MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
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by weinzierl | 2025-07-17 18:00:44+00:00
For over a decade location-based "food near me" type searches are the only kind I still use Google as well.

I think this their only moat, but it is a pretty deep one. They had decades to hone their localization, presumably spending a ton of money on local human quality assurance and it pays of.

This will be pretty hard for any competitor to replicate, especially when they have to operate under more economic pressure than Google had to during their golden years. Certainly no competitor so far comes close to Google for local search.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-07-17 18:00:45+00:00
The concept of insider risk is that we don't trust the employees, because you can't trust everyone, due to a combination of apathy and potentially malicious activity. Blocking non approved generative AI systems, as well as governing and monitoring the use of approved systems, isn't just good security best practices; it can also be required as part of compliance (depending on your regulatory obligations, if any).

https://www.cisa.gov/topics/physical-security/insider-threat...

https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/2022-11/Insider%20T...
by M4v3R | 2025-07-17 18:01:31+00:00
I think they've buried the lede with their image editing capabilities, which seem to be very good! OpenAI's model will change the whole image while editing messing up details in unrelated areas. This seems to perfectly preserve parts of the image unrelated to your query and selectively apply the edits, which is very impressive! The only downside is the output resolution (the resulting image is 1184px wide even though the input image was much larger).

For a quick test I've uploaded a photo of my home office and asked the following prompt: "Retouch this photo to fix the gray panels at the bottom that are slightly ripped, make them look brand new"

Input image (rescaled): https://i.imgur.com/t0WCKAu.jpeg

Output image: https://i.imgur.com/xb99lmC.png

I think it did a fantastic job. The output image quality is ever so slightly worse than the original but that's something they'll improve with time I'm sure.
by bgwalter | 2025-07-17 18:01:53+00:00
There was no hype at all about the white plastic they put in your teeth instead of gold or amalgam. There was no hype about bullet trains, they just happened.

Hype happens when people don't really need a product and the marketing machine has to compensate. It helps if the product seems like magic for the first month and then becomes obnoxious and boring without marketing.
by mlhpdx | 2025-07-17 18:02:42+00:00
It's painful to setup a property. The chosen street view image was poorly selected (a picture of a bush) and there was no way to pan to a location that shows the driveway. The click, click, wait, click, wait cycle for creating markers and lines -- oof. The resolution and shadows on the Google Maps view made it impossible to locate things accurately (not the site's fault, and yet it kind of is).
by renewiltord | 2025-07-17 18:02:46+00:00
Well, if I wanted to get into your account, apparently I just call the bank and then call you. Any time they ask me something I ask you the same thing and pass it along to them, and you'll faithfully tell me. They trigger the codegen and ask me to read it back and I ask you and you happily tell me. Then I "confirm your account is safe" to you, and continue my call with the bank except now I've authenticated as you.
by margalabargala | 2025-07-17 18:02:49+00:00
It is not possible for any one person to maintain 100% awareness of the entire planet, nor is it feasible for most people to simply live in the woods as a hunter-gatherer and take nothing from others who might do wrong elsewhere.

Once we accept that each of us is a human rather than a morally perfect literal supernatural angel, each of us must decide: If we cannot sanction all wrongdoers, does that mean we sanction no wrongdoers, or some?

If some, how do we decide which ones? One good metric would be "minimum impact on my own life". Another would be "amount of badness I'm personally aware of that entity doing". A third would be "how closely is the entity that I'm actually affecting ties to the group committing the atrocities?"

So; I personally sanction some countries that commit atrocities, one of which is Russia.
by lkuty | 2025-07-17 18:02:51+00:00
I wonder how this study can be reconciled with the carnivorous diet, which is apparently high in good fats and good cholesterol. There is also the notion of structured water and a deficient exclusion zone which could explain the presence of plaque in the vessels according to Thomas Cowan, for example. So, I'm not sure that the factors that prevent plaque formation are those indicated. Nutrition is a complex matter.
by legitster | 2025-07-17 18:03:06+00:00
> As the Corporation for Public Broadcasting explains, "PBS WARN enables all public television stations to send WEAs [Wireless Emergency Alerts] out over their transmitters to provide a 'hardened, redundant' alternate path for the cellular companies' connection. Between January 1 and December 31, 2024, more than 11,000 WEAs issued by federal, state, and local authorities were transmitted over the PBS WARN system, a 30 percent increase over 2023. Public television stations save lives in their communities, even those who might never turn on a television."

So to be clear, the federal funding did not directly go to PBS programming, it went to member stations to maintain operations in rural areas. Those member stations could then purchase content from NPR or PBS.

The irony is the content put out by directly by PBS or NPR is some of the least controversial, most objective reporting available. It's the other content that local stations run themselves that generally has more of a tilt to it. (Such nuance is obviously lost to the rural politicians who want these voices gone altogether from their districts).
by creer | 2025-07-17 18:03:16+00:00
> degree=employment

I also don't understand this. For years now, social media has been flooded with objections that this is not the case. Where were these people who didn't hear this message?

But it goes further: the young people around me who are brand new to fairly fresh into the job market - who must have heard of the problem - are still coasting probably scared but as far as I can tell not doing anything about it. Where are efforts at building references? At buidling networks? Some education streams have been (for years also) very much about building networks: THEY understood (and in the case of MBAs, to the point that everybody complains about them.)

And still further, this applies to more senior people also! It feels like many people with years of experience also have little network to show for it. It's not for lack of opportunity. And go through interviewing on (self-destructive) auto-pilot when they might have enough experience with that for significant statistical results just from their own experience.

I'm way at the front when it comes to arguing that schools do not teach fundamental skills like career development, business (/real) world awareness, or even basic reasoning skills, intro law, etc. But there may also be a question of passivity, obliviousness, wishful thinking.

Blaming the victim? Yes but I also blame the schools. Perhaps there is plenty of blame to go around. And not much of it is about the latest AI nonsense.

(And historically this can go pretty far: In the US there is a background of fast food jobs as entry level youth jobs. Whyyyy? Plenty of the high school and college students around me are plenty qualified enough to fulfill the duties of much more responsible and higher paying jobs. But they don't look for them.)
by mystraline | 2025-07-17 18:03:20+00:00
Nowhere on Tor's blogs or social media posts mentioned any of these changes, and why. The 'debunking' is required because of media silence, and people online finding out about this.

Nor were there any developer statements about this change. From an outsider (user) perspective, this smells like a coverup or an insider threat ala XZ situation.

And for software that people sometimes rely on safeguarding their lives with, well, yeah, addressing these significant changes in the open is how you avoid due scrutiny. And I think scrutinizing the lack of communication is a rather damning problem, especially here.
by Aurornis | 2025-07-17 18:03:55+00:00
Massively. Changing diet is about the only realistic way to elicit long-term changes in the microbiome. Even taking probiotics doesn't last very long.

There's a lot of questionable microbiome science that hasn't been replicated. You can find a lot of studies that say something changes the microbiome, but it's almost always a single short-term observational study on a small group of people.

Realistically, increasing vegetable intake and reducing processed food intake are the easiest knobs you can turn to adjust the microbiome. A lot of people reach for supplements or imagine extreme measures like fecal transplants, but the practical solution is to simply buy some snacking vegetables every time you go to the store and eat them throughout the day.
by pretzellogician | 2025-07-17 18:03:58+00:00
"another shocking finding: atherosclerosis was ubiquitous"... yikes, can't wait till this inhibitor makes it to market.

Anyway, fascinating. As time goes on, more "lifestyle diseases" will be root-caused like this, rather than just being due to "personal choice" and "willpower". There are a ton of them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifestyle_disease

1. Ulcers: (stress?)... now root-caused to H.pylori infection.

2. Atherosclerosis (Bad diet? Lack of exercise?)... now maybe root-caused.

3. ?

Yes, sure, lifestyle has something to do with any or all of these. But how much seems debatable.
by lumbroso | 2025-07-17 18:04:03+00:00
One last thing I will say: The MCP server specification is unclear how much the initial "instructions", the README.md of the server for the model, is discovered. In the "passage-of-time" MCP server, the instructions provide the model with information on each available tool as well as the requirement to poll the time at each message.

In practice, this hasn't really worked. I've had to add a custom instruction to "call current_datetime" at each message to get Claude to do it consistently over time.

Still, it is meaningful that I ask the model to make a single quick query rather than generate code.
by c-linkage | 2025-07-17 18:04:30+00:00
Most people don't want actual security. They want "good enough" security which provides the illusion of security. Because even when "good enough" security fails there are no consequences so "good enough" security is all we will ever get.

Data breaches are now as common as air disasters and school shootings, so no one except the victims cares anymore. And there aren't enough victims to matter in the financial sense.

It's always about risk, and business and the consumer have made a devil's bargain that the consumer will now take on more risk. LLMs will continue to be developed and used and MCP will worm its way into more and more things because software is accepted to be insecure by default and we all just live with it.
by polytely | 2025-07-17 18:04:37+00:00
Is there anyone trying to solve OCR, I often think of that annas-archive blog about how we basically just have to keep shadow libraries alive long enough until the conversion from pdf to plaintext is solved.

https://annas-archive.org/blog/critical-window.html

I hope one of these days one of these incredibly rich LLM companies accidentally solves this or something, would be infinitely more beneficial to mankind than the awful LLM products they are trying to make
by andruby | 2025-07-17 18:05:20+00:00
I really like the size of my iPhone mini, and I'm disappointed Apple has discontinued them. Apparently the 12 mini represented only 6% of iPhone sales, and the 13 mini only 3%.

I haven't upgraded yet.

Why does everyone (most of you too?) like bigger screens? The mini screen is big enough for HN, reddit, banking, photos, etc.
by thesuitonym | 2025-07-17 18:05:34+00:00
IMO this is really Kagi's killer feature. If I see a poor behaving site (Pinterest, for example), I can easily exclude the domain from every search I ever make. I don't have to carefully craft an enormous search query of all the sites I don't want to be shown. Demoting news sites that have a reputation for promoting bad takes, and prioritizing results from sites that are known to be good.

The quick switch to move to reddit based search, or old web results, are also great, but for me, it's the tailoring of my results to what I actually want, and more importantly, what I don't want is what sold me.
by theshackleford | 2025-07-17 18:05:42+00:00
> Consumers don't know what they want, they're fed whatever is going to make the most money by advertisers. And they will like it, because there is no other choice.

Except we know this is not the reality in this case as the worlds most successful mobile device marketer has made multiple attempts to create and market smaller devices which time and time again the majority of consumers have rejected.

The majority having a preference not matching your own doesn't need to be a conspiracy of consumer stupidity. Apple held out for a long time on making larger devices and ultimately caved to consumer sentiment, they didn’t grow that sentiment, they reacted to it.
by reginald78 | 2025-07-17 18:06:00+00:00
I read the FAQ on mine and it assures me it is totally safe and the voice cannot be forged. This mechanism was defeated in a hacker movie from the early 90s using a tape recorder but is actually being pushed as state of the art. I can't imagine how this method could ever be safe, even if it were possible to use some kind of advanced detection which would fail any time I had a cold my voice can be recorded and played back in high fidelity!
by the_gipsy | 2025-07-17 18:06:06+00:00
Tha sad truth is that small screens don't work anymore, because apps are all tailored for bigger screens. I noticed this when I had an iPhone mini. It just did not work right. The UIs that are supposed to be surrounding the main part just cover too much. The range is from mildly annoying to completely blocked.

Really sad, because the device was physically very practical, and I don't really need such a big screen, just smart UIs like we used to have, that don't cram the screen full of every feature of every PM that ever worked at the company.
by conductr | 2025-07-17 18:06:28+00:00
I'm not making blind assumptions. I've studies unemployment statistics and aware of how they exclude things and can lag and generally are kind of rig the calculation. I'm just here making a passing comment, so I'm not going to lay all the evidence out there with citations, but feel free to have a LLM tell you all about it. I'm also aware there is another statistic called underemployment which is what I described, so no, I did not replace anything with my imagination. I just don't have any source of data to say exactly what is what right now, but based on a lot of signals I'm seeing (knowing a few recent grads, knowing how many of my mid-career peers are not hiring and actually looking for additional efficiencies, having a few friends finding it impossible to find work even with experience, etc) - I feel/assume the stat as reported is not telling the whole story and the original article was trying to shed light on what's going on. Sometimes boots on the ground conversations is the best way to know the truth today versus just looking at data/stats.
by anonym29 | 2025-07-17 18:06:59+00:00
The specific kind of government you are pitching for is solely and directly responsible for the unjustifiable and cowardly mass murder of unarmed women and children with napalm bombs and hellfire missiles that occurred in the invasions of Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Iraq, Afghanistan; the "smaller" atrocities that occurred in Guatemala, the Dominican Republic, Grenada, Panama, Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia, Kosovo, Libya, and Syria; the Kent State massacre, the Jackson State massacre, the Orangeburg Massacre, the MOVE bombing, the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, MKUltra, human radiation experiments, Guatemala STD experiments, downwinders, the agent orange epidemic, the flint water crisis, COINTELPRO, Japanese American internment, Ruby Ridge and Waco, and the ongoing widespread well-documented practice of police brutality against black and indigenous communities, and the war on drugs that has ended the lives and torn apart the families of millions of their own nonviolent citizens.

Support these monsters all you want, just do yourself a favor and don't delude yourself into thinking you're on the team of the "good guys". You're on the team of psychopathic mass murderers who will brag about what they've done with a smile and a laugh.

No amount of good governance can justify supporting institutions run by people who commit war crimes and grave moral atrocities with pleasure.
by xorcist | 2025-07-17 18:07:00+00:00
Make your 5.4" screen phone with:

- a 3.5mm jack

- fingerprint sensor on the back

and it's an immediate buy for me, (almost, but not really) regardless of price!

The Pixel 4 had a 5.6" screen and it feels like the local maxima of mobile phone design. Ran GrapheneOS perfectly too.
by jwr | 2025-07-17 18:07:09+00:00
Let's assume the question has been asked in good faith.

Yes, I actually do. And I lose money because of that, significant amounts, because I run a SaaS, where I (as an example) stopped service to all customers from Russia when the full invasion of Ukraine started. So it's not just about not paying, it's about refusing money as well.

It's easy to fall into the "whataboutism" trap and do nothing, because one can always say "but what about… [insert country here]". I decided to draw the line somewhere. With Russia it's actually easy: an unprovoked invasion of another country, targeting civilians, raping and murdering, there have been few wars where things were so black and white in the history of mankind. With other countries it's more difficult, but I still draw a line, and state-sanctioned genocide falls beyond that line.

Some people say one should not "punish" entire countries or populations for the actions of their leaders. I disagree. Leaders are leaders because they have been elected, and/or have support within the population. And in 21st century there should be consequences for choosing, supporting, or allowing the growth of power of a leader that is a war-raging lunatic.

I do not accept simply doing nothing.
by wltr | 2025-07-17 18:07:12+00:00
I don’t consider HN a healthy community, so I believe this approach of self-promoting the only sane thing to actually deal with this website. So, no real judgement from me. I just find it curious that apparently some mod banned you, but this time it was too late, since the discussion became somewhat interesting.

If it was some other website, I’d say that if you post many of your own posts yourself many community members won’t be happy. I’d say go with not 50% but, say, at least 20% or even 10%. Again, my personal opinion of this website, it’s long beyond repair (if it ever was), so feel free to do whatever you want, unless some whims of mods ban you for no real reason one day.
by intull | 2025-07-17 18:07:17+00:00
It's really frustrating now that for every product/service, we have to go through the privacy policy carefully, especially when they're being written in increasingly generic verbiage. We pay for the product/service upfront or as a subscription, then a subscription for additional features, and on top of all that, agree to sell all our data and souls too. And Tech does all this blindly while gaslighting itself that "it's making the world a better place."
by o11c | 2025-07-17 18:07:31+00:00
It really wasn't. Itanium was a gamble that hard-coding static parallelism into the ISA would beat dynamic OoO. And just like architectural delay slots, it inevitably failed - using a few more transistors isn't that expensive since the alternative is "waste your time doing nothing at all".

"Compilers just need to keep up" was Intel's marketing apologia, not reality.
by gpm | 2025-07-17 18:07:32+00:00
We is, in the US, the federal government as directed by congress and the president. (In Canada where I actually live, s/congress/parliament/g and s/president/governor general (but only theoretically)/g).

> Regardless, that is not how IP works

This is exactly how IP laws work. More than that, in the US it's how they're constitutionally required to work - IP is defined as a time limited monopoly in the constitution and the federal government has no right to grant more than that. The current, "so long that it might as well be forever" copyright is spitting in the face of the US constitution.

> but can't really argue that if for those 30 years they have actively defended the IP and proliferation of it from other vendors/firms

I absolutely can. The purpose of IP is to encourage more things to eventually fall into the public domain by being published publicly. At some point, and I think 30 years is well past that point, it does more harm by preventing things from falling into the public domain than it does good by encouraging publishing.

Just because a company found a way to extract money from society, and are still doing so, doesn't mean we should allow them to do so forever.

When originally passed copyright (Statute of Anne in 1710) the term was 14 to 28 years, notably less than 30. As the world has only begun to change more rapidly since then, it's clear that it should have gotten shorter, not longer.
by tomwheeler | 2025-07-17 18:08:00+00:00
> FM radio uses the headphone cable as an antenna, so with the move to bluetooth I assume it got squashed for similar reasons.

Some may prefer Bluetooth headphones, and there are countless apologists who now retroactively parrot the manufacturers' excuses for why headphone jacks were eliminated, but it wasn't something the _users_ asked for or wanted.

"Oh, but phones are waterproof now," they claim! Well, so was the Samsung Galaxy S5 I bought in 2014. And by the way, it also had a user-removable battery, removable storage, an FM radio, and an IR blaster. All these years later, you can't find a new phone with all of those features and it's very difficult to find a flagship phone with even _one_ of them.
by levocardia | 2025-07-17 18:08:01+00:00
Maybe this is the "bitter lesson of agentic decisions": hard things in your life are hard because they involve deeply personal values and complex interpersonal dynamics, not because they are difficult in an operational sense. Calling a restaurant to make a reservation is trivial. Deciding what restaurant to take your wife to for your wedding anniversary is the hard part (Does ChatGPT know that your first date was at a burger-and-shake place? Does it know your wife got food poisoning the last time she ate sushi?). Even a highly paid human concierge couldn't do it for you. The Navier–Stokes smoothness problem will be solved before "plan a birthday party for my daughter."