MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hackyhacky | 2026-03-03 03:26:09+00:00
> That is not so bad, right? It is not like they are wiped off the face of the earth. They just lose free $$$.

I have no idea where you get the idea of "free money." The government invests in science, business, and developments that help the country; and decisions involving that investment should not be colored by adherence to the current administration's political agenda. I'm not concerned about the careers of the affected individuals, as unjust as that is; I'm concerned about the damage to the country, to our relationship with our allies, and to our standing in the world. Instead we get this: Businesses that flatter Trump get to have acquisitions, and those that don't get their contracts cancelled. The new "political correctness" is towing the line for Trumpian misinformation.

I'm also not just talking about investments, but employment. Think about the jobs of federal employees for daring to have an opinion that contradicts Dear Leader.

> If a government feels that they don't contribute positively to the society,

That's a disingenuous argument. No one believes that the Trump administration is making decisions about who to support based on what is good for the country. Paramount's acquisition of WBD will be allowed for no other reason than because it helps Trump. Universities are targeted not because they are doing bad work but because they are seen as popular among the opposition. The government is defunding research not because it isn't contributing positively, but because it contradicts the government's a priori talking points. The damage done to society as a result of the defunding is, for them, just collateral damage.

> That does not mean every voice that is enabled is a "Nazi"

I never said that every voice on the right is a Nazi, just that Nazis are among those voices. And that's enough for me: if the government is supporting any Nazis and racists, as they evidently are, that's too many. And if your argument is "Hey, not all of us are literal Nazis", then you are not doing anything to advance your position.
by zdragnar | 2026-03-03 03:26:48+00:00
I remember people with the Google glasses being called glassholes. The fact that companies are trying again and apparently succeeding tells you just how much

A) they believe in the idea

and / or

B) how much money there is to be made having people wear them.

Smart wearables as a general category of hardware have an awful rate of success, and hardware is much more expensive to get into than software. So, there's got to be a lot of money in the data consumers will be producing.

That's the part that scares me much more so than the random perverts using them in public for unsavory candid photos.
by trimethylpurine | 2026-03-03 03:26:56+00:00
I don't think it's absurd. I've watched as they get skipped over for the graphics guy that uses Windows, can share files in meetings, and quickly interacts with their coworkers. And, honestly, why would you promote the guy that can't do that? I can't disagree with it. We should be promoting pragmatic thinkers that get stuff done, not people that intentionally choose machines with problems or make other such bad choices in life and in business.

Again, tell me about Samba. How do you call a machine with major problems interacting with a business network, a business computer?

(Should I answer that question? You blame the IT team, and say it's a business computer based on the sales data. It's all very illogical.)

>millions of people share files at work between virtually any OS and Macs

Right. Using cloud solutions. That's not practical in many applications, especially where medium and large businesses are concerned. You're going to make them download large files from the cloud every time they want to open them while their Windows counterparts are streaming those same files over a 10G fiber drop to the server?

Which one makes more sense here? One of these users is getting promoted. It's not the guy working the slowest, usually.

Anyway, the request to make Samba work comes from the users. I didn't go looking for a problem to solve, right? I prefer it when my phone doesn't ring, my pay being fixed and all.
by MostlyStable | 2026-03-03 03:27:30+00:00
So I've never gotten a satisfactory answer as to why there aren't interesting niche phones that don't sell a ton (anymore: android used to be full of them, that was half the point), but are enough for a small company to make consistent (but small) profits. People who want niche phones are a tiny fraction of the market....but the smartphone market is enormous. A tiny fraction seems like it should be able to sustain a few small companies.

My best guess is that the kind of person who would found a company capable of making such a phone won't do it because they know it doesn't have potential to make them fabulously wealthy (just regular old wealthy) because it's inherently limited in scale. And the big companies don't do it because, while such a line could be profitable, in the absence of competition, it's more profitable to force their consumers to buy the "main" line and not make another product line.
by toast0 | 2026-03-03 03:28:17+00:00
> and the singing is like watching the 400th lap of the Indy 500. First two laps were kind of cool

Not sure if you know, but the Indy 500 only goes to 200 laps; watching the 400th lap has got to be super boring :P. OTOH, the Wienie 500 [1] ran at Indianapolis Motor Speedway and was only two laps; I guess there's a 100x inflation in the miles number there, but I'm ok with it.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMyES63Rgvg
by blakec | 2026-03-03 03:29:50+00:00
I wrote it up. The full system reference is here:
https://blakecrosley.com/guides/obsidian — vault architecture, hybrid retrieval (Model2Vec + FTS5 + RRF), MCP integration, incremental indexing, operational patterns. Covers everything from a 200-file vault to the 16,000-file setup I run.

The hybrid retriever piece has its own deep dive with the RRF math and an interactive fusion calculator:
https://blakecrosley.com/blog/hybrid-retriever-obsidian

See what your coding agent thinks of it and let me know if you have ways to improve it.
by bsimpson | 2026-03-03 03:30:10+00:00
Microsoft Edge has some interesting properties for this project:

- It's a fork of Chrome.

- It has a Linux build.

- It has a kiosk mode.

- It's probably not the browser that a Linux user would be using for things they care about, so it has no authenticated state.

It should be relatively simple to add Edge as a non-Steam game, with a kiosk session pointed at rcade.dev. That would allow people to add an rcade.dev tile to their SteamOS game library, and play any of the games on the platform.
by phil21 | 2026-03-03 03:30:29+00:00
Plenty of places in the US are not large dense urban cities, and the cops will absolutely respond to a battery call. Like every time.

Plenty of places this would be the most interesting call of the day for a police force and you'd have 5 squad cars show up.

Other places won't even bother responding to the call. Your mileage will greatly vary.
by anon_cow1111 | 2026-03-03 03:30:30+00:00
Probably the most obvious for this community is being very enthusiastic about technology but loathing anything with "smart" in the name. (I still use a flip phone and 15+ year old appliances)

Similarly I grew up always enjoying video games but it feels like a burned out husk in the modern era. Most of the big dollar "video game" market is now just MTX gambling and even a LAN party probably routes everything through Steam or Epic's servers
by TacticalCoder | 2026-03-03 03:32:07+00:00
It is cool but... I much prefer to go an emulate the real thing: if you are using a CRT anyway (2nd sentence in TFA says it's using a CRT), you may as well make the cab compatible with the good old arcade JAMMA standard, use a Pi2JAMMA adapter, and stick a Raspberry Pi into the cab.

As a bonus you can then buy old PCBs and switch between either your Pi or a real PCB.

It's also much simpler: no need for complicated controllers and whatnots for all the heavy lifting is done by the Pi2JAMMA adapter.

It's what I have: a real arcade cab (a vintage one, from the 80s) but "modernized" in that at any time I can switch between real PCBs (I've got both real vintage PCBs and vintage bootleg PCBs: a prized possession) and my Pi+Pi2JAMMA.

I take it anything that can be run in TFA can be run on a Pi: I'm not sure if that project does something that couldn't run from a Pi with a Pi2JAMMA adapter so maybe I'm misunderstanding the (cool and good looking) project.

The marquee that's a display that can change is nice: I've seen a few arcade cabs (on arcade cabs forums) that had these and they'd switch the picture depending on the game being played.
by godelski | 2026-03-03 03:32:08+00:00
I use yazi a fair amount but I've also configured fzf to do it. There's a lot of tools to view the images, chafa is a good one.

This definitely should be improved but I honestly don't use fzf that much. I can fix it if you really need something but I'm sure you could find it in the docs or even an LLM could handle this. Requires you to define a few variables, lsd, bat, and chafa

$ echo $FZF_DEFAULT_OPTS
--ansi --preview "if file --mime-type {} | grep -qF image; then chafa --passthrough none -f sixels --size ${FZF_PREVIEW_COLUMNS}x${FZF_PREVIEW_LINES} {}; elif file --mime-type {} | grep -aF -e directory; then lsd --color always --icon always --almost-all --oneline --classify --long {}; elif file --mime-type {} | grep -aF -e binary; then strings {} | bat --color always --theme=Dracula --language c; elif file --mime-type {} | grep -aF -e text -e json -e empty; then bat --color always --theme=Dracula --style=numbers,grid --line-range :500 {}; fi"
by tombert | 2026-03-03 03:32:15+00:00
I love TMBG, and I tried to get my wife into them, but it never really vibed with her, which is fine.

That said, we went to a TMBG concert in Brooklyn about 11 years ago, and she actually had a really good time, and was even singing along to some of the songs. With music, the context of "how you're listening to the music" is equally important to the music itself.
by coldtea | 2026-03-03 03:33:06+00:00
"Apologized on Blue Sky" is absolutely no reason to keep them. The author did the absolutely worst things a journalist can do (short of actual corruption) and is unfit for the job:

- He didn't care for his story,

- he didn't care to verify his story,

- he published bullshit made up stuff,

- and put words in a real person's mouth

- and he didn't even care to write the thing himself

Why keep him and pay him? What mentality all the above show? What respect, both self respect and respect for the job?

If they wanted stories from an LLM, they can pay for a subscription to one directly.

Hope this sends a message to journalist hacks who offload their writing or research to an LLM.
by oggy | 2026-03-03 03:33:11+00:00
I'm not a mathematician either ;) Yeah, I won't sit around and ponder at a property definition for weeks. But I will maybe spend a day on it, not get anywhere, and then spend an hour or two a day thinking about ways to formulate it. Sometimes I try something, then an hour later figure out it won't work, but sometimes I really do just stare at the ceiling with no idea how to proceed. Helps if you have someone to talk to about it!
by Bender | 2026-03-03 03:33:32+00:00
I had to vouch your comment as it and most comments from your account are auto [dead].

The lasers can fry sensors like I mentioned. They can also burn holes in the body of the aircraft and damage engines. I think you may be conflating the modern glass displays with the sensors themselves. In many cases the actual sensors have not changed that much in terms of being vulnerable to directed energy weapons. The energy being emitted from Chernobyl was gamma radiation which at high enough prolonged exposure can cause bit flips. The risk to aircraft from nuclear are EMP blasts but this is theoretical. The military have tested EMP on modern cars with no effect. The two fighter jets that seeded rain clouds around Chernobyl were not affected at all.

Some time log out and view your comments [1] vs. being logged in with showdead enabled in your account profile settings. You may want to email dang about that. Daniel hn@ycombinator.com A a regular user I can only vouch for recent comments but I would guess that a moderator could vouch for more of them.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=wiredpancake
by jen20 | 2026-03-03 03:34:16+00:00
The points about tooling certainly do not apply to Java, for example, Maven vs Gradle (which is a huge mess in and of itself - do you use Kotlin or Groovy), and which plugins are you willing to pull in? Or is Ant still the thing? SpotBugs, Spotless? What test framework do you use? Do you use Mockito or one of the myriad alternatives?

Go has _none_ of this nonsense, and it's better for it. Nor does Rust, FWIW, which IMO is also a better target language than Java for just about everything.
by markus_zhang | 2026-03-03 03:34:19+00:00
Oh. That's definitely my ~6 years old kid. I should spend >= 90 minutes of high quality time with him every weekday after he comes back from school, but nowadays I'm only spending 45-60 minutes. And I'm not reading much to him these months. The "good" news is that grandparents will go back next month, so I gotta pick up more time with my kid. Not sure about the quality, though. Sometimes I don't enjoy doing things he enjoys to do, so I fake for about 15 minutes and call a break. I can't wait for the him he reaches 6 -- I'll gift him a RPi loaded with DOSBian, sit with him every Wed evening to code QBASIC games. I'll ask him to do the design and I'll code it before him. He doesn't read yet, but maybe by then he can read some simple words.

The other one is efficiency. I spend a lot of time doing things that have nothing to do with the objectives that I set. If I measure myself using the Carmack productivity metric[1], I probably won't even finish 1 CD every day. My productivity has gone down a lot since I completed my previous learning project at the end of Jan so it really sucks. I feel that I'm wasting my life away.

So anyway, these are the two symptoms that show I'm a bit messy inside.

[1]: Brian Hook once wrote in his blog that John Carmack used to measure his own productivity by playing CD while working. If he stopped working, even for going to the bathroom, he would pause the play. At the end of the day he counted how much time the player played.
by deaux | 2026-03-03 03:34:33+00:00
> I think they (and even Apple) are going to get a walloping from mostly ceding the education market to chromebooks.

I think this is an Americentric view. As far as I can tell, the mass adoption of Chromebooks for education is just the US, which is 4% of the world population. And in this particular case there's little reason to believe it will suddenly propagate everywhere else - the US education ceding has been going on for years, and yet it's still confined. It's not like the iPhone which started in the US and within a few years rapidly gained ground in Japan, then Europe and so on.
by throwaway2037 | 2026-03-03 03:35:25+00:00
> I used an e-bike (without a licence plate) last week in Tokyo.

Did you (1) need to pedal to get assistance, or (2) could you get power with a throttle button only? If #2, then you were breaking the law. It seems like police are not yet enforcing. In neighborhoods with a lot of "night life", I see this often with host-looking dudes. I expect 6-12 months after the law is activated, police will begin to crack down. (This is a pretty normal pattern when introducing new traffics laws in Japan.)
by naranjito | 2026-03-03 03:36:24+00:00
Spaniards are a lazy bunch of party animals, waking up late and going to sleep late too...

Or the clocks are wrong. Once you realize noon is 13h in winter and 14h in summer, never 12h, things start to make sense. Late lunch? Not really, Sun at same height than Italy, but clocks off by 1.

For the "public image" part of the experiment, the conclusion is easy: bad. Time to change clocks so waking up happens at "3h" in the morning, and become a country of hard workers with no nightlife, because everyone retires "early". Even if discos are full as in the past.
by solid_fuel | 2026-03-03 03:36:29+00:00
Shodan has existed for at least a decade and you can't create a cloud instance anywhere these days without it getting immediately crawled. Literally, I was setting up a VPS last week and within 5 minutes of caddy getting a cert from lets encrypt (which then adds the hostname to the certificate transparency log) the access log lit up with dozens of requests per second, all requesting paths like `/wp-admin` and `/admin.cgi` and all sorts of things, looking for vulnerable software.

I wouldn't call this _responsible_ disclosure, but setting up software that is known to be riddled with security holes and granting it both direct access to the internet and to user data is - frankly - so irresponsible that it borders on negligence. If we had stronger standards for software engineering and IT we would call it malpractice.
by allthetime | 2026-03-03 03:36:33+00:00
I run all the betas on my macbook air just to see where things are going. When I first installed Tahoe, I thought to myself, I guess it's just the beta, there's no way they are going to keep this look...

My workstation is pinned firmly to sequoia right now and will be until it's untenable or they undo their new UI design direction, which is, as you pointed out, ghastly.
by tombert | 2026-03-03 03:36:39+00:00
I'm the same way. I kind of hate going outside, but I have this kind of fetishized perspective of the "primal man, livnig off the land". I have friends who like to hike, so occasionally when they'd invite me to come along I would come with them, and then spend the entire trip trying to convince myself that I'm having fun.

Eventually I realized, NOPE. I don't enjoy this. I don't like walking on uneven terrain, I don't like getting dirt all over myself, I don't like being far away from cell service, I don't like camping, etc. Genuinely not trying to convince anyone else to change their opinions, if you like this stuff by all means keep doing it. Sometimes, though, I think it's worth doing an "emotional inventory", and actually questioning how much you enjoy the things you think you enjoy.
by jlongo78 | 2026-03-03 03:37:52+00:00
The key insight with tmux agent parallelism is giving each pane a dedicated markdown spec file rather than sharing context. Agents stay focused and you avoid prompt contamination across sessions. Name your windows after the spec, not the task, so you can resume cold sessions without re-reading logs. Also worth adding a status pane that tails a shared cost log, otherwise parallel runs burn budget fast without you noticing.
by jlongo78 | 2026-03-03 03:38:03+00:00
The hardest part of autonomous pipelines like this is observability when things go sideways. Specs rarely survive first contact with real codebases intact. Worth investing heavily in session persistence and replay so you can audit exactly what the agent reasoned at each step. Being able to resume a failed run mid-conversation rather than starting cold saves enormous time. Multi-agent parallelism also compounds fast, so a grid view across simultaneous runs becomes essential pretty quickly.
by jjmarr | 2026-03-03 03:38:14+00:00
I took it off LinkedIn and replaced with time to merge reduction of 20% over two weeks of PRs (rounding down). I expect to justify the expenditure to non-technical managers in my current role, which is why I picked $s.

> All of this screams junior engineer took very limited results and extrapolated to say “saved the company millions” without nearly enough supporting evidence.

That's what the only person in my major who got a job at FAANG in California did, which is why I borrowed the strategy since it seems to work.

> I can almost guarantee you that an A/B test design wasn’t rigorous enough for you to be that confident in your numbers.

Shoot me an email about methodology! It's my username at gmail. I'd be happy to get more mentorship about more rigorous strategies and I can respond to concerns in less of a PR voice.
by dangus | 2026-03-03 03:38:15+00:00
Time is an arbitrary construct in the sense that the mere lack of arbitrary change in time is a net benefit.

I.e., anyone who doesn’t like the change in either direction can just change schedules accordingly for business hours. Whether that means 8-4 or 9-5 or 10-6 is irrelevant. The fact that we would stop altering schedules twice a year is a positive.
by ssl-3 | 2026-03-03 03:38:34+00:00
I'm in the States so I can only relate from from my own perspective, but...

I've got a NOAA weather radio near my bed. It's a Midland WR120 that I picked up several years ago for $20. I've programmed in what areas I want to pay attention to, and what alerts I'm interested in for those areas.

Accordingly, it spends the vast majority of its time just sitting there in silence. Months will go by without a single peep from it.

When a selected alert happens, it comes to life automatically (courtesy of SAME messages) and announces information about it... and then silences itself again. Current alerts are also denoted by a red or yellow LED that stays alight for the duration, for a good visual indicator, and briefly summarized information also shows on the very basic character display on the front.

And, well, that's pretty good for me. We get things like tornadoes here that can flatten a neighborhood in an instant, and I'd rather survive that unscathed than to wind up dead (or, worse: permanently maimed). Proactive, broadcast weather alerts help improve my odds of success.

And unlike my community's outdoor warning sirens that are hard to hear indoors even when I'm listening for them during scheduled tests, this is loud AF inside of my house and will wake the dead.

Other than plugging into the wall for power, it will also run for a long time (days, IIRC) on the 3 AA batteries that it uses for backup power.

Now, don't get me wrong: I've also got other means, but they're all complete shit.

I've had severe weather alerts show up on my phone before (from Google and/or Verizon), but they're amazingly inconsistent with whether they'll appear or not and seemingly impossible to control. I've set up push notifications for apps that are dedicated to the purpose, but my Samsung phone loves to put apps to sleep in ways that make reliable push notifications mostly a non-starter.

In terms of computers and Internet access: Yeah, sure -- I've got computers and Internet access. But I'm not trying to hit refresh on a weather page all night just to see if a tornado is happening nearby when the weather is iffy, or to set up a computer to alert me to a weather hazard. And when the power dips here because the weather is awful, the DOCSIS network immediately goes with it. The cell phone towers, which are slow here on their very best days, also get overloaded and become unusable for data.

Running my network on batteries and/or integrating a generator and/or getting a Starlink dish for backup sounds like a fools' errand when a trio of cheap alkaline cells and a normally-silent radio will do what I need.

So anyway, weather radio is a lot more than just a thing that a person can tune into if they elect to choose to hear the weather forecast.

And Canada's service appears offer similar functionality -- with SAME messages and the whole 9 yards: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weatheradio_Canada#History

You guys are losing something important up there.
by Marsymars | 2026-03-03 03:38:38+00:00
I sent a letter to my MP the day after receiving the administrative alert on my radio last week, explaining how weather radio has directly led to me avoiding significant property damage in the past couple years. Doesn't feel like there's a whole lot else I can do.

Guess I'll sell my weather radio on eBay in a few weeks, since there won't be any market for it locally.