MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by anilgulecha | 2026-03-02 10:48:28+00:00
My 2c:

1) Reflect daily, and inspect your feelings. Most of the negative sentiments and positive sentiments of AI arise from how they impact your identity. ("I'm a great programmer", "I build complicated systems easily". Doing an RCA on your thoughts is like debugging.

2) List down things you can control, and you cannot control. "I cannot stop the launch of the new model." .. "I control my usage of these models" .. "My family needs me to do this, and I can" .. "I can do this in my team".

3) Fully accept both of above. It's a process.

4) Finally, you can then see what are the new identities and new things you can do in this disrupted new world, and you can begin to focus on those.

I think these also model the stages of dealing with trama, because both require acceptance to truly figure out the next steps in a positive way.
by qsera | 2026-03-02 10:48:57+00:00
>You can't get experience out of abstract terms.

Would you agree that you are conscious at this point?

Would you agree that there are some set of physical laws, an initial state, and a set of random events to the universe that we inhabit?

Would you agree if we simulate this initial state on a computer, and step through it using the set of physical laws, and the random events, we will see the eventual emergence "you", who we know is conscious?

So are you saying that the entity inside the simulation is a zombie who is not actually conscious?
by joe_mamba | 2026-03-02 10:49:51+00:00
If this is similar to LineageOS, then it's always potentially only a matter of time until some banking and payment apps stop working due to failing attestation pushed by a Google update.

We need native apps that pass attestation out of the box for that phone/OS, not relying on hacks that may or may not work. This is not good UX and it poisons the well if you push users to a new platform then they discover some apps don't work as you promised.
by Thorrez | 2026-03-02 10:50:16+00:00
Speeding is a special case, because it's unclear what the lawmakers, road designers, and police intend. When the speed limit is 65 mph, do they actually intend for everyone to go no faster? I don't think so. I think the lawmakers, if driving in traffic, want people to go a bit faster. Same with the police. And I think the road designers design the roads knowing most people will speed.

I want to follow the law. But when it comes to speeding, it's hard for me to follow the letter of the law, because all the parties involved in creating and enforcing the law don't want me to follow the letter of the law. So I instead follow the intent of the law, and speed up to 9mph. When Google Maps pops up a "police ahead" warning, I don't slow down at all, because I'm following the intent of the law, and that's what police around where I live enforce. If I'm driving in other areas of the country, I'm less certain what police want, so I'll be more likely to follow the letter of the law.

If there was automated strict enforcement of speeding, then it would be clear to me that the letter of the law is the intent, so I would gladly obey the letter of the law. There would certainly need to be a transition period with clear warnings that in the future, the letter of the law will be enforced, instead of the current status of something looser.
by trelliumD | 2026-03-02 10:50:18+00:00
I have both a Jolla C2 phone, and an E/Os device, on a nothing CMS1 phone. Both are great. I like the Jolla Phone for its SailfishOS, which has great UI/Ux. I am less enthusiastic about the hardware. (good enough though) The E/OS really is good, all apps work good, and really much is done for privacy protection. But if the hardware is more performant, and with a few extra features i'd still opt for SailfishOS
by thesamethrowawa | 2026-03-02 10:51:42+00:00
I feel very similar. I'm not sure if it's all the issues you listed, or just being at a specific point in my life and career, or a combination of both. Nothing is enjoyable to me anymore, and I find there is nothing I am looking forward to. There seems to be so much evidence for the "everything is getting worse" line of thinking, food prices, housing prices, wealth distribution, the job market. I think all the commentors noting "it doesn't affect you, go talk a walk" are really missing the point. On one hand I feel privileged and lucky with what I have materially but on the other, a really deep feeling of despair that is getting harder to hide day to day.
by throwww9999121 | 2026-03-02 10:52:06+00:00
we have all the information in the world now but zero power. that's because information is no longer power. information is pacification. the more you stuff your head with up to the second facts, the more powerless you are.

what if the insatiable hunger we have for information...to constantly consume trivia and facts...what if this is itself a psychic trap that’s been laid for us?

https://www.nefariousrussians.com/p/information-is-not-power...
by curiouscube | 2026-03-02 10:52:11+00:00
As someone who both experienced phases in life where no one approached me and phases were I get approached regularly, it's a mix of external signifiers and some internal woo stuff that people don't really understand conciously. Or said another way, when someone says you have to "look approachable" what they actually mean is that a) you have to present yourself externally in a way that makes people more likely to engage you (the aforementioned hair, clothes etc.) and b) you have to internally be open to the world (which is what dictates your body language in subtle ways that apparently get picked up). The issue is when someone says something like "have an open body language" is that it's impossible to 24/7 fake a certain type of body language, you actually have to believe it.

If you are naturally a distrusting person people will pick up on it, just how people will pick up if you're naturallly an open person. (The true trick is realizing that "naturally" can be changed)
by iammjm | 2026-03-02 10:52:53+00:00
Let me provide a counter argument: with the graph you can browse your notes visually in 2D, instead of just the usual list. You can just take notes as usual, easily add #tags and [[links]] in them, and then when you go to graph view you can see connections between those links and you can color code or filter tags. You get a global graph view of all your vault, and local view of any note. Links and tags are literally the core Obsidian features and the graph view sits on top of that. For me that is a coherent vision and utility.
by ben_w | 2026-03-02 10:53:08+00:00
Something very weird is going on; I just tried a free trial of Codex-5.3, and a significant fraction of what it gives me doesn't even compile (or in the case of python, run without crashing).

Unless I specifically say "use git", it won't bother using git. It uses the wrong approaches all over the place, stops in the middle of tasks, skips some tasks entirely (sometimes while marking them as done, other times it just doesn't get around to it).

I'd rank the output of Claude as similar to a junior with 1-3 years experience. It's not great, but it's certainly serviceable, a bit of tweaking even shippable. Codex… what I see is more like a student project. Or perhaps someone in the first month of their first job.
by nudpiedo | 2026-03-02 10:53:14+00:00
All the issues you mention are about uncertainty.

Uncertainty is one of the largest perceived threats by the human brain, it’s normal you feel it like a threat, it can even cause you anxiety and force you to take severe and unnecessary decisions. If that’s the case talk to a mental health professional because it is not an issue.

However if mental health is not an issue, try some of the many techniques that are there on how to handle uncertainty psychologically, you may start with stoicism (a modern book is fine) and with distribution of risk only of the threats that are an actual problem to you and you have any little of control over them
by goldenarm | 2026-03-02 10:53:36+00:00
I do agree, mobile OSS OSes are rough. My point is that we should help them instead of helping Google's toxic relationship. It happened with Chrome/Blink, and everyone already forgot that lesson.

About hard-forking Android, no one was brave enough (pun intended) to do that for Chrome, considering the insane complexity and engineering costs (>$1B/y). (Only Apple was able to affort it with Webkit/Safari, but they are in the ad business too.)
by madeofpalk | 2026-03-02 10:53:55+00:00
I guess AWS status page is never going to say "there's a war", but it says all-but:

> [...] one of our Availability Zones (mec1-az2) was impacted by objects that struck the data center, creating sparks and fire. The fire department shut off power to the facility and generators as they worked to put out the fire.

Mar 01 9:41 AM PST https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status
by socalgal2 | 2026-03-02 10:54:27+00:00
Without ai my text editor auto completes letters into existing identifiers or adds a closing brace

With ai it add several lines of code at once as soon as it thinks it recognizes a common pattern.

It’s not perfect and it can get in the way but it’s amazing when it guesses right and spits out the next 3-4 lines I would have typed
by arcbyte | 2026-03-02 10:55:13+00:00
> But in the USA that doesn't really fly. Talking is transactional, either a business deal is going on or shut up.

This is regional within the US and obviously differs by person even then. Just remember that the people you are talking to may be the kind of people that need articles like the above to teach them how to talk to people. Their defenses go up when someone approaches them and while they are well practiced at appearing relaxed, they are not. Conversations are short because its emotionally difficult to stay in a heightened awareness state while someone is trying to pull you out of it. But you can certainly provide offramps
by patrickk | 2026-03-02 10:55:35+00:00
In a similar boat. I’m running “ClaudClaw” a clone of Openclaw to enforce discipline in my limited free time to get an AI agency off the ground, in order to try to escape the miserable corporate grind. On the one hand, it’s a massive productivity boost, on the other hand, this tech is going to further hollow out the middle class everywhere and make so many people redundant. I don’t have the luxury to simply quit and focus on it full time.
by jonathanstrange | 2026-03-02 10:56:53+00:00
They're going against transgender people and support groups and try to criminalize them. For example, Executive Order 14168, Executive Order 14183, Executive Order 14187, Executive Order 14190, Executive Order 14201, and by offering cash bounties to the FBI for "...information leading to the identification and arrest of transgender activists promoting 'radical gender ideology. Pam Bondi described such activists as "domestic terrorist groups." There is also a large initiative by the Heritage Foundation to make the FBI classify transgender people in general as domestic terrorists and introduce a new classification they call "Transgender Ideology-Inspired Violence and Extremism" (TIVE).

Why they are so particularly violent against transgender people is beyond my knowledge. I suppose this trend is based on a mix of religious fanaticism, extremely insecure masculinity and the fact that this group so small and insignificant that they cannot defend themselves (unlike gay people, who have a large lobby by now and include people like Peter Thiel).
by xorcist | 2026-03-02 10:57:03+00:00
Are you sure you haven't confused these books?

One of the books you mention is about an adventure involving a treasure. The other book is about catastrophic flooding in the first book and a comet that threatens the planet in the second, if I recall correctly. Which one did you think was about saving the world and which one was about whimsical non-issues again?

Of course, you don't have to like the books. They are both children's books. But of all the possible critique this one was particularly strange.
by well_ackshually | 2026-03-02 10:57:16+00:00
Depending on the level of security you ask for Play Integrity, it can be:

* is this device rooted, is it an unsigned build ?

* Device is signed, but is it part of the blessed signing keys ? is play services untampered with ?

* Additional checks over the lifetime of the device.

You could fully trust the results of Play Integrity on device, but you can also send the returned token to your server, and your server then contacts play integrity to validate that token. So unless you know how to spoof those encrypted tokens, you won't go very far.

https://developer.android.com/google/play/integrity/overview
by pjmlp | 2026-03-02 10:57:17+00:00
Nokia N900 was really great, Jolla has some of the former team people.

I only jumped into Android after my Symbian phone died, and by then Symbian Belle, with QT and PIPS (PIPS Is POSIX on Symbian OS), it was already shapping great.

That Burning Memo was really a downer.
by tim333 | 2026-03-02 10:57:21+00:00
>"built the muscles"

You can build muscles by digging a field by hand but most people commercially use tractors. And operating tractors is a skill but a different one.

I imagine it'll go like that with AI. People will use it and learn the skill of using AI.

I mean you can learn the skill the machine does if you want like learning to write machine code rather than using a compiler but there may be a limited number of people doing that.
by khaledh | 2026-03-02 10:57:37+00:00
I believe we (humankind) have been transitioning to a phase of what I call "time compression." Everything is happening too fast compared to say 40-50 years ago. You can attribute it to many things (tech in particular), but primarily it's the fact that everyone has a terminal in their hands where they can access information, people, news, etc. at a whim. It's affecting both our mental health and our collective social fabric. I think humans were not meant to be overwhelmed this way; our mental capacity hasn't increased, but the stimuli have increased by orders of magnitude.

I don't have a solution to this problem. But one thing I've been trying is to immerse myself in a hobby I enjoy, and ignore most of the noise around me. I closed most of my social network accounts 9 years ago, and it has improved my mental health significantly. I still read the news, but I skim the headlines and go back to what I was doing. Yes, it does affect me, but I try to minimize its impact and focus on things that compensate their effect.

There's no silver bullet. Just know that you're not alone. Unfortunately time compression is here to stay (and it will probably get worse), and those of us who fight it back will hopefully stay sane.
by elzbardico | 2026-03-02 10:58:02+00:00
If we are replaced, it means that a lot of other white collar occupations will also face replacement.

But, we are responsible for a disproportional parcel of the aggregate demand and also, the white collar middle class holds a giant share of all credit.

Put all these people out of a job, and you'll end up with the mother of all economic depressions ever.

Either the powers-that-be find a solution (like return to office was arguably a response to a potential office real estate value crisis) or something else will happen (communism? butlerian jihad?).

Given that all of this is completely out our control, we need to concentrate in what we can control:

1) Save money.

2) Cut expenses.

3) Stay ahead of the curve by learning fanatically.

4) Stay fit and healthy.

5) Don't get emotionally invested in every bit of news you see. Everyone got an agenda, everyone has bias, everyone commit mistakes.
Ask HN: Billions of dollars in funding, but what's changed for robotics?
by ajax33 | 2026-03-02 10:58:10+00:00
HN folks - school me if this is an uninformed take:

In the last 2 years we’ve seen eye watering robotics funding - e.g., Figure with a ~$39B valuation and $1B+ rounds, Skild AI raising ~$1.4B, Physical Intelligence raising hundreds of millions, and autonomous systems like Wayve’s ~$1.5B robotaxi funding, not to forget Musk with his Optimus bots.

That’s an insane capital wave, but from a core bottleneck POV, what’s actually changed since 2016-2020?

We’ve heard about vision models, RL advances, diffusion policies, better sim, and multimodal embodied models but have any of these really cracked generalization, reliable manipulation, or true sim2real at scale?

Some questions:

1. Are we meaningfully closer to generalist policies that work in messy, real environments?

2. Do “robot foundation models” solve the data bottleneck the way LLMs did for NLP?

3. Has manipulation gone beyond incremental improvements?

4. Are humanoids a technical leap or just a narrative that attracts capital?

5. What are the real research papers/benchmarks showing step-change progress?

Genuinely curious whether we are at a technological inflection point or are we going to hit hard physics/data/hardware problems again.
by avhon1 | 2026-03-02 10:58:34+00:00
> recumbent bikes are expensive

New recumbents are expensive, but used ones are very cheap. Afyer seeing several within an hour's drive of me for $300, I got a Rans Rocket for $100. Appparently it had been available (but poorly advertised) for two years.

A little while after I became "the guy who rides a recumbent", I was given a Rans Vivo for free, because the owner hhad determined that the expected sale price wasn't worth the time and effort to sell.
by ralferoo | 2026-03-02 10:58:35+00:00
Honestly, I don't quite understand this.

I get the appeal of degoogling, but this seems to just be replacing that with alternatives run by another commercial company, just one I've never heard of before.

Why does it even need "One account for your privacy" ... "Operated by Murena, your Murena Workspace account @murena.io is at the centre of the ecosystem" when it'd be even better to have everything on-device without an account at all.

Even more, Murena seems to be owned by Qwant who seem to be in the business of selling a search engine, and while they currently claim to be all about user privacy, this is basically exactly how Google started nearly 30 years ago.

I wonder if they'd be happy if, for instance, somebody took this system and debundled Murena and switched it to using duckduckgo. Would they embrace that too, or sue them into oblivion?
by yakshaving_jgt | 2026-03-02 10:58:35+00:00
I feel broadly the same as the above, except on the apathy towards Ukraine.

Ukraine is standing because they took action.

Something that helps me keep my sanity and dignity is by materially supporting Ukrainian soldiers. I will never regret having stood on the right side of history on this.

If anyone wants to contribute but you aren't sure how, I'm happy to help. Email is in the profile.
by rhdunn | 2026-03-02 10:59:22+00:00
Text editors/IDEs have simple autocomplete and the ability to do some expansion, e.g. a for loop with placeholders to fill in. Those work and are still useful.

JetBrains also has local line-based LLM models for various languages.

With the LLM-based autocomplete it a) generally autocompletes more code at once, and b) will often pick up on patterns in the existing code. E.g. if you have a similar method, list of print/string buffer write statements, or other repetitive code in the file it will often use that as a model for the generated code.
by Havoc | 2026-03-02 10:59:40+00:00
Feels more like things are chaotic and uncertain to me rather than explicitly negative.

eg still think there is a fair bit of upside to be had from AI even if it does make me wary about job situation on a 5-10 year scale.

It sure as hell won’t be boring the next 10 years that’s for sure. And that to me is a positive on itself.
by kotaKat | 2026-03-02 10:59:47+00:00
Update policies... hah!

Pepperidge Farm remembers owning a first-gen Moto X on Verizon and waiting over a year+ for the Android 5.0 update, getting abandoned on the first-generation Moto 360 smartwatch (not even getting Android Wear 1.6), and getting abandoned on the first-gen Moto Hint earbud (not getting promised features with the first-gen Moto X).
by mathstuf | 2026-03-02 11:00:15+00:00
> 1) There could probably be tax credits or deductions for SWEs who 'volunteer' their time to work on these projects.

Why exclusive to SWEs? They tend to be more time-restricted than financial-restricted (assuming the "SWE" comes from a job description). I'd be more interested in making sure that those with less well-paying jobs are able to access such benefits rather than stacking it onto those already (probably) making 6-figures.

Of course, the problems arise in the details. Define "volunteer": if $DAYJOB also uses it (in a way related to my role), is it actually, instead, wage theft? Also, quantifying the benefit is a sticky question. Is maintaining 10k emoji packages on NPM equivalent to volunteer work on libcurl? Could it ever be? Is it volunteer work if it ends up with a bug bounty payday? Google's fuzzing grant incentives?
by necovek | 2026-03-02 11:00:30+00:00
It helps to have lived through some of this (especially conflicts) in 1990s (former Yugoslavia), so it is really more of the same.

Even the president US got, we have claim to being early birds ourselves with our current sitting president in Serbia for ~13 years now (they've switched between being a prime minister and president to work around two-term limit): we are very familiar with the rhetoric and "style" (lack of?) of communication, albeit from a less influential position.

AI, as mentioned, is just a tool. A very powerful one, so will cause damage left and right, but also some large productivity jumps when wielded well. Pick up and do good with it.
by cucumber3732842 | 2026-03-02 11:00:35+00:00
>Tech question? Steer you to its cloud. Medical question? Steer you towards a sponsored treatment. Or maybe the mechanism of injury needs this lawyer to compensate?

User: Do I need a permit for <petty homeowner stuff that clearly falls under an exemption>?

AI: <proceeds to behave like an ass-covering bureaucrat and tells the person to file one regardless, to their detriment>

We're not gonna go full circle. We're gonna do laps.
by pbasista | 2026-03-02 11:00:44+00:00
This is related to Firefox unwilling to add support for WebUSB because, I suppose, they believe that a browser is not a general purpose application launcher and the scope of what it can do should be limited. As such, it should not be allowed to e.g. control peripherals like the USB devices.

Which is in my opinion a fairly reasonable take.

But given the current situation, I would assume that the companies providing WebUSB tools like installers would also spend a few moments to create e.g. a Python script that would do the same thing but locally. So that anyone unwilling to use WebUSB within their browser can have a vetted and transparent way to get the same thing done.