MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Defletter | 2025-06-06 07:32:28+00:00
How can someone be so confident but also so wrong?

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EDIT: Let's remind ourselves of where FEDERAL freedom of speech comes from. Firstly, of course, is the First Amendment:

> Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

You may notice that it doesn't say "free speech is for citizens", but rather that there is a negative-right against Congress from legislating to restrict speech. But what about the President, or the judiciary, or the States? Well, Gitlow v. New York established the following:

> Assumed, for the purposes of the case, that freedom of speech and of the press are among the personal rights and liberties protected by the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment from impairment by the States.

- https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/268/652/

Judges need to get better at this: it NEVER is just for that case. And so the case set a precedent that the 14th Amendment's due process clause contains within itself a more powerful version of the First Amendment. Now let's remind ourselves of what the due process clause says (with the equal protect clause for good measure):

> nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

Now, to quote the notorious RBG:

> Nor shall any State deprive any person, not any citizen. And the choice [in] the word 'person' was quite deliberate. And similarly, nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. So, the United States constitution surely recognises the fundamental human rights of all persons.

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYR414Q8v6A&t=3925s

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYR414Q8v6A&t=3712s (timestamp for the question she's responding to)

Now, reasonable people can disagree on whether the due process clause should be so expansive, indeed I find the US's tendency to amend the Constitution via Supreme Court precedent to be deeply troubling, but even under a textualist reading of the First Amendment, the idea that Freedom of Speech in America is limited to citizens is deeply, deeply ignorant.
Show HN: Is Your Company's AI Just Indians?
by thedeep_mind | 2025-06-06 07:33:22+00:00
Saw the whole Builder.ai fallout and thought...isn’t every tech company basically run by Indians in the background?

So I made this site to find out the real truth. Type in any company, and it’ll tell you if it is just Indians.

Spoiler: Microsoft, Google, Adobe… all “yes.”

Don’t take it too seriously...a bag of salt (if not more) is recommended.

Built using daily free limits on lovable.dev
by arrowsmith | 2025-06-06 07:33:29+00:00
Well yes, but that's a utopian idea that can never be fully realised. You can't fix them all. There'll always be some number of crazy, broken, malevolent psychos out there. If you don't think this is true then you need to meet more people.

We need to minimise the damage they can cause, and that means preventing them from using slaughterbots.
by gloosx | 2025-06-06 07:34:01+00:00
Would not be an easy one to swallow but I don't have a false expectation that these accounts are mine in any sense. They are Google's, and I'm just renting it paying with my personal data to feed the AdSense machine. Any day they might decide to do what they want with it, there might be a bug or a technical issue which will lock me out, and I doubt I would have a single way to influence it, the customer care or user support is clearly not a priority for this company and is virtually non-existent.
by fc417fc802 | 2025-06-06 07:34:42+00:00
Misinformation. Unless you happen to own a GCMS you don't check for methanol. Rather you discard the heads and the tails from a fractioning still because that's where stuff that isn't ethanol comes out. In the modern era you'd use a digital thermometer for this task.

Someone suffering methanol poisoning from DIY distillation is equivalent to someone landing in the hospital after failing to cook his chicken all the way through. It's simple incompetence, likely due either to blatant disregard for safety or else to attempting to wing something based on only the most topical of knowledge.
by wesselbindt | 2025-06-06 07:36:10+00:00
I'm not entirely sure what your parent post is referring to, but I know the UK government has been going after anti-genocide folks to such an extent that a group of four UN rapporteurs sent them a letter about it. Details and some more context can be found here:

https://www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/un-special-r...
by randcraw | 2025-06-06 07:36:11+00:00
IMHO, this article makes grand claims but doesn't substantiate them.

In what way is ML-based biology any different from the myriad statistics-based mechanistic models that systems or computational biology has employed for 50 years to model biological mechanisms and processes? Does the author claim that theory-less parameterless ML models like those in deep NNs are superior because theory-based explicitly parameterized models are doomed to fail? If so, then some specific examples / illustrations would go a long way toward making your case.
by ben_w | 2025-06-06 07:37:46+00:00
The UK has problems, but it's not what you'd guess from its own media (left or right, both just have different errors), and everyone else's media is likely even more wrong.

When the Sex Pistols got "God Save The Queen" to number 2 in the charts (despite being widely refused broadcast or sale), the listings just left the number 2 slot blank that week. The band was arrested after performing the song on a boat on the Thames.

Decades later, an MP suggested playing the "God Save The Queen" (also the name of the national anthem) every night on the BBC, patriotically, in the aftermath of the Brexit vote. Newsnight* agreed and trolled everyone by playing the Sex Pistols' instead of the anthem.

* "the BBC's news and current affairs programme, providing in-depth investigation and analysis of the stories behind the day's headlines" to quote Wikipedia
by hardwaresofton | 2025-06-06 07:38:57+00:00
Ah, but IMO not for smaller creators -- and at some point, if the DMCA claims are legitimate and not being heeded in a timely manner, more litigation aimed at YouTube should be started.

This likely has bad effects for the internet as a whole (more efficient legal action can make those who abuse the system more powerful), but if it's something that needs to happen, then it should happen.
by dmos62 | 2025-06-06 07:38:59+00:00
I have many times thought about how scars and tattoos have a lot of similarities. From a certain perspective, a tattoo is simply a bit more intentional. A tattoo is like saying, "I belong to this group and it shows". I think of an emotional scar as a tattoo that is 100x bigger than a regular tattoo: it's so big, that you can't see it, it's like not being able to see an image when you zoom in too much. And, even though you might not see it with the naked eye, you can feel it, it's something on you that says "I was there", "I experienced that", "I used that to become the person I am".

And, then you might recognize that all of our personalities are constructed out of these scars, it's just that most of them we're not aware of and most of them aren't painful to think about. A time comes, when you notice that your association with a given negative memory becomes more neutral, there's a bit more distance between you and it.

I can say for myself that every experience I labeled as negative, I was haunted by, turned out to have a positive outcome at the end. There are hardships that "haunt" me now, and I don't know how it will have been a positive influence on me, but I believe that it will, and that helps.

I hope I don't come across as pushy with my viewpoints. I resonated deeply with what you said, and felt the need to share.

By the way, a practical tip, I find that if I prompt an LLM with something like:

> I'm going through [a difficult time]. Help me reflect. Ask a question or give me a prompt, I'll respond, and so on. Act like a friend.

That has been for me surprisingly effective for releasing debilitating emotional stress.
by Malcolmlisk | 2025-06-06 07:39:03+00:00
What nobody says is that, face blindness is a protection mechanism from our brain for protecting ourselves from losing our minds. When you see your friends growing up and don't remember when you were kids, or when you see the kids at school and you think 'they are younger than I were when I was in there', that's your brain using this mechanism. Forgiving all the faces that we had back then, so we don't feel so much like growing and getting old. That's why your family will always look like they are right now, and you need to make an effort to remember them when you were kids, and remember them in their kid form.
by fortran77 | 2025-06-06 07:39:45+00:00
Every time I sit down at my own piano in my own living room and record something written by a composer who died 150 years ago or more, I get a copyright strike on YouTube--often by a big label (BMI, etc). Last week it was a Robert Schumann piece, composed in 1848. The strike is still there, even though I contested it. (The form to contest it doesn't even have a good box to check for this scenario.)

I would love it if I had the resources to sue BMI for defamation (they're claiming I'm a thief) and sue YouTube for facilitating this.

They really need to make sure their music match looks for _exact_ matches for compositions that are out of copyright, to catch specific performances and not just melodic/harmonic/rhytmic matches.
by stpedgwdgfhgdd | 2025-06-06 07:42:20+00:00
Don’t get fully the use-cases this tool solves except for some auto-accept.

You would also expect some eat-your-own-dog-food, why does https://github.com/possibilities/claude-composer/blob/main/s... not use CC with a prompt…

(Ps I left x/twitter a long time)
by zxexz | 2025-06-06 07:42:21+00:00
Yes, very tiny batch size on average. Have not optimized for MFU. This is optimized for a varying (~1-60ish) numbers of active requests while minimizing latency (time to first token and time to last token from final token) given short to medium known "prompts" and short structured responses, with very little in the way of shared prefixes in concurrent prompts.
by ajuc | 2025-06-06 07:45:02+00:00
It's very hard to find a law without exceptions.

It's forbidden to kill people. But if you are defending yourself it's not. And if you're a soldier you are indeed required to kill.

It's forbidden to break other people's property - but if you're trying to save somebody's life you can break a window to get to them.

It's illegal to capture and keep people imprisoned. But state can put you in prison no problem.

Etc.

Freedom of speech was never intended to be the only fundamental rule of the society. It's one of many. Being fundamentalist about it is harmful.

In particular what is harmful is abusing it to circumvent other, reasonable rules. In USA the reason oligarchs can pay politicians for their campaigns is because it's classified as "free speech". This is corruption on the highest level of the state legalized with idiotic excuse. It's illegal in most democracies, and for a good reason.

Another example is spreading hate campaigns against minorities. We know what happens if you allow this to go on. We've seen 1930s. We have laws against it - but only for traditional media. Internet is a way to circumvent these rules and good practices.

Just like radio was a way for to-be-totalitarian-rulers to circumvent the establishment in 20s and 30s.
by theshrike79 | 2025-06-06 07:45:28+00:00
From the mastodon account of the team member: https://chaos.social/@karolherbst/114633717204260099

More from Twitter:

https://x.com/LundukeJournal/status/1930811054520443215

https://x.com/LundukeJournal/status/1930806994601918957
by NilMostChill | 2025-06-06 07:45:34+00:00
I'm not who you were asking but i can provide a specific encroachment example.

The anti-protest law update that was passed over the last few years specifically (using the law) curbs the ability to protest freely in public spaces.

It's technically lawful and curbs expression from what it was previously, the same way they are doing it in general, by adding additional laws (or clauses to existing laws) that are intentionally vague so they can make it fit whatever definition they like after the fact.

I'm aware that the legal system is partly based on judicial interpretation etc, but these are so much more vague than previously.

Regardless of whether or not you agree with it, it still curbs freedoms.

incidentally, i think it might have recently been overturned (or has at least been challenged successfully) but the point is , the government pulled some legal shenanigans to curb expression.

another example of the vagueness would be IR35 legislation, again, not debating the pro's and cons, just saying the law is purposely vague when actual guidelines could be provided.
by slg | 2025-06-06 07:46:44+00:00
These slippery slope comments always seem a little naive to me because they imply there is some pure way to handle moderation. In practice, you have to be an extremist to think literally no content should be removed from Youtube with the most obvious example of something nearly everyone wants to be removed being CSAM.

Maybe you would respond by saying that is illegal and only illegal content should be taken down. According to which laws? Hate speech is illegal some places, should that be removed? What about blasphemy?

Maybe you would suggest to closely follow the local law of the user. Does that mean the site needs to allow piracy in places that is legal? And who decides whether the video actually violates the law? Does the content have to stay up until a court makes the final decision? Or what about content that is legal locally, but might be under some restrictions. Should Youtube be obligated to host hardcore porn or gory violence?

There needs to be a line somewhere for normal people to actually want to use the site. I'm not going to claim to have the perfect answer on where that line should be, but there is always going to be an ongoing debate on its exact placement.
by gleenn | 2025-06-06 07:48:00+00:00
Anecdata, but I remember writing software for a startup and getting thirsty. We had a fridge that had all sugar-free sodas because one of the founders was diabetic. I remember drinking a soda and still feeling really thirsty. Drank another and still didn't solve it. It finally dawned on me that my brain just really wanted the sugar for the easy calories, and the sugar-free soda obviously wasn't fixing this at all. Thinking hard definitely burns calories faster than not.
by hardwaresofton | 2025-06-06 07:48:42+00:00
> i meant anonymous as in "a user can receive a link to a video and watch it without having to log in" as well as "there's a list of content on the homepage to watch" - the same way youtube works if you go via private browsing.

Oh yeah this is my fault, I understood your meaning but wanted to make a separate point about the average user and their very specific.

IMO the vast majority of open source projects will use that word because it is a legitimate benefit, but it's anathema to the average consumer. It just signals "this is for criminals", even if it shouldn't.

Agree it's clearly a valuable feature -- it's hard to even demonstrate the value these days. "no algorithms" or "no tracking" might work, but it's so hard to verbalize.

With regards to the F/OSS solutions like peertube and the difficulty of marketing all this stuff (filecoin with/without crypto)... There just aren't the right incentives or the right insane person hasn't come along yet.

> That's not out of reach for the likes of someone like Louis Rossman, who really ought be moving off youtube

Maybe this is a bit weird but IMO Louis has been incredibly effective in his fight for right to repair, and I would hate to sacrifice his reach for a more user-friendly platform. I agree with the idea of at least simulcasting. Maybe it's another difficulty problem.

I haven't kept up with the stuff he's doing with FUTO these days as closely, but you have to fight on the battleground you're given. Winning and moral purity are often at odds, and IMO this isn't a place where moral purity is paramount.

IMO one of the hidden lynchpins here is the default license that youtube broadcasts with. I think there's a really clear legal path to downloading a LOT of youtube if only more things were CC licensed on there (not the default YouTube license) and accessible without logging in (similar to the LinkedIn scraping case).
by ben_w | 2025-06-06 07:49:49+00:00
Even the US has such restrictions: Grand jury proceeding, classified information, contempt of court (Trump almost hit that last year), lying under oath, material nonpublic information about publicly traded companies (Musk), copyright infringement, …

Is "Obscenity" still a thing? I guess some porn must be illegal…

And conversely, North Korea has a constitution that says they also support free speech*. So, you know, look to de facto not just de jure.

* """Article 65 provides that all North Korean citizens have equal rights.[15] Citizens have the right to elect and be elected (Article 66), freedom of speech, the press, assembly, demonstration and association (Article 67),""" -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_North_Korea#Ch...
by smolder | 2025-06-06 07:50:11+00:00
LTT is only popular because of youtube in the first place and kind of bad at what they do. I've seen lots of bad methodology and low value content so added them to my "don't recommend" list years ago. More on topic, Floatplane doesn't fix any of the problems with youtube, it's just another take on it that they're filling up with more clickbait thumbnails.
by ofalkaed | 2025-06-06 07:50:51+00:00
>IMHO, the biggest pain point of APL pedagogy at the moment

It is the one that always trips me up. I just started in on my third attempt at learning APL/array languages, both previous times I got to the same point where I was mostly at a loss of how to apply it all. So I move on and forget all that I learned until the next time and have to start over. Thankfully the last attempt seems to have mostly stuck as far as keyboard layout goes, makes progress much quicker.

I may take you up on that email offer once I get a bit further along in this current attempt, can't quite form reasonable questions yet and only know what tripped me up in the previous attempts. I believe you are a regular on APL Orchard? I will be joining it soon so perhaps will see you there.
by Kichererbsen | 2025-06-06 07:51:55+00:00
I have a similar thing about the gait and I think it might have to do with me needing glasses, but it being mild enough (-1.0, -2.0) that I didn't wear them as a teenager and in my early twenties - so my NN just trained on the data it had ready access too: Gait, preferred colors, movement patterns etc.

The not recognizing people in unexpected locations is something I just mark down to "page fault" and move on. Nobody expects total recall anyway.
by thih9 | 2025-06-06 07:52:46+00:00
I think the rules should be stricter.

I’d prefer an explicit opt in from the content author being required for anyone to perform any model training with any given data.

Alternatively, require all weights, prompts and chat logs to have the same visibility as the original datasets.

None of this is going to happen and current decisions about uncopyrightable ai[1] are already good; but still, it feels like there is room for abuse.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%A9%C3%A2tre_D%27op%C3%...
by user_7832 | 2025-06-06 07:52:53+00:00
On a related note, the impact of "things" - everything, from inflammation from stress or less sleep or long covid/me/cfs to the effects of ibuprofen or creatine or methylene blue - is staggering.

Anyone who's taken any kind of brain medication that has worked (be it SS/NRIs or DNRIs or antipsychotics or stimulant medications) can tell you how much of what we think "we are", is significantly affected by neurochemistry (amongst a lot of other things too!)

I am not sure how much someone who hasn't experienced it (themselves or via a family member/friend) can really appreciate, and I wish for people to be more cognizant and supportive in general, rather than being judgemental or going "I could do it, why can't you?"
by yonatan8070 | 2025-06-06 07:53:23+00:00
As others said, creators are often relying on AdSense from YouTube, and even if they did run ads on their own website, how would it be discovered?

Let's say a creator decided to move to some non-YouTube platform that pays exactly the same as YouTube, via ads and premium subscriptions, whatever that platform is, it will have nowhere near the size of the audience that YouTube has, meaning the creator will be losing out on revenue.

This discourages creators from moving away from YouTube, meaning viewers will stay on YouTube

See: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect
by wolvesechoes | 2025-06-06 07:54:45+00:00
"Feels like YouTube is ripe for disruption."

To keep BigTechs in check you need a strong state with a proper legislation. To achieve it, you need a political power to create such legislation and force your decision-makers to adopt it.

Fantasy that some FOSS project or bunch of brave entrepreneurs backed by YC will actually make a difference is just it - a fantasy.
by dragonwriter | 2025-06-06 07:54:48+00:00
> Generally it appears the TTS systems all do US accents and the British accent tends to sound like Frasier - an American faking an British accent.

Frasier Crane's accent is an American actor portraying an American character who (with variable intensity depending on situation) is affecting, over the character's own natural accent, either a constructed American accent (the Transatlantic) or a natural American accent (Boston Brahmin), there is some dispute about which or whether its a blend, both of which share some features (in the former case, by deliberate construction) with British pronunciation.
by spankibalt | 2025-06-06 07:55:19+00:00
Sad that the Missing Manual-style book which was discussed back in the TW Classic days, or a nice cookbook, never came to pass. Good that's finally been taken care of with GrokTW.

Great, reliable, and extremely flexible tool, especially in non-permissive environments, either as a single file-only datadump, or decked-out to manage a flat-file KB via the "all-tiddlers-as-single-text-files" approach (either through TiddlyDesktop or one's own solution).
by Lio | 2025-06-06 07:56:14+00:00
I think if you were sensitive you could still have that conversation. People might very well complain, as is their right, but they’d still allow it if you were sensitive.

The problem is that the Jewish community in the UK is relatively small and vulnerable and there is the tendency for such discussion to turn ugly and affect the lives of all British Jews regardless of their thoughts on Zionism.

We don’t want you burning Korans outside of mosques and we don’t want you throwing paint at people on their way to temple.

I’m not religious but I don’t want either of those situations. There are more effective ways to help those in trouble than starting pub fights.
by wasteofelectron | 2025-06-06 07:56:24+00:00
Legrady belongs to the first generation of photographic-based artists to integrate computational processes in the mid-1980s for creating “Born-Digital” visualizations. His current artistic and research projects explore algorithmic processes for photographic imaging and data visualization through semantic categorization and self-organizing systems, interactive computational-based art installations, and mixed-realities narrative development. A key focus is the creative potential of such technologies for aesthetic coherence and expression.