MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by gosub100 | 2026-03-03 18:01:56+00:00
I can't remember where I heard of it, but decades ago there was another neutrino detection center, also in Japan I think, that had those vacuum tube detectors, but care wasn't taken in systems design. One of them broke and the implosion caused the neighbors to break. Leading to a catastrophic of almost all the sensors! I feel bad for them, I'm sure someone here knows the exact name and date. But man, what a tough lesson to learn.

Edit: on another note, way to go on your recovery Diana. We've been rooting for you.
by atnnn | 2026-03-03 18:02:04+00:00
I find this easier to visualize with an equivalent way to pick points: drop four (n) lines through the center of the circle. For each line, randomly pick one of the two points that intersect the circle.

Independent of the lines dropped, there are eight (2n) ways to pick adjacent points and sixteen (n^2) different combinations of points.

There are four (n) adjacent points iif the points lie on the same half of the circle (proof by interactive visualization).

So the answer is eight sixteenths (2n/2^n).
by Eridrus | 2026-03-03 18:02:09+00:00
One thing I will say is: I wish I had had some EM/hiring experience before starting a startup.

My technical skills served me very well in year 1/2, but once we started hiring enough people I could definitely feel my lack of experience.

Maybe big tech EM experience wouldn't have helped me a lot, the context is definitely very different, but at least it would have been some sort of baseline to draw from.
by jug | 2026-03-03 18:02:11+00:00
Yes, back 10-15 years ago MBP felt more prosumer to me but they have monstrous performance and price points nowadays, like true luxury items or enterprise devices, that I'm happy to see good base specs on the MBA. The base spec on that device matters a lot. Also, Apple will probably release a cheaper MacBook this week and if the rumor holds, it'll be good enough for most consumers.
by ndr42 | 2026-03-03 18:02:41+00:00
Well, at least thats the way I would have responded to the question when interviewed. Maybe I'm dumber or more mindless than the average german.

There were say some 100s of people called by phone, asked a lot of questions about a lot of topics, one of them is "which do you prefer: summer or winter time" - I would have said summer (without thinking to much) because I like the long summer evenings too.

That has nothing to do with misunderstanding the question.

It is of course possible that the average interviewee is well prepared or thinks long and hard before answering without letting the wording influence their answer.

But you should at least consider the possibility that also the german naming (summer/winter) could influence some people (like me) in their answers.

(I think the wording can have a big influence (maybe because of my linguistic background) but you are free to disagree)
by djoldman | 2026-03-03 18:02:45+00:00
> NerdWallet is publicly traded (NRDS) and its business depends on converting search visitors into financial product referrals. It went from 25M monthly organic visits to 6.8M, a 73% decline.

The above refers to the time until Jan 2026. Here are its financials:

Year Total Revenue Operating Expenses Net Income
2025 $836.6 ~$708.0 $48.7
2024 $687.6 $614.7 $30.4
2023 $599.4 $541.8 ($11.8)
2022 $538.9 $518.1 ($10.2)
2021 $379.6 $390.1 ($42.5)

It doesn't look like the lower traffic, if true, has hit the bottom line yet.
by starkparker | 2026-03-03 18:02:46+00:00
Farming is just the investment part of the job. Unless they're US corn or soy farmers living primarily on subsidies, they still generally have to sell what they grow. The agribusiness side means dealing with the rest of civilization on terms that farmers don't get to set. So do the very non-trivial parts of farming where you have to regularly buy supplies, service equipment, and otherwise deal with employees (yours or others) and their labor regulations.

This description of farming also generally ignores animal husbandry, which outside of factory farms also ties work to the sun regardless of what the clock says, what part of the year it is, or what latitude you're on. When the rest of the world you have to interact with changes their clock, you have to both accommodate the animals' lack of understanding and desire for routine and adjust your own work around it. Dairy farmers aren't putting lighting in cow barns for fun or aesthetics, they're manipulating day/night schedules to get cows on the times that commerce relies on.
by _DeadFred_ | 2026-03-03 18:02:51+00:00
Many big tech CEOs financed Trump's inauguration. Many donated to his ball room. Those MAGA hat wearers paying millions for access/behind the scenes policy creation are.

Adding to OPs point, Trump did a major immigration push, yet a major push to punish companies/employees who create the demand that immigrants were filling was not part of that. Imagine launching a 50+ billion dollar drug war, but only going after drug users.
by jodrellblank | 2026-03-03 18:03:17+00:00
The Romans built roads across Europe instead of mud paths two thousand years before bikes were invented. Humans might be able to cross dry compacted dirt, but do much better on engineered roads than on deep, wet, sticky, slippy mud, even before thinking about carts and wagons.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_roads_in_Britannia

Unless you mean something else, but Paris was paving roads in the 1750s, a lifetime before even the hobby-horse Draisine was invented:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macadam#Pierre-Marie-J%C3%A9r%...

On that page it's mentioned that Macadam (predecessor to tarmac) was used in the USA in 1823 on a stretch of road of 10 miles which took stagecoaches 5 hours to pass in the winter before it was Macadamized, suggesting quite a desire for better roads a century before safety bicycles with chains were invented.

Then 'History of the bicycle' says:

"On the new macadam paved boulevards of Paris it was easy riding ... the "bone-shaker" enjoyed only a brief period of popularity in the United States, which ended by 1870. here is debate among bicycle historians about why it failed in the United States, but one explanation is that American road surfaces were much worse than European ones, and riding the machine on these roads was simply too difficult."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_bicycle#1860s_a...

Although apparently it was a thing in the USA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Roads_Movement

"The Good Roads Movement occurred in the United States between the late 1870s and the 1920s... a coalition between farmers' organizations groups and bicyclists' organizations .. Early organizers cited Europe where road construction and maintenance was supported by national and local governments."
by AnthonyMouse | 2026-03-03 18:03:19+00:00
I'm kind of curious how Apple's supply contracts actually work, because it's currently more attractive to buy a Mac with a lot of RAM than it usually is, relative to a PC. So if it's "we negotiated a price and you give us as much RAM as we sell machines" the company supplying the RAM is getting soaked because they're having to supply even more RAM to Apple for a below-market price.

But if the contract was for a specific amount of RAM and then people start coming to Apple more for high RAM machines, they're going to exhaust their contract sooner than usual and run out of cheap memory to buy. Then they have to decide if they want to lower their margins or raise the already-high price up to nosebleed levels.
by toast0 | 2026-03-03 18:03:20+00:00
I think some places pitch the dual ladder a lot morethan they actually support it, but it's still there.

EM vs IC are totally different jobs though. The whole thing where you're a good IC, so you get "promoted" to being an EM is insane. There's some overlap, I guess, every job has pieces of managing other people even if it's not in the job description, but...

Just because EM offers higher positions in the hierarchy (and salaries etc to go with it) doesn't mean that accepting a "promotion" to being an EM is going to make your life better. Personally, I hated being an EM; I don't like the work, and I don't like that when I do a bad job, it directly impacts the careers of my reports.

I don't mind being a cog in someone's big project; but even if I did, I don't see how being an EM avoids it, unless you start your own thing, which I absolutely do not want to do.

I'm pretty sure I did well enough for myself in the IC track. I could have gotten bigger compensation as an EM, I suppose, but diminishing returns wouldn't have justified the additional stress. Obviously, that may depend on individual factors, everyone's path is their own and I got a lucky draw.
by thewebguyd | 2026-03-03 18:03:21+00:00
Interesting, I haven't heard of safety third from circus circles, I've always known it as more along the liens of if safety were actually the number one priority, no one would actually do anything because it's too risky.

In terms of cybersecurity, I see it as "security first" culture means people rely on the system to keep them safe. "Safety third" (or security third) emphasizes that everyone should already know they are operating in a risky and dangerous environment and take security as a personal responsibility.

It's just a reminder that no one cares about your life more than you do, so stay vigilant and take personal responsibility.

edit just realized I didn't actually answer your question on the first and second priorities.

I suppose First would be the reason the system exists in the first place (buy something online, for example). Second would be the user experience of doing the thing. Security should help you take calculated risks rather than prevent you from taking any risks at all.
by vlmutolo | 2026-03-03 18:03:29+00:00
Lots of comments about the price change, but Artifical Analysis reports that 3.1 Flash-Lite (reasoning) used fewer than half of the tokens of 2.5 Flash-Lite (reasoning).

This will likely bring the cost below 2.5 flash-lite for many tasks (depends on the ratio of input to output tokens).

That said, AA also reports that 3.1 FL was 20% more expensive to run for their complete Intelligence index benchmark.

The overall point is that cost is extremely task-dependent, and it doesn’t work to just measure token cost because reasoning can burn so many tokens, reasoning token usage varies by both task and model, and similarly the input/output ratios vary by task.
by jstummbillig | 2026-03-03 18:03:45+00:00
The MB Air M line is a personal contender for best product of all time: Fantastic performance without fans, amazing battery life, high res display and build quality at that price point.

When the M1 came out it was quite frankly unbelievable. And, even after all these years, I still don't see who would beat it across those dimensions.
by cluckindan | 2026-03-03 18:04:38+00:00
Are you saying ”I don’t have anything to hide”?

All of your data starts affecting everything your data is used for.

You may get worse rates for a mortgage, or not get one at all. You may be denied insurance or insurance claims. Cherry-picked details of your online activities may be used against you in a court of law, if you ever find yourself in one for any reason (think custody).

These are the very mild examples from a somewhat functional society. In the other end of the spectrum, where societal breakdown is imminent, you have things like getting disappeared, thrown in a concentration camp, executed on your own front yard.
by alistairSH | 2026-03-03 18:05:31+00:00
Yes, I like to exercise outdoors after work. Much more pleasant when the sun is up. Especially if I'm cycling - even with multiple blinking lights, I don't feel particularly visible to drivers.

That said, with the shortest day's light ending before 5pm, even shifting to near 6pm doesn't really help - I'm at the office to 5-ish and if I'm lucky I can be ready to run/bike/whatever by 5:45, so its going dark mid-workout at best.

And I'm up at 5am, so in the dark most of the year. Ditching DST would make it daylight in mid-summer, but I do really enjoy having daylight past 8pm, so I can sit outside and read.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-03-03 18:05:36+00:00
Does it? In my case, it was my father who dropped my mac but luckily everything was all safe with tis but a scratch. So perhaps that can be taken into factor as well that its more than one variable.

That being said, I am pretty clumsy but I have never dropped any hardware except a dumb phone which I threw out a lot and it was so small and tiny but it never had any problem.

And then one day I dropped it from top just a little bit and let it drop/slide inside my bag (like a cushion) and that day it died. I recently asked someone about it and turns out that its battery got inflated.
by mason55 | 2026-03-03 18:05:44+00:00
Yeah it's really not worth my mental energy. Sometimes I take the time to reject tracking cookies. But I figure everyone's tracking me and everyone has my SSN at this point, and as long as my credit files are locked I don't really care. Like why do I even care if people are linking all my browsing data together and then using it to market stuff to me.

FWIW I'm 43 and grew up on the dark parts of the internet.
by Insight54 | 2026-03-03 18:05:53+00:00
I was listening to things like the State of the Union and hearing numbers thrown around from news articles, from the left, from the right, from everyone. I kept wanting to actually verify what was being said or at least get more context around it. The problem was that the data is spread across dozens of different government agencies with different APIs, different authentication methods, and different formats.

So, I built an MCP server that connects to ~37 different U.S. government and international data APIs. It currently has 198 tools covering things like economic data, health statistics, campaign finance, lobbying records, patents, energy, education, and a lot more. The whole idea is that this information should be transparent and easily accessible for people.

This information is public and paid for by taxpayers. I figured if I could make it easier for myself to look things up and cross reference what I was hearing then maybe it could help others do the same.

There is a github pages https://lzinga.github.io/us-gov-open-data-mcp/ which also has some example Analyses
by Lerc | 2026-03-03 18:06:05+00:00
I did a conferencr talk maybe three years ago on using AI for games.

Since the talk, code, audio,and imagery have progressed leaps and bounds, almost all of the points on active AI use haven't changed much.

You have more capable smaller models now that means you could at least run local models in games, but you still don't get to see what it is going to do before the user does. Developers are acutely aware of the climate. if a game has a fault because the AI does something unexpected, it's not just a bug, It's a news story.

It still cannot be realistically used for multiplayer games. The models are prone to adversarial attacks, which can harm a multiplayer experience.

I did point out at the time that solo sandbox games could benefit. An active AI can be empowering for the player, unchecked empowerment can be great in a solo game. It destroys a multiplayer game.

Then there's just a lack of training in some of the specific areas of games. You pretty much have to filter game state down to text for a llm, I don't yet know of any gameplay embedding model.

I have played around with a little tower defence to see how much an AI can work on gameplay, It essentially has a REPL interface to the game logic where it can take actions and advance the game a tick at a time. It does an ok job, but there's still not much understanding of time and urgency to work with an active environment
by zoogeny | 2026-03-03 18:06:32+00:00
Anyone who has worked on a game knows it is a long, painful slog to the finish line. AI dev is promising the exact opposite: minimal prompts and the agent does all the slog.

Even if AI can whip up a quick demo or prototype for a game, it is the long-tail of tedious details that a passionate person has to hammer away on that separates what ships from what dies. I'm guessing most AI opportunists are looking for quick wins.

I still think it is only a matter of time before someone with the passion hammers an AI to get a game to market.
by 1970-01-01 | 2026-03-03 18:07:23+00:00
1000% this. Fake info for everything that isn't directly tied to money or government. HN doesn't have my info. Apple doesn't have it. Google doesn't have it. Amazon doesn't have it. Microsoft doesn't have it. They don't care who I really am, and that hasn't, ever never, been a problem for using their stuff. They want your real ID. They do not need it. At all.
by autoexec | 2026-03-03 18:07:30+00:00
> Ok, can you give me a plausible example of what that harm could be?

There are countless ways the data collected about you can be used against you. Companies are using this data for everything from setting prices, to deciding which policies they'll apply to you, what services they'll offer or deny you, even shit as trivial as deciding how long they should leave you on hold when you call them on the phone. It's been used to deny people housing, or employment. It's even resulted in innocent people being arrested and investigated by law enforcement. This guy (https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/google-tracked-his-bike...) wasn't worried about Google tracking everywhere he went until he had to get his parents to clean out their savings to pay for a lawyer in order to prove his innocence.

AI is only going to make it easier for companies to leverage the massive amounts of data they've collected against us. Companies have been trying to get consumers to accept discriminatory pricing practices this data enables for a very long time (https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41272-019-00224-3) and it looks like they're starting to wear us down. Digital price tags are becoming increasingly common. So are demands that consumers scan QR codes to get prices. Prices don't have to be set so high that they become unaffordable to you, they can just slowly eat away at more and more of your earnings.

The system is set up so that you will never know when or how the data being collected about you is used against you, but every company is looking to leverage that data to their advantage every chance they get. I get that it's easy to feel defeated and think "My ISP already sells my browsing history, Google chrome already collects all by browsing history, so who cares if I let 30 other random companies collect it too by accepting their tracking cookies on every website I visit?" but those companies collecting your data care very much and it's not because they have your best interests in mind. They aren't going through all the trouble to track you across every website you visit because it doesn't matter. Taking a few basic steps to help protect yourself is just the smart thing to do, especially when it's something as simple as using an ad blocker or an add-on to auto-reject the countless "Can we track you" requests.
by cortesoft | 2026-03-03 18:07:59+00:00
Sadly, this still doesn't do anything to show me that I should opt out.

I, as an individual, am not going to have any effect on a business if I opt out or not. No business decision is going to be made because I opt out.

You might argue that it will matter if enough of us do it. Sure, that is true... but again, it won't matter if I do it or not. If N number of people opting out is enough to ruin the business model, then N-1 is surely enough as well. There is a 0% chance that I am the one who finally causes the system to collapse.

I do use an ad blocker, and never click on ads. I feel like that action has a bigger return on investment than no clicking the cookie banner.

If having more information about me allows the website to charge more to show me an ad, and I never click any ads, then I am hopefully helping decrease the return advertisers get by using personal information.
by 1kurac | 2026-03-03 18:08:10+00:00
I tried AltPower Search and it exhibits the same issue as Google.
I think you might just need to give it more time to index. Nanoclaw.dev has only been available for a week. Then, it's the lower relative reputation of the 'dev' vs. the 'net' domain ...

[1]: https://altpower.app
[2]: https://web.archive.org/web/20260000000000*/https://nanoclaw...
[3]: https://radar.cloudflare.com/tlds
by bumblehean | 2026-03-03 18:08:43+00:00
>It is true IF you live and work in the Bay Area, Seattle, and TLV - which represent the bulk of tech industry employment.

Is that actually true (the bulk of people in the tech industry are working in "big tech" or startups)?

I don't know if there's any hard data around this, but my understanding has been that people working for these types of companies are maybe a single digit percentage of all tech workers (if that).

People working for those companies are certainly the most vocal online, though, which maybe skews perception.
by keeda | 2026-03-03 18:08:59+00:00
Well, lucky for us we've seen multiple, broader tariff studies, all concurring in their conclusions:

https://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2026/02/who-is...

https://www.nber.org/papers/w34620

https://www.kielinstitut.de/publications/americas-own-goal-w...

This one has even more egregious findings:

> Pass-through at the border is incomplete, yet consumers paid more than the tariff revenue collected.

Wonder how many other industries used tariffs as an excuse to further juice their profits. (Edit - turns out this study is looking at pre-2021 data, so we don't even know what they've done this time!)
by vintagedave | 2026-03-03 18:09:19+00:00
In fairness, people often do this in order to have a full statement visible, not a portion, not spread over multiple posts, etc.

I'm not saying you're wrong. I just caution that jumping to 'purposeful' (re not easily indexed), 'manipulative' etc is a very strong leap.

I also found the post by searching for a quote from it, so I think images with text likely are indexed. I can't imagine in 2026 they wouldn't be.
by amluto | 2026-03-03 18:09:41+00:00
I haven’t tried to look up the history of this claim, but here are some guesses:

1. There’s a sort of diffusion process going on. Photons from the core have some mean free path as a function of radial position (and, obnoxiously, of wavelength as well, so maybe we ignore that). You could calculate the mean time for a hypothetical object emitted from the core and traveling according to those mean free paths to escape.

2. You could imagine you have marked a photon and watched it travel. This is quite problematic. First, photons in thermal equilibrium obey Bose-Einstein statistics because they are indistinguishable bosons, and anything that could mark them would change the statistics to that of distinguishable particles. But whatever, the temperature is high and maybe this doesn’t matter. Also never mind that those core photons are mostly much shorter wavelength than the photons we see. But you can still imagine. (The answer is probably quite similar to #1 since this is sort of the same problem depending on how you think about the interactions with matter in the sun.)

3. You could calculate how long it would take to notice anything if the core suddenly stopped fusing.