MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mnsc | 2026-02-28 07:49:09+00:00
I love that the tool in question is very calm and collected, in contrast with the emotional wreck that is the US regime. I got a very helpful response to this prompt and I will make it continue working on a python script to get my historical chats looking good in Obsidian.

> Ok. So I'm cancelling the subscription to ChatGPT and moving over to Claude because of the news of OpenAI striking a deal with us department of war. (https://www.techradar.com/pro/openai-just-signed-a-huge-deal...) Please line out a good exit strategy where I can keep the information in my chats and projects on my own hard drive.
by zozbot234 | 2026-02-28 07:49:16+00:00
> Rust has nothing new (even the lifetime stuff is copied) really.

Rust has nothing new by academic standards, and this is an explicit goal of the project. (And that's why it has yet to support e.g. Haskell-like higher-kinded types; or dependent types for compile-time programming: the interaction with its low-level featureset is very much an open question.) It's incredibly novel as a production language, of course.
by ivraatiems | 2026-02-28 07:49:17+00:00
> In this situation it is a fair request by the US to sign a nuclear deal that heavily restricts Iran's ability to enrich, and as Iran due to ideological reasons refused, and IMO miscalculated this will be a win-win, as losing will quell the protests, the only thing really left is the metaphorical stick

Didn't we have one of those a few years ago? I wonder what happened to it /s

Seriously, though: how can Iran both be so powerful we must avoid it becoming a blackmail state, and so weak and feckless it's not a threat to anyone?

And didn't we already attack them to stop them from getting nuclear capabilities?
by lemontheme | 2026-02-28 07:50:12+00:00
First, the difference isn’t that big in the economically stronger EU countries. Second, you need to factor in cost of living, which by most accounts is lower. Third, meaningful labor laws and a shared appreciation for work-life balance. And finally, to continue the sweeping generalizations, while we celebrate business acumen, we don’t fetishize wealth. People who flaunt money get made fun of, as do sigma grindset hustle bros.

I’ll take a pay cut any day for the ethos of the EU.
by drivebyhooting | 2026-02-28 07:50:20+00:00
My point is that C++ is a tarpit, famous for nerd sniping and leading otherwise intelligent people into Wild goose chases.

Have you read Alexandrescu’s “modern c++”? It’s like a piece of modern art but completely not self aware. There’s just something about C++ that lures intellectuals in; like ice age mammoths to a tar pit.

Small wonder LLMs also fall victims to C++’s deranged ways.
by fc417fc802 | 2026-02-28 07:50:41+00:00
Did you perhaps miss the part in the comment you're replying to where I said that I disagree with both attestation and ID checks? I went on to suggest a concrete method of facilitation whereby websites are legally mandated to self report content ratings.

Notice that the context here is a comment farther up the chain decrying the enablement of totalitarian parental control.
by tombert | 2026-02-28 07:50:45+00:00
“Yes, but I have something he will never have — ENOUGH” - Joseph Heller.

After a billion dollars, I doubt another billion will make you happier. In fact, I don’t think another trillion will make you happier. In fact, I don’t think another quadrillion dollars will make you happier, etc.

After a certain point you have effectively infinite money. Enough money to live dozens of extremely comfortable lifetimes. And importantly enough money to afford to actually have some principles. Oh no, he wouldn’t be able to afford to have his house re-covered in 24 karat gold again if he doesn’t fellate our lolcow president.
by AussieWog93 | 2026-02-28 07:50:52+00:00
An even easier way to get into this is simply by downloading a program called LM Studio. You can mount a model and chat to it within 10-15 mins with no experience whatsoever, and no configuration at all.

That said, last time I tried local LLMs (around when gpt-oss came out) it still seemed super gimmicky (or at least niche, I could imagine privacy concerns would be a big deal for some). Very few use cases where you want an LLM but can't benefit immensely from using SOTA models like Claude Opus.
by shunia_huang | 2026-02-28 07:51:36+00:00
I've been long on JS but never heard things like this, could you please prove it by any means or at least give a valid proof to the _around 15%_ statement?
Also by saying _quick enough to not be noticeable_, what's the situation you are referring too? I thought the GC overhead will stack until it eventually affects the UI responsiveness when handling continues IO or rendering loads, as recently I have done some perf stuff for such cases and optimizing count of objects did make things better and the console definitely showed some GC improvements, you make me nerve to go back and check again.
by ddxv | 2026-02-28 07:51:41+00:00
I really hope at some point in the near future AI models shrink enough or laptops get strong enough to run AI models locally. I haven't tried in the past year, but when I did it was very slow token output + laptop was on fire to make that happen.

I've wanted to try some of the more recent 8B models for local tab completion or agentic, any experience with those kinds of smaller models?
by giancarlostoro | 2026-02-28 07:52:37+00:00
I have a 24GB Macbook Pro. I will note, do get the 'Pro' models, the Mac Mini and the Macbook Air do not have internal fans. The Macbook Pro has an internal fan, and the Mac Studio (bigger Mac Mini) has a fan. If you get a Mini, you might want to get one of those docks that cools the Mini. Your hardware will get very hot very quickly.

Also, because Apple in their infinite wisdom despite giving you a fan, very lazily turn it on (I swear it has to hit 100c before it comes on) and they give you zero control over fan settings, you may want to snag something like TG Pro for the Mac. I wound up buying a license for it, this lets you define at which temperature you want to run your fans and even gives you manual control.

On my 24G RAM Macbook Pro I have about 16GB of Inference. I use Zed with LM Studio as the back-end. I primarily just use Claude Code, but as you note, I'm sure if I used a beefier Mac with more RAM I could probably handle way more.

There's a few models that are interesting on the Mac with LM Studio that let you call tooling, so it can read your local files and write and such:

mistralai/mistralai-3-3b this one's 4.49GB - So I can increase my context window for it, not sure if it auto-compacts or not, have only just started testing it

zai-org/glm-4.6v-flash - This one is 7.09GB, same thing, only just started testing it.

mistralai/mistral-3-14b-reasoning - This one is 15.2GB just shy of the max, so not a TON of wiggle room, but usable.

If you're Apple or a company that builds things for Macs or other devices, please build something to help with airflow / cooling for the MBP / Mac Mini, it feels ridiculous that it becomes a 100c device I'm not so sure its great for device health if you want to use inference for longer than the norm.

I will probably buy a new Mac whenever the inference speeds increase at a dramatic enough rate. I sure hope Apple is considering serious options for increasing inference speed.
by imiric | 2026-02-28 07:53:33+00:00
> It's incredible how quickly we've devolved into full-blown sci-fi dystopia.

How so? The steps towards where we are now have been gradual over the last 2 decades, at least. This recent step has opened the door for those in power to grab onto even more power and wealth, and they're naturally seizing it. All of this was comically predictable. Oh, and BTW, the people on this very website have brought us here. :)

You know what will happen next? Absolutely nothing. A vocal minority will make a ruckus that will be ignored, partly because nobody will hear it due to our corrupted media channels, and partly because the vast majority doesn't care and are too amused by their shiny toys and way of life.

This dystopia is only different from fictional ones in that those in power have managed to convince the majority of people that they're not living in a dystopia. It's kind of a genius move.
by pjmlp | 2026-02-28 07:54:08+00:00
If it helps finally acknowledging basic stuff like bounds checking matters, great, this from a guy that rather use system languages with automatic resource management.

"A consequence of this principle is that every occurrence of every subscript of every subscripted variable was on every occasion checked at run time against both the upper and the lower declared bounds of the array. Many years later we asked our customers whether they wished us to provide an option to switch off these checks in the interests of efficiency on production runs. Unanimously, they urged us not to they already knew how frequently subscript errors occur on production runs where failure to detect them could be disastrous. I note with fear and horror that even in 1980 language designers and users have not learned this lesson. In any respectable branch of engineering, failure to observe such elementary precautions would have long been against the law."

-- C.A.R Hoare's "The 1980 ACM Turing Award Lecture"

From 1980!

C++26 will finally have hardening on the standard library, something that I could already enjoy in 1990's with Turbo Vision, OWL, MFC, VCL, but was too much to ask for on the standard library apparently, even if compilers kept having each own their approach.

It took governments and companies to start mapping CVEs to money spent fixing them, to finally acknowledge something had to change.

Meanwhile on C land, business as usual regarding Hoare's quote.
by retsibsi | 2026-02-28 07:55:08+00:00
> If the US buys from a defense contractor who bought from abthropic, that really isn't that different from buying direct. The moral hazard is still there and the risk that anthropic will try to prevent their product from being used in that fashion is still there.

You need to look closer at how the government is trying to use the 'supply chain risk' designation. Hegseth said this:

> Effective immediately, no contractor, supplier, or partner that does business with the United States military may conduct any commercial activity with Anthropic.

It remains to be seen whether they'll actually be able to enforce this. But it clearly goes far beyond what would be justified by the kind of supply chain risk you are describing.
by eesmith | 2026-02-28 07:55:09+00:00
malfist literally wrote "near monopoly power", which is not the same thing as claiming that "Amazon is a monopoly".

You asked malfist 'In what sense does Amazon have “near monopoly power”?'

I answered that question. The state of California claims Amazon has enough market share to dictate prices, making it a near monopoly, and it abuses those near monopoly powers in violation of California anti-trust laws. California doesn't need to demonstrate that Amazon is a pure monopoly because that is irrelevant, and not true.

I farther pointed out that even using the term "monopoly" without the "near" qualifier can mean "There are many buyers or sellers, but one actor has enough market share to dictate prices (near monopolies)", with citation.

Which means your statement "Amazon is a monopoly" is a correct summary of the issue, even if those injunction request and complaint don't use those terms.

It seems you think the term "monopoly" can only ever be applied to pure monopolies. You seem to be confusing the economic and legal definitions. Quoting the introduction paragraph from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly

> In economics, a monopoly is a single seller. In law, a monopoly is a business entity that has significant market power, that is, the power to charge overly high prices, which is associated with unfair price raises.

This thread concerns a lawsuit, so the legal definition is the most relevant.
by skissane | 2026-02-28 07:55:42+00:00
> Who in their right minds wants to have the military have the capabilities to do mass surveillance of their own citizens?

Who in their right minds wants to have the US military have the capability to carry out an unprovoked first strike on Moscow, thereby triggering WW3, bringing about nuclear armageddon?

And yet, do contracts for nuclear-armed missiles (Boeing for the current LGM-30 Minuteman ICBMs, Northrop Grumman for its replacement the LGM-35 Sentinel expected to enter service sometime next decade, and Lockheed Martin for the Trident SLBMs) contain clauses saying the Pentagon can't do that? I'm pretty sure they don't.

The standard for most military contracts is "the vendor trusts the Pentagon to use the technology in accordance with the law and in a way which is accountable to the people through elected officials, and doesn't seek to enforce that trust through contractual terms". There are some exceptions – e.g. contracts to provide personnel will generally contain explicit restrictions on their scope of work – but historically classified computer systems/services contracts haven't been one of those exceptions.

If that's the wrong standard for AI, why isn't it also the wrong standard for nuclear weapons delivery systems? A single ICBM can realistically kill millions directly, and billions indirectly (by being the trigger for a full nuclear exchange). Does Claude possess equivalent lethal potential?
by rdtsc | 2026-02-28 07:55:42+00:00
> these laws cannot be used to compel a business into expressing speech they do not agree with

I don’t think they are preventing them. You can still buy some Anthropic. Heck, maybe you’re now doubly motivated to buy some out of spite. What Uncle Sam is saying is he doesn’t want anything to do with it. But Anthropic can produce whatever and others can buy it.

In their view just like businesses cannot be compelled so are the customers, they can’t be compelled to buy.
by breppp | 2026-02-28 07:55:48+00:00
> Didn't we have one of those a few years ago? I wonder what happened to it /s

Yes, although it had merit it was far worse than what can be signed now, especially the sunset clause was problematic

> Seriously, though: how can Iran both be so powerful we must avoid it becoming a blackmail state, and so weak and feckless it's not a threat to anyone?

that's the nature of nuclear weapons, your conventional force can be abysmal (pretty much NK situation vs US) and yet you can create epic destruction

> And didn't we already attack them to stop them from getting nuclear capabilities?

Yes, the thing here is the long term goal of signing a deal, whose main goal is removing the existing highly enriched uranium from Iran and restricting their ability to redevelop nuclear capabilities. Essentially this is the part where "Diplomacy is the continuation of war by other means" (to highly paraphrase), because the alternative to a deal is maintenance attacks such as these every two years
by SllX | 2026-02-28 07:56:36+00:00
I’m aware of the history, but my point is that as a specific reform to pursue, it’s noise.

If California moves to a Parliamentary system but maintains the popular ballot initiative that has undermined legislative power and allowed legislators to disclaim & dodge responsibility, or maintain the system of term limits I originally called out, then it doesn’t matter whether it’s our current bicameral legislature plus 5 Constitutional officers in the Executive branch or a full on Westminster Parliamentary system or anything in-between: you’ll still run into a lot of the same issues because there are no silver bullets.

So I’m not saying it should never be up for consideration, but as a list of changes to make go? It’s too far down the list of serious considerations for me to view it as anything other than noise right now.
by Meekro | 2026-02-28 07:57:04+00:00
I'd encourage you to look up the Defense Production Act. Its powers are probably broad enough that the President could unilaterally force Anthropic to do this whether or not it wants to. It's the same logic that would allow him to force an auto manufacturer to produce tanks. And the law doesn't care whether we are in a crisis or not. It's enough that he determine (on his own) that this action is "necessary or appropriate to promote the national defense."

However, it looks like Trump isn't going to go that route-- they're just going to add Anthropic to a no-buy list, and use a different AI provider.
by qsera | 2026-02-28 07:57:16+00:00
>By that logic sin(x) is equivalent to a lookup table

NO!

`sin(x)` is continuous, so the domain is infinite.

But an LLM model is not a continuous function, and thus the domain of a LLM model is finite (set of all possible tokens). So using a lookup table for a model behavior would be exact and not an approximation. So it can indeed be represented by an if statement of finite size.

Hence proved!

If you don't understand something in what I wrote, I can clarify if you tell me where you have trouble following.
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by nielsbot | 2026-02-28 07:57:54+00:00
Does Iran not have the same rights of self-defense and sovereignty as the US and Israel?

> The point is preventing another North Korea style nuclear blackmail state

The US and Israel are currently nuclear blackmail states. The rational move for Iran to prevent itself from being bullied is to have nukes like North Korea.

> In this situation it is a fair request by the US

Fair if you're the US, sure.
by ardit33 | 2026-02-28 07:58:24+00:00
This was doesn't benefit the US whatsoever. I am getting tired of our taxes going to another useless war, like the Iraq one, that only benefits a foreign entity, aka Israel.

Iran could have been contained and Obama was right on his approach. We don't know the details of the strikes, but I hope it doesn't go into a full blown war, but this will be another Iraq like disaster, and american people are getting tired of doing the bidding of Isreal, a country that is already mirred into doing a genocide. This war is already unpopular in pools. Iran's regime is terrible to its people, but this has the potential to be another disaster where countless of people could die.
by torlok | 2026-02-28 07:59:23+00:00
The ICE killings, deportations of US citizens, and the general anti-US sentiments around the world show that lesser evil exists, and that not voting can have consequences.

It's a shame that it took all this for the Democrats to even begin the dialog about Israeli money in politics, and perhaps they may even realize that nobody wants to vote for pro-war neoliberals.
by glerk | 2026-02-28 07:59:35+00:00
The corporation styling itself as "the department of war" is only as powerful as the technology it can command. It's hilarious to see the likes of Trump and Hegseth complain about Big Tech strongarming them while they are begging like dogs to get access to technology their kind wouldn't be able to create in a thousand years.

Reminds me of that scene in the dark knight when Bane says "Do you feel in charge?". Well do you, Pete? Why should Pete Hegseth be in charge of anything? "Department of war" lol. These punks need to step aside and let the adults take over for the good of humanity.

Props to Anthropic for standing their ground and not getting bullied by their inferiors. You earned a lot of respect today.

Props to OpenAI for being slick and playing the game, hopefully they can take control of this decaying corpse from the inside and transform it into something better.
by 8note | 2026-02-28 07:59:51+00:00
opportunity cost-wise, iran could have poured all the money they did in nuclear enrichment instead into missiles, air defense, etc, and they would not be having as much problems as they do now.

nuclear enrichment is extraordinarily expensive and really not all that great of a deterrent when you have them. just look at fairly recent tussels between india, pakistan and china. Russia was invaded and didnt nuke ukraine.
by Meekro | 2026-02-28 08:00:16+00:00
It sounds like the "supply chain risk" designation is just about anyone who works with the DoD not using them, so their code doesn't accidentally make it into any final products through some sub-sub-subcontractor. Since they've made it clear that they don't want to be a defense contractor (and accept the moral problems that go with it), the DoD is just making sure they don't inadvertently become one.
by retsibsi | 2026-02-28 08:01:05+00:00
> I think anthropic wants their cake and to eat it too. You can't take a principled stand against something and then be shocked the thing you are taking a principled stand against might think you are a risk.

Is it a principled stand or not? In your first comment, you said 'anthropic's "moral" stances are bullshit', their actions here are merely (or at least primarily) a successful marketing exercise, and the result is "a win for both sides". Are you now acknowledging that it's a costly, risky action on Anthropic's part? Because you haven't said anything to refute that; you've just changed the subject.
by mcdeltat | 2026-02-28 08:01:55+00:00
Genuine question: what if the recovery asks for a 2nd factor that's e.g. the device which you lost? Is that common?

Personally I don't really trust companies to not do a whoopsie and permanently lock you out when you lose credentials. Especially when the company is big or hard to access in person.

For someone like me who already uses a password manager for everything, passkeys seem to add no security while reducing usability and control.
by mattalex | 2026-02-28 08:02:45+00:00
Assuming this is real: Why do you think anthropic was put on what is essentially an "enemy of the state" list and openai didn't?

The two things anthropic refused to do is mass surveillance and autonomous weapons, so why do _you_ think openai refused and still did not get placed on the exact same list.

It's fine to say "I'm not going to resign. I didn't even sign that letter", but thinking that openai can get away with not developing autonomous weapons or mass surveillance is naive at the very best.
by iriisatremotely | 2026-02-28 08:02:49+00:00
Agree that physical location matters less, but timezone overlap is underrated.

For US-focused startups building engineering teams, LATAM is worth a serious look. Brazil, Argentina, and Mexico have strong developer talent pools, and the timezone alignment with US business hours means real-time collaboration without the async overhead of APAC.

We've seen LATAM dev salaries rise 20-30% over the past two years, but there's still a significant cost advantage compared to US remote rates. The catch is understanding country-by-country dynamics — Argentina's economic volatility creates different dynamics than Brazil's more stable market.

Incorporate in Delaware or SG for legal/fundraising, but consider LATAM for engineering. The talent density in São Paulo and Buenos Aires rivals many US tech hubs now.
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by trevwebdev | 2026-02-28 08:02:51+00:00
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