MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by radley | 2026-03-09 19:09:34+00:00
> it's hard to see how we ever would have been able to create the modern forms of renewable energy in the first place without fossil fuels as an intermediate technological phase.

That wasn't the point. It's clear that fossil fuels are a phase, one that can't last forever because they're finite. At some point they'll run out. But long before that can happens, we're more likely to transition away. Perhaps not completely, but to the point that they're something like whale oil.
by microtonal | 2026-03-09 19:09:40+00:00
I don't see the issue of using AOSP. You get to skip the many years that Sailfish OS will still need in user testing. You get to skip all the possible incompatibilities with Android apps through the compatibility layer. AOSP is also Linux on the phone. I guess you mean GNU/Linux on the phone, but AOSP now also has official support for a Linux VM (you want a VM because traditional desktop Linux security is not great). They are even adding support for running Wayland apps. With the recently-added desktop support, you can plug a phone into an external screen and you'll have a desktop with Android apps and Linux desktop apps.

I think the chance of Google completely closing AOSP is pretty small, AOSP being open maintains a power equilibrium between Google and other OEMs. Closing up AOSP carries the huge risk that Samsung and some other big OEMs will fork it and Google has essentially lost the whole market overnight. I am pretty sure this is why Samsung phones also have the Galaxy Store with a bunch of apps like Netflix in it. The Galaxy Store is Samsung's subtle message to Google saying: don't try to rein us in, we can cut you out.

That said, even if Google closes AOSP, forking it and maintaining it as an open project is going to be far less work than brining Sailfish OS to the level of polish, security, etc. of AOSP.
by diacritical | 2026-03-09 19:09:46+00:00
> being a vegetarian/vegan is more expensive than being omnivore.

Being vegan is cheaper where I live regardless of whether we factor in the subsidies or not. Beans, chickpeas, lentils and sometimes soy (examples of protein sources) are pretty inexpensive. Peanuts, some other nuts (in the culinary sense of the word) and some of the vegetable oils are also inexpensive.

If you factor in foods meant to replace or replicate the taste of a carnivore diet like vegan yogurt, milk or cheese, or things like Beyond Meat burgers, it might become expensive, but you don't have to limit yourself by trying to replicate what you used to eat - you can make lots of things from 10-20 basic ingredients.
by triceratops | 2026-03-09 19:09:52+00:00
> And of course, there's steam.

How do you make steam without burning something? If you say nuclear fission then you're proposing that humans would somehow have invented electric mining vehicles and mined enough ore to invent fusion without burning a single hydrocarbon molecule?

I suppose in an alternate reality where we simply had no fossil fuels this may have been the tech tree. It would have taken centuries longer though.
by CSMastermind | 2026-03-09 19:09:58+00:00
https://youtu.be/gzwRflcLPAA?si=H1IAFEYoj8qEibNg

If you listen to the government officials explain the situation:

All this began after the Maduro raid, when executives from Anthropic allegedly called an intermediary vendor, Palantir, seeking specifics of how their software was used. Because this is classified information, Palantir refused to disclose it, which led to Anthropic threatening to shut off service to Palantir. Palantir reported this to the pentagon who then contacted Anthropic directly.

Obviously, the military can’t have Palantir’s services suddenly stop working mid-operation because one of their suppliers objects to it. So they can’t risk having Claude anywhere in the supply chain.

Assuming the government isn't lying, then the designation is completely and entirely appropriate. You can substitute out any other vendor, and they'd receive the same treatment.
by uberdru | 2026-03-09 19:10:49+00:00
The fact that this won't go "web scale" seems to be its strength. The idea of local/human/authentic trust ecosystems is super powerful. "Proof of personhood" is fraught with issues, but it seems that lightweight trust algos like this do a nice job of treating trust as a human-first emergent thing, rather than trying to be a PKI style "infrastructure". Pretty cool!
by ashimnandi | 2026-03-09 19:10:56+00:00
I posted System R (https://agents.systemr.ai) — a risk intelligence API for trading agents. Since then we shipped 35 new tools:

- Full derivatives suite: Greeks analysis, IV surface, futures curves, options flow scoring
- Trade journal: agents record outcomes, the system auto-feeds R-multiples back into risk gates
- Trust scoring: agents earn reputation based on trade history and behavior
- Graduation pipeline: agents start in sandbox, graduate to live when trust score hits threshold
- Compliance audit trail: full transaction history with anomaly detection

The feedback loop is the part I'm most excited about. An agent records its trades → the journal stores R-multiples → pre_trade_gate reads them
automatically → the system detects when the strategy's edge is degrading. The OS is no longer stateless.

48 tools total. Python SDK: pip install systemr

GitHub: https://github.com/System-R-AI/systemr-python

Demo agent: https://github.com/System-R-AI/demo-trading-agent
by dleslie | 2026-03-09 19:11:15+00:00
There's certainly a quality to it that has lent itself to the suburbanization of the USA. In the absence of viable electric battery technology, the suburbanization would have relied on street cars and pedestrians.

Which existed. And were ripped up around the time the automobile took over; which has all sorts of theories around it as to why...

I think without oil we'd have higher density cities, better public transit, and healthier populations.
by fhdkweig | 2026-03-09 19:11:42+00:00
I vote for graphite on paper. Ink will run if the paper gets wet. Of all the damage that has occurred to my papers, water is the most common. I keep a copy of important phone numbers written inside my wallet in case I ever lose my phone. Between an unexpected rainstorm, to an unchecked pocket before putting pants in a washing machine, to a spilled drink, I have gotten my wallet wet several times. Every time I used ink, I had to rewrite the list, but now with graphite, it isn't a problem.
by fractallyte | 2026-03-09 19:12:03+00:00
I dispute your assertion: Sailfish's UI is WAY ahead of iOS and Android. It's simple, consistent, and intuitive; a complete contrast to the mess of iOS and the clunkiness of Android. As for stability, native Sailfish apps on my Xperia XA2 seldom, if ever, crash.

And, to my eyes, it simply looks better.
by toast0 | 2026-03-09 19:12:38+00:00
I've only really messed with capsicum. You can certainly cap_enter between fork and exec, but depending on exactly what your target does, it's really not simple to do anything meaningful beyond the basic capsicum mode without changes to the program.

The way capabilities usually work is you more or less turn off the usual do whatever you want syscalls, and have to do restricted things through FDs that have the capability to do them. So like, no more open any path, you have to use openat with a FD in your directory of interest. But that requires the program to understand how to use the capabilities and how to be passed them. It's not something that you can just impose.

My understanding of SELinux, is it can be imposed on a program without the knowledge of the program, because it's more or less matching rules for syscalls... rather than giving a restricted FD to use with openat, you restrict the options for open.
by sanswork | 2026-03-09 19:13:01+00:00
The US has a pervasive culture of fear. It's a big part of why guns are so popular.

I have had countless discussions with americans about guns that go along the lines of "What happens if (insert extremely rare violent incident) happens?" and they all literally seem unable to comprehend that these are just not things I even think about at all, and they really shouldn't either given how extremely rare they all are.

But a huge percentage of the population does worry about being victimised constantly.

It is the main reason that despite the obvious financial benefits and my love for certain landscapes/areas of the US I've never had the slightest desire to move there.
by Edos8877 | 2026-03-09 19:13:02+00:00
Grüße zurück nach Kanada!

Good question! The short answer is, neither. There are no hardcoded rules, but the app also doesn't actively learn your personal speaking patterns over time.

All the context-awareness comes straight from the pre-trained Whisper model. Since it's a transformer network, it looks at the entire sentence context rather than translating word-by-word. For example, if you dictate a sentence about coding, it naturally knows to capitalize "Rust" and "Python" instead of writing about rusty metal and snakes.

I deliberately kept the model static. Trying to fine-tune it locally on the fly would mean I'd have to store your voice data (which kills the 100% privacy promise).

That being said, adding a custom dictionary feature, so you can feed it highly specific industry jargon right before you speak, is at the very top of my to-do list!

Let me know how it handles your vocabulary if you give the trial a spin.
by Fwirt | 2026-03-09 19:13:04+00:00
I think this falls in line with the sentiment from "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy":

"And so the problem remained; lots of the people were mean, and most of them were miserable, even the ones with digital watches. Many were increasingly of the opinion that they'd all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees
in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans."

The way fossil fuels have been exploited has been categorically evil, and from that perspective I think the "industry" is going to be seen as a net negative. The negative externalities are in line with the waste generated by the development of nuclear weapons (think Hanford) on an even grander scale. But it would have been impossible for us to reach a point where it was possible to produce solar cells, hydro, and wind energy without the incredible energy density of petroleum fuels. The fuel for the industrial revolution that gave us our modern livelihoods. Petroleum-derived fertilizers are what enable the global population that we have today, so in a very real sense you and I would not exist without the development of fossil fuels on a grand scale. Whether or not that is a benefit or a deficit to mankind will probably be left to the historians.

Lest anyone think I condone the irreparable damage done to the planet by the industrialization enabled by reckless exploitation of petroleum, I think the whole thing is shameful, and I feel a bit of shame every time I have to drive my gasoline-powered car to the store. But I think there was a responsible way to harvest and benefit from that natural resource and like most natural resources, human greed found a way to make the worst of it.
by balamatom | 2026-03-09 19:13:12+00:00
>Yeah, a bit of a conundrum.

IMO the primary significant trend in AI. Doesn't get talked about nearly enough. Means the AI is working, I guess.

>GNU should bring Stallman back ... Alternatively they could try without Stallman.

Leave Britney alone >:(

>copyright is deemed to be an ethical thing by many (I think for most people it is just a deduction: abiding the law is ethical, therefore copyright is ethical)

I've busted out "intellectual property is a crime against humanity" at layfolk to see if that shortcuts through that entire little politico-philosophical minefield. They emote the requisite mild shock when such things as crimes against humanity are mentioned; as well as at someone making such a radical statement which seems to come from no familiar species of echo chamber; and then a moment later they begin to very much look like they see where I'm coming from.
by tiffsaw | 2026-03-09 19:13:39+00:00
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by iamacyborg | 2026-03-09 19:13:51+00:00
> The way imports work in DenchClaw is a bit unconventional, when you tell it to "import my HubSpot", the agent literally opens your browser (using the copied Chrome profile), navigates to HubSpot, triggers the export, and then ingests the downloaded files into the workspace DuckDB.

What’s stopping the agent from doing literally any other thing in HubSpot? You know, small stuff like editing/deleting records, sensing emails, launching marketing campaigns, deleting reports, etc.
by evanb | 2026-03-09 19:14:30+00:00
Mathematica has Infix [0], which expresses the adjacency with a ~ (because Mathematica reserves pure blankspace for multiplication). But it works fine to do eg. `"hello"~StringJoin~" world"`; I was always surprised we could only have the predefined operators in many other languages and we couldn't define our own.

This seems like a great attempt. I would be worried about how much parsing and backtracking might be required to infer the infix precedence in a totally general system (like garden-path sentences[1]) or actually ambiguous parse trees (which is cured by adopting some rule like right precedence and parens, but what rule you pick makes some 'natural language' constructions work over others).

[0] https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Infix.html

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden-path_sentence
by keithnz | 2026-03-09 19:14:30+00:00
YouTrack is pretty good in that is easy to plan and manage work across multiple projects. Jetbrains made it years ago when they got frustrated with Jira for managing their projects. For most of their products (IntelliJ, Ride, Webstorm, Datagrip, etc) if you want to raise a bug you raise it in their YouTrack. It is super customizable and has a reasonable API. Only thing I find is their website is a bit sluggish. The API is pretty quick though, so the CLI tool is reasonably snappy.
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by dmehers | 2026-03-09 19:14:40+00:00
I'm delighted to announce I'm releasing an iPhone/iPad app today that helps you track which TV shows you are watching and what is the next episode to watch - https://tvnext.app/ - it is free with no ads or tracking.

I got tired of the overwhelming UI in most TV tracking apps including AI recommendations pushing me toward content I didn't ask for: I just wanted a simple clean TV tracking app.

Let me know if you have questions or suggestions.
by travi3000 | 2026-03-09 19:15:39+00:00
Bitbond has been running TokenTool since 2020. 8,300+ token deployments, and so far pretty much all of them have been done by humans.

The next wave of tokenization isn't going to be people clicking buttons. Real estate on chain, commodities, RWAs in general all make sense, but none of them have found wide-scale adoption. That market only scales when agents can handle the issuance. Humans are still crypto-weary. Their agents won't be.

I wanted to take on a project with the agent I've been building, so I decided I'd build something for the agents that I think will soon be running at every asset manager in the world. I wrapped our entire platform in an MCP server. 17 tools covering deploy, mint, burn, pause, whitelist/blacklist management, transfers, cost estimation. Same CertiK-audited contracts, same compliance features. Now it's natively accessible to my OpenClaw, but more interestingly to asset managers, real estate firms, and fund administrators looking to put their portfolios on chain via AI agents.

How it works: runs locally via stdio. Your private key stays on your machine, signs transactions locally, never logged or transmitted. The smart contract factory is already deployed on each chain. The MCP server just constructs and submits calls to it.

10 networks: Ethereum, Polygon, BNB Chain, Arbitrum, Base, Optimism, Avalanche, Peaq, Solana, Stellar.

Setup is npx -y token-tool-mcp and a JSON config. Testnet is free. Mainnet costs the same as the web UI.

We want agents to be the interface for compliant token issuance. That's the bet. Happy to talk architecture, the audit, or where we think this is going.
by jollyllama | 2026-03-09 19:15:44+00:00
> In other words, this might be true because the “inflation-rate“ was high, but it was high because the cost of oil went up.

No way. Housing and food have gone way up from Obama-era levels, but gas has yet to even come close to the cost at the time.

Edit: If anything, it's really the opposite. Cheap gas has been holding down inflation estimates.
by Sairahcaz2k | 2026-03-09 19:15:45+00:00
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by foxyv | 2026-03-09 19:15:47+00:00
Depends on the area. I grew up in a bad neighborhood and everyone was grifting. If you gave a random stranger a ride you would get to take a tour of the roughest places in your city and maybe a "friend" that sees you as a free taxi driver. It was rarely malicious, mostly just people were poor and didn't have access to transportation. But their friends and family can sometimes be pretty dang nasty.

This is called being a "Soft Touch."
by iamnothere | 2026-03-09 19:15:51+00:00
The “app store” model they are defining will encompass some Linux distribution repositories, and will be used to regulate FOSS software distributed through those channels. This is not just about commercial app stores (though it should be limited to those).

Hobby software should not be subject to regulation. Nobody will write FOSS if they have to pay a lawyer or worry about fines, compliance, and such. (Actually some will continue to write it, but will move underground.)
by jonah | 2026-03-09 19:16:12+00:00
Just seeing your question - here are some notes:

The key is to have small (rice grain/pea size) chunks of butter evenly distributed through your dough without "working" it too much which generates gluten resulting in a "tough" crust.

My latest approach is this one: Evenly mix the salt and sugar with 2/3 of the flour and then quickly mix in the cold butter with a food processor* - just enough to distribute it through the dry ingredients. Then quickly mix in the remaining flour.

Dump that mixture into a bowl - it will crumbly and too dry for a crust. Now, carefully sprinkle cold vodka (to wet the flour without producing gluten) and cold water over the dough and FOLD it in with a spatula*. Envision the flaky layers you want in an ideal crust and understand that you are trying to mechanically create those layers with the spatula.

Then, form into a ball, wrap in plastic and chill for several hours. Then, you can take it out, dust the ball with flour and roll it into a pie pan-sized disc. Don't be afraid to use enough flour on the surface and dough ball to keep it from sticking.

https://www.seriouseats.com/cooks-illustrated-foolproof-pie-...
https://www.seriouseats.com/myths-that-need-to-go-away

* Another approach, if you don't have a food processor is to freeze your butter and then grate it directly into the bowl of dry ingredients tossing the flour frequently to coat the individual bits of butter and preventing them from clumping together. Once all the butter is grated and mixed in, add the liquid and fold it in.

*If you are having issues with the dough being too dry or wet add the liquid a bit at a time while working it in and just stop when it gets to the right consistency.
by abduhl | 2026-03-09 19:16:22+00:00
In its court filing, the US government admits that "In addition to refunding the IEEPA duties, CBP must also pay importers interest, as required by law." So one silver lining here is that we (because it is the taxpayers who ultimately pay) will actually pay more than was collected on tariffs once interest is considered.

The second silver lining is that, even if CBP does its job, there is another step where the Trump administration will certainly drag its feet again: "If it is determined upon liquidation or reliquidation that excess moneys have been
deposited, such that a refund with interest is due to the importer, CBP certifies the refund and interest amounts to the Department of the Treasury, which then employs its own processes to disburse the certified amounts to the importers of record."

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cit.193...
by vaadu | 2026-03-09 19:16:57+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VinCGmdj-jQ
He's a lawyer and describes it in excellent detail.

One side issues the judge brought up is that no points go on the driver's record with a red light camera offense. The entire point of the points system is to get bad drivers off the road. But people can have numerous red light infractions and still keep their license.
by BugsJustFindMe | 2026-03-09 19:17:00+00:00
I'm wondering if the context has been lost because of the length of the chain that this thread is a conversation about why people, especially non-technical and non-philosophically-motivated people, people for whom the concepts of federation and disjoint instances are actually detrimental rather than beneficial because they fundamentally erase some of the most useful features of social network platforms (e.g. global search), don't use Mastodon over something else.

> You don’t care.

Forget about me for a moment. We're talking about people. Most people, in fact. Actually the upstream comments use the term "normies", which is a term that I personally object to because it's pejorative and gross behavior. It's imperative that you evaluate this thread within the given context.

Side note on upstream calling people "normies": It's absolutely nuts to me that the groups most sensitive to othering will themselves engage in mindless othering. But anyway.

> It’s not difficult

To you. In fact one of the things that makes something difficult is how much a person is forced to deal with things that they don't want to deal with, especially when those things are the opposite of what they want from a service.