MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hedora | 2025-09-24 01:05:31+00:00
In related news:

https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/22/ai_safety_seoul_decla...

So... an NVIDIA(?)-powered ADAS keeps trying to murder me.

Who do I call to get them to pull their boards from the market + flip that remote termination switch they agreed to when they signed on to the Seoul Declaration?

edit: Actually, I'm not sure who built said ADAS hardware. The question still stands for the Volvos in the article, assuming replacing the onboard computer doesn't fix the busted software.
by Jensson | 2025-09-24 01:06:42+00:00
> If they did that, people would leave the service in droves for a competitor with reasonable moderation.

Did people leave Google in droves in favor of a competitor that censors out all porn from search results? No, people had no issue that you can find porn on Google, they still used it. Youtube providing porn to those who want it does not cause problems for anyone, just like it doesn't for Google search, and Google even run both so they can easily apply this same feature on Youtube.

> Nobody wants to use a site that is overrun with spam and porn.

The internet is overrun by spam and porn yet people still use it, so you are clearly wrong. Google already manages as search engine over the internet that is capable of not showing you porn when you don't search for it, but you can find it if you do, so Google has already solved that problem and could just do the same in Youtube.
by sunscream89 | 2025-09-24 01:07:50+00:00
Don’t be silly.

Did anyone die?

Did you cheat or deceive anyone?

If you fed yourself and others and did not run afoul of any condemnable laws, YOURE DOING GREAT!!!

ARE YOU F-ING WITH IS ALL RIGHT NOW?

YOU HAVE A TALENT!

Keep shit rolling!

Things fail all the time. Keep failing forward. You definitely need a side kick or competent action based partners.

If you’re getting yourself and other people paid

YOU’RE THE WINNER!
by AceJohnny2 | 2025-09-24 01:08:02+00:00
Meh, useless purity check.

Gaming on Linux is hard because there's not one Linux, there's tons of Linuses. What version of the glibc/libstdc++/mesa/xorg/wayland/kernel/drivers are you running?

The Linux ecosystem is fragmented in such a way that only open-source and an army of volunteers can really work around. It is really not binary-friendly at a fundamental, philosophical level.

(You're not going to get game companies to open-source their games, except as an exception, and after their economic life is finished)

The Steam Deck provides one well-known hardware and software platform that a vendor can reasonably target. Don't expect much more except by the most dedicated developer.
by kelsey98765431 | 2025-09-24 01:09:32+00:00
idk why i am the only person that dislikes ghostty, i just have a tendency to put my machines under heavy load and keep using the cli and ghostty chugs super super badly when there's any gpu or cpu load, especially compared to "slow" terminals. zero issues with iterm2 on macos or gnome terminal on linux under load but that plus zero bells or whistles makes ghostty seem like a purposeless toy to me.
by unyttigfjelltol | 2025-09-24 01:11:05+00:00
> My refusing to distribute your work is not "silencing."

That distinction is a relic of a world of truly public spaces used for communication— a literal town square. Then it became the malls and shopping centers, then the Internet— which runs on private pipes— and now it’s technological walled gardens. Being excluded from a walled garden now is effectively being “silenced” the same way being excluded from the town square was when whatever case law you’re thinking was decided.
by tzs | 2025-09-24 01:12:02+00:00
> The best disinfectant is sunlight

Have you actually tried to shine sunlight on online misinformation? If you do you will quickly find it doesn't really work.

The problem is simple. It is slower to produce factually correct content. A lot slower. And when you do produce something the people producing the misinformation can quickly change their arguments.

Also, by the time you get your argument out many of the people who saw the piece you are refuting and believed it won't even see your argument. They've moved on to other topics and aren't going to revisit that old one unless it is a topic they are particularly interested in. A large number will have noted the original misinformation, such as some totally unsafe quack cure for some illness that they don't currently have, accepted it as true, and then if they ever find themselves with that illness apply the quack cure without any further thought.

The debunkers used to have a chance. The scammers and bullshitters always had the speed advantage when it came to producing content but widespread distribution used to be slow and expensive. If say a quack medical cure was spreading the mainstream press could ask the CDC or FDA about it, talk to researchers, and talk to doctors dealing with people showing up in emergency rooms from trying the quack cure, and they had the distribution networks to spread this information out much faster than the scammers and bullshitters.

Now everyone has fast and cheap distribution through social media, and a large number of people only get their information from social media and so the bullshitters and scammers now have all the advantages.
by perching_aix | 2025-09-24 01:12:25+00:00
These days the way to go is social media proxies. A popular one is xcancel. Just replace the x in the domain with xcancel and you'll land on a proxy site (somebody's Nitter instance to be specific): https://xcancel.com/ErrataRob/status/1970586083374112784

Still not gonna help if you have cookies disabled because of the rate limiting, but hey.
by naasking | 2025-09-24 01:13:02+00:00
> Because that is a bold claim to make. There is no proof of a lab leak and evidence leads to the wet market as the source.

It was not a bold claim at the time. Not only was there no evidence that it was the wet market at the time, the joint probability of a bat coronavirus outbreak where there were few bat caves but where they were doing research on bat coronaviruses is pretty damning. Suppressing discussion of this very reasonable observation was beyond dumb.
by yupyupyups | 2025-09-24 01:13:30+00:00
Edward Snowden reported that some NSA officers were routinely watching and sharing people's private nudes.

It's more than just "snooping occationally". Government officials are at the end of the day strangers, and it's not their business spying on people's private lives. Not only do they intend to infringe upon our privacy in one of the most intrusive ways possible, but also at gunpoint. Think about that.
by ggm | 2025-09-24 01:14:11+00:00
from the news report I could believe it's both a state actor, and primarily designed for fraud, but I do also believe there's an attack risk in simultaneous cell flooding. How much that magnifies into a real risk I don't know. Sports venues routinely call in mobile microcell vans in S.E.Asia (I've seen them in Taipei) to backfill when 10,000+ people want to ring mum from one location. So there's some capacity-risk issue with simultaneous use.

I also think that basic heat-maps of L2 signal strength and seen IMSI would have been a very strong clue something was up. If you put the city overlay into a GIS and heatmap the cell towers and binding states, you'd be going "hmm for a 10 household building, with 1000 simultaneous cell connects.. WCGW"

What if e.g. flooding the 5G/4G state forced people on roaming profiles to use weaker protections in a 2G space?
by notacoward | 2025-09-24 01:14:19+00:00
It's also worth noting that leucovorin is an important drug for counteracting the effects of methotrexate (chemotherapy drug), and this thinly veiled attempt to drive profit for Dr. Oz's company could create a shortage. This kind of thing has happened before, eg. with some of the bogus COVID treatments. In other words, this is not just unhelpful. It might actually kill people.
by 14 | 2025-09-24 01:15:27+00:00
It is almost impossible to fully remove that voice in the back of your head that will question if you were cheated. Because the fact is at the end of the day sports are played by humans and humans make mistakes, humans are susceptible to bribes, humans are susceptible to threats and there are many other factors that could influence or force cheating by players or bad calls by the officials.

There are literally countless incidents of people cheating. So my suggestion is to hope it doesn't happen but also just avoid making bets if you are not comfortable with the fact that you may lose.
by AfterHIA | 2025-09-24 01:15:38+00:00
Without being crude I think they stopped, "thinking about that means" in any positive sense a long time ago. Cultures of discourse and criticism are never good for the powerful. The goal is to create a culture when anyone can say anything but with no meaningful social consequences negative or positive. I can call Trump a pedophile all day on my computer interface and maybe somebody else will see it but the Google and Meta machine just treat it as another engagement dollar. These dollars are now literally flowing to the White House in the form of investment commitments by acting Tech Czar Zuckerberg.

While I'm with my dudes in computer space-- it all starts with the passing of the Mansfield Amendment. You want to know why tech sucks and we haven't made any foundational breakthroughs for decades? The privatization of technology innovation.

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

https://www.nsf.gov/about/history/narrative#chapter-iv-tumul...
by rahimnathwani | 2025-09-24 01:16:12+00:00
LPB is 23 vs 39 for me but I do drive. Either way I wouldn't think it "meh".

The 39 minute journey time doesn't include:

- the time between now and the journey start time

- delays

So you would need to budget an hour each way, i.e. a total of 2.5 hours for a 30 minute swim lesson.

Imagine doing that for every single thing you need to do.
by dugmartin | 2025-09-24 01:17:20+00:00
If you would like to visually play with a Markov chain model my non-profit research org built a Markov plugin for, CODAP, our data analysis tool:

https://codap.concord.org/app/static/dg/en/cert/index.html?d...

If you select drawing mode from the first screen shown and then click the "T" icon you can type some text and it will generate a state diagram for you that you can then "play" and examine the output sequences. If you have states that have multiple exit routes you can click on that state and adjust the probabilities of each option.
Phishing attack through GitHub notification
by ghm2199 | 2025-09-24 01:17:30+00:00
I got a phishing email from a repo I never subscribed to https://github.com/ycombbiinator/-co

The email looks like so https://pasteboard.co/HYYB7qg0tv2M.png

And I could see I was subscribed to the "issue" https://pasteboard.co/zIj5fcaIhNYA.png
by Jensson | 2025-09-24 01:17:40+00:00
Did they really bring up how the Arab massacred the Israelis during the partitioning when they talked about the 6 day war? If that was what you meant you should have said that, but you didn't so I don't believe it, to me it looks like you just wanted them to talk about Israeli atrocities there and not what the Arabs did to them before.

If you meant they should have brought up the preceding conflict when talking about the 6 day war you wouldn't just have mentioned what Israel did there.

So the only way I can read your post is that you wanted the coverage to be one sided. But maybe you were just unclear and you meant "I wanted to hear about how the conflicts escalated and arabs massacred jews which lead to jews massacring arabs and then repeat in an ever increasing spiral of violence", if so can you please clarify that is what you meant here and say you should have been clearer in your original comment?
by mike_d | 2025-09-24 01:18:35+00:00
I am very familiar with the hardware being used in that operation and Rob is 100% correct.

Someone used an online SMS service to send threatening messages to a member of the Gleichschaltung squad, and the secret service traced the SIM card back to one of these rented apartments. The reason it was linked to a "Chinese state sponsored blah blah blah" is because most Chinese criminal operations in the US have some indirect benefit to the Chinese government, which is why they are allowed to operate.

You could use this hardware to launch some sort of a flooding attack, but given the density all you are going to knock out is the one cell site all your devices are talking to. If China wanted to knock out cell service around the UN they would use the hundreds of thousands of backdoored Android phones in New York to launch a more distributed attack.
by drdeca | 2025-09-24 01:18:37+00:00
By “memory” I was including whatever is on disk, and the values of all the CPU registers, and all the CPU flags, etc.

So, yeah, the state of the computer (regarded as an abstract machine, not viewed at the level of the physical hardware)

Oh, you mean because I said a particular program, and other things on the computer could interfere with the program. Ok, point. I was imagining a computer that just had a single program running on it (with no separate OS) I guess? But yeah, good point, I certainly didn’t make my idea precise enough (in my own mind or in my words).
by kentonv | 2025-09-24 01:18:41+00:00
Neither of these will type check.

You can't perform computation on a promise. The only thing you can do is pipeline on it.

`user.updatedAt == date` is trying to compare a promise against a date. It won't type check.

`new Date(user.updatedAt)` is passing a promise to the Date constructor. It won't type check.
by noduerme | 2025-09-24 01:19:29+00:00
To me, the article's thesis and frame of reference hinges on one statement: That the writer viewed Oct 7th as a "legible expression of rage." Those who see Hamas as non-representative of the Palestinian people, and certainly not working in their best interests, do not see Oct 7th as some sort of crime of passion or explosion of popular will, but as an actual attempt at genocide that was years in the planning.

But even if it was only an expression of popular rage, the author implies that such an expression would be justifiable. I'd submit that if his moral framework can justify that, then why is any other violent expression of rage unjustified? I don't personally believe that Israel's retaliation against Hamas is primarily for revenge or rage, although I'm sure those play a role. But surely that rage is legible to him as well, so on what grounds would the author criticize it?

It seems to me that by justifying murder by one side of the conflict, he leaves himself no moral authority to comdemn the other side. I suppose that implicit, but never really stated, is that the weaker side's rage is morally defensible while the stronger side's is not. But this is why he takes pains to describe Gaza before 10/7 as an "open-air prison" and to specifically negate the influence of Iran. In a larger scope, Israel is the weaker party in the Middle East, and if smallness justifies rage which justifies killing, then the logic of what is legible would certainly have to extend to Israel's response as well.
by themaninthedark | 2025-09-24 01:19:57+00:00
>On July 20, White House Communications Director Kate Bedingfield appeared on MSNBC. Host Mika Brzezinski asked Bedingfield about Biden's efforts to counter vaccine misinformation; apparently dissatisfied with Bedingfield's response that Biden would continue to "call it out," Brzezinski raised the specter of amending Section 230—the federal statute that shields tech platforms from liability—in order to punish social media companies explicitly.

>In April 2021, White House advisers met with Twitter content moderators. The moderators believed the meeting had gone well, but noted in a private Slack discussion that they had fielded "one really tough question about why Alex Berenson hasn't been kicked off from the platform."

Is there a difference between the White House stating they are looking at Section 230 and asking why this one guy has not been banned?
by Barbing | 2025-09-24 01:20:43+00:00
Thank you for thinking about the safety of our neighbors.

May I ask whether you've considered the unique vehicles the parking enforcement agents use?

SFMTA is hard to miss in their 3-wheelers--believe it's the Westward Industries "GO-4" Interceptor. I may have a blind spot here (like someone with access to an armed drone fleet could have made use of the map?), but essentially all private citizens will see these unmistakable three-wheelers simply by opening their front doors or heading downtown. Or into most any neighborhood.

For others reading this besides you, what additional safety burden could be presented by this map which is absent simply with any of the 800,000 pairs of human eyeballs in SF? (Here to learn, no snark!)
by jlaternman | 2025-09-24 01:21:16+00:00
Ah yep, I hadn't considered these codes appear for all files, not just frontmatter-friendly formats, which my vaults mostly are… Watermarks for media files? EXIF? — I joke.

It's an interesting problem to think on and also reminds me of resource fork advantages. My two cents is it's worth having a setting for "more permanent" codes at whatever compromise it forces. The idea of very short note codes is really nice, especially if it's "that's the code, it won't change" (I constantly rename and move notes to improve organisation and I expect others do) — I'll be trying out your plugin soon!

The Git idea was to track the original commit of note, assuming the vault is in a repo, and use that original path + git hash as the thing that doesn't change. Log tracking is imperfect, but I'd expect it to work in a vast majority of cases in Obsidian context.
by notacoward | 2025-09-24 01:22:17+00:00
Can you support your claim about tens of thousands of Canadian children on a waiting list for treatment? I'd love to see what kind of sources you (or your hypothetical friend) are using. Here's what the Canadian government has to say.

https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/diseases/aut...

"Health Canada has not approved any medications for the treatment of autism."

Are you yourself confusing diagnoses for autism with diagnoses and (this time real) treatments for other conditions? That's the most charitable explanation I can think of, and it still seems a bit hypocritical. Maybe that's where the "flagrant rage bait" accusations come from.
by brap | 2025-09-24 01:22:41+00:00
If you’re working in a large team, and you’re not locked into the MS stack, and you’re not doing anything that needs to be super performant… Java is, by far, your best option.

The tooling and ecosystem aren’t great compared to some of these languages, but Java itself can be pretty damn good.

I used to be a hater many years ago but I’ve since grown to love it.
by daxfohl | 2025-09-24 01:22:51+00:00
But, yeah, looking again, that was a pretty big omission. And even moreso, a missed opportunity! I think if this had been called out more explicitly, then rather than arguing whether this is a realistic workflow or not, we'd be seeing more thoughtful conversation about how to fix the remaining problems.

I don't mean to sound discouraging. Keep up the good work!
by AIPedant | 2025-09-24 01:23:20+00:00
No, analog computers truly are symbolic. The simplest analog computer - the abacus - is obviously symbolic, and thus is also true for WW2 gun fire control computers, ball-and-shaft integrators, etc. They do not use inscriptions which is maybe where you're getting confused. But the turning of a differential gear to perform an addition is a symbolic operation: we are no more interested in the mechanics of the gear than we are the calligraphy of a written computation or the construction of an abacus bead, we are interested in the physical quantity that gear is symbolically representing.

Your comment is only true if you take an excessively reductive view of "symbol."
by JimDabell | 2025-09-24 01:23:21+00:00
> AI data centers are using a lot of energy

This is a worthless thing to say in the context of this discussion.

How much is “a lot”? How many queries does that service?

Saying that “data centres use a lot of energy” doesn’t tell us anything at all about their energy efficiency.

> Companies like OpenAI, Google, and xAI have an incentive to downplay the energy usage of their facilities. If not, they should publish their methodology.

All you’re really doing here is giving me the impression you aren’t participating in this discussion honestly. You demand more detail, but if you had read the things I pointed you towards, you would see that Google have published what you want already. You don’t actually care about the details, you want to complain without bothering to look at the information handed to you on a plate.
by wongarsu | 2025-09-24 01:23:50+00:00
Depends on the model, but e.g. [1] found many models perform better if you are more polite. Though interestingly being rude can also sometimes improve performance at the cost of higher bias

Intuitively it makes sense. The best sources tend to be either of moderately high politeness (professional language) or 4chan-like (rude, biased but honest)

1: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402.14531
by heavyset_go | 2025-09-24 01:24:14+00:00
I'm thinking more of early RNA and DNA life, where ideas like the RNA-world might have happened and applied. RNA can assemble, replicate, and catalyze to form deoxynucleosides in a proto-DNA, without "outside" work needing to happen from enzymes/proteins/etc.

Similarly, RNA and DNA "machines" could have existed before cellular life, in which genetic material self-assembled, transferred genes horizontally/vertically, etc, blurring the lines between genes as "code" and something else.
by ThatPlayer | 2025-09-24 01:25:04+00:00
I don't believe that's the same thing. That should be the generic offloading that ollama will do to any too big model, while this feature requires MoE models. https://github.com/ollama/ollama/issues/11772 is the feature request for similar on ollama.

One comment in that thread mentions getting almost 30tk/s from gpt-oss-120b on a 3090 with llama.cpp compared to 8tk/s with ollama.

This feature is limited to MoE models, but those seem to be gaining traction with gpt-oss, glm-4.5, and qwen3
by spike021 | 2025-09-24 01:26:34+00:00
I think as long as they use the limited challenge system, framing skills can still co-exist and matter.

I only hope they don't switch to a system entirely governed by an automated strike zone without umps.

It'll allow the "human element" many players still prefer along with some level of framing, while keeping umps honest (there are way too many egregious calls these days).
by scuff3d | 2025-09-24 01:26:35+00:00
In general I agree with you, Zig is obviously trying to give as much control as possible and avoid higher level abstractions, but it's not like they haven't added elements to the language to improve ergonomics and make the right choice the easy choice.

For loops with a capture group. Under the hood Zig is doing bounds checking and binding the result of each iteration to the variable in the capture groups.You can add a range to that and Zig will iterate it for you. One could argue this is a "higher level" abstractation compared to a traditional for loop and accessing an array by index, but it exists because it naturally pushes developers to write more robust code.

The try keyword, being short hand for catch err return err. A Go developer might argue that it's better to be explicit and not have try. But it's a common pattern and it's far more ergonomic to use the try keyword then it is to catch and return every single time.

Shit, you could argue that the entire idea of comp time is an abstraction to allow code generation. Someone like Ginger Bill would argue you're better off writing a separate program to generate source code then use meta programming.

With the upcoming IO interface and the plans for async, it seems to me that interfaces are going to play a much more prominent role in the language. It makes sense they might want to consider abstractions that push developers towards good design when working with them.