MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by geerlingguy | 2025-08-06 14:57:29+00:00
Applied inversely to bikes: Come on, these are bikes. You get on the bike, you pedal around, it doesn't take much time.

These devices usually have between 3-8 sensors inside (with wildly varying quality and quality control), run firmware that _usually_ has access to your WiFi or requires an app to run on your phone (security implications), and are meant to exist in your home for years at a time.

Good reviews which consider all those aspects take time and effort, even for simpler devices.
by nstart | 2025-08-06 14:57:44+00:00
Just read the research from the source (https://sites.google.com/view/invitation-is-all-you-need/hom...). This and the MCP attacks really feel like the era of sql injection attacks all over again. Except this time it's non deterministic and even the best minds are kind of struggling to make the LLMs jail break proof.

In the midst of all of this, Microsoft is looking to integrate MCP into the OS layer. We are truly back to a move fast and let things break era
by KPGv2 | 2025-08-06 14:57:47+00:00
> with papers published to sing praises about it

There is no modern-style research touting the benefits of smoking qua smoking. I will grant you there might've been some crank self-publishing something, like some of Aristotle's writings.

But you won't find what we'd consider today an acceptable, reputable form of research saying this.
by 9rx | 2025-08-06 14:58:05+00:00
> Most Americans don't get to choose not to participate in American society.

Most Americans don't participate in American society, other than maybe voting, and even then a significant number of them still don't.

> I would argue that the better solution is to keep the CSAM laws we have—maybe make them harsher, even

And I would be trillionaire, but I guess won't bother... The original comment asked for that argument. If you don't want to provide, I get it. You are under no obligation to do so. But what is the point of saying you would do it without actually doing it? If you don't want to provide why make up a fake story when you can just as easily be honest about it or say nothing at all?
by al_borland | 2025-08-06 14:58:15+00:00
In invested time to develop more soft skills around the other side of the job. If poor decisions were being made, or taking too long, I’d use my skills to gather data, then worked to get better at presenting that data in ways that would matter to the people who needed to make these decision, so the choice became more obvious.

I’m not a data scientist by trade, but ended up spending a lot of time with data to help drive decision to move the ball forward in the areas I felt needed to move forward.

But of course, any sufficiently large company is going to have some level of bureaucracy that slows things down. It’s the nature of the beast.

I found side projects helped for this. I’ve had one long-running side project at work for over 10 years now. Whenever things are moving slow and I’m waiting, or I just need to tinker and learn something new, that’s where I go. It’s useful for the company, it has a few hundred internal users, most probably don’t even know who I am, but it mostly exists as a place for me to tinker.
by ACCount36 | 2025-08-06 14:58:20+00:00
If you don't design your compressor to output data that can be compressed further, it's going to trash compressibility.

And if you find a way to compress text that isn't insanely computationally expensive, and still makes the compressed text compressible by LLMs further - i.e. usable in training/inference? You, basically, would have invented a better tokenizer.

A lot of people in the industry are itching for a better tokenizer, so feel free to try.
by gjsman-1000 | 2025-08-06 14:58:42+00:00
Last time I checked, Ubuntu/Canonical is a multimillion dollar company, Red Hat is a multibillion dollar company, SuSE sold for $2.5B, and The Linux Foundation has over $250M in revenue to spend only 3% on development of Linux specifically.

Enough of the BS of "we're just volunteers" - it's fundamentally broken and the powers that be don't care. If multiple multibillion dollar entities who already contribute don't see the Linux desktop as having a future, if Linus Torvalds himself doesn't care enough to push the Foundation on it; honestly, you probably shouldn't care either. From their perspective, it's a toy, that's only maintained, to make it easier to develop the good stuff.
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-08-06 14:58:47+00:00
>Moreover, most countries have an "append-only" approach to legislation, where the original document doesn't get removed, but overridden by the new.

One of it's biggest flaws, actually. Completely understandable, of course, they were working on paper... weren't any reasonable alternatives.

>Look at the UK's Hansard[0] as an example. Every word spoken in Parliament leading up to legislation being introduced is tracked and published. Those conversations eventually turn into Bills on the Parliament site[1], and eventually those bills turn into legislation

I'm ignorant of how things work in the UK's Parliament. But somehow this all seems doubtful. In the US, legislation isn't drafted in such a manner at all.
Show HN: I built a plugin to create a ChatGPT archive with Typemill CMS
by trendschau | 2025-08-06 14:58:47+00:00
Hey Show HN, what started as a small weekend project turned into 2,000 lines of code. I know there are browser plugins and Python scripts out there to turn your ChatGPT archive into something useful. But if you’re looking for an all-in-one solution, this might be interesting for you.
by potato3732842 | 2025-08-06 14:58:55+00:00
Being "scared of terrorism" is perfectly legitimate even if not underpinned by statistics.

The conversion from that to "so therefore the .gov ought to have powers that amount turnkey ability to violate human rights on a whim" is the problem.

Any "well actually terrorists aren't that big a deal" discussion only serves to bog things down in the weeds and direct blame away from bad people who believe bad things.

Replace terrorism with whatever the cause of the day is, drugs, satanic cults, tax evasion, etc, etc all you want, doesn't change anything. There are people who believe (though they'll rarely admit it when you lay it so bare) that you can take something that is flagrantly bad in its base or default form (like for example letting the government just read everyone's personal communication by default) and think that the fact that because it can be applied toward noble ends then it is a power the .gov ought to have access to by default.
by ticulatedspline | 2025-08-06 14:59:34+00:00
Hard disagree. I've just started looking at some home monitoring and was extremely frustrated by this assumption because literally everyone assumes you already know. Home Assistant documentation uses it, frigate's home page uses it, pages like this use it. It's not ubiquitous enough in the vernacular to simply be a proper noun (eg nobody cares that "LASER" is an acronym).

I finally had to look it up on Wikipedia so I could understand what they were even referring to and "Network Video Recorder" was much clearer as to what the component was. Overall it creates barrier to entry where everyone operates on the assumption that you're only shopping because you're already a customer.
by zoky | 2025-08-06 15:00:14+00:00
> This company is profiting immensely off of your work

I wouldn’t say that’s exactly the case. Not to denigrate the author or anything, but this library is a relatively minor part of what Anthropic is doing. It’s a UI manipulation library, specifically one that simulates keyboard and mouse inputs. While something like that is certainly necessary for the project in question, it’s not anything that couldn’t be rewritten in-house without too much difficulty, especially since they’re only using a subset of the platforms supported by the library.

I’m sure that working on this project has provided the author with expertise in this area that Anthropic could benefit from, and so in that sense it’s still a shame that they wouldn’t give him an interview, but that’s really all that can be said about it.
by thmsths | 2025-08-06 15:00:17+00:00
This is government 101. We tend to see governments as one big singular entity, this is rarely the case (and this especially true for a supra national organization like the EU with no real head of state). Instead you have different institutions with different goals that sometimes contradict each other. Then you have to account for multiple factions in those some institutions and you end up with what we currently have. The idea is that on the long run, if you average out the decisions/rules/regulation it is somewhat cohesive and leads to "good" governance.
by ayaros | 2025-08-06 15:00:23+00:00
They look like air vents? Or like the speaker holes at the bottom of an iPhone? Honestly, I'm not sure what they are supposed to be.

No other Finder icon is represented as a chip on a board. The CPU, GPU, and RAM aren't even represented in the Finder. So I don't see the issue with using that as a design.
by paddy_m | 2025-08-06 15:00:36+00:00
This is due to Richard Stalllman. He thinks that integrating "non-free" alternatives when free alternatives don't yet exist slows down free software development. Not just free as in freedom alternatives, not just free as in GPL licensed, but free as in FSF controlled projects. He did the same thing with linking extensions to GCC, LLVM debugger integration into emacs (fuzzy on that one), possibly treesitter into emacs, bzr vs git for emacs code source control, and a CI build farm for emacs. In each one of those cases, he eventually relented and the core project, eventually integrated the non-free alternative years later.

In the meantime this delaying didn't stop the non-free alternatives, but it did slow down adoption of the core project. This is attrocious project management that is driving people to non-free software. In the most egregious cases (bzr and CI build farm), it was done only because of his ego and wanting the FSF to matter.
by johannes1234321 | 2025-08-06 15:00:48+00:00
A notable amount of people vote for parties suggesting such ideas.

Demonstrations against are small.

Only few people write to their government and their MEPs.

This is probably sourced in not understanding it and not having enough information, but for as long as those three factors remain those are the results of democracy.

(Democracy in the EU is complex topic in itself, as EU isn't a state, but a union of independent states where states are primarily represented by their government and the directly elected parliament plays a smaller role ... but given the little protest that's the smaller issue in this case)
by ahaucnx | 2025-08-06 15:00:52+00:00
A few thoughts from me on the discussion so far, which I find incredibly insightful. Many thanks to everyone sharing their perspectives. I truly appreciate it.

On subjective reviews: I think there's absolutely nothing wrong with reviews based primarily on an author's subjective opinion. However, such reviews should be appropriately labeled. For example, "My Favorite Air Quality Monitors" rather than "The Best Indoor Air Quality Monitors". The title sets reader expectations for objective evaluation with consistent methodology.

On the defective display: Important clarification: we did not ship a broken device. The display issue developed during the review period—this wasn't a QC failure on our part. Hardware can fail during use (as it can with any electronic device), which is exactly why we immediately offered replacement parts, a new unit, and detailed repair instructions when we learned about it.

On the tiny display and lessons learned: We're well aware that opinions on our display vary significantly, as evidenced by this discussion. Some users love it, others find it too small. We actually have differing opinions within the AirGradient team as well. We're planning a refresh of our indoor monitor next year and are currently testing around 10 different display types—including e-ink, colour OLED, touchscreens, and others. So far, we haven't found the ideal replacement, but we're planning to involve our community later this year to gather feedback on the various options.
by potato3732842 | 2025-08-06 15:01:03+00:00
And then they go and catch the people who didn't do that stupid process and act as though they caught "real criminals" when they only really caught "fake criminals" that they just minted.

You see this all the time with all sorts of areas of law, not just guns. The real evil-doers are the enablers cheering it on. "Well they didn't have a permit so they deserved it" and the like.
by hintklb | 2025-08-06 15:01:18+00:00
EU citizens have way too much trust in their government and elected officials. A lot of people here just assume officials act in the interest of the population and most people don't really check or care to understand in detail those type of proposals.

And unlike the US, very few people are going to push back based on "freedom" and "my rights" which is unfortunate in my opinion. This lack of pushback is why those types of proposal even come to be.
by electricwater | 2025-08-06 15:01:18+00:00
Wasnt' Silicon Valley born as a military R&D cluster? DARPA, Cold War defense contracts, and space race funding built the region. To me, the consumer internet phase from the late 1990s to early 2000s was actually the anomaly. The so called pacifist tech culture was a product of “peak liberalism” roughly 1991–2001 (fall of the soviet union to 9/11), the unipolar moment after the Cold War but before 9/11. US tech companies operated in a geopolitical environment without military rivals, so they could afford to frame themselves as apolitical, globalist, and focused on connecting the world. That cultural posture began to collapse after 9/11, and it has been eroding ever since under the pressures of great-power competition, terrorism, and the realization that software/chips are strategic assets. The pendulum is swinging... We aren't at McCarthyism yet but we are on a path to it.
by dylan604 | 2025-08-06 15:01:21+00:00
It's funny to me that in the cops vs robbers scenario, it is the bad guys that have to be perfect to avoid getting caught while the good guys only have to get lucky once to catch the bad guys.

Your use of this then would translate to the governments wanting to read all the mail to constantly stay informed would be the bad guys where the other actors only have to get lucky once by having a mission complete would be the good guys?
by tenacious_tuna | 2025-08-06 15:02:03+00:00
> I think it'd be amazing if I had the energy to make up improv bedtime stories every night [...] (Lately, it's "Hey Google, tell a story" if mommy is too busy to read)

This feels like the crux of my issues with AI. We're passing the human side of life to machines to do for us; music, art, storytelling with our kids. So often I hear that these are the things that people want to spend their time on, but AI has come to "free" us from "not having energy" to do those things, so we can instead continue to spend our energy toiling away, safe in the knowledge that our children will still get a bedtime story (albeit from a machine and not from a loving parent).

I get it, I know parents have no energy on top of everything else they're doing, this just feels so much like when I walk into a restaurant to a family with their kids, but the kids are all on tablets with headphones.
by hedora | 2025-08-06 15:02:43+00:00
The US government has almost completely diverged from the will of the people at this point.

Most actions taken by this administration have > 65% disapproval ratings, and according to historical norms, if the size of current protests double, the people will overthrow the government.

The last time I checked, the ongoing ICE raids against civilians were one of the more popular policies.
by beAbU | 2025-08-06 15:02:54+00:00
My immediate reaction when landing on one of these "top 10 X products" are that the list is sorted according to the size of the kickback the author gets when users click on affiliate links. For the most part I don't believe there is no such thing as a legitimate product review on the internet any more.

There is a vanishingly small collection of youtubers that I might still trust when it comes to product reviews, and that list is shrinking.
by numpad0 | 2025-08-06 15:02:55+00:00
iPhone just wasn't going to exit the curious gadget status and become a first class citizen in the Japanese phone market without it. Same for emoji support and flick inputs and lots of those little things.

They were never forced to compete in the sense that no one is forced to be first class citizen anywhere. Apple just wanted to be by its own free will. That's technically correct.
by progbits | 2025-08-06 15:03:01+00:00
From my experience with sales/PM people at google, they refuse to use internal tools and try to get Jira and other shit installed. Regardless of the tool quality, just because that's what they learned already.

This mostly didn't work out for them back in the day but in more recent times as more and more low quality middle level managers and execs get hired they manage to get approvals.

In my org a new VP demanded Jira instance within a month of joining the company and that it be used for technical project reporting.

Of course all the developers said fuck no to that so for a while some managers were trying to do two way sync between Jira and Buganizer. When I left it was mostly abandoned and full of tumbleweed...
by 9rx | 2025-08-06 15:03:02+00:00
> No, we haven't "no doubt far exceeded that threshold". Some CSAM producers getting caught does not make it so.

Okay. Exactly how much CSAM data has been produced over the years? And what is the threshold where there is enough?

> Logical fallacies apply only to arguments.

Logical fallacies are most commonly associated with arguments, but are not limited to them. However, "Take your CSAM apologia somewhere else.", as poorly thought out as it is, would be considered an argument if you stay within the bounds of how the term is normally used, of course, so what you say here doesn't even hold anyway.
by sunshine-o | 2025-08-06 15:03:04+00:00
The Dutch and French also massively rejected the first version of this in 2005. Strangely they didn't bothered to ask the citizens the second time.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_Dutch_European_Constituti...

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_French_European_Constitut...
by marcusverus | 2025-08-06 15:03:07+00:00
When they cross the constitutional definition of treason:

"Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court."
by mkureth | 2025-08-06 15:03:18+00:00
I am working on a documentary film on the software engineering interview process, Computer Silenced, which is feature length extension of my project Whiteboard Challenge(R). This film focuses on this exact issue, but more specifically how it affects people diagnosed with hidden disabilities, e.g. Autism, ADHD, and Anxiety as well as PTSD and other stress related symptoms.

I have 25+ years in software engineering and have been filtered through the non-job related interview process described here. I also have a medical diagnosis of ASD L1 and ADHD along with stress induced dyslexia.

Can others here please read the following federal law and confirm it applies. Through the film, I am trying to amend the definition of a disability, so we have equal rights.

Title 42 U.S. Code § 12112(b)(6) "using qualification standards, employment tests or other selection criteria that screen out or tend to screen out an individual with a disability or a class of individuals with disabilities unless the standard, test or other selection criteria, as used by the covered entity, is shown to be job-related for the position in question and is consistent with business necessity"
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-08-06 15:03:52+00:00
It declared the president to be immune from prosecution for actions falling within the scope of his office.

It did not declare that the president cannot be impeached. It did not declare that the president cannot be criminally charged for what he does that exceeds the scope of his office (though it's a high bar to prove it). And most of all, it did not declare that whatever he does is automatically constitutional.
by alisonatwork | 2025-08-06 15:03:53+00:00
I agree that it's neat to have software synths that can run in the browser nowadays, but this isn't really a good TB-303 emulation. The accent doesn't have a slow enough attack to create the "wow" effect, which is a fundamental aspect of getting any random acid line to sound properly 303ish. Not to take away from what it is, but for a synth that has been cloned and emulated as often as the TB-303, your description is overselling it a bit.
by cameron_b | 2025-08-06 15:04:10+00:00
What you see as skepticism, others see as Hanlon's Razor[0]. The prevailing wind of incompetence has masked a lot of what you might rightly consider malice, but in holding to a certain decorum or "wishing the best of people" there is a lot that could just be bungling.

I'm certainly not saying you're wrong, a lot of dots connect and do look like malice, but there's a vast amount of data that supports incompetence.

[0] Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. ( elsewhere and generously, incompetence ) https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor
by Marsymars | 2025-08-06 15:05:00+00:00
> Shipping them a product with a broken display implies shoddy manufacturing and crap quality control.

Eh, what? I've received products that needed warranty repair/replacement from Apple, Toyota, Philips, Nintendo, Ikea, Breville, etc. (All of those examples which provided good service in repairing/replacing the product in question.)

A single data point of a broken product doesn't tell you anything of value.
by ajross | 2025-08-06 15:05:08+00:00
Honestly that seems Sisyphean to me. The market doesn't want a "performant subset". The market is very well served by performant languages. The market wants Python's expressivity. The market wants duck typing and runtime-inspectable type hierarchies and mutable syntax and decorators. It loves it. It's why Python is successful.

My feeling is that numba has exactly the right tactic here. Don't try to subset python from on high, give developers the tools[1] so that they can limit themselves to the fast subset, for the code they actually want. And let them make the call.

(The one thing numba completely fails on though is that it insists on using its own 150+MB build of LLVM, so it's not nearly as cleanly deployable as you'd hope. Come on folks, if you use the system libc you should be prepared to use the system toolchain.)

[1] Simple ones, even. I mean, to first approximation you just put "@jit" on the stuff you want fast and make sure it sticks to a single numeric type and numpy arrays instead of python data structures, and you're done.
by 10298373 | 2025-08-06 15:05:09+00:00
> Most Americans don't participate in American society, other than maybe voting, and even then a significant number of them still don't.

Paying taxes doesn't count as participating in "American society"? The same taxes that, say, have funded America's controversial military operations in the past?

> And I would be trillionaire, but I guess won't bother... The original comment asked for that argument. If you don't want to provide, I get it. You are under no obligation to do so. But what is the point of saying you would do it without actually doing it? If you don't want to provide why make up a fake story when you can just as easily be honest about it or say nothing at all?

I'm happy enough with maintaining the status quo. I'm not the one trying to demolish Chesterton's Fence here.