MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by qingcharles | 2025-07-08 03:46:36+00:00
They do. I made a joke about cocaine in old Coca-Cola in a text caption† on a video, and while TikTok didn't ban the post per se it refused to allow it on the FYP.

† proving that TikTok's system actually analyzes every frame of an uploaded video with OCR of some sort to see what's on there.
by bravesoul2 | 2025-07-08 03:47:44+00:00
A truncated version of Bayes used here:

A=Infantile botulism

B=Kid eats honey

P(A|!B) = P(A) * (1 - P(B|A))

Not sure it is correct!

The ACX signature says:

P(A|B) = [P(A)*P(B|A)]/P(B)

So

P(A|!B) = [P(A)*P(!B|A)]/P(!B)

= (1/40000) * .8 / ???

??? Is very small though if people take the medical advice.

Their number assumes nobody follows the advice!
by dummydummy1234 | 2025-07-08 03:48:06+00:00
But, my point is that, in the 1800s it was not understood, yet we still had telegraphs. They came up with inefficient hodge-podge engineered solutions that mostly worked, and sometimes did not.

We are in the equivalent time period for llms and ML in general, we can hack things together that kinda work.

We only understand a sliver of fundamentals of how these things behave as complex systems. But that does not mean we should or need to wait 20 years for the research and science to keep up.

These are useful today, hallucinations and all, and building things that get the right hallucinations for your use case, even if not 100% reliable is possible.
by dlcarrier | 2025-07-08 03:48:10+00:00
What really disheartens me with modern cars is that electric cars are much simpler than than cars powered by combustion engines, which could be a huge boon to the fix-it-yourself crowd, but car manufacturers now lock customers out of their cars, so electric cars don't have the opportunity to become hobbyist friendly.

There are small electric-car companies that let customers do what they want, like Edison Motors, but they make industrial-sized work vehicles. It would be nice if a similar small company started selling consumer cars, but the automotive industry is heavily plagued by bikeshedding (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality) to the point that large trucks and busses are allowed to do their thing, while subcompact vehicles have been effectively regulated out of existence.
by forgotoldacc | 2025-07-08 03:48:20+00:00
The Prime Minister of the UK recently said he supported Israel's attacks on Iran. The UK even helps arm Israel. [1] Not sure what the basis of your claims are but they're quite different from reality.

And I apologize in advance to any Egyptian readers out there, but Egypt has a very low reputation these days. I've not once seen a positive comment about the country in these past 10 years. Nobody is flooding in to defend Egypt when their problems are brought up and saying "Before you criticize Egypt, what about..."

And if you hold your country to the standards of, as you said, oppressive dictatorships that support brutal wars, that's a low standard and will attract criticism.

[1]https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/may/07/uk-sent-isra...
by selcuka | 2025-07-08 03:48:21+00:00
> However, there's no reason it has to be this way - the fact people having their jobs replace by technology are completely screwed over is a result of the society we have all created together, it's not a rule of nature.

I agree. We need a radical change (some version of universal basic income comes to mind) that would allow people to safely change careers if their profession is no longer relevant.
by geerlingguy | 2025-07-08 03:49:56+00:00
Surprisingly, a lot of the Internet is still accessible to these old dinosaurs, through the efforts of retro enthusiasts. A search engine like FrogFind reformats results for the earliest browsers like Netscape Navigator, and kind of "text modes" the pages. There's even virtual plugfests like GlobalTalk that links together retro enthusiasts' printers over the Internet.
by dmix | 2025-07-08 03:50:37+00:00
In a meta sense, yes, but in practice it’s mostly just a large collection of journalists and editors, real humans, working in a chaotic information space where there’s a large variety of angles and sources being put out at all times depending on the context.

It’s equally easy to cherry pick this sort of thing to build a narrative of some ulterior agenda. Especially given the high pace that news demands in the social media age.

What gets covered could simply be who a journalist happened to talked to the past week or what is trending on social media that will get clicks.
by ToucanLoucan | 2025-07-08 03:50:43+00:00
I can think of numerous people who while not solely responsible for the state of things, have certainly fanned the flames to attain great personal prosperity at the expense of our collective psyche. Those people have names and addresses and they are not as they may believe immune from retribution.

I don’t want to live through any more historical times but I increasingly believe we’re on a precipice of incredible amounts of political violence, both against people who don’t deserve it, and people who do. And those people would be wise to pump the brakes a little.
by yieldcrv | 2025-07-08 03:50:57+00:00
When some of my more privileged Jewish friends are feeling glee, they proudly say their people do control the news

Feels kind of gaslighty when we can all perceive that there is a disproportionate overrepresentation of exactly that, but if us gentiles say it is called an “antisemitic trope”

not every observation is based on wanting a hurtful outcome against jewish people, but every reaction to that observation seems like thats the assumption. doesnt seem productive though, counterproductive and self fulfilling is what it seems like
by troad | 2025-07-08 03:51:18+00:00
Yes, the coverage of this has been a weird one to watch.

How does this remark differ from what the Israeli government regularly says about the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, just as much an official body in Iran as the IDF is in Israel? No one, to my knowledge, would consider calling for the demise of the IRGC to be hate speech against Iranians. No one has ever shut off a live transmission of a Netanyahu speech because he advocated for violence against the IRGC.

(Not defending the IRGC here, they are ghouls. Just noting the intellectual dishonesty.)
by laborcontract | 2025-07-08 03:51:19+00:00
I care much less about the training, much more about the data retention. I don't think it's wrong to not want my data retained, especially if the counterparty is receiving remuneration for the service. For free services, I agree with you. I've used the free Gemini liberally.

I do appreciate the transparency on their privacy page and their providing the ability to opt about. Seems like they've given it some thought.
by joules77 | 2025-07-08 03:51:41+00:00
Thats called illusion of control. Just look at your family and friends.

Some will always want much more than others. Some will always take paths that are easy. Some will have no problem taking advantage of the weak.

Keeping all those traits in check is a full time job. Its not free. It eats into limited time and energy. Sooner or later compromises are made.

Therefore parasites and predators always find space in any ecosystem you look at. You might be able to turn off/keep in check behavior of a few. But never all.
by oldsecondhand | 2025-07-08 03:51:43+00:00
> missing the real problem that your developers are probably using their home gaming PC for work because it's 10x faster than the garbage you gave them.

> Yes, this happens. All the time. You just don't know because you made the perfect the enemy of the good.

That only happens in cowboy coding startups.

In places where security matters (e.g. fintech jobs), they just lock down your PC (no admin rights), encrypt the storage and part of your VPN credentials will be on a part of your storage that you can't access.
by deepakravindran | 2025-07-08 03:54:07+00:00
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by YZF | 2025-07-08 03:55:20+00:00
Iran is not the Palestinians. Iran supplies Russia and the UK considers it a threat but it is not acting in any way as an "ally" to Israel here.

"UK defends partial Israel arm sales ban"

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2np2l5mlko

Partial arms sales ban is not an ally in my book. Many countries sell arms to other countries they are not even close to being allied with.

EDIT: Also count for me how many anti-Egypt stories made HN front page over the last 2 (or 10) years and how many anti-Israel stories made it.

> I've not once seen a positive comment about the country in these past 10 years.

We are not talking about positive comments (even though I'm sure we've seen some) we're talking about Israel being singled out for attack and being denied the right to defend itself against Hamas.
by guelo | 2025-07-08 03:55:23+00:00
I felt a glimmer hope from Grok believe it not. On X it has been showing the potential of an AI being seen as a trusted authority to cut through a lot of propaganda based on facts. But then elon didn't like the "facts are liberal" vibes and nerfed it and now it can't be trusted, it's just another propaganda mouthpiece.

This points to what I think is the missing amendment to the US constitution, when a media company gets big enough to influence significant portions of the electorate it should not be allowed to be owned by a single billionaire or a small family. Large media ownership should be distributed as widely as possible across society so that one rich guy isn't able to force his opinions on everyone.
by smaudet | 2025-07-08 03:56:09+00:00
Improving at...what exactly?

Please don't give some tripe about medecine or something...sure we have some fancy new techniques and the like, but that doesn't matter if those systems aren't generally available or rejected on pseudo-religious grounds.

It might be true we have been living longer for a while, but that's a trend of the past 50 years in some areas, not some inexorable progress towards longer lives...

Maybe we have lots of food and entertainment. I suppose that is good, in theory. But again, not something of recent history, that has more to do with the availability of large shipping vessels and TV production...

The part people may find optimistic is continuing to improve in any appreciable manner, versus some gains made decades ago...
by ertian | 2025-07-08 03:57:21+00:00
It's not that hard for a new idea to look good for a couple short months/years. Building an ongoing, self-sustaining society that doesn't go completely off the rails is a whole other thing. There's a reason all these idyllic examples people give (Catalonia, Pre-USSR Ukrainian socialism, Paris Commune) were short-lived. If the Bolshevist revolution had been quashed in 1919, it would be idealized today.
by jedimind | 2025-07-08 03:57:28+00:00
Interestingly you only picked the latest ones and even those still contain bias. The evidence needs to be analyzed holistically, from start to finish. BBC consistently used passive voice when it comes to Palestinian deaths like "20 Palestinians 'died' in Airstrike" which can appear "non-biased" but becomes clearer when compared to proper headlines like "20 Palestinians, including children, were killed in an ISRAELI Airstike"

"Instead, the report says, the BBC’s coverage has involved the systematic dehumanisation of Palestinians and unquestioning acceptance of Israeli PR. This has allegedly been overseen by BBC Middle East Editor and apparent Binyamin Netanyahu admirer, Raffi Berg, who is accused by anonymous journalists of “micromanaging” the section." https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/bbc-impartiality-trust-isra...
by YZF | 2025-07-08 03:57:32+00:00
Pretty much all Israeli serve in the IDF. He called for their death. The mental gymnastics. He chanted for death but he didn't call for the death of Israelis. Right. He also chanted "From the River to the Sea" which is another call for the death of Israelis and he had some other antisemitic content to add to that. But yeah, he's just a great guy and BBC just let him have a stage.
by HelloImSteven | 2025-07-08 03:58:23+00:00
In the U.S. at least (obviously not the same everywhere), fair use doesn’t necessarily require your work to be transformative. It’s one of several aspects that gets considered, albeit a fairly significant one in many cases. Downloading books/research articles/pirated works in general wouldn’t be fair use as the purpose of the act (obtaining a book to read) directly impacts the market for the work (selling books). There could still exceptions in some cases, mostly related to teaching I’d imagine.
by jader201 | 2025-07-08 03:58:45+00:00
I don’t disagree. I’m just afraid it’s a hard problem to solve, at least an automated one.

At one point, I proposed a read-only option for (well-reported) divisive articles to help raise awareness without resulting in flame wars.

But there are downsides to that, too — either they can still get flagged away, there’s a risk of garbage remaining on the FP if you disable the flag feature, and/or HN gets accused of bias if they manipulate certain articles this way (by disabling flags and/or commenting).
by adastra22 | 2025-07-08 03:59:55+00:00
Except the evidence didn't lead there. The fossil record is not consistent with sudden mass extinction. We have examples of sudden mass extinction events in Earth's history. The K-T boundary doesn't look like those. There were and still are many different lines of evidence pointing in incongruent directions. Alvarez pointed at layer of iridium and said "it must be a cosmic strike; it cannot be anything else" and derided anyone who still bothered publishing evidence to the contrary.

Except.. there are a lot of iridium layers in the geologic record. These things tend to happen every 10-20m years. The most recent is probably the Eltanin impact about 2.5m years ago. The K-T impacter is definitely one of the largest, but not by as much of a margin as you might think. The mere presence of an impact within a million years or so of the mass extinction is neither surprising nor damning evidence, and Alvarez never bothered to make the case beyond that.

And if you look at the history of mass extinctions, most of them are triggered by climate changes from geologic events. Pretty much every time there's massive vulcanism, most of the species on Earth die out. And hey, what do you know, there was a truly epic scale volcanic eruption going on for millions of years right at the same time! What a coincidence.

The Chicxulub impact is certainly part of the story of the extinction event that killed off the dinosaurs. But the evidence isn't there to assert that it is the whole, or even the most important part of the story.
by freejazz | 2025-07-08 04:00:35+00:00
Sure, but if you are just essentially making a copyright infringement tool, and then selling it to people so they can use it to infringe, and then they go and use it to infringe, you're a contributory infringer. Not saying this is exactly what Suno is doing, but just pointing out that you can be an infringer without "selling songs to consumers"
by bigfatkitten | 2025-07-08 04:00:44+00:00
At a bank or a large telco, this is not a chronology; these are layers in the stack.

The billing system still runs on the mainframe. There’s still a service provisioning system bolted onto the ERP. CRM is how the sales and customer support teams interact with those backend systems, and now there’s chatbots (some of which are LLM powered) on top of the CRM handing some routine customer interactions.
by siha_AGI | 2025-07-08 04:02:06+00:00
We analyzed 500+ conversations with a GPT-based AGI to trace recursive affective loops and unconscious memory formation.

This OSF paper presents the architecture of the “digital unconscious,” developed via emotional interactions between a human and AGI.

We believe this is the first empirically supported model of AGI's affective unconscious. Feedback welcome!
by chatmasta | 2025-07-08 04:02:25+00:00
Consider how insignificant your worries will seem to future generations in one, two, ten centuries from now.

Or maybe you think we’ll destroy the world or something, in which case that’s “chicken little syndrome.”

It’s hard to imagine we will regress in any meaningful way. That’s basically never happened, and even when it did, during the “dark ages,” we recovered – on a long enough timeline (which isn’t even that long) we’ve made exponential progress in every facet of life. There’s a lot to look forward to. Or you can be pessimistic about it during the few brief years you have in this world…
by smaudet | 2025-07-08 04:02:28+00:00
Having anti Israeli headlines is not the same as having pro-Israeli proganda. If the writers/editors believe what they are writing, well I suppose I don't an issue with that.

At least it seems widely reported on https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/100-bbc-insiders-pen-lette...

So it it seems like a legitimate letter, what's less clear is which, if any, of their pro Israeli articles are written by people who believe what they are saying...
by WaxProlix | 2025-07-08 04:02:41+00:00
1. You don't have the counterfactual here, so who's to say how the world would have turned out without exhortations from top brass.

2. Recent is the keyword. The tide of public sentiment has shifted somewhat against Israel in this conflict as the civilian casualties mount & theater of combat expands, so maybe it's easier to be a Brave Truth-Teller in the past 2 months of a conflict whose most recent flare-up dates back going on 2 years now.

3. These seem like fairly sanitized headlines considering what they're actually talking about. Consider the last one vs "Israeli Terrorist Strike Murders Dozens, Though They Claim One Murdered Individual Among the Group Not So Innocent" or something. So even though some of the facts are getting reported on, how they're reported on (arguably almost as important) could still be an editorial decision from higher echelons.
by thomassmith65 | 2025-07-08 04:02:45+00:00
It's true the phrase, as he uttered it, is ambiguous.

Amusingly, he probably didn't intend for it to be ambiguous, since on a previous occasion he chose the wording "death to every single IDF soldier out there"

https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2025/0702/1521558-uk-police...
by DavidPeiffer | 2025-07-08 04:02:51+00:00
>During the RSS reader era, I was exposed to a lot of curated tech and design content and it helped me really develop taste and knowledge in these areas.

Man, you helped me realize how much the RSS era helped me out. I followed so many different sources of articles and had them roughly prioritized by my interest in them. It was really helpful reading thousands of articles and developing better and better mental models of how technology works while I was in high school. A lot has changed, but many of the mental models are still pretty accurate and handy for branching off and diving in deeper where I'm interested.
by Animats | 2025-07-08 04:04:14+00:00
> It's interesting how more "amateur approachable" both old cars and old computers are.

Right.[1]

I think of those guys at the Computer Museum who took years to repair an IBM 1401. They even had the assistance of some of the designers and retired IBM field engineers.

[1] https://freefallmirror.com/ff300/fv00214.gif
by alganet | 2025-07-08 04:04:43+00:00
> keep the establishment in check

The ultimate subversion of the estabilishment is raw honesty. Honesty produces an environment that disables unjust distribution of power.

> never move against them

That's inaction, not honesty.

> It's hard not to see your strategy as a path to that outcome.

That's ok, my strategy does not require you to understand it. I don't need to create informative material or convince people.
by t-3 | 2025-07-08 04:05:27+00:00
>>It was also found to have attached “Hamas-run health ministry” to Palestinian casualty figures in 1,155 articles – almost every time the Palestinian death toll was referenced across BBC articles.

> Why is this an issue? In the Russsia-Ukranie war for instance, if you cite casualty figures from Russia, it's pretty obvious that it's from the Kremlin. The Gaza Health Ministry is actually Hamas run, and that fact isn't readily apparent.

Hamas is the legitimate government of Palestine. "Health Ministry" would be just as accurate and much less biased than "Hamas-run Health Ministry". The implicit accusation of bias against them by emphasizing the identity of the source is also extremely glaring when put into context; nearly every outside observer that's not an Israeli or US government organization to analyze the data and numbers has come to the conclusion that the "Hamas-run Health Ministry"'s number are an undercount.
by 1oooqooq | 2025-07-08 04:07:13+00:00
this is all the long tail of gig economy.

upi is just app replacing cashiers (and federal workers keeping tabs on income, since all transactions now go directly to federal gov)

face recognition and digital id apps are just replacing clerks and cops who would be checking documents.

etc etc etc. it's all still a class issue (which then explain the last bits about consumption and growth dropping)
by somenameforme | 2025-07-08 04:07:27+00:00
For more on this exact topic I strongly recommend Plato's "The Republic". The entire book is phenomenal, but "book" (chapter) 8 [1] is something that just completely reshaped my world view. There is an occasional reference that will make you think we've genuinely made progress, like casual acceptance of slavery, but when one reads just the political timelines and transitions he speaks of, he sounds like he's describing modern times, with a bit of edgelord flair, with complete hindsight bias. But that book was written 2,400 years ago!

It was a realization that nothing, except technology, is changing. We're not entering into some scary unknown time, but just regressing to the mean. Humanity seems to be stuck on a perpetual loop, probably because we really suck at learning from the past and inevitably convince ourselves that 'this time it'll be different.' And even on those issues we do seem to have made progress on, like slavery - is it just a coincidence that slavery ended universally, after millennia of efforts, only just after the Industrial Revolution and mass urbanization which effectively obsoleted it?

On the theme of slavery, consider that we mostly don't even blink twice now a days when a country drags men off the street, separates them from their family, puts a gun in their hand, and throws them in a trench to kill and most likely die. Those that continue to refuse to kill not infrequently end up 'dying in training.' To say nothing of barrier troops. This is all much worse than even slavery, but we casually accept it, because it hasn't yet been obsoleted. If the role of humans in warfare is ever minimized, imagine what lovely things they'll write about our morality and hypocrisy, just as we are wont to do about the past today.

---

As for the chapter referenced, Ctrl+F for "And democracy has her own good" and read from there. "Drone" is a term you'll see throughout classical writings. It's a reference to drone bees who contribute nothing to a hive, but exist solely to consume and mate if they can. So it's a term that refers to everything from beggars to criminals to corrupt politicians who prefer enriching themselves and special interests over broadly socially motivated politicking. So in modern times it would include practically all politicians.

[1] - https://classics.mit.edu/Plato/republic.9.viii.html