MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Xmd5a | 2025-04-08 09:44:20+00:00
I noticed a change in how ChatGPT answers in the past week: it is a lot more sycophantic. Example:

- in pid systems, what is proportional on error vs on measurement - Great question — this is a subtle but really important distinction in PID control tuning!

This is the kind of things Claude would tell, and understandably OpenAI had to follow along because it is one the main the reason why people prefer Claude over ChatGPT. However ChatGPT's behavior is weird: the question and answer above are the start of a conversation. Claude wouldn't praise you that soon in the conversation. Did OpenAI use control vectors for this goal ?
by dijksterhuis | 2025-04-08 09:45:12+00:00
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2020/dec/analysis-new-home-office...

> The two-year study by the Home Office makes very clear that there are no grounds for asserting that Muslim or Pakistani-heritage men are disproportionately engaged in such crimes, and, citing our research, it confirmed the unreliability of the Quilliam claim.

white males end up as defendants in CSE cases more often than any other ethnic group

https://www.logicallyfacts.com/en/fact-check/no-pakistani-me...

> while white men make up 83 percent of the population, they accounted for 88 percent of the defendants in child sexual abuse cases.

see page 38 https://www.csacentre.org.uk/app/uploads/2024/02/Trends-in-O...

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oh you edited your post to add more anti-muslim rhetoric.

let’s dive into the detail a little

> A pre-sentence report will normally be considered necessary if the offender belongs to one (or more) of the following cohorts:

> at risk of first custodial sentence and/or at risk of a custodial sentence of 2 years or less (after taking into account any reduction for guilty plea)

> a young adult (typically 18-25 years)

> female

> from an ethnic minority, cultural minority, and/or faith minority community

> pregnant or post-natal

> sole or primary carer for dependent relatives

> Or if the court considers that one or more of the following may apply to the offender:

> has disclosed they are transgender

> has or may have any addiction issues

> has or may have a serious chronic medical condition or physical disability, or mental ill health, learning disabilities (including developmental disorders and neurodiverse conditions) or brain injury/damage

> the court considers that the offender is, or there is a risk that they may have been, a victim of:

> domestic abuse, physical or sexual abuse, violent or threatening behaviour, coercive or controlling behaviour, economic, psychological, emotional or any other abuse

> modern slavery or trafficking, or coercion, grooming, intimidation or exploitation.

> This is a non-exhaustive list and a PSR can still be necessary if the individual does not fall into one of these cohorts.

https://www.sentencingcouncil.org.uk/overarching-guides/magi...

1) i dont see the word “muslim” mentioned anywhere

2) i see about 10 other societal groups listed that have nothing to do with religion

but sure, let’s keep blaming the muslims for everything, that sounds like a healthy approach to life.

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second edit because fuck it.

i grew up in an affluent part of the country, a quiet and mostly white countryside town. went to posh schools. most of my first 20 years i didnt spend much time around people of other ethnicities.

i get it man. i get that you might be afraid of losing your “identity”. or maybe you’re afraid of the big scary bogeymen on the news.

but you don’t have to be afraid. you dont have to be afraid of the bogeymen. the bogeymen are mostly made up stories. you don’t have to be afraid of change. life becomes a hell of a lot more fulfilling without fear.
by bigomega | 2025-04-08 09:45:23+00:00
Not really, no. My peers and I were constantly opening ChatGPT when probing new topics. But now, with Gemini integrated within Google and the hallucinations of LLMs, seeing the SEO result along with the AI summary has become my goto choice. The one thing I find extremely frustrating (which I hope Google fixes) is not being able to continue the conversation with Gemini if I have follow-up questions.

I think this also stems from a new design paradigm emerging in the search domain of tech. The content results and conversational answers are merging – be it Google or your Algolia search within your documentation, a hybrid model is on the rise.
by ljm | 2025-04-08 09:45:24+00:00
Rather than thinking about the suit itself, I’d consider the dress code or culture of the company you’re interviewing for.

Turning up in formal business wear isn’t going to be a positive social cue if everybody you interact with is dressed casually.

The social cue you’d be giving off is that you stick out like a sore thumb and probably didn’t do your research on the company before you showed up.

Literally no different than turning up to Lloyd’s of London in a Hawaiian shirt and Bermuda shorts.
by whywhywhywhy | 2025-04-08 09:45:52+00:00
A lot of CSS tooling feels designed to overcomplicate it so it feels more like "engineering" rather than "markup". I find Tailwind particularly bizarre, essentially writing your CSS as inline styles via single use non-semantic classes is absurd to me.

Wasn't CSS invented so we didn't have to write every html element "its blue, centered text and bold font" yet people willingly choose to use class="items-center font-bold text-blue-600" and running it through a compiler.
by redeeman | 2025-04-08 09:46:46+00:00
Z8 and Z9 can do the same, Z9 can do 120fps in jpeg mode 11MP, similar to your Z8. Z8/Z9 will do 30fps in jpeg fullresolution, 20fps in RAW. how long it can do it without slowing down depends on your card, and whether you use uncompressed raw, lossless raw, lossy raw etc
by metalman | 2025-04-08 09:47:33+00:00
the key thing to remember is that Trump was targeted by a wide range of legal attacks on him personaly, and he is looking for anything that will link those attacks, and expose any co-ordination or links to affiliate organisations, and given that the legal shenanigans are ongoing, though currently, only performative, it would be advisable for anyone involved to consider that there may be enough links between the various attempts to impeach and prosecute Trump, for counter charges of conspiracy, and treason. Not that Trump is a great guy, but that the moves against him, might have been precipitous.
by like_any_other | 2025-04-08 09:47:54+00:00
"Fully open" is a strawman. These are not names of MI5 agents, or a list of active police investigations. This is a massive breach of privacy of every UK citizen, and forced recruitment of every company into a government informant, forcing them to lie to their users that they're being given privacy, whilst informing on them.

It is trying to keep the existence of the Stasi a secret.
by ghaff | 2025-04-08 09:48:18+00:00
Mostly the latter but still. What some people on this thread don’t get is that unless you’re a known industry luminary, companies are not going to accommodate odd preferences without a legit reason like a physical disability. The resume probably won’t even make it out of HR. One key is both the company and candidate making requirements like travel clear up front. Saves everyone a lot of time.
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by vladstudio | 2025-04-08 09:49:14+00:00
Hey HN! I wanted to practice "vibe coding" and see how far and fast I can go by only prompting, without actual coding.

I decided to make a simple CLI app that scrapes web docs into a single md file (I was annoyed that LLM keeps writing Tailwind 3 code for a Tailwind 4 project).

In just a couple of hours, the CLI app was ready! Then iterated on arguments for another couple of hours. Result: https://github.com/vladstudio/web2llm

Then I decided to go further and "productize" the CLI by making a web app for it. Another half-day, and the web app is ready! https://web2llm.dev/

Feel free to try! The stack is Astro, Typescript, SQlite and Tailwind (no React!) on an $3/m Ubuntu VPS on Hetzner.

Also to deploy it on Hetzner, I asked AI to write a collection of bash scripts for me. This was harder than it seems, but after another couple of hours of iterating AI got it done too: https://github.com/vladstudio/ubuntu-node

I happily achieved the goal of going from 0 to 1 without writing any actual code (except minor CSS). Very interesting to see where AI shines, and where I'd better do it myself.
by DrNosferatu | 2025-04-08 09:49:59+00:00
Want a real solution to electronic waste, with real international knock-on effects?

The EU should mandate 10-year warranties for higher-end consumer electronics and durable goods.

This could work on a sliding scale: less expensive items get shorter warranties (but never below the current 2-year minimum), while pricier products require longer coverage periods.

Such legislation would:

1. End the exploitation of workers in sweatshops producing deliberately short-lived products

2. Discourage planned obsolescence and reduce manufacturing waste

3. Significantly decrease the climate impact of consumer electronics

4. Create genuine incentives for a Circular Economy where durable products like quality ThinkPads become standard rather than exceptions

By requiring products to last, we'd not only protect consumers and the Environment, but also the vulnerable workers currently trapped and exploited in sweatshops designed to produce disposable goods.
by latexr | 2025-04-08 09:50:35+00:00
Not exactly.

> If the command doesn't already take a single file as input, you need to pass it the special `{0}` argument, which GitHub replaces with the temporary file that it generates the template-expanded `run` block into.

It seems to be writing your script to a file, then using an executable to run your file. That ignores any shebang.
by makingstuffs | 2025-04-08 09:50:51+00:00
Sorry it wasn't entirely clear that I was by no means saying the web in its current form is anything close to what it could/should be. My main point was that, by making backdoors for MCPs there will be a new possible entry point for bad actors by exploiting said backdoor.

As for the optimisation to _waste human life_ I do agree but the reality is that the sites which waste the majority of human life/time are the ones which would not be automated by the MCP and would, ultimately, see more 'real' usage by virtue of the fact that your average human will have more time to mindlessly scroll their favourite echo-chamber.

Then we have the whole other debate of whether we really believe that the VC funders whom are largely responsible for the current state of the web will continue pumping money into something which would hurt their bottom line from another angle?
by wraaath | 2025-04-08 09:51:21+00:00
I recruited for a late stage pre-ipo unicorn after COVID. On the cash portion of compensation - 145k was the suggested starting negotiation point for a fresh out of college engineering candidate at offer stage. For that level, we'd go as high as a one-time additional 22k on signing with equity at 225k in RSU's (/4 year vest).
by tim333 | 2025-04-08 09:51:40+00:00
I think the trouble with Trump's approach is the ham fisted way he's trying to do it. If he wanted to bring manufacturing back to the US for strategic reasons even if the costs may be a bit higher than doing it in China, which I could understand, he should have announced a stable thought out policy years in advance to give people time to train, build factories and so on.

The current approach is a mess.
by coretx | 2025-04-08 09:52:15+00:00
No, most people are stuffing everything into the application layer, or worse, a web/mobile app these days and don't know how to fix anything below it. I know many "programmers" who can neither configure a SME/Enterprise firewall or switch nor build their own PC or server from parts. Also, during the 90's everything was easy to find and access. Piracy was the norm and FOSS was booming.
by _7acn | 2025-04-08 09:53:58+00:00
It seems to me that one (of many) factors contributing to the fact that electronics are no longer repaired as often in Western countries is the wealth of these countries and the relatively low cost of electronics. If an hour of a technician's labor costs X, and a particular piece of equipment can be bought for, say, 3X, it doesn't make much sense for most people to repair it.
by disgruntledphd2 | 2025-04-08 09:54:46+00:00
> It's a possibility. SARS II was much harder to contain though. The first SARS actually made it to North American hospitals, but was contained. It didn't spread in the populace.

Totally fair, but as I recall he didn't even try to keep it away from US soil (which had always been the CDC approach).
by derelicta | 2025-04-08 09:56:43+00:00
Except Tibet was part of China before westerns divorced it from China.

I dunno why but I think I'm gonna trust people who used to be the victims of colonial domination and looting over the recidivist offenders of the said colonial domination and looting when it comes to Asian history.

Also NK is a Chinese protectorate as much as the USA is a Republic.
by randunel | 2025-04-08 09:56:47+00:00
I'm pretty sure you'll find individual Tesla owners who haven't yet had any issues, but their poor track record in terms of reliability and repairability remain.

Stop encouraging companies who lock you out, stop renting products you should fully own!

Locking things down is simply a hidden subscription in the shape of repairs and replacements. When you stop paying the subscription (stop repairing, stop upgrading), that's also approximately when the rental stops working (car, iphone, etc).

I'm sure the percentage of broken to working devices is a carefully monitored R&D output, to maximise profit and retain customer trust from renters such as yourself.
by pjc50 | 2025-04-08 09:58:17+00:00
> The main issue of course is cost;

This is exactly it, and it's a similar issue to what people talk about with clothing (Shein etc). Although clothing isn't automated, that really is just cheap labour.

We have all these electronic artefacts in the first place because of highly integrated processes (starting with the "integrated circuit" itself!), done on mostly-automated production lines. But the automated processes rely on rigid standardization: all the inputs must also be new and precisely in-spec. You can't easily "undo-redo" part of the manufacturing process to fix something.

As a society gets richer through automation, things which still require humans get relatively more expensive. This is known as "Baumol cost disease", the phenomenon that things like education and healthcare are much more expensive than consumer goods because the latter can be automated and outsourced while the former can't.

People will pick cheap-unrepairable over expensive-repairable almost all the time. The awkward corner is expensive-unrepairable, which is becoming an issue (see John Deere vs right to repair).
by anthk | 2025-04-08 09:58:41+00:00
No one under GTK/Gnome uses plain C, they use Glib as a wrapper. Plain ANSI C might be 'unusable' for modern UI needs, but, as I said, just have a look on WebkitGTK4. Glib everywhere, WebkitSettings are a breeze to setup.

Vala it's a toy because Miguel de Icaza went full MS with C# since Ximian. If Vala had more support from Red Hat, Gnome 4 could support Vala as the main language for it. JS? Lua and Luajit wouldb be a better choice for Mutter scripting. If you have a look on how Luakit and Vimb behave, the difference it's almost nil.
by pjc50 | 2025-04-08 10:01:14+00:00
> Companies should have to bear the full cost of cleaning up, repairing, or disposing the products they unleash upon the world

Boy have I got a WEEE for you. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste_Electrical_and_Electroni...

More broadly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Dot_(symbol)

(however, both of those schemes don't put everything back directly - which would be inefficient. They allow delegation by paying recyclers. This can result in "carbon offset" like shenanigans.)
by uh_uh | 2025-04-08 10:01:33+00:00
Sorry but this is nonsense. Do you have a theory about when certain LLM capabilities emerge? AFAIK we don't have a good theory about when and why they do emerge.

But even if knew how something works (which in present case we don't), shouldn't diminish our opinion of it. Will you have a lesser opinion of human intelligence, once we figure out how it works?
by soco | 2025-04-08 10:01:34+00:00
Generally speaking, any law is only good if there's consensus in upholding it. Because we write laws to simplify the implementation of the general (societal) intent, not to design the future society (although this may follow as secondary consequence). Now if the society decides some law is not applicable anymore, first they will start skirting it, then pressure to change it. A constitution is no exception, if until now the society was fine with it (a few amendments aside) it doesn't mean it will forever fine with it - societies change and laws will follow, never the other way around. Long story short: don't expect to change the society by changing the constitution. Watch for the society changing, or try to push that in some way.
by uniq7 | 2025-04-08 10:01:42+00:00
Through history and experience from other countries, there is a lot of data that let us correlate criminality with other variables that people would let the Government control (quality of children education, access to jobs, housing, healthcare, safety networks, punishments to deter crimes, etc).

The fact that the Government prefers to spy everyone with the excuse of stopping crime instead of improving any of those variables (specially housing) makes me think that the people in charge are either stupid in the best case or criminals in the worst.
by gambiting | 2025-04-08 10:01:55+00:00
Well - maybe. But take for example how Microsoft is doing bitlocker encryption on every Win11 system - by default, without prompting the user, your system drive gets encrypted automatically and the encryption key gets saved to your microsoft account.

Yes I hate that they do that without prompting, but in theory that solution offers that balance that OP talks about - if there are no backdoors in Bitlocker(let's assume that there aren't), then your encrypted data is perfectly secure. But if a judge issues a warrant for your data, then Microsoft can provide them with a key to unlock your device.

To me, that's an acceptable compromise - it means that someone stealing my laptop won't get my data, but if a warrant is produced then bitlocker drives can be unlocked for a criminal investigation.

Couldn't Apple create a solution where all your communication is end to end encrypted with a key that they just have a copy of? No backdoors necessary.
by jocaal | 2025-04-08 10:02:02+00:00
For your car note, insurance is only worth it if the thing being insured can ruin you if something were to happen to it. In the case of cars, you can potentially get ruined from the value of the other party's car. But if you live somewhere where most people drive normal cars, it might be worth it not having insurance. Our culture of insure everything, from your iphone to house is a market failure. If your house were to burn down, the value of the asset is still mostly concentrated in the land.
by kmacdough | 2025-04-08 10:04:28+00:00
It's not blame, but it's a striking reality that needs to be kept at the forefront.

It introduces a substantial set of novel failure modes, like cross-tool shadowing, which aren't obvious to most folks. Making use of any externally developed tooling — even open source tools on internal architecture — requires more careful consideration and analysis than most would expect. Despite the warnings, there will certainly be major breaches on these lines.
by freeamz | 2025-04-08 10:04:57+00:00
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/08/190805143525.h...

seems like they already have tech for something like that. Also saw some research in 2016 related similar use EMG to control nano bots in bloodstream.

This tech is interesting that it is using galvanic cell to power the bots.
by Pooge | 2025-04-08 10:05:06+00:00
Don't you think we eat too much of those?

Most people are dying of heart diseases and guess their causes...

Japanese elderly don't even drink the broth of ramen otherwise they may literally die (not my words).

Edit: sugar we don't really need to survive (trace amounts found in fruits and vegetables is basically enough) and salt maximum daily recommended amount is around 3g. Do you know how much salt a tablespoon of soy sauce contains?
by wizzwizz4 | 2025-04-08 10:05:24+00:00
In the olden days, when law enforcement wanted to intercept a letter, they would locate the sender, nab the letter before it got whisked away, and read it. (If the letter was sealed, they would copy the seal, so they could convincingly re-seal the letter after reading.) Law enforcement wasn't able to do this with whispered conversations, nor easily identify disguised people without following or arresting them. Things still got done.

I don't understand why computer-mediated communication means we have to choose between a panopticon, or the end of law enforcement. It seems to me that good old-fashioned detective work is still perfectly possible. Sure, there are cyber-enabled crimes, and new classes of cyber-dependent crimes, but each of those is a crime because of an interaction with the physical, human world. Those interactions haven't gone away, and are still amenable to investigation. (At a basic level: how do you know a crime has happened in the first place?)
by pjc50 | 2025-04-08 10:05:54+00:00
> Couldn't Apple create a solution where all your communication is end to end encrypted with a key that they just have a copy of? No backdoors necessary.

But that is a backdoor!

Especially, it's a backdoor that's inside a foreign country and subject to their intelligence services! It might be valid for a hypothetical autochthonous UKphone, but having a system where the US can secretly crack all UK comms is .. not ideal.

Given the tendency of UK ministers to use Whatsapp for private government communications, should we allow the US to have a backdoor into all of that via Meta? (in practice, they tend to leak to newspapers themselves, but it's the principle)
by agos | 2025-04-08 10:05:57+00:00
it obviously depends on the laws of each country - in Italy, for example, if you happen to find underground an object of historical, artistic, or archeological value you have 24 hours to hand it to the authorities (cultural conservation institutions, municipal authorities or law enforcement). On the other hand, if you are using a metal detector you can't claim it's a random finding and you might incur in charges for abusive archaeological research. If the finding is indeed random you are entitled to a monetary prize by the state.

In other countries I would expect similar legislation
by ffsm8 | 2025-04-08 10:06:14+00:00
I don't share the opinion you've quoted there, but neither do I share yours. Hmtx isn't actually a shiny new toy, it's just a rebrand of intercoolerjs - and I found out about that one in 2014.

That makes the time since it's inception to date longer then the time between initial react release and initial intercoolerjs release