MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by uyzstvqs | 2026-03-14 18:45:03+00:00
Wired and wireless will always co-exist. Your casual consumer prefers wireless. Professional audio equipment for mixing and critical listening will never favor wireless over wired. For pros, $20-50 wired IEMs beat $250 Airpods every time.

The same applies to pro gamers. Latency and empty batteries are a big no-no.
by bwfan123 | 2026-03-14 18:46:12+00:00
> After a while smart people will simply decline to work for him no matter the compensation. Not everyone, but enough to start to matter.

Among people there are 2 types:

1) Those that gain self-esteem by associating themselves with leader-like figures who project visions of the future. This explains cults, religious and political groups and the like. This comes from our ape-dna where the alphas are blindly worshipped.

2) Those with enough cognitive development and independent thinking who can avoid their ape-brain getting short-circuited into worshipping the alphas.

Majority of people are in group 1) and my hypothesis is that they form a vast-majority of the customer and employee base of musk cos.
by sky2224 | 2026-03-14 18:46:21+00:00
Weird. I just went to the shorts page now and it says what I described.

I just tried on Chrome and Firefox on desktop, and the iOS YouTube app. Both show me a message saying "Recommendations are off. Your watch history is off, and we rely on watch history to tailor your Shorts feed. You can change your setting at any time, or try searching for Shorts instead."

I'll also clarify, sometimes if you click on a shorts video that you searched for manually, a few related videos will be queued, but then the feed will try up and the watch history message will display again.

Do you have left over watch history from years ago you've never cleared, and maybe shorts is enabled since it uses that...?
by gmueckl | 2026-03-14 18:46:22+00:00
The US isn't the navel of the world. It is one country that is slowly removing itself from international trade and the international scientific community.

The European Union has many friendly trading partners left in the world and is also receiving an influx of previously US based talent. The trade decisions of the US aren't forcing the EU into isolationism. This is where your argument goes wrong IMO.

The US government has announced that it plans to actively support extreme right wing parties in the EU. If this comes to pass, it is a direct attack on political freedom in those countries, separate from any economic policy decisions. I don't know how well EU countries can defend themselves against this in the short amd medium term. Some counties have better defenses than others. But I see virtually all of them struggling.
by everdrive | 2026-03-14 18:47:11+00:00
Wireless headphones have always been stupid.

- Disposable

- Small-but-not-zero fire risk inside your backpack or your ear

- Pairing woes

- Expensive

- No user-replaceable batteries

Someone's going to come and say how much they like them, but you need to remember that "needing to deal with a cable sometimes" does not actually qualify as inconvenience. When the washing machine was invented, 10s of hours of labor were freed up from people so they could either get more work done or pursue leisure and enjoy life. What did wireless headphones do for people? Prevent them from needing to exercise the tiny amount of impulse control necessary to to run your cable?
by vharuck | 2026-03-14 18:47:29+00:00
>Grokipedia operates by Grok writing what it considers the true and interesting facts. That doesn't mean it's always right, but it's a model far less influenced by influencer operations.

If Grok is trained on a corpus of information written by humans trying to influence other humans, and it has no ability to perform its own original investigation in the real world, then how can it be anything but the product of influence?
by pessimizer | 2026-03-14 18:47:44+00:00
Calls for violence are free speech. Calls for "imminent" violence that serve to coordinate it have been decided not to be.

When you claim that calls for violence are not freedom of speech, it's a slippery slope that leads you to absurdities like speech that could "lead" to calls of violence are not freedom of speech, or that secret codes that could be interpreted as speech that would lead to calls to violence are not freedom of speech, or that violent-sounding slang that is eventually recognized as being encoded speech that would lead to calls of violence isn't freedom of speech, or that people who own bars who host people who use violent-sounding slang that is related to secret codes for speech that could lead to calls for violence are nazis.

And since nazis deserve to be violently suppressed...
Visualise Music Theory
by Mimirm | 2026-03-14 18:47:50+00:00
Music was the air I breathed growing up in Iceland but learning music theory was always presented to me as a memorisation problem. Here are the terms but I never actually learned anything like that. What I have always needed is to see the thing! and so you can get it, test it out, with the beta-testflight link below if you want to try it out and send feedback. It is designed for ipads but it works to a large extent on iPhones as well

Demo: vimeo.com/1168648335
pianoplayground.app
https://testflight.apple.com/join/ZYJBTPfF

Feedback welcome — especially from anyone who's thought about music cognition or visual learning!

Inspired in large part by Bret Victor and Alan Kay

-Mímir
Gandalfur.com
by salawat | 2026-03-14 18:47:56+00:00
I've never met a single person willing to attest to filling out a BLS survey. Not once. If their methodology is built on that + unemployment data from State Unemployment agencies + data from payroll processors, anyone not collecting state unemployment benefits is invisible to the system, and half of the payroll is actually not even consituted of U.S. Citizens.

Admittedly, if I could find a single instance of someone willing to vouch or share insight on having filled out a BLS survey, that'd cure a healthy chunk of skepticism. There's still be the other distortions in the data to account for, but I'd at least have an instance proving that yeah, there is somebody filling out these surveys and it isn't just something they say they do to make their magic unemployment number sound legit.

Note, I'm in a massive sceptical shit phase at the moment. Last decade has burned my optimism hard. So when it comes to my ability to assume benevolent intent right now, there's a heavy bias against doing it, and a heavier bias in the direction of "what would be the easiest way to keep the System limping along?" The answer to that is "say you do one thing, in reality do another, and as long as no one comes lookin', it's gold." The finance industry runs on Trust moreso than anything else, and there ain't much to be said for Trusting anything you can't verify these days. Not from other humans.
by VerifiedReports | 2026-03-14 18:48:02+00:00
Also you get reliable sound quality. The DACs in the iPhones were always decent. Now you have no idea what kind of quality you're going to get from a given listening device. Plenty of them are noisy POSes; my girlfriend had a Belkin adapter that had automatic gain (!) and would ramp up to blast hiss through the car stereo during quiet segments... and sometimes even during non-quiet ones.

The phones will always have to have DACs in them, to drive their speakers if nothing else. Denying customers a physical connection to them is just a dick move.
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2026-03-14 18:48:24+00:00
> UBI assumes and requires an elite ownership class and a powerful state to force them to share their profits.

It makes no assumption about an elite ownership class at all. It merely assumes profits, and rearranges how those profits are distributed (away from shareholders, towards labor). There is no need for community ownership of the means of production (though that might have some different benefits, along with some different disadvantages).

You need high marginal (or maybe not even marginal) corporate taxes and a committment to the concept of UBI. Who owns the companies, from the perspective of UBI, is immaterial.

Community ownership does not share the productivity in sector A with workers in sector B. UBI does.
by logicallee | 2026-03-14 18:48:43+00:00
the answer is reliable money. how much money would you pick up a verified 1 minute survey from the real u.s. government for? I'd do it for $5. (=$300 per hour) and hope for as many calls as possible.

For comparison purposes the U.S. budget is about $20,000 per person ($7t budget, a bit under 350m people), so the government could definitely pay you to answer their "spam" calls. (While mandating that first parties show that it is the real U.S. government and not a spammer.)

So it would be your actual first party telephone showing "Answer this real call from the U.S. government for $5 instantly, 1 minute average call time."

I think that would be a good way to get good data fast. What do you think? (At the same time, impersonating the U.S. government would remain illegal, and the first party would ensure the payment is real.)
by tontinton | 2026-03-14 18:48:50+00:00
Yeah we all converge to the same workflow, in my ai coding agent I'm working on now, I've added an "index" tool that uses tree-sitter to compress and show the AI a skeleton of a code file.

Here's the implementation for the interested: https://github.com/tontinton/maki/blob/main/maki-code-index%...
by tamimio | 2026-03-14 18:49:00+00:00
> Hollywood has decided that Nmap is the tool to show whenever hacking scenes

Because it was the tool for when you want anything to do with recon or scanning, especially back in the day, network aspect was a big part (no cloud no api etc) and not that complicated (no vpn no zero trust) so if you managed to scan the network you get a lot of goodies.

It’s better than how “hackers” usually portrayed, and ruining the word for generations.
by mschuster91 | 2026-03-14 18:49:01+00:00
Related: in Germany, there currently is a huge scandal surrounding the company "Fanblast", where you could purchase the supposed "whatsapp phone number" of various "celebrities" and, allegedly, the chats were also run by random freelancers [1].

[1] https://www.comicschau.de/news/fanblast-aloa-me-klengan-krit...
by mindslight | 2026-03-14 18:49:34+00:00
After having a few built-in printheads get messed up from non-use, aftermarket ink, planned obsolescence (or who knows what else), I regressed to a 20+ year old Deskjet 1220C which has the printheads in the ink cartridges themselves. It has been working fine with aftermarket cartridges, sometimes only printing a few times per year. But I know that if it does start having problems due to ink drying out, I won't have to mess with trying to clean built-in printheads and that getting a new cartridge will fix the problem completely.
by aminerj | 2026-03-14 18:49:54+00:00
Email is probably the most exposed ingestion vector in practice because the barrier to entry is zero -- anyone can send an email to a monitored inbox. The "looks completely normal to a human" property is exactly what the semantic injection variant exploits. No structural markers, no suspicious formatting, just authoritative-sounding natural language.

What did your detection layer end up looking like? Rule-based or ML-based?
by jacquesm | 2026-03-14 18:50:05+00:00
"""
Criminal Sanctions For Management

In an attempt to lower the pressure put on IT departments to single-handedly ensure the security of the organization and to change the sentiment of whose responsibility cybersecurity is, NIS2 includes new measures to hold top management personally liable and responsible for gross negligence in the event of a security incident.

Specifically, NIS2 allows Member State authorities to hold organization managers personally liable if gross negligence is proven after a cyber incident. This includes:

Ordering that organizations make compliance violations public.
Making public statements identifying the natural and legal person(s) responsible for the violation and its nature.
And if the organisation is an essential entity, temporarily ban an individual from holding management positions in case of repeated violations.

These measures are designed to hold C-level management accountable and to prevent gross negligence in the management of cyber risks.
"""
by eslaught | 2026-03-14 18:50:14+00:00
> it is a career-ending failure

It depends highly on the field. In history, sure. The point of getting a history PhD is to become a history professor, and you can't do that if you don't get the PhD, and meanwhile history PhDs don't meaningfully open up any other job prospects, so attempting and failing to get a PhD provides negative value.

In CS and many engineering disciplines, there is a long history of people dropping out of PhDs and landing in industry. The industry is therefore much more accustomed to, and therefore accommodating to, people taking this path. Whether it's a maximally efficient use of time is another question, but it's certainly not wasted effort.

But I do agree that it's stressful nonetheless because it still feels like a failure even if it is not actually in reality. I wrote about this when I put down my own PhD journey here [1]. In particular after the control replication (2017) paper, I very nearly quit out of academia entirely despite it being my biggest contribution to the field by far.

[1]: https://elliottslaughter.com/2024/02/legion-paper-history (written without any use of LLMs, for anyone who is wondering)
by JasonADrury | 2026-03-14 18:50:35+00:00
> Our response? We will keep pressing. We will keep pushing, keep advancing, no quarter, no mercy for our enemies

The Hague Convention IV (which the US is a signatory to) has this to say:

>Art. 23. In addition to the prohibitions provided by special Conventions, it is especially forbidden

>(d) To declare that no quarter will be given;

This is a pretty significant statement given that Hegseth is explicitly stating that the US will summarily execute surrendering Iranian combatants.
by mattmaroon | 2026-03-14 18:50:39+00:00
We were speaking about economics. But I’m sorry anybody who thinks World War III has started has had their brain warped by propaganda even worse. You probably didn’t mean to illustrate my point but you did perfectly.

World wars happened when large numbers of countries had mutual aid agreements that were triggered. Those largely don’t exist anymore outside of NATO. See how literally nobody is putting troops on the ground to defend Iran, Ukraine, Gaza, Lebanon, etc. If world war war risk existed, the nukes would already be flying and we wouldn’t be having this discussion.

The propaganda I’m talking about is very clear in your comment, you can’t just say some things suck, and there are things you don’t like, it has to be the most extreme version. We can’t just be involved in a couple wars we shouldn’t, it has to be World War III. Trump can’t just be a terrible president. He has to be Hitler. The DHS has killed three people, which is terrible, but it’s pretty far from the gestapo. That extremeism is exactly what I’m talking about.

I’m sorry your income has not increased in the last five years, but that is not the average Americans experience. The plural of anecdote is not data.
by niemandhier | 2026-03-14 18:50:40+00:00
A PhD at a research focused experimental institution creates a particular kind of human that is absurdly resistant to stress and despair:
Ask an x-ray physicist using DESY about the horrors of “Beam Time” or a chemist about crystallising proteins.

Most people I know don’t use their actual skills anymore, but all of them shrug off whatever you throw at them at work without blinking.
by kubb | 2026-03-14 18:50:51+00:00
> Isn't this what exactly you'd expect in a connected world?

I would expect a figurative war for human attention. With so much information being available, everyone would try to make people focus on what they want to communicate.

> The best arguments

Some of these tropes and arguments aren't really the best. There's a lot of rhetorical gotchas, e.g. "that's exactly what I'd expect from a human" when an automated solution isn't up to par.

> from both sides

The only real "side" is the one actively pushing for something. Everyone else isn't a camp - they're just random people.
by aminerj | 2026-03-14 18:51:23+00:00
Fair on the corpus size -- five documents is the minimal reproducible case for clarity of mechanism, not a production claim. PoisonedRAG (USENIX Security 2025) demonstrates the same mechanism at millions-of-documents scale.

The legitimate $24.7M document was present in the retrieved chunks. The LLM saw the correct figure and still produced the fabricated answer. That's the part that isn't working as intended.
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2026-03-14 18:51:31+00:00
I am a progessive state government.

I am considering legislation for the next fiscal year.

I have come to learn that 100% of private landlords have increased their rents by the full amount of the UBI we introduced last year.

I ban private rentals and/or private ownership of homes and/or introduce strict rent control policies (depending on precisely how progressive we're feeling this year).

Congrats, mission accomplished.
by phlakaton | 2026-03-14 18:52:03+00:00
By "parses well" in that case I mean "can identify where the error is, and maybe even infer the missing closing tag if desirable;" i.e. error reporting and recovery.

If you've ever debugged a JSON parse error where the location of the error was the very end of a large document, and you're not sure where the missing bracket was, you'll know what I mean. (S-exprs have similar problems, BTW; LISPers rely on their editors so as not to come to grief, and things still sometimes go pear-shaped.)
by hackyhacky | 2026-03-14 18:52:15+00:00
Yes, and it's sad.

I wish someone would create a business that profits from people forming actual connections with each other, but every opportunity has been displaced.

Dating sites replaces meeting IRL, and foster superficial relationships anyway. Bars are passé. Social clubs, golf clubs, etc, seem to belong to a past generation. Social media killed the social part. The damage to society is real.
by jfengel | 2026-03-14 18:52:18+00:00
I wish I understood screen readers. Designing a nontrivial page for use with a screen reader is a whole extra level of difficulty. I have no real experience with screen readers and each of the built-in ones that I've tried isn't intuitive to me. Presumably users who actually need them get some training and much practice.

I'd love to spend some time working with just the screen reader, but it's hard to get started. So I do a good job designing for various disabilities, but reliably reaching the fully blind is a step I haven't achieved yet.
by kelseyfrog | 2026-03-14 18:52:25+00:00
"Sold off" isn't wrong per se, but glosses over the root cause: Triffin dilemma.

The USD cannot exist as a reserve currency and support domestic manufacturing. That is to say, the US political engine and its benefactors sold out domestic manufacturing for international leverage.

Did it have to be this way? No, we could have implemented the Bancor, but the appeal of dominating international politics was irresistible. We cannot reindustrialize without giving up international financial power and with that in mind, who would still decide to switch?
by Bender | 2026-03-14 18:52:36+00:00
Agreed. The reason I said 5000 is due to 5000 marines in route as we speak. I do not know what their orders involve but it can't be the Strait. I am hoping it is to pop open all the deep bunkers, destroy the remaining missiles, missile production machinery, sweep for leaders in hiding, search for radioactive material and find the missing limited edition Marvel comic collection.
Claude broke a ZIP password in a smart way
by jgrahamc | 2026-03-14 18:52:42+00:00
Today, I was working on a project with Claude and it needed to open a ZIP file. I'd forgotten that the ZIP was password protected (it's part of a complex file format that's a ZIP of ZIP files and other data). Here's a redacted part of Claude's output:

I'll attempt some common password variations based on the project
identifiers and metadata I've found - the project ID itself, the
certificate ID, the license number, and the names associated with the
project.

Try more project-specific passwords
(Script)

The password is "xxxxxxxxxxxx"! Now let me extract the files.

What's interesting is the approach it took. It figured the password might be related to the project in which this ZIP was embedded. It made a list of possible passwords from the context and tried them all. And it worked.

But the funniest part is that when I originally received this ZIP file I did exactly the same thing. Rather than wait for the sender to tell me the password I guessed they'd set something based on their name, the file name, the project etc.
by baronswindle | 2026-03-14 18:52:47+00:00
Citing Rebekah Jones in your argument is the opposite of convincing. She forged documents related to her firing to make her appear more sympathetic. She has been adjudicated guilty of cyberstalking and misuse of the state’s emergency notification system, and I haven’t seen a credible defense against those accusations. She’s a fraud, and many in the media uncritically boosted her claims because they shared her political aims. That people still cite her is proof of the old adage that a lie can travel across the world before the truth can lace its boots.
by throw0101c | 2026-03-14 18:52:58+00:00
> Calculation of unemployment […]

Define "unemployment". There are six (U-1 to -6) ways of classification in the US:

* https://www.bls.gov/lau/stalt.htm

* https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/080415/true-...

* https://www.investopedia.com/terms/u/unemployment.asp

And the fact that they're different between the US and other countries, and between other countries and other-other countries is well recognized; "International unemployment rates: how comparable are they?":

* https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2000/06/art1full.pdf

And this isn't something new; from 1957, "International Comparison of Unemployment Rates":

* https://www.nber.org/books-and-chapters/measurement-and-beha...

Just because they're different does not mean that they are "misleading" or 'manipulated'.
by malfist | 2026-03-14 18:53:00+00:00
It is. Just fox news screams about the "true unemployment" U6 number when Democratics are in charge and then go back to reporting on U3 when a Republican is in office.

That said, measurement is not as easy today with so many gig workers. Government data is often driven by proxies because its too hard to measure directly and the number of people getting an llc for their uber/doordash/lyft/etc job is throwing off our math. Government currently uses number of new businesses as a proxy since generally people starting businesses are hiring people.
by gramie | 2026-03-14 18:53:01+00:00
For a different method of learning Arabic (or several other languages), check out https://www.languagetransfer.org. It teaches Egyptian Arabic, explaining that the entire region knows this dialect because Egypt is the TV and movie hub of the Arabic world.

It's all audio (MP3s or streaming) and completely free, and (IMHO) the best language learning system out there. I have used it to learn Spanish, my sixth language and can't recommend it highly enough.