MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ritlo | 2026-03-09 19:03:14+00:00
> Farmed animals could live happy, healthy lives and then be culled in a humane way.

> The problem is that it costs slightly more and our society is more concerned with cost than animal suffering.

IDK about other livestock, but this definitely doesn't hold for chickens, one of the cheaper meat sources in the US. Switching to breeds that could live more than a very-few weeks(!) before getting too overweight to walk, would increase price by far more than "slightly more", and there's no hope of anything fitting any sane definition of "humane chicken farming" without that step.

I suspect it's also true for pigs, not necessarily the "we bred them so wrong that their very existence is a crime against god and nature" part but that the price increase from a "healthy, happy life" would be a lot larger than "slightly more". Maybe also cows, dunno about that one.
by cloverich | 2026-03-09 19:03:24+00:00
I believe the latter was key and democratization of the armed forced was at least one reason the dictators (Julius etc) were able to maintain loyalty of their troops as they eliminated the republic as such. Im not super well read here though.

Higher level, Fukuyamas political order series does a great deep dive into these kinds of topics, really blew my mind, and made many archaic seeming political structures make far more intuitive sense to me afterwards.
by BobbaersRune | 2026-03-09 19:03:56+00:00
I built this because testing automated insulin delivery
algorithms on real patients is dangerous, slow, and expensive.

IINTS-AF is a sandbox. Digital twin patients, deterministic
safety constraints, reproducible stress tests, and audit-ready
reports — all before any real-world consideration.

Not a medical device. Not a pump. Just an inspectable system.

Built for ML engineers, control system designers, and medical
device researchers who want to understand how their algorithms
behave before they matter.

Open source, Apache 2.0.
by constantius | 2026-03-09 19:04:24+00:00
I think that it is what you know of the history of animal domestication and of pets that makes you think that there is an acceptable and low amount of suffering.

I think most people are aware of animal cruelty in factory farms (the chicken in cages, the pigs in cages, etc.), which represents 90% of all farm animals globally (https://www.sentienceinstitute.org/global-animal-farming-est...).

For pets, I don't think you understood what GP was saying: pet breeding involves massive amounts of death of puppies/kittens that aren't pretty enough or don't manage to survive infancy, the female breeders are basically confined to cages and "producing" all their life, some short-nosed breeds of dogs and cats are even illegal in some countries because they spend their life unable to breathe properly, pets are abandoned and killed, etc. The happy pets you see in the street are not representative of what it is to be a pet. But yes, these ones are not suffering.

As for long and harmonious, as much as we tend to see anything in the distant past as innocent, I'd remind you that the systematic killing of male chicks, the killing of veals to avoid them drinking all the milk, the killing of all animals as soon as productivity drops beyond a threshold, are not new practices. No animal wants to be enslaved. Same as no human wants to be enslaved.

I'm not attacking you, just attempting to give you an idea of why other commenters believe animal domestication is not ethical.
by tharmas | 2026-03-09 19:04:26+00:00
The US Military blew up a water de-salination plant in Iran. (Yes, I am aware the Iranians retaliated and blew up a water de-salination plant in Bahrain - but I'm sure you'll understand my point). That's arguably a war crime. So I have serious doubts that this war will be "limited in scope". Just look at who is in charge of the military. It tells you all you need to know.
by rodchalski | 2026-03-09 19:04:35+00:00
The K8s-vs-agent-infra debate here is interesting. K8s gives you process and network isolation. What it doesn't give you: per-task authorization scope.

An agent container has a credential surface defined at deploy time. That surface doesn't change between task 1 ("read this repo") and task 2 ("process this user upload"). If the agent is prompt-injected during task 1, it carries the same permissions into task 2.

The missing primitives aren't infra — they're policy: what is this agent authorized to do with the data it can reach, on a per-task basis? Can it write, or only read? Can it exfil to an external URL, or only to /output? And crucially: is there an append-only record of what it actually did, so you can audit post-incident?

K8s handles the container boundary. The authorization layer above that — task-scoped grants, observable action ledger, revocation mid-task — isn't solved by existing infra abstractions. That gap is real regardless of whether you use K8s, Modal, or something like this.
by redleader55 | 2026-03-09 19:05:14+00:00
Agentic workloads create and then run code. You don't want to just run that code in a "normal" environment like a container, or even a very well protected VM. There are other options, ofc - eg. gvisor, crossvm, firecracker, etc, but this one is uncommon enough to have a small number of attackers trying to hack it.
by dharmeshkakadia | 2026-03-09 19:05:26+00:00
Building Mixtrain - Platform to build task specific models. Focus on multimodallity usecase - video, image, robotics. Covers the entire post training life cycle - data management & curation, training, Eval & rollout.

Models are the new software. And just like software, three general-purpose ones won't be enough. Why specialized models are inevitable https://mixtrain.ai/blog/special-models

Here's how Mixtrain can help:

- Multimodal dataset management: version, query, inspect, and curate image/video/3D datasets
- Workflows & models: train and run your models on serverless GPUs. Run experiments rapidly and ship to production. Access 100s of external models through the same API.
- Live eval: create instant evals from your datasets with side-by-side comparison of anything — images, time-synced video, 3D/4D visualizations, masks, and more. Here's an example video eval https://app.mixtrain.ai/s/eVRwOcb7KhUZOb9xbFFgfHIuF0jyJUaBT6TKNg19OfU. Evals stay current as your datasets evolve.

You can explore more at https://mixtrain.ai/docs
by webpolis | 2026-03-09 19:05:32+00:00
The blast radius point is right, and I think it points at a design split that's underappreciated.

Most sandboxing approaches — including this one — optimize primarily for isolation from the host: prevent the agent from escaping, limit what it can touch. That solves the runaway agent problem.

But there's a second axis: observable execution for human collaborators. When an agent modifies a codebase or runs a research task, a teammate often needs to watch it happen in real time, intervene before it commits a wrong turn, or audit what actually ran. Async logs and artifact outputs don't cover this well.

We've been building Cyqle - https://cyqle.in -- (disclosure: I work on it) from that angle — cloud desktop sessions where agent runs are shared live with whoever needs visibility. Isolation is at the VM/session level rather than syscall granularity. Different tradeoff: you give up process-level permission mapping, you gain real-time collaborative access to the running environment — watch, intervene, hand off.

The use cases probably don't overlap much with Terminal Use (async batch filesystem agents clearly want deep process isolation + lifecycle APIs). But this thread made me think "agent environments" is actually several distinct problem spaces: async autonomous execution, interactive human-supervised sessions, team-observable debugging runs. The right primitives look very different depending on which you're solving.
by retrochameleon | 2026-03-09 19:05:33+00:00
You sound more like you like skills than MCP itself. Skills encapsulate the behavior to be reused.

MCP is a protocol that may have been useful once, but it seems obsolete already. Agents are really good at discovering capabilities and using them. If you give it a list of CLI tools with a one line description, it would probably call the tool's help page and find out everything it needs to know before using the tool. What benefit does MCP actually add?
by dleslie | 2026-03-09 19:05:40+00:00
We've been milling wheat with wind power for more than a thousand years; run-of-river hydro-mechanical solutions have been used for milling, mining, and forging for just as long.

Electric wind and hydro solutions are hundreds of years old, at this point.

And of course, there's steam.

I think we'd have had a green revolution with wind and water. Petroleum wasn't necessary.
by sandworm101 | 2026-03-09 19:05:42+00:00
Different engines for different phases of flight? It has been tried many times and never really works. Such craft can be made to fly, but never well. The answer has to come from using one set to power all phases.

Id be interested in seeing a turboprop that can transition to a turbofan/jet once the prop is folded away. The f-35 was a step in this direction.
by igorrek | 2026-03-09 19:05:53+00:00
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by scottyah | 2026-03-09 19:05:54+00:00
Yes, I saw a lot of footage and kept doing so as more was released. Not sure what power you thought they were trying to take by force, it was like the Dark Knight scene on Wall Street. There's no "power" in that building. A guy took Pelosi's podium- is that the power you're referring to?

I saw non-rioters open doors for them, the calm and polite lines of rioters walking out, a person asking where they should be giving their speech, and a few people doing funny pictures like they were in their elementary school classroom on a weekend.

I also saw two BBC leaders resigning because they purposefully doctored footage to fit their narrative. I saw how selective the footage shown was, and how specific the phrasing was to incite rage and/or fear. If there wasn't so much manipulation and so many lies around it, I wouldn't have to question the integrity of the people pushing the narrative.
by genericone | 2026-03-09 19:05:58+00:00
The accounting only works if you assume the counterfactual is "same industrial civilization, minus fossil fuels." But there's a strong path-dependency argument that cheap hydrocarbons were the bootstrap not just for energy, but for the plastics, fertilizers, and chemical feedstocks that made modern manufacturing and agriculture possible in the first place. Renewables are downstream of that industrial base. You can't net out the externalities against a baseline that wouldn't exist without them.
by toomuchtodo | 2026-03-09 19:06:29+00:00
Fantastic news, the longer the price is held up, the longer oil price levels tilts the economics towards electrification.

As Iran Crisis Upends Oil and Gas, Clean Energy Gets Complicated - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-02/middle-ea... | https://archive.today/fIND6 - March 2nd, 2026

> The European Union has already seen the benefit of pivoting to renewables after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, though it also sought alternative sources of gas which are now under threat. Between 2019 and 2024, EU countries installed enough wind and solar capacity to avoid burning 92 billion cubic meters of gas and 55 million tons of hard coal in 2024, according to Agora Energiewende.

> “We’ve had tangible results,” said Frauke Thies, the think tank’s Europe director. “It was thanks to renewables that Europe wasn’t hit harder by the last energy crisis.”
by za_mike157 | 2026-03-09 19:06:38+00:00
A lot of AI workloads require GPUs which are expensive so customers would waste money running idle machines 24/7 with low utilisation which kills gross margins. By loading containers quickly means, means we can scale up quickly as requests come in and you only need to pay for usage.

This is successful for CPU workloads (AWS Lambda) but AI models and images are 50x the size
by nicole_express | 2026-03-09 19:06:53+00:00
Well sure they didn't do the dance, but you don't have to do the dance. The reason to do it is that it's a good defense in a lawsuit. Like you say, all of this is a legal minefield.

So my understanding was that the original code was specifically not fed into Claude. But was almost certainly part of its training data, which complicates things, but if that's fair use then it's not relevant? If training's not fair use and taints the output, then new-chardet is a derivative of a lot of things, not just old-chardet...

This is all new legal ground. I'm not sure if anyone will go to court over chardet, though, but something that's an actual money-maker or an FSF flagship project like readline, on the other hand, well that's a lot more likely.
by jaggederest | 2026-03-09 19:06:55+00:00
Absolutely true, my point is more about extraction per se now that alternatives for some uses exist, and definitely the bootstrap problem is real and fossil fuels were the only way to get past it.

What I'm saying is more of an "externalities may exceed the value for any future time" than "we should go back in time and ban them from the beginning". I also suspect that as chemical feedstock and niche uses they'll effectively never be replaced, just probably be synthetic instead of extracted.
by tharmas | 2026-03-09 19:07:00+00:00
It'll be like Libya but on a far bigger scale. Massive population compared to Libya.

I think their intent is to bomb Iran into rubble.

BB has pulled off the ultimate coup. He's managed to sucker a US President into doing the dirty work cutting Iran down to a manageable size with the US paying for almost all the costs. The Pentagon loves it of course because they get to "test" out their toys to see how well they work.

The Iranian people pay the highest price. The rest of us pay economically through sky high oil prices.
by Kapura | 2026-03-09 19:07:10+00:00
It's not just the ideologues; it's the people with vested interests in seeing oil companies continue to dominate. Lindsey Graham has been pretty mask-off in wanting to take control of Iran's oil resources and, in his words, "make a ton of money."

[1] https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/9/we-are-going-make-a-...
by jono_irwin | 2026-03-09 19:07:53+00:00
hey cosmotic, we're not really advocating for storing model weights in the container image.

even the smaller nvidia images (like nvidia/cuda:13.1.1-cudnn-runtime-ubuntu24.04) are about 2Gb before adding any python deps and that is a problem.

if you split the image into chunks and pull on-demand, your container will start much faster.
by keithnz | 2026-03-09 19:08:04+00:00
The idea is not so much any kind of hard real time guarantee (in practice it switches quickly so it is soft realtime) but what you often have when doing bare-metal embedded systems is a lot of parallel state machines, not necessarily because the state machine is the best mechanism it's more because you want things to happen in parallel in C/C++, this can be annoying to deal with so you end up with these statemachines that don't block, you cycle through them, and you get "parallel" operation, but anything can block other statemachines, and things like long running for loops need to be broken into non blocking states. I've often thought an Actor Model like thing would be really nice if baked into the language and that the actors were all "live" such that were all processing in parallel and firing off events as needed which is how I started this. I initially was thinking switching on something like state transitions / explicit yields but every statement yielding automatically lets you run multiple "forever" loops which in turn might have long running for loops (like updating a display) statement switching means you don't have to worry about when to yield. Instead I reversed it and figured it would be nicer to define things that need to run as an atomic operation as that seems to be less frequent. This way you generally don't need to worry about blocking and it feels like it's programming as if it was pre-emptive multitasking. Multiple little programs all concurrently running and firing off events to communicate with each other
by alephnerd | 2026-03-09 19:08:15+00:00
> Is there an active, bloody conflict occurring due to any of those

The Congolese Civil War and the ongoing M23/Rwanda-led War [0], as well as the Myanmar Civil War [1]. Even the Russian Invasion of Ukraine has a critical minerals component [2] as does the ongoing Central African Republic Civil War [3][4] and the Oromo insurgency within the Ethiopian Civil War [5].

This does not mean that we shouldn't invest in building renewable and battery capacity (we in fact need to further enhance capacity), but we need to recognize that hard power trumps soft power in a multipolar world.

Renewable power doesn't imply pacifism. It is powered by critical minerals that all regional powers are rushing to control either with ballots [6], bribes [7], or bullets.

Renewable power will be covered in blood, but less blood than will be caused by anthropogenic climate change. If we need to make deals with devils, so be it. Such is life.

[0] - https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/us-struggling-de-risk-c...

[1] - https://www.reuters.com/world/china/india-explores-rare-eart...

[2] - https://kleinmanenergy.upenn.edu/commentary/blog/lithium-the...

[3] - https://dayan.org/content/central-african-republic-between-f...

[4] - https://energycapitalpower.com/exclusive-central-african-rep...

[5] - https://www.thereporterethiopia.com/36610/

[6] - https://www.ibanet.org/Rule-of-law-Milei-election-win-raises...

[7] - https://www.ft.com/content/401a9e84-3034-4375-bf39-56b92500c...
by pyuser583 | 2026-03-09 19:08:22+00:00
What really makes me mad is one of the plaintiffs was accessing the service - but only to make sure she wasn’t using the service (any other way).

They then said: “you are accessing the service, so you consent to the TOS!”

That should not count. Nor should a accessing a service to delete your account, file a complaint, ensure you aren’t being stalked, etc.
by peteridah | 2026-03-09 19:08:40+00:00
I've been thinking about the gap between analytics and action in software systems.

Most companies have dashboards and analytics tools, but someone still has to interpret the information and decide what happens next.

This article explores the concept of AI Decision Engines - systems that convert data, rules and reasoning models into operational decisions such as approvals, routing actions or recommendations.

Curious whether people see this emerging in real systems.
by glitchc | 2026-03-09 19:08:50+00:00
I daresay it will be tricky to make any back of the envelope calculations without the use of fossil fuel products, given that both the envelope and the writing tool heavily rely on them.

The pen, pencil and paper are somewhat obvious. Less obvious is that we also need them to make glue at an industrial scale [1].

[1] https://blogs.canterbury.ac.uk/sustainability/sealed-fate-pe...
by bityard | 2026-03-09 19:08:54+00:00
This isn't a new weapon, this is a test platform for various ideas, none of which are new or secret. Also, there are not many groundbreaking advancements left in military aviation. Most are just fairly incremental engineering or manufacturing improvements. (Military space technology might be a different story, though.)

The only other nation with the potential to develop a high-tech military plane that could rival US technology would be China. But if we ever got into a war with China, they wouldn't need superior technology to win. They could win via superior manufacturing capacity and the sheer number of people they can draft into service at a moment's notice.
by ivell | 2026-03-09 19:09:01+00:00
I don't think whatever is negotiated with Iran's current regime would actually be honored by them. They may commit something to get their leader back, but won't be keeping the promises.

Their self stated goal is destruction of Israel and US. They could have chosen peace and not have funded proxies across the middle east. Their choice of aggression by whatever means they have at their disposal just shows what their long term strategy would be.

They have shown the intend. They just didn't have the capacity to follow through. Once they gain the capacity, they could go extreme lengths. Just see how they attacked their neighbors who were not party to the war.
Bluesky CEO Jay Graber is stepping down
by minimaxir | 2026-03-09 19:09:03+00:00
https://www.wired.com/story/bluesky-ceo-jay-graber-is-steppi... (https://web.archive.org/web/20260309191134/https://www.wired...)

https://toni.org/2026/03/09/coming-off-the-bench-for-bluesky...
by Alan_Writer | 2026-03-09 19:09:10+00:00
I think they just show what it can be seen, like any country with advance military developments.

They won't show you everything.

Have you ever heard about those sound/sonic (or something similar) weapons the US used in Maduro's kidnap operation? Venezuelan soldiers said (pero some publications on the internet) that they never saw anything alike, leaving them completely disoriented and helpless?

Soldiers now can even see thermal figures through walls or solid materiales, and the same time, bacome invisibles.

It's more than sci-fi.
by gcr | 2026-03-09 19:09:20+00:00
i'm working on my startup, krnel.ai!

i don't have much free time, but it's important to me to have healthy side projects, so here's what i'm working on:

- rsyncthing: A command-line CLI that lets users quickly bootstrap Syncthing fileshares to new hosts over SSH. No more "introduce devices to each other" song-and-dance.

- stringlines: i'm working on a small app for my own personal use that will help me plan transit in the NYC area better. A lot of map apps (Apple, Google, Transit, Citymapper) don't show recently-departed trips, making them much less useful for judging the feasibility of tight connections on the NJTransit rail lines. So I'm building out some infrastructure to record the GTFS-RT feeds and display them in a mobile-friendly format.

- slowly playing through all 70 the quake brutalist jam III maps to learn more about level design.

Most of these side projects are claude-free for now, mostly because I want to build domain expertise for myself before involving the agent tooling.
by arjie | 2026-03-09 19:09:23+00:00
That sounds like it's smuggling in some assumptions that do not hold. Modern industrialization has led to human flourishing on an unprecedented scale. Pre-industrial civilizations are not getting to this point without high-energy-density materials and bootstrapping to photovoltaics, wind, and nuclear seem highly unlikely. Even solar concentrators seem unlikely to help considering fossil fuels provide portable energy storage that was unmatched in utility until recently.

I think there's probably a lot of rosy math in this counterfactual. Perhaps one can argue that post the nuclear age, we could have made some choices that environmentalists would oppose that would nonetheless have been better for the environment, but "from the beginning of use"? I think that I'd like to see.

EDIT: It would be a fun universe to play with, though. Do we use solar concentrators to provide the power to make grain ethanol? We'd have to master food production first without Haber-Bosch though. That sounds like a real challenge.
by foxyv | 2026-03-09 19:09:31+00:00
In addition, your chance of being falsely accused is low. Your chance of being prosecuted if you are falsely accused is low. Your chance of being convicted, if you are falsely accused AND prosecuted is low. Also, the accuser's chance of being prosecuted for making the false allegation isn't that low.

We're talking about less than 100 cases per year. The real thing to be worried about is a false conviction for drugs or DUI. That happens way more often.