MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bumby | 2025-05-30 12:20:05+00:00
This is a half-truth. The flying experience was much different back then. As another commenter posted, airlines competed on amenities then, they compete on prices now. Look at the ads from that era; you see full roasted turkey being served and even an in-cabin piano bar! Your statement lacks nuance and is comparing apples and oranges to shoehorn in a “regulation is bad” narrative.
by gradus_ad | 2025-05-30 12:20:17+00:00
The premise is wrong. Humans don't listen to one another and nod unthinkingly. They criticize and validate relentlessly. Friends aren't mistaken for oracles. We have learned to not trust one another, except when one is speaking from deep experience and expertise in a given domain.

AI is presented as an expert in every domain though, so we are lulled into a vulnerable state of unvigilance.
by IanCal | 2025-05-30 12:20:17+00:00
> OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has voiced worries about the use of AI to influence elections, but he says the threat will go away once “everyone gets used to it.”

Then he's lying or a complete moron.

People have been able to fake things for ages, since you can entirely fabricate any text because you can just type it. The same as you can pass on any rumour by speaking it.

People are fundamentally aware of this. Nobody is confused about whether or not you can make up "X said Y".

*AND YET* people fall for this stuff all the time. Humans are bad at this and the ways in which we are bad at this is extensively documented.

The idea that once you can very quickly and cheaply generate fake images that somehow people will treat it with drastically more scepticism than text or talking is insane.

Frankly the side I see more likely is what's in the article - that just as real reporting is dismissed as fake news that legitimate images will be decried as AI if they don't fit someones narrative. It's a super easy get-out clause mentally. We see this now with people commenting about how someone elses comment simply cannot be from a real person because they used the word "delve", or structured things, or had an em dash. Hank Green has a video I can't find now where people looked at a space X explosion and said it was fake and AI and CGI, because it was filmed well with a drone - so it looks just like fake content.
by _Algernon_ | 2025-05-30 12:20:18+00:00
For one it puts a lot of trust into those corporations which they have not earned. Corporations exist to maximize profit. They already sell advertisement to foreign hostile actors. Why wouldn't they do the same with these types of codes for enough payment?

Also it gives them a lot of power to frame anyone for anything. How do you defend yourself against a cryptographic framed "proof" that ties you to a crime? At least when no evidence is trustworthy, the courts have to take this possibility into account. That's not the case when it's only used in rare cases.
by nick__m | 2025-05-30 12:20:33+00:00
The demands from the lunatic fringe of a mouvement should be completely ignored. "Positive" racial segregation is still racial segregation and racial segregation is racism; unlike positive discrimination, there are no intellectually honest way to frame it otherwise.

And excluding Jews because they are Jewish is antisemitism plain and simple. Excluding those that deny that Israel actions have become genocidal different, but you won't know who they are unless you talk to them and most importantly they are not necessarily Jewish !
by maerF0x0 | 2025-05-30 12:20:55+00:00
(Similar to 2)

7. A loss of a common religious practice creating a space for community, and in the case of evangelical Christianity a shift to a female driven congregation and preaching.

(Which, ultimately, is very sad for the women in the church, too, because a lot of them want to be married to a Christian man, but struggle to find one if only for a purely supply issue)
by green7ea | 2025-05-30 12:21:33+00:00
As far as I know, many experienced C++ programmers have a list of warnings they use for their projects and it varies by industry since different compilers will have different flags. When I was working on bigger C++ projects, one of the senior programmers would configure the warnings for everyone.

An easy start is to use `-Wall -Wextra -Wpedantic` for gcc and clang compilers. I would now add `-Wdeprecated-copy-dtor` to the list but I only learned about it writing this article.
by joshstrange | 2025-05-30 12:22:11+00:00
This WWDC is going to be a make or break moment for Apple and the fact that they’re too cowardly to show up to the talk show and/or are using this as a retribution does not bode well.

Apple developer relationships have never been more strained than they currently are, and at least some of us were hoping that, in light of all of Apple’s, current legal battles, they might be willing to bury the hatchet and try to actually improve developer relations. This move doesn’t preclude that, but it certainly makes it seem less likely.

Apple is petty, they always have been (see Nvidia) but it’s a lot easier to be petty when you have hardware, software, and developers on your side. Right now, Apple only has hardware on their side. Their software has been in a state of decline and their developer relations are at an all time low.

Bold move Cotton.
by jajko | 2025-05-30 12:22:12+00:00
You couldnt be more wrong in your guessing. The answer lies in games all women play with both men and women constantly, never being truly honest with words, expecting men to pick up meaning between lines, predict their emotions and so on and on. We have enough shit in our lives already, no need to add more.

Its frustrating and tiring experience for all men, thus the need to vent out somewhere else where these dynamics dont play out semi constantly.

I am pretty sure women see it similarly in reverse although details in dynamics are very different.
by JimDabell | 2025-05-30 12:22:15+00:00
The good news is that AI has been shown to be effective at debunking things too:

> Durably reducing conspiracy beliefs through dialogues with AI

> Conspiracy theory beliefs are notoriously persistent. Influential hypotheses propose that they fulfill important psychological needs, thus resisting counterevidence. Yet previous failures in correcting conspiracy beliefs may be due to counterevidence being insufficiently compelling and tailored. To evaluate this possibility, we leveraged developments in generative artificial intelligence and engaged 2190 conspiracy believers in personalized evidence-based dialogues with GPT-4 Turbo. The intervention reduced conspiracy belief by ~20%. The effect remained 2 months later, generalized across a wide range of conspiracy theories, and occurred even among participants with deeply entrenched beliefs. Although the dialogues focused on a single conspiracy, they nonetheless diminished belief in unrelated conspiracies and shifted conspiracy-related behavioral intentions. These findings suggest that many conspiracy theory believers can revise their views if presented with sufficiently compelling evidence.

— https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39264999/

A huge part of the problem with disinformation on the Internet is that it takes far more work to debunk a lie than it does to spread one. AI seems to be an opportunity to at least level the playing field. It’s always been easy to spread lies online. Now maybe it will be easy to catch and correct them.
by peter_d_sherman | 2025-05-30 12:22:15+00:00
Install the Nix Package Manager -- on Alpine Linux?

Apparently possible!

If so, then someone would get the ("Small. Simple. Secure.")-ness (lightweightedness) of Alpine Linux (https://www.alpinelinux.org/) -- coupled with the 120,000+ packages of the NixOS Package Repository (https://search.nixos.org/packages) ...

What's not to love about that pairing?

(Yeah, there might be a few tech issues -- but even if there are, then it's not as if they couldn't be worked out in the future...)

Now if only we could add the OpenBSD (https://www.openbsd.org/) kernel to that mix...

Related:

https://bedrocklinux.org/

https://suckless.org/

https://github.com/nix-community/NixNG

https://github.com/vvaltchev/tilck

https://pkgs.org/
by gjm11 | 2025-05-30 12:22:33+00:00
I can't find this in The Art of War (but maybe I missed it?). Nearest I can find in this translation https://classics.mit.edu/Tzu/artwar.html is:

6. Therefore the skillful leader subdues the enemy's troops without any fighting; he captures their cities without laying siege to them; he overthrows their kingdom without lengthy operations in the field.

7. With his forces intact he will dispute the mastery of the Empire, and thus, without losing a man, his triumph will be complete. This is the method of attacking by stratagem.

and maaaaybe the original text underlying some of that could also be translated as the second sentence in the alleged quotation. But the bit about "an ultimate class of warriors" seems really fishy to me.

[EDITED to add:] Ah, looking at a picture of the thing, it says "adapted from Sun Tzu, The Art of War". Seems like a pretty loose adaptation.
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by motorest | 2025-05-30 12:23:25+00:00
> Wikipedia says: "RAII is associated most prominently with C++, where it originated, but also Ada,[3] Vala,[4] and Rust"

From those you listed, only Rust can be described as mainstream. Do you think that one out of a couple dozens refutes the statement that "most mainstream languages fail to support anything resembling RAII"?

> They don't necessarily offer a pattern like RAII, but what about "try-with-resources" in Java, or "use" in Kotlin that goes with `AutoCloseable`?

Try-with-resources and the disposable pattern offer similar features but they still fall a bit short. Unlike RAII, they are not thread-safe, require specialized syntax and boilerplate code, and require manually specifying scopes.

But even if you consider try-with-resources and Disposable pattern as a perfect replacement of RAII, now point out how many mainstream languages support them. You have Java and JVM languages, you have C# and .NET languages, Python, and...

> I find those simpler than RAII.

Arguably this boils down to personal taste, but RAII actually ensures your resources will be released, and you can tell exactly when this will happen. Disposable patterns don't, and screwing up a using with statement is all it takes to get your application to leak resources and fail silently.
by _Algernon_ | 2025-05-30 12:25:04+00:00
Funny that you mention the printing press. One of the first books published using it was about how to identify witches which led to "witch" burnings in Europe. At some point society adapted to the misinformation (and we are better off for it), but a lot of innocent people suffered in the meantime.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/europ...
by maerF0x0 | 2025-05-30 12:26:17+00:00
adding one datapoint, maybe it will help the founders deal with an issue. On dating apps that have a friends component I've found a good percentage of the "friends" who connected with me were actually homosexual people hoping I was bi / curious. Could simply be a factor that the feature was grossly underused except by that segment, but addressing the non-negotiability of my preference. Yes they could have potentially been good friends, until they broke that boundary.
by hoseyor | 2025-05-30 12:26:23+00:00
I will assume you simply mean cryptographically signed as evidence of having been taken by a camera?

You do realize that would still not provide perfect proof that what was recorded by the camera was real, right? It does seem like an obsolete idea you may not have fully reconsidered in a while.

But considering that same old idea that dates from prior to the current state, I would also not be surprised if you imagined clandestinely including all kind of other things in this cryptographic signature like location, time and day, etc.; all of which can also be spoofed and is a tyrannical system’s wet dream.

You don’t think that would be immediately abused, as it was in other similar ways like through all the on device image scanning that was injected as counter-CSAM appeals to save the children…of course?
by gjm11 | 2025-05-30 12:26:47+00:00
This is wrong.

I would prefer not to die soon, not only because it would be unpleasant but also because my death would be inconvenient for my employer, distressing for my friends and family, bad for charities I donate to, etc. And also because there are various things I would like to do that, if I get hit by a car tomorrow, I will never get to do.

(The last sentence is debatable. You might say that my preferences just evaporate and stop mattering at all when I die. I wouldn't agree, but I don't have a knock-down counterargument.)
by Natfan | 2025-05-30 12:27:08+00:00
I've just checked the report (which was uploaded this month, 2025-05), and many links I've found in the citations are either garbled or lead to 404 pages. Even if they didn't use an LLM to generate this paper, it's still very, very sloppy work.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/WH-The...
by Elaris | 2025-05-30 12:27:34+00:00
This got me thinking. Sometimes it feels like a story doesn’t have to be true as long as it feels right, people believe it. And if it spreads fast and sounds good, it becomes “truth” for many. That’s kind of scary. Now that anyone can easily make something look real and convincing, it’s harder to tell what’s real anymore. Maybe the best thing we can do is slow down a bit, ask more questions, and not trust something just because it fits what we already believe.
by porterde | 2025-05-30 12:28:37+00:00
There’s a neuro-linguistic programming technique you can try to get rid of an earworm.

Picture a radio playing the song and imagine yourself slowly turning down the volume and the song getting quieter until it has gone.

This used to work for me but over time I’ve had to extend it with imagining switching the radio off at the end, unplugging it, and chucking it out the window so it smashes on the ground so no chance of it turning back on!
by SkyeCA | 2025-05-30 12:28:49+00:00
I don't see the value to integrating this kind of thing with an LLM or find the presented use cases as compelling, but I'm always going to support more work related to Buttplug.io and I'm sure someone will find it useful.

It's unfortunate just how stigmatized such software (and the associated devices) still are because it's a very, very interesting field. I myself started what I thought was going to be a small haptic feedback side project and have fallen down a rabbithole I never could have imagined existing.

The sex toy/haptic feedback world has, if I'm honest, reignited my love for development.
by grues-dinner | 2025-05-30 12:29:10+00:00
That fixes the problem of content being manipulated and then the original being discounted as fake when challenged.

It doesn't do a whole lot for something entirely fictional, unless it becomes so ubiquitous that anything unsigned is assumed to be fake rather than just made on a "normal" device. And even if you did manage to sign every photo, who's managing those keys? It's the difference between TLS telling you what you see is what the server sent and trusting the server to send the truth in the first place.
by lnrd | 2025-05-30 12:29:17+00:00
What prevents anyone to take a signed picture by photographing a generated/altered picture? You just need to frame it perfectly and make sure there are no reflections that could tell it's a picture of a picture and not a picture of the real world, very doable with a professional camera. All details that could give it out would disappear just lowering the resolution, which can be done in any camera.
by ignoramous | 2025-05-30 12:29:32+00:00
> DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B ... Released today; probably the best reasoning model in 8B size.

... we distilled the chain-of-thought from DeepSeek-R1-0528 to post-train Qwen3-8B Base, obtaining DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B ... on AIME 2024, surpassing Qwen3-8B by +10.0% & matching the performance of Qwen3-235B-thinking.

Wild how effective distillation is turning out to be. No wonder, most shops have begun to "hide" CoT now: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41525201
by AtlasBarfed | 2025-05-30 12:30:03+00:00
Battery day was a total failure.

The future of EV transport is either ultra cheap sodium ion /lfp or ultra dense sulfur /solid state.

Tesla's entire battery manufacturing/packaging advantage lead is gone and is probably a legacy disadvantage, or will be soon.

If 200 wh/kg is reached by sodium ion, that is a 300ish mile car with no cobalt, nickel, or lithium that should be fundamentally cheaper than an ICE. It also should enable a dirt cheap 200ish city car or a cheap 40-60 mile Phev.

Even if the CEO didn't destroy the brand with Nazi salutes, Teslas days as a high margin car maker were over. The stock price is unhinged from reality in an unprecedented manner.
by vidarh | 2025-05-30 12:30:09+00:00
> Language models with a loop absolutely aren't Turing complete.

They absolutely are. It's trivial to test and verify that you can tell one to act as a suitably small Turing machine and give it instructions to use to manipulate the conversation as "the tape".

Anything else would be absolutely astounding given how simple it is to implement a minimal 2-state 3-symbol Turing machine.

> Assuming the model can even follow your instructions the output is probabilistic so in the limit you can guarantee failure.

The output is deterministic if you set the temperature to zero, at which point it is absolutely trivial to verify the correct output for each of the possible states of a minimal Turing machine.
by skydhash | 2025-05-30 12:30:36+00:00
If you give it the rules to generate something, why can't it generate it? That's what something like Mockaroo[0] does. It's just more formal. That's pretty much what LLM training does, extracting patterns from a huge corpus of text. Then it goes one to generate according to the patterns. It can not generate a new pattern that is not a combination of the previous one.

[0]: https://mockaroo.com/
by chaosbolt | 2025-05-30 12:30:46+00:00
AI makes things too easy, this will destroy culture.

We thought that movies adapting to the tiktok generation wouldn't kill cinema, and that new and better directors would rise... this didn't happen and even the latest movies from good directors like ridley scott are quite bad.

Now 3 years ago I typed "lovecraft nietzsche" and would only find 2 videos on youtube that pertain to what I'm looking for, aka the link between the two and how lovecraft's cosmicism might be a metaphor for the abyss etc. but those 2 videos are both excellent, 2 different people thought what I thought but cared enough to write it down and make a video about it. Today I can barely find these videos, there is a sea of AI generated videos with AI narrated text rambling on and on about lovecraft this nietzsche that to hit the 20min mark and maximize ad revenue, all this in a sea of short videos that youtube push harder and harder like multiple shorts between each 2 normal videos. Did another plateform overtake youtube? Not really.

Now some author will use AI to help with his next book, it will work and he will publish faster, then other authors will do the same, and others will optimize it more and more until most books available will be 90% written by AI, colleges will teach you AI assisted writing, and decades after that no one would even think to write a book without the help of AI.

How the hell would you explain to your publisher that you need 3 years to write the sequel when everyone else is doing it in 3 months.

It really does take the beauty out of the whole experience.
by ThinkBeat | 2025-05-30 12:30:52+00:00
It is more that it is becoming available to the masses. Doctoring photos in all manner of ways has been going on for decades.

What is happening now will raise awareness of it and of course make it a several magnitudes bigger problem.

I am sure there are large efforts ongoing to train AI to spot AI photo, video, written production.

A system like printer tracking dots¹ may already be in widespread use. Who would take the enormous amount of time to figure out if somesuch is hiding somewhere in an llm, or related code.

¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printer_tracking_dots
by dinfinity | 2025-05-30 12:31:32+00:00
Things should simply be signed by people and institutions. People who were there or did extensive research vouching for authenticity and accuracy of representation.

Signing in hardware is nice, but you then still need to trust the company making the hardware to make it tamper proof and not tampered with by them. Additionally, such devices would have to be locked down to disallow things like manual setting of the time and date. It's a rabbit hole with more and more inconveniences and fewer benefits as you go down it.

Better to just go for reputation, and webs and chains of trust in people based approaches.