MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ericmay | 2025-08-25 20:05:14+00:00
> Closing these de minimus exemptions is making it harder for discerning consumers to buy higher quality goods than are currently available in the US right now.

Everything has a trade-off.

On the other hand, it also prevents companies from dumping artificially cheap and crappy goods (TEMU) on US markets and making it nearly impossible for others to compete.

Unsuspecting consumers buy a super cheap (subsidized) crap product on Amazon or Temu or Shien or wherever - probably a knock-off of an American product, have it shipped to the US, then it disintegrates after a couple of uses or stops working, and we wind up with pollution, additional landfill, and relentless consumerism that's harmful to the country all so we can help a certain country whose name starts with a C keep the lights on and keep factories running so that they don't see unemployment numbers tick up.

Legitimate businesses selling higher quality products where they exist will be able to figure it out. Or not. It's not a big deal if your sunscreen is slightly worse than the Korean version (which I use). Maybe it just hasn't been approved because they haven't done the work to apply because they can get around working with our government and making sure their product meets our safety standards because of the de minimus loophole?

There's also safety concerns, which I think the CBP did a good job of overviewing here: https://www.cbp.gov/frontline/buyer-beware-bad-actors-exploi... . Send drugs or guns or illegal animal products to the US, get caught, who cares you live in (not the US) so you can just spin up another sham company and do it again.
by qrsbrrr | 2025-08-25 20:05:21+00:00
> There's a great deal of sensationalism, fake news around this at most.

Been there, it's not. There was a Studienrat in one of my past Ex's family. They do care! But for the same reasons they lowered the reqs for "some segment" like others did for some part of my "Jahrgang", they don't get to fulfill their potential, so ... relax, it's a thing we can overcome easily.

> From what ive been seeing. schools are hostile toward cellphones and AI

Regarding my inquiry, that's a step towards intention. Intention that goes against the "currently trying really hard to force a reaction" .... dogma ...

> even on average ending up with significantly better educated students.

... think long term, think synaptic connections, think character TRAITS (singled out vs product) [linear transformations vs non-linear ones, .......]

Tangential: this is one of the topics I'm NOT bored of instantly, some people didn't just work A LOT for that one line in their resume ... there was an init

AI agents bore me back to planting red beet at the right time and what the fuck I should do about the snails that attack my "early peppers"

Nothing beats effective democracy in multi-variable contexts ... except optimized democracy (in/on multi/poly-species planets/environments)
by Sesse__ | 2025-08-25 20:05:25+00:00
There are _lots_ of objects in a large git repository. E.g., I happen to have a fork of VLC lying around. VLC has 70k+ commits (on that version). Each commit has about 10k files. The typical AI crawler wants, for every commit, to download every file (so 700M objects), every tarball (70k+ .tar.gz files), and the blame layer of every file (700M objects, where blame has to look back on average 35k commits). Plus some more.

Saying “just cache this” is not sustainable. And this is only one repository; the only reasonable way to deal with this is some sort of traffic mitigation, you cannot just deal with the traffic as the happy path.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-08-25 20:05:25+00:00
Yes! I created a comment here in similar aspect but the thing that was bugging me a lot was what to do about night time though

Imo, the current system of solar energy etc. might be more carbon emissions than even coal because of the way of using batteries and how they are extracted and the whole process and batteries limitations and not solar panels themselves (I think)

Like, please pardon me but I think that there might be batteries that overall are cheap/economical/less carbon emissions and they can store energy for a night cycle right? Then using those batteries in your system and I don't know the price point, but I am definitely sure that they might be orders of magnitude cheaper

So in your 21M$ example lets say that we can add such night time cheap batteries to counter solar panels not generating light at night and use this 1M$ to generate energy when its either rain or solar production is less or when winters come

I still feel like, this might be more economical than the current state of batteries + solar panels.

Okay, I just realized that the night time issue can be solved by the grid but still if that's the case, then why have batteries in the first case if lets say every community builds something like this (if this is economical) and people could just pull up energy from it 100% solar in rainy times etc.

Like maybe my mind is perfectionist or I genuinely don't know about green energy but to me I wish to know if there is a way that we can transition (almost) 100% to the green (solar) without the drawbacks that I saw in the michael's moore documentary in the sense that it produces more carbon emissions net overall theoretically (which hurts my heart :< but the logic was sound imo)
by cjonas | 2025-08-25 20:05:33+00:00
Ya, I didn't mean in the context of hooking up a LLM to control your browser (which is exactly what the article is about so, fair enough).

My point was:

It's not "insecure" for a bank to release an agentic assistant that can perform any of the operating that you, yourself can perform on their app. That includes "send my money to Belize", because at this point, whatever has taken control of your LLM already has direct authentication to the app itself.

It is of course "insecure" for that same agentic system (that the customer controls the input of) to perform any operations that only a teller or branch manager could. However, I've personally seen requests from CEO to do exactly this (not a bank, but similar industry).

The problem with an Agentic Browser, is your essentially opening up the "input" to anyone capable of building a website. As I said in my other comment, it feels like there are some simple ways to solve this tho (allowlist / scopes / etc).
by moffkalast | 2025-08-25 20:05:34+00:00
It's more of a testament to inefficiency, with rising TDP year after year as losses get larger with smaller nm processes. It's so atrocious, even in the consumer sector Nvidia can't even design a connector that doesn't melt during normal usage because their power draw has become beyond absurd.

People don't really complain about crappy shovels during a gold rush though unfortunately, they're just happy they got one before they ran out. They have no incentive to innovate in efficiency while the performance line keeps going up.
by MurkyLabs | 2025-08-25 20:05:38+00:00
It's a mixture of both 2 and 3. The chips are getting hotter because they're compacting more stuff in a small space and throwing more power into them. At the same time, powering all those fans that cool the computers takes a lot of power (when you have racks and racks those small fans add up quickly) and that heat is then blown into hot isles that need to then circulate the heat to A/C units. With liquid cooling they're able to save costs due to lower electricity usage and having direct liquid to liquid cool as apposed to chip->air->AC->liquid. ServeTheHome did a write up on it last year, https://www.servethehome.com/estimating-the-power-consumptio...
by hnlmorg | 2025-08-25 20:06:51+00:00
> don't think that has anything to do with whether "open source" is overshadowed by suicide. The show isn't "for" you.

You’re misunderstanding my point about the suicide. I said that the suicide was unearned and didn’t tackle the real discussion about mental health. And thus it was a distraction from the plot thread.

I’d have actually preferred it if the plot focused more on mental health if they were going to have a supporting character kill themselves. Then the death would have been earned.

> The only reason technology is featured in it is that it's a way to show a period of rapid change happening underneath the characters. More than anything else it's a period show.

You keep lecturing me on this point despite everything I’ve posted clearly being about how the drama (ie not technology) was written.

Are you sure you’re not the one hung up on the tech aspect given you assume that’s what everyone else is? Because everyone in this thread already gets it isn’t a documentary ;)
by morsch | 2025-08-25 20:07:02+00:00
I looked it up. Sending a regular smallish package (2 kg, 35 x 25 x 10 cm, think small laptop) from Germany to NYC is about 25 EUR, now only available for gifts under 100 EUR. Sending it as express, which is what businesses now apparently have to do, is about 80 EUR.
by craftkiller | 2025-08-25 20:07:11+00:00
I used to get ~6-10 spam calls per day and I would do what you describe: ignore the call. Then I started picking up, immediately muting myself, and waiting. The auto-dialer gives up after exactly 10 seconds of silence and hangs up. This has reduced my spam calls to 1-3 per WEEK.

The downside is sometimes real people call (like a contractor your landlord hired), hear silence, and don't say anything themselves because they're waiting for a "hello?". Whereas ignoring the call would let them actually leave a voicemail which would be useful. As I learned recently: sometimes real people don't call back a 2nd time.
by m463 | 2025-08-25 20:07:41+00:00
I've come full circle several times.

I have a brake bleeder, an oil change jugs with a cap on top and the side, cellphone tool kits, and more...

Sometimes it takes a while to derive the tenets of labor specialization from first principles.

How many of us can make more making nets for fishermen than making nets AND fishing yourself?
by tony_cannistra | 2025-08-25 20:07:42+00:00
This article will help you. https://www.construction-physics.com/p/how-does-the-us-use-w...

> ...actual water consumed by data centers is around 66 million gallons per day. By 2028, that’s estimated to rise by two to four times. This is a large amount of water when compared to the amount of water homes use, but it's not particularly large when compared to other large-scale industrial uses. 66 million gallons per day is about 6% of the water used by US golf courses, and it's about 3% of the water used to grow cotton in 2023.
by sixothree | 2025-08-25 20:07:43+00:00
Like the part about the birthdate is supposed to be humor maybe? But Google already knows how old you are.

That's why I think it's funny that they claim they will now be "using AI" to determine if someone is an adult and able to watch certain youtube videos. Google already knows how old you are. It doesn't need a new technique to figure out that you're 11 years old or 39 years old. They're literally just pretending to not know this information.
by theshrike79 | 2025-08-25 20:07:48+00:00
If you ask an LLM to count the r's in "strawberry sherbert", it's 100% hit and miss.

But have it create a script or program in any language you want to do the same, I'm 99% sure it'll get it right the first time.

People use LLMs like graphing calculators, they're not. But you can have one MAKE a calculator and it'll get it right.
by gspencley | 2025-08-25 20:08:11+00:00
Yes. I have checked many checkboxes that say "Verify You Are a Human" and they have always confirmed that I am.

In fairness, however, my daughters ask me that question all the time and it is possible that the verification checkboxes are lying to me as part of some grand conspiracy to make me think I am a human when I am not.
by liquidgecka | 2025-08-25 20:08:17+00:00
As somebody that worked on Google data centers after coming from a high performance computing world I can categorically say that Google is not “re-learning” old technology. In the early days (when I was there) they focused heavily on moving from thinking of computers to thinking of compute units. This is where containers and self contained data centers came from. This was actually a joke inside of Google because it failed but was copied by all the other vendors for years after Google had given up on it. They then moved to stop thinking about cooling as something that happens within a server case to something that happens to a whole facility. This was the first major leap forward where they moved from cooling the facility and pushing conditioned air in to cooling the air immediately behind the server.

Liquid cooling at Google scale is different than mainframes as well. Mainframes needed to move heat from the core out to the edges of the server where traditional data center cooling would transfer it away to be conditioned. Google liquid cooling is moving the heat completely outside of the building while it’s still liquid. That’s never been done before as far as I am aware. Not at this scale at least.
by ramesh31 | 2025-08-25 20:08:26+00:00
>"By all accounts, GPT-4o isn't malicious. It has no long term plans - it just wants the user to like it. It still does this kind of thing to people. An actual malicious AI capable of long term planning would be able to do that, and worse."

That's just what a malicious AI would want you to think...

But seriously, there doesn't need to be any "intent" for something to be harmful. A deadly virus has no will or agency, and particular individuals may be completely immune to it. But released on a population the results are catastrophic. We have to accept that perhaps for the first time ever we've created something we can't fully comprehend or control, and that regardless of our best wishes it will be harmful in ways we could never have imagined. If it were as simple as prompting the next model against this stuff, it would have already been done.
by Chinjut | 2025-08-25 20:08:34+00:00
Note that the article describes this Berlekamp-Massey approach as involving a step of complexity on the order of EV, which is V^3 in the worst-case. So this is only beneficial for sparse matrices. It does seem like Berlekamp-Massey is used to efficiently but non-guaranteedly compute determinants for sparse matrices, as described at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_Wiedemann_algorithm
by bigbadfeline | 2025-08-25 20:08:52+00:00
> Yarvin is an example of what happens to technical people who spend too much time thinking complex systems can be viewed through a rational lens.

More like, Yarvin is a willing tool without a clue about systems, rationality or politics for that matter. His thinking stopped long time ago when his friends and investors showed him the green - the universal lobotomizer.

>If you ask them why things like [Ethics] emerge

Nothing emerges these days, it's planted and grown, industrial farming style. Besides, asking a puppet is a nonsensical endeavor.

The current US power grab requires legitimization, thus the appropriate plants are being fertilized. One of the most potent crops is of course Nazism, the push has started at least 10 years ago, there is nothing new here and this isn't a surprise to anyone who knows something about human nature and political history.

> their framework to explain reality and transformation starts breaking down.

"Their framework" is going to break down a lot of good things before it starts breaking down itself... and empty pleas for [ethics] can do absolutely nothing to stop it.
by timr | 2025-08-25 20:09:00+00:00
Declared value. When you ship, they ask you to list the items you're shipping, and what they are worth. These go on the customs forms. Boxes can be opened and inspected, so lying is a gamble, but there's obviously a lot of wiggle room here.

The changes are to the commercial de minimis rule, so AFAIK, the personal $800 exemption when you bring something with you still applies, and you might not have anything to worry about at all. Also, when you declare something as "American goods returned", they are not subject to either de minimis rule, even if you send them by mail.

Things you purchased outside the US could qualify as well, if you can prove that you owned them for more than a year while living abroad. But realistically, nobody is going to make a federal case about a box full of old books and underwear...a box full of Louis Vuitton bags and Moncler jackets with tags, on the other hand...
by moefh | 2025-08-25 20:10:47+00:00
The amount of energy in a wave depends on both its wavelength and amplitude.

So a "blue wave" has more energy than a "red wave" if both have the same amplitude (blue has a shorter wavelength, and energy is inversely proportional to wavelength). But you can have a "blue wave" with the same energy as a "red wave" if you increase the amplitude of the "red wave" to compensate for its longer wavelength.
by mikestew | 2025-08-25 20:11:41+00:00
Even TFA points out that this is nothing new, as I was thinking "we bought a new car 20 years ago, and 84 month loans were an option". It was an option that few took, but it was there. Now, apparently, 21% of new car loans are 84 months.

While we're on the subject, here's one for you: if you buy an RV, you can get a 20 year loan. We technically have one at the moment (it'll be paid off after having held the loan for a few months). You think cars depreciate fast? Go buy an RV. I can't imagine carrying a 20 year loan on something that will be nearly impossible to sell before the loan is paid off.
by ankit219 | 2025-08-25 20:11:45+00:00
I like the idea. I also think you may need a mechanism to detect adverse actions before they are executed. This becomes important because an email cannot be unsent, and if I dont review the text, the 1 in 100 chance of the email sounding weird would freak me out. There is also the basic corner cases against AI prompt injection and all those spam and phishing emails that are rampant and more and more plausible sounding. Wonder if you have ideas around how to deal with those?
by rsyring | 2025-08-25 20:11:47+00:00
I have been using Pixel phones since they came out and currently have a Pixel 9. They have EXCELLENT spam call blocking. There are a couple other comments below that reference this but I wanted to highlight it at the top. There are other reasons I like Google's phones, but this tops the list.

The assistant integration is great for this reason too. I occasionally get calls come through that are likely SPAM but I've learned to let the assistant answer for me. If it's a spammer, then I waste just a small amount of their time.

It's especially helpful that Google's Assistant has gotten good enough, AND that people making legit but unsolicited calls (like doctor's offices), that people calling don't hang up right away and actually answer the assistant. So I can see what they say and then answer when it's a legit call.

The ratio of SPAM calls to legit calls from unrecognized numbers is still higher for SPAM. But, the frequency is low enough (maybe a few a week), and dealing with them is so easy, that the distraction/annoyance factor is very low to the point that I'm not personally bothered by it anymore.

I've tried to get my grandma to switch to a Pixel phone for her main phone number at home, just for SPAM blocking, but she won't. I don't know how she stands getting multiple calls per hour, it's crazy to put up with when we are there.
by sethhochberg | 2025-08-25 20:12:06+00:00
Years ago when I worked in live audio we had a similar setup. Zero tolerance for a performer's mic pack dying mid show because a low battery indicator wasn't calibrated right or someone incorrectly tracked how many hours a particular set had been used, so it was fresh-from-the-package alkaline AAs installed before every set, and a virtually unlimited supply of half-charged disposables to take home afterwards. Plenty would get reused for internal equipment checks and sound checks, but there were still more than enough to go around.

At the time (well over a decade ago) there was still lots of skepticism around recharagables and the extra process involved in dealing with them... but the tech has gotten lots better since, at that time even low-self-discharge was sort of hard to find. I'm sure much of the industry has moved over by now.
by kube-system | 2025-08-25 20:12:07+00:00
> Let's not make poor youngs (nearly all of them) pay for olds (rich or poor).

The problem is, this implies that whatever system you're advocating for must force people to prove that they're poor. These requirements don't come out of the sky and get magically enacted by some fairy, they're gonna be an active by bureaucratic process. That's a non-starter because then the system isn't universal anymore. It only serves people that are able to reach that bar. The poorest and most destitute among us, lack the ability to produce documentation. Many are disabled, uneducated, destitute, have dementia, or any number of other problems that affect the people who need help the most.

It should be easy for anyone who's paid into Social Security to get their benefits back out of Social Security. They shouldn't need to prove anything else.

The easiest situation is to just force people who make more than $176,100 to pay their fair share.
by lapcat | 2025-08-25 20:13:36+00:00
> Most of the time, the prices have been going up.

That's not particularly interesting though. The rate at which prices go up is crucial, especially in comparison with wages. If the price of housing increases faster than wages, then home buyers will end up with less disposable and investable income than before.

We're not talking about why older people are wealthier than younger people. We're talking about why the gap has increased.
by at-fates-hands | 2025-08-25 20:14:24+00:00
>> But then SEO died because of AI (according to him anyways).

Former web dev and I still do some SEO and for the most part, he's correct. I've posted on here multiple times over the last two to three years how easy it is now to manipulate search engines now.

Back in the day, when you needed content for SEO and needed it to be optimized, you had to find a content writer who knew how to do this, or write it yourself and hope that Google doesn't bury your site for stuffing your content with keywords.

Now? Any LLM can spin out optimized content in a few seconds. Any LLM can review your site, compare it to a competitor and tell you want you should do to rank better. All of the stuff SEO people used to do? You can do now in the span of a few mins with any LLM. This is lower hanging fruit than vibe coding and Google has yet to adjust their algorithm to deal with this.

A few years ago, I cranked out an entire services area page for a client. I had AI write all the content. Granted, it was pretty clunky and I had to clean some of it up, but it saved me hours of trying to write it myself. We're talking some 20-30 pages that I gradually posted over the course of several months. Within a days, every new page was ranking page 1 within the top ten results.
by barbazoo | 2025-08-25 20:14:39+00:00
> When prompting DeepSeek-v3, the team found that selecting the the right tools becomes critical when you have more than 30 tools. Above 30, the descriptions of the tools begin to overlap, creating confusion. Beyond 100 tools, the model was virtually guaranteed to fail their test. Using RAG techniques to select less than 30 tools yielded dramatically shorter prompts and resulted in as much as 3x better tool selection accuracy.

> For smaller models, the problems begin long before we hit 30 tools. One paper we touched on last post, “Less is More,” demonstrated that Llama 3.1 8b fails a benchmark when given 46 tools, but succeeds when given only 19 tools. The issue is context confusion, not context window limitaions.

High number of tools is a bit of a "smell" to me and often makes me wonder if the agent doesn't have too much responsibility. A bit like a method with so many parameters, it can do almost anything.

Have folks had success with agents like that? I found the fewer tools the better, e.g. <10 "ballpark".