MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-03-06 20:38:21+00:00
This is quite concerning. Your comment made me somehow wonder if the people of Israel seem to support this war and it turns out that the answer is sort of yes[0]

I remember Witold pilecki during these times although polish, he was the first person to report the allies about the atrocities happening within the holocaust which the allies thought were not even possible, they thought he was exaggerating, that there was no way that this level of atrocity can take place.

Only to see the nation torn up by that atrocity to be in the next few generations be the one supporting a war which has no end in sight, a war which is killing school children, civilians and so many more.

I just pray that the world can get better because I am worried for the jewish population because I am seeing hatred towards the group themselves online. Some of which don't want to do anything with the war and live normal lives, I just hope that they can use their voice to stand for what's right in terms of humanitarianism.

It's gonna be a cycle of hatred which breeds more hatred which is only gonna lead to pain. I hope that people of israel realize the option of peace too and protest against their govt. and I am hearing protests from the US side but not so much from the Israeli side. A world run on wars has no winners. People are also questioning how much US had a say in the war after Marco Rubio's statement and these wars are sadly gonna lead to more anti-semitism in the future affecting the normal jewish population the most.

I genuinely hope that in the future that, Israeli people can try to reflect on the whole situation and try to create an internal pressure to stop war.

Humanity can actually try to uplift itself but it seems that we are flailing downwards.

[0]: https://www.timesofisrael.com/poll-most-jewish-israelis-supp...
by scottLobster | 2026-03-06 20:38:22+00:00
Also scientists generally suck at messaging and persuasion. They think if they just dial up the stakes and consequences a little more, it'll be compelling! Maybe if we make one more documentary with bad CGI disaster movie scenes, that'll do it! Same with the stupid "Doomsday clock" that is somehow always "the closest we've ever been to nuclear war!" whenever it gets trotted out. You'd think people who know what stochastic noise is would realize when they're producing it.

They would have made a lot more headway talking about clean air, clean water, jobs, and a bright prosperous future where we manufacture wind turbines, batteries and solar panels in deep red Missouri. A minority tried that, but most stuck with the catastrophizing for decades and now that they've ruined their social credit no one will listen to the message they should have opened with.

You need people emotionally invested, and it's a lot easier to get them invested in their lives than in the abstract consequences of computer models that are at least 100 years out if they're even accurate. And most people are not independent enough to direct their own lives. If they make the right decisions on abstract concepts, it was more because the incentives/disincentives in their environment were set up correctly than they actually understood the decision they were making. Message accordingly.
by alwillis | 2026-03-06 20:38:38+00:00
The odds are probably pretty low.

The notification is hardware based; the manufacturer of a USB keyboard or mouse won’t matter.

If you plug a hard drive into the slow USB port, macOS will let you know.

There have been thousands of different USB devices plugged into Macs since they adopted it in 1998; I doubt there’s going to be problems now.
by abustamam | 2026-03-06 20:38:52+00:00
Related: https://www.commitstrip.com/en/2016/08/25/a-very-comprehensi...?

At my job, we use a lot of AI to literally move fast and break things when working on internal tools. The idea is that the surface area is low, rollbacks are fast, and the upside is a lot better than the downside (our end users get a better experience to help them do their job better).

But our bottleneck is still requirements for the project. We routinely run out of stuff to do and have to ask for new stuff or work on a different project.

But you're absolutely right. Most people (programmers, managers, etc) don't know exactly what problems need to be solved, or at least, struggle to communicate it adequately for it to be implemented well enough. They say they want X. But they haven't thought about the repercussions of it, or that it requires Y first. AI might be able to help there, but it will give a totally bogus answer if it does not have any context of the domain, which is almost never documented in code.

These are still very much so technical roles, but maybe we are becoming more "technical domain experts."
by pizzathyme | 2026-03-06 20:38:53+00:00
"Scientists may have...that ability could...early experiments suggest...if verified, it could..."

I have become jaded with publications that hedge like this. In my experience most of these discoveries never pan out, they just disappear. And not being in the field myself, I don't know how to judge.

Does anyone in quantum computing have a read on how big a deal this is (or isn't)?
by BoredomIsFun | 2026-03-06 20:38:58+00:00
> more than a small fraction of the overall increase in ram cost

There is nothing vague about the question if prices were scaled or not (and in this pretty much unvague coefficient of ~2x between usd in 2000 and 2026), otherwise there is point in comparing these numbers, as there is no point in comparing inches and cm's without declaring beforehand which number is which.
by schmichael | 2026-03-06 20:38:59+00:00
The world has also gone from 6B to 8B people in that time and from near-0 to Billions of (smart)phones: each phone packed with tech. And that's not even getting into the tech that has crept into every other corner of our lives from cars to health care (medical records were often paper faxed around in 200X).

So while it is a totally different ball game, you would think the 2025 game would support a much much higher floor of tech employees.
by hnthrow0287345 | 2026-03-06 20:39:04+00:00
This stupid industry doesn't have the wherewithal to actually make a good credential and training process like medicine and law, and instead lets everyone come up with their own process to vet people. We could even do it as an apprenticeship model, not like that hasn't served humanity throughout the ages.

I should have a credential I have to maintain every few years, one or two interviews, and that should get me a job.
by jiggawatts | 2026-03-06 20:39:20+00:00
It was quite obviously outdated info.

What people don’t seem to understand is the word “targeted”.

They see some obviously civilian target in ruins with screaming parents outside and they have an instant visceral emotional reaction: “What kind of monster would do something like this on purpose!?”

Practically nobody targets civilian building with expensive precision munitions! They’re expensive! There’s limited supply! Targets are chosen to maximise the military effect.

The problem is that the victims and journalists have “boots on the ground”. They’re right there and can clearly see the civilian nature of the target with their own eyes.

The person doing the targeting from som bunker thousands of miles away can see only blurry rectangles on an outdated map, has sparse intelligence reports, and targets coordinates. They’re not walking up to the missile like it’s some sort of intelligent war animal and whispering “kill civilians!” in its ear.

Similarly, they’re not on the ground standing outside the civilian target waving the missile in with light sticks like some airport tarmac staff.

I repeat: they’re thousands of miles away and have to target hundreds of buildings that all look the same-ish from space and aren’t magically labelled by God as “no longer valid under the Geneva conventions” or whatever.

I’m not saying that this makes war good or in any way ethical, but you can see how a mistake is made that doesn’t require cartoonish evil people to explain.
by sllabres | 2026-03-06 20:39:24+00:00
It's always interesting to see how are things build in the Lumafields "Scan of the month". The the most interesting scan from Lumafield I saw was not a Scan of the month, but in "Adam Savage’s Tested: Surprising Flaws in 18650 Lithium-Ion Batteries" [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Y23nfAOiXQ

PS: Nice company logo btw. ;)
by phil21 | 2026-03-06 20:39:35+00:00
Oh definitely. And our hiring practices are not exactly state of the art. I'll be the first to admit they need a giant amount of improvement.

Most of the good folks have come in via word of mouth and networks, as they typically do.

For those outstanding positions they are "very nice to haves" but obviously not critical. When the right candidate gets matched we'll jump on the opportunity, but it's not an existential problem for the moment.
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by dchisholm125 | 2026-03-06 20:39:48+00:00
LLMs are better at being the "mouth" than the "brain" and I can prove it mathematically. I built a deterministic graph engine that offloads reasoning from the LLM. It reduces token usage by 89% and makes a tiny 0.8B model trace enterprise execution paths flawlessly. Here is the white paper and the reproducible benchmark.
by mmooss | 2026-03-06 20:40:18+00:00
> The world view gets more accurate over time

Is that true? I can imagine it's true at first, going from zero bits of information to 1, etc. But information rots over time, and eventually a collection of old information may rot faster than new information improves the world view.

Also, the overall world view isn't especially important, at least not in this case. Each element's accuracy is what's important.

Hopefully each tag is accompanied by a date, at least.
by cucumber3732842 | 2026-03-06 20:41:46+00:00
>I generally tend to interview every year to see what's out there in the world (sometimes I find something worth switching for, other times not). I'm not even looking very hard but have had 4 interviews in the last month.

You've been interviewing forever. You're the well practiced pickup artist of job searching. Of course you'll be getting the call backs over the other 1000 applicants who don't have the same experience level.
by abustamam | 2026-03-06 20:41:49+00:00
> AI can much faster troubleshoot and resolve production issues than humans

Can, yes, with proper guardrails. The problem is that it seems like every team is learning this the hard way. It'd be great to have a magical robot that could magically solve all our problems without the risk of it wrecking everything. But most teams aren't there yet and to suggest that it's THE way to go without the nuances of "btw it could delete your prod db" is irresponsible at best.
by throw0101d | 2026-03-06 20:42:17+00:00
> I'm well aware the color your skin matters a lot, but your passport also matters, especially at the border.

The way things are currently operating, the border is probably the place you have to worry the least as it's staffed by CBP folks which have probably had training: it's the rest of the country with ICE randos running around that seem to be the worrisome areas. Just ask the South Koreans:

* https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/sep/12/s...

> You're better off with white skin and a US passport than with white skin and a British passport, but you're also better off with brown skin and a US passport than brown skin and a British passport […]

Are we talking at the border or the rest of the country? At the border with CBP a US passport would probably be best. With the rest of the country, with ICE, white skin and a British (or any) passports would probably be 'best'.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Driving_while_black
by grayhatter | 2026-03-06 20:42:56+00:00
> but I did not feel that I knew the codebase enough to be able to actually assess the correctness of the change.

> I want to do good engineering, not produce slop, but for [...]

IFF this is true, you can already stop. This will never be good engineering. Guess and check, which is what your describing, you're letting the statistical probability machine make a prediction, and then instead of verifying it, you're assuming the tests will check your work for you. That's ... something, but it's not good engineering.

> That has to be worth something.

if it was so easy, why hasn't someone else done it already? Perhaps the cost value, in the code base you don't understand isn't actually worth that specific something?

> I could see a few ways forward:

> Send it, but be clear that it came from AI, I don't know if it works, and ask the reviewers to pay special attention to it because of that...

so, off load all the hard work on to the maintainers? Where's that 2 days of eng time your claiming in that case?

> Or Send it as normal, because it passes tests/linters, and review should be the same regardless of author or provenance.

guess, and check; is not good engineering.

> Interestingly, the pro-AI folks almost universally doubled down and said that I should use AI more to gain more confidence – ask how can I test it, how can we verify it, etc – to move my confidence instead of changing how review works.

the pro-ai groups are pro AI? I wouldn't call that interesting. What did the Anti-AI groups suggest?

> the AI "fixed" so many things to "improve" the code that I completely lost all confidence in the change because there were clearly things that were needed and things that weren't, and disentangling them was going to be way more work than starting from scratch.

Yeah, that's the problem with AI isn't it? It's not selling anything of significant value... it's selling false confidence in something of minimal value... but only with a lot of additional work from someone who understands the project. Work that you already pointed out, can only be off loaded to the maintainers who understand the code base...

General follow up question... if AI is writing all the PRs, what happens when eventually no one understands the code base?
by adrian_b | 2026-03-06 20:43:10+00:00
Maildirs too, though not for so many users, but more frequently big files of tens of GB each.

The syncings are done most frequently between Linux using XFS and FreeBSD using UFS, both on NVMe SSDs (Samsung PRO).

As I have said, on 2.5 Gb/s Ethernet, the bottleneck is clearly the network link, so rsync, ssh, sshd and the filesystems are faster than this even on old Coffee Lake CPUs or first generation Epyc CPUs.
by mrweasel | 2026-03-06 20:43:48+00:00
Every now and then I need to go to the recycling station here in Denmark. They have a special container/dumpster just for books. The second hand shops will take a small quantum of books, stores the buy and resell old DVDs, games, records, porn, comics and what-not, no longer buy books as there's no profit in second hand books. The dumpster is always overflowing with books, books that you're not allowed to take.

Germany is a lot more conservative than Denmark, so I wouldn't be surprised if they where more reluctant to throw out books. On the other hand, other than myself, how many people really want to read random novels from the 1970s or a 140 year old book on economics, telling you that Trump is wrong about tariffs?

Maybe with the advent of LLMs, old books will get a resurgence. If a book is printed in the 20th century, at least I know it's written by humans.
by TheFlyingFish | 2026-03-06 20:44:12+00:00
The linked article isn't describing a form of input sanitization, it's a complete separation between trusted and untrusted contexts. The trusted model has no access to untrusted input, and the untrusted model has no access to tools.

Simon Willison has a good explainer on CaMeL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/11/camel/
by elevatortrim | 2026-03-06 20:44:21+00:00
I’d do that in a heartbeat for IWC!

There are of course people who buy Rolexes or whatever for the brand. There are probably more people who buy Mac Books for the logo.

But most people are rational. Most people would pay that much money for a watch only if it does not impact their finances in a meaningful way, but within that, they would want to buy the highest quality they can. And for some people that means an IWC, Omega, Longines, or whatever. If they could buy the same quality from a less known brand, they would. Lots of people buy Grand Seikos at Rolex prices. I buy normal Seikos at $300. We all pay for the quality we can afford.

Brand is important because it is an insurance that you are not being scammed. Besides that, it is not the main factor let alone “era defining” as the article is trying to make it out.
by culi | 2026-03-06 20:44:43+00:00
Besides the well-documented increases in PM2.5 concentrations at ground level we already have clear research on we'd also face

- ozone layer depletion

- reduced precipitation in an area already drought-stricken. As well as other difficult to predict effects on local climate and weather

- alteration of many stratospheric chemical cycles. We're talking changes to nitrogen oxide chemistry and even impacts on hydroxyl radicals which drive atmospheric cleansing capacity

- increased risk of acid rain from sulfuric acid

Like I said. The research is not there. There are many many side effects we haven't worked out yet.

And spare me the personal attacks about dishonesty, jackass
by xpl | 2026-03-06 20:44:51+00:00
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by nradov | 2026-03-06 20:44:52+00:00
That's a meaningless statement. You can find many examples of "working" national healthcare systems (for various definitions of working) and they're all different in how they allocate costs to consumers.

For one example there are some positive aspects to the Japanese system in that they achieve good outcomes (on average) at lower costs. But that's partly due to the "Metabo Law" aka "fat tax" which voters in other countries might see as punitive or discriminatory. I'm not necessarily arguing for any particular approach to lifestyle-related health conditions but any choice involves trade-offs.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/12/07/japan-solved-obe...
by lukan | 2026-03-06 20:45:38+00:00
Here is a bit more info:

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/3/questions-over-minab...

"It can be said with a degree of confidence that, in 2013, the site was used exclusively as a military barracks with a strict security character, as there was no indication of an independent civilian use of any part of the complex.

But this changed radically in 2016. Satellite images dated September 6, 2016 capture the main turning point, when new internal walls were created and built, fully and tightly separating the school building area from the rest of the military block."

If they work with intelligence data older than 10 years, then this would still account to gross negligence, possibly counting as a war crime. But misstakes happen and they did used AI for target tracking.

But the other interpretation is more dark. Because it was not just some school, but a school where the children of the IRGC go, the elite of the system. And Trump said he does not want a regime change, but rather someone from the current system who just bows to US demands. So the threat of killing all the leadership, anyone could be next - but also the threat to kill also their children and familiy until they surrender.

To quote Hegseth:

"no stupid rules of engagement,” “no politically correct wars,” and “no nation-building quagmire.”

Threatening to kill also their families makes sense with this kind of language and logic. At some point you will find someone who values the life of his family higher than that of the nation and religion.

But I do hope my theory is wrong.
by JuniperMesos | 2026-03-06 20:46:03+00:00
Yeah but there's a lot of individual members of society, and nearly all of them benefit from supply chains that emit CO2 and would have to stop doing so in order to not emit the CO2.

If gasoline in the US cost $20/gallon this would reduce the amount of CO2 emissions because suddenly driving a gasoline-powered car is much more expensive for everyone. This would make a lot of ordinary Americans very upset.
by sam_palus | 2026-03-06 20:46:05+00:00
Good find- 2.85% is great for a business savings account.

All that is to say: businesses shouldn't treat all their cash the same way, especially when they have significant runway. The exact breakdown depends on the business, but typically you can think of it as three different buckets:

1) You have short-term cash, which you need immediately. This is where you'd use a checking account. This pays very close to 0% but you have immediate access. Most businesses might keep a few weeks' cash here.

2) You have short-term reserves, which is what you'd use in the next couple of months. This is where most companies might use a savings account (or even put it in a money market fund), where you know you can get the cash into your checking account in ~1 day. This pays between 2.5% and up to maybe 3.75%. Each business will structure their cash differently, and some might not even bother having this bucket.

3) Long term reserves, which you won't touch for months. This is where companies try to optimize yield, and where Palus is valuable. Even here, your money is safe, and in Palus's case can usually be in your checking account within a couple of days, but getting extra yield on long-term reserves can be super valuable.
by anigbrowl | 2026-03-06 20:46:06+00:00
I noted that too.

We need some mechanism in litigation (and imho in public life in general) that requires claims to be secured in some way. That is, if you go into court and make an argument like this, you have to chain it to consequences, such as being stripped of specific legal consequences or losing 10% of your shares or whatever.

It's illegal to commit perjury, but there are no real consequences for making bous legal arguments, and lawyers are structurally incentivized to make tacit misrepresentations on behalf of their clients - that is, to make inflated or handwavey claims in the hope that they're not challenged during the fact-finding stage, or even stipulated, due to an assumption of basic good faith.
by aldarisbm | 2026-03-06 20:46:26+00:00
This guy is... an interesting person.

He had a state file somewhere that was aligned to his current infrastructure... why isn't this on a backend, who really knows...

He then ran it without a state file and the ran a terraform apply... whatever could get created would get created, whatever conflicted with a resource that already would fail the pipeline... moreso... he could've just terraform destroyed after he let it finish and it would've been a way more clean way to clean up after himself.

Except... he canceled the terraform apply... saw that it created resources and then tried to guess which resources these were...

I'm sorry he could've done all of this by himself without any agentic AI. Its PICNIC 100%
by alexjplant | 2026-03-06 20:47:32+00:00
...except for those of us who think that PB&J is a culinary abomination in which case the metaphor disintegrates ;-D (apologies to my mother for having to make me PB-only sandwiches growing up)

I do wonder whether adding chips or bacon to counteract the cloying one-dimensional sweetness of the other ingredients would make me a fan though... chunky natural PB, blackberry jelly, hickory-smoked bacon on ciabatta? Hipster PbB&J might be the ticket.