MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mrguyorama | 2025-10-02 19:47:01+00:00
>Nobody cares about foreign policy except for comfortable wonks.

Except for all the people who insisted that trump wouldn't get us into foreign wars and demonstrably haven't turned on him now that he bombed Iran, helps Israel do pretty awful things with the explicit goal of turning Gaza into a resort, and possibly has turned to helping Ukraine in it's war, which was literally a point that Democrat politicians pushing for that exact same outcome took serious heat for.

The voters want aggression and pain and harm to those they dislike, especially if Trump tells them to dislike someone. The democrats cannot cater to that desire without just abandoning all the things that make them not republican politicians. Even if they literally adopt republican policy wholesale, they still will not be elected.

The problem starts with what American voters want. As long as they want "Not democrat" and "Big strong man", democrats will not have power. I mean sure, they should probably stop putting up black woman for the presidency if they want even a chance of winning something, but that's just the tip of the iceberg. Democrats are demonstrably better for the economy, and have been for a very long time, but republicans are still voted in on the back of "Better for the economy"

The exact Americans who claimed they wanted to vote for "Free speech" are pretty happy that Trump will be compelling speech on American college campuses. If the Supreme court strikes this down, they will not turn on Trump, they will turn on the Court.

>Okay, then the Democrat governor wins. I’m not seeing the problem.

Then Trump does it anyway, and the republicans in congress do not impeach him for doing crime, which the Supreme court has said is fine. The democrat governor "wins" on paper, as people continue to be deported and silenced and oppressed. ICE still roams like the SS, with no identification. Next election, Trump says "look how the left tried to stop me" and gets more votes.

Reality doesn't matter. Rhetoric does. Democrats don't have to be "Right" to get into power and fix things, they have to be popular, really really popular because of gerrymandering, and significant portions of the country make "democrat bad" significant parts of their identity.
by fhdkweig | 2025-10-02 19:47:04+00:00
I couldn't read the article on Wired, but I found this one at MSN https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/education-department...

It says: The altered email messages included language saying: "Thank you for contacting me. On September 10, 2025, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 5371, a clean continuing resolution. Unfortunately, Democrat Senators are blocking passage of H.R. 5371 in the Senate which has led to a lapse in appropriations. Due to the lapse of appropriations, I am currently in furlough status. I will respond to emails once government functions resume."

I don't like that it includes "I" and "me" because it looks like someone is putting words in the employee's mouth. I wouldn't consider that factual.
by dylan604 | 2025-10-02 19:47:38+00:00
To me, it's the natural result of gaining popularity that enough people have started to use after the hype train rolled through and are now giving honest feedback. Real honest feedback can feel like a slap in the face when all you have had is overwhelming positive feedback from those aboard the hype train.

The writing has been on the wall with so called hallucinations where LLMs just make stuff up that the hype was way out over its skiis. The examples of lawyers being fined for unchecked LLM outputs being presented as fact type of stories will continue to take the shine off and hopefully some of the raw gungho nature will slow down a bit.
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-10-02 19:47:45+00:00
>I agree with a sibling poster that it's not necessarily about wealth. I think it's about power.

You can't have wealth without power, because then I can come over and take your wealth from you. Power through violence (monopolized by the state), is what guarantees your rights to your wealth.

The wider the wealth inequality increases, the wider the gap between the haves and the have-nots becomes, the more threatened the wealthy feel and so the more draconical surveillance and speech law enforcement crackdowns becomes on the masses. See modern day UK, EU, etc.

In my EU country the government increased the budget and drill training frequency for riot police this year even if they've been no major events to necessitate that. They know what's coming, since more and more people are poorer from government actions, and they're preparing already to crack down on what's to come. I assume Pegasus and other such spyware to spy on us to prevent descent, is part of that budget too.
by vlovich123 | 2025-10-02 19:47:46+00:00
I think it’s already irrelevant: cryptographic proofs of video evidence is difficult to communicate to audiences while watermarks will be learned by AI as trusted and injected into AI videos anyway. Also, in between the lens and your eyeball is usually a pipeline of editing applied anyway so either the cryptographic signature ends up with every layer signing the modifications applied + the previous layer or you stack watermarks. But ultimately the original problem is how to communicate the cryptographic chain validity.
by Thimothy | 2025-10-02 19:48:06+00:00
Heavy diesel engines were dominated by the rest of the world in the 50s. Military aviation has no need for efficiency nor actual maintenance cost targets and thus, you have way more manufacturers of military than comertial engines.

My point is more that these domains seem civilizationally Hard. Western companies are very far in the effort/results curve. Will the Chinese get there? I guess at some point, though I doubt there is any incentive for the ICE motors in particular.
by axython | 2025-10-02 19:48:10+00:00
For anyone commenting on this, I'll leave this: Official aid delivery reported by UN. I'd also assume this to be of the lower side, as there probably is more that doesn't get reported thorugh UN 27720 mechanism. I find the fact that this article does not use this or point to this data very questionable, but maybe I am wrong and I am imagining things.

https://app.un2720.org/tracking
by rich_sasha | 2025-10-02 19:48:12+00:00
This. I add to it sometimes, "I don't want to tell you something now then go back on it [when I thought about it properly]".

Because how do you challenge this? Insist someone should know an answer without thinking? Insist their guess should be the same as a thoroughly thought out answer. At the same time you're not being evasive, or saying that you have no idea. You're stating you want to deliver a high quality answer first time round.

Even if people push back on this, you made it clear you're offering a guess, not a considered opinion. Nothing wrong with providing a clearly labelled guess, then changing it later.
by robots0only | 2025-10-02 19:48:16+00:00
In all of these posts there is someone claiming Claude is the best, then somebody else claiming they have tried a bunch of times and for them Gemini is the best while others find GPT-5 is supreme. Obviously, all of these are subjective narrow experiences. My conclusion is that all frontier models are both good and bad with no clear winner and making good evals is really hard.
by konmok | 2025-10-02 19:48:20+00:00
Governments are hierarchical, and they can (and should) be held responsible for their actions. The population of Palestine, taken as a whole, is not. If you had said "the Hamas state is savage and murderous" that wouldn't have bothered me very much, but instead you generalized each individual Palestinian as a savage. I think @dang's moderation makes perfect sense here.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-10-02 19:48:33+00:00
Please do let us know through your blog post if you ever find AI labs to cheat on your benchmark.

But now I am worried that since you have shared that you do SVG of an X riding a Y thing, maybe these models will try to cheat on the whole SVG of X riding Y thing instead of hyper focusing the pelican.

So now I suppose you might need to come up with an entirely new thing though :)
by dingnuts | 2025-10-02 19:48:45+00:00
not true, they do not have a super majority in the Senate and need a handful of Democrats to vote with them to achieve the 60 votes they need.

that said, somehow the Democrats always find Republicans to compromise with them when they have a simple majority, so I do not know why it is so hard for the Republicans to soften their demands enough to peel off some moderates to vote with them
by liquid_thyme | 2025-10-02 19:48:59+00:00
Pricing in healthcare is very tightly regulated and there isn't a simple one line answer for why certain prices are they way they are. Its easy to scapegoat bigpharma for being greedy, but they're just as greedy as any other US corporation.

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

I only brought up YouTube because when a company is free to set their price, you will still end up with a pricing model where the pricing is different based on region.
by Alupis | 2025-10-02 19:49:17+00:00
Always finding a way to blame the Republicans... last time they were in the minority and were blamed for shutting down the government. Now they're in the majority and you still want to blame them for shutting down the government.

To summarize, you want to blame the oppositition for not passing your flavor of a spending bill, ie. one that suits your politics. Elections have consequences - and the longer Democrats drag this out the more excuse the executive branch will have to permanentely lay off people and shutdown departments.
by meowface | 2025-10-02 19:49:44+00:00
If no one knows your user ID besides you and the people you share it with, why would spam be a big issue? If it's a random string, I don't know how anyone could get it, unless you share it publicly or with someone untrustworthy who shares it publicly. And even if it's a username users choose, as long as there's no directory it still shouldn't be a big problem.

That is - even if someone makes 1000 bot Signal accounts, what can they really do with that if they don't have a good way of enumerating other Signal users?
by lejalv | 2025-10-02 19:50:02+00:00
That's not true, if you’re referring to the Trump plan, as he contradicted one of the main points upon return to Israel. He selectively backed some part of it, which is not really “signing” on the same plan that was offered to other parties.

Also, what value has Netanyahu’s word? I mean, after blowing up a truce unilaterally, after killing negotiators, after all the corruption reckoning that is coming to him if/when out of office...
by Fade_Dance | 2025-10-02 19:50:17+00:00
OpenAI is raising at 500 billion and has partnerships with all of the trillion dollar tech corporations. They simply aren't going to have trouble with working capital for their core business for the foreseeable future, even if AI dies down as a narrative. If the hype does die down, in many ways it makes their job easier (the ridiculous compensation numbers would go way down, development could happen at a more sane pace, and the whole industry would lean up). They're not even at the point where they're considering an IPO, which could raise tens of billions in an instant, even assuming AI valuations get decimated.

The exception is datacenter spend since that has a more severe and more real depreciation risk, but again, if the Coreweave of the world run into to hardship, it's the leading consolidators like OpenAI that usually clean up (monetizing their comparatively rich equity for the distressed players at firesale prices).
by immibis | 2025-10-02 19:50:20+00:00
> It's factual.

Nobody asked why Republicans, which control every branch of government, need Democrats to cooperate with them to pass a budget, which only requires 50% to pass due to the special process for budget bills.

Oh, right. Because they mislabeled the One Big Beautiful Bill as a budget bill, which means they've used up their one special budget bill for the year and now the actual budget bill has to play by the rules for non-budget bills.

Skill issue.
by hirvi74 | 2025-10-02 19:50:23+00:00
Sorry, I tried to preface that I would butcher my explanation, and it appears I was correct in that assumption. I also apologize if this answer is no better. I likely lack the mental acuity to formulate these thoughts well.

To be clear, I’m not denying that some people experience direct suffering like sensory overload, daily dysfunction, etc.. Though I would argue much of this is somewhat expected when one lives in a society that wasn't designed around edge cases (nor am I saying such a society is truly possible at our scale).

My point is about a different subset of cases, like mine and say individuals with high-functioning Autism, where the suffering is mainly socially imposed. The pressure to medicate or "fix" ourselves comes less from unbearable symptoms and more from others' expectations that we be more tolerable or productive. That was the unsettling part I was trying to get at. I was trying to make a point about a little compassion from others would go a long way. I was not trying to absolve myself and others like me of our responsibilities/symptoms. Often times, the symptoms of these disorders are not treated as symptoms of a disorder, but rather, direct flaws of one's character. All in all, I find the difficulties hard to describe unless one has lived the same or a similar experience.

Whether or not one has a disorder does not make them less of a human being. Thus, I do not think it is a coincidence that depression, anxiety, substance abuse, and suicide are highly correlated with disorders like ADHD and high functioning Autism, and I do not think a lot of those comorbid issues stem purely from some kind of internal (hypothetical) brain difference.

Does that make any more sense?
by culi | 2025-10-02 19:50:36+00:00
Nothing to do with Redding. It's all over the USDA website: https://www.fs.usda.gov/

> The Radical Left Democrats shut down the government. This government website will be updated periodically during the funding lapse for mission critical functions. President Trump has made it clear he wants to keep the government open and support those who feed, fuel, and clothe the American people.
by cogman10 | 2025-10-02 19:50:53+00:00
> Even in your comment: you're handwaving past physician comp and overdelivery!

I'm really not. I'm simply pointing out exactly why they have such an oversized salary. It costs a ton of money to become a physician. In order to survive, they initially need a pretty sizable salary.

After the loans are paid off, that salary can't go down, there would be a revolt if it did.

Over delivery is really just a general attitude of wanting to test everything to make sure nothing is missed. I have a hard time faulting them over that.

IMO, the way to address this problem is addressing the cost of education for physicians. There's no reason getting an MD should cost $500,000, and yet it does.

And, of course, the best way to do this is to make medical school publicly funded and tuition free. A lot of small hospitals close down because they can't afford regular doctors. It's also next to impossible for a doctor to setup a private clinic.

That won't fully solve the current salary bloat, the only way to really address that is expanding the number of doctors being trained.
by rockercoaster | 2025-10-02 19:50:54+00:00
> Yea in fact the ACA law caps insurers to a maximum of 15% profit.

These are plan-by-plan, not on the company overall, and notably this doesn't apply to:

1) Self-funded plans. Name-brand insurance companies manage these, but big companies fund them and take on the risk (with re-insurance and all that good stuff in the mix, of course). A large proportion of the US population is on these kinds of plans, and that limit does not apply to them.

2) New plans in their first (IIRC) two years. I've not looked into whether insurance companies are playing games with this such that a larger set of their plans are "new" ones than would be if this rule didn't exist, but if it's at all possible for them to do that, I guarantee they are.
by thadt | 2025-10-02 19:51:01+00:00
My read is that Signal now ratchets with ML-KEM in a similar way to iMessages's PQ3, with key delivery being one of the main differentiating features.

Everyone is worried about the fact that ML-KEM keys are so chonky, so PQ3 sends them out only occasionally while Signal chunks them up and sends them in pieces along with all normal messages. Signal's argument is that a huge re-keying message could be detected and blocked, and chunking them is both safer and smoother on bandwidth. Erasure coding will likely wind up costing a bit more overall bandwidth, but each message will be more consistently sized. Given the wide range of Signal's deployment posture, that is probably a wise tradeoff to make. I would expect that Apple has a bit more control over their networks and are in a better position to deal with adversaries attempting to actively block their re-key updates.
by hoistbypetard | 2025-10-02 19:51:11+00:00
I was just having this conversation with friends a few days ago. We do still watch games, but we all used to also watch sports news/talk shows (e.g. morning pre-football coverage, SportsCenter, and the like) and most of us have stopped. Some of the shows are now exclusively focused on betting.

I'm all for consenting adults to be able to legally place wagers at outlets that are not swindling them, or offering the kinds of loans that could get a person's legs broken.

But I'm so tired of ALL THE COVERAGE being about betting. It was more fun when the coverage was mostly sports, and Al Michaels had to sneak in the odd mention of what the point spread was for a game he was broadcasting.

Even my friends who enjoy gambling don't like the media coverage of it. I guess we're not a representative sample.
by guywithahat | 2025-10-02 19:51:26+00:00
Not OP, but maybe lack of achievements in AI is a better way to phrase it. They had one of the earliest, serious AI programs and did an enormous amount of work, but for whatever reason one would like to attribute they've consistently fell behind other competitors. I mean Grok, which was started quite recently, is better than Gemini in most tasks and arguably has a stronger market position. Google should have mopped the floor with them given their funding and the age of their team but that never happened.
by baggy_trough | 2025-10-02 19:51:37+00:00
In olden times, the journalistic ideal was to report what happened as objectively as possible. Now that isn't seen as good at all.

Stories should be reported through the lens of The Message. Most reporters are young progressive Democrats, and this is whatever helps promote their agenda at the time.

I mean, not so long ago the newsroom editor of the San Francisco Chronicle explicitly came out against objectivity...
by znpy | 2025-10-02 19:51:48+00:00
> You can recognize a company for what it is [...] but also be a positive, professional person, who goes in and does good work every day, gets along with coworkers and managers, and doesn't play games.

One one hand I agree, but on the other hand I say: it's something that comes with time and experience.

Your examples by the way all come from of way better economic times, and more abundance of jobs.

It's easy to be optimistic (naive?) when times are good. But it's not what the current kids are experiencing, far from it.
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by chris_va | 2025-10-02 19:51:55+00:00
Yes. I also hate this "is it factual" question because it ignores the underlying problem.

It could still be factual and read "Senate Republicans have blocked voting on S 2882" instead, or more extreme "Registered Republicans have lower education rates than democrats". Just because something is factual does not mean it is not a political statement, and one that would not have been made by the employee whose communication was changed. Let's all not play dumb here.
by ck2 | 2025-10-02 19:51:56+00:00
the very first thing DOGE did way back in February was take command and control over the email systems (so they could also feed into machine-learning)

r/fednews was FULL of warnings about all the unvetted foreign computers being brought in and plugged into the networks, specifically back then to hijack the email servers

remember how they had to harvest all the emails to send out the demands for people to quit?

it's "f-kery" specifically, this has never been done by any other administration, no-one previously would dare, it violates all kinds of laws

https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/27/politics/federal-employees-em...
by k310 | 2025-10-02 19:51:58+00:00
Trump’s Argentina Bailout Sparks Fury Among Farmers, Republicans [0]

> “Why would USA help bail out Argentina while they take American soybean producers’ biggest market???” (China) wrote Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley. “We should use leverage at every turn to help hurting farm economy. Family farmers should be top of mind in negotiations by representatives of USA.”

> “Trump has made much about putting America First, so, independent of the merits or demerits of the financial assistance, to his base it appears inconsistent with the ideology he’s set forth,” said Ian Vasquez, vice president for International Studies at the Cato Institute.

The emperor giveth $20B and the emperor giveth $10B

Ask Elon about the national debt.

[0] https://www.newsweek.com/trumps-argentina-bailout-sparks-fur...
by kalap_ur | 2025-10-02 19:51:58+00:00
I did a calculation once. US spends $4.9T on healthcare: $2T on personnel, $500B on non-acute drugs (ie OTC + prescribed) and $2.4T on something else. Germany spends $550B on healthcare: $430B on personnel, $80B on non-acute drugs and $31B on something else. My guess is that the "something else", which is non transparent, is actually private insurance jacking prices up.
by criddell | 2025-10-02 19:52:57+00:00
That's my biggest complaint as well. The MLB streaming service needs to have an everything tier. I understand that teams want to sell rights locally, but figure it out. Charge me whatever you need to charge me and share the revenue with the local team. Just make it easy for me to watch!

I too live in Austin and I watched more Toronto Blue Jays, SF Giants, and LA Dodgers games than Rangers games this year.