skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After that, can we please ban it?

Sigh. The entire social network is the epitome of an obnoxious popularity rat race to the bottom under the appearance of democracy, while being completely authoritarian. Worse, the users have been recruited to repeat ad nauseam "popular content gets liked and moved up the feed" or whatever.

While I'm against the federal government having this sort of control, it's just a little bit of relief to see TikTok go away until something else replaces it.
In United States a private business is free to shut down any speech it likes on its infrastructure/premises*. If you look closely, you will find that most or all do it to some speech or other. The revealing part is specifically what speech gets shut down.

In other words, unless you believe Facebook is part of State or acts on behalf of the State, “you don’t get to shut down hate speech” is mereley your sentiment, not something Constitution requires from them.

If Mark Z actually called hate speech “protected speech”, it is something he is free to do, but Facebook is also completely free to suppress hate speech.

* https://www.nyclu.org/commentary/column-applying-constitutio...
No, he literally never said or even implied slurs are ok
Proselytize their fundamentalist religion, Wokeness, in every nook and cranny they could find.
Being new to python, the astral stuff is such a relief.

I don’t think experienced python folks realize how much the flexible tooling slows people down, and creates friction for adopters. Setting up my project I tried 3 environment managers, 2 type checkers, 3 formatters/linters, 3 packagers/dependancy/project managers.

I know this is kinda the n+1 issue where astral is just adding another. But it feels like a complete and well designed stack, not a box of parts encouraging me to build my own. Reminds me a bit of go tooling.

I am a convert. I’ll happily jump on their type checker and packager when ready.
>AFAIK, it has never been stated publicly that DOGE or Mr. Musk would get control of this most essential service, responsible for sourcing identity verification, etc.

The man has been plotting on Signal with a bunch of cronies. Of course, he was never revealing his plans.

But, honestly, this makes perfect sense. USDS is an easy way for them to backdoor their way into the technology environment of the federal government on day 1. He gets a crew of talented people to report to him on day 1 who know the ins and outs as good as anyone in the federal government.

On top of that, after 4 years, they can tout all the successes of DOGE. Hell, they might even claim it saved Healthcare.gov
Might want to let people know that you have to pay to try things ahead of time. It's not obvious when on the launch page.
Show HN: Magenta.nvim – AI coding plugin for Neovim focused on tool use
I've been developing this on and off for a few weeks. There are a few videos on the README page showing demos of the plugin.

I just shipped an update today, which adds:
- inline editing with forced tool use
- better pinned context management
- prompt caching for anthropic
- port to node (from bun)

Check it out!
The US government has standard pay tables. My understanding is that the grades are determined by experience. They couldn't pay skilled workers less than their rate.
Falling birth rates is a problem in most wealthy industrialized societies.

Being up a 4am to greet my wife who's been up since 1am with a screaming child. I'm not sure exactly what kind of benefits could convince us that he needs siblings :)

Just saying, that while I certainly applaud the effort. I don't see any easy ways to fix the issue: kids are hard work, there are many other things you could do with your life.
Genuinely, how hard for you is it to call a person what they want to be called. What difference does gender make in the workplace even?

I understand it's hard for you to use different pronouns, but it's probably much harder for the person who feels like they don't identify with their gender assigned at birth.

> Requiring me to call someone who was born with a penis, and who has sired children a "she" is telling me to say that 2 + 2 = 5.

It's more like someone telling you to call them John and you call them Tyler instead. It's literally just a word.
People Are Delusional About How Hot They Are (Statistical Survey Results)
> I stole a lot of books too, reading them and all. Just integrated them into my worldview, and don't pay a license fee when I use the ideas in new contexts.

That... doesn't make it okay...

> A lot of them I didn't even pay for, I borrowed them from libraries or friends.

This 2nd sentence doesn't fit your first. What is your message?
Writers decide if they want to use a publisher and which publishers to use. With the internet, I don't think any good author needs to rely on a traditional publisher.
The article didn't really list a good reason that I saw.... so my question is, why?
It's bad.
Can you give a couple examples of CN that are “disinformation”?
It's outlined in the bill and is explicitly stated.

I've lost interest in this topic unfortunately, but its pretty clear even past all the legalese with the terms defined from what I remember.
> Withdrawing diminishes the WHO China controls.

Unless they decide to step up their funding as a soft power play.

This is a better page for viewing the WHO's sources of funding, at least for 2022-23[0][1]. There are three separate categories of voluntary funding and only 6.6% of funds come from Core Voluntary Contributions as displayed in your graph.

[0] https://open.who.int/2022-23/contributors/contributor

[1] https://open.who.int/2022-23/contributors/top25
Lot’s of power available. Unlikely.
Unfortunately, the US customer doesn't want EVs so we're kinda capped. You could imagine a forcing function beyond the tax credit but clearly politically that is off the table for awhile.

The US (people) doesn't want to lead the world in EVs, and thus we won't.
fanfiction can already be published. You just aren't allowed to sell it.
I could imagine _some_ arguments for it back when it was first introduced (first reference I can find to it is from 2004) — this was pre OS X Sandbox, let alone SIP. It makes sense that some OS X apps would want to prevent being debugged by other (potentially malicious) apps. Semi developer-hostile in my opinion, but I get it.

That being said, on modern iOS... the benefit seems pretty minimal. Even Apple agrees https://forums.developer.apple.com/forums/thread/701621
It'll end up owned by someone adjacent to those in power.
That agreement does nothing but launder tax money into "green" companies.

We set oil burning records every year.

The people writing that agreement fly around in private jets.

Snap out of it!
It was surreal seeing Fox News have polymarket bets being taken on what Trump would say side by side with him speaking.

And I don’t even know what to say about the president and First Lady releasing official meme coins…
The founder was already super rich and proven.

I don't know much about the details about how it got started (i.e., how much Palmer Luckey self-funded it in the early stages) but the fact that he'd already built/sold Oculus was always going to make it easier to open doors and close funding deals (even if the politics/FB drama was a complication).

Also, building tech for the US military has some advantages. You have one customer with very high stakes and very deep pockets. Obviously it's hard to get started and you need to be building something that's uniquely useful and valuable for defence purposes, but once you achieve that, once you're in the door of the military industry, you're on pretty solid ground, and that's attractive to investors. The one hardware company i know in Australia that's doing well is also making defence tech.

It's much harder if all your potential customers (in my case, farmers) are small family businesses spread thinly in non-urban areas all over the world. Investors know that makes distrubuition much more challenging.
Have you looked at the USA jobs gov site? I've seen low paying engineering jobs.
I mean you can be a local bar that hosts KKK rallies and sure that’s a legal thing to do (in USA), but you will still end up being known for that, probably by many names that don’t just include “phobia”. And of course, the impact of bringing together a KKK rally inherently impacts your local community since you may begin to see things like lynchings in the news or in person.
I see this take all the time either with *-ist and now with *-phobia and if you sincerely believe it you have a fundamental misunderstanding of the kind of content that's being discussed.

It's the "anything can be a slur is you say it with enough hate" thing. You're just giving a name to the group targeted by it. The content isn't the thing that matters, it's the dehumanization and harassment.
Can you give a couple of examples of falsehoods that are repeated over and over on Fox News that a good number of people are now convinced are true?
Backdooring Popular Software
Suppose there is a piece of software that is currently running on
most computer platforms, e.g. phones, laptops, towers, servers, etc.

Suppose further that you don't have the source code.

Now suppose that a backdoor / virus / malware is pushed out on a
given day to all these devices with the intention of bricking them.

Suddenly the internet is down (servers), the power grid is down,
the phone network is down. Everything that runs this software is
dead. Within 24 hours almost all computing-based things stop.

It can take weeks to disassemble, reverse engineer, find malware,
and develop a fix. Doing so without communication (internet, phone)
would require someone with a great deal of skill on an isolated,
generator based, non-networked machine with all of the required
software to support the task. Hopefully the bricked machines can
be rebooted and recovered but hand-distributing the fix will take
many months.

Or suppose you want to know the position and motion of every
asset in government and business. Every mobile phone begins
reporting every location and every motion. What possible use
would it be if war broke out to know the position and strength
of every asset?

Or suppose you wanted a distributed denial of service attack from
every device running this software.

Or even such benign tasks as scraping every phonebook on every
phone to construct a call graph of who-calls-who.

That can't happen of course. It's kittens all the way down.
What could go wrong?
The only thing needed is a paywall. Scrapers are not going to pay for access.
I recall Biden getting 70%+ after his speech in 2021. Just goes to show how quickly things can change – and will change again. Can’t say I’m as optimistic as DHH, but I am looking forward to 2-4 years from now
Before the bonkers immunity decision I would have agreed with this. Since then, though, I don't trust SCOTUS on any decision that involves conservative policy. This may come up sooner than expected; Trump has issued an EO attempting to nullify it: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/prot...
Aren’t they going to have to prove the FB seed seeded the particular blocks containing the works of the plaintiffs?
> In areas with moderate outdoor temperatures. Anywhere that the heatpump is going through defrost cycles, that statement is likely false because the COP is likely 1 or less when that starts happening.

Modern heat pumps have a COP close to 2 at 5F/-15C while still delivering 50k+ BTUs. Here's one example: https://ashp.neep.org/#!/product/68628/7/25000/95/7500/0///0
Just stating biological reality is "transphobia" now, if even speaking about reality is censored we are lost.
I guess my question is can you even go for, "just your slice"? I don't want or need mega millions. I just want to be well off enough. Maybe that is day job? Preferably, it'd been cool to have some success, mic drop, and live a good life. Tom Anderson from Myspace fame seems to have done well. Successful product and off living his life.
What if they provided your child nightcare too
When you hear musicians and artists talk about their career, they will talk about their inspirations. They create original works, in part based on their influences, and we do not expect them to pay out to every artist they have encountered.

Why is software different? Where should we draw the line between fair use and copyright violation when it comes to AI?
It does make sense on paper, but I wonder how effective they will be. USDS never really controlled much (at least when I was there). It was much more about soft power, connecting disparate efforts, establishing best practices, boosting other teams when needed.

The idea that it's a backdoor to government technology is something that an outsider would think. For the record this also happened eight years ago when Jared Kushner tried to put his tennis buddy in charge.
Not sure if you have access to affordable child care and parental PTO (after birth but also “my kid is sick I need to stay home” type of PTO). It makes everything a lot more manageable.
Like Truth Social and Twitter?
> While I'm against the federal government having this sort of control,

To take this position - which is certainly the virtuous one on long time-scales, you have to also take it in the case of content you abhor.

I have the utmost sympathy for wanting a life free from the message for which tiktok is the medium, but using the ring of power will only cause is to deepen an entrench more.
On the other hand, it'll likely never be finished before the president's term is up, judging from my own experiences with modernization projects.
The actual Nazis were celebrating it. Look it up. Being 'weird' isn't an excuse for doing Nazi stuff.
> Fair use was designed for teachers photocopying pages of Walden for their pupils to read over the weekend.

Walden was first published in 1854. At the time, the maximum length of copyright in the US was 28 years (14 at first + 14 on renewal).

Notions of "fair use" in the US can be traced back to the mid-1800s, too. There were court rulings, but fair use was not codified into law until 1976. Non-profit educational use was explicitly called out in 1976 also.

Photocopiers were first patented in 1937.
Some people who create information want it to be free. They often use Creative Commons to ensure it stays free

I have a copyright on information I have created, but would never enforce it because I want it to be free and consumed by both humans and AI
Those also have diplomatic immunity.
He did something similar in his first term, and you can draw a straight line from that action to the bungled early COVID response.

Which N95 mask manufacturers should we should be buying stock in? (I’d say “vaccine manufacturers”, but lolz.)
That's if he had gone with the delay mechanism built into the law if there was a plan to sell it in the works. This is just ignoring the law.
FWIW, simply because the model claims it's "not very familiar" with something doesn't mean it's actually able to probe its own knowledge and gauge familiarity in any way at all. That it's correct about not knowing much about a fairly obscure data structure from advanced computer science has more to do with what the average person in its training data would likely say than an indicator of that type of reflectionof occurring.

I agree that it happens to (likely) be right in this instance however and this output is in some ways refreshing compared to other models which appear (!!) to have overconfidence and plow right ahead.
Back in the day, publishers were punished with fraud cases if they didn't verify their authors writings, so yes, verification was part of the chain.

Different brands also traded on the trustworthiness of their platforms, and would issue yearly correctionals.

Neither of those is analagous to glue on pizza.
No, this is something different. The law allows a 90-day reprieve only if significant effort has been expended towards selling TikTok. But ByteDance hasn't made any effort at all. Trump is instead trying to prevent the Justice Department from enforcing the law. But the penalties -- and they are very large -- for violating the law can be enforced any time up to 5 years after the violation; that is, after Trump has left office. So his action may not have any effect.
Don't need another decade. A few months to get some of the holes at the bottom.
I won't argue that, but there are cultures out there that disagree - so how can it be universal?
multiple sources given at https://www.independent.co.uk/news/twitter-ap-elon-musk-meta...

also the whole "kitchen sink" image was probably a crude attempt at reinforcement
Interesting but the brief doesn't explain what 4-D printing is, which sort of reduces whatever technique they used to a cheap buzzword.

If I was less lazy I'd read the cites and report back, but alas, sloth.

Edit: OK, I've done it. It's just 3D printing objects that change shape over time once they're printed, 3D-ly. I really like that people are thinking about how to achieve this environmentally mediated shape changes but the marketing buzzwords suuuuuuuuck
Sorry for wasting your time my dude feel free to send me an invoice
With siblings of similar age, it's much harder in the first 2-3 years (external help is essential), but then the kids considerably shortcircuit to each other, so it becomes easier than having just one, constantly bored child.

Source: I am a father of two daughters with less than 2 years difference; and my brother is also less than 2 years apart from me. So, I lived my advice in both aspects: as a parent and as a child.
While it does appear that Facebook used pirated books for training in this case I’m not sure what to think about copyright as it applies to AI in general.

People read books to learn and then use that knowledge with no contribution or even recognition of the publishers or authors of the books. Sometimes people even quote books without payment to the authors. Sometimes the books are used or borrowed and the publishers and authors don’t get paid. How is it different when an AI does the same thing? Or when a human uses an AI to do the same thing?

Even if Facebook is in the wrong here what is the remedy? Would it be ok if they purchased used books and scanned them?
I would love to have a simple device out of the box that can receive sms and send them via api to a Webserver.

Just with my own SIM card, or even multiple SIM cards.

I m working on a diy solution with cheap sim800c usb modems but it’s just not that good.
What do you call alternative medicine when it has been proven to work? Medicine.
I use firefox extensions like ublock origin with safari on my iPhone. (Using Orion by Kagi.)
Show HN: phm.ai – MLK Day Hackathon - AI global health system
MLK day got Trumped today so I spent the day hacking on a side project. The goal is to have agents simulate global health system activity and use patient (digital) twins to model care plans for people "like us" all over the world.

Creating Program: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIaJZ13A0UQ

I am working on each location right now trying to setup some RAG based on each region and/or public health system.

The "Hack" for the day was just to see if I could get agents speaking in FHIR to work w/ i18n translations.

German: https://gkv.dev - publishes programs to de.phm.ai

Canadian: https://ca.medicare.dev - publishes to ca.phm.ai

Australian: https://au.medicare.dev - publishes to au.phm.ai

USA: https://us.medicare.dev - publishes to us.phm.ai

Swiss: https://foph.dev - publishes to ch.phm.ai

UK: https://uk.nhs.dev - publishes to uk.phm.ai

Click the flag to make a program specific to that region.

Didn't make as much progress as I would like to have but learned a lot more about RAG and started learning about MCP so good day overall.

- Thx for your time. - ACH
It’s just not true. Maybe a unicorn yeah. But to create a a decent software business that pays the bills is well within anyone’s reach in this world. And yeah actually perserverance is one of the main keys to success. In most markets there are players making a good income, if you are not there is just something you are missing
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This has been parenting for the last several thousand years.

I say this not to be flippant or sarcastic but rather to ask how our ancestors seemed fine with the above but we seem less so?

(To be fair, I have 3 kids and totally get why your scenario might lower the odds. I'll say that even with the 1am wakeups, the "I love you!" from a toddler is one of the best feelings ever.)
I'm not making up new definitions, I'm merely pointing out that first generation offspring of immigrants are likely to not be fully assimilated. In fact, the Southport event more or less proves that. Try to understand what I'm saying instead of being so pedantic.

I don't need to live in Britain to have a clue what's going on there. In fact, given the censorship your people are subject to, I think I could plausibly know more about what is going on than you do. There is approximately zero risk of me going to a British prison for calling it like I see it.

>And when challenged you decide to produce your own definitions of things… when are you deporting Melina and Barron?

It should go without saying that these people are legally entitled to be here for many reasons and also well-adjusted citizens. They are fluent in English, which is more than can be said of a lot of other immigrants. Most importantly of all, they aren't taking anyone's jobs or welfare benefits, or committing any crimes whatsoever. Even if they were, you can't revoke someone's citizenship even for being a criminal. That's why people need to be carefully vetted before letting them into the country. If someone is from a place that is radically different from your country, maybe they need to be scrutinized a bit more.
What message?
Damnit this has been in my ideas list for a long time
Toronto student information dating back to 1985 may have been accessed in hack
Yellow jacket riots?
What are off the shelf tools/methods people use now? Ida was pretty standard goto when I was into RE
I found your post extremely touching and humanizing. We need more of these perspectives right now that highlight the complex feelings of lived experiences. This is literally what makes us human, and has the potential to reach people in ways that polemic does not (which is not to say polemic isn't important). Thanks for sharing.
Oh it'll have an effect: the benefit of a law you could enforce but don't is that it sends an unambiguous message about the quid-pro-quo which is expected.
Oh it’s in Java we’re good
Truly some of the dumbest people are now in control of the US Government.

Im interested to see how other world leaders respond. Clearly, the US is withdrawing from international commitments, but other countries certainly realize the benefits of having these organizations. I am hopeful that other nations step up to fill the gap.

Perhaps we are witnessing the unraveling of the Informal Empire in real time. Historic moment!
I hate to be flippant, but it's just abundantly clear that Pahlka is soon going to be the newest recipient of a "fell for it again" award. I'm still an Elon fan at heart, but it's absolutely impossible to believe he's interested in the nuts-and-bolts view of government efficiency she's describing. He's repeatedly said that the problem is the government spending too much money, which he'll fix by finding employees, departments, and regulations to get rid of.
Yep, if by chance you hit a model that has seen the training data that happens to shove those tokens together in a way that it can guess, lucky you.

The point is, it would be trivial for an LLM to get it right all the time with character level tokenization. The reason LLMs using the current tokenization best tradeoff find this activity difficult is that the tokens that make up tree don't include the token for e.
> And the CO2-driving argument is predicated on null-warming in the 1800s

It's predicated on thermodynamics, heat equations, and the fact that CO2 is an insulator and that CO2 in the atmosphere has measurably increased as a direct result of fossil fuel extraction.

eg: Manabe, Wetherald 1967.

https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/atsc/24/3/1520-04...