MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by llm_nerd | 2025-04-26 17:08:57+00:00
Elon Musk has been waging a war with Wikipedia[1] for a couple of years now, and has the ear of the president. Of those in the administration, he is the single name that really stands out as a guy with a Wikipedia beef.

Seems like he has lots to do with the topic, and it is absolutely likely that he is the one who elicited this. Recall that Musk also basically appointed his own head of the IRS (though Bessent then ousted that person and installed his own stooge).

1 - https://www.the-independent.com/tech/elon-musk-wikipedia-naz...
by Argonaut998 | 2025-04-26 17:09:15+00:00
This matches up with my exact thoughts too. My old phone was an Android, and it was quite old in that the manufacturer hadn't updated it in a while. There were times when speaking about something would give me ads relating to it on Google, or posts in Instagram's case.

Then I got an iPhone and it stopped completely. My wife has a newer Android phone and the same things happen to her.

Now, I swear I read a few years ago that Facebook have teams to deliberately look for vulnerabilities to exploit, as well as things such as this: https://x.com/ashk4n/status/1070349123516170240.

So my personal conclusion(s) is this: 1. There are vulnerabilities in older (if not current) Android versions which companies like Meta exploit to eavesdrop at all times, or at least while the app is not closed. 2. Most people just provide the 'While using the App' or 'Always allow' permissions for the microphone/camera, so this basically gives permission for them to do that regardless, even if it's not what those permissions were requested for (sending a voice message, taking a picture to post etc), BUT now there are status lights for when apps are using the microphone/camera which I never noticed been activated on my wife's phone when using it, unless for the correct reasons.

Between all the apps people use daily which is pretty much Instagram/Twitter/TikTok/WhatsApp, microphone permissions tend to be enabled, and if they are, then most of someone's screen time is on an app with those permissions. Not to mention the 'Google' app on Android phones which seems to have every single permission enabled at all times that perpetually runs.

Sorry, but I'm not buying the "someone else in your home searched something similar" or "ads are so advanced that they can predict what you want" etc excuses. I'm extremely careful with what I search. I have never experienced this once I switched to an iPhone, but I have experienced it too many times when on Android.
by __turbobrew__ | 2025-04-26 17:10:01+00:00
The question then is the mother the legal guardian of the kids and was she given a choice to hand off the kids to someone else? If the mother was the legal guardian and she decided to take the USC kids with her, that is her right.

I think the details will matter here, it does seem like ICE skrewed the pooch here in not giving the family recourse to get the kids out of the detainee facility. If the USC kids were involuntarily detained that is a problem (despite it may be legal to do that according to US federal law).
by mindslight | 2025-04-26 17:10:03+00:00
I mean, we're deep into a constitutional crisis right now - the president has asserted himself to be a king unbeholden to the law, and installed loyal supplicants who agree with that interpretation. So the check of the judiciary (required for individual liberty, among other things. and as imperfect as it was) is effectively dead.

I keep looking for angles where we can organize bottom-up within existing governance structures to resist this anti-American tyrant, that won't just result in an escalation where any resistance is attacked and the chaos then used as fuel for more support of authoritarianism (like the police riots of 2020). Something besides the single obvious lever of getting Congress on board with impeachment.

At any rate thank you for responding. By your other comments I knew you'd be able to point to something specific. The National Guards could certainly still play a role in defending the United States as this conflict escalates, but that baseline dynamic creates a much higher bar to clear.
by quantadev | 2025-04-26 17:10:09+00:00
Definitely the `Chain of Trust` concept can be applied to anything. For example Social Media Protocol developers have thought a lot about using CoTrust, to be able to block undesirable people (moderation), by following a 'whitelist' only of users you trust or ones they trust, down a dependency tree of trust. Interestingly you could decentralize this onto some Relay system like Nostr and use Crypto signing, where each "trust" is Crypto certified to be correct, rather than needing to truse a central server/authority.
by vessenes | 2025-04-26 17:10:10+00:00
I hear that. Counterpoint - if you all you have is a Philips-head screwdriver, all you have is a Philips-head screwdriver. On the other hand if all you have is a six axis CnC mill, well, then you have a lot.

I think of this less as audit misses, and more as developing a permanently useful tool. For open model weights, humanity will not (unless we’re talking real zombie apocalypse scenarios) lose these weights. They are an incredible global asset, so making them more generally useful and figuring out how to use them is super helpful.
by 3eb7988a1663 | 2025-04-26 17:10:26+00:00
Just installed it, but it put a terrible taste in my mouth where the IDE has a hamburger menu instead of showing the file menu. This is meant to be a professional, technical application used on a desktop. Glad some designer made 150 pixels look clean instead of busy, but now I am reduced to an extra click any time I need to do something.

Minor grievance, sure, but it it not an encouraging sign for their priorities.
by generalizations | 2025-04-26 17:10:28+00:00
> wonderful integrated members of our society

You've clearly only paid attention to ragebait. Because "integrated members of our society" is exactly what the right wing is interested in. But this is not what happened in recent years. The entire reason for the deportations is because they are not becoming "integrated members of our society" - it instead became "all crime-like" in places it wasn't before, and the correlation with the alien imports is just too obvious. It happened too fast and too much, and now the correction is just as hard.

"They are simply sick" and you're...... proving my point.
by srean | 2025-04-26 17:10:50+00:00
> It's how every major object storage platform works.

Very interesting. Could you name a few, am curious. I would be happy if erasure codes are actually being used commercially.

What I find interesting is the interaction of compression and durability -- if you lose a few compressed bytes to reconstruction error, you lose a little more than a few. Seems right up rate-distortion alley.
by kjksf | 2025-04-26 17:11:02+00:00
Is it, though?

> Entering the United States illegally is not classified as a civil offense; it is a criminal offense. Under U.S. law, specifically under Title 8 of the U.S. Code, unauthorized entry into the country is considered a misdemeanor. The specific statute is 8 U.S.C. § 1325
by mubou | 2025-04-26 17:11:46+00:00
Plenty of devs work on both web and mobile in their day-to-day, or do web development at work then go home and work on a mobile app. Unfortunately most companies separate the two into different teams with zero cross-collaboration, so frontend devs get no opportunity to work on the app or vice versa, but that's the organization's fault, not the developers'. Same with frontend and backend. If you're capable of learning more than one language/framework, you're capable of doing both web and mobile. The rest is mostly just grasping differences in UX design (and owning a Mac). Don't limit yourself just because your colleagues can only do one thing. Most people simply never have the opportunity or interest to practice outside their specialty.
by jfengel | 2025-04-26 17:11:54+00:00
Recipes are the least of what goes into a restaurant. It's not a secret. In many restaurants the chef will give you the recipe if you ask nicely. If not, anyone skilled in the art could reproduce it.

Running a restaurant is a trillion other things. Ordering the right amount of ingredients. Hiring, training, and keeping staff. Cleaning the bathrooms. Replacing stolen silverware.

You're not paying for the secret recipe. There isn't one. You're paying for the insane amount of work that goes into putting cooked food on a plate.

Images are much more about the specific process that went into creation. The intellectual part that can be taken is a much higher fraction of the product.
by jgalt212 | 2025-04-26 17:11:56+00:00
> And the best part of all? Teaching a model like this is surprisingly fun.

Given the painfully slow feedback look of LLMs and their inconsistent output. e.g. a good system prompt may be good on the first n examples, but then fall apart thereafter. I can say either Pete is being disingenuous, or "You're very busy" is not true, or Pete has a very interesting indifference function. Or maybe Pete is a VC, and he's just talking his own book.
by bionhoward | 2025-04-26 17:11:58+00:00
Ironically, the header for Anthropic’s coding tool implies anyone who uses it consents to having Anthropic reverse engineer every ounce of code you send to them for every response.

How can a crew that steals all of everyone’s work and then says you can’t use their work for anything competitive with their “do anything machine” be considered anything except a bunch of unethical hypocrites?

It’s honestly sad how many people are paying to get pwned, dependent, and replaced by big AI companies right now
by BSDobelix | 2025-04-26 17:12:46+00:00
>Why would you trust these statistics?

Because i would think the Associated press makes a more or less professional job:

https://apnews.com/article/el-salvador-homicides-gangs-bukel...

And the approval rating:

~91%

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1264586/approval-salvado...

But maybe you have better data to counter that?
by kentm | 2025-04-26 17:13:02+00:00
I’ve been in tech for about 2 decades now, and the general culture has always been to disregard ethics and social impact. How many times have we heard “We’re just building tools. Tools are apolitical and ethically neutral, it’s how you use them that matters!” It turns out that is actually not the case.

Plus the insistence that we can cordon off an area of life and designate it non political is incredibly common but also pretty naive (and dare I say privileged).

That is to say, we in the tech industry often encourage this sort of moral bankruptcy and like to pretend we’re above it all.
by dspillett | 2025-04-26 17:13:15+00:00
I find it does, at least for some classes of problem, particularly where there are several details or a sequence of events in play, with some reliability.

When problem-solving I tend to jump about a bit, which is often efficient as it gets me thinking about the wider picture and seeing varied parts of it instead of getting locked into a particular detail. This sometimes leads me to missing something slightly obvious, that I keep missing as I rerun through things. Explaining to someone else forces me to organise the diagnostic process so far into a more solid narrative which invariable passes closer to, if not headlong into, the detail I've skipped past previously.

Sometimes just pretending I'm explaining to someone else helps the same way, but not always (and hardly ever if I'm a bit manic) because it is too easy to start skipping over bits again where actually talking to someone else (or writing things down) highlights when I'm doing that as the narrative ends up with a gap. Such a gap confuses a human, so they query the skip, or makes the grammar of a written explanation "rub wrong" either immediately or when I read it back.

> you don't know that you'll work out your problem in the process of explaining it

Of course this isn't 100%, it doesn't help if there isn't a clue to the solution in the gap that gets filled, but it works surprisingly often and usually the gap is because I've simply made an unsafe assumption (such as that a particular detail is not really relevant) and things become massively more obvious when that simple error is undone.

> you don't know that you'll work out your problem in the process of explaining it

But if you feel you've exhausted other current avenues, it is worth giving it a shot. It is highly unlikely to make the situation any less fixed, unless your rubber duck highlights a larger problem that the problem you think you are debugging is merely a symptom of…

I think a similar process is in play when I do the “going for some air” thing, come back, and very quickly see the new vital clue. Having taken the break, the process of getting my head back into the problem space becomes one of quickly re-explaining it to myself. This gives the feeling that the back of my mind, my autopilot, has come up with the answer while I wasn't looking.
by vessenes | 2025-04-26 17:13:38+00:00
Yes, I understood that the narrator was pickpocketed and misunderstood Truth, while the crowd saw very well who had done it. I’m surprised this is not parseable by more frontier LLMs though. I thought you were saying there was a fairly obvious literary analysis incorporating the idea of Pierrot / mime / maybe trickster and Truth in the context of the full set of poems/stories, and I was like “..? Not obvious to me?”

Update: I asked o3 about this. I think it’s clear o3 understands the story. https://chatgpt.com/share/680d14be-4490-800f-97ae-e960615a90...
by mikeocool | 2025-04-26 17:13:42+00:00
I was a very casual GeoGuessr player for a few months — and I found it pretty remarkable how quickly (and without a lot of dedicated study time) you could learn a lot of tells of specific regions — and get reasonably good (certainly not pro good or anything, but good enough to the hit right country ~80% of the time).

Another thing is how many areas of the world have surprisingly distinct looks. In one of my early games, before I knew much about anything, I was dropped a trail in the woods. I’ve spent a fair amount of time hiking in Northern New England — and I could just tell immediately that’s where I was just from vibes (i.e. the look of the trees and the rocks) — not something I would have guessed I would have been able to recognize.
by tomrod | 2025-04-26 17:13:59+00:00
> The real solution to this is to end jus solis.

No, that's a step down a terrible return to pre-Civil War policy. We should be actively fighting against enslavement and for due process, not throwing our hands up and saying "well, guess we can't [bring them back from El Salvador, have a sane policy with respect to families, have people's rights to citizenship and legal residence respected]".
by unethical_ban | 2025-04-26 17:14:16+00:00
Admit that the current and past efforts to keep people out and quickly deport people failed. And then set up reliable systems of verifying people's citizenship before they can get a job and quickly deport those who should be deported.

Make it easier to work here legally in the US like it used to be in the 90s, and threaten CEOs with jail time if their companies have a pattern of hiring ineligible workers.

And let's be clear, a lot of this border security "crisis" is rooted in racism and Fox news alarmism. The GOP likes having the problem because it keeps the base angry.
by rahimnathwani | 2025-04-26 17:14:46+00:00
I love the method you used to get image consistency: construct a conversation history with the model where it explicitly accepts each image and agrees to use it:

User: Previous page prompt: [Previous Prompt 1] User: [Image 1] Assistant: I've received this image and will maintain visual consistency with it. User: Previous page prompt: [Previous Prompt 2] User: [Image 2] Assistant: I've received this image and will maintain visual consistency with it. User: Previous page prompt: [Previous Prompt 3] User: [Image 3] Assistant: I've received this image and will maintain visual consistency with it. User: Please maintain character appearance, art style, and color palette consistency with these previous illustrations when creating the next image. Assistant: I'll ensure the characters, art style, and colors remain consistent with the previous illustrations. User: Generate an illustration for a children's ABC story: [Current Prompt]. Make it colorful, child-friendly, and in a consistent style with any previous images. Include diverse characters with different ethnicities, genders, and abilities. Ensure representation is natural and authentic.

I'm curious: did you settle on this after trial and error? I mean, did having the assistant explicitly agree increase consistency, compared with just asking nicely at the end?
by generalizations | 2025-04-26 17:14:48+00:00
The right wing had a big problem with the role the CDC played in the authoritarianism of the COVID era. Now they're melting down a weapon of that authoritarianism. What's more important, preserving civil rights by preventing authoritarianism, or a single epidemic? Gotta think long term here.

I suspect that you merely dislike the authoritarian things the government is currently doing; I dislike that the government is authoritarian. We are not the same.
by ryandrake | 2025-04-26 17:14:56+00:00
I've found it's generally not worth it to push the discussion when it comes to politics. People will just dig in and there goes the friendship.

I'm (apparently, or so I'm told) a flaming lefty lib, who recently moved out of the Bay Area to a very "red" part of California. If I limited my friends to only people like me politically, I'd have to be a hermit. I basically take it as given that any new person I strike up a conversation with will not agree with my politics, so I just don't bring it up. Most of my friends got the hint clearly when they brought some of their Trump shit up and I immediately steered the conversation away. We have a good understanding--let's talk about positive things we have in common: hobbies, beer, cars, whatever. Don't bring up politics or religion, and you can make friends with anyone!

Some of them just can't bear to live even a few minutes without talking about their politics at every possible moment, and they're just not friends anymore.
by AustinDev | 2025-04-26 17:16:05+00:00
Let's do another time warp.

It's 2000, Bill Clinton is about to wrap up his second term and has deported more people in that term than any president ever at nearly 7,000,000 deportations. Trump barely had 2,000,000 deportations in his first term. Trump's first term was the lowest level of deportations for any administration since Carter. Obama, Reagan, Both Bushes, Clinton and Biden all deported more people every term of their administrations.

This has been going on for a long time. I doubt Trump will beat Clinton's 2nd term. I'd be willing to bet on it if anyone wants to take the other side.

There is so much lack of context in all these discussions. The 'Maryland Man' that everyone is extremely concerned about was first deported by Obama admin in 2009. Remigration is an ugly business, but it has to happen if you want to live in a sovereign nation under the rule of law.
by insane_dreamer | 2025-04-26 17:16:08+00:00
It's not valid for arrest on private premises, like a courthouse. Only out in public.

So the judge is no more "obstructing justice" than if I refuse to open the door to let ICE agents in to arrest someone with an administrative warrant, and then that person leaves out the back door.

ICE should have obtained a judicial warrant, but they didn't. That's their fault.
by jedberg | 2025-04-26 17:16:16+00:00
There are two key things to making this work:

Money and locality.

Money: You pay people to do things that take up time.

We have a house cleaner. That's a few hours right there. When the kids were little, we had a nanny. But the nanny didn't just watch the kids. She also washed and folded the laundry, tidied the house daily, and sometimes cooked dinner. In fact, now that they are in school, I'm thinking of hiring a home helper to do those things because those chores get neglected right now (although the kids can almost do it now instead).

Locality: Visit people who live nearby.

Most of my friends that I see regularly are either my wife's brothers and their families, since they all live locally, or the parents of our kids friends, who all live nearby since we go to the local school, or the neighbors who we like. We have family dinner a few times a week, either at someone's house or out to eat (see point one about money), and especially on weekends and summer break, we hang out a lot with the neighbors.

I don't however see my college friends or work buddies much anymore. That is what I had to give up when I had kids. We have some group chats and will occasionally get together, but that requires arranging babysitting, or one of us going on a trip with those friends (see the point about money again). But both my wife and I try to do that at least once a year (go on a friends trip).
by professor_x | 2025-04-26 17:16:50+00:00
Learning from history and still ending up on the side of almost every issue that is considered unspeakably cruel a generation later.

Slavery, segregation, women’s suffrage, child labor protections, labor rights, Social Security, interracial marriage, homosexuality, civil rights legislation, same-sex marriage, the Vietnam War, the Iraq War, prohibition, environmental protections, public education expansion, healthcare reform, voting rights expansion, immigration rights, disability rights, reproductive rights, minimum wage laws, workers’ compensation laws.
by EasyMark | 2025-04-26 17:17:00+00:00
yeah, I liked the simplicity of having things on my tv, but I gave up and got an apple tv box. I was getting way too many "I was just talking about that!" ads on some of the "free" services i was watching old tv shows and movies on. I'm a pretty frugal guy for the most part but buying a separate box that doesn't sell everything you do and say to advertisers is worth it.
by SamPatt | 2025-04-26 17:17:38+00:00
As a further test, I dropped the street view marker on a random point in the US, near Wichita, Kansas, here's the image:

https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/sampatt/media@main/posts/2025-04...

I fed it o3, here's the response:

https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/sampatt/media@main/posts/2025-04...

Nailed it.

There's no metadata there, and the reasoning it outputs makes perfect sense. I have no doubt it'll be tricky when it can be, but I can't see a way for it to cheat here.
by wongarsu | 2025-04-26 17:18:05+00:00
4o is already really good. For most of the pictures I tried they gave comparable results. However for one image 4o was only able to narrow it down the the country level (even with your CoT prompt it listed three plausible countries) while o3 was able to narrow it down to the correct area in the correct city, being off by only about 500m. That's an impressive jump
by kayodelycaon | 2025-04-26 17:18:15+00:00
Definitely more complicated. I've been playing around with using it to analyze historical data and using it to generate charts. And yes I've tried many different kinds of phrasing. I have experience working with and writing rules based "expert systems" and have a vague idea of how neural networks are used for image recognition. It's a pretty fun game to get useful information out of ChatGPT.

You cannot ask it to have crop yield as a column in a chart and get accurate information.

It only seems reasonable when doing a single list of items. Asking it for two columns of data and it starts making things up. Like bogus wikipedia links.

You could definitely make the argument I'm using it wrong but this is how people try to use it. I still find this useful because it gives me a start on where to point my research or ask clarifying questions.

It's much better at giving you a list of types of beer and wine that's been produced in history. Just don't trust any of the dates.