MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dotandgtfo | 2025-07-11 09:16:14+00:00
> I would argue the opposite: It actually makes European businesses worth off by continuing to make its regulatory environment so complex only massive companies like big tech or Europe's legacy players have the resources to comply.

Are you arguing that 27 different sets of laws was a better approach? That these countries would just gladly lie down and never regulate the societal-level harms, systemic lawbreaking, and massive infringement of privacy across the board? I don't think so.

For a moment the political system in the US seemed to get to the same conclusions as the EU under Bidens FTC and anti-trust cases. But the conclusions of that remain to be seen.
by StrangeDoctor | 2025-07-11 09:16:29+00:00
This would be difficult to apply to R&D orgs or anything seen as a typical cost center.

Also, medical facilities… you certainly could define it as profit, but that bothers me and many other people.

You could define it as patients seen, or “cured” but that incentivizes very quick but probably poor care.

You could define it as intensity of treatment or amount of care given, but you’d probably end up in a situation where 1 incredibly sick person has every doctor treating them.

You could define it as…
by DiogenesKynikos | 2025-07-11 09:16:33+00:00
Israel is a democracy (albeit increasingly authoritarian) only if you belong to one ethnicity. There are 5 million Palestinians living under permanent Israeli rule who have no rights at all. No citizenship. No civil rights. Not even the most basic human rights. They can be imprisoned indefinitely without charges. They can be shot, and nothing will happen. This has been the situation for nearly 60 years now. No other country like this would be called a democracy.
by bajsejohannes | 2025-07-11 09:16:49+00:00
I don't know, but anecdotally, I still use it for work, but no longer for personal chats.

It also seems like someone at Slack is tasked with driving up engagement, because I get these "Your team is missing you" messages from Slack (only to be find a dead slack community). That might be a sign that they're losing traction?
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-07-11 09:16:54+00:00
I think there are also other aspects:

- Some people simply ask a lot more questions than others (this ignores whether they like or dislike AI), i.e. some people simply prefer to find things out more by themselves, and thus also use other resources like Google or Stack Overflow as a last resort. So their questions to an AI will likely be more complicated, because they already found out the easy parts by themselves.

- If I have to make the effort to explain to the AI in a sufficiently exhaustive way what I need (which I often have to do), I expect the answers of the AI to be really good. If it isn't, having explained my problem to the AI was simply a waste of time.
by pmontra | 2025-07-11 09:17:11+00:00
All iOS and Android developers I know don't write app that they sell themselves. They work for customers that more often than not give away their apps for free because they make money from the service the app gives access to. And they don't sell the service on the app store.

Think about banks, insurance companies, TV broadcasters, train timetables and services, cars management, etc.
by neurostimulant | 2025-07-11 09:17:19+00:00
This is great!

It would be great if the local llm have access to local tools you can enable/disable as needed (e.g. via customizable profiles). Simple tools such as fetch url, file access, messaging, calendar, etc would be very useful, though I'm not sure if the input token limit is large enough to allow this. Even better if it can somehow do web search but I understand it would be hard to do for free.

Also, how cool it would be if you can expose openai compatible api that can be accessed from other devices in your local network? Imagine turning your old phones into local llm servers. That would be very cool.

By the way, I can't figure out how to clear previous chats data. Is it hidden somewhere?
by thyristan | 2025-07-11 09:17:26+00:00
Prosecution is not equal to being guilty. In fact, during prosecution, he is still presumed innocent, only a trial that comes after the prosecution can find him guilty. "Innocent until proven guilty" is a basic tenet of jurisprudence, even in many non-democratic societies. For a democratic society, it is a necessary condition.

That Netanyahu still walks free is a consequence of a) Israel not being party to the ICC, therefore not bound to obey their prosecutors' requests and b) the countries he travels to not being party to the ICC either or c) the ICC member states he travels to guaranteeing diplomatic immunity as is tradition for an invited diplomatic guest.

c) is actually a problem, but not one of Israel being undemocratic, but of the respective member states being hypocrites for disobeying the ICC while still being members.
by imtringued | 2025-07-11 09:17:27+00:00
VLIW isn't bottlenecked on sufficiently advanced compilers. That's actually nonsense. VLIW is non-viable because it exposes micro-architectural aspects of the CPU, which require a new version of the ISA for every CPU generation to be taken advantage of and for all applications to be recompiled for the specific CPU you have.

In Arm and x86 land you get CPUs that run even the old code 10% faster with every CPU generation. Meanwhile with say AMD NPUs XDNA1 land is not the same as XDNA2 land. You have to rewrite your algorithms if you want things to get faster. The promised VLIW benefits work as intended. You can run loads, stores and vector operations all in the same cycle without any issue.

Then there is the crazy world of TTAs (transport triggered architectures), which take the VLIW stuff and crank it up to extreme levels. Instead of having an ISA, you directly control the buses connecting the function units. If you have multiple buses, then you can perform multiple transfers in parallel. You can build a custom set of function units specifically for your application and the compiler will automatically turn your C code into transfer instructions for any design you can come up with.

Now the first idea you get is to obviously just crank up the number of buses from 1 to 2 to 4 to 8, but then you notice that the number of cycles to run your algorithm doesn't go down as quickly as you'd hoped. There are a number of reasons for this, but if I had to choose a reason that favors dynamic scheduling, it would be that most sequential programming languages, especially C, don't expose enough parallelism to the compiler to be able to take advantage of it at compile time. If you could prove to the compiler that two functions f and g do not mutate the same data (local mutable state is allowed), then the TTA compiler could produce a mixed instruction stream that blends both functions to be executed in parallel rather than sequentially. This is similar to SMT with the exception that the overhead is zero and that you are allowed to run nano threads that run for a few nano seconds.
by diggan | 2025-07-11 09:17:28+00:00
> Clearly no one stops and ask "Should we?". Which is sad.

I'm not sure, I've seen plenty of cases where programmers do stop and ask "Should we?" while management says "It's not ideal, but you have 4 hours allocated to shipping this things, so decide the "right" approach for achieving our OKRs" or similar.
by sajithdilshan | 2025-07-11 09:17:29+00:00
I’m a 35-year-old living in Berlin, and according to government statistics, I fall into the higher earners category. However, having a child here feels completely out of the question for several reasons:

1. Lack of quality healthcare –> I have statutory health insurance and pay a substantial amount for it, yet it often takes weeks to get a doctor’s appointment. I can’t imagine dealing with that level of delay and bureaucracy when a child might need immediate medical attention.

2. Housing crisis –> Finding decent housing in Berlin (or any major German city) is incredibly difficult. Even a small room in a shared apartment costs around €600–700 per month if you’re lucky enough to find one. Securing a reasonably priced apartment suitable for a family could take years.

3. Rising cost of living –> Back in 2018, €50 could cover quite a lot; today it barely pays for a single grocery trip covering just a few days. Adding a child to the equation would make it feel like living paycheck to paycheck.

Many of my friends are also postponing having kids or have decided against it entirely due to financial concerns. In addition, quite a few of my female friends don’t want to have children because of the physical toll pregnancy would take and the loss of freedom it would mean, especially when compared to their male partners. It’s simply not something they’re willing to accept.
by TrackerFF | 2025-07-11 09:18:00+00:00
A decent way to classify human vs bot when it comes to dashes, is that all bots use ‘em-dashes(—), while almost none use regular dashes (-) in writing. While plenty of humans will use regular dashes, because they won’t bother to look for ‘em-dashes on the keyboard, or phone.

Of course, you have the people that correctly use em-dashes, too.
by jjani | 2025-07-11 09:18:06+00:00
This is correct. Someone above commented this "Starting to feel like it'd be more sensible to just have the EU fund an independent phone OS/Hardware.". The sensible thing is much different; it's to start behaving like China, in the sense of "my way or the high way, and no you don't get to drag it out in our courts for years, we're not interested".
by energy123 | 2025-07-11 09:18:10+00:00
As our economies have become more productive, non-scarce goods like electronics have become cheaper. But that wealth creation gets put into scarce store of value assets like housing. Special tax treatment and government protection, and a culture of house investment, add fuel to the fire. Regulations that prevent private supply, and a lack of will to build public housing, is more fuel on the fire. In the late-stage of the cycle, a majority of the electorate is staked in this perverse system, creating the fait accompli where democratically elected politicians are bound by the voter to perpetuate the pathology, soon they will resort to populist solutions like rent control which will increase house prices even more. Within a democratic context there is no clear mechanism that will cause us to change course.
by sensanaty | 2025-07-11 09:18:40+00:00
How so? As of late, Android FCZC exploits pay out more than iOS ones do at the moment[1]. And anecdotally from what I hear from friends involved in security, Android is very well hardened at this point and is equal to iOS despite having a much wider surface area for attacks.

[1] https://opzero.ru/en/prices/
by alt227 | 2025-07-11 09:19:03+00:00
More people are getting annoyed with Apple over these issues, and they are bleeding into the mainstream media more frequently. I have a few die hard Apple friends (Non-professionals) that have recently got so frustrated with being pushed into corners that they have given up the fruity ecosystem altogether.

In no way am I suggesting that Apple are on the way out, but they have definitely started to turn the same corner that IBM and Microsoft have in the past. They are becoming seen as 'big business' instead of 'challenging underdog'.
by Saline9515 | 2025-07-11 09:19:49+00:00
The reason for the fertility decline is particularly difficult to get approach. Our rational mind wants to find a single unifying theory to explain why it is happening, but reality is likely more complex.

There isn't a single reason why people have fewer children. Each society experiences challenges, such as housing, which bear some similarities but differ a lot in practice, so it's easy to find counter-examples if you're looking for a single-factor explanation.

The article cites "changing norms", which reflects the broad social evolution happening—even rather conservative societies such as Iran or North Korea[1] have a below-replacement TFR! My pet theory is that this change is accelerated by the wide adoption of smartphones, which tend to “flatten” cultures toward global, westernized norms. It even happened in North Korea, which led the country to take radical, Orwellian measures[2].

[1] https://apnews.com/article/north-korea-kim-jong-un-birthrate...

[2] https://www.vice.com/en/article/north-koreas-smartphones-are...
by DrBazza | 2025-07-11 09:19:56+00:00
Which is unfortunate, but a consequence of Microsoft's perennial, embrace, extend, extinguish - they embraced instant-messaging version 3 (or wherever we are now), and they're onto the extend part - extending Teams' reach by bundling it 'for free' in Office, and the OS, so people don't "need" to buy Slack.

Slack won't be 'extinguished' but it will have a falling market share, despite the dumpster fire that is Teams, and the bean-counters in most corporations getting kudos from their bosses for 'cost savings'.
by rsanheim | 2025-07-11 09:20:03+00:00
I don't think that dichotomy is true at all, at least not with experienced software people.

Many folks I know are skeptical of the hype, or maybe full on anti/distrustful, due to reasons I think are valid. But many of those same people have tried llm tools, maybe chatgpt or copilot or cursor, and recognize the value even w/ huge misgivings. Some of have gone further with tools like claude code and seen the real potential there, quite a step beyond fancy auto-complete or just-in-time agents...but even there you can end up in rabbit-holes and drowning in horrible design.

In your incredibly reductive scale, I'm closer to 'love' than 'skeptical', but I'm often much of both sides. But I'd never write a prompt like 'write me some typescript' for any real work, or honestly anything close to that, unless its just for memes or demonstrations.

But no-one who programs for a living uses prompts like that, at least not for real work. That is just silly talk.
by speeder | 2025-07-11 09:20:30+00:00
So I live in the EU where such supplements are supposedly safe. Article said that supplements that mix pepper and turmeric are dangerous. And the dose that was dangerous to the woman was 2000mg.

I looked on my table toward the bottle of turmeric my parents gifted me recently, saying they heard it was good and bought on a famous "health" store.

Bottle is: turmeric + pepper "designed for max absorption" and dose is 10000mg.
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-07-11 09:21:15+00:00
> covering some less-useful land in ground mount photovoltaics.

Doesn't even need to be less-useful land (especially in western Europe, ground is becoming a scarce resource), put PV on flat rooves or add them over open car parks. Also helps alleviate pressure on the overstressed energy grid by generating and using power more locally.

But, local power is (overall) a lot more costly than major centralized power generation projects, like a wind farm or what have you.
by theshrike79 | 2025-07-11 09:22:07+00:00
LLMs are good for things you know how to do, but can't be arsed to. Like small tools with extensive use of random APIs etc.

For example I whipped together a Steam API -based tool that gets my game library and enriches it with data available in maybe 30 minutes of active work.

The LLM (Cursor with Gemini Pro + Claude 3.7 at the time IIRC) spent maybe 2-3 hours on it while I watched some shows on my main display and it worked on my second screen with me directing it.

Could I have done it myself from scratch like a proper artisan? Most definitely. Would I have bothered? Nope.
by maxglute | 2025-07-11 09:22:20+00:00
My wild speculation is that TFR is more correlated to simply not being bored, i.e. internet pentration. Cursory LLM wank shows strong & tight correlation. Even more than income. Academically I know strongest correlation is suppose to be female education levels, but women with < middle school, or high school education in developed/OECD countries still have TFR mostly >2. VS women from developing countries, who still manage secondary still hover around 4. Maybe religion? Then you have very religious and wealthy MENA countries with access to basically cheap labour and TFR still crashing below replacement. Unless ultra religious, i.e. some jewish cohorts.

Other point is seems like pro natalist policies will only get you so far... certainly not 2.1 replacement TFR. Note every 0.1 in TFR is about 5% missing birth for stablized population. Pronatalist policies seems to icnrease TFR by 0.1-0.3, usually settle at 1.6-1.7, i.e. still down 20% net bodies. My unpleasant conclusion is positive policies not enough, need very punitive policies, i.e. high income/wealth transfer tax to really incentivize natavist replacement TFR. AKA historic incentive - if you don't have lots of kids you die poor and uncared for. All the cheap housing, free daycares, xyz subsidies is not enough. % of population will have a shit time raising their first kid and decide 1 is good enough.

Or you know... immigration, which of course going forward means disproportionately brown and black skin. Queue Family guy skin color chart meme.
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-07-11 09:22:32+00:00
> When I ask ChatGPT (for example) for a code solution, I find that it’s usually quite “naive” (pretty prolix). I usually end up rewriting it. That doesn’t mean that’s a bad thing, though. It gives me a useful “starting point,” and can save me several hours of experimenting.

The usual counter-point is that if you (commonly) write code by experimenting, you are doing it wrong. Better think the problem through, and then write decent code (that you finally turn into great code). If the code that you start with is that as "naive" as you describe, in my experience it is nearly always better to throw it away (you can't make gold out of shit) and completely start over, i.e. think the problem through and then write decent code.
by bzzzt | 2025-07-11 09:22:42+00:00
You mean those users that don't even know what an application is? And you mean that software that only has the users best interests in mind and is not spying on them, trying to scam or confuse them into buying unnecessary stuff?

I think Apple has done a great job of protecting non-technical people from a lot of the possible harms of malware. There's a lot of incentive for them to make sure security is handled right. I'm convinced going back to the 90s and giving every software developer full access to users phones would create a lot more problems than it would solve.
by epolanski | 2025-07-11 09:23:24+00:00
Life expectancy in US is 78 compared to 82 in Europe.

Child mortality is closer to Africa than Europe.

Again, about children, US has the second poorest children among the 35 most developed countries in the world.

More than half Americans have their literacy prophiciency below elementary level.

There's almost a million homeless people in US, that's more than in several rich countries like Japan, Italy, Poland, Germany, etc, combined. Hell I've never seen bidonvilles and tents all around cities in Europe or most of Asia like I've seen in LA or SF.

Inequality in US is at south America level.

US has more incarcerated population than all developed countries combined.
by latexr | 2025-07-11 09:23:32+00:00
> Writing both the client- and server-side for a PDF annotation editor would have taken 60 hours, maybe more.

How do you know? Seems to me you’re making the exact same estimation mistake of the people in the study.

> Instead, a combination Copilot, DeepSeek, Claude, and Gemini yielded a working prototype in under 6 hours

Six hours for a prototype using four LLMs? That is not impressive, it sounds insane and a tremendous mess that will take so long to dig out of the prototype stage it’ll effectively require a rewrite.

And why are you comparing an LLM prototype to a finished product “by hand” (I surely hope you’re not suggesting such a prototype would take sixty hours)? That is disingenuous and skewing the numbers.
by lompad | 2025-07-11 09:23:34+00:00
Because for now, that's just what those financially profiting from the AI-hype tell us. Be it sama, hyung or nadella, they all profit if people _believe_ AI is a force multiplier for everybody. Reality is much more muddy though and it's absolutely not as obvious as those people claim.

And keep in mind that a 5-10x price hike is to be expected if those companies keep spending billions to make millions.

Right now, there is a consistent stream of papers incoming which indicates that AI might be much more of a specialized tool for very particular situations instead of the "solve everything"-tool the hype makes people believe. This is highly significant.

"Just believe me bro" is just not enough.
by rickdeckard | 2025-07-11 09:24:07+00:00
> But what does surprise me is that there’s a very common attitude in forums that somehow Apple is the only company doing this, or they’re doing it worse than any other company.

Apart from being irrelevant and whataboutism, this is the narrative Apple is playing, particularly towards its userbase.

The EU regulation doesn't focus on Apple in any way, the purpose of the DMA is to have objective criteria to identify a scaled market of digital goods with an uneven playing field for all players.

The EU DMA has identified that Apple created a closed market of significant size, made themselves the gatekeeper and invited companies to compete there. But Apple participates in the market also as a player, and skews the playing field in their favor.

So it's an unjust market where forces are unable to flow freely, and the EU is attempting to rectify that.

The reasons why Apple is in such public focus on this are #1 because they operate an unusual amount of closed markets and #2 because they WANT this: it is part of Apple's strategy to rally publicly against the regulation and shape a different perception of it.
by ben_w | 2025-07-11 09:24:16+00:00
Ah, thanks. "BBB" makes sense now you say it, but TLAs expand to far too many things for me to have worked that out myself.

I was wondering if PIGGY PORK was a pork-barrel reference, but the all-caps increased my uncertainty — I have thought X was a dumpster fire even when it was still called Twitter, so I don't know anything Musk says on it unless someone sends me a screenshot of his tweet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pork_barrel