MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by palata | 2025-07-20 21:56:43+00:00
> they all push stuff into Europe that violates these standards and can be sold cheaper as a result.

I understand that and I agree that it should be regulated. But on the other hand, I can order 50 zippers on Temu for 2$, and if I go to a local store they sell one for 10$. I bought both, and they are exactly the same.

So one zipper on Temu costs 4 cents, versus 10$ in a local store. That's 250x more expensive. Doesn't seem reasonable.
by zkmon | 2025-07-20 21:57:01+00:00
I personally know how this works in Europe & UK. Not only government, this applies to big companies such as large banks as well. They recruit two kinds of staff. One that works to progress some work and one who puts an many hurdles as possible and call it risk management, compliance, security, regulatory etc (RCSR). They hire approximately 3 times more people into these RCSR positions compared to the technical and real work related positions. These RCSR guys dump thousands of pages of guidelines, making it impossible for any meaningful work to progress. My technical team has been running around for 4 months for approvals for testing an upgrade of a database.

Top management can never go against the RCSR guys, who are like priests of the church in medieval ages. And the RCSR guys have no goals linked to the progress of the real work. The don't like any thing that moves. It's a risk.

Management thinks that RCSR helps with controls around the work. But what happens is, you put more people in building controls, they deliver fort walls around your garbage bins.
by luqtas | 2025-07-20 21:57:05+00:00
great read: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S187861462...

fungi has memory and can decide to not grow on a previous hostile enviroment/direction

edit: i'm skeptical about the fantastic type of journalism title. the paper points on using fungi electrical reactions to light to drive a robot, not the the otherwise, even less the fungi understanding a "robot" and using it. despite them showing spatial perception on studies about their capabilities
by misiek08 | 2025-07-20 21:57:21+00:00
1. Write intent 2. Don’t use intent write as success 3. Report success on different operation completion.

While restoring: 1. Ignore all intents 2. Use only different operations with corresponding intents.

I think this article introduces so much chaos that it’s like many „almost” helpful info on io_uring and finally hurts the tech. io_uring IMHO lacks clean and simple examples and here we again have some bad-explained theories instead of meat.
by smcleod | 2025-07-20 21:57:21+00:00
The framework desktop isn't really that compelling for work with LLMs, it's memory bandwidth is very low compared to GPUs and Apple Silicon Max/Ultra chips - you'd really notice how slow LLMs are on it to the point of frustration. Even a 2023 Macbook Pro with a M2 Max chip has twice the usable bandwidth.
by spwa4 | 2025-07-20 21:57:37+00:00
What I just find incredibly hard to believe is that we are accepting comments about inequality and profiteering "in cooperation" with Al-Jazeera. Seriously? From the Qatari government?

Does it really need to be stated that this is propaganda? Really? Are we to believe that these people are worried about the rights of poor patients in the US?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_Qatar
by freefaler | 2025-07-20 21:58:02+00:00
May be we should have more supply, less regulation & more open information on pricing. (in the US you can't get a quote on your medical bill beforehand in many places)

Currently the hospitals are working in an environment where the market forces can't work properly. That's why the prices of the medical services are so expensive. No competition, limited supply, over regulation, incentives between the hospitals and the insurers are bad.

The argument of "it's too important to be for profit" is wrong, because food is "for profit" and it's not perfect, but the market forces the big retailers to work with 2-4% margin. Hospitals aren't like that. For profit hospitals work with 14% average operating profit margin (3-5 times higher) because of the regulated industry.

This is a classical microeconomics problem of supply and demand. Markets are good at that to drive the price down. For people who can't afford it the government may redistribute the taxes from the healthy people to pay for treatment. The cheaper is the treatment, the better it will be for all.
Global hack on Microsoft Sharepoint hits U.S., state agencies, researchers say
by spenvo | 2025-07-20 21:58:06+00:00
https://archive.ph/Ym2jZ, https://web.archive.org/web/20250721135933/https://www.washi...

https://research.eye.security/sharepoint-under-siege/

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/07/microsoft-fix-targets-at...

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-re...
by landl0rd | 2025-07-20 21:58:55+00:00
I have also blocked yookayers from my site because I would rather spend my time on GTM for my more valuable markets or have free time than waste it on the tiny chunk of my users who are yookay based.

Also I don't know what sort of weight "guidance" from a reg agency vs statute carries there, how much of a defense it is, etc.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-07-20 21:59:18+00:00
> Interstate road works? Hardly matters to your daily life

Sure does if you want trucked vegetables in the winter!

> think it is pretty solely due to the relationship between the size and rate of growth of the local high income demographic and housing inventory

The American housing market is broken. You are absolutely correct in that shrinking Rust Belt cities sidestep this problem by being in the rare position of housing surplus.

What I’m challenging is the notion that life in those cities would be as nice as it is if the entire country copied their population and economic contraction.
by const_cast | 2025-07-20 22:00:06+00:00
1. No actually it does hold - these are still observational studies.

Which means they are looking at people who already don't eat UP foods and comparing them to people who do. But UP foods are more likely to be hyper-palatable.

So you're comparing foods that are likely to be hyper-palatable to those that aren't. That's what you're measuring.

If you conduct a double-blind study where you compare UP foods that are NOT hyper-palatable to non UP foods that are NOT hyper-palatable you won't find a difference. Such a study does not exist, because it's almost impossible to do.

People who are already health conscious will be healthier. You're not forcing anyone to eat healthier, so you're not measuring anything valuable.

2. HFCS is 60% fructose, sugar is 50% fructose. Does that 10% increase make a difference? Yes. But it's miniscule. If you replace all HFCS with sugar, you lower your fructose intake only a tiny bit.

Also appeal to nature is stupid. It's just dumb and nobody cares about that.
by biimugan | 2025-07-20 22:00:18+00:00
I've never understood this argument. When I drive, I'm relying on more than just vision. I'm relying on sound, tactile feedback, an understanding of traffic law, an understanding of human behavior on the road (some of which is specific to my locality, the time of day, etc.), an understanding of weather conditions and geography, past problems I've run into on the road and heuristics I've learned over time to improve safety, weighing the risks vs benefits of certain maneuvers (especially considering how specific cars around me are behaving), and so forth. Some of this a purely vision focused FSD could simulate. But much of it it cannot. That's why alternate sensing systems really are needed, whether it's LIDAR or something else.
by landl0rd | 2025-07-20 22:00:55+00:00
America has a similar (if less severe) version of this problem where nobody can contradict any compliance-adjacent function. Because if you get sued, someone will ask you "why did you ignore the guidance of your compliance team??" and might even try to use that to justify piercing the corporate veil. Of course compliance types have no incentive to let business happen just like business types have a limited incentive to operate in a compliant fashion, but lawsuits favor compliance always taking precedent with a hyper-cautious approach.
by aosaigh | 2025-07-20 22:01:29+00:00
The world is a very very different place technologically then when you grew up.

Again I don’t have kids, so I’m not in a position to judge, but I can only imagine the pressures on children are completely different nowadays. For example, we didn’t have computers in our pocket 24/7 with all of our peers on the other end influencing us indifferent ways.
by mschuster91 | 2025-07-20 22:01:30+00:00
> I bought both, and they are exactly the same.

They are not. With the one you buy at your local store, you get the two years warranty, and should the thing contain, say, lead paint you can hold the seller accountable.

Good luck doing the same against Temu.

In addition, you pay a markup at the physical store for stockkeeping. Yeah sure, I can order the small capacitor for some fried PLC adapter on Amazon. No doubt. But I'll need to wait about two days for shipping, whereas the local electronics store has it right now when I need it.
by danielrico | 2025-07-20 22:02:03+00:00
I've used to commute in inline skates in traffic. It wasn't usual but I had a couple of close encounters.

The was an avenue with bike preference in the leftmost lane, but as cars parked anyway it way like a 1/4 lane.

Once I was completely zoomed out and felt something was off. The car at my right just push the break.

I followed along with a t drag and straighten up to get a clearer vision. A truck was turning left from the middle of the avenue, cutting 2 lanes including mine.

These things always happens in downhill. I had not enough space to brake. I turned left almost, not without almost hitting a woman that was waiting to cross the street 2 steps down the curb, and headed full blast too a cobblestone street. I don't know how I manage to do that without falling.

Yes a less experienced me would have not seen the risk early enough nor had the skills to get that turn. But there are shit you cannot predict.
by pavlov | 2025-07-20 22:02:08+00:00
Only for x86 / x86-64 architectures (AVX2 and AVX512).

It’s a bit ironic that for over a decade everybody was on x86 so SIMD optimizations could have a very wide reach in theory, but the extension architectures were pretty terrible (or you couldn’t count on the newer ones being available). And now that you finally can use the new and better x86 SIMD, you can’t depend on x86 ubiquity anymore.
by epistasis | 2025-07-20 22:02:18+00:00
> And now it’s falling apart from within due to ideas from the humanities?

No, absolutely not.

> Since when has science been driven by the fear of being left behind?

That has been one of the major driving forces of science throughout the 20th century, whether by hot or Cold War.

> And since when has knowledge become the only thing that holds value in a society?

It has never need the case, and this statement is a complete straw man.

This is a very strange comment, completely disconnected from any reality that I can recognize.
by alewi481 | 2025-07-20 22:02:50+00:00
I’m a vegan. I don’t longer eat meat because I find industrial farming repugnant and environmentally problematic, not because I suddenly dislike the flavor. I grew up with meat on my plate and liked it. Now I use plant-based products to recreate the tastes and textures I remember while leaving behind the cruelty and waste. I also doubt many meat eaters are pausing to “celebrate the animal”. They’re just grabbing shrink-wrapped, shelf-stable convenience foods without much thought to how they got there.
by skippyboxedhero | 2025-07-20 22:02:56+00:00
Teachers are having to toilet train children as some come to school unable to use a toilet, more children are non-verbal, more children are unable to sit through lessons, the number of children with special needs has skyrocketed, in one council area there was a single taxi firm with a £20m contract to take children to school, not only are there free school meals but some schools are now running breakfast and dinner services because parents can't feed children...no, parents won't take responsibility.
by hagbard_c | 2025-07-20 22:03:07+00:00
No, content blockers (which block more than just ads) should remain in their niche as content blockers to keep their creators from having to decide whether to block content based on payouts by content creators. If you want to push some subscription service I'd say go ahead but keep it wholly separate from anything meant to rid the user from obnoxious/intrusive/malicious content.
by viraptor | 2025-07-20 22:03:09+00:00
> What problem in complexity theory was solved

None. We're still in the "if you spend enough effort you can make things less bad" era of LLMs. It will be a while before we even find out what are the theoretical limits in that area. Everyone's still running on roughly the same architecture after all - big corps haven't even touched recursive LLMs yet!
by IshKebab | 2025-07-20 22:03:11+00:00
> most of Rust codebases are filled with `unsafe`

That is absolutely untrue. Most Rust codebases have very few uses of `unsafe`. I have written tens of thousands of lines of Rust and used `unsafe` I think once. Maybe twice.

> Language choice will never solve poor programming style.

It absolutely does. Rust pushes you very strongly into the "pit of success". You can Google that term if you want to learn.

> Plenty of libraries for C for this.

I have yet to see a single C program in the wild use anything other than libc for string manipulation. I'm sure they exist but they are the 0.1%.
by AaronAPU | 2025-07-20 22:03:43+00:00
When I spent a decade doing SIMD optimizations for HEVC (among other things), it was sort of a joke to compare the assembly versions to plain c. Because you’d get some ridiculous multipliers like 100x. It is pretty misleading, what it really means is it was extremely inefficient to begin with.

The devil is in the details, microbenchmarks are typically calling the same function a million times in a loop and everything gets cached reducing the overhead to sheer cpu cycles.

But that’s not how it’s actually used in the wild. It might be called once in a sea of many many other things.

You can at least go out of your way to create a massive test region of memory to prevent the cache from being so hot, but I doubt they do that.
by fmajid | 2025-07-20 22:03:56+00:00
Keep in mind UK terrorism legislation has been abused and is continuing to be, from prosecuting the failed Icesave bank to proscribing the non-violent Palestine Action activist group. If the Terrorism Act 2000 had been in effect in the 1980s, you could have risked 14 years in prison for advocating for the ANC against Apartheid (Thatcher's government's official policy was that Nelson Mandela was a terrorist who had been convicted in a fair trial).

The UK doesn't have a First Amendment or a Bill of Rights other than the European Convention on Human Rights, that leading parties campaign of abolishing (if a bill of rights can be abolished by the legislature, it's not worth the paper it's printed on). Heck it doesn't even have a proper written constitution, it doesn't have separation of powers or an independent judiciary (the previous Parliament considered passing a law saying "Rwanda is a safe country to deport inconvenient asylum seekers to" in response to a court ruling (correctly) saying it manifestly isn't.

The UK and Australia are in a race to the bottom to see which one is going to be the worst enemy of the Internet. The only check against these authoritarian powers is popular juries, and they are trying to get rid of these as well.
by msayf1525 | 2025-07-20 22:04:10+00:00
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by fooker | 2025-07-20 22:04:22+00:00
The issue is the complete lack of enforceability.

A regulator can tell temu/shein/amazon/etc to take down the seller, or even the brand and the next day two new ones prop up selling the product from the same factory.

To my knowledge, no one has solved this yet. Maybe a good use of AI? Unfortunately not monetizable really.
by fourside | 2025-07-20 22:04:45+00:00
It reminds me of those affectations some kids back in high school picked up on purpose just to stand out. I knew a guy who went through a phase where he’d always talk about penguins and owned a bunch of penguin related paraphernalia because that was “his thing”.

That kind of posturing is forgivable when you’re a teen. When you do it as the CEO of one of the most influential companies today, it’s grating. When you do it because you’re another CEO in a similar market and you’re trying to signal that you’re part of the “in” crowd, it’s frankly embarrassing.
by palata | 2025-07-20 22:04:46+00:00
> a private situation is always going to be the safer option when the primary threat is the strangers around me.

Sure, but what I'm saying is that maybe you over-estimate the threat.

> Any measurable number of passenger-on-passenger incidents in the NYC subway is enough to give me pause

I don't see why you apply that to the NYC subway and not to Boeing flights: Boeing planes have crashed because of technical issues. The fact that they haven't crashed on the US soil doesn't say it's safer to fly them in the US.

So there is a measurable number of deadly incidents that happened with Boeing planes. I find it interesting that it doesn't give you pause at all, but the subway incidents do.
by buremba | 2025-07-20 22:05:28+00:00
This is pretty cool, here are few feedbacks:

- I switch in between planning and execution in the middle of the conversation using Terminal a lot, it would be nice to have it here as well rather than defining how I want Claude to think in advance.

- Entering messages when the agents can result in task lists to save time.

I’m also experimenting different UX with CC, here is Claude Code running in Slack if anybody is interested. https://peerbot.ai
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-07-20 22:06:44+00:00
> Only in the Western world is “pro sex” = “pro pornography” in most people’s minds. Everywhere else, these are separate issues, with pornography bans actually being from a pro-sex cultural position (I.e. it shouldn’t be commoditized online).

The general problem is that when pornography bans are passed, they're characterized as being against for-profit hardcore pornography, but then they're worded broadly enough to also cover everything from sex education to medical depictions of human anatomy to actual human beings flirting with each other on the public internet with no profit motive, and then enforced against any of those things according to the whims of government officials.

Or worse, the law is written in such a way that it puts liability on third parties who then aggressively ban those things to avoid potential liability whether or not the law should or would have been enforced against them.
by dekhn | 2025-07-20 22:07:12+00:00
This weekend I asked Gemini Pro to create a Python Qt app (a serial file sender- something you'd use to send g-code files to a CNC machine or laser cutter). I did most of the dev on Windows but the app will run exactly the same on all 3 main platforms. Eventually I asked Gemini to extract the UI to its own .ui file, which it did. The resulting app worked better than the previous one I had coded myself (handling some various race conditions and other challenging issues much more quickly than me).

If I wanted, I coudl ask gemini to port the app to C++. (Gemini isn't the point here- that's just speeding up what I would have done on my own).
by skywhopper | 2025-07-20 22:07:33+00:00
Wild that it doesn’t seem to be sinking in with this guy that not only should the agent not have access to the production DB, but that you can’t trust anything it says, including its apologies, excuses, and explanations of past failure. It doesn’t “understand” what it did. I’m not sure the author does either, since he doesn’t seem to know how to even check himself.
by delusional | 2025-07-20 22:08:10+00:00
> There are better ways of transferring heat from a hot IC to a heat sink nowadays

Peltiers were always a bad way to move the heat. What they offered was the ability to go below ambient, which at the time could improve overclocking. Peltiers of course lacked the capacity to actually take you there with any decent load, but in theory it could.

It never really made much sense for consumers, and once consumers realized that, the market went away.
by latexr | 2025-07-20 22:08:29+00:00
> I get more replies like "this is over my head" from Mastodonsters whereas I think most of you might think you'd look stupid if you said something like that.

Not sure that’s the reason. Or at least all of it. HN tends to value substantive posts and someone just saying “I don’t understand this” doesn’t add to the discussion and would likely be downvoted. On the other hand, I have seen people here say they don’t understand specific bits of a post. Those are actionable and advance the discussion, and tend to be upvoted and get replies.
by JdeBP | 2025-07-20 22:08:35+00:00
If you've ever done this to a C library, the first thing that you'll look at when someone else does it is not the FILE type, but how stdin, stdout, and stderr have changed.

The big breaking change is usually the historical implementation of the standard streams as addresses of elements of an array rather than as named pointers. (Plauger's example implementation had them as elements 0, 1, and 2 of a _Files[] array, for example.) It's possible to retain binary compatibility with unrecompiled code that uses the old getc/putc/feof/ferror/fclearerr/&c. macros by preserving structure layouts, but changing stdin, stdout, and stderr can make things not link.

And indeed that has happened here.
by xg15 | 2025-07-20 22:08:40+00:00
I mean, just look at the company that made the announcement in the OP.

Their business is creating virtual AI friends, often with sexually suggestive themes.

You can browse through the characters here: https://janitorai.com/

Would you want to let a lonely kid who might already have self confidence issues and problems making real-life friends loose on that site?
by pedalpete | 2025-07-20 22:09:35+00:00
I'm dealing with a carpet beetle infestation at my house which is eating my furniture (natural fibres and horse hair).

Insecticides will damage the natural fibers. The risk is that they damage the books more than the beetles would.

Insecticide or desiccants directly on the books, for example the natural adhesives, could cause the adhesive to crack, destroying the book.

I wish I could do this sealed nitrogen process. At the moment, it's spraying cedar wood with lavender and sticking into the less accessible places where the beetles are likely burrowing, and vaccuuming regularly.
by Charlieholtz | 2025-07-20 22:10:15+00:00
Thank you! Yes, I agree, we're adding plan mode soon. For now I find Opus responds reliably to "plan this out and don't make any changes."

> - Entering messages when the agents can result in task lists to save time.

Ah yes, queuing coming soon too! Do you prefer if the queued messages send when Claude is finished or interrupt it?
by ecocentrik | 2025-07-20 22:10:16+00:00
I've always understood this as less of a hard wall and more of a gradient where:

- the % of shared experience/context with a mammal is > than % shared experience with a mollusk

- the gradient starts in communicating with other humans

and that Wittgenstein wasn't wrong in trying to use technology/science to bridge the context gap, he was just early.