MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rcxdude | 2025-07-29 09:24:22+00:00
You /can/ buy adequate stuff on Temu, and if it is indeed the exact same thing as sold by retailers (there's often many variations of a product with the same moulded shell), then you're probably safe. But you can also blatantly buy a huge amount of wildly unsafe shit on it, much more so than other retailers (Amazon's almost as bad, but not quite). And there's no reasonable way for a consumer to tell the difference. And to no-one's surprise, doing the research and taking on the risk of warranties and returns costs money.

It's entirely possible for Temu to comply here, but it would mean losing a lot of their competitive edge, because that edge has essentially been regulatory arbitrage (i.e. breaking the rules because they could get away with it).
by matthewshere | 2025-07-29 09:24:41+00:00
Wow. Thank you for such a thoughtful, detailed, and genuinely helpful comment.

Honestly, after a day of fielding a lot of (justified) criticism, reading something so constructive and encouraging is incredibly moving for our team. We're trying to create a good experience for everyone, and it's clear we've made some major mistakes.

You are absolutely right about the core problem in our messaging. In our effort to praise Draw.io, we completely missed that we were setting a misleading expectation for our own service. Your suggestions on how to fix this—clarifying the value proposition, sponsoring Draw.io, and sharing our journey—are all fantastic ideas. They're not just tweaks; they're a roadmap for how we can build trust and communicate better.

We'll be discussing your advice as a team and will use it to guide our next steps. Thank you again for your generosity and guidance. It is immensely valuable.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-07-29 09:25:35+00:00
Just don't use something like Bitwarden for 2FA and passwords and passkeys. At least keep the 2FA in something totally separate, say Authy.

Interesting: Molto 2 v2, but too big for a keychain[0]

0. https://www.token2.com/shop/product/molto-2-v2-multi-profile...
by Zacharias030 | 2025-07-29 09:27:12+00:00
could have done better is the understatement of the century.

And how many rapes and to what level of systematicity do you need it to raise to your attention?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_and_gender-based_viol...

> During the ongoing Gaza war, Israeli male and female soldiers, guards, medical staff have reportedly committed wartime sexual violence against Palestinian women, children and men[1][2][3][4] including rape, gang-rape, sexualized torture and genital mutilation.[5][6][7][8][9]
by crinkly | 2025-07-29 09:27:21+00:00
A fun one is some of the phone chargers on there. Someone at work bought one and found out quickly that there was 240V on the USB-C shell. They were lucky it didn't kill them. That was marked as CE / UL etc because the stickers are cheap.

Actually tested stuff costs money. Not a lot more but enough to push them down the ranks.
by spacebanana7 | 2025-07-29 09:28:01+00:00
OP's comment is only slightly misleading. Per the myth detector [1]:

".... similar comparisons, stating that 3,300 people were arrested in the UK while only 400 in Russia, have circulated on social media for years. The original source of this claim is Konstantin Kisin, a Russia-born, half-British comedian, writer, and podcast co-host. His interview, where he makes this comparison [at 26:26], was recorded in 2019, based on data from 2016-2017.

For years, social media users have relied on Kisin’s statements to compare Russia and the UK. Many refer to data from the human rights group Agora, which reported that 411 people faced prosecution in Russia in 2017 for social media activity. In the majority of cases, media users were accused of [....] what authorities consider provocative content. On the other hand, UK comparisons are often based on a 2017 article in The Times, which cited 2016 data showing that over 3,300 people were arrested or questioned under Section 127 of the Communications Act. However, the same article notes that in half of these cases, investigations were dropped before prosecution. Additionally, Section 127 is not limited to social media, and it also applies to emails and other forms of electronic communication. Moreover, the Russian figure represents prosecutions, while the UK figure represents arrests, making the comparison inappropriate for many reasons. For example, the content of the clauses differs: in the UK, they are applied to a broader range of cases, while the data from Russia reflects arrests for the activity on social media. Additionally, the analysis of cases shows the difference between the two countries in the application of the laws. In Russia, many citizens and journalists have been arrested for expressing critical opinions or posting government-opposed views on social media. It is also worth noting that in the UK, cases brought under Section 127 that result in citizens being subjected to community service or fines are often debated."

The article I've cited mainly discusses a comparison by Guri Sultanishvili which is harder to justify, but Konstantin Kisin's comments have been more widely referenced in the public debate.

[1] https://mythdetector.com/en/free-expression-on-the-internet/
by blitzar | 2025-07-29 09:28:21+00:00
> Firstly, I don't think they actually introduced one of those, did they?

Boris introduced 2 million (legal) immigrants in the first (unaffected) year we "took back control" of the borders under the new system rolled out in 2020

The UK's new points-based immigration system - https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-...
by ivape | 2025-07-29 09:29:19+00:00
I don’t know what to say to you. For everyone else, please look up the settlement videos pre Oct 7. They are made by Vox, Vice, probably even more credible outlets like the BBC. Basically they build suburbs literally inside the West Bank, and connect them through super highways so Israelis don’t even feel the difference between living in Israel or knee-deep inside Palestine (20-30min drive from Jerusalem to an illegal suburb in the West Bank).

Israeli government is relentless with this. Those suburbs are incentivized with subsidies for the settlers, more so than people inside Israel itself.

Oct 7 was horrifying, but for a nation that wants to expand out and build suburbs inside Palestine, it was a lose-win situation. Oct 7 was a loss, but now they don’t have to pretend about building those suburbs anymore. They can just say “each home is on top of a Hamas tunnel”, and boom (literally), clear lot for new housing.

Anyway, the deed is done. All other discourse on this thread is between Israeli apologists and just about everyone else that is not morally bankrupt.

Last but not least, everyone apologizing for Israeli, please save your faces. Please. IDF does not even allow foreign journalists into Gaza. That’s all you need to know. But again, I believe the apologists are no longer trying to save face. It’s an insidious “well, what needed to be done, needed to be done”. Beyond immoral.

——

Prayer is in order, as I don’t know what else anyone can do (it’s all be done).

My hope is the Israeli people at the very least prosecute war crimes internally just for the purity of their own soul, and educate their future generations on a modest truth, that being - “we Israelis in 2025 could not find a better solution, and may you never seek a solution we sought in those dark times. May you be better, for we sinned on a scale the bathroom mirror in the morning won’t allow us to forget”.

Before my words are twisted, let me make it clear I am pacifist. I have to literally turn away whenever scenes from Gaza are shown. I don’t support Hamas or the IDF. I believe Hamas commits child abuse by indoctrinating young Palestinians into terrorism. It’s literally a carbon copy situation of black gang violence that’s perpetuated by gang culture (Chiraq, Chicago gang violence). Yeah, believe it or not, teenagers are impressionable and vulnerable everywhere in the world, stop radicalizing them. Hell, we can’t even stop the kids from entering the manosphere here in America, they’ll gravitate right to Andrew Tate and Joe Rogan.

The children cannot fight an endless fucking war, and that is what both the Israelis and Palestinians are doing to these children. It’s child abuse on an epic scale.

Now, in America, we’ve got some sense not to virtually nuke Chiraq, but over there in the Middle East, they have no qualms about bull-dozing the problem.
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by jltsiren | 2025-07-29 09:30:08+00:00
People who support public funding for research are usually strongly opposed to central planning in the allocation of the funds. They don't want to have uninformed politicians, administrators, and citizens deciding what research is worth funding. They want to have the decisions done in the field, by people who understand the topic.

Public funding does not require centralization. While the American style of governance is top-heavy, the EU is less centralized, with most resources at the state level. Each state has its own agencies for funding research, and together they distribute much more funding than EU-level agencies.

There are also plenty of private organizations funding basic research. European elites have traditionally found it prestigious to support arts and sciences, and hence there are many private foundations funding research. While some elements of that culture made it to the US, it's not as strong there as it is in Europe. Instead, rich Americans prefer direct donations to universities, which often use the money for buildings and student amenities.

In other words, American universities rely more on central sources of research funding, as the states are less capable and private entities less interested than in Europe.
by cs02rm0 | 2025-07-29 09:30:17+00:00
This may be slightly chicken and egg; it's the 95th percentile of salaries partly because no one wants to take a salary above that. Instead they use salary sacrifice, pensions, dividends, capital gains, leaving money in personal service company, etc. anything to avoid having a personal paper income above that threshold.

I suspect it's nowhere near the 95th percentile of earned wealth.
by gorbypark | 2025-07-29 09:30:24+00:00
I'm only on the $20 Pro plan, and I'm a big users of the /clear command. I don't really use Claude Code that much either, so the $20 plan is perfect for me. However, a few times I've gotten the "approaching context being full, auto compact coming soon" thing, so I manually do /compact and I run out of the 5hr usage window while compacting the context. It's extremely infuriating because if I could have a view into how close I was to being rate limited in the 5 hour window, I might make a different choice as to compact or finish the last little thing I was working on.
by sjducb | 2025-07-29 09:30:40+00:00
100%

If a dev thinks that all SQL can be written by hand then they probably haven’t worked with a complex application that relies on complex data.

A good question to ask them is: what problems do ORMs solve? Good answers are:

Schema Changes + migration

Security

Code Traceability (I have a DB field, where is it used)

Code Readability

Standardisation - easy hiring.

Separation of data layer logic and application layer logic.

Code organisation, most ORMs make you put methods that act on a table in a sensible place.
by social_quotient | 2025-07-29 09:31:02+00:00
I love Claude Code, but Anthropic’s recent messaging is all over the map.

1- “More throughput” on the API, but stealth caps in the UI - On Jun 19 Anthropic told devs the API now supports higher per-minute throughput and larger batch sizes, touting this as proof the underlying infra is scaling. Yay!?? - A week later they roll out weekly hard stops on the $100/$200 “Max” plans — affecting up to 5 % of all users by their own admission.

Those two signals don’t reconcile. If capacity really went up, why the new choke point? I keep getting this odd visceral reaction/anticipation that each time they announce something good, we are gonna get whacked on an existing use case.

2- Sub-agents encourage 24x7 workflows, then get punished… The Sub-agent feature docs literally showcase spawning parallel tasks that run unattended. Now the same behavior is cited as “advanced usage … impacting system capacity.”

You can’t market “let Claude handle everything in the background” and then blame users who do exactly that. You’re holding it wrong?

3 Opaqueness forces rationing (the other poster comments re: rationing vs hoarding, I can’t reconcile it being hoarding since its use it or lose it.)

There’s still no real-time meter inside Claude/CC, only a vague icon that turns red near 50%. Power users end up rationing queries because hitting the weekly wall means a seven day timeout. Thats a dark dark pattern if I’ve seen one, id think not appropriate for developer tooling. (CCusage is a helpful tool that shouldn’t be needed!)

The, you’re holding it wrong, seems so bizarre to me meanwhile all of the other signaling is about more usage, more use cases, more dependency.
by YeGoblynQueenne | 2025-07-29 09:31:04+00:00
Yeah, sorry but that's wishful thinking. As long as the people in the West have a relatively high quality of life and political stability -relative to everyone else, that is- they will not shake the foundation of their national institutions. That is even more so the case when they see how everyone else fares, who doesn't live in the West.

In a sense, seeing what happens to Palestinians, Sudanese, Somalis, Syrians, Afghans, Lebanese, Pakistanis, etc etc, is a great motivator for the citizen of the EU, USA, and friends.

If you look, you'll notice that the major political flare point in the West these days is ... immigration. Who cares what happens outside our borders? Our main preoccupation is protecting our borders. Because we are convinced everything outside them sucks.
by crinkly | 2025-07-29 09:32:41+00:00
Oh hell no. I used fountain pens, good ones, for nearly 20 years. They leak, blob all over the place, are difficult to refill, require cleaning, end up with servicing problems when you really need to write immediately. Also difficult to draw complex diagrams with. Absolute self inflicted pain and misery.

I use Muji gel pens now. None of those problems and you can take the cartridges back to them and they recycle them. And the pen bodies themselves last functionally forever.
by deviation | 2025-07-29 09:32:53+00:00
This makes sense if we compare compute cost instead of hours.

Transformer self-attention costs scale roughly quadratically with context window size. Servicing prompts in a 32k-token window uses much more compute per request than in an 8k-token window.

A Max 5× user on an 8k-token window might exhaust their cap in around 30 hours, while a Max 20× user on a 32k-token window will exhaust theirs in about 35 to 39 hours instead of four times as long.

If you compact often, keep context windows small etc, I'd wager that your Opus 4 consumption would approach the expected 4× multiplier... In reality, I assume the majority of users aren't clearing their context windows and just letting the auto-compact do it's thing.

Visualization: https://codepen.io/Sunsvea/pen/vENyeZe
by Almondsetat | 2025-07-29 09:33:11+00:00
VC-2 is an intra-only wavelet-based ultra low latency codec developed by the BBC years ago for exactly this purpose. It is royalty free and currently the only implementations are in ffmpeg and in the official BBC repository, and are CPU based. I am planning to make a CUDA accelerated version for my master thesis, since the Vulkan implementations made at GSoC last year still suck quite a bit. I would suggest people to look into this codec
by ozgung | 2025-07-29 09:33:32+00:00
I think this is different. Yes, 3rd party tools and services are nothing new. Depending on 3rd party libraries is also a standard thing, although minimum dependency is generally considered a good practice. But all these services provide something you don't want to do yourself and are willing to pay. They all complement what you do, and don't replace your core competency.

Apple is your business partner, doing marketing and distribution for you, and shares its user base. Bloomberg terminals provide real time data and UI to non-technical finance people. Github provides you Git hosting service so you don't need to setup and maintain servers. MATLAB (although there are Octave, Python and open alternatives) sells numerical computation environment to non-CS engineers. Xilinx is sells its hardware and dev tools. Game devs use Unity because they want to focus on gameplay and not game engine development.

These are all the examples of Division of Labor. This time, however, you have to pay for your core competency, because you cannot compete with a good AI coder in the long run. The value you provide diminishes to almost nothing. Yes you can write prompts, but anyone, even a mediocre LLM can write prompts these days. If you need some software, you don't need to hire SW engineers anymore. A handful of vendors dominate the SW development market. Yes, you can switch. But only between the 3 or 4 tech giants. It's an Oligopoly.

If we have FOSS alternatives, at least we can build new services around them and can move on to this new era. We can adapt. Otherwise, we become a human frontend between the client and the AI giants.
by shivasaxena | 2025-07-29 09:33:59+00:00
> Also, Temu is heavily reliant on infrastructure which was paid for by the taxes paid by local companies. The trick how Temu can avoid paying is by lying on the customs forms and declaring business transactions as valueless gifts. I’m not sure I would call fraud prevention as “regulatory capture”.

I'm not aware them labelling business transactions as gifts. As far as I know there has always been 150 euros duty-free threshold and I have been using it to order traditional clothes from India for more than 15 years now.

The packages I get from Temu are clearly marked as commercial.

Also, in my mind it's arguable if local retailers paid for postal infrastructure. However what in arguable in my mind is that esselunga/carrefour sell me a wine opener for 12 EUR that I can buy for 2 EUR on temu. So I think you should also blame our domestic retailers a fraction of what you blame chinese retailers for bleeding us dry of our hard earned money.
by gorbypark | 2025-07-29 09:35:23+00:00
Is there really an off peak time, though? I think Anthropic is running on AWS with the big investment from Amazon, right? I'm sure there's some peaks and valleys but with the Americas, Europe and Asia being in different time zones I'd expect there'd be a somewhat "baseline" usage with peaks where the timezones overlap (European afternoons and American mornings, for example). I know in my case I get the most 503 overloaded errors in the European afternoon.
by nlitened | 2025-07-29 09:35:23+00:00
Expensive relative to what? When people are rescuing their hard-earned savings of 200k USD out of a third-world country, they would be happy to pay even double-digit per cent commissions, and crypto is much, much cheaper, faster and safer than all other available options.

Of course, if you're a US citizen transferring 200k USD from Chase to Bank of America, crypto doesn't make any sense.
by netsharc | 2025-07-29 09:35:35+00:00
Indeed. Israel is free to act as barbaric as (or if we do the simplistic math of "the conflict started October 7 2023", 633x more barbaric than) Hamas butchers, but when they do so, they can't go around claiming the moral high ground...

Or, they can go around and do so, but their claim would be as valid as Hamas' claim to morality...
by throw310822 | 2025-07-29 09:36:21+00:00
"That one side of the story" are the facts on the ground.

- One side is occupying the other's lands, not the other way around.

- One side has killed most people, not the other way around.

- One side has illegally annexed the other's territory, not the other way around.

- One side enforces apartheid, not the other way around.

- One side regularly destroys the other's villages, not the other way around.

- One side steals water, destroys greenhouses and olive groves, imposes blockades- not the other way around.

- One side is rich, organised, well armed, and has the full support of the West, not the other way around.
by thyristan | 2025-07-29 09:36:21+00:00
Switzerland is certainly democratic, because voters can directly vote for laws. Some countries and states do have provisions to that effect, but with more restrictions and less often used.

The US is actually more democratic than e.g. Germany, because the president is elected by the people (though indirectly), not by parliament. Therefore a political oligarchy could be prevented, because the majority in parliament and the president can check on each other, and the president is more accountable to the voters than to parliament.

Generally there is a sliding scale of course, but the less directly officials are elected, the less democratic a country is. A common example would be a soviet (engl. "council") republic, which isn't considered democratic at all, even though it has tons of elections: Each factory/town/village elects a local workers's council, which in turn elects a county council, which elects a regional council, which elects a state council, which elects a national council, which elects the council of ministers, which elects the chairman. Tons of filters that make absolutely certain that the will of the party and state always supercedes the will of the people.
by lm28469 | 2025-07-29 09:37:01+00:00
50 years later (aka now for most of the west): "Why did we lose all our industries ? Why is it so hard to find a job ? Why is all the know how in China now ? Why is China buying our ports/airports ?? Why is our social model collapsing ? Why is our health care system collapsing ? Why is our pension system collapsing ?"

Everything has a cost, that cost usually goes far beyond the displayed $$$.

> Amazon.de for example launched free delivery to estonia and other small european countries only recently post rise of temu.

Is that supposed to be a good thing ? Both are killing local businesses by selling at loss because they're playing the long game. Life has more to offer than amazon prime and temu's gadgets
by arghwhat | 2025-07-29 09:39:40+00:00
I mean, it's not like you, your dad, girlfriend or anyone would be planning to perform possibly illegal culling of some species, now would you...???

There's lots of little privileges like this that only seem to apply to politicians. Like, lifelong retirement after just one year of work in parliament and government provided tax-free apartments in central Copenhagen.

The argument for the latter is that it is needed for them to be near the work, but if a private company provides the same to their employees the employee will be taxed by its full value.

Granted, it's less corruption than other places, but definitely still corruption.