive until they see the strings, failing to see how we are just products of the strings of evolution.

Much like children grow up to understand that puppets aren't alive, we'll grow up to understand that LLMs aren't alive.

> ethics boards will strictly prohibit a scientist from testing or manipulating a petri dish of human neurons under certain painful or destructive conditions because of the “sanctity” of the biological material.

This doesn't seem to be true. The closest thing I've found is this paper that suggests maybe eventually we should consider discussing the ethical implications of playing with cerebral organoids: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/cambridge-quarterly-...
by AIorNot | 2026-03-01 02:27:16+00:00
The idiots out there defending this should realize nearly every pronouncement out of the Trump administration is textbook example of “facism lite” (ie how much fascim will the US let the trump administration get away with)

Ie when fascist movement takes power:

Independent institutions are weakened or dismantled. Courts are subordinated to the executive. Regional governments lose autonomy. Legislatures either become rubber stamps or are dissolved. Emergency powers are often invoked and then made permanent.

Second, they eliminate political opposition. Rival parties are banned. Opposition leaders are jailed, exiled, or killed. Trade unions are dissolved or absorbed into state-controlled structures. Elections, if they continue, become symbolic rather than competitive.

Third, they cultivate loyalty to a single leader. The regime builds a personality cult around a figure presented as the embodiment of the nation. Loyalty shifts from constitution and law to the leader personally. Oaths of allegiance are often rewritten to bind military, civil servants, and professionals directly to that individual.

Fourth, they fuse nationalism with identity politics. The state defines a “true people” and casts minorities, dissidents, or outsiders as internal enemies. This often leads to discriminatory laws and, in extreme cases, ethnic cleansing or genocide, as occurred under Adolf Hitler.

Fifth, they control information. Independent media is suppressed or co-opted. Propaganda becomes a primary governing tool. Education systems are reshaped to reinforce ideology. Culture, art, and science are pressured to align with the state narrative.

Sixth, they militarize society. Paramilitary groups are normalized or integrated into state power. Public life adopts martial symbols and rhetoric. Foreign policy often becomes expansionist, framed as reclaiming national greatness.

Seventh, they restructure the economy around state direction and political loyalty. Private property may remain formally intact, but major industries operate in alignment with state priorities. Business leaders who cooperate are rewarded; those who resist are sidelined or punished.

The through-line is loyalty over legality. Institutions stop being neutral frameworks and become instruments of the ruling ideology. The regime reframes dissent as treason and criticism as sabotage.
by deaux | 2026-03-01 02:28:36+00:00
That, combined with extreme short-termism and unbridled optimism. All three probably having a similar root cause.

And we see this across the board. A canonical one that remains prevalent: "If only people would've come out and voted for Kamala in 2024, we wouldn't be in this mess". But then if you follow the pattern, with the candidate she was and what she would've done, this would've secured an ultra-MAGA victory in 2028 (and likely already by 2026 midterms). One more extreme, more devious, more intelligent from the get-go than the current one. People like to cling to "but you don't know that for sure", which is true, but we do know that with about 90% certainty. Betting on 10% is an awful idea and is indeed what has gotten you to where you're at.

It's the single biggest reason for the huge power shift from the US to China. Almost anything that China does is based on long-term consequences. Pain today for gain over time. Of course there are counterexamples, but by and large this holds.

In this case, sure, many Iranians will be happy for a day - especially overseas. So that's what people focus on. People have entirely lost the ability to think realistically in years. Of course part of this is biological, we're monkeys. But there are many reasons to believe that this ability has greatly declined over the last 50 years, particularly in the West and especially in the US.
by throwaway290 | 2026-03-01 02:28:41+00:00
nope. actually I remember I had that model first and yes I still don't care. simply the least annoying light compared to other bright color leds in a room. doesn't stand close to liquid glass chaos.

loved battery level indicators on old macbooks too, they kind of brought it back with led on magsafe except this new led is more annoying.
by zezaeoh | 2026-03-01 02:28:55+00:00
Should we seek the dopamine reward of creativity in writing code?
Isn't delivering the value created through the developed results to users itself a creative act?

Will the ability to review code (which is important now) become important in the future?
Is it necessary to have a pipeline to nurture seniors?

Wouldn't it be more important to define clear requirements, verify that the resulting code operates properly within various guardrails, and clearly communicate the designed value, than to be able to review code?