MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by marcusb | 2025-04-17 15:51:22+00:00
> If this was a top-down DOGE directive, why the immediate reversal? Did DOGE suddenly change its mind?

From the man himself:

“We will make mistakes. We won’t be perfect. But when we make a mistake, we’ll fix it very quickly,” Musk, a Trump-appointed special government employee, said Wednesday in defense of his group’s haphazard cuts while looming over the Cabinet table. “So for example with USAID, one of the things we accidentally canceled—very briefly—was Ebola prevention."[0]

> The fact that the contract lasted 25 years _is_ relevant. It shows that this wasn't some minor side project. CVE is foundational infrastructure. You don’t accidentally let something like that expire unless someone either massively screwed up or there was serious internal confusion.

See previous quote about ebola funding, another long-term government program.

Look, if you want to play this game where because a DOGE spokesperson hasn't directly come out and said "yep, it was us", then I'll point you back to my original post: I said it was reasonable to assume, not that it was proven fact.

But, if you look at the totality of this situation and think 'nope. no way DOGE was involved. This is just people "blaming DOGE for everything"'. Fine. You do you. I don't think there is any point in continuing this conversation.

0 - https://newrepublic.com/post/192082/elon-musk-fact-check-dog...
by whoknowsidont | 2025-04-17 15:51:23+00:00
All of their products helped the sector they are in. They didn't "dump" into it. Google continually improved areas where other companies previously refused to, even if they were charging for their services.

Mail. Internet browsers? Does it really need to be stated? Open source. Kubernetes. Open source. Tensor architecture. Freely released.

I don't see the argument for breaking Google up other than people are holding some vendetta against Google for being successful AND a pretty good citizen in the overall landscape so to speak.

If anyone needs to be broken up it's Microsoft. Microsoft actively harms every other competitor by bundling all their services together to the point where businesses won't even look at other software (teams? Azure is basically sold on nepotism).
by kypro | 2025-04-17 15:51:26+00:00
I hold the opinion that any parent willing allowing their child use content apps like TikTok and YouTube unsupervised are knowingly harming their children and should be ashamed of their behaviour. And if this is you then shame on you.

It's honestly shocking what kids are watching on these apps. "Brain-rot" is obviously a funny euphemism that's come about for this content in recent years, but it's a pretty good description of reality. I watched a kid last weekend skipping YouTube every 30 seconds because he couldn't concentrate beyond a minute, and the content he was watching included a video featuring a dude who lives a house full of piss bottles. The kid in question is 7 for context.

The fact his mum just allows him to do this for hours on end I think is disgraceful. It's so obviously doing him harm and despite the vast majority of people being aware that these apps are harming children for some reason (I guess because it's legal) there is no moral outrage. It's vile parents are doing this to their children.
by ccozan | 2025-04-17 15:51:27+00:00
Yeah but this is the old debate old vs new. Plus is not the kids is the parents.

Let me give another example: a nice village where I spend my childhood. Every day on the streets, forests, you name it. No time/hours limit, no space limit - play until fully tired. Now, visiting again, there are no kids on the streets. I thought to ask my relatives and people I know. And I find out that is not that kids do not want to play outside, they are _not allowed_ to play outside!!.

Why? "the kids are now kidnapped from the street" - "how?" "I heard from a neihbour from her cousin that lives in the village 10km that this happened!" ( not true - the kid got in a black car which was the uncle showing of his new BMW )..". Another example "Rapist are now free!" ... "no way!" "Yes, yes, this happened" ( was a case 3 years ago in a city 30 km away - a normal man got in a quarrel with a girl and the little mischevious said to get away that he touched ...no comment ).

yelling_and_pulling_hair.tiff
by Fubwubs | 2025-04-17 15:51:39+00:00
This model maps weights to ternary values {-1, 0, 1} (aka trits). One trit holds log(3)/log(2) ≈ 1.58 bits of information. To represent a single trit by itself would require 2 bits, but it is possible to pack 5 trits into 8 bits. This article explains it well: https://compilade.net/blog/ternary-packing

By using 4 ternary weights per 8 bits, the model is not quite as space-efficient as it could be in terms of information density. (4*1.58)/8 = 0.79 vs (5*1.58)/8 = 0.988 There is currently no hardware acceleration for doing operations on 5 trits packed into 8 bits, so the weights have to be packed and unpacked in software. Packing 5 weights into 8 bits requires slower, more complex packing/unpacking algorithms.
by throwanem | 2025-04-17 15:51:49+00:00
More to add, but I would like to note first that I suggested making a game of configuring an MDM profile (indeed natively miserable! Why else suggest inviting along a whole kid to try to make it tolerable, lol) and never suggested that manual filtering must be synchronous filtering.

Download tools and selfhosted video streaming tools exist for YT content. I run them myself. I learned to set them up based on a couple of HN commenters' passing mentions that it was easier than I had made it out to be, by following search terms from their comments, and by screwing around breaking things till they quit falling apart on me.

In other words, old-fashioned sysadmin work, of the kind I loudly hate and quietly love to. In aggregate, it took about two days' (ie ca 16h though not as closely tracked as if billing ofc) work, and though my notes are aides-memoires in no fit state for publication, I would be happy to share them privately and save you some of that time.

(This offer stands for any reader, and my email is in my profile here; to see those, click on the name above this or any comment. My fifty-year-old, brilliant but determinedly nontechnical, beloved catty bitch of an ex-boyfriend had much derision for the content of my library, but none for the quality of service. I confide you won't disappoint your family too badly, either.)

eta: What I wanted to add is this, a short and I hope not too dull piece which I wrote now almost a decade ago. Please excuse the state you find it in; my old website broke ages ago and this needs a rewrite anyway for that the man proved far more vile than I yet knew to paint him. But I think it still can stand as a hint of my real feelings on these matters, which might surprise you somewhat. https://web.archive.org/web/20220125083230/https://aaron-m.c...
by chrismdp | 2025-04-17 15:51:58+00:00
I think the building blocks of the most impressive experiences will come from choosing the exact right point to involve an LLM, the orchestration of the component pieces, and the user experience.

That's certainly what I found in games. The games which felt magic to play were never the ones with the best hand rolled engine.

The tools aren't there yet to ignore prompts, and you'll always need to drop down to raw prompting sometimes. I'm looking forward to a future where wrangling prompts is only needed for 1% of my system.
by moate | 2025-04-17 15:51:59+00:00
So the thing about "crime" is that everyone is doing it daily, and just not knowing/being caught. The whole "we'll report on political opponents" is absolutely the value of the software, it's just not reporting anything they can use in court, so it's just boring spying.

The cynical take is that the whole "law-abiding citizens" differentiation is just a way to say "I want this focused on out-group, not targeting in-group bad guys we're not interested in prosecuting". Think about who runs around saying "true Americans" or "patriots" to mean "my coalition" as opposed to a more objective definition.
by lucianbr | 2025-04-17 15:52:00+00:00
Those are both reasoned arguments. The emotional argument would be "some guy is so bothered by sexual abuse he wants to ban lightbulbs because once he heard about a lightbulb in the context of an abuse". The "solution" is not really a solution, but the emotional person does not really care about solutions, he's too emotional to think straight.

At least that is how I see the word used.
by danenania | 2025-04-17 15:52:35+00:00
Yeah, you're spot on. Rather than just continuously marketing and iterating on the v1, which was designed more for AI codegen's early experimental phase, I decided to go heads down on engineering and try to get to more of a step change on reliability and robustness.

It's not a total rewrite and is still based on v1's foundations, but quite a lot of the core functionality has been reworked.
by troyvit | 2025-04-17 15:53:11+00:00
Is it TikTok harming the kids or families who don't regulate their kids doing the harm?

In other words if I leave my kid alone in the house with a liquor cabinet, and the kid gets drunk every day, did the liquor do the harm or did I?

That's an imperfect analogy though, because -- at least in the U.S. -- our society has already aligned itself such that our institutions and our devices raise our kids, not our families. As long as we keep that norm, then in a nation that values free speech and capitalism as much as the U.S. does, we're certain to have this problem.

So as another commenter said, if we ban TikTok something slightly more benign will take its place, and that's because we aren't dealing with the real issue: we don't raise our kids anymore.

Personally I look at the commonality of nuclear families[1] as a big culprit here. Once you isolate kids from aunts, uncles, cousins and grandparents you're left with just the parents to raise them. Those not rich enough to afford daycare have to either split the duty so they can afford a roof over their heads or leave the kids alone.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_family#Compared_with_e...
by wswope | 2025-04-17 15:53:36+00:00
Since you’re the only other person in this thread to mention it, I’m surprised the industry has been sleeping so hard on QuickJS as a scripting language runtime.

I think the lack of batteries-included stdlib is probably the biggest holdup, but JS can be much nicer than python for anything that can be decomposed into map/reduce/filter string munging.
by tw04 | 2025-04-17 15:54:15+00:00
Specifically calling out kids? No. But that also isn’t a law. “This hurts the mental well being of children” isn’t a statute.

For causing harm in general? Yes.

>The FTC’s argument hinges, in part, on its claim that Meta harmed users after acquiring the two companies by increasing the quantity of ads and watering down privacy protections.

> This site is hardly representative of the average citizen. In my daily life, local news, etc., most people I encounter will talk about how bad TikTok is for children but barely (if ever) mention harms of other social media.

And yet in my daily life almost everyone one in my circle of friends has deleted Facebook because of their disgust with the platform. Ironically the biggest issue is the number of people that don’t understand Instagram is also a meta property.
by 9rx | 2025-04-17 15:54:16+00:00
If you intended to reply to a different thread and accidentally ended up here instead, there is truth to what you say, but it has nothing to do with this one.

As it pertains to this thread, where the sole key holder is dead and took the knowledge with him, how do you anticipate to carry out gaining access to the data using live attacks? There are plenty of reasons why the government wants access to data even where prosecution isn't necessary.
by BSDobelix | 2025-04-17 15:54:18+00:00
Just call it universal healthcare, a toddler would think something is free because you do not have to pay for a service immediately. For most people in Europe paying for healthcare is number two or even number one expense, no real concern for the really poor or really rich but kicks the nuts of the lower-middle to middle incomes.

The only people who call it "free" are from the US, not a single european would call it "free".
by sebastiennight | 2025-04-17 15:54:26+00:00
My theory is that brain-dead slop gets more view time.

Similar to the theory that Netflix movies are optimized to be mediocre without a satisfying ending because it keeps you unsatisfied enough to keep watching something else

Think of it: challenging satisfying content is like a plate of fresh fruit or veggies. You can only spend so much time consuming it before you're full.

AI-generated viral conspiracy SHOCKING FACE content is like chocolate-coated salted nuts for your brain: no fiber, you can consume unlimited amounts for an infinite amount of time (which means watching aaaaall the included ads)
by griffzhowl | 2025-04-17 15:54:29+00:00
Living underwater puts a dampener (didn't intend this atrocious pun, sry about that) on any technology that depends on fire. So smelting ores seems out of the question, and of course radios are made out of lots of pieces of metal.

I can't think of any plausible ways a water-bound species would be able to harness and use electricity either
by fzeroracer | 2025-04-17 15:54:45+00:00
The claim I was refuting was that the government does not consider Accessibility under DEIA. That's it. And in the plain text of the executive order, they include it.

And please, reread the executive order. I can't believe I need to explain to two separate people what is said in the plainest, clearest language possible:

> (a) The Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), assisted by the Attorney General and the Director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), shall coordinate the termination of all discriminatory programs, including illegal DEI and “diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility” (DEIA) mandates, policies, programs, preferences, and activities in the Federal Government, under whatever name they appear

It says the termination of ALL discriminatory programs, including but not limited to 'illegal DEIA'. This is clear that they, by definition, consider DEIA as a whole discriminatory. And it takes all of five seconds to check how the admin has been behaving over the past few months to see that this is what they are doing.
by tialaramex | 2025-04-17 15:54:55+00:00
Design bug here: Clearly we need to run code as somebody, so, there's no reason to have infrastructure which just executes user code with the current context or server (presumably? or maybe an actual zero, ie root) context.

If we design the software this way, when we try to write the erroneous code we're caught - oh, wait, which user is authenticated? We need to... oh... we shouldn't be here without authenticating.
by throwaway1854 | 2025-04-17 15:55:21+00:00
In the U.S. people under 18 are allowed to own and shoot firearms, typically rifles. It's silly to allow that that and then complain about a tiny box that shows videos.

Parents are responsible for their children. If a parent doesn't feed their kid, they go to jail. If a parent harms or allows harm through negligence to children, the parent is the one who suffers the consequences and has the child taken away.

If a parent is giving a child a phone and allowing them to use a harmful product, the parent is at fault and should suffer the consequences. Not the rest of us. I don't know why I should have my access to anything restricted because of bad parents. Parents choose to be parents and have and/or keep children and that is their business. Bad parents should suffer consequences and one of those can be no longer being allowed to be a parent.

It's one thing if a provider is specifically trying to get children on its platform - and if a company advertises its services in public places, it's again on the parent to be in control there. Social media companies aren't holding a gun to children's heads trying to get them to join. Kids wanting to do stuff because other kids think it is cool has always existed and that happens when children are not supervised or disciplined. Kids not doing what they are supposed to be doing of their own choice is a parental failure.

Someone under 18 shouldn't be able to purchase a cell phone, and if a parent wants to get them a cell phone, then the parent should accept responsibility for everything on that phone.

The addiction argument is tired. Anything pleasurable can be addictive. If you want people addicted to less things, design society where everyday life is less boring (getting rid of 2 hour commutes and having more parks would be a good start).
by carstenhag | 2025-04-17 15:56:10+00:00
It's a very common misconception that it's legal to own/keep a gun (after having done military service) but not being able to get/keep ammunition.

According to this video you can't keep preciously-lent ammunition from the military. But you can for sure buy your own.

https://youtu.be/L00Pajw4NoY

As to why people don't use it or aren't scared, I guess they just aren't as wild...
by MarkusQ | 2025-04-17 15:56:46+00:00
> The reviewers of Science were not and unless proven otherwise Science is a serious publication.

Serious publication or not (which, BTW, is an instance of the Argument from Authority fallacy), they aren't immune to the problem of junk science.[1]

> That's plain racism.

Not the OP, but I believe the intended reading of "Chinese" in this context is "product of the present Chinese social and economic system" and has nothing to do withe race or ethnicity (e.g. it wouldn't apply to Taiwan). The present Chinese system has a significant problem with bad science.[2]

[1] http://retractiondatabase.org/RetractionSearch.aspx#?jou%3dS...

[2] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11948-017-9939-6

"China with 4353 retracted articles out of 2,741,274 documents is the leading nation in breaching scientific integrity."
by chii | 2025-04-17 15:56:56+00:00
> Antitrust rules which prevented anyone from bidding it would protect against this.

why would anti-trust rules prevent _anyone_ from bidding? Apple can sell their browser search, just like mozilla can sell firefox search. And anyone with a browser could do the same. Unless the anti-trust rules somehow become so overarching that the selling of space for advertising becomes illegal?
by abirch | 2025-04-17 15:57:40+00:00
Depends on the default search engine. Many people went of their way to download a web browser that wasn't Internet Explorer for many years even though IE was the default.

If the default search were randomly assigned and Google investors were nefarious the investors (not Alphabet) could simply help launch 30 different subpar search engines. Then if a user landed on one of those as a default search engine: the user would switch to Google.
by shermantanktop | 2025-04-17 15:57:53+00:00
Backup and recovery is a process with a non-zero failure rate. The more you test it, the lower the rate, but there is always a failure mode.

With these systems, the runtime guarantees of data integrity are very high and the failure rate is very low. And best of all, failure is constantly happening as a normal activity in the system.

So once you have data integrity guarantees that are better in you runtime system than your backup process, why backup?

There are still reasons, but they become more specific to the data being stored and less important as a general datastore feature.
by JKCalhoun | 2025-04-17 15:57:54+00:00
> The issue is not technology, but popular culture.

It's both. When I was growing up as a kid (and I'm now going back over 40 years instead of 20) you didn't take your cable TV with you in your pocket. (And not even your video games unless you consider Electronic Football a video game.)

(Okay, so the Walkman came along and I could take my music with me. Big sin!)

Entertainment, distractions in general had a specific time and place. There was a large part of every day when you were left to interact with the world that was right around you ... maybe even get bored from time to time.
by bdcravens | 2025-04-17 15:58:00+00:00
That's a business model problem then.

Any other business burying money into various endeavors would have to cut losses at some point, which underscores the point of an unfair monopoly.

Google isn't operating at a loss in all products. About 12% of revenue is cloud; about 12% is everything else. Their business apps is estimated to be a billion-dollar business on its own. Cloud is profitable, and earns probably 1.5-3 billion dollars a year in profit.
by danenania | 2025-04-17 15:58:02+00:00
There are pros and cons to different interfaces for sure. Personally, I'd want to have a CLI-based codegen tool in my toolkit even if I hadn't created Plandex, as there are benefits (environment configuration, execution control, file management, piping data, to name a few) that you can't easily get outside of a CLI.

I also personally find the IDE unwieldy for reviewing large diffs (e.g. dozens of files). I much prefer a vertically-scrolling side-by-side comparison view like GitHub's PR review UI (which Plandex offers).
by thrance | 2025-04-17 15:58:09+00:00
You're exacly describing material forces. The various positions individuals adopted toward identity politics did not grow out of a vacuum. Their place of birth, the environments they were raised in, their socio-economic classes... Everything shaped them to make the choice they made last november. The profund discontent that was exploited by the GOP last election stems from ever-increasing socio-economical disparities among the population. This can and has been measured.

On a side note, funny that this group that supposedly defines themselves by their opposition to coastal elites rallied themselves behind... Trump, a prime representative of the east coast elite.
by thomassmith65 | 2025-04-17 15:58:11+00:00
Democracy protects the majority against a minority.

The minority in this case typically being a powerful minority, like an aristocracy. Democracy is a show of hands. If we outnumber you, we get our way.

The laws (and more importantly, the rule of law) are in place to prevent the tyranny of the majority?

That is another way to phrase what I wrote, no? Yes, even when we are unpopular, we still have legal 'rights'.
by Aunche | 2025-04-17 15:58:26+00:00
> when often there is no other working means of getting redress for sexual harassment or assault other than going public, and hoping the perpetrator gets worse backlash than the victim.

This is by definition cancel culture. Unfortunately some bad actors will abuse this as a way to hurt someone. I've seen this happen twice, and fear of this happening is enough for good men to be unnecessarily distant towards women. That said, people getting away with sexual assault seems to be significantly more common.
by fao_ | 2025-04-17 15:58:52+00:00
>But have you ever really thought about what that means for individuals? The cost of dialysis is nearly 1% of the entire federal budget. Put into simpler terms, for every $100 Americans spend in taxes, approximately $1.00 goes toward paying for dialysis.

Damn, that's such a shame. I wish that the US would reduce defense spending and spend more on dialysis.
by yibbix | 2025-04-17 15:59:40+00:00
Yes, I just tried using Notion again the other day after being annoyed with Obsidian Projects and even with only a couple entries on a notion database page, it took MINUTES to load, on web and on the desktop version. Uninstalled it immediately and went back to Obsidian.

I’m completely done with Notion now. It was great when it was new, worked well and did what it advertised. But now it has too many features and I feel its core functionality has really suffered.