MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by palmfacehn | 2025-09-24 03:51:47+00:00
>Who gets to decide what’s the truth vs. lies? The “police”?

This keeps coming up on this site. It seems like a basic premise for a nuanced and compassionate worldview. Humility is required. Even if we assume the best intentions, the fallible nature of man places limits on what we can do.

Yet we keep seeing posters appealing to Scientism and "objective truth". I'm not sure it is possible to have a reasonable discussion where basic premises diverge. It is clear how these themes have been used in history to support some of the worst atrocities.
by EnnEmmEss | 2025-09-24 03:52:24+00:00
This is off-tangent but I find it a bit odd that the blog uses a URL fragment to load different articles when it's usually used to navigate within a page.

A consequence of this seems to be that clicking the link to a different article leaves you at the bottom of the page even though the article itself has changed.

This seems to be using JS to fetch the markdown and then render it but I do feel that it may be better off to simply pre-convert the markdown as part of the deployment process and serve the static page.
by boltzmann-brain | 2025-09-24 03:53:03+00:00
> Crooks.

There's a bunch of people organizing against those crooks on the OG Stop Killing Games discord. Just type "stopkillinggames" into Discord's invite box.

One interesting note: The group has even identified a suspected Russian spy network tied to the Russian telco MTS. MTS paid a close to $1B fine for unsavoury business in Uzbekistan [1] and is known to operate GFW and similar tech [2] in Russia, Ukraine, Armenia, Turkmenistan and Belarus [3] for example. The company is trying to get at people's biometrics, by posing as a KYC / Online Safety Act compliance company. [4] They probably do provide the services, but one can imagine where the data is also going.

As a parallel thread mentions, anything related to Chat Control and other Internet control things immediately becomes a target for state actors trying to undermine democracy. [5] In my opinion, it is also often initiated and pushed for by them.

[1] https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-s-mts-to-pay-850-million-to-s...

[2] https://www.techradar.com/news/data-leak-reveals-how-russia-...

[3] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/mobile-telesystems-o...

[4] (link works after joining said discord) https://discord.com/channels/1281358651470381097/14006009921...

[5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45353056
by spike021 | 2025-09-24 03:53:39+00:00
I admittedly haven't tried this approach at work yet but at home while working on a side project, I'll make a new feature branch and give CLAUDE a prompt about what the feature is with as much detail as possible. i then have it generate a CLAUDE-feature.md and place an implementation plan along with any supporting information (things we have access to in the codebase, etc.).

i'll then prompt it for more based on if my interpretation of the file is missing anything or has confusing instructions or details.

usually in-between larger prompts I'll do a full /reset rather than /compact, have it reference the doc, and then iterate some more.

once it's time to try implementing I do one more /reset, then go phase by phase of the plan in increments /reset-ing between each and having it update the doc with its progress.

generally works well enough but not sure i'd trust it at work.
by joe_the_user | 2025-09-24 03:54:28+00:00
But no, as another poster comments, the state space blow up is much worse than transformers for much less [1]. Transformers have more kinds of statefulness while Markov chains seem simpler cause they just multiply the number of states - but that state-multiplication makes them completely impractical. They aren't flexible on a per-state basis, just the opposite.

Basically, for most forms of complexity, Markov Chains are a strictly bad model. Perhaps if there was a way to "virtualize" the multiplication of states, you could do something reasonable. Idle speculation though.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45354488
by Eisenstein | 2025-09-24 03:55:03+00:00
Wait, are you saying that the person you are replying to is a hypocrite, or are you saying that the Biden admin set the standard for responsible government handling of media relations, or are you saying that if one administration does something bad it is ok for any other administration to do something bad, like a tit-for-tat tally system of bad things you get for free after the inauguration?
by Arnavion | 2025-09-24 03:55:45+00:00
I checked Godbolt, with RISC-V instead of ARM since I'm more familiar with that, and it doesn't look like it.

https://gcc.godbolt.org/z/b5s4WjnTG

(amomax is the atomic fetch-max instruction. lr and sc are load-reserved and store-conditional instructions; sc is like a regular store except it only succeeds if the address was not modified since the previous lr that accessed it. IOW the assembly is basically one-to-one with the C source.)
by cam_l | 2025-09-24 03:57:20+00:00
Does anyone actually like conversational AI? I feel like we are zombie walking into some dystopian future.. 'if life was a text-based adventure game'.

So now am i back in a dark room fumbling around for commands. So I have to guess what the secret rules are, and guess what the magic words are, and I don't even know what your program is capable of?

..no, I never made it out of the first room in thgttg.
by discordance | 2025-09-24 03:57:27+00:00
This comes to mind: "MIT Media Lab/Project NANDA released a new report that found that 95% of investments in gen AI have produced zero returns" [0]

Enterprise is way too cozy with the big cloud providers, who bought into it and sold it on so heavily.

0: https://fortune.com/2025/08/18/mit-report-95-percent-generat...
by zmgsabst | 2025-09-24 03:57:47+00:00
That’s not at all how you’re taught to handle emergencies.

From health emergencies to shootings to computer system crashes to pandemics — doing things without a reason to believe they’ll improve the situation is dangerous. You can and many have made things worse. And ignoring experts shouting “wait, no!” is a recipe for disaster.

When we were responding to COVID, we had plenty of time to have that debate in a candid way. We just went down an authoritarian path instead.
by bravetraveler | 2025-09-24 03:59:29+00:00
Eh, I have plenty of "bullshit work". Only that, actually, for the foreseeable future.

Building clusters six servers at a time... that last the order of weeks, appeasing "stakeholders" that are closer to steaks.

Whole lot of empty movement and minds behind these 'investments'. FTE that amounts to contracted, disposed, labor to support The Hype.
by Dave_Rosenthal | 2025-09-24 04:00:27+00:00
Neat visualization. There is a street performer in my town that has them all memorized (and many international zip codes as well) and makes a fun show of it, asking people what zip code they are from and putting them on a map. Sometimes it takes him a second to recall the exact town name but he always knows instantly what city they are close to, helped no doubt by the locality of the mapping. Example video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSFt38IS0QU
by knome | 2025-09-24 04:01:16+00:00
A determined instigator could easily continue pushing modern yellow journalism with little problem under the system you propose.

They simply need choose which negative stories they print, which opinions they run. How do you frame misrepresentation vs a differing point of view? How do you call out mere emphasis on which true stories are run. Truths are still truths, right?

It's not infrequent today to see political opinions washed through language to provide reasonable deniability by those using it.

Hell, it's not infrequent to see racism, bigotry and hate wrapped up to avoid the key phrases of yesteryear, instead smuggling their foulness through carefully considered phrases, used specifically to shield those repeating them from being called out.

'No no no. Of course it doesn't mean _that_, you're imagining things and making false accusations.'
by dotnet00 | 2025-09-24 04:01:25+00:00
With medicine there's pushback because the vast majority of the time, someone's scamming you and you likely don't actually know what you're talking about, we had a ton of this during covid, radioactive jewelery that was supposed to protect you, cow piss (I personally know people who tried this...), 5G towers (actual damage done to all sorts of towers), Ivermectin, Hydrochloroquine and more. People who are sick or have a sick loved one are especially vulnerable to these sorts of things (there's an example of such a victim in the comments), and often end up making things worse by waiting too long or causing further damage.

With questioning elections, I think Jan 6 would be a pretty good indication of why it wasn't appropriate? This wasn't how questioning the results of elections goes in democracies. Instead, even after courts had investigated, the outgoing president refused to accept the result without any substantiated evidence.
by CJefferson | 2025-09-24 04:02:14+00:00
Fortran is with us in a technical sense, but its use is tiny. I’ve done about six Fortran to python rewrite projects during my academic career. No-one has seriously suggested going the other way.

I will bet you any amount of money you like Python will be more popular than Fortran in 5,10,20 and 30 years.
by whartung | 2025-09-24 04:02:29+00:00
We’ll see but I don’t think that’s going to be the case.

The primary use case is the glaring wrong calls. 1/2 a ball in/out of the zone called wrong. The batter/catcher/pitcher have to do the challenge, so, ideally, the “obvious” ones should be readily challenged.

But the close calls, the squeakers, the players have very little time to make the challenge and we saw lots of failures in Spring Training this year.

So, there’s still a lot of judgement and uncertainty to deal with. And don’t forget the the Umpires have been being evaluated based on the automated box for years. They review each game and the Umpires performance. It’s just not had actual game impact before.

I have no doubt that there will be some important, game impacting “bad calls” going forward. It just that there will be fewer of them. Also be interesting to see if the get extra challenges in the post season/WS games.
by superkuh | 2025-09-24 04:02:33+00:00
Forwards and backwards stability. I want my language to be able to run code I write today in 2035. And for code I write in 2035 to work on my toolchain from today. I don't want code I've written to stop working or only work on eternal wave of newest and break on setups a few years old. I don't want to install a separate version of my language for every application, I want to use the system version. I don't need the latest and greatest computer science features. I just need something that can do almost everything and keep doing it reliably forever* (*in computer tech terms 10yr+). It does exist but it's rare.
by toast0 | 2025-09-24 04:02:35+00:00
It'd depend on the mvno and their costs, but if the user fees pay for the underlying costs, the mvno is making money, and their user numbers go up, which makes for happy graphs.

They can also cancel or limit sims that do too much messaging or calling, which drives new user signups and makes more happy graphs. Doesn't really matter to them if all the abusers live in the same office.

Increased volume also likely reduces their unit costs with the underlying operator and messaging/calling providers, so even break even abusers help their bottom line by increasing margins for normal customers.
by quotemstr | 2025-09-24 04:02:41+00:00
> Go can be made to run much faster than C.

Not literally the case.

> If you measure performance per developer day invested in writing the Go, Go usually wins by a wide margin.

I can accept that performance/hour-spent is better in Go than C, but that's different from Go's performance ceiling being higher than C's. People often confuse ceilings with effort curves.
by Jacques2Marais | 2025-09-24 04:05:12+00:00
Good morning!

I'm excited to share Dashbullet, a new app that lets you build internal tools and dashboards simply by describing what you need in natural language. With Dashbullet, you can also interact with your tools and data conversationally, asking questions, updating information, or modifying dashboards just by chatting.

If you'd like early access, join the waitlist to be among the first to try it out. For regular updates on my progress, follow me on X (https://x.com/imjacquesmarais).

:)
by iambateman | 2025-09-24 04:05:50+00:00
I'm totally with you – 99.99% of ref calls are a legitimate attempt to arbitrate the rules and almost every mistaken call is better explained by human error than malice.

My point is the existence of the question...It's possible that someone could wager $10,000 on some player striking out and give the ump $5k for making sure the slightly-outside ball is a called strike. And with all $150,000,000,000 sloshing around sports right now, we'd be foolish to think that _never_ happens.

I have no idea how many calls are intentionally blown for money, but I'm confident it's not zero.
by ggm | 2025-09-24 04:06:04+00:00
China like India and very probably most modern economies has a financial/legal system which strongly favours the local partner. Don't be surprised if your IPR is severely diluted through lawful means and so if you look to this program (and btw, having visited several large cities in China over the last 2 decades, there are awesome opportunities) be mindful about statements to future value: Bird in hand and all that...

Horror stories about

"we were fine right up to launch and the day before I was shunted aside and it turned out the real owners were..."

or

"...and then the state siezed the assets on non-payment of bills and I found out it was a giant shell company"

or

"...and then the national telco was invited to compete and suddenly all our locked in customers evaporated as our business plan was cloned"

I really like China. I've only ever worked with NFPs there, but australian nightly news used to be full of businesspeople coming back with their shirt in tatters. The exceptions are there: people who have done really well. across lots of sectors, Austalian building firms doing town house developments (you would think real estate was risky!) or peope in horse, sheep breeding, wine production (training Chinese companies how to steal our lunch in the longer term...)

India, it's a huge market. There are going to be so many well trained, competent ex-H1B visa holders who decide they'd rather work in South Asia for a bit, I suspect there won't be an equivalent from India to match this k-visa idea.
by jancsika | 2025-09-24 04:06:29+00:00
That seems to be exactly her point, no?

Imagine an interface that reveals the engagement mechanism by, say, having an additional iframe. In this iframe an LLM clicks through its own set of recommendations picked to minimize negative emotions at the expense of engagement.

After a few days you're clearly going to notice the LLM spending less time than you clicking on and consuming content. At the same time, you'll also notice its choices are part of what seems to you a more pleasurable experience than you're having in your own iframe.

Social media companies deny you the ability to inspect, understand, and remix how their recommendation algos work. They deny you the ability to remix an interface that does what I describe.

In short, your quote surely applies to social media companies, but I don't know if this is what you originally meant.
by lotsofpulp | 2025-09-24 04:06:42+00:00
Constructive dismissal and layoffs are mutually exclusive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructive_dismissal

>In employment law, constructive dismissal occurs when an employee resigns due to the employer creating a hostile work environment.

No employee is resigning when an employer tells the employee they are terminated due to AI replacing them.
by somenameforme | 2025-09-24 04:07:17+00:00
If you have the tolerance for dated visuals a lot of the best stuff is in the long since past - Planescape Torment and Baldur's Gate 2 are amazing. The Neverwinter Nights series is also great. Fallout 2 is probably one of the best games ever in terms of atmosphere as well as gameplay, but the visuals there are extremely dated. And finally there's also Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura.
by int_19h | 2025-09-24 04:10:09+00:00
And yet look at Vietnam-US relations.

As someone who grew up in Russia in the 90s, that McDonald's actually did wonders! The problem is that y'all figured that if you help people who say that they are "democrats" maintain control over the country, it'll all work out, somehow. What actually happened is that many of those people were grifters, some others idealistic incompetents who thought they had all the answers after reading Ayn Rand. On the whole, the people - who were very enthusiastic about the changes in late 80s - by mid-90s felt like they've been robbed, quite rightly so (read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privatization_in_Russia for some examples), by people now firmly associated with the West and with words such as "liberal". This is the big reason why Western-style liberal democracy very quickly became a marginalized minority political opinion in Russia, and why the likes of Putin could easily take power by promising people that they'll fix the mess.
by saghm | 2025-09-24 04:10:43+00:00
As a Steam Deck player (who mostly streams from my desktop at this point but still pretty much exclusively games with controller inputs nowadays), I got frustrated with a lot of the "automatic" management of the radial menus. Quite often, when the game adds a new ability to the radial menus, it completely rearranges them, and for some reason it really likes to automatically add things even if you manually remove them, so it becomes very unwieldly especially for spellcasters at higher levels. My frustration reached the point where I realized I either needed this problem solved or I just wouldn't be able to play anymore, which was disappointing for me given how much I've enjoyed it, so I decided to bit the bullet and start developing a mod to try to impose some semblance of order on the radial menus myself. Unfortunately it relies heavily on the Script Extender, which isn't available on consoles (and also doesn't work on the Steam Deck native version, since it's provided as a DLL that gets loaded by the game and presumably would require a non-trivial amount of effort to port to a native Linux shared library), but so far I've implemented a number of specific settings (which can each individually be enabled or disabled) around automatically preventing changes to the radial menus in certain certain circumstances and clearing them in certain other ones (e.g. for new games or when changing ca character's class). Most recently, I added a way to define a custom keybinding to manually lock the radial menus for the currently controlled character until manually toggled off by hitting the keybinding again (which currently doesn't persist past a reload, but I'm fairly close to being done integrating it with a Script Extender feature to preserve arbitrary data alongside save files so that it's possible to save them so that they get restored to the same state they were when a given save was made. Given the reception when I starting publishing this, there seem to be a small but passionate set of players with the same frustrations as me, which helped motivate me to spend the time to keep working on it.

To me, the modding ecosystem is probably one of the two most important things about this game (the other being that Larian seems to be pretty awesome as far as studios go nowadays, with their CEO taking a firm stance against "crunch" to get games out and in favor of the model of offline games that don't require paid DLC or microtransactions, as well as their continued support of the modding ecosystem itself). Long before I ever considered writing any mods myself, I started referring to BG3 as similar to Skyrim in that the mods will likely keep things fresh long after new official content stops coming out. I still think this is true, but I also keep being surprised just how much work they're continuing to put into the game even with new content presumably finally having come to an end.
by boltzmann-brain | 2025-09-24 04:11:26+00:00
While it's easy to start believing this is the only motive, the truth of the matter is that a lot of stupid people do crime. So even if you only catch the stupid criminals, you still catch a bunch of criminals.

And I mean _stupid_. You wouldn't believe how intensely stupid some of those people are, but read some court records and you will come away deeply surprised we are making it as a species.

But yes, there is no doubt that what you mention is a major motivator for at least some of the people pushing for it.

P.S. I'm not saying "stupid => does crime", please don't read that into what I said above - I'm just saying that `#("stupid and also does crime")` is a large number.
by toast0 | 2025-09-24 04:13:01+00:00
Sim boxes and etc aren't useful for terrorism, or at least you not anywhere near this many.

You only need this many for bulk messaging/calling. Legitimate bulk messaging/calling would be going through sip providers and SMS aggregators and/or interconnection with carriers at the kind of volumes you'd have this many sim boxes for. So it's got to be fraud/abuse of some sort. Probably selling bulk sms/calling to users that can't or don't want to use legitimate providers.
by int_19h | 2025-09-24 04:13:21+00:00
For the most part, sanctions are designed to be "something" in the infamous "SOMEBODY DO SOMETHING RIGHT NOW!!!1!" mantra. They rarely achieve any of the goals that you enumerate, disproportionately inconveniencing regular citizens - government actors have the means and the know-how to work around them. But mob justice demands an eye for an eye, which is to say, someone must be made to suffer - and sanctions provide a way to do that, even if the people actually suffering are rarely morally responsible.
by vintermann | 2025-09-24 04:14:01+00:00
Well, this is about bringing back creators banned for (in YouTube's eyes) unwarranted beliefs stemming from distrust of political or medical authorities, and promoting such distrust. They weren't banned because of paid amplification.

I don't quite understand how the Ressa quote in the beginning of this thread justifies banning dissent for being too extreme. The algorithms are surely on YouTube and Facebook (and Ressa's!) side here, I'm sure they tried to downrank distrust-promoting content as much as they dared and had capabilities to, limited by e.g. local language capabilities and their users' active attempts to avoid automatic suppression - something everyone does these days.
by arevno | 2025-09-24 04:16:10+00:00
While this is true, It's also important to realize that during the great disinformation hysteria, perfectly reasonable statements like "This may have originated from a lab", "These vaccines are non-sterilizing", or "There were some anomalies of Benford's Law in this specific precinct and here's the data" were lumped into the exact same bucket as "The CCP built this virus to kill us all", "The vaccine will give you blood clots and myocarditis", or "The DNC rigged the election".

The "disinformation" bucket was overly large.

There was no nuance. No critical analysis of actual statements made. If it smelled even slightly off-script, it was branded and filed.
by giant_fern | 2025-09-24 04:16:25+00:00
> Motorway is an hour out from where I live. Each tweak meant hopping on the bike and carving out hours to test.

It's easier said than done, but you might want to approach this like a data science project. Record the data from your test runs, annotate the behaviour you want, and build up a dataset. You should be able to experiment with any number of tweaks (admittedly except for the data sampling itself) without having to get back on the bike.