MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by neilv | 2025-04-06 04:27:19+00:00
1. It's an organization. The organization is the one with the tarnished reputation.

2. The Wikipedia article is full of scandal. And I have never heard anything about the topic that's not scandal (except for this one very strange reference, which is the original point of this thread). I don't know why you're going to the mat to dispute that. But if you're not done, you'd be better off getting the Wikipedia article updated, because it's like you're derailing critical discussion with textbook sabotage tactics (whether or not that's intentional).
by theamk | 2025-04-06 04:29:04+00:00
Which models are there? The only other ones I know is patreon-like, which totally destroy the long tail.

And long-tail ones are the best. There are some great videos on youtube which are 10+ years old and do not have millions of views. I am sure many of their uploaders already forgot about them. I cannot see them existing without being supported by "something", and if that's not advertisement, than what?
by fmxsh | 2025-04-06 04:30:22+00:00
Isn't this article advertisement by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)?

(edit: I have actually been thinking in similar terms as the article, but I do think the article is optimistic and utopian, as if a good intuition would be enough to prevent the very same forces from exploring the reform

Filtering visitors by fingerprint of the browser (cloud flare and palemoon) won't stop bots, but creates a market for more sophisticated bots)
by anovikov | 2025-04-06 04:30:27+00:00
So we are talking about cheap chains, not middle class places. These are just slightly glorified fast food. In Europe, apart from TGI Fridays, they were never a thing. And they were seen as just simply fast food. If they vanished, few people will mention. If these are middle class they are for well, "statistical middle", i.e. working poor.

Proper restaurants should be small businesses and family owned and grow their client base over generations, then they are pretty much bulletproof against all kinds of economic hardships.
by Teever | 2025-04-06 04:32:16+00:00
I interpreted your question as asking if the US could use SpaceX's rocket manufacturing capacity to produce ICBMs that could be used to hit Chinese ships.

Now that I see that this was not what you're suggesting I don't think that two years is a sufficient time frame to build, test, and deploy the kinds of weapons that you're suggesting.

It seems like America is sleep walking into a horrible conflict with China and this combined with all of the soft power that America is losing in the past few months doesn't bode well for the outcome of this conflict.
by jychang | 2025-04-06 04:32:50+00:00
American websites implement GDPR even though that's an EU law. Websites that are used across geopolitical boundaries will invariably follow US law. There will certainly be a few exceptions, but if the law is written like the GDPR, then they'd be illegally violating the law.

And services like Netflix losing an ad supported tier is just like... Netflix in 2021. I fail to see that as alarming.
by csours | 2025-04-06 04:34:51+00:00
This feels like one of those things where context changes over time and takes a product outside of it's original use case.

Fire retardant is an emergency measure, one that would rightly be expected to see exceptionally low usage overall. But over time, more people and property have gotten closer to the forest; forest fires affect more people for many reasons.

So fire retardant use is not so rare.

The Therac-20 was a fine piece of electro-mechanical-nuclear technology, but the Therac-25 moved the control scheme out of its original context, and took away some of the physical interlocks. The Therac-25 is not remembered fondly.

Context changes over time, and assumptions need to be re-examined.
by vo2maxer | 2025-04-06 04:36:56+00:00
I wasn't offended at all. I was just genuinely curious, because I keep coming across this assumption that if any text is well-crafted, it must have come from an LLM. I think I understand why: we've grown so used to reading sloppy writing, everything from barely coherent text messages to articles in reputable publications filled with typos and awkward phrasing.

Personally, I've always held myself to a high standard in how I write, even in text messages. Some might see that as bordering on perfectionism, but for me, it's about respecting the principle behind communication: to be as clear and correct as possible.

Now that we have tools that help ensure that clarity, or at the very least, reduce distractions caused by grammar or spelling mistakes, of course I'm going to use them. I used to agonize over my comments on Twitter because you couldn't edit them after posting. I would first write them elsewhere and review them several times for any errors before finally posting. For context: I'm a retired 69-year-old physician, and even after witnessing decades of technological advancement, I'm still in awe of what this new technology can do.

Yes, I love beautiful, natural writing. I'm a voracious reader of the great classics. I regularly immerse myself in Shakespeare, Hardy, Eliot, Dickens, Dostoyevsky, Austen, Tolstoy, and many other literary masters. But I also fully embrace this tool that can elevate even the clumsiest writer's work to a clarity we've never had access to before. If that comes at the cost of a bit of stylistic uniformity, that's a reasonable trade-off. It's up to the user to shape the output, review it, and make sure their own voice and ideas shine through.

Back to your original point, I truly wasn't offended on his behalf. I was just curious. As it turns out, he was using an LLM, because his native language is Korean. Good for him. And just to be clear, I didn't intend to make your question seem inappropriate or to embarrass him in any way. If it came across that way, I apologize.
by otterley | 2025-04-06 04:37:07+00:00
> any mexican who wants to buy american goods must convert their pesos to dollars. where do they get dollars? see initial conditions, they must get them from americans by sending their pesos overseas

This thread is over. I asked you to come back armed with references to support your claims and instead you continue to spout nonsense. Currency exchange simply doesn’t work the way you describe, full stop.
by ht_th | 2025-04-06 04:39:07+00:00
The odd thing is, you can do quite some bold/italics/superscript in Unicode nowadays. Because, at least from the ASCII letter range, they have been used in symbolic ways in Mathematics, etc., and have been added to Unicode as symbols rather than bold variants of letters. For example:

, !

, !

ᴴᵉˡˡᵒ, ᵂᵒʳˡᵈ!

So, there's almost no bold/italic punctuation. And non-ASCII Unicode letters aren't "supported" this way either. But you can get quite far with "formatted" ASCII letters in Unicode, if you're so inclined.
by schoen | 2025-04-06 04:39:34+00:00
English speakers often do care about the connotation of "propaganda" as something deceptive or manipulative (with the paradigmatic example probably being wartime propaganda which tries to influence populations, supposedly without regard for the truth).

It's true that "propaganda" in the disparaging sense is more applied to political and ideological messages, but you can sometimes see it used about commercial messages when the speaker believes that those messages are especially manipulative, for example when the speaker believes an industry is bad but is wrongfully portraying itself as good by covering up harms that it causes. You might hear this more in connection with an "industry" ("tobacco industry propaganda" or "oil industry propaganda"), but I've occasionally heard it in connection with individual companies. But the negative connotation is pretty strong, so some listeners might be uncomfortable if they don't share the speaker's views of the propaganda author.

One can also say that a book is propaganda in the sense that the book is dishonest and manipulative advocacy, where the author isn't showing respect for the readers.

I wanted to write something about the question of how American rhetoric (and courts) see the relative value, or relative harmfulness, of commercial versus political advertising. But this turned into a complicated discussion that I'm not sure I can do a good job of, so I'm going to hold off on that for now.
by Brian_K_White | 2025-04-06 04:40:32+00:00
They literally said that the ambiguity is good because it keeps everyone on their toes because no one knows if they are safe. That's their own words not my invented re-interpretation.

"The ambiguity of these questions is a feature rather than a bug. Being unable to tell when something is "advertising" forces everyone to think twice..."

Courts performing the job of interpretation is indeed not the same as selective enforcement, but this comment expressly advocates for deliberate ambiguity. Not unavoidable ambiguity.

They obviously did not know they are asking for selective enforcement by that name, or why that is a bad thing, a far worse thing than the advertizing or whatever other bad behavior they imagine "forces everyone to think twice" curtails, but that is what ambiguity in a law gets you.

Let alone a whole other dimension to this, that it doesn't even curtail what they think.

They think they are attacking advertizers, but advertizers are fine under selective enforcement. Really they are only attacking themselves and all other little guy individuals. Google and Amazon and all other advertizers have the money and the connections at city hall to get their own behavior selectively allowed. It's only you and me and themselves who will ever have to "think twice".

And it goes on down from every slightly bigger fish vs every slightly smaller. The local used car dealer uglifying your neighborhood has more friends on the police force and at the mayors office than you do, so they get to do whatever, and you get to think twice.
by inopinatus | 2025-04-06 04:41:18+00:00
It would not be fine. It would have never been fine. It would have been a titanic clash of egos and culture, producing endless bickering and finger-pointing, with little meeting of minds. Apple runs the most vertically integrated general systems model outside of mainframes. Linux and its ecosystem represent the least.

In any case, as others have noted, the timeline here w.r.t nextstep is backwards.
by nkurz | 2025-04-06 04:42:19+00:00
Do you think they really mean "per liter" of the actual sample or is this possibly the amount in an already diluted solution that they made from the sample? It seems like an odd unit of measurement otherwise.

What would have been helpful in the article was a comparison to the levels produced by the fire itself. Fires in residential areas produce all sorts of nasty stuff. While we should make the retardant as safe as we can, if it prevents something even worse from being released it still could be a win.
by CapricornNoble | 2025-04-06 04:42:42+00:00
>The only thing I see is that having guns everywhere around does nothing to actually stop a country from descending into fascism.

The US is charting new ground here. Almost every other massively-oppressive state apparatus has prioritized restricting private firearms ownership early in their decent into tyranny for a reason.

> Thanks, I'll stay in my region, at least we have no school shootings or violent crime.

The rate of firearms ownership in the US has been on a slow decline for the past 40-50 years (not sure how accurate data is before 1970 or 1980), from roughly 45% to 30%. School shootings have skyrocketed in the past ~30 years, and were pretty rare before Columbine. The two don't appear to be correlated. How do you reconcile this? I suspect that other societal factors are more salient causes.....perhaps the explosion in single-mother parenthood (something like 40% of all families now), combined with the known impacts on poor juvenile behavior in young boys and the explosion in "attention culture" courtesy of social media are the major factors in emotionally unstable teens gunning down their peers?

That said....I live in a country with almost no firearms and also have the peace of mind that nobody is gonna shoot my children. But I'm also in a homogeneous society that has almost no concern or risk level for their government turning tyrannical.
by kerkeslager | 2025-04-06 04:44:21+00:00
Honestly, I'm increasingly cynical that it's even possible. From what I've seen, it seems like people mostly crystalize their beliefs by 30 and then don't change their beliefs without some sort of immense personal suffering. And few who aren't affected by bigotry are going to go through that to change their mind. There are exceptions, but nowhere near enough to swing political trends.

I think Trump's idiotic economic policies will probably result in losing voters as they're harmed directly, but that's just more of people caring about themselves. It's not a fundamental change in people's beliefs about the homeless, lgbt people, racial minorities, etc.--if people aren't affected by how Trump harms those people, they aren't going to change how they feel about those people. And even a swing against Trump due to his economics harming voters won't matter if we don't even get to vote in 2028.

The only way I see anything changing is that the boomers die of old age. My own generation (millenials) are more compassionate, but have basically been hamstrung by an older generation that has kept all the money and power. And honestly, I'm not sure we'll do much better when the boomers die--we're cynical, and tired from living our entire adult lives in this bullshit, and on average just content if we can survive. Gen Z seems on average to have even more compassion than millenials, and some more nuanced understandings of how to treat our fellow humans well, and seem to still want something better for themselves, so my hope is on them.
by theamk | 2025-04-06 04:44:54+00:00
Can product recommendation sites place a funny video on their website, unrelated to products, just so readers can have a little rest while doing all this product comparison?

Can product recommendation sites _pay_ a video creator to create a funny video for their website? It's a win-win for everyone, right? Product recommendation website gets more visitors, popular creator gets money, and visitors get to see a funny video from popular creator.

If you allow ads on product recommendation websites, most entertainment websites will declare themselves "product recommendation".
by theamk | 2025-04-06 04:47:52+00:00
ISPs, at least in the US, already offer free email hosting.. they used to offer basic web hosting too, not sure if that's still the case.

Using those is worst idea ever. ISPs are all horrible, and the only good thing is you can switch to the other one. The last thing you want is to tie your email/website, something you can't easily change, to them.
by benoau | 2025-04-06 04:48:06+00:00
> In reality, we’re standing at a fork in the path: one where we can either embrace the (currently) far-off notion of fully automated software development or, instead, acknowledge the work of a software developer is much more than just writing lines of code.

I see a lot of optimism that is fundamentally based on "the code" being important and everyone saying "my bad" and going back to paying lots of developers and they all get 2x - 3x more than everyone else.

I don't think the jobs are coming back at all. Companies will just keep optimizing to spend the least on development they can, spend the least during uncertain times they can, and they will just lower expectations while waiting for AI to catch up. The future is very small number of people coaxing stuff out of AI.

IMHO developers should be making products and AI should be filling these roles for you to produce products without a company supporting you. AI should be taking your solo-software to the next level. That's what AI is doing for the collective "them", and the reason "them" is doing it is because there are 2 - 3 billion people who can buy stuff online. Your digital products are also stuff they can buy online.
by jrace | 2025-04-06 04:48:56+00:00
Wow, this, if real is big.

------------ The effect of short-term (≤5 min) exposure to a pure tone of 80–85 dBZ (= 60.9–65.9 dBA) at 100 Hz on motion sickness was investigated in mice and humans. ------------- Very easy to producw, safe and not invasive. Just download a signal generator app on your phone and you could quickly test this.

Excited to see if it helps my partner.
by huhkerrf | 2025-04-06 04:48:59+00:00
Ironically, your comment would be illustrative of Dunning Kruger, if it really showed what you're claiming.

The Dunning Kruger study never said that stupid people believed they were smarter than smart people, or that they outperformed the high performers. All it said is that the underperformers overestimated their performance, but they still believed they did worse than the high performers.

You don't have to believe me. It's clearly shown on the Wikipedia page: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effec...
by wormius | 2025-04-06 04:51:02+00:00
My roommate comes in and talks, and while they're doing that I automatically start cleaning my room. I am a slob otherwise. But something about that, it gives me a chance to be away from "online" while also giving me a sort of mental "space"/distraction so I'm not focused/anxious/worried and seems to help me reduce my "executive dysfunction". I also have a tendency to place self-demands and so it makes me doing things I want to do (not like cleaning room but projects) more difficulty because I feel the pressure to do it, so I resist. Having someone in the room helps me relax that self-demand. I don't "should" I just "do".

I used to do a lot more socially and my computer was in the living room with the roomie, but I'm just in my room most of the time, and this is making me think - maybe I should go back to the living room with my computer (since she's out there too most days), maybe that will help me be more productive in programming/projects, etc...
by lunarlull | 2025-04-06 04:52:01+00:00
Why wouldn't Apple have been interested in a Linux option? They bought NeXTSTEP because of Jobs. Linux was already useable as a desktop OS in 2000, and they could have added in the UX stuff and drivers for their particular macs on top of it. There wouldn't have been any downsides for them, and it would have strengthened something that was hurting their biggest rival.
by molybdenum_plus | 2025-04-06 04:52:32+00:00
I really dislike the impulse to ban things we don't like.

Of course, a ban on advertising will never happen, because it's very useful to some people. I'm more concerned with the general pattern of thinking that goes:

1. I greatly dislike thing and think thing is bad. 2. Thing should therefore be illegal.

We should be less eager to use the power of law to mold the world to our preferences. It should be a solemn undertaking to use the law! It's an instrument of coercive power and should really be held in reserve as much as possible. Otherwise, we're all just petty tyrants sniping one another for minor transgressions.

There are many things that are very bad that nonetheless must be legal in a free society! I realize this is a uniquely American right, but I nonetheless believe "hate speech" must remain legal. It is bad, yes. I do not like it. I really wish it didn't happen. However, it is markedly less bad than entrusting some byzantine bureaucracy or benevolent dictator to adjudicate the meaning of hate speech. I greatly prefer a world with hate speech to one in which we apply legal authority to eliminate hate speech.
by peaklabs-dev | 2025-04-06 04:55:07+00:00
Coolify Cloud lets you connect your own servers in pretty much 1 click and then just deploy resources, you do not need to worry about upgrading Coolify, instance backups and so on, we manage all that for you.

Yes, Coolify is completely open source and all features are completely free - the cloud and self-hosted versions are completely the same and the hosting is pretty simple.
by eviks | 2025-04-06 04:56:06+00:00
> But humanity had been free of current forms of advertising for 99.9% of its existence.

But humanity has never been free of non-current forms of advertising

> The financial incentives to create addictive digital content would instantly disappear

No the wouldn't, you can still monetize addictive without ads

> Think about what's happened since 2016 ... fracture our social fabric along existing fault lines.

Just think about what happened before 2016 and how many times the social fabric had been fractured (sometimes also with foreign actors) ...
by kerkeslager | 2025-04-06 05:03:58+00:00
> What you're describing is never right and should be dealt with by law enforcement. That's likely far from where many of Republican voters are on this topic.

I mean, sure, even the guy I mentioned doesn't directly say he wants to kill trans people.

But you remove all healthcare and social support for trans people, and they start committing suicide--as anyone would given those conditions. You remove all protections for trans people, and they start getting killed. Republican leadership can keep their hands clean--they just look away and let the fringe do the dirty work. And the same is true for a dozen other groups. For example, there's no real controversy about the homeless (most agree that homelessness is bad)--you just look away and do nothing and they die of homelessness.

All that adds up to that a vote for Republicans is a vote that results in these people dying. Whether your opinion is that those people should die or not, is sort of irrelevant, if your vote results in them dying.

You seem to be under the impression that if a Republican voter feels that trans people deserve to live in their head, that means they aren't voting for trans people to die, but that's simply not the case. If you believe in your head that trans people deserve to live, and then vote for a guy who does a bunch of stuff that kills trans people, you're voting to kill trans people, and your fuzzy kind feelings in your head are irrelevant.

And finally: what country do you live in where trans people can safely call law enforcement? Because it's not the US.
by musicale | 2025-04-06 05:05:25+00:00
In 1996, Apple evaluated the options and decided (quite reasonably) that NeXTSTEP - the whole OS including kernel, userland, and application toolkit – was a better starting point than various other contenders (BeOS, Solaris, ...) to replace the failed Copland. Moreover, by acquiring NeXT, Apple got NeXTSTEP, NeXT's technical staff (including people like Bud Tribble and Avie Tevanian), and (ultimately very importantly) Steve Jobs.
by polygamous_bat | 2025-04-06 05:05:35+00:00
> Letting people communicate freely is a good thing in its own right, and fundamental to so many other good things we enjoy

I would argue that paid advertisement is a force distorting free speech. In a town square, if you can pay to have the loudest megaphone to speak over everyone else, soon everyone would either just shut up and leave or not be able to speak properly, leaving your voice the only voice in the conversation. Why should money be able to buy you that power?
by chii | 2025-04-06 05:06:06+00:00
> it kinda sucks for the person who actually is interested in the thing that billboard is advertising

and it also sucks for the billboard's location owner, who is drawing a revenue from it.

People who proclaim that doing XYZ to make the world better, is not really considering the entirety of the world - just their corner. To claim that it would make the world better, they must show evidence that it doesn't hurt somebody else (who just happens to be in a different tribe to the proposer).