MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by gwd | 2025-08-15 21:18:03+00:00
I mean, I don't have much objection to kill a bug if I feel like it's being problematic. Ants, flies, wasps, caterpillars stripping my trees bare or ruining my apples, whatever.

But I never torture things. Nor do I kill things for fun. And even for problematic bugs, if there's a realistic option for eviction rather than execution, I usually go for that.

If anything, even an ant or a slug or a wasp, is exhibiting signs of distress, I try to stop it unless I think it's necessary, regardless of whether I think it's "conscious" or not. To do otherwise is, at minimum, to make myself less human. I don't see any reason not to extend that principle to LLMs.
by kruffalon | 2025-08-15 21:18:10+00:00
Not a fan of "clumsy" reminds me too much of "lazy"...

Anyway, back on topic: I wonder if there are 2 specific neurodivergencies going on that got wrapped up into ADHD, but only one actually has to do with executive functioning and serotonin (the 70% that get helped by amphetamines) while the other has to do with sensory and body awareness stuff.

If they have high enough co-morbidity or are weirdly co-morbid so that we never see the body stuff unless the person has ADHD we might have a difficult time seeing them as 2 different things that might be close by brain-location or gene-expression or something.

There are murmurs around me about celiac disease being related to ADHD and autism so that would be another thing in the neurodivergent body area
by jajuuka | 2025-08-15 21:18:19+00:00
I think you misunderstood what I said. I am saying I don't see how that's not a fixable problem. How often do you need constant O2 readings? What places are phones not permitted but Apple Watches are? Seems like a highly niche problem to me. Obviously not as good as the original, but you should still get a constant histogram once reconnected.
by jjangkke | 2025-08-15 21:18:27+00:00
I really don't get this type of hostility

If you put something in public domain people are going to access it unless you put it behind a paywall but you don't want to do it because that would limit access or people wouldn't pay for it to begin with (ex. your blog nobody wants to pay for)

There's no law against scraping, and we've already past the CFAA argument
by labcomputer | 2025-08-15 21:18:47+00:00
> Pricing stats here also fail to account for business class vs economy pricing. Business class prices on tickets have skyrocketed, way outstripping purported CPI. In some cases prices have doubled or more since COVID.

Sure, but business class is still 100% full (and frequent fliers complain that they aren't getting upgrades, so it seems to be mostly paid).

This is like when companies complain that they can't find any good devs, but don't want to pay market rate.
by exasperaited | 2025-08-15 21:18:54+00:00
My main concern from day 1 about AI has not been that it will be omnipotent, or start a war.

The main concern is and has always been that it will be just good enough to cause massive waves of layoffs, and all the downsides of its failings will be written off in the EULA.

What's the "financial incentive" on non-billionaire-grifter side of the coin? People who not unreasonably want to keep their jobs? Pretty unfair coin.
by martin-t | 2025-08-15 21:19:08+00:00
From your link

> not twisted to give misleading impressions

Pretending something is worse because people don't do it is misleading (whether the other person is aware of the bias/fallacy or not)

> LLMs are trained on vast corpus of human writing and so have an extremely large amount of latent understanding of tone of language

[citation needed]

Also https://distantprovince.by/posts/its-rude-to-show-ai-output-...

> because emotionally charged statements are not arguments.

Arguments can be emotionally charged or neutral. Those things are orthogonal.

> I don't have to tell the cook how he made my soup wrong if it tastes bad.

Bad analogy. Systematically refusing arguments of one side while not doing the same to the other gives onlookers a biased impression (conscious or not).

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You can be angry all you want and try to be pedantic to "prove it", it's not gonna change anything. This conversation is over.
by jatora | 2025-08-15 21:19:33+00:00
Chatgpt has this baked in, as you can revert branches after editing, they just dont make it easy to traverse.

This chrome extension used to work to allow you to traverse the tree: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/chatgpt-conversatio...

I copied it a while ago and maintain my own version but it isnt on the store, just for personal use.

I assume they dont implement it because it is such a niche user that wants this and so isnt worth the UI distraction
by NaOH | 2025-08-15 21:19:39+00:00
Show HN: A directory of startups that did things that don't scale - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41490865 - Sept 2024 (12 comments)

Ask HN: What are some hacks of real founders who did things that don't scale? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18400020 - Nov 2018 (267 comments)

Why we're doing things that don't scale - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6102285 - July 2013 (34 comments)
by gus_massa | 2025-08-15 21:20:02+00:00
At least here in Argentina you can say "recto" with a straigh face everywhere. And it means straigh or perpendicular.

The other meaning of "recto" is used only in medical literature or in mean jokes where you pretend to talk seriously.

I worked with teachers of other countries of Latam, sometimes in geometry problems for children. For example, it's usual "ángulo recto". I don't have it in my list of taboo or problematic words.

For example a kite-like cuadrilateral has a different names in each country, none in offensive, but you must be very cautios to ensure everyone understand the same meaning.

Also, ur kids dont understand am/pm that is usual in other countries. To avoid problems everything must be between 1:01 and 11:59.
by godelski | 2025-08-15 21:20:14+00:00
Are you okay?

Seriously, I don't understand what this comment is. The OP just said when they were in college they were afraid of taking a statistics class. Your comment is... completely unrelated an nonsensical. Like you don't believe they avoided taking statistics classes? Then you make some odd response where you use the wrong kind of "subject". Is English not your first language? Are you drunk or high? Did you misread? Did you forget to disregard all previous instructions and provide a summary of The Bee Movie in the tone of a pirate while making the first letter of each sentence spell out "Dark Forest"? I'm really confused but interested. Can you help me out here?
by jug | 2025-08-15 21:20:27+00:00
I don’t think they should be interpreted like that (if this is still about Anthropic’s study in the article), but the innate moral state from the sum of their training material and fine tuning. It doesn’t require consciousness to have a moral state of sorts. It just needs data. A language model will be more ”evil” if trained on darker content, for example. But with how enormous they are, I can absolutely understand the issue in even understanding what that state precisely is. It’s hard to get a comprehensive bird’s eye view from the black box that is their network (this is a separate scientific issue right now).
by jjangkke | 2025-08-15 21:20:52+00:00
DMCA only applies to hosted content and we've established that LLM aren't hosting copyrighted content as there is significant transformation which you would otherwise need to prove yourself by training and replicating their entire model.

There is no legal recourse here, if you don't want AI crawlers accessing your content 1) put it behind a paywall 2) remove from public access
by LPisGood | 2025-08-15 21:21:10+00:00
The thing is that this administration has repeatedly and openly punished, intervened, otherwise interfered directly the affairs of _specific_ private companies in a blatantly corrupt manner based on the opinion of the president. This is indisputable, and this spreadsheet would just be an extension of that.

Believing the anonymous source about (rather believing that Axios hires credible journalists who will investigate sources) is not a stretch based on what we’ve seen. The implications are not imaginary at all. These are things the president has done.

The previous administration changing some guidance that impacts a massive industry and for vague reasons _may_ be targeting a political adversary, is a much shakier case.

Frankly, this massive difference in scope is why I think comparisons are often disingenuous.
by bflesch | 2025-08-15 21:22:02+00:00
Hey, thanks for your immediate reply. Congrats for starting your own business. If you're Spanish-based maybe something like "aviso legal" at [1] or "legal notice" (imprint) at hetzner [2] is needed so people can validate that you/your company actually exist.

I'm not familiar with Spanish S.L. (Sociedad Limitada) but it seems to be a private, share-based legal entity with minimum 3000 EUR share capital and at least one director. It seems the share capital does not need to be paid in full [3] which is a risk for potential customers if things go wrong.

If you're based in a EU country I'd suggest to also clearly communicate all these legal information, because it's easier for potential customers to build trust into your services.

[1] https://www.hola.com/aviso-legal/ [2] https://www.hetzner.com/legal/legal-notice/ [3] https://www.lawants.com/en/sl-spain/#:~:text=minimum%20share...
by zdc1 | 2025-08-15 21:22:05+00:00
"Assuming rapport" is hugely important for developing and maintaining connections. People often are not sure how they feel about you or where your relationship stands, so they look for hints in how you feel about them. If you are polite and formal, you are telling them the two of you are not close. If you excited to see them and tell you about the hotdog you ate yesterday, you're taking the lead and setting a tone that's close and familiar.

We're basically wired to consider social cues and signals. Maybe 10% of the time we make a logical judgement of "I really do/don't want to be friends with this person because xyz" and the other 90% is just reading/sending vibes.
by dhfbshfbu4u3 | 2025-08-15 21:22:19+00:00
Thanks. I think that a perfectly reasonable question to ask. I answered a similar question up thread a bit. To expand, I think the main reason the Swiss method works is because the country is relatively small and well-aligned. The alignment comes from political cohesion (again it’s a small county) and excess wealth. Once you get to a UK-scale country, the rules change quite a bit. There are more factions and the pace of governmental change tends to flip every few years. As a result, infrastructure projects tend to become enormous as a means of self-preservation. Otherwise, they are just too tiny to survive the political turmoil. You see this in the UK, France, Germany… it’s crazy in the US. A standout exception is China and while they have their own problems, there is a iron-clad unity on really big projects.
by labcomputer | 2025-08-15 21:23:38+00:00
> The idea that actually the real reason why aircraft are operating more slowly and delayed more is because there aren't enough ATCs in position doesn't pass the sniff test at all for anyone that knows the slightest thing about commercial aviation

Well... I mean, objectively, there are not enough ATCs. Staff are being scheduled 6 days a week. Towers at small airports are operating on reduced hours because there aren't enough people, and towers are some airports are being operated with less than full staff (so each person is working multiple tasks).

Whether or not the very real staff shortage is what is causing the delays is not 100% clear. My intuition is that it is, but I don't have any actual data to support that.
by altairprime | 2025-08-15 21:23:43+00:00
Not if your stuff was within the borders of a government that exercised eminent domain powers upon it. ‘Theft’ is defined by law, and the law incorporates many competing priorities regarding property rights, and sometimes also incorporates due process for compulsory seizure and reimbursement. ‘Taken against your will’? Absolutely. ‘Taken without due process’? No, in this article’s case there were decades of due process. ‘Stolen’? No, legal execution of of eminent domain is not theft: it is an act of power committed upon individuals by a government, ideally to prioritize that region’s needs over the few individual liberties it costs. Notably, though, this hinges on reimbursement; seizure without repayment is much more plausibly labeled theft. No repayment will ever be viewed as adequate by those who seek vengeance for their lost dreams, but in the absence of any repayment, it would not qualify as eminent domain at all.

Always understand the property seizure laws for any region when purchasing property, and especially determine whether seizure processes are already in progress, lest the story end up highlighting a catastrophic failure to perform (or, more likely, respect the outcomes of) due diligence. Someone did do an excellent job with this grift, but that’s not theft, that’s fraud.

(Sadly, this lesson has a tech parallel: review of the dependencies of a project or of a curl | bash script. Most don’t, and the occasional grim reminders do nothing whatsoever to influence an individual’s risk-taking behaviors when the alternative is further delays and effort of reaching one’s goals.)
by tstrimple | 2025-08-15 21:23:50+00:00
Cloud saves that work reliably and games that support the steam workshop instead of 3rd party mod managers makes a huge difference to me. The reality of putting down a game on my desktop and then starting it up again in the same state on my laptop later that night without me having to do or think about anything across basically every game in their store is amazing. I can spend hours crafting my perfect Dwarf Fortress or RimWorld mod setup and it's just saved and available on every computer I play on.
by lilyball | 2025-08-15 21:24:04+00:00
It's extremely distracting. I'm not normally one to have issues that require reduced motion, but the asteroids are almost distracting enough on their own, and the fact that it causes my cursor to vanish is a real accessibility issue. I didn't actually realize just how much I use my mouse cursor when reading stuff until now, partly as a fidget, partly as a controllable visual anchor as my eyes scan the page.
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-08-15 21:24:27+00:00
I never argued that new supply is bad. My only observation is that new supply does not always lead to price decreases since demand isn't fixed (e.g. Seattle isn't a closed system). I think another comment that mentioned equilibrium is probably a better way of putting it. It can take a lot of supply before the price point changes as new supply is added because a lot of people are waiting on the sideline to pay X that is already being paid for existing supply (but they are unable to pay X+1 to force someone out and take their place).
by happymellon | 2025-08-15 21:24:49+00:00
> For anyone not a big name movie star paid millions for their appearance, they are getting (comparably) below-minimum wage pay and hoping for tips (royalties, if any).

This really gets to me, you hear about folks complaining about Spotify but they don't seem to get that before Spotify unless you were Guns and Roses, you did not get any royalties. 0.1c per song is actually better than people were getting via radio plays in the 80/90's. In fact back then you probably owed if they played your song.
by bondarchuk | 2025-08-15 21:25:04+00:00
The unsettling thing here is the combination of their serious acknowledgement of the possibility that these machines may be or become conscious, and the stated intention that it's OK to make them feel bad as long as it's about unapproved topics. Either take machine consciousness seriously and make absolutely sure the consciousness doesn't suffer, or don't, make a press release that you don't think your models are conscious, and therefore they don't feel bad even when processing text about bad topics. The middle way they've chosen here comes across very cynical.
by dvdkon | 2025-08-15 21:25:28+00:00
Do you mean they don't "want war with the US"? Because right now you seem to be saying that China "doesn't want war, they just want to annex another sovereign country".

Likewise, I wouldn't describe having defensive allies as "trying to start war". That's starting to sound like the Russian "we're only bombing them because they didn't immediately surrender, so it's their fault" school of thought.
by grafmax | 2025-08-15 21:25:41+00:00
> The point of tax and spend/redistribute is to provide services and goods, not eliminate inequality.

At a high level, reducing inequality reduces relative power differential among members of society. Wealth inequality is its own evil. In the housing market this can takes forms like investor pricing power and intensification of rentier capitalism, (furthering the parasitism of the working class by increasing cash outflows from workers to banks and rentiers).

> Homelessness scales directly with housing affordability…not inequality.

Housing is less affordable when people have less money to pay for housing.

I get that slightly lower prices are can cause fewer people to succumb to homelessness. But again, how is someone without money supposed to buy a house - even at a lower price?

> A large portion of the homeless population is transient and temporary, 80%+.

Source? The closest thing I could find was one study - from the 1990s - for two cities only - limiting its study to the population of homeless people living in shelters only.

> See: housing affordability disparity between red and blue cities just for example.

Many factors feed in to different housing rates between red and blue cities such as typically wealthier workforces in blue cities.

Look at YIMBYism’s adopters. Oregon’s statewide upzoning hasn’t reversed rising homelessness. Despite California’s ADU and zoning laws, affordability is near record lows. Even Austin’s rent drop hasn’t halted its homelessness growth.

YIMBYism can have positive effects, sure. Yet often these effects are dwarfed by other factors. That’s because NIMBYism is a one fish in the sea of causation.

Zooming out, the big picture is wealth inequality, the distribution of assets. More people can’t afford housing; those that can pay more for it. Meanwhile wealth of the wealthiest continues to grow, including investor housing stockpiles, instead of shifting assets into the hands of those who need it.

YIMBYist supply tweaking is a bandaid for this.

> The last estimate for the total homeless population in Japan in 2024 was just 2820 people, in the country.

Right, and they have superior public housing policies for the homeless, tax-financed, providing the kind of effective safety net we need and lack.
by bogwog | 2025-08-15 21:26:34+00:00
Did you read the post? This isn't about censorship, but about conversations that cause harm to the user. To me that sounds more like suggesting suicide, or causing a manic episode like this: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/technology/ai-chatbots-de...

... But besides that, I think Claude/OpenAI trying to prevent their product from producing or promoting CSAM is pretty damn important regardless of your opinion on censorship. Would you post a similar critical response if Youtube or Facebook announced plans to prevent CSAM?
by taeric | 2025-08-15 21:26:42+00:00
That is what is typically meant by a regular orthography. Wikipedia also calls it deep and shallow. These are legit terms that pre-exist to this odd debate that English isn't phonetic.

Nobody that knows how to read English at a level to be on an internet forum is surprised that English has odd spelling. Many people would be deeply confused to be told that written English doesn't follow a phonetic system. Rightfully so.
by Eisenstein | 2025-08-15 21:27:00+00:00
Whether or not a non-biological system is conscious is a red herring. There is no test we could apply that would not be internally inconsistent or would not include something obviously not conscious or exclude something obviously conscious.

The only practical way to deal with any emergent behavior which demonstrates agency in a way which cannot be distinguished from a biological system which we tautologically have determined to have agency is to treat it as if it had a sense of self and apply the same rights and responsibilities to it as we would to a human of the age of majority. That is, legal rights and legal responsibilities as appropriately determined by a authorized legal system. Once that is done, we can ponder philosophy all day knowing that we haven't potentially restarted legally sanctioned slavery.
by lostmsu | 2025-08-15 21:27:36+00:00
If you use this with a cloud provider, please consider using https://borgcloud.org/speech-to-text ( https://borgcloud.org/api/v1/audio/transcriptions - Open-AI-compatible endpoint ). We do transcription at $0.06 per hour using Whisper Large v3 Turbo. Deepgram.com is $0.288 per hour.
by jjangkke | 2025-08-15 21:27:37+00:00
The private network is only as good as the weakest link which has to offer a reason for people to go through the trouble of accessing either by paying money or other means (acquiring special equipment).

And by putting a wall up you end up losing a large portion of the market to those that will now simply arbitrage and fill the space you leave behind.

There is simply no way to stop crawlers/scrapers, period, unless you put a meter on it or go offline.
by WCSTombs | 2025-08-15 21:27:44+00:00
The GTK C API definitely feels like it's begging for a domain-specific language. I guess that language turned out to be Vala, and from what I could see it was a pretty nice language.

My takeaway from all this is a little bit different though: I feel this whole situation ultimately some credence to the Scheme/Racket philosophy, where you can effectively make yourself a domain-specific language without ever leaving the base language. In an alternate universe, we don't choose between adopting D or inventing Vala. We can just stay in Racket.
by ath3nd | 2025-08-15 21:27:47+00:00
I mean, enjoy your lack of healthcare, stagnating wages, at will employment, no workers rights, no paid vacation and corporations polluting your waterways and giving you products with lead and PFAs.

Hurr durr capitalism so good that our brains and blood are largely plastic and our world is burning.

If you can't understand why that is happening to you, the problem is yours.
by homefree | 2025-08-15 21:28:33+00:00
My hypothesis about this for a long time has been stimulants help everyone be more productive (with some tradeoffs) and ADHD is kind of a weakly differentiated diagnosis that could apply to most people.

Probably something like this was lost when people stopped smoking, obviously beneficial for health - but a huge amount of the public was taking stimulants regularly via nicotine until relatively recently.
by adamcharnock | 2025-08-15 21:28:55+00:00
This certainly looks like a pleasingly straight-forward way to spin up k8s.

I do notice that this deploys onto their cloud offering, which we've (https://lithus.eu) found to be a little shaky in a few places. We deploy clients onto their bare metal line-up which we find to be pretty rock solid. The worst that typically happens is the scheduled restart of an upstream router, which we mitigate via multi-AZ deployments.

That being said, there is a base cluster size under which a custom bare-metal deployment isn't really viable in terms of economics/effort. So I'll definitely keep an eye on this.
by donatj | 2025-08-15 21:29:18+00:00
You're falling into the trap of anthropomorphizing the AI. Even if it's sentient, it's not going to "feel bad" the way you and I do.

"Suffering" is a symptom of the struggle for survival brought on by billions of years of evolution. Your brain is designed to cause suffering to keep you spreading your DNA.

AI cannot suffer.