skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And what are those "human" rights exactly?

There is no right to pronouns or to being referred to in whatever way you want. In fact, policing that kind of thing is an infringement on other people's right to free speech either.

There is no right to expensive surgeries either, especially cosmetic ones.

There is also no right to deciding which bathroom you get to go to.

Please be precise which rights you think are "human rights" and why.
You're really going with a position like, "criminals will disobey laws therefore it is pointless to have laws," huh?
The Dept of Defense has failed many audits in a row. No one really has a handle on what money is going for there, or at may other departments.

https://thehill.com/policy/defense/4992913-pentagon-fails-7t...
Show HN: I rebuilt my failed startup from 2 years ago and open-sourced it
Two years ago, I embarked on a journey to build a user onboarding tool for non-developers. My goal was to create a solution that would help non-technical users build product tours for their apps without any coding. However, the project ultimately failed due to several reasons—technical limitations, poor market fit, and the wrong approach to user experience.

Through this experience, I realized something crucial: the existing tools on the market didn’t fully meet the needs of either developers or non-developers. Open-source libraries like Intro.js, Shepherd.js, and driverjs were overly simplistic. They lacked essential features like product tour management, customizable start rules, segmentation, and data tracking. On the other hand, paid SaaS tools such as Appcues, Userpilot, Userflow, Userguiding, and Chameleon, while rich in features, often claim to be non-developer-friendly. Yet, non-developers frequently struggled to configure complex product tours, resulting in issues like "element not found" and software instability—issues that, as a developer, I find intolerable.

Reflecting on my previous experience and lessons learned, I decided to rebuild my idea with a new focus—one that catered directly to developers. I wanted to create a product onboarding solution that offered the flexibility of open-source tools while including the full features that developers need to manage product tours effectively and without expensive SaaS limitations.

That’s how UserTour was born. It’s an open-source, developer-friendly user onboarding tool designed to address the shortcomings of existing solutions. With features like product tour management, customizable start rules, segmentation, and data tracking, UserTour is tailored to help developers create robust and seamless onboarding experiences.

I’m excited to share UserTour with the community and invite developers to collaborate in making it the ultimate user onboarding tool. The project is open-source, and I welcome your feedback and contributions to improve it.
> with Facebook/Instagram, if your account gets taken over and then banned because the hackers used it for spam/scams

Happened to one of my relatives recently. Their (at least 10 years old) Facebook account has been linked by some hacker (I don't know how) with some unknown Instagram account, which then misbehaved, and the FB account was suspended as a result. A message says that the decision can be appealed from the unknown Instagram account to which we never had access and is not anymore linked. Reddit is full of people that had the exact same issue. Drives me crazy the fact that there's absolutely no way to talk to any human to solve this.
Please do not post this again - the paper is utter garbage, I think.

It is veiled to to making network topology matching the human brain the new goal, instead of, you know, the loss.
This is by design.
It tease you with some content, than force you to install app at random interval.
Many Chinese apps do this. I think Meta is doing this now as well
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Ontario premier ripping up contract with Starlink in response to tariffs
I was not talking specifically about OP.

I was talking about generally. Everyone runs around thinking they are of prominence and blah blah blah.

In realty nobody has time to think about someone else.

The prominence is entirely in their own head.

People just don't get it.

Promotions and layoffs are more of less random. If your company is doing bad nothing is stopping you from layoffs. If you are in Nvidia nothing is stopping your from getting your stocks go boom.
How else would it work? The onus needs to be on someone to make sure we are doing worthwhile things. Like anything else in life, you need to prove you deserve the money before you get it. Often that means you need to refine your ideas and pitches to match what the world thinks it needs. Then once you get a track record it lowers your risk profile and money comes more easily.
Intentions don’t matter, effects do
The first part is is precisely correct, and then the second part is precisely wrong:

> We have no way to operate on hypotheses nobody has thought of, so we just operate on the set of hypotheses we have thought of. Since the sum of this set of probabilities must be 1, decreasing the probability of one hypothesis does increase the probability of all the other hypotheses in the set.

We've been able to go to the moon because we understood general relativity, which absolutely could not have been created from a purely Bayesian approach for the reasons you made clear - it required new ideas.
Ah, thats from runevision. I recently whatched his youtube video on this (https://youtu.be/HPqGaIMVuLs) and "Return of the Obra Dinn" was also the first thing I thought of.
I’m having a difficult time understanding the practical difference between watching an internal state object vs an external one. Surely if you can observe one you can just as easily observe the other, no?

Surely if you can mutate a state object and pass it, its state can get mutated equally deep within the codebase no different than a global, no?

What am I missing here? To me this just sounds like a discipline issue rather than a semantic one.
I think the better word is tradeoff since there are no perfect data structures for each job. The hasmap has the advantage of O(1) access time but the drawback of memory usage, an unsorted nature and the depends on a good hashing function to minimize collisions. A vector is also O(1), but it has an upfront memory cost that cannot be avoided. A map has a O(Log(n)) access cost, but has less memory usage, is sorted by nature and the comparison function is easier to implement.
Three similar data structures, but each with its own tradeoffs.
Unfortunate timing for this to front page here given that Detroit and Michigan in general are going to endure some extremely rough times in the coming months and years. Detroits revival just took some direct hits.
Unless the US forbids the exports of the AI.
The tariffs are effectively a tax on the poor and middle class, without calling it that by name. Instead, it creates outrage over "the others" for being the bad guys. Afterwards, they will lower the taxes on the rich.
Microsoft/WSL pull requests taken over by malicious GH action
Navigate the Swamp of Sadness When Your Development Project Gets Bogged Down
Choice paralysis, choice overload, analysis paralysis.
not to cure, but to prevent alzheimer's, just eat teaspoon of virgin coconut oil every evening. As bonus you'll get more vivid dreams
The Four Types of Problems
> Why should anyone be honest when it goes entirely unappreciated and unrewarded?

This is a good example of the attitude that I'm describing.

Your question is close to an unthinkable culture shock to me.

In my values and ethics, honesty isn't transactional. It's not something you practice because you expect the same back. It's not something that you regulate and only provide to others that meet some moral bar that you set.

Honesty is just something you do because it's ethically right to do so.

( Nor by the way, is it motivated out of some fear of omnipotent reprisal. )
lets count!

Japanese ppl eat 50kg of rice per capita per year?*

price of 1kg of rice in tokyo $4.33**

so rice expenditure was $216.50/year? now up 60% to $346.40? a $130 increase?

the poorest 7% of households made under 1m yen?***

so thats about $6500? so a 2% or less hit to all but the poorest 7% of Japanese households.
median is 4-5m yen..lets pick 4.5m for convenience..so around $30k..n $130 is less than half a percent of household income.

i don't know where's the threshold for rounding ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

* https://www.statista.com/statistics/1228187/japan-per-capita...

**https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/prices_by_city.jsp?ite...

***https://www.statista.com/statistics/614245/distribution-of-a...
> Bullshit like this is exactly why I think scientists are better philosophers than philosophers are. The text you've quoted, is, frankly, not the writings of an intelligent person.

Which instantly refutes your position, because the alleged "bullshit" he quoted was written by a scientist, David Deutsch, not a by philosopher. Meanwhile, the defenders of "Bayesian philosophy of science" and (largely synonymous) "Bayesian epistemology" are mainly philosophers.

Am I correct in assuming you will now account for the above mistake and change your opinion to "Bullshit like this is exactly why I think philosophers are better philosophers than scientists are"?
Someone, somewhere out there is selling designer or artisanal-crafted dumpster diving shoes "for the very best comfort and agility during your homebrew solid-waste recovery activities."
For what it's worth, I pinged someone about it.
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That's the reason why many prefer "batteries-included" languages that provide a standard implementation for all the basic stuff...
It reminds me I still have this project, maybe I should update it: https://codecanyon.net/item/modern-chat-rooms-vuejs-multimed...

The problem with it, was that it was made in PHP, and websocket support is non-existing and very hard to make it easy to set-up. Now that server-sent events are a thing, it should be a lot easier to natively implement a responsive chat without having to do the AJAX polling stuff (which works ok, but feels weird when the message is not sent/shown instantly).
> "Bluesky asks about which server to use on registration"
>
> No he doesn't ask, you're wrong.

It's not very prominent, but the Android mobile app does have the option to change what server you register on.

https://ibb.co/s9pzTt3k

You can tap on the bold "Bluesky Social" text to change it.

> And there is no single one alternative server where we can register and interact with people on bsky.app

You absolutely can host a PDS that interacts flawlessly with the rest of the network. I host my own. There's an entire section in the README about self-hosting: https://github.com/bluesky-social/pds?tab=readme-ov-file#sel...
I would like to see a new law that puts any member of government found obstructing justice is put in jail.

Except that the person responsible for travesty of justice framing 9 innocent people in this Dutch series is currently the president of the court of Maastricht.

https://npo.nl/start/serie/de-villamoord

Remember. The courts have the say as to who wins and looses in these new vague laws. The ones running the courts have to not be corrupt. But the case above shows that this situation is in fact not the case.
They sortof have a just world fallacy going on, a trap I often fall into. I wish it was.

I think you're more accurate here, fuck them. The reality is I'm fortunate to be an office drone instead of treated as utterly disposable in a gig economy. And if someday AI gets good enough to replace me, I will be replaced.
Australians, for example, don't want guns relative to Americans. It's not hard to ban things people don't want. Prior to 1996 gun laws in Australia, home ownership was like 15%. In the US it's been as high as 45% in recent years. As far as the number of guns owned, we have more guns than people. So yeah, taking a country with 1/3rd the ownership down 75% with regulation that isn't bordered by cartels isn't that shocking to me.

You would never achieve that in the US and that's incredibly obvious to me by looking at the gun crime stats in places that do already have gun control laws in the US.
That is one of the most weirdest (and messed up) thing I have read in a while.

And they say it is not a fools day story despite it surfaced on 1.April, but I am not convinced.

But they also don't say how serious that plan was. It was never more than a theoretical concept it seems, after all.
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How do you mean? A lot of things have stayed pretty consistent here over the years. What are you expecting?
I used Google Gemini Pro to compare party manifestos for an Indian election
yet in the US just as many households have reported using drugs as own guns
This is a pretty good comment, except I'm not really sure what point you're trying to make with the last line.
How to Provision a Production-Ready Autopilot GKE Cluster
Hi, my name is Shijith and I'm a data journalist from India.

So we have a state election in Delhi this week (Feb 5), and I wanted to make a guide to help residents decide who to vote for.

Now parties usually declare their political platforms, their programs etc. in manifestos released before the election.

These manifestos are 20-30 pages long sometimes, and can be a slog to get through.

And if there is a particular issue you're worried about, say pollution, it's difficult to compare them all at once.

I decided to bring AI into the picture to compare the manifestos on 10 key issues like pollution and eduction.

Specifically, I used Google's AI model Gemini 1.5 Pro to scrape the various pdfs and generate the text for the comparison.

The github repo contains the python code I used to interact with the API.

You can see the guide I created at https://data.indianexpress.com/projects/manifesto-guide

I also wrote a long twitter thread that goes into more detail on how this was made: https://x.com/shijith/status/1879145563234648564

If you have any questions or feedback, do let me know. Thanks! -shijith
Thanks for the source of the quote. It's very interesting: Seeing "a computer can never be held accountable" is something where the cynic in me immediately expected "we just solved accountability, boys!", and not "this must never be allowed to happen". Especially from IBM...

On topic: I think our whole current Ad-economy is cancerous-- the decoupling of incentives between platforms and consumers/customers is IMO a bad trend for all of us long term (both sides), and having public attention/sentiment basically permanently on sale is yet another can of worms. I really hope we can learn to deal with this before it ruins our society. On the other hand, there are so many possibilities opening up, and generally just things improving without anyone much noticing, I'll still take unaccountable, capricious corporate overlords any day of the week in exchange. I would not want to live in any other time in the past if I had to make an honest choice.

Maybe the "customer support via HN/twitter" model can save the day here at least for this (as ugly as that whole concept is).
https://xcancel.com/justinskycak/status/1886111134161481931
Did you read the very next sentence, or did you just stop at the first thing you found to disagree with? I said:

> Where Popper's critique becomes important is if we keep decreasing the probabilities of all the hypotheses in the set--this indicates that the hypothesis which is true is not in the set (i.e. nobody has come up with the correct hypothesis to test). This indicates a need for new hypotheses.

I'll add that once relativity was hypothesized, it was added to the finite set of hypotheses that humans had hypothesized. Your "counterexample" is well within the scientific process I described.
I guess this gives Facebook even more incentive to re-incorporate in Texas and move the headquarters there.
Then don't cut everything suddenly without warning.

And don't take down the Memorial Wall to employees of USAID killed in the line of duty on the first day.

This is just cruelty, from a deranged drughead who spews crazy conspiracy theories about USAID ("viper nest", "criminal organization"), not a "simple" cost-cutter.
Do you have an example of the kind of marketing or sales push for communication use cases that you're implying exists? OpenAI totally does have a huge marketing arm, but Anthropic's home page doesn't make it look like they have a very large marketing or sales department at all—it looks like it was designed by the researchers themselves.
I was following this guy on instagram that makes the most amazing dumpster miniatures. Together with miniature trash that you can put in and out fo the dumpster.
Now I know what I did wrong with the ESP32-CAM powered cars when I did a very similar project in 2020 - it's was all the antenna.
Nice game. Scored 281.
Digital Dictatorship.
> Pretty confident that now that critical thinking has been thrown out the window and accountability has disappeared in political discourse

Politicians and the media have always lied about big and small details. The difference is that social media has made it easier to dispute, and now we started noticing it more. Now that they can't gatekeep the information anymore they adopted the word "misinformation" to deal with the problem. "It may be true, but it's misinformation, trust us, we have your best interests in mind".

Remember the trusted news initiative from covid? That was an attempt to continue gatekeeping, anything from any other sources was considered false and unverified, and the global media all had the same talking points at the same time. It was terrifying to see how easy everyone conformed.
Don’t most researchers have a local setup plugged into Olama so that they do NOT share their search information?
Global variables are a programming construct, which like other programming constructs is neither bad nor good. Except, due to the takeover of workplaces by the best practices cult, instead of reasoning about tradeoffs on a case by case basis (which is the core of coding and software engineering), we ascribe a sort of morality to programming concepts.

For example, global variables have drawbacks, but so does re-writing every function in a call-stack (that perhaps you don't control and get callbacks from).

Or if you are building a prototype, the magic of being able to access "anything from anywhere" (either via globals or context, which is effectively a global that's scoped to a callstack), increases your speed by 10x (since you don't have to change all the code to keep passing its own abstractions to itself as arguments!)

Functions with long signatures are tedious to call, create poor horizontal (which then spills over to vertical) code density. This impacts your ability to look at code and follow the logic at a glance, and perhaps spot major bugs in review. There's also fewer stuff for say copilot to fill in incorrectly, increasing your ability to use AI.

At the end, every program has global state, and use of almost every programming construct from function calls (which may stack overflow) or the modulus operator (which can cause division by zero), or sharing memory between threads (which can cause data races) requires respecting some invariants. Instead, programmers will go to lengths to avoid globals (like singletons or other made up abstractions -- all while claiming the abstractions originate in the problem domain) to represent global state, because someone on the internet said it's bad.
If I have a public portfolio of existing projects on GitHub, couldn't that replace an assignment? Choose one of my projects (or let me choose one), and let's discuss about it during the review interview.
The Indian Express page should explicitly state that the comparison was done using AI. Maybe it's because I am on mobile but I don't see anything of that sort.
Pretty crazy: "That’s 12 megatons of biomass—more than all the wild birds and mammals taken together."
I suppose Swift copied Ruby's strings, then.
Preserving Content Provenance with Content Credentials into Cloudflare Images
Or your company can be like Apple, with a $100B warchest, and still do layoffs!

Your view of prominence does not line up with what I've experienced for myself and seen for others.
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Those laws aren’t for them, as much as we want to believe it. You can’t sue them, and presidents are basically immune from prosecution.
That's not DeepSeek, it's a Qwen or Llama model distilled from DeepSeek. Not the same thing at all.
Yes. It's also a realistic view of what AI is actually good for.

I imagine they wouldn't have a problem with using AI to proofread your responses. That feels like fair game.

But... it can't tell you your own thoughts. It has no thoughts. And if it did they certainly aren't your thoughts.
Pretty much. At some point there is nowhere to go but up. Still, it's nice to see.
They are also a speciies capable of Teamwork , Farming , engineering , Forming governing system , Building sky scrapers . No other animals come close to that.
What if they would be considered as Non Human Intelligence?
I tried an app like this on my phone to see what sort of data I was leaking. I open Facebook and 5 vaguely Facebook domains and a few IPs are getting small amounts of data. Other apps phone home in ways I expect. Sometimes it'll go to a third party. There's not a lot of low hanging fruit sending GB or TB. If they're sending juicy stuff, they're not blatent about it.

But maybe I need to monitor at the network level and not device level. I just haven't found utility in these yet
If you are choosing to use Google products, you are choosing to solidify their monopolist position and they will thank you by randomly killing your account. Don’t use Google products.
Agency?
I am x10 faster with gpt. No regex, no stackoverflow, no sql, no broiler plate, no text manipulations.
I'm a historian, so the work is different, but the overall theme of the responses here resonates with me: read. That's how you find the issues and pieces of evidence that have been neglected, the controversies in your field, and learn the different approaches that previous scholars have taken to problems. The more you read, the more you'll see.

I'd also echo other responses here in saying that I rarely find a new issue reading meta-analyses. Going to the source (whatever that is in your field) is key.

Again, my work is different, so the utility of my response may be limited. I hope you find a problem that intrigues you and makes your work fun!
Dumpster diving specifically, maybe not, but thrifting and second-hand clothes definitely were. When thrifting was popular among the early hipsters, American Apparel would send buyers to thrift stores to gut them of all the best deals so they could offer curated collections of second-hand clothes at a steep markup. Companies like Urban Outfitters would send designers to Williamsburg parties to see what people were wearing so that they could start manufacturing knock-offs immediately.
The hipster subculture is an odd one, itself a product of poor urban artists wearing and doing what they could afford being co-opted by college-educated urban Millennials trying to reject conventional symbols of elitism and instead crafting more "authentic" snobbery on the back of traditional working-class aesthetics. But if it had any potential to mean anything, it was murdered in the crib by those who cashed in on a demand for an aesthetic and divorced it from its meaning, which is the very thing that the early hipsters were rebelling against.