MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ossner | 2025-12-11 15:34:26+00:00
Others have pointed out the problems of trolls generating racist or otherwise controversial content using Disney characters and this being short-sighted by Disney, but I think this could just be another case of "no such thing as bad PR".

People will undoubtedly generate reprehensible things using these characters, and I think that's exactly what Disney wants because it's an easy way to make their characters go viral.
by superxpro12 | 2025-12-11 15:35:22+00:00
It's not remotely the same thing. Social media apps are highly engineered addiction serotonin-drips.

You had wrongthought because back then there was at least a chance that the material was objective. Today you have Fox News et.al. and scores of highly propagandized feeds spewing nothing but agenda-pushing propaganda.

It's not the same.
by lizknope | 2025-12-11 15:35:29+00:00
When I was a teenager I responded to bans by trying to get around them like warning stickers on music.

Talking about the dangers of D&D or the Satanic Panic seemed idiotic to me and still do.

But when people explained why something was bad I would listen. Did their concerns seem legitimate?

I'm 50 and I've never smoked a cigarette. In the movies it looked cool. But I saw older people with horrible health issues and also the smoke smelled horrible and made their breath stink. Those people were not lying to me about the danger of tobacco.

So are people lying about the dangers of social media? But if you think it is bad for teenagers then how do you convince them that it is? I would rather have commercials with teenagers talking about how they were depressed or developed eating disorders or whatever from looking at social media. Then they stopped and now they are happier with more real life interactions.

I can tell you that I deleted my facebook account in 2016 (didn't use it much) and haven't been on instagram in 5 years. I don't miss it at all. All facebook ever did was annoy and anger me.
by cmrdporcupine | 2025-12-11 15:35:32+00:00
I didn't even have to go read it to immediately know that it was Eric Schmidt who was the Google executive in question.

He's a notorious fan of unbridled American imperial power and "realpolitik" and brought Kissinger in multiple times to Google for "fireside chat" sessions.

Which always went over very... poorly... with the broader set of employees who used to get seriously annoyed at this. The reception was never good.
by Capricorn2481 | 2025-12-11 15:35:46+00:00
> If you object to HN

They didn't even mention HN. Are you saying the people you associate with are just on HN?

Don't spend all your time on HN or weigh your opinions of humanity on it. People on here are probably the least representative of social society. That's not rejecting it, that's just common sense.
by PaulHoule | 2025-12-11 15:35:59+00:00
In social media generally I think DM's are toxic because inevitably you get spam-scams the moment you poke your head up.

At work I use DMs on Slack when I expect a response from somebody specific ("here's the report on Y, and here is what we should do" or "WTF is the source code for that foundation package in our Nexus?") or if I know there are people on the channel who will be offended by irrelevant chatter. Otherwise I use the public channel.
by fusslo | 2025-12-11 15:36:00+00:00
100% agree

my local middle school has their school zone on:

1. four lane highway

2. dedicated turning lanes

3. major thru-way between shops, apartments, and the rest of the city

4. great visibility

this is a recipe for 50mph. the speed limit is 25mph. If you do the speed limit, you WILL be tailgated. If you do ~35, you're risking a ticket. There will still be people doing 45-50 and weave through the lanes.

also in my town, the main thru-way is a route dating back to the 30s. There are red lights at major intersections and they WILL turn red even if no one is there. They're designed to slow people down. HOWEVER if you speed and run a yellow light, you'll hit ALL the lights green! It shaves significant time off your trip, is easier on your car, is more enjoyable, and requires less attention. It's a system designed to make people speed and run reds.

Where I used to live, I could get from one side of the city to the other in a maximum of 30 minutes. the lights were designed to keep traffic flowing at 30-35mph. It ENCOURAGED you to go no faster, or you'll have to slow down and come to a stop. This also kept traffic flowing so you felt like you HAD to focus on driving. They also did things to encourage bicycles and make things safer for pedestrians.
by garaetjjte | 2025-12-11 15:36:05+00:00
I'm not sure if second argument is correct either. When assigning through *mut pointer, Drop will be called for previous value, but there's no guarantee that this value is zero-initialized. (according to https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20091231-00/?p=15... callee is required to initialize all output arguments, which implies that caller is not required to). It should be represented as &mut std::mem::MaybeUninit<BSTR>
Show HN: QCMP Framework for Poison-Resistant AI Agents [pdf]
by brad-mcevilly | 2025-12-11 15:36:24+00:00
I've spent the last year tackling memory poisoning in agentic AI (e.g., 98% MINJA success via queries alone). Introducing QCMP: a 4-layer architecture blending IIT consciousness metrics (CCI >0.90 thresholds), post-quantum checksums (ML-KEM), and CTC consistency for tamper-proof agent swarms.

Key wins: Detects 0.1% AgentPoison backdoors in <50ms; OWASP/EU AI Act compliant.

PDF: https://github.com/bradmcevilly/qcmp-whitepaper/raw/main/QCM...

First arXiv sub to cs.AI—seeking endorsements/feedback from the HN community. Thoughts on the quantum-bio hooks or multi-agent layers? Open to chats.

Site: deepsweep.ai | LI: linkedin.com/in/bradmcevilly
by mikestew | 2025-12-11 15:36:32+00:00
On the other hand, I would never ever consider a traditional motocycle (partly because they are so noisy).

They don’t come that way, jackasses modify them. My large displacement BMW is louder than our ICE car, sure, but you probably won’t notice it sitting next to you at a stoplight. And yet it still has enough power to smoke just about any car that doesn’t cost deep in six figures.
by rdtsc | 2025-12-11 15:36:34+00:00
> But what if our neurobiological reality includes a system that behaves something like an LLM?

With every technological breakthrough we always posit that the brain has to work like the newly discovered thing. At various times brains were hydraulic, mechanical, electrical, like a computer, like a network. Now, of course, the brain has to be like an LLM.
by jeffwask | 2025-12-11 15:37:08+00:00
It's strange though because if you know anything about Disney and how the manage the characters in media and at the parks, they are extremely protective of the brand and image of the characters. Imagineers have very strict rules around virtual character meet and greets and etc.

Allowing their characters to be used in AI generated content blows that all out of the water unless there are some extremely tight guard rails.

They are a half step from flooding the market with Disney Princess porn.
by tanepiper | 2025-12-11 15:37:19+00:00
This is something that actually drives me a way from using "a thing" - that some team post something "open source" - but in reality it's a product and there's a pricing tab on the website.

I think we've overloaded the term for sure. I'd prefer honesty - "hey we have a new product/service/platform! We've opened up our customer tooling source code and made it free and available for anyone to contribute too"

To me releasing open-source to specifically try get people to sign up to a paid product is a sales tool.
by jdlshore | 2025-12-11 15:37:19+00:00
Yes, health insurance costs rise every year. Partly due to increasing costs, but also due to the age of the insured.

The question isn’t whether the ACA raised costs—those were always going to go up. The question is whether a the ACA made them go up less than not having it. For me, the before and after trend was remarkable. And I had higher quality insurance without lifetime maximums or arbitrary exclusions.

Republicans did their level best to neuter the bill and prevent Democrats from having a “win,” and for the most part, I’d say they succeeded. The lack of a public option and the removal of mandatory coverage were both important parts of making it work well. But in the first 5 years or so, it was definitely an improvement. I think it could be again… if Republicans cared more about serving the country than pandering to their base.
by andsoitis | 2025-12-11 15:37:29+00:00
> but so would timely release of information. If the reports are true, an active harm to those organizations are being done, and it would be valuable for the public to know sooner than later.

I do not believe that that is The Guardian’s goal with this reporting. If it were, wouldn’t it make more sense to list the organizations (provide actionable information), rather than spending time telling a story?

I also have a hard time seeing the harm or the size thereof without knowing more context about any of the organizations, what they do, and how much they rely or depend on Facebook to be effective.

If I were an organization that had my Facebook account suspended unfairly or unjustly, I would simply find a different way to stay in touch with others. Meta does not owe me anything
by stronglikedan | 2025-12-11 15:37:37+00:00
> About the only arena this is widespread is streaming music services like Spotify

And even they can't get it right, and will give me promoted content before they give me anything related to my tastes. Pandora is the only recommendation engine that actually gives me what I would consider to be valid results. Shame they refuse to improve their audio quality, or I'd jump ship to Pandora. Until then, I'll keep using their free tier to curate Spotify playlists.
by Noaidi | 2025-12-11 15:37:54+00:00
"And it’s because Buc-ee’s is happy to break even at their massive gas pump array in Johnstown so long as you also walk inside and overspend on beef jerky, neck pillows and beaver-themed sleepwear."

So gas is cheaper, but you are spending more. This is not a story about gas prices, this is a story of consumer manipulation, dark patterns, monopolistic practices, etc.
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-12-11 15:38:44+00:00
> All these companies follow suit with the market forces described above. They all want to insure young healthy people and deny old sick people --- simply because they make more money by doing so.

A private health insurance company is based on the idea that if you are young, you pay a lot more so that an actuarial reserve is built, which is then reduced again when you age. This means that if you want fair premiums when you are old, you will have to pay a lot larger premium in the young age.

Concerning your claim:

"They all want to insure young healthy people and deny old sick people --- simply because they make more money by doing so."

Insurance companies don't make more money when they insure young vs old people - but they will just calculate risk-appropriate premiums for each group. If you start your insurance coverage at a health insurance company when you are already old, no actuarial reserve has been built up (during the years when you were young), so the premiums will of course be much larger.
by londons_explore | 2025-12-11 15:39:25+00:00
> good enough for the majority of people to complete the majority of tasks

It will never be this. There is always the expectation of being able to do more things.

"Log into my work email and deal with all of them whilst I have a bath".

"Start a company for me to earn some extra weekend cash by washing peoples driveways. Find and hire some people to do the actual washing"

"Find a nice house for me by a lake, negotiate a good price and buy it (get a mortgage if necessary) then book all the removals services and find me a new job nearby".
by watwut | 2025-12-11 15:39:28+00:00
1.) Overwhelming majority of political violence is by right wing.

2.) About Kirk specifically, liberals signaled "murder is bad" hard and frequently. Meanwhile Kirk himself signaled hatred.

3.) Meanwhile, Trump, Vance and Hegseth are constantly signaling "murder is good actually, if we are doing it" and "bullying is manly thing to do".

And that is exactly why it is userful to distinguish between "good thing signal" and "bad thing signal".

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Conservatives have the option to signal good things. They make different choice.
by RankingMember | 2025-12-11 15:39:34+00:00
I think we have a surplus of "awareness" tools/websites that are great at what they do, but not much "rubber meets the road" tools to guide the user in actually taking action based on the information presented. I, for one, feel a huge sense of fatigue at the amount of awareness I have of problems I don't have the tools/strategies/knowledge/time to solve.

(This is not a negative comment about this post btw, more just commentary on how the fire hose of "look at how bad this is in excruciating detail" can be overwhelming.)
by 01HNNWZ0MV43FF | 2025-12-11 15:39:52+00:00
For today's 10,000: https://www.righto.com/2025/01/its-time-to-abandon-cargo-cul...

> The pop-culture cargo cult description, however, takes features of some cargo cults (the occasional runway) and combines this with movie scenes to yield an inaccurate and fictionalized dscription. It may be hard to believe that the description of cargo cults that you see on the internet is mostly wrong, but in the remainder of this article, I will explain this in detail.
by mikestew | 2025-12-11 15:40:01+00:00
“Full” meaning 80%. With a 300 mile range, that’s plenty for day-to-day.

But to your question: I don’t know, does it still? Seems BMS has gotten a lot better from the early Nissan Leaf days, so I don’t if it yet time to retire that along with “discharge batteries all the way so they don’t get ‘memory’”.
by encyclopedism | 2025-12-11 15:40:04+00:00
The core issue is that AI is taking away, or will take away, or threatens to take away, experiences and activities that humans would WANT to do. Things that give them meaning and many of these are tied to earning money and producing value for doing just that thing. Software/coding is once of these activities. One can do coding for fun but doing the same coding where it provides value to others/society and financial upkeep for you and your family is far more meaningful.

For those who have swallowed the AI panacea hook line and sinker. Those that say it's made me more productive or that I no longer have to do the boring bits and can focus on the interesting parts of coding. I say follow your own line of reasoning through. It demonstrates that AI is not yet powerful enough to NOT need to empower you, to NOT need to make you more productive. You're only ALLOWED to do the 'interesting' parts presently because the AI is deficient. Ultimately AI aims to remove the need for any human intermediary altogether. Everything in between is just a stop along the way and so for those it empowers stop and think a little about the long term implications. It may be that for you right now it is comfortable position financially or socially but your future you in just a few short months from now may be dramatically impacted.

As someone said "I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes".

I can well imagine the blood draining from peoples faces, the graduate coder who can no longer get on the job ladder. The law secretary whose dream job is being automated away, a dream dreamt from a young age. The journalist whose value has been substituted by a white text box connected to an AI model.

I don't have any ideas as to what should be done or more importantly what can be done. Pandora's box has been opened, Humpty Dumpty has fallen and he can't be put back together again. AI feels like it has crossed the rubicon. We must all collectively await to see where the dust settles.
by maxjohan | 2025-12-11 15:40:08+00:00
Is there a way to read from present tty?

In practice: I boot into tty and manually start the graphical session (Wayland/Sway). I occasionally get (non-Sway) warnings when I return to tty (eg close the window manager). But the output is always scuffed, so I can't read the whole log. The lines get printed on top of each other or something.

Is there a way to read everything from tty, from within the tty?

Neither of the methods below work, because the warnings/errors aren't produced by Sway itself, but some other OS module/component.

$ sway |& tee /tmp/sway.log

$ tail -f /tmp/sway.log
by Tor3 | 2025-12-11 15:40:18+00:00
To me, working with a computer language involves specific thinking, constructing stuff in my mind. But human language is nothing of the sort, though it's possible to kind of do the same if I sit down and try to polish a written sentence. But talking in, and understanding a conversation is as far from this as I can imagine. And the learning process is so extremely different.
by arealaccount | 2025-12-11 15:40:22+00:00
From https://openai.com/index/disney-sora-agreement/

It's an equity investment, and yes they're agreeing to a committment to protecting the rights of the creators.

> Disney and OpenAI affirm a shared commitment to responsible use of AI that protects the safety of users and the rights of creators. >Alongside the licensing agreement, Disney will become a major customer of OpenAI, using its APIs to build new products, tools, and experiences, including for Disney+, and deploying ChatGPT for its employees. >As part of the agreement, Disney will make a $1 billion equity investment in OpenAI, and receive warrants to purchase additional equity.
by jackling | 2025-12-11 15:40:26+00:00
So, we established that there were injuries among people surrounding those with the pagers. Therefore, the parent comment’s claim was false — the explosions could hurt people nearby and weren’t small enough to affect only the combatant.

My other points still stand, but it’s strange to me that the argument seems to go (not necessarily from you, but from other commenters above):

The explosions were too small to hurt others, so the reported number of civilians injured must be false.

We see that the explosions did hurt civilians.

Well, only a small fraction — the numbers must still be false.

Can you see how this is moving the goalposts? The argument shifted from “the explosives were so precise that Israel must have known exactly who was targeted, and those injured were combatants,” to, in the grandparent comment:

How do you know they were civilians?

Now we see that civilians were present and injured. Perhaps you're correct that the videos show only a small number, but the videos still confirm the core point: civilians were harmed.

@tptacek, I don’t have a problem discussing this with you, but each thread you respond to splits off into new points I have to address. It feels like arguing with two people making contradictory claims.

I’ll leave you with this: the videos show only a minority of the pager detonations. Civilian injuries are most reliably known by Lebanese hospitals and government sources. The idea of detonating explosives in civilian-populated areas without knowing who is immediately around those devices is deeply problematic. And there is no way Israel could have known who would be harmed with any reasonable certainty; the reported numbers only reinforce that fact.
by Sevrene | 2025-12-11 15:40:35+00:00
The idea that democracy either created hitler or wasn't able to stop his rise via democratic action at all is often spruiked in anarchist communist circles, while it's true hitler wasn't voted in the literal sense, neither is Australia's Prime Minister. That doesn't make the PM undemocratic, it's just its own democractic institution inside the party. There's actually nothing in the Australian consitution about PMs.

It doesn't mean you couldn't unelect the party democratically and thus the leader. The public can unelect them from power by voting out the Nazi party of which Hitler was leader (through again, a vote). So this is a case of what I'm saying actually being relevent – if people voted against the nazi party, hitler would not have risen to power. He only gained that power because the democratic institutions, the people let him. This is a case for more and better democracy, of valuing that institution. I've encountered Trump voters who were actually bernie bros and accelerationists - they voted for trump as a fu to the establishment. I think the have a moral responsibility to not vote on those urges and whims. I think this that's bad, even if I can feel the sentiment sometimes, and I think that sort of "democracy bad" is actually a harmful to discourse and simply not true.

We need to bolster democracy for the people, not call it toothless while invoking communism and fascism. I don't ultimately blame Trump for his rise to power, I blame the people for being fickle and perfectionists. Democracy is precarious and precious, not a perfect ultimate catch all. The people need to foster it otherwise the rising tide of populism and fascism will drown it.
by DoughnutHole | 2025-12-11 15:40:56+00:00
Companies can have additional motives to profit, and they’re more likely to when control is concentrated just because individual people have multiple desires.

This was certainly the case with early Disney because Walt Disney was a megalomaniac utopian. I don’t think the original Epcot plans ever had a reasonable chance of being profitable, but Walt pushed them because he believed he was the saviour of urbanism in America.
by aurareturn | 2025-12-11 15:40:57+00:00
Yes, I'm well aware of that study and it kept me up at night a few times too.

Sorry I don't have a great answer to that. I don't think human population will drop to 0. That's a bit crazy and unlikely (gut feeling).

But it might be a few more generations longer than we think before population will grow again in developed countries.
by kakacik | 2025-12-11 15:41:02+00:00
> - Before cell phones, we were also in an age of far less mass violence in American schools. I completely empathize with parents wanting their kids to have an emergency contact device, given the relative increase in violence at schools.

A very US-centric problem that requires a very US-centric solution. No need to drag rest of the world into that sh*thole.

Anxieties of parents who can't manage their insecurities and other issues shouldn't propagate into how kids are raised in general, especially on families which can handle their emotions better. Some freedom, some unknown and yes some form of risk is part of it. I love my kids just like the next person but this emotional need to helicopter parent them is pretty toxic to their personality further down the line.

The stuff about abuse is so typical about any such topic - a slippery slope when there is no end on how many additional restriction on society should be applied just to prevent some potential next situation. If you live in properly dangerous place, then move and don't just follow money at all costs life is too short for that, much smarter and easy to solve than enveloping your kids in ever-increasing surveillance and security.

You have to realize that this approach really harms them in subtle but powerful ways. Then ask yourself - is the extra safety I am gaining not actually outweighed by extra damage I am making on them? I don't claim I know the objective answer, but gut feeling tells me they may be +-equal at best and at the end everybody loses.
by graybeardhacker | 2025-12-11 15:41:27+00:00
I find it VERY likely they had a junk policy. This is one of the most important things the ACA did, it defined what could be considered health insurance. Before the ACA, a company could sell you a policy that essentially covered nothing. Usually those junk policies had cleverly worded agreements that hid the fact that nothing was covered (pre-existing conditions, restrictive networks, carve-outs for expensive treatments, etc).

Since the majority of people don't run into those issues, they are blissfully unaware that if/when they have a major medical event they are under-insured.