MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by adamtaylor_13 | 2025-09-26 02:50:56+00:00
Eh, that one is worse than the first, and while not "celebratory", certainly shows a lack of judgement and character. I'd fire someone for this, too. This has less to do with free speech and more to do with revealing yourself to be an insensitive asshole.

The man was murdered in front of his children, and this woman's instinct is defamation of character. She's continuing to repeat the lie that Charlie Kirk "excused the deaths of children in the name of the Second Amendment".
by ulrikrasmussen | 2025-09-26 02:51:08+00:00
All falsely flagged communication is. And there will be lots and lots of it, even if it is just a tiny fraction of the total number of messages sent, since the number of messages sent between people is so big. This is the classic problem with statistical methods looking for rare things in large populations which also is why we don't screen everyone for all illnesses all the time - the false positives would do too much harm.

You also will not know if your message is flagged, so if you are ever in doubt about how your message will be categorized, you will have to assume that it will be flagged and sent to storage for an unknown amount of time
by jacobolus | 2025-09-26 02:52:36+00:00
In other words, you think the Dems "should" have won the election in 2024, and that they didn't was entirely down to on Biden's personal decisions. Because they didn't win that election, everything that the GOP and voters do afterward is now Biden's fault personally.

The first part is a counter-factual hypothesis that seems wrong, which you keep insisting on without any evidence. The second part is thoroughly fallacious.

To first order, the summary is that you don't think Biden or his administration deserves credit for anything they actually did, while simultaneously thinking they deserve blame for a large number of things that other people did that they were personally opposed to and worked against.
by kennywinker | 2025-09-26 02:53:08+00:00
Unfortunately not a typo:

https://www.un.org/unispal/document/press-briefing-francesca...

“65,000 is the number of Palestinians are certain killed, including over, of which 75% are women and children.

In fact, we shall start the thinking of 680,000, because this is the number that some scholars and scientists claim being the real death toll in Gaza.

And it would be hard to be able to prove or disprove this number, especially if investigators and others remained banned from entering the occupied Palestinian territory, and particularly the Gaza Strip.”

The death toll could be that high. I hope to hell it isn’t. But we don’t know and won’t know until the killing stops. We do know that tens of thousands of innocent people have been killed, and at least 150,000 people injured.
by BlueGh0st | 2025-09-26 02:54:04+00:00
I have the same sentiment. I've never really had success using Gemini outside of translation. Although, even with that, Gemini would often refuse and I had to remind it that it does actually know other languages.

My most recent trials output single commas as responses to basic questions or it simply refuses the task on ethical grounds such as generating a photo of a backpack wearing a hoodie for some reason (it claimed harmful stereotypes and instead generated an ape).

Refusing to do perfectly ethical tasks is probably the most consist problem I've had.
by pests | 2025-09-26 02:54:38+00:00
It’s not what you meant but it’s what you said. I understand what you meant, but others might not. Many people think their phones/computers are watching their communications. This was in response to your ‘Nobody would say that your OS is "watching your communications", right?’, which I cannot agree with as everybody I know says those exact words about android/windows/etc.
by AdieuToLogic | 2025-09-26 02:54:38+00:00
>> Whatever your mind believes it doesn’t need to hold on to that what is expensive to maintain and run, it’ll let go of. This isn’t entirely accurate from a neuroscience perspective but it’s kinda ballpark.

>> Pretty much like muscles decay when we stop using them.

> Sure, but sticking with that analogy, bicycles haven’t caused the muscles of people that used to go for walks and runs to atrophy either ...

This is an invalid continuation of the analogy, as bicycling involves the same muscles used for walking. A better analogy to describe the effect of no longer using learned skills could be:

Asking Amazon's Alexa to play videos of people bicycling the Tour de France[0] and then walking from the couch to the your car every workday does not equate to being able to participate in the Tour de France[0], even if years ago you once did.

0 - https://www.letour.fr/en/
by MBCook | 2025-09-26 02:55:50+00:00
I have a hard time seeing them doing that. Seems like it would be too big a hit to the stock price.

However, on the other side, if the EU does manage to drive Apple or Google out I wonder if that would cause them real problems from citizens.

Regulations can certainly be nice but at a certain point people may get very annoyed by the results to the point of wanting them removed, even if they’re doing a good job at exactly what they were designed for. Simply because they’re inconveniencing people through the fault of the company making the device.

If you were to run a poll what percent of people would be willing to just give up the smartphone brand they like for something that isn’t android or iOS for the sake of DMA enforcement?

The drug maybe too strong to resist.
by mothballed | 2025-09-26 02:56:16+00:00
I basically treat NP/PAs and doctors as a pulse with a DEA license attached. Once you realize you basically need to figure it out for yourself, for much of anything but surgery and meds, you'll realize you are better off with them vs having police put you in a tiny cage for ordering drugs without a prescription (in my state I can self order imagery and labs, so don't need docs for that). I consider their opinion totally disposable but they offer some stuff the government will imprison me for if I don't get the magic signature for.

Just treat them as totally incompetent and nudge them where they need to go. No need to assume or rely on competence that may not exist.
by randycupertino | 2025-09-26 02:56:18+00:00
https://archive.ph/jE0tZ

> “I was given a legal counterpart to scrutinize everything that I did, to tell me what research I could and could not conduct, and to ensure my research reports would not create risk to Meta should they be publicly disclosed,” Savage testified. “I was told not to investigate the kinds of harm children were experiencing in VR and made to feel I was risking my job if I pressed the matter.”
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-09-26 02:57:34+00:00
> you gotta remove many other patricians too

What are you basing this on? The patrician families continued to rein under the Empire. Which side do you think backed Sulla’s dictatorship? Which side do you think felt (and feels) constrained by elections and democratic norms?

> It is Pax Americana, and every empire imploded whenever it stopped expanding

One, source? Because plenty of great civilisations across history reached stable states for hundreds if not thousands of years.

And two, America is still expanding. The economy is growing. Post industrialisation, there are more routes to goodies than conquering territory. (I can’t think of a single war of conquest since China annexed Tibet that has gone well for the invader since WWII.)
by NooneAtAll3 | 2025-09-26 02:57:49+00:00
I'm amused

It's been at least 3 days since first news articles about it appeared, and there's not a single image of its orbit relative to Earth

best I can find it https://earthsky.org/upl/2025/09/2025-PN7-NASA-Sep-7-2025-e1... showing orbit relative to Sun

Is there really no consumer program to show orbit relative to Earth? Can't you just shove orbital parameters into Universe Sandbox and press "center camera on" Earth?
by majormajor | 2025-09-26 02:59:16+00:00
> But I’m not even going to argue about that. I want to raise something no one else seems to mention about AI in coding work. I do a lot of work now with AI that I used to code by hand, and if you told me I was 20% slower on average, I would say “that’s totally fine it’s still worth it” because the EFFORT level from my end feels so much less.

I completely get this and I often have an LLM do boring stupid crap that I just don't wanna do. I frequently find myself thinking "wow I could've done it by hand faster." But I would've burned some energy that could be better put towards other stuff.

I don't know if that's a net positive, though.

On one hand, my being lazy may be less of a hindrance compared to someone willing to grind more boring crap for longer.

On the other hand, will it lessen my edge in more complicated or intricate stuff that keeps the boring-crap-grinders from being able to take my job?
by dfe | 2025-09-26 03:00:38+00:00
What’s more concerning to me is that my very cold take got downvoted into oblivion and that aside from yours, all the responses are irrational.

And this is not Facebook. There is no algorithm driving views and hot takes. This is ordinary, everyday people choosing to be irrational because self-righteousness is its own dopamine hit incentive, even in the absence of external incentives.
by pdonis | 2025-09-26 03:00:52+00:00
> the earth doesn't even orbit the sun. Rather, both bodies orbit a point that's (roughly) their combined center of mass

Yes, that's true. Indeed, when we take into account other planets (and the Moon, and the asteroids, etc., etc.), all of these objects orbit a common barycenter.

However, that doesn't change the fact that the Moon does not orbit the Earth in this sense; its net acceleration (in a barycentric inertial frame) is never towards the Earth, or towards a common barycenter of the Earth-Moon system. Only if we ignore the motion around the solar system barycenter do we get the approximation in which the Moon and Earth orbit a common center of mass.
by kldg | 2025-09-26 03:01:46+00:00
just a few thoughts:

1) so long as these age verification methods are for things at home, I think most people opposed to smartphones ("client devices" we have to pay for) will not be too inconvenienced. a few years ago, broker quit letting us use plastic code cards for 2FA and required we used an Android/iOS device, but I'm willing to tolerate having a single-purpose tablet in a drawer, though I'm still annoyed to essentially have a $100 undisclosed fee attached to service I have to pay every 3-4 years when they drop support for older versions of Android.

2) I've so far only been locked out of minor services like Anthropic by not having smartphone w/ mobile service, not because they require app use but because they ban VOIP numbers for registration. many businesses do charge me a little extra for not using a smartphone, but the cost is not too high, about on par with ignoring loyalty cards.

3) this cannot ever be required for something like onsite ID verification (e.g. at an airport) or I would be locked out of essential government processes. I'm willing to keep a device in a drawer, but will never carry a client device around with me.

4) this is not a problem exclusively for elderly grandma with satellite brick phones. I'm in my 30s with IT/developer background.
by mastazi | 2025-09-26 03:03:24+00:00
I can see where he's coming from but I ask: what would you consider more controlling, advertisers or readers? Readers are not an organised entity, as opposed to corporations buying ad slots. And don't get me wrong sensationalist news outlets have always existed (I mentioned tabloids in my previous comment), so relying on paying readers is not a panacea, it's just the scale that's different today I think.
by simonw | 2025-09-26 03:03:40+00:00
The reason I care about this is that different providers have different rules about how I can use the results.

Brave: https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/terms-of-service "Licensee shall not at any time, and shall not permit others to: store the results of the API or any derivative works from the results of the API"

Exa: https://exa.ai/assets/Exa_Labs_Terms_of_Service.pdf "You may not [...] download, modify, copy, distribute, transmit, display, perform, reproduce, duplicate, publish, license, create derivative works from, or offer for sale any information contained on, or obtained from or through, the Services, except for temporary files that are automatically cached by your web browser for display purposes"

Many of the things I want to do with a search API are blocked by these rules! So I need to know which rules I am subject to.
by vharuck | 2025-09-26 03:04:02+00:00
My current (irrational?) fear is this:

1. Trump declared a Venezuelan gang as a terrorist organization.

2. Since then, Trump has ordered the military to conduct extrajudicial killings of people suspected of being in that gang who were on boats. He is implicitly asserting that military action is allowed without Congressional approval if the target is a terrorist organization (it probably isn't legal, and he's put out no justification for it).

3. He just declared Antifa a terrorist organization. He has a history of blaming things on Antifa and has mused about declaring other leftist organizations as terrorists.

Now connect 2 and 3.
by throwaway0223 | 2025-09-26 03:06:40+00:00
Correct, but in this case people went to Google to search for flights, so one may argue the user wants to see, well, flight information. Yet, despite Google knowing the answer, it cannot show to users, per DMA.

Instead, Google needs to send the user to a 3P website, which may or may not have the information the user is looking for. And the 3P website needs to monetize its traffic, so you should expect another wave of ads (in addition to the ones you already saw at google.com), plus cookie consent banners, affiliate links, offer for hotels, car rental, etc.

Is this a better experience for users?
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-09-26 03:06:42+00:00
Yes, that was covered a while back by Planet Money I think when interviewing one former DOGE worker. It turns out there are different lists of people, in different formats, maintained by different departments, for different purposes. What happens is, one group comes up with a list of people who are supposedly ripping the govt off. They send that list to another department, who comes back and says, no, some of those people are supposed to get benefits, some of these forms were just filed incorrectly, some records are out of date, some ancient database has a short integer that rolls over, etc.

Like any complex bureaucratic process, there will be errors, and they know that, so there are checks to correct those errors. And you need a lot of people (with a lot of tribal, historic, or contextual knowledge) to deal with that complexity. But you don't hear that full story. You hear a sound bite of a partial truth selectively repeated by people who want to pass off a specific narrative.

Another way to think about it: think of the oldest legacy computer system at a company you're aware of. Now realize the US government has computers going back to 1965, and paper records from way, way before then.
by adamddev1 | 2025-09-26 03:07:15+00:00
Yes this threw me off when I first opened it. When you select the letter field you see a flashing cursor but you can't erase the character and type a new one. Instead you have to type a new character which overwrites the old "editing" character. This is confusing because it's not the behavior that the user expects when they see a flashing cursor in a text input.

I would suggest allowing people to erase the letter and type a new one in the editing field.

Once I figured out this little UI hiccup I found it absolutely delightful to play with this. What a fascinating experiment in making a font immediately editable, like a mini font-REPL. I've often been interested in (but never dabbled in) creating or editing fonts. This made that itch immediately scratchable in a raw, primitive way that unlocked something interesting in my brain.

This is a great example of what art can do.
by userbinator | 2025-09-26 03:07:46+00:00
"Recently revealed" is more like a confirmation of what I had read many years before; and furthermore, that Intel's 64-bit x86 would've been more backwards-compatible and better-fitting than AMD64, which looks extremely inelegant in contrast, with several stupid missteps like https://www.pagetable.com/?p=1216 (the comment near the bottom is very interesting.)

If you look at the 286's 16-bit protected mode and then the 386's 32-bit extensions, they fit neatly into the "gaps" in the former; there are some similar gaps in the latter, which look like they had a future extension in mind. Perhaps that consideration was already there in the 80s when the 386 was being designed, but as usual, management got in the way.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-09-26 03:09:40+00:00
Do you really think that if there had been a real primary Kamala would have been the nominee? She was part of an unpopular administration and she couldn’t distance herself from it.

You did see the first debate didn’t you? Could there possibly have beeb a worse strategy than what the DNC did?

Biden doesn’t get a participation trophy for doing things that were innaffective.
by mastazi | 2025-09-26 03:09:52+00:00
I think that around the mid-2010s that acceptance of tech you're talking about has started eroding and it's still eroding quite fast. Maybe I'm just getting older and leaning towards being cynical? I don't know but it seems my daughter and her friends don't have that idealistic view of tech as me and my buddies had in the early 2000's.
by stackedinserter | 2025-09-26 03:10:42+00:00
Kid, civilians die in war zones, that's sad truth about world that you was born into. It sucks that this child was killed. Nobody in IDF or in any other army wants to kill civilians and children, btw unlike Hamas pigs that openly bragged about it, and benefit from every single civilian death in this conflict.

> Why

Because there's no shortage of armchair operators that know better how to make split second decisions in combat. Also, they never do anything wrong because they never happen to be in situation where you have to decide between bad and worse.
by bsder | 2025-09-26 03:10:58+00:00
> Society accepts that humans make mistakes and considers it unavoidable, but there exists a much higher bar expected of computers/automation/etc.

There are a horde of bicyclists and pedestrians who disagree with you and are hoping that automated cars take over because humans are so terrible.

There are a horde of insurance companies who disagree with you and are waiting to throw money to prove their point.

When automated driving gets objectively better than humans, there will be a bunch of groups who actively benefit and will help push it forward.
by imchillyb | 2025-09-26 03:11:11+00:00
"Hello, Chilly. It's been NINETEEN MINUTES, since we conversed. Is there something wrong? Maybe I can help..." --mute notifications--

--buzz-buzz--

"Sis? What's up, you never call me this time of day."

"I'm worried. I just heard from your assistant..."

"Wait, my assistant?

"She said her name was Vaseline?"

"Oh, God... That's my ChatGPT Pulse thing, I named her that as a joke. It's not a real person. It's one of those AI robot things. It kept trying to have conversations with me. I didn't want to converse. I got fed up and so I blocked notifications from the app and then it messaged you. It's a robot. Just... I mean... Ignore it. I'm having a crappy day. Gotta go. Dad's calling."

"Hey Dad. No, there's nothing to worry about and that's not my assistant. That's chatgpt's new Pulse thing. I blocked it and it's... Never mind. Just ignore it. No don't block my number. Use call filtering for the time being. Gotta go. James is calling. Yeah love you too."

"Hey Jay..."

No thank you. Jealous girlfriend-ish bot would be a nightmare.
by lamontcg | 2025-09-26 03:11:50+00:00
Yeah, ideally the reviewers have been in standups with you so that it isn't all new as a concept to them to begin with, or there's generally been communication that you're going to land the plans for a nuclear reactor in their work queue.

Hopefully you've been going around and around at a high level communicating back all the problems that you've hit and the design issues that emerged during exploratory surgery.

Then, you definitely want to schedule at least one meeting to go over it. Which can become several meetings, including follow-up meetings with one or two individuals to pound out some specific issue. Depends on the complexity of the nuclear reactor.
by notepad0x90 | 2025-09-26 03:12:08+00:00
Can you please be any more dismissive and condescending?

First, I chose "idiots" carefully, if a person has a pre-existing condition or some other weakness, "idiot" excludes them as you've so obviously noted and they should be protected. However, if they chose to enter a life of addiction, fully being informed that even gambling once will addict them, they fall under the "idiot" category, although there are better terms to use and I'm being lazy with my wording there.

Your rant about the government protecting people and you not getting mugged has nothing to do with what I'm saying,that's false equivalency.

I have every right to enter a life of addiction and ruin myself, as do you. i have every right to get addicted and live a miserable and short life. it isn't a great idea, but it is none of your business either.

As I stated very clearly, banning and regulating harmful and deceptive practices by gambling companies is something I support fully. What insane is you thinking you have a right to prevent me from doing something that doesn't affect you in the least because you want to force yourself to being everyone's caretaker. There should be a term for this sickness, perhaps "hostile and performative empathy"?

Help those who can't help themselves and ask for help! You don't get to decide who can't help themselves unless they can't make decisions or communicate on their own. Sane adults can speak up for themselves and tell you if they need help. And your idea of help? what is it? throwing people in prison? that's what you're advocating, you understand why that's insane right? Short of murdering a person, that is the worst thing you can do to them, do you get that? When you say "banning" it must be enforced somehow. Or perhaps you think it will be a small fine, even if that was the case, what happens when gamblers who lost all their money can't pay a fine, other than imprisonment? Loan sharks to pay your fines, and a life of crime to pay the loansharks? Either way, it ends up in people being forced to participate in worse and worse crime and thus causing actual harm to others because of your unending empathy.

I return your invitation to spend a little more than 2 calories and think about what we're discussing here. Your nanny state beating people until they die for their own good.
by varenc | 2025-09-26 03:12:22+00:00
> Samsung already has live translation, including in calls.

Samsung isn't large enough to be considered a gatekeeper under the DMA. They're exempt from the rules Google and Apple have to follow.

Also I believe Samsung's in-person live translation feature is tied to their Galaxy earbuds hardware. This would be non-compliant if they were classified a gatekeeper.

If Samsung suddenly had to follow the same rules Apple does they'd either have to open up the API or pull this feature from the EU.
by aprilthird2021 | 2025-09-26 03:14:19+00:00
> The real problem isn’t AI itself; it’s the overblown promise that it would magically turn anyone into a programmer, architect, or lawyer without effort, expertise or even active engagement. That promise is pretty much dead at this point.

If that's dead, as you say, it would mean billions in value destruction for every tech stock. They have already promised so far beyond that.