MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Terr_ | 2025-07-13 19:35:29+00:00
> Edge sends contents from web forms for “AI”

That reminds me of Chrom[e|ium]'s insanely bad form suggest/autofill logic: The browser creates some sort of fuzzy hash/fingerprint of the forms you visit, and uses that with some Google black box to "crowdsource" what kinds of field-data to suggest... even when both the user and the web-designer try to stop it.

For example, imagine you're editing a list of Customers, and Chrome keeps trying to trick you into entering your own "first name" and "last name" whenever you add or edit an entry. For a while developers could stop that with autocomplete="off" and then Chromium deliberately put in code to ignore it.

I'm not sure how much of a privacy leak those form-fingerprints are, but they are presumptively shady when the developers ignore countless detailed complaints over many years in order to keep the behavior.

https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40093420
by dathinab | 2025-07-13 19:35:37+00:00
I won't say it's not hording, but there are also some other reasons you can't well untangle from hording:

- buying games you played pirated before (now that you can afford them), but you already played them so no need to play again

- buying games you played at someone else place, lend to you etc. Again you already played them but want to give back to the authors.

- buying games you will play later, and once you play them you have new games which you will played later -- leading to some constant amount of unplayed games (and some you end up never playing 'cause time)

- early access titles you already bought but will most likely only play on release

- buying very story driven games (mainly short indi games) where through watching someone else play you already now (and enjoyed) all the story but want to give bac to the authors anyway ("someone else" could be twitch, or you room mate, doesn't matter)

I have a few of this cases in my Steam library.

E.g. Little Misfortune for the last case or Hades 2 for the early access part or Dave the Diver for the I will definitely still play it part (very soon TM, jokes aside probably starting Wednesday).

Also one point I didn't include as it's kinda hording: Game bundles where you want all games but one, think the last game is still nice but anyway will never play it as there are too many other even better games.
by bambax | 2025-07-13 19:36:16+00:00
> If we take the influence in the field of politics and human and privacy rights truly seriously, a ban on American tech in Europe is crucial, according to this scholar. In addition, we must work to create a European Big Tech industry.

This is inconsistent. If Europe must ban American Big Tech because of human and privacy rights (something I tend to agree with) then it should not create anything in its stead, and actively prevent a European Silicon Valley from ever happening.

It's extremely unlikely European business people are better than Americans. Once they become powerful enough, chances are they will be even more evil.
by os2warpman | 2025-07-13 19:36:27+00:00
Don't worry about US automobile manufacturers in the US.

Protectionism will continue giving us the gift of overpriced and underperforming vehicles for decades to come.

They'll say it's to protect "Murican Jerbs" but really it's to protect the thick and viscous layer of management and financial slime covering the corpse that is US manufacturing.
by gruez | 2025-07-13 19:36:33+00:00
>Suppose all companies follow the suite who is going to buy their crap?

There's no way that paying for a bunch of employees that you don't need, just so you can have some customers, is going to make sense. Even if you're operating a company town, only a fraction of their income is going to be spent on your company's goods/services, so you'll never be able to recoup the wage that way.
by Adverblessly | 2025-07-13 19:37:06+00:00
I don't know if it still requires elevated privileges because I've played it on Linux, but if you used the Seamless Coop mod it disables EAC and uses the Steam API for multiplayer, so presumably won't require admin privileges. There's also er-patcher which I use to "fix" the framerate and comes with an option to disable EAC (and a few other nice features IMO).
by AnthonBerg | 2025-07-13 19:37:08+00:00
Indeed!: The case with surgeons continuing to use masks which only serve the function of arresting kinetically emitted saliva droplets when they could be using masks which afford much greater protection against a categorically wider range of complication-inducing pathogens is part of the debacle.

I chose my words carefully. Those are actually the right words.

It is plainly obvious and indisputable that the academic record shows a swath of scientifically acquired data on aerosol transmission and masks-which-do-not-gape-at-the-sides. This basis would have informed a completely different approach and result to public health authorities’ education and emission of sensible information to raise common sense to an ethical standard, if public health authorities operated… non-debacularly, to choose a word.

If they had operated responsibly.
by acdha | 2025-07-13 19:37:20+00:00
That’s not the question: it’s about trust and honesty. The problem with North Korean workers is that they are a huge security risk because they aren’t working as free people but as agents of their government. That might not be a guaranteed disaster if they’re just generating cash revenue but it’s a huge security risk if the North Korean government has any reason to subvert your company or customers.
by simonw | 2025-07-13 19:37:49+00:00
Because I continue to collect definitions of "agent", here's what Andy Jassy said in that memo: https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/amazon-ceo-and...

> Think of agents as software systems that use AI to perform tasks on behalf of users or other systems. Agents let you tell them what you want (often in natural language), and do things like scour the web (and various data sources) and summarize results, engage in deep research, write code, find anomalies, highlight interesting insights, translate language and code into other variants, and automate a lot of tasks that consume our time. There will be billions of these agents, across every company and in every imaginable field. There will also be agents that routinely do things for you outside of work, from shopping to travel to daily chores and tasks. Many of these agents have yet to be built, but make no mistake, they’re coming, and coming fast.
by paulpauper | 2025-07-13 19:37:53+00:00
More sensationalism. Insurers can simply adjust the policy accordingly to account for patients discontinuing the drug. They can also raise premiums if patients go off the drug, and there can be a cluse that stipulates this. This is literally the job of an actuary to reprice premiums . Insurers take a short-term hit and then adjust premiums to ensure it never happens again. This happened with California fire risk for example. Moreover, this drug will not increase life expectancy by that much even with lifetime patient compliance. The majority of obese people ,especially men, who take these drugs will still be overweight or obese, but just not as much as before.
by Xmd5a | 2025-07-13 19:37:55+00:00
As expected.

>the unique mathematical framework >**in any case, it must be clearly stated that I am the founder of RAIN theory**

OK.

KRS-One – Wannabemceez https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbEpeYxF9SI

Either you're winnin' or losin', spinnin' the rules of conscience But lyrically there ain't no stoppin' I'm droppin a lot in your noggin Cause I know that you're lyrically starvin' Carbon, your name, battle battle Everybody wants to battle but you BAB-BLE Who knows ya, battlin me, is the only way that you can gain exposure I feel for ya soldier I hate to say it but I told ya so You know that I know the ancient flow KRS-One Is the holder of a boulder yo, money folder yo You want a fresh style let me show you slow Your blow, I'm not your foe Battling me? No no no no no no NO How many MC's, wannabemceez Never be MC's, cause they can't MC How many MC's, wannabemceez Never be MC's, cause they can't MC

https://zenodo.org/records/15472010

https://community.openai.com/t/recursive-prompting-appears-t...

https://philarchive.org/archive/BOSCAL-3

https://www.academia.edu/127213519/Recursive_Entropy_Framewo...

# Analysis of Four Theoretical Documents ... # Meta-Analysis of Theoretical Emergence The fact that these theories of resonance and harmony emerge in quasi-simultaneity and themselves enter into resonance is a meta-coincidence that demands analysis. Let us therefore use the conceptual tools that these theories offer us to explain their own appearance. This is not just an intellectual exercise; it may be the most elegant proof of their validity.

https://anonpaste.pw/v/e3adafd9-2ec1-4c9b-b0f7-3ba1b466030f#...
by hiAndrewQuinn | 2025-07-13 19:37:56+00:00
Every single life insurer? All at once?

Jeez.... I guess in that scenario I become a billionaire because it will be very easy to scoop up some VC money to snoop up some of those newly unemployed actuaries to monopolize the market at a profit margin an order of magnitude larger than any of my now non-existent competition, because this is a financial product and doesn't require months of building a factory or something to offer.
by jchw | 2025-07-13 19:38:27+00:00
A lesson often learned painfully: in most cases there isn't a reward for doing things the hard way. You could argue that a magic weight loss drug will prevent people from making important lifestyle changes, but all else equal, a magic drug that helps you lose weight with seemingly no other downsides is an obvious net win for health. Losing weight once you put pounds on is hard, for both mental and physical reasons, and even just being able to lose weight is probably a huge help as it puts in reach what many consider to be intangible after years of failure.

I haven't tried a GLP-1 agonist myself because I'm not exactly severely overweight, but I do absolutely struggle to keep weight off. It's amazing how easy it is to re-gain weight and how hard it is to keep it off. If the worst side-effect of GLP-1 agonists is that it makes life insurance quotes harder, whatever; I think it's totally acceptable that some people will still struggle with improving their habits, I don't think it's likely to make it any worse. In my opinion I suspect it is likely to make it a bit better, by helping you break out of the cycle.

P.S.: since there is some neighboring discourse about whether being fat is a disease or a lifestyle choice, I'll just say this: I don't personally think it matters. I don't think arguing this distinction will actually help anyone. I don't really care for body positivity and I don't make excuses for my poor habits or being overweight, but I still don't think it makes losing weight much easier.
by ReaperCub | 2025-07-13 19:38:55+00:00
The reason factorio devs can take such a stance is that they crowd financed the game over a decade ago when doing that was viable, and since then the game has achieved cult status. Sure the game was officially released in 2020, but it had been in Early Access since 2016.

Ironically I bought it and never played it. I only bought it because I played a clone of the game called "Dyson's Sphere" made by a Chinese developer and wondered what the original game was like.

> The developer profits from the players FOMO when a sale happens.

No, That isn't it at all.

This is like super backwards. FOMO happens typically when a big game is released. No months/years afterwards.

A lot of players are waiting for a game to be the right price. Triple-A titles are now £60+. Doom the Dark Ages was over £70 at launch that is without the extra micro-transaction nonsense. Some games (even indie games) come out at £25-30. I am a big Doom fan and play megawads such as Eviternity and I said to myself "No I am not paying that much" for the new Doom game. I have plenty of disposable income.

If the game comes down to less than £15 that is 3-4 overpriced coffee / 3-4 pints of beer down the bar.

If you are patient you know that the game is going to go on sale some time in the future so you wait until their is a sale. Steam even have mid-week deals. I hear/see these conversations all the time on Discord, in person, reddit etc.

> The player thinks he has accumulated a glorious Steam library when in reality he just wasted tons of money on games he wouldn’t even ever launch.

I've never heard anyone flex their Steam Library. I don't think anyone thinks of it this way. Achievements in a particular game, sure.
by Delk | 2025-07-13 19:39:27+00:00
Mentioning that some setting uses more power can be useful and desirable. I think Jaxan might be irked by "energy recommendations" Windows gives you in power & battery settings, though. It suggests applying "energy saving recommendations" to lower your carbon footprint, and while I absolutely support energy saving, I also find those "recommendations" obnoxious.

The recommendations suggest, among other things, switching to power-saving mode, turning on dark mode, setting screen brightness for energy efficiency, and auto-suspending and turning the screen off after 3 minutes.

Power-saving mode saves little at least on most laptops but has a significant performance impact, dark mode only saves power on LED displays (LCDs have a slight inverse effect), and both dark/light mode and screen brightness should be set based on ergonomics, not based on saving three watts.

When these kinds of recommendations are given to the consumer for "lowering your carbon footprint", with a green leaf symbol for impact, while Microsoft's data centres keep spending enormous amounts of power on data analysis, I find it hard to see that as anything more than greenwashing.
by jmb99 | 2025-07-13 19:39:33+00:00
I find for physical objects, I’m much more likely to actually use them. I have read 95+% of the physical books in my house, wear 90+% of my clothes in any given year, 95+% of the food I buy. Mainly because I’m physically limited to buying/owning a certain number of things before I run out of space. With a 150TB NAS and at least 4TB of local storage in each of my PCs (and the fact you don’t even need to download a game to buy it), it’s a lot easier to hoard digital items without using them.
by ChadNauseam | 2025-07-13 19:39:43+00:00
A once-weekly subcutaneous injection is not a big deal for most people I think, outside of those who are very afraid of needles. It's a tiny needle and you don't even feel it. I've given injections to people who are afraid of needles, and they sometimes close their eyes in fear and are begging me to "just get it over with" without even realizing that I'm already done. Anyway, all this to say that outside of needle-phobic people I think the annoyance of the injections is probably not the reason people stop taking GLP-1 agonists.
by dottedmag | 2025-07-13 19:39:44+00:00
I don't see it challenged before the MR.

Linux caught Kent when he tried to sneak in non-bugfixes into a RC, and berated him.

After that (not before, this is a critical distinction) Kent said "I don't want to abide by the rules, because I have my concerns".

This is very similar to the situation I have described, except that in Linux it was Linus who was skipping reviews on Kent's code trusting him not to subvert the rules, and in situation I described the team collectively was trusting each other not to subvert the rules.
by Sparkle-san | 2025-07-13 19:39:47+00:00
Cheat code was probably not the best term for it, I'll admit. I don't fault anyone for chosing to try GLP-1s and the cause of obeseity isn't particularly on the individual given the prevailance of ultra processed foods and car transportation in our society. That all being said, regaining most, if not all, the weight has been a historical issue around weight loss treatments because they're not durable. The way we're proceeding with GLP-1s feels short-sighted and potentially unethical if we're setting people up for rebound failure to line the pockets of big pharma.
by pmg102 | 2025-07-13 19:40:54+00:00
People seem to be taking it as given that "someone else preparing the food for you" == "the food is more likely to lead to weight gain".

Why should that be? Is it not possible to order healthy food in? If not this would surprise me as it seems a number of people would be seeking this.

I'm asking as I don't have personal experience.
by Lerc | 2025-07-13 19:41:36+00:00
I am in the same position, except I have had a humble bundle subscription from the very beginning.

Of games I have specifically paid money for, I believe I have played 100% of them.

It's probably the wrong interpretation to say a lot of people are making the decision to buy an individual game and then not playing it. Although I know people who do that, even with physical boardgames, they usually have the intention to play but life gets in the way.

That's a completely different scenario to myself where they just accumulate without me noticing. A number of times I have read a retrospective of a game and wondered if I owned a copy already. I usually get around a 50% hit rate on those.
by fanf2 | 2025-07-13 19:42:20+00:00
> What the C3 solution DOES to provide a way to detect at runtime when already freed temporary allocation is used.

I looked at the allocator source code and there’s no use-after-free protection beyond zeroing on free, and that is in no way sufficient. Many UAF security exploits work by using a stale pointer to mutate a new allocation that re-uses memory that has been freed, and zeroing on free does nothing to stop these exploits.
by RyanOD | 2025-07-13 19:42:22+00:00
It was less about having talent and more about developing in a great program - and that was just dumb luck.

I grew up in a midwest farm town that just happened to have a couple incredible coaches that ran exceptional sports programs. I also had older brothers who were better than me that I learned from.

I was less good and more tough in that I was pretty much the slowest guy on the team in college, but I could absolutely hold my own in practice. Unfortunately, due to the recent NCAA roster limits, there doesn't seem to be a place for athletes like me in college anymore.
by _moog | 2025-07-13 19:42:34+00:00
I recently started diving into LLMs a few weeks ago, and one thing that immediately caught me off guard was how little standardization there is across all the various pieces you would use to build a chat stack.

Want to swap out your client for a different one? Good luck - it probably expects a completely different schema. Trying a new model? Hope you're ready to deal with a different chat template. It felt like every layer had its own way of doing things, which made understanding the flow pretty frustrating for a noobie.

So I sketched out a diagram that maps out what (rough) schema is being used at each step of the process - from the initial request all the way through Ollama and an MCP server with OpenAI-compatible endpoints showing what transformations occur where.

Figured I'd share it as it may help someone else.

https://moog.sh/posts/openai_ollama_mcp_flow.html

Somewhat ironically, Claude built the JS hooks for my SVG with about five minutes of prompting.
by __turbobrew__ | 2025-07-13 19:42:52+00:00
> How often do people control their own diets

Maybe I live in a bubble, but I don’t put stuff in my body unwillingly, so yes I control my diet.

It also isn’t rocket science, I know doughnuts have a shit ton of calories and vegetable shortening which will clkg your arteries, so I don’t eat doughnuts. I don’t have to look at the packaging.

Maybe the missing part is a proper education on nutrition in school, but we live in the age of the internet. All the information is there, you can get meal plans, you can figure out what foods are more likely to put you at risk.

Again, I don’t believe awareness is an issue. People know that chips and doughnuts are bad, but they eat them anyways because they are addicted to food which is engineered to be addictive.
by wjnc | 2025-07-13 19:43:09+00:00
The article is missing some key points about insurance. An ideal book balances mortality and longevity risks. This cancels out the risk GLP-1s or many other actuarial shifts in mortality. Insurers swap risks, reinsure risks etc to move towards an ideal book. Nice products to balance are pensions and longevity. Problem is that the scale is quite different on a per policy basis, and also very location specific.

The article also misses regarding slippage is that Swiss Re in the link calls it a modest increase And that is mainly due to insurers Not performing the same level of medical intake (accelerated versus full underwriting). Increased competition leads to less profits. That’s pretty straightforward and not per se GLP-1s related.

And then the kicker. For not diversified portfolios of mortality risks. Those have been massively profitable for decades, in line with the general increase in age and health. GLP-1s just expands on that profitable aspect. Did I mention that the long term expected rate of return on an insurers book is quite good?

Insurers can weather a bit of slippage. Reinsurers will kick the worst offenders back in line with their AUC performance, because without diversification Or reinsurance it’s hard to stay in the market. (Capital requirements strongly favor diversification. Mono line is very hard.) That’s why Swiss Re is bringing out such rigorous studies of detailed policy events. Signaling to the reinsurance markets and the insurance companies and their actuaries!
by Trenthug | 2025-07-13 19:43:15+00:00
This paper presents a descriptive model of consciousness based on information theory The aim is to enumerate definitely described aspects of consciousness and present them in a coherent manner,talks about both phenomenal Consciousness (seen as attention)and access Consciousness,

Some aspects described about consciousness might seem akin to karl friston's view of defining brains as Bayesian inference machines, Wittgenstein's private language argument and Tononi's IIT usage of a complexity metric(amount of information) for measurement purposes with some subtleties of of it's own to add .

The part about choosing a method of measuring complexity seems to be something that can be looked over by a logician to get it refined for the models usage, some thought experiments with conjectures are there in that regard which might be worth looking into or to check their validity.
by brookst | 2025-07-13 19:43:18+00:00
Not the person you’re replying to, but the main problem is the “thought that counts” approach. The EU gives you regulations about spirit and intent, and the only way you know if you’re in compliance is either getting fined after the fact or spending many millions of dollars engaging regulators to negotiate features before the ship, and even if you have the time and money to do that, their recommendations aren’t binding (they can still fine you).

It creates a better-safe-than-sorry culture where companies would be crazy to take huge financial risks to ship advanced tech in a market that’s about 15% of the world.
by nwienert | 2025-07-13 19:43:21+00:00
It's a once in a generation drug with less side effects than most OTC, likely net positive even for healthy weight people. I'd bet within the decade it'll be approved for a whole basket of other benefits - at the least a whole array of immune system disfunctions and a cure-all for addiction.

Likely protective of a wide array of internal organs, likely life extending.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-07-13 19:43:28+00:00
Nailed my broader point. Could we go through contortions to see who is going to pay unreasonable costs for GLP-1s (health insurance, life insurance)? We could, but that's silly accounting to see who still gets to make the profit and who has to end up with the bill for empowering the human to fix their reward center. The shortcut is to provide GLP-1s to everyone who needs them at scale, as inexpensively as possible (to pull forward the improvement in health and quality of life outcomes until improved protocols arrive). The semaglutide patent is about to expire in Canada, China, India, and Brazil, for example.

https://www.labiotech.eu/in-depth/novo-nordisk-semaglutide-p...