MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dabedee | 2025-07-10 06:37:51+00:00
This Leipzig ruling is notable, but the practical impact may be more limited than the €5,000 figure suggests. While the court explicitly said users don't need to prove individual damages to sue, European class action mechanisms are still quite different from US-style litigation.

Germany doesn't have the same litigation incentive structures as the US - no contingency fees, loser-pays costs, and relatively limited collective redress options. Most German consumers aren't going to file individual €5,000 lawsuits over tracking pixels, especially given the legal costs and time involved.

Personally, I hope this gets picked up by a consumer protection organization or a well-funded litigation group. Germany has been gradually expanding its collective action framework, but it's still primarily driven by qualified entities rather than individual plaintiffs.
by numpad0 | 2025-07-10 06:38:35+00:00
this doesn't need if statement but 3 variables: nm2 = 0; nm1 = 1; n; f_next(){n = nm1 + nm2; nm2 = nm1; nm1 = n;}

Fibonacci sequence is defined as "F0 = 0, F1 = 1, Fn = F(n-1) + F(n-2)". The author implemented F1 as a special case but it doesn't need to be. That's the weird part.
by db48x | 2025-07-10 06:38:47+00:00
They do print the terms on paper. Usually, companies that don’t have a formal contract that both the employee and employer sign will still write down all the important information. First the employer sends an offer letter containing important information unique to the new employee, such as job title, compensation, work location, start date, etc. Then everything else is in some kind of employee handbook. The handbook details the expectations for every job title, the rules employees are expected to follow, rules for promotions and transfers, etc, etc. Together these have everything you would expect in a contract that both the employee and employer sign, and they are just as binding.
by jmyeet | 2025-07-10 06:39:04+00:00
I consider PE to be equivalent to a crypto rugpull.

There's PE the theory and PE the practice.

The theory is that the buyers improve operational efficiency, restructure the business, dispose of underperforming assets, etc and "transform" the business. As another commenter reminded me, there are a handful of examples of this, most notably HIlton. And any of these successes will throw around "operational efficiency" a lot. Maybe Blackstone really did massively improve Hilton's operations. If so, I still consider it an outlier.

PE in practice seems much closer to the 1980s corporate raiders. It's done by people who have zero understanding of the business and zero interest in it. They've essentially decided to do a rugpull and ripoff the new owners so the "financial engineering" is how to structure the exploding debt in such a way that the new buyers don't realize it before it's too late.

That seems to be the case with many high-profile cases such as Toys'R'Us and Red Lobster.

I personally think this model of loading up a company with debt to pay off the LBO should be illegal.
by fake-name | 2025-07-10 06:39:24+00:00
> if he believes the terrible things he's posting or is just ironically posting them.

The thing is, as I get older, I realize more and more that this is a distinction without a difference.

If you "ironically" stab someone, does it matter what your motivation?

The same is true for edgelord stuff. Whether you believe it internally is irrelevant, the active act of the posting is the only part that matters.

If you post fascist content to be "edgy", you're a fascist.
by dmurray | 2025-07-10 06:39:27+00:00
I don't understand how massive corporations are both ruthless slash and burn cost-cutting profit optimizers and sloppy businessmen who don't care about the small things, even in aggregate.

What's the economics of not renting out high street retail properties? There must be millions of them across the first world, with a theoretical annual rent roll in the 11 or 12 figures. Are they owned by a million multinational conglomerates foregoing a hundred grand each? In that case we are stretching the definition of "multinational conglomerate". Or are they concentrated in the hands of the same hundred companies? In that case they are each missing out on ten billion a year in opportunity. There isn't a company in the world where you couldn't make your name as Head of Global Unused Property managing ten billion a year of revenue.

I don't have an answer for this either, but it must be more complicated than "they're all owned by multinationals who don't care about such small numbers" - the point of multinational companies is that those numbers are no longer small at scale.
by willhschmid | 2025-07-10 06:40:14+00:00
If you are using ESP32, I recommend exploring Xedge32, as it simplifies the design of secure MQTT edge solutions. The following tutorials list includes several MQTT projects: https://realtimelogic.com/xedge32-tutorials/ And don't forget to read how horrible MQTT can be if you do not set it up correctly: https://realtimelogic.com/articles/How-Hackers-Can-Easily-Pe...
by arunabha | 2025-07-10 06:42:21+00:00
> Human nature (greed) is never the problem, because it cannot be changed. Focus only on what can be changed.

The statement might appear to be pedantically true, but it's not true in practice. Sure, greed cannot be eliminated, but you certainly have systems which control the actions which result from greed. In reality, the actions brought on by greed are the real problem and we have an entire branch of the US govt(the legislature) dedicated to setting up mechanisms(laws) to discourage unwanted actions via threat of consequences.

So, it's certainly possible to mitigate the effects of greed. What people are pointing out is that of late corporations(and more specifically the C suite) have faced few if any consequences for detrimental behaviour driven by greed.

Hence the problem.
by hnlmorg | 2025-07-10 06:43:08+00:00
No it’s not.

Saying it’s the responsibility for owners to protect their stuff isn’t the same as saying the attackers aren’t responsible for any wrong doing.

I appreciate nuance is something the HN community often struggles with, so hopefully this analogy helps:

If you had £100 on your person, you’d be expected to look after that money responsibly. For example not leaving your wallet on a park bench and walking off. However even if you did the latter, that doesn’t mean it’s ok for the person who finds your wallet to keep your money.
by pjmlp | 2025-07-10 06:43:19+00:00
Also doing banners to hang up, in MS-DOS with a program I no longer recall the name, it had several fonts and funky layouts to chose from.

Then we would print them into a dot matrix printer, take the dotted sides from the pages out and hang the whole thing.

Searching on the Web, it might have been Banner Mania, but I am not sure.
by kortilla | 2025-07-10 06:43:43+00:00
> If you haven't actually been in the medical system of another country, you don't know what you're talking about.

Being in the medical system doesn’t give you a leg to stand on either.

I grew up with insurance and have insurance now in the US. I’ve never had problems getting medical care and the worst year was ~$1000 out of pocket.

The conclusion from that isn’t that it’s a good system for everyone and nobody who complains knows what they are talking about. It’s that anecdotes of good or bad treatment are meaningless.
by treetalker | 2025-07-10 06:44:11+00:00
> Nevada, which has historically been a business friendly state with fair and balanced regulatory policies

Make no mistake: Jurisdictions that are "business friendly" are generally unfriendly to human dignity, social welfare, and individual rights. (By individuals, I mean real, human people, not the collective-delusional anthropomorphization of power structures maintained through the separate delusion of the ownership of resources, à la Citizens United's proposition that corporations are people too.)

And jurisdictions that are "business friendly" certainly don't have "fair and balanced regulatory policies": if they did, they wouldn't be business friendly — they'd be neutral.

It seems that the article's definition of predictability is we always win; and that is certainly not the hallmark of a properly functioning judicial system.
by andsoitis | 2025-07-10 06:44:39+00:00
> cries from the Americans that this was just the Europeans finding excuses to take advantage and steal from poor innocent American companies

Spotify found in violation of EU data protection laws by Stockholm Court - https://www.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/spotify-fou...

Or what about Enel (Italian): https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/italy-regulator-fine...

Or Criteo (French): https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/22/adtech-giant-criteo-his-wi...

H&M (Swedish) fined for breaking GDPR over employee surveillance: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-54418936

etc.
by joules77 | 2025-07-10 06:45:02+00:00
That's the typical German/Oswald Spengler cynical view of things with inevitable decline being the conclusion.

You have to look elsewhere for more hope - probably from the Brits (who have great experience with highs and lows) - Toynbee perhaps whose work shows a different cycle - Challenge arises (ecological, military, social) - creative minority responds with new vision/structure - the majority follows - if response fails or becomes rigid - civilization ossifies.
by eschatology | 2025-07-10 06:45:41+00:00
Feels like none of what you wrote is about how the native app compares to the app being discussed, Petrichor, which is an offline music organizer/player.

I have been using itunes/music to do that and it honestly works just fine. I have hundreds of playlists from over 10 years ago that still works. Finding specific playlist or music to play is pretty easy, especially with Alfred.

The longevity is the biggest concern to me when considering the third party apps. If it stops being maintained in the future I would be stuck and need to do the chore of moving them properly to another application. With the native app I am sure it will work for the next 20 years.
by cat_plus_plus | 2025-07-10 06:46:08+00:00
I primarily care about individual users and developers of my stuff, not "the society" and as such make it easy for them to use my code in any project, even closed source commercial one. The exception is 3D models where I don't anticipate commercial uses and if there are I want them to talk to me and maybe pay me some money, so sharealike it is.
by db48x | 2025-07-10 06:47:49+00:00
It’s not really rare, plenty of companies in the US use employment contracts. But a majority don’t, not in the European sense. Technically there is always a contract between any two parties who are cooperating; it doesn’t have to be formalized in any particular way as long as the cooperating parties have a common understanding of the terms and agree on them.

Many companies that don’t use formal contracts instead put all the information that is common to all employees into an employee handbook, and the details that are unique to a specific employee into the offer letter. The offer letter given to a new hire has details such as their starting salary and start date, and once they arrive they are given a copy of the handbook and often time to read it and discuss it with a manager. The handbook will explain in detail how promotions happen, the work expected from for various job titles, any rules the employees are expected to follow, etc, etc. Together these form the common understanding that underlies the contract, even if there is never a formal contract signed by both the employer and the employee.

Contractors, on the other hand, always have a formal contract. Often a contractor spends a significant amount of their time negotiating these contracts, especially the scope of work. I should know, I worked as a contractor for many years.
by 0x3444ac53 | 2025-07-10 06:49:00+00:00
It seems that reference is actually slightly cherry picked. The article it is lifted from [0], is the author reflecting on his own discomfort with the text, the same discomfort he believes drives the people wanting it be be banned. Ultimately he makes the case that books like this are actually ultimately a good thing.

[0]: https://slate.com/human-interest/2023/09/banned-books-list-i...
by djaychela | 2025-07-10 06:50:40+00:00
You're not left with a flat battery at the end of the night. Many vehicles are combined in intelligent systems which work together to ensure that the vehicles have the energy they need (which is easy to set in all the systems I've seen) but provide enough grid support to make this work.

Remember that even my little town car (Renault Zoe) has a 52kWh battery.... which would run my house for five days. So the energy stored in these systems can be considerable.

The people doing these things have thought a lot about it. Take a look at this video - it's a bit 'puff piece' but shows what one way of doing it looks like:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKItLGPdN0k
by Validark | 2025-07-10 06:50:46+00:00
Of course I think Apple should be compensated for their services. But the idea that software businesses should have to pay 30% of their income to Apple is insanity. How are they meaningfully contributing to every sale? Should I have to pay 30% of my income to my landlord? Should online retail businesses have to pay 30% to UPS or FedEx? Software distribution is the lowest-cost distribution business imaginable. I'm not saying bandwidth is free, but if it would make more economic sense for Fortnite to ship you a USB drive with their software on it rather than go through the App store, then there might be some extortion going on.
by eternityforest | 2025-07-10 06:51:38+00:00
Is HA ready for non-hobbyists yet?

It always seems like you need $100+ dollars of hardware to run it well, not just a pi and an SD card.

It seems like it's a lot better now, but until recently it didn't seem like it was anywhere near PLC grade reliability.

Is it up to the level where you could install it at a non-technical users house and expect it to run for five years without maintenance?
by 47thpresident | 2025-07-10 06:52:23+00:00
Grok 3 is on Azure AI Foundary [0] and announced an integration with Telegram, albeit they are paying Telegram $300m not vice versa [1]. But I agree, choosing Grok is just a huge reputational liability for anyone’s work that is serious.

[0] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry/announcing-grok-3-and... [1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdxvr3n7wlxo
by apparent | 2025-07-10 06:52:26+00:00
I guess I feel like you're not engaging in good faith when you use ambiguous terms like "access" in order to make it seem like books are inaccessible to kids, when in fact they aren't.

If you think that asking to clarify that is a "gotcha" question, so be it. I view the original statement as intentionally misleading, and aimed to be kind in asking for a clarification instead of just calling out your misleading statement.
by abhsag | 2025-07-10 06:52:51+00:00
Lol, nostr metadata leak was a criticism of NIP-04 , which has long been considered obsolete NIP-17 messages addressed this long time ago, but it was not scalable to large groups. MLS solves this problem so we finally have, scalable, private, decentralized messeging on the internet, all these specs are public, the very fact that you did not understand this, means no one will be able to make you understand with a comment.
by ryuker16 | 2025-07-10 06:53:18+00:00
I was diagnosed adhd well before mobile phones. Also, mri scans show adhd so yes, it is a prefrontal cortex deficiency.

Let me give you some old man advice. Untreated adhd feels sutble to the person but its not subtle to everyone around you. You think your calm but come off like a zany, pacing autistic person or incredibly anxious. Alcohol and drugs can make you even more spazzy or impulsive.

Dont believe me? Go ask friends and coworkers how you come off. Your going to be shocked, trust me.

Every adhd person i met who told me what you just said was a spazzy mess or incredibly rigid/disciplined/control freak to counter act the adhd.

They were rarely away how much of a spazz we come off as even with treatment.
by emptybits | 2025-07-10 06:53:44+00:00
In a feeble attempt to rationalize the Canadianism "pencil crayon"...

Pencils have cores based on graphite or charcoal.

Pencil crayons have cores based on wax or oil, with pigments added. This is basically the composition of crayons or pastels. Then it's wrapped in wood like a pencil. Thus ... "pencil crayon".
by Animats | 2025-07-10 06:53:48+00:00
The main precomputation needed is the result from the previous frame. Algorithms of this type of convex hull distance are really cheap, because you don't need to examine every vertex, just trace a path to the closest points. That's roughly O(sqrt(n)). If you're doing this over and over as objects move, and start from the previous result, it approaches O(1).
by rkagerer | 2025-07-10 06:53:59+00:00
It's a fair question.

Mainly, they'd have a much harder time basing a defense on having had my consent, should I have cause to sue them down the line.

> they didn't sign any of your changes

I didn't sign any new agreements of theirs, either.

The manager did of course check that all the relevant knobs and dials in their system able to be turned off were set as such.

And it caused them some minor grief. If enough of us were to push back like this, the grief might grow sufficiently for them to do something about (like maybe recognize nobody wants these godawful policies and there's a great business opportunity for companies that decide to build a brand premised on customer respect).
by pjmlp | 2025-07-10 06:54:19+00:00
My mistake then, doesn't change the point of my remark, as the OP was Indeed asserting any distro.

Your lengthy response is a good example of Linux forums, that eventually I got tired to visit, though.

Remember my first distro used kernel 1.0.9, and I still use Linux distros at work, just not on my own laptops, so I am quite aware of the tweaking that never went away.
by apparent | 2025-07-10 06:54:20+00:00
Of course drag queen story hour isn't a policy — it's an event. And just because the ALA didn't invent it doesn't mean they haven't expressed support for it.

Look, you asked what positions they've taken that aren't related to open access to the public and I answered. Now you're moving the goalposts. That's a game you can play by yourself; I am done playing along.
by gsf_emergency_2 | 2025-07-10 06:54:34+00:00
https://www.respublika.lt/lt/naujienos/pasaulis/kitos_pasaul...

Google translate on desktop didn't seem to work for this one but I suspect you might manage

Edit: "If This Goes On--" was the story that got me into Heinlein.. I'd started on "Number of the Beast" but that was too long..
by birksherty | 2025-07-10 06:55:50+00:00
Tried it, compression is worse compared to 7-Zip-zstd by mcmilk for zstd, for same speed. The removal of text from toolbar icons is enough for me to never use it again. 7zip can change file associations directly with it and very easy. Feels like NanaZip is worse in QoL than 7zip.
by suninsight | 2025-07-10 06:56:39+00:00
1. Multi-Agent is divide a part into tasks and hand off each part to a different Agent. This is different in the sense that a task is not divided into parts aprior. When the agent gets to a roadblock - lets say it is unable to fix a software issue - it rolls up to a deep think model to unblock. But you might be right that the difference is too subtle too notice.

2. "they got me looking at what was built with their product but I can’t see the actual code. Feels scammy" - What do you mean by you can't see the actual code ? You can just signup and use NonBioS to build software. And you can see the code written by NonBioS in multiple ways - ask it give you a downloadable zip, ask it to checkin the code to github, ask it to show you the code on the screen. Infact that the black boxes which scroll up, you can just expand them and see the code it is writing directly.
by devoutsalsa | 2025-07-10 06:56:44+00:00
Haha, that’s pretty close to any software I’ve ever written. Suck in a ton of open source dependencies, write comparatively little, and say “look what I made!” Buying a table, adorning it with vase of fake flowers, and claiming to be a Senior Woodworking Engineer sounds about right. I’ll be a Principal after buying a new bed frame & putting a mattress on it.
by greenmartian | 2025-07-10 06:57:30+00:00
So I use the same extension and this piqued my interest. On a standard website, FoxyGestures will pop a status box at the bottom, with the gesture you just drew (UDUDLRLR etc). This is done by appending a div at the end of the html body.

It so happens that the website has a CSS style[0] for the last div in the body with no class and no id (search for `body>div:last-child` in the css) - and use it to indicate "admonition-danger" (maybe to show errors?).

[0]: https://mildbyte.xyz/main.css
by lompad | 2025-07-10 06:57:35+00:00
And not only are those cries wrong, reality is quite the opposite. The vast majority of fines are towards european businesses. Big Tech aren't the only ones who violate data privacy standards all the time. [0] You just don't read about those here, so people like to just assume those fines don't exist.

Additionally, it helps to actually learn how the current law developed - it primarily was modeled after the german Bundesdatenschutzgesetz, which was put into law in a modern form in the 90s, long before FAANG.

[0] see the tracker: https://www.enforcementtracker.com/
by 4gotunameagain | 2025-07-10 06:58:39+00:00
Which reinforces the concept of a digital fiefdom; the owners of said platforms have this immense power only because they were the first to implement their ideas during the internet boom.

And now we're stuck with Zuckerberg, Musk and Bezos. Out of all people, the last ones I would choose to have unelected power. Okay maybe the last one would be Joe Rogan.
by SlowTao | 2025-07-10 06:58:49+00:00
I didn't really think of the family as a PC addition but I can see that angle as well. I kind of just switch off any kind of higher analysis on films like this. I didn't mind the family but that is mostly because they didn't dwell on them for long periods. If the entire film was them... yeah I probably wouldn't be so happy with this one.

But this one was following such cliche on who survives and who doesn't, they were always going to live. ;)
by TeMPOraL | 2025-07-10 06:59:12+00:00
In the long run (well, mid-run), it'll be about the only way in which it'll be useful: toying with MCPs is all the rage now, but that'll end once business people pause and think for five seconds about what MCP actually does. Which is, provide users with ability to use a service the way they like, not the way the service owners likes, and avoiding interacting with the service directly.

Or, in other words, it helps users get around all the bullshit that actually makes money for the business. Ads, upsells, cross-marketing opportunities. Engagement. LLMs help users avoid all that, and adding an MCP to your site makes it trivial for them.

Maybe I'm too cynical, but think about this: the technologies we needed for this level of automation became ubiquitous decades ago. This was, after all, also the original hype behind APIs, that burned bright on the web for a year or two - before everyone realized that letting people interact with webservices the way they want is bad for business, and everything closed down behind contracts backed by strong auth. Instead of User Agents connecting diverse resources of the web for the benefit of users, we got... Zapier. That's what the future of service-side MCPs on the web is.

But user scripts were always a way to let at least power users show a middle finger to "attention economy" and force some ergonomy out of web apps that desperately try to make users waste time. Giving users the ability to turn any website into MCP, regardless of whether that website wants it, will supercharge this. So for better or worse, that's where the future is.

Adversarial interoperability remains the name of the game.