MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by reverendsteveii | 2025-04-17 16:18:38+00:00
"The Chinese government is using TikTok to harm our kids. Someone else should be using TikTok to harm our kids, and other people should be using other apps to harm our kids."

Infinite, algorithmically-curated content is the problem. It's designed to be addictive and manipulative. There's data that shows that stuff like this basically exploits our ability to delay gratification by offering big pops of reward at random intervals. This develops pathways that encourage continued interaction because, essentially, you don't know when a reward is coming but you know that a reward is coming eventually so your brain keeps drip-feeding you from the memory of the last reward. It's similar to how people end up mindleslly bashing away at penny slots all day for years and years.
by lupusreal | 2025-04-17 16:18:40+00:00
Besides the whole fire thing, which is a serious problem for the metallurgy necessary to make radio, to have any chance of it they'd need to get fingers instead of the optimal swimming flippers they have now. They'll never do that as long as they're aquatic. If millions of years of evolution has them climb out of the water and become land animals again then there might be a glimmer of hope for them, but then they'd no longer be recognizable as dolphins. As it stands now, field mice have a more direct path towards becoming radio makers than dolphins do.
by throwanem | 2025-04-17 16:18:46+00:00
Well sure, obviously, superstimulus is superstimulus, what I'm saying is I think the engagement maximizer must be running totally unclutched from reality and I think it's started burning down YouTube because it can want nothing in the universe save to transform all matter and energy into wonderfully, infinitely rewarding eyeballs. You know, the classic failure mode.
by boroboro4 | 2025-04-17 16:19:08+00:00
I think government should follow laws. And it especially should follow constitution and protect rights of the people:

- first of all the government shouldn't be able to send people to foreign gulag at all, period. I learnt that it's a gray area for (already) convicted people so far, but I think it's just plain wrong

- however if government sends someone to foreign gulag it should be under proper due process (the one outlined for criminal cases). Don't confuse sending people to foreign gulag with deportation, it's not

- deportation should be also happening only with due process, but this one can be relaxed, as it is right now - immigration judges exist separately from Article III courts

The danger of what's happening right now is very clear, anyone (regardless to their citizenship) can be taken off the streets and send to foreign prison. This is mindblowingly bad, and nothing can justify that in lawful state.

The government already (under Biden) was successfully deporting around 1M people a year. While it will take some time to go through the backlog and bring things back to normal, it doesn't require as dire actions as the current administration take. And the fact that Biden wave was comparable to historical ones does prove this successfully.

Your claim about dem voters is obviously false - most of these people have 10s of years before they naturalize (if ever), and even after this both immigrants and latino voters tend to lean republican. Also being in the US illegally isn't a crime. So you calling these people hundreds of thousands of criminals is nothing but scapegoating.

I disapprove Biden's handling of illegal immigration, but I also lived in authoritarian state. And living in a country where you afraid of the government, don't trust laws anymore and accept corruption is way worse than having some Mexican guy doing low income jobs in your city.
by ajross | 2025-04-17 16:19:10+00:00
Yeah. The problem with splitting up Google is that Google products, taken in isolation, are themselves keys to preventing other monopolies.

Split off Android to swim on its own and we get an iPhone monopoly. Split off Workspace and we go back to the days of MSOffice's monopoly. Splitting out Chrome essentially kills the World Wide Web as an application platform as no one else wants to support it. Cloud would probably stand alone competitively, but if not it's going to be an Amazon monopoly.

Basically Google is strong in search and ads (also AI, though that isn't a revenue center yet and there's lots of competition) and second place in everything else. IMHO it's very hard[1] to make a pro-consumer argument behind killing off all those second place products.

[1] And yeah, they pay my salary, but I work on open source stuff and know nothing about corporate governance.
by m3047 | 2025-04-17 16:19:25+00:00
If AI could build tires then the quick lube could just come to your place of work and assemble the tires right on your car from raw materials, amiright?

Look, my last set of tires cost $1000 (and that was before COVID). They might last 50K miles. How much do you drive? There is no way that new tires plus replacement is going to be $7.50/tire. Even a unicycle isn't going to have a $30 tire.
by DontchaKnowit | 2025-04-17 16:19:39+00:00
I mean right at the top he says hes just trying to listen to his own music. I dont get how this is a downside if you wanna discover new shit you can always just go to youtube.

Frankly 99.9 of my music listening is stuff I already know and enjoy. But I still like to listen to new stuff often. So this kinda thing is perfect for me 99% of the time.
by alganet | 2025-04-17 16:19:39+00:00
Taco Bell is the perfect brand name to use for the movie's idea.

A taco being one key, the bell being another.

The RESTaurant wars, or the fight for representativeness, is a very specific narrow message.

Rich people snobbing their tiny food on the TV while the poor live subjulgated to the deeps, mostly without any access to food of any kind, is a quite an accurate metaphor for this day and age and illustrates problems of patternalism, tech perversion, "kind neuralizing policemen" and many other problems of our current digital age.

It's brilliant. It also, contrary to the Sillicon Valley series, portrays people as people, not as a bunch of rats.
by Izkata | 2025-04-17 16:20:05+00:00
> I will certainly not measure the weight of a banana I eat, and anything else is just a very rough estimate as a banana can be twice the size of another banana.

This is the wrong way to look at it. Sometimes you'll have a larger banana, sometimes a smaller banana, but overall it'll average out. What you need is consistency to compare to your own previous measurements, not perfect accuracy.

For example: By counting my calories and keeping track of my weight, I've learned that I burn about 2200 calories per day. If I went over my foods and measured them perfectly it probably wouldn't be that number, but because I'm consistent in how I measure it I can know with certainty whether I'm above or below that limit. I've been able to reliably control my weight for a few years now because of this and I'm not even measuring, just eyeballing how much of things I use.
by 6510 | 2025-04-17 16:20:20+00:00
They have one of the best LLM's in the world. I got 5000 images rejected. Now I can read about the requirements and not figure out why. It gets truly hilarious where the images are rejected by means of AI. It means they can produce 100% accurate reasons right on the rejection page. Ill even pay for it. I would also pay if it can correct the images. They have plenty of good but complex services that LLMs could deliver wonderful support for. Their LLM could also sell me services I currently cant be bothered to look at. Eventually, over the years the LLM can slowly be allowed to negotiate and make decisions too.
by zamadatix | 2025-04-17 16:20:21+00:00
If it were to become a real problem I'd sooner see Apple, of all vendors, leave it as one of the many settings flags in Safari than intentionally avoid or remove support for wide range media in their app.

Related: there is also a CSS property coming which allows sites to control which page content should be clamped to standard range or not. Worst case you can just add an * !important override in your Safari->Preferences->Advanced->Style Sheet if nobody else considers it problematic but you still wanted to clamp things (in Safari, otherwise you can just disable HDR).
by lightdot | 2025-04-17 16:20:24+00:00
Of course one can and should read the script before running it, but the instructions promote just the opposite.

Even if we skip a step ahead and consider that this script then installs a binary blob... the situation doesn't get any better, does it?

If you find any of this as something normal and acceptable, I can only strongly disagree. Such bad practices should be discouraged.

On the other hand, using a distro's package manager and a set of community approved packages is a far better choice when installing software, security vise. I really don't see how you could compare the two without plainly seeing the difference, from a security perspective.

As an alternative, if the software is not available through a distro's package manager, one should inspect and compile the code. This project provides the instructions to do so, they are just not promoted as a first choice.

I can't help coming to a conclusion, that you've largely made my point about bad practices and having a wrong mindset when it comes to software security.
by lotsofpulp | 2025-04-17 16:20:32+00:00
Military spend is only 13% of total federal spend.

Healthcare is 26%.

At a certain point, unquestionable military superiority provides more utility than keeping old people alive, and more like surviving instead of living from my grandparents’ experience with dialysis.

Not that current US military spend is ideal, but neither is current healthcare spend on the healthcare and population it is spent on.
by snthpy | 2025-04-17 16:21:13+00:00
Similar to the SeaweedFS question in sibling comment, how does this compare to JuiceFS?

In particular for my homelab setup I'm planning to run JuiceFS on top of S3 Garage. I know garage is only replication without any erasure coding or sharding so it's not really comparable but I don't need all that and it looked at lot simpler to set up to me.
by toast0 | 2025-04-17 16:21:25+00:00
Afaik, if you were running the Erlang SSH daemon, when you connect as an authorized user (or just ask!), it drops you into the Erlang debug shell. There's no concept of different users in the debug shell. Erlang dist is kind of an almost single system image cluster, with no security boundaries once you're connected to the cluster. (Well, not exactly no boundaries, you can mark a process sensitive, and ets tables private, and do some other things to make introspection difficult [1], but you can likely still spawn an os process debugger and get to everything; you would need to modify the OTP sources to disable os process spawning)

I didn't think anybody would actually run the Erlang SSH daemon, but there's evidence that some do. It makes more sense to run openssh, so you can debug BEAM failures etc, and you can load a debug shell from your OS shell easily.

[1] https://security.erlef.org/secure_coding_and_deployment_hard...
by pmontra | 2025-04-17 16:21:30+00:00
Django has a few features that can be taken for granted: the ORM, the templating language (ouch), the admin, the user/auth/permission system, the division in views (called controllers in Rails) and templates (called views in Rails.) They are well known entities but there is no well defined structure for the code. A project can have any shape and I've seen no two projects with the same shape. On the other side every Rails project has the same shape, often even across multiple versions of the framework. The greatest departures from the standard are some app/services directories but in general you can tell where a url is implemented without looking at Rails' equivalent of urls.py

Django allows multiple subprojects inside an app and code wherever one wants to place it. Rails also allows code anywhere but in practice it's always in the same places. Maybe it's Python, inviting developers to overengineer their code.
by noddingham | 2025-04-17 16:21:43+00:00
I think to the parent's point it is as you say: there is already untapped capacity that isn't being used due to (geo)political forces maintaining the scarcity side of the argument. Using your agriculture example, a simple Google search will yield plenty of examples going back more than a decade of food sitting/rotting in warehouses/ports due to red tape and bureaucracy. So, we already can/do produce enough food to feed _everyone_ (abundance) but cannot get out of our own way to do so due to a number of human factors like greed or politics (scarcity).
by lupusreal | 2025-04-17 16:21:53+00:00
They'd still be dolphins in the same way that you are still a fish.

Also, I don't think you're right that they could do this easily. Their hind limbs have almost completely vanished, their pelvis too, and they have no chance of moving on land. To have a chance they would need to redevelop those things which they've lost, and I don't think there's a particularly plausible path where each step helps their survival at that step. In contrast, their four-limbed land adapted ancestors could swim much better than dolphins can walk.
by ysleepy | 2025-04-17 16:22:03+00:00
That only works for high profile domains, a CA can just issue a cert, log it to CT and if asked claim they got some DNS response from the authoritative server. Then it's a he said she said problem.

Or is DNSSEC required for DV issuance? If it is, then we already rely on a trustworthy TLD.

I'm not saying there isn't some benefit in the implicit key mgmt oversight of CAs, but as an alternative to DV certs, just putting a pubkey in dnssec seems like a low effort win.

It's been a long time since I've done much of this though, so take my gut feeling with a grain of salt.
by blagie | 2025-04-17 16:22:08+00:00
I see. That question makes sense.

I don't hate China. I'm very glad we have a competing model of governance, and I'd like to see a diverse range of governments in the world. China is experimenting with a very different model, and for all the faults with that model, I'm grateful for that.

If the goal is to understand the anger and hatred, a good place to start is the persecution of the Uyghurs. That one is pretty over-the-top evil, and you can learn more here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17oCQakzIl8

There are many other such things happening. In general, hate is based on cherrypicking the bad things about "them" and the good things about "us." That's as true across political lines, as across countries, as across some religious divides.

To your original question: "What makes the Chinese government evil in a way that the US Government is not," the US government does NOT do things like this. It does a completely different set of evil things, and a completely different set of good things.

Part of the reason cherrypicking works is there is no equivalence between e.g. Muslims in Gitmo and cultural oppression in Tibet. They're different. The Chinese government is evil in a way the US government is not, good in a way the US government is not (and vice-versa). Which is worse depends on your set of values, and consequently, it's very easy to make one side seem like pure evil and the other side to seem like pure good.

All that said, I do think TikTok (and a lot of other social media) has about the same level of negative impact as many drugs, and I think specifically in the case of TikTok, the impact on American kids is at least in part a deliberate geopolitical jab. If Facebook has a decision whether to make money or help kids, it will make money, finances being equal, it will pick to be socially-responsible. TikTok, for impact on American kids, is probably mostly the opposite.

Is that worse than a fake CIA vaccination campaign in Pakistan? It depends on whom you ask. However, it is, without argument, different.
by spacebanana7 | 2025-04-17 16:22:30+00:00
You highlight some genuine points of difficulty for antitrust enforcers.

If the rules were targeted at Google only then Google's lawyers would argue this is unequal application of the law. Even if the courts rejected Google's argument there'd be a real risk end up with exactly the same situation but with Bing in a couple of years time as they become the default search on every device / browser.

If "pay for default" deals were banned altogether then Firefox might be seriously hurt, which isn't exactly good for the competitive tech ecosystem.
by xorcist | 2025-04-17 16:22:30+00:00
This is a bad faith argument. Whatever measures Google takes to prevent this (certificate logs and key pinning) could just as well be utilized if registrars delegated cryptographic trust as they delegate domains.

It is also true that these contemporary prevention methods only help the largest companies which can afford to do things like distributing key material with end user software. It does not help you and me (unless you have outsourced your security to Google already, in which case there is the obvious second hand benefit). Registrars could absolutely help a much wider use of these preventions.

There is no technical reason we don't have this, but this is one area where the interest of largest companies with huge influence over standards and security companies with important agencies as customers all align, so the status quo is very slow to change. If you squint you can see traces of this discussion all the way from IPng to TLS extensions, but right now there is no momentum for change.
by iteria | 2025-04-17 16:22:39+00:00
You can do both. I'm not sure why people have this as an either or thing. My kid (6) plays outside after school and watches youtube or whatever on her tablet. I don't consider it much different than when I did the same and came home to play videogames. I have greatly restricted youtube because I do think it's a blight on my kid's mind, but she has other apps like PBS and hell even good ol' digital junk food silver surfer. Everything in moderation.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-04-17 16:22:43+00:00
Linux distribution maintainers believe Bash is an inferior shell for scripting. It may be a superior shell for interactive use, depending on personal preference.

No one is prevented from using whatever shell they prefer for whatever purpose. For example I prefer to use a smaller, slightly modified scripting shell for interactive use. Some folks prefer to use a large, interactive shell for scripting.
by PaulHoule | 2025-04-17 16:23:17+00:00
My impression is that's a problem with Google Shorts.

Google has been trying to get me to watch Shorts since they introduced them with little effect.

One day they offer me a video of a Chinese girl transforming into a nine-tailed fox on Shorts which was a good choice for me. After that they want to show me endless AI slop videos of Chinese girls transforming into all sorts of things on America's Got Talent always with the same music, the same reaction shots, etc.

I tend to look at the recommendation problem as a classification problem [1] but one thing that challenges that is that the answer to "do you want to see more content like this?" is different for content that is 5% of your feed (you relish it) to the very same content if it is 95% of your feed (you're disgusted.) My own answer to the diversity problem [2] is to k-Means the content into 20 clusters and rank the cluster independently so I am always operating at the 5% point.

With ordinary YouTube content I frequently get introduced to something like Techmoan or Jay-Z videos that I can binge with relish the same way I can binge episodes of Shangri-La Frontier season 2. But shorts don't do that for me.

If I was developing a recommendation-based content site based on short content in 2025 I would take a cue from Yostar games and make it so people are actually discouraged from sitting in really long sessions but rather you get them to keep coming back frequently to graze. I'm amazed at how a mechanism like oil in Azur Lane can rescue you from a grindy task right when you are starting to get sick of it forcing you to either engage with some other part of the game or real life for a while. There are a few of us who will spend the holiday break playing Dynasty Warriors 9 or Asgard's Wrath 2 and realize we spent a few work weeks worth of time playing a game, but even then you burn out, I think mobile games are more successful at getting more people to spend more time with games, often with content that is thinner.

[1] ... actually every problem, Hot Dog/Not Hot Dog is not a joke in my pod

[2] which I haven't seen in the literature. I used to think that I didn't understand or believe many ideas in the recommender literature such as "negative sampling", now I think the recommender literature is frequently wrong
by am3101 | 2025-04-17 16:23:33+00:00
I think this goes back a bit to what personas you are trying to solve for. Many companies have a generic investor presentation on the website.[1] Every professional investor will have access to sell-side coverage and initiations of coverage is basically this (an overview of the company, key drivers, etc.). Retail investors will often have access through wealth managers. And if it went public relatively recently the IPO deck will function as this.

[1] E.g., https://s27.q4cdn.com/632832908/files/doc_financials/2024/q4...
by sph | 2025-04-17 16:23:41+00:00
Fat adaptation is not bro science, it is what happens when you do not consume enough carbohydrates to meet your TDEE so your mitochondria “learn” to become really efficient at burning fatty acids. It’s the whole premise behind keto/low carb. When used to our modern high-carb diets, the adaptation takes some time for genes to activate, since we eat a lot and never have long enough fasting periods to be able to quickly switch between glucose and fatty acid metabolism.
by callc | 2025-04-17 16:23:44+00:00
> The normal technology frame is about the relationship between technology and society.

There is a huge differentiating factor for LLMs that makes it not normal: the blatant disregard for the ownership rights of everyone in the world. What other "normal" technology has so callously stolen everything it can without consequence?

The music industry? Artists getting inspired and too closely imitating other artists? I genuinely want to know. And if there is such a suitable example, how did society react? Is there relevant history we can learn from here?

Putting aside other the other problems (capital ownership class salivating at the prospect of using LLM bots instead of humans, reduced critical thinking and traditional learning, environmental impact, other societal changes), this is my main turn-off for LLMs.

Give me a model trained on a responsible dataset (not something our grandparents would scold us for doing) and that I can on consumer hardware then I can use LLMs guilt free.
by whartung | 2025-04-17 16:23:45+00:00
I know I’m in my own little corner, but stringing process together is the shell/unix superpower.

The “Unix way” stands on the shoulders of stdin, stdout, pipe, and fork.

And the shells make that a first class concept. Breaking up the command line and linking processes together is the #1 job of a shell, everything else is gravy.

The scheme and lisp shell takes fail here, just because you have to go through the gymnastics of syntax.

My fantasy would be to have something like this:

(! ls | (myfunc) | sort -r -n | >list) (“100 x.txt” “200 y.txt”)

Piping system commands into my own functions within the environment.

Sure, I could do:

ls | myfunc.scm | sort -r -n

But then I can do that with anything, not just scheme (there’s that Unix superpower again).
by quasse | 2025-04-17 16:24:15+00:00
If literally a single person in this entire comment section had read the linked article they would have seen that the parent comment's (bad faith) point is directly addressed.

> Of course, if TikTok is removed, many children will just move to TikTok’s competitors: Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts. This is why it’s so important for countries to follow Australia’s lead: raise the age for opening social media accounts to 16 and require the companies to enforce it.