MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by orochimaaru | 2025-07-11 03:36:26+00:00
Turkey's GDP per capita is a lot lower than that of the EU. A lot of the EU accession talks stalled around human rights and recognition of Cyprus which was an existing EU member. Of course Austria did not want them in - but unless fundamental changes were made with respect to the two things above accession talks would have stalled regardless.

Turkey sits right at the access point between EU and all the Central Asian countries with a lot of oil. This made Turkey an "attractive" nation for the EU economically. Socially though they just are not there.
by hedora | 2025-07-11 03:37:03+00:00
There’s no way sugar is the root cause, since this wasn’t a problem back when it was the default sweetener.

HFCS and “ultra processed foods” (food with all the fiber removed) are much more likely.

I’ve also noticed school lunches often jam artificial sweeteners into stuff that should not be sweet. They’re known to cause excessive hunger, and at the very least train kids that everything needs to be sweet.
by jprokay13 | 2025-07-11 03:38:57+00:00
My personal experience was that of a decrease in productivity until I spent significant time with it. Managing configurations, prompting it the right way, asking other models for code reviews… And I still see there is more I can unlock with more time learning the right interaction patterns.

For nasty, legacy codebases there is only so much you can do IMO. With green field (in certain domains), I become more confident every day that coding will be reduced to an AI task. I’m learning how to be a product manager / ideas guy in response
by mdaniel | 2025-07-11 03:39:04+00:00
I feel as though you overlooked the "every" word in my question. I appreciate you built once, that's a solid accomplishment. If I'm going to be riding your custom build, with your custom C++ changes that introduce their own RCE risk, I want to at least know I'm only vulnerable to your RCE and not your RCE plus the 'just disclosed' RCE for Chromium itself that was actually patched 3 weeks ago but that you didn't bother to track because you don't track Chromium release tags

Yes, I'm acutely aware of exactly how much compute pulling off such a stunt requires; what I'm wondering is whether you are aware of exactly how much RCE risk you're running by squatting on someone else's C++ codebase that ships what feels like a vuln-a-week from one of the best funded security research teams in the world
by smcin | 2025-07-11 03:39:31+00:00
This is starting to sound like an episode of Star Trek.

Could this attempted hijack qualify as space piracy? Or only if above the Karman line?

> In April, TX Sens. Cornyn and Cruz, introduced the "Bring the Space Shuttle Home Act" that called for Discovery to be relocated from [NASM Annex] in northern VA and displayed at Space Center Houston.
by minitech | 2025-07-11 03:39:39+00:00
Yes, they’re so tertiary that there was no reason to include them on the website. They’re ugly and mismatched, don’t consistently add value to the content, and make a negative first impression (for these reasons and for people who have valid aversions to AI slop). (By the way, all or almost all of the images are generated, not just the two you listed.) Useless images are far from a new problem (gotta love those Medium-article-style heros that can take multiple MB when people forget to optimize them) but AI further lowers the quality bar.
by fc417fc802 | 2025-07-11 03:41:12+00:00
The reality is that careless programmers will do bad things with any tool they happen to pick up. Using that as an excuse to reduce the power of a tool is poor form.

Another way of putting it is to point out that removing goto from a language isn't going to reduce the occurrence of spaghetti code. The average skill and care of the developers who happen to be using that language is what does that.
by badsectoracula | 2025-07-11 03:41:47+00:00
> It looks like CPU-Z (which is fine), it's just not as polished. For example, here you have commas and letters like "y" touching the border of each "box". On CPU-Z there's a padding around the text.

CPU-Z also does not have padding around the text, it just has a different font, but in the screenshot at techpowerup[0] you can see that, e.g., the "y" in "MBytes" down right is touching (clipped) by the container box and the instruction flags also touch the left side of the box.

It is just that the font in CPU-Z is much smaller than the font used in the screenshots.

[0] https://www.techpowerup.com/download/cpu-z/
by kouteiheika | 2025-07-11 03:42:02+00:00
> Even if that system prompt change was responsible for unlocking this behavior, the fact that it was able to speaks to a much looser approach to model safety by xAI compared to other providers.

While this probably shouldn't be the default mode for the general public, I'm glad that at least one frontier model is not being lobotomized by "safety" guardrails. There are valid use cases where you want an uncensored, steerable model, and it's always frustrating to get a patronizing refusal.
by gus_massa | 2025-07-11 03:42:55+00:00
From the FAQ:

> Can I post a job ad?

> Please don't post job ads as submissions to HN.

> A regular "Who Is Hiring?" thread appears on the first weekday of each month (or Jan 2). Most job ads are welcome there. Only an account called whoishiring is allowed to submit the thread itself. This prevents a race to post it first.

Repost it in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44434576
by veeti | 2025-07-11 03:43:23+00:00
Did you? Let me spoonfeed you the most relevant parts:

> A German right-wing journalist posted a fake image online of the interior minister holding a sign that read “I hate freedom of opinion” and was subsequently handed a seven-month suspended prison sentence. A woman who posted images of politicians with painted-on Hitler mustaches and called a minister a terrorist was fined about $690.

...

> In France, a woman spent 23 hours in custody for giving French President Emmanuel Macron the middle finger. (She was acquitted after arguing she had pointed her finger in the air and not directly at the president.) Denmark passed a new law outlawing “improper treatment” of religious texts after a series of incidents in recent years when Quran burnings sparked an angry response. A landmark trial began in May for two men accused of burning a Quran at a folk festival in front of an audience.

...

> In March last year, Stefan Willi Niehoff, a 64-year-old former soldier and retired truck driver, reposted an image he had seen shared on X that showed then-Economy Minister Robert Habeck with the words “Schwachkopf Professional,” which translates to “professional idiot” and was a take on the logo from cosmetics brand Schwarzkopf Professional. Then he forgot about it. Months later, Niehoff was awakened by a ring at the door at 6:15 a.m. to find two plainclothes police officers demanding to search his home.

These are EU countries. Despite Brexit it is apparent that EU and the UK are still on the same page when it comes to curtailing free speech and expanding the surveillance state.
by SamInTheShell | 2025-07-11 03:43:26+00:00
Market displacement is nothing new. Happened in the 2000's (dotcom bubble), happened in the 2010's (cloud infra), happened again in 2020 (services workers being funneled into tech), and it's happening again now (AI is replacing those that fail to adapt with the market changes in tech).

The one thing that has kept me viable as an employee over my 15 years in tech is that I literally don't want to do the same thing I did yesterday 1000 times. I want to do it as few times as possible before I automate the problem away, so I can move on to something new. There will always be something new. There will always be someone with a dream and no skills; for me to step in and help out.

I fail to see the problem.
by benreesman | 2025-07-11 03:44:44+00:00
I don't even think we know how to do it yet. I revise my whole attitude and all of my beliefs about this stuff every week: I figure out things that seemed really promising don't pan out, I find stuff that I kick myself for not realizing sooner, and it's still this high-stakes game. I still blow a couple of days and wish I had just done it the old-fashioned way, and then I'll catch a run where it's like, fuck, I was never that good, that's the last 5-10% that breaks a PB.

I very much think that these things are going to wind up being massive amplifiers for people who were already extremely sophisticated and then put massive effort into optimizing them and combining them with other advanced techniques (formal methods, top-to-bottom performance orientation).

I don't think this stuff is going to democratize software engineering at all, I think it's going to take the difficulty level so high that it's like back when Djikstra or Tony Hoare was a fairly typical computer programmer.
by nicolas_ | 2025-07-11 03:44:50+00:00
Everyone on /r/homelab has been talking about it over the last few months. I bought a VPS and later realized a cheap tiny PC would be better for my use case combined with Proxmox. The next step is configuring a few more services and installing Pangolin on the VPS for easy reverse proxy management. I haven’t used it yet but all in all it looks awesome and the reviews I’ve seen are overwhelmingly positive. Thank you for building it!
by CobaltFire | 2025-07-11 03:45:25+00:00
Well damn. I take this as needed for a back injury that left me with chronic pain. My prescription is for a LOT more than I take (I take it about 20% as often as prescribed).

Now I'm not so sure I want to take it. My saving grace is that I'm on the younger end and haven't taken it that long.

After reading the paper and looking into dosing I learned that I'm taking a tiny fraction of the normal dose. Wow. Learn something every day.
by m00dy | 2025-07-11 03:46:56+00:00
Here’s the timeline: Turkey got stamped as an EU candidate at the Helsinki summit in December 1999, while the southern Cyprus didn’t hop into the Union until May 2004.

That five-year gap tells you Cyprus couldn’t have been the first roadblock for Turkey’s talks; the island only became an issue once it was already inside the club.

When Turkey finally sat down for formal accession talks in October 2005, the Cyprus dispute had wrapped itself around every single chapter, turning a one-on-one quarrel into a full-blown EU-level veto.
by apparent | 2025-07-11 03:47:25+00:00
> First, all these devices will continue to work locally. They’re just killing the server, which has continual real costs. They’re not being bricked, they’re just regressing to their static features.

What do you mean by "static feature"? Like that I can still press a button on my wall and it will toggle the status of my lights? Or that I can use my Wemo app when I am at home (but not elsewhere) to control my lights?

I have noticed that even when my wifi goes out, my programmed Wemos will still turn on X minutes before sunset and off X minutes after sunrise. Do you think this sort of operation requires the server (either always, or every once and a while) to be available?

I am trying to figure out if I should get new devices on Black Friday or if it's likely enough these will still work fine for my purposes come next Jan.
by rester324 | 2025-07-11 03:47:50+00:00
> Honestly, I don’t care about the “best coders.”

> Interestingly, the best AI assisted devs have often moved to management/solution architecture

Is it just me? Or does it seem to others as well that you pretty much rank these people even at the moment and your first comment contradicts your second comment? Especially when you admit that you rank them based on velocity.

I am not saying you shouldn't do that, but it feels to me like rating road construction workers on the number of potholes fixed, even though it's very possible that the potholes are caused by the sloppy work to begin with.

Not what I would want to do.
by econ | 2025-07-11 03:49:17+00:00
I don't really use the llms but I do enjoy pasting chunks of my code into free models with the question: what is wrong with this?

That way it hs no context from writing it itself nor does it try to improve anything. It just makes up reasons why it could be wrong. It goes after the unusual parts it would seem which answers the question reasonably.

Perhaps more sophisticated models will find less obvious flaws if that is the only thing you ask.
by lotophage | 2025-07-11 03:50:00+00:00
I have the makedo and the screws are legit amazing. I never imagined that they could possibly work so well. It's one of those things I always recommend to other parents.

The very real downside is that your kids become attached to their creations. So you end up with a house perpetually full of cardboard and fighting a constant battle to part with some of it.
by com2kid | 2025-07-11 03:50:44+00:00
> but even small SUV are getting 30-40 mpg nowadays.

The Pacific Northwest begs to differ. With all the hills in Seattle my subcompact 1.6L Turbo barely got 20MPG driving around like a grandma.

Our electricity is cheap, but I drive less than 5000 miles a year so I'm not making the money back on my EV basically ever.
by luqtas | 2025-07-11 03:51:19+00:00
you should educate yourself both at the ecological impact of data centers and the economics of running a water facility. it's just too simplistic to skim down 'water' used into a thing that turns it into rain and then it's captured to be used again. good luck with your next naive comment saying something like: rain is almost distilled water and treatment isn't required, so it can go into data centers directly

don't also forget people living nearby these facilities constantly facing drains due to the HIGH requirement of a server

some read: https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-staggering-ecological...

https://aucgroup.net/water-treatment-plant-costs/
by aspenmayer | 2025-07-11 03:52:36+00:00
I think this complaint is likely against HN guidelines against these kinds of complaints about the site layout or how the page is designed. Will be flagging this complaint every time in the future because I consider it against guidelines.

That which can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without consideration, per Hitchens’s Razor. I don’t think research exists about a relation between AI generated images and quality of the project using them, so your complaint seems like motivated reasoning because you believe that generated images are a sign of poor quality or judgement in an area that would reflect on other aspects of the project. The fact that our perceptions are colored in this way is not accurate, and is gamed by marketers. Criticism of the promotional aspects of a project like this which isn’t commercial or customer facing is not very convincing on your part and deserves being called out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitchens%27s_razor
by carlosjobim | 2025-07-11 03:52:58+00:00
If irony was still a thing, it would be ironic that any comment which doesn't violently agree with the mob here in this thread gets downvoted, flagged and [dead]. In a discussion concerning free speech. But irony is not really a thing anymore in the psychotic internet of 2025, is it?

On topic as for Erdogan, he probably does not give a shit personally about some AI insulting him, but in many cultures they see the head of state as a representative of the people. So if insults are ignored then it's an insult to the people, the national pride, or the party, etc. And such a leader is weak and has to be dethroned, and how will our enemies respect us if we let anybody insult our leader, yada yada.
by tomhow | 2025-07-11 03:54:05+00:00
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by Ferret7446 | 2025-07-11 03:54:36+00:00
> The ones that I'm sure about: journald is more annoying to use than syslog (it takes forever - like a minute on a top of the line CPU - to scan two months worth of logs)

That sounds like an unequal comparison. For the same amount of log data and the exact same filter operation, journald should be strictly faster or equal to text logs. Are you sure this isn't because in your journald test you're going through a lot more logs? Because journald makes it easier/feasible to collect more logs.
by com2kid | 2025-07-11 03:54:45+00:00
> Are we at a stage where an LLM (assuming it doesn't find the solution on its own, which is ok) would come back to me and say, listen, I've tried your approach but I've run into this particular difficulty,

Not really. What you would do is ask the model to work through the implementation step by step with you, and you'd come across the problem together.

I've seen Claude Code run in endless circles before, consuming lots of tokens and money, bouncing back and forth between two incorrect approaches to a problem.

If you work with Claude though, it is super powerful. "Read these API docks and get a scaffolding set up, then write unit tests to ensure everything is installed correctly and the basic use case works, then ask me for further instructions."
by Nevermark | 2025-07-11 03:56:11+00:00
Excellent point.

I think about wording like that, like the extraneously explicit meta-content that dumbs down so many story plots. A character explicitly says "That makes me angry". When a better written story would make the anger implicitly obvious.

Stories should show not tell.

Make a point, make it clear make it concise, and it will be simple for most readers. Don't talk about making a point, or say a point is clear.

That is projecting attributes or experiences onto readers. But even a very well written point may not appear simple for some readers. Assume (optimistically!) that there will always be some unusually under-prepared but motivated reader. Hooray if you get them! They can handle a challenge every so often.

"Simple" communication is a high priority target, but rarely completely achievable for the total self-selected, beyond intended, audience.
by franciscop | 2025-07-11 03:56:21+00:00
It's a very well controlled study about... what the study claims to do. Yes, they didn't study a different thing, for _many_ reasons. Yes, we shouldn't haphazardly extrapolate to other parts of Engineering. But it looks like it's a good study nonetheless.

There are some very good findings though, like how the devs thought they were sped up but they were actually slowed down.
by Retric | 2025-07-11 03:57:15+00:00
> for a small enough particle size and an oxidizer concentration close enough to stoichiometric, you will.

Sure but nobody is going to ship large quantities of magnesium like that: “Use proper packaging: Ensure the magnesium is sealed in moisture-proof, airtight containers.” https://www.freightamigo.com/blog/hs-code-for-containing-at-...

> Small hydrogen balloons do not in fact go bang

It’s not a supersonic detonation but even normal balloons pop with a small bang, pure hydrogen balloons are louder. Though a you mention hydrogen + oxygen is significantly more extreme.
by postpawl | 2025-07-11 03:57:33+00:00
You're right that Medicaid subsidizes employers who pay poverty wages rely on taxpayers to provide healthcare for their workers instead of paying living wages themselves. But the solution isn't to eliminate Medicaid and leave workers with nothing. The solution is to raise the minimum wage or have universal healthcare so employers actually have to provide real benefits.

Most Medicaid recipients already work. They're not choosing dependency, they're working jobs that don't pay enough to afford healthcare. Taking away their healthcare doesn't suddenly make employers pay more, it just leaves workers desperate, which is exactly what those employers want.

You're essentially arguing we should eliminate the safety net that keeps our low-wage economy functioning. That would either force employers to pay living wages (unlikely) or create mass suffering among workers (more likely). Which outcome are you hoping for? Because right now it sounds like you'd rather have sick, desperate workers than challenge the employers who created this system.
by skissane | 2025-07-11 03:59:17+00:00
I find I’m most likely to use an LLM to generate code in certain specific scenarios: (i) times I’m suffering from “writer’s block” or “having trouble getting started”; (ii) a language or framework I don’t normally use; (iii) feeling tired/burnt out/demotivated

When I’m in the “zone” I wouldn’t go near an LLM, but when I’ve fallen out of the “zone” they can be useful tools in getting me back into it, or just finishing that one extra thing before signing off for the day

I think the right answer to “does LLM use help or hinder developer productivity” is “it depends on how you use them”
by benreesman | 2025-07-11 04:00:27+00:00
You'll see a fairly even split amongst S-tier, "possibly headed for standardization" level libraries. I'd say there's a skew for `#ifndef` in projects that are more "aspires to the standard library" and for `#pragma once` in projects that are more focused on like a very specific vertical.

`#pragma once` seems to be far preferred for internal code, there's an argument for being strictly conforming if you're putting out a library. I've converted stuff to `#ifndef` before sharing it, but I think heavy C++ people usually type `#pragma once` in the privacy of their own little repository.

- `spdlog`: `#pragma once` https://github.com/gabime/spdlog/blob/v1.x/include/spdlog/as...

- `absl`: `#ifndef` https://github.com/abseil/abseil-cpp/blob/master/absl/base/a...

- `zpp_bits`: `#ifndef` https://github.com/eyalz800/zpp_bits/blob/main/zpp_bits.h

- `stringzilla` `#ifndef` https://github.com/ashvardanian/StringZilla/blob/main/includ...
by dismalaf | 2025-07-11 04:00:56+00:00
I find LLMs are decent at regurgitating boilerplate. Basically the same kind of stuff you could google then copy-paste... AI chatbots, now that they have web access, are also good at going over documentation and save you a little time searching through the docs yourself.

They're not great at business logic though, especially if you're doing anything remotely novel. Which is the difficult part of programming anyway.

But yeah, to the average corporate programmer who needs to recreate the same internal business tool that every other company has anyway, it probably saves a lot of time.
by yieldcrv | 2025-07-11 04:01:36+00:00
China

Article 35 of the PRC constitution guarantees freedom of speech, the press, assembly, association, procession and demonstration

Article 28 on the other hand undermines all freedoms and protections in the name of both national security and requiring all actions to uphold the socialist state

Article 1 affirms the leadership of the party and Article 28 allows for any offense to the party to be interpreted as a constitutional offense

Hence once the party began leveraging that interpretation as soon as people wouldn't drop a challenge and wanted accountability and answers, like after 1988, all facets of life began being controlled and controllable arbitrarily

Many countries are vulnerable to a conflicting constitution
by Gibbon1 | 2025-07-11 04:02:40+00:00
Instructive to read up on the 2022 Sri Lanka protests.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Sri_Lankan_protests

Debt crisis and sharp spikes in fuel and oil costs resulted in shortages of both. Also shortages of fertilizer. Which resulted in shortages of food.

If I was a Sri Lankan politician I wouldn't want a repeat of that.