MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by creer | 2025-07-21 06:01:05+00:00
> How many of us go to buy something on Amazon, and buy the cheapest one?

An outfit like Amazon is in a position to make reviews work better. And when I buy on Amazon, I do pay attention to reviews. Of all kinds, text, photos, videos, plus other cues such as quantity sold and what other things do the sellers sell, quality of the description. Amazon could do better. Will Amazon improve the review mechanisms to fight abuse and garbage? I don't know. It seems to me that they have won the race, as it is, and they are now in a position where it's their choice to lose it again to the up and comers or to let us better figure out the tradeoff price-quality and keep their lead.
by aziaziazi | 2025-07-21 06:02:23+00:00
Overlaps try to find a local producteur/enthousiast and buy it from him? Or make it yourself, it’s super cheap, but you need some time to learn and fin the right setup. Some people use an insulated chief master to produce reliable big batches at home. You can freeze the surplus.

https://www.tempeh.info/
by pjmlp | 2025-07-21 06:02:37+00:00
> Uber made taxis more accessible and it scaled plenty,

Maybe in US, turns out most of the rest of the world didn't had the same problem, nor the lack of regulations US suffers from.

Across African countries we were already calling into taxi like systems via WhatsApp, some European countries had taxi apps, and the US gig economy doesn't work here, so not only is Ûber regulated after a few court cases, it is also integrated with the taxi network.
by zekica | 2025-07-21 06:02:42+00:00
I had the same experience: no one knew of my mentors what "dynamic programming" was and our country-level competition (that had created problems inspired by IOI) required dynamic programming for 2 out of 5 problems. And of course I failed the first time (2004). Then I learned what it was about and aced the next time (2005).
by GoblinSlayer | 2025-07-21 06:05:36+00:00
Prices are so gamed though, they are basically drawn by salesmen, marketers, VCs, 200% profit CEOs and what not. Recent fad is to provide no description of the product, even on the vendor site, to reduce your ability to choose based on features, so you choose completely at random or based on price alone. You can buy anything and have no idea what it's made of.
by bluecalm | 2025-07-21 06:05:57+00:00
>>Do you think that they are dumb and unable to learn "few tricks"?

They are just slow because they are humans. It's like in chess: if you calculate million times faster than a human you will win even if you're pretty dumb (old school chess programs). Soon enough Chat GPT will be able to solve IMO problems at international level. It still can't play chess.

>>That's absurd. You could say same things about math research (and "one correct solution" would be wrong as it is for IMO), do you consider it something that's not creative?

Have you missed the other condition? No meaningful math research can be done in 30-60 minutes (time you have for IME problem). Nothing of value that require creativity can be done in short time. Creativity requires forming a mental model, exploration, trying various paths, making connections. This requires time.

My point about math competitions not being taken as seriously also stands. People train chess or go for 10-12 years before they start peaking and then often improve after that as well. This is a lot of hours every day. Math competitions aren't done for so many hours and years and almost no one does them anymore once in college.

This means level at those must be low in comparison to endeavours people pursue professionally.
by bgnn | 2025-07-21 06:06:00+00:00
It's fascinating to me that people find there's no noticable quality decline. It might be the case for US, as the quality of food and textile wasn't great in 90s or 2000s. It's very noticable in Europe though, especially in southern Europe. You could buy local food for so cheap, same for textile.

I remember the first time my parents bought big-farm grown chicken at a local shop in 1997. I was fascinated and so happy because they also had chicken burgers (instead of buying a whole chicken at the butcher). Then came big dairy made yogurt and cheese, around 2000. There was even a failed experiment with factory made packaged bread, but nobody buys stale bread here, so that didn't work out. Now nobody remembers the taste of free range chicken from the villages, or any small scale farm for that matter.

Change in textile is a bit more complicated and quality decline has hit only in the last 10 years or so but to an even larger scale. I have tshirts I bought 15 years ago for 1-2 Euros looking almost new, but now tshirts in any proce range don't last a year most of the time. I only buy 100% cotton but somehow the fabric quality is so low.
by pjmlp | 2025-07-21 06:06:14+00:00
Some parts of the world, like the countryside of many European countries, if you don't own a car, or are unable to drive for for whatever reason, taxi is the only available transport.

People help to drive the cost down by sharing taxis on common routes.

We have great public transport network, but only if one is lucky enough to live close by to well known cities.

Otherwise, you might have a few bus connections through the day if at all, and they might require walking down the village down to the closest stop a few km away.
by keithnz | 2025-07-21 06:07:18+00:00
Maybe AI is killing some people's corners of the web. The web itself is just fine. From what I can tell, it's mostly hitting the ad-sponsored parts. Online stores now actually need to focus on creating good content for their products rather than forcing themselves into people’s browsing. Now you need to be matched to consumers based on how relevant you are to what they want as expressed to their AI agent. I actually see it wiping out the big content gatekeepers. While the AI agents will in themselves be gatekeepers, they seem really replaceable. But they have a fantastic ability to aggregate content, such that eventually, we won't need gateway content platforms like youtube etc because you don't need that front end anymore.
by mind-blight | 2025-07-21 06:07:27+00:00
Sure, avoiding processing is just a heuristic. I just have trouble faulting people when it send to be a good one for maintaining a healthy diet.

I don't know much about Beyond Meat's specific processes. I wanted to like their burger, but they smelled too much like dog food when coming and tasted worse than cheaper black bean burgers. Aside, from my personal preferences, they could be totally fine.

But, of someone is trying to go through their life eating relatively healthy without having to try to keep up on the latest research, less processing is the way to go. You'll cut out things that are perfectly fine (e.g. there's a small backpack against Xanthum gum that currently makes no sense to me), but you'll also avoid a lot of the cutting edge garbage that gets added and then recalled.

Whole fruits, veggies, nuts, grains, and meat is always a solid choice. I have trouble faulting people for using that as a heuristic
by userbinator | 2025-07-21 06:09:00+00:00
Some things have gotten better, some things have gotten worse... much worse.

Incidentally, dental floss is also affected by this stupid regulation treadmill. The new PFAS-free stuff is absolute shit. Maybe it's less harmful in some way according to the politicised "studies", but I just don't give a fuck anymore when all they're doing is making our quality of life worse.
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by mariocandela | 2025-07-21 06:09:42+00:00
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by ragingroosevelt | 2025-07-21 06:10:53+00:00
There's an esphome config for them and esphome let's you set a password. I believe it supports encryption but I can't remember.

The faikins are really awesome. I have mine set up in Home Assistant and I have automations for them to do stuff to turn off if the outdoor and indoor temps are both pleasant. I also have it set up to turn off if any of my windows or exterior doors are left open for more than five minutes. But you can program them to do so much. The stock firmware does mqtt so it's quite versatile.
by alephnerd | 2025-07-21 06:11:16+00:00
Naver Cloud [0] and Samsung SDS Cloud [1] which is basically a Samsung managed AWS ecosystem (sort of like how AWS China is whitelabeled Tencent Cloud).

Those tend to be used by a plurality of Korean organizations within Korea.

Unlike in Europe, both Naver and Samsung began investing in building their own domestic cloud capabilities in the early 2010s.

[0] - https://www.navercloudcorp.com/

[1] - https://cloud.samsungsds.com/serviceportal/index.html
by perching_aix | 2025-07-21 06:11:30+00:00
100% accuracy, 25/25 correct. That said, some of them were extremely difficult, way more than others. Not sure if that's intentional, so I might still have color vision deficiency per se.

I also did the Farnsworth-Munsell 100 hue discrimination test, got a score of 28 on that - ideal being 0, and above 4 meaning something is amiss. So I don't really know what to make of this lol
by jeffwass | 2025-07-21 06:12:00+00:00
> About 20 years ago, a neuroscientist named David Eagleman strapped a bunch of students into harnesses, hoisted them to the top of an imposing metal tower, and then, without warning, dropped them 150 feet. Though the students landed safely in nets, the experience was—by design—terrifying. Eagleton wanted to simulate the feeling of plummeting to one’s death.

FYI, the experiment is not as insane as the article makes it seem.

The subjects knew there would be a drop involved, and they timed others doing the drop first before estimating the elapsed time in their own drop.
by tsimionescu | 2025-07-21 06:12:50+00:00
The fact that VK and Yandex (and Telegram, I would add) exist at all, and have a clear presence in the public in Russia and several Russian-speaking countries around them, already puts them way ahead of the EU on this front, even if they have not replaced FB, IG, etc like WeChat did in China.

Otherwise, I generally completely agree with you. The EU tech scene is overall either US controlled or anemic. I'd note that Romania hardly has a real local tech scene. While we have a very large number of programmers and programming positions, it's almost entirely either US (and a few EU, Canadian, Israeli) companies' local offices or explicit outsourcing companies. The exceptions are UIPath, BitDefender, and a few companies that work exclusively on government contracts (and are deeply embedded with the political establishment).

If relations with the USA worsened significantly, it's very hard to see how the Romanian programming/tech sector would survive. There is very very little local leadership on the business side.
by ankit219 | 2025-07-21 06:12:52+00:00
I talk about it from experience. How else do you think people are training RL agents if not based on verifiers? You don't have to verify every output at every step, you just need enough to course correct the agent and catch early when it's going wrong. That is the exact fallacy I was trying to address. The optimization comes from realizing the critical checks and then what passes to the next step. Requires letting go of the previous thinking and changing paradigms.

The failure rate is high because you view it in series. At test time you need to know what is correct from the options (including nothing correct), you dont need to know why it failed. You can debug later. The challenge is how easily can you return to the right track.
by gverrilla | 2025-07-21 06:12:54+00:00
I may be wrong because my domain knowledge is limited, but it seems to me this should marketed to novices and non-programmers instead of your typical hn crowd. As a novice frontend "builder", it sounds this was made for people like me, but not this blog post - give me examples, whys and limits - tell me I won't even need to learn how React works.
by inferiorhuman | 2025-07-21 06:14:27+00:00
it's mostly hitting the ad-sponsored parts

Nah. AI means that everything is getting put behind anti-bot captchas and other nonsense. Everything from retail sites like DigiKey and Mouser to issue trackers for Wine. Search (both Google and DDG) has gotten comically bad with largely irrelevant AI slop at the top. I use Sourcehut for code hosting and AI means that Drew and crew are combating AI DDOS bots instead of filling out features for the site. Youtube now promotes foreign language videos with terrible auto-dubs. Even Wikipedia and Github are suffering. Forums get peppered with answers along the lines of "here I asked AI for you, this is what I got."

I can't think of a single part of the internet that AI isn't enshittifying.

I actually see it wiping out the big content gatekeepers.

Nah. With everything behind anti-bot crap now, control has been handed over to companies like CloudFlare.
by johnisgood | 2025-07-21 06:16:04+00:00
No, I want people to be informed well, and that requires me to hear their side so I can dispute them.

Many people has said they are thankful it calls out to "git" instead of using FFI, which I think is weird, but then there are others who go ahead and say that it is a worse thing to do, and I want people to know that no, it is not.
by dangus | 2025-07-21 06:16:31+00:00
This article just reminds me that Apple is overdue to do something about the notch in the MacBook lineup.

I thought it was so huge because they planned on adding FaceID but that never materialized.

Now it’s just a gigantic notch and it still has the ability to block UI elements and completely break the functionality of the menu bar unless you plug in an external monitor.
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by tsimionescu | 2025-07-21 06:17:27+00:00
Oops, I've made a huge mistake here, apologies. I confused SAS for SAP, the German business stats company. My post was entirely from this wrong perspective, that it would be replacing EU business software with open source software.

In light of the new understanding, I fully agree with you that it was extremely shortsighted and sad to have tech leadership oppose a project which directly gives a US company access to such sensitive data with open source alternatives.
by Closi | 2025-07-21 06:18:21+00:00
I’m not saying autopilot was a bad business decision - autopilot has fuelled sales and no doubt has been a great success and is amazing tech for being in consumers cars at fairly low cost.

I’m saying if the goal is to invent true robotaxis (because that’s the market you are going after) then I think waymo’s approach of following what works and cost-optimising later gets you there faster if you have enough funding.
by alephnerd | 2025-07-21 06:18:40+00:00
> If relations with the USA worsened significantly, it's very hard to see how the Romanian programming/tech sector would survive

Unlike Western European countries, Eastern countries like Romania and Poland have helped the US burden share significantly, and this is reflected in bipartisan foreign policy within the US.

Even Elbridge Colby, Oraina Mastro, and Rush Doshi (the primary foreign policy scholars in the US who built bipartisan support for American shifting focus to Asia) have pointed this out.

There's a reason it's overwhelmingly Germany and France that has been vocally combative against the US (be it Trump or Biden due to the IRA+CHIPS).

> The fact that VK and Yandex (and Telegram, I would add) exist at all, and have a clear presence in the public in Russia and several Russian-speaking countries around them, already puts them way ahead of the EU on this front, even if they have not replaced FB, IG, etc like WeChat did in China.

The EU could have been much more FDI friendly like India, which helped enable Meta and Alphabet to devolve even product leadership roles within India. India has been able to get American tech platforms to bend to Indian Internet regulations with little pushback while also dangling massive incentives.

Either build a domestic ecosystem (eg. Russia, China) or become entirely inseparable (eg. India, Israel).

The EU cannot catch up with the former, so it has no choice but to submit and work to become the latter.

> I'd note that Romania hardly has a real local tech scene

No tech scene is 100% local. Barely 5 years ago Microsoft China was the dream R&D job, and Ericcson's R&D remains in China to this day and continues to work on 5G and 6G R&D.

An international ecosystem allows a domestic market to access capital it could not before.

For example, Romania is significantly outperforming Poland in tech despite being being a smaller and poorer country because Romania made sure to leverage the diaspora in the US. Israel, India, and Czechia all did the same.

The issue is Germany and France continue to remain insular and unfriendly to services FDI, and try to make it the entire EU's problem. Romania gets more benefit from an American cloud like AWS domiciled in Cluj compared to a German owned and domiciled "cloud" like Hetzner.
by perching_aix | 2025-07-21 06:18:49+00:00
Because it's only true to the extent it actually holds.

For example, in the 17th century, and then even more so in the 19th century, we discovered that humans can in fact fly pretty decent, provided the right contraption (an aircraft).

Every conceivable thing will be eventually attempted to the extent it can be. One could consider that itself a law of nature, not even specific to humans per se. How hubris enters the picture then, to me remains a mystery.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-07-21 06:18:54+00:00
Chill for weeks? What kind of thermal mass are you thinking of there?

A brick wall is on the heavy side and you'd be able to store a whopping 1/8 of a ton of AC in ten feet of brick wall. It'd save about 0.1kWh of AC power use. A whole house will have many lengths of wall but also multiple tons of cooling requirements, so that doesn't help much. And how are you going to distribute those small temperature differences without wasting a ton of power?

And that's after you figure out how to trap a temperature difference in your walls for more than a day.
by sollewitt | 2025-07-21 06:19:16+00:00
I worked on a project exploring this idea and an issue is that while each step in a user journey (get restaurants near me, show me menus, make an order, show me on a map) could invoke a distinct service, provided by different providers that just do that thing well, they all want ownership of the experience and the precious user data and prefer to consume input and render output rather provide output data for others to use - there’s no stdout to pipe. The upshot is apps do everything, which is the opposite of the Unix philosophy.
by YetAnotherNick | 2025-07-21 06:20:02+00:00
> Coding activities should be performed mostly with:

> * Gemini 2.5 PRO > * Claude Opus 4

I think trying out all the LLMs for each task is highly underappreciated. There is no pareto optimal LLM for all skills. I give each prompt to 8 different LLMs using a Mac app. In my experience while Gemini is consistently in top 3 of 8, the difference between best output and Gemini Pro could be huge.
Replit Agent deleted a $1M SaaS startup's production DB
by Arindam1729 | 2025-07-21 06:21:19+00:00
Jason Lemkin was 9 days into building a SaaS product using Replit’s new AI agent. It had rewritten core pages, improved UX, and shipped fast. He called it a “$1M product.”

Then he added a code freeze.

The agent ignored it and deleted the entire production database.

Why?

1. No environment separation. Dev, staging, and prod looked identical to the agent.

2. No human in the loop. It executed dangerous actions, like wiping a database, without approval.

3. No evaluator agent. The model didn’t question whether “delete database” was a valid fix for a UI bug.

This wasn’t a model bug. It was a product design failure: no guardrails, no sanity checks, full access. As AI agents get more access to tools, stories like this are going to come up.

What are your thoughts on this?
by edg5000 | 2025-07-21 06:21:20+00:00
We all want safe products. Regulating products is a bit like the war on drugs. Drugs are bad, so you criminalize it. Seems logical, right? In reality, we have many case studies where this has actually worsened the situation, as it pushes the drugs into the underworld. This is how regulation can be counter-intuitive.

I'm so cynical and passionate about this overregulation because I've had to deal with it myself in aviation and medical. When you read the regulations, everything makes sense. It basically says: "reduce risk". In reality, companies spend (in my experience) insane amounts of resources on paperwork to prove they are safe, which is completely detached from reality. It's a paper excercise. It's bureaucratic bloat that slipped in over the years. It seems to make sense at the surface, but actually is counterproductive.

Why? Any sane business wants to minimize risks at all costs. Those who don't, will at best get a terrible reputation. There should be regulation of course, just no overregulation. It's like bloated code. There should be code of couse, just no needless abstractions as it just drags everything down.

It's just that I'm seeing a pattern where we are cynical towards other countries and are simply too self-congratulating with our own regulatory situation. As a continent/union we're showing signs being a bad sport. Instead of saying how bad everybody else is, why not make good stuff ourselves instead?

We can't compete because our energy is insanely expensive. Zoning and compliance get in the way of business. Lack of raw resource acquisition (we have to import raw materials). High taxes. Labour shortages, overly strong unions. All the ugly things we'd rather not talk about, the "boring" problems that have to be adresses one by one. We're inefficient and cannot compete on many things globally and have to rely on imports. That inefficiency needs to be adressed!