MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by smusamashah | 2026-02-21 18:05:52+00:00
I have two twitter accounts. On one I like indie games, ai stuff, Gaussian Splats etc and some other things and that is what my feed is filled. I discover so many good games here. I keep it that way by not watching and liking randomly recommended things. My second twitter account is full of crappy videos (fights, accidents and sometimes very horrific).

I have never seen things of my interest on Facebook ever. It is full male focused staged thirst crap. I log in to that account may be once or twice a year.

I think Facebook should be steerable like Twitter. I haven't tried because it's super clingy.
by hogwasher | 2026-02-21 18:05:58+00:00
The purpose of the broad list is removing AI-generated content from search results, so that the user doesn't have to wade through (as much) slop to find the human-created content they're looking for.

While I applaud the honesty of sites that are open about their content being AI generated, that type of content is never what I'm looking for when I search, so if they're in my search results it's just more distraction/clutter drowning out whatever I'm actually looking for. Blocking them improves my search experience slightly, even though there is of course still lots of other unwanted results remaining.

Granted, I definitely count as an AI hater (speaking of LLM's specifically). But even if I weren't, I don't think I'd be seeking it out specifically using a search engine; why would I do that when I could just go straight to chatgpt or whatever myself? Search is usually where people go to find real human answers (which is why appending "reddit" to one's searches became so common). So I see this as a utility thing, more than a "I am blocking all this just because I hate it" thing. Although it can be both, certainly.

Edit: removed an off-topic tangent
by godelski | 2026-02-21 18:06:11+00:00
You're the one that brought up politics. You're right that they're hard to decouple from ethics as that's essentially how the parties form.

But where I disagree with you, and extremely, is that we should not have our own personal ethics and adopt that of what we believe is society's. You're asking the impossible. Such a thing doesn't exist. Whichever country you're in you'll find a diverse set of opinions. The most universal ethics are only the most basic. But if it did exist I'd still disagree as you're asking engineers to not be human. You'd be discriminating people based on religion. You'd be discriminating people based on culture. You'd be discriminating people based on their humanity. I'm extremely opposed to turning humans into mindless automata. Everyone has the right to their own beliefs and this is our advantage as our species.
by wiseowise | 2026-02-21 18:06:33+00:00
I've been using Leuchtturm1917 Some Lines a Day [0], and a separate notebook for whenever I feel like writing more, with great success. And a fountain pen, can't stress enough how important this one was – writing process went from "meh, I'll do it" to "fuck yeah, writing".

[0] https://www.leuchtturm1917.com/some-lines-a-day.html
by yasonk | 2026-02-21 18:06:50+00:00
I have a solution to this(and I've been talking about issues with the algorithmic social media for some years now). A POC I created during a hackathon populates your social media feed, but you define the algorithm using English language. Basically you can say, "I want to see more electricity related posts from Neil deGrasse Tyson. Show only family related posts from Bob Smith, but hide everything that is political". (Got second place out of 200+ participants)

The solutions leverages a social network with over 40 million users, so the network effect is already solved to a degree. If anyone has the means to spin this up into a business, let me know.
by JCattheATM | 2026-02-21 18:07:01+00:00
> Well, it doesn't, at least not at the moment. Oops.

No, it still does.

> but a certain amount of backlash was to be expected.

Ultimately by lower class people who tend to be racist, though. Mostly it's just that they don't like seeing new languages and foods popup.

> in a democracy I would think that arguing that "the uneducated masses" are wrong is a quick path to irrelevancy.

Maybe, but the uneducated masses shouldn't be making these decisions, which is why democracy is the real problem here.
by toomuchtodo | 2026-02-21 18:07:52+00:00
I am a parent, but it is not who I am as a person. You sound sad that not everyone is bought into the idea. Many are not. That’s okay. The goal (imho) is to live one’s best life, which is up to each individual. Always ignore those who would foist uncompensated labor on you out of ideology. That is theft of your time and energy.

Global fertility rate decline speaks for itself. Women were not empowered to make fertility choices. Now that they are, different choices are being made than that historically. These trends will continue as global TFR settles at 0.5-1 over the next several decades.

https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~jesusfv/Slides_London.pdf

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/mapped-countries-by-fert...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
by extraduder_ire | 2026-02-21 18:08:04+00:00
This is assuming they can't work out something with wikipedia to offer it for free (via a wikiforge tool, or bot) in exchange for the exposure of being the most common archive provider/putting a "used by Wikimedia" logo on their website.

The major reason archive.today was being used is that it also bypassed paywalls, and I don't think perma.cc does that normally.
by mcmcmc | 2026-02-21 18:08:50+00:00
> There is nothing morally wrong in felonies like this, just don't get caught.

Highly debatable. If you believe in a categorical imperative that to intentionally deceive another person is wrong, then lying by omission is still an immoral act. A Christian might also interpret the words of Jesus “Render to Caesar what is Caesar’s” as an imperative to comply fully with the law of the land.
by dizhn | 2026-02-21 18:08:53+00:00
Playing devil's advocate for a second. It might be easier for a single person company to open up a bunch of legal entities in different places where taxes etc are more favorable. In the Russian case guy might just be wanting to be able to accept payments. Or maybe he's making sure he has somewhere to go in case of trouble. I would be very unsurprised if he took advantage of the "$250K real estate purchase gets you full citizenship and you can even rent or sell the place" scheme of Turkey to live there.
by JCattheATM | 2026-02-21 18:08:57+00:00
> No; what you describe is certainly a phenomenon that exists, but it's not primarily what people talk about when they say that you'll get more conservative when you get older.

Strongly disagree. I think it's exactly what is being referred to most of the time.

> Why in my day, we paid with credit cards by running an imprinter over them with a big ka-chunk, and we liked it! None of this newfangled chip and pin garbage. There are too many chips in things anyway! Etc.

Right, this comes down to a decrease in critical thinking ability.

> Starting with younger Gen X and elder Millennials, we just haven't had the opportunities to grow our wealth that our parents and grandparents did at the same ages. We're still identifying with the younger people who don't and can't own homes.

Right, but this has nothing to do with going conservative, but in needing to overhaul the system that allows hording wealth.
by Jordan-117 | 2026-02-21 18:09:16+00:00
Seems more like Ars trying to avoid piling more attention on the name of a person that isn't actually involved.

And again, the accusation against Archive.today isn't just that they removed their "Nora" alias from a snapshot, but that they replaced it with the name of the blogger they were quarreling with. There's no defensible reason to do that outside of petty revenge (which tracks with the emails and public statements from the Archive.today maintainer).
by dhayabaran | 2026-02-21 18:09:22+00:00
The interesting part is focusing on defenders specifically rather than making this a general purpose vuln scanner. Static analysis catches known patterns but the real gap has always been business logic flaws and broken access control, which is exactly what keeps showing up in breach after breach. The question is whether limiting this to Enterprise and Team customers is enough of a gate. If the model can find novel zero-days, the same reasoning capability in the base model can theoretically be prompted toward the same task by anyone with API access.
by schrodinger | 2026-02-21 18:09:30+00:00
I don't think that ads _have_ to be evil.

When I look at Google, I see a company that is fully funded by ads, but provides me a number of highly useful services that haven't really degraded over 20 years. Yes, the number of search results that are ads grew over the years, but by and large, Google search and Gmail are tools that serve rather benevolently. And if you're about to disagree with this ask yourself if you're using Gmail, and why?

Then I look at Meta or X, and I see a cesspool of content that's driven families apart and created massive societal divides.

It makes me think that Ads aren't the root of the problem, though maybe a "necessary but not sufficient" component.
by b00ty4breakfast | 2026-02-21 18:09:58+00:00
I have no proof but I have suspicions that call-center systems are designed like this on purpose. low-level employees are hamstrung in what they can do, so then they have to hand it off to someone else, with varying degrees of ceremony, which either involves submitting a "ticket" or transferring you to some other department who may or may not have higher privileges wrt what they can do to help you.

Then you might hit a wall where nobody can do anything because you're trapped in the gears of some byzantine IT system that decides what can and can't happen at any given time with any given situation.

Then there's the labyrinth of the phone system itself littered low-bit smooth jazz and awful menus not often alleviated by AI voice recognition (which in my experience can sometimes be worse than the older voice systems) and the back and forth from one department to the next either because of the above or because someone or something keeps sending you to the wrong people to get your problems addressed.

If it's not engineered, it's some kinda emergent eldritch abomination that has slowly accreted over the decades.
by Someone1234 | 2026-02-21 18:10:33+00:00
This is what a lot of people miss about "AI will replace" programmers narrative.

When converting from a traditional process to an electronic one, half my job is twisting people's arms and playing mind reader trying to determine what they ACTUALLY do day-to-day instead of the hypothetical offical, documented, process.

Some of the workarounds that people do instead of updating the process are damn right unhinged.
by CamperBob2 | 2026-02-21 18:11:25+00:00
The economy feels fundamentally broken in some sense that doesn't seem to show up in statistics.

Turns out that it's amazing what you can do for the economy simply by putting your cronies in charge of the numbers.

If these people tell you that 2+2=4, you should double-check with two calculators and Wolfram Alpha.
by adrian_b | 2026-02-21 18:11:47+00:00
The invention of printing had a stabilizing effect on all languages, at least of their written form, because for some languages, especially for English, the pronunciation has diverged later from the written form, but the latter was not changed to follow the pronunciation.

I have read many printed books from the range 1450 to 1900, in several European languages. In all of them the languages are much easier to understand than those of the earlier manuscripts.
by nearbuy | 2026-02-21 18:11:56+00:00
If you didn't forget about the RLHF, your comment is oddly pedantic, confusing and misleading. "Correct and satisfying answers" is roughly the loss function for RLHF, assuming the humans favor satisfying answers, and using "loss function" loosely, as you yourself do, by gesturing at what the loss function is meant to do rather than formally describing an actual function. The comment you responded to didn't say this was the only loss function during all stages of training. Just that "When your loss function is X", then Y happens.

You could have just acknowledged they are roughly correct about RLHF, but brought up issues caused by pretraining.

> And I doubt RLHF gets rid of this ability.

The commenter you were replying to is worried the RLHF causes lying.
by godelski | 2026-02-21 18:12:20+00:00
If I start calling "bananas" "apples" then I devalue the meaning of the word "apple". You can't differentiate which I'm referring to.

If I start calling "bananas" "apples" the price at the store doesn't change.

I think you don't understand what the word "value" means. You understand one meaning, but it has more than one.
by hrncode | 2026-02-21 18:12:48+00:00
localhost only for now — portname works with *.localhost subdomains
which browsers resolve automatically so no config needed.

for custom domains like myapp.company.com you'd need to manually add
it to your hosts file (/etc/hosts on Mac/Linux,
C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts on Windows) pointing to 127.0.0.1.

custom domain support is something i'd like to add in future
by NeutralCrane | 2026-02-21 18:12:53+00:00
I think the point is a significant number of human beings were not participating in democracy at the time because their forced labor was critical to propping up the tobacco (and other) industries.

It’s hard to claim it’s actually democracy when it only exists after stripping the rights from a large section of people who would disagree with you, if they had the power to do so.
by pbhjpbhj | 2026-02-21 18:13:38+00:00
He lied originally, kinda.

He made a cypher with a school friend, which cypher was handed by a stranger to the FBI and investigated. That one possible outcome of the investigation might be 'the subject is a Japanese spy' doesn't mean _he_ was suspected of that; not by the FBI at least.

If he said, "I made a cypher in school", then likely the form would have been considered fine? Presumably his record clearly showed the FBI incident, so I'm surprised that lying in the second form didn't cause concern sufficient to question him. But there you go; I've never had any associations with TLAs, what would I know.
by Smartchat | 2026-02-21 18:14:02+00:00
> Ars trying to avoid piling more attention on the name of a person that isn't actually involved.

Oh, yes, by removing the name in the context of "Streisand Effect".

> petty revenge

How does it "revenge"? Was it a porn page? Or something bad?

It is likely to be just a funny placeholder name of the same length to come in mind.

--

We could find good and bad motives for both AT and Ars.

The bias against AT was here apriori. Paywall-story for CondeNast, russophobia for the rest.
by innagadadavida | 2026-02-21 18:14:17+00:00
I went down the sandbox-exec rabbit hole recently trying to get a “safe shell” for poking at random GitHub projects. I eventually realized I was solving the wrong problem.

For development you usually don’t need a kernel policy language - you mostly want:
1. builds not trashing your real $HOME
2. no dotfiles/config pollution
3. some basic separation if a project does something dumb

A much simpler (and more reliable) alternative on macOS is just a dedicated throwaway user account. macOS already isolates home directories, keychains, and app state per-user, so you get a practical sandbox without fighting SBPL quirks or mysterious denials.

My workflow now: I have a user called rsh. I clone and build everything there. My real home directory stays clean. If a project goes crazy, it only damages /Users/rsh

It also avoids the “1000 hidden files in your home folder” problem that a lot of language ecosystems cause.

Minimal setup :

sudo sysadminctl -addUser rsh -password $(LC_ALL=C tr -dc A-Za-z0-9 </dev/urandom | head -c 16);
sudo dseditgroup -o edit -d rsh -t user admin || true;
sudo install -d -m 755 -o rsh -g staff /Users/rsh/projects

Then add this alias to your ~/.zshrc command:

alias rsh='sudo -iu rsh /bin/zsh -l'

After that I just run rsh, clone repos into ~/projects, and build there.
by Groxx | 2026-02-21 18:14:52+00:00
In some states, employers are required to provide this as an option, at least for some devices: https://www.driversnote.com/blog/state-requirements-cell-pho...

Obviously it should be everywhere, for all tools needed to do your job, but it's especially clear for tech where nearly all large companies will also exert control over the device.
by keeda | 2026-02-21 18:15:06+00:00
All these points are brought up all the time but the upshot is, based on reporting from Microsoft and StatCounter, Windows marketshare actually grew.

Point is, we techies might chafe at and complain about all these anti-consumer shenanigans (Meta and privacy, anyone?) but it does not affect their business momentum, probably because the rest of the world just doesn't care.
by qup | 2026-02-21 18:15:33+00:00
I started my own business when I left tech. It's a bar.

I do my own mechanic work, but I have old trucks. I would never sign up to work on modern vehicles and the entitled customers trying to get one over on you.

I drove a route (not delivery) many years ago and I liked that. I tend to like jobs where you start with a pile of work, and finish with none left, rather than perpetually working towards something that's never done, like maybe a software project.
by giancarlostoro | 2026-02-21 18:16:09+00:00
Remember MySpace? It was a platform full of millennials mostly. Facebook became the next thing but if you note teens dont want to be where their parents are, it takes away from their ability to express themselves. Then as they grow they might adopt platforms like Facebook, but Facebook might not find the adoption they are hoping for.

I think there will be a follow up to Tik Tok in the future that will have the next generation as the Zoomers and younger become adults, and their kids want a platform where they fan be “free” on.
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2026-02-21 18:16:39+00:00
If the author goes "I couldn't find enough high quality studies on the topic I'm discussing", then the conclusion should be that we need more studies, not to come to unwarranted conclusions in the absence of actual data.

> Well some people are spending money and time investing in blue light filtering glasses and other solutions.

Ironically, we actually do have a number of good studies on the effects of blue light filtering glasses (easily findable with a Google search) and they do demonstrably reduce onset of sleep time. Where more research is needed is on software-only filters for screens.
by bgoated01 | 2026-02-21 18:17:04+00:00
Probably the biggest purpose for me is to have something to look back on. The last time I consistently journaled before this was during the time when I dated, got engaged to, and married my wife. Granted, that was more than a line journal, but it has been really nice for us to go back and read it together all this time later. With the line journal it is more of a prompt to help me remember that time period than a detailed description. But also I guess there is an autobiographical aspect to it that appeals to me--maybe someday I'll use it to help write an actual autobiography. And if not I also like to think of it as something to leave for my kids or grandkids to read when I'm gone.
by jsheard | 2026-02-21 18:17:15+00:00
Similarly, the guy who owned nissan.com never sold out and continues to spite Nissan Motors even in death.

https://nissan.com/

You've got to actually use a trademark-adjacent domain in good faith though, otherwise you might end up like this guy.

https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a69634055/75-million-dolla...
by machardmachard | 2026-02-21 18:17:23+00:00
iR³ React - Components as Autonomous Nodes (No Hierarchy, Self-Layout)

React Without The Tree - Components Are P2P Nodes

From Post 878: iR³ foundation - Series, DHT, BitTorrent

From Post 760: Layout is a game - elements as agents

The insight: iR³ components = autonomous nodes (not tree children). Each component is an iR³ node with own Series/DHT/BT. No parent-child hierarchy. Layout emerges from game theory - components check neighbors’ N(P) and self-coordinate spacing via DHT intents.

Result: Distributed UI rendering without central layout manager
by stego-tech | 2026-02-21 18:17:58+00:00
A delightful exercise. Inference and phonetics alone got me back to ~1200 with probably a 90% hit rate. Then it just collapsed under me around 1100.

Honestly not a bad critical thinking exercise in general, for someone with language fluency. Much of it can be “worked out” just through gradual inference and problem-solving, and I’d be curious to see its results as a test for High Schoolers.
by estimator7292 | 2026-02-21 18:18:17+00:00
When I quit my last job, I was the only employee left that understood our tech stack. The other was a mechanical engineer and industrial designer. Because I felt that CEO could barely comprehend what git is or why it's important to pay AWS on time, I made a full backup of everything on a USB hard drive.

If you ever need to do this, it can be as simple as "git mirror", with extra steps for LFS and other addons.

That guy definitely did not deserve me to give him $100 of my own personal hard drive stash but out of some sick sense of professionalism I felt I had to give him a failsafe archive. Because, you guessed it, not one byte of the entire company was backed up anywhere.
by bakugo | 2026-02-21 18:18:33+00:00
> Perhaps not other thought leaders.

Nice way of saying grifters.

You're bringing up essentially the same non-argument that dang himself used when he recently personally told off someone else for pointing out the same rule breaking behavior. It boils down to "People upvote it and comment on it so it must be good content regardless of which rules it breaks" which is a harmful way of thinking, the social media version of "laws are only for the poor".

If getting enough upvotes and replies elevates one above the rules, it should be clearly stated in said rules, but I have a feeling it never will be because it's obviously not a good look.
by cratermoon | 2026-02-21 18:18:48+00:00
I recall a time when github was having an outage at the same time me and a coworker were trying to fix a high priority issue.
I had pushed my changes before the outage but he couldn't pull them.
I proposed that I share my repo locally so he could pull from me,
but he looked confused
and didn't get it,
so I let it drop.