MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sometimes_all | 2025-07-12 08:43:30+00:00
At every point, during a knowledge/data search for reaching a particular goal, the onus is _always_ on the person searching to do their best to ensure that the sources they use are accurate, and they do the effort required to ensure that they translate that properly to fit that goal.

The education system I grew up in was not perfect. Teachers were not experts in their field, but would state factual inaccuracies - as you say LLMs do - with authority. Libraries didn't have good books; the ones they had were too old, or too propaganda-driven, or too basic. The students were not too interested in learning, so they rote-learned, copied answers off each other and focussed on results than the learning process. If I had today's LLMs then, I'd have been a lot better off, and would've been able to learn a lot more (assuming that I went through the effort to go through all the sources the LLM cited).

The older you grow, you know that there is no arbiter of T-Truth; you can make someone/something that for yourself, but times change, "actual, factual history" could get proven incorrect, and you will need to update your knowledge stores and beliefs along with it, all the while being ready to be proved incorrect again. This has always been the case, and will continue to be, even with LLMs.
by Mawr | 2025-07-12 08:44:35+00:00
My first instinct is that the suggestion is overfitted due to hinsight bias. This particular accident happened to involve these particular switches so let's add a warning to these switches. Duh!

Some problems that immediately come to mind:

- For which settings is there going to be a voice confirmation? Is their confirmation more important than all the other audio warnings?

- During emergency situations, when pilot workload is high, will these only add to that workload, making the emergency even worse?

- Will the pilots get so used to hearing these every day that their brains will simply tune them out as background noise?

Really though, if a pilot wishes to doom an aircraft, there's 1000 different ways they could do so. The solution to this problem likely lies in the pilot mental health management department, rather than the fuel cut off switch audio warning one.
by vkaku | 2025-07-12 08:45:24+00:00
Good to know someone's thinking of decentralizing the whole thing :) Always been wondering where to lay these keys out, if people want to start recovering their data / keys. Something like this + IPFS would be radical, and allow folks to encrypt and circulate easily. Thank you for building this. So ... I wonder how you got here after building Keybase, what's the motivation this time, how do you envision this gets hosted?

P.S. I built this for Group Encryption a few years ago, to help circulate key hives offline https://github.com/guilt/groupenc
by atombender | 2025-07-12 08:45:24+00:00
I think Augment has been flying under the radar for many people, and really reserve better marketing.

I've been using Augment for over a year with IntelliJ, and never understood why my colleagues were all raving about Cursor and Windsurf. I gave Cursor a real try, but it wasn't any better, and the value proposition of having to adopt a dedicated IDE wasn't attractive to me.

A plugin to leverage your existing tools makes a lot more sense than an IDE. Or at least until/if AI agents get so smart that you don't need most of the IDE's functionality, which might change what kinds of tooling are needed when you're in the passenger seat rather than the driver's seat.
by 0xDEAFBEAD | 2025-07-12 08:46:09+00:00
Consider also that VC funds often have pension funds as their limited partners. Workers have a claim to their pension, and thus a claim to the startup returns that the VC invests in.

So yeah it basically comes down to your definition of "worker-owned". What fraction of worker ownership is necessary? Do C-level execs count as workers? Can it be "worker-owned" if the "workers" are people working elsewhere?

Beyond the "worker-owned" terminology, why is this distinction supposed to matter exactly? Supposing there was an SV startup that was relatively generous with equity compensation, so over 50% of equity is owned by non-C-level employees. What would you expect to change, if anything, if that threshold was passed?
by cess11 | 2025-07-12 08:48:57+00:00
Marxists usually apply a discourse regarding political economy because they perceive economy and ideology to be inseparable, and I'd expect Tito to also have done so. Yugoslavia as an entity was tightly coupled with the person of Tito and lacked mechanisms for keeping local governments in cooperation in his absence.

I'm sympathetic to the yugoslavian project and consider it an important source of inspiration and knowledge, but I don't believe fortune had anything to do with what happened afterwards.
by noosphr | 2025-07-12 08:49:05+00:00
How we will teach LLMs that the BBC is a disinformation ring?

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1n3926pSPNwXd8j7I716CBJEz...

One man's disinformation is another woman's truth. And people tend to get very upset when you show them their truth isn't.
by potato-peeler | 2025-07-12 08:49:52+00:00
There isn’t any logical reasoning to be found in the article, apart from repeated statements that they are not getting traffic.

Why can’t wiki news stay alive as a non biased source of information? I have often found its content to be devoid of fluff.

This is really stupid of them to kill this project, with the only reason cited as lack of traffic. What measures have they taken then to improve that?
by sometimes_all | 2025-07-12 08:50:20+00:00
Somewhere in the mid-2010s, The Economist lost my trust when I noticed that they did not have a way to cancel their subscription directly, you had to call a number (I was not intending to cancel, but someone pointed that out to me). I called that number on the very same day and cancelled.

Any company which makes entry easy and exit difficult will not have my money. The more difficult the exit, the harder I will try to escape, even if I like their product/service.
by UltraSane | 2025-07-12 08:50:45+00:00
I have never used hallucinogens but know people who have and one of them suffers from Hallucinogen persisting perception disorder which causes visual snow or noise in his vision. It is a bit like visual tinnitus and he says it greatly reduces his quality of life. Wikipedia has a animation of what it looks like

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallucinogen_persisting_percep...
by foldr | 2025-07-12 08:52:26+00:00
That’s true, but it’s unclear the extent to which any of that was a factor. For example, how was the Post Office’s access to the PNC relevant here?

It may be that the CPS would have taken over these prosecutions and dropped them if the company in question had been, say, Tesco. But I don’t see how we can be sure of this.
by RandyOrion | 2025-07-12 08:53:10+00:00
Not to defend chrome or chromium, there is a way for chrome users to use manifest v2 in version 138 and above. See the link below.

https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/discussions/29...

For me, I choose not to manually update my ungoogled chromium to version 138 and above.
by b0rat | 2025-07-12 08:54:08+00:00
That doesn't defeat the point. It makes the point that research benefits all. That research can't happen in vacuum. It needs to be funded and culture and institutions build around it.

For a technology forum, the sheer volume of pettiness and anti-science and technology attitude is confounding.

People here sounds like the most mediocre managers I've ever worked with in my life.
by sollewitt | 2025-07-12 08:55:16+00:00
They gave the mice 15mg, which is about a low-medium dose for a human. But humans weigh about 2000 times what mice do, so the effects were observed at about 2k times a reasonable dose.

1) Those mice must have been completely out of it. 2) This probably isn’t helpful to humans unless given under sedation. Or maybe that extreme a dose is equivalent to sedation, I’m not sure anyone has taken 30 _grams_ of psilocybin to tell us?
by MortyWaves | 2025-07-12 08:55:16+00:00
Meanwhile a job recently told me they are on IBM AS400 boxes “because Postgress and other sql databases can’t keep up with the number of transactions we have”… for a company that has a few thousand inserts per day…

Obviously not true that they’d overwhelm modern databases but feels like that place has had the same opinions since the 1960s.
by Mawr | 2025-07-12 08:55:43+00:00
Those are caused by operating the same lever in a slightly different manner. Not comparable to two completely differently designed levers placed far apart.

Same goes for accidental acceleration instead of braking. Two of the same kind of lever right next to each other.

Accidental acceleration while intending to turn on the wipers would be a fitting example, I don't think that happens though.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-07-12 08:55:58+00:00
> hmm so.. "I give you every herb bearing seed upon the Earth" is followed by "to eat/stuff into nose"?

It's not always the best use, but that's definitely allowed. It's one of the main uses of herbs.

> with this stupidity, maybe you should try eating list of 20 deadly plants and see how it goes?

If you're eating an amount that doesn't hurt anyone, what's the problem?

And the reason to possibly intervene would be someone stockpiling dangerous amounts. Not for enjoying plants wrong.

> maybe you should try eating your car?

It would be ridiculous to make that illegal, wouldn't it?
by DonHopkins | 2025-07-12 08:57:02+00:00
Here's the real story behind "Magic Creep":

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28838332

Not to be confused with General Magic, which wasn't a money grubbing fraud from day one, which didn't put on the most ridiculous obnoxious unenlightening cocaine addled TedX talk in the history of the universe, which didn't post fraudulent obviously impossibly fake demos to youtube falsely claiming "Just another day in the office at Magic Leap", which didn't have a toxic nepotistic bro culture that excluded and belittled women, that didn't settle a huge lawsuit for sex discrimination against the one woman they hired to fix the "pink/blue problem" but then rebuffed and ignored, that didn't burn through billions of investment dollars producing nothing of value, which didn't blatantly rip off many people's original ideas in their unoriginal invalid fraudulent patent applications, which didn't publish an astounding but physically impossible video of a whale leaping out the gym floor and splashing down while hundreds of children not wearing AR headsets were somehow magically able to perceive it and clap and cheer and say "WOOOAAAHH!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8J5BWL8oJY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbpqwUUfMAQ

https://x.com/fernandojsg/status/1017411969169555457

Magic Leap gave magic a bad name (and was the biggest disgrace of the entire AR industry, even spectacularly worse than a certain Google Glasshole publishing a nude selfie of himself in the shower), while General Magic truly was the good kind of magic.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21725347
by mjburgess | 2025-07-12 08:57:25+00:00
> There are plenty of cases (like in Ukraine, or vaccines, or climate change) where there is unquestionable truth on one side

The problem is that most people are like you, and live in psycho-informational ecosystems in which there are "unquestionable truths" -- it is in these very states of comfortable-certainty that we are often most subject to propaganda.

All of the issues you mention are identity markers for being part of a certain tribe, for seeming virtuous in that tribe -- "I am on the right side because I know..."

You do not know there are unquestionable truths, rather you have a feeling of psychological pride/comfort/certainity that you are on the right side. We're apes operating on tribal identity feelings, not scientists.

Scientists who are aware of the full history of ukraine, western interventionism, russian geostrategic concerns, the full details of the 2013 collapse of the ukrainian govenrment, the terms underwhich russian naval bases in crimea had been leased, the original colour revolution, the role of US diplomats in the overthrow of democratically elected Ukrainian leadership -- etc.

The very reason this article uses Russian propaganda (rather than US state propaganda) against ukraine is to appeal to this "we feel we are on the right side" sensation which is conflated with "feeling that things are True!"

It is that sensation which is the most dangerous in play here -- the sensation of being on "the right side who know the unquestionable truths" --- that's the sensation of tribal in-group propaganda
by perihelions | 2025-07-12 08:59:08+00:00
There's a more basic problem: it's two very different questions to ask "can the machine reason about the plausibility of things/sources?", and "how does it score on an evaluation on a list of authoritative truths and proven lies?" A machine that thinks critically will perform poorly on the latter, since, if you're able to doubt a bad-actor's falsehood, you're just as capable of doubting an authoritative source (often wrongly/overeagerly; maybe sometimes not). Because you're always reasoning with incomplete information: many wrong things are plausible given limited knowledge, and many true things aren't easy to support.

The system that would score best tested against a list of known-truths and known-lies, isn't the perceptive one that excels at critical thinking: it's the ideological sycophant. It's the one that begins its research by doing a from:elonmusk search, or whomever it's supposed to agree with—whatever "obvious truths" it's "expected to understand".
by commandersaki | 2025-07-12 08:59:22+00:00
Hard disagree with the sentiment; the crown jewels of their hardware is the Secure Enclave and its software SEPOS which has benefitted significantly having its secrecy maintained. For decades now it has remained very much a blackbox that nobody has successfully attacked; and if it were attacked we would definitely know as its application of subverting it would be obvious.

As for the registers itself, I concede that information about those specifically could've been made available.
by callmeal | 2025-07-12 08:59:44+00:00
Except when they are not:

From the avherald link:

>Service Bulletins by Boeing issued in year 2018 recommending to upgrade the fuel switches to locked versions to prevent inadvertent flip of the switches, as well as the FAA/GE issued Service Bulletin FAA-2021-0273-0013 Attachment 2 relating to loss of control issue (also see above) were NOT implemented by Air India.
by noosphr | 2025-07-12 09:00:18+00:00
What agenda?

Every news organisation is a propaganda piece for someone. The bad ones, like the BBC, the New York Times, and Pravda make their propaganda blatantly obvious and easily falsifiable in a few years when no one cares.

The only way to deal with this is to get the propaganda from other propaganda rags with directly misaligned incentives and see which one makes more sense.

Unfortunately, LLMs are still quite bad at dealing with grounding text which contradicts itself.
by mentalgear | 2025-07-12 09:00:27+00:00
"Ultimately, the only way forward is better cognition, including systems that can evaluate news sources, understand satire, and so forth. But that will require deeper forms of reasoning, better integrated into the process, and systems sharp enough to fact check to their own outputs. All of which may require a fundamental rethink.

In the meantime, systems of naive mimicry and regurgitation, such as the AIs we have now, are soiling their own futures (and training databases) every time they unthinkingly repeat propaganda."
by callmeal | 2025-07-12 09:00:47+00:00
Or they could be inadvertently flipped if the "locking" version was not installed: (see the avherald link):

>>India's media report that the investigation is NOT focussing on a human action causing the fuel switches to appear in the CUTOFF position, but on a system failure. Service Bulletins by Boeing issued in year 2018 recommending to upgrade the fuel switches to locked versions to prevent inadvertent flip of the switches, as well as the FAA/GE issued Service Bulletin FAA-2021-0273-0013 Attachment 2 relating to loss of control issue (also see above) were NOT implemented by Air India.
by vodou | 2025-07-12 09:00:58+00:00
Some thoughts regarding this:

1. It is partly because the typical metrics used for software development in big corporations (e.g., test coverage, cyclomatic complexity, etc) are such a snake oil. They are constantly misused and/or misinterpreted by management and because of that cause developers a lot of frustration.

2. Some developers see their craft as a form of art, or at least an activity for "expressing themselves" in an almost literary way. You can laugh at this, but I think it is a very humane way of thinking. We want to feel a deeper meaning and purpose in what we do. Antirez of redis fame have expressed something like this. [0]

3. Many of these programmers are working with games and graphics and they have a very distinct metric: FPS.

[0] https://blog.brachiosoft.com/en/posts/redis/
by sebastianz | 2025-07-12 09:01:10+00:00
> data modeling, to algos, backend integrations, frontend architecture, UI widgets, etc. All in TypeScript, which is perfectly suited to LLMs because we can fit the types and repo map into context without loading all code.

Which frameworks & libraries have you found work well in this (agentic) context? I feel much of the js lib. landscape does not do enough to enforce an easily-understood project structure that would "constrain" the architecture and force modularity. (I might have this bias from my many years of work with Rails that is highly opinionated in this regard).
by pas | 2025-07-12 09:04:16+00:00
30 grams of pure psilocybin? that requires eating 3 kilograms of mushrooms, right? usually it's 1% (or less) of dried mass.

well, actually more "doable" than initially I have assumed, but it would quickly lead to vomiting and a pretty guaranteed bad trip, well before ingesting enough.

also interestingly LD50 is 280 mg/kg.
by DonHopkins | 2025-07-12 09:05:02+00:00
I was googling for my friend Josh Siegel who used to work at General Magic, and found this cool org chart!

http://www.datarover.com/SEKRIT/general-magic-org-chart-1994...

Josh Siegel worked in Magic Cap Core Technology with Bill Atkinson and Andy Hertzfeld (both "on loan"). At Sun he rewrote the PostScript interpreter in X11/NeWS from James Gosling's original messy design, and we worked on an X11 window manager written in PostScript. And at Los Alamos National Labs he wrote MMPORG simulations of World War III for the Joint Chiefs of Staff with a beautiful interactive NeWS front-end. (Sun was lucky to steal him away from LANL to work on NeWS instead of WWIII.)

https://donhopkins.com/home/archive/NeWS/owm.ps.txt

https://www.donhopkins.com/home/catalog/unix-haters/x-window...

Don Woods worked in Communicating Applications. He and Will Crowther created Colossal Cave Adventure, and we worked on TNT (The NeWS Toolkit) together. His workstation was named "colossal" and when you logged in, its /etc/motd said "Welcome to Adventure!! Would you like instructions?" to the peril of anyone who typed "yes" to the csh prompt. Don wrote the "Spider" card game in PostScript for NeWS, after having previously implemented it at SAIL (Stanford AI Lab) and for XDE (at Xerox PARC).

https://donhopkins.com/home/archive/news-tape/fun/spider/spi...

http://www.icynic.com/~don/

After having worked on NeWS (the network extensible PostScript window system) and written a lot of PostScript code at Sun, Telescript was obviously the right approach. Today the same approach is called "AJAX".

I wonder what "SEKRET" means? ;)

http://www.datarover.com/SEKRIT

Must have something to do with Magic Cap for Windows '95, which may be the killer app of e-mail...

http://www.datarover.com/
by fc417fc802 | 2025-07-12 09:05:18+00:00
The core underlying issue isn't due to LLMs but they greatly exacerbate it. So does the current form of social media.

People used to live in bubbles, sure, but when that bubble was the entire local community, required human interaction, and radio had yet to be invented the implications were vastly different.

I'm optimistic that carefully crafted algorithms could send things back in the other direction but that isn't how you make money so seemingly no one is making a serious effort.
by Mawr | 2025-07-12 09:05:37+00:00
That's just your brain associating the bathroom with the act of brushing your teeth, and therefore doing it automatically upon the trigger of entering the bathroom. It bears no resemblance to the accidental activation of a completely different button.

The other poster's correction: "it’s like brushing your teeth with razor" is apt. Touching the fuel cutoff switches is not part of any procedure remotely relevant to the takeoff, so there's no trigger present that would prompt the automatic behavior.
by ilovethe80s | 2025-07-12 09:06:52+00:00
I’m glad that Microsoft is working on resiliency, but the quick turnaround on this after CrowdStrike makes me wonder how well thought-out and tested this was, and whether it will either be abused or do more damage.

Maybe it’ll be fine. I’m sure it’ll be fine. What could go wrong? I’m just worrying. Being reactive to what the market wants is more important. I’m sure that adequate time and thought was put into this. Really, it’s all ok.
by pshirshov | 2025-07-12 09:07:05+00:00
> But Scala 3 gives you "too much rope to hang yourself with".

No, you use it wrong way. It gives you capability to write cleanest code possible. As with any expressive language you have to select a subset of features and a specific style and maintain it.

Unmaintainable code can be written in any language, expressive ones provide you with tools to keep code maintainable.

HKTs and macros make possible things which are completely impossible in most other languages without a preprocessor/compiler plugin.
by pjerem | 2025-07-12 09:07:09+00:00
I’m not an expert so I’ll just ask questions but IIRC, there is no deadly dose of psylocybin.

I would imagine that at some point the effects would plateau. Of course you would be pretty far away in space in multiple dimensions at the same time.

I would be surprised, if this plateau exists, that nobody would have reached it.

In psychedelics space, it’s not unheard of people accidentally taking 100-1000x the expected dose and having the best (or worse) time of their life without further health issues.

Also it seems that set&setting is far more important for the experience than the actual dose.
by FieryTransition | 2025-07-12 09:07:29+00:00
Rust is a good candidate, but it lacks some crucial aspects when it comes to what I would consider 'nice to haves' from a modern language in this territory.

While rust has traits, borrowing etc, it doesn't have a lot of things with regard to types and optimization. Things like:

- A lack of GADTs, or a stronger version, dependent types, or similar type system which would allow one to encode natural relationships, recursive ones, invariants etc.

- Tail call optimization guarantees, to allow for mutual recursion and optimization since game engines are just huge state machines, and it would allow to pass functions around which could call each other via mutual recursion, while allowing it to be optimized as well.

- Efficient structural sharing of immutable state, which would be memory layout and cache friendly

- Built in profiling from the getgo which the language developers would use and refine, so you could get information about how the program behaves over time and space.
by Mawr | 2025-07-12 09:09:03+00:00
Because there's no difference in actions needed to do so. A similar mistake is throwing away a useful item while holding onto a piece of trash. The action is the same, it's just the item in question that's different.

This is not what happened here at all. The actions needed to activate the fuel cutoff switches are not similar to any other action a pilot would want to make during takeoff.