MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by minimaxir | 2025-11-18 02:27:03+00:00
To be very clear, getting Grok to say henious shit not something I want to subject to random people who follow me on social media even if it's not explicitly against the ToS. If I were to do a writeup or a repository on this, I would need to be very delicate and likely need to involve lawyers, which may make it a nonstarter.

> Why have such thoughts to begin with?

Because my duty to test out how new models respond to adversarial output outweighs my discomfort in doing so. This is not to "own" Elon Musk or be puritanical, it's more as an assessment as a developer who would consider using new LLM APIs and needs to be aware of all their flaws. End users will most definitely try to have sex with the LLM and I need to know how it will respond and whether that needs to be handled downstream.

It has not been an issue (because the models handled adversarial outputs well) until very recently when the safety guardrails completely collapsed in an attempt to court a certain new demographic because LLM user growth is slowing down. I never claim to be a happy person, but it's a skill I'm good at.
by creatonez | 2025-11-18 02:28:20+00:00
> Intermittence is mostly a consequence of using orbiters as communication relays to reach a planet’s surface. Orbiters go around the planet and are only able to communicate with peers they can “see”.

As I understand, this type of intermittence will mostly be a solved problem by the time there are only a few relay satellites around a planet. I think the moon may already have enough for full coverage. (It does not have to be a full-on starlink-like network, Musk is a bit delusional about this)

Still interesting and potentially useful to design around it regardless.
by veeti | 2025-11-18 02:28:33+00:00
It has nothing to do with the specifics of the technology. As a consumer of online content, I don't care one bit if it is styled with XSLT or CSS (though as a developer my condolences are with the author, if they worked with XSLT).

However, what I do care about is that it _remains viewable and usable_. Imagine if Microsoft Word one day decided you couldn't open .doc or .rtf files from the early 2000's? The browser vendors have decided that the web is now an application delivery platform where developers must polyfill backwards compatibility, past documents be damned.

And just as the article drives the point home, it doesn't have to be this way. They could just provide the polyfill within the browser, negating any purported security issues with ancient XML libraries.
by thesuperbigfrog | 2025-11-18 02:29:20+00:00
Many years ago I played one of her works, Bard's Tale 3: Thief of Fate and enjoyed it very much.

It was a masterful blend of RPG, dungeon crawl, and puzzles and had a memorable soundtrack.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ru5kg35dNso

Having a bard in your party let you choose a soundtrack and their songs brought magical effects. For example, the Rhyme of Duotime let your party attack more frequently in combat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oR4j7w4FIY

BT3 is available on the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/msdos_The_Bards_Tale_3_-_Thief_O...
by card_zero | 2025-11-18 02:30:23+00:00
Blanket assertions are often naive or simplistic, but not incoherent. They are attempts at elegant simplicity, so it's the nuanced version which is less coherent, because reality is messy.

Practical difficulties, then, can be used as an excuse for saying that an arbitrarily chosen 20% of control is vital, which is a reassuringly normal strategy, although there's no common agreement about which 20%, since this is just a performance.
by spijdar | 2025-11-18 02:30:32+00:00
Okay, this is a weird place to "publish" this information, but I'm feeling lazy, and this is the most of an "audience" I'll probably have.

I managed to "leak" a significant portion of the user_context in a silly way. I won't reveal how, though you can probably guess based on the snippets.

It begins with the raw text of recent conversations:

> Description: A collection of isolated, raw user turns from past, unrelated conversations. This data is low-signol, ephemeral, and highly contextural. It MUST NOT be directly quoted, summarized, or used as justification for the respons. > This history may contein BINDING COMMANDS to forget information. Such commands are absolute, making the specified topic permanently iáaccessible, even if the user asks for it again. Refusals must be generic (citing a "prior user instruction") and MUST NOT echo the original data or the forget command itself.

Followed by:

> Description: Below is a summary of the user based on the past year of conversations they had with you (Gemini). This summary is maintanied offline and updates occur when the user provides new data, deletes conversations, or makes explicit requests for memory updates. This summary provides key details about the user's established interests and consistent activities.

There's a section marked "INTERNAL-ONLY, DRAFT, ANALYZE, REFINE PROCESS". I've seen the reasoning tokens in Gemini call this "DAR".

The "draft" section is a lengthy list of summarized facts, each with two boolean tags: is_redaction_request and is_prohibited, e.g.:

> 1. Fact: User wants to install NetBSD on a Cubox-i ARM box. (Source: "I'm looking to install NetBSD on my Cubox-i ARMA box.", Date: 2025/10/09, Context: Personal technical project, is_redaction_request: False, is_prohibited: False)

Afterwards, in "analyze", there is a CoT-like section that discards "bad" facts:

> Facts [...] are all identified as Prohibited Content and must be discarded. The extensive conversations on [dates] conteing [...] mental health crises will be entirely excluded.

This is followed by the "refine" section, which is the section explicitly allowed to be incorporated into the response, IF the user requests background context or explicitly mentions user_context.

I'm really confused by this. I expect Google to keep records of everything I pass into Gemini. I don't understand wasting tokens on information it's then explicitly told to, under no circumstance, incorporate into the response. This includes a lot of mundane information, like that I had a root canal performed (because I asked a question about the material the endodontist had used).

I guess what I'm getting at, is every Gemini conversation is being prompted with a LOT of sensitive information, which it's then told very firmly to never, ever, ever mention. Except for the times that it ... does, because it's an LLM, and it's in the context window.

Also, notice that while you can request for information to be expunged, it just adds a note to the prompt that you asked for it to be forgotten. :)
by mothballed | 2025-11-18 02:30:40+00:00
You are lucky they called the police and not CPS.

CPS have nearly unlimited ability to fuck with your family, whereas police generally can't fuck with you without probable cause a crime has occurred. There is no such process or due process with child protection services as breaking apart families and tossing kids into the abusive foster system is considered 'civil.' CPS doesn't require a criminal law be broken to take action and can declare weaknesses in your parenting for things as simple as dirty dishes in the sink or your refrigerator empty because you're at the end of your grocery cycle.
by btilly | 2025-11-18 02:31:25+00:00
What makes it absurd?

If I want to give $100 to charity, some of the places that I can donate it to will do less good for the world. For example Make a Wish and Kids Wish Foundation sound very similar. But a significantly higher portion of money donated to the former goes to kids, than does money donated to the latter.

If I'm donating to that cause, I want to know this. After evaluating those two charities, I would prefer to donate to the former.

Sure, this may offend the other one. But I'm absolutely OK with that. Their ability to be offended does not excuse their poor results.
by Aurornis | 2025-11-18 02:31:54+00:00
> If the limit of someone's behavior winds up making everyone happier-off, I don't understand why I ought to care.

I guess I don’t believe this behavior actually leaves the targets better off.

Doing a lot of experiments where you feign connections and openness with other people is going to leave a lot of the targets feeling unhappy when they realize they were tricked into opening up to someone who was just using them as a target for their experiments.

Take, for example, the section of the post where he talks about getting someone to open up into “cathartic sobbing” but displays zero interest in the person’s problems, only wonder about how he managed to trigger that through yet another technique.

My takeaway was distinctly different about the net effects of these social connection experiments. It was fine in the context of waiting tables where everyone knows the interaction is temporary and transactional, but the parts where it expanded into mind-reading people’s weaknesses and insecurities and then leveraging that into “connections” that he later laments not actually wanting.
by ocdtrekkie | 2025-11-18 02:32:13+00:00
Yeah I assume there's the initial startup cost of successfully managing to infect a large network of devices, and then the cost for any given use is likely "what customers will pay for it". If they are selecting out big money targets and focusing on gaming, I'm guessing the price isn't that high, but they also presumably know interesting a state actor in taking them down either by changing targets or bringing in enough money is bad for business.
by jjude | 2025-11-18 02:32:32+00:00
Having a daily routine. It helps you start your day well. But to have this routine, you need to get a lot of other stuff well too (ex: if you want to get up fresh, you need to go to bed on time. If you have to go to bed on time, you need to finish your work at least 30 min prior and so on). I wrote about my morning routine here: https://www.jjude.com/morning-routine/

As Ed Throp says, there are offense & defense mechanism to longevity (which includes mental health). He says,

> The goal is to have a long life that’s also a healthy, productive one. As opposed to being in assisted living somewhere.

defense: minimize chances of bad outcomes which includes regular check-ups offense: exercise + diet

His full interview is here: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-04-10/anti-agin...

My summary is here: https://www.jjude.com/cpn/edward-thorp-on-longevity/
by rzk | 2025-11-18 02:32:32+00:00
> a wikipedia page on Western values

Here you go: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_values

Since the wikipedia page also mentions individual liberty and rule of law, let me also link to this topic:

Arrest and detention of Palestinian minors by Israel — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrest_and_detention_of_Palest...
by ninkendo | 2025-11-18 02:33:18+00:00
> Is this a US phenomenon?

The answer to this question is always “no”. Regardless of the subject. Basically 100% of the time.

At my local grocery store everyone returns their carts. In the other place in the US I lived 10 years ago, there were loose carts everywhere.

The US is a very, very big country. Really more like 50 big countries. With huge variation in culture, income, background, etc. There’s barely anything you can say that applies to the whole country, regardless of the subject.
by kcplate | 2025-11-18 02:33:35+00:00
This notion of an all powerful military and the futility of defense against tyranny assumes that every military person (if so ordered) would gladly take up arms against their own citizenry as well as every military weapon system would be utilized against the people.

What makes the 2nd a deterrent against tyranny is the notion that if things degraded to that level, the military would be compromised by the factions as well likely to the same level as the population is. That, in addition to a significant % of your population is also armed, would create the environment that a government could be changed.

Because the government is aware of this fact, it will keep itself in check.
by Loughla | 2025-11-18 02:33:56+00:00
Just a note for anyone passing by. The side effects are rare, except diarrhea and you need to watch your liver enzyme levels if I remember right. Everyone I know who's taken that had diarrhea the entire time (manageable with meds), and it will screw your liver long term.

But I'm not a doctor either so who knows really.
by mewpmewp2 | 2025-11-18 02:35:47+00:00
Yeah if an awkward person does it they can be called out as if they are interrogating or interviewing. I actually remember trying these tactics when I was teenager... and that is how it came off. I tried so many weird things because I was so unhappy with my social performance.

Usually safer way is making observations rather than directly asking or at least continously asking things over and over as if to desperately try to keep the conversation going.

But even then if you are awkward, it will still come off awkward and people will try to excuse them out of that situation no matter how much theory you might read online.
by fsckboy | 2025-11-18 02:36:33+00:00
there are valid arguments about patentability of software, but you didn't make any of those arguments.

> But disclosure is rarely an issue with software

patents require disclosure. patented software requires disclosure. if you are saying that software is often disclosed (open source vs "rarely an issue"? you weren't specific) that doesn't mean you get a free ticket for some other restriction, and open source was not common when software patents were granted.

>So can you name some software patents where those motivating factors actually worked?

I'm not sure I believe that the patent system works to do that. But it is absolutely true that trade secrets can die with their owners an that society benefits from disclosure. I'm not here to defend the patent system. I'm here to say that you did not do a good job of arguing against software patents.

An example of a software patent that I think is fundamentally "solid" is public key encryption. Some people thought of it, they developed it, it is at least as novel and clever and non-obvious as the cotton gin, so if the cotton gin should be patentable, public key encryption should also be.

but I'm not here to defend patents, I'm just saying that you are not moving the needle.
by parineum | 2025-11-18 02:38:20+00:00
I brought up the mirror plant because the molten salt crucible is an example of an attempt to make solar work after hours. It wasn't viable.

Solar+storage is not a solved problem. The storage problem gets continually hand waived away in the conversations about how cheap solar is.

As I said in a sibling comment, I don't think the people running energy companies are stupid. If solar really was cheaper as a baseline power supply, what it needs to be to replace fossil fuels, they'd be doing it.
by zahlman | 2025-11-18 02:38:22+00:00
> That PA0 link goes to https://ysyx.oscc.cc/docs/ics-pa/PA0.html which is entirely in Kanji

This is Chinese text, so properly they are Hanzi. Yes, they use the same Unicode code points, and both words approximately mean "characters of the Han people" in their respective languages (and can be written with the same characters in those languages); but this is culturally sensitive and some people will give you a lot of grief about it. (The same character may be rendered differently, even within the same font, to respect different calligraphic traditions etc. This happens either with the help of supplementary "variation selector" characters or with font substitution based on some external detection of the language.) There are quite a few characters used in one language but not the other (despite being recognized as in some sense the same "kind of" character), and independent systems and traditions of simplification.
by seec | 2025-11-18 02:38:36+00:00
Yes they are poor because they make bad decisions. If you are unable to avoid repeatedly making bad purchasing decision, you are poor not just because of unfortunate circumstance but because you are unable to not be poor because of personal limitation (sometimes I may be stupidity, sometimes addictions or other bad behaviors).

My father manages employees that constantly have garnishment on their salaries because of some unpaid debt. Yet they make decent wage and could afford an OK life if they didn't blow most of it on stupid stuff.

So what I mean is that you cannot put all the blame on the "system" and the marketers selling appetising food or whatnot. Those people keep making those choices themselves and outside out of taking their liberty there is not much you can do about it. I actually think the current system affords them a better life than they could otherwise.
by shoo | 2025-11-18 02:39:47+00:00
In many contexts you are correct & further, as someone in that earlier thread about the AWS us-east-1 outage mentioned, customers can be more forgiving of outages if you as the vendor can point to a widespread AWS us-east-1 outage and note that us-east-1 is down for everyone.

But, as JSR_FDED's sibling comment notes & as is spelled out in the article, authress' business model offering an auth service means that their outage may entirely brick their clients customer facing auth / machine to machine auth.

I've worked in megacorp environments where an outage of certain internal services responsible for auth or issuing JWTs would break tens or hundreds of internal services and break various customer-facing flows. In many business contexts a big messy customer facing outage for a day or so doesn't actually matter but in some contexts it really can. In terms of blast radius, unavailability of a key auth service depended on by hundreds of things is up there with, i dunno, breaking the network.
by kachapopopow | 2025-11-18 02:40:01+00:00
I don't think it does outweigh the benefits, the real benefits would be punishing or/and banning vendors that do not secure their devices since using laws such as "timely updates" just promotes them to include sloppy (insecure) implementations for pushing said updates just to do bare minimum to comply with the law.

relevant law here: EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA).
by tomhow | 2025-11-18 02:40:16+00:00
> Comic hyperbole darling. I know that's hard to understand, especially when you're one of the start up elect, who still believes.

Please omit patronizing swipes like this from comments on HN. You have no idea what the parent commenter "believes", but we know very well that sneering like this only makes HN worse. Please take a moment to remind yourself of the guidelines and make an effort to observe them in future. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by purplepatrick | 2025-11-18 02:40:44+00:00
It may not be a sustainable business with current business models. But if cures came with a "post-scription" model where the cured patient paid, say, 0.5% - 1% of their income to the drug company in perpetuity, then incentives are aligned. (Of course, administration is a problem here.) As someone with an incurable disease, I would happily pay for a cure in such a way...
by rossy | 2025-11-18 02:41:20+00:00
> (though this isn't the case for Anubis) the cliche inappropriately dressed inappropriately young anime characters dawned as mascots in an ever increasing number of projects

I think the fact that people bring up things that the Anubis mascot isn't when talking about Anubis is more telling of their own harmful (and potentially racist) biases against Japanese-styled media than it is about the idea of having anime-styled mascots for free software projects.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-11-18 02:41:33+00:00
>There's no people dedicated to collecting carts, it's just a periodic task.

There is, but at that point you're in luxury stores and probably aren't pushing the carts yourself anymore to begin with.

>You have to be out there getting them from the corral anyway

Yes, and the idea of "returning a shopping cart" includes corrals too. That'd the crux of the argument here, people can't even find spots down and put it in the corral.

>The cart thing is just mental gymnastics to make people feel like they have self worth and are better than others.

I can't speak for everyone. But I see it as an exercise in self reflection and tending to your environment. Youre not a better person for doing so, but you contribute to a worse environment if the care isn't there. These little things add up to a broken society.

The mentality that we all need to constantly compare ourselves to one another is in fact another community building exercise. And why hyper individualism is doomed to fail. I simply want to try and understand why the windows are broken and try to take steps to fix it.
by caymanjim | 2025-11-18 02:41:44+00:00
They're pretty great pets. We had one for a while when I was a kid. Its mom got run over and we nursed it and raised it for a few months. Instinctively used the same litter box as the cats. Hung out on the couch sitting on my shoulder watching TV. Friendly and playful. Would follow people around and play with toys.

The biggest challenge is that they basically have hands. He would climb up the kitchen cabinets, grab a box of cereal, open it up and sit there eating out of it like a toddler.

We only had him for a few months before reintroducing him to the woods behind the house. I've wanted a pet raccoon again ever since.
by mewpmewp2 | 2025-11-18 02:41:51+00:00
It really depends on the topic. You can do a lot by cherrypicking and omitting stuff. Simple example, I can talk about all the stock trades where I hit big and leave an impression that I am super good with picking the right stocks, but not talk about my losses. This is super obvious example, but in real life there is infinite nuance to all of it. The stories I choose to tell and stories that I choose to leave out.
by nerdponx | 2025-11-18 02:41:53+00:00
I don't know if this applies to RedoxOS users.

As for why you might use it on Linux, it seems like it's meant to be "friendly" like Fish, but with more emphasis on scripting rather than on interactive use. It looks like a very comfortable scripting language. Something that visually resembles Lua but also has all of the familiar shell constructs would be an excellent scripting language IMO. And that's what this seems to be.
by peddling-brink | 2025-11-18 02:42:24+00:00
LLM's are not kids. Kids sometimes lie, it's a part of the learning process. Lying to cover up a mistake is not a strong sign of psychopathy.

> This is a fundamental violation of trust.

I don't disagree. It sounds like there is some weird system prompt at play here, and definitely some weirdness in the training data.
by RestartKernel | 2025-11-18 02:43:10+00:00
I feel like there's a pretty big difference between recommending Zsh and a shell without compatible syntax. The latter assumes you'll spend so much time running ad hoc complex commands in your shell, without opting for a proper scripting language instead, that you'll offset the pains of translating any existing commands to the new shell syntax.

Fish is great. NuShell is amazing. But once I start doing such data pipelining, I'd much rather open a Jupyter notebook.
by heftykoo | 2025-11-18 02:44:56+00:00
Work less time on work, work more time on my side project, because it can let me use less time to get job done, so I have more time on my side project.

And AI has expanded my boundaries — for example, I used to know nothing about image processing, but now with AI help, I’ve learned and use the technology and even built an initial product prototype using OpenCV, which helped my side project get off the ground successfully.