MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by MangoToupe | 2025-10-22 14:24:25+00:00
I agree with that assessment, or at least that this is indeed the claim.

But, technology also gave us the internet, and social media. Yes, both are used to propagate misinformation, but it also laid bare how bad traditional media was at both a) representing the world competently and b) representing the opinions and views of our neighbors. Manufacturing consent has never been so difficult (or, I suppose, so irrelevant to the actions of the states that claim to represent us).
by Foobar8568 | 2025-10-22 14:24:30+00:00
French media are owned by his literal relatives, one (Bouygues, owner of the largest French /media? With TF1 etc.) being the witness of one of his wedding and godfather of his son Louis. The other son is married to the heir of Darty/FNAC. I don't remember where Dassault (major newspaper owner) fits but they were both close as well.
by thrance | 2025-10-22 14:24:39+00:00
No, I am calling for Sarkozy to experience exactly what he helped create, nothing more, nothing less.

Sarkozy ran a right wing populist campaign promising "zero tolerance" and being "tough on crime". He helped, through the policies passed under his term, create a huge overcrowding issue within our jail system. It would be only fair for him to experience all of that for himself, after the many heinous crimes he's committed.

I have been opposed to these policies in forever, and advocate for the humane treatment of prisoners. Now that Sarkozy is finally facing some retribution for his crimes, we should all feel sorry for him and bend over backwards to make his life more comfortable. Fuck that. He should reap what he sowed. I don't believe in that "they go low, we go high" bullshit.
by CGMthrowaway | 2025-10-22 14:24:42+00:00
What do you mean? A source says wapo has 130K print and 2.5M online subs.[1] Compare NYT with 660K print and 9.7M online[2] which I imagine have fallen off proportionally in line with wapo.[3]

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Washington_Post

[2]https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/02/the-new-york-times-made-mo...

[3]https://fourweekmba.com/the-new-york-times-print-subscribers...
by recitedropper | 2025-10-22 14:24:55+00:00
Repo seems legit, and some of the ideas are pretty novel. As always though, we'll have to see how it scales. A lot of interesting architectures have failed the GPT3+ scale test.

As a sidenote--does anyone really think human-like intelligence on silica is a good idea? Assuming it comes with consciousness, which I think is fair to presume, brain-like AI seems to me like a technology that shouldn't be made.

This isn't a doomer position; that human-like AI would bring about the apocalypse. It is one of empathy: At this point in time, our species isn't mature enough to have the ability to spin up conscious beings so readily. I mean look how we treat each other--we can't even treat beings we know to be conscious with kindness and compassion. Mix our immaturity with a newfound ability to create digital life and it'll be the greatest ethical disaster of all time.

It feels like researchers in the space think there is glory to be found in figuring out human-like intelligence on silicon. That glory has even attracted big names outside the space (see John Carmack), under the presumption that the technology is a huge lever for good and likely to bring eternal fame.

I honestly think it is a safer bet that, given how we aren't ready for such technology, the person / team who would go on to actually crack brain-like AI would be remembered closer to Hitler than to Einstein.
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2025-10-22 14:25:49+00:00
> lol Are you saying that a distro that makes this kind of claim shouldn't be concerned with the amount of times you can type in a wrong password?

I will absolutely say that a distro making that claim should not worry about the difference between 3 and 10 password attempts on sudo (i.e. when you're already logged in).

> Especially since it's not vetting that actual security of the password itself?

Yes, that should be fixed. But it's a separate matter.
by rubatuga | 2025-10-22 14:26:36+00:00
MHC (Major histocompatibility complex) plays a large role in this, essentially they are like hash functions for the peptides / proteins in your body. Cells then present these hashes on the outside of their membrane which then let them be either targeted for destruction or recognized as self.

Mistakes (or unfortunate genetics) in this process along with a mix of unknown environmental factors (smoking? EBV infection?) can affect how likely you are to develop autoimmune conditions where the body attacks itself. For example, people with the HLA-B27 "hash function" are much more likely to develop ankylosis spondylitis, but this gene may protect against viruses such as HIV or Hepatitis C. A lot of the research for the treatment of these autoimmune conditions now is on how to treat the condition without shutting down the entire immune system.
by sdenton4 | 2025-10-22 14:26:42+00:00
/I'd love to see new approaches that explicitly don't "admit a GPU-friendly formulation", but still move the SOTA forward. Has anyone seen anything even getting close, anywhere?/

The speedup from using a GPU over a CPU is around 100x, as a rule of thumb. And there's been an immense amount of work maximizing throughput when training on a pile of GPUs together... And a sota model will still take a long time to train. So even if you do have a non-GPU algo which is better, it'll take you a very very long time to train it - by which point the best GPU algos will have also improved substantially.
by falcor84 | 2025-10-22 14:26:42+00:00
> Peer-reviewed science is as close as we can get to good consensus

I think we're on the same side of this, but I just want to say that we can do a lot better. As per studies around the Replication Crisis over the last decade [0], and particularly this 2016 survey conducted by Monya Baker from Nature [1]:

> 1,576 researchers who took a brief online questionnaire on reproducibility found that more than 70% of researchers have tried and failed to reproduce another scientist's experiment results (including 87% of chemists, 77% of biologists, 69% of physicists and engineers, 67% of medical researchers, 64% of earth and environmental scientists, and 62% of all others), and more than half have failed to reproduce their own experiments.

We need to expect better, needing both better incentives and better evaluation, and I think that AI can help with this.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/533452a
by baby_souffle | 2025-10-22 14:26:47+00:00
> Does this mean Copilot tab complete is banned too? What about asking an LLM for advice and then writing all the code yourself?

You're brushing up against some of the reasons why I am pretty sure policies like this will be futile. They may not diminish in popularity but they will be largely unenforceable. They may serve as an excuse for rejecting poor quality code or code that doesn't fit the existing conventions/patterns but did maintainers need a new reason to reject those PRs?

How does one show that no assistive technologies below some threshold were used?
by visarga | 2025-10-22 14:27:04+00:00
I recently tried to get Gemini to collect fresh news and show them to me, and instead of using search it hallucinated everything wholesale, titles, abstracts and links. Not just once, multiple times. I am kind of afraid of using Gemini now for anything related to web search.

Here is a sample:

> [1] Google DeepMind and Harvard researchers propose a new method for testing the ‘theory of mind’ of LLMs - Researchers have introduced a novel framework for evaluating the "theory of mind" capabilities in large language models. Rather than relying on traditional false-belief tasks, this new method assesses an LLM’s ability to infer the mental states of other agents (including other LLMs) within complex social scenarios. It provides a more nuanced benchmark for understanding if these systems are merely mimicking theory of mind through pattern recognition or developing a more robust, generalizable model of other minds. This directly provides material for the construct_metaphysics position by offering a new empirical tool to stress-test the computational foundations of consciousness-related phenomena.

> https://venturebeat.com/ai/google-deepmind-and-harvard-resea...

The link does not work, the title is not found in Google Search either.
by echelon | 2025-10-22 14:27:28+00:00
I don't care for crypto at all, but if you burn money to talk to me or send me information, I might pick up. I would prefer to be paid for attention rather than have a third party be paid.

Nostr is starting to look something like P2P social, but it's still got a long way to go and isn't mainstream friendly enough. This needs kid-friendly coating. It should just work out of the box and have Meta-caliber product leadership.
by neom | 2025-10-22 14:27:36+00:00
I'm a Canadian and we're equally obsessed with sugar, it's not just the Americans.

It's not just the Americans at all, in fact: https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/sugar-con... // https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-eurostat-news/-/d...

I'm saying this as a general reminder: Sugar intake is a major issue globally.
by throw0101c | 2025-10-22 14:27:57+00:00
> So I wouldn’t take WaPo as an indicator of anything; its a Bozos Vanity Project and nothing else.

Meanwhile Laurene Powell (Steve Jobs' widow) owns The Atlantic, and their subscriptions are up and they are now profitable:

* https://wan-ifra.org/2025/05/how-the-atlantic-keeps-subscrib...

* https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/11/media/the-atlantic-magazine-p...

* https://www.pugpig.com/2025/03/14/the-content-and-revenue-le...

One can have a well-run 'vanity project' or a badly-run one.
by isodev | 2025-10-22 14:28:18+00:00
> The problem here is not the law

Of course. The law is clear, the intent is clear and the guidelines are clear.

I think the biggest challenge (and the reason why it feels this is everywhere) is because of the handful of "big corporations" controlling the browsers. Neither Apple nor Google have any interest in making tracking opt-in or working to make this into a standard.

In my view, the situation will be greatly improved with policy like the DMA being amplified even further to prevent cartel-like reactions from the FAANGs (whatever the acronym is today). We have a deep "culture difference" with the US, where everyone expects everything to be spelled out for them in the law so they can sue each other into oblivion, but the reality is this doesn't work. We need to reduce the influence of bigger players and install guardrails so it will never be possible again for a single company to have such dramatic influence over the world.

Imagine how many of these consent prompts can be removed if it wasn't for the fact that even loading a Google Font exposes one to a few hundred "partners"?
by RHSeeger | 2025-10-22 14:28:19+00:00
Well written laws are difficult to create. You usually wind up with one of

- The law allows things it shouldn't, or

- The law disallows things it should

And the later gets swept under the rug as "we won't enforce it that way"... and then it winds up getting enforced exactly that way because someone has an agenda, and this is a hammer.
by genghisjahn | 2025-10-22 14:28:32+00:00
The wapo still has over a million paid subscribers.

“The publication has now shed 250,000 subscribers, or 10% of the 2.5 million customers it had before the decision was made public on Friday, according to the NPR reporter David Folkenflik”

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/oct/29/washington-pos...
by lr4444lr | 2025-10-22 14:28:50+00:00
I mean look how we treat each other--we can't even treat beings we know to be conscious with kindness and compassion. Mix our immaturity with a newfound ability to create digital life and it'll be the greatest ethical disaster of all time.

Or maybe if we had artificial life to abuse, it would be a suffcient outlet for our destructive and selfish impulses so that we would do less of it to genuine life. Maybe it's just an extension of sport contests that scratch that tribal itch to compete and win. There are no easy answers to these questions.
by immibis | 2025-10-22 14:29:05+00:00
And the USSR decidedly pwned America at every space medal but one. After America won one medal, we decided that was the one that actually counted, we forgot all that happened previously, because the USSR won them, and we stopped doing any more, lest the USSR win them.

If the point was to prove which economic system is better, the outcome was clear: totalitarian dictatorship with a solid education system far outcompetes capitalism with strong government intervention. In fact it seems that the more there's a guy at the top forcing everyone to work towards an achievable goal, the more likely the goal is to be achieved. There are other reasons to dislike totalitarian dictatorships, of course.
by dns_snek | 2025-10-22 14:29:19+00:00
The government has outlawed murder but your local law enforcement isn't investigating the murders. You're blaming the lawmakers for writing "bad laws" in this situation, why?

First order of blame goes to the national DPAs for not carrying out their duties.

Second order of blame goes go to whichever EU authority is responsible for penalizing EU member states for non-compliance. There should be serious consequences for non-enforcement like frozen funding. (I don't know what the actual legal process is)

> If people care about privacy, then over time they will migrate to companies and services that respect their privacy.

This is just a libertarian fairy-tale that is designed to sound sensible and rational while being malicious in practice. It exploits information asymmetry, human ignorance, network effects, and our general inability to accurately assess long-term consequences, in order to funnel profits into the hands of the most unscrupulous businesses.

In other words, there's a reason why we have to have regulations that protect people from themselves (and protect well-being of society as a whole).
by regentbowerbird | 2025-10-22 14:29:26+00:00
In some sense I agree but there is a fundamental difference. I pay for my groceries because I have the fundamental need for sustenance, and that requires land and toil. I have neither and therefore I pay someone else; but for me to survive it is necessary that _someone_ perform that work.

My need for websites is much less predominant and really I could live without. So of course I bounce when mildly interesting websites ask to host cookies on my browser or want me to create an account and enter my card details.

If one considers maximizing utility the goal of economic science, then this is in fact good, as it redirects me to more useful venues like doing chores I'd been putting off instead of mindlessly scrolling online. Some metrics such as GDP however might suffer.
by ajsnigrutin | 2025-10-22 14:29:39+00:00
Considering it's EBU with national media (usually taxpayer paid, or paid by some other mandatory way), it would be more interesting if they focused on what the media is reporting now, with human reporters and misleading and other kinds of false reportings. If the frontpage article said something wrong (either by malice or accident), there should be a frontpage article reporting about their error too.

Optimistically that could be extended "twitter-style" by mandatory basic fact checking and reports when they just copy a statement by some politician or misrepresented science stuff (xkcd 1217, X cures cancer), and add the corrections.

But yeah... in my country, with all the 5G-danger craze, we had TV debates with a PhD in telecommunications on one side, and a "building biologist" on the other, so yeah...
by delusional | 2025-10-22 14:30:18+00:00
I don't think rules like that are meant to be 100% perfectly enforced. It's essentially a policy you can point to when banning somebody, and the a locus of disagreement. If you get banned for alleged AI use, you have to argue that you didn't use AI. It doesn't matter to the project if you were helpful and kind, the policy is no AI.
by sumo89 | 2025-10-22 14:30:39+00:00
Or arguably that's the point. If you Copilot generate a few lines of code or use it for inspiration you're still paying attention to it and are aware of what it's doing. The actual outcome will be indistinguishable from the code you hand wrote so it's fine. What policies like this do is stop someone generating whole pages at once, run it with minimal testing then chuck it into the code base forever.
by whalesalad | 2025-10-22 14:31:00+00:00
I don't think the people in this thread have any concept of how much $$$ it costs to distribute a free container that is going to be downloaded billions of times.

You are a farmer, not a big fancy profitable one. Your tractor is from 1970 and works great, when it works. Your wife has health problems and can't really help out around the farm much - kids have gone off - so you just do things mostly by yourself. With your lucky dog Skip by your side. Even though times are tough and money ain't coming in like it used to - you still give free produce to the local schools and shelters. You've been doing it for over 20 years, and the community loves you for it.

But then your wife passes. Medical bills are too high. You can't give away free produce to the local schools anymore.

The community is outraged. They come to your farm with pitchforks. They set your barn and fields on fire.

This is kinda what this thread feels like lol.
by eythian | 2025-10-22 14:31:05+00:00
I've been on the other side of that (not google), taking people to lunch who are interviewing. Usually you're picked because they're from the same country as you or something like that. At least where I work it's not like those messages. Instead it's lunch because food is good to have, and if you were lunching with them you weren't involved in the interview process at all, and it gave them a person to ask questions of and get an unbiased-as-reasonable response. If there were real red flags I'd probably raise it, but otherwise I had no contact with anyone in the hiring process regarding that person at all.
by prompt2tool | 2025-10-22 14:31:15+00:00
I just discovered this eerie little horror game on Prompt2Tool — it’s called Undead Corridor. You wander through dark hallways filled with unseen dangers, relying on quick reflexes and sound cues to survive. The tension builds naturally, and the minimal design somehow makes it even scarier.

If you enjoy short, browser-based horror experiences that don’t require downloads, this one’s worth a try. I played it with headphones, and it honestly made my heart race.

What are some other small horror games you’ve found that deliver a similar immersive feeling?
by danielhughes | 2025-10-22 14:31:25+00:00
I was surprised to learn from your comment that em dashes were left out of ASCII, because I thought I've been using them extensively in my writing. Perhaps I'm just relying heavily on the hyphen key. I mention that because it's likely instances of true em dash use (e.g. in the high-quality text you cite) and hyphen usage by people like me are close enough together in a vector space that the general pattern of a little horizontal line in the middle of a sentence is perceived as a common writing style by the LLMs.

I find myself constantly editing my natural writing style to sound less like an AI so this discussion of em dash use is a sore spot. Personally I think many people overrate their ability to recognize AI-generated copy without a good feedback loop of their own false positives (or false negatives for that matter).
by blooalien | 2025-10-22 14:31:36+00:00
> ... "or something I really know is just wrong."

Sometimes I'll up-vote or ignore these if the "wrong" is really common, and there's a reply with a really thorough and valid debunking or explanation attached, just to avoid burying that reply (which TBH, education should be the proper response to someone being wrong). Can't learn if the education is always buried or hidden before people ever have a chance to find it, after all... Or maybe that's the goal for some down-voters, I suppose?
by infecto | 2025-10-22 14:32:01+00:00
It could happen but I am not building an Amazon shopping list. It’s about building a list from a physical store that will get delivered to me in a few hours. This is for shopping through a retailer, not the market place.

I do think it’s a concern but I think it’s no different than the exact problem that exists today in these marketplace operations like Amazon. I know for me I will actually split my shopping up and often shop less with an Amazon and more with a Walmart because of it.
by ACCount37 | 2025-10-22 14:32:01+00:00
Pretty much.

Everyone and their dog says "transformer LLMs are flawed", but words are cheap - and in practice, no one seems to have come up with something that's radically better.

Sidegrades yes, domain specific improvements yes, better performance across the board? Haha no. For how simple autoregressive transformers seem, they sure set a high bar.
by jcgrillo | 2025-10-22 14:32:11+00:00
Apollo made about a half dozen crewed trips to the moon (quantity deliberately left vague to account for quibbling over technicalities). They made it a relatively reliable, repeatable affair. My point is that organization--the team of people who have done that no longer exists. So until another team starts doing it again, we just don't know. Theoretically it's very probably achievable, but theory absent experiment doesn't really mean anything.
by amelius | 2025-10-22 14:32:11+00:00
Wow, the problem is more involved than I (a simple user) realized ...

Maybe I have to broaden my search for a raytracer. What would be my best bet for correctly simulating multi-material lenses (so with physical correctness), in Linux (open source), preferably with GPU support?

(By the way, as a user I'd be happy to give up even a factor of 10 of performance if the resulting rendering was 100% physically accurate)
by amiga386 | 2025-10-22 14:32:17+00:00
This seems like a judiciously designed API to me.

You don't need to check if err was nil before calling resp.Body.Close()

https://pkg.go.dev/net/http#Get

> When err is nil, resp always contains a non-nil resp.Body. Caller should close resp.Body when done reading from it.

https://pkg.go.dev/net/http#Response

> The http Client and Transport guarantee that Body is always non-nil, even on responses without a body or responses with a zero-length body. It is the caller's responsibility to close Body.

Calling http.Get() returns an object that symbolises the response. The response body itself might be multiple terabytes, so http.Get() shouldn't read it for you, but give you a Reader of some sort.

The question then is, when does the Reader get closed? The answer should be "when the caller is done with it". This can't be automatic handled when the resp object goes out of scope, as it would preclude the caller e.g. passing the response to another goroutine for handling, or putting it in an array, or similar.

Go tooling is more than happy to tell you that there's an io.ReadCloser in one of the structs returned to you, and it can see that you didn't Close() it, store it, or pass it to somewhere else, before the struct it was in went out of scope.
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by gangtao | 2025-10-22 14:32:41+00:00
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