MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Bewelge | 2026-03-06 15:20:48+00:00
I did do a German search as well. And bias in that case would be something like "parteiisch" "bevor-/nachteilen". In 2019 a court did say it gives an advantage to incumbents because you had to limit your results to 8 parties. They've changed that since. The article you've linked is talking about its usefulness in general and not that it gives unfair advantages to anyone.

Honestly, I'm not a big fan of the thing myself and I agree that most of your proposals would improve the tool. But calling it a tool that compares political parties biased makes it sound deceptive. And I don't believe that it's deceptive. It's just ineffective.

The fact that it gives an "unfair advantage to incumbents" also isn't really a bias of the tool. It really just is the most obvious fair way to structure it. Large parties are large because a large amount of people vote for them. So they obviously have more visibility.

But I also agree that the majority rule of an ageing population in Germany is problematic. With most incumbents seemingly agreeing to not talk about the future.
by stopbulying | 2026-03-06 15:21:11+00:00
More concern on nuclear fission in "Tennessee's terrible power choices" Tennessee Lookout https://tennesseelookout.com/2026/03/03/tennessees-terrible-...

Copenhagen Atomics' waste burner burns Thorium up. There's a video that explains that ~ One billiards ball of thorium covers all the energy that a person uses in their life

Thorium is lower cost and lower risk.

Waste burning is further along than what is being developed in East Tennessee, given an assessment of Copenhagen Atomics' published specs.

Recent administrations worked to develop strategic arms reduction agreements and limited expenditures on foreign conflict.

TIL that a foreign country being regime-changed this month has a 1% renewable energy mix

But for a small town in TN, all this
by gh0stcat | 2026-03-06 15:21:16+00:00
Wait this is really funny, it still just does what it wants, no matter what:

You can have it not use bulleted points, I turned this on, thinking it would be more concise and not so... listy. However, it just uses the same format, without the bullets. I was confused why it was writing 5 word sentences, separated by line breaks. Then I realized it was just making lists, without the bullets.

Great job OpenAI!
by squidleon | 2026-03-06 15:21:22+00:00
Thanks! There are still a few active shards out there, mostly us "old guys" in our 40s chasing the nostalgia of our teenage years. UO has a way of never really dying. Combat and skills are still a ways off,
but the foundation is solid enough that I'm adding features every week (in spare times,) I'll keep pushing updates!
by battery_staple_ | 2026-03-06 15:21:26+00:00
> I started because I wanted Claude Code to manage my system, not just my code.

I have two reactions to this.

First: respectfully, this is hilarious. LLMs are good at many things, but judgement is not one of them. At the outset, this was firmly in the "terrible ideas" category. (EDIT: ugh; I misread you. I thought you said Claude Code wanted to manage your system. I need more coffee...)

Second: sometimes from terrible ideas come great creativity. (I'm actually not sure what epistemic basis creativity flows from, if not simply the habit of adding entropy to a search path, and you sure chose a high entropy path!) I don't know anything about the stack you chose, but I've spent many hours almost being enticed by https://guix.gnu.org/ and this sounds similar. And the part where you have recovered from a borked system about 15 times is genuine evidence that you're doing something right. I applaud your grit and hope you're having as much fun as it sounds like you are.
by ajross | 2026-03-06 15:21:30+00:00
I'm just saying that subtle trickery isn't his M.O. And they're not any good at it, anyway.

Just watch, he'll address with with Big Lie politics like he always does. He'll stand up on a podium, throw his own Labor Department under the bus, and announce that they're lying and that the economy actually gained 200k jobs or whatever. But he won't dither on whether it's -92k or -112k.
by Pxtl | 2026-03-06 15:21:49+00:00
Because of first COVID-19 and the post-peak economic chaos distracting us, and then afterwards Trump and Putin and Netenyahu and the global rise of erratic mayhem as a political platform.

https://xkcd.com/2275/

Eventually we'll have to deal with the Giant Spider Downtown, it's just that the to-do list is growing from the top.
by AndrewKemendo | 2026-03-06 15:21:59+00:00
I mean Dorsey literally just said publicly that he’s laying off people in order to utilize AI

like what more clear point do you want?

Whether or not you believe that this is a good or bad move, correct or lying move, whether AI is capable or not,

“AI” is the reason that CEOs are utilizing to cut roles

The timing of this is based on the fact that Capital is striking from deploying money to anything else outside of the largest deals that include AI as promise of higher profits

But ultimately it comes down to the fact that the people in control with all the money believe that the future is gonna need less human workers and is prioritizing giving money to organisms that will shed their workforces in order to run an experiment in AI capturing value on behalf of investors without having the additional overhead of personnel
by epistasis | 2026-03-06 15:22:05+00:00
Mass deportation means economic contraction. The administration has promised to deport millions of people. Mass deportations on this scale will have a somewhat drastic effect, and the true mass deportation hasn't even started, because they haven't built enough concentration camps to facilitate the deportations.

Unless it is stopped the job losses will be absolutely massive, and a tiny tiny footnote to the massive human suffering that the stated mass deportation is intended to cause.
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by rramadass | 2026-03-06 15:22:34+00:00
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by superxpro12 | 2026-03-06 15:22:50+00:00
ok so this has to be a bot or propaganda account.

The US is checking a new box every day in the quest to parallel Nazi Germany.

Immigrant Concentration camps? Check

Elimination of public education in favor of religious private school? Check

Remove all free press in the government? Check

Remove all free press in the military? Check

Embrace "Unitary Executive Theory"? (Sure sounds a lot like when Hitler removed the legislature to me) Check.

Create an army of brown-shirts? Sorry i mean ICE Agents... Check

Fuck literal children and suppress all evidence? Check

Like... what EXACTLY is normal about this??????
by youknownothing | 2026-03-06 15:22:55+00:00
> The only solution is to educate our children about life with digital abundance.

I stopped reading at this point, as this is utter non-sense. I mean, it's a beautiful idea, but any person with more than two neurones knows that real-life doesn't work like that. We have law enforcement and prisons because, despite our best efforts in education, some people do go off to become criminals due to a number of factors.

I'm not saying that the present number of laws is adequate, but the solution is a different set of laws, not the complete lack of them. The idea of "simply educate children and we'll all be fine" is utterly moronic.
by rprend | 2026-03-06 15:23:14+00:00
What backlash against Adobe? I think you are mistaking comment section consensus for reality. People on forums and social media complain, but the comment section consensus is often dead wrong!

There was no real backlash against Adobe. They added subscriptions and grew revenue. Some people grumbled online, but they paid, which means they don’t like the old model, they like the new one.
by mixdup | 2026-03-06 15:23:29+00:00
This is the biggest headscratcher about AI. Before 2020 every big tech company had a net neutral, if not net negative, carbon goal. And many of them were talking about not just buying offsets but actual neutrality. And others were talking about even accounting for the emissions caused by their customers using their products

LLMs hit the market and you never hear anyone talk about carbon at all. At all. Maybe Apple will mention it a little bit but they're not in the big datacenter game

The costs of LLMs are just being completely paved over. We don't let manufacturers dump cadmium into the rivers in the US anymore, even if it would enable cheap or magic products, it's insane that we're just ignoring all the external impacts in this particular area
by cronin101 | 2026-03-06 15:24:04+00:00
You don't need to be rich to get a working visa (assuming you are a competent software engineer -- plenty of places in Europe will hire you, and there is a path to citizenship).

You'll have to reassess what a "software engineer" salary looks like, but this is unironically part of the pathway towards living in a more-equal society where perhaps we shouldn't be earning 3x as much as everyone else just because we can invert a binary tree.
by spwa4 | 2026-03-06 15:24:20+00:00
Was anybody really expecting anything else? The only factor that would matter is if oil producing nations STOP producing oil entirely. Not reduce, not limit, stop. Same with coal and other small contributions. Note: limiting exports, CO2 limits in oil customer states, ... all of that just doesn't matter.
And, obviously, this is just not on the table. There is no way these nations will make such a decision because what it would mean for their economy. Plus it wouldn't matter unless they all make that decision.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-03-06 15:24:56+00:00
One of the largest things i am learning from these stories (Tangentially Wikipedia story too) is to have backups outside of your own infrastructure with snapshots at 15 minute recovery time preferably when possible

For context it was 2.5 years of data. I can only just imagine the nightmare if things would've turned out even a tiny bit more worse for ya. The nightmare it would've been if snapshot of the production database wouldn't have been found even within the AWS business support.

> I was overly reliant on my Claude Code agent, which accidentally wiped all production infrastructure for the DataTalks.Club course management platform that stored data for 2.5 years of all submissions: homework, projects, leaderboard entries, for every course run through the platform.
by WorldMaker | 2026-03-06 15:24:59+00:00
That's a bit defeatist, and kind of a whataboutism. Sure, it is the greatest tragedy of the commons in history playing out as a slow motion trainwreck, but you don't solve the tragedy of the commons by continuing to make it tragic "because everyone else is doing it". You focus on your own impact and you also focus on diplomacy with your neighbors. You don't just stop, you put in twice the work.

It's also somewhat easy to shift that viewpoint a little, too, right now: China's emissions numbers have started a rapid deceleration downward. They are doing more about their emissions faster than the US. Does the US want to lose to China that badly that we shouldn't even try to align US policy to more of the emissions reductions that China is already succeeding at today? (Much less their robust plans for future emissions reductions?)
by roryirvine | 2026-03-06 15:25:04+00:00
Yes, 30 pin SIMMs (the most common memory format from the mid-80s to the mid-90s) came in either '8 chip' or '9 chip' variants - the 9th chip being for the parity bit.

Most motherboards supported both, and the choice of which to use came down to the cost differential at the time of building a particular machine. The wild swings in DRAM prices meant that this could go from being negligible to significant within the course of a year or two!

When 72 pin SIMMs were introduced, they could in theory also come in a parity version but in reality that was fairly rare (full ECC was much better, and only a little more expensive). I don't think I ever saw an EDO 72 pin SIMM with parity, and it simply wasn't an option for DIMMs and later.
by Uncle_Brumpus | 2026-03-06 15:25:12+00:00
I had never vacationed abroad in my whole life, then last year I traveled separately to Amsterdam (with 2 nights in Groningen) and Paris. Both trips ended up being cheaper than similar domestic trips. Both times I was extremely sad to return home.

I would love to emigrate to Europe. One of the nights in Amsterdam, I couldn't sleep and spent the night frantically researching how to legally emigrate.
by nijave | 2026-03-06 15:25:17+00:00
Imo these are nice to haves. The physical system of ID cards already has these problems but works well enough.

People can loan their ID to someone else (ask college kids with an older sibling...)

When you use your physical ID, the government frequently can deanonymize you either through automated databases (especially when purchasing drugs) or subpoenaing for camera footage, visitor lists, etc
by est31 | 2026-03-06 15:26:26+00:00
I suppose eventually we'll see something like Google's OSS-Fuzz for core open source projects, maybe replacing bug bounty programs a bit. Anthropic already hands out Claude access for free to OSS maintainers.

LLMs made it harder to run bug bounty programs where anyone can submit stuff, and where a lot of people flooded them with seemingly well-written but ultimately wrong reports.

On the other hand, the newest generation of these LLMs (in their top configuration) finally understands the problem domain well enough to identify legitimate issues.

I think a lot of judging of LLMs happens on the free and cheaper tiers, and quality on those tiers is indeed bad. If you set up a bug bounty program, you'll necessarily get bad quality reports (as cost of submission is 0 usually).

On the other hand, if instead of a bug bounty program you have an "top tier LLM bug searching program", then then the quality bar can be ensured, and maintainers will be getting high quality reports.

Maybe one can save bug bounty programs by requiring a fee to be paid, idk, or by using LLM there, too.
by boudin | 2026-03-06 15:26:47+00:00
Our behaviour is also responsible for China's and India emissions.
We've exported lot of our production to those countries and are importing it back. If we were to measure emissions not by the country of the producer but the country of the consumer, our numbers (USA and Europe) would look dramatically different.

As consummer we are responsible for the whole world emissions in the end. Changing those habbits, can impact things far beyond borders. But that's a political choice which goes against a constant growth based economy and it seems that not many people in our countries are ready to accept this.
We want to buy and travel as much as we always did but bear no reponsibilities for the impact it has.
by myrmidon | 2026-03-06 15:27:03+00:00
Disagree with this perspective entirely.

Not only is it factually wrong (US emissions are much higher than Indian ones despite India being like 4x as many people), it also ignores second order effects of sane environmental policy completely:

By demonstrating that emission reduction is feasible, smaller wealthy western nations can have giant effects on billions of people living in poorer states. Not only does this demonstrate that wealth and environmental concerns are compatible, it also allows "follower-nations" to emulate such efforts cost effectively by picking proven technologies and avoiding technological dead-ends.

Just consider wind/solar in China: I would argue that the whole industry and growth rates only got to the current point so quickly is thanks to research, development and investment done in western nations in the decades prior.

Countries like Germany (<100M) had a huge effect on energy development in China (>1b people). If they had just kept using fossils until now, Chinese electricity might well be >90% coal power as well.

Geoengineering is a naive pipedream in my view because all proposals are either the height of recklessness and/or completely financial lunacy: CO2 capture for small individual emitters like cars is never gonna be even close to cost competitive with just reducing those emissions in the first place (but I'm always curious about any novel approaches).
by alberto467 | 2026-03-06 15:27:12+00:00
I think a lot of people have lost faith in the ability of the world to come all together and make the necessary sacrifices to make a difference. Especially when some parts of the world are in competition with each other and not making these sacrifices allows them an edge.

Also another group of people have realized they are not willing to forgo all their petty and unnecessary comforts nor are they willing to pay any price increases that would be required to adopt less economical but more sustainable services or production methods.

I don't think there's been any big change in climate change believers/deniers, but i do think some people have started accepting that we're doomed and that there is no "practical" solution. And if you think you're doomed, you might as well skip the sacrifices and enjoy your last days (decades) to the fullest.
by mothballed | 2026-03-06 15:27:27+00:00
Being a USC is no assurance, I've sat in immigration jail cuffed and legs bound where every other person but me was brown and spoke another language. It is rather bizarre when it happens because none of them empathize with you because at the end of the day you know you have the right to enter and they are just fucking with you out of sadism, while for the others they are wondering if they'll be deported. Although generally after a shift or two they forget why they were fucking with you and you get released.
by bdangubic | 2026-03-06 15:27:45+00:00
every year we hear the same thing but wheels keep on turning. we will vote again, we will make more mistakes in 2026/28/30... this "there will be no election" comments are quite silly in my opinion, America gets stupid from time to time but we get the fuckers out and try something else (which inevitably leads to some progress followed by more failure followed by...).

Just remember it always comes down to - "it is the economy, stupid" - and economy is in absolute shambles and will get a lot worse before November and it'll be a massacre for the ruling part much like in 2018
by wereHamster | 2026-03-06 15:27:45+00:00
China is already slowing down the addition new fossil fuel power plants. Yes, they still build new ones, yes they generate a lot of emissions. But they are also adding more than the rest of the world combined of renewable (solar, wind) electricity generation each year. Realistically, if China stopped 100% of emissions tomorrow, they'd be in much better position to replace it with clean alternatives than most other countries.
by travisgriggs | 2026-03-06 15:28:05+00:00
So this. A year ago my wife and I did a road trip up into Canada (Kelowna BC region). It was a new experience. I’ve been up into Canadian provinces many times (20+ over the years), but because of the anti Canadian rhetoric that Trump and company were putting out at the time, I was embarrassed and eager for people to not actually know I was from the states. I was hyper aware of the Washington state license plates on our car. I have never felt that way before. Ashamed to be an American. Afraid of the association it implied. Anxious that people would be reductionist, unable to realize that I was not just an American, but a frustrated helpless American.

The Canadian people I met as we travelled were all amazing. I was humbled that they took time to talk. And were less interested in identity than issues. One older gentleman, who saw us pull into the McDonalds with Washington plates approached us in the foyer and wanted to tell me that despite what others might say, I was welcome there. It was on one hand kinda weird and at the same time really touching.
by bitexploder | 2026-03-06 15:28:23+00:00
But at some level, you can "just be" with the other organism. Eat some food. Make some dopamine. Hang out. I feed my dog. I exercise my dog. I exercise myself. I eat. We sit down together, I pet her. We both create oxytocin and perceive that positively when I pet her. Most animals map that to "safety" or "contentment". Survival needs satisfied for now. Who knows what that maps to for my dog, but we exist in a pretty similar state in that moment of being. That very desire to try and map the dolphin is our "I" narrative that /constantly/ wants to map things out and figure the patterns out.

Dolphin has concept maps between objects and semantic meaning and an "I" narrative. Dog is almost fully present with no narrative constantly mapping past to future. We probably have a lot more in common with dolphin, if we can map that somehow.

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10....

This article is right up this conversation's alley; about chimps being fascinated with crystals. And I am not saying it is wrong to map and communicate, communication means cooperation, deeper connection and meaning, discovering boundaries of if we can socially coordinate and form new and exciting groups and collaboration, etc.
by acdha | 2026-03-06 15:28:45+00:00
This is a function of your personal media diet: when you spend time consuming rationalizations funded by the fossil fuel industry, it’s easy to deride people who were right as “screamers” and the longer you do so the easier it is to project your intellectual failure onto nebulous “other” people you don’t know. It’s not your fault that climate change is costing lives and billions of dollars, the people who tried to stop it were engaged in hyperbole. It’s not your fault that people are being illegally killed, assaulted, or detained, it’s their fault for allowing you to ignore the clear evidence that this was going to happen.