MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pogue | 2025-04-16 12:02:43+00:00
Well, the original purpose was to do OCR for things like the NYTs archives and other libraries. The part where you identify road signs & traffic lights was supposedly to train self driving cars. Now, it's apparently just more analytics & tracking for Google to sell you things. [1]

But, since LLM is so error prone & AI companies don't seem to want to pay humans to verify either the data being input into LLM training is valid, or the output is accurate, something like a forced CAPTCHA to be used for verifying correct LLM data by unpaid labor.

It's just a dystopian thought I had. I probably shouldn't have said it outloud (it might give them ideas).

[1] https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/a-tracking-cookie-far...
by basisword | 2025-04-16 12:02:53+00:00
If you've ever worked in support you would know that even the most technical people can be highly inarticulate, have an inability to share even the most basic details, and if English isn't their first language things can get very confusing. An AI bot answering those people with a lack of context and pretending to be a real support agent is an accident waiting to happen.
by maxglute | 2025-04-16 12:03:18+00:00
I will say with US demand gone, aliexpress shipping to CAN has been _expedient_. Placed ordered a couple days ago and got notifcation it was in country this morning. Cancelled Amazon prime earlier this year, and if rest of shipping pattern holds, Ali will be shipping faster from PRC to my door than Amazon free shipping projected next week from domestic warehouse.

Also mutual 100%+ is already borderline trade embargo. PRC moved on to rare earth export control. This is where interesting times intensifies more.
by philipallstar | 2025-04-16 12:03:44+00:00
> Housing in Britain is expensive because getting planning permission is difficult.

It's true that planning departments are very expensive, don't do much positively, and still seem to allow awful-looking things to be built, and I'd probably happily do away with them, but the fundamental driver is the incredible onboarding of people from overseas for years that crushes the combination of the existing population and the new people into a number of dwellings that isn't that dissimilar to the previous year.

You can't take on a net number of people each year that would require a new city the size of Nottingham to be built to accommodate, and say "well, it's all the planning process' fault."
by Draiken | 2025-04-16 12:04:18+00:00
I've seen plenty of humans hallucinating many things unintentionally. This does not track. Some people believe there's an entity listening when you kneel and talk to yourself, others will swear for their lives they saw aliens, they got abducted, etc.

Memories are known to be made up by our brains, so even events that we witnessed will be distorted when recalled.

So I agree with GP, that response shows a pretty big lack of understanding on how our brains work.
by Rallen89 | 2025-04-16 12:04:24+00:00
Seems very odd an ai account?* is posting a seemingly unknown 'news' site to a very large unverified file that didn't seem to pass the desk of any major news org and all the 'sources' of this leak come from the same mediafire link, not even a torrent?

*account details looks odd, copy and pasting ai summary of article
by tasn | 2025-04-16 12:05:11+00:00
Anyone that's on a visa and is spreading anti American rhetoric should probably be deported. Having a visa to the US is a privilege, not a right, and it comes with conditions. It's not a free pass for foreign insurgents.

Though I think this is a false equivalence: pro Palestinian demonstrations include burning the American flag. Pro Israeli include raising and honoring it. These are not the same.

Edit: I forgot to comment about the "you can no longer protest them" part. You can most definitely protest Israel (and the US) in US universities. However, if you're on a visa and defy the terms of your visa by e.g. assaulting students, destroying university property, and supporting terrorist organizations you may get deported.
by Rygian | 2025-04-16 12:05:41+00:00
> Instead of bailing out, ShellExecute proceeds to call “shell32!ApplyDefaultExts” which iterates through all files in a directory, finding and executing the first file with an extension matching any of the hardcoded ones: “.pif, .com, .exe, .bat, .lnk, .cmd”.

So the vulnerability is not in WinRAR, but rather in the ShellExecute windows code that desperately tries to find something else to run when asked to execute a file that does not exist.

As my security officer says at $dayJob, "having a security hole there for thirty years does not make it somehow less of a security hole".
by MajesticWombat | 2025-04-16 12:05:49+00:00
In the current global economic framework, a fragile balance of power has begun to unravel, creating fertile ground for new forms of money. Bitcoin, as the first decentralized cryptocurrency, stands in stark contrast to the traditional monetary systems that have long been manipulated by powerful state actors and financial institutions. Bitcoin’s rise presents a solution to systemic issues rooted in the centralization of currency and the manipulation of financial markets. By examining the game theory behind Bitcoin and its role in global economics, we can see how Satoshi Nakamoto’s innovation challenges the status quo, offering a resilient, decentralized alternative that defies manipulation by geopolitical and financial powers.
by AlexandrB | 2025-04-16 12:06:06+00:00
> It has to do with someone not being emotionally mature enough or equipped to handle a discussion with someone who has different views, or someone having a mental breakdown.

Any moderately sized company is practically guaranteed to have a few people like this. So getting into these discussions has a high risk of becoming an HR issue as tempers flare and conversations become vitriolic.

There's also the issue that the company founders and leadership have political opinions of their own that might inform company policy and any political opinion to the contrary may be perceived as pushback from a "troublemaker".
by petee | 2025-04-16 12:06:08+00:00
In some cases, yes.

An unknown threat, potentially from the supposed nation-state target itself, has a very high risk.

I'm not versed in creating ultra-sterile lab conditions -- things can escape VMs, escape your network, nothing is impossible. Do I instead bring it to my employers systems and let them take the risk? And to what benefit, when I can just wait?
by skywhopper | 2025-04-16 12:06:48+00:00
If you’re basing your understanding of the subject based on one anti-DEI activist’s misinterpretation of policies he doesn’t actually know anything about, who didn’t talk to anyone at those schools (even critics of the policy), and who very likely misread statistics and intentionally misrepresented processes, then you are not getting a fair picture. This piece you linked to is a mess of unsubstantiated statements. Several of the links are broken but the one that is still around does not say what he says, so I wouldn’t trust any of the rest of his summarization either.
by jqpabc123 | 2025-04-16 12:07:01+00:00
I implemented TOTP as a command line app doing lookup and generation by pulling secrets from a locally encrypted password file.

And before someone asks, the decrypt key is only stored in my head and the app fails silently after a significant delay if the decrypt fails.

What I don't get is how HOTP is anything but a fail waiting to happen if used across an unreliable network. Maybe this explains why I have yet to encounter a real world deployment of HOTP.
by margorczynski | 2025-04-16 12:07:52+00:00
I think the problem with startups (from a business perspective) is that they're ego-driven and instead of looking at the business reality in an objective fashion they mostly try to "revolutionize" and "make a difference".

It isn't as sexy as doing the next Facebook or disrupting global healthcare but just copying an existing archaic & expensive product and doing it better can yield a great and stable business. There's a plethora of software products (offline & online) which cost way too much and work like crap - all you need to do is do it better for a more reasonable price (where those old companies have a big headcount and lots of mouths to feed producing a hard price floor for them).
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-04-16 12:08:15+00:00
>When journalism has to compete with corporate owned Fake News and Entertainment, journalism dies, and democracy will follow.

Which journalism are you referring to? The one owned by Rupert Murdoch? The Washington Post owned by Jeff Bezos? MSNBC? CNN? Are they better just because they're owned by different billionaires and interest groups?

I got news for you, the journalism you knew died a long time ago.
by silves89 | 2025-04-16 12:09:32+00:00
That's a great question! It comes up for me a lot.

I can walk through my local woods and listen very carefully but I don't think I could read a recipe book and pay attention to an audiobook!

So for me and I guess for most people it depends on the intensity of the activity and on the nature of the book. I have gradually found where the balance is for me and I've learned to hit the pause button or rewind 30 seconds.

I also pick different types of books to read and to listen to. I _love_ having an engrossing story as an audiobook. And popular science is a great listen, e.g. I loved the audiobook of Stolen Focus. But with physical books I tend to choose more involved or complex novels (e.g. Deep Wheel Orcadia), poetry, and for non-fiction books that are more specific to my interests (psychotherapy, ceramics).
by mytailorisrich | 2025-04-16 12:09:50+00:00
Planning permission is partly a political issue, partly down to expertise. You need experience, you need to know the rules, you need to know the tricks, you need to know how to draft the application. You need to know the game. Indeed this is not something that is waiting for a technical solution.

It's great that they tried, though. But it strikes me that they seem to be 20 something students (not meant disparagingly) with no experience in this so perhaps lacked the insights and understanding of the pain points. It does seem that VCs were happy to fund based on an AI play, though ;)
by goku12 | 2025-04-16 12:10:22+00:00
Ah! Another one to add to the following list:

- What disease did the CDC ever prevent?

- What improvement did the NHTSA ever bring to full self driving?

- What improvement in airline safety did the FAA bring?

- What good did FEMA do in any disasters?

I don't want to quip about how their achievements are invisible because they prevented the disasters that would have brought the spotlight on them, even when they were too underfunded to properly do their jobs. But I sure would like to see the people making these smart comments to give it a try and see how that goes. Then again, I have no complaints - at this rate, we'll get that chance soon.
by ben0x539 | 2025-04-16 12:10:26+00:00
When admitting fault with your a PR hat on after pissing off a decent(?) number of your paying customers, you're supposed to fully fall on your own sword, not assign blame to factors outside of your control.

Instead of saying "race condition that appears on very slow internet connections", you might say "race condition caused by real-world network latencies that our in-office testing didn't reveal" or some shit.
by ImPostingOnHN | 2025-04-16 12:10:55+00:00
> Your question is completely unfair

That means your response is completely unfairer! ;)

Seriously though, multiple people asked you that question, so it's not my question. That may be a clue that it isn't actually "unfair". But I don't doubt that you nonetheless hold your opinion that we're unfair and you're fair. Now that you've said your opinion, it'd be awesome if you answer the question we asked you.

> the probability of it happening to a random person of a certain group before happening to say a thousand others from the same group is close to zero

Ignoring for a moment that it's impossible for something to happen to 1000 people without first happening to the first of them: your position assumes that it isn't bad if this happens to a single person (maybe you), even though it is.

Beyond that, I'm not sure we're qualified (data-wise) to judge the probabilities you mentioned and whether they're close to zero, given the data we have available. If you think we are, then I submit the probability is close to 100%. We can then average our two estimates to get to a probability 50%, still well worth considering when you answer.

Anyways, it'd be much appreciated if you could go ahead and answer the question multiple people are asking you. I believe you are a talented human capable of answering questions which you personally think are unfair and which others don't think are unfair.
by constantcrying | 2025-04-16 12:11:26+00:00
What is wrong with people. Who believes this is real?

Do you really think a WordPress website from India posting obvious fake news and conspiracies should be trusted?

Do you think the source that brought you this is reliable in any way: https://archive.ph/8RGAb "Shocking Footage: Hunter Biden & Ellen Caught in Adrenochrome Bust!"
by bawolff | 2025-04-16 12:11:38+00:00
> where he seems to have been killed on the president's orders without actually having done anything specific to justify it.

This was an assaination as part of an armed conflict if i understand correctly.

There are a lot of things you can argue about with the morality of the drone strike program, but its at the very least grey. As a general rule, armed conflict involves killing people who have done nothing wrong other than being on the wrong side of the conflict.

Its possible it still might be a crime, but i think it would be on the standard of if its a war crime, and not an ordinary murder.

P.s. i dont understand what him being an american citizen has to do with it. Its not any more ok to kill non-citizens.
by dberenstein1957 | 2025-04-16 12:11:48+00:00
I'm David from Giskard, and we work on securing Agents. Today, we are announcing RealHarm: a dataset of real-world problematic interactions with AI agents, drawn from publicly reported incidents. Most of the research on AI harms is focused on theoretical risks or regulatory guidelines. But the real-world failure modes are often different—and much messier. With RealHarm, we collected and annotated hundreds of incidents involving deployed language models, using an evidence-based taxonomy for understanding and addressing the AI risks. We did so by analyzing the cases through the lens of deployers—the companies or teams actually shipping LLMs—and we found some surprising results: Reputational damage was the most common organizational harm.

Misinformation and hallucination were the most frequent hazards

State-of-the-art guardrails have failed to catch many of the incidents. We hope this dataset can help researchers, developers, and product teams better understand, test, and prevent real-world harms. The paper and dataset: https://realharm.giskard.ai/

We'd love feedback, questions, or suggestions—especially if you're deploying LLMs and have real harmful scenarios.
by AlexandrB | 2025-04-16 12:12:17+00:00
> Anywhere he works, to him, most of his coworkers not just help kill conscious beings that have self-awareness and feel pain, they literally eat them. Does this mean talking about what you have for lunch should be banned?

You're making the opposite case of what you think. Your Vegan friend is avoiding taking about politics constantly because they're not bringing up the fact that everyone is consuming the flesh of innocent animals every time they go for lunch. If they started talking about the politics and beliefs of veganism at every meal shared with coworkers, I think it would have a negative impact on those relationships.
by donatj | 2025-04-16 12:12:19+00:00
A number of years ago, maybe six or seven, I was staying at a cabin in the middle of nowhere northern Minnesota. Well over an hours drive away from any major town or retailer.

My intentions were to work from the cabin for the week in peace and quiet. Have some nice secluded time to relax. The rub was that the WiFi password simply didn't work. The owner of the cabin was being no help, said the password on the note was correct and I could otherwise plug my laptop in to Ethernet directly. My MacBook had no Ethernet port.

In the small nearby town there was a RadioShack, and inside I find a single make of USB Ethernet adapter. I buy it, and take it back to the cabin. It doesn't work with my MacBook. Activity lights don't come on. I don't know if it was a driver issue or what. It came with a CD, but that's no help on a relatively recent MacBook.

I needed to get work done, and in pure frustration end up resetting the firmware on the wireless router using the button on the back and reconfiguring it with their hard wired Xbox One's built in browser. This infuriated the owner of the cabin as it knocked out their temperature and water sensors, which I ended up setting back up for them. I was however able to get work done. Probably not what I should have done but it worked.

On my way out of town, I swung back by the RadioShack to return the Ethernet adapter. I explain to the guy behind the counter that it had not worked with my MacBook and the guy proceeds to argue with me that it's Mac compatible and accuses me of buying it, using it, and returning it. I have to argue with the guy for what seemed like several minutes, and recounted him the story of resetting the WiFi. I've never had such a hostile return process in all my life.

Anyway, that's the last time I ever visited a RadioShack.
by MiddleEndian | 2025-04-16 12:13:00+00:00
Fair enough, that is quite unfortunate.

So I've always avoided using the Windows Store on my Windows machines, I think I managed to get WSL2 installed without using it lol.

So I'm not sure on the details, but do the steps on https://www.cursor.com/how-to-install-extension bypass clicking "I agree" since they just download and drag? Because from what I can tell, the example in https://www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap/edcoll/9781783479917/... is because the customer clicked "I agree" before installing.
by duxup | 2025-04-16 12:13:21+00:00
> This might be a website claiming to convert one type of file to another, such as a .doc file to a .pdf file. It might also claim to combine files, such as joining multiple .jpg files into one .pdf file. The suspect program might claim to be an MP3 or MP4 downloading tool.

Kinda a bummer as I’m pretty sure the first two are free to some extent with many OSes?
by toss1 | 2025-04-16 12:13:26+00:00
Your answer at best is splitting hairs.

When the regime can abduct and deport anyone without respect for legitimate independent judicial review where they can present evidence, democracy is absolutely gone. The only rule is the Dear Leader's whim.

If they can do it to any individual, they can do it to anyone, and "anyone" includes their opponents.

Yes, we have lived for many generations without these threats, but do not let Normalcy Bias blind us to the real and present danger. Democracies are often tipped into autocracy, and as with crossing the event horizon into a supermassive black hole, the particular moment of crossing may be barely noticeable, but the impending spaghettification is no less inevitable. If the balance of power in the three co-equal branches of government are replaced by one regime who ignores the others, the regime also ignores the people, by definition. The people will need to be become ungovernable to regain their sovereignty, or remain subjects of the regime and its whims.

[edit: typos]
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by sohzm | 2025-04-16 12:13:59+00:00
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Wisk is built with no frameworks — just vanilla JS — and is served as a static site on Cloudflare Pages. I'm still a novice, so I'd love feedback on its code and how I can improve it!

While the cloud features (like real-time collaboration, sync, ai etc) aren’t live yet, the offline capabilities are fully functional.

links: - website - https://wisk.cc - github - https://github.com/sohzm/wisk
by owebmaster | 2025-04-16 12:14:11+00:00
I'm not interested in the content but you are, share your findings in place of asking ppl to do that. Why there are so many profiles (many of them green) hurrying people to stop thinking about risks and just open the files? Shouldn't they just open it and see?

Edit as I can't reply: your behavior is quite suspicious and so is some of the new green users commenting. That is exactly what someone embedded in the hacker culture would conclude after analyzing, not feel challenged by you to hurry and open the files.
by MajesticWombat | 2025-04-16 12:14:17+00:00
True.

I authored this article october 2024 and updated it to 2025 recently.

The current Crude Price of only around 60$ adds to further pressure on the russian economy, but its resilience has been so far remarkeable in the sense, that there has been no significant sign of extreme pressure on the Ruble. The cannibalisation of the NWF continues and it will be available for another 2 years, the ballooning of forced private debt towards the military industrial sector gives a longterm headache to russias economy, but for the moment, even at 20% interest rate, seems to work. Russia has greatly increased its balance sheet and is thus leveraged and can continue its effort for some time.

The problem is the size of the current effort. Russia cannot sustain on a prolonged basis a annual deficit of 30-50 Billion$ without permanently degrading ts currency.

I think the economic game is decided long-term and i think that the costs are far greater than any possible profit for russia.

And as Russia will somewhen need to transition to peace again, the hidden mounted costs will pushback in an brutal manner.

It is somewhat discussed that right now the Russian economy cannot even simply stop to rely on its military industry - as the unemployment rates would skyrocket if production would be limited.

But of course, this deficit spending (into things that are literaly going UP IN SMOKE) cannot continue forever without more Debts or Devaluation.
by tnel77 | 2025-04-16 12:14:19+00:00
While I agree that the default assumption might be that any given nude is actually a fake, I’m curious if it’ll lose any power over someone. If someone generates an incredible AI image of a lightning strike, I don’t care that it’s fake. It’s beautiful and I want to stare at it. I’m going to share it with my friends.

I fear the same would be true for high-quality (real or otherwise) nude images and I’d wager this would still draw unwanted attention towards the subject. Hopefully there wouldn’t be negative consequences from employers and schools since the assumption is the image was fake.