MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by alpha_squared | 2025-07-28 21:29:50+00:00
> elected by the people of gaza with support from the population.

Since we're cherry-picking, let me continue the sequence for you...

...propped up by Israel to be elected by the people of Gaza. [0]

[0] https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-years-netanyahu-propped-up...
by distances | 2025-07-28 21:29:57+00:00
To get any relevant number we'd have to check some popular app and see the versions their active users are running. That would give a good estimate of the number of people without auto updates.

Sounds like it would be higher than I expect, but I still claim it can not be more than fractions of a percent. Actively toggling a setting like is definitely esoteric behaviour even for a power user, never mind the large masses of smartphone users.

Unsupported Android version is not related to old app versions, Google Play will still work.

I do grant that web is more likely to be up to date than an app. Me claiming that it depends on the developer was just being pedantic: technically it depends on the developers and their release practices, but likely it's the web version that is more up to date.
by vineyardmike | 2025-07-28 21:29:57+00:00
There was a recent paper that showed you can spread model’s behavior through training on outputs, even if you don’t directly include obvious markers of the behavior. It’s totally plausible that training off Claude’s outputs subtly affected GLM into mentioning “Claude” even if they don’t include the direct tokens very often.

https://alignment.anthropic.com/2025/subliminal-learning/
by sofixa | 2025-07-28 21:31:13+00:00
You don't sound like the average user.

They either already have a gmail, or sign up for one my scanning the QR code you mention. I don't recall if a phone number is mandatory, but the average user probably has one, doesn't mind giving it to Google (to not lose access to their account if they forget their password is a perfectly valid reason for most people). And they'll probably not provide one from a sanctioned terrorist state with a reputation of nefarious cyber activities. Like buying Google Accounts, but much worse too.
by brailsafe | 2025-07-28 21:31:45+00:00
Seems like you're being intentionally facetious, but the best output that I've seen from any of the llms is stuff that we did a ton of 5 or more years ago, which is great because we're still doing a lot of that, it just sometimes helps get it done a bit faster after going through the steps to learn how to do it manually and correctly.
by bentocorp | 2025-07-28 21:31:47+00:00
It is a 991MB website, before optimisations.

The large majority of this comes from large header images for the Insights post content: https://www.magiclasso.co/insights/

These are png images that are relatively large in size until optimisation creates smaller, multiple image set versions.

I wouldn't say that this is an unusually large site. Any site with a medium amount of content would likely grow to such a size.
by Ameo | 2025-07-28 21:31:52+00:00
sqlx is my favorite way of working with databases in Rust hands down.

I've tried alternatives like Diesel and sea-orm. To be honest, I feel like full-blown ORMs really aren't a very good experience in Rust. They work great for dynamic languages in a lot of cases, but trying to tie in a DB schema into Rust's type system often creates a ton of issues once you try to do anything more than a basic query.

It's got a nice little migration system too with sqlx-cli which is solid.
by no_circuit | 2025-07-28 21:32:01+00:00
How long ago did you try SQLx? Not necessarily promoting SQLX, but the `query_as` which lets one make queries without the live database macro has been around for 5 years [1].

For lower level libraries there is also the more downloaded SQLite library, rusqlite [2] who is also the maintainer of libsqlite3-sys which is what the sqlite library wraps.

The most pleasant ORM experience, when you want one, IMO is the SeaQl ecosystem [3] (which also has a nice migrations library), since it uses derive macros. Even with an ORM I don't try to make databases swappable via the ORM so I can support database-specific enhancements.

The most Rust-like in an idealist sense is Diesel, but its well-defined path is to use a live database to generate Rust code that uses macros to then define the schema-defining types which are used in the row structs type/member checking. If the auto-detect does not work, then you have to use its patch_file system that can't be maintained automatically just through Cargo [4] (I wrote a Makefile scheme for myself). You most likely will have to use the patch_file if you want to use the chrono::DateTime<chrono::Utc> for timestamps with time zones, e.g., Timestamp -> Timestamptz for postgres. And if you do anything advanced like multiple schemas, you may be out of luck [5]. And it may not be the best library for you if want large denormalized tables [6] because compile times, and because a database that is not normalized [7], is considered an anti-pattern by project.

If you are just starting out with Rust, I'd recommend checking out SeaQl. And then if you can benchmark that you need faster performance, swap out for one of the lower level libraries for the affected methods/services.

[1] https://github.com/launchbadge/sqlx/commit/47f3d77e599043bc2...

[2] https://crates.io/crates/rusqlite

[3] https://www.sea-ql.org/SeaORM/

[4] https://github.com/diesel-rs/diesel/issues/2078

[5] https://github.com/diesel-rs/diesel/issues/1728

[6] https://github.com/diesel-rs/diesel/discussions/4160

[7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_normalization
by raphman | 2025-07-28 21:33:23+00:00
Very cool - That's nearly exactly what I need for a research project.

FWIW, there's also the non-free JPEG-XS standard [1] which also claims very low latency [2] and might be a safer choice for commercial projects, given that there is a patent pool around it.

[1] https://www.jpegxs.com/

[2] https://ds.jpeg.org/whitepapers/jpeg-xs-whitepaper.pdf
by ashvardanian | 2025-07-28 21:33:34+00:00
$500B is a huge headline number—even by the standards of the world’s largest lossy compression competition. But I don’t think anyone remotely familiar with the space ever expected the number to be accurate, or even cared that much about the total budget. It’s mainly a signal of political will, I assume. Mega-projects always take longer than expected and come with unpredictable costs. That said, OpenAI still has an edge over the competition, and I doubt there are many team better at raising capital than theirs.
by at-fates-hands | 2025-07-28 21:33:45+00:00
Just in case:

Object-relational mapping (ORM) is a key concept in the field of Database Management Systems (DBMS), addressing the bridge between the object-oriented programming approach and relational databases. ORM is critical in data interaction simplification, code optimization, and smooth blending of applications and databases. The purpose of this article is to explain ORM, covering its basic principles, benefits, and importance in modern software development.
by kstrauser | 2025-07-28 21:33:50+00:00
That’s a built-in feature of FTP that doesn’t require server support.

Edit: Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_eXchange_Protocol#Technic...

1. You connect to servers A and B.

2. Tell B to receive a PASV transfer. It replies with the IP address and port it's receiving on.

3. Tell A to send to that address and port.

This is documented in RFC 959, starting with

"In another situation a user might wish to transfer files between two hosts, neither of which is a local host."
by gambiting | 2025-07-28 21:34:07+00:00
>>As someone who went to US high school in the 90s, a good 1/3 of our curriculum seemed to be "never again" studies of the holocaust and other genocides throughout history. Which makes it completely incomprehensible to me that suddenly "don't talk about genocide" has become the basically law.

I used to live right outside of Auschwitz. Been inside many times, and it's an absolutely harrowing experience - the scale of human suffering inflicted upon the people brought there exceeds almost any kind of scale. But similar to what you said, majority of that place is dedicated to "never again" messaging - so it must feel weird to go in, see the pictures of starving children inside the camp(those that weren't sent to the gas chambers straight away anyway), only to go outside and see images of equally starved Palestinian children and watch Natenyahu say "there's no starvation in Gaza". I feel personal discomfort knowing that the famous "those who don't remember history" quote is on a sign right there in Auschwitz, seen by millions of people every year, yet Israel is comitting genocide against the people of Gaza.

>> The downvotes and flagged comments in this post are clearly not "organic", and the same pattern can be seen all over the web.

Any topic related to this gets flagged within few hours. No doubt this one will be too.
by bogtog | 2025-07-28 21:35:03+00:00
> I highly doubt I am a top 5%er - but wont be shocked if my week ends on a wednessday. I was just starting to use Claude chat more as it is in my subscription but if I can not rely on it to be available for multiple days its functionally useless - I wont even bother.

You very well might be a top 5%er among people only on the Pro rather than Max plan
by jbaber | 2025-07-28 21:35:51+00:00
At this point, how much does Microsoft make per license? Like cost to customer and/or OEM for the system, plus selling scraped user data? $100 or something? Maybe they could make as much just selling perfect Linux binaries of Excel, Word, Outlook. Then charge small amounts for upgrades annually. Decouple the popular software from the OS.

They could still sell the OS to businesses (e.g. because they want ActiveDirectory). But for regular customers, make money off the software. It worked for Sega.
by dleslie | 2025-07-28 21:37:11+00:00
Different country, different Government, different protests.

BLM was a nothingburger in Canada. The most similar protests to that would have been the Wet'suwet'en solidarity protests. Those lasted a few weeks and were ultimately resolved peacefully, for the most part. An important thing to consider is that the protestors weren't interested in toppling the Government; they simply wanted the Government to hear them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Canadian_pipeline_and_rai...
by LaurensBER | 2025-07-28 21:37:13+00:00
While the Dutch healthcare system has challenges I would say it's working surprisingly well give the demographic trends and budgetary constraints. In general statistics do seem to back this up.

There's a strong focus on streamlining and reducing "unnecessary" care (including a lot of preventative care that is accessible in other countries) but without doing that now the whole system will not be affordable in 20 - 30 years.

Is that the optimal approach? I'm not sure, taking a patient wishes into account and doing (some) preventative care does probably have a positive ROI. Having said that I can see both sides of the coin but as a younger person I'm glad they're taken future demands into account.
by troupo | 2025-07-28 21:38:19+00:00
> Prices will drop as more AI code assistants get more adoption.

No, they won't. Because "AI assistants" are mostly wrapped around a very limited number of third-party providers.

And those providers are hemorrhaging money like crazy, and will raise the prices, limit available resources and cut off external access — all at the same time. Some of it is already happening.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-07-28 21:38:30+00:00
> No more absurd than US card schemes dictating what I can and can't buy in another country

Philosophically, sure. Practically, no.

America is an economic and military superpower. Washington having influence over its trading partners and military allies isn't unusual. To the extent I can think of something that mirrors the absurdity of this situation, it's American evangelicals running off to Uganda to stone gays.
by dkarl | 2025-07-28 21:38:39+00:00
For progressive, educated people, Holocaust education was a double-edged sword. It made us keenly aware that the belief in the need for the existence of a Jewish state came from centuries of European Christian anti-Semitism culminating in the Holocaust. Therefore, when Israel justified its actions as defense against an existential threat, I think Europeans and American descendants of Europeans felt very nervous about rejecting that justification, since historically we're a big part of why they perceive an existential threat to their people.

I think we're well past that now, though.
by CharlesW | 2025-07-28 21:38:41+00:00
> The widely used standards for video compression are focused on compression efficiency, which is important if you’re netflix or youtube, but sometimes latency and low complexity is more important.

That's a misconception. All modern video codecs (i.e. H.264/AVC, H.265/HEVC, AV1) have explicit, first-class tools, profiles, and reference modes aimed at both low- and high-resolution low‑latency and/or low‑complexity use.

AV1: Improving RTC Video Quality at Scale: https://atscaleconference.com/av1-improving-rtc-video-qualit...
Ask HN: Is there any LLM provider that is GDPR compliant?
by pera | 2025-07-28 21:38:43+00:00
I am looking for an LLM provider that is able to process:

- Erasure requests

- Subject access requests

- Data rectification requests

Just to be clear, what I am looking for is one provider that can comply with these legal obligations and actually process these requests in their full extent.

From my current understanding none of the big providers (Google, Anthropic, OpenAI, etc) are actually compliant.
by lukev | 2025-07-28 21:41:13+00:00
> healthy

You're just using more normative words, implying that you can tell what someone "really" is aside from literally any definition you can articulate, since we've established that gamete size does not apply in all cases.

> Sex in humans is binary and immutable, but that doesn't mean boys can't play with dolls and girls can't like trucks or whatever dumb culture war stuff is raging.

Unless you are a biologist who specializes in this, caring so much about this means you are actually very much invested in the culture war.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-07-28 21:42:01+00:00
Ooohh... Wait until you have a really nasty health emergency.

I'm 63, and my wife is near my age. We take this stuff seriously.

I have known many people that have been completely devastated by medical crises. Even with insurance, some types of illness can be catastrophic, financially.

I also have known quite a number of folks that have done an amazing job of taking care of themselves, yet still had medical crises.
by jacquesm | 2025-07-28 21:42:13+00:00
I hope that this communication is not typical of the output of Claude, but if it is it should get a prize of sorts for vagueness and poor style. No way for users to find out if they are affected or not, lots of statements that carry zero information. Not impressed, to put it mildly, besides, they should have enforced their limits from day #1 as they were, not allow people to spend 10K worth of resources on a $200 plan. Now they risk those that are not even affected from re-thinking their relationship with the company.
by sleepyguy | 2025-07-28 21:42:18+00:00
They were willing to sign up and go to Ukraine to kill people. All it took was about 3k USD. However, once they arrived, they were unhappy with the meat waves they would participate in and refused.

It doesn't change the fact that they were murderers for money and still would murder under better circumstances. Let them reap the fruits of their Prophet's labor; after all, they still love the man who sends them to their death.

I only have sympathy for Ukraine; it is they who deserve it for they are dealing with this Empire of Evil.
by tripflag | 2025-07-28 21:42:18+00:00
Hey o/

Yup, this is 97% just me hacking away in vscode -- I use pylance and the debugger but have everything else disabled, easier to focus that way. The only time I use any sort of AI/LLM is for translating new strings into Chinese, since it seems decently capable at that :-)

The remaining 2% is friends coming up with new usecases/features, and sometimes finding bugs.

But now that the project got way more attention than I'd anticipated, pullrequests have started appearing, so it doesn't look like those statistics will stay true for much longer! Really cool having more eyes on it spotting the things I overlooked, really enjoying that.
by qualeed | 2025-07-28 21:43:26+00:00
My original comment was more highlighting that framing it as "unable to buy porno games" was obviously bad, and there are certainly better ways to frame it (and offered an example, off the top of my head).

However, someone smarter than me will have to come up with what that looks like. I don't have the perfect framing to present to you, or I would be heading up the political movement myself.
by mdhb | 2025-07-28 21:44:15+00:00
It’s really nothing even remotely comparable to the example you gave when you think about it for more than 30 seconds.

Firstly it’s a capability that they can’t actually acquire elsewhere.

Secondly, there’s a very clear way to identify and disable these particular locations and choosing not to do so is an active choice.

This isn’t a “hit piece” I think you might just not have read things properly or have some reading comprehension issues.
by blitzar | 2025-07-28 21:44:20+00:00
Claude says - The key is maintaining user agency—let them choose how to manage their usage rather than imposing arbitrary cutoffs.

It suggests:

Transparent queueing - Instead of blocking, queue requests with clear wait time estimates. Users can choose to wait or reschedule.

Usage smoothing - Soft caps with gradually increasing response times (e.g., 2s → 5s → 10s) rather than hard cutoffs.

Declared priority queues - Let users specify request urgency. Background tasks get lower priority but aren't blocked.

Time-based scheduling - Allow users to schedule non-urgent work during off-peak hours at standard rates.

Burst credits - Banking system where users accumulate credits during low usage periods for occasional heavy use.
by mzk_pi | 2025-07-28 21:44:34+00:00
Thank you for your insight. I agree, seeking recognition may indeed be seen as ego. We engage in volunteer work focused on social contribution and community welfare for people suffering from poverty. Instead of focusing on how to turn this into money, we believe that shifting the value starting point to contribution-based principles could reveal the compassion hidden in modern society and create new markets. Ultimately, I’ve realized that selfless acts of helping others lead to peace of mind. We are, after all, in pursuit of the meaning of life. However, we also acknowledged the fact that, without being appreciated, it’s difficult to sustain these efforts. As you said, it may be ego after all；；
by comrade1234 | 2025-07-28 21:44:46+00:00
Suppose the good npr segments are going to move over to podcasts. I know they've long since been podcasts too, like planet money, but when you're in NW Wisconsin (one of the areas most affected by the republican funding clawbacks) and your station can no longer afford to pay the planet money fees you'll have to listen to the podcast instead.

In the meantime it'll be all gardening shows on public radio in NW Wisconsin.
by XorNot | 2025-07-28 21:45:13+00:00
But also it's a childcare tax credit? Like you will only receive this in it's total value for maybe 4 years assuming you have two very close in age kids, and then lose it entirely 1 year later because they would both have started primary school.

And you wouldn't be receiving it at all if you didn't have children.

Like I would choose to not means test such a policy were in charge, but it's also got nothing to do with marginal tax rates - it's why liberals like me generally oppose means tested welfare policies (because it costs more to deliver and tends to deliver less).
by rendall | 2025-07-28 21:45:31+00:00
It's unfortunate and notable that whenever Israel hits the front page of HN and avoids getting flagged, the perspective is reliably anti-Israel.

It's worth recalling that confirmation bias, which we’re all prone to, kicks in hard on this topic. We are all subject to the tendency to notice and remember things that back up what we already believe, while tuning out anything that contradicts it.

With Israel, that often means people stick to sources and angles that reinforce their stance, whether pro- or anti-Israel, and dismiss anything that doesn’t fit their narrative.

It’d be a welcome change to see top comments or stories that challenge anti-Israel assumptions, not just confirm them.
by dismalaf | 2025-07-28 21:45:34+00:00
Criticizing Israel is in vogue but what's the solution?

Gazans still hold Israeli hostages, Hamas has publicly stated that more civilian deaths helps their cause [1], they're still fighting, the UN refused to distribute aid because they were getting attacked [2], and Israel unilaterally pulling out of Gaza and leaving them to govern themselves is literally what led to October 7th...

1 - https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/11/middleeast/sinwar-hamas-israe...

2 - https://www.wfp.org/news/un-food-agency-pauses-deliveries-no...

Edit - I love it. Down votes instead of responding to this comment's question. Again, what's your solution people?

Edit 2 - is this really a good use of the flagging tool? Is this what HN is about?
by submeta | 2025-07-28 21:47:34+00:00
Dang, how can you say for sure they are organic? Just because the downvoters appear to be human and seem not to be bots? Even if the dovnvotes came from human beings: Israel apologists are very organised. Former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett publicly emphasized the importance of Wikipedia as an information source and stated that Israelis should learn how to edit Wikipedia. Israeli Hasbara, also known as public diplomacy or pro-Israel advocacy, uses various strategies to promote Israel’s perspective on campuses and online.

On university campuses, examples include Hasbara Fellowships (training students to advocate for Israel), pro-Israel student clubs (organizing events and campaigns), social media trainings, resource support from Jewish organizations, and counter-actions against pro-Palestinian movements.

Online, Israeli ministries and affiliated organizations operate official social media teams, develop advocacy platforms and tools (like the Act.IL app), and use influencer campaigns, bots, and coordinated digital actions to shape public opinion. After October 7, 2023, civilian Hasbara initiatives on social media expanded rapidly, ranging from individual efforts to coordinated campaigns with governmental support.

So how can you say that this is a controversial topic and the dovnvotes are organic?

How is it controversial when 2mil. peope are being starved? When thousands of children have been killed by a country whose prime minister is a wanted war criminal?

Edit: Corrected "not organic" => organic
by ggm | 2025-07-28 21:48:04+00:00
Modern rice production in Australia is contentious but the farms claim a massive cost/benefit ratio in water use. Not just that it's efficient use of Australian water compared to other crops (almond groves for instance, very high value product but massive water input cost) but that it's more efficient than asian paddy rice for yield to water. I suspect the transport, processing and co-yield in protein isn't taken into account. Even so it could still be true.

The pan Asia rice research institute is a marvel. Heaps of work being done in yield, vitamin content, breeds for lower and higher water burdens and the golden rice.
by tracker1 | 2025-07-28 21:48:22+00:00
Aside: annoying when a site, specifically a govt website URL changes... I get REALLY skeptical if I land on a page my password manager (also Bitwarden) doesn't recognize with my credentials.

My local city utilities switched to some kind of google based auth from their previous separate user/password account login. Had to create a new login/account tied to my billing account.