MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sunshine-o | 2025-08-24 12:59:23+00:00
> I used to be advocating for resolution through legal means, but now I inclined to believe that the solution must be technological because everybody wants security and control.

I came to a similar conclusion, what happened in the 90s and early 2000s is since the govs had restricted freedom in the physical/real world a lot of young people took refuge in the Internet.

It became harder for an individual to build his own house or start a business, but you could make a website pretty much free from regulations and impediments.

But governments and a lot of interested parties slowly invested the Internet and now we are complaining it sucks. The common Internet and web suck anyway now because it is full of bots, AI generated content, hard to search and you need to prove you are a human every 5 minutes.

We need to create new networks and places just because it is fun and it will take some time for the govs to follow us there: freenet, yggdrasil, alfis, gemini, reticulum, B.A.T.M.A.N, etc.
by mrtksn | 2025-08-24 12:59:28+00:00
I don't think that there's difference, just implementation details differ. Youtube was blocked in Turkey for many years because someone from Germany uploaded defamatory videos about Ataturk(illegal in TR) and it was considered protected speech and Germany & Google refused deleting those. The situation was resolved when someone copyrighted Ataturk in Germany and made Youtube remove these videos.

Besides copyright, especially among Americans, I find that its completely O.K. to censor content it is bad for business. A major one is censorship in order to be advertisement friendly but anything flies, even the guy owns the thing and can do whatever he pleases is good enough for many(slightly controversial).
by littlecranky67 | 2025-08-24 12:59:40+00:00
Spinning your thoughts further, you assume that stupidity is not some kind of freedom that you get to enjoy in a democracy. The opposite is true, people are free to be stupid, and if the majority is stupid, the smart people have to give in to the fact that stupid people make the rules (by voting).

The whole idea of supressing stupidity in a democracy leads to some sort of elitist society.
by rob_c | 2025-08-24 13:00:10+00:00
Aka I just learned how to modify python code whilst it's running.

Next step, here's how to load modules, resolve a dependency. Handle capabilities and dynamically inject more functionality 'live'.

Patching running machine code in memory for compiled objects is the same but you just need to work around the abstraction that is introduced by languages trying to make the whole stack human parseable.
by rplnt | 2025-08-24 13:00:38+00:00
Oftentimes I ask simple factual questions that I don't know the answer to. This is something it should excel at, yet it usually fails, at least on the first try. I guess I subconsciously ignore questions that are extremely easy to google (if you ignore the worst AI in existence) or can be found by opening the [insert keyword] wikipedia article. You don't need AI for those.
by ratorx | 2025-08-24 13:01:21+00:00
These don’t prevent censorship necessarily, they will give you a way to detect it at best.

DNSSEC gives you the ability to verify the DNS response. It doesn’t protect against a straight up packet sniffer or ISP tampering, it just allows you to detect that it has happened.

DoT/DoH are better, they will guarantee you receive the response the resolver wanted you to. And this will prevent ISP-level blocks. But the government can just pressure public resolvers to enact the changes at the public resolver level (as they are now doing in certain European countries).

You can use your own recursive, and this will actually circumvent most censorship (but not hijacking).

Hijacking is actually quite rare. ISPs are usually implementing the blocks at their resolver (or the government is mandating that public resolvers do). To actually block things more predictably, SNI is already very prevalent and generally a better ROI (because you need to have a packet sniffer to do either).
by Amezarak | 2025-08-24 13:03:26+00:00
None of these problems are new. The problems have been well-understood since the founding of all Western democracies and we accepted that trade off, as we decided the alternative systems were all worse. You can find this very debate in newspapers and CC notes (in America)at the time, about “false rumors” stirred up by “designing men.”

These are all the exact same arguments made by regimes like the CCP as to why their authoritarian methods are necessary. It’s all for the public order and the public good as unfortunately, many people are stirred up even against their own interest by meddlers, demagogues, and foreign interests. Fortunately, the CCP knows better, as the Party makes sure that the experts are making decisions based on all the data.

I would prefer to live in a democracy, and it astounds me to see people in the West repeating word for word what Russians and Chinese regime apologists say about their governments, all while explaining it’s all necessary to protect democracy.
by JustExAWS | 2025-08-24 13:03:28+00:00
LLMs don’t help at all with engineering and knowing what problems should be solved. Knowing how to deal with XYProblems, dealing with “the business”, go to market strategies, etc. They help with coding.

If (the royal) your claim to fame is “I codez real gud”, you would be screwed post 2022 with or without LLMs.

On that same note, at 51 years old, if my only means of staying competitive and employable is that I can reverse a b tree on the whiteboard, I’ve done something horribly wrong with my life.
by aeonik | 2025-08-24 13:03:43+00:00
And wouldn't it be nice if that Python code, instead of a string, was just more python? Then you could use your existing Python code to append, or transform sections of your code!

That's what Lisp is!

Once you see how cool that is, then you can begin to appreciate why Lisp was the defacto standard for AI programing all the way back in the 1960s!
by zosima | 2025-08-24 13:04:12+00:00
Copyright is not censorship.

Censorship is state/company mandated retraction or blockage of certain information. Copyright is state/company mandated blocking of certain forms of expression.

Copyright permits you to publish any idea you so desire, only that you don't plagiarize someone else while doing so. (Which is always possible, as the fair-use doctrine is a thing)
by drl5 | 2025-08-24 13:04:20+00:00
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Apart from these features, MarkFlowy can edit text files (txt), JSON files, and view image files, among other useful functions. We welcome everyone to experience, exchange ideas, and participate.
by jschulenklopper | 2025-08-24 13:04:25+00:00
https://corporate.bwfbadminton.com/news-single/2025/05/02/up...

"The following is a summary of changes to the Laws of Badminton approved at the Annual General Meeting 2025, and a regulation update approved by BWF Council.

Laws of Badminton – Spin Serve

The spin serve is now permanently banned, as per Law 9.1.5, which now reads as follows:

“the server shall release the shuttle without adding spin, and the server’s racket shall initially hit the base of the shuttle;”"
by zahlman | 2025-08-24 13:04:31+00:00
For understandable reasons, censorship in particular of Holocaust and Nazi-related imagery is especially heavy-handed in Germany. Among other things, this has led to bans of several video games (note how much space is dedicated to Germany on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_banned_video_games_by_...) that were relatively popular and uncontroversial in North America, particularly ones with an eye to historic simulation. The context of depicting the Nazis as unquestionably the bad guys who you as a player character must vanquish, does not matter to the censors.
by linker3000 | 2025-08-24 13:05:06+00:00
Here's one possibility.

With AI we need fewer programmers, and the juniors will possibly be the first to go, but they might me retrained for other careers (which might eventually get cancelled too because of AI), or out of work.

The software they produced did something - it might have been a CRM or a game, but out of work people might have to cut back on their gaming spend. As for the CRM app business, the customers and potential software customers are also cutting back in staff, and the CRM apps will be able to conduct direct B2B negotiations with client CRMs, so there's no job opportunities there, and so more people are out of work. Perhaps the businesses that used the AI-based B2B and B2C CRM and ERP systems won't be needed any more, or not have a viable customer base, too.

Other industries are replacing folks with 'AI', so the unemployment pool is getting larger. This means the luxury and non-vital goods manufacturers will have less revenue and they are laying off staff so there's some compensation there, but eventually not enough for survival - which is 'fine' because AI is replacing all this stuff.

This snowballs into other industries, leaving just those jobs that can be done more easily by a human, but those jobs will also reduce as AI and surrounding robotics etc improve, so what do all these unemployed people do all day. Some will embrace leisure activities that don't break the bank. Some may volunteer for community work or projects to improve the World, but they still need to eat and pay bills - who's going to help with that?

One solution might be a 'Star Trek' economy not based on work for reward, but that's a big cultural shift that people and governments will struggle massively to get their heads around conceptually.

There will also be powerful resistance to such a radical rebasing of the planet-wide financial model, especially by those people and organisations that have amassed wealth and don't want to give it up. They'll even fight back with lobbying and arguments against change while they're getting replaced with AI.

Or...?
by ndriscoll | 2025-08-24 13:06:32+00:00
There's where you are confused; I generally do not want things from "the creators" (e.g. I simply don't understand the audience for something like LTT. Non-technical people LARPing as nerds?), and don't see "creator" as a separate class of person.

To the extent that youtube has anything interesting on it, it tends to be random 1 minute recordings from some dude that just fixed something, or recordings of e.g. lectures that were being given anyway, and they felt like posting it somewhere free. These aren't people asking for support. They're unlikely to get more than a few hundred views.

See also [0]. There's already an infinite wealth of top quality works out there, already for free. It'd already take a lifetime to scratch the surface of the best ones. The "creators" you speak of are irrelevant.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44946863
by ednite | 2025-08-24 13:06:57+00:00
Like it or not, AI is here to stay, but many of the questions it raises are ancient ones. Since I often spend my rainy days diving into the writings of the ancient world, I couldn’t help but imagine how three philosophers might look at it: Plato, Socrates, and Seneca.

Plato: warns against mistaking simulation for truth (think shadows on the wall in 4K).

Socrates: reminds us that easy answers can kill questioning.

Seneca: cautions that the real danger isn’t robots rising, but humans surrendering their reason, becoming “zombies of the algorithm.”

TL;DR: AI isn’t inherently good or evil, but without transparency , accountability, and self-discipline, we risk losing our ability to think, question, and create. Ancient philosophy still has lessons for AI safety today.

Interested to hear your thoughts.
by sokoloff | 2025-08-24 13:07:23+00:00
I suspect people who look for annoyances in travel readily find them, while people who look for the positives readily find those.

I used to hate business travel, then took a role that required a fair bit of it. Getting used to the routine, finding ways to be efficient, and realizing that even the occasional irregularities aren’t so bad gave me a perspective that while I don’t love it, it’s far more tolerable than how I used to view it.
by rdm_blackhole | 2025-08-24 13:07:49+00:00
How convenient.

This is the same argument as for encryption. You can't have encryption only for the good guys and not for the criminals. You either have encryption that protects everyone including criminals or you have no encryption.

In this case, you can't have free speech while advocating for censorship against what you consider to be propaganda.

Either everyone has the right to express themselves, including pro war lunatics or you right to free speech will eventually go extinct because then it's only a matter of time before someone else will use the same argument to start censoring a topic or an idea that you care about and they will do it the with the same zeal as you when you agreed to censor RT.

Yet despite this fact that has been proven time and time again, here we are in 2025 with people like you who applaud censorship.
by prmph | 2025-08-24 13:08:12+00:00
> The illusion of consciousness"

So you think there is "consciousness", and the illusion of it? This is getting into heavy epistemic territory.

Attempts to hand-wave away the problem of consciousness are amusing to me. It's like an LLM that, after many unsuccessful attempts to fix code to pass tests, resorts to deleting or emasculating the tests, and declares "done"
by rafram | 2025-08-24 13:08:27+00:00
> As far as I can tell, the major booking portals for tickets are all basically the same. I’ve been using Orbitz for a long time

This is really bad advice. You should search using a flight search engine like Google Flights, not a single OTA, and book directly with the airline unless an OTA has a much, much better deal. The $10 that Orbitz might sometimes save you comes at the cost of having to talk to their customer service, not the airline’s, if you want to change your trip.
by drzaiusx11 | 2025-08-24 13:10:08+00:00
When I'm in a flow state during complex problem solving, an interruption will cause something akin to visceral pain for me. I've learned to mask and just deal, but it kills the thread holding all the context in my brain. I wouldn't know how to measure the loss in a productivity sense, but depending on the problem it can be much more than 20m to recover...
by TrackerFF | 2025-08-24 13:10:26+00:00
Since most of my time at airports are spent through work, I long since learned that fast track + getting access to the lounges makes a world of difference.

Free food, drinks, booze, superior in every way. If I know I have access, I’m not too bothered with spending extra time, or minimizing my airport time. The absolute minimum should be fast track tho.

Edit: Also, the real benefit of upgraded class when boarding is guaranteed overhead luggage space, if you only have carry-on luggage.
by mitchellh | 2025-08-24 13:11:11+00:00
All politics aside, I want to note that this is not a “little known” thing and I’ve never seen it talked about as a “loophole.”

I’m a pilot, I know hundreds more pilots. Most individuals who own a plane (even a Cessna that costs less than a car) know about and often use this program.

It’s very much well known in the aviation community. And outside of that I’d say it would be more surprising to people that the general public can track any aircraft public or private! (Imagine everyone’s car being able to be real time tracked by license plate by anyone anytime)

Now, bringing some politics in, it does feel like aircraft movement for the purpose of public government use should be documented and available.
by kldg | 2025-08-24 13:12:05+00:00
I think it likely needs to get bad enough that people actually stop using them altogether or ask government to step in. we do this with social media now where the school systems here strongly discourage social media use at home, and the government is considering bans or age restrictions (the latter requiring some kind of ID upload). this is similar to smoking; it wasn't that people would necessarily ban themselves from doing it, but bowed to a desire for the government to make forceful pushes to shove people out of it.

of course, not all social media is bad, I think. maybe. -but I think it's easier to get people to make the government ban Facebook/Instagram/Reddit/whatever than have people individually switch; it's sort of inherently antisocial for a person to peel off from the main hive and switch to a smaller self-selecting platform, I might argue.
by Matl | 2025-08-24 13:12:20+00:00
Apart from the fact that you seem to be equating a whole people with one group, you also seem to conveniently not realize that the government committing the genocide is a non-secular messianic one, with a deep seated belief of the superiority of their own religious group over any other, but particularly feel themselves superior to the people they occupy for decades, who of course despite them being occupied are always supposed to find compassion and understanding for their occupier first, otherwise the occupation cannot end, right?

There were and are plenty of reasonable groups one could work with, but the genocide is about grabbing land, asserting dominance and exacting revenge, while feeding a victimhood complex that is never able to acknowledge its own mistakes.
by harimau777 | 2025-08-24 13:12:37+00:00
I've always wanted to schedule enough time to get a drink and some food before my flight at one of those airport restaurants designed to look like a pub or cafe. Even if the food might be overpriced, they always struck me as having a neat "liminal vibe" to them; sort of like what I feel when I see the painting Nighthawks.
by DoctorOW | 2025-08-24 13:13:18+00:00
Sure, they reported that Jewish individuals had to flee Ukraine due to a Nazi takeover and a supposed ongoing genocide. There's no evidence of the fleeing or the genocide happening. This was one of the false narratives cited in the EU court's ruling.

> Somehow I cannot recall ever seeing one proactively volunteered

I err on the side of brevity, not seeing a claim that RT's removal was unjust in the comment I was responding to, I felt no need to justify it myself.
by arp242 | 2025-08-24 13:13:59+00:00
Well I did say "somewhat superfluous", not "entirely superfluous" :-)

This is where the up- and down-sides need to be considered. Everyone moved from micro-USB to USB-3 because it was easier and better, and this will now be harder (not impossible, as another comment says, this is supposed to be evaluated 5 years). There may also be special cases where there's a good reason to use something other than USB-C Is that a big problem? Maybe not? I don't know.
by crote | 2025-08-24 13:14:22+00:00
The flights aren't radio silent, as that would result in significant safety risks. They have just been put on an ignorelist which is voluntarily honored by most commercial flight tracking websites, like FlightRadar24[0].

However, nothing is stopping you from creating your own flight detection network which doesn't follow the ignorelist. A well-known one is the volunteer-run ADS-B Exchange[1].

[0]: https://www.flightradar24.com

[1]: https://www.adsbexchange.com/
by davidmurdoch | 2025-08-24 13:14:49+00:00
I've been trying to articulate why switching our OSS project from using public GitHub issues to private Jira issues (behind auth that requires logging in with 2FA again every 48 hours) is bad for programmer productivity. Upper management quite literally doesn't believe me. To them, "flow state" and the visceral pain getting pulled out is it causes is completely fictional.
by petertodd | 2025-08-24 13:14:53+00:00
> Why am I still surprised that the wealthy have special laws just for their privacy?

The status quo is you or I can travel without significant non-government privacy concerns, as we blend into the crowd of millions of normal air travelers. Celebrities can't do that, as they get noticed by the public. Keeping the movements of their planes private just helps celebrities get to enjoy a similar level of privacy as the rest of us. I see nothing wrong with that.

Furthermore, it's good that celebrities value their privacy. Everyone should. We can all members of society to value privacy and for those values to filter down into laws that also protect it.
by prasadjoglekar | 2025-08-24 13:15:27+00:00
> This is the tricky part. You need to know the worst-case scenario for the trip to the airport. This is why I love taking trains to the airport, even when they are on average slower than a taxi. You have a safe upper bound of how long it takes.

This is reasonable advice going to the source airport or NYC where subways run 24/7.

Be mindful at the destination though, when trains may not be running etc. I've had a number of close misses at SFO when the last BART out was just past midnight and a slight delay would leave me spending 4 hours there or $100+ in cab fare.
by Amorymeltzer | 2025-08-24 13:16:08+00:00
A fun read is Benjamin Wallace's The Billionaire's Vinegar. Ostensibly it's about the then-most expensive bottle of wine sold, a bottle supposedly owned by Benjamin Franklin, but it's a good tour through expensive wines and old wines. It's from 2008 so I imagine most of the superlatives are outdated and some of the detecting tech might be improved, but a fine enough read.

Some good lines, perhaps most relevantly: "A truism about mature wines is that there are no great wines, only great bottles."
by rplnt | 2025-08-24 13:18:15+00:00
The most recent one I have was not in English. It was a translation question of a slang word between two non-English languages. It failed miserably (just made up some complete nonsense). Google had no trouble finding relevant pages or images for that word (without any extra prompt), so it was rather unique and not that obscure. Disclaimer: I'm not using any extra prompts like "don't make shit up and just tell me you don't know".

Most recent technical I can remember (and now would be a good time to have the actual prompt) was that I asked whether MySQL has a way to run UPDATE without waiting for lock. Basically ignore rows that are locked. It (Sonnet 4 IIRC) answered of course and gave me an invalid query in the form of `UDPATE ... SKIP LOCKED`;

I can't imagine what damage this does if people are using it for questions they don't/can't verify. Programming is relatively safe in this regard.

But as I noted in my other reply, there will be a bias on my side, as I probably disregard questions that I know how to easily find answers to. That's not something I'd applaud AI for.