MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by barrkel | 2025-07-12 09:09:52+00:00
This is in fact the goal of Russian style propaganda. You have successfully been targeted. The idea is to spread so much confusion that you just throw up your hands and say, I'm not going to try and figure out what's going on any more.

That saps your will to be political, to morally judge actions and support efforts to punish wrongdoers.

https://www.rand.org/pubs/perspectives/PE198.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firehose_of_falsehood

https://jordanrussiacenter.org/blog/propaganda-political-apa...

https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-communications/insi...
by satisfice | 2025-07-12 09:10:32+00:00
I notice you have not quantified any aspect of your opinion, here. Which is not surprising, since your opinion is unrelated to facts, science, experience, or wisdom.

Quality is not a "real, hard number" because such a thing would depend entirely on how you collect the data, what you count as data, and how you interpret the data. All of this is brimming with controversy, as you might know if you had read more than zero books about qualitative research, epistemology, the philosophy, history, or practice of science. I say "might" because of course, the number of books one reads is no measure of wisdom. It is one indicator of an interest to learn, though.

It would be nice if you had learned, in your years on Earth, that you can't talk about quality with any seriousness while simultaneously refusing to accept that quality is about people, relationships, and feelings. It's about risks and interpretations of risk.

Now, here is the part where I agree with you: quality is assessed, not measured. But that assessment is based on evidence, and one kind of evidence is stuff that can be usefully measured.

While there is no such thing as a "qualitometer," we should not be automatically opposed to measuring things that may help us and not hurt us.
by exceptione | 2025-07-12 09:11:23+00:00
What do you mean with 'cannot'? We have this in [0]

unsafePerformIO :: IO a -> a

Do you mean "cannot do with safety guarantee"? Strangely enough, the haskell docs use the same language as you:

The ST monad allows for destructive updates, but is escapable (unlike IO).

___

0. https://hackage.haskell.org/package/base-4.21.0.0/docs/Syste...
by nottorp | 2025-07-12 09:14:50+00:00
I don't know, because right now I'm replying from my laptop while being on my balcony, which is open to the real world(tm) and thus has a lot more dust than the inside of my home.

I've used all my laptops like that and they're still silent [1].

[1] Silent, but the keyboard is broken on the old emoji keyboard macbook pro, may whoever designed it and stuck to it burn in whatever hell they believe in forever.
by avir123 | 2025-07-12 09:15:06+00:00
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by fuzzfactor | 2025-07-12 09:15:12+00:00
Good call because results should be expectd to be all over the ball park, and I think even higher numbers could be found. But no amount of lead is supposed to be acceptable.

>sounds like you know a lot more about the question

SSDD says it all without explanation, but here's a little.

Until you've spent lots of time at the bench, it's not easy to understand why a 1000 and a 483 might just be the same sample tested in different labs.

Or even the same lab on different days.

If so that would look even more embarrassing when my arbitrary reporting convention < 500 is applied.

But it's actually not unheard of to get a positive and a negative on the same sample even with some of the most sophisticated equipment

Explaining the rest of the story could fill textbooks, but the operators wouldn't be reading them anyway :\

So that's the most important thing to know, besides the actual spectrums which are table stakes.
by sofixa | 2025-07-12 09:15:47+00:00
Thank you for proving my point.

On one hand, we have the unquestionable and undeniable facts that Russia invaded Ukraine and is committing atrocities against its civilian population, up to and including literal genocide (kidnapping children).

On the other, we have:

> 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.

Trying to muddy the waters with at best exaggerations, at worst flat out lies, trying to sow doubt with things which, if true (and usually they aren't) are relevant only to help contextualise the events. But don't in any way change the core facts of the Russian invasion and subsequent war crimes. How does American diplomats supporting a popular protest against the current government which led to that government fleeing (and three elections have happened since, btw), in any way change or minimise the war crimes? It doesn't, you're just muddying the waters. "Oh Russia is justified in kidnapping children and bombing civilians because diplomats did support a popular protest that led to the Russian puppet running away to Russia, 10 years ago, even though multiple elections since have confirmed the people of Ukraine are not for Russian puppets anymore".

You're just repeating Russian propaganda talking points. And we've known since the 80s that they operate in a "firehose" manner, drowning everyone in nonsense to sow doubt. How many different excuses have they provided for their "special military operation" now? Which one is it, is Ukraine ruled by Nazis or are Ukrainians just confused Russians or did America coup Ukraine to install a guy who was elected on a platform of peace with Russia? And how does it in any way explain the war crimes? It's like the downing of MH17, they drowned everyone in multiple conspiracy theories to make it seem there is some doubt in the official, proven, story.
by diggan | 2025-07-12 09:16:33+00:00
What you're saying is certainly an established propaganda strategy of Russia (and others), but what parent is saying is also true, "truth" isn't always black and white, and what is the desired behavior in one country can be the opposite in another.

For example, it is the truth that the Golf of Mexico is called the Gulf of America in the US, but Golf of Mexico everywhere else. What is the "correct" truth? Well, there is none, both of truthful, but from different perspectives.
by ImPleadThe5th | 2025-07-12 09:17:14+00:00
The issue is that the internet is too ubiquitous. It'd be like trying to stop teenagers from smoking cigarettes when there are cigarette trees all over the place. While I agree parents need to do better, somethings become so big they are a societal problem. Simply saying "We need better parenting" unfortunately won't fix the state we're in.

Maybe I am wrong. Maybe the government should be reeling in the social media and advertising companies. But I would trust Facebook's Age verification system less than one created by the EU for example with our NFC enabled IDs.

All I know is that Mass Social Media has been poison to young people, and I don't really see a way to put that cat back in the bag.

What would you suggest? How do you "fix" parenting? Or do you not think that there is a problem at all with the interent for the youth today?
by cesaref | 2025-07-12 09:18:24+00:00
The problem as I see it is that LLMs behave like bratty teenagers, believing any old rubbish they are told or read. However, their voice is that of a friendly and well meaning adult. If their voice was more in line with their 'age' then I think we'd treat their suggestions with the correct degree of scepticism.

Anyhow, overall this is an unsurprising result. I read it as 'LLMs trained on contents of internet regurgitate contents of internet'. Now that i'm thinking about it, i'd quite like to have an LLM trained on Pliny's encyclopedia, which would give a really interesting take on lots of questions. Anyone got a spare million dollars of compute time?
by rcxdude | 2025-07-12 09:18:39+00:00
It wasn't nothing to do with them, but it was mostly not to do with their intrinsic characteristics, and a lot to do with how they were managed on the grid, and how some of them were not actually acting as they should (which was also true of some non-renewable sources). Saying 'nothing to do with renewable energy sources' when the report spends half its time talking about renewable energy plants and how they contributed to the problem is really not helpful (as unhelpful, IMO, as going on about how it proved renewables intrinsically make a grind unstable, because it gives credence to that argument).
by saubeidl | 2025-07-12 09:19:22+00:00
There is no objective truth because humans are inherently ideological beings and what we consider objective is just a reflection of our ideology.

Consider markets - a capitalist's "objective truth" might be that they are the most efficient mechanism of allocating resources, a marxists "objective truth" might be that they are a mechanism for exploiting the working class and making the capitalist class even richer.

Here's Zizek, famous ideology expert, describing this mechanism via film analysis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVwKjGbz60k
by uludag | 2025-07-12 09:19:26+00:00
I wonder if the next iteration of advertisements will be people paying to to semantically intertwine their brand to the desired product. This could be done in a very innocuous way by maybe just co-locating the words without any specific endorsement. Or maybe even finding more innocuous ways to semantically connect brand to product. Perhaps the next iteration of the web/advertising will be mass LLM grooming.

Here's a fun example: suppose I'm a developer with a popular software project. Maybe I can get a decent sum of money to put brand placement in my unit-tests or examples.

If such a future plays out, will LLMs find themselves in the same place that search engines in 2025 are?
by imiric | 2025-07-12 09:21:00+00:00
Before the bubble does pop, which I think is inevitable, there will be many stories like this one, and a lot of people will be scammed, manipulated, and harmed. It might take years until the general consensus is negative about the effects of these tools. All while the wealthy and powerful continue to reap the benefits, while those on slightly lower rungs fight to take their place. And even if the public perception shifts, the power might be so concentrated that it could be impossible to dislodge it without violent means.

What a glorious future we've built.
by contrarian1234 | 2025-07-12 09:21:04+00:00
I have no personal experience with mushrooms, but I never understood why placebo trials aren't done while the patients are asleep.

Just choose research subjects that don't remember their dreams and who sleep a solid 8 hours

I think a trip is much shorter than 8 hours and by the time you wake up you wouldn't be able to tell the difference
Ask HN: What Printer?
by rich_sasha | 2025-07-12 09:22:48+00:00
My old printer died and I need a new one. But the field now seems packed with inefficient, DRM-laden printers needing a refill every 5 pages. Any recommendations for printers that

- just work, no nonsense

- primarily for B&W jobs but occasional color

- don't mind speed or ink/laser but reliability and working on WiFi / Linux strongly welcome.

- built in scanner welcome

I remember Brother printers were at one time highly recommended, but recently there were some voices of disappointment?

Many thanks for any tips!
by Mawr | 2025-07-12 09:23:47+00:00
> "time to do that thing i've practiced, reach to the left". shuts two engines off by muscle memory.

If that were true, pilots would perform arbitrary motions all the time. Same with car drivers.

Typing something on a keyboard, especially when it's always in the same context, is always essentially the same physical action. The context of a password prompt is the same, the letters on the keyboard feel the same and are right next to each other.

Not comparable to pressing two very different buttons placed far apart, in a context when you'd never ever reach for them.
by raincole | 2025-07-12 09:23:48+00:00
AI summaries are information deodorant. When you stumble on a misinformation site via Google, usually there are some signals you can smell. Like how they word their titles or how frequently they post similar topics. The 'style' alone implies the quality of the 'substance'. But if you read the same substance summarized by LLMs you can't smell shit.
by nosianu | 2025-07-12 09:24:22+00:00
So? The comparison still makes no sense. Those switches cannot be accidentally flipped, and they are in a place where the pilots' hands have no action to take at all during that period. That is very different from mixing up two similar weapons in a similar location.

Location of the switches: https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/c-gettyimag...

Here is a video of a takeoff and climb in a 787: https://youtu.be/TTZozTaWiRo

The pilots have no business with their hands in the area of those switches in that phase of the flight (9:30+ in the video). They don't even have to touch the throttle, and even if they did, that's a long way from where you touch the throttle down to the base where those switches are. Which you can't just flip either.

How is that even remotely similar to that cop's situation?
by rcxdude | 2025-07-12 09:24:25+00:00
That is more or less the recommendation from the report, except it wasn't a shortage of intertia, more a shortage of grid voltage control, which current rules prevent renewables from participating in, even if they are capable of it (it's mostly a case of the inverters, not the panels/turbines they draw from. Same with inertia). The blackout was mainly due to a failure of multiple participants in the grid to do what they were supposed to (failing to provide the voltage control it was contracted to do, in one case potentially failing to not drive oscillations into the grid, and failing to remain online within the required voltage range). A lot of the recommendations in the report are 'we should check the plants are up to scratch'.
by BoiledCabbage | 2025-07-12 09:24:37+00:00
> As a libertarian, I am thankful for this investigation.

I didn't get this line. You're saying "even though I am a libertarian I support this non-libertarian action"? Or is it something else?

Previously independent companies were free to choose what they display, now there are proposals for government mandates over their allowed actions.

I may be missing your point.
by jb1991 | 2025-07-12 09:24:39+00:00
I’m not sure where you live but this is a rather strange perspective. Apple is a lifestyle company? I think for every person I know that has an android phone, there are three or four with iPhones, where I live. Doesn’t make a very convincing case of some specific kind of a lifestyle niche.

Then, among the developers I know, nearly none of them are actually writing apps for Apple devices, approximately half using MacBooks.
by citrin_ru | 2025-07-12 09:24:47+00:00
Mail servers typically resolve a remote IP to a PTR. High number of PTR requests can indicate that the network is used to send email. Amazon (both SES and EC2) is one of the biggest email sources on the Internet (ranging from ham to marketing and there is huge spam volume from AWS too).

Thought I don’t expect mail servers to use quad9.
by bstsb | 2025-07-12 09:25:08+00:00
previously the author wrote in a comment reply about not configuring robots.txt at all:

> I've not configured anything in my robots.txt and yes, this is an extreme position to take. But I don't much like the concept that it's my responsibility to configure my web site so that crawlers don't DOS it. In my opinion, a legitimate crawler ought not to be hitting a single web site at a sustained rate of > 15 requests per second.
by aidos | 2025-07-12 09:25:48+00:00
Love it.

At the end of the article they mention digging in to the Amiga scene. If you want to feel old, Deluxe Paint turns 40 this year. My mates had Amigas (I had an Amstrad) and the computing world just felt full of wonder and promise. It was a magical time of creation.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deluxe_Paint
by pona-a | 2025-07-12 09:26:13+00:00
Playing devil's advocate, what if it was more subtle?

Prolonged use of conversational programs does reliably induce certain mental states in vulnerable populations. When ChatGPT got a bit too agreeable, that was enough for a man to kill himself in a psychotic episode [1]. I don't think this magnitude of delusion was possible with ELIZA, even if the fundamental effect remains the same.

Could this psychosis be politically weaponized by biasing the model to include certain elements in its responses? We know this rhetoric works: cults have been using love-bombing, apocalypticism, us-vs-them dynamics, assigned special missions, and isolation from external support systems to great success. What we haven't seen is what happens when everyone has a cult recruiter in their pocket, waiting for a critical moment to offer support.

ChatGPT has an estimated 800 million weekly active users [2]. How many of them would be vulnerable to indoctrination? About 3% of the general population has been involved in a cult [3], but that might be a reflection of conversion efficiency, not vulnerability. Even assuming 5% are vulnerable, that's still 40 million people ready to sacrifice their time, possessions, or even their lives in their delusion.

[1] https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/chatgp...

[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/martineparis/2025/04/12/chatgpt...

[3] https://www.peopleleavecults.com/post/statistics-on-cults
by kailashahirwar | 2025-07-12 09:26:46+00:00
On my Medium blog, I explore topics such as Generative AI, Machine learning, Deep Learning, Computer Vision, LLMs, Artificial Intelligence in general, and groundbreaking advancements in image generation, editing, and virtual try-on technologies. As part of the 'Decoding Research Papers' series, I have published six articles, with more to come in the upcoming weeks. Each article is filled with research notes to help readers grasp both the language and structure of cutting-edge studies.
by schoen | 2025-07-12 09:26:51+00:00
Lots of surprises here! The general theme seems to be that the parser is very eager to find some interpretation of the input as a date, even in ways that appear pretty unprincipled, even in circumstances where human users would probably not agree with the interpretation, and even though it does have ways that it could signal errors. Though maybe some of the weird cases actually do trace back to unusual real-world use cases!
by sumanthvepa | 2025-07-12 09:27:09+00:00
I struggled with it too, but one solution that works for me is blocking time for specific things. For example I will block 4hrs in the early morning to work on my project 5 days a week. I keep friday evening and Saturdays free for family and Sunday for chores.

You have to accept that it is not possible to be as fast as someone working full time on the same project. But you can get creative about how to build things more efficiently.
by southernplaces7 | 2025-07-12 09:27:10+00:00
I tried it for writing, and while the main LLMs do a decent job of vomiting out somewhat wordy but essentially okay text if you want some kind of generic content on a specific subject, there's always a distinctly generative feel to it, at least in my impression. The real problems emerge when you ask for technical or datum-rich writing. The little invented or "mistaken" details are just too frequent to let it be useful unless you do enough editing that you almost might as well write what you wanted yourself.

Given the above, it's useful as hell for generating templates and usable starters for creating your own work when you're feeling stuck, and that's mainly it for me.
by rcxdude | 2025-07-12 09:28:06+00:00
grid-scale batteries generally do add inertia, because that's the most valuable service for them to provide at a small scale. Inverters attached to batteries can do it way better than spinning generators, but they need to be set up to do that.

(And a DC grid would be much more difficult to manage: the nice thing about frequency is that it has to be pretty much the same over the whole grid, so it's a useful signal for the balance between supply and demand, while voltage is really quite sensitive to local effects)
by edg5000 | 2025-07-12 09:28:44+00:00
My only negative thing about AI is that currently it's hard to do it locally, you rely on a third party who now suddenly has access to a large portion of the code. That is really a downgrade from before AI, when I had absolutely everything locally except Google search. But other than that, the bottleneck is with me, not with the AI. I think I can get a lot more out of it by getting more experienced in offloading work to AI. It's just so good how I can just let it run bash commands on my system and figure out my problems. Too good of a utility to pass up on.
by swinglock | 2025-07-12 09:28:56+00:00
And XFS will at unexpected shutdowns sometimes leave you with files that previously contained data now being 0 bytes.

I only really trust ZFS on Linux, but it's such a bother it can't be upstreamed and isn't fully integrated with the native Linux caching, as the native file systems are. Ext is fine too but it's missing features like checksumming and compression, and has limitations as you mentioned.
by rachofsunshine | 2025-07-12 09:29:32+00:00
> What is propaganda for one is truth for another, how could LLM tell the difference?

"How do you discern truth from falsehood" is not a new question, and there are centuries of literature on the answer. Epistemology didn't suddenly stop existing because we have Data(TM) and Machine Learning(TM), because the use of data depends fundamentally on modeling assumptions. I don't mean that in a hard-postmodernist "but can you ever really know anything bro" sense, I mean it in a "out-of-model error is a practical problem" way.

And yeah, sometimes you should just say "nope, this source is doing more harm than good". Most reasonable people do this already - or do you find yourself seriously considering the arguments of every "the end is nigh" sign holder you come across?
by badsectoracula | 2025-07-12 09:29:51+00:00
These "200 people" were counted from credits which list pretty much everyone who even sniffed at the general direction of the studio's direction. The studio itself is ~30 people (just went and check on their website, they have a team list with photos for everyone). The rest are contractors whose contributions usually vary wildly. Besides, credits are free so unless the the company are petty (see Rockstar not crediting people on their games if they leave before the game is released even if they worked on it for years) people err on the site on crediting everyone. Personally i've been credited on a game that used a library i wrote once and i learned about it years after the release.

Most importantly those who mention that the game was made by 30 people do it to compare it with other much larger teams with hundreds if not thousands of people and those teams use contractors too!