MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ufmace | 2026-03-02 17:13:09+00:00
Have you taken a look at these so-called legal experts?

https://www.trialmonitors.org/meet-the-committee

Their own description of their experts on their own website reveals that they're like 90% left-wing activists. And all of their statements on their own website are about this one trial.

"Trial Monitors" my butt, this is obviously a left-wing activist group spun up for the specific purpose of creating PR supporting Greenpeace in this trial.
by vampiregrey | 2026-03-02 17:13:16+00:00
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by lenwood | 2026-03-02 17:13:35+00:00
I agree with the majority of your comment. I haven't yet found a use case to justify running this myself. I did find one use case that impressed me though. There's an OpenClaw agent that's actively answering questions on the #help channel of their Discord server[1]. So I asked it a question as I was getting started. It answered in < 2 mins with a detailed explanation of my issue, how to fix it, and asked relevant questions to guide me. The answer was better than I received from Claude or Gemini. I'm still not sure if I personally need OpenClaw, but the Krill bot offers pretty great support. I would be curious to know what it costs them to provide this.

[1] https://discord.com/invite/clawd
by timmyc123 | 2026-03-02 17:14:20+00:00
Hey

I'm the guy you're talking about. Always easy to crap on people when you selectively quote what they said. The core pieces you left out are:

> I don't quite understand why requiring file protection/encryption can't be a temporary minimum bar here.

> or at a minimum require file protection/encryption.

If you think helping users to be safe online (which includes putting basic safeguards in place, like not leaving hundreds of unencrypted private keys on someone's desktop or downloads folder in plain text) isn't an important part of designing solutions for global scale, then we think about things very differently.
by waffletower | 2026-03-02 17:14:26+00:00
I appreciate the tone of this article. I am exhausted by the usual existential fear, but doomers are in good company -- during the development of the OG atom bomb, there was fear of the possibility that the fission chain reaction would not stop and all life-as-we-know-it would be destroyed upon detonation. I look at the idea of a rapid AI induced material "robocalypse" (robot-apocalypse) as a similar projected fear, and the result being similarly unlikely, particularly in the near term (coming decades). Even with AI access to sophisticated 3d fabrication facilities, there will be severe supply chain constraints that would impede an overwhelming spawn of robots. If say China or the United States had a ubiquitous deployment of robots already, with manual and mobility capabilities roughly equivalent to humans, the concern would perhaps actually be warranted. We are far from that. Clownpocalyse fits the bill better. Much of the Clownpocalyse are in the ideas themselves, like Nick Bostrom's paperclip improbability.
by plorkyeran | 2026-03-02 17:15:34+00:00
The primary hard part is testing the old versions. Xcode has decent backdeploy support (Xcode 26 supports targeting iOS 15, the final version to run on the 6S), but there's no way to actually verify that it works other than on an older device that's never been upgraded. It's a pretty substantial increase in testing burden and greatly increases the size of the pile of phones that you need to janitor for your CI setup.

Submitting apps to the app store requires using the latest version of Xcode (with a ~half year lag after a new one comes out), so it's now impossible to submit an update to the app store that supports iOS <15.
by coldpie | 2026-03-02 17:15:41+00:00
I hate to say it but honestly, kinda, yeah... I do think that. Has he done anything significant since the early 1990s? All I've known him for since then is wasting a bunch of years spinning wheels at a virtual reality toy company and posting on Elon Musk's child pornography platform. I would not look to Carmack for tech inspiration in 2026, personally.
by yodsanklai | 2026-03-02 17:15:56+00:00
I'm try to save money and could take an early retirement in 2-3 years if necessary. If I'm fired before that, and if I don't find a job as an SWE or manager, I think I could teach.

But who knows if your job will be gone. There could be more jobs in order to fix the tech debt and AI slop. I'm using Claude daily to write all my code, I wouldn't bet my life on the fact I'm more productive individually, and I don't think my team/company is. But we'll see.
by observationist | 2026-03-02 17:16:06+00:00
This is what I want copyright and patents to be. I could see a case for the initial patent period to go up to 10 years, but more or less operate identically.

Make it apply retroactively. Clean, simple, no exceptions, grandfathered special interests, or variations for special industries.

This nukes all the exploitative actors in the industry, like the textbook publishing industry, patent trolls, IP hoarders like Sony, Disney, etc. It turbocharges culture - gives everyone an even playing field, right when we need it most.

It makes AI use cases clean, but might be worth formalizing - $150 or %15 of revenue relative to the total percentage of a creator's fair-use content in the training data, whichever is greater, and the per item minimum gets decided each year by the office of the copyright, adjusted for inflation, etc.

No more technical gotcha game bullshit making lawyers and giant corporations insanely rich, just in time for the AI revolution, and best of all, it makes vast swathes of data legal for open source and small businesses, with no barrier to entry.

Groups like Anna's Archive and SciHub can come to understandings with publishers, transitioning from pirates to first-class archivists on the internet, letting them engage in legitimate commercial activities without threat of legal peril.

No more soccer moms getting slapped with nonsense million dollar fines by MAFIAA lawyers.

The entire industry of rent seeking copyright grifters gets nuked from orbit, and nobody gets hurt. The old paradigm of middlemen and studios and platforms justifying all the apparatus and exploitation through providing "legal services" and exposure and access to IP goes kaput.
by jbarrettcapone | 2026-03-02 17:16:20+00:00
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by RG1993 | 2026-03-02 17:16:56+00:00
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by skeledrew | 2026-03-02 17:17:34+00:00
They could do that, but then they'd have to then do the actual legwork after, whether that means finding the proposed solution or whatever (after maybe glancing at a few of those pesky links), installing and configuring it. What OpenClaw represents is the ability to, in natural language, state what you want and then take off with the assurance your will will be done. Just as you'd expect when tasking a human assistant.
by robrenaud | 2026-03-02 17:17:44+00:00
What do y'all think about the latency/quality tradeoff with LLMs?

Human voices don't take 30 seconds to think, retrieve, research, and summarize a high quality answer. Humans are calibrated in their knowledge, they know what they understand and what they don't. They can converse in real time without bullshitting.

Frontier real time-ish LLM generated voice systems are still plagued by 2024 era LLM nonsense, like the inability to count Rs in strawberry. [1]

I'd personally love a voice interface that, constrained by the technology of today, takes the latency hit to deliver quality.

[1] https://www.instagram.com/reel/DTYBpa7AHSJ/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWF...
by kathrynloving | 2026-03-02 17:17:59+00:00
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by sgt | 2026-03-02 17:18:01+00:00
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by OkayPhysicist | 2026-03-02 17:18:36+00:00
To be clear, Perfect Day doesn't make "milk" like plant-based milks (think almond "milk", oat "milk", etc). They bioengineered some yeast to grow whey protein directly. The milk they make (made?) probably wouldn't be considered "milk" in the strict sense (they had to get the fat and sugars from plants), but there's really not a good reason to distinguish between "whey protein from cows" and "whey protein from yeast" when it's the same stuff.
by epistasis | 2026-03-02 17:18:37+00:00
For the political movement in control, the law and the constitution exists as a tool to protect the in group, and to restrict the outgroup.

That's why they get so upset at the elected veterans that did a simple video saying "the law says you must disobey unlawful orders," the reason that such a statement is viewed literally as "treasonous" and worthy of "hanging" according to Trump.

Using the law to restrict those in power goes against their fundamental understanding of law. There is no hypocrisy, just a completely different view of what is criminal: namely the other guys are all criminals.
by ryandrake | 2026-03-02 17:18:51+00:00
It's just as bas on Windows. Operating Systems and Applications have been using the user's hard drive as a trash dumping ground for decades. Temporary files, logs, caches, caches of caches, settings files, metadata files (desktop.ini, .fseventsd, .Trashes, .Spotlight-V100, .DS_Store). Developers just dump their shit all over your disk as if it belongs to them. I really think apps should have to ask permission before they can write to files, outside of direct user-initiated command.
by parasubvert | 2026-03-02 17:18:54+00:00
The profit motive is not the reason for a company's existence, it is an optional personal/human motive.

Companies exist to create customers. Everything else follows that. There is no value, no profit, not growth, no action whether moral or immoral, unless you have a customer.

Market incentives by themselves don't tend management decisions towards immorality, unless you've created immoral (or amoral) customers, or you've accepted capital from immoral (or amoral) investors.

It always comes back to people. If your customers or investors are some level of evil (or some degree of amoral), then you as a corporation probably are going to wind up being some level of evil or amoral.

It's up to management and majority ownership to steer those as appropriate... are you're willing to take money from anyone? There's a useful but dangerous veil of ignorance that raises with scale & ubiquity, such as commodity or public equity/debt markets. The resulting anonymity requires diligence from the company, such as Know Your Customer / KYC , and clear statements of the principles & laws of the corporation in its prospectus to attract the right fit of investor... and a backstop of government regulation to encourage or require these minimum standards of behaviour.
by aubanel | 2026-03-02 17:19:45+00:00
I think I have one explanation why for a website, exposing an MCP servers AND having captchas can make sense.

- an agent loading the real page is waste for the server, because the data sent is a few megavytes, and you don't have the usual returns of an user seeing your ads

- BUT API requests (or here, MCP) are much lighter, a few dozen kB, so that makes the ROI positive again

At least that's my view : please tell me, anyone, if that reason doesn't make sense!
by messe | 2026-03-02 17:20:17+00:00
I doubt NetBSD "just works" fully on those systems either. I see a lot of rose tinted glasses when NetBSD portability comes up. Those older systems barely get stress tested, as the system has become too large to be self-hosted on them anymore and has to resort to using cross compilation to build a working base.

At least OpenBSD, when it says it supports a platform, _actually supports that platform_, and the system is stable enough that it can build itself.
by somenameforme | 2026-03-02 17:20:21+00:00
You've gotta separate cause and effect, especially when these things will change in the future. For instance decades ago I had family that worked in construction. They were earning about $20/hour in a rural area back when that was quite a lot of money, even in an urban area.

It was enough that, even with the on-off nature of the work (you're not getting paid when nothing's getting built), they could easily raise a large family very comfortably. Now a day construction in the US pays awfully and a big factor is the large number of illegal migrants working in it for sub-market wages. So you're talking about the necessity of solving a problem by expanding the thing that caused it.

It's very difficult to predict what demographic collapse will look like in a place like the US, but one general trend that might inform us is that fertility within places like the US remains strongly inversely correlated with income. Those who are earning a lot aren't having children, those who aren't earning much - are. Pair that alongside fairly low upward mobility, and again I think it's unlikely that significant numbers of unskilled workers will have any real value in the future (or present).
by nicoburns | 2026-03-02 17:20:26+00:00
> Inside Swift is a slim language waiting to get out... and that slim language is just a safer Objective C.

Rust? Rust is basically a simpler Swift. The objective-c bindings are really nice too, and when you're working with obj-c you don't have have worry about lifetimes too much, because you can lean on the objective-c runtime's reference counting.

I think the way to think about it is that with Rust, it's as if all the goodness in Swift was implemented with in the "C" level, and the Objective-C but is still just library-level a runtime layer on top. Whereas Swift brings it's own runtime which greatly complicates things.
by anon291 | 2026-03-02 17:20:27+00:00
To be totally frank, Islam is the odd one out.

You can call it 'Western' values or 'Christian' values or whatever in order to make it seem chauvinistic all you want, but the simple truth is that these values are often shared by many other religions and places. As an example, look at the success of the Indian Hindus and the Chinese / East Asian Buddhists in the United States and across the globe. For a reverse example, contrary to popular belief, Christians, Sikhs, and Jains in Hindu-majority India are actually richer and more educated on average.

Time and time again, if you go look at the data, you'll find that Islam is almost always the odd one out.

The Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs, Taoists, etc can all be made to get along with Christians or 'the West'. There is really only one pretty much universally problematic religion, and that's Islam. You can argue this point all you want, but the entirety of Islamic history shows it to be true. You can again (correctly, in some cases) point out various bad actions from Christians (or Hindus, Buddhists, Taoists, etc), but the simple truth is this: it's pretty easy today, in 2025, to imagine how to get along with these people. In places with diverse populations and migrants from these places, there is barely any violent religious conflict. At most you get some fundies in a tizzy over someone else doing their thing.

The only one that consistently performs violence is Islam. And that's something Muslims need to figure out. They don't need to abandon their religion. And they certainly do not need to be harmed for their beliefs. But, they do need to figure out how to integrate with the rest of the world in 2025 in a pluralistic global society.
by jon_north | 2026-03-02 17:20:43+00:00
This seems like a very good idea, not just because of the desire to do human archaeology at times, but also to let further agentic exploration occur. It would be best if it became a separate section of the commit that could just be blank or contain other documentation in the case of human authorship. The commit message shouldn't get longer and longer. It should continue to tell the concise story that humans and LLMs alike consume quickly to gain some initial synthesis.

So I like the link's approach quite a bit.
by klh_io | 2026-03-02 17:20:53+00:00
Who asked for this? Who asked for you to burn a couple of forests failing to solve a solved problem? Glancing the README nobody will ever read, your whole reasoning for this is wrong.

Your "guarantees" are fake - https://github.com/Dicklesworthstone/asupersync/blob/main/sr... "can't fail" doesn't mean "ignore errors". Though I don't expect you even understand a line of this slop.
by evolve2k | 2026-03-02 17:21:26+00:00
Counter-point; we are in times of mass upheaval and protest. Purchasing a secure phone is desirable to almost anyone who is increasingly worried about state and corporate actors, especially those that would seek to surveil and coerce. I suspect some will buy these phones as a daily driver, some as a second phone.

Institutional trust is at an all time low, this is a smart move selling into the growing demand for secure devices and it’s in line with Lenovos recent big decision to sell Linux as the default on their new devices.

Finally this seems to be a corporate play itself, most companies also don’t want other companies surveilling their staff and extracting staff secrets. Hence the bringing of enterprise functionality to compliment the ‘secure’ work Graphene are already doing.
by bill_02109 | 2026-03-02 17:21:36+00:00
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by imsofuture | 2026-03-02 17:21:38+00:00
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by dismalaf | 2026-03-02 17:21:43+00:00
To add to this, midrange phones and laptops are now more than "good enough". You can get a phone for a couple hundred dollars that plays just about any game, runs any software, takes good enough pictures.

Laptops too. Look at the Steam Deck or Switch 2, both years old hardware, both very relevant. Laptops with equivalent specs are more than fine for most people.