MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nativespecies | 2025-09-13 12:21:14+00:00
Yeah... moderate. This is just a few of his "moderate" comments.

Racial comments targeting Black Americans

Pilots and qualifications: In a January 2024 episode of his podcast, Kirk said, "If I see a Black pilot, I'm going to be like, 'Boy, I hope he's qualified'". The comment came during a segment criticizing DEI initiatives in the airline industry. Customer service: In a January 2024 podcast episode, Kirk remarked, "If I'm dealing with somebody in customer service who's a moronic Black woman, I wonder is she there because of her excellence, or is she there because of affirmative action?". "Prowling Blacks": In May 2023, Kirk claimed on his show that "prowling Blacks go around for fun to go target white people". "Brain processing power": Kirk claimed that prominent Black women like Michelle Obama and Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson "lacked the brain processing power" to understand complex topics, and only succeeded through affirmative action. George Floyd and Martin Luther King Jr.: He made disrespectful comments about Black leaders. During a 2021 speech, Kirk called George Floyd a "scumbag". In December 2023, he referred to Martin Luther King Jr. as "awful" and "not a good person". Civil Rights Act of 1964: Kirk repeatedly referred to the Civil Rights Act as a "huge mistake," calling it an "anti-white weapon".

Other controversies involving racism

White nationalist rhetoric: Kirk promoted the "Great Replacement" conspiracy theory, which alleges a plot to replace white Americans with nonwhite immigrants. Promotion of extremists: Turning Point USA (TPUSA), the conservative youth organization Kirk founded, has a history of attracting white nationalists and featuring speakers with extremist views. In 2022, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) documented racist and homophobic incidents involving TPUSA members. Criticism from within conservative circles: In 2023, Kirk drew criticism from fellow conservatives, including Ben Domenech of The Federalist, over antisemitic remarks. Kirk later attempted to clarify his comments and was given a prime speaking slot at the 2024 Republican National Convention.
by proactivesvcs | 2025-09-13 12:22:15+00:00
That's not something that I have any interest in, but I'm not opposed to it as I know other people have asked about it.

A very quick peruse of the Mastodon issue tracker came up with information about this on the ActivityPub level (albeit in an old toot): https://mastodon.social/@reiver/113668493283013849 and someone kindly rounded up similar feature requests here: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/33098#issuecomme...

I like the idea of it not being related to a platform or implementer, but baked into the spec ala a feature of ActivityPub.
by softwaredoug | 2025-09-13 12:23:00+00:00
Instead of everyone telling their personal anecdote, we should look at the actual research.

Asking ChatGPT to summarize the state of AI coding research that’s not done by one of the providers, and I feel like I got the sanest summary of the actual state of things:

> If you weight independent work more heavily: current best evidence says don’t expect speedups for senior devs in complex, well-known codebases without process changes; expect security pitfalls unless you add guardrails. Gains look more reliable for novices, unfamiliar code, and templated tasks

Seems the most sane PoV on the actual benefits I’ve seen.

Actual link if you want to pick apart GPT-5s summary

https://chatgpt.com/share/68c56214-1038-8004-b1ed-359393eb15...
by m-schuetz | 2025-09-13 12:23:10+00:00
I don't think it's that fair. IT jobs are exceptionally well paid and this system may starve other domains of talent, domains that don't have that kind of fuck-it money that IT has.

But I agree rhat H1B should not be about hiring cheap labour. I'd prefer a system where H1B salaries must be competitive with the top of the field. There are incredibly smart talents around the world, and if you hire someone from outside then it should be because they are the best of the best, so they should get paid accordingly.
by Telemakhos | 2025-09-13 12:24:08+00:00
Could it be that the connection between like-minded people is the problem?

Until this century, people lived in a social world constrained by geography: your family, neighbors, and friends were the people physically present around you, an accident of geography rather than one of interest. The people around you might well not have shared many of your ideas, and that friction kept you in check just as you inhibited them to some extent. Nobody you knew went out in public dressed like a dog or advocated for the disenfranchisement of people who eat peanut butter because you and his other friends would intervene, telling him that those are crazy views.

Now, with the internet, your crazy friend can shun your inhibiting company, lock himself away in his house, and spend all his time on fora and discord and corners of social media where people share his views. His like-minded friends tell him that dressing as a dog is fulfilling his Dog-given identity, and that the peanut-butter eaters are committing genocide against his own like-minded people. Without the inhibition of friends drawn from the accident of geography, the man who surrounds himself with virtual e-friends in a social media echo chamber thinks that the crazy ideas he hears online are normal.

Maybe the inhibition we get from socializing with people who don't share our interests, that friction of dealing with people in real life, keeps us from sliding into mental illnesses and political extremism that spring up when we get nothing but validation from people who share our interests.
by nottorp | 2025-09-13 12:25:38+00:00
[Begin whine]

Not that anyone is likely to read this 6 day old thread any more, but I fished my "collectible" iPad 1 out of where it was rotting...

... and the battery is bulging. To the point of deforming the aluminium casing. Time to run and drop it at recycling instead of jailbreaking it :(

[End whine]
by zerodaysbroker | 2025-09-13 12:25:50+00:00
The title seems kinda misleading, this is from the article (GlobalLogic is the company contracted by Google):

"AI raters at GlobalLogic are paid more than their data-labeling counterparts in Africa and South America, with wages starting at $16 an hour for generalist raters and $21 an hour for super raters, according to workers. Some are simply thankful to have a gig as the US job market sours, but others say that trying to make Google’s AI products better has come at a personal cost."
by latexr | 2025-09-13 12:26:13+00:00
> Probably the same is true for those cards you linked, they're special "youth" cards that platforms could in theory block?

Nope, there’s nothing “youth” about them, they’re more like safety features. The cards I’m talking about act as real credit cards. Plus, I forgot to mention but there are also services (even provided by the banking networks in the countries themselves) which allow you to connect an account (or deposit some money in) and get temporary credit card numbers for online payments. I’ve used them and know multiple people (also adults) who still do.

> Basically, filter by the card type, assume credit = 18+, any other might be under 18.

My point is that maybe that’s enough in the UK (is it?) but you probably wouldn’t be able to rely on it for every jurisdiction.

To be clear, I like your idea in general and would not want to discourage you from it—quite the contrary—I’m just alerting to the fact it might need further though so you don’t end up sinking time on something which wouldn’t work.

> Yeah, referrals ala Lobste.rs.

I wasn’t aware that’s how they worked. I’ll have a read. For anyone else curious:

https://lobste.rs/about#invitations
by ViewTrick1002 | 2025-09-13 12:27:13+00:00
> As a result of this incident, France pushed for more nuclear investments and dropped the mandatory renewables share.

Which has not materialized. This is where the thread started:

> The EPR2 program is in absolute shambles.

> Currently the French can’t even agree on how to fund the absolutely insanely bonkers subsidies.

> Now targeting investment decision in 2026… And the French government just fell because they are underwater in debt and have a spending problem which they can’t agree on how to fix.

> A massive handout to the dead end nuclear industry sounds like the perfect solution!
by sethammons | 2025-09-13 12:28:15+00:00
What if a true democracy is not a worthy goal? What if some people should have more or less say in something.

Should someone unrelated and likely non-impacted by a thing have as strong a voice in that thing?

Should someone non-knowledgeable have an equal say to someone experienced? Is that fair?

If A knows 2+2=4 and B says it is five, we don't average votes and call it 4.5. And if a large debate happens and B convinces enough people that for very large values of 2, the answer is five, democracy says the answer is 5. How do you protect against this outcome in a pure democracy?
by diggan | 2025-09-13 12:29:07+00:00
> The encoder issue was fixed with a firmware update,

No joke? I was sure it was a hardware issue, but guess I should give that a look, still have my Blofeld around here somewhere, thanks for sharing the "news" :)

> love the detentless encoders

I have no issues with them being detentless, makes a lot of sense. What I do have issues with, is using the smoothest material they could find for the knobs instead of something you can "grip", sometimes it just slipped between my fingers when trying to turn them, unless I make my fingers slightly humid first.
by WillAdams | 2025-09-13 12:29:57+00:00
I recall them being less expensive when first released.

Either there has been a new printing which was done overseas and was affected by tariffs or more expensive for some other reason, or the copies in the warehouse were taxed as inventory (blame Congress for that, it was a major change in the tax law and it created the current mess of remaindered books and no back-list and ever spiraling book prices).
by danaris | 2025-09-13 12:31:01+00:00
I disagree, though only slightly:

I would say that it's rare that a hierarchy is deliberately constructed to funnel surplus upward.

Rather, many hierarchies emerge organically, but those at the top seek to eliminate any that do not funnel surplus upward.

It's less a process of deliberate construction, and more a process of deliberate curation. Something like cultural bonsai.
by simoncion | 2025-09-13 12:31:41+00:00
> If you can find me credible evidence that Unihertz will support the device for 5+ years, delivering major version upgrades and timely security patches...

You don't even get that with most Pixel phones. Through to the Pixel 5 family, you only get three years of updates, period. Through to the Pixel 7 family, you get an additional two of security updates. It's not until the Pixel 8 family that you're getting what you demand.

That's a lot of "e-waste" that Google only recently stopped generating. ;)

But, honestly? I'm not sure why you consider the current five-years-of-updates policy to not be creating an unacceptable amount of e-waste. I have (and still use) nearly-twenty-year-old laptops with the latest Linux kernel and desktop environment software (& etc) versions available. They work just fine. The only maintenance required has been battery replacement and occasional thermal paste replacement. [0]

Only five years of updates? That's an absolutely absurd policy.

[0] Though, it's not clear that the thermal paste actually needed to be replaced... it was just fun to break out the screwdrivers and service manual.
by somewhereoutth | 2025-09-13 12:32:05+00:00
> developer somewhere between junior and mid-level

Why the insistence on anthropomorphizing what is just a tool? It has no agency, does not 'think' in any meaningful manner, it is just pattern matching on a vast corpus of training data. That's not to say it can't be very useful - as you seem to have found - but it is still just a tool.
by keernan | 2025-09-13 12:32:12+00:00
Click bait title. The article itself says theoretically a browser addon can replace the user's public key during passkey setup. There is no hacking of the key itself. Rather it is the insecure world of browser addons that makes using a browser as the mechanism to forward the user's public passkey that is the potential problem.

Edit: grammar "The is" == "There is"
by hereme888 | 2025-09-13 12:32:37+00:00
Is that a joke? You are conflating US meddling in international politics vs. protecting themselves and the world from Nuclear catastrophe by not fighting the likes of Iran, who openly admits wanting to nuke other countries, namely Israel (and by extension radiate Gaza, Jordan, Egypt, the nearby oceans, etc, as well) and the US. Iran who hid their nuclear enrichment facilities underground, which were known to enrich Uranium beyond what's needed for energy production.
by pfdietz | 2025-09-13 12:33:59+00:00
Yes, but all that can be taken into account in the analysis, and renewables and storage have become so cheap they're now the superior option.

Europe is in an inferior position in a renewable-powered world compared to many other locations. I wonder if some of the reactionary takes trying to promote nuclear are a consequence of that. I think you're average far right type is not going to be comfortable living in a relative energy ghetto.
by AlecSchueler | 2025-09-13 12:34:10+00:00
Good, creative, original human long-form writing, yes, I'm sure.

But that's quite different from something essentially indistinguishable from AI output. The article here is very by-the-numbers and doesn't really show any strengths of the human mind over the ability of LLMs, does it? Or can you tell me why you enjoyed hearing which was her favourite quote, and why that makes the article akin to a handmade mechanical watch?
by plst | 2025-09-13 12:34:54+00:00
I don't find the laws unjust in any way. Apple did everything they could to take half of the smartphone market, and to me it's totally understandable that the EU government may want to limit their power over this market.

> in this case, it really seems to me like the EU is harming consumers who benefit from the coherently-designed, safe (as compared to androland) walled garden in favor of some fairly overtly xenophobic power play against incumbents local champions cannot compete with on the merits. IMO this type of action directly invites retaliation against European companies and interests abroad.

Apple consumers will still be able to benefit from this amazing walled garden by choosing not to buy non-Apple devices. Other consumers will be able to choose other vendors that will be able to fully interoperate with Apple devices. I don't see any loses for current Apple consumers.

As for the retaliation. Maybe. Remains to be seen. Introducing any regulations brings risk.

> in the related cases of airdrop interop and alternate stores, it is certainly being required that apple release its proprietary IP to competitors

What proprietary IPs?

> there are plenty of hungry competitors in the smartphone market beyond apple and google including Samsung huawei and scores of others.

In terms of operating systems you have these two. I don't think Huawei counts, aren't they sanctioned still? Harmony OS has a very small share in EU either way.
by 3abiton | 2025-09-13 12:35:05+00:00
> I love AI for speed running through all the boring stuff and getting to the good parts.

But the issue is some of that speedrunning sometimes takes so much time, it becomes inefficient. It's slowly improving (gpt5 is incredible), but sometimes it get stuck on really mundane issue, and regress endlessly unless I intervene. And I am talking about straightforwars functional code.
by mallowdram | 2025-09-13 12:35:18+00:00
The acceleration (into automation) of language and images - both arbitrary units - requiring cost-benefit for shareholders inevitably reduces the input to noise and then chaos. Because the dark matter of language is control, bias, manipulation for status, status becomes the central factor, not the sharing.

That we bemoan sub-industries of media, rather than notice the system effects across it is suspicious.

“… if we say that linguistic structure "reflects" social structure, we are really assigning to language a role that is too passive ... Rather we should say that linguistic structure is the realization of social structure, actively symbolizing it in a process of mutual creativity. Because it stands as a metaphor for society, language has the property of not only transmitting the social order but also maintaining and potentially modifying it. (This is undoubtedly the explanation of the violent attitudes that under certain social conditions come to be held by one group towards the speech of others.)” Excerpts from Halliday Language and Society Volume 10
by benreesman | 2025-09-13 12:35:33+00:00
There's nontrivial historical precedent for this exact playbook: when a new paradigm (Lisp machines and GOFAI search, GPU backprop, softmax self-attention) is scaling fast, a lot of promises get made, a lot of national security money gets involved, and AI Summer is just balmy.

But the next paradigm breakthrough is hard to forecast, and the current paradigm's asymptote is just as hard to predict, so it's +EV to say "tomorrow" and "forever".

When the second becomes clear before the first, you turk and expert label like it's 1988 and pray that the next paradigm breakthrough is soon, you bridge the gap with expert labeling and compute until it works or you run out of money and the DoD guy stops taking your calls. AI Winter is cold.

And just like Game of Thrones, no I mean no one, not Altman, not Amodei, not Allah Most Blessed knows when the seasons in A Song of Math and Grift will change.
by krystofee | 2025-09-13 12:36:29+00:00
I’m experiencing something similar. We have a codebase of about 150k lines of backend code. On one hand, I feel significantly more productive - perhaps 400% more efficient when it comes to actually writing code. I can iterate on the same feature multiple times, refining it until it’s perfect.

However, the challenge has shifted to code review. I now spend the vast majority of my time reading code rather than writing it. You really need to build strong code-reading muscles. My process has become: read, scrap it, rewrite it, read again… and repeat until it’s done. This approach produces good results for me.

The issue is that not everyone has the same discipline to produce well-crafted code when using AI assistance. Many developers are satisfied once the code simply works. Since I review everything manually, I often discover issues that weren’t even mentioned. During reviews, I try to visualize the entire codebase and internalize everything to maintain a comprehensive understanding of the system’s scope.
by ZeroGravitas | 2025-09-13 12:36:30+00:00
Is this where you get your news from? Wikipedia says:

> Pamela Geller (born 1958) is an American anti-Muslim, far-right political activist, blogger and commentator.[1] Geller promoted birther conspiracy theories about President Barack Obama, saying that he was born in Kenya[4] and that he is a Muslim.[5]
by skydhash | 2025-09-13 12:36:30+00:00
> So much of what we write is absolutely low-skill and low-impact, but necessary and labor-intensive. Most of it is so basic and boilerplate you really can't look at it and know if it was machine- or human-generated.

Is it really? Or is it a refusal to do actual software engineering, letting the machine taking care of it (deterministically) and moving up the ladder in terms of abstraction. I've seen people describing things as sludge, but they've never learned awk to write a simple script to take care of the work. Or learned how to use their editor, instead using the same pattern they would have with Notepad.

I think it's better to take a step back and reflect on why we're spending time on basic stuff instead. Instead of praying that the LLM will generate some good basic stuff.
by MichaelZuo | 2025-09-13 12:36:42+00:00
It seems like a moot point since there are already too many people who can clear leetcode hard than there are available positions that require it.

It’s like scoring over 2 standard deviations on an IQ test, great, but by definition millions of people can do that.

Edit: I’ve heard HFT firms are now moving to doing it on paper in person to prevent any kind of cheating for their interviews, which would make it a better signal.
by hollerith | 2025-09-13 12:38:18+00:00
I know what you mean by "terminal shell", but note that most of my use of the shell is from Emacs and not from a terminal (or terminal-emulating app).

The command line is fed to a non-interactive instance of the shell (bash in my case) using the -c flag, then the standard output of the shell goes over a pipe (not a PTY or TTY) to an Emacs buffer.

I mention this because HN comments tend to conflate the Unix shell with the terminal/TTY interface. (An additional source of confusion or subtlety here is the fact that Emacs can communicate with the user using a terminal interface, so I will point out that my Emacs communicates with me over the Wayland display protocol.)
by n4r9 | 2025-09-13 12:38:38+00:00
> Videos allow you to ... provide animated evidence.

If you want to do that, far better to embed animations in a mostly-textual doc.

> Life itself is presented to our brains in a dynamic audio-visual format ... does that encourage the suspension of critical thinking?

Yes, to an extent. Or at least text allows critical thinking more easily than the average conversation does. Text makes it really easy to pause and think for a moment before reading on. Or to check back on something you vaguely remember reading beforehand. It's a more active form of ingest than watching a video. Video-makers have many more techniques at their disposal to slip their narrative past critical filters, such as varying the speed of delivery, or using music to invoke emotional reactions.
by gethly | 2025-09-13 12:39:57+00:00
internet too was a great place before there were too many people online. social networks met the same fate. there is a critical mass for the amount of interacting people that when reached, the system becomes the opposite of what it was built for - connection.

i guess it goes back to the Dunbar's Number, but on steroids. on the other hand, too much of anything turn from good to bad so it's not unexpected result either way.
by Krasnol | 2025-09-13 12:40:13+00:00
It is actually a very common trope.

The "grassroots"-Jesus, Michael Shellenberger, who dominates the arguments being spread by this movement, doesn't get tired to repeat it. He even had to comment on the TV Show Chernobyl:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2019/03/11...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2019/06/06...

There are many more. Just google Shellenbeger and Chernobyl.
by iandanforth | 2025-09-13 12:41:53+00:00
"Google said in a statement: “Quality raters are employed by our suppliers and are temporarily assigned to provide external feedback on our products. Their ratings are one of many aggregated data points that help us measure how well our systems are working, but do not directly impact our algorithms or models.” GlobalLogic declined to comment for this story." (emphasis mine)

How is this not a straight up lie? For this to be true they would have to throw away labeled training data.
by amai | 2025-09-13 12:42:03+00:00
The person who wrote that has a conflict of interest, because he developed a nuclear reactor:

"In 2011, Devanney shifted his attention to nuclear power. He formed a small team to develop a design that combined a high temperature, low pressure, liquid fuel reactor with his background in ship production. This became known as the ThorCon project. Devanney continues to serve as ThorCon's Chairman although the day to day operations of ThorCon have been turned over to younger, more capable hands."

https://gordianknotbook.com/author/