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Wikipedia is overall excellent, and it has certainly brought enormous value to me throughout the years.

But it is noticeably biased on any topic that has political implications.


History and many fields of science also have political implications, and you’ll find just as much editorial slant there, too

This would be the reality-based editorial slant, then? What are you proposing as an alternative?

“Reality-based” is rather smug, isn’t it?

Can't wait for the specific examples

What for? To start a flame war? No one is going to get convinced one way or the other.

Which was why I just wanted to point out that while I think Wikipedia is a net good overall, it is not without blemishes.


> Makes claim.

> Is asked for evidence.

> Refuses.

Brilliant work. These kinds of posts should be bannable.


If you do not know of a single Wikipedia article that you judge to be politically biased, then that says more about you and your gullibility than it does about me.

The point is not that Wikipedia is completely unbiased. That's an obvious impossibility - for any encyclopedia.

The point is that accusations of "noticeable bias on any topic that has political implications" is the kind of accusation made by someone simply trying to sow distrust in information, writ large. It's increasingly common.

Being asked for an example or two isn't weird.


This kind of bias is a statistical measure; typically you can't prove or disprove it using a single sample.

It's about larger patterns, which things are talked about and (crucially) which are not. How much attention is given to things and not.


Ok, can’t wait for specific examples illustrating the larger patterns

Eh... this is a joke comment, right?

I don’t know, is the "Wikipedia is left biased but I can’t produce a single piece of evidence" rhetoric a joke?

BuzzFeed, Salon and PinkNews being used as reliable sources should be everything you need to know about WP.

Or read some of the more critical viewpoints against the Wikipedia editor bureaucracy (that shields itself with a laughable "Anybody can edit Wikipedia! We don't exist! Don't look at the man behind the curtain") like https://www.tracingwoodgrains.com/p/reliable-sources-how-wik...

Small aside, it's a fun coincidence I (finally!) saw Brazil for the first time a week ago...


Again, can you find articles using some of these "unreliable" sources (I don’t know Salon or PinkNews, and I know that BuzzFeed News actually had pretty good articles back then) to promote biased content?

Just looking at the front page of PinkNews, the content appears sourced and factual. A media being oriented (LGBT in this case) doesn’t necessarily mean it’s biased or lying. Taking this article as an example[1], I see no reason why it shouldn’t be used as a Wikipedia source.

[1]: https://www.thepinknews.com/2026/01/16/trump-eliminates-rape...


Completely biased in language, which matters because the bias can and will be added verbatim to Wikipedia articles

The bias is that: how do you handle the fact that any man could claim to be a woman and be housed with women? Especially when the issue is compounded by those numbers on rape they're reporting? Do you build special quarters in every prison? For the 47 individuals in 50~70k detainees? Be realistic and have a more balanced view of the matter.

I think the "bias blindness" of WP is a weapon selectively applied to one side and should be removed in favour of sources that at least pretend neutrality. The problem is obviously that you almost have no source left, then; at least in the political/ideological domain.


> how do you handle the fact that any man could claim to be a woman and be housed with women?

Does it happen? What’s wrong with handling it on a case by case basis? Is "some men could lie" more important than "incarcerating trans females with men will get them raped"? I’m assuming real trans people can be detected pretty easily: do they look like the opposite gender? Are they on HRT (boobs on men and beard on women are pretty clear giveaways that they’re actually trans)? Did they present as the opposite gender before being incarcerated?

> Do you build special quarters in every prison? For the 47 individuals in 50~70k detainees?

I don’t know, what’s wrong with debating it? Is it that weird to think some population should get a different treatment if they’re wayyy more at risk of getting raped, or worse?

Sounds to me like "a bias towards humanity" is unacceptable


It does happen, yes.

For example, look up Tremaine Carroll and Karen White. Both of them men who claimed to be women, were transferred to women's prisons based on policy that allows "gender identity" to override sex, then raped and sexually assaulted female prisoners who were locked up with them.

The whole reason we have sex-segregated prisons is to prevent imprisoned women from being subjected to male predation and violence. Letting men into women's prisons because these men claim to be women completely undermines this.


So many parroting the same "bias" line here, yet not a single example has been linked.

There’s about fourteen or so in other threads. I posted a couple:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46632023


CC isn’t open sourced.

Neither was 99.99999% of the content they stole.

Any source for this claim?

all the scrapped data on internet?? are you that naive lol

Scraped != stolen.

LOL No if you didn't have explicit permision to use it for Training, you didn't have permission this is called stealing.

Nonsense. Copying is not theft, this debate was solved 25+ years ago!

Have you seen the "you wouldn't steal a car" ads? Or this video? https://youtu.be/IeTybKL1pM4?si=utZ5KjmK-C2-fFdP


I meant "source available" I guess. Or am I missing something?

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code


Yes, there is no source code in here. This is their scripts / tooling / prompts repo. The actual code that powers their CC terminal CLI does not exist anywhere on their public GitHub

It is available on npm but it’s a wasm file last I checked. You also don’t need it to find their endpoints, people are just seeing what networks calls are made when they use Claude Code and then try to get other agents to call those endpoints.

The hard part is that they have an Anthropic-compatible API that’s different than completion/responses.


Very nice, BAML looks useful. Building an agentic app right now, and trying to get agents to respond with structured output definitely makes me feel uneasy. So looking forward to trying this out.

So why bother with the earlier hypocritical pretence bringing up torture and murder? Just straight up say you approve of the move because a new U.S. stooge in Venezuela would be better for US geopolitical interests.


This sounds like a cookie cutter ChatGPT reply.


Haha, ouch. I promise it’s just me—I just spent 20 minutes rewriting that comment because I didn't want to sound like an idiot explaining search to a search engineer. I'll take it as a sign to dial back the formatting next time.


That emdash in your reply is so in-your-face "—".


I need to switch my home network to at least use IPv6 externally, because my ISP recently deployed CG-NAT, which made my SSH server that used to work no longer reachable from outside of my LAN.


You can use a NAT-traversing VPN like tailscale to work around this.


vim-fugitive for Vim/Neovim is even better as it allows you to do per line stages, not just per hunk.

There are many other plugins for vim and emacs (e.g. magit) that enhance one’s git workflow.


Projection. China does not even try to export their ideologies to the rest of the world who they see as clearly different culturally. The “west” OTOH does not have a good track record of that.


It's interesting how this sounds like projection to me as well, from the perspective that China does export their ideology. Your post itself seems to be a form of that, whether you're Chinese or not.


China certainly does export their ideologies by telling the world Taiwan is part of China and telling others to not recognize Taiwan as a country. They also have major if not direct influence on Myanmar's civil war. North Korea. Let's not forget the taking land(India, tibet) and extending their borders with man-made islands so they can extend their fishing territories. that's a great track record. you're not biased at all.


In the present day, this is a delusional take.


China has engaged in industrial espionage on an unprecedented scale. To the extent there is delusion, it's in American spies being slow to returning the favour.


PiPy is more apt, no?


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