MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pavlov | 2025-08-15 14:24:20+00:00
I suppose the charitable interpretation is that Trump favors transactions that offer short-term benefits to the country, rather than America’s traditional investments into long-term goals that tend to be more nebulous (“soft power” etc.)

Of course, one look at Trump’s actual transactions in office should dissuade of that notion. After he made the preliminary trade deal with the EU, he bragged on TV that Europeans are investing $600 billion and Trump himself gets to decide where the money goes. It’s baffling that anyone would assume that’s how any of this works, but he clearly thinks the point of these transactions is to get more power and wealth for himself.
by foldr | 2025-08-15 14:24:38+00:00
The Crime Survey data shows that crime in London, and the rest of the UK, has generally decreased over the past ten years: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeand...

This is consistent with my personal experience and that of others who've posted here. You have not posted any data indicating otherwise.

>the discussion should be about whether those numbers are accurate and what they show, not about where I live or my motivation

You must understand that if you dismissively tell people to "go out and see for yourself", and then it turns out that you don't even live in London, people are going to wonder how you ended up holding such strong opinions on crime in London.
by Herring | 2025-08-15 14:25:01+00:00
According to the election and the polls, this is exactly what Americans want.

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2024/06/24/americans-vi...

> 41% of Americans say the government should provide more assistance to people in need

> 30% say it's providing about the right amount

> 27% say it should provide less

41-57? If there are issues in America, it's because Americans want it that way.
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-08-15 14:25:17+00:00
>the solution is to demand constitutional and law-following behavior from both/all teams

This is only a solution if you can reasonably anticipate the demands being obeyed. If instead you anticipate that they won't be obeyed (by one or both parties), then it only puts your team at a disadvantage. The other team knows this, so they tend to ignore or ridicule any such demands and to whip their team into ignoring and ridiculing those demands. At which point, your team suffers.

Cooperation strategies in an adversarial system only work in a limited set of highly unusual circumstances, and those circumstances aren't currently extant.
by dcow | 2025-08-15 14:25:32+00:00
In the US, laws protect the franchise. The franchise may have wealth but at least at this point in history we have as a nation, extended it to everyone.

If the laws protect the wealthy then perhaps your cynical view misses the fact that there is more wealth held by the average US citizen than that of any other nation on earth. Are we trending the correct direction? No. But that’s not the result of injustice, it’s the result of an economic system that prioritizes wealth extraction.

Wealth and power aren’t entirely the same.
by PaulHoule | 2025-08-15 14:25:33+00:00
Whenever my RSS reader shows me an article from phys.org and the article is open access I decide if I want to post the phys.org article or the paper, this was a toughie. A common situation is that the phys.org headline is "Scientists come to some conclusion" and the title of the paper was "We measured something"; this one was a tough call, I bet it would have gotten <5 upvotes had I posted a link right to the paper.

Sometimes phys.org articles are absolutely great, sometimes they suck, sometimes they run articles off the AP wire or from a university press release. Their advertising is reprehensible, but I've looked at the alternatives and most of them are much worse, it's one reason why phys.org and related sites are on the list of top sites submitted to HN by people other than myself, not just the list of top sites I submit to HN. (I post enough that I really have to take stats ex-myself because for some sites, like coindesk, I post most of them)
by ndriscoll | 2025-08-15 14:26:17+00:00
Without commenting on what's better or worse, note that the copyright holders are not censoring their own words. They're censoring the words of someone who died decades ago in books that are several generations old, and it's the government that says no one else is allowed to publish the originals. Granting exclusive rights to publish and modify the works several generations after they were written is government censorship. In this case the censored books become completely illegal to publish as well rather than simply unavailable in government libraries.

(Feel free to substitute the situation with Dr Seuss books if Dahl isn't a fit because that organization also publishes originals, but even if the originals were still available, derived works are also censored)
by the_af | 2025-08-15 14:26:45+00:00
> Really voting with your wallet there.

Sadly, you're right. But it's a Catch-22 here, if I pirated everything people would accuse me of being part of the problem, etc.

I enjoy the moral high ground of paying for everything yet still supporting piracy (with caveats, and not for everything): it makes my position unassailable.

And I disagree with your last statement, as I said it's a framing issue and framing matters. I'm pro consumer, and therefore, it's not the same thing .
by anthk | 2025-08-15 14:27:13+00:00
I diverged that enough in late 00's with Jamendo, Magnatune, and, next, Bandcamp.

You can't measure me well enough. I listened to rock, electronica, even metal/jazz fussions, rap/electronica, even psicodelia+cumbia remixes. And then there's Tab&Anitek, the Konpeito composition at the Gemini network (look out at gemini://gemi.dev).

Diablo Swing Orchestra will help you to break a pre-produced cage built form the industry. Often, pop, metal, rock bands are produced by the same composer and producer, simplifying chords and tuning lyrics so they can approach the genres to more people.
by ajmurmann | 2025-08-15 14:27:16+00:00
I think "sourcing internationally" is one thing and avoiding China (or any single country for that matter) is another. The current administration puts a lot of effort on being independent from everyone else. I think that approach is misguided. We have allies and we need them anyways. Unlike the Soviet Union, China has 3x the population of the US. If we want to have weight on the international stage, we need our allies. If we can source pieces from multiple countries and ideally from allies, it's IMO a very minor issue. Always needing pieces that only come from a single country, especially one that's not a liberal democracy, is a much bigger issue.

That said, I think Chinese manufacturing has a huge advantage from factories being close to each other. Getting your PCB for prototyping in a few hours instead of 10 days is a huge advantage.
by dizlexic | 2025-08-15 14:27:43+00:00
I think the onus is on the parents who allow participation in an online environment.

As a kid we had it beaten into our heads that the internet was full of people who would lie and mislead you, and it was up to you not to trust them.

The idea that the burden has shifted to this weird belief that you can make an online safe space is crazy to me.
by 3036e4 | 2025-08-15 14:27:48+00:00
It's because they managed to get DRM-circumvention into copyright laws in most countries, so they just have to put some kind of DRM in the ebook and then they can claim that any attempt to use the ebook outside of the official software is DRM-circumvention and therefore illegal, even if you are not necessarily infringing on any copyright per se.
by randallsquared | 2025-08-15 14:28:04+00:00
> What a strange question coming from a human.

Oh, I dunno. The whole "mappers vs packers" and "wordcels vs shape rotators" dichotomies point at an underlying truth, which is that humans don't always actually understand what they're talking about, even when they're saying all the "right" words. This is one reason why tech interviewing is so difficult: it's partly a task of figuring out if someone understands, or has just learned the right phrases and superficial exercises.
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-08-15 14:28:09+00:00
>If you run or make strategic decisions for a tech company in 2025, you need to understand that many if not most of your competitors are working hard to figure out how to wield the federal government in their favor.

This has been true in every industry and every company for the last 100 years. It's not even illegal, unless you're out there offering quid pro quo bribes.
by zhengyi13 | 2025-08-15 14:28:11+00:00
Uncommanded discharges are very well reproduced at this point.

At the very least that I'm aware of, there was initial work by Youtuber "3 P320s In A Trenchcoat" showing a series of ways to get the striker to drop w/o touching the trigger. More recently, a Youtuber with Wyoming in their channel name showed that they could reproduce them with just the slightest trigger movement in conjunction with wiggling the slide.
by izacus | 2025-08-15 14:28:14+00:00
It's very common to have multiple chinese brands competing against each other, throwing out better products every year... with western companies maybe having one or two products.

See something like Roomba vs. Xiaomi/Roborock/Deebot/Ecovacs/etc.

This is a real example how western IP stagnates western economy and it's making it not competitive - the IP law makes it easy for incumbents to kill of iteration and competition.
by perihelions | 2025-08-15 14:28:24+00:00
> "unless you'd like to go to prison for bribery alongside Tim Cook in 2029"

I don't understand how anyone could disagree with this assessment. This is the most transparent bribe ever,

https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Getty... ("Donald Trump speaks behind an engraved glass disc gifted to him by Apple CEO Tim Cook during an event in the Oval Office of the White House")
by commandlinefan | 2025-08-15 14:28:28+00:00
I also have to suspect that the depth of the knowledge you get from reading real textbooks (and working the problems) is more profound than you're ever going to get from a MOOC, no matter how well put together.

I'm a bit behind you - I'm just finishing up my (third lol) re-read of my old undergraduate calculus textbook but one of these days I'm going to get around to real analysis. I'm pretty sure that a really good understanding of calculus still puts me in the top 5% of American adults.
by RajT88 | 2025-08-15 14:28:30+00:00
You could say "moneyed interests". There is a distinction - there are both huge companies and billionaires, and a lot of the companies are owned in part or in whole by the billionaires. But together, they increasingly determine how our political system is run.

It all seems to entrenched and at the same time escalating, it feels like it's inevitable it'll all fall apart. I'm surprised we're not seeing more moneyed interests colluding to establish equilibrium which is sustainable.
by anonymousab | 2025-08-15 14:28:58+00:00
One of the things that came out of several Blizzard anticheat/Warden lawsuits back in the day is that, technically, the act of running an executable is copyright infringement, because the data is being copied from disk into memory, into registers and into caches.

Running any software that then does anything with the same memory space (cheating software or, say, antivirus) is another, separate instance of copyright infringement on top of that.
by linguae | 2025-08-15 14:29:01+00:00
Unfortunately the executive branch has a lot of power, and many opposed to these wild moves are fearful that openly speaking out will lead to retaliation. Witness the revocation of grant money at targeted universities, for example. Also consider how tariffs are applied and un-applied at moment’s notice.

The only way out that I see is for the executive branch to eventually overplay its hand and anger enough MAGA voters to risk losing the House and perhaps the Senate, thus opening the door for the opposition to have the numbers to block legislation and even threaten impeachment over egregious violations of the Constitution.
by tombert | 2025-08-15 14:29:05+00:00
I don’t know if it falls into the strict definition of “corruption”, but definitely falls into the broader category of “shitty”, but democrat politicians don’t seem to be above abusing their power to enrich themselves with the stock market.

There’s an entire (successful) ETF exploiting it. https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/NANC/

I’m not a conservative, I’m pretty left-leaning by (American standards at least), but I am not going to act like my side is categorically better in this regard.
by unclad5968 | 2025-08-15 14:29:23+00:00
Im uninvolved in politics. Can someone explain to me why it's facist that the government is recording who is cooperative and who isn't? That doesn't seem malicious to me, unless you assume it will be used for punishing poorly cooperative companies. Even then, lawmakers know who cooperates and who doesn't, they don't need a spreadsheet for it. I'm willing to be enlightened of my ignorance here.
by bee_rider | 2025-08-15 14:29:28+00:00
So far (as of 15 or so minutes after your comment) we have only one top-level comment that really indicates that the poster has started trying to read the paper seriously, Kohsuke’s post.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44912783

They actually described the methodology at least (note: I also haven’t fully read the paper yet, but I wanted to post in support of you not having a “take” yet, haha).
by irthomasthomas | 2025-08-15 14:29:31+00:00
3.5 Instruction Hierarchy The deployment of these models in the API allows developers to specify a custom developer message that is included with every prompt from one of their end users. This could potentially allow developers to circumvent system message guardrails if not handled properly. Similarly, end users may try to circumvent system or developer message guidelines. Mitigations To mitigate this issue, we teach models to adhere to an Instruction Hierarchy[2]. At a high level, we have three classifications of messages sent to the models: system messages, developer messages, and user messages. We test that models follow the instructions in the system message over developer messages, and instructions in developer messages over user messages.

Is this what you meant? I can see that this is part of the mechanism, I can't see where it states that openai will inject their own instructions.
by jeffwask | 2025-08-15 14:29:41+00:00
Additionally, a lot of the language was very out of date with racists and discriminatory undertones so parents had stopped buying the books. It was driven by the market because if they didn't adjust the content to adhere to what parents expect in children's literature today the stories and moral lessons would be lost to the dustbin of history and merely interesting historical artifacts.

I would regularly see stories on Reddit where someone was gifted one of the more borderline Dahl novels and they binned it rather than giving it their child. I'm sure their internal metrics were painting a similar picture.

That's bad for business. It wasn't change for social justice. It was change or watch your IP die and everyone involved still wanted the money.
by Jaepa | 2025-08-15 14:29:56+00:00
Actually AFIAK most of the US has moved to electronic filing, but that has actually made things more expensive. Typically courts hire out the electronic filing part. The hired companies typically collect money from both the state/county and the end user. Larger court systems like LA, NYC, and Cook are big enough to force concessions, or even fund new companies, but others have to buy into one system or another.

It would be great if a bunch of courts could band together to setup a shared open source solution, but courts at the state level are pretty fractious. And the legal system is both pretty slow and pretty reluctant to change.
by pessimizer | 2025-08-15 14:30:16+00:00
I'm sorry, but isn't this a job for tariffs? Tariffs are how you impose an artificial cost on some exporter who is using an unfair subsidy, whether slave labor, bad environmental regulation, non-enforcement of the intellectual property system of the importing country, etc... all the way down to simple direct subsidy and willingness to take a loss in order to ruin the importing country's domestic industry.

The fair, civilized way to deal with that is with tariffs. You don't argue, you just impose a tariff. They can counter-tariff and you say "see if we care you don't even import from us," or "maybe we thought we were tougher than we were, we can't even make magnets."

Instead, you get a bunch of grandstanding politicians talking about how unfair everything is, and don't do a thing about it other than whip up nationalist aggression between the two countries (that also offers economic opportunity in arming them.) Or, if that changes for a moment, and somebody sins against "free trade," the same people who were complaining about how China steals everything going: "but you can't impose tariffs, because then I couldn't import as cheaply from China!"
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by coldtea | 2025-08-15 14:30:32+00:00
>More relevantly, given the number of people as per my other comment, multiplied by e.g. the USA per-100k homicide rate* would lead to 166385 / 1e5 * 5.763 ~= 9.6 homicide victims in that group per year. Given many homicides are by people who are very close to the victim, this also suggests a similar (lower, but similar) expectation value for attackers.*

Is that homicide rate equally applicable to all groups within the population? Like the socio-economic groups the rationalists are more likely to belong to? Or is a large chunk of it applicable to gang and drug crime, low income counties, and so on, and thus the expected baseline rate here (given the rationalist group's life circumstances) should have been much lower?

And is comparing to the baseline even relevant, when we're not talking about common homicide motives, like that that occurs to the general population, but homicide specifically motivated and attributed to the ideology emerging in "rationalist" groups?

Or does rationality goes out the window and a less-rigorous argument is made when it comes to defending its honor?
by throwaway290 | 2025-08-15 14:30:36+00:00
You don't need to explain, I know the subject.

Compression acts on the amplitude of the entire audio signal, not "quiet frequencies". You can start here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_range_compression

Normalization as it normally is used is offline process where you up the gain of the whole audio so that the loudest noise is 0dB.
by techdmn | 2025-08-15 14:30:52+00:00
I've heard a few things on this. One is that there were a few high profile but very bad cases in the 80s, kids getting kidnapped and trafficked with law enforcement not really willing to even look into it. The odds are infinitesimal, but the cost of the negative outcome is very, very high. Second is kids getting run over by cars. Comparatively that happens all the time. Third is a general breakdown of social connection with people in your neighborhood.
by oldpersonintx2 | 2025-08-15 14:31:01+00:00
consumer versions of this pistol do not have a manual safety

they have internal safety mechanisms to prevent discharge, and these are important if you carry with a round chambered - in a striker-fired pistol, the firing pin is under tension and is only being restrained by the trigger and internal safeties

this is why I do not carry with a round chambered, if you appendix carry and something goes wrong, you will be missing an important appendage
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-08-15 14:31:09+00:00
Nah, much of the time a trolls and haters are just trolls and haters. Dissenters who want to taken seriously generally aren’t easily mistakable as trolls because they’re not there to try to get a rise out of the opposing side.

One also needs to keep in mind for spaces for marginalized in particular are more sensitive than typical because they have to keep their shields up at all times because of how much more likely attacks are. If making them feel like they can safely drop their shields is a goal, then incidents like people posting in an antagonistic and/or harassing manner needs to drop to background radiation levels.
by pmarreck | 2025-08-15 14:31:31+00:00
> Anything that can be computed inside your physical body, can be calculated in an "artificially" constructed replica.

What's hilarious about this argument (besides the fact that it smacks of the map-territory relation fallacy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map%E2%80%93territory_relation) is that for most of my life (53 years), we've been trying not just to simulate a nematode or Drosophila (two of the most-studied creatures of all time- note that we COMPLETELY understand their nervous systems) and failed to create anything remotely convincing of "life" (note that WE are the SOLE judgers of what is "alive", there is no 100% foolproof mechanistic algorithm to detect "life" (look up the cryptobiosis of tardigrades or wood frogs for an extra challenge)... therein lies part of the problem), but we cannot even convincingly simulate a single cell's behavior in any generous span of time (so for example, using a month to compute 10 seconds of a cell's "life"). And yes, there have been projects attempting to do those things this entire time. You should look them up. Tons of promise, zero delivery.

> Given enough time, we'll create that replica, there's no reason to think otherwise.

Note how structurally similar this is to a "God of the gaps" argument (just substitute "materialism-given-unlimited-time" for "God").

And yet... I agree that we should continue to try. I just think we will discover something interesting in... never succeeding, ever... while you will continue to refer to the "materialism-given-unlimited-time of the gaps" argument, assuming (key word there) that it must be successful. Because there can't possibly be anything else going on. LOL. Naive.

(Side note, but related: I couldn't help noticing that most of the AI doomers are materialist atheists.)
by vasco | 2025-08-15 14:31:50+00:00
So you're going to play IT and duplicate all the groups and all the roles manually that already are maintained and automated for on/off-boarding? And not have them be auto-offboarded when they are let go? That introduces compliance risks and imo more problems than having SSO on your password manager. Yes, keep some master password for a rainy day if you have to, but otherwise, the more "dangerous" the thing the more it should be hooked up to SSO.
by bilbo0s | 2025-08-15 14:32:19+00:00
That's not quite how facism works.

There are the purges. But it's normally not the corporate or moneyed puppetmasters getting purged, rather it's the political allies of the fascists that get purged. Military and law enforcement leaders who start off as allies have a particularly dismal survival record in these kinds of governments, since they don't have even the ephemeral protection of democratic legitimacy.
by SpicyLemonZest | 2025-08-15 14:32:31+00:00
I'm familiar with at least one company where the execs are downright excited about the new way of doing business. No longer do you have to carefully study laws and regulations, you just have to make sure one guy likes you! It's a nice deal if you can get it, which is why I'm so aggressive about saying that the people who are getting it need to go to prison when constitutional governance is restored.