MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Woodi | 2025-07-14 05:49:43+00:00
Not true. Why ban companies ?

But Europeans MUST ban data transfer! Like yesterday! And that is literal but temporary shutdown of american Big Tech. Logic. And I know eg. Australia tried something.

Also european spy agencies don't want it because they are literal 3rd Word institutions if we talk new technologies and getting stream of data is easier.

Shut data transfer now. We are not integrated yet.
by const_cast | 2025-07-14 05:49:53+00:00
Sure, but the bigger question is: does this matter?

If we think about it longer than, say, 5 seconds, we will realize no, it does not.

Your particular desire for punishment is not really relevant to anything. That's not how medicine operates, and that's a good thing. You're attempting to make a moral argument here. Moral arguments are usually stupid and worthless - try making a different argument.
by Nemo_bis | 2025-07-14 05:49:58+00:00
Mastodon v4+ replicates some of the issues with Twitter by giving prominence to highly followed accounts. This is considered "easier" for new users coming from elsewhere (in the sense it's easier to be bombarded with posts you didn't need, than to go look for what you actually need).

The issue is tracked at https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/18128 .

So, even on Mastodon you still need some self-care. Avoid following popular accounts, block and silence generously.
by petesergeant | 2025-07-14 05:50:03+00:00
It’s hard to find hard data on this but this[0] seems to think 20-30% of plans will cover for obesity.

The Lily and Novo Nordisk coupons seem to have quite short availability windows, according to several years of reading the various related subreddits.

The cost difference here is real.

0: https://www.goodrx.com/insurance/health-insurance/weight-los...
by maxbond | 2025-07-14 05:51:52+00:00
You're deploying a recent disaster, that killed scores of people, as evidence that people want something done when it isn't appropriate - and you aren't even willing to take a stance on whether what was done was appropriate? That's pretty weak tea. It really undermines your argument. If you aren't willing to take a stand on that, use a different example. Otherwise you aren't saying anything.

You're calling on people to have more nuanced discussions that include tradeoffs, but you retreat immediately from the implication that we're discussing people's lives. That's trying to have your cake and eat it too. Tradeoffs are about balancing different budgets, and it's not just a monetary budget, one of those is a budget of people's lives.
by a_t48 | 2025-07-14 05:52:14+00:00
Yeah, I have in mind handling network messages, mainly. Thinking about it, I have this problem at two layers:

- At the transport layer, I read in a header on a message (which may come in one byte at a time!), get a size for the serialized message, then read N bytes for the message. The simple way to do things is to use a thread per socket, but that results in a lot of wasted memory, depending on how many sockets there are. Instead I use epoll, but now I can't make the simple for loop reading in bytes for the message - I have to have a buffer + allocated size + current size + state enum, wrapped in a struct, then run a switch statement every time I get an epoll event for the socket.

- At half a level higher, there might be multiple messages or other negotiations that need to happen before we can start to stream messages to the owner of the connection. Once again - need to either use a thread or a state enum to keep track of where we are.

Even if you want the enum to be able to report state, you can still set it somewhere for debug purposes.
by Animats | 2025-07-14 05:52:46+00:00
This isn't a China problem. This is a Stellantis problem. Read the infamous letter from the organization of Stellantis dealers to the CEO.[1] That's from last September. The CEO was fired, but it didn't help much.

What's left of Chrysler is one minivan line. That's it.

[1] https://s3-prod.autonews.com/2024-09/Dealer%20letter%20to%20...
by motorest | 2025-07-14 05:53:45+00:00
> Can you name them which countries this impacts?

Sure, go to each country and check what food delivery companies operate in them, get a list of companies operating in the market that are not controlled by the big 5 mentioned in the article.

In Europe there were a few companies operating in the sector which were taken over by these global companies. I recall the Glovo takeover by Delivery Hero. You mention Foodpanda but you seem to be unaware this is a brand from Delivery Hero, and Just Eat is a Prosus company too.

> What countries have both the talent to build a food delivery app and the USA is the dominant player?

I'm baffled by your comment. Do you believe only the US has "the talent" to put together a food delivery business? Because even if you ignore the fact that 2 out of the 5 dominant players are not US companies, you need to be way out of touch with the reality of both the technology side and business side.
by freeopinion | 2025-07-14 05:54:27+00:00
I think I would encourage companies that are experiencing problems with unwittingly hiring fake employees (North Korean or otherwise) to ask such bizarre questions. Or they could just flat out state that they have been having such problems and will therefore be implementing schemes to detect fake employees.

I would very much appreciate that. I think it would be grand if they could even put that in the job posting right up front. It would help me cross that company off the list of places I would be willing to work. I personally don't want to work at a place that cannot tell whether I am real or fake.
by wunderwuzzi23 | 2025-07-14 05:54:50+00:00
It's often missed that tools that only read information are perfect for data exfiltration (no need for any more permissions).

So if you add a Jira tool and a web browser tool together (unauthenticated GET only), then the AI can send all your Jira data to the Internet.

Even big players get this design wrong quite often.
by const_cast | 2025-07-14 05:55:22+00:00
We already do something similar with smoking cessation. They, essentially, pay you to quit smoking.

The social difference is that we frame smoking as an addiction, and smokers as victims of the Tobacco industry. But we frame obesity as a moral failing. So, the former we're ready to jump in and help. But, the latter, we are much more hesitant.

Theoretically, economic outcomes would override these social and moral effects. But leadership is often stupid, so we'll see.
by crinkly | 2025-07-14 05:55:49+00:00
Stellantis are doing a wonderfully disastrous rebrand thing at the moment after finishing a previous one.

They rebranded the local dealership and service centre here “stellantis and you” at great cost. No one actually seems to know who the hell stellantis is or which car brands they own or sell.

That sort of stuff always feels like a death spiral.

The previous disaster was splitting lines. I had a Citroen which I was told was not a Citroen but a DS. Turned out it was both and put together with left over parts from both ranges. This caused all sorts of service problems.
by pjmlp | 2025-07-14 05:56:06+00:00
The other one, is a clunky one from UNIX world point of view on x86 CPUs, follow the links on the sibling comment.

Rather clunky and most UNIX Assemblers were never as powerfull as other systems macro assemblers, since after UNIX System V, it was there only as an additional external tool pass for the C compilation steps, and even before that, the assembler was quite minimalist.

Then there is the whole brain twist of being used to op dest, src, and having to switch into op src, dest.

I prefer the Intel approach as it is more similar to dest = src, rather than src -> dest.

Intel's approach is also more common across various assembly languages.
by motorest | 2025-07-14 05:57:35+00:00
> "completely out of touch" is definitely an exaggregationg.

Is it, though? I mean, can you present a coherent argument supporting the idea that a global market being dominated by 5 multinational corporations does not flag a risk of anticompetitive practices?

> Competition? Meh. What for? So that I can watch the smaller guys blunder their way to the top?

Is this what you have to offer to refute the idea you're completely out of touch?
by Xcelerate | 2025-07-14 05:58:03+00:00
I find the current VC/billionaire strategy a bit odd and suboptimal. If we consider the current search for AGI as something like a multi-armed bandit seeking to identify “valuable researchers”, the industry is way over-indexing on the exploitation side of the exploitation/exploration trade-off.

If I had billions to throw around, instead of siphoning large amounts of it to a relatively small number of people, I would instead attempt to incubate new ideas across a very large base of generally smart people across interdisciplinary backgrounds. Give anyone who shows genuine interest some amount of compute resources to test their ideas in exchange for X% of the payoff should their approach lead to some step function improvement in capability. The current “AI talent war” is very different than sports, because unlike a star tennis player, it’s not clear at all whose novel approach to machine learning is ultimately going to pay off the most.
by Nemo_bis | 2025-07-14 05:58:07+00:00
Indeed. I found it strange that the paper (https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/acbwg_v1 ) doesn't even mention the experiences from other social media and discussion fora, nor alternative tactics such as blocking users. The experiment was conducted until March 2024 so it's already outdated; nowadays, even if you unfollow Elon Musk's preferred accounts, you will be exposed to them anyway.

Hopefully there will be follow-up studies.
by friendzis | 2025-07-14 05:59:11+00:00
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38629387/

> Conclusion: Semaglutide displays potential for weight loss primarily through fat mass reduction. However, concerns arise from notable reductions in lean mass, especially in trials with a larger number of patients.

That's a significant long-term damage to health, quite possibly permanent for 40+ patients.
by andyst | 2025-07-14 05:59:21+00:00
I (still!) have an uncle who had a similar mindset, broke his leg half way through a race and only realised when he stopped at the end, that he couldnt walk any further

finally when they had to (successfully) defib him during a race, that shook him into assessing his health not running for the sake of running

There's a mindset with distance runners that I have seen over and over, just sometimes way too much of a generally good thing
by mlsu | 2025-07-14 06:00:28+00:00
The full bodied palate of this AI market mirrors the sharp nose of 2023 AI doomerism.

The argument goes: if AI is going to destroy humanity, even if that is a 0.001% chance, we should all totally re-wire society to prevent that from happening, because the _potential_ risk is so huge.

Same goes with these AI companies. What they are shooting for, is to replace white collar workers completely. Every single white collar employee, with their expensive MacBooks, great healthcare and PTO, and lax 9-5 schedule, is to be eliminated completely. IF this is to happen, even if it's a 0.001% chance, we should totally re-wire capital markets, because the _potential reward_ is so huge.

And indeed, this idea is so strongly held (especially in silicon valley) that we see these insanely frothy valuations and billion dollar deals in what should be a down market (tremendous macro uncertainty, high interest rates, etc).

AI doomerism seemed to lack finish, though. Anyone remember Eliezer Yudkowsky? Haven't heard from him in a while.
by mathieuh | 2025-07-14 06:00:43+00:00
You can eat like shit and do a lot of exercise and be overweight.

I’m 90 kg at 180 cm. I ride my bike 450 km per week. A few weeks ago I did a 340 km, 3000 m elevation ride at 25.6 km/h and yesterday I did a 220 km ride at 27 km/h. Last week I burned 13,468 calories from cycling (this should be fairly accurate as I have a power meter).

I would say I’m quite fit, I can obviously ride my bike further and faster than the vast majority of people but I am definitely overweight and look fat.
by shellfishgene | 2025-07-14 06:00:47+00:00
Would it not be a much better test to measure power draw for say 10 min with the seconds on and then off, for 10 cycles or so? Rather than waiting for the battery to run down. I guess it's more difficult for a laptop as your have to measure in between battery and laptop, but it should be easy for a desktop (maybe one with laptop CPU).
by krisoft | 2025-07-14 06:00:49+00:00
> what exactly does the kvm do?

In this context the abbreviation stands for “keyboard, video, and mouse”. These are hardware devices you physically connect to a computer and then you can remotely see the computer’s screen and input keyboard and mouse inputs to it via the network.

> It's just stated that it has an Ethernet port and an HDMI and therefore can remote control a computer?

Yes. That is the purpose of a KVM device.

> he said the North Koreans are putting them on people's computers

What is described here is a scam perpetrated by North Korean state to gain funds despite economic sanctions trying to prevent it from doing so.

The scheme involves someone pretending to be a legitimate remote worker working from a legitimate location, but in reality they are performing the work from North Korea. The person working the remote IT job in North Korea gets a pitance, while the state pockets the larger part of the money paid to them.

As part of the scheme the remote worker gets a laptop from their western employer. Corporate IT installs all kind of security measures on the laptop, but also grants it means to access internal resources. The scammer can’t ship the laptop to North Korea and use it directly because if that gets detected they will be found out and fired. They also can’t install software based remote access tools because corporate IT might detect those too. So they use a KVM to remotely use the laptop from North Korea and stay on the job as long as they can.

> as if North Koreans breaking into people's apartments is a common occurrence

The scheme does not involve North Koreans breaking into apartments.

> And why did the FBI contact him about this?

Who knows. Jeff seems to have described how to use a particular cheap KVM in the past. Likely this KVM device is used by the scammers. Maybe he has connections to the KVMs manufacturer? Maybe the FBI thought he does?

> I always thought kvm was the Linux kennel virtualization system...

Same abreviation, but different thing.
by jrflowers | 2025-07-14 06:00:54+00:00
> If you played your cards right you could get a $100k+ starting salary at a BigCo (not necessarily a FAANG) 10 years ago, I only expect that to have expanded

CompSci graduates have a noticeably high unemployment rate at the moment.

I agree that it’s not like everybody is losing their jobs, but the layoffs aren’t because of some cataclysmic economic event like in 00 or 08. Tech companies are choosing to lay off software engineers. Either these companies genuinely don’t need those engineers at all, which would drive down comp because it strengthens management’s negotiating position, or they do need them but have enough money to get by with skeleton crews until the cost of software engineers goes does, which also itself drives down compensation because it strengthens management’s negotiating position.

Either way there is downward pressure on SWE comp, and it’s being exercised by folks that can outlast every last one that insists that they wouldn’t even look at 150k. If your bosses decide you’re worth 70k max and nobody in your industry is unionized you will be looking at 40k being competitive
by aetherspawn | 2025-07-14 06:01:58+00:00
In my country China has been selling cars below market value (for years now) to basically run everyone else out of business. I don’t think it’s anything to do with being cheaper to build and more to do with they’re selling at a loss, which they don’t care because centralised government, and a smart one at that, and then playing the long game waiting for all local manufacturing to go bankrupt before they hike the prices.
by mrighele | 2025-07-14 06:02:35+00:00
At least in Europe, car are more expensive to make than 20 years ago, even inflation adjusted, as the EU keeps adding new and stricter regulations.

* Lower emissions, requiring more expensive engines.

* Making cars easier to recycle (but more expensive to build)

* Adding mandatory accessories for safety reasons. Here you can find an example of what that has been recently added. [1]. Nice stuff, but it doesn't come for free.

[1] https://autovista24.autovistagroup.com/news/what-is-the-gene...
by NoPicklez | 2025-07-14 06:03:09+00:00
There's always a worst case scenario with vulnerabilities, likelihood and consequence becomes a fairly important metric to measure the risk. However the fact that you don't need to be "near" the train to do it makes it all the more opportunistic.

Perhaps if the USA were at war within another bordering nation who had physical access then it might be higher risk. But the trains are within the US with no bordering nations at much risk of doing anything on each other.

I'm not saying the people at the top aren't wrong, but we live in a world of differing priorities.
by const_cast | 2025-07-14 06:03:32+00:00
This just moves the coordination costs elsewhere, because more companies = more software = more hops to get things done.

Now, instead of Employee A and B working together to solve Problem X, Company A's product and Company B's product must be used together to solve Problem X. At least the employees know each other and are in the same "white box". But software products are a blackbox, so the end result is almost certainly worse.
by __david__ | 2025-07-14 06:03:57+00:00
KVM (keyboard, video, mouse): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KVM_switch In particular, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KVM_switch#KVM_over_IP_(IPKVM)

It seems they don’t break into someone’s apartment but instead pay someone to stick a kvm connected laptop somewhere in the apartment.
by ctxc | 2025-07-14 06:04:37+00:00
It's not black and white, but what you're saying sounds like "just because users have an attention problem doesn't make every social media app an attention grabber"

I mean, companies optimise for profits and at some point people fall for it in excess which is the point OP made.

It kinda makes sense, because the means the companies employ are psychologically advanced plays on people who don't know the spelling of psychology.

I'm probably manipulated into scrolling more than I wanted to or buying more than I wanted to on an everyday basis.
by rajkumarsekar | 2025-07-14 06:05:13+00:00
Totally get where you’re coming from. I had a similar first impression, it felt slow, and the output wasn’t great unless I hand-held it through every step.

What helped me was shifting how I use it. I don’t treat it like a junior dev anymore, I treat it more like a second brain. For example:

I use Claude Code to explore options before I commit to a design. I’ll ask it “what are 3 ways to abstract this logic?” and sometimes that alone gives me a better direction.

It’s pretty good at turning rough notes or comments into starter code or test cases. That saves time on boilerplate.

If I feed it a clean, self-contained chunk of code and ask for a targeted change (e.g., “convert this to async”), it often nails it. But yeah, across a codebase, not so much.
by Barbing | 2025-07-14 06:06:35+00:00
[Background: We both know companies should (must?) inform the feds if they accidentally (illegally?) hire someone as a part of fraud perpetrated against them.]

>And they likely won't bother

Thank you for your insight. Unfortunate! The rationale makes sense—the temptation to sweep under the rug—but doesn’t make it right, which as established we both know.

…you can perhaps tell I was frustrated with what seemed to be an argument against actually taking this course of action; hope replying here is better than arguing directly downthread esp. in case I misunderstood something
by joules77 | 2025-07-14 06:08:01+00:00
Root cause of that attitude is the 3 month metrics reporting required by Wall St.

It is arbit and the largest corps that do research fully understand it can generate these counter productive attitudes generating deadline based superficial progress.

Which is why they try to keep their R&D people separate but it is never long lasting cause its all built on top of contradictions.

You want to build something long lasting look at how the Vatican survives not at how corporations/nations/empires survive. But getting science orgs to be that open minded is very tricky given all the baggage the Church has accumulated.
by paradox460 | 2025-07-14 06:09:19+00:00
The one that's shocked me the most is when I was writing some CSS for a recent project using Lit components, and nesting doesn't work at all.

Component level CSS is simple enough that I didn't really have to go out of my way to do anything above and beyond, and if I had to I could just use a loader that uses sass or postcss or something similar, but it was a bit surprising.

That said, I have really enjoyed Lit. I wrote the original components for this project in 2023, and haven't really touched them till earlier this week. Bumped all package dependencies, and did the usual things you'd do for an upgrade, and they have had a stable API over the two years they've existed.

Regarding Dialog, a few years ago, when it was brand new, I was working on a project that used LiveView and SurfaceUI. We had a few modals that were used throughout the app, and I was in the process of migrating them to use Dialog before getting laid off. The tricky part, at the time, was that a Dialog invoked through pure HTML, no JS, lacked certain features that were available to the JS APIs. The HTML side has caught up, and the JS APIs have improved, but I've not touched frontend professionally in that time.
by tzury | 2025-07-14 06:10:16+00:00
that is obvious, however one must wonder what is means when 14 pages of a paper are simply credit names...

I was never fond of the "Hollywood credit list", and it seems like this culture entered our trade.

If a paper is about

Advanced Reasoning Multimodality Long Context Next Generation Agentic Capabilities

then perhaps we should limit the "authors" to those who contributed directly to the topic.

I am convinced a large amount of those in the list are from DevOps, DevEx and DevRel (let alone "Digital" and "Product")
by godelski | 2025-07-14 06:12:31+00:00
All I can say is that this doesn't reflect my experience. I'm not calling you a liar, just saying my experience has been different than yours.

It's definitely true I've run into errors but usually those are addon issues. Maybe I'll run into an issue a few times a year on some niche website but that's about it. But most people aren't going to those places