Why “contaminated” is being discussed
The most recent Hacker News stories and comments contributing to this topic's mentions.
Speaking as someone who has been truly poor, if you're lucky enough to have a "home", the water is probably poisoned or flammable from some sort of mining. Health care, in the U…
by enatiello · Oct 30, 2026
I thought that individual anecdotes would be less convincing than evidence that "economically motivated adulteration" is an entire classification for such crimes used by the FDA…
by __MatrixMan__ · Oct 28, 2026
> Like, nobody volunteers to distribute contaminated food, but people will do so quite readily in service to their bottom line. Who? Name names. You are making a bold, broad cla…
by gbacon · Oct 27, 2026
It's not equally suspect. Profit seeking behavior, left unchecked, yields problematic outcomes rather quickly. Unmonetized actions don't seem to have this tendency. Like, nobody…
by __MatrixMan__ · Oct 27, 2026
That would be a very exciting experiment. I doubt you could find enough vintage training data to train a LLM enough to do it without it being contaminated by anachronistic data…
by xp84 · Oct 27, 2026
It's all the same helium, of course, going through different levels of industrial purification. I only clarify this as it isn't like we find super pure reserves in nature and th…
by llm_nerd · Oct 26, 2026
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