skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unrelated:

>> "In my opinion, ANI and many media houses in India are partially controlled by incumbent party ( BJP ) either by incentives or manipulation, you can read about Income tax raid on BBC and some other media outlets for understanding their methods."

By the Indian court standards, HN would be compelled to globally take down this topic.
> ... require people to provide data they just won't. People will never provide the data ...

the word "people" is so striking here... teams and companies, corporations and governments.. how can the cast of characters be so completely missed. An extreme opposite to a far previous era where one person could only be their group member. Vocabulary has to evolve in deliberations.
So we have reached the intimidation phase of this election, where businesses owners fear repercussions from Trump (or standing up against him) and his entourage for not supporting him.

Reminds me of a certain time in history.
It can't end. Each sovereign entity is unique, and they interact in an anarchy. There's no way to get kings to treat Moldova the way they treat the united States.
So - cancel the opinion section while we're at it I guess?
I enjoyed the quality roast of exfy; even more than the 5Y chart roast that the nasdaq has dished out. :)
I think the words "a" and "model" in "a world model" are both bad.

People do that sometimes (for instance I was at the Ren Faire recently and aimed the bow when I tried archery), but people are limited by time and calories so must be energy-efficient, which means they can't afford to spend effort making a model that isn't necessary.

And what's necessary is very specific to the task or context you're in. For instance, you don't need to know what's in the garbage to throw it out. But you do need to know what's in the recycling to put it in the right bin.
Midjourney launches AI image editor: how to use it
Doesn't work, see Brazil vs X.

Censorship friendly competitors BlueSky and Threads swooped in and took away X's users and revenue.

BlueSky couldn't stop boasting how many users it got from the fiasco, and their posts were highly upvoted on HN and celebrated.
I'm not the person you were replying to, but in the past, I've just used an IP reputation checking website, such as:

https://www.apivoid.com/tools/ip-reputation-check/
My bank now sends alerts and verification codes via SMS. SMS should be assumed to be completely compromised given that it runs over SS7. 2FA using SMS is worse than an uncompromised password. I am disappointed that more and more banks and websites forcibly allow password recovery using nothing but SMS, but it seems like I'm just tilting at windmills.
Google product manager interview question - Write some code with an LLM tool that leverages a LLM to determine if the new owner of a domain is doing (a) same dodgy thing as prior owner that got flagged (b) different dodgy thing as prior owner but should be flagged (c) something completely innocuous (d) needs further review.
If the camera doing people count is not working accurately, how about point the camera at the door, to check the door status ?
Agreed, and with these new machines, they should have two of them (for several reasons). I worked there for a couple years in high school and summertime was just order after order of ice cream. The lost profit from the only machine being broken, or during it's downtime to chill the soft serve liquid after a refill, would pay back the investment in one summer, not to mention the customer service improvement.

The ad campaign for resolving this problem writes itself too. It's easily worth it. Worst case scenario, put the second machine where the pizza oven used to be.
MrBeast's Faux Philanthropy
The Reeve Effect (2003)
They endorsed in 2020 and 2016 and 2012 and 2008 and if they were so serious about adopting national neutrality they should have announced this in January instead of spiking an existing endorsement
> Why would they want to appear neutral? [...] There isn’t some “ideal”

Getting some notion of what USA politics are like on HN, I can understand why you'd have this viewpoint, but I don't think it's true

The news I am used to, I couldn't tell you what political color it has. The selection they make seems based on the perceived severity, which certainly means there is a selection process that must be introducing some sort of bias, but as near as I can tell, this bias is towards a shared humanity and not a party

Perhaps I am just naïve, so I opened the local Wikipedia and it has no mention of them being accused of having a bias, political coloring or selection, notable omissions, or any such thing

I disagree strongly with the party for hate and egocentricity having come out as the biggest one in the most recent election, and to a lesser extent with the rich people be rich party from the previous ~decade, so it's not like all noses are pointed in the same direction where I'm from; but I couldn't tell you how this organization (the default thing if you turn on your TV at prime time) feels about any particular party beyond that I expect they would condemn hate and violence in general -- shared humanity, basically.
Here’s an alternative take. Note, I’m absolutely not a Bezos fan. Maybe he is just chickening out against Trump and/or fighting against the proposed billionaire tax (which IMO will never happen.)

But consider that 1) even with all the damage Trump could do, Bezos will still be richer than god, 2) Bezos did not instruct the Washington Post to endorse Trump, and 3) he doesn’t seem to have asked them to keep things quiet either.

So of course this story breaks and of course there is all this media hullabaloo with the upshot being everyone now:

* knows that the WaPo was about to endorse Harris.

* is reminded that Trump has made official decisions and improperly pressured government matters based on personal feelings.

* is aware that even the 2nd richest man in the world fears the personal ire of a presidential candidate in a democracy, ostensibly with a solid rule of law.

I hate that this comes across as “he’s the billionaire we deserve, but not the one we need right now, and oh, BTW he's also playing 4D chess," but all this seems very expected. So maybe another way to look at this is: Bezos appears to submit to Trump, which in itself serves as a very publicly warning to the world about what will happen under Trump, and indirectly endorses Harris anyway.
Even if you do that same thing several times? (For me it eventually changes)
TFG = The Former Guy = Trump
Spiking an endorsement that's already written is not neutral either. They could have made this decision in January or years ago. They did not.
Microsoft blocks Windows 11 24H2 update for some PCs following bug onslaught
I think the main issue, as briefly mentioned in the article, is that the dangers of football weren’t really known. Now, those dangers are known, and people still willingly choose to participate (for huge sums of money at the professional level). What is left to discuss?
I didn’t say it didn’t.
You want them to name... readers of newspapers?

Editorials, by an outlet's editorial board or otherwise, have consistently been among the most popular content in news for over a century. That includes endorsements.
The most kind way to read this is that he is concerned of reprisal, no different than the reprisal he faced from the Saudi government (with likely Trump assistance via David Pecker) in 2019.
It's easy to find examples such as:

"Taste receptors in the mouth sense the five basic tastes: sweetness, sourness, saltiness, bitterness, and savoriness (also known as savory or umami)"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taste#Basic_tastes
Modern desal uses chemicals in the water to help prevent mineral buildup within the plant, and these chemicals are present in the effluent. I wonder if the author has accounted for this pollution?
> OpenBSD introduced mimmutable in OpenBSD 7.3

Correct but they did have a very similar syscall for a long time that they deprecated after the release of mimmutable iirc
https://www.npr.org/2024/10/22/nx-s1-5161480/trump-media-thr...

"More specifically, Trump has pledged to toss reporters in jail and strip major television networks of their broadcast licenses as retribution for coverage he didn't like."

But hey, I'm doing political battle? You guys really are in denial.
>>> Were we naive even at the time? Have governments become more authoritarian? Or has our energy for resistance just been slowly whittled away?

Yes, naive to think that we could live in a world without fences. The internet makes it very cheap to tear down fences. Yet, good fences make for good neighbors. It was always naive to think that governments would let a torn-fences world, remain untouched.
I don't see how that is biased in anything but a really litteral way.

I don't think that is your point, but treating creationism as a science would rather quickly disprove it? Like Dowsing rods or whatever.

If God descended from heaven (lets just pretend he did, not a powerful alien or whatever) and showed you how he creationisted everything, then it would be 'biased' to pretend it didn't happen. But I guess you could still believe it is fake, as long as the facts are considered in some way, without being biased.
I have heard government people talk about "the data is open-source" meaning it has public, no cost copy points to get data files e.g. csv or other.
The article has not been blocked by Indian government but by Indian judiciary system with a trial, there's a difference. Also trials in India take a lot of time and conclusions are reached after much thought.

Also Wikipedia does not have a good track record of its editors free from misleading articles for defamation and propaganda. I won't trust at all the article in Wikipedia about the war between Wikipedia and ANI. The article (archive) already seems to present the court in a bad flavour.
I don't think he has to do 4D chess to signal support against Trump. He could always just use his giant megaphone to decry Trump as a wannabe dictator that improperly used his own power when he was President to punish his political enemies - something Trump does not shy away from publicly admitting.
The South Korean intelligence agencies state that NK troops are going into Russia. Ukraine has no influence over SK or their intelligence agencies.
Please don't give Google ideas for more ways they can have an algorithm arbitrarily screw you over with no recourse, they're listening.
> In addition to this, the WaPo seems to have spent much of its history not endorsing candidates

In recent history, apparently the last time they did not endorse a candidate was the 1980's.
Maybe but Bezos is not lacking money. That contract was $1B/yr contract over ten years. They make $600B+ a year. Not exactly going to tip the scales of his stock options.

These billionaires usually buy money losing newspapers, or social networks, for personal reasons. If I was going to bet on it I’d very much lean on a personal motive beyond money.
the result of 'business' decisions can be measured in more than just profits. News media routinely make 'bad business decisions' because they are tools of their owners. Hence why they go bankrupt often
With Diesel async integrating everything with the pooling is a bit hairy. With sqlx everything just works.
The principle is the same though, whether you’re recommending candidates or toasters. Just because one has more impact than the other, doesn’t make it less ethical to investigate and recommend.
I send an email to my manager every week with two headings: “This week” and “Next week.” 3-5 concise bullet points under each heading, no sub-bullets. I avoid bullets like “Met with Sal about XYZ” or other wheel-spinning stuff that doesn’t translate to a performance review or interview. I include links liberally. Every manager has loved these emails, and they’re really handy for performance reviews, interviews, or even as a paper trail.
> Newspapers are a business and have to give their customers what they want.

Isn't that supposed to be news and not worthless institutional opinions on the presidential office?

> It's unlikely that an independent owner with no conflict of interest would make the same decision.

An unconflicted owner wouldn't endorse either candidate. In general, hopefully, but in this election, particularly.
All the research we have on this points pretty blatantly to everything you've just said being untrue.

Yes, LLMs have a pretty good idea of the uncertainty and truth of their predictions internally.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41418486
Sure, even when outer loss is pretty close to zero, it's conceptually not great.

On the other hand, I get 400mbps over TCP-over-TCP connections, and can't connect in any other reasonable way. 400mbps > 0.

Even tunneling in UDP is not great due to MTU effects.
in historical warfare, Roman soldiers easily and brutally defeated brave, individualist and social opponents on the battlefield, arguably in markets afterwards. It is a sad and essential lesson that applies to modern situations.

In marketing terms, a simple market communication, consistently and diligently applied, in varied contexts and over time, can and usually will take hold despite untold number of individuals who shake their fists at the sky or cut with clever and cruel words that few hear IMHO

OSI branding and market communications seem very likely to me to be effective in the future, even if the content is exactly what is being objected to here so vehemently.
It is in no way useful for the advancement of MLMs. Training data is literally the closest thing to source code MLMs have and to say it’s a “benefit” rather than a requirement only allows for the moat to be maintained. The OSI doesn’t care about the creation of truly free models, only what benefits companies like Facebook or IBM who release model weights but don’t open up the training data.
Do we really need Russian involvement for this? Are we not capable of achieving it on our own? It feels like an insult to our society .
Our company is literally in the 3rd week of waiting for a colo to install some new RAM modules in a server. Before that we were waiting two weeks to get a new server ordered, delivered and racked. Before that we had to wait a week for them to tell us if there was available power and network ports for the new server.

That server is the main database. And yes, there is a backup server, but for reasons, the backup server isn't working as expected. So if that main server's RAM failed for good, there goes our product, for god knows how long, considering how long it's taken so far to get a second one set up.

You don't have to deal with any of that shit in the cloud. None. You just spin up a new server in 2 seconds. You don't deal with shitty hardware, or the differences between old and new hardware (besides cpu arch, and some special classes), or incompatibilities, or running out of space, or getting smart hands in your rack, or a million other things.

And that's just the hardware side. The software side of the cloud is the one million unique hosted services they offer that you can just start using immediately. No server set-up, no configuration management, it already has security baked in, it's already integrated with the other million services, etc. You just start using it, immediately, and it just works. It saves you time, complexity, maintenance, and it gives you reliability, compatibility, flexibility, and allows you to ship something earlier.

I have managed servers on-prem for years, for tiny startups and huge companies. Both two decades ago, and two years ago. Without a doubt, I would always suggest any kind of hosted, cloud-style vendor over on-prem. Only somebody needs to be on-prem, or they literally are a teenager with no money at all and all the time in the world to waste DIYing, then I would tell them to go on-prem.
Uff, I’m so sorry to hear! I can see how that joke could be really not funny for someone that has gone through some crappy stuff.

I hope you stay strong as you work through such a rough life-changing diagnosis.
Honestly too, this seems like the wrong point in history to sit out an election.
I think I have an issue with knowing what I love.

I dont actually know what I love, so I'm not sure I can ever find Ikigai in my life...
Follow up interview question. Update the code using your LLM code gen tool of choice that, when someone submits a complaint via an online form, feeds that complaint text back into your LLM to score it again. Points deduction if the candidate ever mentions informing the complainant of anything.
And, spoiler alert, it’s not good, really!
> all day every day absorbing, summarising and writing about context as their full time job.

Something the people they are writing to and ostensibly on behalf of do not get to enjoy. Perhaps people with grounded perspectives would be more worthwhile. Guest opinions are logical, an actual editorial opinion department? That's just an early retirement plan for writers who don't have what it takes to produce news anymore.
> An ice age is simply when the earth's poles have an ice cover.

Are you sure? I'm not seeing that definition anywhere, and it looks like even in interglacial periods there's permanent ice in both hemispheres: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_age#Glacials_and_interglac...
Yeah, but I wondered about the same thing as GP.

It’s one thing to be another voice in the crowd of people all saying the same thing (even a very deep pocketed voice) and another entirely to be the object example everybody discusses by letting it be believed that with all your
billions, you’re scared too. People are more affected by things they decide for themselves than things you tell them, hence show don’t tell.

Were that to be the case, I wouldn’t consider it 4D chess. It seems like a straightforward strategy to me.
> not endorsing candidates might be good for the Washington Post's business, by improving its perceived impartiality

You're at the wrong meta level - if the paper's owner is making the editorial decisions, there's no impartiality to perceive in the first place.

I mean, if the question at hand was "should the editors endorse someone?" then what you're saying could stand. But that's out the window if they're being overruled by somebody without even a presumption of impartiality.
Anyone know if EFF is going to attempt further appeals?
That’s already what’s happened though, even with MLMs. Without training data we’re back to modifying a binary file without the original source.
> Researchers at ISD found that Russian disinformation agents exploited weak content moderation on U.S.-owned social media platforms such as X to spread their content far and wide.

Buried the important part deep in the article. It's not like Russia is conjuring some megaphone out of thin air and broadcasting their disinformation with it. US Social Media companies are handing them the megaphone and doing the amplification for them. But as for consequences? All these companies get are polite questions from the media and light scrutiny. Not even a slap on the wrist.

> Unsuspecting Americans then repost and spread the content. In July, American intelligence officials warned that "unwitting Americans" were helping do Russia's work for it.

We also need to stop giving these so-called unsuspecting and unwitting Americans the benefit of the doubt. At some point they need to educate themselves and stop falling for this crap. Fool me once, shame on you, fool me again and again, and again, and again... at some point I become culpable because of my own stupidity.
Colonizing Mars is a joke. Earth was more habitable the day after the asteroid hit that Mars is now.
Reminds me of a saying usually about "bugs" but adapted from this bit from Tony Hoare:

> I conclude that there are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.

My impression is that LLMs are very much the latter-case, with respect to unwanted behaviors. You can't audit them, you can't secure them against malicious inputs, and whatever limited steering we have over the LSD-trip-generator involves a lot of arbitrary trial and error and hoping our luck holds.
Meh, had worse odds and slept fine. Notably, however, odds are not nearly that bad, even in Aeroflot flights out of Africa. Or for that matter, combat flights in war zones.

Besides, a plane crash is far from the worst way to go. Dramatic, sure.

But dementia? Cancer? That’s often a pretty miserable death.

Plenty of things out there to get worried about if you want.
>> You want them to name... readers of newspapers?

Obviously not.

I want them to name readers who seek out newspaper opinions.

One name to start with.

Do you seek out newspaper opinions?
But this is past. Each time had its own challenges. For example, i learned so much about how media and partisanship works in the past years. It is so obvious and visible to me now. Maybe others feel the same and thats why an endorsement would feel disingenuous. It has to be reasonable and believable. But maybe it was not.
"Acceptable" depends on the team and organization norms and processes, not on the pull request.

Reading your post I thought about how often programmers talk about code "readability" and "maintainability," how we should all write our code in a way to make it easy for the next programmer to read and understand. And then I see posts like this, complaining about having to read code and understand and learn from it as part of the job.

If you view your job as a programmer as mainly writing more code rather than producing business value you will worry about things like the size of pull requests, number of meetings, learning new tools, even the waste of workplance social interaction. Any time spent not writing code gets devalued and treated like a distracting annoyance.

Reading code other people on the team wrote potentially has a lot of value. You can learn more about the overall code base beyond the parts you work on or care about. You might see novel techniques and approaches to solving problems. You might find opportunities to ask questions and collaborate (another thing programmers claim to value but actually don't do that often). Most important, reviewing, understanding, and maybe testing the work of other programmers, in the form of a pull request, directly contributes to the entire project/product in terms of business value, the value that actually matters much more than the isolated silos of code that programmers like to focus on.

I sigh when I see a big pull request too, but I remind myself that reviewing and understanding that work ultimately adds more value to the product than any code I will likely write in the time the PR review will take. I will just have less fun and derive less ego gratification from the PR review.
Gulag Archipelago and various China / Vietnam / North Korea prison memoirs are really good to study also. This is stuff tens of millions of people went through.
25% of Taylor's revenue (at least 3 years ago) were parts and repair services. source - https://youtu.be/SrDEtSlqJC4?si=n_L87Fx3VWeEz9Xz&t=1261
its not about if we need or want it.. its that an aggressive offensive actor IS doing it. this is an assault on your country. Its deliberately teasing out the worse aspects of your society so that you attack yourselves.

Dis/Misinformation on the web has to be the #1 education subject for the world. Not scams from Nigerian princes, but the bullshit that is now being amplified by tools like AI.
The images are all hosted on wix, so I guess they're all built with wix (I checked through them all to see if I could track the images back to anything, it's all stock photos)

The weirdest thing I find about everything in there is this hobby lobby page: https://www.smalltowntruth.org/our-economy