MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hombre_fatal | 2025-05-02 14:06:25+00:00
This probably is about on-demand search, not about gathering training data.

Crawling is more general + you get to consume it in its reconstituted form instead of deriving it yourself.

Hooking up a data dump for special-cased websites is much more complicated than letting LLM bots do a generalized on-demand web search.

Just think of how that logic would work. LLM wants to do a web search to answer your question. Some Wikimedia site is the top candidate. Instead of just going to the site, it uses this special code path that knows how to use https://{site}/{path} to figure out where {path} is in {site}'s data dump.
by roenxi | 2025-05-02 14:06:27+00:00
> Rome's eventual strategy—the Fabian strategy of delay, harassment, and avoiding direct confrontation—wasn't intuitive to Romans. It felt wrong.

My understanding of the story is Fabius was running the Roman strategy before Cannae and had identified all the lessons of that battle in advance. It was clear that in a pitched battle Hannibal was going to do extremely well. It is a fascinating historical example about how being right is not enough in politics, but Fabius got a unique opportunity to demonstrate that he told them so. It was clearly foreseeable and foreseen, so the entire problem the Romans had was that their leadership operating foolishly.
by laborcontract | 2025-05-02 14:06:29+00:00
The internment of the Japanese cannot be brushed off. That was a gross violation of power that, if Trump were to do something similar, would tear this country apart. On top of that, one of the side effects of the internment is that it's sowed a deep distrust in the federal government and the Census that continues to harm representation to this day.

They used Census data to round people up. It doesn't get much worse than that.
by akoboldfrying | 2025-05-02 14:06:42+00:00
The Authorisation Code Flow described here, and on the linked detail page, omits to mention that a client secret must also be passed to the auth endpoint. If just an authorisation code and (public) client ID are sufficient to authorise, then the setup is vulnerable to a malicious browser: As soon as the auth endpoint sends the redirect containing the auth code, the browser can use that and the client ID to authorise itself.

In fact, the linked detail page for this flow even shows a full example HTTP POST request that omits any such client secret.

Is the intention that the "client ID" by itself is a secret (known only to the app)? If so, that should definitely be mentioned explicitly!
by orbital-decay | 2025-05-02 14:06:42+00:00
All existing LLMs (including those optimized for creative writing) are extremely bad at this, they tend to write in a narrow subset of American English sentence structure and idioms, even if you prompt them to imitate someone's style. This is inevitable due to English being prevalent in the dataset and RL murdering the variance.

AI slop reads unnatural even in English due to its lack of variance. And it heavily leaks into all other languages, even Ancient Greek.
by rpozarickij | 2025-05-02 14:07:01+00:00
I had to look this one up as well as the sibling comment, but the question reminded me of the Betteridge's law of headlines [0] and it looks like this law is indeed applicable here (meaning that nothing has been paid yet).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
by mikepurvis | 2025-05-02 14:07:52+00:00
Indeed. There are dozens of other moments through the past ten years of Trumpism that the supposed guardrails were to prevent and did not, and in the wake of each one the custodians of those guardrails shrugged and went "oh well... I guess that's Trump."

Emoluments, tax returns, the porn star, lying under oath, J6, "fake news", losers and suckers, bone spurs, snubbing Carter, crowd size bullshit, grab em by the pussy, obvious nepotism, lock her up, separating families at the border, "very fine people on both sides", "stand back and stand by", sparring with Fauci, now jailing judges, deporting people off street corners, letting Musk gut government agencies, etc etc.

And that's just off the top of my head; I'm such others have catalogued many, many more of these that I'm forgetting, but yeah... good luck to anyone who can look at a list of these things and be like "ah yes but that was all in the comfortable past, surely the guardrails that failed on every one of those previous instances will somehow hold now. Hooray!"
by diego_moita | 2025-05-02 14:08:04+00:00
From the perspective of outside democracies it is almost laughable (or "cryable") to call the U.S. a democracy.

Some of the most fundamental traits of an healthy democracy that the U.S. doesn't have:

* the US doesn't have real alternation in power: only 3 other democratic countries in the world have the same duopoly of political parties the US has: Japan, Mexico and South Korea. These 2 parties have an absolute control of the political process. Democrats have all the means to block the rise of any socialist or Green party. Republicans have all the means to block the rise of a Libertarian party. Healthy democracies are not like that; parties rise and fall according to the changes of worldviews.

* the US doesn't have real separation of powers: in a democracy the courts of law are supposed to work independently of the other branches. But in the US, judges are political agents loosely affiliated to the parties duopoly. They are elected to lower courts by party affiliations, with campaigns financed by the political parties. They rise in the courts' echelons by cultivating and nurturing this partisan loyalty. They are partisan agents in disguise. No other country practices this corruption of democracy principles.

* bribing politicians is legal in the US. It is called "campaign financing" and it is ok and stimulated. No other country in the world accepts that.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-05-02 14:08:39+00:00
The funny thing is, that the GOP is not "conservative," in any way, whatsoever. They are extreme.

The definition of "conservative" means "not-extreme." It is not just "not-liberal." It means being thoughtful, cautious, sticking with the mainstream, learning from the past, not discarding learned wisdom, etc.

Things like anti-abortion, hate-brown-people, put-women-back-in-the-kitchen-or-the-bedroom etc. stuff is often described as "conservative," because so much old culture had it, but these days, they are no longer "mainstream" principles.

I tend to be somewhat "centrist." Some of my own personal values could be construed as "conservative" (like personal Discipline and Integrity, insisting on writing very good-Quality code, or not spending money that I don't have), but I also have values that lean left (like an expansive worldview, not insisting on taking away the Agency of others, etc.).

The wrecking ball that DOGE is running through our government, right now, is not "conservative," at all.
by fsckboy | 2025-05-02 14:08:42+00:00
loosely speaking:

you said "avoid gpl". reason? "unenforceable". eliminating gpl from consideration, thus you advocate non-copyleft licenses instead.

with me so far?

but gpl's "unenforceability" could only mean it turns into a non-copyleft license, one which you say one should not use, so if one shouldn't use gpl because in reality it is a non-copyleft license, then you must be against non-copyleft licenses.

just to state it again for clarity: "don't use gpl because copyleft is unenforceable so gpl is just MIT underneath, and I repeat, don't use it" is a recommendation not to use MIT license.
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-05-02 14:08:52+00:00
I've seen too many stories of placeholder text ending up in production... so I better make it worthwhile and include some Lovecraft quotes [0] because everyone needs more gibbering, cyclopean, eldritch adjectives in their lives.

[0] https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/H._P._Lovecraft
by aftbit | 2025-05-02 14:09:09+00:00
My understanding was that the journalist's phone number was accidentally added to the existing contact of a trusted user through the following process:

1. Journalist emailed trusted user seeking comment on something. This email contained the journalist's cell phone number in the signature block.

2. The trusted user forwarded this email to the fool with Signal.

3. The fool's iPhone suggested adding the journalist's cell phone number to the trusted user's contact.

4. The fool accepted this, perhaps blindly.
by cratermoon | 2025-05-02 14:09:15+00:00
What the discussion below is completely missing, and the point of my link to the incident involving dragging the pedestrian, is the incidence of harm to people not in a vehicle.

"The number of pedestrian deaths in the United States is skyrocketing. In 2022 traffic crashes killed 7,805 people on foot—that’s an 83 percent rise from 2009, and a 40-year high. The vast majority of those deaths involved a car colliding into a human"[1]

"Pedestrian deaths have been climbing since 2010 because of unsafe infrastructure and the prevalence of SUVs, which tend to be more deadly for pedestrians than smaller cars, according to Martin."[2]

The issue with the safety claims of self-driving is focusing on vehicle-to-vehicle interactions and failing to handle the chaotic and unpredictable nature of the environment. There are numerous stories of pathological behavior of self-driving vehicles when encountering simple environmental features that a human driver would handle without a second's hesitation[3]. Pedestrians, cyclists, people using mobility devices, and numerous other non-vehicle road users represent an unaddressed challenge to the safety claims made by Waymo and others.

1 https://slate.com/business/2024/10/cars-suvs-pedestrian-deat...

2 https://www.npr.org/2023/06/26/1184034017/us-pedestrian-deat...

3 https://www.npr.org/2023/08/26/1195695051/driverless-cars-sa...
by js8 | 2025-05-02 14:09:17+00:00
I have been wondering lately if "intellectually rich" can be found solely in books.

I read Jim Stanford's Economics for Everyone, and he recommends to go out and talk to people and see what problems they are having in life.

That's not to say that long time dead philosophers cannot give good insights, but I feel that looking at other people's problems (especially in different cultures) is a lot more relevant for understanding the world.
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by _fat_santa | 2025-05-02 14:10:09+00:00
One thing I've noticed is this administration is very online and this is likely a response to conservatives crying that NPR and CPB are biased, which they are to an extent (just listen to the NPR politics podcast for example).

The obvious problem is they are conflating one or two programs with _the entire organization_. I grew up on PBS watching Arthur and Clifford and I'm sure they put out tons of quality content to this day. It's just when Trump thinks of that org he just thinks of the politically biased parts (ie a couple of shows and podcasts that cover Washington politics) and not the massive other parts that provide quality content.
by barnabee | 2025-05-02 14:10:16+00:00
Firefox with uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger at a minimum, other extensions to taste[0]

I’ve also been experimenting with Zen[1], which is Firefox based, recently and it seems quite promising in terms of a nicer default UI.

[0] I like Tab Stash, Vimium C, SponsorBlock, Decentraleyes, DeArrow, Archive Page, among others

[1] https://zen-browser.app/
by Marsymars | 2025-05-02 14:10:41+00:00
> Plus I manage my families lines and migrating is just a pain in the ass

It's not that much work.

It's easy enough that I've migrated my number to my own carrier a number of times when they've offered rates only applicable to new customers. (i.e. port my number out to a prepaid carrier, then port it back to my carrier as a "new customer".)
by xigency | 2025-05-02 14:10:53+00:00
> I believe the future of such simulation is to start from the lowest level - ie. schrodinger's equation, and get the simulator to derive all higher level stuff.

I do hate to burst your bubble here but I've been doing real-time simulation (in the form of games, 2D, 3D, VR) for enough decades to know this is only a pipe-dream.

Maybe at the point when we have a Dyson sphere and have all universally agreed upon the principles that cause an airfoil to generate lift this would be possible, otherwise it's orders of magnitude beyond all of the terrestrial compute that we have now.

To quote Han Solo, the way we do effective and convincing science and simulation now is ... "a lot of simple tricks and nonsense."
by switch007 | 2025-05-02 14:10:55+00:00
I've tried this recently and I found it very difficult. Cloudflare bot protection is everywhere, other anti-scrape protections, many 'document' sites using JS to render with no fallback, basic forms requiring JS, authentication requiring JS, payments requiring JS etc

Not intending to sound snarky but do you just not use the web much? Or if you're adding allows all the time, what's the net gain?
by throw0101a | 2025-05-02 14:10:58+00:00
> I'm a big supporter of NPR but you don't need to look hard to see their progressive bias.

"Reality has a well known liberal bias." — Stephen Colbert, 2006 White House Correspondents' Dinner, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJ-a2KeyCAY&t=4m11s
by InTheArena | 2025-05-02 14:11:17+00:00
Congrats. Two of the most user-hostile companies, one of which profits by exploiting children, are going to be better off. And let's also be clear, neither of these companies wants this revenue stream to go away; they just want a judge to give that revenue stream to them.

Get rid of Roblox's and Epic's anti-consumer behavior, and then I will "grin" at this.
by JohnFen | 2025-05-02 14:11:52+00:00
> What do you count as superficial?

I mean things that aren't personal information they aren't already publicly talking about.

> I usually ask about their job or things they like to do.

While I personally think that asking what a person does for a living is too intrusive, it's a culturally acceptable question so it gets a pass. "What do you do for fun?" is a reasonably innocuous question, in my opinion.

> So am I asking superficial questions when it comes to details about forest management, running a book store or getting a single-engine pilots license that I'm genuinely curious about?

Yes, in this context, because those aren't questions asking the person to divulge personal information.
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-05-02 14:12:02+00:00
Oof. Not an easy question indeed.

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." - John F. Kennedy

And yet... in the US at least, we have an avenue for that. Change the laws. The Constitution forbids what you want to do? You can change that, too. That's the route that you're supposed to take.

If you won't, and you say so publicly, and the people are willing to vote for you anyway... then the powers that be are in a tough spot. They have (at least somewhat legitimate) grounds for excluding you. And yet, they risk your popular support deciding that the system will not accept them.

What they should be doing is figuring out the reason so many people support those who want to tear down the system, and find a way to give them most of what they want within the system, and campaign on that, to cut the ground out from the outside-the-system party. But that may require more competence and savvy than the powers that be have shown...
by yladiz | 2025-05-02 14:12:21+00:00
What profound moral problem are you talking about? If you take your point even further, you could argue there’s a moral problem with forcing people who are distrusting of or despise the government to pay taxes at all, but it’s generally agreed that the health of a country in part does depend on revenues generated by taxes (since you need money to pay for things that benefit many people, like roads, public transit, etc.).
by whodidntante | 2025-05-02 14:12:31+00:00
I watch/listen to a variety of news sources - CNN, Fox News, NPR, NYTimes, WSj, as well as a number of smaller podcasts and substacks.

There are no longer "unbiased" news sources, all sources have moved to either the left or right.

I used to have respect for NPR, today it is, to me, the Fox News of the left, and no different than other sources. I do not have a problem with that, it is what it is. But it should not be funded with taxpayer money.

Try listening to the president of NPR at the congressional hearing and then her interview on NPR done shortly after that hearing. For the former, she was unable/unwilling to express any opinions, nor was she able to recall anything she personally said/posted for the past two years. For the latter, she was fed a series of flattering softball questions clearly made to make her and NPR look good. That is not news or reporting, it was NPR doing PR for NPR.
by alabastervlog | 2025-05-02 14:12:52+00:00
The structural problems that got us here, like our system of elections, a Supreme Court that's got at least a couple members that are obviously being bought and seeing no consequences for it, the courts cutting off the possibility of curtailing or even tracking private cash in elections, and right-wing radicalization pipelines via engagement-focused feed "algorithms", are none of them likely to be addressed even in the most optimistic scenarios.

I think when Trump suggested at a rally that his supporters could shoot his opponent if she won, and that didn't immediately end his political career, we were in new and extremely dangerous territory to a degree that most failed to appreciate. Nothing short of fixing the structural problems above will get us out of it. If Trump doesn't manage a fascist takeover, we're just buying time for the next person who tries. Under the current culture and legal circumstances, one can clearly run and govern as a fascist and still see significant support.
by phatskat | 2025-05-02 14:12:53+00:00
> helps recreate our middle class

These tariffs are probably the worst way to try to do that. America had its best “middle class” when companies and CEOs were heavily taxed and when unions were thriving. The politicians ranting about “bringing jobs back to America” are the same ones that dismantled the things that actually _made America great_, and if they actually cared about the quality of living for most Americans they would do actual work to get there instead of alienating our economy to benefit themselves and their rich friends.
by mjevans | 2025-05-02 14:12:57+00:00
In the US the 'press' / media is supposed to be a quasi 4th branch of government (society by the people, for the people).

Such organizations are important for the voting public to remain informed and thus elect with an informed choice.

... It would also not surprise me if ~25-35% of the US population 'did not trust PBS / NPR' because they didn't like what they heard and thus preferred to disbelieve the sources.
by mike_hearn | 2025-05-02 14:13:05+00:00
Congress isn't forbidden from exercising editorial control (can Congress forbid itself from doing anything except via constitutional amendment?). They forbade the executive branch from doing so whilst simultaneously imposing rules on what the CPB may fund.

This looks like a thorny legal tangle indeed. It would appear incoherent lawmaking to insist that no "officer of the United States" can "exercise any direction, supervision, or control over educational television or radio broadcasting, or over [CPB] or any of its grantees or contractors" whilst simultaneously legislating that it may not "contribute to or otherwise support any political party."

Who is meant to enforce that rule exactly, if nobody who works for the US government is allowed to exercise any supervision or control? A literal reading would say that even the DoJ may not prosecute any infraction of the political neutrality rule, thus violating the principle that nobody is above the law.
by TimorousBestie | 2025-05-02 14:13:16+00:00
> does NPR have any token conservative pundits or voices on their broadcasts or shows?

They used to (e.g., Bob Edwards, who founded Morning Edition) but the Overton Window shifted out from under them. Steve Inskeep today lies somewhere in the center-right (a fiscally conservative Never-Trumper is my brief take on him) but that’s not right enough to count as a conservative these days.
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by toomuchtodo | 2025-05-02 14:13:31+00:00
Prepaid plans get lower priority on carrier infra, as do MVNOs typically. Postpaid/premium is getting premium transit, unfortunately.

If there is any disruption to be had, it is an MVNO that is plugged into all US carriers, as well as satellite offerings, with the ability to pivot around whenever a carrier tries to squeeze the relationship. Google Fi with more carriers and better customer support, Airalo, etc. This enables you to keep your number while the service underneath the account can shift.

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