MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nailer | 2026-03-03 19:38:41+00:00
Regarding the tube:

> TfL owns the advertising spaces and maintains its own Advertising Policy, which sets stricter standards than general UK advertising rules (enforced by the Advertising Standards Authority, or ASA, and the Committees of Advertising Practice, CAP). All ads must comply with both the ASA/CAP codes and TfL's specific guidelines, which cover issues like offence, sexual content, violence, political advertising, health claims, and more (e.g., restrictions on high-fat/sugar/salt food ads since 2019).
by nz | 2026-03-03 19:38:56+00:00
Your workplace has chosen to deprive you of the enjoyment that you got from the work. You have a few options: (1) ask for a raise proportional to the percentage of enjoyment that you lost, (2) find a workplace that does not do this, or (3) phone it in (they see you and your craft as something be milked for cash, so maybe stop letting yourself get milked, and milk them right back, by doing _exactly_ what is asked of you and _not_ more -- let these strategic geniuses strategize using their own brains).
by jlokier | 2026-03-03 19:39:33+00:00
> in fact Apple does bundle a power adapter with their laptops, just not on the cheapest models.

Here in the UK, they no longer include the power adapter even with the top models. I just specced out a fully-loaded M5 Max Macbook Pro, 128GB RAM, 8TB storage on the Apple Store, and it doesn't include a power adapter by default.

The 140W power adapter can be added as an option to the MacBook Pro for an additional £99 + VAT, or purchased separately. If you purchase separately you can of course choose a lower-power adapter for a lower price.

Now that a power adapter isn't included and you have to pay for it separately, it might make more sense to get one of the good brands of GaN power adapters instead, because they are smaller than the Apple ones for the same power, and have more ports.
by jmyeet | 2026-03-03 19:39:53+00:00
There are a bunch of videos showing how expensive it is to fire certain weapons eg [1]. Not only are there our direct costs but we're also supplying several allies with munitions and weapon systems and paying for them ourselves.

Also, yes carrier groups exist anyway, but operating them in a combat zone halfway around the world is way more expensive.

Operation Epstein Fury [sic] is a giant white elephant and I think more Americans should know how much this is costing as well as why we're doing it, which is simply to support American imperialism with a lie similar to the IRaq WMD lie and that is that Iran is "weeks away" from nuclear weapons, a lie that's been told and propagated since at least 1992 [2].

President Eisenhower warned of the dangers of the expanding military-industrial complex in his 1961 farewell address [3]. Every bomber, every plane, every missile has an eye-watering cost when you put it int erms of schools, houses or healthcare. The recent ICE budget, for example, could've ended homelessness. Not for the year. Forever.

Israel begged every president since Reagan to invade Iran. They all declined. Until now. And many suspect we're going to run out of anti-missile munitions long before Iran runs out of ballistic missiles.

Just remember, every used munition eneds to be replaced. That's a new contract and new profit opportunity. It's why in so many post-WW2 conflicts you'll find American weapons on both sides.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6mWI8Q6IwA

[2]: https://www.tiktok.com/@therecount/video/7612744750713589023

[3]: https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/president-dwigh...
by kjshsh123 | 2026-03-03 19:40:17+00:00
No, that's not what is happening. From the paper:

>The reason is that markups along the chain of intermediation between importer and consumer can scale up the percent pass-through in
tariff costs, cumulating over distribution stages and resulting in a direct dollar impact on prices
to be greater than tariffs paid, even though the percent change in consumer price is less than the
tariff ad-valorem rate.

The retailer is paying more for its stock. Everyone loses despite higher prices.
by barrkel | 2026-03-03 19:40:26+00:00
$50 will last you a good long time if you don't use many tokens, and you are judicious about which model you use, and don't need web search much.

However, on a fixed price plan your behavior changes. It's a qualitative change in how you work, rather than quantitative. Ideation and product design and specification start becoming bottlenecks.

I started out the API route. I started spending $100 a month once I was spending upawards of $10 in tokens a session.
by sonofhans | 2026-03-03 19:40:42+00:00
The riveting sounds, as you say, horrifying. Congrats on making it your own again.

It’s still remarkable to me that it’s even possible to do it at all. The amount of tech and miniaturization crammed into that thing — it would be easier for them to rivet, weld, and glue every part, and cheaper. And if the build quality weren’t so high to begin with, it wouldn’t have withstood the repair at all.

A good friend has a Framework, and it’s cool as hell, but incredibly primitive compared with your M1.
by mothballed | 2026-03-03 19:40:58+00:00
The two times the state threatened to take my child was

(1) At the park, where they threatened to jail me and take my child until I could get a woman on the phone (any female voice, they did not check) to say a woman gives a man of a different race permission to play with a child, and if not I must be a kidnapper.

(2) When my child took the bus, instead of releasing her to walk on her own I was given a timer to pick her up and if not she'd be put in the custody of child services. They would not allow her to walk independently to/from the bus stop, even though she had permission to do so.

If you don't believe these things happened, fine, I am not going to write a cited dissertation. But they have affected and colored the changes for the level of independence in how my children grew up, vs how I did. If things haven't changed on that front for you, then consider yourself lucky.
by tredre3 | 2026-03-03 19:41:03+00:00
He was wrong about refusing to make gcc more modular by fear that it would be used to insert proprietary plugins, which is why llvm is behind every new language or dev tool now and gcc is only relevant because the kernel still depends on it (for now).

His opinions on software have been largely out of touch for the past 20 years. People might yearn for his ideals, but it's just not the world we live in.
by capitainenemo | 2026-03-03 19:41:46+00:00
I agree. I was putting a shout out for MATE as the option for those who want a predictable traditional UI since it is essentially the long-term maintenance of GNOME 2.

When GNOME 3 was first released, I gave it an honest try for several months but it just did not do what I wanted in a UI. MATE competes well with XFCE on memory usage, still has optional acceleration, and had a more consistent interface with more features (although XFCE has improved). And the fact that those in the family don't have to learn a new layout really helps.
by mschuster91 | 2026-03-03 19:42:03+00:00
> If we can't bill a customer for it, and it's not scaling regularly, then it shouldn't be in the public cloud. That's my take, anyway. It sucks the wind from the sails of folks gung-ho on the "fringe benefits" of public cloud spend (box seats, junkets, conference tickets, etc...), but the finance teams tend to love such clear numbers.

I agree, but.

For one, it's not just the machines themselves. You also need to budget in power, cooling, space, the cost of providing redundant connectivity and side gear (e.g. routers, firewalls, UPS).

Then, you need a second site, no matter what. At least for backups, ideally as a full failover. Either your second site is some sort of cloud, which can be a PITA to set up without introducing security risks, or a second physical site, which means double the expenses.

If you're a publicly listed company, or live in jurisdictions like Europe, or you want to have cybersecurity insurance, you have data retention, GDPR, SOX and a whole bunch of other compliance to worry about as well. Sure, you can do that on-prem, but you'll have a much harder time explaining to auditors how your system works when it's a bunch of on-prem stuff vs. "here's our AWS Backup plans covering all servers and other data sources, here is the immutability stuff, here are plans how we prevent backup expiry aka legal hold".

Then, all of that needs to be maintained, which means additional staff on payroll, if you own the stuff outright your finance team will whine about depreciation and capex, and you need to have vendors on support contracts just to get firmware updates and timely exchanges for hardware under warranty.

Long story short, as much as I prefer on-prem hardware vs the cloud, particularly given current political tensions - unless you are a 200+ employee shop, the overhead associated with on-prem infrastructure isn't worth it.
by afry1 | 2026-03-03 19:42:09+00:00
At least with a person, you can say that there's one person in your org that understands the code after they write it and submit it for review.

Maybe they stick around for a while, maybe they move on to another job, but they were THERE at some point. They have a name. You can ask them questions about what they did. And hey, they still exist in the real world too, so you can get in touch with them even after they leave if you need to.

AI powered development is like a guy shows up, gets hired for 90 seconds, writes part of a feature, and dies instantly once the code hits the screen.
by yieldcrv | 2026-03-03 19:42:12+00:00
I have an M1 Max Macbook Pro, and having used many employer's newer variants of M-series macbook's since then, I'm still very satisfied with my M1 Max but

the air series is really good, and very light

my M1 is now noticeably heavy and I don't think upgrading to another Macbook Pro is the move the resell value of the M1 did not hold, specifically the bumped up storage models. There doesn't seem to be a market for 8TB of space specifically, but the base 1 - 2TB holds its value because the baseline of the MBP holds its value

M5 Max looks tempting if there is a very compelling tradein, but the M1 Max is pretty old so I don't have real hope of that, but I'll look. For AI Inference the difference doesn't seem good enough yet and necessary enough. I'll still need to use the cloud or aspire to have a specialized machine with more RAM or circuitry on my network.
by strangecasts | 2026-03-03 19:42:43+00:00
It drives me a little bonkers that the UK already tried implementing age verification in 2019, with an approach that would have been easy to make verifiably anonymous: buying a single-use code from a newsagent who checks your age with ID [1], but can't connect the code to you specifically

That attempt officially failed because the UK failed to inform the EU about it, but I suspect it was also much harder to sell people on having to buy "porn passes" than on "just" kicking kids off phones

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2019/oct/16/uk-drops-pla...
by fc417fc802 | 2026-03-03 19:42:44+00:00
It's not paradoxical and the attitude expressed by GP that it's not "rational" is exactly the sort of thinking that leads to rationality getting a bad name.

Cooperation to the detriment of the individual in the animal world is exactly the same phenomenon in a much simpler system. That is widely and repeatedly evolved so we know for a fact that the game theory works out in a vacuum (ie without human cultural factors).

Any high trust cultural behavior is similar.
by adriand | 2026-03-03 19:42:46+00:00
> The US has protected global sea lanes for 80 years.

But rather than protect global sea lanes, the US is bombing Iran. That’s not the same thing.

The idea that the war isn’t costing money for personnel because those people would be doing something anyway makes no sense. They could be doing something else. In fact, they could be doing something that increases the wealth and wellbeing of the world, rather than destroying things. So from that perspective, the cost is far higher than what is shown here.

Then there’s the loss of innocent lives. It would be unconscionable to put a price tag on the lives of dozens of Iranian girls killed when their school was flattened and to show it on this website, and yet, this is not “free” either.
by juris | 2026-03-03 19:43:58+00:00
hard disagree

when you couch it as a left vs right instead of a top vs down problem you will lock yourself (and your immediate circle) up in the hardline media items the people who lobby both sides will control.

as disclosure: i am socially liberal and fiscally conservative except in matters relating to education, which i believe should be free (and tuition rate controlled). never voted for trump, never will. wanted to write in bernie for the first pass until he dropped, then threw for the queen of england. i didn't vote in the last election. i consider ice to be an illegal and fascist arm of too large a state.

the most arresting argument i've heard a leftist say (which i agree with) is: there is a distribution of wealth at which a free market fails and we are long past that, especially given our failure to bust monopolies and enforce antitrust law.

that enables entities who lobby both sides of the policy spectrum to position us against each other. epstein played this well: how else do you get neoconservatives bubbling out of 4chan as an answer to thundercat tumblr kids? it's all divide-and-conquer (and over the most inane issues).

now, tell me: do you want to support eurasia or oceania? or do you want to put the puppeteers in jail?
by topspin | 2026-03-03 19:44:05+00:00
"Is something like this competitive, or preferred, in certain applications?"

They cite a very specific use case in the linked story: Virtualized RAN. This is using COTS hardware and software for the control plane for a 5G+ cell network operation. A large number of fast, low power cores would indeed suit such a application, where large numbers of network nodes are coordinated in near real time.

It's entirely possible that this is the key use case for this device: 5G networks are huge money makers and integrators will pay full retail for bulk quantities of such devices fresh out of the foundry.
by bpt3 | 2026-03-03 19:44:19+00:00
What exactly is your issue?

Once again, I'm not the one who said they would like to design a new browser extension framework, but I have created custom versions of Firefox that have all ability to phone home removed and modified extension support. So not verifying every single line of code, but making fairly substantial changes in the direction the parent poster wanted to go in.

I'm interested in a conversation about that, not you pestering me about whatever issue I seem to have triggered within you that resulted in your interjections in this conversation.
by brailsafe | 2026-03-03 19:44:26+00:00
I don't see it mentioned much, but the most exciting thing to me is that they're shipping their own WiFi chip in it, which leads me to be hopeful that they'll eventually get around to shipping a cell modem so I don't have to tether to my phone constantly. Still no new colours unfortunately. I think those are the two things that would/will be exciting in the future. Give me a green 5g+ capable MBP and I'll be happy. I'm so deeply bored of the drab grey and darker grey versions; we can have tattoos at work now, give me a different colour laptop for christ's sake
by lifis | 2026-03-03 19:44:40+00:00
You could perhaps show the "instant" reply right away and provide a button labeled "Think longer and give me a better answer" that starts the thinking model and eventually replaces the answer.

For this to work well, the instant reply must be truly instant and the button must always be visible and at the same position in the screen (i.e. either at the top or bottom, of the answer, scrolling such that it is also at the top or bottom of the screen), and once the thinking answer is displayed, there should be a small icon button to show the previous instant answer.
by sonofhans | 2026-03-03 19:45:00+00:00
Can I just lean on my cane for a second, and say that the first machine I connected to a network had 256KB RAM, and I considered myself lucky to have so much. My 150 baud modem downloaded text slower than I could read it.

I know how we got to these large numbers. Shit, I helped build the road. It still blows my brains out.
by einpoklum | 2026-03-03 19:45:58+00:00
Age verification is quite bogus. Parents can stand over their children's shoulder and force them to do or not do one thing or the other (and maybe not even them); but some website dictating which content young people can watch or not watch - not acceptable. And if you want to make a "protect the delicate mind of children" argument - let's first see some censoring of all of the ads, sponsored content, and state and corporate propaganda as unfit for viewing by underaged people; which is, of course, never going to happen.
by Fr0styMatt88 | 2026-03-03 19:46:29+00:00
There’s a solid use case for matte screens. I use an 800R curved monitor and there’s absolutely no way that would work for me if it wasn’t matte. I know this because when I glance over at my coworker’s 1200R glossy screen it’s like looking in a funhouse mirror.

Edge use case I know.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-03-03 19:46:33+00:00
So park_match is the arbiter of what tasks should and should not be done on your phone?

> You should do your taxes on the train". No, I don't think that I will. You're free to stress yourself out like that. Have fun.

I along with 90% of the taxpayers in the US take the standard deduction - meaning my taxes are stupid simple.

I logged into the TurboTax app, it offered to download my w2’s, I answered five questions, entered the date that I wanted IRS to take out the taxes we owed and we were done. I don’t have to even file state taxes for the state I live in?

How would that have been easier from a computer? In fact it would have been harder if I had to use a computer because the other option I had to submit my W2 was to take a picture of it.
by frshgts | 2026-03-03 19:46:54+00:00
I recently spoke with an engineer who was building a product using the information he is able to acquire from these data brokers. This includes every search query you've ever made, anything you've purchased with a credit card, and anything that is in the public record (i.e. a pending divorce case, or child custody dispute). He uses that information to generate a profile on leads to determine how much they can squeeze from this person in whatever deal they are making. (I'm not going to get more specific than that.) This person had no incentive to lie to me about what they were building.

The data trail you are creating is much more personal and invasive than you want to imagine, and in the wrong hands it could be used to devastating effect.
by jasomill | 2026-03-03 19:47:35+00:00
I agree, and use a 55" LG OLED TV similarly. Got it on sale for $1,300.

Especially nice in a small apartment where I use the same display for video, gaming, and desktop.

No USB-C, but HDMI works better for long cable runs anyway, so I can keep my (non-laptop) computers in the other room and just "dock" my wireless input devices to a USB-C charger as needed.

Thunderbolt would be even worse, as even if I could somehow get Thunderbolt out of an Nvidia GPU, I'm not aware of any devices that would allow switching between multiple Thunderbolt inputs, and 4 sufficiently long optical Thunderbolt cables would probably cost more than the display itself.

As for crisp text, I'll replace it with a 120 Hz 8K display in a few years if the price is right. In the mean time, I value screen real estate far higher (and dislike multi-monitor setups).
by hirvi74 | 2026-03-03 19:47:53+00:00
> I don't get the step relative thing, but if you do, but don't want to do anything to your step child.

I do not understand such desires either. Though, you reminded me of an 'Ask Me Anything (AMA)' on Reddit I read many years ago. The subject of the AMA was a person that worked in the adult entertainment industry for some significant amount of time. Not as an actor or actress, but in the 'behind the scenes' business/production operations.

I still remember reading a question someone ask which could be paraphrased as, "Why does the industry push so much taboo titled and themed content like: just turned 18, barely legal, incest, step-siblings, step-parents, etc.?"

The person answering questions responded by stating that it wasn't the industry that created a lot of this themed content in hopes people would expand their desires. Rather, it was the industry directly reacting to what people seemed to want in the first place based off the analytics they could capture. The industry started to notice that content with such themes really outperformed. In other words, if you want your content to be competitive, then it's essentially obligatory.
by bawolff | 2026-03-03 19:48:05+00:00
> But rather than protect global sea lanes, the US is bombing Iran. That’s not the same thing.

Arguably the primary threat to modern sea lanes is Iran.

Right now Iran is harrasing traffic. Previously the Houthis, generally considered an Iranian proxy, were harrasing traffic. Its all kind of the same war, this is just the end game.
by stopbulying | 2026-03-03 19:48:14+00:00
United States involvement in regime change: 1952–1953: Iran [BP], 2026: Iran https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r...

2025 United States strikes on Iranian nuclear sites
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_United_States_strikes_on_...

2026 Iran massacres https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Iran_massacres

2026 Iran conflict https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Iran_conflict
by shykes | 2026-03-03 19:48:33+00:00
In moments like this, it's useful to have a "break glass" mode in your CI tooling: a way to run a production CI pipeline from scratch, when your production CI infrastructure is down. Otherwise, if your CI downtime coincides with other production downtime, you might find yourself with a "bricked" platform. I've seen it happen and it is not fun.

It can be a pain to setup a break-glass, especially if you have a lot of legacy CI cruft to deal with. But it pays off in spades during outages.

I'm biased because we (dagger.io) provide tooling that makes this break-glass setup easier, by decoupling the CI logic from CI infrastructure. But it doesn't matter what tools you use: just make sure you can run a bootstrap CI pipeline from your local machine. You'll thank me later.
by paddez | 2026-03-03 19:48:43+00:00
There's a subset of people in Ireland who are legally required to write down an ID on their vehicle, that can be matched to a name/photograph in seconds.

https://www.transportforireland.ie/getting-around/by-taxi/dr...

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Additionally, in plenty of European Countries, it's pretty common to write your name on your address:
https://c8.alamy.com/comp/B01RP4/personal-name-plates-at-blo...
by msp26 | 2026-03-03 19:48:45+00:00
What the fuck is this price hike? It was such a nice low end, fast model. Who needs 10 years of reasoning on this model size??

I'm gonna switch some workflows to qwen3.5.

There's a lot of tasks that benefit from just having a mildly capable LLM and 2.5 Flash Lite worked out of the box for cheap.

Can we get flash lite lite please?

Edit:
Logan said:
"I think open source models like Gemma might be the answer here"

Implying that they're not interested in serving lower end models?
by teraflop | 2026-03-03 19:49:22+00:00
Unsettling, yes, but not strange at all.

Given that OpenAI is working with and doing business with the US military, it makes perfect sense that they would try to normalize militaristic usage of their technologies. Everybody already knows they're doing it, so now they just need to keep talking about it as something increasingly normal. Promoting usages that are only sort of military is a way of soft-pedaling this change.

If something is banal enough to be used as an ordinary example in a press release, then obviously anybody opposed to it must be an out-of-touch weirdo, right?