MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cogman10 | 2026-03-09 20:11:44+00:00
> whichever courts you may be referring to

The 9th district court of appeals, something that's on the first page of the ruling. Did you read it? That was implicit in this comment thread.

And the justification is the fact that this is an unpublished ruling "This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3"

That alone is a good sign that these judges don't really think this is a great argument.

And, if you read the ruling (which lacks a dissent). It's extremely weak. California law requires that the end user makes an affirmative action to accept a TOS agreement in the form of checking a box or clicking a button. Something the court admits the defendant does not do.

They make a lot of hay around how wonderful the email was, but who cares? Just showing someone text does not count as accepting the TOS.

They had to construe the fact that the plaintiff used the app later as being an acceptance of the TOS. TOS which include moving the case of stalking out of the federal courts and into the arbitration courts which Tile picked. The fact that this reduces their case load is apparent because if they didn't force this into arbitration the court would end up dealing with all the appeals that Tile would invariably file.

Maybe you should do better and actually read the linked ruling before accusing others. My example is exactly the sort of behavior that this court would find acceptable for accepting a TOS change.

I'm assuming bad motivations because this is a garbage ruling. And the only reason why they'd make such a ruling is case load. That, in fact, is charitable to these judges.
by devonkelley | 2026-03-09 20:11:58+00:00
Honest answer: the problems start when you're running 50+ agents across 3 different model providers and the failure modes aren't "pod crashed" anymore. They're "model returned confidently wrong output and the next 4 steps ran on garbage."

K8s is great at keeping things alive. It's not built to reason about whether the thing that's alive is actually working correctly. Agent infra needs to handle rollback at the logic level, not just the container level.
by tialaramex | 2026-03-09 20:12:33+00:00
Not the whole London to Nottingham, just the last maybe 20-30 minutes from where the line was blocked overnight for works. And they obviously do often charter buses, in fact my local train operator was a bus company as well so their buses got used for this type of event because it's just internal accounting. However in the example I gave above that operating company had chosen not to hire a larger vehicle because they anticipated low volume. Six taxis is probably cheaper than a coach. A hundred not so much.

They had bad luck, a different train hit a person (almost certainly a suicide, it is possible to get struck by accident but it's not common) and delayed a large amount of passengers like me who were going to London to get that Nottingham train, people delayed by that incident from their last-but-one train [which ran normally all the way to Nottingham] filled this slow, train that couldn't get all the way instead. A really smart organized team in St Pancras could have realised way too many people are boarding that last train and warned their colleagues, but realistically it was probably already too late to organise a better response even if somehow an incredibly joined-up organisation had reacted to the problem.
by bombcar | 2026-03-09 20:13:24+00:00
this is actually an interesting problem for building designers, because the "fair" scenario of equal space for each ends up in too few female restrooms (assuming a natural split of clientele) because the men get urinals which can be packed in like sardines, the women don't.

Even if you go "fair" and have the same number of drains regardless of size you often end up with lines for the women.

Most large place compensate by putting in way too many toilets on average or just hope there isn't a crush-time.

The best place to see this in action is at a stadium with 50/50 fans during half-time or other break.
by Qwertious | 2026-03-09 20:13:33+00:00
>Coal is cheap

No it's not. I'm not talking about the environment either, coal plants are just straight-up more expensive than gas plants and renewables.

Coal plants are necessarily steam turbines and not internal combustion, because coal is filthy and the mercury/sulfur/etc would wreck the guts of any machinery it goes through. Thus, it's only used to boil water.

Gas turbines don't have that problem, so they spin the turbine with the combustion products directly. They're far more efficient, the machines are smaller and cheaper, and because you don't need to wait for a giant kettle to boil before ramping up the power, they're far more flexible and responsive to demand. It also helps that the gas is fed with a gas pipe, whereas coal needs to be fed with a bobcat.

Which is why nobody is building new coal plants - they're way more expensive than gas plants, even if the gas fuel itself is more expensive than coal.
by alterom | 2026-03-09 20:13:51+00:00
>You're right, but people don't actually care about privacy

The entire point of a platform like Twitter / Bluesky is reach, not privacy.

Posts and discussions there are meant to be public, and highly visible.

It's not that people don't care. It's that this is not what the platform is for.

What's important for a platform like that is not even anonymity, but functional pseudonymity.

And that thing is on its way to the effectively outlawed with the push for "age verification".

People do notice it and leave [1], but at some point, there might be no place to go to.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/1rmlzhy/welp_goodb...
by pixl97 | 2026-03-09 20:13:55+00:00
You over estimate the intelligence of the average American. I've lived in a few cities with a number of roundabouts and while I love them, the number of stupid people that panic and..

-stop in the roundabout

-stop before the roundabout and let their brain buffer for 30 seconds.

-somehow go the wrong way in the roundabout

-fail to yield to traffic in the roundabout

Is way too damn high. It makes traversing one a high stress situation since you have no idea if grandpa grunt and run in to you is about to perform a confusion based terror attack on the traffic control device.
by dinfinity | 2026-03-09 20:13:57+00:00
The code is what it does. The comments should contain what it's supposed to do.

Even if you give them equal roles, self-documenting code versus commented code is like having data on one disk versus having data in a RAID array.

Remember: Redundancy is a feature. Mismatches are information. Consider this:

// Calculate the sum of one and one

sum = 1 + 2;

You don't have to know anything else to see that something is wrong here. It could be that the comment is outdated, which has no direct effects and is easily solved. It could be that this is a bug in the code. In any case it is information and a great starting point for looking into a possible problem (with a simple git blame). Again, without needing any context, knowledge of the project or external documentation.

My take on developers arguing for self-documenting code is that they are undisciplined or do not use their tools well. The arguments against copious inline comments are "but people don't update them" and "I can see less of the code".
by verdverm | 2026-03-09 20:14:30+00:00
I'm very deep into ATProto development, in particular I have the first Permissioned PDS implementation [1]. It definitely has roots in blockchain / federated, but makes tradeoffs for UX.

The more interesting perspective is a Plug-n-Play Distributed System [2]

[1] https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto/compare/main...ver...

[2] https://atproto.com/articles/atproto-for-distsys-engineers
by rose-knuckle17 | 2026-03-09 20:14:30+00:00
A US Court making a self-referential ruling that sustains the power of the lawyer class? I'm SHOCKED.

This should move the exact opposite direction. I am compelled to sign, acknowledge, approve or otherwise indicate that I've read and will comply with so many things that it is 100% meaningless. Furthermore, I assume that whatever legal jargon i'm being presented with benefits the other party and distinctly puts me at risk. In day to day life, just sign "mickey mouse" at every signature box, form or document you are asked to sign. It will make no difference at all.
by greggoB | 2026-03-09 20:14:37+00:00
Sounds like you've managed to find a configuration on Twitter that works well for you. I've recently seen some people anecdotally say the same about Facebook, which I find surprising in 2026.

I think its worh bearing in mind that Twitter was born in a period of creation and tech-optimism, when the world thought a "digital town square" could accommodate all voices. This is obviously no longer the case. Maybe in thr future it will change, who knows.
by butILoveLife | 2026-03-09 20:14:37+00:00
Statistics is even presented like metaphysical truth. Or at least my experience in engineering school.

And taking fluid dynamics, we used renyolds number, which is a made up ratio that helps for decision making... Its not like when we answered questions, we could answer the grey area we are discussing.

If I had to guess, I think its due to western civilization being built of Platonism (and even Aristotle was infected). Our science and morality is later built by platonic realism. Only in the last 100-ish years are we starting to get over it.
by observationist | 2026-03-09 20:15:02+00:00
Photopea.com exceeds CS6 but keeps the UI. All sorts of plugins, great project.
You can also use various hacks like photoshop UI for Gimp and things like that, but I found that route to be unusable.

I've converted over a dozen weird edge cases of spreadsheets and access apps and ancient scripts used by departments into standalone little apps or browser apps, ranging from budget and finance related bookkeeping to tracking sales to licensing management. The only advantage Excel has over this is ease of maintenance - it's a lot easier for someone to guide themselves through updating things on a spreadsheet, or to break an idea down into multiple pages, etc, if spreadsheets are what they're familiar with.

If you're an engineering or finance firm dependent on an obscure, unique Excel feature, I could at least see the argument that your use case is too hard to migrate off of Windows.
by parl_match | 2026-03-09 20:17:06+00:00
I don't like Jesse Singal's work or his political positions (he fucking sucks!), but this is hardly antagonistic except to maybe a small group of terminally online posters who take posting too seriously.

Although, I guess that is the audience bluesky was targeting when they first started. So I guess I understand the criticism.

Also, it is a very ironic demonstration of the pancakes/waffles meme. Interjecting into an unrelated topic to ask the mods to ban someone you don't like is a tradition as old as dial up BBS. So I'm glad to see the torch is being carried forward to a younger generation.
by triceratops | 2026-03-09 20:17:57+00:00
> Taiping Rebellion

"With no reliable census at the time, estimates of the death toll of the Taiping Rebellion are speculative. Most of the deaths were attributed to plague and famine".

That just means there was a large population around that could die from the effects of the war.

> The Mongol invasions in 1206–1368 [168 years]... and the Three Kingdoms period in 184–280 [96 years]

If WW2 [6 years] had gone on as long as the Mongol invasions the death toll would've topped 1 billion.
by aziaziazi | 2026-03-09 20:18:12+00:00
> being a vegetarian/vegan is more expensive than being omnivore.

I read this often but the long term vegs usually says the opposite as does the studies [0]. Bonus point: The veg options are often the cheapest in the non-vegan restaurants (although not the tastiest). I have some hypothesis where it comes from:

- Meat substitues are seen as a necessary replacement. They are transformed, which require more work - and therefore more expensive. However they are as (un)necessary as a fined-prepared piece of charcuterie, which isn't cheap neither.

- Cost is evaluated at the supermarket shelf but as you noted the animal products are extremely subsidised. Vegs pays for them but don't use it. Infrastructures like airport, rails, road and urban amenities are not free either even if you don't pay for them. How you evaluate the price is at your own discretion.

- Fancy products are placed in the most visible shelf and thats the people see first, but they compare it with the cheapest animal alternative. I'm an engineer and by my fancy organic tofu 7-20€/kg but used to buy chicken at 25-35€/kg in the same fancy segment. If I'd be on a budget I'll probably buy the bottom shelf one at 3.5€/kg, next to the 5€/kg chicken.

- Cost of change: changing habits require to re-create the optimization you build during the previous years: where to find the best price for the product X, what quantity should you get or what daily stable you can add in the routine for cheap (fake meat and fancy milk aren't).

0:

> Main findings suggest that food expenditure negatively relates to vegetarian food self-identity, and unemployment status mediates the link between vegetarianism and food expenditure.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-025-06353-y

Vegan diet is always the cheapest - but not in the lower income countries. However it is when including costs of climate change and health care.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_vegetarianism
by devonkelley | 2026-03-09 20:18:23+00:00
The "non-deterministic microservices" framing is exactly right and I think most infra teams underestimate how much that changes things. With a normal service, you can map inputs to expected outputs and write tests. With agents, the blast radius is probabilistic and context-dependent.

The monitoring problem alone is closer to fraud detection than traditional APM. You're not looking for "is this thing up," you're looking for "is this thing subtly wrong in a way that compounds over the next 10 steps."
by haunter | 2026-03-09 20:19:17+00:00
>If BlueSky could figure that out

It's a "people problem" not a technical one. For example if you are following anything from Asia, or just generally from Japan and Korea you will most likely see it on Twitter, there was never a big exodus of users there. Bsky has almost 0 engagement. Just watching WBC this week and I wanted to see korean highlights of their games. They are all over on Twitter, nothing on Bsky.
by artanidos | 2026-03-09 20:19:26+00:00
Forge { repo: "https://codeberg.org/CrowdWare/Forge4D"

goal: "build native apps without embedding a browser runtime"

Stack {
ui: "SML (Simple Markup Language)"
logic: "SMS (Kotlin-like script)"
runtime: "native"
engine: "Godot"
}

Components {
ForgeRunner {targets: "Desktop, Terminal, Android"}
ForgeDesigner { status: "work in progress" }
ForgerPoser {status: "work in progress" desc: "3D posing and animations"}
}

Contributors {
Roles {
CodeReview {}
SampleApps {}
SecurityStack {}
WordPressPlugin {}
}

languages: "Kotlin (SMS), C++, English, Deutsch"
}

question: "Curious what HN thinks about this architecture."

}

The post above is written in SML, the language used by Forge.
by RaffaelCH | 2026-03-09 20:19:27+00:00
> Then they feed it the original software (AFIK).

My understanding is they did do the dance. From the article: "He fed only the API and the test suite to Claude and asked it to reimplement the library from scratch."

One could still make the argument that using the test suite was a critical contributing factor, but it is not a part of the resulting library. So in my uninformed opinion, it seems to me like the clean room argument does apply.
by limagnolia | 2026-03-09 20:20:17+00:00
Actually, the fifth amendment only protects your right not to incriminate yourself. So you may be called upon to testify against your will against some one else (With some limited protections for spouses and such). However, if you were in fact the one driving, you can plead the fifth, and they cannot use that fact against you to prove it was in fact you driving- they have to prove that independently.

(EDIT: I should note that you also have a right to remain silent when questioned by the police- and since they won't know who to charge, there will likely not be a court case to call you to testify at)
by rustyhancock | 2026-03-09 20:20:43+00:00
In these experiments the neurons don't know they are firing a gun and chasing demons.

The task is to produce outputs (movement) to centre an input and then produce an output (shoot). Then the cycle repeats.

Typically the input it receives is increasingly regular as it does better. And irregular to mark a failure which the neurons learn to avoid.

It has no idea that the data can also be rendered as a Doom game.
by epakai | 2026-03-09 20:21:01+00:00
I got a IPX in 2022 and restored it. I was a bit lucky and mine was an ex-IBM unit that came with the Weitek SPARC POWER μP processor (80 MHz) upgrade.

It makes for a pretty good project box as one of the smaller SPARC machines. Lots of documentation from hobbyists, Sun's own service manuals, and OpenBSD/NetBSD. Flash SCSI disk replacements are much easier to get your hands on now (I used a ZuluSCSI).

I've kept a log with photos: https://drislock.org/pkb/machines/perfect.html#a-little-lunc...

It seems to have been part of IBM's IBM-IPT Tester system. Hostnames were interesting: flower, owl, piglet, diamond, hotlips. I didn't get any interesting data though since this system relied on network resources.
by red-iron-pine | 2026-03-09 20:21:13+00:00
What does "North America" have to do with Florida?

I'm in Canada and they issue you a fine without any ID. It goes straight to the registered car owner. Simple as.

The issue is that currently in FL there are points / demerits issued for violations, and these can cause the loss of a license, increases to insurance, etc. This is not a problem if an officer can ID you directly.
by polotics | 2026-03-09 20:21:17+00:00
This isn't off topic in as much as clearly it reveals how disconnected from reality that CEO is:

"Khosrowshahi says: Just work hard, and success will follow. "

...is hilarious for a company like Uber, where the whole point of the business model is to optimize away drivers income so much that they will always be on the edge of something very much else than success, no matter how hard they work!
by bombcar | 2026-03-09 20:21:25+00:00
The point I took away is that since the normal methods of "ok discrimination" are not available and Uber refuses to do the needful on their behalf, women should be able to "use the big gun".

The reality is that if Uber rapes are an issue, and something like this is not allowed, women will just stop using it entirely.

Or special Uberpods will be developed where the driver is completely encased and the passenger has a "auto drive to police station" button.
by vivekraja | 2026-03-09 20:21:34+00:00
This is what we see! We want to make it very easy to be able to granularly manage your agents (in terms of files they have access to, env var values, network policy, etc.) on a per-task basis.

With regards to permissions, mileage varies based on SDK. Some have very granular hooks and permission protocols (Claude Agent SDK stands out in particular) while for others, you need a layer above it since it doesn't come out of the box.

There are companies that solve the pain of authn/z for agents and we've been playing with them to see how we could complement them. In general, we do think it's valuable to be provide this at the infra level as well rather than just the application level since the infra layer is the source of truth of what calls were made / what were blocked, etc.
by prngl | 2026-03-09 20:21:46+00:00
These are the points I'm making, which I think are fairly one-to-one with my original comment:

- American politics presents a false choice between Democrats and Republicans

- America is both a consumerist and corporatist society

- Anthropic asked for minimal limits on AI usage

- People view Anthropic's stand as heroic, while viewing OpenAI as villainous

- The false choice between Anthropic and OpenAI mirrors the false choice in
American politics.

- People at OpenAI, Anthropic, and elsewhere used to view ethical deployment of
AI as paramount, but those goalposts have shifted as financial and political
incentives changed.

- Specifically, the ethics of AI have become conveniently synonymous with the
current financial and political moment.

- The current political moment is fascist.

- Technology is broadly neutral and it is politics that primarily dictates how
technology is actually used and deployed, and therefore its broad impacts.

- The internet was developed in the neoliberal era, which began with the
election of Ronald Reagan and extended through the Obama presidency.

- The structure and dynamics of the internet over the last 30 years is more
reflective of neoliberal politics than it is of anything inherent in the
technology. Extreme privitization and the refusal to use public institutions
to provision or regulate public goods.

- AI is being developed in a new political era, begun with the first Trump
presidency, and taking more full shape under the second Trump presidency.

- We are likely to find that AI's trajectory is similarly dictated largely by
politics rather than anything inherent to the technology.

- With this political era being fascist and explicitly
neo-imperial/neo-colonial, I fear for the technology's impact on humanity.

- God help us.
by socalgal2 | 2026-03-09 20:22:04+00:00
There are plenty of laws where you do nothing and are still considered responsible.

For one, that was Florida. In California there's the "Permissive Use" rule which means you are at least partially responsible for who you lend your car to. If they get in an accident, you can be held partially liable.

There's also "Negligent Entrustment" if it can be proved you knowingly loaned your car or gun to someone intoxicated, unlicensed, etc...

Businesses are generally supposed to take responsibility for their employees. That might sound obvious if the business is FAANG but it's far less obvious to a single person coffee-shop or flower stand who hires their first employee who then spills hot coffee on a customer.

Parents are liable for their kids on many (most?) cases

I think another is where a someone goes to bar, drinks too much, the bartender gets charged.

Rather than just fight the cameras, what solution would you suggest? Just saying "more officer enforcement" doesn't seem valid as budgets are shrinking, applicants are shrinking, and people are dying from reckless drivers.
by dadoum | 2026-03-09 20:22:05+00:00
Yes, but that's assuming that there should be a free electricity market.

The fundamental issue with electricity markets is that they cannot rely on any signal other than the electricity price to control whether a given plant will be running at a given time or not.

I think a real alternative would be to set-up an entity charged with negotiating prices with the electricity producers (which would also be a sort of partial reversal on the whole market thing in a lot of countries).
by CactusBlue | 2026-03-09 20:22:07+00:00
I don't even think having Jesse Singal on the platform is the problem (like it or not, I believe that all beings must have the right to communicate); the problem here was the communication failure when communicating this decision to the userbase. They could have just reiterated their rules and left it at that; instead, they chose to mock their userbase, write them off as harassment, and banned users left and right, abusing their position in network to censor people at every layer of the protocol.