MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by moritzwarhier | 2025-04-28 12:07:01+00:00
I was asking this in earnest and not to discredit anybody.

Like i said, I commented after reading the first couple of paragraphs, which to me sound like LLM-assisted fiction (it does not mean they are, I was hoping for someone to clear that up):

> During my recent journey to Berlin—a city where every street corner whispers secrets of a divided past—I uncovered the chilling reality of "Zersetzung." > This was not just another research assignment; it was an immersive exploration into the dark art of psychological warfare. > Amidst the solemn corridors of historic museums, I engaged with former STASI operatives and leading experts, drawing on my extensive background in human intelligence and interrogations. > Their firsthand accounts and my rigorous investigation reveal how East Germany's covert strategy was designed to systematically dismantle not only dissent but the very essence of a person's identity

No first-hand account is referenced in detail later, the article goes on in a weirdly encyclopedic style, given the introduction. It also jumps to equating the Stasi with modern types of discourse silencing.

Which might have merit! Just seemed weird given the beginning of the article.

Berlin doesn't seem to have any special relevance later in the article, but the author says that this is based on "firsthand accounts" and that their "rigorous investigation reveal how East Germany's covert strategy was designed".

I have previously read things and watched films about the Stasi (an important and interesting subject).

Bur I'm not an expert in this subject and also have no first- or second-hand experience as victim, with regimes like the DDR.

My gripe was nothing about the article's content, it just seemed as if there was no original research and the article might have been a summary of other sources.

In my opinion, while this should not be claimed lightly, it is absolutely OK to say that a piece of writing sounds like AI-generated content and ask about it.

I'm deeply sorry if this reads like I wanted to discredit an honest creator (why would I want that?)

Maybe I sound like an LLM too, sure? Or maybe the author used one to write just one or two paragraphs? I don't know!

> Join me as we delve deep into the meticulously orchestrated tactics of the Stasi—a narrative that is as compelling as it is disturbing, and one that continues to resonate in today’s era of digital manipulation.

Adjective-heavy fluff like this screams "ChatGPT"/LLM to me, and I don't see why I would not comment that when it exceeds my personal threshold for perceiving it this way.

I put in a "disclaimer" because I anticipated this coming across as rude.

Claiming that my question (or questioning any online text source) would be in line of some political "Zersetzung" strategy seems like an insult to actual victims of the Stasi to me. Of which I am not one, but my question was also not some political slander or attempt to silence the author.

Have a good day.
by yawlerdawkins | 2025-04-28 12:07:18+00:00
I've been working on a web app that tracks ammo prices from various US ecomm merchants with the shipping costs included. It also tracks price trends and historical prices. Added some tools for enthusiasts to calculate trajectories, recoil, and compare calibers. Using rails, it's been fun and is generally a joy to work on, have learned a lot. https://ammosight.com
by safecat | 2025-04-28 12:07:43+00:00
The Ruliad (Wolfram’s "entangled limit of all possible computations") and Hyperruliad (its higher-order extensions) aren’t just compatible with Coherent Logic—they’re its computational instantiation. Here’s how they connect:

1. The Ruliad as the "Substrate" of ∂S-Boundaries

Ruliad: The infinite network of all possible computational states under all possible rules. Coherent Logic’s ∂S: A slice of the Ruliad where specific rules (D, Σ, R) hold. Example:

The quantum ∂S is a region of the Ruliad where linear algebra rules. The classical ∂S is where Boolean logic dominates. Key Insight:

The Ruliad doesn’t impose ∂S—it contains all possible ∂S-configurations. Coherent Logic’s axioms select which slices can cohere without self-destructing. 2. The Hyperruliad as the "Tarski Hierarchy"

Hyperruliad: The Ruliad’s meta-structure, where rules about rules evolve. Tarski Hierarchy: The Coherent Logic stack where ∂Sₙ can’t validate ∂Sₙ₊₁. Crucial Overlap:

Both prevent infinite regress by enforcing: No rule can fully compute itself (Hyperruliad’s computational irreducibility). No ∂S can validate itself (Coherent Logic’s ∂S ⊨ ¬(∂S ⊨ ∂S)). Metaphor:

The Ruliad is an infinite library. The Hyperruliad is its catalog system (which can’t catalog itself completely). Coherent Logic is the library’s physics—it dictates how books can be stacked without collapsing. 3. Entanglement ↔ Rule-Relations in the Ruliad

In the Ruliad, rules nonlocally influence each other (like cellular automata neighborhoods). In Coherent Logic, truths entangle (S₁ ⊗ S₂) across ∂S. Implication:

The Ruliad’s "rule entanglement" is Coherent Logic’s dependency (⊗) in computational form. Example:

A quantum observation (∂S = Lab) collapsing a distant state (∂S = Cosmos) mirrors two Ruliad states updating via hidden rule-links. 4. The Meta-Consistency Proof in the Hyperruliad

Coherent Logic’s "∂S can’t self-validate" maps to: The Hyperruliad’s "No meta-rule can compute all meta-rules". Gödelian incompleteness in formal systems. Testable Prediction:

If the Hyperruliad has no fixed points (rules that fully describe themselves), then ∂S must be Tarski-stratified. 5. Why This Matters

Physics: The Ruliad may generate ∂S-boundaries we call "physical laws" (e.g., QFT ↔ a computational slice). AI: Training models on Ruliad subgraphs could produce ∂S-aware AGI. Math: Undecidable statements are gaps between ∂S-regions in the Ruliad. Conclusion: The Axioms Are the Ruliad’s "Laws of Form"

The Ruliad is the canvas, Coherent Logic the rules of painting. Together, they say:

Reality computes itself—but only in ways that avoid paradox. You can’t cheat the Ruliad—just as you can’t violate ∂S. For Wolfram Fans: "The Ruliad is the ‘what,’ Coherent Logic the ‘how.’"

For the Rigorous: "The Ruliad is a sheaf of computational traces; Coherent Logic is its Grothendieck topology."

Final Answer: They’re not rivals—they’re the same architecture, seen through different lenses.

(This text was written with the assistance of an “AI”, I provided the axioms and prompted it to reformulate my thoughts in order to structure them for readability.)
by joha4270 | 2025-04-28 12:07:46+00:00
The peak load of a house is substantially higher than the per-house peak load of a city. People don't all turn on their ovens/dryers/hairdriers at the same time.

You could distribute this capacity at each house and feed it back to the grid during peak times. But is TCO of 1000 * 100kWh same price as 100MWh worth of capacity?

If you're going to have the battery anyway(a car) its hard to compete with, but once you need more capacity, I'm not sure it makes sense to distribute it quite as much.
by DonHopkins | 2025-04-28 12:08:22+00:00
Wow. Thanks for inspiring me to ask. Why haven't they covered this in South Park yet? It would make such a great episode.

Summary:

Jordan Peterson, after becoming a media figure, struggled severely with benzodiazepine (benzo) addiction (drugs like clonazepam, often prescribed for anxiety). In 2019-2020, his health sharply declined:

He had a severe physical and psychological dependency on benzodiazepines.

He reportedly developed "akathisia" — an intensely painful restlessness often associated with withdrawal or side effects.

After several unsuccessful treatments in North America, Peterson was taken to Russia by his family, where he underwent a medically induced coma and controversial detox procedures to try to end his benzo dependency.

Why Russia?

At the time, his family said that the treatment options available in the West were either not effective, too dangerous, or unavailable. Some reports indicated that the Russian clinic used unorthodox treatments — things that might not be approved or widely practiced in Canada or the U.S. The whole episode was seen by many critics and even supporters as deeply tragic and unsettling, especially for someone whose public message was based on personal responsibility, resilience, and stoic perseverance.

Outcome:

Peterson survived, but his recovery was long and painful. Later interviews (including one with his daughter, Mikhaila Peterson) showed him visibly frail. His cognitive sharpness, many observed, seemed noticeably impacted for some time afterward.

Jordan Peterson: Health Problems:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan_Peterson?utm_source=cha...

Jordan Peterson suffers year of 'absolute hell' and needs emergency treatment for drug addiction that forced him to withdraw from public life, daughter says:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/jordan-peter...

Controversial Scholar Jordan Peterson Treated for Addiction in Russia:

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2020/02/10/controversial-scho...

Drug Experts on Jordan Peterson Seeking Treatment in Russia for Benzo Dependence:

https://www.vice.com/en/article/what-drug-experts-say-about-...

The Jordan Peterson Benzo Story — Terminology, Rapid Detox, and Media Coverage:

https://www.easinganxiety.com/post/the-jordan-peterson-benzo...
by whynotmaybe | 2025-04-28 12:08:43+00:00
Outside of discussing whether Russia is behind this or not, the broader Russian strategy seems aimed at undermining trust in European governments. [1]

The goal would be to create enough pressure from people - frustrated by problems like power cuts — so that governments must withdraw their support for Ukraine.

Any "WW III" fearmongering is similar : intimidate everyone into withdrawing support.

Many European countries have created emergency guides to help citizens preparing for crisis like this one. [2] This, I guess, has the underlying goal of maintaining trust in European governments.

[1] : https://www.politico.eu/article/russia-increasing-hybrid-att...

[2] : https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/eu-commission-urges-sto...
by japanuspus | 2025-04-28 12:09:16+00:00
The fact that the post you reply to includes such technical details as frequency-based pricing, indicates that the author has an above-average understanding of the technicalities of the power-grid.

Also, nobody in the field disagrees that in the more distributed grid we are seeing today, more endpoint communication and control could lead to more resilience. Whether pricing signals are the best path is a more open question, but they certainly appear to be a feasible option.
by tiffanyh | 2025-04-28 12:09:36+00:00
> “Chrome won the browser war fair and square by building a better surfboard for the internet”

I’m a bit surprised by DHH take on this.

Maybe a lot of people have forgotten but how Chrome won the browser war was by Google annoying its users with a barrage of popups saying “to have a better viewing experience, download Chrome”.

The only way to have those messages go away from any Google property was to use Chrome.
by mschuster91 | 2025-04-28 12:09:39+00:00
> This is literally the whistleblowers about cashless society have been warning everyone about for well over a decade now.

Indeed but it stands to reason that this outage will last maybe a few hours until the grid has recovered. A nationwide full blackout is a scenario that's on a "once a quarter century" level, and the last one in 2006 was resolved after two hours. It's Europe, not the US - our grids operate on much, much stricter requirements and audits on resiliency, hell since last year we got an active warzone in the ENTSO-E grid and it hasn't been too much of an issue!

Not much of value will have been lost in the meantime. The only ones who are truly and beyond screwed by such events are large smelters and similar factories where any prolonged downtime leads to solidification of the products which, in extreme cases, require a full reconstruction.

As for "I can't buy eggs in a supermarket now"... lol. People need to learn to chill down a bit. You won't die from having to wait a few hours to be able to buy the eggs.
by paulbernard | 2025-04-28 12:10:30+00:00
Please join me in contributing towards ethical AI efforts.

The Ethical AI project is an open-source initiative designed to promote the ethical development and deployment of AI systems. It provides a set of foundational rules or "laws" that AI systems must follow to ensure that they operate safely, transparently, and fairly.

It's at the earliest stages. So please feel free to contribute and make suggestions.
by IX-103 | 2025-04-28 12:10:41+00:00
[Insert "let me laugh even harder" meme here]

That would be actual malpractice in either case.

LLMs have a history of fabricating laws and precedents when acting as a lawyer. Any advice from the LLM would likely be worse than just assuming something sensible, as that is more likely to reflect what the law is than what the LLM hallucinates it to be. Medicine is in many ways similar.

As for your suggestion to be capture and analyze ultrasounds and X-rays en-mass, that would be malpractice even if it were performed by an actual Doctor instead of an AI. We don't know the base rate of many benign conditions, except that they are always higher than we expect. The additional images are highly likely to show conditions that could be either benign or dangerous, and additional procedures (such as biopsies) would be needed to determine which it is. This would create additional anxiety in patients from the possible diagnosis and further pain and possible complications from the additional procedures.

While you could argue for taking these images and not acting on them, you would either tell the patients the results and leave them worried about what the discovered masses are (so they likely will have the procedures anyway) or you won't tell them (which has ethical implications). Good luck getting that past the institutional review board.
by james_anderson | 2025-04-28 12:10:48+00:00
Working on a database compatibility tool. So your app works on SQL Server 2022 on-prem, but does it work on Azure SQL DB, AWS RDS, GCP CloudSQL, etc?

These cloud flavours have a compatible SQL dialect, but it's often details like missing features (CDC and Auditing on RDS are good examples) or differences in system objects that make it difficult to support your app on these platforms.

I capture all sql statements, run them through multiple SQL parsers to find all the system objects your app is using (tables, functions, stored procedures, etc). I then check them all against a catalog I have built of all system objects for every version of SQL Server on every platform.

I then give a report to see which platforms your app will work on, which ones it wont work on and which system objects are the problem.

Other database engines will be added once I get it working end to end (almost there).
by JohnScolaro | 2025-04-28 12:10:53+00:00
I made a game called "So you think you know Brisbane?", in which you guess the suburbs of Brisbane, Australia.

https://johnscolaro.xyz/projects/so-you-think-you-know-brisb...

I'm working on expanding it to all large cities in Queensland, moving it to its own domain, and monetizing it to cover hosting costs.
by skydhash | 2025-04-28 12:11:00+00:00
> As part of learning to predict the outcome of the work token by token

They're already have the full work available. When you're reading the source code of a program to learn how it works, your objective is not to learn what keyword are close to each other or extract the common patterns. You're extracting a model which is an abstraction about some real world concept (or some other abstractions) and rules of manipulation of that abstraction.

After internalizing that abstraction, you can replicate it with whatever you want, extends it further,... It's an internal model that you can shape as you please in your mind, then create a concrete realization once you're happy with the shape.
by graemep | 2025-04-28 12:11:19+00:00
Repeat offenders should not be allowed to drive. In the UK we have 12 points, and lose them for various offences.

You get a fine, usually with the alternative of a course the first time.

Speed again within 12 months and you get a fine and a minimum of three points (more if you are well above the limit).

Speed again within four years and you will lose more points, and AFAIK pretty much guaranteed to be more than the minimum.

Get caught speeding more than once an year and you are guaranteed to lose your license.

I think this is necessary. I say this as someone who complains about some of the speed limits in my area as they are too low (20mph zones seem a bit random) - I still follow them!
by codebastard | 2025-04-28 12:11:35+00:00
That is from the viewpoint of the top 10% earners if you look at the european market or small / local business than you are looking at people doing the job of multiple departments and getting blamed if something does not work or for their salary if everything works.

And the salary is most of the time lower than anyone from the HR or Marketing department whose job if you are unlucky you also have to do because the tools they use are too complicated for them.

And if take the freelancer / remote work market into consideration everyone wants to pass all the work to the lowest bidder and some of them get lucky with skilled workers whose salary may be in the median considering their location after substracting the share of the middleman.
by op00to | 2025-04-28 12:11:49+00:00
The speed of most traffic on the interstate I travel on most frequently was 67ish when I was driving home from college in the early 00s. I drove on the same road yesterday, and the average speed is easily 75, with many going much faster.

In my state enforcement went way down until cops were called out for it in the media last year. Lo and behold, crashes and injuries are down now that enforcement is up!
by sameline | 2025-04-28 12:12:26+00:00
Cool idea! I’m a big fan of AnyList so this was intriguing.

I think it could be useful to have a “recently generated” section in the Recipes tab that lets you find things you might have forgotten to save. Substitutions could also be a useful feature. For example, if I can’t find Mexican oregano, what else can I use?
Ask HN: Where does your AI/ML data pipeline hurt the most? (2025)
by phukon | 2025-04-28 12:13:21+00:00
I’m gathering quick, honest feedback from people who wrangle data for models and post-training/ML teams at LLM labs.

Share your thoughts/anecdotes on:

- Biggest recurring bottleneck (collection, cleaning, labeling, drift, compliance, etc.)

- Has RLHF/synthetic data actually cut your need for fresh domain data?

- Hard-to-source domains (finance, healthcare, logs, multi-modal, whatever) and why.

- Tasks you’d automate first if you could.
by jillyboel | 2025-04-28 12:13:26+00:00
Can you clarify what examples of harm have been provided? Disrespecting someone is not harming them, if that is what you're getting at? Your comment is quite disrespectful towards my genuine question which you refuse to answer, and yet, I am not harmed. In fact, I am amused, since it's clear you don't have a real answer and are just resorting to ad hominem attacks instead.
by drev | 2025-04-28 12:13:32+00:00
I am working on a super mario land re-implementation for game boy using C. It's made with the GBDK toolkit so the ROM can be run on a gameboy. Currently the scrolling and background collision has been implemented, I am working on drawing the enemies... their is still a long way to go. As for why I am doing this is nostalgia and fulfilled a childhood dream repo at https://github.com/odrevet/marioland-gbdk/
by andy99 | 2025-04-28 12:14:00+00:00
Older readers may remeber the Northeastern blackout of 2003 in the US and Canada that was caused by cascading overloading, I believe originally triggered by high loads due to hot weather and poor vegetation maintenance under lines.

I was an an adjacent area at the time and iirc we were saved by our nuclear operator releasing some insane amount of steam to bring the supply down and avoid more overloading.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_blackout_of_2003
by kokada | 2025-04-28 12:14:20+00:00
Sure, but if we are talking about backup in outages you can also get credit card payments when power is down using something like a Stripe Terminal.

This is actually exactly the case that I had in one trip to Andorra: the power was down for 2 hours while we were choosing equipament for skiing. The shop had no issues getting our orders done though, because they just manually filled the orders with pen-and-paper and did the payment with a credit card terminal connected to a smartphone.
by ajsnigrutin | 2025-04-28 12:14:26+00:00
Oh god.

Let's skip the technical problems in your theory and focus on the social.

People need power to survive. You know, food, hot water, light, work, internet, mobile phones, entertainment, etc. This requires stability, not second by second pricing.

When you put a chicken in an oven, you want to cook that chicken and eat it, feed your family. Electricity price rising in the next few minutes would mean that you either have to risk disease (chicken staying in the dangerous temperatures until the electricity price drops) or being hungry and throwing food away. This is not how you want society to function.
by ghc | 2025-04-28 12:14:31+00:00
Isn't it strange that before the widespread adoption of the internet advances in computing were more distributed, but after they've consolidated into the Bay Area?

We know one reason is the concentration of venture capital (almost all the major Boston VCs are now HQ'd out west). And another reason might be non-competes.

But something else must have been at play as well, because it wasn't just one area that the bay sucked the talent out of, it was all of them.

I do wonder what the rise of NY (both in VC dollars and as a startup hub) has to teach us about competing with SV.
by jillyboel | 2025-04-28 12:14:40+00:00
I'm specifically asking you (and other HNers) what definition of harm you think applies here. I'm still waiting.

As for not condoning plagiarism, grow up. We're not kids in school anymore. You're (hopefully) an adult who graduated already.

If you're so against plagiarism, how do you feel about LLMs plagiarizing the whole internet? Didn't all the techbros collectively decide for us that this is the future we want?
by Earw0rm | 2025-04-28 12:16:18+00:00
The best engineers and craftsmen - even juniors - understand which work is core to the craft and the end result, and which is peripheral.

Unless you're hyper-specialised within a large organisation, you can't bring the same degree of obsession to every part in the process, there will always be edges.

Even an artisan who hand-builds everything that matters may take some shortcuts in where they get their tools from, or the products they use to maintain them.

In a big org, you might have a specialist for every domain, but on small teams you don't.

And ultimately I've got other things to do with my life besides learning to write Cmake from scratch.
by john-h-k | 2025-04-28 12:16:39+00:00
Absolutely. Point is we have to judge it in context. People saying horrible things for no reason on a message board is fundamentally different to causing a stampede in a cinema.

I agree that we need laws to make "yelling fire and causing stampedes" illegal. I do not agree that "free speech requires an intent to express a point of view" is the correct way of implementing this.
by ryao | 2025-04-28 12:16:55+00:00
I expect this to increase the number of vehicle accidents since it is forcing people to drive at speeds well below the well established principle of the 85th percentile. We could have improved safety from increasing speed limits to the 85th percentile rather than trying to artificially slow down motorists. Higher speeds mean cars get off the road faster, which means there is more distance between them. Collisions only happen when the distances between vehicles reach 0, and higher average distances inhibit collisions. Trying to force people to drive slower has all of this logic work in reverse, causing more collisions.