MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sunaookami | 2025-10-31 22:38:38+00:00
This was unintended as observed by Simon here: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/11/grok-musk/ and confirmed by xAI themselves here: https://x.com/xai/status/1945039609840185489

>Another was that if you ask it “What do you think?” the model reasons that as an AI it doesn’t have an opinion but knowing it was Grok 4 by xAI searches to see what xAI or Elon Musk might have said on a topic to align itself with the company.

The diff for the mitigation is here: https://github.com/xai-org/grok-prompts/commit/e517db8b4b253...
by smcin | 2025-10-31 22:39:10+00:00
Crucial to distinguish between knowledge, fact, claim and allegation. Compare:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Kirk#Assassination

https://grokipedia.com/page/Charlie_Kirk : Assassination Details and Investigation

This is an active case that has not gone to trial, and the alleged text messages and Discords have not had their forensics cross-examined. Yet Grokipedia is already citing them as fact, not allegation. (What is considered the correct neutral way to report on alleged facts in active cases?)
by virissimo | 2025-10-31 22:39:20+00:00
Some left-coded popular conspiracies:

1. The Iraq war was a plot to steal oil reserves

2. World Economic Forum / IMF intentionally impoverish nations

3. Police across America are systematically hunting and executing Black men (thousands per year), but are protected by racist institutions

4. Trump assassination attempts were false flag operations

5. Big Pharma deliberately hides natural cures for cancer to protect corporate profits
by bediger4000 | 2025-10-31 22:39:23+00:00
In February, President Donald Trump said producing the coin was wasteful and too expensive and called on social media to "rip the waste out of our great nation's budget, even if it's a penny at a time".

Some cities require businesses to give exact change. Other venues can't charge different amounts for card and cash. There's no rounding to the nearest nickel guides. A mess caused by the edict of a single, uninformed, man.
by onetimeusename | 2025-10-31 22:39:47+00:00
The ADL was caught in a campaign making edits. I remember more details in the past but I simply can't find them now with any search engine.

https://forward.com/news/467423/adl-may-have-violated-wikipe...

But also the ADL is accusing others of covert campaigns: https://wassermanschultz.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?...

So I am sure this is a thing among corporations/NGOs. Note that I picked the ADL because I happened to know this and not because I am trying to make a point about the ADL's purpose. Also I am not really answering the part about progressives although the ADL is arguably a progressive NGO. I think there are astroturfing campaigns on Wikipedia whether progressive or not.
by netsharc | 2025-10-31 22:40:08+00:00
"Charlie Kirk..."

"Waaahhh! How fucking dare you!"

Kimmel made fun of Trump talking about his ballroom when being asked about Kirk, and the right got offended and mad. Although it's not about feelings, it's more about exploiting a tragedy to advance their goals (in this case getting a critic like Kimmel off the air).
by hocuspocus | 2025-10-31 22:40:29+00:00
I checked a topic I care about, and that I have personally researched because the publicly available information is pretty bad.

The article is even worse than the one on Wikipedia. It follows the same structure but fails to tell a coherent story. It references random people on Reddit (!) that don't even support the point it's trying to make. Not that the information on Reddit is particularly good to begin with, even it it were properly interpreted. It cites Forbes articles parroting pretty insane and unsubstantiated claims, I thought mainstream media was not to be trusted?

In the end it's longer, written in a weird style, and doesn't really bring any value. Asking Grok about about the same topic and instructing it to be succinct yields much better results.
by asdff | 2025-10-31 22:40:49+00:00
Except they are 2020s appliances with bells and whistles and reinventing the wheel for no reason with electronic wizzbangs and dohickeys and layers and layers of complexity. Your car in the 90s was the appliance. Simple electronic system. Reliable simple ICE engine. Simple gearbox. Easy to work on which means even if you don't work on your own car it helps you, because labor takes less time and therefore repair shop bills are lower. Parts back then were widely shared across a manufacturers lineup so readily available and relatively cheap. 4 cylinder economy car was practically a commodity back then.
by johncolanduoni | 2025-10-31 22:41:06+00:00
I won’t go to bat for anything near a full equivocation in contemporary politics, but it’s worth remembering antivax was heavily left-coded prior to Covid. I don’t think approximately anyone has actually good epistemology - just biases that fluctuate in how much they affect the real world. Left wing academics and outlets carrying water for people like Pol Pot in the late 20th century because they liked the idea of communism was a particularly bad one.
by wakawaka28 | 2025-10-31 22:41:29+00:00
>I was asking about Moscow.

As I said there have been many attacks on Moscow. You can easily find stories for yourself such as this one: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraines-drone-attack-f...

>Ah yes, in line with their leader's propaganda that Ukraine has no culture of its own and should embrace conquest.

I've never heard this but it's irrelevant to whether or not the US should risk nuclear war over this.

>I forgot about all the American soldiers and pilots that have been captured by Russia while operating F-16s and Javelins and Patriots.

It is a fact that Ukraine does not know how to operate these systems, and they require data from US satellites. It takes quite a bit of training to get up to speed. Furthermore, if anything, Russia would flatten these systems with missiles rather than roll up to them and capture the operators.

>Probably whatever state television tells them to think.

The Russians know that their media is showing them propaganda. Certain Americans like yourself don't recognize that our media is also full of state-backed propaganda. This has been known for decades and some people never got the memo. It didn't stop with Operation Mockingbird. Our military literally has a psychological warfare division (like most others, probably).

>Clearly Putin doesn't think so or he'd withdraw. Let's just copy his homework and keep it going.

He will never withdraw. That is a suicidal fever dream. Are you a Ukrainian who drank the Kool-Aid that Zelinskyy is putting out? Or are you a propaganda agent?
by kjellsbells | 2025-10-31 22:41:38+00:00
This seems like a good time to remind myself of Seth Klarman's observation: that an index fund, by its nature, must occasionally dump perfectly good investments and buy worse ones simply because they need the latter in the basket that the index represents.

If you are, say, in FSKAX at Fidelity, and suddenly "OAI" lists for a gazillion dollars, you might suddenly be quite overweight in a stock that you don't care for. Nvidia and the rest are already warping such funds.
by throw-qqqqq | 2025-10-31 22:41:40+00:00
> I mean, what does he stand to gain from doing so? He's a businessman.

I can only guess at his motives, but the salute is not an isolated case. Steve Bannon has given the same salute multiple times, so it seems coordinated.

Musk has tweeted “Only AfD can save Germany”. The founder of AfD, Björn Höcke, is a convicted nazi. The German domestic intelligence agency, BfV, says AfD is an extreme-right organization with anti-democratic ideals (“proven far-right extremist entity”)

Musk also tweeted “Free Tommy Robinson”, a UK far-right extremist activist and convicted criminal.

Musk has a history of supporting people and organizations that most other businessmen would not.
by mechanicalpulse | 2025-10-31 22:42:20+00:00
I also went about looking at the difference rather than the order. In the hexadecimal case, the difference is 15 (0xEF vs 0x12). I thought, then, that for any base B with ascending digits A and descending digits D, (D-(B-1))/A=B-2.

For binary, it looks like (1-(b-1))/1=b-10 or (1-(2-1))/1=2-2=0 in decimal.

For trinary, it looks like (21-(b-1))/12=b-2 or (7-(3-1))/5=5/5=1 in decimal.

For quaternary, it looks like (321-(b-1))/123=b-2 or (57-(4-1))/27=54/27=2 in decimal.

Essentially and perhaps unsurprisingly, the size of the slices in the number pie get smaller the bigger the pie gets. In binary, the slice is the pie, which is why the division comes out to zero there.
by ajross | 2025-10-31 22:43:07+00:00
I think that's actually wrong, or hangs on a semantic argument about "complexity". Wikipedia is an overview source. It's not going to give you "all" the information, but it's absolutely going to tell you what information there is. And in particular where there's significant argument or controversy, or multiple hypotheses, Wikipedia is going to be arguably the best source[1] for reflecting the state of discourse.

Like, if there's a subject about which you aren't personally an expert, and you have the choice between reading a single review paper you found on Google or the Wikipedia page, which are you going to choose?

[1] In fact, talk pages are often ground zero!
by alephnerd | 2025-10-31 22:43:15+00:00
I've dealt with Indian companies for security sales and I'd say the newer generation of companies like Razorpay (YC W15) are decent at SecOps, but the older and more established companies suck at it and will continue to suck at it until there is a tangible regulatory incentive to enhance security postures.

It also appears to be a side effect of compensation - why would mid-career security professional want to earn ₹15 LPA TC working for a legacy corporation if they have the skills to land at a security MNC that can afford to pay ₹35-50 LPA in TC.

Ofc, it's us foreign investors who are able to afford those higher TCs ;) - especially if we can convert someone who was mid-career in the US but had to return to India due to family or visa issues.

It reminds me of how the Israeli security scene was 10-15 years ago, with similar problems around compensation and brain drain to MNC offices.
by meowface | 2025-10-31 22:46:13+00:00
We're discussing the central sources of knowledge on the internet and by extension pretty much the epistemological backbones of present human civilization. It's worth being open to other perspectives.

I, a left-leaning person who detests Elon Musk and what he's done to Twitter and who generally trusts and likes Wikipedia, feel no shame or regret in assessing Grokipedia, even if I figured it was just going to be the standard tribalistic garbage (which it indeed turned out to be).
by dylan604 | 2025-10-31 22:46:23+00:00
> I moved up here to N Texas and was surprised to find a Gibsons here.

Curiosity kills the cat. What part of NTX? I'm willing to take a trip this weekend just for the lulz. You talking Sherman/Dennison/Paris/Gainesville north, or just Denton/McKinney north? Only thing I'm seeing is one way out west in Weatherford.
by ajross | 2025-10-31 22:47:09+00:00
I completely agree. There's an "obsequious verbosity" to these things, like they're trying to convince you they they're not bullshitting. But that seems like a tuning issue (you can obviously get an LLM to emit prose in any style you want), and my guess is that this result has been extensively A/B tested to be more comforting or something.

One of the skills of working with the form, which I'm still developing, is the ability to frame follow-on questions in a specific enough way to prevent the BS engine from engaging. Sometimes I find myself asking it questions using jargon I 100% know is wrong just because the answer will tell me what the phrasing it wants to hear is.
by asdff | 2025-10-31 22:47:28+00:00
You can change your oil wherever you parked the car. A way to collect the used oil is as easy as an old jug of milk, or the empty bottles from your new oil. Disposal involves finding an autozone or someplace similar and dropping it off for free. In terms of tools you'd need, a $5 dish from autozone to collect the oil, a 10c copper washer for your drain plug, and a socket wrench.
by jaspday | 2025-10-31 22:47:48+00:00
I started playing Bracket City after it was featured on HN, and when I learned about the build-your-own feature (through playing the game, as it happened) I built one and shared it with my family. It was a lot of fun! Honestly, I've wanted to make my own puzzles ever since I first played. Actually doing it was like rubbing catnip on the part of my brain that likes picking words apart and putting them back together. Thank you for releasing this!
by andy99 | 2025-10-31 22:47:49+00:00
This was posted from another source yesterday, like similar work it’s anthropomorphizing ML models and describes an interesting behaviour but (because we literally know how LLMs work) nothing related to consciousness or sentience or thought.

My comment from yesterday - the questions might be answered in the current article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45765026
by jaredklewis | 2025-10-31 22:48:52+00:00
> Just like the US didn't need to rediscover the inventions of cars, submarines, the web, the printed press and more to be able to build better iterations on those, wouldn't the exact same apply the other way?

Running a software business in Europe is not against the laws of physics or anything, but it is also worth considering why Europe doesn’t already have a thriving software sector. The US shooting itself in the foot might help a little, but there are still lots of internal barriers, like those outlined in the Draghi report.
by sunscream89 | 2025-10-31 22:49:10+00:00
Love is the emergent phenomena. That is, what comes of more than the mere sum of parts which are a new potential beyond what may exist otherwise.

Dudes, the real secret is to not be a slob. Take good care, achieve your great things, and a day will come where the most finely available appropriate for you will be drawn to you in every probabilistic opportunity. Be cool and succeed.
by XorNot | 2025-10-31 22:49:15+00:00
The reason it's like this is because the only way to reliably grab it is to cut the string at the first hyphen - then the rest can be almost free text.

It you do it the other way it's harder. You can try this with nix commands /nix/store/<hash>-x is a valid way to refer to something in the store most of the time.
by sfink | 2025-10-31 22:49:32+00:00
It may be unclear since I screwed up the formatting of my post, but that's why I didn't end there. The rest of jj's capabilities change when and how I use it.

The absorb command originated in mercurial, which is where I've used it most. With `hg absorb`, I'd only use it when I was fairly sure that it would do the right thing, and I imagine it'd be the same with git. With jj, having `jj undo` as a fallback means I can use it just to see what it does and if it gets something wrong, undo it and do what I want in a different way. (But not that different -- `jj squash -i --into X` means I can do the same thing as it was doing manually.)
by mlmonkey | 2025-10-31 22:49:50+00:00
Since you insisted. This is from a couple of years ago, and I have moved on to never donating to Wikipedia again, so take it FWIW.

I pointed out that India had reduced extreme poverty from ~16% in 2013 to ~2% in 2022. This is directly from a World Bank report: https://documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/0997221042225345... One would think this would be reliable? One would be wrong since this is deemed to be "pro Modi". Another was the success of India's mission to bring piped water to every household in India (a luxury we take for granted in the West). There's a live dashboard maintained by the Water Ministry of India: https://ejalshakti.gov.in/jjmreport/JJMIndia.aspx Apparently it's a biased source. :shrug:

Other examples include the fact that Indian government paid for millions of households to construct toilets over the last 10 years. Or that millions of houses were constructed in villages, fully paid for by the government, during the same period. Or that the government also paid for rural folks to switch to gas-burning stoves instead of wood-, coal- or cowdung- burdning stoves. I'm too lazy to look up the references now, but you can find them with easy searching.

Surely you can't deny that Wikipedia is biased against the so-called "right" side of the political spectrum, and biased towards the "left"?
by wewewedxfgdf | 2025-10-31 22:49:59+00:00
3 days ago.

The final straw was an index which generated fine on MacOS and failed on Linux - exact same code.

Machine had plenty of RAM.

The thing is, it is really the responsibility of the application to regulate its behavior based on available memory. Crashing out just should not be an option but that's the way DuckDB is built.
by zahlman | 2025-10-31 22:50:50+00:00
"Wheel" is the Python-specific terminology for a pre-built package (all non-Python code has been compiled ahead of time, and the necessary object files put in the right places in the package's folder hierarchy), such that installers can simply copy the files (and do a little bit of book-keeping, and possibly pre-compile Python source code to bytecode although the interpreter will do that on demand anyway). The format is originally documented in https://peps.python.org/pep-0427/ .

This contrasts with "sdist", short for "source distribution", which potentially contains code in other languages which must be compiled on the end user's machine (which possibly involves downloading a corresponding build system and setting up a temporary build environment at install time).

Wheel and sdist distributions are successors to a legacy "egg" format. The PEP doesn't explain, but it's commonly held that the name "wheel" is a reference to wheels of cheese, based on PyPI's prior existence as "the cheese shop" (itself a reference to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hz1JWzyvv8A). There might be some ancient discussion on the (now archived and inactive) mailing list to support this.
by measurablefunc | 2025-10-31 22:50:52+00:00
Algebraic geometry isn't any more complicated than multi-variable calculus. It's certainly more abstract but you get used to it after a while. Schemes¹ are not difficult to learn if you know basic commutative algebra & topology. If you don't know basic commutative algebra then you'll have a tougher time but it's again something that can be learned w/ enough practice & patience.

¹https://webhomes.maths.ed.ac.uk/~v1ranick/papers/eisenbudhar...
by ErroneousBosh | 2025-10-31 22:50:53+00:00
Okay, so this sounds like it's a method of programming that is entirely incompatible with anything I work on.

What sort of thing would it be useful for?

The kind of things I do tend to have maybe several hundred thousand floating point values that exist for maybe a couple of hundred thousandths of a second, get processed, get dealt with, and then are immediately overwritten with the next batch.

I can't think of any reason why I'd ever need to know what they were a few iterations back. That's gone, maybe as much as a ten-thousandth of a second ago, which may as well be last year.
by cjbgkagh | 2025-10-31 22:51:09+00:00
One of the problems with incompetence, of which there are many, is that it gives bad actors space to operate. From a security point of view I don’t think the distinction matters all that much.

That said, the situations I’ve head about were from affiliate ransomware attacks that didn’t make the news because the backup worked. It’s difficult to keep things secure from highly motivated internal bad actors. I’ve been told it’s an increasing trend but have not heard much about it publicly.
by meowface | 2025-10-31 22:51:10+00:00
On one hand, yes, you're completely right.* On the other hand, there is an obligation for something or someone to do the job of pointing out the info is wrong, and how and why. Even if it makes most of them believe it even more strongly afterwards, it's still worse for it to go constantly unchallenged and for believers to never even come across the opposition.

*(The same is true of left-wing conspiracy theories. It's silly to pretend that right-wing conspiracy theorists aren't far more common and don't believe in, on average, far more delusional and obviously false conspiracy theories than left-wingers do, but it's important not to forget they exist. I have dealt with some. They're arguably worse in some ways since they tend to be more intelligent, and so are more able to come up with more plausible rationalizations to contort their minds into pretzels.)
by lapcat | 2025-10-31 22:51:20+00:00
> It's worth being open to other perspectives.

There's a big difference between listening to other perspectives and inventing other perspectives.

Why not let the believers of other perspectives argue for those perspectives? Wouldn't they be the best advocates? And if nobody believes the perspective you've invented, then perhaps it wasn't worth discussing after all.

Again, we're not really lacking in volume of commenters here.
by pm2222 | 2025-10-31 22:51:34+00:00
I thought the bigger /32 prefix should be advertised from AS64511 to both AS13335 and AS64510.

Is there free BGP peering for the purpose of only passing on the NLRIs?

It's interesting that on the "open positions" page, the location filter appears to be strictly string matching, e.g. "US" does not cover "New York, US"
by tialaramex | 2025-10-31 22:52:17+00:00
That's not a constant, that's an immutable variable which is why your diagnostic said it was read-only.

const int x = 2; int *p = &x; *p = 3; // Now x is 3

And since I paid for the place where I'm writing this with cash earned writing C a decade or so ago, I think we can rule out "unfamiliar with C" as a symptom.
by physarum_salad | 2025-10-31 22:52:33+00:00
The best source is the one that provides the widest breadth of information on a topic.

This is a good use of wikipedia: "Like, if there's a subject about which you aren't personally an expert, and you have the choice between reading a single review paper you found on Google or the Wikipedia page, which are you going to choose?"

But that is like skim reading or basic introductions rather than in-depth understanding.
by vkou | 2025-10-31 22:52:44+00:00
Turn off your phone if you don't want to receive robo-dialed calls and unsolicited texts 300 times a day.

Fence off your yard if you don't want people coming by and dumping a mountain of garbage on it every day.

You can certainly choose to live in a society that thinks these are acceptable solutions. I think it's bullshit, and we'd all be better off if anyone doing these things would be breaking rocks with their teeth in a re-education camp, until they learn how to be a decent human being.
by alephnerd | 2025-10-31 22:53:02+00:00
Also, Indian companies are competing with American and Israeli founded or funded companies and startups for the same talent.

If you are competent, instead of earning $15k TC working for an automotive company, you could demand $40k-70k in TC from an MNC or a well funded startup (assuming you have the skills to back it up) - and those are the numbers my portfolio companies use to target hiring in India, as well as what I used previously before I became a VC.