MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bell-cot | 2025-08-24 13:18:54+00:00
> ...can't be justified by military strategy.

If you look at the current government of Israel's policies regarding Palestinians - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty-seventh_government_of_I... - you might notice that various humanitarian rights and other niceties for the latter do not seem to be high priorities.

One might reasonably assume that recent developments in Gaza are part of a political strategy. Not a military one. And that the politicians in charge do not share the worldview, nor sensibilities, of the typical Guardian reader.
by sarchertech | 2025-08-24 13:19:16+00:00
Which is a great way to run a business that you care about owning for a long time.

But as a consumer you have to think about what happens when leadership changes—PE buys them and starts reputation mining.

It takes a while to burn through the good will and for a few years you can make a lot more money off of that than you can continuing thing as usual.
by mystraline | 2025-08-24 13:19:23+00:00
So basically, we need a new way of contact DoH multiple DNS's for a probabilistic response for a site. Ideally, you could also verify geographically different ASNs, including opposing countries to get around legal idiocy.

Even better, do this resolution over Tor.

Doing that would bypass any state level stupidity, inflicted by an oligopoly, state actors, or similar.
by nchmy | 2025-08-24 13:19:57+00:00
But then it wouldn't be vibe coding! /s

It's endlessly mind-boggling to me how there's so many people who can't grasp the idea of just using llms as a tool in your engineering toolkit, and that you should still be responsible, thoughtful, and do code review - as you would if you delegated to a junior dev (or anyone!)

They see complete fools just accepting the output wholesale, and somehow extrapolate that to thinking everyone works that way
by tialaramex | 2025-08-24 13:20:41+00:00
It has always been the case that the US was operated primarily for the benefit of those with capital, what is perhaps more novel is that where once economic growth was a 90-10 split between those who already had so much and those labouring, increasingly it's 100-0 or even worse, and so then there's no reason those doing the labour to achieve that growth ought to engage, better surely to eliminate the oppressors and reform the system. You would have to be really stupid to cause that but then, look at the people who did it, checks out.
by not_the_fda | 2025-08-24 13:21:34+00:00
AI is pulled out every couple decades and over-hyped. It never matches the hype, then the term AI gets a bad rap, goes away, and the useful stuff gets a new name, like machine learning to shake off the bad connotations of AI. We saw this in the 60's 80', early oughts, and now today.

I remember in college during the late 90's the hype was that CASE tools (Computer Aided Software Engineering) was going to make software engineers irrelevant, you just tell the system your requirements and it spits out working code. Never turned out.

Today, the only way the amount of investment returns a profit if it replaces a whole bunch of workers. If it replaces a whole bunch of workers, well there will be a whole lot less people to buy stuff. So either the bubble bursts or a lot of people lose their job. Either way we are in for a rough ride.
by kace91 | 2025-08-24 13:21:36+00:00
There is a difference I think between unpalatable content (that you disagree with, that you find incorrect, and so on) and content generated with the specific purpose of deceiving the reader.

I used to be a hardline freedom of information defender, but we must face the fact that humanity has become way too good at manufactoring opinions and even facts. We're exposed to this threat at all levels, from your local company invading your feed with hidden ads in legitimate tiktok content to nation states influencing your political worldview.

Considering yourself immune to this manipulation is as naive as thinking you don't need vaccines - depressingly, we've far beyond the point where individual protection is enough.
by ChrisRackauckas | 2025-08-24 13:21:50+00:00
I mean this for simple devops tasks, like if you need it to write you a Bash script that will clean out some empty caches or something it will one shot it most of the time. And for figuring out standard tasks like setting up deploy keys for some new doc system or updating the make files to handle some new build dependency. I still have devops engineers for anything difficult, but they get pestered with a lot less things they would find trivial that the rest of the teams would have asked them for help on before.
by rainsford | 2025-08-24 13:21:53+00:00
Unironically, yes, it did. It didn't necessarily help Detroit specifically for a wide variety of reasons, but it made American car companies up their game and make more competitive vehicles, helping ensure the survival of American companies and offer more and better choices for American car buyers. I'm not a huge fan of the way Ford pivoted away from small good cars to exclusively selling large pickups and SUVs (and the Mustang, I guess), but it still represents Ford's attempt to stay more competitive than they would had to have been without foreign competition.
by PartiallyTyped | 2025-08-24 13:22:05+00:00
I’d caution against taking simplistic views and recommend peaking behind the veil.

Id start by looking into the deportees, people like Abreco Garcia — working men and women who contributed to their society, and all those who received pardons — between rapists, violent criminals, and abusers, you’d have a hard time replacing many of the deportees.
by magmaus3 | 2025-08-24 13:22:09+00:00
the blog post was written before the page was changed

https://web.archive.org/web/20250130115412/https://cuii.info... said

> The Clearing Body for Copyright on the Internet (CUII) is an independent body in Germany. It was founded by German internet access providers and copyright holders to objectively examine whether the blocking of access to a given structurally copyright-infringing website in Germany is lawful. When copyright holders submit an application, a review board examines whether the relevant requirements are met. If they are, the review board then recommends a DNS-block of the structurally copyright-infringing website in question. Every recommendation of the review committee must be unanimous and only apply to clear cases of copyright infringement. The recommendation is then forwarded to the German Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railways (Bundesnetzagentur - BNetzA). If the examination by the BNetzA does not reveal any concerns about the DNS-block according to the provisions of the EU Net Neutrality Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2015/2120), the CUII then informs the internet access providers and the applicants accordingly. In such cases, the internet access providers participating in the CUII then block the corresponding domains of the structurally copyright-infringing website in Germany.

related post by the same author, which mentions the current version of the website: https://lina.sh/blog/cuii-gives-up

> The CUII now only coordinates blocks between ISPs after a court order. That's it. No more secret votes. No more corporate censorship. The new version of their website says: "The CUII coordinates the conduct of judicial blocking proceedings and the implementation of judicial blocking orders."
by rdm_blackhole | 2025-08-24 13:23:42+00:00
> Some people mainly come to political positions for emotional reasons rather than substantive ones

As opposed to your positions. The masses, well, they think wrong, but you, you thought long and hard about everything and you came to the right conclusions.

What's next? Give the right to vote only to the "right" people?

After all, if you can't trust the judgment of the masses because their views are based mainly on emotional reasons then surely you don't think they should have a say in how their country should be run?
by buran77 | 2025-08-24 13:24:01+00:00
So then let me ask you, do you feel like arbitrarily banning sites worked? Are we having less of a propaganda and misinformation as we are going ahead with the bans? Because if it's not actually working it sounds a lot like "it's not helping but at least it looks like we're doing something".

The problem is just getting bigger because 1) we aren't actually doing anything else (real) about it and 2) we even actively allow propaganda and misinformation on so many other channels it's laughable.

I said above, the people doing the banning just need a vehicle to carry their interests and justify their banning powers. Since they don't care about the problem itself, they don't care about any of the real measures that could tackle it. They pick the only one which gives them what they really want: power to arbitrarily control information. Russia is a great excuse today (and honestly, almost throughout their history) but it will be used against you tomorrow.

You don't even have to dig too far to see the exact same type of propaganda freely spread on X or Facebook, where the people actually are. RT is happily active there. Far right Musk is there. Can you even pretend that banning the rt.com site in Germany does anything towards the goal of curbing disinformation?
by enether | 2025-08-24 13:24:27+00:00
Love the story!

> Kafka was one of the first systems that fully embraced the dropping of the C from CAP theorem, which was a big step forward for web applications at scale.

Could you expand on this - when does it drop C? Are you referring to cases where you write to Kafka without waiting for all replicas to acknowledge the write? (acks=1)

And why was it a big step - what other systems didn't embrace dropping the C?
by perihelions | 2025-08-24 13:25:52+00:00
> "Propaganda is doing a lot of harm to democracy and freedom"

What's "freedom" mean if not the right to read any publication you want, including (especially!*) media from hostile foreign countries? It's cynical to attack core civil liberties and say that you are doing so in defense of liberty.

*This is the most obvious thing in the world, IMHO, if you look at the general category, and ask yourself what you think about it when the actors are switched around. If China bans its citizens from reading the New York Times (it does), is that a human rights violation—or is it a simple exercise of sovereignty? When North Korea sends people into labor camps for possessing South Korean television shows (it does), is there a colorable case that *their* national security justifies that? Or is that totally out of the question?

One'd have to twist themselves into pretzels to plead exceptionalism for their own country doing anything of this category.

(There's a further subtext that anyone on HN knows how to trivially circumvent such blocks, so, these rules inherently can never apply to HN commenters, ourselves—it's always other people, we'd wish to apply these rules to).
by audunw | 2025-08-24 13:25:56+00:00
8 years is a pretty short perspective. The current growth phase was unlocked by more engineering. We could’ve had some of these kinds of capabilities decades ago, as illustrated by how cutting edge AI research is now trickling down all the way to microcontrollers with 64MHz CPU and kBs of RAM.

Once we got the “Attention is all you need” paper I don’t remember anyone saying we couldn’t get better results by throwing more data and compute at it. But now we’ve pretty much thrown all the data and all (as much as we can reasonably manufacture) at it. So clearly we’re at the end of that phase.
by Amezarak | 2025-08-24 13:26:40+00:00
> Sorry, I'm more confortable with RT being blocked than having another Adolf Hitler screaming their own propaganda.

Is that really a good example? Weimar Germany regularly suppressed and censored Nazi newspapers and publications, shut down hundreds of Nazi newspapers, and even at one point suppressed party gatherings.[1] Obviously, it did not work, and the Nazis used the same laws and precedent to suppress their enemies when they took power, and were able to campaign with statements like "in all of Germany, why are WE silenced?"

You can take two things away from this:

1. Weimar should have suppressed the Nazis EVEN HARDER. Weimar needed an even more stringent censorship regime, shutting down any publication and arresting the editors at the slightest whiff of wrongthink. They should have deployed informers to identify and arrest dissidents before they broke out into the public arena.

OR

2. Weimar Germany was a deeply unpopular and dysfunctional regime that had already failed. Governments should do better to represent the interests of their people so that things never get to that point. The Nazis would never have obtained any power if Germany had been doing well and people felt represented by their government, no matter what kind of crazy propaganda they put out; people don't choose extremism because of propaganda, they become propagandized when they are deeply disaffected. Censorship only further delegitimized the regime and increased the popularity of the Nazis, as it showed they were a threat to the people in power that were perceived to be mismanaging the country.

[1] https://www.thefire.org/news/blogs/eternally-radical-idea/wo...
by Xelbair | 2025-08-24 13:27:23+00:00
i would like to remind you that Germany was one of the biggest recipients of russian gas in Europe, and worked actively to keep it flowing despite the war, and didn't try to break away from their dependence for a very long time.

It's pure hypocrisy coupled with conformity - or rather virtue signalling. Send junk weapons to Ukraine to showcase that you do support the cause, meanwhile keep buying gas the same time go after their propaganda because that looks nice.
by f1shy | 2025-08-24 13:27:26+00:00
Here one: translation you can do at leisure. Also there is a sister comment with a similar case. I have a family memver that was also persecuted for hanging a flag saying “the park is for the children “ as they wanted to construct in a park.

There are literally thousands of cases constantly of different severity, but freedom looks different to me. https://www.zdfheute.de/politik/deutschland/habeck-beleidigu...
by JustExAWS | 2025-08-24 13:27:36+00:00
FWIW: I’m Black.

Political correctness goes much further than politeness.

I was 46 when I entered BigTech (no longer there) in 2020. Of course the famous master vs main. But you were also chastised for saying “you guys” - even though the women said as much as the men, if you didn’t put the proper pronouns under your profile. I got chastised for saying “war room”. I heard an anecdote that now “pow wow” wasn’t allowed.

One podcast I listen to - Stuff You Should Know - replayed an old episode and added a disclaimer up front apologizing because the episode was about pregnancy complications and in the older episode they were being “heteronormative” by not calling out that this issue only affects cisgendered women.

I’m not saying anyone should be disrespected or I wouldn’t call someone by whatever name or pronoun they prefer.

I also found all of the “ally” groups, discussion of “micro aggressions” etc groan worthy.

This is in the DNCs charter

https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/25/politics/democrats-gender-non...

> The language now says committees “shall be as equally divided as practicable between men and women (determined by gender self-identification) meaning that the variance between men and women in the group cannot exceed one (1).” Gender nonbinary members will not be counted as either male or female, “and the remainder of the delegation shall be equally divided.”

Yes I would find this just as bad if the language was about race and someone of mixed race heritage.

I would much rather hang out with good live and let live traditional “guns and church family centered” old school Hank Hill conservatives (even though I’m not one), than the posturing “anti-racist” leftist wing.
by scott_w | 2025-08-24 13:27:55+00:00
By supporting your bombers to blow up the launchers and kill the pilots. Iran had fleets of drones but still rolled over when Israel blew up their air defences. I think they might know something you and I don’t about the limitations of drones and missile launchers.

EDIT: replaced “boomers” with “bombers.” Not sure my grandmother is going to be blowing up much materiel…
by kiliancs | 2025-08-24 13:28:40+00:00
The other laptops overheat soon after purchasing, often with just the bare OS running. There is a 3 yo laptop that my parents still use, but it has to always be plugged in, and the fans will spin loudly even in suspension.

My >10 yo macbooks also have bad batteries. One of them won't last one minute, and will also overheat with minor workloads. They were not immune to overheating when new, but unreasonable overhearing (for the time) definitely didn't become an issue at within 3 years of purchase.

And that's with Intel macbooks. My M1 from Dec 2020 works like new (I'm sure the battery life has shortened, but not in a way that I notice). It overheated a couple times running LLMs—that's it. That's how I know the fans work.
by rdm_blackhole | 2025-08-24 13:29:01+00:00
You are comfortable with the blocking until the politicians start blocking something you care about.

When that happens, you won't be happy anymore and you will go on Twitter complaining that your government is turning fascist in a hurry and ask how nobody did anything to stop this.

But you probably think that it's never going to happen because you are one of the good people, not the scum of the earth that dares watching Tiktok.
by wslomo | 2025-08-24 13:29:02+00:00
The “valley of it will take our jobs” is an approaching light in the train tunnel.

I live in the “valley”. I battle depression daily that I had before LLMs.

Using LLMs and false guardrails to watchdog inherently deceitful output is a bad system smell.

I know most are “on it”, and I’ve written a coding agent.

But why is this page designed like some brainwashing repetitive Orwellian mantra?

If it’s perceived that we need that, then we’re having to overcome something, and that something is common sense.

So maybe we’ll happily write our coding agents with the intent to stand on the shoulders of a giant.

But everyone knows we’re building the technological equivalent of a crystal meth empire.
by pragmatic | 2025-08-24 13:29:27+00:00
95% it’s a missing/improper index but the insane workarounds “engineers” put in place actively work against the database.

Does your hotpath query have a covering index? Is it seek-able. Are you predicates SARG-able.

Seriously biggest bang for your buck is to understand SARG-ability and understand indexes in your database really well.
by DoctorOW | 2025-08-24 13:30:27+00:00
Your example of moon landing theories isn't an apt comparison because you're picking a fringe group. RT already had millions of international followers on Facebook, YouTube, etc., often more than high quality journalism outlets. I've been online long enough to see RT showing up uninvited in my feeds before.

Consider the cost of the sites I listed. Literally, how do you pay these companies? With the monetization of your attention, first and foremost. Good journalism costs money to produce, leaving good journalists unable to be the highest bidder.
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2025-08-24 13:30:30+00:00
> Imagine everyone’s car being able to be real time tracked by license plate by anyone anytime)

Except ... every plane is being tracked in real time by the FAA (or other aeronautical organizations) for the good of both those on the plane and those around it.

The question is not whether such tracking happens or not, but merely whether the data is publically available. The analogy with cars would require that someone is actually tracking car positions, which as far as we know is not happening at any significant scale.
by andruby | 2025-08-24 13:31:39+00:00
Do you mean people that build something without a plan? Some people have an idea (or vision) but not a plan and they figure things out along the way. Other want to / need to plan everything ahead of time first.

In my anecdotal case: I behave like the former in some cases (crafting) and the latter in others (travel planning)

I wouldn't say one way is always better than the other.
by exmadscientist | 2025-08-24 13:31:53+00:00
It seems their hardware teams have a particular problem with this. I'm in the area, know many people in their orbit, and they have a really poor reputation, so I knew to be cautious, but when I interviewed with them a while back I was really surprised at how poorly it was organized. I don't want to say much more publicly, but they sure earned their reputation.
by dw64 | 2025-08-24 13:32:00+00:00
We do accept „censorship“ if it follows due process based on clear and well-intended laws. Think taking down piracy sites, child porn, slander.

But CUII is formed by a private oligopoly, with anonymous judges, implementing vague rules, trying to keep secret even what they block. All while limiting what the vast majority of Germans (who don’t know what DNS is) can access on the internet. IMO that’s the issue.
by fcpguru | 2025-08-24 13:32:38+00:00
Boost visual quality, which improve viewer retention. So, money. I've tried many times to get a short with retention > 90% that is, 90% of viewers watch all the way to end. That's the key to going super viral. Very hard to do. I've had many shorts get around 75% and about 1k views but then die. Maybe I need some AI!
by crote | 2025-08-24 13:33:06+00:00
Complaining about the number of dependencies is completely meaningless if you don't take into account what those dependencies do, and what the ecosystem looks like.

For example, `tray-icon` looks pretty useful for a lightweight app which basically is a tray icon: rewriting that library from scratch would be a massive waste of time.

On the other end of the spectrum, `log` and `serde` provide basic functionality which most languages will have in their standard library. Rust intentionally keeps a small standard library to avoid ossifying potentially bad ideas. The crates have tens of millions of users, rewriting that yourself would be stupidity.

It's very easy to criticize the length of their dependency list, but could you point to a specific one which you deem unnecessary? Which one do you consider to be a "leftPad", and what trivial code fragment would you replace it with?
by esperent | 2025-08-24 13:34:25+00:00
No, because unless they state otherwise we should assume that they consider search overview to be an AI assistant (they definitely believe this) and also that it's one of the Gemini Apps.

Look, there's not enough information to answer this within the paper. I'm not willing to give Google the benefit of the doubt on vague language, and you are. I'm assuming they're a huge basicappy evil corporation whose every publication is gone over and reworded by marketing to make them look good, and you're assuming... whatever.

That's fine by me, we disagree. Let's stop here.
by stockresearcher | 2025-08-24 13:34:30+00:00
The author correctly rejects the term “antilibrary” but then goes off in the weeds trying to find a new term to replace it.

It is claimed that the typical university library has at least 2 orders of magnitude more books than a person could ever hope to actually read in their lifetime. I accept that, but take it further. This library contains at least 3 orders of magnitude more books than an extraordinarily literary person will realistically read in their lifetime, and 4-5 orders of magnitude more books than the average person will read in their lifetime.

Therefore, a “personal collection” of books isn’t a “personal library” until it has grown far beyond what the owner has or possibly even will read.