MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Smarkets-Talent | 2026-03-02 17:06:24+00:00
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by goku12 | 2026-03-02 17:06:31+00:00
I'm aware of the political landscape in the US right now. But I must ask. What exactly are the policy makers thinking? Do they hold some sort of delusions about the intellectual superiority of their race? Or do they believe that they don't need scientific talent, research and knowledge to be a great nation and civilization? Or do they believe that these deficiencies can be resolved with money alone?

I'm puzzled by autocrats beyond a certain limit. Their actions don't really seem to fit any logic, if their intention is to be become unchallengeable and unassailable. This seems like ceding the advantage to any future rivals.
by recallingmemory | 2026-03-02 17:06:58+00:00
"In San Diego police’s February 2026 Annual Surveillance Report, the department discloses that officers conducted more than 244,000 searches of the Flock automated license plate reader technology in 2025. Those searches played a part in “advancing 361 cases.”

That is an outrageous 99.852% rate of ineffective searches.

The police also disclose that the cost of the system will be over $2 million this year — $2,012,500.

A 99.852% ineffective rate means city leaders will spend $2,009,521.50 on license plate reader technology that does not help any case."
by futohq | 2026-03-02 17:07:05+00:00
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by epistasis | 2026-03-02 17:07:09+00:00
I think this is an important point. Think about the mindset it takes to understand this proposal as a "great" thing for America. What would you have to believe? What values would you have to change in order for a foreign scientist ban to be "great". Be sure to try to limit you understanding of science to wha you might receive from watching the most popular cable news channel as your definitive source of information.

This is not the mindset of all MAGA but it's a difficult exercise for most thoughtful engineers to try to live in that mind space for a while. It's a very different world, and I can only do it because I have many conversations with family members to draw on.
by WorldMaker | 2026-03-02 17:07:18+00:00
You can be aware of the conflict of interest and still decide that is an acceptable trade-off to make. Ethics are personal, subjective, and subject to trade-offs. You have a strong ethical support for having control of the apps running on your devices and that overrides other trade-offs. Another person may have competing ethical beliefs such as Google is an advertising company and while Android allows open software installation (today, at least), Google's conflicts of interest as an ad company are more concerning for the entire platform and larger ecosystem than Apple's conflicts of interest as an application gate keeper.

There's no right answer, everything is a shade of gray. Your strongest ethics aren't necessarily your neighbors'.
by dustanbower | 2026-03-02 17:07:19+00:00
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I've been doing backend work for the past 14 years, with Python, Django, and Django REST Framework. I'm intimately familiar with schema and data migrations, including migrations between Django projects. I've done a lot of full-stack work as well, with HTML, CSS, JavaScript/jQuery, and React.js. I've worked extensively with startups and I've worked with Twitter. I have a lot of experience working with distributed teams and am open to occasional travel. Available full (~32hrs) or part time. Interested in Python work or full-stack with Python.

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by kbolino | 2026-03-02 17:07:38+00:00
The author doesn't touch on it, but the bigger problem with things like Foo|Bar as an actual type (rather than as a type constraint) is that every type must have a default/zero value in Go. This has proven to be a difficult problem for all of the proposals around adding sum types, whether they're used as errors or otherwise. For example, to support interface{Foo|Bar} as a reified type, you'd have to tolerate the nil case, which means you either couldn't call any methods even if they're common to Foo and Bar, or else the compiler would have to synthesize some implementation for the nil case, which would probably have to just panic anyway. And an exhaustive type-switch would always have to have "case nil:" (or "default:") and so on.
by potluri | 2026-03-02 17:07:43+00:00
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by VladCovaci | 2026-03-02 17:07:55+00:00
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by resters | 2026-03-02 17:07:58+00:00
What would be most useful is some kind of context representation that could be upgraded as better models get developed. If you put it in the commit then you need to compare contexts when comparing code across time. But if you make the context include the changes in the code over time, then the future context will be better at debugging a bug in code written years earlier. The years-old context is likely going to be obsolete by that time anyway.
by nphardon | 2026-03-02 17:08:03+00:00
I went *browserless on my device and it has solved my screen compulsion issues with very little downside. It has been the most effective step I've ever taken. I realized I really love msg'ing friends, having access to maps and navigation, banking, just a handful of apps (no google apps), and that all along it was the browser.

*ios doesnt let you delete Safari so I set a 10 minute timer on it, and i dont have any adblock or content filtering enabled, so it's essentially only good for brief checks (auto-shop phone number, quick news check, etc.) but is useless for anything beyond that.
by joseferben | 2026-03-02 17:08:04+00:00
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by ssl-3 | 2026-03-02 17:08:05+00:00
That's what they told me in school, too.

But then I got out in the real world, and noticed plastics just falling apart all around -- including stuff that is not intended to fail and which is otherwise still within its useful life.

Like: One year, I bought some used pickle buckets from a local burger joint to use as planters. Within 6 months, they were falling apart: It was easy to break them apart in chunks with my bare hands.

Or the plastics used for cars: They often eventually turn brittle and fall apart, whether interior or exterior. Plastic lenses on USDM cars turn foggy and useless; some types of wire insulation disintegrate. (If we want to talk about environmental cost, can we also talk about the impact of building a new car?)

In some areas, we once used polybutylene water pipes. These tended to fail and damage homes. There was even a billion-dollar lawsuit about it in the 1990s. It was not good.

Meanwhile, a red Solo cup or a plastic drinking straw, once landfilled, will be there a very long time -- but eventually, they will also decompose.

And the UHMW cutting boards I use in my kitchen will probably outlive my grandchildren's grandchildren before they start falling apart on their own accord.

Plastic isn't always forever, even though some people seem fond of saying that it is. Plastic isn't necessarily cheap, either, even though "cheap plastic" is a common expression -- some plastics are very expensive and resoundingly durable (and there's only partial overlap of these two qualities on a Venn diagram).

The truth is somewhere in the middle, but is rather nuanced and variable and difficult to pin down in absolutes.

But plastic (as a noun) does, broadly speaking, have the material property of being plastic (as an adjective).
by 9rx | 2026-03-02 17:08:16+00:00
It was incredibly useful in the olden days. The NeXT/Apple ecosystem leaned on it heavily.

We have new ways to approach problems nowadays, so it may be fair to say that object-oriented programming is a relic of the past. I mean, it is telling that Smalltalk, Objective-C, and Ruby are the only languages to ever go down that road. Still, if you are using an OO language, then it makes sense to lean into OO features. Otherwise, why not use a language better suited to your problem?
by Tangurena2 | 2026-03-02 17:08:36+00:00
Hanlon's razor still applies: "never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity" [0]. He might be such a foreign agents, however we know that he is unintelligent and narcissistic, therefore everyone who makes him look stupid/bad is suddenly "public enemy number one."

Notes:

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor
by just6979 | 2026-03-02 17:08:48+00:00
Actually I'd say Win2K was the merge point: its internal version is NT 5.0, while XP is NT 5.1 & 5.2. The Win2K UI is the first NT truly usable in a home situation, and last and best iteration of the Win95 UI before the plasti-color of XP. (Yes, that UI was last available as XP's "Classic Theme", but I'm giving it to 2K because XP doesn't really change anything.)

However Win2K wasn't really marketed to consumers as there were still some minor compatibility issues: particularly the DOS emulation was not great, so getting things like older games to work often required lots of tweaking to the launch process, and some things still might never work. Those compatibility settings got more options, saner defaults, and more automatic settings, in XP and later to go along with the full commitment of NT for everyone.

So, while DOS-based WinMe was actually released after Win2K, it was just a stop-gap to bring some more internet things, directx, and media player stuff, to home users while NT 5.x got it's compatibility and driver model in order. Except it was notoriously unstable, generally hated, and mostly forgotten.
by SunshineTheCat | 2026-03-02 17:08:52+00:00
Not sure if you read the headline on that site, but it says "bad idea."

I never said OpenClaw was a bad idea.

I said the way most people are using it now isn't practical and/or saving them any time, and if there were ways, I would love to hear about them.

This is part of why the whole discussion has been so low value: people always default to "yep you're going to be proven wrong one day" or "you'll just be left behind then" instead of showcasing an actual, real life, practical example of using it to be more productive.

If you think it's fun and enjoyable, then have at it. I'm just not the biggest fan of people wasting a bunch of time on novelty and then telling me I'm dumb for not doing the same.
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by foxfoxx | 2026-03-02 17:08:53+00:00
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It also ties each policy directly to bias-rated news coverage and politician social posts on X, Bluesky, and Truth Social. You can follow a single bill from the official text to how media frames it to what your representatives are saying about it.

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I'd love feedback from the community, especially on the data pipeline or what policy areas/features you feel are missing.
by pixl97 | 2026-03-02 17:09:06+00:00
>small capable model that can boot strap itself

You do understand what that term means right.

Openclaw is software, right? LLMs can write software, so with a single running copy of an LLM you can make a worm style virus that can execute and spread itself via whatever means necessary, such as executing its own copy of Claw.
by krisoft | 2026-03-02 17:10:04+00:00
The abstract of the original BERT paper starts with these words: "We introduce a new language representation model called BERT, [...]" The paper itself contains the phrase "language model" 24 times.

It might not be considered a language model today, but it was certainly considered one when it was originally published. Or so it would seem to me. Maybe there is a semantic shift which happened here?
by thomas-arcol | 2026-03-02 17:10:23+00:00
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by AptSeagull | 2026-03-02 17:10:36+00:00
Yes, extensively. ~$6T rides on EDI, and its use was not predicated on security alone. It is painful to get wrong, and often not worth mastering when there's sop much else to focus on.

Naturally, I'm a bit biased as a founder at Surpass.biz, we built an API for EDI transactions so supply chain software SaaS can embed it for native capabilities.
by mikehall314 | 2026-03-02 17:10:55+00:00
Every so often I get weirdly obsessed with Objective-J, which "has the same relationship to JavaScript as Objective-C has to C". It is (was?) an absolutely bonkers project. I think it has more or less died since 280 North was acquired.

https://www.cappuccino.dev/learn/objective-j.html
by bilbo0s | 2026-03-02 17:11:33+00:00
Well, let's not get into this left-right thing because that could go back and forth forever. Especially in the current environment.

eg - "As an outsider, why is [the jury and judge] a credible institution over the monitors?"

We should all just give the legal experts time to look over the records of what happened, and assess why. From there, a consensus will likely emerge as to what happened during and before the trial. And the justice or injustice of the matter will present itself.

But you can't have a judge say one thing and some other single expert say another, and from those pieces of information decide anything of an authoritative nature. Our institutions just don't have that type of credibility any longer. This is the consequence of credibility crises for any society's steward classes.

It was a long slide getting here, decades actually. But I think we are firmly now at the point of the "credibility collapse" portion of the "credibility crisis".
by eastbound | 2026-03-02 17:11:38+00:00
You don’t like me because I’m male or white, and I can prove it.

I’ve done thousands of good things in my life, things that are in values you pretend to have. I was vegan, I was CO2-aware, sold my car even, I donated dozens of thousands to charities, your charities, I was gender-aware, I am gay, I am nonviolent, I am Charlie, I was there, with you, at your protests. Helped refugees too.

But I was born white, and your groups didn’t choose to include me.

It does sound like you *hate* me by birth.
by lardissone | 2026-03-02 17:11:49+00:00
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by keeda | 2026-03-02 17:11:53+00:00
These can show up on Google Maps, which is how I found out about them.

I once had time to kill in a neighboring town and so I thought I'd check out the local library, and a marker saying "Little Free Library" showed up nearby.

Imagine my confusion when I ended up in the middle of a residential area and did not find anything resembling a library. I cruised back and forth in the neighborhood, to the point I started worrying about looking suspicious, before I saw this little box on a corner and then it clicked.

Now I see them everywhere.
by Retric | 2026-03-02 17:12:08+00:00
HR can very quickly sort people by levels of education. Most companies don’t give a fuck what someone learned in their history degree, but know on average they’re more reliable than someone that dropped out of college. Some college still puts people in a better bucket than high school graduates, which is a better bucket than high school dropouts.

Which is why the general population is trying to get that piece of paper. The day HR stops caring is the day this changes.
by epistasis | 2026-03-02 17:12:19+00:00
How many of these people have talked to Putin or other similarly-skilled Russian intelligence agents that convinced them that Russian style oligarchy would give them more power than liberal democracy?

I would guess most if not all. Bezos is the only one who I imagine might not have had detailed discussions. Musk was completely in the grasp of Putin, though that seems to have changed in the past month with the sudden change of heart and disablement of Russian military starlink inside Ukraine. Apparently it was implemented in a single day, and SpaceX staff was confused by the sudden change in heart. That is still consistent with Putin playing Musk like a puppet earlier when they had direct conversations.

I think there are a confluence of reasons for this behavior, and I while I think that foreign influence can't explain it all, it would explain a huge chunk.
by kbolino | 2026-03-02 17:12:30+00:00
This is true, but it feels like a mistake. It's too late to change now, of course, but I feel like (0, nil) and (!=0, !=nil) should both have been forbidden. The former is "discouraged" now, at least. It does simplify implementations to allow these cases, but it complicates consumers of the interface, and there are far more of the latter than the former.
by wolvoleo | 2026-03-02 17:12:37+00:00
I like them but I must be the owner of them. Not Google, Apple or Microsoft. And be able to save the private keys for safekeeping, something the fido alliance doesn't really want me to do. We finally have bit warden but there's still some usability issues with that.

Right now most sites that I use that allow them have conditions that make it impossible to use for me. For example PayPal only allows them in chrome and edge.

So yeah I'll wait for them to become actually open and usable.