MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by fc417fc802 | 2025-08-14 20:08:12+00:00
Private parties are quite literally me and you in addition to large multinational corporations. If you think large multinationals need to be restricted then just say that directly instead of putting forward nonsensical semantic arguments.

> I, for one, don't want my biometric data in your system without my explicit consent.

If it's a single individual watching (for example) the sidewalk in front of his house and not disseminating the data in any way then what does it matter? Where is the potential downside? There are plenty of neighborhoods with at least a few retirees sitting staring out the front window for multiple hours each day.

As far as I can tell in the vast majority of cases surveillance only becomes problematic when both ubiquitous and centralized.
by mock-possum | 2025-08-14 20:08:21+00:00
My partner and I talk about that occasionally - that we both have the same ‘joy’ over activities that we always have, and we’re not shy about sharing it with the people around us. I think it definitely helps to cultivate a community of likeminded / compatible friends. We give people permission to openly enjoy themselves, and I haven’t really found a down side to that as of yet.
by astronautmonkey | 2025-08-14 20:08:26+00:00
Thanks for checking it out!

1. Here are the use-cases we've seen so far: marketplaces, search apps, fashion try-on apps, shopping agents, general purpose agents, web search for LLMs, e-commerce aggregators, hedge funds, etc. The most surprising has been new discovery experiences. Here's an example of an app that uses our data: https://www.forbes.com/sites/charliefink/2025/06/04/glance-a...

2. Great catch. We need to make this more clear on the site but we provide ~100k stores out of the box but keep the bigger brands behind an Enterprise paywall. We're working on fixing this.

3. Absolutely. We have purposely separated out search on the home page between our core index vs searching on Amazon, Walmart, etc. from within Agora. We haven't indexed products from the major marketplaces yet because of this challenge. Generally, we also focus on direct sellers and have filters in place with our crawler to parse out resellers.

4. Haven't looked at this but sounds interesting. And similar to how we think about storing e-commerce data with price history over time.

I'd love to chat more. I'm at param [at] searchagora.com if you want to reach out.
by IMAYousaf | 2025-08-14 20:08:40+00:00
This is definitely valuable. I started paying attention to MCP security vulnerabilities largely because of Defcon. I believe that they largely focused on Agentic Security as a theme this time around.

It's a bit mind blowing how we've simply accepted non-technical people within orgs in particular executing code to "automate their tasks" without the same level of rigor that normal code reviews go through. Definitely think that this is a cultural issue that we must fix.

And these MCP vulnerabilities in particular seem much scarier because almost all MCP tools require an insane amount of permissions.
by ggreer | 2025-08-14 20:08:53+00:00
I can't find any articles about Exponential winning the lawsuit, only that they filed one and sought $500 million in damages. Had they won, I think it would have been in the press. The only thing I could find was Apple's 10K from 1999[1], which says they settled the lawsuit for an undisclosed amount:

> This matter was settled during the fourth quarter of 1999 for an amount not material to the Company's financial position or results of operations.

If Apple did pay $500 million, I think that would have been material to the company's financial position, as their profit that year was $601M.

Again, are there any examples that are less debatable and/or more recent? I don't have a dog in this fight. But if Apple is infamous for this behavior, it seems like there would be stronger examples.

1. See page 59: https://www.annualreports.com/HostedData/AnnualReportArchive...
by kridsdale3 | 2025-08-14 20:09:03+00:00
We do all have the same amount of time. But where there's inequality is in the productive (business and social/family) integral during that time.

Most people are likely at best using 25% of their 24h towards something high value. Say, 4 of their 8-9 working hours, and 1 in the morning and 3 after work are "good family time". The rest, their body and mind are in a low power state for efficiency or recovery.

Where the super-performers likely have an advantage is in a biological superiority that results in them needing less recovery time (perhaps life damages them on a cellular level less) and they have more energy-efficient or high-throughput caloric systems to be able to do more hours of high-impact work in the day.

We are learning more and more about mitochondrial differences between people. If you could do 8 hours of high-focus work every day, be super in-tune with people for 4 hours afterwards, and only need 4 hours of sleep to be completely recovered, you'd acheive a lot more over a year, or 10 years, than your peers.

This is completely un-controversial when talking about something like Pro Basketball: it's self-evident. But people don't want to acknowledge it may be a factor in programming or business leadership.
by brianjshin | 2025-08-14 20:09:13+00:00
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by gjsman-1000 | 2025-08-14 20:09:17+00:00
> mandate all technologies include powerful and capable parental controls

That is, until Linux is also forced to come into compliance with said parental control standard, complete with all centralized reporting and remote restriction capabilities.

> This is and has always been a parenting problem.

What do governments do when everyone has the same parenting problem? Listen to industry idealists, like those who would call teenage smoking a “parenting problem,” or crack down?
by thewebguyd | 2025-08-14 20:09:32+00:00
> Require device manufacturers/software distributors to sort out a "child mode" switch you can flip upon device initialization, in-your-face and unmissable, and then have apps/webpages be able to see whether the device reports it's in child mode.

Wouldn't even need to develop anything new for this outside of a simplified UI over an MDM. Devices already support an incredible amount of monitoring and control, even iDevices, via MDMs.

But MDMs are for now only business/enterprise products, and are priced as such.

Makes me wonder if there's a market there for someone to just package up a consumer-focused, dead simple to use MDM. Enroll with QR code, set up some default policies, etc.
by za_creature | 2025-08-14 20:09:42+00:00
That's a nice niche you found (spoken from one heap fan to another) but I have to say I strongly disagree with your use of *roughly* twice as much

At best you were off by one but in the context of performance, you'd want to assign that extra to a super-root of ±inf in order to save log2n extra range checks per heap-up, no?
by projectazorian | 2025-08-14 20:10:14+00:00
> Price index do not capture the reality of most people cost of living. They don't capture the family that have to buy margarine instead of butter, because butter became too expensive, while margarine became cheaper, Weight both items as the same, and voilá! no inflation, increases in the price of butter were cancelled by cheaper margarine, fuck you if you prefer butter.

I don't know how this works in other countries, but in the US the weights do not change month to month like this. If consumers keep making this choice over a period of years the index will eventually get reweighted, but reweighting only happens once every few years.

(Of course, if you were an official put in charge specifically to cook the books you could just reweight on a monthly basis like you describe, which is something that might well happen now...)
by rayiner | 2025-08-14 20:10:19+00:00
White nationalists are people who dislike Usha Vance because she’s Indian. Stephen Miller is an ordinary nationalist who wants to slow down immigration enough so that everyone assimilates into Anglo-American culture and norms, instead of of changing U.S. culture.

Let me ask you this: you acknowledge that India is different from Vermont, right? And you acknowledge that ethnic enclaves of recent Indian immigrants (say in New York), are culturally different from Vermont? Is there any way in your world view for someone to say that they think the culture of Vermont is better, and they oppose immigration that would change the culture and make it more like India (or Latin America)?

Put differently, what could a non-racist version of Stephen Miller do while seeking to maintain the Anglo-American character of the U.S.? Or do you think that race and culture are so intertwined that non-racism requires us to accept Vermont becoming more like India or Latin America?
by ActorNightly | 2025-08-14 20:10:22+00:00
The main argument here is "smart people working at SpaceX".

Im not debating the fact that they were able to put together a product. Im also not debating that it was successful. Nor am I debating that any average person can work on rockets, you do need some engineering knowledge.

Im just arguing that the reason they got there wasn't because they managed to hire the best of the best engineers that are smart in one area but fail to understand how much Musk is doing politically. My claim is that Space X hired enough average intelligence, but super driven people, which is why they managed to build Falcon 9 through act of throwing money at it, and as supporting evidence of this, Starship is currently blowing up despite their supposed "learnings".
by johnisgood | 2025-08-14 20:10:46+00:00
Actually, I did an "opam update" (after my comment that stated there was "3.7.0") and "opam show dune --all-versions" no longer shows "3.7.0". :|

It shows:

all-versions 1.6.3 1.9.3 1.11.4 2.3.0 2.4.0 2.5.1 2.6.1 2.7.1 2.9.3 3.5.0 3.6.2 3.10.0 3.12.1 3.12.2 3.15.3 3.17.2 3.18.2 3.19.0 3.19.1

You are right! So I suppose it is either 3.6.2 or 3.10.0. Can you use either of these versions?

Your alternative really is:

$ opam pin add dune https://github.com/ocaml/dune/releases/download/3.7.0/dune-3.7.0.tbz

If you really must need "3.7.0".

Just FWIW, maybe it might work the way you wanted it to if you do not update the registry; worth a try. It should be able to fetch the correct tarball.
by ivan_gammel | 2025-08-14 20:10:55+00:00
That’s easy to fix. The IdP and the checking service do not have to be the same. The checking service can be a 3rd party that works with IdP verifying facts on behalf of regulated services like porn sites. The job of IdP is to certify the facts and do KYC for checkers to ensure they don’t cheat. The regulated service can ask customer which checker do they use and then ask the checker. The customer may have a long term relationship with preferred checker on a market where multiple checkers exist and reputation matters for being competitive. This way checker is incentivized to maintain privacy and does not have conflicts of interest like the government. Government agencies can still investigate customers but they will need a court order to get the data from checkers.
by gjsman-1000 | 2025-08-14 20:11:14+00:00
> Also, how does age verification fix things in that scenario if a child is using their parents device

Because the age is verified at the time of access; instead of once during initial setup. Odds are that the former will catch far more flies than the latter.

Your employer probably does the same. Do they have you log in once when you set up your laptop, then comfortably happily say it’s you for the next three years; or do they have you sign in every morning?
by dctoedt | 2025-08-14 20:11:19+00:00
> People are voting for what kind of ideas their children are socialized into, which is one of the fundamental rights as a parent.

Wait, I thought you were all about how Western society has gone too far in the direction of individual rights?

And assuming your "fundamental rights as a parent" premise (purely for the sake of argument): The rest of us have a pretty-compelling interest in how each other's kids — our future fellow adults — are being raised.
by burnte | 2025-08-14 20:11:20+00:00
And it's really hard to dislodge those mistaken ideas. I had a conversation with a member of the board of my last company and he was going on about AI agents and how awesome they were because it could book a plane ticket from SF to LA. I tried to explain WHY it can do that, and that it's important to test edge cases and not just the few things the demos show as working, I asked him to ask it to book a flight from SF to Tampa on a morning flight in comfort+ on Delta. He did, and we both watched it load up delta.com, it started to search then completely lost the plot and clicked random things for another 30 seconds. He then brushed it off and said "well, they'll get it working soon, these are just details." Yeah, because details famously are irrelevant.
by yujonglee | 2025-08-14 20:11:22+00:00
I use VAD to chunk audio.

Whisper and Moonshine both works in a chunk, but for moonshine:

> Moonshine's compute requirements scale with the length of input audio. This means that shorter input audio is processed faster, unlike existing Whisper models that process everything as 30-second chunks. To give you an idea of the benefits: Moonshine processes 10-second audio segments 5x faster than Whisper while maintaining the same (or better!) WER.

Also for kyutai, we can input continuous audio in and get continuous text out.

- https://github.com/moonshine-ai/moonshine - https://docs.hyprnote.com/owhisper/configuration/providers/k...
by mock-possum | 2025-08-14 20:11:50+00:00
Honestly even if you’re trying to operate your rental property as a ‘non-profit’ you’re still going to wind up in trouble if you don’t ’over-charge’ to build up a repair / emergency fund for the property. Such is the cost of owning a house - unexpected expenses may cost tends of thousand dollars, and may not be possible to put off, even legally, nevermind ethically.

The cost of ‘what if the roof caved in tomorrow’ or ‘what if the furnace blew up’ should be built into the rent.
by skydhash | 2025-08-14 20:11:57+00:00
It's like the xkcd on automation

https://xkcd.com/1205/

After a while, it just make sense to redesign the boilerplate and build some abstraction instead. Duplicated logic and data is hard to change and fix. The frustration is a clear signal to take a step back and take an holistic view of the system.
by jdhwosnhw | 2025-08-14 20:12:28+00:00
I’ve heard this statistic before and it always strikes me as basically a non-sequitor. You’re writing down two percentages as if they are meaningful with respect to one another, but they arent.

If we as a society agree that some sort of progressive tax system is good (based on the fact that the mere act of survival comes with fixed costs, that naturally impact low-wealth holders over high-wealth holders) then we presumably expect higher wealth people to shoulder a larger burden of the cost of maintaining society, relative to that wealth.

The top 1% hold >30% of all wealth in the US, which, by the logic I described above, makes your 40% figure sound not just not exorbitant, but possibly too low.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/z1/dataviz/dfa/distr...
by wvenable | 2025-08-14 20:12:38+00:00
> That is, until Linux is also forced to come into compliance with said parental control standard, complete with all centralized reporting and remote restriction capabilities.

Linux is fine. Someone can build the ultimately perfect parental control software for Linux and I'll use it. The same cannot be said for Windows, Android, or iOS -- third party system cannot exist for those platforms that are sufficient unless they're made by Microsoft, Google, or Apple respectively. Perhaps we just have to mandate an open standard. In fact, I would prefer that.

> What do governments do when everyone has the same parenting problem?

The wrong thing. Always.
by bookofjoe | 2025-08-14 20:12:42+00:00
Yes. I recall the brand new pulse oximeters (I don't recall the manufacturer) that appeared in the ORs at UCLA Medical Center right around when I started my anesthesiology residency in 1977. They were SUPER expensive when they first came out, so much so that our department bought 3 of them, which were used only for the most critical cases. I remember the chief resident sometimes had to decide who got one when 2 residents/attendings each said their patient was more unstable/critical and thus needed it more.

These were NOT small devices like the inexpensive fingertip versions you can buy now over the counter; rather, they were big boxlike machines, perhaps 2 feet x 1.5 feet x 8 inches high. They were SO heavy (I'd estimate 25 pounds) they were attached to a stainless steel rolling cart.
by JoshTriplett | 2025-08-14 20:12:50+00:00
No, it's not just a tooling limitation. Or, at least, not one solvable just by having forges expose public subsets of private repos. That might partially solve the simplest case of `company/open-source-subdir`, if the company trusts the forge tooling to handle subsetting and to not expose more than they want, but it doesn't solve the more general problem.

Consider the case where the repositories are owned by different entities, for instance, or have different governance. For instance, Project X needs to vendor Project Y, and have a few downstream patches that they're working on upstreaming.

Right now, the two major options include:

- Use a submodule. Experience all the pain of submodules.

- Use some tooling to fold the repo into your own repo. Extract commits from it when you want to upstream. Experience all the pain of not having the original commits and the ability to easily pull/merge/cherry-pick/rebase, plus pain when you make changes across that repo and other code.
by CyberDildonics | 2025-08-14 20:13:17+00:00
I love the visualization, I think it's great information and will be very helpful to whoever uses it.

I would think about a different name. Often names are either meant to be funny or just unique nonsense but something short and elegantly descriptive (like BuildViz etc.) can go a long way to making it seem more legitimate and being more widely used.
by Johnny555 | 2025-08-14 20:13:50+00:00
Who is the target market for this?

How many people want a device that's the same form factor of a phone and has all of the same photo features of that phone? Why not just use the phone that most people already carry around? It doesn't seem like there would be many people who want their pictures mailed to them on DVD that don't already know how to download pictures from their phone.
by t-3 | 2025-08-14 20:13:53+00:00
Is being a neglectful or unloving parent equal to being a bad person? Maybe he was a bad parent, maybe he was an overly demanding and overbearing boss, but it's not like he was killing people or selling weapons. He sold phones and mp3 players and computers. He almost certainly contributed to making the world a better place by many objective criteria. I don't know why he's labeled as a "bad person" when there are hordes of people who foment and profit from war and killing and don't contribute at all to human productivity, creativity, or wellbeing but are lauded.
by 9rx | 2025-08-14 20:13:55+00:00
By the network of friends and acquaintances that alerts you as to the existence of the service telling you. Eventually as a service starts to take off with outsider growth location isn't paid attention to anymore, sure, but that only happens after something is well off the ground. The guy in Monowi will have already long given up and bankrupted by the time that is a possibility.
by sofixa | 2025-08-14 20:14:10+00:00
> This issue with direct democracies is that the they can get out of hand pretty fast unless your population is somewhat homogenous and reasonable. Aka Switzerland

Sorry, but that's just a racist dogwhistle. Switzerland has four main ethnic groups, and has had multiple rounds of migration (e.g. after the Yugoslav wars). Look at their various national sporting teams. Just because you can't look past people's skin colour that doesn't make them "homogeneous".

You need an educated and engaged populace that understands their civic duties.
by cogman10 | 2025-08-14 20:14:31+00:00
The big problem I have with laws like the UK has been that they solve a non-issue at the cost of large infrastructure and potential privacy problems.

Teenagers have been looking at porn since forever. It's practically a trope of teens stealing their parents' porn mags. I don't think any of this has actually caused major societal issues.

The proposed solutions merely require that a teen steal their parent's identification, briefly, to create a porn account and move on. Heck, they can probably buy that information online if they are innovative enough. They certainly will be selling access to their porn accounts to their classmates. And even if they don't go through all that trouble, getting a porn mag is still pretty possible in the UK.

That makes this just a bad law. It doesn't meaningfully stop the problem it's meant to stop and it's expensive and intrusive. Even if privacy preserving age verification was bulletproof and perfect, you still have the access holes all over.

And then there's the simple fact that other nations exist. Yes, mainstream sites will put up protections, but what about the sealand porn site? Unless the UK wants a great firewall (ala the chinese firewall), they simply aren't going to stop this problem. Even then, VPNs are common knowledge at this point due to streaming.

Bad law, bad effects, and a pointless fight.
by dogman144 | 2025-08-14 20:14:32+00:00
Military integration with law enforcement -> military tech licenses -> focus on cities -> cities have troves of SIGINT

Unencrypted group chat -> one friend hates one party -> another friend loves to talk about illegal habits -> tool hoovering it all up -> illegal habits friend is the pretext to look at politics friend

Clear as day, as this is what caused a bad time for insurgents in an actual war. Makes a lot of sense to apply it domestically! Tread on me.
by wvenable | 2025-08-14 20:15:02+00:00
> Because the age is verified at the time of access; instead of once during initial setup.

Is that really how it works? Every single time you visit any website on the Internet or launch any app it's going to age ID you? I don't think that's right. You validate your account and then you login and you're good. If someone else uses your account, they are you.

And as you said, people share devices but it's also usually one account per app per device. You have to go out of your way to sign out of each individual app or website.
by anonym29 | 2025-08-14 20:15:07+00:00
I'm thinking more along the lines of the OpenSUSE project banning contributors who wouldn't concede to a demand to wave a trans pride flag, referring to all conservatives as "Rotten Flesh", NixOS purging "Nazis" (read: people who didn't openly and vocally support all aspects of LGBTQ+ culture), etc. And I say this as someone who is themselves not heterosexual, and who has a non-cisgender partner.

Don't get me wrong, I don't like having to fear for my safety around genuinely bigoted and threatening people, I just don't like the "wave our flag or you're a literal nazi / rotten flesh / subhuman who should be excommunicated from the entire linux community" type of messaging coming from the opposite camp either. Those extremes both make me feel profoundly uncomfortable and unsafe.