MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by trod1234 | 2025-07-22 21:27:34+00:00
I think, given the frequency of AI posts, and related slop on HN, and the statistically significant number of posts showing de-amplification happening on anyone responding to AI sentiment critically on HN (within 3-10 hours of the post) means a few things.

Anyone responding is going to find themselves downvoted (karma leached) regardless of any legitimate points or position and you can't have interesting conversations without measured disagreement. Value comes from things you don't know, "yes people" blindly follow the trend.

There's also no real point or value in a discussion when you have bad actor bullies silencing truth they disagree with or opinions that are rationally based, and then have them trying to gaslight and play off the lack of anything to the contrary as their sentiment is just what everyone thinks (because downvoted posts disappear beyond a threshold).

Its not, and HN is just a minor step up from 4chan with perspectives favoring Chinese talking points most times, almost completely unmoderated with few exception. The sophisticated propaganda, manipulation, and other stuff just flows freely.

Just recently I had a post where I was significantly downvoted for saying AI shouldn't be controlling nuclear power plants for safety issues. How's that for warped. The people were saying the AI could manage the power grid and just turn the power plant back on right after it was shut down, and I pointed out there's a 3-day wait and failing that wait is what happened at Chernobyl and you can't do that in a controllable way (Xenon is a problem). -9 on that post, and flagged; now its gone afaics.

Seriously messed up. There's a point where the platform gets a bad reputation, and crazy/delusional polarizing elements take over by driving the grounded and measured people away.

That topic is a much more interesting topic.
by m_fayer | 2025-07-22 21:27:48+00:00
I have a rock-solid but aging Kia niro phev and I love it.

I’m thinking of turning it in for an updated model, but the updated model has displays instead of actual gauges and indicator lights like the older niro, and that just makes my skin crawl. It should be damn near impossible for the gauges and indicators to blink out of existence, and reassurance about nothing-but-screens has not been forthcoming.
by asdff | 2025-07-22 21:28:11+00:00
I still don't get why the components have to be like this vs laid out more horizontally. I don't have a modern iphone in front of me to measure but the wrap around "oval" they have for the camera looks pretty svelte. I'm not sure what would be in the macbook webcam package that wouldn't be in the iphone considering the macbook package doesn't even have faceid capabilities.
by rererereferred | 2025-07-22 21:28:21+00:00
Youtube freezes for me on Windows with Firefox. Sometimes it freezes the whole browser so added a rule to block it in uBo and use another browser for it (which also helps me reduce my time on youtube thanks to the added friction). I don't know if its an issue with my specific hardware or what. In Mac and Linux (different PC) it works fine.
by toddmorey | 2025-07-22 21:28:36+00:00
Always fascinated to read CLAUDE.md files that are appearing in more and more open source projects: https://github.com/pmarreck/yt-transcriber/blob/yolo/CLAUDE....

I'd be really curious to see some sort of benchmark / evaluation of these context resources against the same coding tasks. Right now, the instructions all sound so prescriptive and authoritative, yet is really hard to evaluation their effectiveness.
by int_19h | 2025-07-22 21:28:36+00:00
If the only way that Israel can continue to exist is as an apartheid state where a large proportion of the population has to be forcibly kept in a status with no political rights, or else expelled or killed altogether, then yes, Israel doesn't deserve to exist.

Now, I don't know whether that is true. It seems to be the argument that the Israeli government and the right-wing majority of its population are making now - that if they give Palestinians actual freedom, Israel will just cease to be, so they have to starve people to death, bomb them etc. The more they do that, the stronger the argument that Israel should cease to exist.

If there is another option that allows Israel to continue to exist, that's great. But it's really up to Israel to come up with a viable option for that, because Israel is an alien entity that forcefully imposed itself on this territory to begin with.

Regarding Russia, I'm a Russian citizen, and the invasion of Ukraine did, in fact, made me reach the conclusion that Russia should not exist as a state. It's not that this particular war is especially damning; it's that Russia has a very long track record of imperialist wars, and, more importantly, it doesn't change - it keeps doing it. Arguably Russia as it exists today is inevitably imperialistic simply because it's a polity that is cobbled together and still largely held by force or threat of it - it never really fully de-colonized, and if it ever does, it'd be an order of magnitude smaller. So from that perspective it really cannot change - and if so, then yes, it should cease to exist.
by phoronixrly | 2025-07-22 21:28:56+00:00
I have an issue with this though... Won't you get a write on the parity drive for each write on any other drive? Doesn't seem well balanced... to be frank, looks like a good way to shoot yourself in the foot. Have a parity drive fail, then have another drive fail during the rebuild (a taxing process) and congrats -- your data is now eaten, but at least you saved a few hundred dollars by not buying drives of equal size...
by spenvo | 2025-07-22 21:28:57+00:00
I thought to post this after seeing this in the news today:

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warned the financial industry of a “significant impending fraud crisis” because of AI voice print fraud.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/openais-sam-altman-warns-ai-1...

I guess if it takes someone like San Altman saying something obvious for bank execs to listen (I'm sure security people at these companies have already told them these things), then so be it
by jmcphers | 2025-07-22 21:29:55+00:00
I own a Kia EV6 and am generally happy with it (especially compared to most peoples' experiences with their EVs), but most of this is true.

The only one that really drives me nuts is the lane-keeping feature, which cannot even follow clearly marked lanes in broad daylight. I don't know that I've ever had it go for more than 15s without disengaging on its own, and forget following even a gentle curve.
by koito17 | 2025-07-22 21:30:00+00:00
The original motivation of CSS was the cascading aspect of it. During its development, the web was largely seen as a web of documents. Style sheets tried mimicking how traditional publishers style their documents, books, etc. There is also a need to reconcile document styling applied by the user agent, the site author, and possibly other sources. This is where cascading comes into play.

Problems start to occur when using a system designed around traditional publishing to declare the layout of a web application. This is why CSS eventually gained layout-related functionality (flex, grid, container queries, etc.), among other features.

Tailwind provides two things out-of-the-box that make it convenient for building web applications: (1) it comes with a ready-to-use style system; (2) it allows styles to be colocated with markup. The second point is mostly useful for building UI components. Everything strictly related to presentation can be stored within a single file.

Before using Tailwind, I was a strong advocate of CSS modules (and I still strongly advocate for CSS modules if one wants to avoid Tailwind). With either approach, one can achieve isolated styling between components. Repeated styling or markup is a strong indicator that you should extract something into a component.
by Saris | 2025-07-22 21:30:07+00:00
>Luckily, I had created a separate test directory named claude-code-experiments for my experiments

Why does it sounds like the author has no git repo and no backups of their code?

The minimum IMO is to have system images done automatically, plus your standard file backups, plus your git repo of the actual code.

Wiping some files by accident should be a 2 minute process to recover. Wiping the whole system should be an hour or so to recover.
by dasil003 | 2025-07-22 21:30:20+00:00
I liked your point about tribalism up until you said one tribe is rational and the other not. The distribution of rational behavior does not change much tribe to tribe, it's the values that change. As soon as you say one tribe is more rational than another you're just feeding into more tribalism by insulting a whole group's intelligence.

I think the real problem is that zero friction global communication and social media has dramatically decreased the incentive to be thoughtful about anything. The winning strategy for anyone in the public eye is just to use narratives that resonate with people's existing worldview, because there is so much information out there and our civilization has become so complex that it's overwhelming to think about anything from first principles. Combine that with the dilution of local power as more and more things have gone online and global, a lot of the incentives for people to be truthful and have integrity are gone or at least dramatically diminished compared to the entirety of human history prior to the internet.
by ericmcer | 2025-07-22 21:30:27+00:00
Seriously my job is relatively relaxed, but I am still losing my mind because it is just an endless stretch of 5 day weeks for... 20 years? The only version of reality where I could accept that is if I had kids and family all dependent on my work, but without that I am unsure how people aren't filled with ennui when they look into that future.
by Aachen | 2025-07-22 21:30:30+00:00
Not what you were asking for but my favorite valid image is exploit code as PNG image data. It's just pixels in specific colors that, after compression, have the bytes in the file spell out something like <script>alert(1)</script>

I consulted for a bank once where the server stripped metadata and re-encoded images from scratch again and the devs thought that would remove any maliciousness. It's just pixels right? I might have thought so as well, but I had this idea and wanted to double check, and it didn't take long to find someone smarter than me had already done the work: https://web.archive.org/web/20250713054441/http://www.idontp... (By now I see there are a dozen commercial parties that rank higher for this topic. Marginalia search helped me re-find the OG post just now)

Edit, thought I should add: the solution is to specify the correct content type. Don't let your PHP interpreter interpret files in the user uploads directory. Don't serve images with content-type text/html because the browser will interpret it as HTML (as instructed) and run any code inside on your domain ('origin'). Mark data as separate from code whenever possible, or escape it when that's impossible
by addisonj | 2025-07-22 21:30:32+00:00
I had an ex90 on pre-order for a long time, placed it within the first ~30 days of it being open.

It looked to be (and is!) an absolutely beautiful vehicle and also seemed to be making choices in the hardware (lidar) that I hoped, would, eventually deliver a combination of safety and self-driving capabilities that would be unmatched. I was willing to pay a premium and knew that it would take some time for the self-driving to come to fruition, but figured it would be a capable vehicle until that point in time.

But dang, what a botched launch. Not only were there all these issues, which are insane to me that Volvo didn't have more people in social media / subreddit, but also from a financial perspective the car is just insanely hard to get into. Lease terms were absolutely terrible.

I ended up getting a Hyuandai Ioniq 9 and am really glad I went that direction. Yeah, it doesn't offer as much as a Tesla in terms of FSD, but it also has better build quality and interior quality nearly matching the Volvo. I like the styling (but I know some do not), and it has actual physical controls for the stuff I care about and the best heads up display I have used (favorite feature: you get photos of incoming caller). NACS is also great... but I can't bring myself to take 2 spots yet at superchargers.
by BeFlatXIII | 2025-07-22 21:30:50+00:00
> search for "<topic x> tutorial"

As if that wouldn't be spammed with SEO slop.

> read some manuals/books

Knowing which ones are credible is part of the bootstrapping.

> right hand side section on each reddit group dedicated to begginers

That's probably a useful advice, as they'd likely list which books are good and which are even better but useless for beginners.
by bsder | 2025-07-22 21:31:04+00:00
> But people who disagree with you are obviously irrational and can't be reasoned with.

You are saying this with sarcasm, but it is a tautology.

If I am factually correct, by definition, everyone who disagrees with me is irrational and can't be reasoned with.

Anti-vax is a great example of this. We have loads and loads and loads of evidence of the harm that not being vaccinated can do (now including dead children thanks to measles) and very scant evidence to the contrary (there is some for specific vaccines for specific diseases like Polio). However, until it hits an anti-vaxxer personally, they simply will refuse to believe it.

Of course, once an anti-vaxxer personally gets a disease, NOW the anti-vaxxers want the vaccine. Thus, demonstrating simultaneously that they actually don't understand a single damn thing about vaccines and that their "anti-vaxx belief" was irrational as well.
by pbasista | 2025-07-22 21:31:20+00:00
> You just don’t hear about the other ones.

That is possible, yes. I think it is a fair point.

But I also understand that people want to somehow publicly show their opinions about Elon Musk. Or others.

For some, a public social media post is enough. Others want to do so with their wallet. Which, unlike a typical person's social media post, has the potential of catching, albeit indirectly, Elon Musk's attention. Which is their goal.

So I would not dismiss or make fun of the people who want to do it this way. I would not call it "virtue signaling" either if it is done with a genuine goal to publicly point out that some of Elon Musk's opinions are problematic or even dangerous.

These people are most likely not doing it because they want to "look like" they have a problem with such opinions. They do it because they genuinely believe that such opinions are harmful.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-07-22 21:31:34+00:00
Which matches the rest of the seeming plutocratic moves afoot in the past 6 months.

Taking huge chunks out of American opportunism (defunding science, health care, education, space, and so much else), blowing a huge chunk out of social welfare programs: that's going to cause amazing downgrades for most people. Paths to success closed, cost of getting by vastly higher. (All while walking over all over habeus corpus, while collecting & colating data of everyone in the homeland, while building concentration camps and tossing random hairdressers in international terrorism dungeons; denigrating the population generally, humiliating basic rights of man.)

But the plutocratic class doesn't really notice the change. The Global Elite E1 Barbarian class (of Michael O Church 3 ladders) doesn't notice or care. They stay about the same, but the sinking tide leaves many other boats grounded.

It sure seems like there's an international conspiracy of the very wealthy to screw over the land of opportunity right now. And there's 219+53 people in congess and two in the White House happily helping aid and abet this pushing opporunity off the cliff.

Fits perfectly hand in glove with the Network State ideology (which seeks to make who you know and what connections you've gathered define your environment) and the Christofascist ideology (which says religion should rule), both of which resent government as it is, which are part of the broader long campaign to "starve the beast". But to regionalize this situation to the US feels like it misses how the real nature of the E1 Global Barbarian Elite's desire to make clear their ascent over all others.
by xboxnolifes | 2025-07-22 21:32:18+00:00
You need to keep the same youtube tab open and navigate the website a considerable amount on it for it to occur. I use the same tabs repeatedly, and by the end of the day I get an incredibly sluggish site. Not the end of the world, since I just close the tab and start a new one, but it does exist.

Firefox has had documented issues with youtube for the better part of a decade at least.
by kccqzy | 2025-07-22 21:32:24+00:00
Leasing will require you to carry comprehensive and collision insurance. With a fully owned car like mine, I carry only the liability insurance. This in practice more than halves my insurance premium payments. The reduction in insurance premium more than offsets any financial benefit of a lease with an artificially high residual value. (Leases are only beneficial because the residual value does not match reality.)
by mac-mc | 2025-07-22 21:32:26+00:00
Partial DNA like 23&me does is so cheap to measure now, something like $20 wholesale and even less if you have very large scales, with a one time requirement to collect. In a decade, whole genome will be similarly cheap, it's $100-$200 wholesale now. Such a hypothetical fascist government can make it a mandatory requirement to be a resident in a country or similar and justify it on crime prevention like they usually like to do.
by rstuart4133 | 2025-07-22 21:32:36+00:00
> The bit I don't understand is why make an AI apologise or fess up to mistakes at all.

The AI didn't decide to do anything. It's makers decided, and trained the AI to behave in a way that would make them the most money.

Google, for instance, apparently thinks they will attract more users by constantly lavishing them with sickly praise for the quality and insight of their questions, and by issuing grovelling apologies for every mistake - real of imagined. In fact Gemini went through a phase of apologising to me for the mistakes it was about to make.

Claude goes to the other extreme, never issuing apologies or praise. Which mean, you never get an acknowledgement from Claude that it's correcting an error, so you should ignore what it said earlier. That a significant downfall in my book, but apparently that's what Anthropic thinks it's users will like.

Or to put it another way: you are anthropomorphising the AI's. They are just machines, built by humans. The personalities of these machines where given to them by their human designers. They are not inherent. They are not permanent. They can and probably will change at a whim. It's likely various AI personalities will proliferate like flavours of ice cream, and you will get to choose the one you like.
by nomel | 2025-07-22 21:32:52+00:00
> would mean not trusting them with their products at all and moving manufacturering elsewher

That's not an option. There's usually nowhere else to go that makes financial sense. So you work in the cheap zero trust environment, and pay a bit more to verify everything.

Anker skimped on verification because there was non-zero trust, and they're paying the price.
by goatlover | 2025-07-22 21:33:01+00:00
Problem with that is wealthy capitalists lobby politicians to pass or rescind laws favoring their industries. They also figured out how to manipulate consumer demand on mass scale with modern advertising. Just look at how the fossil fuel industry has behaved despite their own research showing in the 70s that climate change was going to become a serious problem in the next century.

Or they use their influence to pass tax cuts primarily for the super wealthy that increase the wealth gap and erode existing social safety nets as we see with the "Big Beautiful Bill".

It's never just about the classic definition anymore than communism is, because there are always humans looking to look the cheat the system.
by landl0rd | 2025-07-22 21:33:01+00:00
Exactly. It's not that many people and they still get into a ton of trouble. That seems like an excellent reason to either not accept them, or to enforce that they need to be dispersed widely enough to prevent forming a community and conducting violence in its name until they're back in palestine.

Like we can even blame the way things are on the israelis, or at least majorly on them, but that doesn't change the calculus for other arab states.
by hammyhavoc | 2025-07-22 21:33:17+00:00
> If a drive fails, you rebuild it from the parity.

But if the file system is corrupt then you're hosed and end up with a `lost+found`. It sounds great until it fails, and then you realize why ZFS with replication makes sense. Unraid doesn't do automatic repairs from replicated ZFS datasets yet either even if you use individual ZFS disks within your Unraid array.
by marksomnian | 2025-07-22 21:34:12+00:00
I like this style. In a project I worked on we had CI reject any FIXMEs outright and any TODOs that weren't accompanied by an issue ticket[^1], so the hierarchy would be

FIXME: I am leaving a note to myself to not get distracted, but this code is not considered finished/mergeable until it's resolved

XXX: this needs fixing soon, but the code will still be functional without it

TODO: this needs revisiting but the code is perfectly useable without it - a lower priority XXX

NOTE: this does something unusual and you need to bear in mind while working on this code

[^1]: the value of doing (or not doing) this is a subject that has already been extensively rehashed in sibling comments
by williamdclt | 2025-07-22 21:34:22+00:00
Yeah I remember reading this post, thinking "whatever" about it, and then finding myself implementing and using it regularly-ish.

Usually I use it to encapsulate a complicated initialisation of a variable, where some mutation is needed/easier. I still want colocation for readability, but I dont want intermediate variables in the scope or to declare the variable as mutable