MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by oliwarner | 2025-07-29 16:57:05+00:00
Retail has obvious expenses. The trade-off is instant purchase and customer service. And yes, another layer of profit extraction.

> Temu doesn't pay VAT and/or other taxes etc

Many of their orders are below the threshold for import duties. Some come with "gift" declarations which shift the VAT and duty thresholds. Direct sales skirt the tax laws. Again, I'd be shocked if all the tax they collect was declared and paid. The EU would have no way to verify.
by rs186 | 2025-07-29 16:57:15+00:00
Bloomberg's piece on Microsoft Copilot, if you haven't read it:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-24/chatgpt-v...

And HN discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44367638

Basically, nobody wants to use Copilot, because it sucks.
by hakunin | 2025-07-29 16:57:33+00:00
Good old cucumber. I remember a discussion over coffee with someone who swore by it back in the day (~2010). They forced customers to sit down and write these things together side by side. Kind of cringe in retrospect. Wonder what happened to them.

Business people don't really care about this stuff. Over the years I realize more and more that we engineers are naive in thinking that business side is concerned with edge cases and race conditions.

Just to give an analogy software people might get better, if you come to a lawyer because, say, you want to buy a house, you are not going to sit down with them and say "given I want to buy a house, when the seller hides water damage costing over $2000, I get to walk away from the deal". You just hope the lawyer is good and will protect you from various edge cases. You have a lot more to deal with than just closing paperwork. You probably are thinking about renovating, moving, getting inspection, etc.

Businesses are just like that with engineering. They don't want to sit down and meticulously analyze every possible edge case. They have other things to do. Especially when stakes are not that high. Most of these errors can probably be resolved with a phone call and a database edit.

I think this is probably for the best. A good engineer will make sure you're standing on a solid ground, and ask the right questions at the right time. They wouldn't need this amount of hand holding. Leave business time to focus on making deals, connections, organizing the whole operation to move forward, etc. Let them give you vague requirements, and crystallize them yourself. It's way better than a micro-managing business that thinks they know exactly how everything should be.

P.S. Also, I'm not sure why everyone is so hung up on regex = bad, it's not like switching to an AST-based language would've made anything better here. Regex is fine imo, just the entire concept isn't.
by taeric | 2025-07-29 16:57:51+00:00
My point was that just seeing the road is not enough to remember it, it seems. You have to predict what is at the end of the road, as well.

This is why "flash cards" have the question on one side and the answer on the other. If you just looked at all on one side, then you lose retention.

I think the idea is that you want to get your mind trained to create the answer based on the prompt. You don't, necessarily, remember the answer and the prompt, together. Instead, you want you mind to be able to make the answer.
by bccdee | 2025-07-29 16:57:56+00:00
> Only "not absolutely true", which isn't compelling in the face of the overwhelming other experiences.

Which is to say, yes, the person I was replying to was incorrect. But you liked the vibe of what they were saying, so now you're going to play with language to suggest that their statement might be true in some "non-absolute" sense where it doesn't matter whether the thing they said is correct or not.

Most people pursue higher education for multiple reasons. A lot of people just want the "campus experience." A lot of people enjoy learning. Many people just feel like it's expected of them. Any degree is associated with a boost in wages, so most people expect their loans to pay for themselves in time, especially at a cheaper institution. So the idea that middle-class people don't go to university to become better-read is patently silly.
by woopsn | 2025-07-29 16:57:59+00:00
It's depressing how common this accusation is become here. Before LLM idiot ruined everything, you know what? People wrote things you wouldn't like, in a way you wouldn't like. Especially on their blogs. HN so smart though they can immediately see, tenured Yale professor has no life and is trying to win the message board game with AI slop!
by markx2 | 2025-07-29 16:58:11+00:00
It's not just costs.

It is patient (and relatives) expectations.

It is knowing that any perceived issue could result in litigation.

It is that management may well have never 'worked the floor' so have no insight in to what happens.

There may well just not be the time to do all the tasks that someone else had decided needed to be done.
by NoGravitas | 2025-07-29 16:58:18+00:00
Look at this article - not so much for the article itself, scroll down for the CDC and NIH data it links to.

"While generalizing about tens of millions of people is always difficult, a series of studies in recent years have reported that teens since the tail end of the millennial generation trend towards being less sexually active; they launch their sex lives later and have fewer sex partners than earlier generations."
by socalgal2 | 2025-07-29 16:58:22+00:00
I think you're just arguing semantics. It seems intuitively obvious that if I have some simple physics code

newPosition = currentPos + velocity * deltaTime

and change it to

addressInChina = weightByGold + numberOfDogsOwned * birdPopulationInFrance

that both a human and likely an LLM will struggle to understand the code and do the the right thing. The thing we're discussion is does the LLM struggle. No one cares if that's not literally "brain" power. All they care about is does the LLM do a better, worse, or the same

> I just think your input data is more likely to resemble training data with meaningful variable names.

Based on giving job interviews, cryptic names are common.
by PaulHoule | 2025-07-29 16:58:41+00:00
Definitely thinking of getting another prime but a ‘normal’ one with autofocus doesn’t really do anything I can’t with my zooms, I like 7artisans primes and might get one that is crazy wide but those are manual focus and take more skill —- I was so happy to get home and see I nailed this one

https://mastodon.social/@UP8/114042752203552070
by bb88 | 2025-07-29 16:58:45+00:00
I mistyped that. It was tailscale not wireguard.

Tailscale changes your dns lookups, adds a bunch of iptables, and then unfortunately broke features without adding them to the changelog (because security I guess).

While wireguard has more of a maintenance overhead tracking public and private keys and ip addresses, it does less magic -- and I really just want things to work these days.
by wredcoll | 2025-07-29 16:59:20+00:00
One of the more annoying things I've noticed as I've gotten older is just how well certain false memes spread through a society. If they're ultimately harmless, then it doesn't matter that much, but I don't think that repeating the meme/myth that there was or is a "cancel culture", much less one that could peak, is harmless.

The short, short phone typing reason is that people who use the term cancel culture are almost always using it to attack criticism, and the majority of those times, it's things that deserve criticism.

I'm not sure I can change the world or even the culture of a small internet message board, but I can at least push back on it when I see it.
by anal_reactor | 2025-07-29 16:59:35+00:00
> They form lifelong addictions that stunt their emotional and developmental growth at the click of one button. Many of these kids are never the same after their innocence is stripped.

[citation needed]

> What is the solution here?

The kids who grew up on violent games and unlimited free internet porn are adults now. We're fine. I don't understand what's all the ruckus about.

Unless the real issue is that people are noticing certain societal changes that are very difficult to combat so the politicians blame porn because otherwise they'd have to admit that they have no solutions to more pressing problems. Please note how suddenly the housing crisis, vote manipulation, inequality, fucked job market, mental health crisis, genocide in Gaza, war in Ukraine, loneliness epidemic, unchecked immigration, phone addiction all became irrelevant side topics because right now we're laser focused on making sure that boys going through puberty won't see a naked titty. Truly a clown world we live in.

I went through puberty in the golden age of internet porn. After widespread high-speed internet became a thing, but before we started algorithmically monetizing every second of people's attention. I'm so happy of that. I still have my collection of porn I downloaded as a horny teenager.
by bookofjoe | 2025-07-29 16:59:41+00:00
>Discredited Psychological Treatments and Tests: A Delphi Poll

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228663686_Discredit...

>Discredited Assessment and Treatment Methods Used with Children and Adolescents: A Delphi Poll

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/261915373_Discredit...
by qcnguy | 2025-07-29 17:00:17+00:00
The Commission can ignore amendments from MEPs by simply withdrawing the legislation and trying again, and it does. In theory the Parliament can force the entire Commission to resign at once (not change course), but then it'll just be re-appointed by whatever secret process was used the last time around. The power is hardly useful which is why it's only been used once, IIRC.

In practice the EP doesn't matter. The MEPs rubberstamp everything because they aren't serious politicians with serious ideas. They can't be, because they can't change the law, which means they can't have party positions or campaign on policies. It's fake DDR style politics that pretends on the surface to be democracy, where there appear to be parties and politicians, but they can't actually do anything so the only people who bother to turn up are those who already agree with everything the government is doing and just want to get paid to cheerlead. The EU Parliament is like that: the death of ambition, full of apathetic losers who drift into politics without any real idea of why they're there, or people who are using it as a springboard to national parliaments where some power is still allowed to exist (only in specific areas the Commission hasn't yet taken control of).

So it's all a dummy process designed to look democratic enough to confuse people whilst actually turning Europe into a unified dictatorship.

And it's designed to confuse people. Don't take my word for it. Take the word of the EU's own former leaders who routinely boast about deceiving and manipulating the public:

When people ask politicians today “What will become of Europe?” or “Where is European integration heading?”, we usually give an evasive answer. “We don’t want a super state” that is generally the first thing we say. I must admit that I have in the past often resorted to this kind of thing myself. (Viviane Reding)

Europe's nations should be guided towards the super state without their people understanding what is happening. This can be accomplished by successive steps, each disguised as having an economic purpose, but which will eventually and irreversibly lead to federation. (Jean Monnet)

We decide on something, leave it lying around and wait and see what happens. If no one kicks up a fuss, because most people don't understand what has been decided we continue step by step until there is no turning back. (Juncker)

Super democratic attitudes right there.
by diet_mtn_dew | 2025-07-29 17:00:18+00:00
According to the WSJ [1], she "was Blackstone’s global head of Core+ real estate, heading up less risky, lower-returning investments across Blackstone’s $325 billion property business".

[1] https://www.wsj.com/real-estate/who-is-wesley-lepatner-black... (gift link)
by whilenot-dev | 2025-07-29 17:00:44+00:00
> with at least an actor or director or even studio I’ve heard of

I think that's the gist: anything goes, and maybe start with 3 of anything!

...based on genre (Comedy): Tampopo (1985), Matchstick Men (2003), Force Majeure (2014)

...based on subgenre (Heist): The Killing (1956), Thief (1981), Sexy Beast (2001)

...based on director (Kelly Reichardt): Old Joy (2006), First Cow (2019), Showing Up (2022)

...based on production studio (Studio Ghibli): Only Yesterday (1991), Porco Rosso (1992), The Wind Rises (2013)

...based on location (Vienna, AT): The Third Man (1949), Bad Timing (1980), Before Sunrise (1995)

...based on interest (Desires): Deep End (1970), Exotica (1994), Ghost World (2001)

...based on language (French): L'Année dernière à Marienbad (1961), Un homme qui dort (1974), Portrait de la jeune fille en feu (2019)

...based on movement (Czech New Wave): The Sun in a Net (1963), Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970), Morgiana (1972)

etc.
by Spoom | 2025-07-29 17:00:53+00:00
Not quite the thing you're describing, but I saw this demoed recently and thought it was pretty cool: The AI function in Google Sheets[1]. Call Gemini with the context of individual cells and have it respond in the same cell. Take a look if your company is in Workspace Labs.

1. https://support.google.com/docs/answer/15820999

Disclaimer: Googler, opinions my own.
by jfengel | 2025-07-29 17:00:57+00:00
It's kinda unusual, but only because they don't run the mile event very often. Most track events have a 1,500 meters, 109m short of a mile. But they're definitely running them at a sub-4 pace -- the high school record is something like 3:34 for the 1,500.

Most tracks aren't set up to properly measure the mile. It's easier to measure the 1,600 meters, still 9 meters short of a mile. It's not a standard track event but it does give a good estimate of the mile time.
by WorldMaker | 2025-07-29 17:01:13+00:00
Having implemented Passkey-only account creation (and management) I would absolutely disagree. I think that Passkeys can greatly streamline the process. The iOS Passkey flow especially feels as simple by default as the "Sign in with Apple" flow (with the ability to customize it with smart password managers in a way you'd never be able to with "Sign in with Apple").

That's partly because Apple sees it their job to migrate people away from OIDC-style signups, for privacy reasons if nothing else, and towards Passkeys, so their UX team is doing a remarkable job trying to reduce friction.

What's Google's interests here? Are there intentional reasons the Android and Chrome Passkey flows don't "simplify" the account creation process enough? It's easy to be cynical here, and seeing them as orthogonal concerns also feels like muddying waters that shouldn't be muddied right now.
by phyzix5761 | 2025-07-29 17:01:15+00:00
I think shows and movies used to feel more special back when media was harder to access. We had to wait for them to air on TV, and if we missed them, that was it. The scarcity made watching them more exciting and meaningful. Now that everything is instantly available, it all feels cheap and disposable. In my opinion, this is one of the reasons streaming services will eventually fail. If they want to survive, they need to find a way to bring back that sense of anticipation and urgency.
by foldr | 2025-07-29 17:01:34+00:00
Assuming you live in the US, I sincerely recommend that you take all the energy you’re expending decrying the UK’s supposed slide into authoritarianism and see if you can find a way to use that energy to do something about masked thugs kidnapping US citizens, or stop scientific research being defunded for political reasons. How much time have you even spent in the UK? We have our problems for sure, but it’s baffling that anyone in the US at present would feel that they were in a position to lecture us on freem and moxy.

Also, as sibling says, you’re simply misinformed about CCTV. There is no centralized government-operated network of CCTV cameras. In fact, all figures you read about total numbers of CCTV cameras are basically just guesses, as there is no accurate way to track numbers of privately operated cameras.
by yonl | 2025-07-29 17:01:46+00:00
Congrats on the launch. I never understood why an AI meeting notetaker needed sota LLMs and subscriptions (talking about literally all the other notetakers) - thanks for making it local first. I use a locally patched up whisperx + qwen3:1.7 + nomic embed (ofcourse with a swift script that picks up the audio buffer from microphone) and it works just fine. Rarely i create next steps / sop from the transcript - i use gemini 2.5 and export it as pdf. I’ll give Hyprnote a try soon.

I hope, since it’s opensource, you are thinking about exposing api / hooks for downstream tasks.
by FredPret | 2025-07-29 17:02:09+00:00
I bought a Canon RP which came with a 24-105mm zoom. I think it was CAD 1000 a couple of years ago, but it looks like that has inflated to around double now.

I went with the recommendation of Ken Rockwell who is both experienced and opinionated, and said to buy that one at the time. https://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/recommended-cameras.htm

He was right!

- small, especially if you put a 50mm prime lens on it (which costs ~ CAD 150 by the way)

- light

- full frame sensor (fundamentally better photo quality, but need bigger lenses to zoom)

- battery life is OK but not great. You can easily get through a full day of touristing with one spare battery though.
by thom | 2025-07-29 17:02:16+00:00
I am very much for internal DSLs for functional testing, but have never seen the point of external DSLs (it feels wrong that anyone but the implementing team could or should create or maintain them). I passionately believe you should refactor and use abstractions in your test code thought, and in my experience that ends up looking quite like parameterised steps (again, in code rather than English preferably).
by belter | 2025-07-29 17:02:32+00:00
"...The 31 signatories of a letter to the Guardian include an Academy award recipient, Yuval Abraham; a former Israeli attorney general, Michael Ben-Yair; Avraham Burg, a former speaker of Israel’s parliament and former head of the Jewish Agency; and a number of recipients of the prestigious Israel prize, Israel’s highest cultural honour.

The figures come from the worlds of journalism, poetry, science, journalism and academia, and the letter accuses Israel of “starving the people of Gaza to death and contemplating the forced removal of millions of Palestinians from the strip”..."
by chaps | 2025-07-29 17:02:52+00:00
I'm not really a JavaScript person either, but that hasn't been the worst problem with observable. Tools like vega-lite and importable tools from other notebooks really reduces the amount of code I need to write. Like, I'm not writing d3 code for hours for a simple choropleth. What makes it easier is that I can query objects using SQL rather than lengthy JavaScript code.
by KaiserPro | 2025-07-29 17:02:57+00:00
> SMS was originally piggybacking off unused bytes in packets already being sent to the tower

for GSM? not really, Yes SMS was sent at a lower priority than voice, so if there is a lot of voice traffic, SMSs wouldn't be delivered as quickly.

But, to my original point, do you think the towers were free?

Thats the point, it took a shittone of captial to make the network.

Did the mobile networks make a lot of cash? also yes. But they also took on huge amounts of debt and went bust.
by socalgal2 | 2025-07-29 17:03:05+00:00
It was and still is

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2005/05/11/making-wrong-code-...

Types help but they don't help "at a glance". In editors that have type info you have to hover over variables or look elsewhere in the code (even if it's up several lines) to figure out what you're actually looking at. In "app" hungarian this problem goes away.
by tracker1 | 2025-07-29 17:03:27+00:00
Exactly... they've had glimmers of greatness here and there, and it feels like a handful of executive weenies literally twist it to try and wrench every penny of value from every user/customer they can.

For the love of $diety, complete a UI transition across the OS, get things in order, stop shoveling things onto people, don't return ads and internet search results from start-menu searches and just make great products. I was an Edge fan until they added all the garbage, starting with coupons, etc.

VS Code has been good, but they gimp their own .Net support... they do great with .Net/C# but turn around and dump their only SQL for ARM option as ARM is taking off... They rebrand RDP despite it being considered the best UI remoting option around. They keep releasing CoPilot everything that doesn't do the one thing that would give their users the most value, and are sub-par with open offerings.

At this point, I cannot support MS-SQL over PostgreSQL for any new projects given a choice. I definitely don't support developing solutions to run on Windows Server, and I'm questioning my use of VS Code despite it being by far my favorite editor since shortly after release.
by whimsicalism | 2025-07-29 17:03:28+00:00
1. I agree - there are absolutely scenarios in which it can make sense to buy a GPU and run it yourself. If you are managing a software firm with multiple employees, you very well might break even in less than a few years. But I would gander this is not the case for 90%+ of people self-hosting these models, unless they have some other good reason (like gaming) to buy a GPU.

2. I basically agree with your caveats - excluding electricity is a pretty big exclusion and I don't think that you've had 3 years of really high-value self-hostable models, I would really only say the last year and I'm somewhat skeptical of how good for ones that can be hosted in 24gb vram. 4x4090 is a different story.
by rsynnott | 2025-07-29 17:03:49+00:00
> Linking your real identity to the ability to load text on a computer you own absolutely is.

Not to defend the UK too vociferously (it _is_ going in a weirdly authoritarian direction and I certainly wouldn't want to live there), but this is also a thing in many US states: https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/11/politics/invs-porn-age-verifi...

> Not being able to step out onto the street without having 50 government-operated cameras take your picture absolutely is.

This is a _bit_ of a myth; very few CCTVs in the UK are run by the government. It does have a very large number of CCTVs but they're generally privately owned and operated; they're largely a product of insurance company requirements.

As someone who lives in neither, the US seems considerably scarier at the moment, in general, and a lot further down the road to Hungary-style authoritarianism. The British government hasn't, as yet, made a serious effort to take over the media, say.
by bccdee | 2025-07-29 17:04:13+00:00
> All colleges have electives. I also took business classes [which] helped me talk my way into a lot of opportunities over the years. [...] And math classes are essential to understand machine learning algorithms [and get a job related to] the recent AI craze.

These are exactly the sort of career-focused courses I wasn't talking about.

> But I bet you would think different if you were a junior in today’s market…

No. A k8s crash course from my alma mater wouldn't be any more use to me now than when I was entering the job market.
by marcofiset | 2025-07-29 17:04:16+00:00
The only issue I have with those tools, and I have not seen a single one even acknowledge this, is that it becomes completely useless when holding meetings in a hybrid fashion where some people are remote and others are in the office with a shared mic.

Almost all of our meetings are hybrid in this way, and it's a real pain having almost half of the meeting be identified as a single individual talking because the mic is hooked up to their machine.

It's a total dealbreaker for us, and we won't use such tools until that problem is solved.