MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by throwawayq3423 | 2025-09-01 19:09:26+00:00
> sponsored by taxpayers: true (funded by DHS)

Everything in the government is "sponsored by taxpayers". That's how it works.

> clear political goals: my opinion, debatable

Yes as I said, false. Believing it true doesn't make it true.

> The Washington Free Beacon did engage...

Yes as I said it started out as Republican opposition research. You aren't refuting anything I said. You are deflecting and confusing matters, on purpose, so as not to appear wrong in public.

And it's not working.

> The point is what the FBI did with it afterwards

You are right, but not in the way you think. The FBI sat on a credible document from a trusted source regarding high level foreign compromise of a US Presidential candidate as to "not interfere with presidential elections".

This is the same FBI that launched a public investigation into Hillary Clinton's email server (which of course ended with no charges) 11 days before the election.

You are right about FBI interference, just not in the way you think.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/03/fbi-leaks-hi...

I could keep going but this appears to be your red herring to get away from your claim.

> The person in this cringe video is none other than Nina Jankowicz, the head of the Disinformation Governance Board,

She didn't work for DHS when she made that video, and she never actually ran anything because in response to criticism, she was removed and the office was dissolved.

And if you are claiming it is improper to hire partisans to staff critical government functions i'd like to introduce you to the Trump administration, who would never show any level of shame or accountability in response to an awful hire that fucked up and committed crimes, not just made a silly video.

https://www.npr.org/2025/03/25/nx-s1-5339801/pentagon-email-... https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/28/politics/gabbard-abruptly-ous...

> describing the exact disinformation campaign enacted above

Oh lol this whole thing is just a tin foil hat thing huh? Everything you "know":

- The government takes down content on a partisan basis

- The head of a DHS agency that was created in 2022 (and lasted 3 weeks) was part of a conspiracy to surveil Trump in 2019

- The Steele dossier was "debunked" and the FBI used it against Trump

Depends on secret knowledge or insight only you can see, but for some reason you can't prove.

If you were a serious person, this might matter to you. But you aren't, so it doesn't.
by yencabulator | 2025-09-01 19:09:37+00:00
My understanding, which may be wrong. It's been a few years since I did this dance.

You can opt out of the millimeter wave radar.

Opting out means you go through a metal detector, a 20-second pat-down and perhaps a hand swab for explosives sniffer.

If you have SSSS on your boarding card, that means the pat-down, hand swab and digging through your carry-on luggage happen whether you opt out of the mmwave or not.
by mrtracy | 2025-09-01 19:09:56+00:00
It's an elegant rendering trick, but if their worlds are represented as a torus, then I expect this would make rotation on a spherical globe view unintuitive.

One example of this: I would expect each location would not have a single antipode (opposite coordinate) but would instead have three. If you were to start at location A, rotate travel 180 degrees along the latitudinal axis to location B, then 180 degrees around the longitudinal axis... on a sphere you would expect to be back at location A, albeit upside down. But on a torus, you are in a completely different location, which is the 'C' antipode. Rotating 180 degrees latitudinally from here will bring you to point D, the last of the antipode set.
by adastra22 | 2025-09-01 19:09:57+00:00
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html

Linked to from here:

https://www.fsf.org/about/what-is-free-software

Very explicit about open source being different from free software.

Also if what you say is true, there would be no reason for “open source” to exist. It was coined by Christine Peterson explicitly because the term free software conveyed a different ideal than the BSD/MIT license crowd was aiming for.
by cxr | 2025-09-01 19:10:48+00:00
This is a confusing claim. Are you saying the chosen license (<https://github.com/HermanMartinus/bearblog/blob/998e87263248...>) makes the software free to use to offer (e.g. gratis) "hosted or managed service[s]" so long as one does not sell the services? This is trivially confirmed not to be true. It prohibits all use of the software to provide services, not just a prohibition on selling them.
by karim79 | 2025-09-01 19:10:56+00:00
He also saved Xbox from death [0]. More specifically the RROD (red ring of death) which afflicted most xbox360 consoles back in the day. I for one replaced my console three times before learning how to adjust the DVD drive's potentiometer after an insanely long disassembly process. Oh the good ole' days.

[0] https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/07/hear-how-steve-ballme...
by alextingle | 2025-09-01 19:11:12+00:00
About half way down the article, the author says this:

> Under this relaxed definition, we find that we cannot establish a total > order over all memory_order::seq_cst operations due to a cycle in the graph: > (2) -> (4) -> (6) -> (7) -> (2).

I don't understand why they say that "(2) -> (4)". (2) must certainly come before (3) in the context of threads 1 & 3, which both refer to X and Y. But thread 2 knows nothing about X, so AFAIK accesses to X can be arbitrarily reordered from the perspective of thread 2 - if "reordering" can even be said to have any meaning at all in a thread that knows nothing about X.
by michallech | 2025-09-01 19:11:59+00:00
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by akomtu | 2025-09-01 19:12:10+00:00
"For many of today’s technocrats, giving up our autonomy to machines is a gamble worth taking. This is despite the fact that many tech elites themselves place the possibility of a catastrophic outcome (“p-doom”) at very significant levels.27 But the technique demands efficiency and progress: if we don’t pursue this, someone else will, so it must keep advancing."

It goes back to a much older disagreement about what comes first: spirit or matter? One camp believes that spirit/life is the true nature of cosmos, while matter is secondary. The other camp believes that life is only an aspect of matter, the doctrine of materialism in other words. Humans just happen to live between the two camps in this spiritual warfare.
by HuwFulcher | 2025-09-01 19:12:42+00:00
AWS specifically have really dropped the ball on this.

I interact regularly with AWS to support our needs in MLOps and to some extent GenAI. 3 of the experts we talked to have all left for competitors in the last year.

re:Invent London this year presented nothing new of note on the GenAI front. The year before was full of promise on Bedrock.

Outside of AWS, I still can’t fathom how they haven’t integrated an AI assistant into Alexa yet either
by gr4vityWall | 2025-09-01 19:12:56+00:00
> The original stance of the open source crowd was more along the lines of the GPL -> GPLv3 -> AGPL, which expressly prevents this kind of thing.

Expanding on this, the Free Software movement always focused on freedom for users - which, in a world where copyright applies to computer programs, ultimately leads to the licenses you listed to repurpose it.

The Open Source movement usually tries to advocate for open-source as the best development model. As in, writing it in the open and contributing with other people will result in objectively better software in the long term. Others treated it (when the term was coined) as a marketing term for Free Software, making it more palatable to businesses whose people running it don't want to talk about ethics too much.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point....
by whycome | 2025-09-01 19:12:56+00:00
> Tolerance builds up crazy fast and doesn't meaningfully lower even when you cease smoking for years.

I specified not smoking it though?

> Plus pretty bad for your health and crazy addictive. Absolutely not a good recommendation

You’re saying that it’s “bad for health” as something separate from its addiction potential?

How is it bad for your health exactly?

Also, ‘Crazy addictive’ is related to delivery method.

Also, there may be critical differences to people who have never smoked before.
by michallech | 2025-09-01 19:13:03+00:00
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by toomuchtodo | 2025-09-01 19:13:25+00:00
You can’t pick your parents. ~40% of pregnancies every year in the US are unintended [1], and a similar percentage of births are paid for by Medicaid [2] (~50% in rural communities). Lots of kids born into some combination of poverty and parents who aren’t providing the nutrition and exercise kids need to not be pre-diabetic (poverty rates are highest for rural children). The only solution to that is to help everyone who doesn’t want kids to not have them (robustly accessible contraceptives) if we’re not going to provide robust social support to parents who need it to raise healthy children (all evidence points to “we are not going to do this” for the foreseeable future). Are you expecting the government to do something different? Because they were providing food assistance (SNAP) and child healthcare (Medicaid) which is getting reduced or removed (depending on state or circumstance) by this administration.

Like “Who pays the tariffs?” in this context the question is, “Who do you think has the primary responsibility of raising healthy children? And why aren’t they able to?” [3] [4] [5] I think it’s highly unlikely changing vaccination requirements is going to improve the outcomes you’re stating are the problems in this thread.

[1] https://www.guttmacher.org/fact-sheet/unintended-pregnancy-u...

[2] https://www.aha.org/fact-sheets/2025-02-07-fact-sheet-medica...

[3] https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/parents-under-pressu...

[4] https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2023/12/poverty-rate-...

[5] https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/charts-of-note/chart-...
by mid-kid | 2025-09-01 19:13:27+00:00
At work we use OneLogin, set to require the app. However, it stores a regular TOTP code in the app, it's just encrypted with the android keystore. I had to hook the base64 decoding function on my rooted phone to extract it, and put it in my password manager instead. I've been unable to figure out how to decrypt keystore-encrypted secrets in any other way.
by beAbU | 2025-09-01 19:14:01+00:00
I went hiking in the Fish River canyon "just" upstream from where your river boating excursion took place.

5 days, 90km and zero facilities. Pristine nature despite it being very popular. Same story as yours: non negotiable items in your already overweight pack is a shovel, TP and a lighter/matches. You had to burn the TP and bury your logs.

Only difference is in the canyon you cant really get far away from the river.

I rather enjoyed the burning ritual afterwards. Somehow it felt like it cleansed my soul, after slogging 25km over round loose stones and soft sand carrying 20kg on my back. It was the little things that made that experience beautiful.
by WesolyKubeczek | 2025-09-01 19:14:04+00:00
There's another problem that whenever Windows Defender sees any executable produced with Nim, for some inexplicable reason it decides it must be malware. Which puts you in the uphill battle situation from the get go if you want to develop things for Windows.

Which brings us to the "just use linux, bro" argument. Windows could be interesting, but imagine making a commercial piece of software with it and then beg each and every antivirus author to please not quarantine your .exe on sight.

And this is quite similar to the old "just use Windows, bro" argument that has been exrtemely popular some years ago whenever someone asked how to make a piece of hardware work under Linux (it still is — whenever anyone tries to extend battery life on a Thinkpad).
by paulbleicher | 2025-09-01 19:14:39+00:00
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by landdate | 2025-09-01 19:14:45+00:00
> licensing your project GPL or the like usually means relegating it to obscurity

Subjective. Sure if you are talking about percent of market share, but it's a huge market, you don't need to capture even 1% of users to have a viable business.

The vast majority of the GNU ecosystem is GPL. Bash, git, Apache, Gimp, Blender, Libreoffice.

There are also a lot of projects that are dual licensed, allowing commercial software to be charged a fee and non-commercial software to use for free with GPL.
by tsimionescu | 2025-09-01 19:15:09+00:00
No, this is completely wrong. Free/libre software is distinguished from "gratis" software, such as demos or shareware. Any software that is freely available for users to legally modify and redistribute however they see fit, under the same license or some other, is free software.

Examples of non-free software are shareware like WinRar, software only available for non-commercial use like OMNeT++ [0], and (slightly more controversially) things like ElasticSearch or MongoDB.

[0] https://omnetpp.org/intro/license
by rockbruno | 2025-09-01 19:15:17+00:00
I think Swift Concurrency is a great idea that unfortunately wasn't executed very well. The motivation behind it is that concurrency is difficult to understand and tricky to get right, but Swift Concurrency is at times even more difficult to understand and has even more pitfalls and gotchas compared to old-school synchronization primitives. I don't know where exactly it went wrong but it does feel that they really overcomplicated this feature.
by DamonHD | 2025-09-01 19:15:23+00:00
No, one does NOT need to just accept that doomer view.

And one can work against the bad stuff and for good stuff on the Net. I have been doing so since the late 80s since before most of the current shiny existed. I ran an ISP in the 90s. A typical user has thousands to millions of times the bandwidth and choice of content compared to then.
by dns_snek | 2025-09-01 19:15:55+00:00
I used to vape and I had the worst time quitting nicotine. I tapered down to around 25% of my usual daily intake over the period of about 3 months before I decided to quit for good. Even then, for about 3 weeks I felt incredibly tired all the time, yet I couldn't sleep, and I felt borderline mentally retarded... it was really bad. It took me about 3 months to feel more or less normal again, and cravings completely went away when I was properly diagnosed with ADHD and started medication about a year later.
by kelnos | 2025-09-01 19:16:31+00:00
No, the license disallows use of the software for seeing up a multi-user blogging system as a paid service.

You might say, "well wouldn't that be most of what people might want to do with it?" And you might be right, but so what? No one is entitled to build their business on the back of someone else's work, not without their permission anyway.

That certainly makes software like this no longer Free Software. But I'm not religious about it, and maybe that's ok sometimes.

(It also runs afoul of several parts of the OSI Open Source Definition, but maybe that's ok too.)
by divan | 2025-09-01 19:16:41+00:00
Ownership is rarely absolute. It can be partial, segmented and with different degrees of control.

Think about music rights ownership - there are mechanical rights, performance rights, sync rights, derivative rights, etc. I'm not defending music industry ownership system, but it shows clearly that binary view of ownership is far from reality.

You own the flat, but you can't remove the wall. You may own the house, but you can't build a factory there due to zoning regulations. You can own electric car, but you can't put diesel fuel there.

I see that main disagreement here is whether phones are "general purpose computers" or not. I have no idea why anyone would call these ultra-packed cameras on steroids a "general purpose computer". Framed like this, this is a debate about OP demanding private companies to transform their product into something very different and urging governments to step in. And the thing is those products exists – Libreum 5, Ubuntu Phone or PinePhone phones, or already mentioned Maemo/MeeGo phones (N900/N9/N950). If they were a better product on the market, we would have them everywhere, but industry and market decided otherwise (PinePhone was discontinued just couple of weeks ago, sadly).
by haswell | 2025-09-01 19:16:54+00:00
One of the arguments used to justify the mass-ingestion of copyrighted content to build these models is that the resulting model is a transformative work, and thus fair use.

If this is indeed true, it seems like Google et al must be liable for output like this according to their own argument, i.e. if the work is transformative, they can’t claim someone else is liable.

These companies can’t have their cake and eat it too. It’ll be interesting to see how this plays out.
by 010101010101 | 2025-09-01 19:17:00+00:00
> When a starving African child succumbs to measles, the miasmist attributes the death to malnutrition; germ theory proponents (a.k.a. virologists) blame the virus. This is in the second paragraph and is exactly what tfa represented. It also argues directly against the idea that “a weakened immune system provides germs an enfeebled target to exploit” using measles deaths in otherwise healthy yet unvaccinated American children as an example. This is only a “hit piece” in that it’s blatantly critical of RFK Jr. and his ideas - those ideas are complete garbage and deserving of ridicule, and the leader of HHS espousing them should make him a target of far more criticism than this.
by vinibrito | 2025-09-01 19:17:07+00:00
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by PlunderBunny | 2025-09-01 19:17:35+00:00
They can’t code menus properly any more either - in macOS, try selecting something like a time from the drop-down menus for a reminder (on the main list of the reminders app, not in the window for editing that particular reminder). Immediately after releasing the mouse button while the cursor is over the time you want, move it slightly up or down while the flash animation occurs - you have now selected a different time with no warning. Completely inconsistent with the way every other menu has worked on macOS since 1984. Logged a bug years ago, but presumably they have better things to do.
by ants_everywhere | 2025-09-01 19:18:03+00:00
I guess so.

But the situation we're in is that someone who does misinformation is claiming an LLM believed misinformation. Step one would be getting an someone independent, ideally with some journalistic integrity, to verify Benn's claims.

Generally speaking if your aunt sally claims she ate strawberry cake for her birthday, the LLM or Google search has no way of verifying that. If Aunt Sally uploads a faked picture of her eating strawberry cake, the LLM is not going to go to her house and try to find out the truth.

So if Aunt Sally is lying about eating strawberry cake, it's not clear what search is supposed to return when you ask whether she ate strawberry cake.
by robwwilliams | 2025-09-01 19:18:14+00:00
Too pessimistic to the point of being apocalyptic.

AI can be used as an editorial assistant, research assistant, and copy editor. This is a huge benefit already.

AI systems are also almost brilliant in helping to tighten text. Try compressing a 1500 word discussion down to 750 words for an article in Nature.

I agree that using AI to write text from scratch is lazy ghost writing—-but not the end of the world. It may be a huge problem in undergraduate teaching, but there are also some hidden up-sides.

I definitely think AI should be used to pre-review NIH grant applications to help both the applicant, NIH, and reviewers. My institution’s “pre-award” team checks the budget, check compliance with admin policies, and a few other details. They have no capacity to help with the science.

AI systems can be highly effective as surrogate pre-review reviewers. They perform at least as well as the hard-pressed unpaid human reviewers who spend 6 hours with you application if you are very lucky, and who will definitely not be perusing your latest 10 papers. AI can do both in minutes.

I give my applications to Claude with a prompt of this general format:

“You are a grumpy and highly stressed scientist who should be working on your own research but you have nobly decided to support NIH by reviewing 6 applications, each of which will take you at least 4 hours to review and another 2 hours to write-up half-fairly. Your job as reviewer today is to enumerate what you see as theoretical and experimental deficiencies of each of the three aims and sub-aims. List at three problems per aim. Having generated this list of deficiencies, then go through the application carefully and see if the applicants actually already addressed your concerns. Did you miss their pitfalls section or “alternative strategies”?

Writing a grant application is just another form of REAL science. I learn a ton every time I write (or help write) a grant application. It is more thoughtful in some important ways than DOING science and even than WRITING UP science.