MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by drweevil | 2025-07-11 13:47:52+00:00
I understand the justification being used. But it's bogus. These corporations are engaging in theft from the general public, using deceptive business practices that organized crime would be proud of. The claim made by the complainants is that stopping them from robbing consumers would cost them more than $100M, which, if you include their ill-gotten gains, is probably true. IOW, "it would cost us too much to stop robbing people, therefore we shouldn't be forced to stop." The FTC rule was not ending a good-faith business practice. And the job of the courts is not sanctioning theft. Those are the main objections here.

As for the "despite being unelected" dig, let's apply this standard fairly. The courts are also unelected, as are the businesses involved.
by mycall | 2025-07-11 13:49:11+00:00
SnitchBench [0] is unique benchmark which shows how aggressively models will snitch on you via email and CLI tools when they are presented with evidence of corporate wrongdoing - measuring their likelihood to "snitch" to authorities. I don't believe they were trained to do this, so it seems to be an emergent ability.

[0] https://snitchbench.t3.gg/
by some_random | 2025-07-11 13:49:26+00:00
I don't think they're arguing that the headline should be "13 UK postmasters murdered by the state", just that the extremely passive "died by suicide" lacks context and largely leaves out the UK Post Office's role in their death. I think they would prefer some thing along the lines of "At Least 13 People Killed Themselves After False Accusations From U.K. Post Office, Report Says".
by 9rx | 2025-07-11 13:49:51+00:00
It is possible. How has the punishment for being caught with a bonfire in a place where it is not permitted changed over the last number of decades?

Or is it just the reduction in lead? That is what is oft cited as the reason for why crime rates have dropped substantially over a very similar period. Which may leave my framing of the kids being fearful to be a little off, rather the reduction in lead would suggest that they have better impulse control, but I am sure you can understand that the intent there is the same either way.
by lompad | 2025-07-11 13:49:58+00:00
Please don't confuse evidence-based therapy like CBT with evidently badly working acts of pseudo-psychology such as psychoanalysis (Which, interestingly enough, isn't even much of a thing in most of the world, just the US seems to have continously kept it as accepted form of therapy despite all evidence to the contrary).

CBT in particular is about learning to cope and fixing problem-inducing behaviours and thought patterns. Not about talking about the deepest pieces of problems, since that doesn't aid healing. Often, it does quite the opposite.
by jerf | 2025-07-11 13:50:14+00:00
Misplaced misanthropy. The largest and most destructive atmospheric composition change in the history of the planet, against which our slight modification of CO2 levels is just a blip, was performed by completely unconscious species with zero capability for reflection or prediction of the results. Compared to the Great Oxygenation Catastrophe, we've done nothing.

On a more amusing note, if you're interested in a counterexample to your direct claim, which involves another catastrophe that makes the worst predictions of climate change look like human paradise, I would recommend to you "The Nitrogen Fix" by Hal Clement. I won't spoil what the catastrophe is in case you might be interested in reading it, but Google will spoil it readily if you prefer.
by pcthrowaway | 2025-07-11 13:50:21+00:00
> If you're on trial for doing X and your jury is told by a prosecution witness "mrkramer did X" and under cross they admit that's based on computer records which are often bogus, inconsistent, total nonsense, it doesn't take the world's best defence lawyer to secure an "innocent" verdict. That's not a fun experience, but it probably won't drive you to suicide.

I imagine digital records are involved in nearly every trial at this point. Good luck getting this point admitted by the justice system.
by vintagedave | 2025-07-11 13:50:38+00:00
We don't know what it was trained on, do we? (Is there dataset info?) I'd suspect you're right, but I don't know. There also seems to be a lot of post-training processing done on AIs before they're released where a lot of bias can appear. I've never read a good overview about how someone goes from a LLM trained on data to a consumer-focusing LLM.

The article also leads into what oversight and regulation is needed, and how we can expect AIs to be used for propaganda and influence in future. I worry that what we're seeing with Grok, where it's so easily identifiable, are the baby steps to worse and less easily identifiable propaganda in future.
by tialaramex | 2025-07-11 13:50:46+00:00
My favourite inspiration goes the opposite direction. The United States has this Supreme Court, a final Court of Appeal, politically independent and empowered even to decide that the government's actions are illegal. Sounds great.

The UK had this rather antique thing called the "Lords of Appeal in Ordinary" aka "Law Lords" who were in theory just some Lords (ie people who are arbitrarily in the upper chamber of the Parliament, maybe because their dad was) but served the same purpose as a final court of appeal in practice and so had for a very long time all been Judges because duh, of course they should be judges, that's a job for a judge, just make some judges Lords and forget about it. They met in some committee room in the Palace of Westminster, because they're Lords and that's where the Lords are, right? So, there was practical independence, but the appearance was not here.

About 15 years ago now, the dusty Law Lords were in the way of an attempted reform of parliament. A Supreme Court sounds like a good idea, so the UK got a Supreme Court. It fixed up a nice building nearby, gave the exact same people a new job title and sent them over the road. Done.

But the UK version does what it says on the tin. It said on the tin they're politically independent. In the US of course this "independence" is bullshit, but in the UK since there's already a politically independent process to pick judges the same process continues for the Supreme Court. So a Prime Minister might hate the supreme court but they can't pick the judges.
by 1718627440 | 2025-07-11 13:50:52+00:00
A filter is different from searching. It only works on the current directory, it alters the view after it has been generated. You can also use it on a search.

Don't know about others, but I find the functionality useful and use them for different purposes. Searching is when I want to find random messages, where I don't know where or from when there are, the filter is for bulk processing and narrowing the current working set, beside the conversation level.

It is more like the steering wheel and choosing forward/reverse, sure both are for choosing the driving direction, but they operate at different levels and are used in different situations. I mean you could use the steering wheel for forward/backward if you want to. Using the gear to change the direction less than 180° is quite difficult, but not impossible.
by ycombinatornews | 2025-07-11 13:51:35+00:00
Thank you for the last paragraph.

Same thought came when I was reading the article and glad I am not alone.

Anecdotally, most common productivity boost is coming from cutting down weird slow steps in processes. Write an automation script, campaign previewer for marketing, etc etc.

Coding seems to transform to be a more efficient (again anecdotally) but not entirely faster. You can do a better work on a new feature in the same or slightly smaller time.

Idle time at 4% was interesting. I think this number goes higher the more you use a specific tool and adjust your workflow to that
by coldpie | 2025-07-11 13:51:48+00:00
> and nobody calls them on it

This is so low on the long list of bad things in the world that it isn't worth the calories burned to type up a callout.

> I took out my comment calling it wish-cycling propaganda as a selling point, and decided to be less cynical.

Good call. I thought the comment as you wrote it was perfectly good & useful.
by potatolicious | 2025-07-11 13:52:11+00:00
> "I'm particularly annoyed by using LLMs to evaluate the output of LLMs."

+1, and IMO part of a general trend where we're just not serious about making sure this shit works. Higher scores make stonks go up, who cares if it actually leads to reliably working products.

But also more importantly it's starting to expose the fact that we haven't solved one of ML's core challenges: data collection and curation. On the training side we have obviated this somewhat (by ingesting the whole internet, for example), but on the eval side it feels like we're increasing just going "actually constructing rigorous evaluation data, especially at this scale, would be very expensive... so let's not".

I was at a local tech meetup recently where a recruiting firm was proudly showing off the LLM-based system they're using to screen candidates. They... did not evaluate the end-to-end efficacy of their system. At all. This seems like a theme within our industry - we're deploying these systems based purely on vibes without any real quantification of efficacy.

Or in this case, we're quantifying efficacy... poorly.
by vessenes | 2025-07-11 13:52:41+00:00
I'm 100% the opposite. It's wrong for one group to expect preferred stock for their capital contributions, while they ask the usually less experienced CEO to make a tacit capital contribution (lower than market salary) and then on top to ask them to put cash in that won't be given the same terms -- nah.

Now, if the founder capital went in pre-round, and a round was raised, I'm with you -- that's fine - and between the founders at that point; they got paid in equity valuation. But otherwise; nope.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-07-11 13:52:44+00:00
I am really curious what your thoughts on zed are, given that it has a lot of features and is still mostly vim compatible (from what i know) so you have the same ergonomics and power and it has some sane defaults / I don't need to tinker as much with zed as I would have to with nvim.

Its not that I don't like tinkering. I really enjoy tinkering with config files but I never could understand nvim personally since I usually want a lsp / good enough experience that nvim or any lunarvim etc. couldn't provide without me installing additional software.
by dinfinity | 2025-07-11 13:52:57+00:00
> The dosing strategy here is particularly clever - starting with 5mg/kg for acclimation, then monthly 15mg/kg treatments. That mirrors what we’re seeing in clinical trials for depression, but applied to aging.

15mg/kg seems like a lot, though. 15mg per person is a 'common' dose for a human. I don't know what the mapping between mice and humans is, but tripping on 1500mg of psilocybin once a month would be pretty taxing for me.
by 63 | 2025-07-11 13:53:34+00:00
I'm not sure anonymity online is "the last vestiges of free speech." Free speech existed before the internet.

I'm not sure there's an effective solution that's easier and imo the downside here is minimal anyway. Honestly, eliminating anonymity online might be a good thing. Maybe the crazy polarized rhetoric would stop and people would talk to each other in person more. Sounds great.
by hollywood_court | 2025-07-11 13:53:48+00:00
The term 'African American' was rarely used until Jesse Jackson started popularizing it.

The most formative years of my life were spent in the Caribbean. I was essentially raised and mentored by two different black men (I'm white trailer park trash originally from Alabama). And both of those men both took great offense to being called African American. The same went for many of the people I knew down there. However, I've rarely heard actual mainlanders take offense to the term.

I've always thought that a person born in the US was simply an American. Not an Irish American or an African American or Scottish American, etc. If you're born in the US, you're simply an American. I've never understood the desire to want to differentiate one's self like that.

Perhaps I feel that way because my own father left when I was a toddler and I never had any kind of strong family connection or culture taught to me by anyone else in my family. Maybe I'd feel differently if I had a strong family unit that shared a common culture or something like that. But I still think terms like that are divisive.
by jovial_cavalier | 2025-07-11 13:54:06+00:00
Fair enough. I have no experience with CBT, but what I've heard sounds reasonable. I still have a baseline suspicion of people purporting to be able to make you a better person for a fee, though.

I should also say, I'm not including group therapy in this. I have no direct experience, but I don't think it has the same perverse incentives, and it seems to be quite effective.
by joshstrange | 2025-07-11 13:54:27+00:00
> I think there is a good chance this behavior is unintended!

Ehh, given the person we are talking about (Elon) I think that's a little naive. They wouldn't need to add it in the system prompt, they could have just fine-tuned it and rewarded it when it tried to find Elon's opinion. He strikes me as the type of person who would absolutely do that given stories about him manipulating Twitter to "fix" his dropping engagement numbers.

This isn't fringe/conspiracy territory, it would be par for the course IMHO.
by throwforfeds | 2025-07-11 13:55:21+00:00
The thing that bothers me the most are the companies out here trying to get psychedelics to a state where they own the tech and can try to make as much money as possible off of it. Not so much the part where it becomes more available with consistent quality for more users.

I was getting ads for MindMed's clinical trials of their LSD analogue a few months back and was considering signing up for it, as I'm totally down with more scientific research on these compounds. However, the idea that a corporation with a patent on an analogue that is lobbying to make it so their version is the one that is approved is kinda the worst. We already have LSD, it's cheap and it's amazing, yet here we are marching down the road of some patented version being the one that's approved for use. I get that these companies want to fund research, but this isn't the way.
by saagarjha | 2025-07-11 13:55:24+00:00
I attended the workshop remotely (one of my questions is in the recording, if you watched it) and IMO it was mostly a waste of time. I didn't even stick around past the App Store section. Partly because it was daytime CEST but mostly because the format was awful. Apple would spend half the time talking about how the EU was forcing them to make their OS worse and then the EC thought it was a good idea to make Q&A a batched thing so Apple could just talk for five minutes about none of the questions instead of actually being forced to answer anything. I was thinking the EC would ask questions like why nobody actually used the provisions that Apple so generously provided third party developers (obviously, because Apple designed them to be unworkable) but they mostly just stayed silent and let the Apple lawyers talk the entire time :(
by D13Fd | 2025-07-11 13:55:26+00:00
Not the greatest article, but I love the idea of a fire truck that arrives with fire resistant drones that swarm out, each autonomously extinguishing a small section of fire using sound waves and mist. Definitely still a science-fiction idea, but it’s cool nonetheless. Even if the sound wave idea doesn’t work in practice, they could deliver traditional fire suppression methods at much closer ranges than people can.
by mrkramer | 2025-07-11 13:55:43+00:00
>UK law said that there was a presumption that computer systems were working correctly unless there was evidence to the contrary.

Defense had to prove that only one Horizon/Fujitsu accounting software was buggy and the whole prosecution falls apart e.g. If John's Horizon/Fujitsu accounting software has bugs then Peter's Horizon/Fujitsu accounting software most probably has bugs too.
by patcon | 2025-07-11 13:56:46+00:00
Yes to both.

We often attract certain types of people, and have a wealth of experience with that type.

We probably all take this as obvious knowledge. But only when I uncomfortably enter a group of people unlike me -- and feel totally alienated not just by their norms and assumptions, but their misunderstandings of my own -- only then do I truly confront the implications in a visceral, non-academic sense :)
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-07-11 13:57:09+00:00
>We don't need cars from fascists.

Really? Because look up on the history of VW, BMW, Porsche, Fiat, etc and their founding families, some of who still own a large part of the shares of those companies today. Most of them worked with fascists no problem, some by force of the era some by opportunity but none of them opposed them.

You see this is the typical European hypocrisy that I dislike. Pointing fingers that Elon is somehow a fascist cause he raised his arm once, but Porsche or BMW who used slave labor from work camps is somehow not fascist now because ... reasons I guess.

Explain me that with logic and reason, and not with the "Elon is a fascist because reddit told me he is".
by Levitz | 2025-07-11 13:57:15+00:00
>It's not true that LLMs don't have opinions; they do, and they express opinions all the time.

Not at all, there's not even a "being" there to have those opinions. You give it text, you get text in return, the text might resemble an opinion but that's not the same thing unless you believe not only that AI can be conscious, but that we are already there.
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by merso | 2025-07-11 13:57:18+00:00
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What the site does Live stock dashboard – polls every public server, merges the data, and shows Seed / Gear / Egg shop inventory with second-level countdowns.

Weather + Event tracker – Rain, Thunderstorm, Blood-Moon, Bee Swarm, etc., with next-spawn prediction (handy for mutation hunters).

Update & Code archive – weekly patch notes and all working / expired reward codes in one place.

Wiki & tools

Crop / Seed / Gear / Pet database with ROI calculators

Mutation planner that overlays odds and multipliers
by demetris | 2025-07-11 13:57:33+00:00
I am not saying Astro is innovative and I don’t think I implied that in my reply. I don’t view Astro as innovative and I don’t understand people who view it like that because of, say, its islands. (We knew about islands before Astro.)

As you said, in the example I shared Astro is an SSG. It happens to use server-side JS but this is is irrelevant.

But it is more than that. Astro is an SSG and it is also a *very well made* SSG.

I have used all the usual suspects: Ruby ones, Go ones, Python ones, JS ones. The closest I came to having fun was 11ty, but 11ty is a bit too chaotic for me. Astro is the one that clicked. And the one that was fun to use right from day 1.

I am not a JavaScript person, mind you. JavaScript is not my strongest FE skill. The JS conventions, tricks, and syntaxes of modern FE frameworks, even less so.

So Astro did not click for me because of that. It clicked because of how well it is made and because of how fun it is to use.

Oh! It does this!

Oh! It does that!

Oh! It gives you type safety for your Markdown meta! (What?!)

Oh! It gives you out of the box this optimization I was putting together manually! You just have to say thisOptim: true in the configuration file!

Astro is a very well made tool that improves continually and that aligns with my vision of the platform and of how we should make stuff for the platform.
by anton-c | 2025-07-11 13:58:07+00:00
My therapist explicitly brings me back to the here and now at the end of sessions with the intention of relaxing me.

There's probably some truth that some psychologists are running a racket but thats true in all professions.

If your friends are hashing out stressful things leaving that way can be normal, but progress figuring out their life was made.

If it's constantly exhausting them, there's certainly others that would cater to their needs of a more relaxed environment. I changed my last therapist for this one for that reason - no hard feelings.
by vintermann | 2025-07-11 13:58:43+00:00
> You can’t classify every instance of miscarriage of justice as state murder.

It's literally what we call it in Norway. In English it's compared to miscarriage (i.e. spontaneous abortion), "miscarriage of justice". Here we call it murder of justice (justismord), whether anyone actually died or not.

I do think it gets the seriousness across, and the focus on it as a deliberate act, rather than an accident as in English. Some people actually made a deliberate act to let innocent people take the blame.
by mystraline | 2025-07-11 13:59:32+00:00
In my history, I rightly (pun intended) called out that this court is 2 trump appointees and 1 george hw bush appointee. Both are -4'ed and 1 flagged, with name calling of 'ad hominem'.

Judges are inherently human, but they should strive for impartiality. But with continual 6-3 judgements out of SCOTUS, which lie directly with what party appointed who, along with federal-court shopping shows that this criticism is well stated.

And it probably is an ad-hominem, as in 'to the (hu)man'. But that is no excuse or hand-wavey reason to not look closely at corruption, which is what I think all of this is. And yes, it is a trade commission justification to make sure companies are using fair practices, of which 'call 10 times and threaten, and eventually send a snail mail to cancel' is demonstrably NOT fair. Doubly so, since the same companies that do this make it easy to sign up. And they know if they make cancellng hard, theY get more money.

But yeah, 3.5 more years of this presidency at minimum, and upper bound is 50+ years for having these judges retire/die of natural death? We can't even get Clearance Thomas (misspelling intended) impeached due to, I dunno, bribery?
by cameronh90 | 2025-07-11 13:59:33+00:00
> Asda can't prosecute me.

They can, actually. Anyone in the UK can launch a private prosecution. It's rare because it's expensive and the CPS can (and often do) take over any private prosecution then drop it.

Nevertheless, the power exists and has been intentionally protected by parliament. I think most would agree it needs reform, however.
by KingOfCoders | 2025-07-11 13:59:42+00:00
There is no "deep state", just the state. Calling things "the deep state" tries to partition the state in two parts, a good one and a bad one.

There is also no "deep Amazon" or "deep Meta". Amazon is Amazon, Meta is Meta and the state is the state. People working for or representing the state have their own agenda, have their cliques, have their CYA like people everywhere else. And the state as an organization prioritizes survival and self defense above all other goals it might have.