MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by derelicta | 2025-07-28 08:21:34+00:00
They are not a hivemind, after all they also suffer from intraclass conflict, as seen in the NATO-Russian war. But there are definitely interest groups, and we know since the mid 19th century that the class that controls the economy is also the class that shapes society as a whole. So no, it's not a conspiracy theory, it's sociology and marxism. After all, it's not crazy to think that the handful of capitalists who own the British press also defend their own interests through this same press.
by genewitch | 2025-07-28 08:21:39+00:00
there are USB 2.0 (and probably 1.x) devices with usb-A on both sides and a small box in the middle that acts as a network crossover between two machines, i've seen them in stores. I've never used one because i know how to set CIDR. And, as others have mentioned, this does just work with usb-c.
by coldtea | 2025-07-28 08:22:52+00:00
>You clearly don't understand what growth is and think it is just more of existing things. Or understand just how dysfunctional things would have to be for stasis to occur. Developing new drugs is growth.

And yet compared to a couple decades ago we have declining infant mortality and life expectancy, record low for life satisfaction metrics, demographic collapse, climate catastrophes piling up, enshittification, but yay! growth!

You know what else is called a "growth"?
by gizzlon | 2025-07-28 08:23:41+00:00
Looked at the first one, and that's in a game setting? And they test 600 ms??

edit: The second one is more useful IMO. It's hard to get under 100 ms with a roundtrip, but < 300 ms should be doable, right? So you do lose the sense that you are directly manipulating data. In most cases I think that's a good trade-off. Exceptions would be things like Google docs, but that's also because it's a well made app I trust to actually sync my data without loss. Unlike most SPAs..
by Mudbugs | 2025-07-28 08:25:05+00:00
Germany has a rich history, particularly in the gaming industry. Not the best example for "EU countries" since most of their censorship was blood and gore and anything related to Nazi symbolism, which was a plague of video games in the 1980s-2000s, since they were always the bad guys in video games, leading to heavy censorship in video games. In 2018, they lifted it significantly, and the list of censored or banned video games in Germany is relatively short.
by Etheryte | 2025-07-28 08:25:06+00:00
I think this misses the mark for why people join. We're talking about a professional setting here, I'm coming to your meeting because you invited me to join, not because of fear of missing out (on what?). All the points given in the article are good, but it misses the most important one: if you're hosting a meeting, only invite people who MUST [0] be there. If the meeting could still take place and be useful without someone, don't invite them just to listen in. If you want, shoot an email to a mailing list or post in Slack about it, but don't invite people just because.

[0] https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2119
by abxyz | 2025-07-28 08:25:43+00:00
You are approaching this from a uniquely U.S. perspective. The U.K. is pretty middle of the road as far as “surveillance” and while this may offend the freedom-at-all-costs sensibilities, it’s a fairly milquetoast change.

Visiting the Heineken website in the U.S. requires that you assert you are over the age of 21. Texas has instituted I.D. verification for pornography.

Regardless of how you feel about this law, it is not accurate to say the U.K. is unique in implementing it.
Show HN: Stop the '+1' Spam: Automatically Filter GitHub Comment Noise
by freakynit | 2025-07-28 08:25:50+00:00
https://gist.github.com/freakynit/1f472c92e01f7e77287c727c6d...

GitHub issues for popular projects are often flooded with "+1”, "Me too”, and other unhelpful comments, making real discussions hard to track. This is a simple Google Apps Script (taking reference from https://github.com/cline/cline/discussions/581#discussioncom...), which scans your Gmail inbox for emails triggered by these "noisy” comments and automatically trashes them.

Also accompanying (as comment below the script) is browser console script to dim or hide these comments from issue discussions.

---

See the spam condition on this thread: https://github.com/cline/cline/discussions/581
by jbstack | 2025-07-28 08:26:08+00:00
Here's a couple of recent Yougov polls:

https://yougov.co.uk/politics/articles/52187-political-favou...

"Keir Starmer falls to lowest net favourability rating on record"

"Labour’s popularity hit isn’t merely limited to Keir Starmer, with worst-ever net favourability scores also recorded this month by deputy prime minister Angela Rayner (-31) and home secretary Yvette Cooper (-25), while Rachel Reeves has equalled her -48 net favourability rating recorded in mid-April."

"65% of Britons dislike the Labour Party, the most in the eight years YouGov has been asking the question"
by rlt | 2025-07-28 08:27:23+00:00
“primarily a jobs program and basically only thing propping up Americans manufacturing”

Not just a jobs program, but it is strategically important to national security to retain the ability to manufacture military hardware (or at least along with allies)

It’s unfortunate that means to maximize taxpayer value we have to actually use or sell all those weapons, potentially by initiating or participating in conflicts we otherwise might not have.
by keiferski | 2025-07-28 08:28:03+00:00
First, a meeting is primarily not a way to spread knowledge. Knowledge should be spread in a format that is more resilient to time than our memories (which are surprisingly untrustworthy over even tiny time scales). For example; written text. The greatest benefit of text is that it can be asynchronously consumed, multiple times. Meetings are primarily for two things:

I think this makes sense in the abstract but not always in practice. I have been in many long back-and-forth Slack conversations explaining some piece of knowledge that would be better as a 20 minute meeting.

And so I think a better "mental model" of meetings might be functionally the same as human communication in general: for smaller and faster-acting groups, live communication (meetings) is often more efficient than writing. Especially when the team is small and needs to act quickly, because then the time cost of 5-20% of your manpower spending an hour to write out something that takes 10 minutes to explain via a video meeting walkthrough is not optimal.

But the more people your group has, the more you'll need to shift to a text-based communication method.

(This is also why I think remote work makes sense in many contexts, but does somewhat become less efficient in smaller, fast-moving companies. Unless you replace the in-person ad hoc meeting with a rapid on-demand meeting culture, you'll have some inefficiencies and move slower.)

I have seen some attempts to use AI transcription bots as an attempt to square the circle here and commit ephemeral meeting information into durable text information, and in general they aren't too bad actually.
by cal_dent | 2025-07-28 08:28:37+00:00
I think there is some truth this. But there is also another plausible scenario, where styles now change far quicker than we probably expect. We as a society get bored after an x amount of time. That time has potentially shortened now as the pace of new output generated has increased so much. What probably would typically have taken lets say a decade and a half for people to get bored of (think about how all coffee shops started to copy Friends, and then the instagram minmial cafe aesthetic became a thing) is probably shorter because LLM means that it'll be oversaturated very quickly.

The current style & cadence of LLM output is already getting tiring for many so I'd expect a different style to take hold soon enough. And given LLM can mimic any style that is easy enough to do at scale and quickly. Then the cycle commences again until someone comes up with a novel style of writing, that people like, that the LLM dont know yet and then the cycle starts again....

Edit:

I also vaguely remember an article around the cultural impact of one of the image creation ai early on, maybe Dall-E if memory serves me well. I remember very little of the article now except a comment an artist made which was along the lines that in a few years the image generation would be so good & realistic, that inevitably a counter culture will emerge around nostalgia for the weird hallucinatory creations it used to make at the start simply because at least it'll be more interesting. In a similar way you get the nolstagia for things like vinyl & handcrafted toys etc. I think about that aspect of it broadly a lot.
by pastage | 2025-07-28 08:28:40+00:00
You can't use device verification in production anyways. (ATM)

This has no effect, is it even used in production anywhere? It seems to be part of eIDAS which is a good thing, most countries already have their own identity systems as is stated in the README. The three or for id apps I have seen all have some kind of device check that is sent to the ID provider, it is not usually accisible for ServiceProviders though. On those apps you either get no indication or just a "seems suspicious" score.

The one in Sweden has a "return risk option". https://developers.bankid.com/api-references/auth--sign/auth

This does not make it possible to filter out people. And honestly considering the amount of shady phones people have I am not sure this will every work. Apple is sadly another issue, too many normals there.

It is nice that this is pointed out so we do not get a distopian future.
by motorest | 2025-07-28 08:29:06+00:00
> It's explained in the article. People aren't going to starve to fill their gas tank so you need to grow more corn to offset that used for biofuel. To do that can require destroying other carbon sinks (wetlands are the example given, sometimes dried and then burned) to turn them into fields.

The key point is that biofuel replaces fossil fuel. Meaning, instead of having a system that inputs carbon into the environment, you have a system that recycles carbon already in the environment.

It's impossible to argue against this is a significant and unequivocal improvement.

The points you raised were about corn-based biofuel. Surely you are old enough to hear the comotion about switchgrass, and how it would be the primary crop driving biofuels. I feel like framing biofuels as a corn-based crop is a red herring.

> All of these factors have to be included in lifecycle assessments, (...)

Yes, including those from fossil fuels.
by perching_aix | 2025-07-28 08:29:08+00:00
> EU citizens voted for this.

I'm growing pretty tired of this rhetoric / rhetorical sleight of hand, but maybe this is a reasonable opportunity to discuss it:

- not all citizens of a jurisdiction are eligible for voting: in this case, cursory search suggests only 400M (88.8%) of 450M were eligible - seems a bit too high to me, but let's roll with it regardless

- not all who are eligible actually vote: voting in the EU parliamentary elections, which is what EU citizens can actually vote on, like most elsewhere, is not mandatory; it's a right, not a duty: turnout was 50.74%, and that is of the eligible population, so really just 45.1% (203M)

- most voting systems are mathematically unfair [0]: extensively researched, doesn't quite apply necessarily in this case though as per the next bit

- several key positions in the various bodies are elected indirectly: same here in the EU, at which point all bets are off

- laws, regulations, and policies are not voted for or against by citizens: same here in the EU too, nobody could have even possibly voted for this in the literal sense

It's a run of the mill representative system and I think it'd serve discussions a great deal if this was acknowledged properly. Surely it's agreeable at least that this wouldn't be such news if people were all just completely on board as the sentence "EU citizens voted for this." implies when read naively and literally.

I really don't see a point to this phrase other than inciting others. And before anyone brings it up, yes, this is common in US threads as well, yes, is often expressed by EU folks against US folks, but no, that does not make this better. Why dig ourselves into rhetorical holes unnecessarily? Being narratively justified to frame things this way doesn't mean one should (or must).

And "offering feedback" is not a vote nor a voting I'd say.

[0] https://youtu.be/qf7ws2DF-zk
by fsflover | 2025-07-28 08:29:26+00:00
> (usually anonymized) telemetry data.

Anonymization is usually a lie:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20513521

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21428449

Also please stop with security/privacy nihilism, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27897975
by perihelions | 2025-07-28 08:29:35+00:00
> "it's not unreasonable to think that by the end of the decade any site, including HN, might need to link usernames with their respective eIDs in case posts come from EU IP addresses."

A rule of thumb that works too often is "how is mainland China doing things?"[0], and assume the West will follow behind shortly.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/07/15/china-digita... ("Big Brother gets new powers in China with digital ID system")

(tl;dr: Mandatory digital ID, with central government attesting and holding personal data in escrow. The "privacy-preserving", "least-bad option" a sizeable portion of even HN itself advocates for).

> "This means that companies, like social media site Weibo or online shopping behemoth Alibaba, will no longer be able to see the personal information of their users with digital IDs — but Chinese authorities will be able to see the real identity behind online accounts across a range of sites."
by netsharc | 2025-07-28 08:29:46+00:00
From their About Page:

> Fourble was built by Kevan Davis in August 2013.

> I created it because I wanted to listen to a hundred episodes of a 1940s radio series on archive.org while doing other things, but didn't have an easy framework for doing so. Putting a hundred audio files onto my phone would take up space and I'd forget which ones I'd listened to, manually copying a few new files every week would be a chore, and feeding them all into a custom Huffduffer podcast would be arduous and bordering on spam. Fourble lets me just point at the archive.org collection and automatically get one new episode delivered to my phone's podcast app each week.
by 317070 | 2025-07-28 08:29:50+00:00
Note that here they are working via phone apps, so if you are navigating with a local navigation app like Karta GPS, Flitsmeister or Sway, these apps can let the lights know you are heading that way and will be there in X minutes. Therefore this approach is not _really_ car centered and also works for bikes or any alternative form of transportation. If I read between the lines of the article, the system was developed for emergency services first, but is now expanded.
by roryirvine | 2025-07-28 08:30:07+00:00
The Crime Survey for England and Wales (formerly the British Crime Survey) should provide some insight, since it's based on interviewing a random sample of the general public.

It suggests that around a third of violent crimes are not recorded by police - but, contrary to the gp's assertion, that proportion doesn't seem to have changed significantly since the BCS began in 1982.
by brna-2 | 2025-07-28 08:31:24+00:00
I don't know exactly what top speeds I used, above 2.5x, under 5x, but I listened to some lectures on youtube as a background process to doing some work. I would be sure I have missed something, as I worked so I had this practice of just setting the video time back and checking if it is stuff that I already know. I was amazed to see that mostly all data was retained already and I had the feeling of listening to the same stuff twice.

These speeds were already non-comprehensive to my colleagues, but I thought there is no point in trying to get used to higher speeds, and to see the author processing these kinds of flows of data is just inspiring and amazing, Ill try to get better. But I am not planing on listening to code :D
by sunshine-o | 2025-07-28 08:31:34+00:00
You need to put yourself in the EU governing people shoes for a minute. Their predecessors, who were from the WW2 and Silent generations, did not care about the free Internet because they relied on the large mainstream media consuming baby boomers. They had a direct line to them. But the boomers are between 60 and 80 and vanishing. The following generations are in panic mode.

So until recently the "free" Internet did not matter politically in the EU. Tech was used to trigger color revolutions abroad where the demographics were younger.

But now the unelected EU commission inherited that Internet things and are on the wrong side of it. Worst almost everybody in the EU speaks English and listen to Joe Rogan & co. And while the US Gov might be able to control the Joe Rogan type the EU does not.

So their only move is to crack down on the Internet and limit it with a Chinese firewall type system. But they obviously do not have the ability to do so without the capabilities of an US tech giant (remember their own systems are on Office 365, every phone is Android or Apple). And this would also be in the interest of the US because it would give them a solid control over the EU.

Remember the first goal of a system is to survive and I do not see another realistic path.
How to prioritize marketing when attribution is broken and AI is changing rules?
by ivanmarketingua | 2025-07-28 08:31:45+00:00
I'm struggling with marketing prioritization in a large SaaS environment. We have to orchestrate 10+ channels and 20+ active projects, making it incredibly difficult to stay focused on the metrics that matter.

For a long time, we've used the ICE (Impact, Confidence, Ease) scoring framework. However, with attribution data becoming less reliable and AI constantly shifting the strategic landscape, ICE feels too reactive and simplistic.

We're looking for a more accurate, perhaps even proactive, model for scoring and prioritizing our marketing initiatives. What frameworks or systems are you using to tackle this?
by chrismatheson | 2025-07-28 08:31:48+00:00
There are a lot of comments and thinking along the demo and gloom lines.

On the "silver lining" side, could be a eye-opener for the population of the UK, that things they take for granted cant get summarily yanked away if they don't actually do something.

And with any luck it will pull up the technical competency of every person using these services (pretty much every adult).

With any luck parents might even be forced to gain the skill their kids already live and breathe and don't think twice about.

:)
by JdeBP | 2025-07-28 08:33:10+00:00
Whilst the headlined article is interesting, it's a case of the new and shiny distracting from regressions in what already exists.

The Raspberry Pi 5 is lacking in some fairly basic support that the Pi 4 has. There's no TianoCore, no NetBSD, no FreeBSD, no OpenBSD, no OmniOS(CE) … in fact nothing at all apart from Raspberry Pi OS. A couple of of the operating systems seem to point the finger at poorly documented hardware changes that the manufacturer has been no help with.

* https://github.com/tianocore/edk2-platforms/tree/master/Plat...

* https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/evbarm/raspberry_pi/#index6h2

* https://www.freebsd.org/where/#download

* https://www.openbsd.org/arm64.html

* https://downloads.omnios.org/media/braich/

So the question that comes to my mind is whether this is yet further new and different Raspberry Pi 5 hardware that comes with no software or prospect of software.
by Lio | 2025-07-28 08:33:28+00:00
They're not really being arrested for criticising a law though.

They're arrested for supporting a group that's been banned for causing around £30 million's worth of damage to our national defences at a time of hightened national security.

There's the implication that Palastinian Action are going to continue attacking us.

If they just stuck to protesting they would have been fine.
by M4v3R | 2025-07-28 08:33:32+00:00
> It won’t be 100, you are underestimating it to make the number be small

Make it a 1000 (I seriously doubt there are one thousand simultaneous training runs of Mistral Large 2 scale models going on every second) and it's still a drop in the bucket.

> not counting the refresh rate of GPUs (every 3-5 years the whole infrastructure is renewed

I am accounting for this by citing annual usage instead of one-time cost.
by DocTomoe | 2025-07-28 08:34:14+00:00
... and all the social media posts having been pre-approved by Minitrue. What a glorious world we shall live in.

This is no longer just rhetoric. Meanwhile, the EU’s polite, tea-drinking cousin, the UK has quietly deployed a “social media surveillance unit.” Not to fight trolls or bots, of course - but to ensure His Majesty’s Subjects think correctly in public. Doubleplusgood, wouldn’t you say? [1]

[1] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/police-socia...
by 1a527dd5 | 2025-07-28 08:34:17+00:00
Image link after "For now, I plugged this key into CyberChef, and was able to decrypt the data." is broken.

Specifically this element:

<a href="https://nexy.blog/2025/07/27/how-i-hacked-my-washing-machine..." class="hoverZoomLink"><img alt="CyberChef decrypting the washing machine's response" src="https://nexy.blog/0006-How-I-hacked-my-washing-machine/cyber...
by yoz-y | 2025-07-28 08:36:02+00:00
> Have you kept up with recent ML papers like MindEye, which have managed to reconstruct seen images using image generator models conditioned on fMRI signals?

Not really. I left the field mostly because I felt bitter. I find that most papers in the field are more engineering than research. I skimmed through the MindEye paper and don’t find it very interesting. It’s more of mapping of “people looking at images in a fMRI” to identifying the shown image. They make the leap of saying that this is usable to detect actual mind’s eye (they cite a paper where they requires 40 hours of per-subject training, on the specific dataset) which I quite doubt. Also we’re nowhere near having a portable fMRI.

As for portable MEG, assuming they can do it: it would be indeed interesting. Since it still relies on synchronized regions I don’t think high level thinking detection is possible but it could be better for detecting motor activity and some mental states.
by jqpabc123 | 2025-07-28 08:36:37+00:00
They can fight --- but for how long?

Personally, I don't think they can win --- even with the US as an ally.

The suggestion of a fight is based on a flawed assumption --- that the fight will be isolated to Taiwan. Add London to the battleground --- still ready to fight?

This is not a far away battle against Argentina.
by jonathanstrange | 2025-07-28 08:36:51+00:00
This is ridiculous but it's worth pointing out that if the EU would provide their own infrastructure for "age verification" it would be even more Dystopian. The problem is not really that the EU in this case would give Google and Apple monopolies that locks out all competition, the problem is the "age verification" itself. Nobody needs, nobody wants it, and it's the starting point for all kinds of browsing and chat control measures dictated by governments.
by windward | 2025-07-28 08:36:56+00:00
Like you I couldn't imagine saying this to my boss. On the other hand, I could imagine saying it at some meetings at a previous employer, much larger, with many more inter-departmental box-ticking meetings.

Meeting culture is something that varies hugely between companies and industries and sectors. IMO that means that advice like this has limited utility unless you're aware of the differences. There are a few topics like this.

If the person you'd be telling it to is your boss, you probably don't have much sway to change the culture beyond regular feedback loops.