MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mtsr | 2025-08-24 12:44:11+00:00
It’s just not as black-and-white as you say. Propaganda is doing a lot of harm to democracy and freedom in my country and the EU on a daily basis. Should we invest in education (that is generally already reasonably good, IIUC)? Should we leave it to commercial journalism, even the best of which are moving to clickbait headlines? Should we do nothing?
by ACCount37 | 2025-08-24 12:44:35+00:00
"Consciousness" and "sentience" are terms mired in philosophical bullshit. We do not have an operational definition of either.

We have no agreement on what either term really means, and we definitely don't have a test that could be administered to conclusively confirm or rule out "consciousness" or "sentience" in something inhuman. We don't even know for sure if all humans are conscious.

What we really have is task specific performance metrics. This generation of AIs is already in the valley between "average human" and "human expert" on many tasks. And the performance of frontier systems keeps improving.
by mark_l_watson | 2025-08-24 12:44:52+00:00
Key comment author made at the end: result evals were done blind: nice.

I have always juggled a multitude of API keys and this article has almost convinced me to try Open Router. It is easy enough to purchase compute credit from Chinese companies, but I could save myself some time.

The thing I liked most in the analysis was the emphasis on speed and cost.

The speed and cost issue is important. I recently read that many AI startups in the USA are favoring faster and cheaper models from China (China is quietly overtaking America with open AI models - iX Broker: https://ixbroker.com/blog/china-is-quietly-overtaking-americ...). The Economist has a similar article but it is paywalled.
by kasey_junk | 2025-08-24 12:45:52+00:00
Anecdotally, I have not seen a car pulled over on LSD south of the loop in _years_. That used to be common (my first year in Chicago I got 2 tickets there and don’t think of myself as particularly speedy).

I’ve not seen a single person pulled over in my neighborhood in the same time, another activity that was common.

Meanwhile traffic behavior has reached staggeringly wild levels.

My impression, which is certainly not backed with data, is that CPD no longer polices traffic violations. My cynical view is that it’s a work slow down in protest over all the trouble they’ve gotten in for pretextual stops.
by pkoird | 2025-08-24 12:45:58+00:00
I cannot relate to your experience at least in US. I did a lot of flying this summer and have been flying both nationally and internationally over the years but outside the occasional delays due to weather, my experience has been quite pleasant. Even when traveling with luggage, I can generally check them in right outside the airport where I'm dropped off by Uber. Security checks have been straightforward with just the right amount of annoyance in the mix and mobile apps mean that any last minute changes to gates are well communicated in advance. I have found it all really streamlined to be honest.
by SXX | 2025-08-24 12:46:18+00:00
You really missing my point here. Problem with platforms is that platform-holders are taking bigger cut from a small struggling companies than they take from likes of EA or Ubisoft. If you look at majority of small and mid-size game development studios Valve is basically taking half of their income unless your game earns more than $10,000,000.

It's totally okay to like Valve or Steam as gamer. As fellow gamers I totally agree with you.

Just next time when you wonder why you favorite studio went bankrupt or why you niche genre game never got a sequel this is why: because some monopoly took 50% of their profit.
by theandrewbailey | 2025-08-24 12:47:45+00:00
No idea, aside from the steel chassis and copper/aluminum heatsinks. My company collects devices, sorts and disassembles them, and sells the scrap. Since we collect a lot of stuff that still works (like decommissioned corporate IT equipment), I work in the refurb division[0], so I don't have much insight into how much material can get broken down and recycled.

[0] https://www.ebay.com/str/evolutionecycling
by petre | 2025-08-24 12:48:05+00:00
Propaganda affects everyone, not just kids. It even affects people with university studies but who have given up thinking for themselves. The problem is that they authorities are banning websites, while social media is riddled with propaganda. They claim to do something which clearly doesn't work.

The Internet used to be cool in the '90 when it wasn't regulated and Meta, Google and Tiktok didn't exist. Now it's all ads, propaganda and hate speech.
by rsynnott | 2025-08-24 12:48:21+00:00
Okay, so, “we’re as important as Borland, Jetbrains, AND Getty Images! That’ll be a trillion dollars investment money, pls”.

Like, that’s still just silly.

On the developer tools thing in particular, I’d note that it is historically extremely difficult to make a sustainable business, nevermind a wildly profitable business, in that space. Borland and Jetbrains probably are the closest that anyone has come.
by Hizonner | 2025-08-24 12:48:30+00:00
> What is your example of an effective open network then?

I'm not sure there is one. But that's because I don't accept the idea that "likes" and "follows" are the best way to find content, or even a good way. If you do accept the idea that those should be your primary way of discovering content, which Bluesky does seem to accept, then decentralization becomes a more important criterion, and Nostr or even Mastodon is more effective that AT. Unfortunate about the culture on Nostr, though...

You could maybe build a system that I would think was better by, say, indexing Nostr using some kind of DHT. But you'd have to do some things to traditional DHTs to make them more attack-resistant. And maybe more things so they could scale to that size. Having "topics" like newsgroups or subreddits would be another approach, and could probably be grafted into pretty much any protocol.
by roryclear | 2025-08-24 12:49:16+00:00
Paid features are Live and event clip viewing over the internet, and receiving iOS notifications. You're paying for use of my server in those cases though, not for features I've made closed source. You can edit the code to use your own server if you wish too.

I'm new to HN and thought shilling the paid stuff violates the rules, so I didn't mention them.
by torginus | 2025-08-24 12:50:11+00:00
I have noticed this too - often when one model volunteered the wrong answer - such as making up a nonexistent API, I asked another, and it gave me the exact same thing! It's highly unlikely that two totally independent models would make up the same fictional thing.

There must be something strange going on (most likely training on each others' wrong outputs, but I dunno)
by vintermann | 2025-08-24 12:50:36+00:00
It used to be common sense among non-authoritarians, that propaganda just becomes more potent from suppression.

Plenty of people have never seen moon hoax theorists' propaganda. They imagine if they see it, they'll quickly see through it for its absurdity. But they're often wrong. Moon hoax theorist's propaganda is actually much better than you think. They can point out lots of "inconsistencies", which do have an explanation, but aren't immediately obvious at all. You see they have experience meeting people like you, but you don't have experience meeting people like them.

I used moon hoaxers as an example because their sophisticated propaganda actually have been exposed and explained a few times, although it still isn't common knowledge why e.g. it seems the exact same rock is right behind an astronaut in two different photos. But that isn't nearly as true for suppressed ideologies. You haven't heard their arguments.
by lazarus01 | 2025-08-24 12:50:39+00:00
I always enjoy discussions that intersect between psychology and engineering.

But I feel this person falls short immediately, because they don't study neuroscience and psychology. That is the big gap in most of these discussion. People don't discuss things close to the origin.

We have to account for first principals in how intelligence works, starting from the origin of ideas and how humans process their ideas in novel ways that create amazing tech like LLM! :D

How Intelligence works

In Neuroscience, if you try to identify the origin of where and how thoughts are formed and how consciousness works. It is completely unknown. This brings up the argument, do humans have free will if we are driven by these thoughts of unknown origin? That's a topic for another thread.

Going back to intelligence. If you study psychology and what forms intelligence, there are many human needs that drive intelligence, namely intellectual curiosity (need to know), deprivation sensitivity (need to understand), aesthetic sensitivity, absorption, flow, openness to experience.

When you look at how a creative human with high intelligence uses their brain, there are 3 networks involved. Default mode network (imagination network), executive attention network and salience network.

The executive attention network controls the brains computational power. It has a working memory that can complete tasks using goal directed focus.

A person with high intelligence can alternate between their imagination and their working memory and pull novel ideas from their imagination and insert them into their working memory - frequently experimenting by testing reality. The salience network filters unnecessary content while we are using our working memory and imagination.

How LLMs work

Neural networks are quite promising in their ability to create a latent manifold within large datasets that interpolates between samples. This is the basis for generalization, where we can compress a large dataset in a lower dimensional space to a more meaningful representation that makes predictions.

The advent of attention on top of neural networks, to identify important parts of text sequences, is the huge innovation powering llms today. The innovation that emulates the executive attention network.

However, that alone is a long distance from the capabilities of human intelligence.

With current AI systems, there is the origin, which is known vocabulary with learned weights coming from neural networks, with reinforcement learning applied to enhance the responses.

Inference comes from an autoregressive sequence model that processes one token at a time. This comes with a compounding error rate with longer responses and hallucinations from counterfactuals.

Correct response must be in the training distribution.

As Andy Clark said, AI will never gain human intelligence, they have no motivation to interface with the world and conduct experiments and learn things on their own.

I think there are too many unknown and subjective components of human intelligence and motivation that cannot be replicated with the current systems.
by nis0s | 2025-08-24 12:51:19+00:00
I understand the importance of lived experience as a self-report for certain situations, and I think that the thesis presented in this, and from a cursory glance, other works of this author are fertile ground for writing a research proposal for basic foundational research.

But I think there isn’t enough evidentiary support in the way of citations of preliminary work, analytical formulation or empirical data which can justify the hypotheses or claims. So while I agree there is an element of plausibility in what is claimed, it’s both irresponsible to publish work like this (which gives the impression of rigorous research), and to come across it and not leave a comment such as mine. Whenever someone makes bold claims, we should ask them to show their work.

We can make any number of biased assumptions to believe a hypothesis may be true, but it needs to be statistically shown as such. So again, I would encourage this author to reach out to clinical psychologists or cognitive psychologists to do the preliminary and basic foundational research, and have it be evaluated in some peer-reviewed manner.

Maybe one could say this is an opinion article, which is fine to leave without evidence or evidence of preliminary work. But opinions are not science, and it’s important to not claim that one’s opinion is scientific fact or evidence of an effect.
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2025-08-24 12:51:21+00:00
> If you want to see anything to the public you must register with the appropriate government officials and hope that someone notices you in the giant list of your competitors.

That sounds wonderful! How do you see dystopian?

> Of course giving too much information about why you're different would be an ad so how do consumers decide?

God forbid I listen to my neighbors and their experiences! Come on, there's even a term for it: "word of mouth".
by nani8ot | 2025-08-24 12:52:31+00:00
In 2021, Andreas Grote, the minister of interior of the Germany city-state Hamburg was called a dick in a tweet. (Andy, you are such a dick). This led to a police search of the home of the Twitter account owner [1].

This sparked a discussion about how to handle hate spech, as for regular people being called a dick does not result in a 06:00 am. police raid with six officers.

In the aftermath, a mural in a left wing culture center has been painted over multiple times with the tweet and a call for his resignation [1].

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/09/09/pimmelgate-g...

[1] https://archive.is/hETjp

[2] https://images.welt.de/67dd7b08559c903aae8287ac/12efd9779a84...
by djoldman | 2025-08-24 12:52:32+00:00
> In Germany, we have the Clearingstelle Urheberrecht im Internet (CUII) - literally 'Copyright Clearinghouse for the Internet', a private organization that decides what websites to block, corporate interests rewriting our free internet. No judges, no transparency, just a bunch of ISPs and major copyright holders deciding what your eyes can see.

I'm confused because CUII at:

https://cuii.info/en/about-us/

says (translated):

> The CUII was founded by Internet access providers and rightholders and coordinates the implementation of court blocking procedures and the enforcement of court blocking orders.

CUII is saying that they enforce court orders. I guess that language doesn't preclude them from also blocking other sites.
by FatalLogic | 2025-08-24 12:52:34+00:00
In the class action case[0], which was allowed to go forward by the court last year, it is claimed that Valve told someone:

"This includes communications from Valve that “‘the price on Steam [must be] competitive with where it’s being sold elsewhere’” and that Valve “‘wouldn’t be OK with selling games on Steam if they are available at better prices on other stores, even if they didn’t use Steam keys.’” Dkt. No. 343 ¶ 158, 160 (quoting emails produced at VALVE_ANT_0598921, 0605087). "

(This is a new case, not the 2021 suit, which was rejected by the court, then amended and refiled, later with an additional plaintiff added)

[0]https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.wawd.29...
by Amezarak | 2025-08-24 12:53:16+00:00
When exactly was there “free and accurate” media? Did you mistake the restrictions on some 20th century broadcast media that originated as a consequence of government licensing as some sort of centuries-old universal truth prior to social media? If anything newspapers in particular used to be much more irresponsible and scandalous, certainly as bad as anything on Twitter. And yes, there was plenty of foreign influence operations as well.
by virtualritz | 2025-08-24 12:53:35+00:00
Implementation has the details for what is being implemented.

Details what algorithms/approaches to use etc. The reason is that often a single context is not enough and when CC continues the CLAUDE-CONTINUE tells the model What it should do. Not Why (architecture) and How (implementation).

The architecture file is usually more abstract/high level and may also contain info about how the stuff integrates with other parts of the codebase etc.
by mtsr | 2025-08-24 12:56:28+00:00
Some people mainly come to political positions for emotional reasons rather than substantive ones. These people are generally easy to reach for populists and propagandists.

Many of the real problems in society, unfortunately, have no easy solutions and require very substantive evaluation, weighing expert opinions, etc. In the current environment it has become very hard to get a lot of people to even consider these or, if they want, elect someone to do it in their stead.

TLDR: populism + propaganda causes significant dysfunction in democracies, especially ones that aren’t winner-takes-all.
by larrydag | 2025-08-24 12:56:29+00:00
While the 1 hour rule is mostly true be careful with discount airlines. Frontier Airlines does do a 1 hour boarding. I've heard of cases that if you are late to boarding, even if half hour ahead of departure, they will not let you board the plane. I'm sure it depends on specific airport agents protocols. My point is I'm not sure you can always use the 1 hour buffer.
by Hizonner | 2025-08-24 12:57:06+00:00
> following along with example projects

What the LLM gives you is essentially an example project, and you can ask for the specific examples you need. You can compare and contrast alternative ways of doing it. You can give it an example in terms of what you already know, and ask it to show you how that translates into whatever you're trying to learn. You don't have to just blindly take what it produces and use it unread.
by mark_l_watson | 2025-08-24 12:57:10+00:00
I also use Perplexity APIs, specifically their combined web search tool + decent models. Useful combination and easier that what I used to do: using a search API like Brave and rolling my own code to combine LLM and search.

That said I have been having too much fun running Melisearch to build a local search index for many web sites that I use for reference and combine that with a small Python app that also uses local models running on Ollama. I will probably wrap this into an example to add to one of my books: not that practical but fun.
by space-savvy | 2025-08-24 12:58:31+00:00
Will you extend your “biased messenger analysis” to reuters as well? https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/us-orders-orsted-ha.... The only difference is they didn’t have an attempt to contact the relevant government org for comment.

There are multiple sources indicating this administrations stance on wind power. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/28/are-trum... for instance. It would seem the foreign production source (China) is probably the only related to US security. The other statements about price or environmental impact have no particular basis in data or direct US security impact.

This analysis of using foreign sourcing as a reason to kill energy projects roughly lines up with portions of the official press release: https://www.doi.gov/pressreleases/department-interior-curbs-... Although they amend that with statements about land use and environmental impact.

From a strictly personal analysis, it’s hard though to frame the current administrations aggregate actions as anything but an attempt to cripple wind and solar based industries, which have far less environmental impact and carbon footprint than any other industry except maybe nuclear. But nuclear struggles due to buy in costs and public perception.
by zahlman | 2025-08-24 12:58:38+00:00
I assume you mean to contrast with the US. Things are not as you stereotype them. Re profanity, cases such as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCC_v._Fox_Television_Stations... are instructive. Re nudity, via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_the_United_State... (which also has more information on the aforementioned case):

> In 1964, The Pawnbroker, directed by Sidney Lumet and starring Rod Steiger, was initially rejected because of two scenes in which the actresses Linda Geiser and Thelma Oliver fully expose their breasts; and a sex scene between Oliver and Jaime Sánchez, which it described as "unacceptably sex suggestive and lustful." ... On a 6–3 vote, the MPAA granted the film an "exception" conditional on "reduction in the length of the scenes which the Production Code Administration found unapprovable." The exception to the code was granted as a "special and unique case", and was described by The New York Times at the time as "an unprecedented move that will not, however, set a precedent."[63] The requested reductions of nudity were minimal, and the outcome was viewed in the media as a victory for the film's producers.[62] The Pawnbroker was the first film featuring bare breasts to receive Production Code approval. ...

See also https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/5ix309/e... .
by hypeatei | 2025-08-24 12:59:03+00:00
> It saves you a bunch of money and time and also trouble and worry if you can move from checking bags to not checking bags

This has been my experience, too. Some airports have a half-assed process where it's partially self-service and partially done by a human. In Denver, they have booths outside to check bags. You scan the QR code, pay in the app, and it prints your tag at that booth for the worker to take. Convenient right? Wrong.

I'm second in line, so I scan and do the whole process, then the worker leaves to help a disabled woman. No problem I thought: I'll just go to another booth to have it re-printed. Nope, apparently once you print the tag, employees can't do anything about it and you're forced to buy another checked bag or hope that the original worker comes back (I'm not taking that chance if I have a flight to catch)
by kcplate | 2025-08-24 12:59:11+00:00
I write all of this as a fully vaccinated person who never voted for Trump…

You really need to look at the timeline here. Operation Warp Speed was a Trump program that fast tracked the Covid vaccine development and their “emergency use” approval. The vaccines were not even available to the public until 5 weeks before Biden was sworn in. VP Harris in an interview prior to the election suggested that should would be skeptical of “Trumps Vaccines” and that the American people should be as well.

When Trump was talking about those alternative treatments it was way before the vaccines were available. Those things were not necessarily “pseudoscience” at the time because scientists were actively testing many different treatment therapies because the vaccines were not yet available. Those were definitely some treatments that was being tested and experimented with by numerous doctors and scientists becuase the medical establishment was desperate for an effective treatment. Certainly the idiot Fauci had his opinions, but we now know that many of Fauci’s recommendations were utter bullshit that was not grounded in science either.

But back to your characterization of “hypocrisy”. Is it hypocrisy to simply “not force someone to get an experimental vaccine but get one yourself”? Seems to me “hypocrisy” might be better illustrated by downplaying the development of a vaccine and expressing and encouraging skepticism publicly of it just because your political opponent is associated with it? THEN…adopting that same vaccine you decried and forcing people to get it. That’s a better example of hypocrisy than just saying “I am getting it, but you do you”.