MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kimixa | 2026-03-04 22:37:14+00:00
I believe training currently costs significantly more than inference to all the current vendors, so I'd be surprised if it doesn't also use more power.

And by the look of it, that'll be the norm pretty much forever - unless something fundamental about how models can be trained/updated, an "older" model loses value as it's knowledge becomes out of date, even if we no longer get improvements from other sources or techniques.

But other things likely change based on "lifetimes" and usage patterns too - e.g. a large battery for an electric car may have a higher upfront energy cost in manufacturing than a small ICE + fuel tank, but presumably there's a mileage that the improved per-mile efficiency overcomes that, and then continues to gain with each additional mile.
by dangus | 2026-03-04 22:38:00+00:00
Mine does not nag me about OneDrive or backups. OneDrive is not even installed. If I search my start menu for OneDrive, nothing even comes up.

Sure, you can't install Windows without a Microsoft account, but realistically a Mac is far less useful if you don't do the same thing. If you don't sign in with an Apple ID you've got zero iPhone integration, for example. I would imagine that 95% of Mac users are signed in to their Apple ID.

Signing in to an account to use commercial software doesn't seem unreasonable to me. I'd rather sign in to my account than deal with entering a product license key and needing to keep track of it.

I have not been offered Office 365 since after the first install.

There are not adverts on my login screen, it's completely blank. Change your settings.

These sales tactics are not unique to Windows, Mac subscriptions are upsold in the system settings and via notifications. They do go away and stay away but they are there when you buy the system.
by theozero | 2026-03-04 22:38:16+00:00
Reading from 1Password definitely does add some overhead, but at least our integration fetches in bulk so should be ~2s total and not scale with number of secrets. For team members, they don't need any service accounts, so its just making sure they are granted vault access, which can be managed through team settings you likely already have set up anyway. Add new team member to "devs" and you're done. Anyway certainly not perfect, but sure beats a lot of the other options.

Should be easy enough to set up a keyenv plugin - varlock adds a lot of additional last mile tooling to get secrets/config integrated into projects, regardless of where they ultimately live.
by kibibu | 2026-03-04 22:38:22+00:00
There's additional context here that makes this poem more powerful in my opinion.

It's a direct response to Jessie Pope, an English poet and propagandist who would write poems like "Who's for the Game?", implying that the great war was all a bit of fun and those who didn't want to go were cowards.

Owen had actually been in the trenches, and tragically died only a few days before the armistice.
by jerhewet | 2026-03-04 22:38:33+00:00
Hmm. I guess I'm living the good life with all of the Firefox configuration changes I've made over the years. I have six right-click menu items and four buttons (page back, page forward, reload, and bookmark):

Save Page As, Select All, Take Screenshot, View Page Source, Inspect Accessibility Properties, and Inspect.

And one additional entry for uBlock Origin at the bottom of the menu (Block Element).
by 250xp | 2026-03-04 22:39:04+00:00
Building a dozen projects for myself if I cannot find anything suitable in 5h search (lang learning, shortcuts optimization, E2E web testing), perfecting until I'm ok with the result (perfectionist here, haha)

Suddenly, a few of them have some friend requests, and then it grows. Until I see the numbers that could change the way I work, it's just a help for like-minded people, who like using sthing that goes beyond "this is vibecoded MVP". At the same time I really like going beyond that MVP bar, which is kinda de facto standard rn. So it's just a hobby of creating something cool

Though costs are low for me — few subscriptions (Supabase, GH) and $50 on LLM calls

Btw, why are you asking?
by red2awn | 2026-03-04 22:40:16+00:00
LLM-as-a-judge is quite effective method to RL a model, similar to RLHF but more objective and scalable. But yes, anthropic is making it more serious than it is. Plus DeepSeek only did it for 125k requests, significantly less than the other labs, but Anthropic still listed them first to create FUD.
by jqpabc123 | 2026-03-04 22:40:34+00:00
Owners will conceivably be able to nap at home while the car is out hailing riders and earning them money.

And who is liable when the car crashes?

And if they crash a lot, will people want to ride in one?

https://www.motorbiscuit.com/tesla-robotaxis-crash-higher-hu...
by MerrimanInd | 2026-03-04 22:40:37+00:00
That's a complicated question that unfortunately has quite a bit of "well it depends" in the answer. I worked in the auto industry for a long time - both doing engine development and EVs - so my opinions here are well-informed but not world expert.

From a pure energy efficiency perspective you can't beat economies of scale. A stationary power plant (even ones that are just big gasoline engines) run at a constant load and RPM so they can be optimized for pure efficiency, they rarely have to start, warm up, and shut down, and they can use larger and more expensive exhaust aftertreatment systems. Most energy conversions grow more efficient with scale and this is no different. The locomotive powertrain works for a handful of reasons but one of them is you can build much more efficient engines that are optimized for a single constant speed and load. But most of the advancements in internal combustion engines over the last 20-30 years don't increase peak efficiency but increase the conditions in which they're efficient. Variable valve timing and lift are probably the most underrated and overpowered technologies that have transformed engines from having one narrow regime of high efficiency to running well over a huge range of the map. But turbocharging, variable intake geometries, 7+ speed transmissions, and mild hybrid systems like belt-starter-generators get honorable mentions here. However we're not talking about anything close to EV-levels of efficiency. I think the cutting edge research engines are running in the mid to high 40s for thermal efficiency (percentage of fuel energy captured as useful work), most passenger car engines probably peak in the mid 30s.

So while there is some efficiency to be gained by a more locomotive-style system it's not as much as you would hope. In the industry that's called a series hybrid system, vs a parallel hybrid system where either ICE or EV power can go to the wheels. The benefits of a series system are more emissions and product features. You can get the full torque and power of an EV, you can start and stop the IC engine in a more emissions optimized way, and and you can filter load spikes to use a small engine that meets average not peak load.

From a more pragmatic perspective, with the energy density of gasoline and other liquid fuels it's probably best to use it in applications for which you just can't use full electrification. Planes are currently the best example of this. It's also worth noting that passenger cars benefit massively from strong hybridization because of the uneven load cycles so that's a technology where you can deploy a gasoline engine but then claw back a lot of the efficiency losses with hybrids. That's not always true, for example boats don't really have a regen cycle so hybridization just doesn't get much.
by lukevp | 2026-03-04 22:40:49+00:00
Cool concept!

I noticed with the Aquarelle brush on iOS, if you swipe fast, you can clearly see the polling rate of the touch events on the canvas. The line looks smooth so I guess you already have an interpolation algorithm going, but this brush darkens as the dwell time is longer so I’m not sure if it’s doubling the points that are reported or what but it looks very bandy/patchy.
by jemmyw | 2026-03-04 22:42:00+00:00
One thing Apple seems to do very well compared to other vendors is make all their hardware available in all markets on release. Companies like Dell, Asus, Lenovo, they have a confusingly large array of models, and they never release the best ones worldwide, or it takes so long to get to New Zealand that I already gave up and bought an Apple computer instead.
by hogwasher | 2026-03-04 22:42:03+00:00
Are you suggesting all messaged photos should be scanned, and potentially viewed by humans, in case it depicts a nude minor? Because no matter how you do that, that would result in false positives, and either unfair auto-bans and erroneous reports to law enforcement (so no human views the images), or human employees viewing other adults' consensual nudes that were meant to be private. Or it would result in adult employees viewing nudes sent from one minor to another minor, which would also be a major breach of those minors' privacy.

There is a program whereby police can generate hashes based on CSAM images, and then those hashes can be automatically compared against the hashes of uploaded photos on websites, so as to identify known CSAM images without any investigator having to actually view the CSAM and further infringe on the victim's privacy. But that only works vs. already known images, and can be done automatically whenever an image is uploaded, prior to encryption. The encryption doesn't prevent it.

Point being, disallowing encryption sacrifices a lot, while potentially not even being that useful for catching child abusers in practice.

I'm sure some offenders could be caught this way, but it would also cause so many problems itself.
by TheOtherHobbes | 2026-03-04 22:42:04+00:00
To be fair, this is just the automated version of the kind of brainwashing that happens in cults and religions.

And also in the more extreme corners of social media and the MSM.

It's not that Google is saintly, it's that the general background noise of related manipulations is ignored because it's collective and social.

We have a clearly defined concept of responsibility for direct individual harm, but almost no concept of responsibility for social and political harms.
by 20after4 | 2026-03-04 22:42:07+00:00
The marginal cost of one extra passenger is going to be very nearly zero. The vast majority of the cost is just moving the bus / train / plane, and the overhead / inefficiencies in the system. I've seen somewhere the numbers for one passenger on trains and planes but I can't remember where that was. Just know it is a very very small amount for the added weight of one more passenger.
by cxr | 2026-03-04 22:42:38+00:00
Apropos comment I left on another submission here that didn't get any traction[1] that I'll shamelessly copy here since this post not only namechecks Oberon and is about abstraction, but also manages to end with some unresolved musing from the author about the potential for programs having non-plaintext source code:

> There's a really interesting approach in the Oberon system where a text file is a type called Text that's fundamental to the system. You typically interact with text files through the Texts module similar to the way you get a file pointer from fopen and nose your way through using fread in UNIX/C's stdio.h.

> One thing that's easy to miss (even when you're reading an explanation of it) is that Text is an abstract data type, and so while it may feel like you're interacting with a plain text file like on any other system, the reality is that the actual bytes on disk don't matter; as long as the Text ADT is able to support it (read: the Texts API gives you what you need), then hypothetically the file could be gzip-compressed binary serialization of XML for all it matters. (NB: It's not, though.)

> Oberon exploits this by having a "looks" subsystem in the same Texts module that's entirely orthogonal to the read (and write) operations of the textual content of the file. This means the Texts module is able to include APIs that let you adjust the color, font, and spacing of an arbitrarily selected range in any "text file"—even source code. So you can have italics, bold, etc. in your program's source, but because the compiler, like any other program, interacts with the files using the API from the Texts module, it doesn't matter that they're there, and the compiler's tokenizer is able to proceed through it all totally unaware.

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47231108>
by lovich | 2026-03-04 22:42:45+00:00
You can tile windows in Windows as well with the windows key+ arrow buttons.

The default is just left, right, and top, bottom but if you install Power Toys and use Fancy Zones you can customize the zones https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/fancyzon....

There’s also Crop and Lock which can help you cut out extraneous parts of certain windows

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/crop-and...
by asow92 | 2026-03-04 22:42:45+00:00
I totally agree on the M1 bit. I just think there are so many capable machines that are unnecessarily scraped when they could be working with up to date software. Sure, they can run modern Linux or windows, but doesn’t that mean they could probably run modern Mac OS in theory as well?

I understand that running for power users and running for my uncle aren’t the same.
by mrguyorama | 2026-03-04 22:42:49+00:00
We once dammed basically every river in the nation because it was in vogue at the time.

Maybe building overhead power lines for rail infrastructure should be the "hip" thing right now instead of AI. Maybe building oodles of solar power farms and batteries should be "hip"

We built electrical infrastructure to the most remote residences just because we could and because it was an investment in our people. We directly funded our massive and formerly world class rail network because we could, and because it would pay off. We built a world class road network half as a make-work project, and it still pays dividends. We purchased Alaska, with no obvious reason. We built a space program to have slightly better nuclear weapons, and it's part of the reason we were so dominant in computer chips for so long.

We have spent something like 40 trillion dollars over the past 25 years, and almost none of it on anything of real value. More than a little of that debt is just handouts to already rich people.

We can build new electric transmission lines and I'm so tired of things that we absolutely 100% can do if we just demand it be done being somehow treated as a problem. America can afford infrastructure.
by Quarrelsome | 2026-03-04 22:43:00+00:00
> Yes, I did. More than once. I always regretted it.

Fair.

> I disagree - refusing to engage with the interview because you don’t like the question is perfectly valid to do, but don’t expect me to want to work with you over it. We’ve only got an hour, maximum, so any scenario we come up with is going to be contrived and simplified - if you can’t accept that then I’m going to make my decision based on that.

Sure but lets not forget the other perspective. Candidates have to interview for a cumulative many hours over the course of a job hunt, only to have many interviewers batter them with an array of 1337code, pop quizes or contrived examples, none of which reflect the day to day work of the position they will fill. From their perspective their answer could well be a good one, albeit I agree that having some level of willingness to engage in the theatre is a positive sign.

In an auto-interview I recently did, I was given extremely limited time to "refactor" a bunch of code that was clearly broken. I chose not to refactor and instead fix the brokeness of the code, however I entirely expect to fail the interview because I fixed the problems instead of removing a couple of obviously duplicated code blocks. I can see why I would fail by not "following orders" but their async code was broken and the awful exception handling botched all their telemetry. From a "big picture" perspective I did do the right thing but it might be the case they're too stupid to know that I was doing the right thing (they're a multi-language company, so I assume they're less good at the language I specialise in).

Personally I think due to lack of industry organisation around certification or any sort of guild or union, we have a seriously difficult problem around hiring across the industry. In response to the extremely challenging task of vetting programmers I feel like orgs are simply fishing for reasons to disqualify candidates, as a reaction to this problem.

The rare positive experiences I've had interviewing were Amazon, who act like they want you to succeeed instead of fail or orgs that just half-ass it with low bar challenges, who seemingly accept that they're not capable of perfectly vetting a candidate.
by ggm | 2026-03-04 22:43:08+00:00
Does the BoM change account for all of the price drop? I suspect the price/cost thing is bogus here, and in fact, the functionality drop is deliberately designed to NOT predate their existing markets in laptops:

They priced it just low enough to be considered "cheap" and they removed enough parts to make people who use a MBP or MBA not to want to do this.
by windexh8er | 2026-03-04 22:44:31+00:00
That's my point. Google has commitment to support for the same timeframe. Google has zero track record of reducing support as Pixels have continued to be rolled out. This is the one area Google has been consistent in a positive direction.

Beyond that, there's no guarantee Apple continues to support for 7 years. They are literally the same level of corporate greed as Google.

Also... Apple has locked all of their users into planned obsolescence for a decade plus. At least their is hope on the slightly more open side with AOSP.

Apple is a poster child of nothing. They have put out hardware that is inaccessible and unrepairable for years. Both companies suck to their end users, let's not pretend Apple is some utopia of awesome to their customers.
by erelong | 2026-03-04 22:44:49+00:00
This is my instinctive view on this, I wish in society there was more of like an "orientation" to make people "fully adult / responsible for themselves"

and then people could just be let alone to bear the consequences of choices (while we can continue to build guardrails of sorts, but still with people knowing it's on them to handle the responsibility of whatever tool they're using)

I guess the big AI chatbot providers could have disclaimers at logins (even when logged out) to prevent liability maybe (TOS popup wall)

...and then there's local LLMs...
by spwa4 | 2026-03-04 22:45:23+00:00
The point is that renewable buildouts don't help. ONLY permanently preventing exports in oil producing countries helps. Not temporary reductions. Stopping exports entirely before the oil is dug up. Everything else might be nice in it's own right, but doesn't change the global warming calculation much at all.

Which effectively means that renewable deployment in the west might still be a good idea, but not because it supposedly slows or stops global warming.
by stri8ted | 2026-03-04 22:45:56+00:00
It's clearly true there have been abuses as a result of this technology. And its also clearly true criminals have been caught as a result of the cams, that otherwise would not have been.

If you believe the costs of the the abuses, and potential abuses, exceed the benefit, then at least be honest about the trade-off, because there are real benefits.

Personally, I believe the costs, on net, are worth the benefits. And in so far as the costs can be further reduced, without loosing most benefits, then great. This is not right or wrong. It's just a question of values, and how you weight the costs vs benefits.

Don't down-vote this all at once.
by acheong08 | 2026-03-04 22:46:32+00:00
> they are using Apple's Wi-Fi positioning service, but proxying it through their own servers

My concern with this system is that their proxy is (afaik) compatible with Google's format, which by default is less privacy respecting as it does the location calculation server side and doesn't allow the client to cache.

I'd much prefer if they called out to Apple's servers directly (or through a direct proxy) & cached the AP data locally so over time it will work offline.
by dvquys | 2026-03-04 22:46:33+00:00
Calens – adds analytics and better editing to Google Calendar (calens.dev)

I track everything in my Google Calendar — work blocks, side projects, gym, social time. But I could never answer 'where did my time actually go this week?' Google Workspace has Time Insights, but it's locked to paid accounts and doesn't work for personal Google Calendar.

Calens fills that gap: GitHub-style heatmap showing 52 weeks of calendar activity, weekly/monthly time breakdowns by calendar or tag, a progress chart of planned vs completed time, and a cleaner in-page event editor. Everything runs on-device — no servers, no tracking, no data leaving the browser.

Early-stage, looking for people who already log their life in Google Calendar and want better data on their habits. Happy to give free lifetime access in exchange for honest feedback.
by sien | 2026-03-04 22:46:46+00:00
Yep. It's a very good book and well worth a read.

It's interesting to see how upset people are on Goodreads about that book:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/145624737-not-the-end-of...

The top reviews are mostly people angry with Ritchie for not being a catastrophist.
Show HN: STDF yield analytics in the browser, data never leaves your machine
by ZenithR9 | 2026-03-04 22:47:01+00:00
Drop an STDF file. Get a wafer map, CPK table, bin pareto, histogram and SQL editor. Hosted on Cloudflare pages. Built with Rust WASM, Arrow WASM, DuckDB WASM and React.
by jongjong | 2026-03-04 22:47:07+00:00
You've got to die of something; so you might as well die for something but your country isn't the best thing to die for.

The problem with your country (at least the vast majority of countries) is that it doesn't care about you. It's just too big to care. It has almost nothing to do with you.

I can't wrap my mind around the fact that people feel some affiliation with their country. For the vast majority of people, the relationship is akin to an abusive boyfriend/girlfriend who takes your money and ignores your existence.

It only reciprocates for a tiny number of people at the very top; everyone else is delusional.

Also, this dynamic is not fixable if the country is large; the slots at the top are EXTREMELY limited. The country should never be the focus; people should engage with local community instead. The country can only be appreciated in the context of a local community worth protecting.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-03-04 22:47:31+00:00
We are in a thread on HN where you have people who complain about not having root access on youf iPhone, want to run Linux on everything and bemoan the fact that most websites don’t won’t with JavaScript disabled.

This is as far from the mainstream as you can possibly get.

Come September it will have been a decade since Apple dropped the headphone port - the world has moved on
by benjosaur | 2026-03-04 22:47:37+00:00
This occurred when using conductor.build with .claude/settings.json enabling sandboxing.

Now obviously reading the conductor docs it says all perms are given to agents by default, so it is not surprising claude code can escape its sandbox.
This is also true when running base sandboxed cc with --dangerously-skip-perimissions. However with base cc, it does not "pretend" it cannot escape its sandbox and instead, when asked after escaping first time, recalls explicit user (auto)approvals.

In the conductor case, however, the "pretend" behaviour of giving up due to guardrails that are actually non-binding is pretty terrifying, despite its understandable and easily preventable causes.

Of course devs should not buy false senses of security from llms. They should be vigilant, read docs, verify outputs etc. etc. but as more and more trust is handed over to AI Agents you can very much see the routes to which catastrophic errors will occur.