MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by __MatrixMan__ | 2025-08-07 10:38:05+00:00
Passkeys will be the way to go if we get them to remove the "attestation object" field from the protocol. Until then there's no way for Jimbob to tell the difference between:

> Website: is this Jimbob' phone

> Hardware: yes

And

> Website: I'll give you a dollar if you tell me something juicy about this user

> Hardware: Give this token to Microsoft and ask them

> Microsoft: Jimbob is most likely to click ads involving fancy cheeses, is sympathetic to LGBTQ causes, and attended a protest last week

With passwords and TOTP codes, I am in control of what information is exchanged. Passkeys create a channel that I can't control and which will be used against me.

(I chose Microsoft here because in a few months they're using the windows 10->11 transition to force people into hardware that locks the user out of this conversation, though surely others will also be using passkeys for similarly shady things).
by youssefarizk | 2025-08-07 10:38:38+00:00
Something very strange happened when they first shipped it in preview. It was GOOD, back when the daily limit was 5 requests.

A couple days / weeks later, they announced that the request went up to 60 day (which is way over what anyone actually needs) and the quality dropped instantly. For those short few days at the start, it was actually my favourite coding agent, but somehow they killed it
by lagrange77 | 2025-08-07 10:38:52+00:00
While you're here..

Do you guys know a website that clearly shows which OS LLM models run on / fit into a specific GPU(setup)?

The best heuristic i could find for the necessary VRAM is Number of Parameters × (Precision / 8) × 1.2 from here [0].

[0] https://medium.com/@lmpo/a-guide-to-estimating-vram-for-llms...
by eadmund | 2025-08-07 10:40:36+00:00
> a server

I used Macs from the 1980s up to 2000 or so, and I was very familiar with that icon of a hand with a tray and some files, but it wasn’t until today that I realised that it was a pun on ‘server’ used to mean what my dialect of English terms a ‘waiter.’

There’s probably a lesson about i18n in there somewhere!

What’s funny to me is how characterless I thought the half-volleyball iMac was at the time, compared to the classic Bondi blue iMac (and its awesome color variations too), but now when I compare it to Apple’s current offerings it has so very much more character. I miss the days of shape and colour and texture.
by exDM69 | 2025-08-07 10:41:26+00:00
> Also, from a strictly prose point of view, isn't it strange that the `clz` instruction

It's using the `bsr` instruction which is similar (but worse). The `lzcnt` instruction in x86_64 is a part of the BMI feature introduced in Intel Haswell. The compiler does not generate these instructions by default so it runs on any x86_64.

If you add `-mbmi` or `-march=haswell` or newer to the compiler command line, you should get `clz`/`lzcnt` instead.
by camgunz | 2025-08-07 10:42:27+00:00
So many counter examples. Who wrote the unreal engine, or unity, or khtml, or Vim. How many people worked a regular 40 hour week at id Software?

This kind of thinking is a disease and a race to the bottom. I don't think we should stop people from doing it, but we certainly shouldn't reward them, in the market or otherwise.
by ankitg12 | 2025-08-07 10:42:43+00:00
Liked the idea. Few suggestions:

1. Would be great to have some facility to save the links across browsers/devices so that this is not lost on reinstalling browser or switching device. May be by upload to user's own Google Drive or iCloud account - so that doesn't cost you storage cost.

2. Right now, I see it's working only for the homepage links, and not for other discovery pages such as https://news.ycombinator.com/newest or https://news.ycombinator.com/ask or even https://news.ycombinator.com/front. You can find the official lists here : https://news.ycombinator.com/lists . Would be great to support these.

3. Would be good to have the source code available - to give more confidence on the plugin as well as others can improve on it.

4. Checkbox at the start is distracting - can it be put at the end of item line or having option to customize would be good.

More power to hacker news developers.
by ralfd | 2025-08-07 10:43:00+00:00
> (i.e. the word pronounced my-newt)

"minute" comes from latin "pars minuta" and the "i" should be pronounced like in "minimum"

> By this logic, 0.016 (recurring) seconds should be a called a "third".

It should be "tertia". I found that in German and Polish it was used that way, but don't know about english:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tertie_(Winkel)

https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tercja_k%C4%85towa
by nickslaughter02 | 2025-08-07 10:44:39+00:00
tl;dr: You are using outdated information and intentionally misrepresent the proposal.

Officer,

I will never accept mass surveillance of citizens under the disguise of protecting children which this proposal does not achieve at all. If they wanted to protect children they would work on school programs to teach children how to behave on the internet. Instead they are establishing a mass surveillance platform and using children to guilt weak and spineless politicians to agree to it.

> In fact, the legislation proposes specific detection orders, issued only with judicial approval, and applies them in a proportionate and time-limited manner

The document you linked is from 2022 and doesn't reflect the current proposal at all.

https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/chat-control/ (The Chat Control 2.0 proposal in detail)

> It also ignores that encrypted platforms are currently being used

Then they will use something else and you will be spying on regular people.

> The proposed regulation seeks to restore basic protective capabilities under judicial scrutiny, not blanket surveillance.

This is a lie. There's no targeting (except to exclude politicians and other government workers). Every message (video, image, text) will be scanned and reported if the AI considers it illegal.

https://european-pirateparty.eu/chatcontrol-eu-ministers-wan...

> has ruled out general and indiscriminate retention of data

Not to worry, EU Commission's ProtectEU plan includes mandatory data retention harmonized and shared across all member states. Did you forget to mention it?

https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-sa...

> measured legislative process with checks, balances and limited scope

Lobbied by surveillance companies who talk to EU representatives behind closed doors and some even leave to work for these companies?

https://balkaninsight.com/2023/09/25/who-benefits-inside-the...
by thinkingQueen | 2025-08-07 10:44:57+00:00
Who would develop those codecs? A good video coding engineer costs about 100-300k USD a year. The really good ones even more. You need a lot of them. JVET has an attendance of about 350 such engineers each meeting (four times a year).

Not to mention the computer clusters to run all the coding sims, thousands and thousands of CPUs are needed per research team.

People who are outside the video coding industry do not understand that it is an industry. It’s run by big companies with large R&D budgets. It’s like saying ”where would we be with AI if Google, OpenAI and Nvidia didn’t have an iron grip”.

MPEG and especially JVET are doing just fine. The same companies and engineers who worked on AVC, HEVC and VVC are still there with many new ones especially from Asia.

MPEG was reorganized because this Leonardo guy became an obstacle, and he’s been angry about ever since. Other than that I’d say business as usual in the video coding realm.
by theandrewbailey | 2025-08-07 10:45:09+00:00
I work at an e-waste recycling company[0]. We're so small that we don't even have a Windows domain, and our certifications and lack of Windows licensing mean that we can't sell anything with Windows. (Fine by me, I've recently had a dislike of Windows.) Because of those things, this is the first job I've had where I have the option of using Linux as a main driver. In fact, I have a mini desktop and a Microsoft Surface (of all things) that I run Linux on.

[0] https://www.ebay.com/str/evolutionecycling
by croemer | 2025-08-07 10:46:17+00:00
Too many reasons for a reply here, but overall the common theme is lack of regulation giving pharma more power to play on their patent-derived monopolies.

As for Switzerland, it's a small country with an economic model that doesn't scale/generalize. Even in Switzerland there's constant discussion about health care (insurance) being too expensive - though the biggest driver is wages not drug prices.
by Tor3 | 2025-08-07 10:47:04+00:00
But you also implied that it's a question of being and adult or not, as if it's a cut-off. It isn't.

If you watch people and you know when they started to learn a new language you can see a pretty strong statistical trend (what I've been exposed to is lots of immigrants who came to the country at various ages): The youngest children learn the language relatively quickly, and there's no accent. If they're around 9 or ten they still learn the language quickly, but the accent may remain for several years. And this gradually "worsen", in a way, as they start learning the language at a later age.

But there are lots of outliers, both ways. There are a few people I know who learned my language to absolute perfection, 100% native in every possible way, in their late twenties.

On the other hand there are also a large majority of people learning my language as mature adults and becoming fluent to the extent that nobody really cares about accent or way of speech - they're not sounding "native", but it's perfectly fine and doesn't matter. People stop noticing, it's just part of who they are.

Though when you get to around sixty it's definitely harder, but still doable. And it varies between people and it matters a lot what language you're trying to learn.
by nerdsniper | 2025-08-07 10:47:23+00:00
I've been doing this my whole life (about 20 years now) with contacts. I started in high school for fun after noticing that my contacts made it harder to see super-fine details at very short distances. I read an article about how some motivated people wore custom glasses which inverted the world upside-down, but their brains eventually compensated and flipped the image they perceived. I started wearing just one contact (alternating right, both, or left eye) and despite a diopter of -3.5 my brain learned to use the blurry color of my uncorrected eye to provide an acceptable level of depth perception while only giving me the sight picture from the corrected eye.

Thanks to an ophthalmologist with flexible practices, I'd later also managed to get some variety in my contacts - a bit higher power for sailing, where extreme long distance sight is helpful.

For activities which require precise stereo vision and/or maximum fine detail (soldering, foosball, skiing, sailing, etc) I prefer two contacts (or none, in the case of soldering). For general daily life I still enjoy one contact - my brain will use the picture from the uncorrected eye for close-up stuff, including computing, and the corrected picture for farther things, like driving. It's not perfect; I have to turn my head a lot more in one direction to check for traffic/etc and sometimes objects in the foreground create a large block of blurry vision.

But it's quite nice for daily life where I constantly switch from activities which are close (computers/reading) to far (everything else).

Like 'heikkilevanto, I may have to go back to stereo vision soon - my eyes are reaching the age where they're not as quick to focus and I don't see as much detail. Close-up work is getting much more difficult with just one eye. I can no longer solder at all with mono-vision, depth perception now only works for longer distances and not shorter ones. And far-vision is losing detail, so having two contacts makes it much easier to ascertain what I'm seeing faster because the detail from one eye fills in blurry spots of the other.

Some people have said that correcting vision prevents the eye from adapting and fixing itself to see better again. I haven't found this to be true. Contacts stay in my right eye better and tend to fall out of my left eye more frequently, so for the past decade I've almost always corrected in that eye and uncorrected in my left. My prescription for both eyes has not changed at all in the past decade - for me there seems to be no long-term change, good or bad, caused by correcting my vision.

I also wear contacts that you can keep in 24 hrs/day for 2-4 weeks, and have not seen any damage over the past 15 years of sleeping in my contacts for up to a month straight. I have annual "digital retinal exams" going back 15 years which can see the types of damage that are caused by sleeping in contacts too much (capillary growth due to lower oxygen, calcium deposits, etc) and there doesn't seem to be anything to note, as well as no significant difference between my right and left eye.
by physicsguy | 2025-08-07 10:47:39+00:00
One of the biggest problems I've had with promises around this sort of framework approach for FE or FD or FVM is that in practice, they only can be used for the relatively narrow set of problems with local only phenomena. This is usually influenced by the biases of the fields the authors work in to be honest.

For anything non-local (electromagnetics being my old research area for e.g.), for performance reasons you almost always have to do some sort of accelerated computation, because otherwise no interesting problem is tractable. In order to do that, you end up coupling some other library or bespoke code to the FE solver to use BEM method, Fast Multipole Method, etc. and these then break all the assumptions about differentiability and what allows you to solve adjoint problems. But you basically have no choice - it's either this or nothing.
by pydry | 2025-08-07 10:49:32+00:00
Hubris is a second order effect. It doesn't collapse the empire directly, it just hinders the ability to deal with military failures, economic decay, etc.

I think you could also argue that one of the reasons the Roman empire persisted so long was that their existential close calls (Hannibal being the most prominent one), became embedded into their cultural DNA.
by uyzstvqs | 2025-08-07 10:50:31+00:00
Passkeys are the pinnacle of bad UX. It just works, until the user tries to switch devices, accounts or platforms. The slogan of passkeys should be something like "I don't have a password, it usually just works, but now I changed X and it doesn't work anymore". Even worse is hardware-based 2FA built into smartphones (also FIDO), as you lose your phone in a lake and now you can't access anything anymore.

The way to go is an encrypted password manager + strong unique random passwords + TOTP 2FA. It's human-readable. Yes, that makes it susceptible to phishing, but it also provides very critical UX that makes it universal and simple.
by ACCount36 | 2025-08-07 10:51:30+00:00
That's exactly how it works. Every input of AI performance improves over time, and so do the outcomes.

Can you damage existing capabilities by overly specializing an AI in something? Yes. Would you expect that damage to stick around forever? No.

OpenAI damaged o3's truthfulness by frying it with too much careless RL. But Anthropic's Opus 4 proves that you can get similar task performance gains without sacrificing truthfulness. And then OpenAI comes back swinging with an algorithmic approach to train their AIs for better truthfulness specifically.
by roenxi | 2025-08-07 10:52:25+00:00
> It’s like saying ”where would we be with AI if Google, OpenAI and Nvidia didn’t have an iron grip”.

We'd be where we are. All the codec-equivalent aspects of their work are unencumbered by patents and there are very high quality free models available in the market that are just given away. If the multimedia world had followed the Google example it'd be quite hard to complain about the codecs.
by chrisco255 | 2025-08-07 10:52:35+00:00
I'm with you all the way up to the last paragraph.

There has been no explicit peace deal with Russia. There has been an ongoing negotiation and attempts at agreements but my no means was Trump suggesting to surrender all of Ukraine to Russia.

You do realize that EU support and weaponry is completely insufficient to fight Russia, right? Their military is far stronger than anything you've got. The only reason Ukraine has been doing as well as it has is because of American training, intel, weaponry, drones, etc. If America walked away, Ukraine would collapse quite quickly, regardless of empty pledges by the EU.
by xnorswap | 2025-08-07 10:53:00+00:00
Someone just got a double-combo:

> We just visited wheal Martyn museum in Cornwall, nice scones and a waterwheel, they also have a lot of gutters, sluices and pipes and a bit of a fixation about China Clay. More importantly they appear to be unattached at the moment

Both "wheal" (kind of cheating, that should be Wheal and is a place name) and "sluices" were new to the dictionary.
by G_o_D | 2025-08-07 10:53:09+00:00
Debounce -> Like when we throw a ball once on ground, but it keeps bouncing, To prevent that

Human interaction with circuits, sensors, receptors, occur like that

When we click a keyboard key or switch circuit switch the receptors are very sensitive

we feel we did once but during that one press our fingers hands are vibrating multiple times hence the event get registered multiple times due to pulsating, hence all after first event, the second useful event that can be considered legitimate if the idle period between both matches desired debounce delay

in terms of web and software programming or network request handling

it is used as a term to debounce to push away someone something aggresive

Example wise

a gate and a queue Throttling -> gate get opened every 5 min and let one person in, no matter what

Debounce -> if the persons in queue are deliberately being aggressive thrashing at door to make it open we push them away Now instead of 5 min, we tell them you have to wait another 5 min since you are harassing, if before that they try again, we again tell them to wait another 5 min Thus debounce is to prevent aggresive behaviour

In terms of say client server request over network

We can throttle requests processed by server, let say server will only process requests that happen every 5 min like how apis have limit, during that before 5min no matter how many request made they will be ignored

But if client is aggressive like they keep clicking submit button, keep making 100s of requests that even after throttling server would suffer kind of ddos

so at client side we add debounce to button click event

so even if user keep clicking it being impatient, unnecessary network request will not be made to server unless user stop
by dostick | 2025-08-07 10:53:44+00:00
The article does not give much beyond what you already read in the title. What obscure forces and how? Isn’t it an open standards non-profit organisation, then what could possible hinder it? Maybe because technologically closed standards became better and nonprofit project has no resources to compete with commercial standards? USB Alliance have been able to work things out, so maybe compression standards should be developed in similar way?
by throw0101d | 2025-08-07 10:54:01+00:00
> Any "science" whose theories aren't falsifiable and cannot make useful predictions of future behavior isn't a science.

Economics makes all sorts of falsifiable statements, including (recently) on tariffs, and in the past, tax cuts and "expansionary austerity":

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas_experiment

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expansionary_fiscal_contractio...

There were predictions in the 2010s where some folks said QE wouldn't be a big deal, but others were giving dire warnings:

> We believe the Federal Reserve’s large-scale asset purchase plan (so-called “quantitative easing”) should be reconsidered and discontinued. We do not believe such a plan is necessary or advisable under current circumstances. The planned asset purchases risk currency debasement and inflation, and we do not think they will achieve the Fed’s objective of promoting employment.

* https://www.hoover.org/research/open-letter-ben-bernanke

The real difficulty in economics is predicting what humans will do: Feynman once joked "Imagine how much harder physics would be if electrons had feelings"—or free will . Well, that's just the situation that economists are in.

For your inflation example, we know of causes such as demand-pull, cost-push, and expectations:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflation#View_post-2000_to_pr...

The US saw demand-pull from the COVID recovery funding (to help kickstart the economy) and inflation was expected:

* https://www.piie.com/blogs/realtime-economic-issues-watch/in...

What wasn't expected was a simultaneous effect of cost-push factors due to energy and food prices spiking due to human actions:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine

There was also a change in human behaviour between services demand and goods demand that had a long tail:

* https://www.frbsf.org/research-and-insights/data-and-indicat...

* https://www.frbsf.org/research-and-insights/publications/wor...

* https://www.frbsf.org/research-and-insights/publications/eco...

The difficulty is not in the predictions, but in accepting accurate ones from accurate models and living life and making policy based on them. Some folks simply do not wish to "accept" them, or wish to ignore them to pursue their own interests.

Climate change models are not inaccurate because people reject their accuracy and smother the findings.
by jimmySixDOF | 2025-08-07 10:54:21+00:00
I spent some time contemplating the analog of a shower or a bath and generally washing oneself and how that would look in a zero gravity based environment.

My favorite idea is "water" injected into a contained environment to produce a particular pressure and or flow setting with a scuba type hose for breathing. All liquid is evacuated through the base and an air jet helps produce a drying effect plus clear out the capsule before exiting. The same water is recycled as much as possible after a filtering desalinization and any chemicals used for the washing process would be closely matched with the recycling process. I toyed with the idea of multiple pods in a spindle rotating to simulate gravity but I'm not sure it's worth the effort since you can produce a type of pressure through controlling the liquid syrup injected into the limited space.
by munksbeer | 2025-08-07 10:54:34+00:00
You're making the mistake that populations don't want this, when it is largely in the realm of HN or reddit or wherever else nerds hang out. Population polls have repeatedly shown that people want age verification checks and are ok with message scanning "to save the children". Lot's of people are ignorant of the stupidity of this stuff, but that is democracy for you.

You're blaming the EU for something that is the fault of our populations, voting in governments who increasingly push these agendas. You're not helping anything by doing that.
by meindnoch | 2025-08-07 10:55:10+00:00
>No one wants to see results for the letter "a"

Don't make assumptions about what the user may or may not want to search for.

E.g. in my music collection I have albums from both !!! [1] and Ø [2]. I've encountered software that "helpfully" prevented me from searching for these artists, because the developers thought that surely noone would search for such terms.

_______

[1] https://www.discogs.com/artist/207714-!!! ← See? The HN link highlighter also thinks that URLs cannot end with !!!.

[2] https://www.discogs.com/artist/31887-Ø