MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by light_hue_1 | 2026-03-03 16:14:15+00:00
You're leaving out what happened in Florida.

First, Florida killed tenure. You get reviews every 5 years and can be fired if they don't like what they see.

Second, Stop WOKE, means that Florida gets a say in what I teach.

So Florida took away the most important (and for many maybe only) attractive part of the job: academic freedom.

Almost half of Florida faculty are trying to leave. So yeah. Of course they get the bottom of the barrel. That's all that's left for them. With the ability to get a job almost anywhere else in the world you'd have to have extreme circumstances to consider Florida.
by MostlyStable | 2026-03-03 16:14:24+00:00
Do you know of any sources that talk about this? I tried to do a bit of searching and the closest I found was the .gov site [0] that did make a similar-ish claim, but was vague enough (at least to me, a non-lawyer), that it doesn't seem to rule out that every photo taken by an individual is copywriteable

>First, copyright protects original works of authorship, including original photographs. A work is original if it is independently created and is sufficiently creative. Creativity in photography can be found in a variety of ways and reflect the photographer’s artistic choices like the angle and position of subject(s) in the photograph, lighting, and timing.

I find it hard to imagine a photo taken by someone where it couldn't be argued that those elements exist. I guess the photographer would have to explicitly tell the court something like "no, I put no thought into it whatsoever, the camera was hanging off my bag and the shutter button was pressed accidentally". Like, if a human purposefully took a photo, then they have made choices about location, subject, etc. which have some element of "creativity" to them.

[0] https://www.copyright.gov/engage/photographers/
by kuerbel | 2026-03-03 16:14:31+00:00
It's not a slippery slope. It's a narrowly defined offense tied to a specific historical crime: the state-organized genocide carried out by Nazi Germany. It's a response to a specific historical responsibility.

The decisive factor is whether the joke attacks the ideology or reinforces it. So if a comedian in Berlin says "the Holocaust didn’t happen" as a punchline, and it comes across as actual denial or trivialization, that can be illegal.
by dcminter | 2026-03-03 16:14:45+00:00
One of us! :)

Currently in a brief macos phase before I can be issued my Linux laptop at work. It's so clunky. A major annoyance for me right now is the lack of MST multi-screen over USB which means my nice daisy-chained home setup is fine on my near-decade-old Dell but doesn't work at all on the fancy Macbook. They have the hardware to support it, they just don't.

Generally the hardware with Apple is amazing but I'll take the hit on that and things like battery life just to get an OS that feels like it's on my side.

I'd maybe consider Asahi for home use but I'd be wary of it for work. Perhaps in a few years.
by 8bitsrule | 2026-03-03 16:14:46+00:00
Interesting. The IIs and early Macs were great hardware. Still, I always liked the software the best ... until they stopped supporting it (e.g. Hypercard).

But the hardware? The very first Mac I actually owned, a iiSi, was designed to suck the air for the fan through the slot for the $400 3.5" floppy. Wonder why it died? (The iivx quietly fixed that with a $1 piece of plastic.) ($400 was worth more 30 years ago... it could buy a dozen non-Apple floppies. When the mouse died I called them to get a replacement switch. 'We don't sell parts,' the support guy told me. 'Besides, it's only an $80 mouse.')

Later on I had heavily invested in external music hardware that worked with the serial port ... then that port just went away, no warning. I switched to a Power clone ... no failures for 7 years. Then I took a chance on an iMac. First the hard drive kept forgetting its partitions. Then, less than a year later, the screen started developing vertical color streaks; when hundreds of other users complained about the same problem on their forum, they shut down the forum. No options, out of warranty. Fool me twice ...
by nsteel | 2026-03-03 16:14:55+00:00
> It’s a platform that sucks artists for everything they have, it actively prevents community building

The API used to be great. It's slowly being crippled, presumably a PR/face-saving slow-death play.

- https://community.spotify.com/t5/Spotify-for-Developers/Febr...

- https://community.spotify.com/t5/Spotify-for-Developers/Chan...

- https://community.spotify.com/t5/Spotify-for-Developers/Unab...
by crazygringo | 2026-03-03 16:15:03+00:00
Google didn't do anything wrong, they lost their Yahoo and it was the only way they had of verifying their older Gmail. What do you expect, when you don't have access to your recovery method, and it's a free service so it's not like you can prove ownership of a credit card previously used for billing or something? And especially since that was presumably from before the days when Gmail required a phone number, so your recovery e-mail was the only mechanism, and things like 2FA authentication codes didn't exist.
by noboostforyou | 2026-03-03 16:15:05+00:00
> Maybe I don't understand journalism but this guy being a reporter, shouldn't he have had an editor reviewing his work before they hit publish?

While the journalist is still responsible for their own actions, I agree with you that this being published in the first place is indicative of a deeper failure akin to - "if a junior dev accidentally deletes your production db on their first day that's on the company itself"
by cableshaft | 2026-03-03 16:15:07+00:00
I have a date I use that's incorrect, but consistent so I can remember it if I need to, that I use for age verification for anything that doesn't truly need an accurate birthdate (example, age verification to view games on Steam).

It's roughly the same age as mine, but if someone tried to pass themselves off as me with that birthdate, they wouldn't succeed.

These companies are mostly just verifying I'm an adult anyway, and I am legit that.

But yeah, I don't like just giving the actual date everywhere as it can potentially be used for identity theft.
by ignoramous | 2026-03-03 16:15:09+00:00
> And Mullvad is likely an entity outside of your home country, hence more difficult to coerce than your ISP

This is not true in the EU or for the signatories of the Lugano Convention (the EU, Switzerland, Iceland, and Norway). Mullvad is very explicit that they'll abide by all EU laws. For instance, see the e-Evidence Regulation specifically written for "network-based services" like "proxy services": https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A...

> Mullvad is also as compromised it's more difficult for them to track me across account numbers

That's your assumption, not an assertion Mullvad makes?

> even if they do, my data is then in another country, which worries me less than it being local

There exists international treaties on intel sharing (including for "cyber") at every level: The UN, The European Council, the EU, the NATO states, and so on.

> I'm not important enough to warrant international action

Your government can demand action of other governments and businesses via various treaties it may have in place. Mullvad, since it says it'll abide by all EU / Swedish laws, is not a hurdle for your local LEA you think it might be.
by godelski | 2026-03-03 16:15:30+00:00
I'm in the same boat and finding it disappointing.

For people saying this machine is so much faster, I don't care. My situation isn't the norm, but we're on HN. I have a powerful desktop that's my main compute machine and my laptop is a terminal. I need a web browser, whatever corporate shovelware I need, and a ssh connection (and tailscale). If I wanted to do real work locally I wouldn't be getting an Air.

While realizing I'm not the typical user, it's not like the typical Air user needs much compute anyways. The general public just uses web browsers.

Though one thing I'd love is if they could add just a little distance between the keyboard and screen so my screen doesn't get so dirty constantly... doesn't anyone use lotion at Apple?
by adampunk | 2026-03-03 16:15:58+00:00
Thinking is a big word that sweeps up a lot of different human behavior, so I don't know if it's right to jump to that; HOWEVER, explanations of LLMs that depend heavily on next-token prediction are defunct. They stopped being fundamentally accurate with the rise of massive reinforcement learning and w/ 'reasoning' models the analogy falls apart when you try to do work with it.

Be on the lookout for folks who tell you these machines are limited because they are "just predicting the next word." They may not know what they're talking about.
by reenorap | 2026-03-03 16:16:20+00:00
"The new MacBook Pro gets up to 24 hours of battery life, giving Intel-based upgraders up to 13 additional hours"

I have a Intel-based 2019 Macbook Pro still and I have NEVER in its lifetime gotten even half of what they are claiming here. These days if I run it from battery I might get 90 mins.

That said I had a maxed out Macbook Pro M4 Max on order but just cancelled it right now and will get this new M5 Max one for basically the same price. Once I saw that they didn't up the price of memory (I don't know how it doesn't affect them) I canceled my order.
by bubblewand | 2026-03-03 16:16:55+00:00
Well, right, a separate problem is that some notable amount of Google's revenue comes from fooling people into thinking that ads are "natural" search results. To include an extortion racket where you have to pay for ad placement for your own exact company and product names so competitors don't get ads-masquerading-as-results placed above you. Plus this is a super-helpful feature to scammers, like it's basically scam enablement trust-laundering as a service. If we had a functioning government and market guardrails the FTC would have been all over them for this many years ago, besides which they'd long ago have been broken up into several separate companies and denied a bunch of the acquisitions they've performed.
by Latty | 2026-03-03 16:17:00+00:00
The core problem is that the tool provides output that looks right and is right a lot of the time, but also slips in incorrect stuff in a hard to notice way.

Punishment isn't a problem because it doesn't work. If you create a system that lulls people into a sense of security, no punishment will stop them because they aren't doing it thinking "it's worth the risk", it's that they don't see the risk. There are so many examples of this, it's weird people still think this actually works.

Furthermore, it becomes a liability-washing tool: companies will tell employees they have to take the time to check things, but then not give them the time required to actually check everything, and then blame employees when they do the only thing they can: let stuff slip.

If you want to use LLMs for this kind of thing, you need to create systems around them that make it hard to make the mistakes. As an example (obviously not a complete solution, just one part): if they cite a source, there should be a mandated automatic check that goes to that source, validates it exists, and that the cited text is actually there, not using LLMs. Exact solutions will vary based on the specific use case.

An example from outside LLMs: we told users they should check the URL bar as a solution to phishing. In theory a user could always make sure they were on the right page and stop attacks. In practice people were always going to slip up. The correct solution was automated tooling that validates the URL (e.g: password managers, passkeys).
by economistbob | 2026-03-03 16:17:04+00:00
I also wish it were not true. I was a Hannah Arendt, Philo, and Jospehus fan. The digital prison wanters are the digital prison wanters unfortunately. Alas, the numbers speak for themselves.

I also specifically pointed out India. It is they who are going for the the tech stacks via strategic attempts to shift the learning curves so that only full time employees can keep up with open source technologies and so that all data sits on their systems instead of yours.

They will blend in some place in Zion using AI so they do not have to honor the GPL inputs, and using Indian contractors the Israelis will analyse the ID and app and tech usages of every person the planet. So that laws will be tailor made for the region they want to control with systems programmed to enable it.

I am not justifying myself to you, merely pointing out the plot points for the AI summary fans.

We must avoid globalized Digital IDs at all costs. How big a digital ID one accepts may vary.

Essentially any digital ID that enables life critical functions that could be done before without a tech stack must be shunned. E.g. if you can use the digital ID to sign up for water and sewer in an apartment or travel, do not get it.

At least in the USA one could make the argument that it was the Real ID refuseniks 2005-2020 that saved us from a full Covidian tyranny that would have worked if they could have simply checked a single digital source for the employment, shopping, and injection compliance records. 30 percent lacking that scannable barcode saved America's bacon.

Likewise for Digital ID and the computers. We have a duty to be refuseniks.

Australia might repeal their own horrific law if enough people simply give up social media while doing their life business the hard way. It doesn't take a huge number. Freedom might resurface there. It is a long battle. The battle is made much easier by knowing who is who.

The question is "Cui bono?"

E.g. Indians, Israelis, Brazilians, etc. Some want castes. Some want panopticons. Some want carnivals.

I would gladly blame Brazilians if many of them were working together on a digital carnivale for the whole planet
by thewebguyd | 2026-03-03 16:17:28+00:00
> easily get fooled into accepting terms they wouldn't if they properly understood.

And easily get sold add-on services. How many people hit the 5GB iCloud limit for backups and just pay without stopping to think that it might be possible to do local backups to your computer and you don't really have to pay for extra storage?

Just hit them with the scary language "You are at risk of losing your photos forever if you don't pay!" because that concept of "Oh, photos are just files in a directory and I can copy those anywhere I want" doesn't exist. To many, those photos are part of the gallery app, not a separate file from it and since that app only runs on the phone, surely it must not be possible to copy them anywhere unless I pay for the storage.
by adithyassekhar | 2026-03-03 16:17:39+00:00
Thanks now I understand. I am "only" 26, but I remember being 20 like yesterday. I can't believe I'm on the second half of the way to 50. COVID lockdowns and responsibilities didn't help.

I feel time has gone faster since I got a job, if that makes sense. Every day yearning for it to be 5o clock so I can check out, every week yearning for the weekend, every month yearning for the last day to get paid. Doing this is just asking for time to be over sooner.
by robinson7d | 2026-03-03 16:17:47+00:00
It’s not just because it’s associated with summer, quite the opposite: many of us just feel that sunset 30 minutes after work in the winter will be less depressing than the sun setting while we’re in the office. And then even more so during the days where it moves from 5:30 to 6:30, that’s enough to actually get out and do an activity.

I get that there are good reasons for morning light too, I’m just saying that I don’t think it’s just an association with summer.
by flurdy | 2026-03-03 16:17:52+00:00
That all random game and messaging sites now wants my kids' passport uploaded to some random 'id verification company' is madness.

But now instead, my 11 year old's Roblox thinks she is 18 because she wore glasses in their age verification webcam tool. And it can't be changed unless she uploads a passport, which I will never allow.

Please, gov.uk introduce a gov ID verification service? I could trust that, -ish, I have worked with public sector clients several times...
by ndr | 2026-03-03 16:17:58+00:00
At 2'58'' you can see a frame of them projecting on Senate House, London.

During WW2 that was used by the Ministry of Information, and it inspired Orwell's description for the building of the Ministry of Truth. His wife Eileen worked in the building for the Censorship Department.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senate_House,_London
by zarzavat | 2026-03-03 16:18:03+00:00
I believe we are talking about slightly different things. Yes if they thermally coupled the body to the processor, then a small patch of the body would get very hot, burning the user.

However, the fact that the aluminum gets hot during prolonged use means that it is acting as a heat sink and cooling the CPU compared to a body made of plastic. Thermodynamics, it's the law!
by the_af | 2026-03-03 16:18:11+00:00
I find it hard to believe the people who use AI haven't read a single article about AI. That would also disqualify this judge, if it were true.

This exceeds the tech bubble.

My local newspaper, completely clueless about tech, runs an article about AI trouble, hallucinations and whatnot every other week. Completely missing most of the nuances, of course, but my point is that this has entered the public discourse.
by elxr | 2026-03-03 16:18:21+00:00
> The vast majority of us are either at home, work, friends/family or a rotating set of a few local cafe's, all of which are in our wifi auto-connect list, and have their phone hotspot for the rare occasion there is no wifi.

So the minority that goes further than that doesn't matter? Also "rare occasion there is no wifi" is a very city-centric view, and a bit out of touch. We're talking about a trillion dollar hardware company here, asked to add a tiny modem to a laptop. It's a dead simple change.

If I was in the position to buy a premium laptop, work on the go a lot, and enjoy being in nature, I'd 100% want cellular in my laptop. There's zero downsides for someone like that.
by kevin42 | 2026-03-03 16:19:09+00:00
I recently filed a lawsuit in federal court, but because of the nature of the suit (adversarial proceeding on a bankruptcy case, wanting to cut my losses knowing collection is going to be the problem) I decided to do it Pro Se.

I've used a lot of AI to do this, with a lot of research of my own, reading documents from similar cases, verifying citations, etc. So far, things are going well, I've won on all the motions so far. But I'm using critical thinking and carefully reviewing everything.

The real failure with slop filings is procedural, not technological. A competent attorney should never submit a brief built on case law they hadn’t verified. Legal practice has always relied on reading the sources, confirming relevance, and taking responsibility for interpretation.
by c0balt | 2026-03-03 16:19:13+00:00
> Ask them how to copy it somewhere else

To be fair, at least Android and presumably iOS grant apps by default no access to your files in modern versions.

The only way to get, e. G., an attachment downloaded via Thunderbird to a PC or another app is the share dialogue. A user does not access to the isolated app storage by default on an unrooted Android phone. For better or worse the young user is actually making the right choice here for their platform.

(This is also why making a backup of an Android phone is a nightmare when you aren't using a first party option. ADB is sometimes able to bypass it)
by ramijames | 2026-03-03 16:19:25+00:00
I've been on a Macbook M1 Pro since 2022 (bought refurbished on Amazon for cheap) and it's still such a powerhouse. It doesn't struggle at all with anything that I throw at it. Kind of amazing.

Nothing has broken and I consistently get 4-6 hours of heavy work time while on battery. An amazing machine for the price I paid.
by nielsprovos | 2026-03-03 16:19:26+00:00
Hi! I have spent decades building security primitives such as bcrypt and Safe Browsing. The current rise in AI agents scares me due to them leveraging our full ambient authority. When proxying your full permissions, a single prompt injection can lead to sensitive data being exfiltrated or all your emails being deleted. I built IronCurtain as a research prototype to “secure” agents assuming that eventually they will go fully rogue. Instead of broad access, the agent is required to write TypeScript inside a V8 isolate. This code can only issue function calls that translate into Model Context Protocol (MCP) tool calls. Every call passes through a trusted policy engine driven by a plain English constitution compiled into deterministic rules. Credentials live exclusively in the MCP servers and remain invisible to the agent. It currently focuses on securing developer experiences like running Claude Code, with personal AI assistants as a longer term goal. I am looking for technical critiques of this trust model. If you see potential bypasses in the architecture, let me know.
by thisisit | 2026-03-03 16:19:44+00:00
It's sad that it took the highest court in the country to point out lack of professionalism and misconduct.

The judge took no personal responsibility.

> She told the court that this was her first time using an AI tool and she had believed the citations to be "genuine". She had no intention to misquote or misrepresent the rulings and that "the mistake occurred solely due to the reliance on an automatic source", the high court wrote.

She had one job. And that was to read the citations. Instead of owning up to the mistake of being lazy all she wanted to talk about "intentions".

The high court also took no responsibility.

> In its order, the high court said that "the citations may be non-existent, but if the learned trial court has considered the correct principles of law and its application to the facts of the case is also correct,

This line of reasoning is questionable and attempt to gaslight everyone. Judges cite other cases in their judgement. But if the junior judge had no clue that the references were fake what correct principles was she applying?

End of the day maybe the judgement is correct but this overall bullshit.

Given that this is happening all over the world people seem to have a convenient excuse - The AI made me do it.