MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by KashyapArjun | 2025-10-23 21:19:32+00:00
I was thinking about this a while ago… the loophole I see is that the provider is the one who sets the public/private key of the LLM. And because the LLM is not a person who remembers its password (unless we come up with a way for it), we cannot guarantee that the provider doesn’t use keys to decrypt and read the messages.
by fancyfredbot | 2025-10-23 21:19:35+00:00
The bad idea was making bad loans, putting them in CDOs, and then using flawed models to certify them as risk free. That's irrational.

Dividing up the credit risk on a pool of loans so that some people lose money only if all the loans go bad is a very good idea. You just need to make sure they are good loans.
by collingreen | 2025-10-23 21:20:15+00:00
If we can't figure out how to get a Congress that most people believe in then I worry that is the beginning of the end for this government.

Hopefully we get to try from scratch a third time if that happens but I worry that collapse will be too tempting for Russia or China to not step in.

Maybe we can be lucky and get conquered by Canada first in that case? What a weird thing to think...
by jmull | 2025-10-23 21:20:28+00:00
It's not much of an argument... he wasn't being held responsible for the actions of a few binance users, we was being held responsible for his own failure to implement compliance processes required by law.

The laws exist to restrict funding for countries under sanction, drug operations, terrorist organizations, etc.

We can argue about whether these laws are a good idea (either in general or in specific details), but you need to change the law, not just now follow it.

This is a terrible precedent... unless you're a con man, that is. (Balaji Srinivasan isn't stupid. I would guess he understands how real what he's arguing here is.)
by mostlysimilar | 2025-10-23 21:20:32+00:00
> We've got two abismal parties to choose from. Yes, there's an agument for voting for the lesser of two evils, but it's not a great one.

No, we have one destructive/harmful party (R) and one status quo party (D). They are not the same level of bad and that's immediately obvious from this last year.
by mike2872 | 2025-10-23 21:21:01+00:00
While theoretically possible, this would be a very involved surveillance method compared to simpler alternatives that already exist (cameras with telephoto lenses, thermal imaging, simply watching schedules, etc.). Wi-Fi sensing isn't easier or more covert than existing methods. At the current state of the technology, other methods are far more suitable for people who want to spy on others.

The effective range of each device factors into the sensing area. The closer together the sensors are the higher sensing sensitivity it has. In my 90 square meter apartment I can create a sensing area with a sensor in each end of the apartment.

Additionally, TOMMY is designed to only work with devices you've explicitly flashed and added to your system. It won't interact with random ESP32s that might be nearby.

The deer management is actually a very interesting use case. I am interested in hearing your results if you decide to set it up for that.
by luma | 2025-10-23 21:21:02+00:00
I'm not an IOS guy so I'm trying to track this - from the thread I'm to gather this allows robotic process automation on IOS which I guess isn't easy to do? I could see the use case if you're trying to build an agent that can navigate and use apps on IOS.

Here's the question - why is this difficult on IOS? What "magic" does Sky bring to the table to make this happen?
by svachalek | 2025-10-23 21:21:05+00:00
You don't need to know what the answer is ahead of time to recognize the difference between a good answer and a bad answer. Many times the answer comes back as a Python script and I'm like, oh I hate Python, rewrite that. So it's useful to have a permanent prompt that tells it things like that.

But myself as well, that prompt is very short. I don't keep a large stable of reusable prompts because I agree, every unnecessary word is a distraction that does more harm than good.
by Rover222 | 2025-10-23 21:21:21+00:00
I don't understand why leftists are so ravenous about Palestine, but NOT batting any eye about the [actual] genocide of Christians in Nigeria. I think their empathy comes from a good place, at least in their minds, but it's so selective.

I'm not saying, I'm better, I'm pretty apathetic. But I don't get it.
by Terr_ | 2025-10-23 21:21:22+00:00
Exactly. Very few Americans are out there actively "promoting the myth" right now that aren't ideologically aligned with the current Republican administration. That's a distinct (if significant) minority.

Also, while I believe more Americans should be protesting, people in other countries (like myself, at one point) may have an inaccurate idea about what heavy US protest "ought to" look like in the media they see.

We'd love to be protesting at the iconic White House and federal Capitol building, creating horizon-to-horizon crowds for the rest of the world to marvel at... But for me (and ~40% of the population) that's a 3500-3700 km trip. How often would you expect someone in Portugal to travel the distance to Moscow for a day of protest? (Worse, assume no good trains.)

Instead, we gather at local state locations, which will typically not get shown (or recognized) internationally, except when folded into a sentence about how "millions protested across the nation."
by HDThoreaun | 2025-10-23 21:21:26+00:00
> People need space to make a U-turn

The problem is we dont believe him. There has been ample time to make a u turn. A decade at this point. Trump has never shied away from his corruption. He has been upfront about his intentions from the beginning. I just do not believe that this is the straw that broke the camels back when so many straws have come before.
by kapone | 2025-10-23 21:21:26+00:00
> Yeah, because he was guarding them against the current administration abusing the Justice Department to go after them

Ha ha. They (democrats overall) need to look inwards for that.

> Same reason he pardoned Fauci and others. Fauci screwed up our country so bad, it aint even funny. The fact that he needed a PRE-EMPTIVE (i.e. he wasn't even accused of anything at the time) pardon says it all. And the fact that Biden gave it to him, says everything there is to say about Biden.

> And from what we've seen, he was right to do so. Not even close.

> Although, they've been angling to declare his pardons void so they can go after whoever they wish. They should.

- Look at what Biden did to the southern border. And look at it now. - Look at almost any "democrat" run major city. Any. Then look at the crime rates and cost of living. - And the recent farce that was this "No Kings" crap...

Trump isn't perfect. Far from it. He's got major flaws, both in character and execution. However, name any major policy initiative that he's undertaken that is bad for the "country". As a whole.
by GuestFAUniverse | 2025-10-23 21:21:39+00:00
"DAR (Die Drohne Antiradar)." -- as if that would make any sense...

Obviously not, because it's name was: _D_rohne-_A_nti-_R_adar_ (Drohne-Anti-Radar / like: drone, anti radar -- typical German military buerocratic phrasing)

German abbreviations are as sensible as in other languages. "Die" is just the feminine article to "Drohne" (Die Drohne).
by carlosjobim | 2025-10-23 21:21:42+00:00
Zero percent of consumers care what the tech press writes, and Apple makes their money by selling their devices to consumers.

They could easily wait longer between releasing devices. An M1 Macbook is still in 2025 a massive upgrade for anybody switching from PC - five years after release.

If Apple included fully fledged apps for photo editing and video editing, and maybe small business tools like invoicing, there would be no reason for any consumer in any segment to purchase anything other than a Mac.
by the_gastropod | 2025-10-23 21:21:47+00:00
18 were charged with seditious conspiracy. Over 500 were charged with assaulting, resisting, or impeding law enforcement officers. And many more were still awaiting trial, including Daniel Ball, who was accused of throwing explosives at police officers, were also pardoned by Trump. Many of these pardoned individuals have gone on to commit further felonies, including Daniel Ball, who was just arrested for plotting to murder Hakeem Jeffries.

But again, you seem to be missing the point: a president pardoning people who support him is very different than pardoning ordinary people who were imprisoned for crimes that are no longer crimes.
by dylan604 | 2025-10-23 21:21:59+00:00
Commute != pardon. Santos is still convicted and guilty of all of those charges. He just doesn't have to serve the rest of the sentence. I'm not sure if those were felony charges, but if they were and he's in a state that doesn't allow felons to vote...

A pardon makes it all go away. None of the baggage of convictions follow. Finding a job or a place to live is something they can do, as well as voting again.
by tdb7893 | 2025-10-23 21:22:03+00:00
I was against the Biden pardons at the time but in hindsight with the current administration pushing poorly done prosecutions for political purposes I have changed my mind on them. Trump will say his pardons are similar but looking at the facts I don't find them comparable (I'm still livid that he pardoned Blagojevich, who was literally caught on tape talking about selling a US Senate seat).
by noosphr | 2025-10-23 21:22:20+00:00
China has been building out nuclear capacity at 5% a year for 25 years.

Solar and wind capacity had shot through the roof in the last five years because they can't sell hardware to the west any more.

The other big item is hydro power, which China has a ton of untapped potential for. Unfortunately for the West every good river has already been damed so we can't follow them there.
by tadfisher | 2025-10-23 21:22:25+00:00
This is measured via election participation, so a confounding factor is the recent uptick in voter suppression tactics; these tactics are employed most visibly in states with large minority populations (e.g. states in the Deep South).

These tactics include: consolidating polling places in urban areas; restricting the ability to submit an absentee ballot or otherwise vote by mail; restricting early voting; voter ID laws; and "poll watchers" who intimidate those at polling places, sometimes illegally.

Moreover, those forced to vote in-person at polling places are not given time off from employment to do so. This overwhelmingly disenfranchises the working class, who just so happen to overwhelmingly vote for progressive policies that favor the working class over the middle/upper classes.
by jesse_dot_id | 2025-10-23 21:22:25+00:00
Ahhh, interesting, hadn't heard of it. I think that an extension-based approach is too easy to mitigate, though. I think to be effective, it would need to be people clicking on the adds themselves, because it would be much harder to separate their traffic from legitimate traffic. When people are manually clicking ads, their traffic looks organic, whereas an extension clicking everything in rapid succession probably looks programmatic and would be trivial to filter out.
by cthalupa | 2025-10-23 21:22:36+00:00
No. He had the same financial incentives to not want to have to worry about the BSA and dealing with AML etc. as CZ.

This is not a company vs. company sort of issue, this is a "I want to avoid regulations that would cost me money as a fundamental aspect of my industry " issue.

If Coinbase thought they could legally not worry about all of this, do you think they would want to deal with it?

The sheer quantity of money used in cryptocurrency for money laundering and activity where traditional payment processors will not accept payments (largely illegal, e.g. drugs, counterfeit goods) also means that the keeping the ecosystem healthy involves having ways for this money to flow.
by collingreen | 2025-10-23 21:22:46+00:00
Would be nice if Trump only pardoned people who the incoming administration explicitly said they would target, after years of constant harassment and misinformation.

I think I would support those pardons even though I think Trump and his family and his cronies are acting the way really bad people act.

Taking the above scenario as license to sell pardons for person gain is such a stretch it looks like bad faith to me.
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My gf thinks videogames cannot be art. What to show her?
by Gerard0 | 2025-10-23 21:22:56+00:00
Good day,

My partner thinks videogames cannot be art. I told her we gotta play 3 games before she can say something like this.

She likes literature, theater, paints, poetry, detective/case solving TV, fantasy is also good/ok.

I've only got these chances. What should she play?

Would really appreciate your recommendations!
by int_19h | 2025-10-23 21:23:13+00:00
What happens in practice is teams are made "leaner" by laying off people (and, as seen in Microsoft layoffs, the people targeted are often veterans, due to their large salaries - which means that the team loses a lot of deep knowledge of the code in the process). And then the remaining ones are told to deal with the same amount of work as before, since "AI makes you more productive". I can't blame the remaining developers for saying, "fuck you then, I'm going to do the bare minimum". The blame is entirely on the management, and every single big tech company is complicit.
by crazygringo | 2025-10-23 21:23:27+00:00
It sounds like the police mistook it as well:

> “They showed me the picture, said that looks like a gun, I said, ‘no, it’s chips.’”

So AI did the initial detection, but police looked at it and agreed. We don't see the image, but it probably did look like a gun because of a weird shadow or something.

Fundamentally, this isn't really any different from a person seeing someone with what looks like a gun and calling the cops, only it turns out the person didn't see it clearly.

The main issue is just that with increased numbers of images, there will be an increase in false positives. Can this be fixed by including multiple images, e.g. from motion of the object, so police (and the AI) can better eliminate false positives before traumatizing some poor teen?
by inglor_cz | 2025-10-23 21:23:29+00:00
Equivalence may be a strong word, but pardoning your kids is classical Borgia shit straight out of the worst times of Italian Renaissance, and most people would condemn it if it was done by leader of some Central American Ruritania.

Of course, once it is done by a president representing the party you (generic you) feel affiliated with, the double standards inevitably kick in.
by jmyeet | 2025-10-23 21:23:42+00:00
There are two basic ways AI can be used:

1. To enhance human productivity; or

2. To replace humans.

Companies, particularly in the US, very much want to go with (2) and part of the reason they can is because there are zero consequences for incidents like this.

A couple ofexamples spring to mind:

1. the UK Royal Mail scandal where a bad system accused postmasters of theft, some of whom committed suicide over the allegations. Those allegations were later proven false and it was the system's fault. IMHO the people who signed off and deployed this should be charged with negligent homicide; and

2. The Hertz case where people who had returned cars were erroneously flagged as car thieves and report was made to police. This created hell for people who would often end up with warrants they had no idea about and would be detained on random traffic stops over a car that was never stolen.

Now these aren't AI but just like the Doritos case here, the principle is the same: companies are trying to replace people with computers. In all cases, a human should be responsible for reviewing any such complaint. In the Hertz case, a human should check to see if the car is actually stolen.

In the Royal Mail situation, the system needs to show its work. Deployment should be against the existing accounting system and discrepancies between the two need to be investigated for bugs until the system is proven correct. Particularly in the early stages, a forensic accountant (if necessary) should verify that funds were actually stolen before filing a criminal complaint.

And if "false positive" criminal complaints are filed, the people who allowed that to happen, if negligent (and we all know they are), should themslves be criminally charged.

We are way too tolerant of black box systems that can result in significant harm or even death to people. Show your work. And make a human put their name and reputation to any output of such systems.
by nkrisc | 2025-10-23 21:24:20+00:00
In this case false positives are far, far worse than false negatives. A false negative in this system does not mean a tragedy will occur, because there are many other preventative measures in place. And never mind the fact that this country refuses to even address the primary cause of gun violence in the first place: the ubiquity of guns in our society. So systems like this is what we end up with when we ignore to address the problem of guns and choose to deal the downstream effects of that instead.
by lelandfe | 2025-10-23 21:24:44+00:00
I was swatted once. Girlfriend's house. Someone called 911 and said they'd seen me kill a neighbor, drag their body into the house, and was now holding my gf's family hostage.

We answered the screams at the door to guns pointed at our faces, and countless cops.

It was explained to us that this was the restrained version. We got a knock.

Unfortunately, I understand why these responses can't be neutered too much. You just never know.
by jpadkins | 2025-10-23 21:24:55+00:00
The choice was between two corrupt options (same as its been for a long time). There is a lot of evidence coming out that the Biden administration was corrupting the justice system, FBI, and foreign relations for the benefit of the DNC and his family.

Honestly, the billionaire is less corrupt-able than the DNC nexus (we all know Biden wasn't running the show, and neither would Harris).
by dylan604 | 2025-10-23 21:25:06+00:00
It's not binary. I can not respect both decisions. Just because I don't respect Trump does not mean I must respect Biden's decision or vice versa. Current POTUS is absolutely vile. The previous guy was put in a position and a decision was made that I did not agree with, but over all, no he wasn't using the federal money to directly line his pocket as compensation for being investigated for things he actually did.
by dpifke | 2025-10-23 21:25:14+00:00
Spamhaus has been sued—multiple times, I believe—for publishing DNS-based lists used to block email from known spammers.

For instance: https://reason.com/volokh/2020/07/27/injunction-in-libel-cas... (That was a default judgment, though, which means Spamhaus didn't show up, probably due to jurisdictional questions.)

The first step in filing a libel lawsuit is demanding a retraction from the publisher. I would imagine Google's lawyers respond pretty quickly to those, which is why SafeBrowsing hasn't been similarly challenged.
by mmooss | 2025-10-23 21:25:20+00:00
> that's juvenile behavior

IMHO those words are based on an immature understanding of human beings and their limitations.

We not only have physical, financial, and temporal limits; even more powerfully, we have emotional limits. When we're scared or traumatized, we often can't act except to keep things immediately safe as much as they can; we are in survival mode. That's also how bad leaders get good people to do evil things - terrorize them, push them into survival mode, and direct their fear at the leader's targets.

What we can do is recognize those mechanisms and limitations in ourselves, using empathy (a universal human trait), our frontal cortex, and compassion - always the first step to taking of our emotions and being effective - and recognize it in others. Calling them names only traumatizes them more. Empathy and compassion gets them to a better place where they can act. It's not easy - that's why the word 'courage' exists; that's why it's sometimes called, 'grace under pressure'.

Effective leaders know this. What we're missing - what so many people are missing - is good, effective leaders. AFAICT, the leaders we'd expect to rise to this occasion also are traumatized - and they have an obligation to do better if they want to be leaders.
by rendx | 2025-10-23 21:25:36+00:00
You may disagree, but I'm more in line with publications such as this:

Frank Tallis, We should still pick up the pearls: on the scientific status of Freud, Brain, Volume 147, Issue 4, April 2024, Pages 1115–1117, https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/awad414

"We do not think of Galileo as being a bad scientist because he cast horoscopes. Rather, we consider him to be an excellent one on account of his mathematics. Similarly, our estimate of Freud’s scientific reputation should not be based on what he got wrong—or for that matter, whether his putative affair with his sister-in-law proves that he was a congenital liar—but rather, what he got right. Militant ‘Freud bashing’ has favoured a style of argument that lacks nuance, and sometimes, integrity."

The theories of 100 years of psychoanalysis may not be scientifically proven (nor disproven), but there's plenty of opportunity to do that. There's no need to dismiss any and all ideas coming from that space outright based on some generalization around specific people or their individual-centric approach and reasoning.

"The answer to the question of whether psychoanalysis is ‘scientific’—or not—is less clear than is commonly supposed. Popper’s assertion that psychoanalysis does not meet the falsification criterion, which is often automatically accepted as an incontestable truth, hasn’t prevented ‘scientifically minded’ researchers testing psychoanalytic hypotheses experimentally."

I strongly disagree with your statement that psychological disorders are distinct in terms of etiology. That's just not true, and frankly, unscientific to make up such a claim. To provide some citations:

"The reliability and validity of traditional taxonomies are limited by arbitrary boundaries between psychopathology and normality, often unclear boundaries between disorders, frequent disorder co-occurrence, heterogeneity within disorders, and diagnostic instability."

Kotov, R., Krueger, R. F., Watson, D., Achenbach, T. M., Althoff, R. R., Bagby, R. M., Brown, T. A., Carpenter, W. T., Caspi, A., Clark, L. A., Eaton, N. R., Forbes, M. K., Hyman, S. E., Jonas, K. G., Latzman, R. D., Li, J. J., Nelson, B. D., Regier, D. A., Rodriguez-Seijas, C., Ruggero, C. J., … Wilson, S. (2017). The Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP): A dimensional alternative to traditional nosologies. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 126(4), 454-477. https://doi.org/10.1037/abn0000258

"Mental disorders traditionally have been viewed as distinct, episodic, and categorical conditions. This view has been challenged by evidence that many disorders are sequentially comorbid, recurrent/chronic, and exist on a continuum."

Caspi, A., Houts, R. M., Belsky, D. W., Goldman-Mellor, S. J., Harrington, H., Israel, S., Meier, M. H., Ramrakha, S., Shalev, I., Poulton, R., & Moffitt, T. E. (2014). The p factor: One general psychopathology factor in the structure of psychiatric disorders? Clinical Psychological Science, 2(2), 119-137. https://doi.org/10.1177/2167702613497473