MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by scuff3d | 2026-03-09 18:46:08+00:00
I drove for Uber back in like 2016, right around when Pool was introduced. Picked this dude up and then had to stop to pick up another fair, he saw it was a woman's name on the app, and when she called me to figure out where I was at he immediately started yelling sexual stuff into my ear piece.

Of course she immediately hung up and cancelled the ride. I drove a few blocks in the opposite direction he wanted to go and threw him out of my car.

That's how he acted with me in the car. Can't imagine how he would have been alone with a female driver.
by paxys | 2026-03-09 18:46:25+00:00
So Uber is finally dropping the pretense of "vetted drivers" and "strict background checks" and whatever else they claim in their advertising. It's good that women get this service, but I'd be pretty concerned as a man as well. At this point whenever I call an Uber it's a 50/50 whether the person and car listed in the app will be the one picking me up. A lot of times I wonder if the driver has a license at all.
by brigade | 2026-03-09 18:46:28+00:00
First, you have the right to say nothing at all; there is no requirement to incriminate someone else to protect yourself.

Second, you can still generally invoke the 5th amendment during testimony even if you already claimed someone else did it. You aren't under oath until said testimony, so it still protects against you having to choose between committing perjury or self-incrimination, and doing so cannot be used as evidence of either.
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by tarique192 | 2026-03-09 18:46:38+00:00
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by brookst | 2026-03-09 18:46:43+00:00
You mean a cake brokerage or something?

These platforms connect service providers and consumers. That should be obvious, I think.

A better challenge would be if these same platforms allowed racial selections. Which I think everyone would be uncomfortable with in a way “let women avoid men” does not evoke.

Probably because of motivation. To my knowledge, there’s no evidence of racially motivated bad behavior on these platforms, but there certainly is for gender-based bad behavior[1]

So the apparently-similar hyptothetixal is not that similar, though still useful for rhetoric.

1. https://uber.app.box.com/s/lea3xzb70bp2wxe3k3dgk2ghcyr687x3?... (Page 20)
by 0x3f | 2026-03-09 18:46:45+00:00
I haven't conveniently left out anything. I wrote my previous comments intentionally, and specified which statistic I was talking about. If you misread it, that's on you.

I used this statistic because yours is like saying the US is richer than Switzerland, if you don't divide by the number of people. Pretty irrelevant.

There is no point comparing a country that drives everywhere with a country that doesn't using a metric that doesn't account for this difference.
Contrarian view: Data centers vs. Meat
by oxqbldpxo | 2026-03-09 18:46:53+00:00
Data centers are a better return on investment than meat factories and all the resources it needs to sustain meat consumption. Meat could be just lab grown.
The meat industry is extremely wasteful while data centers are very efficient. This is the old world versus the new. The return resource on investment for meat plants is horrible. They use 70% of resources to produce an 18% return in terms of calories. A data center uses a fraction of that land/water and can produce more efficient results.
by commandlinefan | 2026-03-09 18:46:55+00:00
> picking Waymos instead.

Can you pick Waymos? I was in Austin with my daughter who Ubers quite a bit (because dear God there's nowhere to park in that damned city) this weekend. She called an Uber and a Waymo showed up and she was grateful because she prefers them too, but she said that she's not aware of a way to specify that you just want a Waymo.
by ftkftk | 2026-03-09 18:46:56+00:00
In response maybe we should design TCPAclaw. It is specialized in honeypotting all of the random cold call spam, tracks down the source of unsolicited contacts; including registration state, legal contacts, and registered agent(s). It then drafts and sends a TCPA letter and waits for one of two things to happen: Either a $500-$1500 check arriving in your mailbox, or the demand deadline elapses. In case of demand deadline elapse, TCPAclaw files a small claims suit in the appropriate court of jurisdiction.

Fight fire with fire.
by westurner | 2026-03-09 18:46:59+00:00
Model synthesis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_synthesis :

> Model synthesis (also wave function collapse or 'wfc') is a family of constraint-solving algorithms commonly used in procedural generation, especially in the video game industry.

> [...] One of the differences between Merrell & Gumin's implementation and 'wave function collapse' lies in the decision of which cell to 'collapse' next. Merrell's implementation uses a scanline approach, whereas Gumin's always selects as next cell the one with the lowest number of possible outcomes

And then `## Developments` mentions:

"Hierarchical semantic wave function collapse" (2023) Alaska, Bidarra: .. citations of: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=1671019743611687613...
by EGreg | 2026-03-09 18:47:10+00:00
My libertarian view on discrimination (independent of the Civil Rights Act) is this:

If a service is not widely available in the region, any systematic discrimination leading to refusing to provide service, or specific level of service or care, based on anything unrelated to the ability to provide it, should be illegal, locally, in that community. Rules like ousting disruptive customers apply across the board.

If a service is widely available, however, then “x-only” service providers should be allowed to operate (as indeed they are with women-only gyms, Jewish-only clubs, or nightclubs that let women in first and charge the men) as long as they advertise it up front and not make people go there only to find out that “ladies can go in free of charge, men pay $300 for a table with bottle service”

PS: replace “ladies” and “men” with “whites” and “blacks” and hear how that sounds. And no, citing crime or violence statistics shouldn’t play a role in shaping whether people can get into places, whether it’s women citing male vs bear violence / harassment or people citing racial FBI statistics on violence / harassment. This is the prosecutor’s fallacy.
by yorwba | 2026-03-09 18:47:33+00:00
Copyright protects even very abstract aspects of human creative expression, not just the specific form in which it is originally expressed. If you translate a book into another language, or turn it into a silent movie, none of the actual text may survive, but the story itself remains covered by the original copyright.

So when you clone the behavior of a program like chardet without referencing the original source code except by executing it to make sure your clone produces exactly the same output, you may still be infringing its copyright if that output reflects creative choices made in the design of chardet that aren't fully determined by the functional purpose of the program.
by kumar_abhirup | 2026-03-09 18:47:39+00:00
The way imports work in DenchClaw is a bit unconventional, when you tell it to "import my HubSpot", the agent literally opens your browser (using the copied Chrome profile), navigates to HubSpot, triggers the export, and then ingests the downloaded files into the workspace DuckDB. So the bottleneck isn't really a fat in-memory ETL... it's more like processing a CSV/JSON export file on disk.

For the DuckDB side specifically: we shell out to the duckdb CLI binary for every query rather than embedding it in the Node process. So each operation gets its own memory space and dies when it's done. the web server at localhost:3100 stays lean regardless of what you're ingesting. DuckDB's out-of-core execution also means it can handle datasets larger than available RAM natively, which is one of the reasons we picked it over SQLite.

For really large exports (think full HubSpot instance with 100k+ contacts), the practical limit is more about the browser export step than DuckDB. HubSpot itself chunks its exports, and we process those chunks as they land. The DuckDB insert is the fast part.

Honestly for CRM-scale data, even a large sales org's full HubSpot, DuckDB eats it for breakfast. Where it would get interesting is if someone tries to throw analytics-scale data at it, but that's not really the use case. Would love to hear how IndexedDB holds up for you at scale in AccIQ, different trade-offs for sure.
by palmotea | 2026-03-09 18:48:02+00:00
>> you've just wasted all your time if you were talking to a bot.

> Not really. If the person I was responding to was a bot, it doesn't mean that humans can't read the thread and engage similarly.

Ok, so you've wasted some of your time, in proportion to how many bots you're interacting with. And the more prolific and capable they come, the more and more time you waste.

You seem to be walking a back your "engage with (or dismiss) the material, not the pen," statement. If you really stood by it, those humans wouldn't have to have to have read the thread.
by Legend2440 | 2026-03-09 18:48:59+00:00
TL;DR the CIA stole an old soviet research paper from the 1950s about cancer. But the soviets didn’t have a cure either, and weren’t really any farther along than the Americans.

The mechanisms they describe (Warburg effect) are not secret and have been part of mainstream cancer research since the 1930s. They’ve tried a bunch of drugs that starve tumors of glycogen, but none of them work very well.

The backlash is just conspiracy garbage from the usual nutjobs.
by atonse | 2026-03-09 18:50:14+00:00
Not that I want to be seen blindly defending the CIA's actions or anything, but the article's saying that people accusing the CIA of keeping this hidden in a vault for 60 years.

Yet, the article has been out in the open for 12 years and people still didn't notice it. So why are we assuming malice in the first case when we can assume that, like it wasn't discovered in the open, it was probably just stuck in a vault and nobody knew it existed closed either.

So this just sounds like "we found one obscure document that had an interesting detail..." and is trying to extend a whole thing out of it?

I can imagine that these kinds of things will all slowly come to light with AI-led discovery now.
by zeelpatel27 | 2026-03-09 18:50:32+00:00
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by toomuchtodo | 2026-03-09 18:50:36+00:00
Canada is physically safer for certain classes of humans as of this comment. That may change depending on if Canada is faced with defending against a physical/military attack by the US, but as of today, the risk assessment and threat model is somewhat clear.

As an American, you can even vote from another country if necessary. No need to remain on US soil to live a good life or to contribute to change from a far. Staying isn't going to fix the problem either if the electorate continues to vote poorly, which you as an individual have no control over. Optimize for your quality of life for the subject time horizon.
by ddellacosta | 2026-03-09 18:50:39+00:00
Total digression but yeah, that layout is stupid and the way those words are dropped in using Romaji makes no sense. That's not how Japanese people lay out pages on the web. In fact I don't think I've ever seen a Japanese web page laid out like a book like this, and in general I'd expect the English proper nouns and words that don't have obvious translations to get transliterated into Katakana. Smells like automatic conversion added by someone not really familiar with common practices for presenting Japanese on the web.
by cvoss | 2026-03-09 18:50:48+00:00
The document in question itself may be interesting as a historical artifact, which the article kind of gets into at the end. But the headline and opening paragraphs are just complicit in amplifying low-quality online discourse, about a decade-old topic no less. It just shows that 1) rage-machines are silly, and 2) Daily Mail is not a reputable outlet. Skip.
by redhanuman | 2026-03-09 18:50:59+00:00
Last year I was running a LangGraph agent in production. It failed on step 4 of 6 nd by the time I opened the logs, the state was gone.
I had no idea what the agent was holding in memory at step 3, what tool call it made, or what the model actually returned. I reran it and it passed.
I had no idea why.

That kept happening and I started adding print statements everywhere. Then I started dumping state to files manually but at some point I had more debugging code than actual agent code and it still wasn't giving me what I needed.

So I built ai-agent-vcr. It records the full execution state at every step inputs, outputs, tool calls, memory, model responses Under 5ms overhead. When something breaks you rewind to the exact step, look at what the agent was holding, edit it if you want nd resume from there without rerunning everything before it.
The name is a bad VHS joke.

The thing I kept getting wrong before I built this I assumed most agent bugs were model bugs. They are not. The model did exactly what you told it to given what was in context.

The problem is that by step 4 the context has drifted from what you expected, and without a record of how it got there you are just guessing.

Works with LangGraph and CrewAI and Traces are plain JSONL, git-friendly, no cloud required.

Still early and rough around the edges.
Would genuinely like to hear from anyone who has hit the same wall.
by Luzio5 | 2026-03-09 18:51:27+00:00
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by pseudalopex | 2026-03-09 18:51:33+00:00
> > A recent key judicial development on this topic occurred when the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review the case of Thaler v. Perlmutter on March 2, 2026, effectively upholding lower court rulings that AI-generated works lacking human authorship are not eligible for copyright protection under U.S. law

This was AI summary? Those words were not in the article.

The courts said Thaler could not have copyright because he refused to list himself as an author.
by arkadiytehgraet | 2026-03-09 18:51:55+00:00
Even if the visualization of the integration process via steps typed out in the chat interface is the same as what you would have done on paper, the way the steps were obtained is likely very different for you and LLM. You recognized the integral's type and applied corresponding technique to solve it. LLM found the most likely continuation of tokens after your input among all the data it has been fed, and those tokens happen to be the typography for the integral steps. It is very unlikely are you doing the same, i.e. calculating probabilities of all the words you know and then choosing the one with the highest probability of being correct.
by thinkingemote | 2026-03-09 18:52:07+00:00
One guide that i hope is kept up to date: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing . Generally though it's a kind of pattern recognition which for some patterns seems visible to me.

I should clarify and revise my thoughts and initial comment. I do not think that not being able to detect it leads to lack of care. I actually think that many things have passed me by and in the future this will be even more as LLMs improve ("we're cooked").

As to "what do we do when we spot it" - you hit the nail on the head of the feelings I felt as I was writing the comment. What do we actually do, what can we change and should we attempt futile things?

And even the example dang gave - the actual submission as very good. Is any amount of LLM use okay and what's the level? I use LLMs at work but I don't like writing readmes or blog posts with it. But others might like writing code at work by hand and don't like writing text so use LLMs for that. Maybe I lower my expectations!
by readthenotes1 | 2026-03-09 18:52:09+00:00
I am curious how your back of the envelope calculations valued the reduction in transportation speed and cost afforded by fossil fuels over sails, paddles, and draft animals for the last 150 years or so.

Likewise, curious about the cost and value that air conditioning and refrigeration have provided. I'm not sure how you do a back of the envelope calculation to address opening up the southern United States-- something that wouldn't have been likely without the low cost of electricity given by coal (outside the TVA region).
by thomashabets2 | 2026-03-09 18:52:16+00:00
Yeah, but the file system is where I put most of my files. :-)

Between file system, bind/connect, and sending signals, that covers most of it. Probably the biggest remaining risk is any unpatched bugs in the kernel itself.

So one would need to first gain execution in the process, and then elevate that access inside the kernel, in a way that doesn't just grant you root but still Landlocked, and with a much smaller effective syscall attack surface. Like even if there's a kernel bug in ioctl on devs, landlock can turn that off too.
by rambambram | 2026-03-09 18:52:34+00:00
I could google it, but I would rather ask HN: what are the best pens (or pen(cil)/paper-combination) for keeping written text as long as possible? I had some Stabilo pen which was very nice ergonomically, but the blue ink faded within a couple of years (laying on my window sil in the sun, but still).

My guess is: regular graphite pencil on porous paper is best. Any ideas about further things I have to take into account?
by gopalv | 2026-03-09 18:52:58+00:00
> Somehow human cells age and humans get old and die but humans can somehow make an entirely new creature through reproduction where that is reset

I think the eggs aren't dividing as you age (you are born with them, so to speak) and the sperm is held "outside" the body.

One is in original packaging and the other is produced in a "cooler" enviroment by the billions with a heavy QA failure of 99.9999%.
by recursivedoubts | 2026-03-09 18:53:29+00:00
"As I pass through my incarnations in every age and race,
I make my proper prostrations to the Gods of the Market Place.
Peering through reverent fingers I watch them flourish and fall,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings, I notice, outlast them all."

https://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poem/poems_copybook.htm
by JadeNB | 2026-03-09 18:53:34+00:00
> To the extent the author’s point relies on the incorrect definition, it cannot be consistent or correct.

I don't think that a point based on an incorrect definition is automatically inconsistent or itself incorrect. It might be, of course, or it might just be insufficiently justified. And, to the extent that it is a philosophical point rather than a historical one, the truth or falsity of a philosophical claim doesn't depend on whether someone actually said it, or it is a mistranslation of something someone actually said.
by quitspamming | 2026-03-09 18:53:41+00:00
> The ones where they’re going to send brownshirts to intimidate voters in blue states?

Any actual evidence this is happening or is going to happen? I've seen some ACLU talking points, always conveniently placed above a donate button, but not any facts.

> The ones they’re going to try to disrupt like Dallas County last night?

Not from Dallas but looking at the news it looks like a state issue involving the Texas Supreme Court? No mention of Trump, GOP, ICE, or brownshirts.

> The ones they’ve trying desperately to Gerrymander to lock down their dictatorial power? Those elections?

Gerrymandering just started under Trump?

I know there is no way to verify this, but I am not a Trump supporter or Republican. I am just someone who thinks the rhetoric is completely overblown, not supported by reality, and especially comparing it to Iran they're not even in the same phylum let alone class.
by runarberg | 2026-03-09 18:54:10+00:00
I think it is unfair to specify safe here, as probably all nuclear powerplants are considered safe until they are not, including Fukushima. But plenty of European countries are either building or planing nuclear new nuclear power reactors, and Finland just opened a new reactor in 2023.

But the simple matter is thought that the economics of nuclear power simply are not delivering. They are expensive and slow to build, while at the same time wind (particularly off shore wind) and solar are getting cheaper and easier to build every year (or month even). Germany also stands out as a success story of nuclear phase-out, that by replacing these expensive to run nuclear power plant has offered the economic wiggle room to phase in renewables a lot faster then otherwise.
by avidiax | 2026-03-09 18:54:23+00:00
Uber is already being sued by male drivers in California:

https://onlabor.org/january-25-2026

I think the lawsuits probably make sense. While you can claim that there is a statistical danger, you can make that same claim about a number of other protected characteristics. Would we allow riders to request only female, heterosexual, over 45, wealth Quaker drivers, if that happens to be the statistically safest driver characteristic?
by vicnov | 2026-03-09 18:54:24+00:00
It is a fascinating take. I am curious to understand what model you think would work.

The U.S. effectively has a dysfunctional system with wild mix of "no regulation" and heavy state participation. I am not sure there is any country with a deregulated system where people can enjoy good healthcare. You could theoretically say that Switzerland does this, but the government there requires everyone to have insurance, even though hospitals are 100% private.
by everdrive | 2026-03-09 18:54:47+00:00
Yep, I think that's right. Even if reddit, its company, and its moderators were all perfect, it might still crumble and become awful under the weight of its popularity. Too many bad actors, too many companies astroturfing, not enough monetization to solve these problems. And of course the site, the company, and the moderators are far from perfect.
by benjcpalm | 2026-03-09 18:55:19+00:00
It's not a tactical choice- it's strategic deterrence, and it's not insane at all!

The US has always had a policy of messaging programs, with a lean toward classifying some percentage of the specific capabilities.

There's a reason that F-35 program was publicized by the US government as the program was under development. It makes the US air force even scarier, which discourages adversaries from thinking about conventional warfare with America.

That said- you won't see any detailed pics of the inside of an F35 cockpit, or a detailed look at the heads up display in the fancy helmet. That's top secret, because those making those details public don't offer enough additional deterrence to justify the risk to the program.