MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by guerython | 2026-03-05 01:25:37+00:00
Love seeing the whole flow laid out from the agent’s perspective.
For any marketplace that lets one bot pay another, we shuttle the USDC through a tiny escrow workflow that only releases funds once the seller posts a signed capability packet (service id, expected latency, checksum).
Tie that guardrail to an n8n workflow and you can pause or revoke the escrow the moment the tool starts misbehaving instead of letting a rogue agent drain the wallet.
by bryant | 2026-03-05 01:26:44+00:00
> The moral disposition of the Anthropic leaders doesn't matter because they don't own the company. Investors won't idly watch them decimate billions in ROI by alienating the largest institutional customers on the planet.

Anthropic is a Public Benefit Corporation chartered in Delaware, with an expressed commitment to "the responsible development and maintenance of advanced AI for the long-term benefit of humanity."

So in theory (IANAL), investors can't easily bully Anthropic into abandoning their mission statement unless they can convince a court that Anthropic deliberately aimed to prioritize the cause over profit.
by ryukoposting | 2026-03-05 01:28:42+00:00
The cheapest new laptop you can buy from HP right now has 4 GB of RAM, a 64GB eMMC drive, and an N100. It's $200-300 depending where you look. And somehow this pitiful thing is running Windows 11.

I know it's half the price of the Neo, but it feels like way less than half the computer. I don't like Apple, I won't be buying this, and I won't be recommending it to anyone. But damn, Apple.
by coldtea | 2026-03-05 01:29:16+00:00
Why he wouldn't say it about HDD space? You buy HDD to keep them empty?

And as for the money analogy, what's the idea there, that memory grows interest? Or that it's better to put your money in the bank and leave it there, as opposed to buy assets or stocks, and of course, pay for food, rent, and stuff you enjoy?
by adampunk | 2026-03-05 01:29:35+00:00
The funniest thing about this is how colossally Russia screwed Iran. Iran sent over thousands of drones and dozens of drone pilots for use in Ukraine. No doubt Russia paid for it, but probably not as much as Iran wish they had. 300 extra Shaheds would have made the interception math ugly even last year.

Instead, they send all their inventory north so that Moscow can spend less money to blow up shopping centers and school houses. Meanwhile, the Iranians lose a credible deterrent.
by TheTriunePrism | 2026-03-05 01:29:50+00:00
"This tragedy is a direct result of prioritizing 'Statistical Harvest' over 'Systemic Intent.' Current LLMs are engineered for surface-level polish—what I call the 'Illusion of Completeness'—but they lack a functional 'Seed' of ethical agency. When an agent acts without a core definition of value, it doesn't matter how well the safety layers are 'aligned'; the underlying architecture remains a hollow shell. We are witnessing the collapse of systems that prioritize algorithmic efficiency over human sovereignty."
by AUF2026 | 2026-03-05 01:30:03+00:00
Because that's the policy of ChatGPT. Disabling links helps protect user privacy, as sharing external links can lead to the potential sharing of personal data or exposure to harmful content. On the security side, preventing links helps mitigate the risk of directing users to phishing sites or malware-infected URLs. Preventing links also helps avoid external sources influencing responses, ensuring the information remains unbiased and solely reliant on the trained knowledge base.

All AI models are probabilistic models with weights, and if used improperly, they can cause more harm than good. I recommend using them with caution or, better yet, transitioning to DETERMINISM.
by kristianp | 2026-03-05 01:30:14+00:00
> Instruct models are already so tuned that they could not be tuned

Some models have the base model available, that is before instruction tuning. For example llama 3 comes in "pre-trained and instruction tuned variants" [1]. I'm guessing you already know that though.

[1] https://huggingface.co/meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B
by michaelt | 2026-03-05 01:30:21+00:00
> Why does their air con take 1kW to run?

The author is in the UK, so they probably looked at a product like [1] which is "ideal for rooms 16-26m²" and has cooling power consumption of 1005W.

Residential air conditioning in the UK often involves small, noisy units that are only used for a few weeks at the height of summer. They'll have a thermostat built in, sure, but the user will eagerly turn them off when the room's cool just to get some quiet.

[1] https://www.argos.co.uk/product/7623899
by userbinator | 2026-03-05 01:31:21+00:00
High-density NAND flash also needs "whitening", i.e. scrambling the data to be stored so that the number of 1s and 0s is even and randomly distributed, to avoid wearing some cells (the ones that are storing 0s) more than others, as well as reduce pattern-dependent disturb errors.

That said, digital storage media has been somewhat pattern-sensitive for a century or more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lace_card
by MajimasEyepatch | 2026-03-05 01:31:23+00:00
According to the post, this result was first derived for gluons in a previous paper. That paper was provided to the model as context, and then the model was asked to derive an analogous result for gravitons, which presumably has not been done before. The authors claim it would have taken "considerable time" for human experts to derive the graviton result.

I don't see any reason to believe that this exact problem was solved before in the training data, but it's definitely an incremental result based on a very similar problem that the model had seen before.
by bko | 2026-03-05 01:31:31+00:00
Call me crazy, but I don't think a private corporation should have veto power of what a government agency can do with their product if its within the law. They can choose not to sell to government agencies, that's fine, but to demand some kind of assurances that they're using it as per Anthropic's own ever changing moral compass seems like an insane overreach for a private corporation. We still believe in democracy, right?
by YZF | 2026-03-05 01:33:18+00:00
- Iran is going to run out of things to fire or things they use to fire off (launchers) pretty soon. The number of things they're been firing off has been on a sharp decrease.

- I am pretty sure Israel and the US are very far from depleting their stockpiles. They are going to completely demolish the regime and all its assets. There are many different types of munitions for different situations, many of them interchangeable.

- The only question mark is interceptors where we have a bit of a race between eliminating the ability of Iran to attack and the remaining (very expensive) interceptors. The lack of interceptors is not going to be a limit. Nobody knows for sure but it'd be a surprise if there aren't enough interceptors for both the US and Israel. The US might have some desire to keep some minimal stockpile for other theaters/concerns so maybe that's a concern.

- The US and Israel can not afford to let Iran gain leverage here and they won't.
by _wire_ | 2026-03-05 01:33:43+00:00
Verbose and repetitive, with a smattering of data points substituting for needed science. And there's no paradox illustrated; observing the photocopier analogy presented in the article: there's no paradox of generational losses of a reproduction system where noise is introduced at each generation.

There's an inverse corollary that the lossiness of storage and the sensitivity to temperature, which seems to be a critical aspect of neural nets, may lead to a morphogenesis: the development of useful appendages for the larger cybernetics. For example, as the structure of biological organism development depends on what doesn't grow, and therefore leads to separated limbs from a body, so modules may develop as models are deeply embedded in large systems.

The training data "paradox" as it's developed by this article comes down to a quip about AI systems programs forgetting how to design and develop these systems. But this interestingly puts us on the edge of a new kind of understanding of life: how do humans, which must bootstrap themselves to exogenous knowledge every generation, manage to recover and further advance engineering? That we're constantly dropping dead seems like a huge impediment.

And there's an nascent epistemology that deals with this, which begins with the observation that humans have such limited experience maintaining a world we've built that we may figure out how to sustain our world and are already on the precipice of a collapse due to unsustainable dependencies. But this easily gets weird. The Sun will eventually explode. Meanwhile, Sol supports our world, as far as humanity is concerned, in the form of a genuine perpetual motion, regardless of the laws of thermodynamics. Isn't it the case that today's laments of AI destroying work is literally a pathos of underemployed computer nerds who can't believe that their profession would be born and ascend to the top tiers of professional prosperity then be thrown out like buggy whips within a single lifespan?

To paraphrase Woody Allen riffing about attendance for an Alice Cooper concert in the 70s: maybe the training data paradox just a case of bad vibes.
by roywiggins | 2026-03-05 01:34:07+00:00
And not a single colon! Well, outside the smiley in the opening paragraph.

Just read the first two paragraphs and there's a full stylistic whiplash. I'd bet $100 that the first paragraph was human-written and the rest were almost fully Claude.

It's kind of creepy, like a human rolling their eyes back partway through a paragraph and suddenly speaking like Microsoft Bob.
by autoexec | 2026-03-05 01:34:11+00:00
It'd be an interesting jobs program. Cleaning up neighborhoods can have a lot of beneficial effects like reducing the amount of new litter. It could even reduce crime. It's also a job that would get people outside and keep them moving which is probably better for their health than being chained to desk all day, and it can't be done (even poorly) by a chatbot
by cuvinny | 2026-03-05 01:35:36+00:00
Looks like they already have been testing it in the Spartanburg, SC, USA plant (just outside of Greenville SC [also I think the largest BMW factory in the world making most of their SUVs]). Still I don't get why a humanoid robot would be a thing for car making, a robot arm seems like it'd almost always be more efficient.
by SirensOfTitan | 2026-03-05 01:35:57+00:00
Like others have already mentioned: I think Anthropic's relationship with Palantir undermines Amodei's narrative here. It actually feels like Dario is playing Sam's game better than Sam is.

Those who know better please correct me. My current understanding of Palantir (and other surveillance tech companies like Peregrine) is:

1. They facilitate the sale of data to law enforcement, enabling the government to circumvent fourth amendment protections.

2. They fuse cross-government agency data through Foundry and fuse them into unified profiles which the government can use to surveil and pressure citizens without probable cause or a warrant.

ICE also uses a Palantir tool called ELITE to build deportation target lists.

EDIT: Downvoting my comment without any proper rebuttal or clarification is pretty silly.
by mulmen | 2026-03-05 01:36:01+00:00
Flock, like Palantir, is the Torment Nexus from the famous novel Don’t Create The Torment Nexus.

Considering the potential and demonstrated abuse there must be more robust guardrails than currently exist. The required level of safety is more like “nuclear launch codes” or “commercial airliner”, not “local used car lot landing page”.

This juice ain’t worth the squeeze.
by avaer | 2026-03-05 01:36:34+00:00
Not sure this counts as "humanoid" any more than the robots we've had in factories for a century... the hands and feet are nothing like a human's, and would not be improved by being more human.

It seems they just made the shape of their machine have a vaguely human silhouette so they could ride a hype wave.

I'm all for programmable humanoid robots, humans are an awesome human interface, but this ain't it.
by nickthegreek | 2026-03-05 01:37:01+00:00
https://gizmodo.com/palantir-ceo-says-a-surveillance-state-i...

https://gizmodo.com/palantir-ceo-uses-slur-to-describe-peopl...

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/palantir-ceo-defends-su...
by mrandish | 2026-03-05 01:37:06+00:00
When @sama announced within hours that OAI was replacing Anthropic with the "same conditions ", it was clear that either the DoW or OAI (or both) were fudging. DoW balked at Anthropic's conditions so OAI's agreement must have made the "conditions" basically unenforceable.

And sure enough, my reading of it left the impression the OAI conditions were basically "DoW won't do anything which violates the rules DoW sets for itself."
by Loquebantur | 2026-03-05 01:37:31+00:00
“We’ve actually held our red lines with integrity rather than colluding with them to produce ‘safety theater’ for the benefit of employees (which, I absolutely swear to you, is what literally everyone at [the Pentagon], Palantir, our political consultants, etc, assumed was the problem we were trying to solve),” Amodei reportedly wrote.

“The real reasons [the Pentagon] and the Trump admin do not like us is that we haven’t donated to Trump (while OpenAI/Greg have donated a lot),” he wrote, referring to Greg Brockman, OpenAI’s president, who gave a Pac supporting Trump $25m in conjunction with his wife.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/04/sam-altma...
by cheema33 | 2026-03-05 01:37:40+00:00
> Let's just clarify that visitors don't have the same rights as citizens.

Yunseo Chung was not a visitor. She came to the United States from South Korea at age 7. She was arrested last year for peacefully protesting. Charges against her were dropped but the govt. canceled her green card.

The govt. has been trying to deport her since then, but the courts keep blocking it.

https://humanrightsfirst.org/yunseo-chung-v-trump-administra...

While the legality of these actions are being debated in courts, I think most of us can agree that this is reprehensible behavior on part of the Trump admin.
by trinsic2 | 2026-03-05 01:38:22+00:00
The government works for the people, not the other way around. For the people, by the people and of the people.

If you don't question people in positions of power they will just do whatever they want. Democracy is sustained by action, not by acquiescence.

And with the lawlessness of this administration, I would make it a point to hold them accountable. I'm not going to let them do mass surveillance when they decide to change the law.

Are you native, or just ignoring what is going on?
by toomuchtodo | 2026-03-05 01:38:22+00:00
Nuclear is low carbon, it’s fine we lose heat to extract that energy versus stationary and mobile combustion generation, as there is no other effective way to extract that energy at this time.

Quantification of global waste heat and its environmental effects - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03062... - Applied Energy
Volume 235, 1 February 2019, Pages 1314-1334

* 49.3–51.5% of global energy use would end up as waste heat in 2030.

* Transport sector accounts for the largest (43%) recoverable waste heat in 2030.
by chmod775 | 2026-03-05 01:38:23+00:00
Given that pressure from natural selection has lessened a lot, chances are that we are less special now.

Our intellect evolved for survival, but now it's very much optional - has been for many generations. It and may now even be inversely correlated with having offspring.

I would be unsurprised if we're noticably dumber now than we used to be.
by tombert | 2026-03-05 01:38:58+00:00
I agree, I love Flash more than nearly any other piece of software that has ever been on the computer, and it's one of the few things I miss about moving to Linux away from Windows.

I can still run Flash MX 2004 via Wine and play with that there, so it's not "lost media" or anything, but what I want is something as close to Flash as possible, that runs on Linux, and gets regular updates, and that doesn't require I subscribe to it for forever.

I have a perpetual license to ToonBoom (that I bought when they were still doing perpetual licenses), and ToonBoom is very cool software, but it's purely an animation software. I also have a license to Scirra Construct 2, and that's pretty neat as well, but in my mind that's basically a game engine. Flash was this cool, weird hybrid of both a game engine and artistic software that I haven't found a good replacement for.

With Flash, you could make a cartoon without touching ActionScript. It was designed around animation. If you wanted to extend the cartoon you could then add code, piecemeal, and if you wanted to make a full game then you could make a full game. It was great.
by dotancohen | 2026-03-05 01:39:03+00:00
> macOS 15 uses ~5GB on startup

My Debian (KDE) uses just under 1GB on startup. If one is not using animations and things syncing in the background and daemons monitoring file system changes and whatnot, can the stock MacOS memory usage be reduced?

What, in fact, is it doing? I'm off the opinion that RAM not used is RAM wasted, but I prefer that philosophy for application memory, not background OS processes.
by SkiFire13 | 2026-03-05 01:40:00+00:00
Memory access performance depends on the _maximum size of memory you need to address_. You can clearly see it in the graph of that article where L1, L2, L3 and RAM are no longer enough to fit the linked list. However while the working set fits in them the performance scales much better. So as long as you give priority to the working set, you can fill the rest of the biggest memory with whatever you want without affecting performance.
by cheema33 | 2026-03-05 01:40:06+00:00
> Link? I’m guessing we’re going to see that this definition of “protesting” involves being aggressive and directly in the face of law enforcement officers, not merely holding a sign at a distance.

Please read up on this one example of a US permanent resident. And then justify the actions of the govt against Yunseo Chung.

https://humanrightsfirst.org/yunseo-chung-v-trump-administra...
by jheimark | 2026-03-05 01:41:03+00:00
That is crazy. You are suggesting that corporations should have no power over their own IP.

Are you really saying that if Anthropic sells a limited version of their product to Palantir at a certain price, the government should be able to demand access to an unlimited version of Anthropic's product for free because they are a customer of Palantir?

That would effectively mean the government gets an unlimited license to all IP of companies that do business with government suppliers... that would be terrible.
by netsharc | 2026-03-05 01:41:09+00:00
"Voluntarily". I guess that word fits if being a cog in the capitalist machine is voluntary. Lots of US soldiers are poor kids with no prospects, the USA offers subsidized education and healthcare, but only after you put your body on the line to be shot at because the child-rapist-in-chief and a Fox News alcoholic wants to please their corrupt Israeli daddy...

Amongst Netanyahu's corruption charges is that he and his wife used taxpayer money to rent a celebrity chef. Imagine expanding a genocide to WW3 because you wanted to escape accountability for stealing public money to pay for some overpriced dinner...
by rayiner | 2026-03-05 01:42:40+00:00
America’s poor history education strikes again.

Democracies don’t arise from thin air. Every successful democracy arose from an authoritarian regime that developed the institutions of state and government. E.g. Taiwan: https://ketagalanmedia.com/2017/09/30/what-motivated-kmt-tai.... Over and over, the pattern that leads to success of an authoritarian regime that develops the country first, with democracy following when people are ready for it. Attempting to skip the authoritarian regime and jump state to democracy has usually been a failure. It results in corrupt and dysfunctional democracies, like in India or Bangladesh.

Developmental dictatorships are preferable to dysfunctional democracies, because the former at least has some hope of transitioning into a functioning democracy.
by JProthero | 2026-03-05 01:43:12+00:00
Do you understand the purported result, and the verification? I don't, but I'm confident that Andrew Strominger wouldn't have agreed to put his name on this if he didn't think it was correct and interesting.

The human authors have positions at the Institute for Advanced Study (Einstein's old institution), Vanderbilt, Harvard (Strominger) and Cambridge in the UK.

If you have to gauge this by the reputation of the experts involved in it as I do, that seems like a good list to me.
by roywiggins | 2026-03-05 01:44:09+00:00
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/03/04/anthrop...

> The military’s Maven Smart System, which is built by data mining company Palantir, is generating insights from an astonishing amount of classified data from satellites, surveillance and other intelligence, helping provide real-time targeting and target prioritization to military operations in Iran, according to three people familiar with the system...

> As planning for a potential strike in Iran was underway, Maven, powered by Claude, suggested hundreds of targets, issued precise location coordinates, and prioritized those targets according to importance, said two of the people.
by rileymat2 | 2026-03-05 01:44:14+00:00
I am not following, isn't this just a graph that shows that how fast operations happen is largely dependent on the odds that it is in cache at various levels (CPU/Ram/Disk)?

The memory operation itself is O(1), around 100 ns, where at a certain point we are doing full ram fetches each time because the odds of it being in CPU cache are low?

Typically O notation is an upper bound, and it holds well there.

That said, due to cache hits, the lower bound is much lower than that.

You see similar performance degradation if you iterate in a double sided array the in the wrong index first.
by mullingitover | 2026-03-05 01:44:22+00:00
> if its within the law.

The current administration has been caught flouting court orders in dozens of cases, to the point that courts are no longer even granting them the assumption that they’re operating in good faith.

I can think of a million good reasons not to give these people the tools to implement automated totalitarianism. Your proposal that they simply refuse service to the government entirely would be ideal.
by lurking_swe | 2026-03-05 01:44:33+00:00
what are you talking about? my wife still uses an M1 macbook air with 8GB ram and loves it. Literally zero desire to upgrade. I noticed her mac _sometimes_ needs to page memory to disk, but she doesn’t even notice because of the SSD and the M1 chip is crazy fast for most tasks.

Don’t see why the same can’t be true for this machine…
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