MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by toss1 | 2025-07-12 21:56:08+00:00
Of course, nevermind that we may need to defend ourselves and/or our allies against exoansionist autocratic aggressors like Russia (see Georgia, Azerbaijan, Ukraine, Baltics and explicit threats against Poland, Germany, England, & US), China (what happens to the tech industry every Taiwan goes up in smoke?), Iran, etc.

Fukyima (sp?) was right about the end of history sort of happening when all countries of the world embrace liberal democracy, but he was very wrong that we are anywhere near that point.

Until then, only strength will deter or oppose the aggressors.
by nyarlathotep_ | 2025-07-12 21:56:44+00:00
> Sounds good, but unless it advocates for HR practices that retain talent, and corporate practices that incentivize Quality, it probably won't result in any changes.

Overwhelming majority of companies have no interest in even approaching the idea of what that would mean.

"we need 7 years experience with Mulesoft and Kubernetes."

sure, yeah, whatever.
by bmandale | 2025-07-12 21:56:47+00:00
Public wifi near universally implements porn blocks in the first place. I can't imagine there would be much chagrin about promoting that into a law.

> Do you refuse to watch age-restricted films in the cinema because the owner of the cinema might have a record of what you've watched?

I can't imagine that there aren't many people who refrain from watching all sorts of content in public out of privacy concerns.

>If you don't like the requirement to prove your age by presenting some form of ID, then all you need to do is voluntarily refrain from these and any other age-restricted activities.

I certainly don't, and I would definitely oppose this being made into law.
by 123yawaworht456 | 2025-07-12 21:57:30+00:00
>In one Discord exchange, members of the group insisted on using Discord handles composed of symbols rather than alphanumeric characters. When moderators objected, the group accused them of transphobia. “They’re like, ‘You are forcing us into legibility, and trans people are illegible, and this is an important expression of my identity,’” said Brennan, who is trans nonbinary. This view dovetailed with their belief that transgender women have a distinct neurotype that is particularly good at A.I. safety research, according to Brennan.

well, he isn't wrong.
by lanfeust6 | 2025-07-12 21:58:22+00:00
Heart attacks can and do happen regardless of optimal diet and lifestyle, but notwithstanding, indeed CVd can be likened to a slow-motion suicide, like cigarettes, given modern knowledge most people are aware of.

No one is saying outside factors aren't part of it. But you cannot negate or mitigate the fact that people make a choice with suicide that is not inevitable.

Your last questions are irrelevant and pointless
by jeffbee | 2025-07-12 21:58:42+00:00
The stuff INSIDE the viewport is pretty much the same across them all, but on the daily it makes a big difference how your other services integrate with the browser. Someone who is all-in with iCloud, macOS, iOS etc might find it annoying to use Firefox without their personal info like password and credit cards and bookmarks. And the same would be true I guess for Google fans switching to Safari and not having those things.
by dyauspitr | 2025-07-12 21:59:05+00:00
In my opinion it shouldn’t. If 75% of kids are using social media it’s very hard to make the argument that your kid shouldn’t have a smartphone since your kid will argue that you are making them a social pariah (and rightfully so).

As a society we collectively tell kids they can’t have destructive, addictive substances until they’re a certain age and I believe social media and smartphones belong in that category.
by Xss3 | 2025-07-12 21:59:06+00:00
The ultra wealthy are betting on us lying down and dying in droves while they build techno fascist city states with AI enhanced anti-dissent technology ensuring organised protests are impossible....Its already happening online. Hundreds of thousands of bots appear across platforms sowing doubt about everything until nobody believes anything or anyone strongly enough to get out on the streets and face the army of ai drones.
by BSOhealth | 2025-07-12 22:01:10+00:00
Seems like anyone surprised by this isn’t tracking what big/biggish tech product leaders are already moving toward; the roles of PM, UX/design, and POC dev are going to blur dramatically over the next 1-2 years.

Eventually, a solid CSM should be able to hear a customer pain point, spit out a quick POC, and begin a segmented rollout to validate it as quickly as possible.

Also agree with suspicion around this post though… big tech interviews, especially in AI adjacent roles, are going to be structured well enough that this probably wasn’t actually a surprise. I’d much more believe the reverse: “I was told I would have a technical/vibe coding component and didn’t!” (much less exciting headline of course)
by krapp | 2025-07-12 22:02:01+00:00
I mean, I think at this point a lot of us are really that jaded, the last decade has been pretty traumatic. I feel like I have a scab on my soul.

But it really doesn't matter what this specific president says, because he's a senile, lying, prevaricating, shit-stirring lunatic. People will dismiss what he's doing as trolling or whatever (because in this case it's so out of pocket that one doesn't even have the fig leaf of "illegal immigration" to justify it) but if he actually tries it then the people will justify it somehow. But either way, Trump's words are meaningless, only his actions matter.
by southernplaces7 | 2025-07-12 22:02:09+00:00
>Although I wonder if loneliness, stress and lack of direction are much bigger problems today.

I'm pretty sure that abysmal health options, food insecurity to the point of famine always being just a stone's throw or single bad season away, and grinding poverty all created plenty of stress. The vast majority of people at the time just had no IG Reels with which to vent about their crisis mode for posterity. I just can't imagine any random modern person's level of stress being somehow worse.

As for lack of direction. Life in those times for a vast majority had a simple direction: labor and toil intensely until you die of old age/disease in the same place you were born, rarely straying more than a few miles from those horizons. I'd call today's self-created "lack of direction" pretty preferable to that.
by moab | 2025-07-12 22:02:38+00:00
Giuseppe, any interesting comments from inside the tent? From the outside, spending 100M+ on a single researcher seems like a wild idea. It's also not clear what spending that much money on people at the top of the leadership stack really brings that Meta does not already have in its existing leadership. Surely what is needed are strong hands-on researchers? Are they paying 100M a head for such people? If so, the times are truly wild.
by const_cast | 2025-07-12 22:02:40+00:00
> Why are we quick to champion the value of the "good" things that don't offer any material benefit (i.e., physically, financially, socially) but criticizing the "bad" requires graphs and groups and variables and peer reviews?

To answer this, it's because of how modern societies view rights. Namely, you can do whatever you want, until we can prove it's to a detriment to other people. Before doing something, we need not prove it is good.

On an individual level, it is a very good idea to have some guarantee something is good before we do it. But on a societal level, we don't do this, and for good reason. Before we censor or restrict, we must assure we have good reasons for doing so.

> If I'm accustomed to women getting indiscriminately reamed and pinned and prodded at my own discretion—even casually—I am at a detriment.

I might agree, but sexuality and sex is very complex.

I can argue that it's not that simple, and sex exists beyond the bounds of what you do - it's part of who you are, and not much in your control.

For example, I am a homosexual, I'm gay. Naturally my sex involves anal intercourse with other men. To many, this is disgusting. Gross, unsanitary, distasteful.

My life would certainly be easier if I did not have this affliction, but simultaneously I cannot control it. I've tried, as has every gay man or boy at some point in their lives. And, I do not know what has caused it. If I never viewed pornography, ever, I am 100% confident I would still be gay.

I do not know how it works for heterosexuals, but I imagine, to some degree, their sexual proclivities are, too, not under their control. I don't think removing pornography would remove those sexual proclivities.
by alganet | 2025-07-12 22:02:43+00:00
Perhaps I'm saying he trusts the Itamaraty with official information. Official diplomatic channels are the norm, not media theatrics (miles ahead of you, "do your art of the deal thing" was the first thing I said, you failed to see behind the nuance).

Perhaps I'm saying nothing about election politics, and I'm more worried about the longstanding brazillian diplomatic tradition.

Perhaps I knew someone would bring a specific discussion to this, and disarmed it beforehand (which is super weird, I agree, but within the realm of previsibility).

Let's put some possibilities on the table:

1. You have no knowledge about diplomacy. You think it's talking soft or something like that, and you're repeating things you heard from someone else.

2. You know what diplomacy is, and you're playing dumb.

2a. You know what diplomacy is, and you're playing dumb to provoke me into going into a discussion that clearly has no conclusion.

2b. You know what diplomacy is, and you're playing dumb because you're suspicious of the way I approached the subject outside of common narratives.

3. You understand as much of the dynamics as I do, but you're putting me in a situation that I need to explain it more pedanticly (totally fine, I already explained in a simple way before, so this would be dumb on your part).

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Which one is the closest to what you feel? Is there another one? Please, enlighten us. Don't be shy to assume option 1 if that's what it really is.

See? Cards on the table. Honesty. Try it, it's good.
by TheOtherHobbes | 2025-07-12 22:02:57+00:00
Many public WiFi hotspots have content filters. Kids are not going to be seeing porn at the library.

The issue here is there's a difference between a mainstream service, like a cinema, and a tiny author website which probably gets a few hundred hits a months at most.

And the ultimate ideological aim is to take all erotica offline. Especially any kind of queer erotica.

This is using ID issues for ideological censorship, not trying to set up an ID system to streamline access to adult material by adult consumers.
by dosco189 | 2025-07-12 22:03:47+00:00
Interesting - what are the kinds of tasks that make up 'effortful thinking'? Do feel like you're now putting in "effort" towards other kinds of thinking / work?

I am curious if using AI has changed the fundamental ways in which you view "effort" and "value" from pursuing a piece of work.

Are there are new kinds of challenges that come up when you're using some new AI tools?

I find the analogy to candy particularly interesting. The default comparison being that "too much of it is bad for you". Do you feel that you are putting on "cognitive weight" as a result of using AI?
by jhart99 | 2025-07-12 22:06:00+00:00
I tried to use an LLM for assistance with reversing some embedded code and agree with this. I had built up a pretty decent model of what was going on before starting. It was able to explain what was going on in this one perplexing function quite well but when I'd feed it decent sized blocks of code it would hallucinate like crazy. But I was quite happy with the performance at finding the basic library and ROM functions and annotating them correctly. I think it is all in how you use it.
by DebtDeflation | 2025-07-12 22:06:46+00:00
I'd say the odds are 50%. The odds of the opposite scenario - where the pilot who said "did you flip the fuel cutoff" wasn't the one who did it are also 50%.

Based on the cutoffs for both engines being flipped 1 second apart, the above exchange being caught on the CVR, and then within 10 seconds the (presumably the other) pilot switching them back to Run, it's pretty clear that this was a deliberate act.
by const_cast | 2025-07-12 22:07:07+00:00
There are infinite levels of privacy.

> Do you refuse to watch age-restricted films in the cinema because the owner of the cinema might have a record of what you've watched?

For me, no. For others, yes.

But this is a different degree of privacy to what we're talking about. It's not the same, and you cannot make the jump for free.

What I mean is, just because I am okay with this degree of privacy violation, does not mean I consent to all privacy violations which may ever exist. Again, you might be fine with an R-rated movie - but you, yourself, would not be fine with a store clerk living at your house to ensure you don't give kids alcohol. So you, yourself, understand and live by the principle.

> Any child with a laptop or phone, or any other device that can connect to a wifi hotspot, can access it.

Similarly, any child living in my house can access my scotch.

It is up to me, the person who purchased the good or service, to ensure that doesn't happen. It is not up to a third-party like the store clerk. If I am a business, it is then up to me that the internet I provide is adequately censored. Which is what happens in practice.
by ufmace | 2025-07-12 22:07:08+00:00
I agree with crazygringo that uBlock Origin Lite seems to work fine for me as far as blocking ads on the websites I visit.

I also agree that these discussions can be frustrating. In my opinion, that's because people claiming that Lite isn't good enough only seem to post super vague stuff, like links to the FAQ that list a bunch of technical details about what it can't do, when I don't understand the practical upshot of those things. Or vague assertions that it's not doing something which is allegedly important, where it's never actually explained what that thing it's not doing is and why it's important.

I have yet to see anybody show a specific example of a website where Lite doesn't actually work well enough. Or of any other specific thing it's not doing. I don't think I should have to read a series of 20 web pages dense with specialized technical details to understand what it's supposedly not doing. If it can't be explained simply and clearly what it's not doing that's so important, maybe it's not actually missing anything important at all.

I suppose I am a unsophisticated user of web browsers. I never got around to understanding or interacting with all the details of what "proper" uBO can do. Yet I still seem to browse the web just fine, and even build webapps sometimes, and I don't see any ads. So what's this great thing that I'm missing?
by topspin | 2025-07-12 22:07:30+00:00
> I'm sorry, I don't get the point.

The point is the problem of exposing a port, as opposed to the additional problem of whatever security concerns you imagine your backend "process" may have.

I suppose you may not imagine that exposing a port is somehow problematic. However, it is. First, an open port reveals many things[1] about your operation you would likely prefer not to reveal. Second, it requires Internet service that permits control over open ports, and the authority to utilize it, either or both of which may not be available to you.

I have no trouble appreciating the value of this, both for personal and commercial purposes. The inherent DDOS protection alone is a huge benefit.

[1] Off the top of my head: a.) The ASN and, ultimately, the ISP you're using. b.) The approximate physical location of your system. c.) Through fingerprinting, your firewall device, and whatever problems it has.
by zmmmmm | 2025-07-12 22:08:24+00:00
It seems endemic to software to me that people constantly want to brand things as "engineering" that aren't. They always want to call it engineering because it sounds better but they don't want to do nearly anything associated with engineering - rigorous process control, systematic documentation, specification of tolerances, resource usage etc etc.

What's described here is mostly a list of barely disguised tips, tricks and heuristics. It's all fine until someone wants to put it in production and suddenly a "real" engineer has to take over and do the actual engineering.

(and yes, I'm old - and grumpy!)
by jraines | 2025-07-12 22:08:53+00:00
the backstroke rule change was circa 1988. They changed butterfly (and I suppose freestyle) after the 96 Olympics when Dennis Pankratov won both butterflies with this technique. Interestingly, the backstroke innovator who probably triggered the earlier rule change got beat in the final by someone not using it (Berkhoff in 88, silver)

The latest rule change in this area was banning dolphin kicks on your back on the breast-to-free exchange in IM. Ryan Lochte triggered that one.
by leptons | 2025-07-12 22:09:11+00:00
Most mass produced electronics aren't vibe-coded hallucinations. There is at least some level of attention to detail in most of it, but of course there's still plenty of dangerous crap out there.

I don't care about this one example project, but when thousands of people read about it and vibe-code their own hallucinated PCB, hopefully wasting their money is the worst thing that happens. They certainly won't be learning much if the AI does it for them. They also don't get the pride that comes from understanding. They are an imposter, and when someone asks if they made the thing, they will feel like an imposter. Nice job, noob!

I'm active in the world of amateur LED installations, and practically nobody realizes how easy it is to start a fire with a 500 watt power supply (or several of them connected together in bad ways) for their holiday lightshow. "AI" is not likely to help that and will probably make it worse.

"AI" is like the blind leading the blind, and it gives people permission to do the stupidest things. Sometimes it's right, but it's a gamble. It's not going to always give the same answer for the same question, and when it "hallucinates", a noob is unlikely to notice.
by tiahura | 2025-07-12 22:09:33+00:00
As an ambulance chaser, I can assure you that suing out of state defendants for out of state activity has become nearly impossible. See Daimler AG v. Bauman (2014), BNSF Railway Co. v. Tyrrell (2017), Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. v. Superior Court (2017), Ford Motor Co. v. Montana Eighth Judicial District (2021), Mallory v. Norfolk Southern Railway Co. (2023)
by BriggyDwiggs42 | 2025-07-12 22:10:17+00:00
Anything you experience may push you in a direction with some magnitude, but we tend to overestimate the magnitude and mispredict the direction because we’re worried about the wellbeing of kids. Think “violent video games create school schootings.” In reality, kids have to deal with a lot of real things in life that are hard, an abusive parent or bullies at school, but those realities are harder to deal with so we distract ourselves worrying about violent video games. At the end of the day, it’s a recording on a screen, which is very different from a traumatic reality because you can just turn it off.
by h2zizzle | 2025-07-12 22:10:25+00:00
4chan is not emblematic of the Internet Wild West. It was spawned by users ejected from a traditional forum, a scant half-year before Facebook was launched; it was, in fact, a sort of mirror to Facebook's response to that old internet, moot and Zuck being two sides of the same upper middle class white boy script kiddie coin.

And, as with Facebook, the main issue was the ways in which each platform perpetuated old social ills, not the ways in which they freed users.

Lastly, the tragedy of each is that it would have been entirely possible for ethical actors to takeover or fork each platform to scrub them of the ills and to promote the good. Bluesky is making a try of it vis a vis Twitter, and while my hopes aren't high that it will be an ultimate solution, I appreciate that there's finally been at least an attempt.
by const_cast | 2025-07-12 22:10:37+00:00
I'm sure they exist, I've just never seen them. I use banking and websites like Netflix, too. And, if I had to wager, you could bypass a lot of this "doesn't work on Firefox" by just changing your user agent.

I think it's a case of yes, it does work, but web developers don't think so, so they implement checks just for kicks.
by moomoo11 | 2025-07-12 22:12:42+00:00
Agree. While people argue and split hairs over X language is better than Y language (noobs if I’m being honest, even if they have 20 yr experience), one can ship actual products and make money using TS.

It’s a good language that scales quite well to the point where you can then extract specific parts to more performant languages.

99.9% of people won’t have that problem, so I think they should just use TS and solve problems.

Anyone else can be safely ignored and they can complain in the corner.
by scoofy | 2025-07-12 22:12:44+00:00
I’m a liberal. I generally agree with the principle, not the premise.

My point again is that these “rights” you’re talking about are built on our social contract. There is no premise that “porn is free speech,” in fact, quite the opposite, again, for centuries.

The existence of porn on the internet was the result of legislation, not right. That legislation is changing, we need to organize to make sure it remains legal.
by tmnvix | 2025-07-12 22:13:09+00:00
> I really don't understand why anyone not on a mac or iphone isn't using Firefox

I'm on a mac and happily use Firefox. Have done for over a decade. It would take a lot to encourage me to move to a proprietary browser (Edge, Chrome, Safari).

Maybe I'm out of touch, but the attachment to Chrome that some people seem to have (despite the outright privacy abuse) is baffling to me. I mean, ffs, are a couple of minor UI compromises (not that I experience any - quite the opposite) enough to justify what I consider a frankly perverted browser experience? I'm inclined to conclude that some people have little self respect - being so willing to metaphorically undress for the big G's benefit.
by NitpickLawyer | 2025-07-12 22:13:22+00:00
I wouldn't call it bewildering. We're already seeing some capacity of models to take PRDs and turn them into PoCs. We're not far from being able to literally test PRDs by how well the models implement them. In other words, how well can a PM write inputs makes a difference. And we're close to having quasi instant "scoring" for that.
by jandrewrogers | 2025-07-12 22:14:38+00:00
I worked for the UN on more or less this in the 2000s. People have a naive perception of what the UN is like. It was one of the most openly dysfunctional, corrupt, and sclerotic organizations I have ever worked with or for.

It has nothing to do with who is or isn't on the security council. That entire organization is full of the kinds of people who occupy the average government in the world, which is a very low standard of excellence. The UN has neither data infrastructure nor technical expertise to do something like this in any case.

REST APIs? One of the big issues is that the data sources are measured in exabytes these days. That means there can only practically be a single copy. This creates an insurmountable hurdle: most countries contributing data want to keep their data in their country. This makes any use of that data computationally intractable because there is not enough bandwidth connect the disparate data sources together. Also, given this extreme (and mostly unnecessary) bandwidth consumption, now they have to severely restrict access to the data to keep the system usable, effectively making it no longer public.

I've been to this particular rodeo several times. I have zero confidence it could deliver on the promise.

It really would require someone with a singular vision, the technical expertise, and the courage to pull it off. A committee of bureaucrats isn't going to make it happen.