MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by quesera | 2026-03-03 01:59:05+00:00
It's not feigned. I'm astonished to learn how hard people will work for (what seems to be) false convenience of doing things on their phone which would be (to me) much easier to do elsewhere.

So I tend to assume that these stories are the outliers, and that my experience is more common. I recognize the fallacy, and I suspect we're both wrong and we're both right. I just honestly don't know which one is more of which.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-03-03 01:59:45+00:00
Yes, during our first night of our 45 day stay in another country and she got a text from someone she is meeting on the first leg of our trip during our summer 45 day domestic trip asking could we come 3 days earlier. We were looking at our calendar, our Hyatt points, flights etc. while enjoying live music and planning our next get away.

I’m sure you would have thought we should have waited to take out my laptop when we got back home.
by gerdesj | 2026-03-03 01:59:54+00:00
I live a bit north of Whistler. BC is rather larger than the UK but it is very roughly the same in north/south extent. Yeovil (Somerset) is about the same lat as Calgary, next door to you.

Unfortunately we live on an oblate spheroid what spins around the sun and its a bit tricky when the sun comes on and is switched off. It doesn't help that the basted planet is tilted to the ecliptic too so we end up with daylight/nighttime procession and all that equinox/solstice bollocks. I live quite close to both Glastonbury and Stonehenge. People have some pretty odd ideas about reality, let alone time in these parts 8)

The "perfect" solution is of course moving the clock continuously and keeping 12:00 fixed to peak daylight. Sadly that wont work too well when the time changes every 50 miles or so!

No one will ever be happy when it comes to fiddling with clocks - that is the way of life. There is no right answer for everyone and never will be. I might accept an arguement based on road fatality statistics but not much else and then you'll get some sort of economic based falacy in response.
by Telaneo | 2026-03-03 02:00:02+00:00
I'm not trying to say my way is superior. On the contrary, I'm asking what use cases you have that you are unable to solve. If you have a genuine need to send emails from your phone at a moment's notice, then I can't argue with that; if you can't wait to respond to the emails you receive, there's nothing else to really do about it. That's why I'm asking what needs you have. I'm trying to better understand your situation, trying to put myself in your shoes.

But if you have no desire to actually respond to my inquiry, I shall remain in the dark.
by calvinmorrison | 2026-03-03 02:00:28+00:00
That's a nice find. People rely a little heavily on this, and it only says in the manual "This directive allows certain functions to be disabled." but its not a security sandbox.

I think PHP has in the past explicitly stated its not a security feature.

There have been a few issues over the years with this.

Anyway - good OS security is required anytime you run software!

heres one from 6 years ago https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=76047
by krick | 2026-03-03 02:00:46+00:00
Wow, thanks, didn't know about that. I am actually surprised how broad the list is. I was even about to say that it appears to cover everything I care about right now, but then it occurred to me, that Revolut (unlike some other banking apps) doesn't have its own NFC interface implementation and relies on Google Pay for that anyway, so it's a huge "fuck you". Because it's pretty much the primary reason to have a banking app installed at all for me.
by jonnyxu | 2026-03-03 02:01:06+00:00
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by bramhaag | 2026-03-03 02:01:35+00:00
Yes, sent*, not sends. Before they got called out, it was opt-out. No consent dialog, first-run prompt, or any other sort of confirmation before sending audio to OpenAI.

Almost half a year after the controversy started, they added a consent dialog (https://gitlab.e.foundation/e/os/murena-voice-to-text/-/comm...). A few months later, they actually made the consent dialog function as intended (https://gitlab.e.foundation/e/os/murena-voice-to-text/-/comm...).
by socalgal2 | 2026-03-03 02:01:48+00:00
You're already in that world. Phones have ubiqitous cameras and they are normalized at this point. It's a common scene in a movie where instead of helping someone who was hurt, people just pull out their phones and film.

Cameras on glasses will be normalized too. A few HNer types will scream. The rest of the "nothing to hide so nothing to fear" group will just wear them. (not saying I agree with "nothing to hide so nothing to fear". Rather, I'm saying that's common way of thinking. Common enough that it's likely people will wear these eventually.

How about this marketing approach: "College woman, tired of creepers trying to hit on you. Worried about getting roofied. Wear these glasses and turn the creeps in".
by jcelerier | 2026-03-03 02:02:29+00:00
> IMO this is 100% correct and I'm glad someone finally said it. I run AI agents that control my entire dev workflow through shell commands and they are shockingly good at it.

That's a very developer-centric view. So many things in the world don't have a CLI API at all and will never have one, like the huge majority of desktop GUI programs.
by fc417fc802 | 2026-03-03 02:02:34+00:00
I wouldn't be surprised if secured smart glasses were a useful tool in a corporate environment. By secured I mean the software stack fully controlled by corporate IT and only for use on premise. Most places will already have pervasive surveillance cameras and in a work context they might actually prove useful if used in conjunction with other computing devices.

Or maybe not. Tablets are impressively portable and the screen is probably good enough.
by exabrial | 2026-03-03 02:03:58+00:00
Shooting down $40k drones with $4mil interceptors is a problem. Hoping at some point this wake up call is heard.

One recent update is that Apache Attack helicopters are being refitted to hunt/kill these types of drones, but the newest Iranian models are flying 300+ mph which is faster than a single rotor helicopter can fly (the leading blade of a helicopter starts to break the sound barrier).
by refulgentis | 2026-03-03 02:03:58+00:00
I'm 37, single, no family or extended family b/c of an...interesting...childhood.

Every day I understand more and more that I have something really priceless and rare, complete luxury of choice, and 99% of people don't. (as with all things, it has its downside: nothing matters!)

I refused to get "stuck" in my hometown, which motivated me from college dropout to FAANG. Once I got there, it was novel to me that even rich people get "stuck" due to inability to imagine losing status, and also responsiblities that come with obvious, healthy, lifestyle choices (i.e. marriage and kids)
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-03-03 02:04:15+00:00
So it’s not feigned ignorance…

Again, you can look at the worldwide penetration of cell phones vs laptops, where most web traffic comes from, the amount of resources spent on mobile development vs desktop, the amount of revenue globally of phone sales vs PC sales, etc

I also don’t spend all day working and I definitely don’t take out my laptop when I’m not working
by jasonwatkinspdx | 2026-03-03 02:05:52+00:00
No, GPUs are not what you'd design for neural networks from first principles. They were adopted for that because they offered far more parallelism than general purpose cpus, not because they're ideal. That's why Google et all designed TPUs that have a very different internal structure.

Most TPU designs have been based around systolic arrays, which for matrix ops have a quadratic speedup. A typical design is a 128x128 array of MAC units. You shift weights along one dimension, parameters along the other. It takes 128 cycles to shift a full matrix input in, then 128 cycles to shift the answer back out, but during those 256 cycles you got 16,384 MAC operations done, for a factor of 64 speedup.

The other big appeal of this design is it's way simpler than GPUs. The memory access patterns are predictable, there's no threads or thread divergence, etc. So it can be way more efficient in silicon, not just in area but especially in power efficiency.

There's other ideas for architectures besides this basic systolic array idea. If you want to learn about them, a good place would be the HotChips presentations of the last few years: https://hc2025.hotchips.org and similar domain names for prior years.
by tedeh | 2026-03-03 02:06:15+00:00
I don't think it is unreasonable to ask where all the great AI built software is. There has been comments here on HN about people becoming 30 to 50 times more productive than before.

To put a statement like that into perspective (50 times more productive): The first week of the year about as much was accomplished as the whole previous year put together.
by rafaelero | 2026-03-03 02:07:51+00:00
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by Aerroon | 2026-03-03 02:08:10+00:00
I guess northern Europe must be an unpopulated wasteland where everybody's health just instantly declines.

I find these explanations to these studies so bizarre. We know that there are large populations living significantly further north, who don't get sunlight in the morning in winter, no matter whether there's DST or not. We also know that they get almost perpetual light during summer. If these explanations were true then you would expect a country like Sweden to have an impact on life expectancy and illness from this. But it's not. It's about as rich as Canada and has about the same life expectancy.
by fc417fc802 | 2026-03-03 02:08:15+00:00
Legal doesn't mean socially acceptable. Neither does it mean good.

The last two items on your list (person, drone) likely constitute stalking outside of specific limited situations.

> Implement some form of right to forget

The passive voice here is deceptive. When rephrased as the right to make others forget it suddenly seems quite nefarious (at least to me).
by deaux | 2026-03-03 02:08:30+00:00
They shouldn't be divided, they should (wo)man up and say the thing they well know out loud: the harms to society are not worth it, the societal consequences of Meta being in control of this are severe and will, as always, hurt the weak and poor the most. Unfortunately the blind community will have to wait a few more years to get a local version, which is guaranteed to appear with how things are going.
by jiggawatts | 2026-03-03 02:08:36+00:00
> This is provably impossible to make usefully incremental. The encryption can be implemented as a graph of function calls, and you can apply the general incremental recipe to it. It just won’t be very fast.

The specific example is bogus.

Merkle trees and their many variants exist to solve precisely this problem.

For more compiler-specific scenarios there exist vaguely similar solutions to the issues introduced by incremental compilation such as splitting up monolithic executables into many small dynamically loaded libraries (only during development time), or taking that to the extreme, hot code reloading at the function level.

> ... only because Zig language is carefully designed to allow this.

Is the key point. Rust wasn't designed for incremental compilation, and most legacy languages like C only allow it in a useful way because they were designed in the era "kilobytes" of system memory and hence they're very frugal in their design.

Other than Zig, the only modern language I'm aware of that was "co-designed" for efficient compilation and incremental reload is Jai.

> Expanding macros requires name resolution, which, in Rust, is a crate-wide, rather than a file-wide operation.

Sure, but macros change infrequently, so that ought to be a highly cacheable pure function for most edits.

> The above scheme works only if the language has a property that changing the body of function foo (not touching its signature) can’t introduce type errors into an unrelated function bar.

AFAIK Rust and most other statically typed languages have this property. Optimisations such as inlining can mess with the cacheability of code-gen in all languages.
by drcxd | 2026-03-03 02:08:38+00:00
You miss read. The parent thread said:
> the women has am easier time not to commit and just sleep around
That's for women.
The second time they mentioned sleep round:
> Dating apps are available, statistically women all try to get into a relationship with the same 1% of men - who sleep around and cause toxicity all around.
They mean the 1% of men are the ones who sleep around.
Also, I think it is better to interpret "sleep around" as the state of having non-committed sex relationship with non-marital partner. It is a description of a fact rather than an accusation. Though the words may sound harsh.
by FEELmyAGI | 2026-03-03 02:08:42+00:00
> maybe you would have gotten that point by now.

I don't deny it. When I said "mess around with making a password manager suit your taste" feel free to append " while using and getting experience with an LLM". nothing changes.

im glad you're dogfooding your pw manager now. I'm glad vibe coding met your own standard of quality.

I will leave it as an exercise to you to think about all the edge cases and usability issues that have been solved in mainstream pw managers that you've never thought about. I hope you keep your LLM subscription active so you can fix them as they come up. And to keep up with updates from IOS and firefox as they come out.
by jiggawatts | 2026-03-03 02:09:37+00:00
> Trawling around to find out where symbols come from has wasted a lot more of my time than unqualified imports have ever saved.

Why aren't you using an IDE with "navigate to definition" conveniently bound to something like middle-click or ctrl-click?

I haven't used a language/IDE combination without this feature in decades.
by bmurphy1976 | 2026-03-03 02:09:42+00:00
That's interesting, but that still sounds like something a proper auth/token permission system would more than address. You're also actively choosing to limit what functionality MCP provides, which is fine, but there are many ways to do the same via the API or CLI tooling.

I'm not saying you are wrong to do this, I just don't think it's enough to convince me that yes this is the one true approach you should use.
by Bender | 2026-03-03 02:09:42+00:00
Email corporate security and the chief privacy officer with logs of who is wearing spy glasses. Remind them Facebook controls where that data is stored and who has access to it. Ask how to respond to auditors inquiring about it leave off, "in the future audits".

- Or -

Walk around with a vlogger camera that has a large microphone. If anyone takes issue, say "I'm the 5th person here walking around recording everyone today. The others are using a spy camera in their glasses."

- Or -

Borrow a pair of them when in public at a restaurant and loudly say, "Oh my god! These AI smart glasses really do remove everyone's clothing, even on the children!" be ready to run.

_________________

Only do these things if you typically rock the boat regardless. i.e. often try and fail to get fired or arrested.
by Marciplan | 2026-03-03 02:10:05+00:00
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by appreciatorBus | 2026-03-03 02:10:37+00:00
We can accept the other side of the curve, but it has consequences that many are unwilling to discuss, let alone face.

Many social services & benefits are designed under an assumption of growth. Ofc we can change the assumptions but this also requires changing the programs, either making them less generous or raising taxes. Neither of those are vote getters, so politicians & govt staff feel a strong incentivize to try anything but those. We can try to make it up with immigration too, but at the scale required, immigration is also unpopular.

I don't think there's any silver bullet here.
by diath | 2026-03-03 02:11:40+00:00
Completely spineless beta stance. For every person with Meta glasses, there's 100s of people without, if we normalize bitch slapping these people, then what is the police gonna do, arrest >99% of the adult population? The point is to keep doing it until it instills fear in the mind of these people that they should not wear these in public spaces or there may be consequences.
by messe | 2026-03-03 02:11:49+00:00
56 degrees here (Denmark, and grew up in Ireland @ 53 degrees).

> I guess it kinda hinges on this idea of "wasting" daylight. I don't feel like that. I want the sun to wake me up

The problem is that during the darkest parts of winter, even if I postpone my wake up as long as possible, I'm still getting up in the dark if I want to be able to commute into work on time. There's no sunlight waking me up.

> Do people generally go on hikes after work? I go out for drinks. haha

No, but I still have to do things like walk the dog, do the shopping on the way home. I find it a lot more pleasant starting out that part of day with a bit of sunlight.

Also, yes, drinks. This is Northern Europe after all.

EDIT to add: Civil twilight in December where I am starts ~07:40, and I also get up around 06:30 (when not dealing with insomnia like tonight).
by wayne | 2026-03-03 02:12:12+00:00
I enjoyed this program a lot as a kid. It had a very strange interface I found inefficient but the documents you could create were animated and fun.

Sounds like Microsoft had enough confidence in the interface after this to proceed with Bob and Clippy (Clippit): https://www.howtogeek.com/723648/did-you-know-microsoft-made...
by jz391 | 2026-03-03 02:12:18+00:00
To extend your analogy: if the house is a listed building (UK concept; apparently US equivalent is listed in National Register of Historic Places), by law you cannot just tear it down. You need to do much more work to renovate what can be done without disturbing the original structure. This obviously costs much more and is generally done by different specialists, who have harder job and hence are better paid. So the question comes back to: what kind of work do you want to do...
by bitwize | 2026-03-03 02:12:24+00:00
Absent the Satanists who run California and the nation conducting a dark ritual to summon Steve Jobs back from the abyss, the chances of him saving Apple from total enshittification collapse again the way he did the first time are slim to none. It's peak Apple fan to grouse about how rotten everything is in the Fruit Empire, and then conclude "Welp, nothing to be done for it except smoke hopium that Apple somehow gets better."

Hint: This is what happens when you commit to joining any single company's ecosystem. No matter if it's Apple, Microsoft, Google, Commodore, or frickin' IBM. At some point, the beancounters are going to smother what drew you to them in the first place, and find ways to nickel-and-dime you whilst flipping the table on you UX-wise hoping to tap some rich vein of unconverted users to continue the illusion of quarterly growth.
by theshackleford | 2026-03-03 02:12:36+00:00
> Point being, it's really not hard to get off Facebook and to ditch Meta products. More people should delete it.

As another poster mentioned, it can in fact be more difficult. Almost all of my social clubs/groups over the years migrated away from websites/forums to FaceBook. I could give up an account, at the cost of losing effectively my entire social calendar.

I have a generic account with no real user data, but they still get all my content from the social groups so they still win I suppose.

My point ultimately I guess is that I have chosen the ability to continue to have a strong social life over my zuck hating principles.
by throw0101c | 2026-03-03 02:12:36+00:00
> Permanent DST being the "wrong" choice is your opinion, and a minority one.

It is the majority opinion of people that study chronobiology (circadian rhythms) and sleep researchers, as issued via their professional societies:

* https://srbr.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/SRBR-Statement-o...

* http://www.chronobiocanada.com/official-statements

* https://sleepresearchsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/...

* https://jcsm.aasm.org/doi/10.5664/jcsm.8780

* https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphys.2019.0094...

* https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35382618/

* https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/07487304198541...

* https://www.ama-assn.org/public-health/prevention-wellness/s...

* https://esrs.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/To_the_EU_Commiss...

From a public health perspective, all-year DST is not good, and all-year Standard Time is what should be done.