MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ilaksh | 2025-11-26 01:06:48+00:00
The question of how emotions function and how they might be related to value functions is absolutely central to that discussion and very relevant to his field.

Doing fundamental AI research definitely involves adjacent fields like neurobiology etc.

Re: the discussion, emotions actually often involve high level cognition -- it's just subconscious. Let's take a few examples:

- amusement: this could be something simple like a person tripping, or a complex joke.

- anger: can arise from something quite immediate like someone punching you, or a complex social situation where you are subtly being manipulated.

But in many cases, what induces the emotion is a complex situation that involves abstract cognition. The physical response is primitive, and you don't notice the cognition because it is subconscious, but a lot may be going into the trigger for the emotion.

https://cis.temple.edu/~pwang/Publication/emotion.pdf
by gusgus01 | 2025-11-26 01:07:11+00:00
And what is the surefire way to stop AI scrapers from accessing your website? If there is no way, how can this be an acceptable ask?

It already sounds like you're using several IPs to access sites, which seems like a work around to someone somewhere trying to limit the use of one IP (or just lack of desire to host and distribute the data yourself to your various hosts).

Just because you can do something doesn't mean everyone must accept and like that you are doing that thing.
by Lerc | 2025-11-26 01:07:19+00:00
I don't think it is piracy. Most advertising supported content is made freely available to you with the expectation that you will view the advertising. That expectation is not a contract and was a decision made without your involvement. You have no obligation to perform to someone else's expectations. If the content is made freely available you are free to watch it whichever way you choose. Choosing not to view the advertising might mean they don't get paid for producing their content, but you are under no obligation in the absence of an agreement.

Piracy involves you deciding to acquire content that has not been made freely available.
by ewoodrich | 2025-11-26 01:07:39+00:00
Wait, are you really suggesting it's somehow an emergent property of any LLM that it will spontaneously begin to praise its largest shareholders to the point of absurdity? Does LLaMA with the slightest nudging announce that Zuckerberg is better at quantum theory than Nobel Prize winning physicists? Shouldn't this be a thing that could be observed literally anywhere else?
by zamalek | 2025-11-26 01:07:44+00:00
"By your logic" is usually a canary for strawman, and it's needlessly combative on top of that. Best to step back and reconsider if you find yourself penning that.

The only thing I was saying was exactly what I said, within the context of XMPP, XML compresses really well - I was reinforcing the parent comment. How that relates to metrics in other contexts wasn't what I was talking about at all. I generally avoid XML nowadays, and so your argument with me isn't something I would dedicate thought to in the first place. I see no point in taking anything from this nonsense.
by theideaofcoffee | 2025-11-26 01:07:58+00:00
Not sure what this comment is getting at. Those may be the collection of sites owned by a single company, but there are still -oceans- of porn of every conceivable niche, on hundreds of thousands of sites, some still bigger than those. Whereas there’s pretty much a single, monopolized provider for mainstream video: youtube. And a porn conglomerate is the problem? GP is still correct, there’s still real competition in the space, unlike youtube.
by CuriousRose | 2025-11-26 01:08:01+00:00
I understand your point, and I might just be out of touch, but I don't know of any MSPs in the Australian market that support desktop Linux users. Even internal IT support teams I've come across only really deal with the Linux server environment.

Throwing GNOME/KDE/xkfc/mate/whatever flavour it is this month really starts to make things complicated for UX. I'm sure yes you could centralise it, mass deploy, have a stable config, etc, but these are low level things that when go wrong really interfere with the day-to-day of non-technical employees.

What do you do about drivers, obscure one-use PDF converters they want, Excel macros? The tools they are familiar with are lucky to have a macOS alternative these days, let alone a Linux build that is compatible with the distro they are on. Supporting most users is questions like - "where was the button that was there yesterday?", "why are my emails sorted backwards?", "whats this virus I have? (clicked allow notifications in Edge)".

Linux/BSD has incredible merit and I would love to see the duopoly in the desktop market broken up, but it requires a directed approach to fixing UX, a single opinionated distro that has enough traction to warrant developers to create turn-key apps and builds for it, and users to feel familiar with the interface without it changing for a long time. I don't see this happening due to the inherent communal aspect of Linux where everyone wants to make their mark and has their own opinions on design not just at the OS level but at the application level also.
by ameixaseca | 2025-11-26 01:08:32+00:00
You are dressing the events in your interpretation and stating them as truth.

The events you mention above are cherry-picked bits of information to support what you have said from the beginning.

For instance, in what you said above: you are quoting an excerpt of Barroso's comments from 2023 about democracy (not his exact words) without the actual context, something he even clarified later on as it was picked up by the media. Also, his resignation now, 2 years later, has nothing to do with any of this - looks like he was just tired.

I don't blame him. To be honest, now I'm tired as well.

Take care.
by DaveZale | 2025-11-26 01:08:44+00:00
that is really interesting! About a decade ago, I worked on a coca cola flavoring. The recipe that I located involved eight essential oils, so I formulated them in a certain "vehicle" and submitted it to a tasting panel. The scent of it was spot on, but the flavor was not. This was written off as due to the absence of large amounts of sweetener. But now I may know another part of the reason. Very interesting, thank you
by otterley | 2025-11-26 01:09:00+00:00
Software is a component of a product, if not the product itself. Treating software like a product, besides being the underlying truth, also means it makes sense to manage it like one.

Technical debt isn’t usually the problem people think it is. When it does become a problem, it’s best to think of it in product-like terms. Does it make the product less useful for its intended purpose? Does it make maintenance or repair inconvenient or costly? Or does it make it more difficult or even impossible to add competitive features or improvements? Taking a product evaluation approach to the question can help you figure out what the right response is. Sometimes it’s no response at all.
by ballpug | 2025-11-26 01:09:12+00:00
There is primordial chaos to symbolic and esoteric works.

Steiner's work regarding Klint's series, "The Paintings for the Temple,” is oddly reminiscent of the Remedios Varo work, "Embroidering the Earth's Mantle" in which the main triptych is a tapestry of the landscape. (1961)

[1]: Bibliographic Guide to Art and Architecture Issues 1-2, ISBN 968-411-442-7
by missedthecue | 2025-11-26 01:09:43+00:00
If it were 2018, I personally would have made 3 SWE hires in the last 12 months. The reason I didn't need to is because of LLMs. Not budget, not anything else. I don't think AI is so much to blame for layoffs, but I do think it is a huge component of the slow hiring. There's just less demand for coders.
by eru | 2025-11-26 01:10:45+00:00
I don't doubt that there are countries worse than the US (in this regard). But that doesn't mean you can't learn from the success stories. Especially since they are really common in a variety of places that don't have much in common otherwise, so it can't be too hard to clamp down on most fare evasion.

> [...] and conversely people would then hitch a hike on roller skates behind the bus.

I assume there's not much overlap between the really problematic passengers (often loud, drunk, aggressive and/or mentally ill) and the skaters? Mostly just because you need a minimum level of physical fitness to pull this feat off, and you need to be organised enough to both have skates and have them at the ready?

In most places I lived in, the traffic police (if nothing else) would nab you for trying to pull this stunt.
by roadside_picnic | 2025-11-26 01:11:13+00:00
> (n - 1)

It's also funny that one would write their own standard deviation function and include Bessel's correction. Usually if I'm manually re-implementing a standard deviation function it's because I'm afraid the implementors blindly applied the correction without considering whether or not it's actually meaningful for the given analysis. At the very least, the correct name for what's implemented there should really be `sample_std_dev`.
by fuzzfactor | 2025-11-26 01:11:15+00:00
Sometimes you grow to utilize the enhanced capabilities to a greater extent than others, and time frame can be the major consideration. Also maybe it's just a faster processor you need for your own work, or OTOH a hundred new PC's for an office building, and that's just computing examples.

Usually, the owner will not even explore all of the advantages of the new hardware as long as the purchase is barely justified by the original need. The faster-moving situations are the ones where fewest of the available new possibilities have a chance to be experimented with. IOW the hardware gets replaced before anybody actually learns how to get the most out of it in any way that was not foreseen before purchase.

Talk about scaling, there is real massive momentum when it's literally tonnes of electronics.

Like some people who can often buy a new car without ever utilizing all of the features of their previous car, and others who will take the time to learn about the new internals each time so they make the most of the vehicle while they do have it. Either way is very popular, and the hardware is engineered so both are satisfying. But only one is "research".

So whether you're just getting a new home entertainment center that's your most powerful yet, or kilos of additional PC's that would theoretically allow you to do more of what you are already doing (if nothing else), it's easy for anybody to purchase more than they will be able to technically master or even fully deploy sometimes.

Anybody know the feeling?

The root problem can be that the purchasing gets too far ahead of the research needed to make the most of the purchase :\

And if the time & effort that can be put in is at a premium, there will be more waste than necessary and it will be many times more costly. Plus if borrowed money is involved, you could end up with debts that are not just technical.

Scale a little too far, and you've got some research to catch up on :)
by Nextgrid | 2025-11-26 01:11:30+00:00
Ok, let’s switch it up a bit. I give the ad-full newspaper to someone not speaking the local language. Or an illiterate person. Or a monkey trained to be good with scissors. Is this also piracy? At what point does it become piracy? How little of an ad should someone see/understand before it counts as a “valid” ad view? A few words? A full sentence? Etc.
by dylan604 | 2025-11-26 01:11:36+00:00
If not a nerd lingo, there's absolutely inside jokes and new lingo. Skibidi, 6 7, blah blah. Even people saying things like "bet" are all part of new lingo that kids think is cool because the olds don't know what they are talking about. Only the words/phrases change, but the desire of kids doing something different than olds is never going to change.
by cmckn | 2025-11-26 01:12:12+00:00
Agreed the interface is clunky.

> you can no longer see the content in case you paused to freeze the frame

You can press up on the D-pad to dismiss that overlay, if you want to see the full paused frame.

> How do you start it again? By clicking the same button, right? No! By clicking up.

Maybe we have different remotes? On the latest model, you play/pause with the same button.

One issue I’ve noticed in the app is there seems to be no way to move the cursor “up” to the channel button when the video is in the last 10% of the playback bar. If you rewind it a bit, then you’re able to move the cursor up there.

Only in the last few days have Shorts appeared at the top of my home page. I fear it may be the end for me.
by Nextgrid | 2025-11-26 01:12:43+00:00
I’m totally cool with “screwing over” people who make their income screwing gullible people into falling for scams or buying useless, overpriced junk they don’t need. I don’t need to rationalize it for myself, I’m just trying to show some people the error in their ways, but maybe their portfolio of ad-related stocks is clouding their vision?
by renewiltord | 2025-11-26 01:13:01+00:00
The answer is right there: use authentication with cost per load, or an IP whitelist.

GP is absolutely right. If your server is just going to send me traffic when I ask I’m just going to ask and do what I want with the response.

Your server will respond fine if I click through with different IPs and it’s just a menial task to have this distribution of requests to IPs, which is what we made computers for.

Yeah, you’re right of course that no one has to like the “piracy” or “scraping” or whatever other name you’re giving to a completely normal request-response interaction between machines. They can complain. And I can say they’re silly for complaining. No one has to like anything. Heck you could hate ice cream.
by somnic | 2025-11-26 01:13:02+00:00
I think I heard it was a bit more than that - you'd buy them online direct, blind, and be informed immediately after purchase what it was you'd actually bought, so bringing in the immediacy and "convenience" of online gambling/gacha/etc. too, compared to ordering a mystery box and opening it when it was delivered, or buying foil packs of trading cards where you need to actually be present at a particular location.
by lostmsu | 2025-11-26 01:14:00+00:00
I face the same problem and agree with your "search experience" remark. But it triggered something and raised this idea: just add the search bar to the top of the page instead of hiding it in the sidebar. That would solve 100% of my need to open the sidebar. Maybe show 5 most recent chats under the search bar when I click it before typing anything.
by opello | 2025-11-26 01:14:03+00:00
There's an "if a tree falls in the forest" version of "if the viewer leaves the room" at which point has a theft still been visited upon the broadcaster? The business that paid for the ad?

In a newspaper if I skip over ads with my eyes do you think I've marginalized/pirated/stolen from the business that paid for the ad? They paid for placement and not an impression. I'd argue that if YouTube presents the ad and my browser/app/whatever skips it then YouTube satisfied its obligation and that's where it ends. The advertiser, knowing full well the limitations of the access mechanism, made a choice to throw money into this version of the attention economy. It's obviously worth it to them or they wouldn't do it, or haven't made as careful of an economic decision as I would imagine I suppose.
by drivers99 | 2025-11-26 01:14:55+00:00
There are 0 videos on my YouTube homepage, just a screen asking me to turn on history. Just the way I like it. Here’s what I did:

Go into the YouTube app, settings, manage all history, under the history tab hit Delete -> delete all time.

Then go to controls (still in the manage all history dialog box under settings), under YouTube history hit Turn off. It says “pausing…” Hit Pause, and Got it.

It’s been exactly 3 months since I did that. I still watch stuff from my subscriptions and when I search for something I want to watch. There are still recommended videos when you’re watching a video but they are a lot less enticing since they are not personally targeted. I curated my subscriptions so it’s more what I would want to spend time watching instead of reaction videos for instance. My actual time watching YouTube has dropped a lot.
by satvikpendem | 2025-11-26 01:15:10+00:00
> The code could be spaghetti even with a framework and is not necessarily spaghetti without one.

Sure, but some are easier to make spaghetti out of than others.

> Real criteria like costs or user concerns don’t up until way down the line.

This is orthogonal to frameworks versus not, just as you said one can make spaghetti in any sort of way, it doesn't mean that frameworks are worse at ameliorating "real costs."
by SchemaLoad | 2025-11-26 01:15:13+00:00
I don't think this is true. There has been an explosive growth in cultures which are interest based rather than location based. Board games, furries, car people, kpop, etc. These groups all have their own inside jokes, terminology, events, etc.

What has been lost is gathering a random sample of people in the same city and them all being on roughly the same page about culture.
by al_borland | 2025-11-26 01:15:20+00:00
SitusAMC was announced earlier this month. Based on this[0] article, they’re still trying to assess exactly how big it is. It impacts JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, and Morgan Stanley. Also potentially pension funds and governments.

DoorDash also had a breach this month. Others as well.

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/24/us-banks-scramble-to-asses...
by mickael-kerjean | 2025-11-26 01:15:35+00:00
Yesterday I received this message from a random github user: "Seriously. No SSO at all in free version? This is poor. Very very greedy and poor" [1]

If you do not spend a lot of time explaining things at length, people will link back to how much an asshole you are.

[1]: https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash/issues/661#issu...
by hn_acc1 | 2025-11-26 01:16:03+00:00
You think that you will be ALLOWED to continue to use AI for free once it can create a LOT of wealth? Or will you have to pay royalties?

The rich CEOs don't want MORE competition - they want LESS competition for being rich. I'm sure they'll find a way to add a "any vibe-coded business owes us 25% royalties" clause any day now, once the first big idea makes some $$. If that ever happens. They're NOT trying to liberate "lay people" to allow them to get rich using their tech, and they won't stand for it.
by cholantesh | 2025-11-26 01:16:04+00:00
>Also, Indonesian food IMHO is at the bottom of SEA food culture. MY has wayyy better food (both in quality and diversity).

I won't speak for the quality but this seems like an extremely dubious statement. Malay cuisine is certainly diverse, owing to settled migrant populations from other parts of Asia, but they don't have the dizzying array of indigenous cuisines on offer in Indonesia, many of which aren't readily available in Java.
by crazydoggers | 2025-11-26 01:16:08+00:00
The one catch here is that there are limited legal avenues, and your solution requires a robust legal system and laws which is what we don’t have. At the moment over -worked police departments have to play wack a mole going after every single perpetrator, and they also can’t see everything happening on these systems to police it.

As an example, organized crime thrived in the US at the turn of the century because we didn’t have the legal apparatus to deal with it. Not until the RICO act in 1970 did we finally start to stamp it out.

So exactly what we need are legal avenues to make sure that companies can’t purposefully enable child abuse in order to turn a profit which is exactly what’s happening here. (Regardless of what they claim, the evidence is overwhelming they know but don’t want to dent their income)
by pron | 2025-11-26 01:16:56+00:00
Who's "we", though, and aren't virtually all of us already bystanders in that sense? I have virtually zero power to shape world events and even if I want to believe that what I do isn't entirely negligible, someone else could do it, possibly better. I live in one of the largest, most important metropolises in the world, and even as a group, everything the entire population of my city does is next to nothing compared to everything being done in the world. As the world has grown, my city's share of it has been falling. If a continent with 20 billion people on it suddenly appeared, the output of my entire country will be negligible; would it matter if they were robots? In the grand scheme of things, my impact on the world is not much greater than my cat's, and I think he's quite content overall. There are many people more accomplished than me (although I don't think they're all smarter); should I care if they were robots? I may be sad that I won't be able to experience what the robots experience, but there are already many people in the world whose experience is largely foreign to mine.

And here's a completely way of looking at it, since I won't lieve forever. A successful species eventually becomes extinct - replaced by its own eventual offspring. Homo erectus are extinct, as they (eventually) evolved into homo sapiens. Are you the "we" of homo erectus or a different "we"? If all that remains from homo sapiens some time in the future is some species of silicon-based machines, machina sapiens, that "we" create, will those beings not also be "us"? After all, "we" will have been their progenitors in not-too-dissimilar a way to how the home erectus were ours (the difference being that we will know we have created a new distinct species). You're probably not a descendent of William Shakespeare's, so what makes him part of the same "we" that you belong to, even though your experience is in some ways similar to his and in some ways different. Will not a similar thing make the machines part of the same "we"?
by markdown | 2025-11-26 01:17:38+00:00
Sounds wonderful if you're OK with Indonesia's ongoing genocide and ethnic cleansing of West Papua.

> Widespread atrocities committed by Indonesian forces have led human rights groups to describe the situation as a genocide against the indigenous Papuan population. Reports of mass killings, forced displacement, and sexual violence are extensive and credible. According to a 2007 estimate by scholar De R. G. Crocombe, between 100,000 and 300,000 Papuans have been killed since Indonesia's occupation began.[19][23] A 2004 report by Yale Law School argued that the scale and intent of Indonesia’s actions fall within the legal definition of genocide.[24] State violence has targeted women in particular. A 2013 and 2017 study by AJAR and the Papuan Women's Working Group found that 4 in 10 Papuan women reported suffering state abuse,[25] while a 2019 follow-up found similar results.[26][27][Note 1][Note 2]

> In 2022, the UN condemned what it described as "shocking abuses" committed by the Indonesian state, including the killing of children, disappearances, torture, and large-scale forced displacement. It called for "urgent and unrestricted humanitarian aid to the region."[28] Human Rights Watch (HRW) has noted that the Papuan region functions as a de facto police state, where peaceful political expression and independence advocacy are met with imprisonment and violence.[29] While some analysts argue that the conflict is aggravated by a lack of state presence in remote areas,[30] the overwhelming trend points to systemic state violence and neglect.

> Indonesia continues to block foreign access to the Papuan region, citing so-called "safety and security concerns", though critics argue this is to suppress international scrutiny of its genocidal practices

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