MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mattmaroon | 2026-01-05 20:15:46+00:00
Certainly possible. There are plenty of examples where these sorts of interventions worked for the country we intervened in though. Even in Latin America, which I’ve travelled extensively. I’ve talked to them about it.

A year ago today I was in Grenada looking at a statue of Reagan. The Grenadians love America (and the older ones love to tell you about it) for our intervention in the 80’s which I was not old enough to remember. They did not want to become another Cuba and we saved them from it.

South Korea. Japan. Germany. There were some solid wins in our nation building along with the losses.
by ribosometronome | 2026-01-05 20:16:16+00:00
It's hardly a hunt when there's bunch of warty green women with black tipped hats openly stirring a cauldron going "Double double toil and trouble."

The world grew up and learned better. We've seen the effects that bullying, including cyberbullying, have on people. We've seen teenagers (and adults) get harassed with fake revenge porn.
by DirkH | 2026-01-05 20:16:24+00:00
Specialized research AI agents are coming at which point we'll have numerous LLMs running and verifying experiments and creating a higher quality text corpus than the 2014-2020 halcyon, which is then used for other LLMs to be trained on.

It will be the reverse I suspect. Eventually we will see that LLM quality is lower when it is training data from 2014-2020 and will chalk it up to human limitations and the data not being written with a laser-focused goal of training better AI.
by slg | 2026-01-05 20:16:37+00:00
> how can the moderation team reasonably stop bad actors from downvoting it

There are all sorts of approaches that a moderation team could take if they actually believed this was a problem. For example, identify the users who regularly downvote/flag stories like this that end up being cleared by the moderation team for unflagging or the 2nd chance queue and devalue their downvotes/flags in the future.
by consp | 2026-01-05 20:16:39+00:00
> non-consensual sexual material being generated of them by Grok

They should disable it in the Netherlands in this case since it really sounds like a textbook slander case and the spreader can also be held liable. note: it's not the same as in the US despite using the same word, deepfakes have been proven as slander and this is no different. Especially if you know it's fake by using "AI". There have been several cases of pornographic deep fakes, all of which were taken down quickly, in which the poster/creator was sentenced. The unfortunate issue even of taking posts down quickly is unfortunately the rule which states that if something is on the internet it stays on the internet. The publisher always went free due to acting quickly and not creating it. I would like to see where it goes when both publisher and creator are the same entity, and they do nothing to prevent it.
by keybored | 2026-01-05 20:16:47+00:00
> I have very little sympathy towards "Open"AI, but in the same time, I think there will be always people in bad mental state who will unfortunately commit suicide after some interaction.

Every time. The price of progress comment.

Always comes up when we manage to move from manual, labor-intensive <bad thing> to automated, no-labor <bad thing> (no manual suicide grooming needed, guys).
by pizzathyme | 2026-01-05 20:17:09+00:00
Ideally this friction should be viewed as a normal part of career growth. You will have expanded your expertise and are now capable of harder problems and roles, with more compensation in return.

The typical moves are:
[1] Negotiate for more title, compensation at your current role (good outcome)
[2] Leave for a better role (a good outcome)
[3] Stay, no change, doing more work for the same money (not recommended)
by schmuckonwheels | 2026-01-05 20:17:33+00:00
>This is a strategic play by Apple

No, this is the fault of a company and industry with way too much money and not knowing what to do with it.

So they hired a bunch of artists who would otherwise be carving wood in a decrepit loft somewhere after taking half a mushroom cap. These people now decide how computers should operate.

I remember watching a documentary from the 80s where Susan Kare explained how every pixel in the Macintosh UI was deliberately put there to help the user in some way. One lady did the whole thing, the whole OS.

Now we have entire teams of people trying to turn your computer into an avant-garde art piece.
by zozbot234 | 2026-01-05 20:17:38+00:00
Why assume that luxury consumption is the only possible use of that income? That just doesn't seem to reflect the facts. It's not like many old-money folks have billion-dollar yachts or private aircraft, or the other kinds of luxury spending that seem to be the focus here. Many of them are used to leading incredibly modest lives.

Also, it takes meaningful skill or an appetite for risky ventures (or a combination of both) to generate substantial income from that accumulated wealth - passive return rates are extremely low. That reflects socially productive endeavors we don't want to tax.
by alex_suzuki | 2026-01-05 20:17:43+00:00
Well it’s certainly horrible that they’re not even trying, but not surprising (I deleted my X account a long time ago).

I’m just wondering if from a technical perspective it’s even possible to do it in a way that would 100% solve the problem, and not turn it into an arms race to find jailbreaks. To truly remove the capability from the model, or in its absence, have a perfect oracle judge the output and block it.

The answer is currently no, I presume.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2026-01-05 20:17:59+00:00
I said "extended" not "opened". That's indeed intentional. Please don't use a strawman to avoid addressing the point I'm actually making.

Michelin invested significantly in the site recently and BMW added a ton of EV manufacturing capacities, we are talking of a 1.7 billions dollars investment.

All of this is linked to subsidies they got through the IRA on top of local South Carolina subsidies. They had to do these investments to remain competitive in the US market as the subsidies are tied to local manufacturing and the conditions significantly limit what parts they can import. It was a direct attack on European manufacturing masquerading as green investments.

Guess which president passed the IRA.
by bakies | 2026-01-05 20:18:10+00:00
I just found out about this recently and like this page a lot. Dang has a hard job to balance this. I think newcomers might be more comfortable with the frontpage and if you end up learning about the other pages you can find more controversial discussions. Can't be mad about the moderation hiding these by default. Although I think CSAM-Bad should not be controversial.
by wormius | 2026-01-05 20:18:32+00:00
Nuclear Orange Dust (and not the Cheetoh dust, the og mac dust) and bigger fatter noodles (that late 90s skinnier noodles trash is what ruined it for me, texture ruined, etc...)

But Annies wins the flavor contest (at least with the cheese sauce pouch, not the Kraft dust kind)...
by dlisboa | 2026-01-05 20:18:38+00:00
Style matters, maybe unfortunately depending on the point of view. Products like consumer electronics have a large amount of fashion to them. Just like the t-shirt was perfected in the 1950s people still make new ones with little style changes for no functional reason.

Designers at Balenciaga don't have to justify their jobs when they make oversized t-shirts, neither do the ones at Apple.
by 1718627440 | 2026-01-05 20:19:00+00:00
> Per the silly AI answer on Google, not really?

There are people who read that?

> Everywhere else? Good luck.

Same as with alternate stylesheets or a reasonable line of death. For all the annoying things Mozilla does, Firefox is still a great browser and for some measures the only shop in town.

> meaningful styles across sites

You can also modify the browser chrome with it, and I think UBlock Origin uses it for modifying the page. Also some settings are exposed via a UI, so also lawmen not knowing about user.css might still use the user (agent) stylesheet.
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-01-05 20:19:09+00:00
> Drug companies prefer chronic illnesses

Gilead has made bank on Solvadi, a drug that cures a previously-chronic disease [1].

> Very few people come off GLP-1 and keep weight off

Rebound can be close to 100% if you’re severely obese, but for most people it’s much less [2]. (Everyone I know who was taking it two years ago is off it, and they eat and exercise healthier than they did.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sofosbuvir

[2] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35441470/
by jonathaneunice | 2026-01-05 20:19:11+00:00
This seems very consistent with the refactoring techniques taught by Sandi Metz (https://sandimetz.com/99bottles). After taking her course, I successfully applied those techniques to good ends and outcomes.

Not sure "refactor in context" is the tool for every single last refactoring job in the universe. Some plumbing changes may be large or systematic enough that they need to be separately planned and applied, especially as explaining "oh I changed the fundamental way we do things, just in passing" can be a hard PR to present. OTOH, since adopting the "in context" approach I have had many fewer refactoring attempts abandoned, and refactoring seems much more logical and purposeful. So it works IME.
by WhiteNoiz3 | 2026-01-05 20:19:22+00:00
AI (as it currently exists) will never be "creative" in the sense that it can only imitate or interpolate between past works. At some point we'll recognize that AI generated works are boring and predictable. AI will probably never invent a new musical genre or artform since it can only reproduce or recombine works from the past. I wonder what happens when the internet is so full of AI generated slop that that the only things worth "training" on were made in the time before AI generation became a thing. Will AI generations be full of dated references to a time gone by?

People may say it increases creativity but I see it more as lowering the bar to produce things. The same could be said for a lot of inventions like photography made producing images easier and I'm sure a lot of portrait painters lost their jobs to photographers. I think the danger is that we may see a very rapid erosion of jobs in the creative space that won't be easy to transition into new fields which I feel will have a detrimental effect on our society.
by Someone1234 | 2026-01-05 20:19:45+00:00
Novo Nordisk's own clinical trials (OASIS 4, OASIS 1 Vs, STEP 1). In order for oral Semaglutide to be effective you need to substantially increase the oral dosages for the same effect. Meaning you need more Semaglutide for the same action-of-effect, which increases side effects (+2.6% Nausea, +6.9% Vomiting, based on 2.4mg Vs. 25mg).

As I said above, this is being worked on (inc. by Novo Nordisk), but oral Semaglutide is a very naive early attempt. They got first to market, but that doesn't mean it makes sense for people who can handle injections; you cannot compare doses 1:1 because of how weak oral is, you need to compare action-of-effect. Once you look at effectiveness, oral costs more than injection.
by coppsilgold | 2026-01-05 20:19:58+00:00
When you are buying chemicals from unknown entities you are adopting the enormous risks that come with it.

Drug synthesis can get very complicated. Purity of the drug is unknown.

Which contaminants are present and what are their effects on your body? Unknown.

What if any recourse do you have if they poison you? Minimal to none.

Even if you have a trusted third party doing efficacious testing of the compounds, the consistency of manufacture will be unknown unless they also do inspections. While I have no doubt that you can have private entity do a far better job than the FDA if the incentives are right there will be no business here. Perhaps a charity could work? I have no idea how though.
by UncleMeat | 2026-01-05 20:20:19+00:00
I even think that the discussion focusing on csam risks missing critical stuff. If musk manages to make this story exclusively about child porn and gets to declare victory after taking basic steps to address that without addressing the broader problem of the revenge porn button then we are still in a nightmare world.

Women should be able to exist in public without having to constantly have porn made of their likeness and distributed right next to their activity.
by ethical_source | 2026-01-05 20:20:20+00:00
No, we can't draw such a line. Where would you draw it? What is the minimum friction? How would you quantify it?

If you try, you quickly end up codifying absurdities like the 80%-finished-receiver rule in firearm regulation. See https://daytonatactical.com/how-to-finish-an-80-ar-15-lower-...

People who say "society should permit X, but only if it's difficult" have a view of the world incompatible with technological progress and usually not coherent at all.
by adolph | 2026-01-05 20:20:36+00:00
> pressure on food manufacturers to make their products actually healthier

Probably not. Food manufacturing is not high margin. The things that would make "products actually healthier" are higher cost both in terms of inputs and in terms of shorter shelf life.

If people eat less and total sales volume decreases, there will not be additional money to change products lines. Expect corporate consolidation and a focus on children and glp-holdout populations, similar to cigarette manufacturers.

Similar to vapes, I could see the development of "ceremonial foods" that are chewed but not swallowed, like gum but with broader effects. Imagine something that approximates the experience of the crinkly bag, oily smell and physical crunch sensation of chips that then evaporates after the crunch. It would maybe even have a double bag for discretely spitting out the too small to crunch anymore shards of a saliva-phobic food grade meta-material.
by theptip | 2026-01-05 20:21:00+00:00
Right - I’m missing how you get the source code in the OP. It says you tmux in with ssh agent forwarding for GH. But you can’t do that on your iOS device? So you have to set up all your repos in the morning before leaving the house, then collect and push all your branches when you return home?

I could imagine this working for a small number of branches/changes.
by thisislife2 | 2026-01-05 20:21:14+00:00
As I said, some European politicians do want to militarise more aggressively. But the European citizens aren't as inclined, and even oppose it. (I think Spain even bluntly told the NATO that it couldn't commit 5% of the GDP as demanded by NATO because of heavy opposition from its citizens). Thus, the superpowers in the NATO have devised a political fear mongering tactic - based on prolonging the Ukraine war and Trump's posturing on Greenland - to sway the citizens to back rapid militarization.
by mvkel | 2026-01-05 20:21:20+00:00
What seems to be missing in all of this is a cohesive vision and mission.

I do see mention of "making the world a better place," but that's a bit like saying "our company exists to generate revenue." That's everyone. What makes you, YOU?

You're chasing extremely niche problems, that, sure, may be real, but there is no examination of what those problems stack up to that would necessitate years of dedication.

It's no surprise, then, that these pivots feel more like whack a mole than company operation.

That's incredibly depressing, because after five years, you can't look back and say "how far did we move the needle against the mission?"
by kayo_20211030 | 2026-01-05 20:21:28+00:00
Great advice.

Don't refactor anything bigger than a breadbox. Instead, colonize a new territory, and start a new map - with fewer thickets, one hopes. In my experience, this is possible. It's hard, but it's possible. What's good in the old system survives, all the rest atrophies and dies, and new rails carry the project forward.

But, one assumes, you have a running system and you need to keep it running. If not, knock yourself out cleaning up the map. It can't do any harm.

Such a shift isn't easy to achieve, but it is possible. Don't just clean-up. Extend what you can, rebuild what you must, strangle what's left. Don't half-ass it. Product group's sanctioned refactoring is half-assing it. Your responsibility is to the product itself.

In an academic sense this will be a failure, but practically, with a living-system organism you'd like to keep alive, it can work.
by tinfoilhatter | 2026-01-05 20:22:02+00:00
In June 2015, Sam Altman told a tech conference, “I think that AI will probably, most likely, sort of lead to the end of the world. But in the meantime, there will be great companies created with serious machine learning.”

Do you really think Sam or any of the other sociopaths running these AI companies care whether their product is causing harm to people? I surely do not.

[1] https://siepr.stanford.edu/news/what-point-do-we-decide-ais-...
by UncleMeat | 2026-01-05 20:22:07+00:00
> But for the most part, nobody cares

IMO, the fact that you would say this is further evidence of rape culture infecting the world. I assure you that people do care about this.

And friction and quality matters. When you make it easier to generate this content and make the content more convincing, the number of people who do this will go up by orders of magnitude. And when social media platforms make it trivial to share this content you've got a sea change in this kind of harassment.
by GoatInGrey | 2026-01-05 20:22:11+00:00
How is "It's acceptable because people perform a lesser form of the same behavior" an argument at all? Taken to its logical extreme, you could argue that you shouldn't be prevented from punching children in the face because there are adults in the world who get punched in the face. Obviously, this is an insane take, but it applies the same logic you've outlined here.
by lynndotpy | 2026-01-05 20:22:13+00:00
"For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially ..."

Convincingly photoshopping someones face onto a nude body takes time, skills, effort, and access to resources.

Grok lowers the barrier to be less effort than it took for either you or I to write our comments.

It is now a social phenomenon where almost every public image of a woman or girl on the site is modified in this manner. Revenge porn photoshops happened before, but not to this scale or in this type of phenomenon.

And there is safety in numbers. If one person photoshops a highschool classmate nude, they might find themself on a registry. For lack of knowing the magnitude, if myriad people are doing it around the country, then do you expect everyone doing that to be litigated that extensively?
by runjake | 2026-01-05 20:22:15+00:00
Dark mode is for people who prefer dark mode. Yes, the science seems to indicate that light mode is generally more readable, personal preference be damned.

I'm generally a light mode person, despite growing up on "dark mode" (AKA 8 and 16-bit home computers and DEC VT terminals). But, for whatever reason I have to code in a window that is set to dark mode.
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-01-05 20:22:20+00:00
> Don't know how accurate that is

Literally from the Wikipedia article: “In 2002, Eli Lilly partnered with Amylin to develop exenatide and secure approval to market the drug. Exenatide's 2005 approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration showed that targeting the GLP-1 receptor was a viable strategy and inspired other pharmaceutical companies to focus on that receptor” [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GLP-1_receptor_agonist
by d-us-vb | 2026-01-05 20:22:20+00:00
From your other responses in this thread, it looks like you do concede that e is useful in symbolic computation, and others use the phraseology "how the function is implemented", which is quite a silly thing to say in a classical math context, but not in a computational context.

I didn't understand immediately that you were talking about using values related to e in a computational context. But your comment about "brainwashing" seems a bit off. Are you saying that programmers bring e and ln with them into code when more effective constants exist for the same end? That's probably true. But brainwashing is far too strong, since things need to be taught in the correct order in math in order for each next topic to make sense. e really only comes in when learning derivative rules where it's explained "e is a number where when used as the base in an exponential function, that function's derivative is itself." Math class makes no pretense that you ought to use any of it to inform how you write code, so the brainwashing accusation seems off to me.
by gmllama | 2026-01-05 20:23:04+00:00
I don't think using GenAI to storyboard and pitch is inherently bad. There's long historical precedent for folks using existing film and music in demo reels to explain the feeling and tone they're going for (e.g. WW2 footage for Star Wars storyboarding reels IIRC). In isolation what you explained sounds fine, there may even be some argument that parts of this fall under fair use which may diffuse certain training attribution copyright challenges. Where things start to fall apart for me would be if your story/script and resulting prompts start to rely on GenAI upstream. And as you say, when the end product itself starts to lean on this tech as a shortcut.
by silisili | 2026-01-05 20:23:13+00:00
.US is a bit of an oddball, at least compared to gtlds. The US DoC puts rather strict requirements on the registry under contract, including this but also spot checks that owners are US citizens, and makes it the responsibility of the registry to take action on it.

Those scans are automated but supposed to have human-in-the-loop, though that doesn't really mean much either. Unfortunately, once the process starts, receiving no response means an automatic suspension.
by bri3d | 2026-01-05 20:23:22+00:00
> I suspect that specifically car / aircraft / spacecraft computers receive regular updates, and these updates change the smallest part they can.

In the space I am very familiar with, automotive, this is not true for code changes to most automotive control units; the "application software" code for each control unit is treated as a single entity and built, supplied, and modified at this level of granularity. Infotainment and digital cockpit is the only major exception, but even then, only for the "unsafe" part (Linux/QNX/Windows); the "safe" part is usually a single-image single-application running on a safety processor alongside.

Sometimes personalization/vehicle-specific "data sets" or calibration _data_ (ie ECU tunes) can be updated without updating the application software, but the application software for each unit is generally treated as a large unified firmware blob. For example in every ECU I am aware of, modifying the application software logic (which is usually modeled in something like like Simulink/ASCET, not code directly) triggers a full code regeneration, recompilation, and generates a complete new firmware image with an updated Application Software version. There isn't any notion of shipping a new "turbocharger control" code module, or a new "diagnostics" code module, or whatever, even if they are constructed at this granularity in the code generation suite or run at this task granularity in the RTOS.
by watchthedemo | 2026-01-05 20:23:24+00:00
> Unless you claim Tao is outright lying, his statements say he's getting objective value out of AI tools. They are helping him accelerate actual math research.

I lack the personal relationship with Tao necessary to determine if his words are truthful or otherwise (namely for me, paid for), but you also failed to provide "his statements" that say either "he's getting objective value out of AI tools" (however one may quantify such a statement) or that "they are helping him accelerate actual math research" choosing instead to simply claim those words as Tao's own.

All of the future tense coded "I think", "going to be", "Once that is done", and "IMO likely" in your second paragraph seem to be at conflict, in the very least tensewise, with your gp comment's past tense of "Not only said, but demonstrated."