MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by TrappedInCorner | 2025-07-12 21:39:18+00:00
America is built on mass migration spread across centuries. It very much is a melting pot. Or at least seems to be like one to someone who has never been there.

>Ultimately, it's the same underlying xenophobia and racism you find everywhere else. It's easier for people to like people who are like them and harder for them to like people who are not like them.

Yes and this is completely normal human behavior, and in my opinion should not be completely outright demonized. I suspect one of the many reasons why europe is the way it is today in regards to this topic, is because we have repressed these natural tribal tendencies. And just to stir the pot; I wonder how welcoming and nice many of the e.g. majority muslim countries would to the non-arabs & non-muslims if they were to mass migrate to said countries. I think they would very much exercise and impose their 'xenophobia' upon these foreigners in certainly more tougher ways.
by conradev | 2025-07-12 21:39:43+00:00
The spec is being implemented by Apple, who is sensitive to privacy issues.

The intent of the ISO spec is to allow you to request fine-grained data, like birth year only, but if you read the W3C standard, they explicitly call out privacy as a complex thing that maybe should be regulated.

The spec spells out the complexity: some ID verification processes actually need a lot of info! But some, like an alcohol age check, do not. The spec can do both, but it’s hard to differentiate these technically. The spec does lay out what user agents should do to make it clear which information is going where.

A bad scenario would be designing an API that is too hobbled to replace the invasive “photo of an ID” companies, which this spec seeks to do.

I’d prefer an open web standard that can be abused (with user consent) to a closed App Store-only API or the status quo
by TheAceOfHearts | 2025-07-12 21:39:45+00:00
I think comma.ai, George Hotz self-driving company is doing something like that. He has previously posted about hiring contributors. They way they do it is that they offer bounties [0] for fixing bugs or issues of different sizes. They also seem to have design challenges which offer paid rewards as well.

[0] comma.ai/bounties
by imiric | 2025-07-12 21:40:06+00:00
I'm honestly baffled why anyone who objects to ads would still want to use any of the official YouTube clients. Whether or not they show ads to you on YouTube, they still track your every move and use it to improve their profile of you so that they can show you ads on any of their other platforms, sell your data, or whatever other shady business they do behind the scenes to extract value from it.

Adtech cannot be trusted. I refuse to support their empire whether that's financially or with my data and attention.
by heavyset_go | 2025-07-12 21:40:21+00:00
If laws were consistent, they'd apply equally to tobacco and alcohol, but they get special carve outs to cater to entrenched industry.

If any of those things are as harmful as proponents claim, there is no excuse for letting them continue to harm anyone for profit. Children aren't the only sympathetic victims here.

> You can't be comparing, surely? A drawn picture of breasts compared to the most hardcore and (almost always female) degrading stuff imaginable in 4k?

I am. The content of those magazines was horrendous by today's standards. Just because it was drawn does not mean the content itself was wholesome. I was genuinely shocked by what it contained.

Still wouldn't ban it, though.
by h2zizzle | 2025-07-12 21:40:40+00:00
Adding: advertisements use as many hacks as possible to grab your attention. You could broadly categorize things that behave in this way as akin to a) a baby's cries (attention-seeking by something that absolutely requires your assistance), b) an alarm (attention-seeking by something that seeks to warn you), or c) being accosted (attention-seeking by something that seeks to harm you for its own benefit). Which are advertisements most closely aligned with? Is it the same across all advertisements, or do intentions vary? People likely assign varying levels of morality to the above examples; does advertising inherit the morality of the most closely aligned example?
by ben_w | 2025-07-12 21:41:29+00:00
Likewise, and that's despite me finding LLMs impressive.

I only trust LLMs for a first draft, where I can actually fact-check everything, or light copy-editing for tone and style.

I wouldn't expect a fresh graduate to be dotting all the i's and crossing all the t's on their research; and as LLMs are like a fresh graduate at coding, I assume they're like that at everything else, too.

Useful, sure, but not what I'd call a "high quality source".
by thorum | 2025-07-12 21:42:11+00:00
The interesting part of context engineering (the actual engineering part) is figuring out how to gather the information the LLM needs to do a task correctly from your system. For example, the secret sauce of GitHub Copilot is how it decides what parts of your codebase to show the LLM. This is surprisingly hard when you need something other than simple RAG. In many cases the data source you need doesn’t exist and you have to build it.

The prompt engineering side of the problem (how you structure your prompt) is trivial by comparison and will become less and less relevant as frontier models improve.
by tolerance | 2025-07-12 21:42:41+00:00
I was let down by the link to "plague" in the lede being internal. I don't know what I expected, because that's the norm.

At the very least, what I'd like to see from news sites is using a LLM to synthesize the most recent/relevant stories to generate some sort of blurb explaining the topic for a given page.

That is, if a human can't be bothered to do it themselves.
by mjburgess | 2025-07-12 21:43:42+00:00
OK, so give me some evidence of M' being a russian asset / funded

It doesn't really matter, because the offensive realist tradition is morality neutral

It doesn't really matter who is at fault. Great powers seek to dominate. Russia has a sphere of influence, so does the US. UA is as free as cuba. There is no morality here

if you're radicalised by your own bee hive to think your side isn't a great power seeking power, you're too far gone

There is no debate about the logic of international relations, no one is 'right'. Personally i think peace was possible, it's irrelevant now -- thanks to this jingoism

Nuland isn't even the most relevant player in ukraine in this; you can find senators confessing to deposing the government of UA; and of only funding UA to grind down the russians. The whole machine i. UA is a cynical exercise of US power.

If you're a zealot for your own nations religion, so be it. This is all futile, there is no fight here. RU has won much much more than it ever needed to, well done

So I am 'pro-russia ', but the lines on my map, i assure you, will be less generous than what russia had taken -- all the while your lot will insist how right you are. Well done, they'll take hafl
by convolvatron | 2025-07-12 21:44:20+00:00
this is not at all simple. part of that causality is that fundamental research money was channeled through the military, because that was politically acceptable. is there a particularly good reason why DOE and DOD funding of university research is higher than NSF?

and its pretty easily to cleave off defense spending for basic research performed by universities from the more applied R&D that defense contractors do, much of that from the black budget. this is a place where every visitor leaves shaking their heads at the overt corruption and waste. but its necessary to have such programs in general to support our common goal of self-autonomy as a nation.

so if we're going to serious as a democratic political body about trying to get the most value from our tax money, we can't really can't fixate on reductionist statements that assert that defense or social support money is an unalloyed bad or good. we really need better transparency and to actually dig into the details.
by motorest | 2025-07-12 21:44:45+00:00
> Sure, but the utility of that for PCB design wasn't demonstrated in the article.

Forget about the article. Try it yourself. Set aside 5 or 10 minutes to ask any LLM of your choice to generate a LLM prompt to generate PCBs. Iterate over your prompt before using it to generate your PCB. See the result for yourself.
by ben_w | 2025-07-12 21:45:51+00:00
I've set some of these models to work synthesising summaries etc. based on my own blog posts; LLMs are surprisingly middling at synthesising info from documents — I've seen even good models elide significant content, go on distracted rambles about other topics in the same area, and even invert the meanings of points being made.

Use them the way you'd have used Wikipedia in 2008: a starting point from which you can do actual research, but you have to watch out for a lot of unverified junk as well.
by godelski | 2025-07-12 21:46:48+00:00
Okay, then yes I misunderstood you. I mostly agree but it's also been 17 years and what are the odds that the offending code still exists? What are the odds that it's TB's fault?

I know people report the issue but googling I can find similar complaints across all major mail clients.

I just don't think there's enough information to make strong conclusions and I don't think California cancer warning labels work. I think they teach people to ignore warnings instead.
by dosco189 | 2025-07-12 21:47:22+00:00
This is super interesting, could you share some examples? Plenty of philosophers are with you in that technology doesn't just exist as a "tool" but actively affects the ways in which we perceive and relate to the world, and understand ourselves.

What are some ways in which you have seen the perceptual abilities of coworkers erode over time?

An efficiency oriented logic makes us think that we're getting the work done "faster", and it "feels" like faster time to market, but in reality you experience a slowdown and a decline in quality...

PS: my own dependance on Wispr (a speech to text dictation tool) changed the way I write / interact with computers - my over-reliance meant I didn't proofread the title, and the "EXTEND" sticks out like a sore thumb...
by layer8 | 2025-07-12 21:48:47+00:00
I mean, yeah, if you don’t actually get much use out of YouTube, then it might not be worth it to you. But that’s the same for all streaming services. And I wasn’t commenting on whether it’s worth it or not, which of course is subjective, but on how big an expense it is in absolute terms. The former doesn’t relate to the “higher net worth ads” argument, the latter does.

Personally I do like YouTube Music, due to all the user-uploaded content that isn’t available on other platforms.
by Brian_K_White | 2025-07-12 21:49:10+00:00
The google money isn't any great gotcha. It's wrong of them to have grown to be so dependant but so what? All it means is that some day the funded development will stop, just like all the forks are already.

Let them take google money for as long as it flows. You can switch to librewolf at any time if FF itself ever actually goes bad in any critical way. But there's not a lot of reason to do so until the minute that actually happens. Go ahead and take the funded work and updates as long as it exists.
by soulofmischief | 2025-07-12 21:49:33+00:00
Society gave us mass shootings. 4chan and other anonymous boards gave us protected speech. We've had mass shootings long before 4chan and they didn't start kicking off until they reached a critical threshold of interest due to social media and the almighty algorithm, not 4chan. Conflating these things is either ignorant or dishonest.
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by gostudio_ai | 2025-07-12 21:49:35+00:00
Hey HN,

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In 6 months, we’ve crossed ~$1500 MRR. All cold DMs. All organic. No ads.

Tech stack:

Next.js, FastAPI

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by galangalalgol | 2025-07-12 21:49:35+00:00
Honestly, it would be better if they take a cycle to clean house and dedicate themselves to a couple things only. No niche groups hijacking the whole party. Jobs, economy, healthcare, taxes, debt. Everone with a different pet cause off the island otherwise you'll lose. My pet cause included as it isn't on that list. The hilarity will be that when the dnc flubs another election cycle doing the cleaning out, the gop winner will be stuck with the debt bomb they expected the opposition to inherit...
by fakedang | 2025-07-12 21:49:42+00:00
In most of South Asia, including India and Bangladesh, we were often taught in school that adding lead paint to turmeric is extremely prevalent (along with a number of other adulteration techniques for other foods). We were also taught various tests we could carry out to test food quality.

If there were elevated levels of lead in a South Asian population , and only them, the first thing any reasonable scientist or detective should have looked at was the lead concentration from turmeric usage. Not lead paint, not lead from water pipes.
by const_cast | 2025-07-12 21:51:10+00:00
Orion is the only viable option on iOS IMO. The fact that, to this day, Safari has no way to block ads on iOS means it's just awful. Before Orion, I avoided using my web browser like the plague, because the experience was just bad.

Now I'm on Android, and Ironfox is pretty good and Firefox is also available. The browser story on Android is leaps and bounds ahead of iOS.
by cvoss | 2025-07-12 21:51:26+00:00
I can find no news outlet reporting the fact claimed in the headline, that the person died less than 24 hours after showing symptoms.

What is reported, in this article and many others, is that the person arrived at the hospital and died there the same day. There is no mention in any article I have read that the symptoms began less than 24 hours before the death.
by ajdude | 2025-07-12 21:51:28+00:00
When I used Firefox on android it ran fine for me and supported ublock origin. Now I use Orion on iOS and it even supports sponsorblock on YouTube.

I consider every browser using chromium as a backend -- especially those that started with another backend and then switch to chromium -- as a traitor to the Internet.

They have no standing especially if they purport to care about things like privacy.
by dosco189 | 2025-07-12 21:51:34+00:00
You are correct! Sadly I can't go back and edit. If this was an LLM, I would just start a new chat without the typo. A new context forgives the sins of the past.

Funny that I'm exploring the impacts of over-dependance/reliance on AI tools, and made a mistake because of the same. Will certainly proof-read after using speech to text!

and yes, extent*
by mcv | 2025-07-12 21:51:35+00:00
That's a misrepresentation. I did not claim that the cuts to medicaid caused the rise in measles; that would have been a silly claim, considering those cuts are being made right now, whereas the rise in measles is already ongoing.

I'm saying it's part of a pattern. The rise in measles, after it was practically eliminated, is obviously caused by the rise in anti-vax beliefs. And that plus the other factors I mentioned are part of a pattern of carelessness and misinformation around public health. All of it put together, these are extremely worrisome developments.
by southernplaces7 | 2025-07-12 21:51:39+00:00
I'm sorry but you're way off base, or deliberately reacting to information that you perceive as having a political agenda that it actually doesn't have.

How I value my friends has nothing to do with the death toll and mortality rate I saw anecdotally, of nearly nobody I know dying from it out of hundreds of people of many ages that I knew at the time. Do you imagine that me valuing my friendships more or less somehow changes the clinical mortality stats for a carefully monitored virus? Really?

Also, COVID wasn't a light cold, but for many people, the vast majority in fact, its symptoms were moderate to mild and far from fatal. Again, this isn't politics of any kind talking, it's just the raw numbers from any reliable source you care to look at. IFR wasn't anywhere close to 10% by the way, as you say further down. Most people, by far, with COVID, were never hospitalized for it (that would have been impossible considering what percentage of the population eventually got it) and the IFR rate among them wasn't 10%. I'd truly love to see your source for that whopper.

Globally, in absolute averaged total, as far as any source I've seen indicates, COVID had/has an IFR that roughly breaks down as follows: This is from the National Institute of Health btw.

"For 29 countries (24 high-income, 5 others), publicly available age-stratified COVID-19 death data and age-stratified seroprevalence information were available and were included in the primary analysis. The IFRs had a median of 0.034% (interquartile range (IQR) 0.013–0.056%) for the 0–59 years old population, and 0.095% (IQR 0.036–0.119%) for the 0–69 years old. The median IFR was 0.0003% at 0–19 years, 0.002% at 20–29 years, 0.011% at 30–39 years, 0.035% at 40–49 years, 0.123% at 50–59 years, and 0.506% at 60–69 years. IFR increases approximately 4 times every 10 years. Including data from another 9 countries with imputed age distribution of COVID-19 deaths yielded median IFR of 0.025–0.032% for 0–59 years and 0.063–0.082% for 0–69 years. Meta-regression analyses also suggested global IFR of 0.03% and 0.07%, respectively in these age groups."

In any case, all of this deviates slightly from a more basic point there's simply no comparison between COVID and the Black Death, in no scenario or circumstance, and mentioning that is not denying that COVID could be dangerous. It's just a statement of obvious facts about how much, much more horrific one of those two pandemics was historically.
by perching_aix | 2025-07-12 21:51:56+00:00
Tracking typically works through fingerprinting. Using free software alone won't magically protect you against this, every website's a program with JavaScript on. Lots of free software is also multiplatform. You'll want to apply additional defensive measures, but you can apply those even on Windows, running Firefox or Chrome. Mind you, you'll then stand out for using those defensive measures.

I generally appreciate source code access and independent auditability, and I do have an appreciation for the intent. But the way people discuss these topics is downright embarrassing, which is what I was hoping to shake out of this. "Just install Linux bro, it's better than pussy bro. What, u still got dat spyin machine goin on?? [links a 30 minute Mutahar video with him faffing about with some technologically trivial bollocks he visibly barely understands]" Please. I think it's pretty agreeable at least that this about as far removed from well supported decision making as one can casually get to be.

Most people switching to Linux and free software alternatives in hopes of better privacy do so based on vibes, not on any rigorous research. And that's fine. Just wish they didn't pretend it wasn't the case.
by spacechild1 | 2025-07-12 21:52:03+00:00
> Both are CEOs tuned model's based on their personal beliefs.

That's not true. Google tried to counter an actual bias in its image generation (albeit with catostrophic results). Do you really think they did this only to align with Sundar's personal political beliefs? Give me a break. And if you don't see the absurdity of consulting the CEO's recent twitter feed as a source of reasoning (on topics where that person is certainly not an expert), I don't know what to say...
by sensanaty | 2025-07-12 21:54:14+00:00
I get what you mean and I think we align here, but I trust the uBlock team infinitely more than I trust Google to make my own extension decisions. I know there's a subset of regular users who fall for all manner of scam, but Manifest V3 doesn't even solve any of those issues, the majority of the same attack vectors that existed before still exist now, except useful tools like uBlock can no longer do anything since they got deliberately targeted.

Besides, there's ways of having powerful extensions WITH security, but this would obviously go against Google's data harvesting ad machine. The Firefox team has a handful of "trusted" extensions that they manually vet themselves on every update, and one of these is uBlock Origin. They get a little badge on the FF extension store marking them as Verified and Trusted, and unless Mozilla's engineers are completely incompetent, nobody has to worry about gorhill selling his soul out to Big Ad in exchange for breaking uBlock or infecting people's PCs or whatever.
by vntok | 2025-07-12 21:55:57+00:00
That's incorrect. See:

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ZTNA tunnels only work with a cloudflare account, so they're subject to the self-serve subscription agreement.

> You and your End Users (as such term is defined in the Privacy Policy) will retain all right, title and interest in and to any data, content, code, video, images or other materials of any type that you or your End Users transmit to or through the Services (collectively, “Customer Content”) in the form provided to Cloudflare. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, you hereby grant us a non-exclusive, fully sublicensable, worldwide, royalty-free right to collect, use, copy, store, transmit, modify and create derivative works of Customer Content, in each case to the extent necessary to provide the Services.
by const_cast | 2025-07-12 21:56:07+00:00
> I don’t see how you can ignore the massively negative effects pornography has on mostly young men

I ignore it because I've only ever gotten responses of morality. Which, as I've said, I think are stupid.

My point about morality is that it's the same morality that oppresses homosexuals, or previously black people and women. It's not a different morality - it's the same reasoning.

Some thing is immoral because of our beliefs, so we censor it or restrict actions. Throughout history, this has only gone poorly - no exceptions. I have no reason to believe it will work out this time.

You might say, "well it hasn't always gone poorly, what about murder?" Yes, murder has morality argument, but it doesn't only have morality arguments. It has real-world effects. It denies someone of their unalienable rights, mainly by ending their lives.

Pornography only has moral arguments, which is why I reject them.