MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tonymet | 2026-03-06 18:19:37+00:00
Somewhere in early MacOS design guidelines I remember it saying that settings/prompts were a design failure that put a burden on users. Something really has been lost on the design team.

I know the landscape is different – more liability , regulation etc. But Lawyers will always overreach on compliance and notice. Even to the point of making the app useless.

They are expecting the product team to be forceful.

A positive example is that I noticed most EVs have a lot of consent prompts and warnings (e.g. a warning to look at the backup camera, and a consent prompt to comply to never using the nav/infotainment while driving) – but Tesla’s do not. I imagine Elon being very demanding that the experience take precedence.
by kspacewalk2 | 2026-03-06 18:19:40+00:00
It's not 12% of the market. It's 12% of 10% of the market. As I said, a Canadian boycott will hurt some (close to the) border destinations, but will hardly register in most places. I'm personally not crossing that border because it doesn't feel safe to do so, and because of the threats to our independence, but I know for sure it won't have a noticeable nationwide impact even if we all stay away, and the French and the Germans and the Japanese do too. Noticing objective reality and economic facts is not "Russian propaganda".

Sure, if there's potential for using this situation for political gain it'll maybe make a political impact, but there will not be an economic one, not above the SNR of what else is going on.
by mrguyorama | 2026-03-06 18:19:52+00:00
You would have to do it basically "out to sea", far enough away from humans that whatever negative effects are able to diffuse throughout the entire oceans.

Maybe then the negative effects won't be life ending.

But how else do we sequester bulk carbon dioxide? You probably aren't going to engineer something more effective than plant matter. So yes, you seed a gigantic algae bloom out in the ocean, it does a lot of bad stuff to a part of the ocean, and maybe it nets out positive.

But hey, don't worry, nobody lets me make important decisions, so not exactly "seriously suggested". Smarter people than I will have a clear list of pros and cons to this plan, and will make a much smarter decision, which might be followed by politicians maybe.

But there's no carbon capture option that doesn't do something dramatic and somehow damaging. Any plan will be industrially the inverse of burning all that oil. Pulling it out of the air will be the largest industrial project we have ever done and require more electricity than extracted from all the oil we burnt ever. To grow trees to do it would require 1000x the lumber industry we have now. Sun shades can keep us cool but not take the carbon out of the air. Aerosol injection is going to have it's own externalities. "Crush a bunch of rock and let it chemically absorb the CO2" is extremely limited.

There's no clean option out of this anymore. There's no magic button. We could stop all carbon production today and we will still have significant impact.
by WalterGR | 2026-03-06 18:20:02+00:00
The title doesn’t convey the gravity of the post.

“...Emil Michael, the Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, i.e. the CTO of the Department of War... on several topics, including his perspective on recent events between the DoW and AI model providers”.

He gives insight into the DoD v. Anthropic drama.
by bko | 2026-03-06 18:20:24+00:00
I can easily google restrictions and share them, and I have in other comments but let me throw it back at you.

Why do 90% of Americans have AC while only 20% of Europeans do?

Why does US have ~4 heat related deaths per million while Europe has ~235 per million?

Do you think it's just stupidity (Europeans don't know the relationship between heat and AC)? Or poverty? Any other explanation?

https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/08/1152766
by cheschire | 2026-03-06 18:20:30+00:00
I personally prefer to approach the topic of "safety" by considering the trade-offs. The knowledge gained through ultrasound significantly outweighs potential risks associated with it.

People still continue to play the lotto thinking they will win, and they reject statistically low risks in lieu of a greater risk created by avoidance. See: any vaccination topic.

When shifting into the topic of a wearable though, the extreme amount of time alone amplifies the risks into outright dangerous levels. I did not seriously believe ultrasound to be safe to that level.
by backpackviolet | 2026-03-06 18:20:40+00:00
It’s the Poor Man’s MAD (mutually assured destruction). They want this conflict to be as painful as possible so that pressure is applied to the aggressors to stop. The US can’t defend all of the possible targets, it causes a lot of economic damage and increases uncertainty for everyone in the region.

This is one of the reasons that most administrations declined to start a war with Iran in the past, the risk that they would do something like this, that taking out the leaders wouldn’t end the threat but would just make it more wild and unpredictable.
by triceratops | 2026-03-06 18:20:44+00:00
> Ironic OECD countries actually REDUCED their emissions based on a peak in 2007

OECD countries' past emissions are causing the warming we see today.

> and continue to do so

China's emissions declined last year. The US's increased.

> It's all China, but I guess it's cool to blame things on developed countries.

China used their emissions to make solar and batteries the cheapest source of electricity today.
by alexjplant | 2026-03-06 18:21:06+00:00
Synergy has a real meaning: 1+1=3. A cigar and a whiskey. Chocolate and peanut butter. Hall and Oates. Et cetera. Unfortunately it's one of those terms like "DevOps" or "jam band" or "martini" whose true meaning has been sullied by people trying to sound cooler than they are.

On the rare occasions I've used it sincerely in meetings I've always caveated it with some variation of "the real meaning, not the BS one." This never seems to work so I've just dropped it from my verbal lexicon altogether.
by stratos123 | 2026-03-06 18:21:37+00:00
A coding agent runs near-constantly, so of course it'd require a lot more compute than running even, say, a multi-minute query with a thinking model every hour. How much exactly is pretty hard to calculate because it requires some guesswork, but...

For a long input of n tokens from a model with N active parameters, the cost should scale as O(N n^2) (this is due to computing attention - for non-massive n, the O(N n) term is bigger, which is why API costs per token are fixed until a certain point and then start to rise). From the estimates from [1], it's around 40Wh for n=100k, N=100B. I multiply by 2.5 to account for Opus probably being ~2.5x larger than gpt-4o, and also multiply by 2 to pessimistically assume we're always close to Opus's soft context limit of 200k (it's possible to get a bigger context for extra cost, but I suspect people compact aggresively to not have to use it). That gets me 7.2J/t, which at a rough throughput estimate of 20t/s gives me power of 144W. Like a powerful CPU or a mediocre GPU, and still orders of magnitude lower than a car.

[1] https://epoch.ai/gradient-updates/how-much-energy-does-chatg...
by metalman | 2026-03-06 18:21:45+00:00
useing this on moto g15
it had, untill a moment ago, one thing I did not like which was to play a sound for starting a video recording.
works, does the thing without guggle logo and chirpy blather, paired with "fossify" gallery, which is nice as I can set the background coulor of the icon to black, and have my background screen set ot a picture of something black, taken in the dark, so the center part of the icon is all that shows.
by flykespice | 2026-03-06 18:21:53+00:00
Many programmers think they can cheat their way into designing a good UI, they just think it's just enough for you to learn and use a GUI framework, and place the widgets in a "good enough" way.

Just look at the monstruosity that is the GUI version of wget, it's the epitome of programmers with no UX background trying to make a GUI application.
by jimnotgym | 2026-03-06 18:21:54+00:00
Correct, and in my opinion we seem to have a cutting edge machine, the best available. So it was BS. What was really troubling them is that for years the operational delivery part of the business has saved everyone else by finding more and more effiencies. I had stated that it was no longer cost effective to spend the money on the diminishing returns of squeezing tiny %s more out of it. The room took on a complete silence, because their strategy (of leaving it to someone else) has gone. Much harder tasks, what goes through the machine, how it is sold, need to come to the fore... and that is terrifying for people who PowerPoint for a living... so instead, they break the silence with BS, nod, pretend it's not happening.
by tencentshill | 2026-03-06 18:22:25+00:00
Fascinating/terrifying to see Israel's capabilities in action against an adversary without using weapons.

>nearly all the traffic cameras in Tehran were being monitored by Israel
>disrupted the mobile phone system near Khamenei's compound
They also had the ability to send push notifications directly to soldiers through a compromised prayer app

All the more reason to lock down/MFA any systems you have control of.
by pbh101 | 2026-03-06 18:22:55+00:00
Agree an option for consideration.

I don’t think religion is the only path, but that it has functioned as a prosocial positive-sum cooperating/compassion technology/mechanism in many cultural contexts. Not without downsides, of course.

That many today relatively reflexively default to ~‘we can all be nice to each other; this is obviously the (only) moral approach’ without stated precepts/priors/fundaments upon which that morality is moored I think tends to implicitly borrow priors from Western Christian tradition, albeit incompletely and sometimes critically so. Sam Harris’ recent appearance on Ross Douthat’s ‘Interesting Times’ podcast was IMO an example of this.
by palmotea | 2026-03-06 18:22:55+00:00
> I've seen this in myself and colleagues of mine, where LLM use leads to faster burnout and higher cognitive load.

This needs more attention. There's a lot of inhumanity in the modern workplace and modern economy, and that needs to be addressed.

AI is being dumped into the society of 2026, which is about extracting as much wealth as possible for the already-wealthy shareholder class. Any wealth, comfort, or security anyone else gets is basically a glitch that "should" be fixed.

AI is an attempt to fix the glitch of having a well-compensated and comfortable knowledge worker class (which includes software engineers). They'd rather have what few they need running hot and burning out, and a mass of idle people ready to take their place for bottom-dollar.
by whatshisface | 2026-03-06 18:24:09+00:00
There are a lot of good answers here. Another reason not mentioned yet is that most of the Middle East is aligned with US/Israel. Israel being surrounded by scary enemies, instead of Turkey (a NATO member), Jordan (deeply and unequally tied to Israel's economy from decades of US-led treaty-writing), Egypt... is not exactly reality. That belief transforms obvious situations (Iran strikes at a US base in SA) into apparent mysteries.
by 0xy | 2026-03-06 18:24:10+00:00
Seems like a pretty wild statement given the prior administration's record on inflation. Did they care if anyone could afford to eat?

Seems to me like they blew tens of billions on EV charging stations they never delivered, started a fraudulent rural broadband program that was a handout to big telecommunications companies (the cost per connection was around $50,000, which would buy a Starlink and perpetual service for it). All of this fueled runaway inflation, goods such as raw chicken rose over 7.5% yearly.
by ActorNightly | 2026-03-06 18:24:17+00:00
Its not that.

Basically, on the average, people don't have ability to think rationally into the future. Most people think only 1 level of cause and effect.

Right now, for the vast majority of people, global warming isn't a problem when your house has AC, your car has AC, your workplace has AC. When you are forced to do things that you see no direct effect of, it makes it seem less important, and its a self reinforcing cycle where you see other people not doing it and you wonder why you have to make your life harder.

People will start caring only when their direct lives are affected. So unfortunately, the only way to fix global warming is to let it get bad enough to where there is enough death and destruction for people to start paying attention.
by sgc | 2026-03-06 18:24:18+00:00
I wouldn't have put it online if I didn't think it was a major improvement over nothing. Realistically, if we haven't translated it in the last 500 years, there is no point for the next several hundred years of history to stick with nothing as well. It takes a bit more than pasting sentences in chatGPT to get a serviceable translation of course, but significantly better results than that are possible. I have not tried translating into other languages, but I am sure having English as the target language is a help.

It's all right there on my website in parallel text, everybody can check and come to their own conclusion rather than driving by with unhelpful generalizations. And really, that is the primary scope of these translations: as aids in reading an original text.
by hax0ron3 | 2026-03-06 18:24:23+00:00
I don't think that makes sense. If Harris had happened to win through some minor change in the timeline (she came very close after all), would those people whom you call R supporters instead somehow be D supporters, just because of that minor change in the timeline?

As for "OK with Trump", I think that describes some non-voters. However, there are also non-voters who are more accurately described as "not OK with either side, indeed dislike both sides so equally that neither one seems like the slightly better option".

There is also the factor of swing states. In most of the US, your vote for President pretty much doesn't matter. You almost might as well just put it in the trash. The vote in your state is, barring a massive political shift, locked in for one of the two major candidates. Now, yes, you can still send a message by voting in a non-swing state. But it's understandable why some people would just not bother to vote in a state where the outcome is almost predetermined.
by SunshineTheCat | 2026-03-06 18:24:31+00:00
Putting yourself in a situation where this could happen is kinda insane, right? Could be something I'm missing.

I can't think of any specific example where I would let any agent touch a production environment, the least of which, data. AI aside, doing any major changes makes sense to do in a dev/staging/preview environment first.

Not really sure what the lesson would be here. Don't punch yourself in the face repeatedly?
by stramanu | 2026-03-06 18:24:39+00:00
I've been thinking about something that feels off in how we build AI.

Modern language models are impressive at generating text, yet they're fragile
in ways human cognition isn't. They lack persistent reasoning, genuine goals,
long-horizon planning.

The intuition: what if language isn't the foundation of thought, but just
an interface to it? What if reasoning happens in a latent, continuous,
non-linguistic space we rarely inspect?

We've optimized prediction of the next token. But token prediction isn't
cognition—it's an output modality. Researchers like Yann LeCun and Karl
Friston have been pointing at this for years: biological intelligence emerges
from continuous, predictive, embodied interaction with the world.

Our AI still treats language as the primary substrate of thought. Maybe that's
the bottleneck.

I've been exploring this informally—nothing validated, no claims of novelty,
just thinking out loud with some structure. I collected rough ideas, open
questions, and a sketch of what this might mean for architecture design.

Curious what HN thinks. Is this direction interesting? Obviously wrong? Am I
just redescribing what transformers already do?

GitHub: https://github.com/stramanu/latent-cognitive-arch-exploratio...
by godelski | 2026-03-06 18:24:58+00:00
So you think North and South Korea are the same country? If not, which is the rightful country and which is the rebel? They both claim the same territory and that the other is illegitimate.

Do you think India and Pakistan are the same country? Or at least parts? There's a lot of disputed territories there.

Or do you believe Palestine is independent from Israel? They sure claim independence and Israel claims it's theirs.

Or what about the USA? The British sure thought it was theirs for a long time. Should France not have gotten involved in all of that?
by Retric | 2026-03-06 18:24:59+00:00
> Do you want to take a wild guess as to which country is a top 3 importer to all of these countries/regions?

Canada imports 377 Billion from America and only 88 Billion from China. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_largest_trading_pa...

So you clearly don’t actually understand global trade if you think being top 3 trading partner somehow drastically changes the equation here. China is a massive economy with 1/6th of the worlds population and a top 3 economy, so yes it does a lot of trade but economies are a lot more than just trade.
by btown | 2026-03-06 18:25:30+00:00
I'm discovering new possibilities all the time with how Claude can work on a new type of task in our codebase and business more broadly. While a lot of this can be brought to the team by saying "encapsulate what you just did into a skill," sometimes it's as much about knowing what kinds of prompts to use to guide it as well.

Showing a colleague that flow, and the sequence of not just prompts but the types of Claude outputs to expect, all leading to Claude doing something that would have taken us a half day of work? As a linear video, rather than just a dump or screenshot of a final page? That could help to diffuse best practices rapidly.

OP - you might want to look at the kind of data model Loom used for this problem for videos in general, in terms of workspaces and permissions. Could make a startup out of this!

(Also as a smaller note - you might want to skip over long runs and generations by default, rather than forcing someone into 5x mode! A user of this would want to see messages, to and from Claude, at a standardized rate - not necessarily a sped up version of clock time.)
by keldonjohnson | 2026-03-06 18:26:08+00:00
For my demographic (Early genz), there are only 3 reasons to be here:

A. Their job is only available here

B. No state income tax

(C?). They REALLY love skiing/hiking

People have always regularly left for NYC/Bay Area, but I predict it will start to happen in droves over the next few years as A rapidly fades and legislation begins to threaten B.
by xphos | 2026-03-06 18:26:11+00:00
To be fair if the the parent is garbage there isn't anything the state today can do to truly prevent the child from being corrupted short of taking the child. We ensure that vaccine laws are difficult to enforce, we ensure that the child cannot have any privacy from the parent codified at school. At every stage we gave parents essentially absolute authority over there children with exception to maybe physical abuse. And I say maybe because even in physically abusive parent, it can be difficult for the child to advocate and escape. They can ask to be emencipated but the odds are stacked against you that you can proof you can support yourself financially.

All this to say is while I think the OP is mean about it they but are not wrong. The law argues heavily the parent is supreme at least in the US. But this specific law push the responsiblity of being the supreme authority off of parents. I know you don't like that concept but I think it is very easy to argue that any other model is going to be unacceptable to a pluraity of parents. Thats not to be confused with a parent is responsible for everything there child does because thats not true. But the consquence of that thinking is that children ultimately have some responsiblity in the things they do over the parent, which I think the authors of this law would be sweating at such a statement.

Personally I think the biggest issue for children is impulse control around social media and to be frank I don't think Adults are necessiarly able to deal with the onslaught of endless feed short form video content either. I don't think our brains are built against it very well. I don't know what the solution is but I think what made youtube without shorts different from tiktok is the endless scroll nature. The added friction actually protected peoples conscious and something to add a minimal friction to interactions would actually be massively beneficial to society at large
by Liftyee | 2026-03-06 18:26:11+00:00
The economic pain is current. The impact of unmitigated climate change will happen in the future. Thus, the ingrained short-term thinking of the markets and politicians makes this sort of planning ahead difficult.

It seems like the whole economic system runs on a quarterly time scale - just look at all the times negligent maintenance to improve profits in the short term have caused disasters in the long term.

Not sure what the solution is though, so I won't complain too much.
by lotsofpulp | 2026-03-06 18:26:35+00:00
I don't know how much surface area you consume, but the single biggest cause of energy use is spread out living in detached single family homes in the USA and other developed countries.

All the recycling, solar panels, electric cars, whatever don't come close to making up for the fact that each family of 4 living on a 0.1+ acre lot with all the various setbacks and whatnot, commuting many miles to work and school and grocery stores and the gym, moving all that mass of people, students, workers, food, water, sewage, trash, gas, etc is orders more consumption than if people were living in dense arrangements such as apartments in 4 and 5 story buildings.

Energy = Force * distance

From what I can tell, none of it means anything as long as detached single family homes are still the expected lifestyle, at current populations. Might as well consume as much as we can while we ride into the sunset, or cull the population quickly.
by idle_zealot | 2026-03-06 18:27:11+00:00
> protecting those consumers from the companies writing that software

Of course, but that's exactly the framing of the verification laws. Protecting underage computer users from products/services unsuitable for them. If you want protection to be effective then it needs to be on by default, but also needs to ultimately be controlled by the user, and it's that second part that ID checks and the like fail.
by kspacewalk2 | 2026-03-06 18:27:37+00:00
It's not just tourism. Economically, the US does not depend on the rest of the world nearly as much as any other developed country. Trade (exports and imports) as percentage of GDP is the lowest of all major economies, by far. This is not up for discussion it's a fact you must ground everything else in.

Having established that, you know the firm upper bound on economic (not cultural or political or podcast-topic-generating) impact that international tourism boycott will have on the US. Same for putting tariffs on US goods. If you ignore this, you'll be surprised by how little this matters in the end, economically. Conversely, if you keep yourself firmly grounded in reality you can still in fact be against these policies on different grounds - on the fact that over time their cumulative economic and non-economic effect will hurt, on the fact that a lot of the reasons for these policies are fanciful nationalist bullshit (no, manufacturing jobs aren't and won't be coming back). But don't expect us staying away from your country, or putting a tariff on your shitty cars or cucumbers or whatever, to make a difference. Why is that controversial?