MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by DoctorOetker | 2025-09-18 02:37:22+00:00
That distinction is technically moot, and just highlights the the irrelevance of the report: any Falun Gong or whatever organization can change the proclaimed self-identity, the language (by first translating, with a different or neutral model first if necessary).

It is technically certainly feasible to have language-dependent quality changes, the language of the prompt can be trained to make intentional security lapses.

But no neural network has a magic end-intent or allegiance detector.

If Iran's "revolutionary" guard seeks help from a language model to design centrifuges, merely translating their requests to the model's origin dominant language(s), and culling any shiboleths should result in an identical distribution of code, designs or whatever compared to origin country, origin language requests.

It is also expectable that some finetuning can realign the model's interests towards whomever's goals.
by foogazi | 2025-09-18 02:38:33+00:00
> Keep in mind that Kimmel has been hinting about retiring for a couple years now

Keep in mind also that Trump threatened getting Kimmel of the air a couple of months ago

Additionally, the FCC chief also threatened affiliates today

Is it all a coincidence ? Could be.

But absent a statement from Kimmel we can conclude that pressure was applied to ABC or it’s affiliates to censor speech

Kindly, your post reads like a variation of the “Broken window fallacy”

Hey, who needs late night comedy shows any more

You have way too much karma for this
by edoceo | 2025-09-18 02:38:34+00:00
Yes. If you use Slack, make your own archive.

I, I just have to mention that IRC had these archives so repeat questions had a corpus to search. The walled gardens don't.

For my teams the "modern" solution is Mattermost. My (biased) feelings are that it's 10x better than free-slack and 100x better than paid.
by pm90 | 2025-09-18 02:38:57+00:00
Fwiw i don’t have a facebook/instagram account (have whatsapp) and am still able to use all functionality in my Meta Rayban glasses.

I struggled with this question too. Unfortunately our current system doesn’t make it easy for startups to build this stuff at scale without being gobbled up (the FTC under Lina Khan seemed to want to change that but oh well) so Im resigned to using Big Tech products if they’re the only option.
by renewiltord | 2025-09-18 02:39:21+00:00
The tracking blocker you have installed on your user agent actively attempts to block their view attribution and your solution is that you want them to bypass your tracking blocker's active and affirmative attempt to block their view attribution. You could just not actually block their view attribution if you want your views to be attributed.

I suppose Man was never meant to know Hacker News User's mind.
by pseudalopex | 2025-09-18 02:39:23+00:00
> The entire point of the 1st Amendment is to protect the citizens from being thrown in jail or being prosecuted for speaking against the government.

"[g]overnment officials cannot attempt to coerce private parties in order to punish or suppress views that the government disfavors"[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Rifle_Association_of_...
by orbanization | 2025-09-18 02:39:28+00:00
I think it is a reference to your very noticeable habit of downplaying, "yes, but"-ting, "well, actually"-ing and generally minimizing the country's rapid descent into fascism. There are numerous examples of this, but even in just this thread, you draw a false analogy between Maher's cancellation (months after his remarks, following an advertiser boycott) and Kimmel's (immediately following a direct order from a government official).
by Esophagus4 | 2025-09-18 02:40:00+00:00
I’m not sure you’re ever going to get the smoking gun you’re looking for to make a conclusive statement here.

In lending, there’s a legal concept of disparate impact, which means even if your policy didn’t explicitly intend to harm this group of people, you implicitly / indirectly impacted them, and that also counts as a bad thing just like explicit impact.

Basically, you don’t have to prove intent, you only have to prove outcome.

…It was a roundabout analogy, but I think the same thing applies here. I don’t need the administration to say, “we did that because we don’t like him.” There is enough impact for me to conclude culpability, regardless of whether I can prove intent.

(Edit: maybe a better concept here is circumstantial evidence)
by Dylan16807 | 2025-09-18 02:40:23+00:00
> Maybe we want code like this

It should be clear enough that this operator isn't going to run 'new' on your behalf. For layers you want to leave missing, use "?.". For layers you want to construct, use "??=".

> Why would you ever write an assignment, but not expect that it "sticks"? Assignments are pretty important.

If you start with the assignment, then it's important and you want it to go somewhere.

If you start with the variable, then if that variable doesn't have a home you don't need to assign it anything.

So whether you want to skip it depends on the situation.

> What if someone doesn't notice the question marks and proceeds to read the rest of the code thinking that the assignment always takes effect? Is that still readable?

Do you have the same objection with the existing null-conditional operators? Looking at the operators is important and I don't think this makes the "I didn't notice that operator" problem worse in a significant way.
by doom2 | 2025-09-18 02:40:59+00:00
> this implies we’re losing acceptability of political “others”.

I think this is being seriously accelerated by Trump. Why should I treat those I disagree with with dignity and respect when the President (who theoretically is a leader for all Americans, not just the people who voted for him) says things like this?

"And when you look at the agitator, you look at the scum that speaks so badly of our country, the American flag burnings all over the place, that’s the left. That’s not the right."

When Trump and Vance start setting a positive example for others to follow, maybe I'll rethink my position, but leadership and accountability start at the top.
by bediger4000 | 2025-09-18 02:42:49+00:00
I thought that there really wasn't an "Antifa" as such, that anyone could call themselves or their organization "Antifa".

But if there is an "Antifa", and it's made up of US citizens, under what law are they terrorists? Again, I may be misinformed, but I had understood "terrorist" as a legal designation was for non-US-citizens.
by mindslight | 2025-09-18 02:42:53+00:00
To be fair, the new revanchist right calls actual conservatives "left wing". They call libertarians "left wing". They call the shared American values of the past fifty years "left wing". They call straightforward consensus reality "left wing". They basically call anyone who doesn't subscribe to the extended reactionary cinematic universe "left wing". So the only data point there is that his parents are suffering social media psychosis.

Also, non-normative sexual behavior is more indicative of being a Republican ("I have a wide stance!", etc, etc, etc). Democrats just espouse not beating yourself up over it, whereas Republicans seemingly yearn for the closet.
by dathinab | 2025-09-18 02:44:01+00:00
go to product > self-hosting

you might notice it's 100% free software

now there is always the question how a company used Slack, e.g. just some ad-hoc fast communication channels like "general", "food", "events" or a in depth usage with a lot of in-depth usage, including video conferences, channels for every squad/project/sprint/whatever

but the relevant thing to realize is that there is subtle but very relevant difference between a "social network" focused tool and a work place communications focused tool

and Mastodon has a very clear focus on the former while Zulip has a clear focus on the later
by SilverElfin | 2025-09-18 02:44:04+00:00
It is very easy to find lots of evidence with a few searches if you’re curious. Here is one:

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/zuckerberg-says-the-wh...

Edit: can’t reply to comment below me but that quote is referring to the instances where the company pushed back. It’s not saying they didn’t comply at all - they absolutely did on many instances, and Zuckerberg admitted guilt over it. See later quote:

> “I also think we made some choices that, with the benefit of hindsight and new information, we wouldn’t make today,” he said, without elaborating. “We’re ready to push back if something like this happens again.”
by drdaeman | 2025-09-18 02:44:32+00:00
Isn't it a general rule of driving (or operating any sufficiently dangerous machinery) to keep the eyes on the road, constantly reminding oneself to do so, so the attention is kept where it is needed? I mean, in theory. In practice, I see people deep in their damn phones all the time - and it's scary - but I think that's more of an attitude (social) issue than a display (technology) problem.

And, yes, surely, one needs to periodically switch attention to mirrors and instruments, and I must imagine that shorter gaze movement distance shouldn't hurt. It's the same as checking the speedometer - you don't see the road, only have a rough idea from the peripheral vision.

Although I can imagine that a HUD can be actively distracting, constantly intercepting attention, e.g., flickering.
by gxs | 2025-09-18 02:45:20+00:00
As someone who leads and has led large organizations in the past, I can tell you that believe it or not, users across different companies talk to each other and tell each other about the shitty software they are forced to use

Eventually this leads to pressure to give them newer/better tools

Sometimes, these nontechnical users are dealing with problems as real power users that technical users may not see - there really might be a better way to do something and they may have already seen it at another company or something like that

It also happens that something might be working great but looks really dated and right or not, it can give new employees a bad impression

Still another thing is of course that sometimes someone is just throwing a hissy fit and wants something for no good reason but they somehow get the powers that be to listen to them

I’m dealing with this now - everyone is going out and buying AI tools because there is so much pressure to have AI tools and everyone feels like they are falling behind if they don’t go out and buy 10 task-specific AI tools

All that is to say that it could be that those users you referred to were facing problems that you may have been too far removed from the business to understand, it’s not a knock on you, it happens. It’s also possible they just wanted something new and shiny. The pressure to do that kind of stuff is real - I can’t imagine forcing people off of slack, for example
by moogly | 2025-09-18 02:45:33+00:00
I didn't think that was particularly abstruse, but sure, I thought your reply was missing the forest for the trees and you seemed oblivious or blasé at the rather obvious slippery slope ahead, if you can even call it that by now.

You acknowledged it was bad (sorta, kinda), but the rest is IMO completely irrelevant. "Galactic-scale complaints" or not (we don't know), the head of the FCC appearing on Benny Johnson's podcast threatening to pull their broadcast licence (he probably could not) is unprecedented. And one can wonder how many of the aforementioned complaints his comments incited.

Now they'll lose subscribers anyway.
by ajross | 2025-09-18 02:45:37+00:00
> If someone like AOC or Bernie Sanders was viciously attacked at an event, you can't tell me that you would accept an unsourced assertion that "it was actually a marxist that harmed them."

So, first, both of those two (AOC in particular) have been the subject of extreme criticism from the tankie/accelerationist bits of the leftophere. It's 100% not out of the realm of possibility to imagine them being the target of an individual loon motivated by the right combinations of freakouts.

But also, it's not "unsourced" to say that Robinson comes from a conservative background, that he was a church-going-enough Mormon to be recognizable to his pastor, that he's informed by and involved in right-leaning edgelord/groyperist meme culture (that halloween costume was a pretty smoky gun), that he executed the murder with a family weapon to which he had easy access and apparently solid familiarity, etc...

I mean, his background looks extremely Trumpy. He's also apparently a closeted gay man with a hatred of Kirk in particular. And that doesn't make a lot of sense in total. But then that's the way it is with murderers. It's not a philosophy for the consistently rational.
by dfxm12 | 2025-09-18 02:46:24+00:00
Counterpoint: dehumanizing trans people, black people, other minorities, women, is not acceptable. It's not "a different opinion". When Republican politicians or prominent conservative talking heads talk about replacement theory, other conservatives shoot up synagogues or super markets in a minority neighborhood. I don't want to talk to you if this is what you support, unless what you're saying is you've had a change of heart.
by amluto | 2025-09-18 02:46:24+00:00
I found the Watson match to be rather absurd. It would have been much more interesting if the rules had been modified so that all contestants had, say, two seconds two press the buzzer and that the contestant who got to answer first would be chosen by random selection among those who pressed the button. This would at least have made the competition be about who could come up with the most correct answers (questions).
by albert_e | 2025-09-18 02:47:11+00:00
Is anyone else seeing concerns about where this technology is heading --

(A) Are we going to consume food prepared by a human so incompetent that he needs Live AI to tell him what ingredient to put and how much ... and that too an AI so unreliable that it can't tell whether the bowl is empty, let alone what ingredients are in it.[1]

In what world is this a sane marketing proposition?

(B) Distracted driving due to smartphones is at least detectable -- how do we escape distracted driving because of smart glasses?

When people eventually crash cars or walk into traffic or fall into pits -- no tech company will so much as acknowledge that the tech they are pushing so hard might have something to do with it.

Who should take the lead on saying: wait a minute we need some common sense boundaries around this ... some ground rules around responsible use of technology.

[1] Failed demo of Live AI - https://x.com/ns123abc/status/1968469616545452055
by dismalpedigree | 2025-09-18 02:47:42+00:00
Being logged out on a daily basis and having to login twice (once for the main client, once for calendar specifically) is beyond annoying. Hey maybe you would like to try copilot that we are shoving down your throat at every opportunity even through you disabled it as much as possible at the account level. Oh you thought you would get notifications reliably? Thats cute. We will only deliver them randomly. But yeah, sure, teams is better than slack or mattermost. We use mattermost internally. Has the good parts of slack without the lock in.
by Aloisius | 2025-09-18 02:48:21+00:00
I've looked at the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights and don't see why this would violate it.

Both the right to privacy and the right to protection of personal data have exemptions for government. The right to private communications was modified by the ECHR to give an exemption for prevention of crime/protection of morals/etc.[1] and the right to protection of personal data exempts any legitimate basis laid down by law[2].

[1] https://fra.europa.eu/en/eu-charter/article/7-respect-privat...

[2] https://fra.europa.eu/en/eu-charter/article/8-protection-per...
by TimorousBestie | 2025-09-18 02:49:53+00:00
The LA Times’ review of _Unmasked_ (2021):

> There is an alternate universe out there in which we never have to ponder, let alone read, “Unmasked,” provocateur Andy Ngo’s supremely dishonest new book on the left-wing anti-fascist movement known as antifa.

[. . . ]

> The right is always reminding us that ”facts don’t care about your feelings,” so let us set out some facts. Ngo writes that the “numbers and influence” of right-wing extremists “are grossly exaggerated by biased media,” while antifa poses “just as much, if not more, of a threat to the future of American liberal democracy.” He frequently references [2020’s] anti-racism protests, conveniently eliding the point that 93% were peaceful, according to a study from Princeton. A brief published by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, hardly a lefty outfit, found that antifa had a “minor” role in what violence did occur, most of which was driven by local, autonomous actors, and that the organization’s threat was “relatively small.”

> January 6th administered the coup de grâce to Ngo’s already teetering thesis. It should not have taken this long, however. Trump’s own Department of Homeland Security warned last October that “white supremacist extremists” would remain the “most persistent and lethal threat” to the American homeland.

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2021-...
by Intralexical | 2025-09-18 02:49:57+00:00
If Dirty Stan spends an hour making guests uncomfortable at your house, some of those guests might come to think of you as a bad host even though Stan's behavior was the issue.

I think it's reasonable to attribute moral responsibility to the entity that owns and has the most control over the platform, even if the technical details aren't quite so simple. Doubly so in this case since YouTube is a profitable business. Given [0], it sounds like this bug with view counts is a direct result of YouTube choosing to start an arms race against users who run ad blockers.

[0]: https://github.com/easylist/easylist/issues/22375#issuecomme...
by DoctorOetker | 2025-09-18 02:50:09+00:00
This sounds very vague, what does scoring good at Telecom mean?

Can we get some (hypothetical) examples of ground truths?

For example for the Airline domain, what kind of facts are these ground truth facts? All the airports, the passenger lines between them, etc? Or does it mean detailed knowledge of the airplane manuals for pilots, maintenance, ...?
by doubled112 | 2025-09-18 02:50:12+00:00
I have an Ender 3 v2. I assembled it, and my first print just worked. Apparently this isn't very common. It wasn't difficult, but I can see places people would run into issues.

It was about a month later the problems started. Plastic extruder broke like they all do, and the extruder gear was done.

A bed leveling probe is a game changer. A PEI bed plate is great. Those tubing couplers are super fragile. Klipper is nice.

Now it just works and I expect it to for a long time.

The trouble is that people don't want to spend the time and effort to get there. Me? I like that any replacement part is going to be 20 bucks or less. Everything wears eventually.
by BrenBarn | 2025-09-18 02:50:48+00:00
It's not just cloud SaaS apps, it's everything that is based on unbounded transactions. Every subscription-model service, every Uber-like service, every social media site, every "free" email provider, everything. If you have to pay more than once for the same thing you're at risk.

It's certainly true that some providers are worse than others, but I don't think any of them are "safe" in the long term. Self-hosting is one solution, but even apart from that, a competitive market of multiple providers makes rugpulls like this less likely, because in such an environment even people who are not directly screwed may decide to jump ship to avoid being screwed later.
by layman51 | 2025-09-18 02:50:55+00:00
There must be some kind of mistake, or some details getting left out here. Usually Salesforce (the parent company) is pretty nice about offering discounts to nonprofits. If they are losing the discount, could it be that maybe it's because the clients they serve (i.e. the people receiving help/services at their nonprofit) are treated as "active members" of their Slack instance?

I'm not too familiar with Slack pricing but it suggests in the Fair Billing policy[0] that they bill per active member. Without any discounts, the Pro pricing is $7.25 per active user per month, if paid annually.[1] If they are needing to pay $200,000 annually, then I think that means they have over 2,000 active members in their Slack which does not sound like a "small nonprofit" to me.

[0]: https://slack.com/help/articles/218915077-Slacks-Fair-Billin...

[1]: https://slack.com/pricing/pro
by syntaxing | 2025-09-18 02:51:27+00:00
I haven’t tried the Prusa XL so I can’t say much about that and I’m a fan how Prusa supports OSHW. But let’s be real, Bambulabs printer are vastly superior. I don’t deny that a lot of “free” and open source work was used to make Bambulab printers today but their printers just work out of the box for less money. I’ve been 3D printing since the reprap days, had cheap printers like Enders, tried Prusa used upto the MKS2. The Bambulab printer feels like a product. All the previous printers I owned or used was more like a hobby. (Minus maybe the Ultimaker 3, that thing was amazing for its time).
by kcplate | 2025-09-18 02:52:02+00:00
What’s not unreasonable is for a company look at the overall political climate of the country annd the markets they need and realize that it’s just not in favor for controversial lefty oriented late night content at this moment. The public outrage at the shooting. Watching poll numbers nose dive for the Democratic Party. Seeing some core political positions that your company embraced become anathematic to the general public. Then couple all that with a comedian with a late night show and an axe to grind with the president whose show was underperforming already…even worse than Colbert.

ABC may have feared retaliation from Trump, but I guarantee they fear retaliation from their viewers and advertisers even more. This was a good excuse to get rid of a loose cannon whose useful shelf life was already up and try to gain some goodwill among a large group of people who are ready to write you off.

https://latenighter.com/news/ratings/here-are-final-late-nig...
by foogazi | 2025-09-18 02:52:16+00:00
> Kimmel would have drastically more reach on an indie show online (who would you rather be, just in terms of reach, Kimmel or Hinchcliffe?)

How is this relevant ? Are the Presidency and FCC now giving career advice?

> The fact is it's not Kimmel's air, it's corporate air.

not even corporate air - it’s government air obviously
by add-sub-mul-div | 2025-09-18 02:53:05+00:00
> This represents a rapid acceleration of the trend, with the surplus of childless women growing from 2.1 million in 2016 to 4.7 million in 2022, and now to 5.7 million in 2024.

Did anything happen in 2016 that young women might have interpreted as a signal that they were on their own and facing hostility?
by jareds | 2025-09-18 02:53:09+00:00
My major issue is that the IDE doesn't use the same hotkeys or similar interface to VS Code. This isn't necessarily a problem, but the fact that it's so different means the learning curve is absolutely brutal so it's not worth the effort for me to look at it. If there was a basic getting started tutorial that walked you through building a simple program, finding and fixing compilation errors, performing basic debugging etc, that was written from the perspective of a screen reader user that would be incredibly helpful. Something like this may exist, but if it does I haven't found it.
by SilverElfin | 2025-09-18 02:53:16+00:00
No, I am not saying that. What I am saying is that he seems to care about acting along the lines of what is constitutional. And the FCC has regulatory authority over broadcasted TV, including on the content itself to some extent. The authority of the FCC on regulating the actual content has been upheld across numerous court cases as being constitutional. The article I linked shows he is unwilling to implement censorship that is unconstitutional despite there being some calls for it on the political right.