MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by unethical_ban | 2025-11-23 03:18:34+00:00
We are talking about different things.

I am discussing the legitimacy of content from accounts that are new, and/or post low-effort contrarian content which is a signature form of trolling. I'm also talking about the ease of script kiddies all the way up to nations using AI to more intelligently troll as bots with endless questions and logical fallacies when talking about current events.

In other words, literally the difference between bots/trolls and people looking for real dialogue.

You seem to be concerned with left-wing bias in forums.
by isodev | 2025-11-23 03:19:01+00:00
So does this apply to all social medias? (Threads, X, Bluesky, IG, etc) how come they didn’t have this evidence from their users well? Or maybe they didn’t bother to ask..

I suppose the harm from social networks is not as pronounced (since you generally interact only with people and content you opted to follow (e.g. Mastodon).
by rramadass | 2025-11-23 03:19:35+00:00
You are again condoning and excusing Murder by victim blaming. As i have clearly pointed out from the article which quotes from the court records itself;

1) The House was said to be a "Model House" and no one living in it.

2) Because of the above, they were given keys to explicitly open, enter and clean the house.

3) When they arrived at the house, there were no lights, no cars, no dogs etc. all consistent with the signs of an unoccupied house.

4) So they started trying the keys one-by-one in order to do their job.

The above sequence is perfectly logical and that is what most of us would have done in a similar situation.

The guy did not fire randomly (i am almost sure that racism must be involved here given the current anti-immigrant sentiments roiling the US) but must have seen the victims through a peep-hole/windows and then must have opened fire deliberately. He aimed at one of them squarely with a handgun. No warnings etc. were given. It is murder pure and simple.

“We cannot, as a society, have people deciding literally to shoot first and ask questions later,” said Jody Madeira, a law professor at Indiana University.
by engeljohnb | 2025-11-23 03:19:48+00:00
After classical art training, I thought pixel art would be fast and easy -- the low resolution would disguise any mistakes.

Quite the opposite. The fewer pixels, the more each one has to be perfectly in place. Honestly should've been obvious in hindsight. If I have any games left in me after my current one's finished, I'll just use as high a resolution as I'm comfortable with.

Unless the sprites are truly tiny, like 16x16 with 2 or 3 frame animations, I don't know if pixel art makes a good shortcut to an aesthetically appealing game. Then again, it might be easier than six years of every day practice.
by robrain | 2025-11-23 03:19:56+00:00
That's the basic method of retraining. I've got a bunch of essential oils in tiny jars and I regularly take a 20 second sniff of each whilst thinking strongly about the smell in context. For example, when I smell the lavender oil I recall the garden at my grandma's house which obviously was full of lavender. It's definitely helping, but there are still a lot of gaps.
by GOD_Over_Djinn | 2025-11-23 03:20:14+00:00
> pretending that doing nothing

When did I say that doing nothing was the correct course of action? Oh wait - I didn’t! But it sure makes a convenient straw man for you to argue against since you are incapable of addressing my actual position, which I contrasted hamfisted lockdowns against: the targeted protection of vulnerable groups such as the elderly or immune compromised people, rather than the blanket shutdown of the entire country.

> Kids don’t get an education if teachers and staff are sick. Businesses don’t serve communities if workers are out in waves. Families don’t stay afloat if workplaces shut down because too many people are ill.

Do you not realize that the virus is still out there in the world? And that we’re not locking down? And hardly anyone is wearing a mask, social distancing, or getting vaccine boosters?

And yet, somehow, we don’t have piles of dead bodies being cremated in the streets by FEMA workers in hazmat suits. Curious, isn’t it?

It couldn’t be any more obvious that the lockdowns were totally unnecessary and a giant mistake. Just take a look around.

It almost seems like the truly dangerous epidemic is of people forming such strong attachments to emotional dogma and propaganda that they are unable to perform kindergarten-level logical deduction.
by 0xCMP | 2025-11-23 03:20:18+00:00
I get it, but part of the reason they're on motorcycles is cars are too expensive for them. Would making it safer and costing $20-30k base like it does in America be more or less ethical?

I don't think there is a clear answer. Safer car means owners of the car survive more and more often: which is unequivocally great. Making it cheaper means there are more people in a safer vehicle than before which can reduce their likelihood of getting hurt/dying, but they're not as protected as they could be. This is, on the whole, also really good.

It just so happens car makers pick to make it cheaper. It's good for business and good for those who couldn't afford it before. It is bad for those who encounter the situations where additional protection would have saved them.
by mjburgess | 2025-11-23 03:21:36+00:00
AI systems cannot be economic agents, in the sense of participating in a relevant sense in economic transactions. An economic transaction is an exchange between people with needs (, preferences, etc.) that can die -- and so, fundamentally, are engaged in exchanges of (productive) time via promising and meeting one's promises. Time is the underlying variable of all economics, and its what everything ends up in ratio to -- the marginal minute of life.

There isn't any sense in which an AI agent gives rise to a economic value, because it wants nothing, promises nothing, and has nothing to exchange. An AI agent can only 'enable' economic transactions as means of production (, etc.) -- the price of any good cannot derive from a system which has no subjective desire grounded in no final ends.
by wahern | 2025-11-23 03:23:22+00:00
Does McDonalds not have the $5 McValue Meals where you live? In the Bay Area, $5 + tax gets you a McChicken, 4 chicken nuggets, small fries, and small drink. $6 to upgrade to a McDouble cheeseburger instead of the McChicken. Altogether ~1000 calories per meal.

That's darn good value for your money, at least for a prepared hot meal that's convenient in most locales. $5 for ~1000 calories, plus the ingredients are fortified; the lack of fiber notwithstanding, it's not a horrible thing to eat several times a week. I live in SF where McDonalds is not very convenient, and where food prices, including prepared takeout, aren't too bad if you know where to go--my wife sometimes brings empty casserole dishes to one of our friendly neighborhood Chinese restaurants to fill up, without paying extra, though for us it's fortunately more about convenience when raising two kids with a bunch of extracurriculars than it is about penny pinching.

FWIW, I love cooking and cook as much as I can, usually at least 3 times a week, which with leftovers means 4 or 5 dinners. But between cooking, cleaning, and shopping, it can be be quite time consuming, and excepting myself, the rest of the family isn't keen on eating beans 3 nights a week. (I'm only allowed to make Red Beans & Rice a few times a year. Ditto for similar big pot meals :(
by majormajor | 2025-11-23 03:23:40+00:00
>I wonder why companies don’t do this anymore. Is it something to do with the monopoly AT&T held, is it related to corporate tax structures, is it related to how easy it is to find PhD graduates who studied similar topics of interest, or is it something else entirely?

Companies do a lot less to retain employees - fewer pensions, fewer accrued benefits and perks - so it's much less attractive to train when you are assuming attrition instead.
by iterateoften | 2025-11-23 03:25:30+00:00
I actually intentionally stopped drinking caffeine when we had kids. Long nights of little to no sleep made me absolutely not want to mess with my sleep cycle any more. I started drinking tea once the kids got older and sleep was once again regular.

For me caffeine is something to enhance my well rested self. Not something to make my body ignore important signals regarding rest.
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-11-23 03:26:03+00:00
I recently found out something interesting about MC4 connectors for solar panels. It turns out the only legitimate MC4 connectors are manufactured by Stäubli. Every other MC4 connector you see is a clone of the originals, which is dangerous if they are mixed (a male of one vendor, a female of another). Differences in tolerance/fit can create unstable connections which can cause overheating, arcing, even fire. So Stäubli posts pictures so you can try to identify the clones (the easiest giveaway is Stäubli's O-rings are always black). It's such an issue that standards now require you to acquire connectors from one origin, and use the same brand and type. But I think a lot of consumers are buying random solar gear now and just plug in whatever connectors look like they fit together.
by WalterBright | 2025-11-23 03:26:19+00:00
> America of 1800s was ugly place to live even for many white Europeans

Not when compared with the rest of the world.

Life in pre-Colonial America was pretty hard. Building a civilization by hand from wilderness is a tall order, and life was short. But after 1800, life improved by leaps and bounds. You can see this in statistics of average height.

As for the Soviet Union, I recall newspaper accounts from the 70s and 80s that if you were traveling there, be sure to load up your luggage with blue jeans. Blue jeans were in high demand and would fetch a nice profit. And how many Soviet consumer items do you have in your home?
by mercury24aug | 2025-11-23 03:27:04+00:00
Looks like OpenAI, Anthropic, and the MCP-UI team actually worked together on a common standard for MCP Apps: https://blog.modelcontextprotocol.io/posts/2025-11-21-mcp-ap...

Honestly, I think the biggest friction for MCP adoption has been how un-userfriendly it is. It’s great for devs, but not the average users. Users don't always want to chat, sometimes they just want to click a button or adjust a slider. This feels like the answer to that problem.

Full disclosure, I'm partial here because of our work at https://usefractal.dev. We were early adopters when MCP first came out, but we always felt like something was missing. We kept wishing for a UI layer on top, and everyone says it's gonna take forever for the industry to adopt, maybe months, maybe years.

I cannot believe the adoption comes so quickly. I think this is gonna be huge. What do you guys think?
by xiaoshumiao | 2025-11-23 03:27:49+00:00
I built an AI tool that generates custom My Little Pony–style OCs (original characters) with cutie marks, personalities, and multiple art styles. No drawing skills needed — users describe a character, and the model produces a full design and profile in seconds.

Live demo: https://aiocmaker.com/oc-maker/mlp-oc-maker

Would love feedback on UI, speed, and whether this could be useful for fan artists, writers, or role-playing communities.
by jiggawatts | 2025-11-23 03:28:09+00:00
This is why I always shake my head when the Reddit armchair security experts say "The data wasn't even encrypted!? Amateur hour!" in response to some PII leak.

Sure, sure buddy, I'll encrypt all of my PII data so nobody can access it... including the web application server.

Okay, fine, I'll decrypt it on the fly with a key in some API server... now the web server had unencrypted access to it, which sounds bad, but that's literally the only way that it can process and serve the data to users in a meaningful way! Now if someone hacks the web app server -- the common scenario -- then the attacker has unencrypted access!

I can encrypt the database, but at what layer? Storage? Cloud storage is already encrypted! Backups? Yeah, sure, but then what happens in a disaster? Who's got the keys? Are they contactable at 3am?

Etc, etc...

It's not only not as simple as ticking an "encrypted: yes" checkbox, it's maximally difficult, with a very direct tradeoff between accessibility and protection. The sole purpose of encrypting data is to prevent access!
by tbrownaw | 2025-11-23 03:28:54+00:00
> In a 2020 research project code-named “Project Mercury,” Meta (META.O), opens new tab scientists worked with survey firm Nielsen to gauge the effect of “deactivating” Facebook and Instagram, according to Meta documents obtained via discovery.

Did they pick people at random and ask those people to stop for a while, or is this about people who choose to stop for their own reasons?
by amypetrik8 | 2025-11-23 03:29:37+00:00
Well as I see it, it's a hell of a "road to hell paved with good intentions" type nasty slippery slope.

"Let's have the next generation be the best possible, as they are innocent and never chose life, let them thusly get the best life"

"Let us assess the parents Nurture ability, and if not to our standards, we most assuredly will for sure provide a high quality Nurture environment, super promise it will always work"

"Oh, that worked so well, let us assess Nature in the whole Nature vs Nurture topic, let us assess the genetic health of parents and ensure the next generation is genetically superior"

It's playing with damn fire you ask me
by trelane | 2025-11-23 03:29:38+00:00
> I can’t see any reason this couldn’t be packaged as a prebuilt kernel module so end users can trivially install it.

I don't think you have to be the original developer to create packages one can distribute. Go for it!

From TFA:

> This guide is currently for Linux kernel version 6.17.8. It will be updated for future kernel versions as they are released, until the fix is fully integrated into the kernel.

So it sounds like the plan is to get it into the mainline kernel, at which point it will get to all the distributions. So I sent see the problem here.
by makeitdouble | 2025-11-23 03:29:57+00:00
I was thinking about incidents like this one (around 2023, way after Quantum)

https://www.zdnet.com/article/youtube-is-slowing-video-loads...

> Firefox was on the top of the web and the management squandered it all

I have not followed Mozill's internal shenanigans close enough to properly understand, and really wonder what's the biggest hurdle for some other company or org to come in and scoop/fork Firefox. I'm assuming it's sheer money.

Mozilla obviously dropped the ball. And then nothing is there to catch it.
by majormajor | 2025-11-23 03:31:56+00:00
This the standard current approach for most models/agent tools because models can do well at "make a plan for this" and "execute this step" but are less good at generating a response string that includes both the plan and every step of the execution without intermediate prompting/redirection/focusing. Helps fight context drift and maximize effectiveness/efficiency of the predictions.

Most advances in tools I've used in the last two years are exactly this sort of "automate the steering and feedback loop that the prompt goes through" automated-fairly-boilerplate-sequencing of refinement of initial idea -> plan -> execution -> feedback.
by david-gpu | 2025-11-23 03:32:01+00:00
Speaking from the perspective of somebody who used to do this for a living.

> But the incentive to making something open source is that someone might improve your work

Device drivers, particularly on mobile, aren't evergreen sorts of software. New hardware is released several times a year, and maintenance after shipping is limited to critical issues. By the time it hits the market, the people who developed that driver have moved on to newer products.

> It is somewhat arrogant to assume that nobody else out there could possibly improve this code or add value

Whatever they did would have completely missed the release schedule. It may provide value to people who want to keep using a 10 year old phone, but how does that benefit a company that only makes income when they sell new models?

> Just like it is arrogant to assume that your competitors don't already know your 'secrets' and haven't reverse engineered anything they found interesting.

This made me laugh. You would be surprised by how minimal reverse engineering goes on in this space. It boils down to the same reason as before: by the time you have made any progress, the product you are reverse engineering is semi obsolete. The vast majority of the time it makes more sense to invest those resources into developing your own stuff.

That's my $.02 from having worked for four major GPU vendors out there. Upper management knows what they are doing, even if outsiders don't get it. The incentives simply aren't there for most GPU vendors most of the time.
by rvz | 2025-11-23 03:35:41+00:00
> TypeScript is a wonderfully advanced language though it has an unfortunately steep learning curve; in many ways it’s the complete opposite of Go.

Replace "TypeScript" with "C++" and the same can be said.

It is one of the worst languages ever designed and already built on top of a sloppy foundation (Javascript) compared to Go.

The language encourages escape hatches and tons of flexibility on how it checks its types and creates the risk of inconsistency to engineers on which rules to adopt and there is always one engineer that will disagree with some settings and argue to turn on/off a rule to defeat the purpose of the language.

At this stage, its no better than C++ but significantly slower, and I've seen the same mistakes (enums, allowing "as XYZ" casting, etc) in C++ creeping into TypeScript.

Even the entire language parser and type checker is being rewritten in Go. [0]

[0] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/typescript-native-...
by hedora | 2025-11-23 03:36:23+00:00
Have you used chrome? The depth of enshittifaction is staggering. Setting it up from scratch is like watching a Cory Doctorow documentary.

The only change that’d get me to willingly use the engine would be the DOJ mandating the return of manifest v2 support and then barring google from contributing to it for the next 40 years.
by WalterBright | 2025-11-23 03:37:36+00:00
> were blacks considered men?

Yes. The people who wrote the Constitution were well aware of the conundrum, but were faced with the reality that they could not form a union without allowing the slaveholders to continue. In essence, they kicked the can down the road, which resulted in a catastrophic war.

> did it include women?

Yes. Whether the word "men" means exclusively men or men and women depends on the context.

> taxes are not what's keeping them homeless

You're suggesting that taxes don't have effects beyond just paying the money. When a businessman is taxed, for example, that means he has less money to invest in his business, which means fewer jobs, fewer purchases of plant & equipment, slower growth, higher prices, etc., all of which negatively affect the rest of the economy, including poor people.

> that libertarian shit is such an obvious myth to protect the rich

America's rich people came from poor immigrants. The same for America's middle class.

> Every country I've ever visited with more redistributive policies has a substantially better quality of life

Have you ever looked at the size of government spending on redistribution? The US abandoned libertarianism in the early 1900s.
by FridayoLeary | 2025-11-23 03:37:45+00:00
Check out Israels geography. If those "militants with handguns" hadn't gotten themselves distracted massacring people at a festival, they may well have reached Jerusalem and Tel Aviv in a couple of hours. As it is it's practically a miracle there wasn't a mass uprising of armed palestinians in the West Bank and Israel proper.

Your "assymetrical" point is especially bizzare. Palestinian terrorists have shown nothing but tremendous willingness and enthusiasm for attacking jews with literally anything they can lay their hands on including screwdrivers and vehicles. The total imbalance of forces doesn't deter them at all. Why would they having more weapons or Israel less change anything?

The main reason large portions of the strip has been flattened is because Hamas built tunnels underneath it.

You say it's disproportionate, but spend a couple of hours reading up israels history and geography. You might arrive at some conclusions about the nature of Palestinian terror (if the parent story wasn't enough). I doubt you could come up with literally any other solution. The only one i can think of is a mass evacuation of the gaza strip. It would have prevented a huge amount of deaths.

I think the main lesson jews learnt from the holocaust is not to rely on the rest of the world to help them when they are in trouble. I have absolutely no idea why you would think they must prioritise the moral lessons they learned above their own safety.
by Arcorann | 2025-11-23 03:40:20+00:00
The 500 edits required for access to TWL is actually for all of the sites under the Wikimedia banner. If you're having trouble finding things to edit on Wikipedia, you can try their other sites such as Wikisource or Wikibooks.

On Wikisource in particular, it's fairly easy to make useful edits through validating proofread pages or proofreading simple pages (both of which can be easily found in the Monthly Challenge).
by wahern | 2025-11-23 03:40:52+00:00
Until a few years ago, gccgo was well maintained and trailed the main Go compiler by 1 or 2 releases, depending on how the release schedules aligned. Having a second compiler was considered an important feature. Currently, the latest supported Go version is 1.18, but without Generics support. I don't know if it's a coincidence, but porting Generics to gccgo may have been a hurdle that broke the cadence.
by mlrtime | 2025-11-23 03:40:53+00:00
Hold on - you're conflating "traditional housewife with zero financial independence" with "choosing to be the primary caregiver for your own kids." Those are not the same thing.

The fact that your mom and MIL needed secret bank accounts isn't an argument against raising your own children - it's an argument for financial transparency and shared accounts in modern marriages. And yeah, we should absolutely have that.

But here's what you're missing: plenty of women (and men!) are choosing to be primary caregivers today because we have the choice now. It's not 1950 - it's 2025. Nobody's talking about giving up bank accounts or financial independence. We're talking about prioritizing raising your own kids over outsourcing it, when that's financially possible.

It's hard as hell, it's undervalued, and it's not for everyone. But acting like everyone who makes that choice is deluded? That's just as dismissive as the people who think all women should be doing it.