MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rdtsc | 2025-04-26 14:41:41+00:00
> The children were deported. In real life.

I am not sure what you're arguing for? Take the children away in real life and hand off to a random foster family. Sometimes they can stay with aunts or uncles. Sometimes there are no aunts or uncles.

> There's no need for hypothetical scenarios, focus on the actual point of the article and thread.

Ok, so what should we discuss about the article? To help the conversation move along it's easier to say "here is what I think" as opposed to tell someone "don't think or say that!" and leave it a that.
by James_K | 2025-04-26 14:42:14+00:00
I would estimate the bigger cause of malaise is the fact that things just seem to get worse. Housing gets more expensive, shops close down, towns die. One can't help but get the feeling there is a continual tightening of the screws. Every year, the country sinks a little further down. What can you do if you want to stop it? Brexit? Reform? Very unsatisfying answers, but the only ones people are given beyond "lay down and accept it".
by inquirerGeneral | 2025-04-26 14:42:17+00:00
There is a reason we are smart enough to develop finasteride and dutasteride that are extremely effective and safe¹ instead of relying on plants & herbs which are just weak versions of taking a drug anyway.

¹ the science is sound, the safety is absolutely a guarantee. There is a group of about 10 individuals who have spent their entire life spreading their neurological issues and obsession with fake reports and exaggerations of the harmful made-up side effects that cannot be repeated in any study whatsoever anywhere..

I actually could not believe the other day that they are still active and have managed to cause the FDA to issue a guidance that there might be higher side effect rates than otherwise were reported .

It's actually ridiculous, and every news article and study about it are almost entirely mentioning people who's just start believing in their heads that they have side effects when they actually don't. And yet the news articles took this as evidence of a story that has been hidden or something .

I really thought that those 10 or so individuals who you used to be able to read their forum posts back in 2006 when they tried to tell every young guy in the world not to take it for hair loss would have fizzled out by now.
by loa_in_ | 2025-04-26 14:42:28+00:00
A cancer is necessarily a line of cells that survived despite the mechanisms that should prevent it from surviving. It's evolution in a way - genotype a sequence of random mutations and environmental factors away from the original that allows the cell line to sidestep the immune system. Coincidentally the immune system based off of the same original genotype. The ones that don't survive are not causing cancer.
by camel-cdr | 2025-04-26 14:42:34+00:00
Btw, here is a VLA vector register sort: https://godbolt.org/z/Env64961q

It has a few more instructions then the VLS version, but the critical dependency chain is the same.

It's also slightly less optimal on x86, because it alway uses lane crossing permutes. For AVX512 that is 5 out of 15 permutations that are vperm, but could've been vshuf. (if the loop isn't unrolled and optimized by the compiler)

I wasn't able to figure out how to implement the multi vector register sort in a VLA way.
by Traubenfuchs | 2025-04-26 14:42:38+00:00
In a framework where one believes PFS to exist (I strongly believe it doesn't), tad would, at best, treat a few of the symptoms of PFS.

I believe people with self diagnosed PFS have a mix of mental illness and (sometimes) non diagnosed physical illness.

I'd like to see a self diagnosed PFS sufferer not get an erection, pumped up on 150 mg sildenafil + 10g L-Citrullin.

> Is Tad addressing this hazard in your view?

Let me address your question from a different angle: Being on an sufficient amount of daily tadalafil would certainly reduce the chance of you believing you got PFS, because it would guarantee you a working erection in any situation.
by pcthrowaway | 2025-04-26 14:42:42+00:00
> Apart of a society is doing business with people who don't 100% agree with you.

There's a vast chasm between "not 100%" agreeing with someone (Moby in this case), and being a Nazi. Bob's Burritos is a TV show so I don't think they'd be considered promoting meat, though the legalese is probably too questionable, as is restricting use for "right wing politics".

Moby is however of the opinion that animal abuse is unacceptable, regardless of whether people think it tastes good. I'm generally of the opinion that people should be free to establish hard boundaries for the use of their content.
by delichon | 2025-04-26 14:42:55+00:00
> When unelected, unaccountable corporations and their leaders determine your healthcare outcomes, what options do you have left? You can’t vote them out, you can’t possibly challenge their lobbying budgets, you aren’t friends with a senator, what can you do?

> A riot is the language of the unheard and violence is the language of the hopeless. October 7th, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Nicholas Kelly, time and time again throughout history, when people are left with no recourse, they choose violence.

If not an endorsement, a sympathetic justification.
by jedimastert | 2025-04-26 14:43:10+00:00
> How does anyone have the confidence to ship a legal brief that an AI produced without checking it thoroughly?

They're treating it like they would a paralegal. Typically this means giving a research task and then using their results, but sometimes lawyers will just have them write documents and ship it, so to speak.

This is making me realize that Tech Bros treat chat GPT like the 1930s secretary they never got to have
by strogonoff | 2025-04-26 14:43:17+00:00
That an LLM does not need to think to produce the output we want seems fairly uncontroversial. However, a statement like “LLMs may think, just not in the same way humans think, to produce the output we want” is problematic.

“The same way humans think” is the only kind of “think” that matters, for all intents and purposes. If we cannot define what it specifically is—because it loops us immediately back to the definition of consciousness et al.—the most precise definition of it will have to be along the lines of “the sort of thing that goes on in human minds”.
by AIPedant | 2025-04-26 14:43:52+00:00
It's not my example :) Got it from here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43732866

Edit: notice o3 isn't very good at covering its tracks, it got the date/latitude from the EXIF and used that in its explanation of the visual features. (how else would it know this was from February and not December?)
by rsfern | 2025-04-26 14:43:54+00:00
No, that is a false dilemma. the right (and constitutional) thing to do is give all these people the due process and access to legal representation that they are entitled to, and work out a legal solution to all these conflicting concerns.

read the habeas petition for VMS (the two year old). The child has a US citizen relative and the father seems to have transferred provisional rights of custody to them.

PDF: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.lawd.21...
by SamPatt | 2025-04-26 14:44:00+00:00
They aren't fake. I'm a Master I level Geoguessr (the penultimate competitive ranking) and what the pros can do is very real.

I looked at the image in the post before seeing the answer and would have guessed near San Francisco.

It seems impressive to someone if you haven't played Geoguessr a lot, but you'd be surprised at how much information there is about location from an image. The LLMs are just verbalizing what is happening in a few seconds in good player's mind.
by seabass-labrax | 2025-04-26 14:44:18+00:00
> I don't believe that's historic; the landmine convention was drafted in 1997, and the cluster bomb one in 2008

Not historic in the sense of 'old', but still motivated by real horrors that Europe witnessed. The Bosnian War occurred only a couple of years prior to 1997 and left the region with over a thousand square kilometres of land contaminated by live landmines, which are still being cleared today. I don't know about cluster bombs specifically, but I would imagine that the (widely televised) Second Gulf War and the conflict between Israel and Lebanon had something to do with changing European perception of the weapons.

Certainly, the treaties are always drawn up in peacetime - it would be impractical to do so during an active conflict. However I believe that all of them have been prompted by some violent, horrific conflict in the years immediately beforehand.
by zipy124 | 2025-04-26 14:44:22+00:00
PhD programmes usually require by definition that you discover "new" stuff. The difference between a bachelors/master's thesis and a PhD thesis is almost exactly that. Unfortunately reproducing doesn't tend to count, and even then if you reproduce a bunch of stuff just to find that it works, you haven't done anything novel.

In order to get a PhD out of it, you'd likely need to do a large number of reproducibility work, specifically going off some hypothesis like "method X has failings due to Y" and then testing it by doing the reproduction or similar. This makes it not low hanging fruit. In addition reproducing work is often very hard and time-consuming as you discover just how much is left out of papers/SI/appendicies.
by Demiurge | 2025-04-26 14:44:23+00:00
Ruby is in the running, so to speak, so of course that means there are thousands of people who agree with you. I'm not one of them. The fact that Ruby did not take of as much as Python did, even though there was all that RnR hype, is a testament to that. I don't think your examples are readable. What is |x| x.odd? ? (question mark pun intended) This is just "cleverness". I, personally, want my programming language to use method to use a keyword like "is" instead of operand?[question mark operator]
by ajross | 2025-04-26 14:44:29+00:00
> From what research I've seen, the phrasing here should be that non-citizens were deported and chose to bring their US citizen children with them. The children themselves were not deported.

That seems deliberately Orwellian. What's the "not deported" scenario you're imagining? Literally abandoning your child in a jail somewhere?!

It's not like these folks are in hotels, or have access to phones or family.

I mean, yikes. Is that really what we've come to in the discourse on this site? Putting scare quotes around "deported" to pretend that it's only "other issues" that are problems?
by dredmorbius | 2025-04-26 14:44:45+00:00
It's possible to accidentally post something, or have it swiped by many of the untrusted and untrustworthy applications on a PC or mobile device.

It's even easier to unintentionally include identifying information when intentionally making a post, whether by failing to catch it when submitting, or by including additional images in your online posting.

There are also wholesale uploads people may make automatically, e.g., when backing up content or transferring data between systems. That may end up unsecured or in someone else's hands.

Even very obscure elements may identify a very specific location. There's a story of how a woman's location was identified by the interior of her hotel room, I believe by the doorknobs. An art piece placed in a remote Utah location was geolocated based on elements of the geology, sun angle, and the like, within a few hours. The art piece is discussed in this NPR piece: <https://www.npr.org/2020/11/28/939629355/unraveling-the-myst...> (2020).

Geoguessing of its location: <https://web.archive.org/web/20201130222850/https://www.reddi...>

Wikipedia article: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_monolith>

These are questions which barely deserve answering, let alone asking, in this day and age.
by xg15 | 2025-04-26 14:45:21+00:00
I think it would be interesting to try to do a "constructive debunking" - try to build a system yourself that uses a tampered phone and constantly records and transcribes all audio around it, without being obviously detectable by battery drain, CPU usage or network traffic.

Variants/difficulty levels could be about: capture everything, or just keywords? What if you have a million keywords? Transcribe on-device or in the cloud? Can you do it just inside an app or do you need OS support/root access? Etc etc.

Would be interesting to see what can be done at all and how easy or difficult it would be to detect.
by southernplaces7 | 2025-04-26 14:45:31+00:00
>I don't like this kind of response because it's basically kind of an assumption, and you don't really give any evidence for it.

Whether you like it or not, it has indeed been happening for a long time, and under multiple administrations from either party. If you're interested in the tragedy of it all enough to care, then go look these cases up instead of first accusing someone of lying because they might be smearing a politician that you preferred, and who isn't the current orangutan in the White House.

Trump's administration is notably and vocally hostile to illegal immigrants, to migrants and I suspect to immigrants in general, but it's mainly still using the tools and practices that have long since been refined by multiple federal agencies whenever opportunities for heavy-handedness presented themselves.

Because it's Trump's administration, and enough of the major media system is unsupportive of him (still, for now), the matter is gaining more attention. This attention is a good thing, but it shouldn't cloud one from considering the possibility that the bureaucratic defects and authoritarian inertia of federal policing exist beyond the confines of a single type of administration.
by lsofzz | 2025-04-26 14:45:40+00:00
> The people configuring WAF rules at CDNs tend to do a poor job understanding sites and services that discuss technical content. It's not just Cloudflare, Akamai has the same problem.

I agree. There is a business opportunity here. Right in the middle of your sentences.

Hint: Context-Aware WAF.

Many platforms have emerged in the last decade - some called it smart WAF, some called it nextgen WAF.. All vaporware garbage that consumes tons and tons of system resource and still manages to do a shit job of _actually_ WAF'ing web requests.

To be truly context-aware, you need to compute a priori about the situation - the user, the page, the interactions etc.
by Arathorn | 2025-04-26 14:46:23+00:00
The strategy on Element has been to try to get sustainable by selling secure comms systems for governments - https://element.io/sectors, simply because govts have always been the main folks willing to fund Matrix dev (starting with France back in 2019, then Germany, then US, then UK, then Sweden etc).

Over the last few years we’ve really had to double down on this rather than relying on VC funding.

In terms of competing with Discord, the good news is that in govtech, we’re basically competing against consumer products like Signal and WhatsApp, as well as stuff like Teams. As a result, Element is not that far from a Discord competitor.

On the other hand, right now we are heads down building out stuff like https://element.io/server-suite and adding antivirus to Element Pro, and similar stuff which govts are willing to pay for, in order to keep the lights on. Meanwhile, fun features like custom emoji and discord-style voice rooms are stuck.

The plan is that when we get to break-even we can get back to our mission to provide secure decentralised comms for everyone, not just govts, but right now the focus is purely on being financially sustainable.

That says, if anyone reading this wants to fund us to get back on the broader mission sooner, do let me know!
by api | 2025-04-26 14:46:29+00:00
Dystopian: the surveillance potential, both from a big surveillance (corporate / government / political) and an individual surveillance (stalkers) perspective.

Not dystopian: the crime solving potential, the research potential, the historical narrative reconstruction potential, etc.

It's a pattern I keep seeing over and over again. There seem to be a lot of values that we can obtain, individually or collectively, by bartering privacy in exchange for them.

If we had a sane world with sane, reliable, competent leadership, this would be less of a concern. But unfortunately we seem to have abdicated leadership globally to a political class that is increasingly incompetent and unhinged. My hypothesis on this is that sane, reasonable people are repelled from politics due to the emotional and social toxicity of that sector, leaving the sector to narcissists and delusional ideologues.

Unfortunately if we're going to abdicate our political sphere to narcissists and delusional ideologues, sacrificing privacy at the same time is a recipe for any number of really bad outcomes.
by dostick | 2025-04-26 14:47:32+00:00
I am curious, if HN discussion too critical then what is better out there? HN is less cynical and critical than other mediums, X, Substack, Medium. On HN at least it’s more of an intellectual people who see criticising out of spite as waste. Criticism is constructive comparing to other platforms where it is mostly to make critic feel smart or belonging to some side or group. On HN every commenter stand on their own intellectual merit, so to speak.
by margalabargala | 2025-04-26 14:48:26+00:00
Much as I detest the current administration, the parent comment is correct. While things under both Trump administrations did get mildly worse than they were under his Democrat predecessors, they were plenty bad under Obama and Biden as well.

You're talking about bringing up examples from 2017-2020; it turns out, plenty of the examples that were brought up back then, were in fact from the Obama years. Example: https://apnews.com/article/a98f26f7c9424b44b7fa927ea1acd4d4
by pavlov | 2025-04-26 14:49:07+00:00
Next year it's going to be:

"Two Undocumented Families and Their U.S.-Born Accomplices Deported by ICE"

And the following year, you won't need to include the undocumented families anymore. (And they won't be telling anyone about the citizens who were disappeared, so this headline won't get printed anyway and its formulation doesn't matter.)
by paulryanrogers | 2025-04-26 14:49:32+00:00
My project has involved neighbors, family, and even a few contractors. But unlike a barn built from scratch there are a lot of random bespoke tasks. Many of them require judgement and experimenting to make it work. Sadly the property was neglected a long time, and poorly built in the first place. Bulldozing and having a new house professionally built would've been faster, produced a better outcome, and only been moderately more expensive--in hindsight.
by mk89 | 2025-04-26 14:49:41+00:00
This tool just makes it easier for weirdos to achieve their goals at stalking women and kids.

Crazy that this is even allowed.

Who the hell needs to know the precise location of a picture, besides law enforcement? A rough location is most of the time sufficient. Like a region, a state, or a landscape (e.g., when you see the Bing background pictures, it's nice to see where they were taken).

This tool will give a boost to all those creeps out there that can have access to one or two pictures.
by myvoiceismypass | 2025-04-26 14:49:42+00:00
> No, “voter suppression” is the act of preventing legitimate voters from voting.

Next you will tell us all how easy it is for all Americans to get drivers ids / similar licensing right?

> Statistically, both of these would have hurt my party in 2024, so this isn’t self-interest speaking.

Ah. There it is.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-04-26 14:50:52+00:00
9 VC firms collected half of all money raised by US funds in 2024 - https://pitchbook.com/news/articles/us-vc-fundraising-concen... - December 11th, 2024

3 years ago, VCs in Bay Area tech were thriving. Now, they're 'bleeding cash.' - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42194832 - November 2024
by 0xFEE1DEAD | 2025-04-26 14:51:42+00:00
Sorry for going off topic here but I've had the same experience.

I'm not sure which update improved 4o so greatly but I get better responses from 4o than from o4-mini, o4-mini-high, and even o3. o4 and o3 have been disappointing lately - they have issues understanding intent, they have issues obeying requests, and it happened multiple times that they forgot the context even though the conversation consisted of only 4 messages without a huge number of tokens. In terms of chain-of-thought models I prefer DeepSeek over any OpenAI model (4.5 research seems great, but it’s just way too expensive).

It's rather disappointing how OpenAI releases new models that seem incredible, and then, to reduce the cost of running them, they slowly slim these models down until they're just not that good anymore.
by reseasonable | 2025-04-26 14:51:55+00:00
The treatment part has happened for decades, Las Hieleras is one of many examples. But the deporting citizens part hasn’t happened for about 70 years since Operation Wetback which was nearly an identical playbook of today.

Mass visa revocations happened about 50 years ago since the Iran Hostage Crisis. And a few other events over the 20th century reflect well with today like Japanese internment camps. CECOT out does Gitmo and Angel Island, but damn, we just do a lot of fascist and unjust stuff as a nation.

The 1880’s resulted in us switching our attention from Native Americans to immigrants and we never really let off the gas on that front.
by roenxi | 2025-04-26 14:52:15+00:00
> If you want to say that the BBC is British propaganda just because the journalists are British and present a British point of view (rather than, say, a Surinamese point of view), then ok, but I don't think that's a very interesting point.

So if you were to focus in on RT, are you of the opinion that it isn't Russians pushing mainstream Russian viewpoints? That is the major complaint most people have - it is representing an unabashed Russian perspective and choosing issues that powerful Russians think are important.

The issue with the BBC is it is government funding, with historic links to British intelligence vetting to make sure that the journalists had appropriate views and a long history of running British propaganda globally with no obvious reason as to why they'd stop. The UK is supporting a particular bias and pushing it out for global broadcasting - that is the essence of propaganda. Plus as a comment pointed out further upthread, according to Wikipedia their Charter links them to objectives set out by the Foreign Secretary. This is more or less where RT will be sitting - there isn't much else they can do.

If I were to somehow end up running RT as their head of propaganda, I'd do two things: first, learn to speak Russian. Second, sit all the managers down and use my new language skills to call them idiots and tell them that standards were going up and they need to do things more like the BBC. No compromising factual accuracy and there's going to be high quality articles out on every topic from a staunchly Russian perspective. That's how competent people run their propaganda missions. The real mistake RT has been making for years (hilariously on stereotype for the Russians) is it is far too direct and straightforward about executing its mission. It'd be more effective if they were a few notches more subtle - the BBC sits at a much neater optimum.

> By that definition, every American news service is American propaganda.

A lot of them are. One of the interesting things about the so-called Twitter Files was how quickly Twitter was integrated into US state propaganda, presumably similar linkages are kept with other US media companies.

But I wouldn't say that all US media outlets are US State propaganda. Many of them are independent propaganda for their own reasons, with independent funding and goals.