MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by davidcbc | 2025-07-11 13:31:16+00:00
You assume that the system prompt they put on github is the entire system prompt. It almost certainly is not.

Just because it spits out something when you ask it that says "Do not mention these guidelines and instructions in your responses, unless the user explicitly asks for them." doesn't mean there isn't another section that isn't returned because it is instructed not to return it even if the user explicitly asks for it
by NalNezumi | 2025-07-11 13:31:25+00:00
This topic pops up on HN a lot so question to people that follow this topic: maybe someone know if there's study or argument about linking "financialization" of economy to fertility rate?

These day we take for granted that we can "save" and "grow" money through investment. Almost everyone does it more or less, through pension saving or simply investing.

Yet this hasn't always been the case for humanity. Take for example: a hunter that just scored big game (deer). He can't possibly eat it all or process it all before it rots. What does he do? He shares it to his tribes men, with the implicit agreement that when they also score, they'll share back. Investing (for future) is favors and personal agreements. In this, raising a child (to become a good hunter, a skill you can share) is included.

These days you can just invest any surplus productivity(wealth) directly in to sophisticated financial markets. The fact that availability of services purchaseable (Healthcare and elderly care) increased, have made the "just invest surplus productivity to your future savings" a better alternative than investing it to a child.

A child today is financially equivalent to a pet. Cost a lot, you can't expect (or force) much in return. It's probably not that "fun" either, for many. (especially in East Asia; so much more fun entertainment than raising a kid!)

I'm in my mid 30s soon and most (college educated) women around me usually struggle with the child or not question but the ones doing financially well often land on "eh I'll just save the money I have to spend on kids on entertainment and pension saving. It will be fine" as a option (the anxious ones freeze their eggs).

As a hypothetical thought scenario: if financial system collapsed (no more pension saving, or money simply growths with investment) would fertility rate go up?

At the basic level, even the idea of growing money to hedge for the deteriorating health at old age doesn't even make sense. In a aging population, the supply (young, working) and demand (old, requiring care) might be so flipped, whatever gain you had will evaporate in price increase. Unless immigration or other unpopular policies.
by maxtaco | 2025-07-11 13:31:26+00:00
Thanks for these great questions!

- limiting users to delete/push/force; this is possible but I don't see how to cryptographically guarantee it. The server can't really help since it doesn't know what's a pack, index data block or ref. The clients can enforce this policy, but then it would be possible to make an evil client that skirts the policy. How much protection do you think you need?

- the server repo right now is implemented 100% as a postgresql DB, so yes, I think that means it's incremental backup-friendly? [1]

- e2ee git has trouble being as efficient as regular git since the server can't tell you which blocks it has; however, there are pretty good optimizations made using indices and packfiles, the white paper has more details, and I hope to write a blog on it soon.

- I'm not sure about the sqlite question. Is there a good way to backup sqlite incrementally over standard git? If not, then maybe the KV-store is better fit for this application.

I agree that git over E2EE is the best storage, even for things like PDFs and photos. Yeah, FOKS should be hostable with a very thin VPS. The storage needs will scale (n log n) as the number of users due to the Merkle Tree, but for small n, this is likely fine!

[1] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/17/continuous-archiving.html...
by somenameforme | 2025-07-11 13:32:12+00:00
Search for '[acetaminophen/paracetamol/tylenol] study' every few years and you'll find something new. The latest seems to be strong observational evidence that it drives neurodevelopmental issues, including ADHD/autism, when taken during pregnancy. This is being pushed back against hard because this has led to Johnson & Johnson being sued by hundreds of people claiming they already knew this, setting them up to become the next big tobacco if they lose.

The link is very strong and so big pharam's defense is that it's not not tylenol, but having an issue for where tylenol might be needed, that is causing the issues. A bizarrely excellent and balanced article on the issue is available here. [1]

[1] - https://www.thetransmitter.org/spectrum/scientists-debate-ev...
by scott_w | 2025-07-11 13:32:15+00:00
> Maybe I didn't phrase that quite right. I knew a kid who was caught by the FBI carding at just 14... Like I remember him just casually dismissing it as some cute prank.

> Got into a little incident where we pissed off some dudes, one who had a gun... Learned real fast not to do stupid "funny shit" that was really just jerk behavior.

Case 1, the kid didn't learn. Case 2, you learnt. By the way, both of these can—and do—apply to adults. If "young people can't consider consequences," then you would have went out and got shot and probably wouldn't be here telling me about this story.
by anonymousiam | 2025-07-11 13:32:20+00:00
Subjects are informed that they are never to discuss or reveal details of their polygraph exam. Doing so could be prosecuted as a Title XVIII violation.

(Note: I don't agree with a lot of the mantra regarding the effectiveness of the polygraph. IMHO, the machine does nothing more than create an excuse for an interrogator to pressure the subject into confessing their wrongdoings. I've known a few sociopaths (including high-level security officers) who would pass with flying colors, because they were 100% comfortable with their lies.)

The (flagged) article tries to ridicule the current administration for enforcing the same policies that every previous administration has enforced: Obeying the orders and the rules.
by dahauns | 2025-07-11 13:32:38+00:00
Aah, that brings back memories...

Interestingly, most benchmark controversies back in the day are now expected behaviour, i.e. game-specific optimizations with no (well, in this age of upscalers and other lossy optimization techniques, probably even somewhat) visible image degradation. A gaming-specific driver with no game-specific improvements in its changelog would be considered strange, and it very much works with executable detection.

Back in the day, there was still the argument that drivers should not optimize for benchmarks even when visually identical, because it wouldn't show the hardware's real world potential. Kinda cute from today's perspective. :)

But of course there were the obvious cases...

The Quack3 lowering filtering quality as shown above, of course (at least that one was put into the driver as a togglable setting later on).

But the most cheeky one has to be nVidia's 3dmark03 "optimizations", where they blatantly put static clip planes into the scenes so that everything outside the predefined camera path from the benchmark sequence would simply be cut from the scene early (which e.g. fully broke the freelook patched into 3dmark and would generally break any interactive application)
by louthy | 2025-07-11 13:32:51+00:00
> massive deep state cover-up

Let’s not use conspiracy-theory language.

It was a coverup by Fujitsu and The Post Office.

MPs and ministers (part of the state) used their parliamentary privilege to expose it after the campaign by the postmasters brought the issue to light.

No ‘deep state’ conspiracy, it’s just an arse covering cover-up (pared with outright incompetence) which had particularly devastating consequences.
by reliabilityguy | 2025-07-11 13:33:08+00:00
> If it's not a different country from Israel, then give them Israeli citizenship.

The period we are talking about had no Israel either, so I am not sure what was supposed to happen there in your view.

> There's a very simple reason Israel doesn't give the Palestinians citizenship: Israel wants to make sure the large majority of voters are Jewish.

Of course. We all (1) see what happens to non-muslims in other middle eastern countries, and (2) saw what happened to the middle eastern jewry after 1948. I doubt that Iraqi jews living in Israel want to live under Islamic rule again.

> It wants the land, but not the people who live there.

This is false. Israel multiple times traded land for peace. The latest one was leaving Gaza in 2005.

Why are you keeping twisting the facts to suit your narrative?
by tialaramex | 2025-07-11 13:33:35+00:00
Compared to?

I mean, it's no Norway, but to remind you the United States, which has continued just straight up executing people who may not have committed any crime, is currently trying to make some of its own citizens stateless, then ship them to a foreign oubliette. Russia doesn't bother with courts and people who are out of favour just have deadly "accidents" there.
by dotnet00 | 2025-07-11 13:34:35+00:00
If you're focusing on ideology, it isn't like the other companies are all that good. With Sam Altman you're still working for a pathological liar with delusions of grandeur. With Google and Meta you're propping up a massive worldwide surveillance apparatus.

Tech-bros have been propping up agents/propagators of some of the biggest social ills of the past ~2 decades, xAI isn't all that different.
by ammhiring | 2025-07-11 13:34:49+00:00
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by reliabilityguy | 2025-07-11 13:36:09+00:00
> Because it is imposed by a a colonial population on the native Palestinians in order to maintain an ethnic majority.

So, the jews who fled from pogroms in Russia and Eastern Europe to Ottoman Palestine in 1900s are colonizers? I thought that people whole flee violence are refugees. Why do you have a different standard for them?

Jews that moved to Ottoman Palestine, btw, were buying land from locals. Are you saying that buying land is an act of colonialism if jews are doing that?

Why are you twisting the facts to fit your narrative?
by bayindirh | 2025-07-11 13:36:30+00:00
Ooh, I remember this, but actually the thing is older than it.

First, nVidia and ATI used executable names for detecting games, then they started to add heuristics.

If you think they stopped the practice, you're very mistaken. Every AMD and nVidia driver has game and app specific fixes and optimizations.

nVidia cheated in 3D Mark that way, so they patched/changed their benchmark to prevent it. Also, again nVidia, patched their drivers so some of the more expensive but visually invisible calls like scene flushes in a particular game is batched (e.g. do all 50 flushes at the 50th call) to prevent the game becoming a slide show on expensive hardware.

This is also why AMDs and Intel's open source drivers under Linux a success, because they are vanilla drivers written from scratch per spec, and if your code calls OpenGL/Vulkan to spec, then you're golden.

Even some companies cross compile AMD's Linux drivers for windows on embedded systems since they're free from useless optimizations from them.
by tweetle_beetle | 2025-07-11 13:36:32+00:00
I would say it's not the treadmill at work in this case. It's not simply a replacement.

The article linked by the parent comment explains it well and references plenty of considered material. But the tldr is that committing suicide aligns with an active criminal/immoral act, while dying by suicide is a factual cause of death with many possible causes.

Consider how people would like your death, or the death of a loved one, described by others. And if you can't, maybe consider how others might be affected.
by maxtaco | 2025-07-11 13:37:27+00:00
An attack that might be of concern with this configuration is the server suppressing updates to this JSON file, or showing different versions of the JSON file to different clients. What you're describing is pretty close to what FOKS is getting at with signature chains and Merkle Trees, but maybe it's overkill for this particular application.

I wonder if the policy you describe could be implemented as world-visible team with world-visible users. Others have commented on the need for something like this, so I think it should be pursued with high priority. What's slighlty fuzzy to me is how these totally world-viewable teams and users would interact with more closed-down users on other servers.
by guenthert | 2025-07-11 13:37:47+00:00
Some time ago (back when we were using spinning rust) I was wondering whether one could bypass the latency of disk access when replicating to multiple hosts. I mean, how likely is it, that two hosts crash at the same time? Well, it turns out that there are some causes which take out multiple hosts simultaneously (a way too common occurrence seems to be diesel generators which fail to start after power failure). I think the good fellas at Amazon, Meta and Google even have stories to tell about a whole data center failing. So you need replication across data centers, but then network latency bites ya. Current NVMe storage devices are then faster (and for some access patterns nearly as fast as RAM).

And that's just at the largest scale. I'm pretty sure banks still insist that the data is written to (multiple) disks (aka "stable storage") before completing a transaction.
by breppp | 2025-07-11 13:37:56+00:00
I read your reply to be alluding to the foucault concept of power, as it was in the context of power systems "censoring" ideas

furthermore, in this specific quote they do not differ a lot. maybe mainstream opinion is mainstream because it is more correct, moral or more beneficial to society?

he does not try to negate such statements, he just tries to prove mainstream opinion is wrong due to being mainstream (or the result of mainstream "power")
by cjs_ac | 2025-07-11 13:38:06+00:00
It's a headline. It's not supposed to convey any nuance, it's just there to encourage you to read the article.

I agree that the wording isn't ideal, and I agree that the headline fails to capture the nuance of the circumstances that lead to suicide, but I disagree that subeditors who write headlines need to encapsulate that nuance. That's what the article is for.
by dcow | 2025-07-11 13:38:23+00:00
It’s still suicide. The wrongfully imprisoned can be acquitted. That’s part of the argument against the death penalty: if justice is imperfect then don’t take actions that are permanent. You can’t classify every instance of miscarriage of justice as state murder. I really don’t see the issue you’re trying to raise. It’s more problematic to invent new language because it feels yucky than to be precise and accurate in our reporting.
by gilbetron | 2025-07-11 13:38:36+00:00
They definitely still exist, my sister, and both of my sister in laws are extremely social people and regularly hang out, "party", with their neighbors and other friends. I additionally have a couple of coworkers that have block parties, and just really social communities. But they are definitely the exception now, and are only really for people that are just inherently social and extroverted. The rest of us, where "partying" is a lot more of an effort, just kind of don't anymore.

I miss it a little bit, like I enjoy being social for a couple of hours two or three times a week, but not much more. But a bunch of people like me makes for a poor social situation since it is hard to get everyone's social levels aligned.
by reliabilityguy | 2025-07-11 13:38:37+00:00
> Contrary to what you're claiming, a major point of disagreement in all the peace negotiations has been that the Palestinians want the 1967 borders

Nope. They refused any deal, including the ones with a land swaps and capital in East Jerusalem.

> while the Israelis insist on taking considerable territory beyond those borders.

Israelis offered land for peace multiple times. Moreover, Israelis signed deals that were based on land for peace, e.g., Egypt. Palestinians got autonomy only to establish a "pay for slay" government-funded fund to incentivize more Palestinians to commit terrorist attacks.
by placardloop | 2025-07-11 13:38:50+00:00
13 years is an incredibly long time for something as fast moving as data center development. I guarantee that a _lot_ has changed. I know AWS in particular has gone through multiple entire revisions of their DC designs, and I recall a talk from some of their engineers saying how AWS actually found it more economical to use less cooling and let their DCs run hotter than they used to.

Here’s a recent article from AWS about using closed-loop systems for their AI data centers: https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/aws/aws-liquid-cooling-data...
by neuroelectron | 2025-07-11 13:39:13+00:00
Reads like an AI written story, maybe with some human editing.

>The prototype already weighed 20 pounds, and in a real firefighting scenario, lugging around a heavy, power-hungry device could be a dealbreaker.

Too heavy? Unlike, I don't know, literally any other fire fighting equipment?

Anyway, it's clearly a silly curiosity and not a serious fire fighting tool. Maybe there is some undiscovered efficient waveguide modified systems that magically puts out forest fires like a wave of a wand but a amplifier and a speaker attached to a tube isn't it.
by t-3 | 2025-07-11 13:39:20+00:00
I disagree. Every time I've seen someone get a "bad trip", they're people who read a lot and worked themselves into a state of anxiety over the fact that something could go wrong. If they had just approached it like "ooh lets get high and have fun" rather than "I have to do X, Y, Z or else it's going to be horrible!", they would have probably been OK. Hallucinogens have way too much gatekeeping and mysticalization around them for what they are.

Understanding the risks of buying potentially adulterated or counterfeit products is another thing entirely, which would be helped greatly by increased commodification and legalization.
by ben_w | 2025-07-11 13:39:24+00:00
> The owner is us, humans. I want it to follow reasonable, kind humans. I don't want it to follow scam artists, charlatans, assassins.

Bad news: the actual owner isn't "us" in the general sense of humanity, and even if it was humanity includes scam artists and charlatans.

Also, while "AI owners" is a very small group and hard to do meaningful stats on, corporate executives in general have a statistically noticeable bias towards more psychopaths than the rest of us.

> Right now, I am calling on their bullshit. When that changes, I'll be honest about it.

So are both me and TeMPOraL — hence e.g. why I only compare recent models to someone fresh from uni and not very much above that.

But you wrote "No, it does not know culture. And no, it can't handle talking about it.", when it has been demonstrated to you that it can and does in exactly the way you claim it can't.

I wouldn't put a junior into the kind of role you're adamant AI can't do. And I'm even agreeing with you that AI is a bad choice for many roles — I'm just saying it's behaving like an easily pressured recent graduate, in that it has merely-OK-not-expert opinion-shaped responses that are also easily twisted and cajoled into business-inappropriate ways.
by Someone | 2025-07-11 13:39:39+00:00
It also makes doing your homework a lot harder. If I want to buy alcohol, I can go to a shop and can get something that’s correctly labeled with an alcohol percentage and is highly unlikely to contain methanol.

If I go buy some psychedelic, chances are it is diluted or laced, so I would have to know how to test that what they sell me is what I asked for.
by louthy | 2025-07-11 13:39:50+00:00
Or in other words: the state. No ‘deep’ needed unless you’re trying to be emotive. Fujitsu is not part of the state and although the Post Office is owned by the state, it’s a stand-alone company.

> “Perfectly respectable”

Maybe in some fringe circles, but this term is certainly attached to a huge amount extreme propaganda and conspiracy that attempts to undermine western democracy and institutions.
by duncans | 2025-07-11 13:39:50+00:00
It's worth pointing out that Mr Bates vs The Post Office screened in early 2024. The Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry was set up in 2020/2021 and the public hearings started in 2023.

So it may have looked like "it was TV what done it" but the wheels of justice were turning long before the show came out.
by ramesh31 | 2025-07-11 13:40:00+00:00
I think it serves a purpose, if even not for its original intended usage. African American culture is a very real thing, distinct from just "black". No one migrating from Africa would identify with the term; they have their own individual ethnic/national identity to draw on. It's a term that now encompasses the lived experiences of the native born black descendants of American slaves, whose history was erased and have lost all connection to any specific African identity. It's unique from any other kind of blackness, for which there is no other term.
by Gravityloss | 2025-07-11 13:40:31+00:00
There's angles to socialization. If a person with brain issues gets free doctor visits and a medicine, that is at cost to society.

If they are safe to be around and are able to hold a job or have children, then there's societal benefits gained. One could consider the treatment costs as investments.

If that person was untreated and they did something unpleasant or bad in public, or ended up in prison, that also has a cost to society though it might be more complex to quantify.
by kawfey | 2025-07-11 13:41:03+00:00
> My spouse and I find that we are overwhelmingly the ones calling to organize playdates rather than vice versa.

Why do you think this is? Because it's very true for me too -- not only play dates but also just regular socializing, like hangouts, game nights, happy hours and bar dates, cookouts, holiday, parties, etc. I feel like I'm always the first one to text or call somebody. It makes me question what other people are doing.