MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by xp84 | 2025-05-22 20:26:15+00:00
I'm not sure I'd throw out all the alignment baby with the bathwater. But I wish we could draw a distinction between "Might offend someone" with "dangerous."

Even 'plotting terror attacks' is not something terrorists can do just fine without AI. And as for making sure the model wouldn't say ideas that are hurtful to <insert group>, it seems to me so silly when it's text we're talking about. If I want to say "<insert group> are lazy and stupid," I can type that myself (and it's even protected speech in some countries still!) How does preventing Claude from espousing that dumb opinion, keep <insert group> safe from anything?
by Workaccount2 | 2025-05-22 20:26:33+00:00
The problems at Harvard and other high ed organizations are real. They've become pretty unhinged and concentrated, they really need to work on getting back to "open forum for discussing all ideas" rather than the "Open forum for discussing all correct ideas" that they have drifted into. I can see it first hand through my mother, who works at a major school.

That being said, republicans decided to chose an M1 Abrams tank to kill the pesky mice in the system.
by Recursing | 2025-05-22 20:26:38+00:00
> They need huge compute

My understanding is that huge compute is necessary to train but not to run the AI (that's why using LLMs is so cheap)

> To me the more real risk is creeping integration and reliance in everyday life until things become "too big to fail" so we can't pull the plug even if we wanted to

I agree with that, see e.g. what happened with attempts to restrict TikTok: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restrictions_on_TikTok_in_the_...

> But I would imagine if it really became a genuine existential threat we'd have to just do it

It's unclear to me that we would be able to. People would just say that it's science fiction, and that China will do it anyway, so we might as well enjoy the AI
by srean | 2025-05-22 20:26:46+00:00
His childhood was quite emotionally traumatic. I can imagine severe abandonment wounds given his situation.

Not only would he have felt abandoned, when his mother quickly remarried after his father's death, he could actually see the distant steeple where her mother had to relocate after her marriage - source of affection and emotional connect just tantalizingly out of reach.

That might explain his behaviour.
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by jameslk | 2025-05-22 20:27:04+00:00
My specific need is I like to reference articles I've read later, quickly. I was using Pocket to track links to articles I've read, keeping them categorized with tags. It's been a mediocre solution for this need (e.g. I'd like to add more metadata, such as notes), but I haven't found too many apps/products that serve this use case.

What's nice about Pocket is that I can do this from any browser on any device, since it has integrations and an app for mobile devices. Trying to do this with a note taking app is much more clunky and frictional. Especially when trying to quickly find an article I had saved.

Anyway, if anyone knows something that fits this use case better, it looks like I'm in the market for it now
by helpful_friend | 2025-05-22 20:27:14+00:00
Harvard (and to a lesser extent, the rest of the Ivy League) collects a lot of federal money, this comes with certain conditions around treating people fairly without respect to skin color, ethnicity, or religion.

A regular corporation with the same fact pattern of discrimination would be looking at a billion+ dollar fine.

this is just Harvard losing some special privilges and being expected to act reasonably fairly like any other publicly funded institution.

https://substack.com/home/post/p-163976813

They're not actually so scientifically productive that we should tolerate discrimination in order to get the fruits of their research.
by PaulHoule | 2025-05-22 20:27:26+00:00
I think it is more undergrads than grads that pay money, but I think that depends on the field.

For a physics PhD for instance at Cornell you usually get paid to teach your first two years and if all goes right do your actual research on a grant. In my case the prof had written a grant for the work I wanted to do which didn't get funded, I spent a summer thinking about the problem which helped us come back with a great grant proposal that got funded.

I know Masters of Engineering students pay their own way, maybe other departments are different. I remember there being a lot of Chinese graduate students 25 years ago but now I see lots of undergrads.
by fhd2 | 2025-05-22 20:27:48+00:00
The sad part is that there is a _lot_ of stuff we can now do with LLMs, that were practically impossible before. And with all the hype, it takes some effort, at least for me, to not get burned out on all that and stay curious about them.

My opinion is that you just need to be really deliberate in what you use them for. Any workflow that requires human review because precision and responsibility matters leads to the irony of automation: The human in the loop gets bored, especially if the success rate is high, and misses flaws they were meant to react to. Like safety drivers for self driving car testing: A both incredibly intense and incredibly boring job that is very difficult to do well.

Staying in that analogy, driver assist systems that generally keep the driver on the well, engaged and entertained are more effective. Designing software like that is difficult. Development tooling is just one use case, but we could build such _amazingly_ useful features powered by LLMs. Instead, what I see most people build, vibe coding and agentic tools, run right into the ironies of automation.

But well, however it plays out, this too shall pass.
by mrtksn | 2025-05-22 20:28:21+00:00
The action by itself comes as a punishment which imply that this is indeed great resource but because Harvard was a naughty boy means that can't have it.

I want to note that when Brexit happened EU citizens had about 2 years period to move to UK and just like that get their full rights there and those with enough years of stay had the right to obtain British citizenship. Streamlined process through scanning your id using an app, little to no hassle.

IIRC half of the EU citizens left despite having all those rights and streamlined bureaucracy. My observation was that those desperate or those who ware having their perfect life stayed, those who had other options left UK because it wasn't worth the stress and you future being bargaining chips for politicians.

I bet you, if this continues for some more time USA will no longer receive the best and the brightest. Those have options and their parents will prefer the options where their golden kids don't risk being subject to life changing actions or even abuse.
by steveBK123 | 2025-05-22 20:28:28+00:00
WV at least had some unique shops as recently as 10-15 years ago. It then went through its period of high end blight and finally the end state of most VHCOL urban retail.. the same 50 fancy brand stores owned by the same 10 conglomerates that you see in every rich hood globally.

It's all so boring.
by antisthenes | 2025-05-22 20:28:40+00:00
> You seem to think that two companies selling product A will rather sell 50 for $10 per unit profit than 100 for $9 per unit profit because it's easier.

If the numbers are closer, then that's exactly what happens.

Would you rather sell 50 units for $19 per unit or 100 for $10 per unit? Option 1 gives you way less overhead and headache with cheap-o customers.
by insane_dreamer | 2025-05-22 20:29:18+00:00
Yes, the Admin is even more pro-Israel (and by that I mean pro-Israeli gov/Netanyahu) than previous ones. But it's also using accusations of anti-Semitism at these universities as a cover to generally bring these "liberal" institutions to heel (as outlined in Project2025).

So it's not really about Gaza, Palestinians, or Jews. It's about control.
by nothrabannosir | 2025-05-22 20:29:36+00:00
In the case of Monopoly that feeling is the point of the game:

> The history of Monopoly can be traced back to 1903,[1][8] when American anti-monopolist Lizzie Magie created a game called The Landlord's Game that she hoped would explain the single-tax theory of Henry George as laid out in his book Progress and Poverty. It was intended as an educational tool to illustrate the negative aspects of concentrating land in private monopolies. She took out a patent in 1904. Her game was self-published beginning in 1906.[9][10]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_(game)
by readthenotes1 | 2025-05-22 20:29:56+00:00
Better vision at night, or during cloudy or Dusty conditions. Every truck driver should have them.

Every search&rescue or police officer should have them although I suspect for firefighters it might not help.

I wouldn't at all be surprised if Mr money mustache can make a frugality case to wearing ir contact lenses instead of having lights on at night.

Instead of splashing people with UV paint and using black lights, just party in the dark.

As people age, one of the common complaints is the degradation of low light vision. This will help some.

At least some hunters I know have night vision goggles for going after wild hogs. They could just wear the contacts...
by JoeAltmaier | 2025-05-22 20:30:24+00:00
If we're talking about execution hours for common apps, that stat might be close to real.

If we're talking about engineering effort to create performant, deployable apps and systems, it may be different.

There are a significant number of difficult software systems that require complete knowledge of what's going on 'under the hood'. Think, runtime for all those wonderful abstractions. Libraries to port huge systems to different hardware and operating systems.

The large datacenter infrastructure that supports all the magic.

Those things are an entirely different universe than 'put up a webpage' or 'auto-generate a schema' or whatever.
by amy214 | 2025-05-22 20:31:08+00:00
well you sit them down before they take the offer and level with them "If you come here I promise I'll treat you good and train you up for a bright future, but in exchange ideally I want you to stay for at least two years if you can help it, otherwise the cost of training doesn't work out"

It's not a legal agreement but a gentleman's agreement. They may still freely leave for whatever reason, especially if they were not treated well or treated like a slave (ie employer broke the agreement), but if all goes well it's some assurance, or at least a communication so everyone is on the same page. And usually being on the same stage and starting out with such trust sets the stage nicely for a good, trust-based safe working relationship
GPT needs a truth-first toggle for technical workflows
by PAdvisory | 2025-05-22 20:31:55+00:00
I use GPT-4 extensively for technical work: coding, debugging, modeling complex project logic. The biggest issue isn’t hallucination—it’s that the model prioritizes being helpful and polite over being accurate.

The default behavior feels like this:

Safety

Helpfulness

Tone

Truth

Consistency

In a development workflow, this is backwards. I’ve lost entire days chasing errors caused by GPT confidently guessing things it wasn’t sure about—folder structures, method syntax, async behaviors—just to “sound helpful.”

What’s needed is a toggle (UI or API) that:

Forces “I don’t know” when certainty is missing

Prevents speculative completions

Prioritizes truth over style, when safety isn’t at risk

Keeps all safety filters and tone alignment intact for other use cases

This wouldn’t affect casual users or conversational queries. It would let developers explicitly choose a mode where accuracy is more important than fluency.

This request has also been shared through OpenAI's support channels. Posting here to see if others have run into the same limitation or worked around it in a more reliable way than I have found
by ty6853 | 2025-05-22 20:32:05+00:00
Lol Rubio told Xinis on national TV he was intentionally stonewalling any information to her, and she took it like a bitch and just kept rolling with keeping most their 'secrets' under seal (despite earlier talking big game of exposing them to sunlight).

The courts aren't even trying, they could order someone into contempt, but they won't.
by matthew-wegner | 2025-05-22 20:32:30+00:00
> that changes randomly

Moving the mouse pointer to middle of bottom edge of a screen will permanently move the Dock there. As far as I know, there is no way to disable this behavior. It's terrible.

For simultaneous multi-monitor, you're probably forced into using a full Dock replacement. There are a few options out there, but none have ever stuck with me personally.
by sathwikreddygv | 2025-05-22 20:32:31+00:00
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Most logo generators force your brand name into the design by default, and often you can’t turn it off. I found that limiting and frustrating, especially when experimenting with concepts. So I built a tool where that’s just a toggle.

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by johnthewise | 2025-05-22 20:32:45+00:00
Dollar is agreement between humans to exchange services and goods. You wouldn't use USD to trade with aliens, unless they agreed to it. Aliens agreeing to USD would mean we have something to offer to them.

In the event of mass unemployment level AI, cash stops being the agreement between humans. At first, cash value of services&goods converge to zero, only things that hold some value are what AI/AI companies care about. People would surely sell their land for 1M$ if a humanoid servant costs 100 dollars. Or pass a legislation to let OpenAI build 400GW data center in exchange for 100$ monthly UBI on top of your 50$ you got from a previous 20GW data center permit.
by nradov | 2025-05-22 20:33:51+00:00
Errors on a medical chart by themselves wouldn't legally constitute gross negligence (or even regular negligence). But if there was some sort of preventable patient harm then such errors could be evidence for establishing malpractice liability and/or professional sanctions.

In general patients should always check their own chart notes for errors. Most providers now make those available online for free through a secure patient portal.
Ask HN: Has anyone dealt with Apple locking their balance?
by CobaltFire | 2025-05-22 20:33:57+00:00
I used some AMEX points to purchase Apple Gift cards to treat myself to a new Studio, and Apple canceled the purchase. They also locked my Apple Account balance (not the account itself).

I imagine I flagged some kind of fraud prevention algorithm, and CS so far is unhelpful. They've said they escalated it, but I've heard nothing and online chatter (reddit and the Apple forums) indicates that this can be a permanent lock. I have a not insignificant amount of money in that account, as I didn't realize it has a daily limit so have used it on several occasions to purchase phones by putting gift cards into it.

With how many people here use Apple machines daily I figured that someone may have dealt with this, and that this can serve as a PSA for those who haven't.

So if anyone has dealt with this or has advice I'd appreciate some guidance. So far I'm hoping I can work through this system without too much more headache.
by scoofy | 2025-05-22 20:34:15+00:00
Donald Trump is genuinely an idiot and deeply and obviously corrupt. I don’t like Vance, I’m still going to be mad at his agenda, but he’s generally intelligent. He’s not going to run the country into the ground because he doesn’t understand how fixed income securities work or give away national security to fly in an obviously bugged luxury plane for funsies.

At the end of the day, there are different levels of terrible things that can happen to us, and right now we are staring down multi-generational damage to our country.
by breuleux | 2025-05-22 20:34:30+00:00
The service economy will collapse, finance as a whole will collapse, but whoever controls the actual physical land and resources doesn't actually need any of that stuff and will thrive immensely. We would end up with either an oligarchy that controls land, resources and robots and molds the rest of humanity to their whim through a form of terror, or an independent economy of robots that outcompetes us for resources until we go extinct.
by legitster | 2025-05-22 20:34:33+00:00
Anyone who thinks they are immune or on the "good side" of this political movement is naive. Harvard has cranked out plenty of powerful conservatives, but it doesn't matter because their "crime" is that they have hurt the current administration's feelings. This is going well beyond one party winning - this is a cult of personality.

History is repeating itself as a farce. It's not wild speculation to guess what might happen if these actions continue unchecked. It's education now, but it will be lawyers and judges next, and after that it will be leaders of tech and business. Anyone who brokers power.
by diggan | 2025-05-22 20:34:56+00:00
> these models have no idea when to use a package or not (if it's no longer maintained, etc)

They have ideas about what you tell them to have ideas about. In this case, when to use a package or not, differs a lot by person, organization or even project, so makes sense they wouldn't be heavily biased one way or another.

Personally I'd look at architecture of the package code before I'd look at when the last change was/how often it was updated, and if it was years since last change or yesterday have little bearing (usually) when deciding to use it, so I wouldn't want my LLM assistant to value it differently.
by jleyank | 2025-05-22 20:35:21+00:00
I assume the political environment for the next 2-4 years will make public assistance wrt charger networks (or the changes to the power grid to help such) pretty much zero. So, in addition to all of the increased difficulties in purchasing EV's, there won't be any help wrt range extension. Hopefully, they won't rip up what's already in place.
by MachinmaRights | 2025-05-22 20:35:27+00:00
The new choice is better than worse when it comes to mainstream applications competing with the other two American proprietary options while having an independent advanced open-source base, OpenHarmony alongside the independent European/Western derivative Oniro that is available to everyone to integrate and build better things in the 21st century than you previously mentioned. America doesnt mean automatically good when it comes proprietary operating systems while prejudging Huawei.
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-05-22 20:35:58+00:00
If you email hn@ycombinator.com with a thoughtful discussion that is below a dead comment, dang can detach it so the discussion can be better seen. (If you have showdead on, you can expand dead collapsed comments, and get to the discussion below, but most people don't and won't.)

As far as dead posts... I don't remember whether we used to be able to comment on them or not.
by kouru225 | 2025-05-22 20:36:10+00:00
Well this is why I feel pretty confident in my analysis then because I’m much more knowledgeable about criticism than I am about philosophy and all my alarm bells are going off here. When I’m reading that blurb about how Koons art affects culture I’m sitting here shaking my head knowing that, while it’s entirely plausible that Koons affected the world that way, this statement is still only scratching the surface on Koons, the art world, and the history of his impact on the art world
by 0x0 | 2025-05-22 20:36:36+00:00
> Safari only exist on Apple devices

Webkit, at least, builds on a lot more platforms than you think. Take a look at https://build.webkit.org/#/builders

I'm seeing at least three other MAJOR platforms:

• GTK-Linux-64-bit-Release-Build • PlayStation-Release-Build • Windows-64-bit-Release-Build
by rossant | 2025-05-22 20:36:44+00:00
I started using Pocket in 2012 and have used it ever since (though I’ll obviously have to stop now). It was a great way to save interesting articles I didn’t have time to read right away. Naturally, I rarely got around to actually reading them, and the backlog kept growing. I just exported my data and found 13,000 unread articles out of a total of 34,000.

I can’t help but picture the Distracted Boyfriend meme, "reading my saved articles" vs "discovering new cool articles online to add to the ever-growing Pocket backlog, never to be read."
by narrator | 2025-05-22 20:37:00+00:00
My two cents, is that people who have been paying close attention to the Israeli/Palestinian conflict know that this stuff has been going on for decades and nobody cared about it until CCP owned TikTok magnified its impact among the young to epic proportions. I think this is a deliberate ploy to take control over leftist politics by building popular support to do a mass purge of jews and replace them with CCP promoted proxies.
by retinaros | 2025-05-22 20:37:25+00:00
I will never understand how people have the guts to racially profile white people and at the same time call someone a racist for doing that with non white people. its just intellectually dishonest…but maybe I am not american..

you would need to eat soy sauce a lot of times to be able to say when its good vs bad. it has a lot of complexity like wine. and its craft has a lot of similarities too. I highly doubt this woman would rank in the best soysauce of this world. the way she does it seems pretty much like korean homemade from a few decades ago which is amazing still but the craft of soy sauce goes much deeper with lot of wine-like technology too. https://youtu.be/MKbRu3_Ynpk?si=PPRJMohg9AUWnTyv this one would be an accurate depiction of what I mean
Tell HN: Chrome Slows Down on Hacker News on My High-End Windows 11 PC
by sss111 | 2025-05-22 20:37:43+00:00
I'm running into a frustrating issue where Google Chrome slows down or goes into a loading state while reading big threads on hackernews. (For example this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41002195)

All I have to do is start clicking the minimize button on threads and my entire PC stops responding for a solid 30 seconds.

I have a really beefy setup so its most likely not from there

Has anyone else run into this?
by out-of-ideas | 2025-05-22 20:37:55+00:00
i think he does, but chooses to not complain. according to:

> Upset stomaches. One early meeting every two weeks doesn't sound too bad. The worst problem is that it can leave me with an upset stomach that can last for days. I'm still working fine, it's just uncomfortable. I don't know if other people suffer this or why it happens. Maybe it's just the extra coffee.

There should be a mutual understanding of expected hours for any jobs, and compensation and respect for timezones and work life and health balances. your body needs sleep, feeling tired when you try to wakeup, is your body telling you to not wakeup yet...

but if he volunteered that its okay with em, fine.. but hope he does not expect others to have the 'suck it up' mentality

edit: formating
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-05-22 20:38:18+00:00
>At least Google is a better steward of their browser than Microsoft was with IE6.

The only lesson Google took from the Microsoft browser monopoly was "make sure the browser doesn't suck ass". So, Chromium will continue to be technically competent, enough that they can lull people to sleep and mine their personal data in ways that should horrify us all. Whatever else Microsoft was, it wasn't a gigantic advertising company that wants to spam us with borderline-scam sales efforts.