MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Manuel_D | 2026-02-14 01:27:57+00:00
Companies that exist in the US don't have to obey EU laws. For instance the UK tried to tell 4chan that it needs to obey the UK Online Safety Act, and 4chan replied with, essentially, "fuck off".

Companies that try to do business in the EU have to follow EU laws because the EU has something that can be used as leverage to make them comply. But if a US company doesn't have any EU presence, there's no need to obey EU laws.
by zaptheimpaler | 2026-02-14 01:28:15+00:00
HN has taken a very sharp turn over the past 2-3 years. Putting aside politics, they are reflexively cynical, misinformed and confident in their ignorance even about technology. Missing the boat on AI as well for years as its evolved from cool chatbot that hallucinates to can write serious code with few errors and solve unsolved research problems with some assistance.
by throwaway173738 | 2026-02-14 01:28:32+00:00
No, it’s an attempt to weigh the actions of either side in aggregate. What you’re doing is trying to argue that everything is awful and so why bother. I’ve seen numerous examples of one group acting well-meaning and sincere, and numerous examples of the other group taking advantage and sewing chaos. If you think they’re both the same you’re either not paying attention to everything or you only care about a very few things. Either way it’s going to be impossible for me to find common ground with you as long as you refuse to try to work with what you’ve got.
by dkarbayev | 2026-02-14 01:28:40+00:00
Garmin Connect app is terrible. It's outdated, it doesn't cash anything at all - you have to have internet connection to see anything. They are pushing for Connect+ subscription. And their watches are getting more expensive without any real innovations in harware (most of new features you get, say, from Forerunner 570 or 970 probably could have been easily enabled on Forerunner 265 or 965 with software updates).

Coros has a nice app. A lot of elite athletes are seemingly switching to Coros wearables (especially the HR bicep band). Alas, it's slightly behind Garmin in terms of accuracy and functionality.

Suunto is similar to Coros - nice app, lower accuracy and less functions.

I've read a lot of complaints about Polar's Flow app - it is also outdated and the data is grouped so counterintuitively, it takes forever to find.

There's also Amazfit (AFAIK it's a subsidiary of Xiaomi?). I used their watch (GTR) a while ago and it was unremarkable, but I also weren't doing any sports back then so I can't judge it from the standpoint of activity tracking. They are Chinese company (as is Coros btw), which makes it slightly uncomfortable for me to share my health data with them.

In other words, if you find an ideal sports watch, please let me know!
by coldtea | 2026-02-14 01:29:08+00:00
What the parent is getting at is it's not a mystery, such definitions already exist in all kinds of jurisdictions.

In any case it's trivial to come up with such a definition that covers most cases. Doesn't matter if it doesn't cover some gray areas or 100% of it. Laws can be supplemented and ammended.

We don't have an all-encompassing definition of porn either, but we have legal definitions, and we have legal frameworks regarding it.
by benbristow | 2026-02-14 01:30:37+00:00
I think it's really bigger than that. I'm hooked myself scrolling reels, but I go to the pub after work and see retired or 50-70 year old men (barely know how to work a phone) scrolling through them as well. That's when you know they're addicting as anything. Can't go anywhere nowadays in public without hearing someone scrolling through reels who don't know how to behave themselves in public by turning down the volume or wearing earphones.
by sathish316 | 2026-02-14 01:30:51+00:00
> I haven’t been to get them to do something totally out of distribution yet from first principles.

Agree with this. I’ve been trying to make LLMs come up with creative and unique word games like Wordle and Uncrossy (uncrossy.com), but so far GPT-5.2 has been disappointing. Comparatively, Opus 4.5 has been doing better on this.

But it’s good to know that it’s breaking new ground in Theoretical Physics!
by webdoodle | 2026-02-14 01:31:52+00:00
You are a 100% right, and that is just one example of Obama's subservience to a future totalitarian government he started, and handed off to Trump, who has continued too increase the dystopian fascist state.

Obama did these things as well:

1) Got a Nobel peace prize after ordering the killing a U.S. citizen by Drone, without a trial or conviction.

2) He failed to renew the Smith-Mundt Act, which only took his signature, unleashing the restriction on the U.S. military of conducting PSYOPS on U.S. citizens and residents.

3) He created the U.S. Global Engagement Center which allows the coordination of the above mentioned PSYOPs and censorship.

4) He gave NSA Prism mass-surveillance access too 16 law enforcement agencies, including ICE.

He did the last three, AFTER Trump was already President elect. Clearly doing the needful for the fascists state Trump would later continue to swell. Biden wasn't even a speed bump, he used the U.S. GEC too censor and muzzle any dissent about COVID, where it came from, how it was funded, etc.
by lwelyk | 2026-02-14 01:31:56+00:00
AI training and algorithms are trained and guided to certain kinds of results. Grok, for example, is claimed to be modified constantly according to Elon Musk's whims.

If you theoretically trained an AI on libel and had it set to libel anyone at the slightest prompt, then allowed users to make a request that had your AI on your server use your services to libel someone, I'm not really seeing how you would not be liable.
by GaryBluto | 2026-02-14 01:32:15+00:00
> What you’re doing is trying to argue that everything is awful and so why bother.

I don't know how that could be construed from my comments.

> Either way it’s going to be impossible for me to find common ground with you as long as you refuse to try to work with what you’ve got.

If I don't agree with you you won't agree with me? This isn't a revelation.
by willis936 | 2026-02-14 01:32:26+00:00
This reminds me a bit of Hank Green's recent video on why we don't recycle plastic. The answer is we frack a lot of methane for electricity and ethane is a byporoduct of that. You can flare it off or use it as a negative cost ingredient for polyethane / many other plastics. As long as we're using lots of fossil fuels the byproducts will be cheap. Anyone who has played gregtech or factorio or similar already has an intuition for this. The answer then becomes simple: if you want less plastic you must use less fossil fuel. They are one and the same.

https://youtu.be/325HdQe4WM4
by malcolmgreaves | 2026-02-14 01:33:38+00:00
To the three points you list:

Number 1 was Bush. The republicans crated the NSA surveillance machine.

Number 2 — know your US history. The democratic and republican parties flipped philosophies in 68. Their dems went pro integration and the southern dems went to the Republican Party, which remained segregationist. Nixon was closer to Kennedy and LBJ than Humphrey.

Number 3 is nothing - it wasn’t active targeting. They implemented rules to check all organizations. The republican affiliates ones were skirting the rules. They looked at orgs with certain things in their name, but it was an investigation. No government action came of it. It was not abuse. This is another lie by the republicans.
by LiamPowell | 2026-02-14 01:34:03+00:00
> Ars Technica wasn’t one of the ones that reached out to me, but I especially thought this piece from them was interesting (since taken down – here’s the archive link). They had some nice quotes from my blog post explaining what was going on. The problem is that these quotes were not written by me, never existed, and appear to be AI hallucinations themselves.

Once upon a time, completely falsifying a quote would be the death of a news source. This shouldn't be attributed to AI and instead should be called what it really is: A journalist actively lying about what their source says, and it should lead to no one trusting Ars Technica.
by DesaiAshu | 2026-02-14 01:34:15+00:00
"Swarm of autonomous drones kills 3 buildings of civilians, Silicon Valley is shocked, CEO's offer condolences" is a byline waiting to happen[1]

The administration and the executives will make justifications like:
- "We didn't think they would go haywire"
- "Fewer people died than with an atomic bomb"
- "A junior person gave the order to the drones, we fired them"
- "Look at what Russia and China are doing"

Distracting from the fact that the purpose of spending $1.5T/year on AI weapons (technology that has the sole purpose of threatening/killing humans) run by "warfighters" working for the department of war

At no point will any of the decision makers be held to account

The only power we have as technologists seeking "AI alignment" is to stop building more and more powerful weapons. A swarm of autonomous drones (and similar technologies) are not an inevitability, and we must stop acting as if it is. "It's gonna happen anyways, so I might as well get paid" is never the right reason to do things

[1]https://financialpost.com/technology/tech-news/openai-tapped...
by MBCook | 2026-02-14 01:34:35+00:00
This by the way is my understanding of why the EU writes laws the way they do.

If they just banned infinite scrolling someone would come up with something equivalent that works slightly differently. Now they need a whole new law. It’s just constant whack-a-mole.

So instead they seem to ban goals. Your thing accomplishes that goal? It’s banned.

It’s a pretty different way than how we seem to do things in the US. But I can see upsides.
by AnthonyMouse | 2026-02-14 01:34:36+00:00
> Doesn't matter if it doesn't cover some gray areas or 100% of it.

That's exactly the thing that matters when you're dealing with something where every loophole is going to have a caravan of trucks driving through it.

> We don't have an all-encompassing definition of porn either, but we have legal definitions, and we have legal frameworks regarding it.

You're picking the thing which is a hopeless disaster as your exemplar?
by tialaramex | 2026-02-14 01:34:55+00:00
The primitives aren't a problem. You can't write them in any vaguely modern high level language. And when I say "High level" I mean that the way K&R does when they describe their new C programming language as high level. The reason you can't write cryptographic primitives in a high level language is that optimising compilers love clever tricks which offer data dependent performance, across every layer of their design - but in cryptography we want constant execution time regardless of either the plaintext or keys used.

The problem with OpenSSL isn't these cryptographic primitives, that's why you will see basically the same primitives re-used in lots of different places. It's like finding out that the guy who was just arrested for murder also eats pizza. Yeah, people do that. The problem wasn't the pizza, it was the murder. OpenSSL's implementation of the AES cipher isn't broken, the problem is elsewhere.
by scoofy | 2026-02-14 01:35:49+00:00
They were supposed to be a nonprofit!!!

They lost every shred of credibility when that happened. Given the reasonable comparables, that anyone who continues to use their product after that level of shenanigans is just dumb.

Dark patterns are going to happen, but we need to punish businesses that just straight up lie to our faces and expect us to go along with it.
by Springtime | 2026-02-14 01:35:50+00:00
Ars Technica being caught using LLMs that hallucinated quotes by the author and then publishing them in their coverage about this is quite ironic here.

Even on a forum where I saw the original article by this author posted someone used an LLM to summarize the piece without having read it fully themselves.

How many levels of outsourcing thinking is occurring to where it becomes a game of telephone.
by em-bee | 2026-02-14 01:35:54+00:00
i most certainly saw them as neither dead or flagged.

now i see three other comments as alive:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46997839
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46996890
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46992786

i know they were flagged and dead before.

i can make a screenshot.

could those comments be reactivated because people vouch for them?
or is there some kind of bug?
by crossroadsguy | 2026-02-14 01:36:53+00:00
> Countries invite IMF assistance. If they wanted to be left alone, all they have to do is do nothing ….

Right. Countries that were stripped of anything and everything (lit-fucking-rally) and then left to fend for themselves when it suited the looters, they were enslaved (in every sense), "do" these things, "invite" these things! Yup. That's exactly what happens.

Just the blacks in USA and the browns in the Indian Subcontinent are backward because they "invite" those backwardness, all they have to do is stand on their feet, and how it is spelled around the West, "pull their weight". So it is.

Ffs!
by hinkley | 2026-02-14 01:37:13+00:00
My quick look at Swedish exports shows that the largest export is finished equipment at 14%, fuel exports at 7.1, 4.8% wood and paper, 3.6% iron and steel, of which I'm sure a lot of that equipment is made. 3.4% plastics, which is just oil in another form.

It looks like you're right and their oil exports are all import/export rather than domestic, but that's still a good bit of mineral wealth.
by zozbot234 | 2026-02-14 01:37:27+00:00
If an AI can fabricate a bunch of purported quotes due to being unable to access a page, why not assume that the exact same sort of AI can also accidentally misattribute hostile motivation or intent (such as gatekeeping or envy - and let's not pretend that butthurt humans don't do this all the time, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/fundamental_attribution_error ) for an action such as rejecting a pull request? Why are we treating the former as a mere mistake, and the latter as a deliberate attack?
by malcolmgreaves | 2026-02-14 01:37:32+00:00
Corporate dems has suck. They are slightly better than the corporate republicans of the 90s and early 2000s.

Why? Because they knew that stability and economic prosperity were things people wanted. They of course never went far enough and didn’t ever want to rock the boat.

But, importantly, what you’re trying to do is wrong. Trump is not like corporate dems. It’s significantly worse. There’s not a single redeeming thing about this regime.

And all republicans are 100% behind trump. That means the entire Republican Party is guilty and responsible for what trump does.

So yes, it is appropriate to paint the entire group with one broad stroke. They’re all guilty of enabling a criminal to shred the constitution and destroy the entire fabric of US society for the next few generations. (The US has backslid to the late 1800s - blatant corruption everywhere).
by webdoodle | 2026-02-14 01:37:35+00:00
Right on point. That is the true purpose of this 'new' push into A.I. Human moderators sometimes realize the censorship they are doing is wrong, and will slow walk or blatantly ignore censorship orders. A.I. will diligently delete anything it's told too.

But the real risk is that they can use it to upscale the Cambridge Analytica personality profiles for everyone, and create custom agents for every target that feeds them whatever content they need too manipulate there thinking and ultimately behavior. AKA MkUltra mind control.
by GaryBluto | 2026-02-14 01:37:36+00:00
1. If I give you a loaded gun you're still responsible for shooting somebody.

2. It is an oversimplified view to suggest that Democratic and Republican parties completely flipped during the late 60s but they certainly did reverse views on race.

3. They put extra scrutiny organizations with "Tea Party" or "patriots" in their names and admitted as much. Unless the Obama administration was secretly Republican and put out this "lie" to negatively impact themselves as part of some grand reptilian conspiracy.
by iamnbutler | 2026-02-14 01:37:36+00:00
Cool, I'll take a look.

gpui will support web eventually - we always planned it, and i've tinkered with some folks on the team on it a bit. The problem is the crate needs to split into core/web/native (and maybe mobile?) as web needs a new executor and native has a number of deps that won't play nice with wasm...

someone did get a very claude-driven demo of gpui on the web up (you can find it in the discord somewhere.)

I would love that too though, a true cross platform solution.

> How was it like working at Zed? Any reason for leaving?

Working at Zed was great. I was employee #4 (#1 after the founders) - it was fun, often hard - Nathan & co helped me learn Rust and I fell in love with it.

I wanted to do something pretty specific (tl;dr, basically skunkworks type work) which was the reason I left.

There are always pros and cons to every role, but I appreciate that Zed is building from the ground up. DeltaDB will be very exciting - we were sitting on our hands waiting for it for a lot of the really exciting things we wanted to do with Zed.

Having to take on investors is never awesome - but as much as I don't like it, I do doubt Zed would never have existed without them.

But yeah, getting paid to design and write rust UI every day was a blast.
by elendee | 2026-02-14 01:37:40+00:00
But the noise.. this has been a huge factor in my quality of life, having lived in both buildings. That issue trumps any advantage drywall has, and I spent about 10 years working with it as well.

I think the market forces have simply dominated our natural, economically inefficient, home-dwelling instincts. I think this article means well, but it is written from the perspective of a landlord basically.
by komali2 | 2026-02-14 01:38:56+00:00
> If you want to discuss the economic system and the rich, that's an entirely different conversation. Discussing the working person's need to house those that aren't working?

It's the same conversation. The only reason the burden falls upon us at all is because the tax system is fundamentally broken. No reasonably organized resource allocation algorithm would allow so many people to hoard so much of our wealth. If our resources were allocated more efficiently, it wouldn't just be the homeless that the state could house comfortably, it would be all of us. After all, Singapore manages it, and they also have a mostly broken tax system, just slightly less broken than other places.

Preventing a stranger's death from starvation and exposure has been a bare minimum for human decency in many cultures for thousands of years. You've read about it in the Greek and Roman stories you had to read in school, where a god shows up disguised as a beggar. Native Americans had similar stories, so did Peloponnesians, Chinese, areas in Africa, northern Europe... It's a modern degeneration of our human values that this is considered such a big ask. We used to accept that we're responsible for each other's well being.
by jazz9k | 2026-02-14 01:40:18+00:00
Kind of like when protestors on J6, who only walked near the capital, were thrown in prison for years based on Google GPS data?

How about when Amazon engineers colluded with the federal government to shutdown Parler? It would be like Trump working with hosting servers for Blue sky and getting it shutdown.

Twitter and Facebook were caught colluding with the Biden administration to censor Americans. There weren't 10 posts a day on HN about it, and it was pretty quickly ignored and forgotten.

Until all of these things are addressed, I certainly won't support the freedom of speech for people that won't support mine.

The problem is that I don't think many people even see this behavior as a problem.

It has shown me that many people are willing to support the murder, censorship, and other political violence of people they don't like. I'm not talking about the right.
by ggm | 2026-02-14 01:40:34+00:00
A large percentage of the general population have some level of irregular disturbed sleep. Like, a LOT.

We've known for years making late school age kids do 8am starts is punishment. Perimenopausal women, people with restless legs, sleep apnea, you-name-it. So, confounding constant signal risk in this.

Still interesting. Does this mean the speed related drugs given to ADHD people are also sleep modifiers? Should we stop with Ritalin and move to Endep microdosing?
by danudey | 2026-02-14 01:40:50+00:00
The difference there, in Debian's case at least, is that there is a distinction between the frontend and the configuration backend; you're probably most familiar with the `newt` frontend, but there's also `text` (for textual entry without using curses or anything), `noninteractive` (for just use the defaults), gnome, kde, teletype, or even 'web' which does not seem to work effectively but is a neat idea regardless.

TUIs which are just TUI views of data you can get otherwise are fine; TUIs which are the only way to interact with something... less so.
by palata | 2026-02-14 01:41:03+00:00
If someone gives ice cream for free in the street, we don't say "you should have the decency to provide chairs and tables so that we can enjoy our ice cream", do we?

Open source users have to understand that when they benefit from an open source project, it's like receiving a gift in the street. You don't get to ask for more: either you accept the gift, or you don't. If you go an complain because they should have a vegan option or different flavours, you are the problem.
by johnnyanmac | 2026-02-14 01:41:16+00:00
People tend to vastly underestimate how much a functioning governmental model lead to the companies of 60 years ago not repeating what's happening now. And forget the blood shed to reverse the actions from the last time this tried to happen. The largest attack on US soil from the past century was from union busting attempts.

At best, some people expect all this to work out, so they sit back unaware of weight of these battles. Worst case is plain ol' ignorance of what's going on around them.
by mitthrowaway2 | 2026-02-14 01:41:29+00:00
Think hard about this. Does that seem to you like it's likely to be a physical law?

First of all, it's not necessary for one person to build that super-intelligence all by themselves, or to understand it fully. It can be developed by a team, each of whom understands only a small part of the whole.

Secondly, it doesn't necessarily even require anybody to understand it. The way AI models are built today is by pressing "go" on a giant optimizer. We understand the inputs (data) and the optimizer machine (very expensive linear algebra) and the connective structure of the solution (transformer) but nobody fully understands the loss-minimizing solution that emerges from this process. We study these solutions empirically and are surprised by how they succeed and fail.

We may find we can keep improving the optimization machine, and tweaking the architecture, and eventually hit something with the capacity to grow beyond our own intelligence, and it's not a requirement that anyone understands how the resulting model works.

We also have many instances in nature and history of processes that follow this pattern, where one might expect to find a similar "law". Mammals can give birth to children that grow bigger than their parents. We can make metals puter than the crucible we melted them in. We can make machines more precise than the machines that made those parts. Evolution itself created human intelligence from the repeated application of very simple rules.
by zb3 | 2026-02-14 01:41:45+00:00
Yeah, YOU are not worried about the job loss, but just because SOME human will be needed doesn't mean that a particular human will.

There are humans that can't do any mental work that AI can't. Those humans are not useful for mental work and that's what can cause real AI job loss. The bar for being useful for mental work is increasing rapidly..

Jobs that are easy disappear and are replaced with jobs that are no longer as easy, either requiring more mental skills (that many people don't have) or are soul crushing manual jobs that are also getting harder constantly..

So yes, YOU are not worried, because you are privileged here.