MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by scarface_74 | 2025-06-29 02:20:09+00:00
There are plenty of not for profits - including Planned Parenthood available. It’s not just about providing abortions. Unfortunately, even in states where abortion is not allowed or performed by Planned Parenthood, the Supreme Court just made it legal for states to forbid people on Medicaid from going to planned parenthood which is often the only place available for them to get contraceptives free and cheaply and counseling.
by bigiain | 2025-06-29 02:22:53+00:00
I will also freely admit to not understanding MCP much, but using it without an LLM was (at least to my reading) pretty much the main thesis of the linked article.

"Okay but. But. What if you just... removed the AI part?

What if it's just "a standardized way to connect literally anything to different data sources and tools"?"

(which had struck out text 'AI models' in between 'connect' and 'literally')
by hexaga | 2025-06-29 02:24:39+00:00
It doesn't matter / is not relevant. The harm is not caused by intent, but by action. Sending language at human beings in a way they can read has side effects. It doesn't matter if the language was generated by stochastic process or by conscious thinking entity, those side effects do actually exist. That's kind of the whole point of language.

The danger is that this class of generators generates language that seems to cause people to fall into psychoses. They act as a 'professed belief' valence amplifier[0], and seem to do so generally, and the cause is fairly obvious if you think about how these things actually work (language models generating most likely continuations for existing text that also by secondary optimization objective are 'pleasing' or highly RLHF positive).

To some degree, I agree that understanding how they work attenuates the danger, but not entirely. I also think it is absurd to expect the general public to thoroughly understand the mechanism by which these models work before interacting with them. That is such an extremely high bar to clear for a general consumer product. People use these things specifically to avoid having to understand things and offload their cognitive burdens (not all, but many).

No, "they're just stochastic parrots outputting whatever garbage is statistically likely" is not enough understanding to actually guard against the inherent danger. As I stated before, that's not the dangerous part - you'd need to understand the shape of the 'human psychosis attractor', much like the claude bliss attractor[0] but without the obvious solution of just looking at the training objective. We don't know the training objective for humans, in general. The danger is in the meta structure of the language emitted, not the ontological category of the language generator.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44265093
by whoisyc | 2025-06-29 02:24:48+00:00
Given how many complaints about Google search you regularly see on this website and elsewhere, you would think there will be a lot more people willing to pay for non shitty search. And yet Kagi does not have enough paying users to fill a football stadium. To me, this validates GP’s point about how people love to talk about paying for services and then proceed to not pay for any services.
by kristopolous | 2025-06-29 02:28:08+00:00
I guess ... I don't think it really gets you much unless it's 1-pass streaming otherwise we're dealing with entire input buffers and then we're just back to files.

You could argue using the vertical separator | is more syntactically graceful but then it's just a shell argument. There's quite a few radically different shells out there these days like xonsh, murex, and nushell so if simply arranging logic on the screen in a different syntax is what you're looking for then that's probably the way.
by Nasrudith | 2025-06-29 02:28:19+00:00
Human quality of life tends to be pretty shit without them though, and that is ignoring all of the competitively a necessity "choices" where not doing so is literally suicidal. Not adopting early agriculture and settling down leads to nomadic hunter gatherers being outnumbered and genocided by sedentary farmers sorts of necessity. Refusing to mine and pollute means bad things happen to you when you encounter metallic armed and armored foes.
by acdha | 2025-06-29 02:28:56+00:00
Yeah, macOS 7-9 had known weaknesses (e.g. burning CD coasters or skipping audio if you held down the mouse button, keeping it in an interrupt handler) but they were more deterministic and people could avoid them.

The DOS-based Windows versions were just plain bad, and only Microsoft’s illegal product tying kept competitors off of the market. Windows NT 3 was at least stable, but they made it worse moving drivers into the kernel for performance in 4, and it took decades to repair the security damage that caused.
by cardanome | 2025-06-29 02:32:51+00:00
Rich people selling stuff to other rich people is just moving wealth around, it does not generate wealth.

I sell you stuff worth 5 billion, you give me 5 billion. Nothing happened. Maybe you even consume the product so there is less wealth.

Only labor can generate value. Work is what transforms a thing into another thing that has more value than before. Machines and AI do not create value.

You might wonder what would happen if they had an general AI, maybe actual autonomous robots? Would those create value? Well, at first whoever got the first AGI would get incredibly rich but if everyone had access to that tech, the prices for everything that can produced with it would plummet down until they are the cost of running the AI.

Rich people get richer by employing poor people. So they can extract the value they produce. If they don't employ anyone, they are not making any profit. (Well for actual free markets, you can of course make profit being a monopolist and stuff or just do crime.)

So yes, rich people are screwed. That is why they buy bunkers in New Zealand. That is why we see the rise of fascism, because they will have to tighten the screws to keep the ship running a little while longer.
by mahirsaid | 2025-06-29 02:33:53+00:00
The fantasy of using civilians as a means to say this is a war crime is out the window. In order to stop one country from killing your population, most often the revers effect is the same. neither of which are justified. in order to stop the third Reich the majority of Germany was destroyed along with the mass civilian death. Attacking promptly and aggressively carries civilian death in most cases (U.S. attacking japan). This is a cycle that happens in humanity every so often, one can say we tend to take life for granted over-time. Then some big event or catastrophe happens and a group of nations put some international body in place to reduce big wars and conflicts, this usually hinders large scale conflicts for about 50-80 years until that generation forgets and or history is no longer connected to them some way and the same thing repeats again. Remember that The U.S. and some of the European nations carried the actions, in which there-after developed international body's to protect them from a similar attack like nuclear or mass genocide. The one's affected are the ones that repeat the cycle, if they were the victim last time in the cycle then they will be the perpetrator this tine around.
by op00to | 2025-06-29 02:34:29+00:00
I recently attended a class with my kid on internet safety taught by an attorney specializing in defending children accused of crimes, especially those involving computers.

Roblox is like the #1 cesspool for bad shit going down with kids on the internet. Social media is bad as well, and my kids do neither. No, Roblox is not the end of the world, but there’s no real compelling reason to open up to it.

They play with their friends on XBox Live, with voice chat limited to friends we personally add.
by Aurornis | 2025-06-29 02:37:02+00:00
> If kids pay 5-10 bucks every once in a while to support their entertainment and pay engineering salaries

If this was a game that had a subscription fee or where you had to buy the new version every year, that might be true.

These games don’t work like that, though. They rely on maximizing the take from each individual player. They’re designed so that the sky is the limit. You pay 5-10 bucks here, then you’re enticed to pay 5-10 bucks there, then you’re scrounging or begging for another 5-10 bucks for the next thing.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-06-29 02:37:28+00:00
>nobody is out there lamenting that we're not supporting a 'middle class' of baseball players.

I will cheekily argue that the "transferable skill" of failed athletes is charisma. It's pretty clear that being able to talk about sports is a cheat code for upwards mobility (no matter the industry) and the mentality it builds is of high social value (you'll never find trouble finding a local court or field to make a pickup game with. An artists Meetup, a bit harder to arrange). Certainly more than 99% of artists.

But to properly answer your point, I don't have the full answer of how to balance "necessary careers" with "dream careers". If you want to maintain a satisfied populace (aka, prevent a violent coup by people who feel they have nothing to lose), they need to feel their dreams are reachable. Emphasis on "feel".

You don't even need to make money off your dreams per se. But you need time for it, and basics safeties taken care of. the current atmosphere offers neither.
by emporas | 2025-06-29 02:37:38+00:00
>Alright, now I gotta open up the code and do some if statements hard code the sonofm api and ship a new version, show some update messages.

You will need to do that anyway. Easier discovery of the API doesn't say much.

The user might want a complicated functionality, which combines several API calls, and more code for filtering/sorting/searching of that information locally. If you let the LLM to write the code by itself, it might take 20 minutes and millions of wasted tokens of the LLM going back and forth in the code to implement the functionality. No user is going to find that acceptable.
by acdha | 2025-06-29 02:38:27+00:00
If you read your own link, note how Israel has a near-total blockade and maintains military control. I have absolutely no love for Hamas but I also recognize that there are a ton of civilians caught between the hammer of Israeli and the anvil of Hamas with zero opportunity for self-determination. They have no control over Hamas - the last election was in 2006 so the majority of the Palestinian population has literally never once been able to vote – and they have even less influence with the Israeli government. That is a tragedy by any measure, and Israel’s wanton killing and collective punishment is a recipe for continued conflict because it ensures that there’s a constant supply of people who have a personal grudge because they know someone innocent whose life has been tragically altered.
by armada651 | 2025-06-29 02:39:15+00:00
Just because the risk of getting successfully sued for making decisions against the interests of shareholders is low, it doesn't mean that it won't influence executive decision making. CEOs want to avoid legal risks above all else and thus the laws around fiduciary duty can have a chilling effect even if judges generally go along with the CEO's interpretation of what is in the interest of shareholders.
by dragonwriter | 2025-06-29 02:39:44+00:00
> IANAL but isn't any ruling by even a lower court precedent?

"Precedent" can include both binding authority and persuasive authority. Any ruling (and lots of things which aren't rulings, like scholarly treatises), can be persuasive precedent, but trial court decisions are not binding precedent, even in the district of the court that issued them.

Only appellate court decisions are binding precedent, and only (basically) on courts subordinate to court making the decision.
by timewizard | 2025-06-29 02:40:08+00:00
> The event comes as a surprise given that the satellite only was in operation for seven years, while other satellites like it are rated for between 15 to 20 years of work. "We are coordinating with the satellite manufacturer, Boeing, and government agencies to analyze data and observations," Intelsat officials added in their statement.

Yea. Hard to figure out.
by dragonwriter | 2025-06-29 02:41:51+00:00
> In this scenario the precedent has already been set in the 5th, why would the Supreme Court hear it again?

A circuit split on an issue is one of the factors that traditionally weighs in favor of the Supreme Court hearing it, in the interests of uniformity of the law.

If the Supreme Court likes the 5th Circuit rule, they take the case it make it the rule, period.
by sdenton4 | 2025-06-29 02:45:33+00:00
"A wandering ant, for example, tracks where it is through the process of dead reckoning. An ant uses variables (in the algebraic/computer science sense) to maintain a readout of its location, even as as it wanders, constantly updated, so that it can directly return to its home."

Hm.

Dead reckoning is a terrible way to navigate, and famously led to lots of ships crashed on the shore of France before good clocks allowed tracking longitude accurately.

Ants lay down pheromone trails and use smell to find their way home... There's likely some additional tracking going on, but I would be surprised if it looked anything like symbolic GOFAI.
by goldfishgold | 2025-06-29 02:45:51+00:00
“Desperate and traumatised Jewish survivors refused to return to neighbours who had denounced or deported them; when some were returned to Poland anyway and met with pogroms and hatred, all prospect of Jewish repatriation evaporated. Following sharp criticism from the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, which was caring for Jewish survivors, in December 1945 Truman opened up visas in excess of the usual quotas for some 23,000 DPs in the American zone, two-thirds of them Jewish, and from January 1946 UNRRA too recognised Jews as a national group, to be housed apart from other refugees. In this case (and no other), the Soviets and Americans were on the same page, agreeing that refuge outside Europe must be found, ideally in Palestine. The British, having learned how strongly Palestine’s Arab population would resist this project, objected until, in 1948, they surrendered their mandate, leaving – as one departing official put it – the key under the mat. Of some 230,000 registered Jewish DPs, just over 130,000 would settle in the new state of Israel and about 65,000 in the United States.”

From a recent review in the LRB of a book (Lost Souls) about those camps and their inhabitants. https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n10/susan-pedersen/owner...

Europeans were eager to see Jews gone, one way or another. “Pogroms and hatred” sounds pretty violent.
by ajdude | 2025-06-29 02:46:33+00:00
In my state, routine inspections are required by a State Apiarist:

> All honeybee colonies must be registered and inspected for diseases, mites, and Africanized bees. Surveys are conducted for Africanized bees along Delaware’s coastal anchorages and in the Ports of Wilmington and Delaware City. By law, the State Apiarist and state bee inspectors may enter any public or private premises and have access to and from all apiaries or places where bees and bee equipment are kept to inspect them for pests and diseases. The State Apiarist may also declare a quarantine and order the destruction or treatment of hives for serious pest or disease situations.

https://agriculture.delaware.gov/plant-industries/honeybees/
by soraminazuki | 2025-06-29 02:47:37+00:00
History isn't supposed to be about your personal feelings of ethnic pride or remorse. It's about learning from past successes and failures, and better understanding how people from different cultures may view each other. Other countries can and should learn from Japanese history too, because no country is immune to the mistakes that Japan made during WW2. Especially in this day and age, people around the world should have a hard look at how propaganda was used to commit atrocities.

Also if you care about national interest, it would be counterproductive to "shut up" or forget about past failures for an ego boost. That would make the country detached from reality, isolated from the rest of the world, and prone to the same failures.

Last but not least, it's very insensitive and inconsiderate of you to label South Korean trauma as a mere "political crutch" or the Dutch colonial past as no longer "relevant." Historical injustices can carry on to today's injustices much more than you think. You should try to see the perspective from the other side more before dismissing these things.
by chubot | 2025-06-29 02:47:46+00:00
I was referring to the bash-completion project, the default on Debian/Ubuntu - https://github.com/scop/bash-completion/

But yes, ble.sh also has a shell parser in shell, although it uses a state machine style that's more principled than bash regex / sed crap.

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Also, distro build systems like Alpine Linux and others tend to parse shell in shell (or with sed).

They often need package metadata without executing package builds, so they do that by trying to parse shell.

In YSH, you will be able to do that with reflection, basically like Lisp/Python/Ruby, rather than ad hoc parsing.

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I'm glad to hear you can see the effect of the optimizations ! That took a long time :-)

Some more benchmarks here, which I'll write about: https://oils.pub/release/0.33.0/benchmarks.wwz/osh-runtime/
by moefh | 2025-06-29 02:47:55+00:00
I'm curious to know why you see it that way, as I don't interpret it like that at all.

Quite the opposite in fact: if anything it's a reaction to people who do try to understand a system by looking at its original plan: it says that you should disregard that and look at what the system actually does (which includes "interactions of independent parties and random variables", as you say).

In any case, that's how I meant it: it's a bit useless to dig up the original purpose of corporations in history books to talk about how corporations work today, like the comment I replied to suggested.
by ants_everywhere | 2025-06-29 02:51:42+00:00
That's not what common good is. Common good never requires that people share core values.

Common good historically was what's good for the city/polis/country/band/family. Basically, you make some (ideally relatively small) sacrifice to your own interest for the sake of a larger group you share fate with.

There are more formal/mathematical versions of it, for example in Bentham where the common good is essentially a weighted sum over the good to each individual. Rousseau described it almost exactly as the resultant of force vectors. There are more authoritarian versions like in historical Sparta and more recently in Marx and Engels where it's imposed through violence.

> imposed self-interest

I'm not sure exactly what you're saying here, but self-interest is almost by definition not externally imposed. In Marxism one particular vision of the common good is imposed externally via a "revolutionary terror."
by wat10000 | 2025-06-29 02:51:53+00:00
I don’t get it. Let’s say that BB(748) is 10,000. (I realize the true number is somewhat larger, this is just an example that doesn’t change the argument.) That means there’s one or more Turing machines of that size which run for that many steps. All of the others either run for fewer, or never stop.

Running for fewer steps is extremely well defined and I don’t imagine that enters into this.

That means there’s issue is “never stop”? That also seems pretty well defined to me. For BB(748) to vary based on your model, if the machines that run for fewer steps don’t change, then that means one of the machines that never stops in one model will stop in another. Or the BB winner for our model will never stop in another model.

How can changing your model make it so a specific Turing machine goes from stopping after 10,000 steps to never stopping, or from never stopping to stopping after 11,000 steps?
by danaris | 2025-06-29 02:51:54+00:00
I mean...sure, there are horror stories. There are horror stories in the corporate world, too. Any kind of large organization can become corrupt, misaligned with its own goals, or fully dysfunctional.

I'm very sorry about what happened to your acquaintance, but I guarantee their experience is not representative, based on 30+ years of living and working in and around academia.
by scarface_74 | 2025-06-29 02:52:14+00:00
Chatbots with some nuance. I work with voice and chat call centers hosted on Amazon Connect - the AWS version of the call center that Amazon uses internally.

Traditionally and still how it works in most call centers, you have to explicitly list out the things you can handle (intents), what sentences trigger them (utterances) and slots - ie “I want to get a flight from {origin} to {destination}” the variable parts would be the slots

Anyway, absolutely no company would or should trust an LLM to generate output to a customer. It never ends well. I use Gen ai to categorize free text input from a customer into a set of intents the system can handle and fill in the slots. But the output is very much on rails

It works a lot better than the old school method.
by neom | 2025-06-29 02:53:51+00:00
Yesterday a butterfly got stuck in my pool, I usually try to save them. This one was trying it's hardest to fly but the water on it's wings was just slightly too heavy or something, but it was flapping really hard and making the most amazing ripple in the pool, I froze and couldn't stop looking at the ripple it was making, the ripple frequency and modulation was was slow and totally perfect, even tho it was flapping incredibly hard...but I also thought it's stuck and going to die, but I was totally fixated on the frequency and amplitudes. I managed to break my gaze and got it out. That was the most beautiful thing that made me think recently, I'm still thinking about it.
by teleforce | 2025-06-29 02:55:45+00:00
I highly recommend the book by Prof. Rashid Khalidi, The Hundred Years' War on Palestine, from the academic perspective of the situations. His relative was once the mayor of Jerusalem and he's the Editor of the reputable Journal of Palestine Studies based in the US. The book begins with an examination of correspondence from 1889 between his relative Yusuf Diya ad-Din Pasha al-Khalidi, mayor of Jerusalem, and Theodor Herzl, father of modern political Zionism [1],[2].

Although the book was published back in 2020 prior to the current conflict, he correctly labeled the many years siege on Gaza by Israel as the act of war against Palestinian people, and it turn out to be manifested in the all out war in 2024.

1] The Hundred Years' War on Palestine:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hundred_Years%27_War_on_Pa...

[2] A new abyss’: Gaza and the hundred years’ war on Palestine (2024):

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/11/a-new-abyss-ga...
by MilnerRoute | 2025-06-29 02:58:58+00:00
Somebody pulled together web page back around 2005 - their list of the "greatest internet moments" (between 1995 and 2005)...

http://aolwatch.org/100/

The first one that came to my mind was "All Your Base Are Belong to Us." (The video where all the images where spliced together...)
by zuminator | 2025-06-29 03:00:09+00:00
That doesn't work for all industries though. iPhones and other mass luxury/ "masstige" goods are essentially high-end commodities. Apple can't stay rich just selling to richies, they need poor sods to line up to buy millions upon millions of Apple devices. And that can't happen if aforementioned sods have no income. Same with most electronics, with most travel, with autos, with apparel, most restaurants, videogames, furnishings and appliances, etc. Income inequality can only go so far without dire economic consequences. If the non-wealthy become a mere rounding error in terms of aggregate purchasing power, then we simply won't be able to buy enough to keep these lifestyle manufacturers flush.