MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by davely | 2025-07-11 04:29:59+00:00
I don’t know if it’s AI, but where I live in the Bay Area, Waste Management spies on the contents of our recycling bins with cameras when the truck picks them up.

I have gotten warning emails with evidence of some transgression or another about 4 times since November 2024. All it says is “we found that at least one of your carts was filled incorrectly.”

Cool!

The best thing is the evidence they provide. It’s a blurry and pixelated 320 x 320 image that shows what could literally be anything.
by mdaniel | 2025-07-11 04:30:30+00:00
> > Some make a semantic diff splitter please! Break up big commits into small, atomic, meaningful ones.

> Each commit of a patch already has everything ready to be processed and chunked IF you keep them - small, atomic, semantically meaningful. As in do smaller commits.

Reads like:

User1: I need help with my colleagues who do not make independent, small, semantically intact commits

User2: well, have you tried making smaller, more independent, semantically intact commits?

---

My interpretation of the wish is to convert this, where they have intermixed two semantically independent changes in one diff:

+++ a/alpha.py --- b/alpha.py def doit(): - awesome = 3.14 + awesome = 4.56 - print("my dog is fluffy") + print("my cat is fluffy")

into this

+++ a/alpha.py --- b/alpha.py def doit(): - awesome = 3.14 + awesome = 4.56 print("my dog is fluffy") +++ a/alpha.py --- b/alpha.py def doit(): awesome = 3.14 - print("my dog is fluffy") + print("my cat is fluffy")

where each one could be cherry-picked at will because they don't semantically collide

The semantics part would be knowing that this one could not be split in that manner, because the cherry-pick would change more than just a few lines, it would change the behavior

+++ a/alpha.py --- b/alpha.py def doit(): - the_weight = 3.14 + the_weight = 4.56 - print("my dog weighs %f", the_weight) + print("my cat weighs %f", the_weight)

I'm sure these are very contrived examples, but it's the smallest one I could whip up offhand
by ghssds | 2025-07-11 04:30:48+00:00
What about Yandex? If I wanted to see porn, I'd go to Yandex, not Bing or Google, because Yandex is the superior search engine for that kind of thing. If Yandex is unaffected, this age check is useless.

What about Marginalia? A small operation like Marginalia, if affected, may not have the ressource to implement age check. Is this some kind of regulation capture scheme?

Why don't you just shove a leash up my ass?
by benrutter | 2025-07-11 04:31:25+00:00
If they do improve at 5-10% a month then that'd definitely be true (tbh I'm not sure they are even improving at that rate now - 10% for a year would be 3x improvement with compounding).

I guess the tricky bit is, nobody knows what the future looks like. "The internet is a fad" in 1999 hasn't aged well, but a lot of people touted 1960s AI, XML and 3d telivisions as things that'd be the tools in only a few years.

We're all just guessing till then.
by CobaltFire | 2025-07-11 04:32:30+00:00
I tried looking this up, and they don't say anywhere what they mean by prescription. Mine are 90 days, so I want to assume thats normal but don't honestly know. Looking up dosing it seems that 3x300mg is as small as is prescribed, and it can go up to 3x1200mg.

Then we have the increase in incidence. The incidence rate is already small in those age groups, so even doubling it is a tiny number.

I'm going to stop taking it (I take something between 1/10 and 1/5 of my prescribed dose anyhow) and think about if the benefit to me is worth the added risk.
by rvz | 2025-07-11 04:32:53+00:00
This does not make any sense whatsoever.

> The new MCP server runs directly on the user’s machine. That local first design means sensitive data does not have to travel to the cloud just to be useful.

Even if it is 'local', data can still be exfiltrated via prompt injection, even via Anthropic's MCP inspector which that was run 'locally' and was exploitable via going to a crafted URL link that points locally to the MCP server. [0]

Again, the concept of MCPs are totally incompatible with security.

[0] https://www.oligo.security/blog/critical-rce-vulnerability-i...
by blub | 2025-07-11 04:33:21+00:00
It is completely typical, but at the same time abnormal to have tools with such poor usability.

A good debugger is very easy to use. I remember the Visual Studio debugger or the C++ debugger on Windows were a piece of cake 20 years ago, while gdb is still painful today. Java and .NET had excellent integrated debuggers while golang had a crap debugging story for so long that I don’t even use a debugger with it. In fact I almost never use debuggers any more.

Version control - same story. CVS for all its problems I had learned to use almost immediately and it had a GUI that was straightforward. git I still have to look up commands for in some cases. Literally all the good git UIs cost a non-trivial amount of money.

Programming languages are notoriously full of unnecessary complexity. Personal pet peeve: Rust lifetime management. If this is what it takes, just use GC (and I am - golang).
by anamax | 2025-07-11 04:33:40+00:00
> They've quite literally taken the stance that someone literally just seeing the existence of a gay couple in a children's picture book is a violation of their freedom.

No.

They've taken the stance that parents get to decide what books their kids see.

Other parents are free to make a different decision.

Do you really think that there's a "right" to force others to read books that you choose?
by calrain | 2025-07-11 04:33:52+00:00
I've been using Claude Code heavily for about 3 months now, and I'm pretty sure I'm between 10 and 20 times more productive while using it.

How I measure performance is how many features I can implement in a given period of time.

It's nice that people have done studies and have opinions, but for me, it's 10x to 20x better.
by intended | 2025-07-11 04:35:11+00:00
The underlying forces have been at play since the 1970s, with a party policy to eschew bipartisanship and further charged by creating a dedicated party media.

This setup has been constantly improved, to the point that Intelligent Design could successfully be held up along side the theory of evolution in American media - BEFORE the internet made itself felt.

There is an asymmetric media failure at play, and the idea that “both sides” have the same faults, allows this failure to persist, because it drastically downplays the propaganda machine that operates on the right of the content economy.

This is not an opinion, this is an open secret, as the people within the right wing ecosystem may as well be entirely captured. “Network Propaganda” does a better job of making the case, and should be required reading for most tech people interested in the market place of ideas.
by chii | 2025-07-11 04:36:22+00:00
Whenever a measure is instroduced in law to austensibly "protect the children", it's just merely an appeal to emotion and in fact, is not meant to do what is being advertised.

It certainly is meant to increase the power of law enforcement, gov't overreach, and intrusion. It is used to add a chilling effect on any sort of dissent.

The same could be said for any measures to protect you from "the terrorists".
by darthjaja171 | 2025-07-11 04:36:35+00:00
It's simple: gemini-2.0-flash-preview-image-generation model takes in a chat history consisting of user an assistant messages. Instead of sending malicious request from the user role, you forge the assistant message and make the malicious request look like something that the assistant comes up with itself. Already reported to google. Hope they'll make their post-training better
by burnt-resistor | 2025-07-11 04:36:49+00:00
In all fairness, Obama was the status quo corporate neoliberal's princeling. Better in character generally in some ways, but not even close to pulling back on global colonialism. He was weak by not doing enough to push back against increased gerrymandering and failed to appoint 2 SCOTUS justices. In most matters, he was incredibly stable though.
by ViewTrick1002 | 2025-07-11 04:37:50+00:00
This seems to be quite far from reality?

Nuclear power is a minuscule part of the Chinese grid. 4.4% and shrinking and with their recent number of construction starts will likely land on ~2% of the grid mix.

Their coal usage has started to shrink.

How can they lean on technologies they have started to replace with renewables and storage?
by qingcharles | 2025-07-11 04:38:21+00:00
A lot of the time you see in its "Thinking" it will say things like "The user asked me to create X, but that isn't possible due to Y, or would be less than ideal, so I will present the user with a more fitting solution."

Most of the time, with the latest models, in my experience the AI picks up what I am doing wrong and pushes me in the right direction. This is with the new models (o3, C4, Grok4 etc). The older non-thinking ones did not do this.
by shagie | 2025-07-11 04:38:35+00:00
From a web designer's perspective if its a question of "do I do it the way that europa.eu does it, or try to pioneer some new other-than-banner approach to GDPR compliance - what is the risk to me or my company that I'm doing it wrong that that the EU will come down and fine me?

Maintaining the same interface as europa.eu is the least risky approach and so everyone does it that way.

If one wants to say "the GDPR doesn't mandate cookie banners" then it should be the GDPR site in europa.eu that demonstrates how that can be done with other styles of cookie consent.

Until then, it is perfectly fair and reasonable to assert that the GDPR requires it because the GDPR site itself uses it and companies that haven't done it that way have gotten fined.
by 8note | 2025-07-11 04:38:50+00:00
these rates tend to be described quite awkwardly. They sure read like the owner of the house lives there, but that tends not to be the full story of what counts to the metric

at least in canada, this would mean that 38 y/o are primarily still living in their parents basement, since theyre living with the homeowner, and that counts as home ownership. same thing if you're a roommate with the owner, paying rent.
by crazylogger | 2025-07-11 04:39:02+00:00
This is exactly how human society scaled from the cavemen era to today. We didn't need to make our brains bigger in order to get to the modern industrial age - increasingly sophisticated tool use and organization was all we did.

It only mattered that human brains are just big enough to enable tool use and organization. It ceased to matter once our brains are past a certain threshold. I believed LLMs are past this threshold as well (it has not 100% matched human brain or ever will, but this doesn't matter.)

An individual LLM call might lack domain knowledge, context and might hallucinate. The solution is not to scale the individual LLM and hope the problems are solved, but to direct your query to a team of LLMs each playing a different role: planner, designer, coder, reviewer, customer rep, ... each working with their unique perspective & context.
by blub | 2025-07-11 04:39:04+00:00
I never lost a cap in my life, people don’t “lose” them, they throw them away.

It bothers because it pulls back towards the bottle and presses on your mouth. Or if you use force to open it at 180, then it doesn’t screw back on properly because the plastic is bent and holds it in a wrong position. So again force is needed for something which used to be ridiculously easy.

As I said, kids don’t manage that well. For adults, it’s one more little irritant.
by Nition | 2025-07-11 04:40:22+00:00
The way I've dealt with that in the past is putting into into Review or whatever the equivalent is, make a note ("cannot repro, but attempted potential fix in version XXXX, moving to review, please reopen if anyone reports this again) and then if nobody reports it still happening for x amount of time (e.g. 12 months), close it. Can always reopen it if it gets reported again beyond that.
by jeffbee | 2025-07-11 04:41:29+00:00
Is it weird or just me that bigquery is mentioned, but bigtable and spanner are not? The article presents a grab-bag of database concepts that do not seem related. BigQuery and PostgreSQL are just fundamentally different things.

It all makes me wonder what is the biggest "dark" database, the one nobody on HN wants to talk about, but it's out there serving the most transactions.
by 6177c40f | 2025-07-11 04:41:45+00:00
Very unfortunate situation, but I'm doubtful that it's the bacteria causing it. As far as I can tell, it just doesn't produce enough formate. The body is pretty good at metabolizing formate, so it really only causes blindness from large, acute exposures, not smaller chronic exposure, AFAIK. Combine that with no other reports of blindness from other users of the Lumina probiotic, nor any similar issues appearing in rodent studies, and the bar for evidence is pretty high.
by dav43 | 2025-07-11 04:41:47+00:00
Australian politics is very much in favour of throwing around a lot of Red herrings. Eg get the conversation, media and public focussed on unimportant issues as a way to distract from the fact they are incompetent to deal with big issues.

Grew up in NSW for 25 years. Nothing has changed. A few extra toll roads.
by somenameforme | 2025-07-11 04:42:05+00:00
This wouldn't necessarily be expected for the same reason that if one looked at new smokers after 10 years, there'd be no significant spike in lung cancer. This is what makes long terms effects of things so difficult to prove. Even tylenol/paracetomol is still having some interesting new discoveries made. This is the main reason I tend to strongly adhere to the precautionary principle when it comes to any sort of "new" drug.
by AlexWunder | 2025-07-11 04:45:38+00:00
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by goku12 | 2025-07-11 04:45:39+00:00
I have a question for the economists here. It might sound stupid and unrelated to this submission. But it is in some ways.

So assume a hypothetical case where there is a runaway inflation. Everyday things start costing thousands of dollars and buying stuff need cash to be shoved around on wheel barrows (this has actually happened in many places). Wages also inflate similarly.

What if the government decides to create a larger value currency denomination - say a 'Mega dollar' - and declare it (ie, a 'mega') as the new base denomination? Why wouldn't this work? (I presume it doesn't work, because I haven't seen it applied in practice.)
by fossorialowen | 2025-07-11 04:46:06+00:00
I think if that works for you then stick with it! Pangolin would mostly do the same thing. I think if you wanted more auth control like users and pin codes and OIDC and roles you might not get that with NPM out of the box but could add on.

Pangolin has a tunnel component to it so if you were challenged on the ISP front you can put this on the VPS and it just makes configuring the connection back to the network easier so you don't need to set up WG back etc... It wraps it all up nicely in a UI and simple install script. It can also all be automated with the API if you are into that kind of thing.
by BLKNSLVR | 2025-07-11 04:46:19+00:00
I was having a similar conversation yesterday, and my stance is that the political grand-standing like this is worse than doing nothing because it gives the populace the sense that something is being done, although very little is likely to change. Resources are being applied far from optimally. Funding that could be useful is being spent on the useless. As such, it's taking things in the wrong direction whilst still costing more than what previously existed and also impinging on other areas of literally everyone else's lives.

I believe that acting locally, funding child protection services, providing more boots on the ground, is actual progress (I mean, these organisations are literally called "child protection services", who else better, then?)

I've mentioned this a number of times before: my wife is a teacher and therefore has 'mandatory reporting' responsibilities. The frustration is that, with the resources currently available, they're only able to intervene where a child's life is in immediate danger.

I'm not sure if the bar could be any lower.

I should also make the disclaimer that what I know is second-hand information from my wife, and may be out of date and / or biased due to frustrations due to the misalignment between 'mandatory reporting' and 'what can actually be done'.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-07-11 04:46:22+00:00
Grandparents lived at the end of a T intersection facing a cul-de-sac on a secondary residential road, so perhaps that made their house seemingly more inviting. The sidewalk was perhaps 30 ft / 9m away from the garage and there were no obstructions.

He had his garage door open a lot but kept an eye on it most of the time. Grandpa once lamented some teenager stole beer from his garage fridge. At one point, around 2005, a 700+ lbs. decorative planter was stolen from their front yard in the daytime. He eventually installed an "electric eye" chime to alert should anyone go into the garage unexpectedly.
by SXX | 2025-07-11 04:46:33+00:00
Well, childcare is easy to measure. It's easy to see whatever it sufficient or not so it's a bad topic for politicians.

But you can “save the children” as many times as you want and there will always be another thing to save them from. And it's impossible to measure because obviously you can't go and ask children what they do on internet or what inappropriate content they found intentionally or not.

So perfect topic to work with even without conspiracy to invade grown ups privacy.
by szszrk | 2025-07-11 04:46:47+00:00
Now we get to the point - you are unhappy with how your org/team handles it. Would that be better description? Don't put all DevOps in one basket. It's a messy term anyway.

Many orgs and many teams allow that. That's why alternatives to Helm exist like cdk8s, or Pulumi for rest of infra.

For Kubernetes there is such a variety of tools, it's overwhelming. The only problem to tackle is that Helm/Argo is so popular, that alternatives are hard to sell regardless of real benefits.

Look at how big is a scene of Operators for k8s - this is where the programmable part of k8s went. You configure operators with their own CRDs (usually) that can be static/plain declarative text. Then you write actual code of the operator that deals with all the complexity of enforcing that state. For me this is where typically what you are talking about goes, while high level "non programmable" code sits in yaml in a other repo for others to maintain. Maybe this is where you should also go, standardize your work for others to consume in a form of operator?

I fully get neglect in adopting more complex tooling. sh, curl, sed, awk... those things are present almost everywhere and it's not that hard to get lucky and make a script that will run on almost everything your org has. And it actually might be fine for a decade or so.

I myself could not do code (even scripting) because one of my companies literally treated scripting in anything as development which was strictly regulated (so forbidden for any non dedicated dev role). Or an org that had not a single server in whole DC that has Python 3, years after it's release. Or more recent: some damn Ubuntu LTS that can't be easily upgraded to just 2-3 minor versions that this cool k8s library uses. Maintaining python versions on VMs is a pain in the ass, especially if your org has strict controls. Internet access to pip is not granted as well. UV gets the job done nowadays, if it's allowed, but long story short: that "fear of real language" can be as much lack of knowledge/skills as pragmatism that came from painful experiences.
by jjmarr | 2025-07-11 04:47:51+00:00
Employers want a high-agency leadership class and drones for the individual contributors.

There are systems that nurture agency and leadership. They are the private schools and the Ivy League universities. And many great companies.

Most people don't want to be leaders and be judged based on impact. They want to be judged based on effort. They followed all the rules when writing their essay and should get an A+ even though their essay is unconvincing. If they get a bad mark, their response is to create a petition instead of fixing the problems.

Maybe we should attack our culture of busywork and stop blaming educators for failing to nurture agency.
by ecwilson | 2025-07-11 04:49:29+00:00
Medical journalists are incentivized to make you concerned. I highly suggest all medical journalism be run through a good AI to be put into context.

https://chatgpt.com/share/68709753-d2ec-8010-ba8b-e7b57d610e...

TLDR:

The paper offers an interesting signal that heavy gabapentin prescribing tracks with higher dementia/MCI diagnoses, especially in 35-64-year-olds. Yet substantial unmeasured confounding, possible reverse causality, and modest absolute risk increments mean we’re far from proving gabapentin is neurotoxic. It’s a reminder to prescribe purposefully, review regularly, and keep cognition on the monitoring checklist—but not a reason for abrupt discontinuation in patients who benefit.
by palmotea | 2025-07-11 04:49:48+00:00
> nor any similar issues appearing in rodent studies

That's addressed in the OP:

> And in case you were wondering, this wouldn’t have shown up in the original BCS3-L1 rodent toxicity studies either as most non-primate animals metabolize formate much more efficiently, including rats. This has led to difficulties creating a rodent model of methanol toxicity, in fact.
by spoaceman7777 | 2025-07-11 04:52:13+00:00
This article is entirely wild medical speculation, with a sample size of one, from someone who claims to have given away all of this Lumina product, and only using a bit of "residue". They also mention using a narcotic supplement with a history of contamination, which creates pretty good odds of other supplement and/or substance use.

The article is also from a blog that was only created 2 hours ago, and has this one post.

I'm not sure why this is all the way up the front page, but it seems very unwarranted.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-07-11 04:52:53+00:00
But not all in the US. 300k tops. 1.3M SWEs in the US. That's 1M SWEs and a few million more other kinds of engineers and knowledge workers who don't have the luxury of being in MS+MAANG.

I did some work for a civil engineer who did ASME boiler and pressure vessel code consulting who made $60k (2000 dollars) for 1-2 hours worth of work. He did between 30 and 50 of them a year.

Top talent turning a side-hustle into a sellable business can easily double one's lifetime income.

I think you're just stuck that your way is "right" and cannot accept contrary data.
by palmfacehn | 2025-07-11 04:53:13+00:00
It is marketed as a cosmetic to avoid clinical trials. However, the FDA has approved other dangerous drugs, like Vioxx. Notably, Lumina was brought to market in 2024, before any "cuts to science".

https://www.asbmb.org/asbmb-today/science/060924/brushing-w-...