MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-02-28 13:09:11+00:00
> I generally use 'regime' for autocratic governments

Which is fine.

"In theory, the term need not imply anything about the particular government to which it relates, and most social scientists use it in a normative and neutral manner. The term, though, can be used in a political context. It is used colloquially by some, such as government officials, media journalists, and policy makers, when referring to governments that they believe are repressive, undemocratic, or illegitimate or simply do not square with the person’s own view of the world. Used in this context, the concept of regime communicates a sense of ideological or moral disapproval or political opposition" [1].

[1] https://www.britannica.com/topic/regime
by dijit | 2026-02-28 13:09:32+00:00
Nobody cherry-picked anything. Per capita, single-event, it's the number that answers
the claim that was actually made — that October 7th was a "blip."

What you're doing now is a different argument entirely: aggregate conflict deaths over
77 years vs. one morning. That's not context, it's a category error dressed up as one.

For what it's worth, the full Palestinian death toll since 1948 is ~136,000 [1] — a
Palestinian source, so spare me the bias complaint. That's across eight decades, multiple Arab-Israeli wars, three intifadas, and several state actors. October 7th still isn't a blip. It's a massacre inside a war.

Which is exactly what everyone's been saying.

[1] https://english.wafa.ps/Pages/Details/145161
by upofadown | 2026-02-28 13:09:58+00:00
Canadian here...

The world already know this. Having an agreement with the USA is a lot like having an agreement with Darth Vader. The terms of the deal can be altered unexpectedly at any time.

That doesn't mean that such agreements are worthless. They can still be of value to the counties making them. It is just that those countries have to take into account the unreliability of the entity they are making the deal with. Deals with the USA involve a lot of forecasting.
by aristofun | 2026-02-28 13:10:05+00:00
All the commentators who defend iran government - are you sane?

I understand you may hate trump (what’s there to like) and everything he does.

Or you may hate jews or Israeli government. I get it.

Or you may criticize specific ways of this playing out.

But what’s deeply wrong with your moral compass if you simpathize and defend a fricking lunatic regime who literally hangs people on street every day? Who has no respect to women or human rights, who openly and officially hates other countries that don’t have even have geographical disputes with them, who openly wages local wars and sponsors terrorists and most radical islamists. Who expands its influence in the region in the most barbaric and middle ages way. Who literally opresses their own people. Who hates you, westerners.

What is wrong with you???
by dijit | 2026-02-28 13:10:24+00:00
"The main thrust targeted military installations"— of 1,139 confirmed dead, 828 were
civilians. That's 72%. They also massacred 364 people at a music festival, which
Hamas later described as a "coincidence" because they "may have thought" ravers were
soldiers "resting". That's the defence you're endorsing.

Nobody serious disputes that Gaza's suffering is real or that Israel's conduct warrants
scrutiny. But "genocide since Israel was created" is doing a lot of work for you; the
ICJ found Palestinian rights were "plausibly" at risk, not that 1948 was a genocide.

Words mean things. Overreaching doesn't help the people you're claiming to defend, it
just makes it easier for the other side to dismiss everything else you say.
by dwedge | 2026-02-28 13:10:39+00:00
You're right, I should have been more clear in that I meant a local compromise of the machine running the password manager client, not the server running the password manager itself. If my sessions and all of my data can be intercepted, the yubikey 2fa seems like it's only saving me from a token "nobody can login remotely to this one service" which at that point seems pretty moot
by jasode | 2026-02-28 13:10:41+00:00
>Democracy is about governance, not access.

It can be about both meanings. The additional meanings of democratize to describe "more accessible" are documented in Oxford and Merriam-Webster dictionaries:

https://www.encyclopedia.com/humanities/dictionaries-thesaur...

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/democratic#:~:tex...
by simondotau | 2026-02-28 13:11:20+00:00
The better version of this principle is John Rawls' "Veil of Ignorance".

In this "original position", their position behind the "veil of ignorance" prevents everyone from knowing their ethnicity, social status, gender, and (crucially in Rawls's formulation) their or anyone else's ideas of how to lead a good life.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_position
by thegrey_one | 2026-02-28 13:11:32+00:00
That's not the human norm though. Doubt an average human way of existing is literal torture for some obscure number of people. I think you're missing the forest for the threes with that BDSM example. You can always find isolated examples as counter-argument for basically anything, but in reality that's an obscure number.

Due to the complexity of our reality a lot of things find themselves on a spectrum, but in numbers things are pretty clear.
by jj_the_bunny | 2026-02-28 13:11:33+00:00
The Golden Rule is a good starting point if you have a sense of self along with a sense of what you want or need. AI doesn't even have these concepts as of yet. Even the concept of empathy requires this as well. We need to figure out how to instill a sense of self and others for AI to be able to have a morality.
by base76 | 2026-02-28 13:11:41+00:00
The cynicism is earned. But "nobody is good for humanity" is where analysis stops.

What's actually happening is a jurisdictional split forming in real time. The US is pricing out companies that won't remove human oversight from weapons systems. That's not a soap opera —
it's a policy signal with long-term consequences for where frontier AI development lands geographically.

Europe isn't perfect. But it's the only major jurisdiction actively building the governance infrastructure to keep humans in the loop by law, not by goodwill. That matters when goodwill
runs out — which, as you note, it tends to do.

The people building that alternative aren't the CEOs in Washington. Worth knowing they exist.
by ajshahH | 2026-02-28 13:11:56+00:00
> And it can fill in the missing details and disambiguate the others.

Are you suggesting “And Claude, make no mistakes” works?

Because otherwise you need an expert operating the thing. Yes, it can answer questions, but you need to know what exactly to ask.

> This has been known to be possible for decades, as (simplifying a bit) the (non-technical) manager can order the engineer in natural, ambiguous language what to do and they will do it

I have yet to see vibe coding work like this. Even expert devs with LLMs get incorrect output. Anytime you have to correct your prompt, that’s why your argument fails.
by nxobject | 2026-02-28 13:12:21+00:00
> not to force Anthropic to work with them but to drop all work with them and move to providers who will meet the military’s needs while at war.

Conversely, I’m glad that we’re looking a little further than that, and are worried about what happens after this missile exchange. After living through an endless “global war on terror” that gave us the biggest mass surveillance enabling act, it’s hard to not dismiss “it’s just until the end of this war, and we promise it’ll end well!”
by KronisLV | 2026-02-28 13:12:24+00:00
> And that message would be "We have a product so valuable/useful that not even their weak ideals and moral obligations could keep them away!"

Who knows, maybe within those 30 days you find that other offerings are good enough for your needs - I've largely moved over to Anthropic's Max subscription for all my needs, I don't even need Cerebras Coder anymore because Opus 4.6 is just so good.
by patrickk | 2026-02-28 13:12:39+00:00
So much of both parties is actually alike, underneath a window dressing of differences (eg woke/anti woke), and a complicit media which does its best to amplify and brainwash people into believing. When it comes to policies that actually affect the elites, the deep state military industrial complex/intelligence services or financial interests, it is a uniparty. Look at how Obama continued the war on terror for example, after running on “hope and change”.
by samrus | 2026-02-28 13:12:48+00:00
The people arent being pppressed by the bomb, but by their leaders. The odea that the US would liberate all peoples from tyranical rulers is naive. The US routinely installs and supports tyrants who allign with their geopolitical goals. Pol pot, pahlavi, pinochet, marcos, suharto, seko, the banana republics. Nukes didnt enable those guys, the US did
by base76 | 2026-02-28 13:12:59+00:00
This is the exact problem CognOS was built to solve.

99% reliable means you still can't remove the human from the loop — because you never know which 1% you're in. The only way to actually trust output is to attach a verifiable confidence
signal to each response, not just hope the aggregate accuracy holds.

We built a local gateway that wraps every LLM output with a trust envelope: decision trace, risk score, and an explicit PASS/REFINE/ESCALATE/BLOCK classification. The point isn't to make
LLMs more accurate — it's to make their uncertainty legible so the human knows when to step in.

Open source if you want to look at the architecture: github.com/base76-research-lab/operational-cognos
by CodeBit26 | 2026-02-28 13:13:13+00:00
In situations of high regional instability like this, the immediate concern for the tech sector shifts toward critical infrastructure resilience and the potential for retaliatory cyber-attacks. We often see a spike in sophisticated DDoS attempts and state-sponsored intrusion efforts following such kinetic events. It’s a stark reminder of why 'Air-Gapped' backups and decentralized cloud infrastructure aren't just theoretical luxuries anymore, but survival necessities for global operations.
by mexicocitinluez | 2026-02-28 13:13:46+00:00
> All the other attempts failed because they were just mindless conversions of formal languages to formal languages.

This is just categorically false.

No-code tools didn't fail because they were "mindless conversions of formal languages to formal languages". They failed because the people who were supposed to benefit the most (non-developers) neither had the time nor desire to build stuff in the first place.
by fragmede | 2026-02-28 13:14:02+00:00
Yubikey offers a false sense of security in that regard, unfortunately, because if your device is thoroughly 0wned and you don't know it, the attacker "just" has to wait for the victim to do something that would trigger the yubikey, and then swap in their forged request instead. Eg if the victim uses the yubikey to log into bank1 and to crypto wallet, but bank1 accounts have no money, instead of waiting for the customer to log into their crypto wallet with the yubikey, the attack software waits for the victim to log into bank1, but swaps in a request to the crypto wallet instead.
by CodeBit26 | 2026-02-28 13:14:26+00:00
Congratulations on being approached—that is a major milestone. Beyond a standard lawyer, you specifically need an M&A (Mergers & Acquisitions) attorney who understands IP tech transfers. General corporate lawyers often miss the nuances of 'Earn-out' clauses and post-acquisition liability. Also, ensure your data room is audit-ready before the due diligence starts. Good luck with the negotiations!
by gradstudent | 2026-02-28 13:14:29+00:00
> Anyone who puts their name on that list might potentially be a target.

My first inclination is to read letters like this as a threat from employees to the employer. It says hey boss-men, this shite is not on. Signing anonymously undermines that message. I tend to read those signatures as as, I don't like this but it's not worth my job. I have no faith in the efficacy or even existence of "obstruct or delay" tactics from folks like that.
by blamestross | 2026-02-28 13:15:14+00:00
Lets offer you a "trade up" on that "Golden Rule"

In order of priority, if possible while maintaining the health and safety of yourself and your loved ones:

- Treat others as THEY wish to be treated

- Treat others as YOU would wish to be treated in their situation

- Treat others with as much kindness and compassion as you can safely afford

When we are safe, we can do BETTER than the Golden Rule. We also have to admit that safety is a requirement that changes expectations.

I have to give credit to Dennis E Taylor's "Heaven's River" for this root idea.
by prodini | 2026-02-28 13:15:22+00:00
Same experience here. The biggest shift for me was realizing AI coding tools work 10x better when they have context about your codebase, not just generic knowledge.

I've seen the same pattern in other domains the gap between "AI can do X" and "AI can do X in YOUR specific environment" is where all the real value lives. Context-awareness is the moat.
by shinycode | 2026-02-28 13:15:50+00:00
Usually the quote comes in a positive light. We won’t make a law/rule around it, it’s a principle so it’s meant to be short. So yeah you could argue about anything in any way you want, positive or negative. And if you want to be really precise then you make a law but it’s so precise it won’t cover edge cases.
Don’t you agree that the baseline for most humans is to be in peace, find love, patience, joy, kindness, mildness ? You can manifest any of those traits to any stranger and you’ll likely have a positive impact right ?
That’s the context of the Golden Rule quote I guess
by righthand | 2026-02-28 13:16:02+00:00
Money buddy, they never cared. They didn’t care when they went back on their safety and guidance boards, they didn’t care when they tried to push Altman out, and these employees won’t care when the first AI nuke launches. Money, money, money so they don’t think about it later. It’s the exact same reason Facebook employees have given us the other side of surveillance hell.
by krapp | 2026-02-28 13:16:18+00:00
It's just weird that whenever a shooting happens anywhere else in the world, or they pass some draconian surveillance law, Americans criticize that country for not having a Second Amendment and rising up in violence against their government.

And that whenever a mass shooting happens in the US, Americans reassure themselves that gun violence is a price worth paying for the Second Amendment. And there is a run on pawn shops and gun stores because mass shootings are the best form of advertising America's billion dollar gun lobby has.

And that Americans will wax poetic about watering the Tree of Liberty with the Blood of Tyrants and Patriots any time gun control comes up, because they believe their Second Amendment is an absolute vouchsafe against tyranny and because of that, they and they alone are the only truly free country.

And they were willing to rise up in Portland.

And they were willing to rise up during COVID.

And they were willing to rise up on Jan 6th.

And they're willing to shoot up schools and black churches and gay nightclubs and mosques so often it no longer makes the news.

But now, with blatant and undeniable tyranny in their face and shooting them dead in the streets... nothing.

Not that violence would necessarily be productive (although historically speaking no social or political progress happens without it)... but it's weird that the most violent society in human history, born of genocide and bathed in blood, with more guns than people and gun violence enshrined as its second most important and fundamental virtue, the land of "give me liberty or give me death" is all of a sudden the most timid.

Like goddamn throw a Molotov cocktail or something.
by abustamam | 2026-02-28 13:16:21+00:00
Are you talking about his sister?

https://x.com/sama/status/1876780763653263770

If so, I believe the lawsuit is still going on. I'm personally withholding judgment on him on this matter since I don't know the details.

But it's easy to criticize and judge him on other stuff he's said in public.
by hdgvhicv | 2026-02-28 13:16:26+00:00
can you have truth with a subjective language. I say it’s snowing, you say not, because we determine that “snowing” kicks in at different levels. Or perhaps we have different sensory inputs. If I’m facing the window and say the man has a red tshirt”, and you are facing away. Even if we agree on the definition of man, red and tshirt, you still don’t know if that’s true or not

Can you believe your own senses? A car air freshener tells your nose that theres freshly cut summer hay around, but there isn't. You watch a tv and see Sandra Bullock floating in space. That’s a lie, it was movie magic. Maybe you know that, maybe you don’t. You’re not even seeing her, you’re seeing some flashing lights which convert to electrical signals your brain interprets as being true. Can you trust those signals? People hallucinate all the time. The truth is they can hear voices, even though nobody else can, because of misfiring neurons.

You can probably have mathematical truth - at least as far as your universe appears to work. That truth can be tested and refined, but for day to day truth things are more nuanced.
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-02-28 13:16:30+00:00
> Only according to you, based on the premise that someone didn't meet random timings that only exist in your head

I literally opened the top comment asking for any credible analysis that said the Iranians were negotiating in good faith. I haven't seen anything in any English, European or Asian sources that seemed to suggest they were.

So far, the only one I'm seeing arguing Iran was ready to do anything material is the Omani foreign minister. (I'm keeping an eye out for his substantiation on this point.)

> please answer the initial question I asked

Read past "are you asking serious questions." I literally answer it.

> Exactly why?

Negotiating in good faith means negotiating with a genuine intent to reach a deal. That requires acknowledging what the other side is saying and respecting reality. Someone can intentionally bullshit. Or they can be forced to bullshit because their regime at home has to save face and doesn't think it can survive being seen as giving in to America. Either way, bad faith.

> You need to be home around 5 so anyone standing in front of you and blocking you in a traffic jam aren't acting in good faith?

Bad analogy. Here's a better one: you're my landlord and I'm your tenant. (Ignoring the power imbalance between Iran and America, particularly when America is parking warships, is delusional.) You say I have ten minutes to plead for not being evicted. I genuinely don't think I did anything wrong. But I spend ten minutes talking about why your shoes are stupid. That's not engaging in good faith.
by casey2 | 2026-02-28 13:17:07+00:00
It's the difference between 99% and 100% of an accounts' posts. Maybe for those rare accounts that only speak when they have something to say on a topic they are knowledgeable on it's higher.

I'd divide that green by the amount of posts the account makes (and maybe start red lower and multiply) test that and you'd probably find most accounts are beige.
by thegrey_one | 2026-02-28 13:17:21+00:00
>We could stop it

I strongly disagree. It's easy to utter this string of words, but it's meaningless. It's akin to saying if you have two hands you can perform brain surgery. Technically you can, practically you cannot, as there's other things required for pulling that off, not just having two working hands.

I doubt "stopping it" is up to anyone, it's rather a phenomenon and it's quite clear we're all going to wing it. It's a literal fight for power, nobody stops anything of this nature, as any authority that could stop it will choose to accelerate it, just to guarantee its power.

It is not AI we should fear, it's humans controlling and using it. But everyone who has a shot at it is promising they'll use it for "ultimate good" and "world peace" something something, obviously.
by mattlondon | 2026-02-28 13:17:37+00:00
I think wholesale genocide of an entire population by the Israeli state is worse. The plan is obviously drive the Palestinians onto the sea (metaphorically) and make the place uninhabitable.

Israel (and I want to be clear, I am referring to Israel the state) has blood on their hands. This went way beyond a "self defense" thing - flattening the entire country, indiscriminate killing of civilians and children, murdering paramedics and bombing ambulances, destroying schools hospitals apartment buildings etc. By a modern democratic state with the most accurate smart weapons available. It's simply unbelievable to me that they are getting away with it.
by trilogic | 2026-02-28 13:17:49+00:00
>I'm not sure I've ever met anyone I would assume has not considered the basic questions of our existence. Unless they were severely mentally disabled, or something like that.

You said it yourself, you would assume they question it, meaning you are not certain. This topic is always very much tabu, and the system is built to classify automatically every One that question it as weird and not normal. Religion should be banned, as is misleading and idealogically harm people by brainwashing them. I live in Europe and was in Canada (Waterloo) for a bit. The difference of social opinion if you follow or not religion is huge, I was shocked. Growing up in Italy I can confirm that even Italy is not so brainwashed by it.
by twistedpair | 2026-02-28 13:18:13+00:00
> could the military use Anthropic’s Claude AI system to help shoot it down?

What a joke. I suggest folks read up on the very poor performance of US ICBM interceptor systems. They're barely a coin flip, in ideal conditions. How is Claude going to help with that? Push the launch interceptor button faster? Maybe Claude can help design a better system, but it's not turning our existing poor systems into super capable systems by simply adding AI.
by cogman10 | 2026-02-28 13:18:16+00:00
A authoritarian regime starting wars isn't one I want to live in either. That's why I don't want to live in Israel.

Iran has had civil unrest over the last year, they weren't in the position politically to be doing much of anything to the "democracy" of Israel.

The entire reason for the US Israel attack on Iran is because of that civil unrest, not because Iran was a threat, but because both nations see an opportunity to install a puppet government that does their bidding.

What remains to be seen is if Russia sees a similar opportunity and we end up with another Syria.
by arexxbifs | 2026-02-28 13:18:36+00:00
> Visual Basic (and other 90s visual GUI builders) were great simple options for making GUI apps

Yes, they were comfortable and easy to set up (and use), particularly when compared to web development.

> a platform where their best bet at dynamic layout is `OnResize()` and `SubmitButton.Enabled = False`

This is a great description of what web coding looked like for a very long time, _especially_ when it started replacing RAD tools like VB and Delphi. In fact, it still looks like this in many ways, except now you have a JSX property and React state for disabling the button, and a mess of complex tooling, setup and node modules just to get to that base level.

The web won not because of programmer convenience, but because it offered ease of distribution. Turns out everything else was secondary.