MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by floundy | 2025-09-06 19:31:47+00:00
That's hilarious given that Reddit is utterly overrun with blatant, low-quality LLM accounts using ChatGPT to post comments and gain karma, and several of the "text stories" on the front page from subs like AITA are blatant AI slop that the users (or other bots?) are eating up.

I suspect sites like Reddit don't care about a few% false positive rate, without considering in context that bot farmers literally do not care, they'll make another free account, but genuine users will have their attitude towards the site turn significantly negative when they're falsely actioned.

Don't worry, Reddit's day of reckoning comes when the advertisers figure out what percent of Reddit's traffic that they're paying to serve ads to are just bots.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-09-06 19:32:29+00:00
I'd say a humans ability to reason with theoretical situations like this is our very core of creativity and intelligence, though. This quote makes sense for a policy maker, but not a scientist.

Now granted, we also need to back up those notions with rigorous testing and observation, but those "if a tail is a leg" theoretical is the basis of the reasoning.
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-09-06 19:33:28+00:00
In the US there’s also deep religious influence that paints suffering as virtue that’s been exploited by capitalists to establish a norm of pushing through the pain and continuing to work instead of taking a break to figure out what the root cause is and address it. Some also just don’t have a choice, because taking time off means not getting paid which means losing a roof over their head.
by trod1234 | 2025-09-06 19:33:50+00:00
I'm banned from a few subreddits for correctly pointing out that ricing is not a pejorative, and the history of the culture that led to extreme customization.

You have malevolent third-party bots taking advantage of poor moderation to conflate similar/same word different context pairs to silence communication.

For example, the reddit AI bots considers "ricing" to be the same as "rice boy". The latter definitely is pejorative, but the former is not.

Just wild and absolutely crazy-making that this is even allowed, since communication is the primary means to inflict compulsion and torture these days.

Intolerable acts without due process or a rule of law lead to only one possible outcome. Coercion isn't new, but the stupid people are trying their hand for another bite at the apple.

The major platforms will not remain usable because eventually you get this hollowing out of meaning, and this behavior will either drive away all your rational intelligent contributors, or lead to accelerated failures such as evaporative cooling in the social networks. People use things because they provide some amount of value. When that stops being the case, the value disappears not overnight, but within a few months.

Just take a look at the linuxquestions subreddit since the mod exodus. They have a automated trickle of the same questions that don't really get sufficiently answered. Its all slop.

All the experienced people who previously shared their knowledge as charity have moved on because they were driven out by caustic harassment and lack of proper moderation to prevent that. The mod list even hides who the mods are now so people who have had moderated action can't appeal to the Reddit Administrators with the specific moderator who did something as a fascist dictator incapable of basic reading level comprehension common to grade schoolers (AI).
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-09-06 19:33:53+00:00
The atomic bomb was more of warning and show of force to the Soviets rather than the Empire of Japan. The purpose of the bombs wasn't (just) to get Japan to surrender, since they were already near defeat anyway, it was to show the Soviet Union that the US had the wonder weapon already working and that they should back off and fall in line unless they want a piece of that. I think many people miss that part of history.
by bruckie | 2025-09-06 19:34:15+00:00
Lots of ways:

- In popular camping/hiking areas, there's just too much of it.

- In dry areas it can take decades to break down.

- In rocky areas it's really hard to bury it deep enough (and so people often don't).

- In some areas (like the deserts of the southwestern U.S.) the ground is really fragile and shouldn't be disturbed. Cryptobiotic soil can take decades or centuries to regrow.

- People often don't move far enough away from camp sites / trails / waterways before they dig a hole.

And even in areas where it's easy to dig, the soil is moist enough to it break down, and it's easy to move far enough from sensitive areas, people are just lazy and often don't dig holes that are deep enough or far enough away.

If people were super conscientious (maybe it works great in Japan?) and/or only did low density camping/hiking, it might not be a problem—and indeed in many areas it isn't really a problem. But I've also been to campsites where if you take 20 steps from the trail you can see 5 or 10 places with TP peeking out from the soil within a small radius—and who knows how many more that you can't see.
by littlestymaar | 2025-09-06 19:34:54+00:00
> The technology is the same, but not the vaccine. We test drugs, not drug technologies!

Of course we test technology, you cannot individually test each dose of vaccine! You check that the vaccine production is able to produce consistent output, and then you test a few thousand doses and then extrapolate from there. What you've tested is the particular technology being used to produce the said vaccine.

> Others, then all classic vaccines should not be tested as there are just a couple of vaccine technologies in use before mRNA vaccines

Not if you define technology like you did above: if each exact formulation of a vaccine is a “technology”, then there are as many “technologies” as commercialized vaccines (which is the correct call, they all have their own patents and other IP associated to the vaccine). The concept of “mRNA vaccine” cannot be patented, each exact formulation can, and that's what reused between the first dose and the booster.

> And then people stop using these untested toxic substances.

Sad news is that half million people idiotic enough to call these “untested” and “toxic substance” have died. On the flip side they have been evicted from the gene pool now.

Feel free not to vaccinate you or your children, you're helping natural selection do its job.
by liendolucas | 2025-09-06 19:35:55+00:00
When I was in Australia I could truly feel the burning heat of the sun. In no other country I have been so far I could feel it like there. I do still keep an excellent suncreen that I believe is produced there.

It is called "Invisible Zinc" and all the times that I've used it I didn't even get the slightest trace that I've been long hours under the sun.

The one I've purchased was rated 50+ and came in a very small package. It was not cheap but it delivered as stated.

You don't even need to apply it many times as is a very dense product. The only downside is that is not easy to remove it and I ended up with my face pretty white as a clown. But besides that it was possibly the best sunscreen I used. I regret that is not available in Europe and shipping costs approach the product cost.
by mk_stjames | 2025-09-06 19:36:04+00:00
I think it was Efnet #warez channel that pointed me towards the right places to learn some software in high school, and that wound up getting me so far ahead working with CAD that it undoubtedly was the reason I got a full ride scholarship to an engineering university that I never would have be able to afford tuition to otherwise.

A random guy on another channel heard about how I was struggling to run certain things because my family couldn't afford anything newer than an old 486 with 8MB of RAM, on a motherboard that didn't support any modern graphics cards and at that point was barely able to run Windows. This person, whom I didn't know other than just a screen name and chatting about Paintball, just straight up sent me an entire motherboard, RAM, and CPU combo in the mail; A relatively new at the time AMD Athlon, on a motherboard with an AGP slot, so I could finally get a modern 3D graphics accelerator. Nothing asked in return, just 'here ya go kid, make good use of it'.

These two events when put together essentially changed the course of my life more than almost anything else, and both happened on IRC.
by troupo | 2025-09-06 19:36:35+00:00
> California’s attempt to regulate contractors was a disaster.

You have to decide whether you want the society to provide safety nets through healthcare, strong labor protections etc. or not.

> Again it’s society’s responsibility to provide for a safety net and to tax corporations to fund it.

Indeed. That's why governments and regulators eventually stepped in.

You can't in good conscience or good faith argue that Uber didn't offload anything onto society and people working for it just because "it's not the job of a company" etc. Uber literally engaged in multiple illegal and borderline illegal practices across the globe, including the US.

And yes, it's the literal job of a taxi company to make sure its drivers work a healthy amount of hours. In Uber's case it meant that it had to pay drivers enough money to cover the costs Uber offloaded onto them, and enough money left over so that they didn't have to drive 18-20 hours a day to make ends meet.

And yeah, not everyone can become Jason Snell
by roscas | 2025-09-06 19:36:40+00:00
Roman, your site does not work if the fonts from Google are blocked. Why would anyone create a site and tell Google it's users are accessing that site?

This is a common mistake from all web devs. Also gstatic.com is loaded. Why do this?

Firefox does not even load the page if that shit from Google is blocked. Chromium does but that is also another huge bug from web devs. You only use Chromium browsers.

Anyway, do really people use TTS from anything else than a local server?

I'm amazed. You create a service for a train station for example and internet goes down. Oh well... there goes TTS out of the window...
by username332211 | 2025-09-06 19:36:53+00:00
Really? Because the most common place I've seen this logic break down, is the bizarre habit of people to derive some sort of status and self-worth from using an unpopular product. And to then to vehemently defend that choice in the face of all evidence to the contrary.

No "artisanal" product, from food to cosmetics to clothing and furniture is ever worth it unless value-for-money (and money in general) is of no significance to you. But people buy them.

I really can't go trough every product class, but take furniture as a painfully obvious example. The amount of money you'd have to spend to get furniture of a similar quality to IKEA is mind-boggling. Trust me, I've done it. Yet I know of people in Sweden who put considerable effort in acquiring second-hand furniture because IKEA is somehow beneath them.

Again, there situations where economies of scale don't exist and situations where a business may not be interested in selling a cheaper or superior product. But they are rarer than we'd like to admit.
by sherburt3 | 2025-09-06 19:37:13+00:00
I would argue that's been happening for a long time with much simpler methods. Take this website for example, I get points for posting comments that people upvote. If I post a comment that people don't like, I will get downvoted. I obviously want more points because... so I naturally work to craft the comment that I believe will net the most upvotes. This isn't 100% terrible because this helps weed out the assholes, but I think it has much more insidious effects.

Feel free to call me an accelerationist but I hope AI makes social media so awful that no one wants to use it anymore. My hope is that AI is the cleansing fire that burns down social media so that we can rebuild on fertile soil.
by catlifeonmars | 2025-09-06 19:37:25+00:00
> Have the LLM talk about what “truth” is and the nature of LLM hallucinations and it can cook up an explanation that demonstrates it completely understands the concepts.

There is not necessarily a connection between what an LLM understands and what it says. It’s totally possible to emit text that is logically consistent without understanding. As a trivial example, just quote from a physics textbook.

I’m not saying your premise is necessarily wrong: that LLMs can understand the difference between truth and falsehood. All I’m saying is you can’t infer that from the simple test of talking to an LLM.
by floundy | 2025-09-06 19:38:59+00:00
The tech companies have wised up and they'll continue to speak idyllically about what "should be" and maybe even deploy watered-down versions of it, but really they're just buying time to where they can get even bigger and capture more power before the government even thinks of stepping in. The nice thing about being first to market is you can abuse the market, abuse customers, pay a few trivial class action lawsuits along the way, then when regulations finally lag along you've got hundreds of billions worth of market power behind you to bribe the politicians. The US govt won't do anything about AI companies for at least 5 years, and when they do OpenAI, Google, and Meta will all be sitting at the table holding the pen.
by unshavedyak | 2025-09-06 19:39:02+00:00
Fwiw i feel like you could still do both, no? Ie run all tests daily or whatever cadence is not painful but still protective, but _also_ use heuristics to improve PR responsiveness.

Like anything it's about tradeoffs. Though if it were me i'd simply write a mechanism which deterministically decides which areas of code pertain to which tests and use that simple program to determine which tests run. The algorithm could be loosely as simple as things like code owners and git-blame, but relative to some big set of Code->Test that you can have Claude/etc build ahead of time. The difference being it's deterministic between PRs and can be audited by humans for anything obviously poor or w/e.

As much as LLMs are interesting to me i hate using them in places where i want consistency. CI seems terrible for them.. to me at least.
by cardanome | 2025-09-06 19:39:30+00:00
That seems like a very wastefull way to implement tooltips.

The user can ever only see one single tooltip. (Or maybe more if you have tooltips for tooltips but I don't think Unreal has that, point is, a limited number.)

So initialize a single tooltip object. When the users mouses over an element with an tooltip, set the appropriate text, move the tooltip widget to the right position and show it. If the user moves away, hide it.

Simple and takes nearly no memory. Seems like some people still suffer from 90s OOP brain rot.
by Spooky23 | 2025-09-06 19:39:37+00:00
A lot of criminal incompetence was erased by the ultimate victory.

The insanity of the bombing campaign is one, others include the defective torpedoes that plagued the Navy for the first couple of years and killed countless sailors and airmen, and the homicidal policy of shipping in replacements to frontline units that were decimated multiple times.
by InCom-0 | 2025-09-06 19:39:56+00:00
What do you mean 'low'? :-)

The barrier to entry is probably epicly high because to be actually useful you need to understand how to actually train a model in practice, how it is actually designed, how existing practices (ie. at OpenAI or wherever) can be built upon further ... and you need to be cutting edge at all of those things. This is not taught anywhere, you can't read about it in some book. This has absolutely nothing to do with linear algebra ... or more accurately you don't get better at those things by understanding linear algebra (or any math) better than the next guy. It is not as if 'If I were better at math, I would have been better AI researcher or programmer or whatever' :-). This is just not what these people do or how that process works. Even the foundational research that sparked rapid LLM development ('Attention Is All You Need' paper) is not some math heavy stuff. The whole thing is a conceptual idea that was tested and turned out to be spectacular.
by cycomanic | 2025-09-06 19:40:06+00:00
>Elasticsearch contributors were Elastic employees; that, unsurprisingly, did not change afterward. OpenSearch started with no strong contributor base, so had to build its community from scratch. As a result, the project has been dominated by Amazon contributors ever since

So in a way the "rug pull" achieved what it wanted, amazon is now contributing to development.

I think discussing these "rug pulls" without discussing the destructive habit of many large companies to only profit without giving back misses the mark. Any community where there is a large imbalance between the ones doing the work and the ones profiting will over the long run become unstable.
by hbarka | 2025-09-06 19:40:41+00:00
>> couldn’t find workers willing to worker under their expectations.

Perhaps it’s more: couldn’t find workers meeting expectations. There was an urgency to invest in the US but could you really onboard local workers that quickly in building a sophisticated EV battery factory? If we could’ve we would’ve done it ourselves. We turned to a service economy where we thought all we had to be are “knowledge workers” and now we have a manufacturing lag but a desire to have it done yesterday.
by dotancohen | 2025-09-06 19:41:36+00:00
> Once you've got a few logographs, it becomes apparent immediately that you can't extend that approach to everything you can say.

The converse is just as true. Not all things you can think, you can say. I remember sometime in my teens realizing that my thoughts are constrained by my language, an epiphany that sparked a life long interest in language. Now some 30 years later, I feel that I can feel ideas that I don't know how to express, but not for lack of language. Rather, some ideas are too complex for our simple speech. Just as a dog would be unable to bark the idea "energy is neither created nor destroyed".
by trod1234 | 2025-09-06 19:41:37+00:00
Its not just Reddit, this is happening on all networked platforms. FB, X, HN, Reddit, they are all in the exact same boat, and some are quite worse than Reddit.

This is surreptitious jamming of communications at levels that constitute and exceed thresholds for consideration as irregular warfare.

Genuine users no longer matter, only the user counts which are programmatically driven to distort reflected appraisal. The users are repressed and demoralized because of such false actions, and the platform has no solution because regulation failed to act at a time they could have changed these outcomes.

What comes later will simply be comparable to why "triage" is done on the battlefield.

Adtech is just a gloriously indirect means for money laundering in fiat money-printing environments. Credit/Debt being offers, when it is unbacked without proper reserve is money-printing.
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by ccorcos | 2025-09-06 19:43:10+00:00
I think these numerical constraints are because range trees use numerical averages to construct themselves. This is important for OVERLAPS queries common with dates. But you could construct interval tree indexes lexicographically using text but they are quite uncommon. It’s something I’ve experimented with a decent amount though.

https://github.com/ccorcos/database-experiments/blob/master/...
by RattlesnakeJake | 2025-09-06 19:43:12+00:00
I saw "Bockscar" (the B-29 that dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki) yesterday in Dayton.

It's an interesting feeling to stand by a beautiful, poised, marvelously-engineered mass death machine. It doesn't look scary at all, yet that silhouette must have been as terrifying in its prime as the B-2 is now.
by jltsiren | 2025-09-06 19:43:32+00:00
I believe there are two mostly unrelated stories:

1. Many of the construction workers were illegal immigrants.

2. When you are building a factory, you need to send engineers who are already familiar with your technology for various supervisory, training, and consulting tasks. It looks like the US does not have an appropriate visa category for such engineers, at least according to the current interpretation.

The second story is the interesting one, as it reveals a conflict between American policy goals. The US wants to encourage foreign companies to invest in manufacturing in the US, but it's unwilling to change the immigration laws or interpret the existing laws to expedite that.

Edit: L-1B is supposed to be the right visa, but the application process with petitions and interviews is too cumbersome in practice.
by Agentlien | 2025-09-06 19:44:19+00:00
I do agree that some of the defaults are quite bad. A great example of this is how even Unity themselves recommend an object workflow very different from what their engine naturally seems to suggest: You really shouldn't use tons of objects with update methods called directly by the engine. You need managers with update functions which iterate over all their subjects. Doing it the intuitive way easily becomes unsustainable and is horrendous for performance.
by jacquesm | 2025-09-06 19:44:49+00:00
Yes. But things really are different now. I think there was some expectation of checks and balances kicking in if things went really crazy and they didn't. So the trust factor is in the freezer right now, pretty much all over Europe. Yes, people still trade, yes, there is still traffic back and forth. But it is now because you have to, not because you want to. Just look at the tourism figures for an idea of the current sentiment.
by aaronharnly | 2025-09-06 19:45:23+00:00
As an aside to this aside on the aside…

I've gotten into reading Tintin books with my kid, as I did when I was about his age. They're grand adventures and sort-of progressive, for their era.

But the basic structure of many of the stories is still basically "let's get this rare artifact from [South America, Africa, Asia] out of the hands of the thieves stealing it, and back into a museum in England, where it belongs!" And I gotta say it grates.
by slenk | 2025-09-06 19:46:19+00:00
Tylenol isn't addictive. Every opiate is. Even as an alcoholic having to get surgery terrifies me because of how addictive opiates is and that is all doctors push now-a-days.

eta this is nothing to do with purity of the product. I never heard of someone selling themselves for Tylenol/acetaminophen
by hinkley | 2025-09-06 19:47:10+00:00
I’m pretty sure that as of PCI-E 2 this is not true.

It’s only true if you need to process the data before passing it on. You can do direct DMA transfers between devices.

In which case one needs to remember that memory isn’t on the CPU. It has to beg for data just about as much as any peripheral. It uses registers and L1, which are behind two other layers of cache and an MMU.
by riskable | 2025-09-06 19:47:31+00:00
DRM is irrelevant. That's only if you want to efficiently extract the text.

If you point a camera at an ebook reader with a little motor to tap the screen, "next" that's still easier than scanning physical books.

The reason why companies aren't using ebooks is because all the publishers and ebook companies make you click through a license stating that "this book for personal use" (paraphrased).