MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Hizonner | 2026-03-06 16:54:13+00:00
> You get to pick it, it isn't mandatory that it be checked, and it doesn't need to be a date, just the bucket. Is that still too onerous?

Yes, because (a) it wouldn't do anything, and (b) it would take about 5 seconds for the morons who push this stuff to start whining about that fact, and using the fact that "Society(TM) has mandated this and people are avoiding it" to demand effective verification, which would be a huge disaster.

They won't be placated by anything short of total victory, and if you give them anything, you're just enouraging them.
by the_af | 2026-03-06 16:54:29+00:00
This is entering fantasy land.

There's no effective way of Russia to militarily help Venezuela and strike any US carrier. Same with China. You haven't proposed any because there is no feasible way.

Even if they could, such action would have been followed by the US knocking Venezuela out and taking them out of the equation. A neighboring ally of an actively engaged hostile power wouldn't be "left to its own devices".
by tgsovlerkhgsel | 2026-03-06 16:54:29+00:00
China has long surpassed most countries in per-capita emissions and is still on an upward trajectory. India is on an upward trajectory but still below the world average. The US and Canada are higher than China but on a downward trajectory. The EU is on a downward trajectory and below China.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/co-emissions-per-capita
by bitwize | 2026-03-06 16:54:38+00:00
Corporate speak, as satirized in the Weird Al hit "Mission Statement", actually serves an important social function. It signals "I'm one of you, the business class, I will align my goals with those of the organization."

It's like that phenomenon of, you have these British people, Hyacinth Bucket types. They want to be seen as upper class when they're not. So they speak in an overly polite register that they think makes them sound upper class. Actual aristocrats, by contrast, speak rather plainly amongst each other. They know where they are in society, and they know that everyone else who matters also knows.

Similarly, the people who speak of operationalizing new strategies and leveraging core competencies are trying to sound impressive to those below, and like good little do bees to those above. The people who lead an organization to success speak in terms of the actual problems they encounter and the real things that need to be done to solve them.
by kspacewalk2 | 2026-03-06 16:54:54+00:00
Most US tourism is domestic, the effect of a 12% drop in international tourism arrivals is a rounding error even for the US tourism industry as a whole, much less the US economy overall (tourism is 3% of total, compared to ~10% in other major tourist destinations like France).

Emoting and wishful thinking is exactly right, and I say that as a Canadian who is participating in this boycott. I'm not doing it to hurt the US economy, because I know it won't matter one bit even if we all stay away. It'll hurt some border destinations, but will hardly register in most places. Facts are facts.
by SoftTalker | 2026-03-06 16:55:02+00:00
Most of OOP and design patterns was yet another attempt to make it possible for lower-ability (i.e. cheaper) developers to be productive. Just like dimensional lumber and standards like "wall studs are spaced 16 inches on center" made it possible for a lower-ability carpenter to frame a house and have everything fit together properly. Though in the latter case, it actually was successful.
by pinkmuffinere | 2026-03-06 16:55:11+00:00
> U.S. Customs and Border Protection told a Court of International Trade judge on Friday that it is not currently able to comply with his order to begin refunding reciprocal tariffs imposed last year by President Donald Trump, which the Supreme Court recently ruled are illegal.

> ...

> “Customs knows how to do this,” Eaton said during a court hearing on Wednesday. “They do it every day. They liquidate entries and make refunds.”

It seems that CBP doesn't even provide a _reason_ for their inability to comply with the order (or this is some bad reporting and the reason was left out). I find that humorous and disappointing.
by saalweachter | 2026-03-06 16:55:18+00:00
It's probably just that it doesn't feel like there's much to "get" there.

If you go south you get sun and beaches. The coastal regions of Canada will be comparable to the coastal regions of New England and the Pacific Northwest, so there's no need to go all the way there if that's the sort of beach you're looking for.

Likewise your outdoors, your cities and restaurants and museums are all going to be about the same as the options available in the US, just further away. It's not really "exotic".

We don't really have the same emigrant relationship with Canada; my grandfather's family spent a couple generations in Canada, but my mother only found out about it after he died. He considered his family to be Irish and to have come from Ireland; that they came to the US via a couple of generations spent in New Brunswick was never a part of the family lore.

So there's no real "visiting the home of my ancestors" sort of feeling you'd otherwise see.
by Zak | 2026-03-06 16:55:40+00:00
That wasn't the standard on the Mac, and looks like it still isn't. That platform has a strong tradition of utility apps that add to or modify core OS functions, and when I looked up "essential mac utilities" today, I found recent listicles with items like Alt Tab (an app switcher), Magnet (window management shortcuts), and TinkerTool (change hidden system settings - exactly like emoji toggles for iPhone).

The iPhone was a big departure from that.
by wizzwizz4 | 2026-03-06 16:55:55+00:00
So, those of us with no suede in this race, who will see no reward from the system anyway, are the only people who can be trusted to make change. That means you and I (and I dare say a significant portion of the populace).

It's not obvious what we can do (individual actions taken within the context of a system are dwarfed by structural forces of the system), but we're the only ones who are going to do it. So, let's assume we did fix things, and we're looking back from 2050, doing a retrospective. What things did we end up doing, that got us to that point?
by DennisP | 2026-03-06 16:56:17+00:00
Seems like chronometers would be a case where two are better than one, because the mistakes are analog. If they don't exactly agree, just take the average. You'll have more error than if you were lucky enough to take the better chronometer, but less than if you had taken only the worse one. Minimizing the worst case is probably the best way to stay off the rocks.
by tasty_freeze | 2026-03-06 16:56:21+00:00
Considering the scale that we are burning oil and gas, our sequestration efforts would have to be comparable. Continuing to burn oil and gas and trying to recapture it is madness, like realizing you are driving way too fast and instead of taking your foot off the gas, you keep flooring it but start applying the brakes.

If we could actually grow trees to capture carbon equivalent to 250M+ barrel of oil per day, it would be better to just grow trees and burn them for energy.
by transcriptase | 2026-03-06 16:56:28+00:00
Would a PhD student incorporate something into their model that flipped their results from agreeing to disagreeing with the premise that has not only practically become a religion, but forms the foundation for more and more funding flowing into their field each year?

Would they really want to risk being basically excommunicated from their area of research for daring to provide ammo to “climate change deniers”?
by Breza | 2026-03-06 16:56:33+00:00
One of my favorite challenges to give data science candidates is to generate a dataset with a column for date and a column for attendance. With some added noise, attendance started at 1000 and decreased by two per day. I showed a year of data and asked them to predict the value a month from now. It was astonishing how many candidates come up with complicated approaches, like randomizing the data into train/test/validation groups (the wrong thing to do for a time series).

I don't think any of my applicants so far has double clicked the file to open it in Excel, plotted the data, and saw just how linear it was. You could follow the line with your finger and come up with a decent prediction. Maybe do that in ggplot2 or matplotlib if you want to show you can write code. Even a quick lm(dta$date ~ dta$attendance) would get you great results.
by myrmidon | 2026-03-06 16:56:39+00:00
> India and China are continuing to build fossil fuel power generation

Power plants are not built for specific national governments, they are built because individual people need and use the energy. More people => more powerplants (number of governments is completely irrelevant, this is purely a per-capita thing).

> When we address climate change, we have to do so at the government level

Yes. For example by setting somewhat coherent CO2/capita emission targets.

> Global warming does not care about 'fairness'

Irrelevant, because anyone affected does.

If you want a global reduction in emissions, how would you ever convince a poorer nation (like India) to change anything while your own citizens are jet-travelling around the globe multiple times per year?

It is obviously much easier and more effective to reduce emissions by limiting a family to a single cruise vacation per year (or only two cars) than to convince 10 rice farmers to stop firing their oven for heat during winter...

If rich nations can not get their emissions even close to a sustainable level, why would any developing nation sacrifice growth, wealth or anything, really, to make the attempt?
by orphea | 2026-03-06 16:56:48+00:00
While I have your attention - let me wish you good luck with your project! While I'm not an UO gamer (my MMORPG has been WoW - that's where I know Mangos from :P), I'm happy to see a .NET project - I think it's an underappreciated platform; for once, Microsoft made something very cool
by airbreather | 2026-03-06 16:56:52+00:00
I am in Australia and got a US General class license because for some time the Australian licensing was in total chaos while changing over to new arrangements.

I did it online thru the New York Radio Club (?).

I did Novice then General in about 30 minutes. I studied for maybe 6 hours immediately prior.

I grew up from age 5 in my Dads ham shack in NZ - every single thing he had made, transmitters, receivers, antennas, the feed wire, oscilloscope, signal gens, grid dip oscillator etc with many parts salvaged. In NZ in those days that is how most people did it, at least partially.

I also have an Electrical Engineering degree.

So sort of had a bit of background working knowledge, which meant I wasn't starting from scratch.

KK7RBX
Looking for Feedback on a Computer Agent
by alphabetnerd | 2026-03-06 16:57:04+00:00
Looking for people to test out https://aglit.ai a computer agent you can control from your desktop or phone. A few features:

* Free for personal use and uses oauth for Claude, Codex, Gemini, and Qwen. Gemini has a free tier

* Requires approval for actions and also supports autopilot

* Stores a record of and recording of all actions taken

* Supports voice mode, scheduled execution, and webhook invocations

* Has a developer toggle to enable sandboxes browsers, containers, and restrict which apps agents can use (useful for full autopilot)

Any feedback is welcomed!
by strongpigeon | 2026-03-06 16:57:23+00:00
I might be too late to this thread to get an answer but I do wonder how much of those bitflips are due to rowhammer-style attacks. Firefox runs trillions of lines of untrusted code a day with a non-insignificant part that is of malicious intent. I wouldn’t be shocked if some of those “analog” crashes are due to that.
by i_think_so | 2026-03-06 16:57:49+00:00
For several years now I've been pointing out to non-techies that Boston Dynamics built a robot that can do a backflip and is better at industrial environment parkour than you or I....

...and the first version of that robot came out in the previous decade.

When I saw one doing a perfectly creditable spinning hook kick not long ago I had a vision of our future, and it was just me re-watching The Animatrix.
by tomgp | 2026-03-06 16:57:50+00:00
Interstingly a paper was published today which confirms accelerated warming whislt accounting for the effects of natural fluctations (el nino, volcanism and solar radiation etc)
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2025...

>We remove the estimated influence of three main natural variability factors: El Niño, volcanism, and solar variation. The resulting adjusted and thus less “noisy” data show that there has been acceleration with over 98% confidence, with faster warming over the last 10+ years than during any previous decade.
by vixen99 | 2026-03-06 16:57:52+00:00
What is the effect of the new climate initiatives? Undoubtedly $trillions have been spent on what might be termed 'fighting climate change' by all means possible. Looking at the Mauna Loa data on C02, can anyone see any effect at all?
https://gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/. I merely present this as an observation. In other words, your comment is spot on at least with respect to the EU.
by gwbas1c | 2026-03-06 16:58:11+00:00
The bigger issue is that that kind of statement is highly manipulative, and indicates someone who is playing politics instead of focusing on results.

The better response is to call the bluff, something along the lines of: "Running an open-source project is quite time consuming. Please don't waste our time with emotional manipulation to get your way. Instead, take the time to understand why your LLM-generated pull request is not useful. You can start by understanding that we have access to LLMs too, and realize that a significant amount of work needs to happen after an LLM proposes changes."
by jedberg | 2026-03-06 16:58:25+00:00
There's nothing you as an individual can do, or even a small group of individuals. This is where government is supposed to work. Using its power to force everyone to do something for the collective good that isn't profitable.

Almost all emissions come from factories. There are only two ways to reduce that -- a global set of rules that increases costs to reduce emissions, and an overall reduction in consumption, via a carbon tax.
by gzread | 2026-03-06 16:58:40+00:00
Solar power is cheaper than oil, but it doesn't work 24/7. If you can find a way to work with that, switching to solar is already financially incentivised. Even if you can't, we're already seeing whole countries and regions saturating at 100% solar electricity during daylight hours, significantly reducing oil usage. It doesn't matter what the oil sellers want, because it's a buyer's market for energy when the sun is out, and they're not going to throw extra money at oil companies just because.
by ugiox | 2026-03-06 16:58:40+00:00
First let the agent do everything and wrong. But why then continue to use the agent to analyze the problem? That would have been the time to stop using Claude.

And why use an agent at all? For some IaC terraform runs?

What is the problem nowadays that people rather prefer to use non-deterministic actions from an agent instead of the very deterministic cli invocations needed?

I guess these people don’t deserve better. Darwin Award winners.
by bluGill | 2026-03-06 16:58:41+00:00
If the next bus/tram isn't almost there when you miss the previous then it isn't nearly as useful.

there are things you can't do with transit. However nearly everyone is living in a family - so keep the truck to tow the boat, but get rid of the other cars that you won't need if transit is good. That is a much more reasonably goal that transit can aim for. A few like you won't own a car/truck at all, but most won't need to go that far
by lo_zamoyski | 2026-03-06 16:58:46+00:00
Such analysis always presupposes an anthropology (and a psychology) and a metaphysics. Without at least a good, sound intuition of these, you are bound to fall into all sorts of traps. Materialism will move you toward reductionism, pseudo-mysticism will move you toward reification or projection, and so on.

So, when we talk about the real and imagined value of a watch, we can consider it from different angles. You cannot pick one (like the first) and reduce all value judgements to just that measure.

1. the utility of a watch as a timekeeping artifact

2. the aesthetic quality as a work of art

3. the quality as ornament/jewelry

4. the effectiveness as signal of wealth

5. the quality as a particular kind of technology (mechanical vs. quartz), perhaps as an expression of historical techniques

The aim and measure are critical.

The trouble, then, is not that Patek is bad. A nice Patek watch is of excellent quality as (2), (3), and (5). As (1), for everyday use, yes; along an absolute axis concerned only with accuracy and precision, not so much. (4) is where the pathological and deceptive begins to creep. Where the market price with respect to (1), (2), (3), and (5) would reflect a just price, (4) becomes a race to the bottom of the most vulgar and base and irrational sort.
by sfink | 2026-03-06 16:58:47+00:00
I think the firefox crash reporter does now? It does a limited memory scan and reports problems it finds. No privacy violations required.

That's different from what you're suggesting, because you're right that the crash reports are analyzed with heuristics to guess at memory corruption. Aside from the privacy implications, though, I think that would have too many false alarms. A single bit flip is usually going to be an out of bounds write, not bad RAM.
by Aachen | 2026-03-06 16:58:50+00:00
Interesting that someone considers this to be truthful without trying to just install it anyway and seeing for themselves. Maybe it really is correct and there's some dependency which their store can detect that this app needs and isn't on GrapheneOS, I haven't used Google's store software in ages, but on the exact same hardware I can hardly imagine that an app works on Lineage but not Graphene. They're very fast about upgrading to the latest version, so that can't be it, so then... on identical hardware... what could possibly be it? I'd just ignore the warning instead of giving up!
by applfanboysbgon | 2026-03-06 16:59:09+00:00
Knowing the quality of LLM translations between the two languages I speak, hearing it used like this by supposed academics invokes a deep despair in me. "Serviceable" is a flimsy excuse for mass-producing and publishing slop. Particularly given that slop will displace efforts to produce human translations, putting a ceiling on humanity's future output - no one will ever aspire to do better than slop, so instead of a few great translations, we'll get more slop than we would ever even want to read.

I guess it does depend on language; one study suggests that it's even worse than Google Translate for some languages, but maybe actually okay at Spanish?

> There were 132 sentences between the two documents. In Spanish, ChatGPT incorrectly translated 3.8% of all sentences, while GT incorrectly translated 18.1% of sentences. In Russian, ChatGPT and GT incorrectly translated 35.6% and 41.6% of all sentences, respectively. In Vietnamese, ChatGPT and GT incorrectly translated 24.2% and 10.6% of sentences, respectively.

https://jmai.amegroups.org/article/view/9019/html
by the_af | 2026-03-06 16:59:16+00:00
> Have you ever gone through a whole a week without eating anything? Have you seen your kids go through that

Have you? And did you murder your neighbor to steal their food? Did you believe the best course of action was to fight your neighbors?

Your ridiculous analogy doesn't even apply to the US, one of the wealthiest countries in the world. Are they the poor starving family who must kill and steal to survive?

Dude. Think hard before getting backed into absurd metaphors.
by simon_luv_pho | 2026-03-06 16:59:52+00:00
PageAgent operates at the HTML/DOM level with the same privileges as any other JavaScript running on the page and nothing more. The security token concern you're describing applies equally to every third-party script, npm package, or browser extension that runs in-page. It's not unique to PageAgent.

The browser extension can be more risky because it's more privileged. I've designed a simple authorization mechanism so that only pages explicitly approved by the user can call the extension.

That said, I'd welcome more eyes on this. If anyone wants to review the security model, the code is fully open source.
by keeda | 2026-03-06 17:00:00+00:00
My bad, I messed up by being lazy while switching from decreases in time taken (that they report) to increased in throughput. (Yes, it's not just flipping the sign, but as I said, I was being lazy!) The broad point still holds, their initial findings have been reversed, and they expect selection effects masked an higher speedup.

The language is confusing, but the chart helps: https://metr.org/assets/images/uplift-2026-post/uplift_timel...
by rich_sasha | 2026-03-06 17:00:01+00:00
> The way I use it is to explicitly tell it things like: "Make sure to do Y when callback X gets fired" and not "you have to be careful about thread synchronisation". "Do X, so that Exceptions are always thrown when Y happens" instead of "Make sure to implement sane Exception handling".

At this point I'm basically programming in English, no? Trying to squeeze exact instructions into an inherently ambiguous representation. I might as well write code at this point, if this is the level of detail required. For this to work, I need to be able to say "make this thread-safe", maybe "by using a queue". Not explaining which synchronisation primitive to use in every last piece of the code.

This is my point actually. If I describe the task to accuracy level X, it still doesn't seem to work. To make it work, perhaps I need to describe it to level Y>X, but that for now takes me more time than to do it myself.

There's lots of variables here, how fast I am at writing code or planning structure, how close to spec the things needs to be, etc. My first "vibe code" was a personal productivity app in Claude Code, in Flutter (task timing). I have 0 idea about Dash or Flutter or any web stuff, and yet it made a complete app that did some stuff, worked on my phone, with a nice GUI, all from just a spec. From scratch, it would take me weeks.

...though in the end, even after 3 attempts, the final thing still didn't actually work well enough to be useful. The timer would sometimes get stuck or crash back down to 0, and froze when the app was minimised.
by actsasbuffoon | 2026-03-06 17:00:08+00:00
A ham sandwich has some strong qualities. I’m not kidding.

The president would do basically nothing for four years, which would cause some things to move slowly. But it would be a very stable environment. No random tariffs via executive order, no random wars or invasions, no governing via tweet.

Ham sandwich would maybe be one of our better presidents. Top 50%, probably.
by dismalaf | 2026-03-06 17:00:16+00:00
Let's be real, this won't be solved by reducing consumption, only carbon capture technology (likely well into the future).

It's in no nation's interest, from a game theory perspective, to stunt their own growth to reduce emissions. If the US stops, Russia and China will destroy the west. If China stops, they'll never catch up technologically. Ditto for India. Smaller nations have even less incentive (they'll easily be conquered by neighbours), except for the ones surrounded entirely by friendly nations...
by gwbas1c | 2026-03-06 17:00:51+00:00
That's not helpful, because:

1: LLMs can write awful tests

2: LLMs can write very useful code, especially when they are working in well-understood areas.

Which comes down to understanding that the LLM is a tool, and it's the job of the programmer to know how to use the LLM and evaluate its output.