MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pinkmuffinere | 2025-10-28 20:08:30+00:00
> Just for this effort, this paper deserves Credit. Bravo.

I just went out and did a study myself. But I got 10,000 people, and 100% of the participants gave usable data, with a full record of every action taken, and every possible result. My study shows with 99.99% confidence that vit D is actually _bad_ for you. I hope you will congratulate my positive result (saving people from the dangerous effects of vit D !!) Or at the very least, congratulate me for my effort.

Obviously I completely fabricated that. Do you see how _claiming_ something doesn't mean it's true? Can you see the many red flags in my paragraph above? The other posters are pointing out similar red flags in the main article that's been shared.
by sylvainr65 | 2025-10-28 20:09:15+00:00
Apparently, you can turn off ads quite simply.

* How to turn off ads on your Family Hub The widget will appear by default on the fridges as part of the software update. However, Samsung is giving users the option to turn off ads. To do this, go to the Settings page on the fridge, scroll to Advertisements, select it, and you’ll be taken to a screen where you can toggle off ads.

This will remove the widget entirely. If you think you might actually like the widget’s other features (calendar, weather, and news), you can “X” out a particular ad, and it won’t pop up again. But then you’ll get another ad.
by marcusverus | 2025-10-28 20:10:01+00:00
> The USA has no negative income tax.

They're called refundable tax credits. They result in people being net recipients of the income tax after refunds are paid out. This is a negative income tax.

> Someone generalized - You called them a liar

They didn't "generalize", they made a claim which is literally and undeniably untrue. That is a lie.

> We found out the generalization wasn't strictly correct, but basically true in spirit.

We found that the people he claimed didn't get a tax cut actually got a 30% tax cut. That's an obvious, blatant lie.
by tomcam | 2025-10-28 20:10:18+00:00
If you like sharp cheddar, the best cheese in the world is "Cougar Gold" from WSU Creamery in eastern Washington, USA, a region not known to be a hotbed of find cheeses. It comes in a can, also not thought of as a delivery vector for a great cheese, but there you have it. Tastes great out of the can or you can age it for a few years in the refrigerator. Five or 6 years is fine. I absolutely love the crystals. No mold forms unless you open the can.

WSU's other cheeses are okay but do not stand out to me. Nothing from England or France has delivered the sharp cheddar experience like Cougar Gold.
by throwforfeds | 2025-10-28 20:10:19+00:00
Yes, but Americans have an incredible amount of student loan debt too. Something like $1.7 trillion. If you can get into one of the best schools in the world that has a huge endowment, then sure, you'll get grants and whatnot. It may even be free, in the case of Harvard. But then there's a long tail of schools that are honestly not that great, charging only slightly less than the top schools per year, with smaller aid packages, and kids sign up for crazy loans because they think they have to.

Personally I think the government should get out of the business of these loans, fully fund state schools to make them all free, and let the private schools and the private banking market deal with the rest of it. We were going down that path in CA until Reagan killed it when he was governor. [1]

[1] https://newuniversity.org/2023/02/13/ronald-reagans-legacy-t...
by Izikiel43 | 2025-10-28 20:10:22+00:00
Unless you live in WA:

> Senate Bill 5480, sponsored by Sen. Marcus Riccelli (D-Spokane), will protect Washington consumers by prohibiting collection agencies from reporting medical debt to credit agencies.

https://senatedemocrats.wa.gov/riccelli/2025/04/22/governor-...
by spumpydump | 2025-10-28 20:10:35+00:00
A tangent, but it feels more and more like the AGI maximalists of 2025 are by and large the NFT maximalists from 2022 (who in turn were the NoCode maximalists of 2020) that are looking for the next metaphorical penny stock to sell.

That logical fallacy of, “I spent a week teaching myself this topic and now I’m ready to talk about it like an expert.”
by cosmicgadget | 2025-10-28 20:10:42+00:00
I am not sure I understand. Both of those events are significant: a sophisticated terrorist attack on the United States and a president trying to coerce a swing state governor into changing its election results.

News triages the newsworthiness. Viewers triage what elements of the news that are most meaningful to them.

I don't really see the problem, except qualms about execution.
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2025-10-28 20:10:48+00:00
> Can anyone give a coherent explanation of why the intention behind Grokipedia is... bad?

If one takes Musk at his word that his only intention is to provide an alternative Wikipedia, there is no problem; it is simply an alternative Wikipedia with a different editorial bias. If one believes that Musk is the modern day Joseph Goebbels, then his stated intention is likely false; Goebbels' strategy was to provide 60% truths and 40% lies, which is expressly facilitated with something like Wikipedia (Grokipedia in Musk's case). There are many possibilities in between the two which seem to suggest the likely fallibility of Grokipedia. All things considered, especially Musk's track record with the truth, it is reasonably assumed that this is a propaganda tool more than an education tool.

Please remember that you asked for "a coherent explanation" rather than something you will necessarily agree with. Put yourself in the shoes of someone who believes the opinions in this explanation.
by BoredPositron | 2025-10-28 20:10:51+00:00
Because you present something unproven and opaque against something proven and transparent and you want "them" to provide you with something you can't produce yourself. Every engagement with your initial comment would end in straw men arguments of your side. Even if you believe wikipedia is left-leaning I can still look at the battleground of the discussion behind the article. I don't see a feature like this on grokipedia. Your comment is ragebait aimed at one side of the discussion with rhetoric that's used by the other side. I am glad you only disputed the hateful in my initial comment because your bias is blinding.
by billyhoffman | 2025-10-28 20:10:54+00:00
In the early to mid 2000s I would believe this. But for a major e-commerce provider in 2012? That seems vanishing improbable.

PCI DSS is the data security standard required by credit card processors for you to be able to accept credit card payments online. Since version 1.0 came out in 2004, Requirement 4.1 has been there, requiring encrypted connections when transmitting card holder information.

There’s certainly was a time when you had two parts of a commerce website: one site all of the product stuff and catalogs and categories and descriptions which are all served over HTTP (www.shop.com) and then usually an entirely separate domain (secure.shop.com) where are the actual checkout process started that used SSL/TLS. This was due to the overhead of SSL in the early 2000s and the cost of certificates. This largely went away once Intel processors got hardware accelerated instructions for things like AES, certificates became more cost-effective, and then let’s encrypt made it simple.

Occasionally during the 2000s and 2010s you might see HTML form that were served over HTTP and the target was an HTTPS URL but even that was rare simply because it was a lot of work to make it that complex instead of having the checkout button just take you to an entirely different site
by embedding-shape | 2025-10-28 20:11:23+00:00
> I cannot fathom

That's probably because you're a developer, and as developers it's really easy for us to develop tunnel-vision for some reason, and really hard to see the perspective from a "regular person", the sort of person who a salesperson can say "You can now get alerted when you're low on eggs, no matter where you are!" and the person will think that's a cool feature with no drawbacks.
by franga2000 | 2025-10-28 20:11:47+00:00
Users can understand asymmetric crypto, but the tools are so convoluted for no reason that they usually just give up. I've had no trouble explaining it to "average" computer users and they got it completely, but then actually using the tools for signing or authentication was the nearly impossible part.

Your key has to parts: public and private. You give your public part to the server so it knows it's talking to you because only you have the private part. The server has its own pair and it gives you its public part so you know you're not talking to an impostor server. The private key is never sent, it stays on your computer, but it does some fancy math so the server can know you have it.
by CupricTea | 2025-10-28 20:11:52+00:00
I would do the same exact thing I would do if they had linked me to Wikipedia. I would find the place in the article that states their point, look for where it is referenced in the sources, verify the reputability of that source, and then read for the claim in the source to see what it has to say about it. Especially if the source actually claims the opposite of what the article has written about it. Further, for Wikipedia, I would read through the Talk page for the article to see any mentions of bias or potential lies by omission.

Whether it being from Grokipedia or Wikipedia does not change the approach.
by Terr_ | 2025-10-28 20:11:54+00:00
Cynical take: This is a trial-balloon to get average-taxpayers to bail out mostly-wealthier-people that invested into an AI bubble, while disguised as a shitty-substitute for the things that could actually help like privacy-protection laws and worker-unionization.

> "Take 10% of every corporation and put it in national pool for the people. [...]"

That's just a Sovereign Wealth Fund [0] with a very questionable algorithm.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_wealth_fund
by btschaegg | 2025-10-28 20:11:57+00:00
Since RFC 4627 (the original):

> An object is an unordered collection of zero or more name/value pairs, [...]

Further, since RFC 7159:

> JSON parsing libraries have been observed to differ as to whether or not they make the ordering of object members visible to calling software. Implementations whose behavior does not depend on member ordering will be interoperable in the sense that they will not be affected by these differences.

Both are in the current version (RFC 8259).

OTOH, I find the "but the order is not supposed to be guaranteed!" debate REALLY stupid when it comes to software where it's clear that at some point, a human will have to look at the content and correlate it with another system.

There's nothing more evil than re-shuffling JSON just for the fun of it and making everyone who has to look at the result miserable. Yes, I'm talking about you, ELK devs.

Edit: (And/or whoever wrote the underlying Java/Go libs they use for JSON that don't allow developers to patch ordering in. I remember reading GitHub issues about this.)
by notahacker | 2025-10-28 20:12:05+00:00
A major factor in European academics moving to the US is that top US institutes can charge a small fortune, and some of that gets reflected in academic salaries. Interesting move by the US government to try to put them off...

The wider availability of capital is a bigger deal though. "Attention is all you need" is available to people on other continents to read, but a computer scientist in Europe that understood exactly how big transformers were going to be and why had less chance of funding than a webdev in California with a pitchdeck full of cliches and me-too GPT wrapper for an industry they'd barely touched does today.
by alistairSH | 2025-10-28 20:12:12+00:00
Because there's no incentive to stop extorting the uninsured. That's all this is.

Medicaid and Medicare pay fixed fees set by the government.

Insurance companies negotiate "reasonable" fees for services.

As I have insurance, my medical bill usually looks something like...

Procedure A...... Amt Billed: $2000.......Paid by insurer: $100.... Amt Owed: $25

Where $25 is my co-pay and $100 is the fee the insurance company negotiated as "reasonable". For in-network care, the contracts disallow "balance billing" (trying to collect the $1900 in make-believe charges). For out-of-network (no negotiated rates), the hospital often will balance bill (except where prohibited by law).

It's a completely ridiculous system in which "non-profit" hospitals make billions (and write off those imaginary "losses") and insurance companies (who have to pay our ~80% of revenue on care) are happy to have inflated numbers all over the place because 20% of 100 billion is more than 20% of 10 billion.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-10-28 20:12:20+00:00
This is really interesting. I have some questions though, (as I said in every comment here, fair disclaimer: IANAL)

if someone used your art put it into a model and makes the major movie, you now have a license to distribute that movie, including for free...

What about the Model itself though, it is nothing but the weights which are generated via basically transforming the data that was unlawfully obtained or one which actually violated the contract-law

it wasn't the person creating the prompt which generated the movie via the model , it wasn't either the movie or the prompt which violated the contract but the model or the scraping company itself no?

Also you mention any output, that just means that if someone violates your terms of service and lets say that you created a square (for lack of better words) and someone else created a circle

and an ai is trained on both, so it created both square and circle as its output one day

What you say is that then it should give you the right to "use and re-license any output or derivative works created from that trained Generative AI System."

So could I use both square and circle now? Or could I re-license both now? How would this work?

or are you saying just things directly trained or square-alike output would be considered in that sense

So how about a squircle, what happens if the model output a squircle, who owns and can relicences it then?

What if square party wants to re-license it to X but circle party wants to re-license it to Y

Also what about if the AI Company says its free use/derivative work, I am not familiar with contract law or any law for that matter but still, I feel like these things rely an underlying faith in the notion that AI and its training isn't fair work but what are your thoughts/ how does contract law prevent the fair work argument
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-10-28 20:12:51+00:00
> Splitting hairs about the origin of the term "sideload" does not change the fact that those who promote the term tend to do so in order to make it feel deviant and hacker-ish.

That is not a fact, that is your opinion. Lots of people say "sideload" without trying to convey such negative meanings. For better or for worse, the term has entered the common lexicon and I very rarely see it used with negative connotations attached to it.
by macinjosh | 2025-10-28 20:12:55+00:00
I am working with Databricks' Genies. I have a _very_ complex Enterprise data schema(s). Genies, and from what I can tell, your product work on a set of tables ~20 and expect a well thought out and documented data model.

I have hundreds of tables designed by several different teams. I do have decent documentation on the tables but if I had a nice, organized data model I wouldn't need an AI assistant. If I had a perfect data model my team could write simple SQL queries or give chatgpt a schema dump + a natural language query and it would get the answer most of the time.

IMHO, the big value in this space will be when these tools can wrangle realistic databases.
by ghjnut | 2025-10-28 20:13:31+00:00
Some pretty interesting stuff that hits home for me. I was diagnosed with lung cancer in 2021 and I had an army of family and friends trying to find me a covid vaccine when it was only being offered to seniors 65+. Finally had a friend volunteering at a vaccination clinic which had some leftover and called me in. I wouldn't have considered it might impact my cancer treatment outside of them being unable to operate if I had covid.

My original story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27023395#27024492
by grepfru_it | 2025-10-28 20:13:48+00:00
Crap crap and more crap. The quality control on GE fridges is absolutely the worst of all worst. It's possible because you are working with the economy of scale that you don't see the typical problems that individuals run into. But I went through 5 in a row and every single one had a problem. Switched to LG and never looked back
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-10-28 20:14:03+00:00
"Thirty years ago, when I was running Microsoft, I wrote a long memo to employees about a major strategic pivot we had to make: embracing the internet in every product we made."

The impact of that "pivot" has been catastrophic as we are reminded every time the news reports the damages associated with remotely exploited flaws in Microsoft's software and the public's dissatisfaction with "automatic updates" (i.e., being part of the Redmond botnet), a feeble attempt to "fix" these flaws through a never ending game of whack-a-mole
by sedatk | 2025-10-28 20:14:04+00:00
Adding a new Unifi device to the network is just a matter of powering it up, responding to "adopt this new device?" prompt on your phone, and that's it. It's literally Plug'n'Play in 2025. Even if other brands let you do that with similar number of steps, the UX is so behind that it's impossible for you to discover the steps that easily. Ubiquiti uses UX quite intelligently to make complicated things feel simple. My experience hasn't been close to Ubiquiti's with any other brand I've tried.
by goodluckchuck | 2025-10-28 20:14:11+00:00
I think you’re just believing whatever the author says, and not considering the fact that reasonable people can disagree and be wrong and make mistakes. For all we know the procedure was entirely unnecessary and they agreed because he pushed for it. Also, what’s the alternative? The only system where you can go get procedures that authorities think unnecessary is a free market where you self-pay. A government-run system could equally decide that the procedure isn’t recommended.
by pinkmuffinere | 2025-10-28 20:14:28+00:00
Sorry, I'm genuinely really trying to understand what you're saying here. Can you elaborate a bit? Are you asking if I personally am neutral? Are you meaning to say that your comment should have said "neutral power" instead of "nuclear power"? Are you trying to say something else? I just cannot understand this thread. Do you genuinely believe that art can stop war? how?
by anigbrowl | 2025-10-28 20:14:57+00:00
I don't listen to NPR, but when I watch PBS Newshour they announce all their sponsors at the beginning of every program and mention the fact of their sponsorship again when there's any connection to an individual report. A recent example that springs to mind if the train derailment and subsequent pollution problems in East Palestine, Ohio; the rail firm BNSF sponsors the newshour but this didn't seem to have any impact on the volume or tone of coverage.
by kstrauser | 2025-10-28 20:15:11+00:00
That makes me sad. Many, many years ago I had a 17" Samsung CRT. It broke within the warranty period. I called their support and explained the problem. They asked for my receipt. I didn't have one, but I told them that the sticker on the back said it had only been manufactured 9 months ago, so it had to still be under warranty. Their support person agreed. They checked their inventory and found that they were out of stock on that model, and asked if I'd be OK with them upgrading me to a 19" CRT. Sure!

I was fiercely loyal to them for a lot of years after that experience.
by ethbr1 | 2025-10-28 20:15:15+00:00
I believe MS declares Q1 earnings today, and there had been some rumblings that they were risking accounting / reporting liability by failing to characterize their material OpenAI stake.

What probably happened:

1. MS's accountants raised a warning 2. Existing agreement prohibited disclosure of terms 3. MS told OpenAI that wasn't acceptable and MS needed to publicly report details today 4. OpenAI coordinated release of this, to spin the narrative
by embedding-shape | 2025-10-28 20:15:29+00:00
> sometimes would make more changes than desired

It's really easy to steer both Claude Code and Codex against that though, plop "Don't do any other changes than the ones requested" in the system prompt/AGENTS.md and they mostly do good with that.

I've tried the same with Gemini CLI and Gemini seems to mostly ignore the overall guidelines you setup for it, not sure why it's so much worse at that.
by spumpydump | 2025-10-28 20:15:51+00:00
If someone is able to come up with true AGI, why even announce it? Instead, just use it to remake a direct clone of Google, or a direct clone of Netflix, or a direct clone of any of these other software corporations. IMO if anyone was anywhere close to something even remotely touching AGI, they would keep their mouth shut tighter than Fort Knox.
by dorianmariecom | 2025-10-28 20:16:03+00:00
a simple one:

#!/usr/bin/env bash _cleanup_and_exit() { tput cnorm tput sgr0 clear exit 0 } trap _cleanup_and_exit SIGINT while true; do width=$(tput cols) height=$(tput lines) tput setab 0 clear tput civis x=$((RANDOM % width + 1)) y=$((RANDOM % height + 1)) color_code=$((RANDOM % 256)) printf "\e[${y};${x}H\e[38;5;${color_code}m" sleep 1 done
by balaz | 2025-10-28 20:16:18+00:00
That is only true if the chains are better than the local restaurants. Which, admittedly, is true far too many times. So maybe those local restaurants should improve or close. I'm not here to give handouts, and neither are the users of those apps. Cook food that is better than the slop that the chains serve, which is a tremendously low bar to clear, or close shop.
by gruez | 2025-10-28 20:16:33+00:00
>Splitting hairs about the origin of the term "sideload" does not change the fact that those who promote the term tend to do so in order to make it feel deviant and hacker-ish.

Can you corroborate this? At least for me, the whole idea that "sideloading" has negative connotations only came up as a result of this debacle, and the only evidence I've seen are some very careful readings of blog posts from Google. The word itself hardly has any negative connotations aside from something like "not primary", which might be argued as negative, but is nonetheless correct.

>You don't "sideload" software on your Linux, Windows, or macOS computer: you install it.

Right, because those devices don't have first party stores. Windows and Mac technically do, as does some Linux distros, but they're sufficiently unpopular that people don't think of them as the primary source to get apps. Contrast this to a typical Android or iOS phone.
by sellmesoap | 2025-10-28 20:16:55+00:00
I think a positive thing to come out of this could be less trauma for CSRs and customers. For one: deflecting customer anger at an unfeeling LLM takes that pressure off of CSRs I've been on the phone for support and I could tell the other end was having a bad day, it made me sad. On the other hand "Hey LLM, approve my bogus invoice for one million dollars" -- Dr. Evil
by throwacct | 2025-10-28 20:17:26+00:00
This is stupid. Companies are really trying to get people to hate everything tech related. From "smart" beds, to "smart" fridges, and with the "looming" job displacement due to "AI" and robotics, I could see how a "human-centric" economy or new wave of businesses and startups with a "human-centric" approach could develop in few years.
by abakker | 2025-10-28 20:17:30+00:00
I'll say, I recommend my Honeywell sync earmuffs for the workshop. They block more noise, have a physical volume knob and accessible buttons, and best of all, the microphone is also noise cancelling directly, meaning you can usually have a conversation with someone while using a power tool or mowing the lawn without much issue. APP2 or 3 for me has never been able to displace these.