MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by phantasmish | 2025-12-10 21:25:19+00:00
I'm not sure why a person would want to let their kids hang out any place where that stuff you report is common, if it's at all possible to avoid it. I'm gonna continue to run with "no social media", which has worked so far. They can message people they actually know IRL, somewhere without a feed full of crap from people they don't know. That's plenty.

Like I can't think of any analogous place in physical space I'd let my kids hang out unsupervised, and the amount of time I intend to spend watching (supervising) them scrolling Insta or TikTok on anything like a regular basis is zero, and the likelihood of their choosing that as a thing they want to do if I'm otherwise available to do something fun with them is also probably somewhere around zero, which means... no social, since it ain't happening supervised.

Like I also wouldn't take them to a bad part of town and leave them there for hours. Why would I do the digital equivalent? Even if we talk about it afterward... why? Maybe occasionally as a "here's how to spot shit" lesson but not enough that they'd need an account or anything.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-12-10 21:25:19+00:00
> Ask a woman in a liquor store whether her anonymity is maintained by this scenario...?

Is she not going to say "pretty well compared to a surveillance database, one or two people that are probably going to forget immediately"?

> The current liquor store approach for buying liquor is hazardous for a good chunk of people

What chunk of people?

Are you trying to imply that this chunk includes women in general? It's really easy to find random women without looking at an ID. If this is about addresses, anyone taking actions based on "a woman probably lives here" has about the same effect as picking houses at random.
by jasomill | 2025-12-10 21:25:34+00:00
No, but now that you mention it, I'm curious about the five posts to the official US Federal Bureau of Prisons Instagram[1], which, unlike their Facebook and Twitter accounts, is private.

(No relation, just the first thing that came to mind when I tried to think of an organization that I wouldn't expect to have much of a social media presence.)

[1] https://www.instagram.com/bureauofprisons/
by replyifuagree | 2025-12-10 21:25:46+00:00
Another key difference is that wood itself has built in visual transparency as to the goodness of the solution - as it is pretty easy to figure out that a cabinet is horrible (I do get that there are defects in wood joining techniques that can surface after some time due to moisture, etc - but still, lot of transparency out of the box). Software has no such transparency built in.

The advantage of hand coded solutions is that the author of the code has some sense of what the code really does and so is a proxy for transparency, vibe coded solutions not so much.

I mean, it is 2025 and still customers are the best detectors of bad software over all quality apparatus to date.
by hintymad | 2025-12-10 21:25:53+00:00
I'd even go one step further: it does not have to be enforceable at all. This has to do with teen's psychology. For whatever reason, kids just fight their parents but listen to their schools and government a lot more. Of course, there are exceptions, but I'm talking about trend. The kids in my school district were generally angry towards their parents when they couldn't get a smartphone when their peers did. However, when my school district introduced the strict ban of electronic devices in school, the kids quieted down and even bought the same reasons that their parents were saying: attention is the most precious assets one should cherish. Kids complained that the problem sets by RSM (Russian School of Mathematics) are too hard and unnecessary (they are not by the standard of any Asian or East European country), yet they stopped complaining when the school teacher ramped up the difficulty of the homework.

So, when the government issues this ban, the kids would listen to their parents a lot more easily.
by richardfeynman | 2025-12-10 21:25:56+00:00
The timing was during a war, the location was in a belligerent country, and the pagers were only and exclusively given to hezbollah leadership. The very definition of discriminate.

Also, Israel has not "self-evaluated" a >80% civilian to combatant kill ratio. There was a Haaretz report that said the IDF was able to ID about 20% of those killed as militants against known databases, which is remarkably high compared to any other war. That doesn't mean the remaining 80% are civilians, it just means they weren't ID'd against a databse. So this includes anyone with a gun at a distance. Do you think Ukraine has a database of Russian soldiers and are able to ID 20% of the russian soldiers they kill against that database? Of course not. Israel's self evaluation of the ratio varies between 1.4:1 and 2:1 depending on the government official you quote.
by yunwal | 2025-12-10 21:26:10+00:00
What is an intellectual task? Once again, there's tons of stuff LLMs won't be trained on in the next 3 years. So it would be trivial to just find one of those things and say voila! LLMs aren't better than me at that.

I'll make one prediction that I think will hold up. No LLM-based system will be able to take a generic ask like "hack the nytimes website and retrieve emails and password hashes of all user accounts" and do better than the best hackers and penetration testers in the world, despite having plenty of training data to go off of. It requires out-of-band thinking that they just don't possess.
by tjr | 2025-12-10 21:27:00+00:00
From the GNU Manifesto:

I could answer that nobody is forced to be a programmer. Most of us cannot manage to get any money for standing on the street and making faces. But we are not, as a result, condemned to spend our lives standing on the street making faces, and starving. We do something else.

https://www.gnu.org/gnu/manifesto.en.html
by bryanlarsen | 2025-12-10 21:27:12+00:00
You guessed wrong.

An electric car can use its engines to bring a vehicle to a complete stop. It can also use the motor to hold the car in place, even on a fairly steep incline. You can't do either with a standard transmission ICE vehicle.

There are people with electric cars that have their brakes rust out because they're never used. A standard piece of advice to EV owners is "make sure to use your brakes at least once a month".
by epolanski | 2025-12-10 21:27:19+00:00
> We've been hearing politicians complain for years that they're losing the youth when it comes to long-standing foreign policy positions, etc...

What's the alternative? Going back to TV lying that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction and that in Libya there's a genuine rebellion against Gaddafi?

I'd rather have multiple actors fighting to push their views on social to be honest.

I also don't like how quick is social media to jump on labelling anybody with a different opinion as a troll or a bot. This is especially common on Reddit where basically every single subreddit is heavily biased in some direction, heavily moderated to push some views and some views only.

Instead, what we should teach in school is how to treat news (any news really, even your friend telling you he's got a Playstation 7 but he can't show it to you): questioning it, verifying the sources, questioning the possible motives and biases of the source.

I'll be frank: I didn't mind Russia pushing their own news through channels like Russia Today globally. I always thought it was very important to get the views of the other side.

But my view also requires my (normal to me) attitude: question, question, question, verify.

Problem is: it's hard, it's exhausting. Claiming something false takes 5 seconds, debunking it can take hours. Most people already got their problems, and just don't do any of it.
by xvedejas | 2025-12-10 21:27:24+00:00
You understate your point: the 83% rate is much, much more than 3x worse. To kill 100 intended targets, a 28.6% civilian death rate means you'll need to kill `N / (100 + N) = 0.286` (N = 40.06) civilians. With an 83% civilian death rate, to kill 100 intended targets, you need to kill `N / (100 + N) = 0.83` (N = 488) civilians. It is about 12x worse to have an 83% civilian death rate compared to a 28.6% rate.
by jen729w | 2025-12-10 21:27:31+00:00
> normalising people uploading identification documents and hence lead to people becoming victims of scams

We've long lost this war.

I'm in Italy, staying at my 3rd Airbnb. I was surprised when the first asked me, casually, to drop a photograph of my passport in the chat. I checked with Claude: yep, that's the law.

(I'll remind you that Italy is in the EU.)

On checking into this place last week, the guy just took a photo of our passports on his phone. At this point I'm too weak to argue. And what's the point? That is no longer private data and if I pretend that it is, I'm the fool.
by bgnn | 2025-12-10 21:27:45+00:00
I'm very familiar with this process as I use it regularly.

The area is massive. 330um × 290um are the X and Y dimensions. The area is roughly 0.1 mm2. You can see the comparison on table 1. This is roughly 50000 times larger than an SRAM of 45nm process.

This is the problem with photonic circuits. They are massive compared to electronics.
by KaiserPro | 2025-12-10 21:27:51+00:00
> rather than being penalized

The problem is, currently doing any kind of content filtering, as in making illegal stuff hard to find, and having a moderated semi walled garden, plays right into the noisy fuckers brigade.

If I were to design a TV programme which is aimed at 11-16 year olds, where I just play soft porn every 15 seconds, offer guides on how to do financial scams, and encourage the children to hide away from their parents as they watch. it would be banned instantly, regardless of how much "good" content I put in there.

People would say it's irresponsible to expose kids of that age to such things.

Yet, here we have social media doing just the same.

The reason why we make it illegal to beat kids, sell them smokes, drugs, booze and generally treat them like shit, is because we want well rounded functioning kids who are able to live a long an illustrious life as part of society.

Giving them a device that feeds them war, porn, rage bait, and huge lies, all for the profit of a few hundred people in america seems somewhat misguided.
by 9rx | 2025-12-10 21:27:53+00:00
> Your section of the world is a timy percentage

That's fair, but the same thing is said here too. It's a common trope that gets repeated because it sounds catchy, not because it is true.

> and there is absolutely a labour shortage.

Is there? Everything I can find suggests that Japan is no different than here: That farmers want to do more, but struggle to grow their operations under to the intense competition of every other farmer wanting to do the same.

What you find here, and seemingly also in Japan, is some farms that have gotten too big for their britches that cry "labor shortage" instead of "you know, maybe I should downsize and let someone else have a turn". That's not a labor shortage. If you can bleed them dry selling them your technology, good on ya! You absolutely should. But there is no need to worry about them. Letting them fail solves the problem just the same.

But if what you say is true, please point me to where I can find all this unutilized farmland that cannot be managed because there isn't anyone to do it. I am quite interested in becoming the one to take it over. I may not be a Japanese farmer today, but life is not static.
by fellowniusmonk | 2025-12-10 21:27:54+00:00
That's because Austen had sense and not sensibility.

She herself never married, she absolutely rips on the state of affairs in her time but she wasn't going to advocate in her pop fiction that the women of the time make a move that would almost certainly ruin their prospects.

Austen was insanely clever and pragmatic at making her point and having it shared, as much credit as she gets it isn't nearly enough. In some of her other works you can see certain of her points presented with less nuance and memetic potential, she worked at it.

Let me make an outlandish assertion because I'm feeling froggy as I do truly love Austen. If we assumed that Jesus was God and was like a boring Mr. Roger's type and intentionally embedded his message in the most controversial wrapper possible to ensure that the real message was propagated into eternity, then Jesus narrowly edges out Austen in cleverness and only because he didn't have to put pen to paper, I don't think Austen can be overrated.
by jcims | 2025-12-10 21:28:07+00:00
I had a thought a while back about companies like Tesla, with cameras on the road and driving models that could classify bad drivers, being in a position to at least a) avoid those drivers if they are encountered on the road and b) record/report them to the police.

Then I had an intrusive thought of a small squad of cybertruck 'enforcers' running around autonomously, tracking these drivers down via the live network of incoming video and doling out punishment to the chief offenders.
by aus_throwaway | 2025-12-10 21:28:20+00:00
The Australian government didn’t do this because of any concern about children; it’s to punish (mainly) Meta for backing out of the Australian Social Media Bargaining Agreement [1]. Other social media companies are collateral damage.

News Corp wanted Meta et al to pay for the privilege of sharing links to News Corp articles (imo, ridiculous). Meta played along for a short period, but has now refused to engage, which has clearly upset News Corp (and their shrinking top line). It’s slowly changing, but it’s an unfortunate truth that News Corp still has incredible influence over Australian politicians, hence this had bipartisan support.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/nov/12/meta-coul...
by hathawsh | 2025-12-10 21:28:36+00:00
Are you sure? The third section of each review lists the “Most prescient” and “Most wrong” comments. That sounds exactly like what you're looking for. For example, on the "Kickstarter is Debt" article, here is the LLM's analysis of the most prescient comment. The analysis seems accurate and helpful to me.

https://karpathy.ai/hncapsule/2015-12-03/index.html#article-...

phire > “Oculus might end up being the most successful product/company to be kickstarted… > Product wise, Pebble is the most successful so far… Right now they are up to major version 4 of their product. Long term, I don't think they will be more successful than Oculus.” With hindsight: Oculus became the backbone of Meta’s VR push, spawning the Rift/Quest series and a multi‑billion‑dollar strategic bet. Pebble, despite early success, was shut down and absorbed by Fitbit barely a year after this thread. That’s an excellent call on the relative trajectories of the two flagship Kickstarter hardware companies.
by aw1621107 | 2025-12-10 21:28:42+00:00
> Yes, but my point is when things blow up how exactly do you know which unsafe block you should look into?

In the most general case, you don't. But again, I think that that rather misses the point the statement was trying to get at.

Perhaps a more useful framing for you would be that in the most general case the encapsulation and local reasoning here is between modules that use unsafe and everything else. In some (many? most?) cases you can further bound how much code you need to look at if/when something goes wrong since not all code in unsafe modules/functions/blocks depend on each other, but in any case the point is that you only need to inspect a subset of code when reasoning about safety invariants and/or debugging a crash.

> From their statement it appears as if there's such a simple correlation between "here's your segfault" and "here's your unsafe block that caused it",

I don't get that sense from the statement at all.
by LeroyRaz | 2025-12-10 21:28:54+00:00
Examples: tptacek gets an 'A' for his comment on DF which the LLM claiming that the user "captured DF's unforgiving nature, where 'can't do x or it crashes is just another feature to learn' which remained true until it was fixed on ..."

Link to LLM review: https://karpathy.ai/hncapsule/2015-12-02/index.html#article-....

So the LLM is praising a comment as describing DF as unforgiving (a characterization of the present then, not a statement about the future). And worse, it seems like tptacek may in fact be implying the opposite of the future (e.g., x will continue to crash when it was eventually fixed.)

Here is the original comment: " tptacek on Dec 2, 2015 | root | parent | next [–]

If you're not the kind of person who can take flaws like crashes or game-stopping frame-rate issues and work them into your gameplay, DF is not the game for you. It isn't a friendly game. It can take hours just to figure out how to do core game tasks. "Don't do this thing that crashes the game" is just another task to learn."

Note: I am paraphrasing the LLM review, as the website is also poorly designed, with one unable to select the text of the LLM review!

N.b., this choice of comment review is not overly cherry picked. I just scanned the "best commentators" and tptacek was number two, with this particular egregiously unrelated-to-prediction LLM summary given as justifying his #2 rating.
by aussieguy1234 | 2025-12-10 21:29:19+00:00
A bunch of people in local LGBT community Discord servers that marked themselves as NSFW have been locked out of those servers and now need to prove their age to get back in.

These communities already had active mods that would remove anyone underage that they found, so it doesn't really make sense in this case that Discord is now requiring them to prove their ages.

Meanwhile kids are finding ways around the ban. Kids are asking their older looking friends to pass facial scans for them.
by hephaes7us | 2025-12-10 21:29:35+00:00
If a kid uses a pseudonymous account and fraudulently bypasses an age verification system, I have a hard time believing that the company would be fined $50M.

I would guess that this massive fine is more for situations like if a company can be shown to have wilfully allowed a violation or else has been grossly negligent. (But I have not read the law!)
by archagon | 2025-12-10 21:29:44+00:00
What's the reason you rank Australia below the US? As a San Franciscan, I recently visited Sydney and Melbourne for the first time and thought they were incredible. Food-wise, I don't think I had a single bad meal in Melbourne, and I wasn't even trying particularly hard to find the good stuff. I think I'd love the opportunity to live there someday.

Europe is wonderful, but to quote Joni Mitchell, "it's too old and cold and settled in its ways here." (Not to mention the looming spectre of war...)
by estearum | 2025-12-10 21:30:26+00:00
Well I understand why you’re confused about GOP anti-semitism because you’re clearly not American, so your read on American culture and politics is a little janky to say the least.

When did I say there’s no causal connection between Israel’s interest and the support it receives?

Again: not a lucky coincidence! It’s the furthest thing from a coincidence.

But it’s also not because the GOP loves Jews.

Are you reading the words in front of you? Because it seems like you’re responding to comments that only you can see.

Anyway here are a half dozen examples or so of anti-semitism within the upper ranks of the GOP. https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/02/gop-leaders-denounc...

Not that reality matters to you or anything ;)
by xethos | 2025-12-10 21:30:53+00:00
> I don't think we should normalise children on platforms where the content contains political agitation, sexual and violent content, crypto and fintech scams, etc. Especially when this content is packaged up to them and commodified.

I hope we can agree that allowing every social media site to devolve into the above is the bigger problem. There can be some places that are adults-only; just like reality though, the world is better when open-by-default, with some places gated to adults-only.

Shifting focus to "Why are we letting some of the most profitable companies the world has ever seen get away with being a cesspit?" lets us keep kids safe by default, doesn't attack E2EE, and doesn't default to the internet becoming a surveillance state.

If we start by getting Facebook and Twitter (et al.) to clean up their acts, we can all work, yell, and vote together, instead of some yelling about their kids being shown unexpected pornography, and others yelling about the internet becoming a surveillance state.

Because both can be real concerns - but a starter solution can get the vast majority of voters on-board, and garner real progress, instead of giving Facebook more data and control, or governments a turn-key dictatorship.
by hamdingers | 2025-12-10 21:30:53+00:00
We seem to have strayed into your opinions on how things ought to be, while my comment was meant to acknowledge the reality (unfortunate though it may be) that we live in.

The law doesn't make this distinction you're making. If you replace Canon with "iPhone/Android with cloud photo backup enabled" then your issue with Ring cameras applies to all smartphones. Maybe you'd prefer that not be the case, but it is.

In any case, I'd prefer we not get hung up on this lossy analogy since neither activity is restricted by current law which is my actual point.
by quamserena | 2025-12-10 21:30:55+00:00
Part of the public pushback is that people almost always drive the “feels like” speed and not the posted speedlimit. We build 6 lane roads and then wonder why people go 50mph when it’s 35 posted, it’s because it’s 6 lanes and 35 feels slow. Cities profit from this in the form of speed cameras, which is why they’ve been outlawed in a lot of places.
by someperson | 2025-12-10 21:31:55+00:00
A few years ago geostrategist author Peter Zeihan predicted that in his deglobalized world (where the US steps back from global policing in favor of domestic matters), the breakdown of the international order it built would cause the government of India would engage in international piracy of Middle Eastern oil shipments destined for East Asia (since cargo ships are slow, unarmed and transit easily interceptable waters for India's navy).

He makes lots of extreme and usually wrong predictions. And he's not yet right on that. But this reminded me that wild international piracy prediction.
by noodletheworld | 2025-12-10 21:32:33+00:00
Mm. This paper makes it hard to understand what they've done.

For example:

> MultiDiffusion remains confined to bounded domains: all windows must lie within a fixed finite canvas, limiting its applicability to unbounded worlds or continuously streamed environments.

> We introduce InfiniteDiffusion, an extension of MultiDiffusion that lifts this constraint. By reformulating the sampling process to operate over an effectively infinite domain, InfiniteDiffusion supports seamless, consistent generation at scale.

…but:

> The hierarchy begins with a coarse planetary model, which generates the basic structure of the world from a rough, procedural or user-provided layout. The next stage is the core latent diffusion model, which transforms that structure into realistic 46km tiles in latent space. Finally, a consistency decoder expands these latents into a high-fidelity elevation map.

So, the novel thing here is slightly better seemless diffusion image gen.

…but, we generate using a heirsrchy based on a procedural layout.

So basocally, tldr: take perlin noise, resize it, and then image-2-image use it as a seed to generate detailed tiles?

People have already been doing this.

Its not novel.

The novel part here is making the detailed tiles slightly nicer.

Eh. :shrug:

The paper obfuscates this, quite annoyingly.

Its unclear to me why you cant just use multi diffusion for this, given your top level input is already bounded (eg. User input) and not infinite.