MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by altairprime | 2025-07-29 07:55:12+00:00
All valid points — however: the EU has two requirements not listed above it needs to be difficult to steal unnoticed, and it needs to minimize attempts to steal it at all.

They’re not concerned about a person handing their phone to someone else for a moment. They’re concerned about kids stealing age verification devices from people. Someone isn’t going to notice a missing yubikey until they check age next. Someone is going to miss their phone much more rapidly, be able to track it using stolen device features, and be able to report it stolen which incidentally remote kills HSM access. They can also enforce biometric checks and require a recertification after those change, which would make it nearly impossible — relative to shoulder surfing a PIN — for kids to make use of the parental device unit.

Even a fingerprint key isn’t going to meet these terms, and it’s going to have a weaker sensor that the kid will have hours or days or weeks to try and defeat using a fingerprinted glass and some glue. Locking it to biometrics stored in the phone prior to (re)certification makes it pointless for kids to try. A few still will, but word will spread.

I still personally think this is all kind of a hot mess of deferring parental authority to technology, but I’m not an EU citizen, nor a parent, so my opinion on the policy is irrelevant. I’m just here to raise awareness of why attestation is winning: technological superiority and unmatchable market fit, and an opposition that isn’t presenting coherent and most especially government-persuasive arguments to stop its use. Yubikeys are not a viable market fit in a world where tiny amoral thieves live among us — and whatever else children are to their parents, most of them have the moral integrity of a wet paper towel. Most wouldn’t think twice about lifting a yubikey, but they’ll hesitate strongly before stealing a parent’s phone, and it won’t even pay off doing so thanks to biometrics.
by Tade0 | 2025-07-29 07:55:27+00:00
Thing is, this used to be trivial to me, but I spent several years in a purely frontend role, so didn't interact directly with databases at all.

Moreover, the market promotes specialization. The other day I had a conversation with a friend who is rather a generalist and we contrasted his career opportunities with those of a person I know who started out as a civil engineer, but went into IT and over the course of about four years specialized so heavily in Angular, and only that, that now makes more than the two of us combined.

He can't write an SQL statement - I'm not sure he was ever introduced to the concept. How does that feel?
by another_twist | 2025-07-29 07:55:31+00:00
Theres no content here. I think (or I hope) its abundantly clear that when you're writing code for a paycheck, you're solving business problems using code as a tool. Its one of the requirements to progress to a senior engineer.

The question is whether focus time is the best way of doing this and I think yes it is. There are more engineers out there who care about outreach and feedback than the thought leader machine cares to admit. I think the one principle is minimise time to contact with users. As soon as its ready, release. Code that doesnt see the light rots.
by cyanic | 2025-07-29 07:55:53+00:00
From my experience it was quite usable on Pixel 8a, but I did experience problems.

For context, I use it mostly for web development. It runs a desktop environment with VNC, so I'm able to connect and run software like a browser. I don't develop on the device, but instead connect to a remote machine. Although the browser takes a few seconds to start, I didn't have any issues doing frontend development or doing web searches and reading docs, but I tend to be careful regarding the number of open tabs.

The Terminal app does crash from time to time. It can crash after 15 minutes, but I've also had it running for about 2 hours without issues. I'm not bothered by this as I just reconnect and continue where I left.

The reinstall is not needed every day. When I run the app, sometimes it says there was an unrecoverable error and suggests to reinstall. I ignore this, because it's a timing issue; the app was slow to start. Usually, if I run it again after closing the activity, it starts normally. The same VM has been running for me without a need to reinstall for a few months.

The battery usage is not too bad. I use an external display and make the phone screen black during this time. The battery gets depleted at a rate between 5% and 20% per hour, but this is only for active usage. I haven't been running it all the time in the background.
by jononor | 2025-07-29 07:56:04+00:00
Another aspect is for distraction. OpenAI for example have had periods where they talked a lot on existential risk (humanity is doomed due to AI overloads, yadda yadda). This can serve as a very useful distraction to avoid talk about more plausible risks in the foreseeable future - such as massive concentrations of wealth, increased inequality, large amounts of unemployment, large scale personalized psychological manipulation, etc.
by 9dev | 2025-07-29 07:56:45+00:00
https://www.instagram.com/p/DMfBbO6Mb3I/?img_index=2

I certainly trust Reuters and AFP over a YouTuber, yes. Their local journalists have a track record of professionalism, they aren't activists under control of the Hamas. Besides, are you honestly proposing there's any kind of regime in control of Gaza right now..?
by kvemkon | 2025-07-29 07:57:01+00:00
Free software community participants, contributors, can feel discouraged with the diving the whole community in strictly 2 class of only Maintainers vs. Consumers and then demand something like an Open Source Contributors Fee. All those investigative and reporting work about software behavior issues, hard to reproduce issues, bugs only in specific environment or specific circumstances, sharing experience, helping each other and so on, let alone fixing some issues on their owns and posting PRs.
by monero-xmr | 2025-07-29 07:57:22+00:00
Funneling massive amounts of taxpayer dollars perhaps made sense in a pre-internet age where central planning of research was potentially more efficient when capital moved slowly and wasn’t large enough to fund such endeavors. I truly think that time passed decades ago.

I would entertain arguments for situations where huge amounts of taxpayer dollars might be required because the private sector doesn’t show up. But the bar has to be way, way higher than it has been.
by Arathorn | 2025-07-29 07:57:43+00:00
I call it a hit piece because it starts off with demonstrably bogus complaints (“if you ask servers to delete data they may ignore you!”).

The fact I then went through point by point to acknowledge that a few of the other points are still relevant shows that I’m not dismissing it.

Yes, I’m protective of the project, but I’m also irritated at folks who push fake information against it (especially if it’s padding out valid points).

p.s. sorry if this comes across as dismissive of your complaint O:-)
Startup Acquired
by its_umar_khann | 2025-07-29 07:57:59+00:00
ChatFai.com has been acquired! It's an AI platform to create and talk to AI characters It has found a new home

It all began as a fun weekend project ChatFAI found its own niche audience The user base started growing organically Then, two months after launch, it went viral

Users made amazing Reels and TikToks Some of their videos just blew up! We hit nearly 1 million users in 6 months

So why did we let it go? It wasn't our long-term vision We didn't have enough time for it And AI is evolving so quickly We want ChatFAI to be huge even if that means it's without us

The acquisition process was intense We were first-time founders, a lot of things new to us We got three offers

Then, OpenAI's new updates hit Two offers were sadly canceled We worked day & night, answering questions & preparing docs Finally, it got a best buyer to take it to next level

We are so proud of how far we've come.

We felt like kids when we started our entrepreneurial journey The photo is from 2019 (Ayesha, Awais, Me, Usama) We had just launched our first startup SocialBu at that time We posed for a picture, making a prayer Our new startup really needed those prayers

This has been a wonderful journey And our story has just begun Many more great things are coming
by runsWphotons | 2025-07-29 07:58:15+00:00
Until somewhat recently America had an advantage in commercialising the basic research. But now increasingly we fund some basic research to the tune of tens of millions of dollars only to see it commercialised overseas (often by China but by others too), often when technical know how is exfiltrated and patents ignored. This reduces the expected benefit of funding the research.

Science has been a big part of the US dominant lead but I think it is quite a stretch to say it is how America ascended. Historically it is better case that America ascended through industrial and commercial might which led to the victory in WW2 (in which the nuclear bomb was a small footnote in reality--much more important after).

The growth gains are how the funding produces an eventual return but this is increasingly globalised (i.e. there is not always a particular gain to Americans). Some company in Europe might be the one which wins the market, giving everyone lower prices but only the european taxpayer a special gain. There is a kind of tragedy of commons here. Science is probably advanced the most when there is a dominant industrial commercialising power which foots the bill?
by another_twist | 2025-07-29 07:59:03+00:00
I disagree. The real fun is in solving problems. Real user problems are harder than toy coding problems. Contact with users is what gives the craft meaning. Notions such as good code, clean code when chased as goals become stale too quickly. Good code is code other people can read, nothing more. Clean code is code that is modular and flexible enough for the near future. Next up are feature requests and feedback cycles which is the real fun part.
by jeroenhd | 2025-07-29 07:59:28+00:00
I've seen it on the fediverse. Thanks to fediverse servers copying images to a local cache the moment something gets posted, hundreds or even thousands of servers started mirroring child porn because one dickhead liked to see the world burn.

My guess is that the source of the problem is that you can easily sign up for a service if it doesn't validate your phone number like every other messenger with a decent following does. If XMPP gained popularity again outside of corporate networks that use it without knowing, we'd also see it there, probably.

Matrix also seems to have gathered a following in the particularly unsavoury parts of a few *chan websites which probably doesn't help.
by rvnx | 2025-07-29 07:59:32+00:00
Normalizing it and saying it is a mundane topic 30 years is actually helping these powers to install it, like getting tired over time and ending just accepting it. The reaction should be much stronger from the tech companies but the tech companies are actually supporters of it, just so they can continue hoarding money while violating other laws.

-> Discord/Google/Meta/etc are already scanning the private chats for pictures, and they didn't wait for a law.

To fix pedophiles, supporters of terrorism and gang members, there is a more radical solution: fund justice and police so dangerous people can be put in jail (or kill them if that's something you think is right).

Once this is done, there is no need anymore to monitor conversations outside of current scope.

Though, justice is not fair in practice, so there will be collateral innocent victims (like with privacy invasion) :/
by vendiddy | 2025-07-29 08:00:25+00:00
Personal experience - it comes down to how good the product manager on my team is.

Bad PM: I need to make sure I am not wasting time building the wrong thing. So I am forced to be "distracted" and play the role of a PM.

Good PM: I need to stay focused building. The PM has already done a great job figuring out what needs to get built. They have given me a good mental model of how the customer thinks.

Sure some facetime with customers is good but the article has a simplistic conclusion.
by jraph | 2025-07-29 08:00:39+00:00
You assume that null results are not worth it and are not the best of science. You seem to be ignoring the issue where researchers collectively waste time redoing "failing" studies again and again because the null results are not published, and other issues not publishing them causes.

We fundamentally disagree here and I'm not willing to put in the effort needed to try to convince you otherwise, many other comments are here are better than what I could write.

I do hope you take the time to take a step back (and you seem to be in defensive mode, if so, you need to go out of this) and reconsider.

> How do you define "shameful" if it isn't related to judgement of someone?

Do you know the expression "it's a shame"?

> used when you wish a situation was different, and you feel sad or disappointed

https://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/it-s-a-shame-what-a-s...
by ehnto | 2025-07-29 08:00:42+00:00
There's certainly no shortage of issues with the mental health professional field, that much is true. I hope you are doing well regardless. I suspect we're going to see this story play out a lot, where the limitations of AI should be a major limiting factor, but people will get results anyway.

I imagine it will rely a lot on the pilot, and how well they understand those limitations. Perhaps the bigger risks are those without good understanding of LLMs who just treat it like an all knowing expert human.
by lan321 | 2025-07-29 08:01:02+00:00
I don't think one excludes the other. I want DRM-free games, but I would also like a launcher like Steam, so I don't have to manage my library most of the time. For example, I have 1000+ games, of which I only care about, let's say, 50.

With a launcher, I can back up the 50 I care about and leave the storage of the rest to it. If they were to disappear without warning, I don't ~really~ care, but I still have easy access to them. Then the launcher can also take care of compatibility issues with old games automatically. Say a game is dependent on X, which was made in the Win XP times and no longer works, the launcher can find a modern fork/substitute and auto replace it, so that I don't have to fuck around with it myself.. There's value in it.

Then you get the platform itself with good guide integration, mod workshop integration, friends (game invites, sharing, etc), combined store...

It's kinda like what I believe GOG is trying to do, though I'm not very familiar with them since I just don't like how much their launcher pings (blows through my NextDNS usage limit in a week).
by YetAnotherNick | 2025-07-29 08:01:12+00:00
> 39% in Gaza supported the attacks by Hamas into Israel in October 2023 that triggered the conflict, 32 percentage points lower than six months earlier[1].

If 71% civilian supports some group, then it is not a terrorist group but a government, and using Gazans isn't an overreach.

[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/11/amid-the-cease...
by pembrook | 2025-07-29 08:01:23+00:00
These resource constraints create an extremely strong incentive for customers to try all competitors…this is what makes for the best products/services. When there’s no network effects it’s a fight over algorithms and compute and fundraising ability and we actually get real competition instead of natural monopolies.

This is the most exciting business fight of our time and I’m chomping popcorn with glee.

I think Anthropic is grossly overestimating the addressable market of a CLI tool, while also falsely believing they have a durable lead right now in their model, which I’m not so sure of. Also their treatment of their partners has been…shall we say…questionable. These are huge missteps at a time they should be instead hitting the gas harder imo.

They’re getting cocky. Would love to see a competitor to swoop in and eat their lunch.
by rckt | 2025-07-29 08:01:27+00:00
With this topic constantly emerging from the authorities, it feels like in the end they will succeed. Money and power always win, to some extent. At least on the official level. But this will lead to those who don't agree to form their own places to communicate securely. The people in power obviously don't want THEIR chats to be scanned, so there will be a safe haven. Just like with tax evaders. But I guess those who care about privacy and security will be considered as potential criminals.
by zelphirkalt | 2025-07-29 08:02:18+00:00
Only needs to succeed once. It only takes some incapable judges, who don't have any idea how encryption works, and of those I am certain there are many. Once such a thing gets through, it would take time to be reversed, if at all possible.

Whoever puts forth such ideas should be the first to show all their private communication. It shouldn't just be for the common citizens. How quickly the idea would be dropped ...
by ismail | 2025-07-29 08:02:40+00:00
Think you are missing the point. This wasn’t an analogy about the actors , but rather the framing.

During apartheid , and towards the end plenty were making arguments for gradual control ; gradual processes which just would have further perpetuated oppression. I was highlighting the similarities to that. We also had people saying the ‘blacks’ just want to ‘kill the whites’ and it would result in violence.

Your mapping of roles is completely incorrect, Indians cannot be the Zionist since they were an oppressed minority and did not have power. Equating Afrikaners to ottomans / British is incoherent.

You, and the original comment completely ignores the power imbalance as was the case in apartheid South Africa. This framing further perpetuates oppression and is a way to prop up the apartheid state.

I won’t post all of the evidence here confirming that Israel functions as an apartheid state. Numerous reports exist that describe and draw the comparison.

The link to Orwell……….?
by luk212 | 2025-07-29 08:03:01+00:00
Proxies are deployed to enhance observability, enforce security, and facilitate connectivity between clients and servers. However, these benefits usually come at a cost, as an additional "hop" is added to the critical data path.

We're building a high-performance, streaming-native protocol-agnostic proxy. After completing an OpenMessaging Benchmark on the proxy deployed in front of Apache Kafka, we've shown that it has near-zero impact on p99 latency, and actually absorbs and smooths out latency variation in a Kafka deployment, ensuring low and predictable latency at the 99th percentile, even under long-running, high-throughput workloads.

A link to the benchmark repo is included in the post to validate/confirm results.
by watwut | 2025-07-29 08:03:18+00:00
It ended up associated with the far right, because poster child for "defending speech" was only and exclusively far right. Really.

It was never "I strongly disagree with an annoying progressive, but I will defend their right to say it". It was always "how dare you criticize far right or call someone far right, you are preventing their speech by opposing them".

> people on the left who are against free speech I suppose, yes.

Funny enough, far right and conservatives were openly against free speech again and again and again. Including in very practical ways. And we see that right now with Trump, Thiel, Musk, Vance and the rest.

People "on the right" nor self styled free speech advocates never minded that. There was never any fascist movement for freedom, the openly stated goal was always to remove the freedom. But if you are not one of them say so and mean it as a criticism, you are somehow supposedly preventing their free speech.
by jksflkjl3jk3 | 2025-07-29 08:03:37+00:00
How are there not real use cases for crypto already?

Surely more business is being done with crypto today than was done using the internet in the 80's.

I've been paid my salary in crypto for the last 8 years. The company I work for pays nearly all their expenses in crypto. I pay for my rent and most major purchases with crypto. A significant portion of my savings is in crypto. For fiat purchases, I'll use a reloadable crypto visa card. When I travel to foreign countries that mostly use cash, I'll usually exchange crypto for local currency rather than carry large amounts of USD or deal with sketchy ATMs.
by jononor | 2025-07-29 08:04:43+00:00
If enough people believe it is true and act on this belief, it will become true (to a larger degree, at least). There is a massive shift of the direction of money happening right now, away from workers into "AI" (LLM based systems). The more of that shift can be produced now, the stronger the AI companies will be in the future. Because they need massive capital investments in compute, engineering investments in efficiency, and to reach economies of scale, to be able to really compete with human-based workforce.
by waynesonfire | 2025-07-29 08:05:45+00:00
I had a similar issue. I like the SXN-210, it has a removal cap and 1.0mm tip size.

I got a box of 12 for a few bucks from Amazon, here is the link since it's hard to search by model,

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0002LD1NK
by ismail | 2025-07-29 08:08:13+00:00
This is a common hasbara talking point/framing. Yet

https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2022/03/israels-55-y...

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

https://www.hrw.org/news/2021/04/27/abusive-israeli-policies...
by rpastuszak | 2025-07-29 08:08:13+00:00
Thanks! And yes, although the same idea applies to Ensō in general.

Looking at the feedback from people, I see two camps: those who rely on autocomplete and those who abhor it.

I normally use it in two ways:

- quickly turn it on/off when someone is passing by, so I can carry on writing undistracted

- keep it on for several minutes at a time, esp. when writing in a busy public place
by jeroenhd | 2025-07-29 08:08:49+00:00
There's an excellent (volunteer-run) [website](https://www.partijgedrag.nl/index.php) about Dutch politics that will ask your opinion on a bunch of historic chamber proposals (for/against/skip) and use that to show your alignment to different parties by comparing your answers with actual party votes. It has definitely swayed my vote a few times.

I suppose such a tool might not work in a first-past-the-post voting system, but in my case it certainly has certainly helped to see what politicians actually vote like rather than just trusting the promises. If you live in a country with easily accessible digital records of votes/bills/proposals, I imagine you could throw something similar together and help quite a few people.
by inglor_cz | 2025-07-29 08:09:25+00:00
"not one freak from Denmark putting this forward where it will die"

Not true. The truth is that Chat Control has returned several times already and the majority of the EU states were actually always for, but a blocking minority has been reached each time - barely so.

Worryingly, one of the blocking minority countries used to be Germany, where privacy-minded smaller parties (Greens, FDP) are no longer in government. The new government hasn't declared its position yet. If it switches to yes, then the remnants of our privacy are kaput just like that, and the only hope will be in the ECHR, or possibly (sigh) in Trump's tech bros angrily vetoing it from abroad.

So, no one freak from Denmark, but a concerted, repeated effort.

There is an even worse set of measures in the phase of preparation, ProtectEU, which would mandate backdoors in everything under the pain of prison for vendors, introduce mandatory data retention and ban non-logging VPNs.

Fuck, I don't want to live in a China with a blue flag instead of red. This is absolutely dystopian.

Don't downplay the danger. Don't spread disinformation. This isn't a random shot from a random weirdo in Denmark. This is a seriously driven EU-wide attempt to destroy meaningful encryption with a lot of proponents and backers. And the current EC chair, Ursula von der Leyen, has a history of promoting such measures, that is why Germans call her Zensursula.