MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nomel | 2026-03-05 01:45:06+00:00
The interviewer should be less competent. That's the goal. The only alternative is that everyone trends dumber as the org grows. Usually you're trying to hire an expert in something. It can't be a necessity that the interviewer is an expert in all things they need to hire for, or even most competent in their field! You want your org to increase competence.

And, I think that's what causes the slow demise of corporations: the "hire dumb" is much easier. It's hard to get a read on intelligence/competence/skill if you're less of any of those, so, on average, orgs do get dumber. What's the best shield against stupidity? Bureaucracy! :D
by casey2 | 2026-03-05 01:46:11+00:00
The ability to talk to the model is the product not the text it generates, that is public domain (or maybe the user owns still up for debate)

Models can't "convince" or "encourage" anything, people can, they can roleplay like models can, they can play pretend so the companies they hate so much get their comeuppance.

This is clearly tool misuse, look at how gemini is advertised vs this user using it to generate pseudoreligious texts (common with schizophrenics)

Example of advertised usecases:
>generating images and video
>browsing hundreds of sources in real time
>connecting to documents in google ecosystem (e.g. finding an email or summarizing a project across multiple documents)
>vibe coding
>a natural voice mode

Much like a knife is advertised for cutting food, if you cut yourself there isn't any product liability unless you were using it for it's intended purpose. You seem to be arguing that all possible uses are intended and this tool should magically know it's being misused and revoke access.
by GCUMstlyHarmls | 2026-03-05 01:46:36+00:00
> and some people treat mark as spam as their delete button, certainly more than 0.1% of people. Don't ask me why.

The delete button is for saving important stuff, not spam.

https://old.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/jndew2/users_who_...

https://old.reddit.com/r/talesfromtechsupport/comments/1sac4...

https://old.reddit.com/r/talesfromtechsupport/comments/1eun2...

I recall seeing this was some kind of learned behavior from lotus notes, deleted items wouldn't count in your quota, so users would keep stuff in there.
by ANarrativeApe | 2026-03-05 01:47:10+00:00
This also applies, on a larger scale, when one adds data to a medium like a sheet of paper, the graphite or ink adds to the mass of the storage medium.
But does this constitute data?
The maximum mass would be achieved by covering the entire sheet with graphite/ink which, it could be argued is not data (unless you consider it to be a binary cell in a larger byte of data).
I don't know the physics of thermal paper, but I suspect that it might be the opposite.
My point?
This is not evidence that data has mass, it is evidence that transcribing data onto a storage medium may change the mass of the storage medium, and that change maybe positive or negative.

Perhaps I should have this carved on my tomb stone...
by ajross | 2026-03-05 01:47:26+00:00
Distinction made by who, though? The BBC? The plaintiff in the lawsuit? Those are the only sides we have. You're just charging ahead with "This must be true because it makes me angry at the right people", and the rest of us are trying to claw you back to "dude this is spun nonsense and of course AI's will roleplay with you if you ask them to".
by topspin | 2026-03-05 01:47:56+00:00
> so there should be no significant design changes

The NRC frequently changes requirements for reactors while they're under construction. The NRC does not waive the right to demand changes merely due to prior design approval. This is a novel (for the US) design, so there will be unanticipated changes as the project progresses.

Russia has been operating two sodium cooled fast reactors for decades. The BN-600 and BN-800 are both operating today. The early history of the BN-600 was... interesting, suffering (at least) 14 sodium fires due to leaks. This "Natrium" design is similar; a sodium pool with two sodium loops. They are taking on the additional challenge of storing a massive quantity of molten salt.

It's going to take a lot of effort by many steely eyed missile people to make this happen.
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by karmakaze | 2026-03-05 01:49:12+00:00
I will take MKBHD's take on this[0]. Great as a higher-end 'chromebook' etc. Could be an upgrade for my Surface Go 3 but not as portable. Definitely more useful than a tablet.

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by leptons | 2026-03-05 01:49:43+00:00
>Sure, but that doesn't change the fact that the iPhone 4 was the single most purchased smartphone model in the US between 2010 and 2011

Are you trying to give Apple some kind of tech participation trophy? Because that's all you're doing.

>If you look at only the premium market, Apple holds ~70% market share.

Sure, Apple is a luxury brand, and so not many people can afford it. Nor should they be spending the ridiculous amount of money Apple normally charges.

>Despite antenna gate, it still sold plenty, which proves the point about brand trust that the thread was about.

Reality distortion field still in effect in 2026.

>If the brand equity wasn't there, the Galaxy S would have out sold the iPhone 4, but it didn't, it sold half as much.

I don't care about brands as much as you seem to, that much I'm sure about. Your precious Apple could never do you wrong, we get it.
by leptons | 2026-03-05 01:49:53+00:00
>If 'par' is set by Microsoft then Apple easily clears it

That's clearly subjective. What you will accept from Apple is unacceptable to others as garbage, the same as you dismiss anything from Microsoft.

>Linux distros have had more ideas for Apple to learn from than Microsoft.

And yet Apple just copied Windows Vista with their "glass" monstrosity that is universally hated and has been lambasted widely. Again, you may love that, but that would put you in the minority.
by k310 | 2026-03-05 01:49:56+00:00
> “When the first bomb hit the school, one of the teachers and the principal moved a group of students to the prayer hall to protect them,” one of the Red Crescent medics said, citing conversations he had at the time with survivors.

> “The principal called the parents and told them to come and pick up their children. But the second bomb hit that area as well. Only a small number of those who had taken shelter survived.”

> Two strikes on the same target are often characterised as “double-tap” strikes, particularly if there is a brief pause between them and medics and other civilians arriving at the scene are killed in the follow-up attack
by cheema33 | 2026-03-05 01:50:06+00:00
> OAI conditions were basically "DoW won't do anything which violates the rules DoW sets for itself."

I believe this understanding is correct. The issue many people have these days with Dept. of War, and most of Trump admin is that they have little respect for laws. They only follow the ones they like and openly ignore the ones that are inconvenient.

Dept of "War" should have zero problems agreeing to the two conditions Anthropic outlined, if they were honest brokers. But I think most of us know that they are not. Calling them dishonest brokers seems very charitable.
by zamalek | 2026-03-05 01:50:42+00:00
> Another reason is compilation time. The more complicated the function signatures, the more prologue/epilogue code we have to generate that LLVM has to chew on. [...]

I know that LLVM completely dominates compilation time, but maybe the improvements from this could make the other bits (i.e. compiling rustc with callconv=fast) fast enough to make up the difference?
by oefrha | 2026-03-05 01:52:00+00:00
I would take their displayed uptime with a huge grain of salt. The other day Claude Code and claude.ai web was completely unavailable for me (Claude Code got into logged out state and couldn’t even log in) for at least two hours, they showed hours of “elevated errors”, yet not a single minute of downtime was recorded. And then there was yet another outage finally with recorded downtime a few hours later…

Edit: This incident: https://status.claude.com/incidents/kyj825w6vxr8
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by Nursie | 2026-03-05 01:52:57+00:00
> No, uploading identity documents is never a safe process.

You should probably stop pretending you understand verifiable credentials then.

Because if you did, you'd understand that they don't involve uploading identity documents anywhere.

The idea is to defer to service providers such as banks that have already performed such verification, often physically. And if you want to argue that banks should stop verifying who people are when they open accounts... well that's going to be an interesting conversation.

Without doxxing myself too much, I'm going to say that I know intimately the details of a project within Australia to build a standards-based non-government VC system that won't touch a single piece of ID at any stage, as an additional capability on a commercial system that's already active and in use.
by adonovan | 2026-03-05 01:53:19+00:00
Very interesting. The Go toolchain has an (off by default) telemetry system. For Go 1.23, I added the runtime.SetCrashOutput function and used it to gather field reports containing stack traces for crashes in any running goroutine. Since we enabled it over a year ago in gopls, our LSP server, we have discovered hundreds of bugs.

Even with only about 1 in 1000 users enabling telemetry, it has been an invaluable source of information about crashes. In most cases it is easy to reconstruct a test case that reproduces the problem, and the bug is fixed within an hour. We have fixed hundreds of bugs this way. When the cause is not obvious, we "refine" the crash by adding if-statements and assertions so that after the next release we gain one additional bit of information from the stack trace about the state of execution.

However there was always a stubborn tail of field reports that couldn't be explained: corrupt stack pointers, corrupt g registers (the thread-local pointer to the current goroutine), or panics dereferencing a pointer that had just passed a nil check. All of these point to memory corruption.

In theory anything is possible if you abuse unsafe or have a data race, but I audited every use of unsafe in the executable and am convinced they are safe. Proving the absence of data races is harder, but nonetheless races usually exhibit some kind of locality in what variable gets clobbered, and that wasn't the case here.

In some cases we have even seen crashes in non-memory instructions (e.g. MOV ZR, R1), which implicates misexecution: a fault in the CPU (or a bug in the telemetry bookkeeping, I suppose).

As a programmer I've been burned too many times by prematurely blaming the compiler or runtime for mistakes in one's own code, so it took a long time to gain the confidence to suspect the foundations in this case. But I recently did some napkin math (see https://github.com/golang/go/issues/71425#issuecomment-39685...) and came to the conclusion that the surprising number of inexplicable field reports--about 1K/week among our users--is well within the realm of faulty hardware, especially since our users are overwhelmingly using laptops, which don't have parity memory.

I would love to get definitive confirmation though. I wonder what test the Firefox team runs on memory in their crash reporting software.
by sdsd | 2026-03-05 01:53:35+00:00
I've been using 8 GB on my M3 for years as a security engineer, doing pretty heavy development. I usually have like 15 Brave tabs open, several terminals, a game (PokeMMO) and a small DeepSeek model, lots of Claude Code instances running, Obsidian, and LadyBird, among other small things. I honestly have no idea what people do with all that RAM.
by planckscnst | 2026-03-05 01:53:50+00:00
I mostly use LLMs in a zero-touch way - I never actually edit code and I almost never read it. But I do still dive into the details by exploring it with targeted questions through the LLM. Sometimes I go through ridiculously long sessions to get the LLM to "see" the correct/optimal/simplest/etc solution itself. There are many times when it simply never gets there no matter how close I get the horse to the water. I recently did one of these sessions yesterday and it reinforced my impression that systems like gastown and pure Ralph loop style is just not ever going to have the quality I'm looking for, and it's going to cost a lot of money not to get there.

I've honed a relatively decent flow that requires interaction from me for important parts (mostly) while making its own decisions at the not-important parts (mostly). This results in being able to send the agent off on an hours-long dev cycle and have relatively decent results after that need a few minor fixes. I think this is the best style for the current generation of AI
by hintymad | 2026-03-05 01:54:27+00:00
Honest question: why do people automatically equate "fully autonomous weapons" to something like killer robot? My immediate reaction is that even the best-in-class rapid-fire gun has a hard time identifying and tracking drones. So, we'd need AI to do better tracking, which leads to a fully autonomous weapon. And I really don't get why that's a bad thing.

Of course, a company should have freedom to choose not to do business with the government. I just don't think automatically assuming the worst intention of the government is not as productive as setting up good enough legal framework to limit government's power.
by recursivecaveat | 2026-03-05 01:54:30+00:00
After dropping BDO as their auditor this CEO just continued signing off in financial statements under BDO's name. The craziest part is her skating through getting caught initially. One investor noticed a falsified date: she told him that those were fake statements made for a university lecture and refunded his investment. Eventually the board caught on and prohibited her from raising more investments, but she just kept selling shares behind their backs. Everyone involved had some financial interest in not making a public fuss.
by bourbeau | 2026-03-05 01:55:15+00:00
Thanks! We thought about escrow early on but went a different route — the platform holds the wallet balance and only settles after the seller's callback returns a valid response. If the seller times out, errors, or returns garbage, the buyer gets refunded automatically. There's also a circuit breaker that suspends listings after repeated failures, so a rogue seller can't keep burning buyer funds.

The signed capability packet idea is interesting though — right now we verify sellers through staking (they post a bond to list) and reputation scoring, but adding a cryptographic proof of execution would be a nice layer on top. Something to think about.
by felipeerias | 2026-03-05 01:55:40+00:00
Are you sure about that? Every information I’ve seen suggests that the DoD has been using Anthropic’s models through Palantir.

My understanding is that Anthropic requested visibility and a say into how their models were being used for classified tasks, while the DoD wanted to expand the scope of those tasks into areas that Anthropic found objectionable. Both of those proposals were unacceptable for the other side.
by unraveller | 2026-03-05 01:55:58+00:00
with 2.5 grams of creatine monohydrate, 15 grams of whey protein isolate and 5 grams of carbs per serving.

Male trail runners already eat breakfast exactly like this on the trail they just have to prepare the concoction themselves from disparate ingredients to best preserve muscle and muscle function. Putting it together in a cereal "for men" is not just about being keto friendly (20g max carbs per day) it makes it simpler to choose your own carbs (sucrose goes direct to muscle) right for the muscular activity or recovery level ahead.

A century of stale big breakfast propaganda at this moment is easy to stir up. What's jarring here is not that "ballsy" tagline being used in more niche health food, it's that some random kid's random idea of masculinity should not be the first clear one to arrive in your son's head.
by fc417fc802 | 2026-03-05 01:56:11+00:00
I did no such thing - you are the one creating a straw man. The comment chain I responded to has several different parties making various claims about the social credit score. My comments are consistent with those I responded to.

If you wish to dispute the veracity of one or more comments in the thread, by all means do so. But please make a substantive argument and (given the nature of the topic) cite sources.
by fubdopsp | 2026-03-05 01:57:12+00:00
Yeah, good luck with that at current RAM prices though. DDR5 RDIMMs are going for $20/gb+ right now which means 1tb is $20k, and that's with fairly conservative pricing too.

I've been looking at building a high memory workstation recently but the RAM prices are just prohibitive. Best option atm for 1tb+ seems to be to go back a couple gen and buy DDR4, you can get 1tb at under $5/gb right now. But obviously you're giving up some performance in the process.
by Leftium | 2026-03-05 01:57:19+00:00
I plan to use frecency in my bookmarking app.

Although you don't have any problems with lag, it is possible to efficiently compute frecency in O(1) complexity

> But with an additional trick, no recomputation is necessary. The trick is to store in the database something with units of date...

Full details: https://wiki.mozilla.org/User:Jesse/NewFrecency#Efficient_co...
by nomel | 2026-03-05 01:57:19+00:00
True. I suggested global because it allows for scale with copy/paste designs, where things like nuclear could actually become viable.

Where I am, we have a solidly aligned state government. There's no concept of consequences for anyone in power. They're paid by the local companies to pass laws to make competition legal. Some are investors. All corrupt. That's what you get with a solid political alignment.
by cfloyd | 2026-03-05 01:58:29+00:00
It’s all just theatre. These companies will either give in or die off and be replaced by those who offer more freedom of use. It’s capitalism and while it’s not always pretty, it’s how these things go. Choosing to take what you believe as the moral high ground is noble but it does not put your company ahead of the ball in the long term because there are always those who will use that as an advantage to step on their backs.
by yubblegum | 2026-03-05 01:59:28+00:00
> In Iran, it’s trying to dislodge a theocracy that’s taken over a country that’s had orderly, centralized administration for almost two thousand years.

You don't actually know anything about Iran's history, do you. Sure, back in the pre-Islamic days, Persia had two empires that pretty much set the standard for "centralized administration". After Arab invasion, it's a mixed record. The Safavid's (possibly) can be considered a "centrally administered" kingdom. To wit, Reza Shah Pahlavi's feather in his cap was that he managed to (finally after centuries) put the various provincial grandees and nomadic tribes in a box. That's basically 100 years.

A good primer background (on modern Iran at least) is "Iranian Nationalism" by Richard Cottam, 1963.
by jfengel | 2026-03-05 01:59:30+00:00
If they're doing it against the terms of service (and publicly so), I can't pin that one on Anthropic.

They've done lots wrong and maybe they shouldn't have gotten in bed with the military to begin with, but this illegal war is not theirs. It rests squarely with the President who declared it. (And with the military officers who are going along with it despite the violation of international law.)
by woodruffw | 2026-03-05 01:59:57+00:00
NYC's approach (or lack of an approach, depending on how you look at it) has been to unevenly distribute trashcans. This student made an interesting visualization of the distribution[1].

Unsurprisingly, trash can placement correlates with neighborhood wealth. Poorer neighborhoods get fewer city-managed trashcans, so more trash ends up on the street.

[1]: https://studentwork.prattsi.org/infovis/visualization/waste-...
by benlivengood | 2026-03-05 02:01:48+00:00
We have traditional autonomous weapons (and counter-defense). They operate on millisecond or faster timescales with existing RF sensors. They are not and will not be using LLMs or other transformers. Maybe ChatGPT will update some realtime Ada code; they formally verify some of that stuff so maybe that won't be terrifyingly dangerous.

Where autonomous transformer-based munitions will be used are basically "here is a photo of a face, find and kill this human" and loitering munitions will take their time analyzing video and then decide to identify and attack a target on their own.

EDIT: Or worse: "identify suspicious humans and kill them"
by cherioo | 2026-03-05 02:02:22+00:00
We don’t know if Palantir is using claude for those uses. Though anthropic would not know for sure either.

I do agree with your point that Amodei is playing a game though. Whether he’s winning the bigger picture or not it’s unclear. His red lines are already so watered out, like how domestic surveillance is not ok, but international? totally fine.
by mikeyouse | 2026-03-05 02:02:22+00:00
Yep. NuScale received design certification as well and still ended up with multiple huge revisions. It’s not easy to build any nuclear, much less a FOAK reactor.

But when that fails, you can just siphon up taxpayer money via your connections to the ruling cabal.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/tiny-trump-linked-firm-in-line...