MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by AStonesThrow | 2025-04-26 18:40:12+00:00
When I was in grade-school, my classmate's father was a collector of model trains. And he was, in fact, so avid and dedicated with his collection that every shelf and available space in his home was filled with those model trains. I indeed visited them a couple of times and, being the grandson of a railroader and owner/operator of a Lionel set myself, I was quite awed by the variety and cool stuff on display. In fact, his daughter once visited another friend's home, and she was utterly mystified as she looked around, asking "but where are the trains?"

Now there is surely a fine line between obsession and dedication in a collector's spirit, and this particular fellow became quite successful in real estate, so that he was able to open up a storefront in a very busy area of town and dedicate the space as his "private museum". By that time he had branched out into collecting automobiles, yes full-size ones, typewriters, purses (his wife liked those), phonographs and all sorts of other amazing, mostly mechanical, wonders. He took over for the local model train shop just down the way. So anyone in the market for a train set can also linger for a gander at his comprehensive museum setup.

So I am unsure if his obsession presented any sort of disability; he certainly ran a business, had a good wife and children (who also ran businesses), and he was eventually able to parlay this collection into something quite public, if only a breaking-even "vanity project" where his friends dropped by.

So, like, I would never discourage someone from cultivating a cool collection of stuff at home if there's a chance it turns into something like that. But just piling on ugly radioactive waste in your bedroom? I'm not sure that's a sane decision. I'm not sure that's something I would pay to see, or even come over for lunch. I would nod, smile, and call some hotline on the guy, myself.
by dtj1123 | 2025-04-26 18:40:52+00:00
Whilst I see the appeal of LLMs that unquestioningly do as they're told, universal access to uncensored models would be a terrible thing for society.

Right now if a troubled teenager decides they want to ruin everyone's day, we get a school shooting. Imagine if instead we got homebrew biological weapons. Imagine if literally anyone could produce and distribute bespoke malware, or improvise explosive devices.

All of those things could happen in principle, but in practice there are technical barriers that the majority of people just can't surmount.
by uxp100 | 2025-04-26 18:41:22+00:00
Jefferson Morley is a JFK conspiracy guy and I listened to a podcast where he discussed what was released and to badly summarize a conversation I listened to on a bike trainer a month ago: nothing really impactful regarding the assassination, but some interesting (shitty) details about the CIA. He has a newsletter you can look up that I’m sure goes into great detail.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-04-26 18:41:43+00:00
> Are you suggesting that only the wealthy can realistically afford to have children today, or that parents increasingly treat their children like status symbols or pets?

A little of both. Kids are a luxury good in the current macro.

The cost to raise a child from 0-18 in the US in 2023 dollars is ~$330k (Brookings, USDA). This does not include daycare (~$1k/month if you can find a slot) nor college. No sick leave nor paternal leave mandate, no job security, and so on. 2.5M children experience homelessness each year in the US. 14M are food insecure.

Look at wage data, correlate against housing and other non discretionary expenses, back out to affordability.

> Both interpretations strike me as pretty dystopian.

Welcome to the shit show. “To know is to suffer.” —- Nietzsche
by m000 | 2025-04-26 18:42:09+00:00
At the bottom of things, the problem we are facing is not a technical, but a societal one. Our societies are rapidly regressing to "techno-feudalism" (see [1]).

There will be some tech-lords in their high castles. Some guilds with highly-skilled engineers that support the tech-lords, but still highly-dependent on them to maintain their relative benefits. And then and endless mass of very-low skilled, disposable neo-peasants.

AI needs regulation not to avoid Skynet from happening (although we should keep an eye for that too), but because this societal regression is imminent.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/75560037-techno-feudalis...
by oumua_don17 | 2025-04-26 18:42:29+00:00
I read this blog post, then went for a walk with my spouse. On the way back, took a photo of a popular building in my city. I am not sure if it's just the way I took the photo but o3 tried for 14 minutes and then gave up with Error in message stream response.

It also curiously mentioned why this user is curious about the photo.

I relented after o3 gave up and let it know what building and streets it was. o3 then responded with an analysis of why it couldn't identify the location and asking for further photos to improve it's capabilities :-) !!!
by const_cast | 2025-04-26 18:43:05+00:00
Right, which is one of the most valuable parts about Wikipedia (or truly any product) and should be factored in.

The information on Wikipedia is important, but the existence of Wikipedia and you and I both knowing about it is more important. This is why building up existing institutions is almost always more valuable than the "burn it all down" populist mentality we see in politics today. Just the existence of the current thing represents some inertia, some energy, some goals, and that has value.
by keybored | 2025-04-26 18:43:56+00:00
I know about Whataboutism. Thanks. It’s a perfectly reasonable rthetorical strategy.[1][2]

You are engaging in the logical fallacy of making a true statement about fascist dictatorships which is skewed to, by implicit comparison, imply that the thing in question is the case elsewhere (elsewhere here being liberal democracies because that’s the most common comparison and also where most people in these discussions live). Media in liberal democracies do not reflect the diversity of their people, no.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6VCzhWy-Kk

[2] How do I know? Because it’s the only reply you get 90% of the time when replying to these kinds of statements.
by cptroot | 2025-04-26 18:44:13+00:00
This might be the first time I have seen someone both engage with LLMs as a producer of humanities artifacts, self-reflection and all, while also being cognizant of the underlying mechanisms.

It brings up some real questions about what does it mean to be, even if it doesn't ask whether our institutions are capable of recognizing that effort as valuable.

Off topic, it's extremely frustrating to see how few top-level comments are engaging with TFA. So many people are just using the headline as an excuse to pontificate.
by pyuser583 | 2025-04-26 18:45:03+00:00
When you read article after article that imply one thing, but actually say something else, how should we respond?

Parsing out what the article says is necessary.

It’s how articles are written, and how reporters and editors ask they be read.

“John Doe committed a terrible crime, the FBI said” does not mean the press is reporting the John Doe committed a terrible crime.

I wish the press would respond to cultivated mistrust by committing to high standards, but they have not.
by antidumbass | 2025-04-26 18:46:19+00:00
Fascinating that you take the court's ruling that he has a "mental illness" at face value.

How would you like it if one of your harmless hobbies was declared illegal overnight and your home raided?

How would you feel if the only way the court lets you go home without a prison sentence is to agree to be declared "mentally unfit"?
by wormius | 2025-04-26 18:47:00+00:00
This... I have had on at least 2 occasions explicitly where I know for a fact I hadn't searched or looked up this topic on any system, and I brought up a topic and talked to my roommate and within the next 12 hours FB served me ads or content relating to the topic.

I get the idea that an "always on" monitoring system would be problematic (even if you discarded the data itself and only retained/filtered relevant bits for a short period of time). But ... I have no other way to explain events like this.

I suppose some weird correlation of user has x,y,z and they searched for a,b,c in the past, and other users search for D, then we show D at exactly the 12 hour time they searched for it.

Yes I am aware of recency bias, and how perhaps it was shown other times without recognizing it. But it's... hard to shake that feeling, and I am (well less so now) a skeptic...

If it's anything it's like AI that's eerily creepy like "intelligence" but not it, just like this is "like listening" but isn't. Both use statistical models to do creepy ass shit.
by tsimionescu | 2025-04-26 18:47:50+00:00
It is not "THE" issue, it's barely even "an issue". The amount of radioactive material produced by a fission plant, and the form in which it comes, makes it trivial to store relatively safely - certainly much, much easier than the CO2 waste that most of our other energy generation solutions emit.

Also, the biggest issues with nuclear power are (1) the risk of catastrophic meltdowns, (2) the risk of using it as cover for nuclear armament, (3) the massive capital expenditure to create a plant, and (4) the amount of water needed for cooling and running the plant. All of these make the problem of taking some radioactive rocks and burying them trivial in comparison.
by kj4211cash | 2025-04-26 18:47:59+00:00
Do you really believe this? I've never met anyone opposed to birthright citizenship for the US. Our shared history, values, and national culture are all about immigration so this isn't computing for me. Plus the law seems settled on this issue, or at least was before Trump 2.0. I genuinely don't understand how thinking people can support the current administration's policies on numerous issues. Tried going to r/conservative, watching Fox News, etc. but it hasn't helped much to date.
by rsoto2 | 2025-04-26 18:48:26+00:00
Maybe if your labor is exploited by a capitalist hiring you illegally you should be legalized instead of humiliated and your life destroyed with a possible death sentence in a concentration camp. Meanwhile all the money you paid into this system is repatriated among "good just legal" citizens like yourself.

You benefit from this monstrosity that takes advantage of people and leaves them destitute and you know it deep down. If yall support this don't ever delude yourself into thinking you're a good person.
by Animats | 2025-04-26 18:48:59+00:00
It's more like BYD winning the race in China's auto industry. China has over a hundred automakers, most making low-end cars.[1] Some are state-owned, some are province-owned, some are privately owned. BYD is privately owned and doing well.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_automobile_manufacture...
by alganet | 2025-04-26 18:49:18+00:00
You do you. I am not a hacker.

"ThEn WhY aRe YoU oN HaCkEr NeWs?? tO hAcK iT? hA hA"

Quite amusing line of argument. Completely irrelevant. I am not responsible for hackers that defaced their own culture by hacking at it. I actually tried to save it, despite not being one.

I used to be a raker (in the Random Acts of Kindness sense). But it's hard. Too easy to get distracted. I am more of a planned acts of kindness guy now.
by const_cast | 2025-04-26 18:49:27+00:00
Zionism, as a belief system and ideology, is one built on colonialism and manifest destiny. That's literally, plainly, what it is. Naturally, these have associations with bad things. Most colonialist movements in history were bad for the people getting colonized.

You cannot subscribe to a belief and simultaneously exempt yourself from all consequences of that belief. What I mean is, if you are a Zionist, then you believe some people should be displaced in a conquest for your people. What happens to them? You cannot say "well, we can do it without displacement" or "well, I don't believe that".

No. That is the consequence of what you belief, and you therefore MUST stand by it. You MUST believe you are entitled to the land and sovereignty of Arabs, whether you choose to articulate that belief or not.

This is something Zionists sometimes struggle to comprehend. They wish to live in an alternate reality, where they can keep their beliefs and magically get to an outcome they desire without anyone getting hurt. It doesn't work that way. If your belief hurts people, _that means you want to hurt people_.
by mindcrash | 2025-04-26 18:50:07+00:00
Although they should have made this crap nobody wants opt-in anyway:

"You are always in control and can choose to remove Recall completely from your device by following these steps (under “Recall as an optional component.”). With removing any feature, Windows may keep temporary copies of non-executable binaries of the feature that are eventually removed over time."

How to remove:

"Recall is an optional feature for Windows. It is available by default for devices that aren’t managed by an organization or school.

To remove Recall, type Turn Windows features on or off in the search box on your taskbar. Uncheck Recall from the dialog and restart your PC. Any snapshots that were previously saved will be deleted when Recall is removed.

To re-enable Recall, type Turn Windows features on or off in the search box on your taskbar. Select Recall from the dialog and restart your PC."

Note this particular bit:

"It is available by default for devices that aren’t managed by an organization or school."

It's absolutely fucking absurd and sickening that MICROSOFT DOES NOT SEEM TO ENABLE THIS BY DEFAULT for business workstations, but home users, who very likely don't even know how to uninstall features from their PC, are fair game...
by southernplaces7 | 2025-04-26 18:50:13+00:00
>The Nazi were a mess, plagued with infighting, and completely incapable of measuring the strength of their opponents, which eventually led to their downfall.

no the Nazis weren't entirely a mess or completely incompetent.

There was lots of infighting, partly deliberately designed to be that way by Hitler's tactics for organizing his own subordinate leadership levels, but there was also a massive amount of military, industrial and logistical competence and a robust amount of cohesion and careful, powerful cooperation on fundamental aims.

Had there not been, the Nazi's never would have risen to power so effectively, formed their dictatorship so effectively or managed a colossal war against multiple enemies for so many years so effectively, and only been defeated at such a gargantuan cost in lives and resources. The Nazis underestimated the military strength of their enemies, but not nearly so badly as to not wage very effective war and pose a very, very serious threat to these enemies for several years.

I really suggest a book called "The Wages of Destruction: the making and breaking of the Nazi Economy" by Adam Tooze, as a nice basic primer on how wrong these ideas of supposedly incompetent Nazis are.

The above is all deviating a bit from the topic at hand but with this sidestep into a look at the Nazis, you're working from a simplistic caricature view of a more complex situation with complex evil people, and I fear that this is also all too common when many critics today view the Trump government. It's not staffed entirely by caricaturesque evil idiots. Many of its supporters are intelligent and cohesive in their guiding methodologies. (Also, no, the above isn't to compare the bad actions of Trump's government to the completely unrestrained monstrosities of the Nazis. I'm comparing defects of external analysis)
by spaceisballer | 2025-04-26 18:50:44+00:00
I regret spending the money on the long range Model 3. It’s something I charge every day because I can at home. Sure I could charge it once a week for my commute, but I just charge it up to 80%. I would love this Slate as my commuter car. I miss my Ford Ranger with a manual transmission. Hopefully this thing has an efficient motor.
by robocop_legacy | 2025-04-26 18:51:32+00:00
I think there is potentially a powerful method here. Specifically, the optimal context for a given task can be saved and a meta-learner can be trained to map the task to the context. This would allow fine tuning a model for some specific task without retaining the LLM. For example, generating an SEM image with of some material with a specified porosity and grain size.
by stefap2 | 2025-04-26 18:52:06+00:00
Six months ago I would have endorsed wide-scale deportations, but after seeing the consequences—families swept into jails, plain-clothes officers ambushing people on their way to work or school, and communities living in constant fear—it’s clear that indiscriminate removals are neither practical nor just. This approach diverts resources from pursuing violent offenders, erodes faith in the rule of law, and forces the whole country toward a “papers-please” surveillance culture, where everyone must carry ever-stricter IDs. Watching longtime neighbors dragged off for minor infractions, the policy feels capricious, and that perception of unfairness only accelerates the broader corrosion of civil liberties. A sound path must still secure the border, yet focus enforcement on genuine threats and offer law-abiding residents a transparent route to legal status, so safety is preserved without sacrificing the freedoms.
by rsoto2 | 2025-04-26 18:52:25+00:00
I'm an "illegal."

Physics degree. Magna cum laude. Engineer. Homeowner. If you heard me speak you would never guess I was not American. I have been here 30 out of 32 years an I have no legal pathway to residency or citizenship.

I guess I should have helped poison our cities with black tar heroin via a shitty PHP website running in the tor network like Ulbritch, maybe then I could get a pardon from the orange moron.
by markus_zhang | 2025-04-26 18:53:18+00:00
I'd argue that software design and architecture is not necessarily a "higher-end" skill but just because juniors don't get to do it, and with good reasons.

However I can't see why AI won't be able to do it given enough training data, and given that the problem is not too esoteric. After all it's just problem solving in another form.
by nineplay | 2025-04-26 18:53:33+00:00
> MLK said it best: "the moderate who is more devoted to order than to justice, who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice"

Are you a moderate who has a better plan? I ask that sincerely, if I've given up its not because I prefer peace but because I know a losing battle when I see one. We don't have a charismatic leader like MLK. The democratic party is in shambles. They're afraid of fighting the tariffs and alienating the working class. There is no one in the party who is broadly likeable, who has any chance of bringing the voting public together. Voters on the left still cling to their own personal pet peeves and insist they will never vote for anyone who doesn't specifically address whatever they think is the _real_ problem.

The sad reality is that Trump's policies are still really popular and if people are unhappy they are only unhappy with the execution. You see that in this thread. People see the this news story and see it as an unfortunate side effect of a basically good policy. They think illegal immigration is hurting our economy, they think 'anchor babies' are people taking advantage of a loophole that should be closed.

They think this country suffers because of tariffs and maybe they think Trump got carried away but they still support the idea. They are sick of Ukraine and think it's time we walked away. They think DEI means a black women will be hired over a white man under any circumstances. They think DEI in schools means our kids are being taught that the US is full of horrible backwards racists and sexists who need liberal saviors to make it better. They think that government agencies are overpaid and over bloated and full of people who don't do anything but get a fat paycheck.

These beliefs cut across people of all genders, of all colors, of all ages, of all states and cities. We can't even blame the boomers anymore and insist the younger generations will save us. No one will save us.
by gopher_space | 2025-04-26 18:54:19+00:00
> As someone who came legally to Canada and went through thorough screening of 4 years before coming I just don’t get how people are ok with “cheaters” gaming the system

We grew up with the idea that America was a beacon, not a whites-only gated community.

There’s no reason for us to think less of someone just because they want to be here. Our ancestors did exactly the same thing.

It sucks that you’re here complaining about the Statue of Liberty.
by mystraline | 2025-04-26 18:54:43+00:00
> I think you’re counting people who aren’t even eligible to vote. Among eligible voters, it was about 1/3rd to each of Trump, Harris, and staying home.

Oh, I absolutely am counting every human in the US, and not registered voters. Total counts are like 45% of the whole population voted.

I chose total counts to get a better idea of density vs political affiliation since we have those at the district level.

> I don’t give a lot of credit to those who stayed home. They also knew who Trump was and decided to let others make the choice on their behalf.

Perhaps. Perhaps not. Usually, the back and forth between statist democrat and statist republican weren't that much diverging, although campaigns would portray the other side as baby-eaters.

This is different. And even just 3 months, I'm seeing apolitical people come out of the woodwork and actually start being political. And even though I do vote, I get the idea of 'as long as politicians do decent, I don't care'.

> I’m not confident that even violent action would change things when so many people are in favor of or at least ok with what’s going on. You’re not going to win a fight, so is the idea to win hearts and minds? I don’t see that working.

I'm not seeing a fight ala lines of militia lining up firing in lines. I'm thinking what we're headed towards is much much more like Luigi. Or more historically, what we saw in France during WW2 - sabotage and hit-n-runs.

And the battle lines are also pretty defined as well. Its going to be a fight between rural and cities.

Like I said, if I had the ability to leave until the situation here comes to some semblance of sanity and stability (along with respect for human decency), I would leave. But at the moment, that is not an option for me. So instead, its a "what can I do to safeguard me and mine, for the foreseeable future?"

(So far, my answer is: grow my own food, get to know local farmers and pay/trade, connect with local mutual aid orgs, become more self-sufficient, canning and food preservation. That sort of stuff. Goal is to just blend in, and help non-violently where I can.)
by anon7000 | 2025-04-26 18:54:44+00:00
No. This isn’t true. Bluesky has always been very transparent about exactly what flavor of decentralization they offer. The whole thing is swappable microservices you can host yourself, including the relay if you really care. The relay is an optimization to make their app offering work in a performant, scalable way.

The relay is described here and here: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402.03239, https://atproto.com/guides/glossary#relay

The protocol Bluesky is built on is certainly decentralized. It’s really fucking annoying that people act like it’s not “real” decentralization, when in fact it’s just a different flavor of decentralization on the technical level compared to, say, the fediverse.