MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by thisisit | 2025-08-26 19:15:53+00:00
That is not how this works. No one can say - we used spreadsheet software and investigated ourselves and we estimate we use x mg of copper. Governments ask for something like a metal spectrometer analysis of components. They might even say each batch needs to be analysed and we trust analysis from spectrometers manufactured and/or operated in US. Each condition raising the price for certificate/analysis even more.
by BoorishBears | 2025-08-26 19:15:55+00:00
Flash 2.0 Image had the same issue: it does better than gpt-image for maintaining consistency in edits, but that also introduces a gap where sometimes it gets "locked in" on a particular reference image and will struggle to make changes to it.

In some cases you'll pass in multiple images + a prompt and get back something that's almost visually indistinguishable from just one of the images and nothing from the prompt.
by bsimpson | 2025-08-26 19:16:13+00:00
Conflating the people in charge with Republicans as a whole, and writing them collectively off, is a disservice to society and by extension, yourself.

The tl;dr of the current conundrum is that we have two corrupt political parties, and a system that's so rigged that it's nearly impossible to elect someone outside of them. Modern society's problems are complex to reason about and nearly intractable to solve. The people in power are not capable of even trying to reason about, let alone solve them.

I grew up in Nevada. Most of the people I grew up with are lowercase-L libertatian: they believe the government exists to arbitrate between the conflicting rights of individuals; that it should be as small as possible and let them do what they like unless they're harming someone else. Because of the aforementioned duopoly, these people tend to count as Republicans (in the style of Reagan). (This is true generally - the more geographically isolated a place is, the more it skews libertarian. The more urban, the more it skews liberal.)

The national Republican party was weak after Bush and got taken over by the Trump personality cult. The people I grew up with don't believe in instituting tariffs and arresting immigrants; yet if you force them to choose an R or D label, most of them are still going to count as R.

The world is a nuanced place. If you ignore that nuance and force everyone you're willing to converse with to pass your litmus test, you end up with two tribes ostriching themselves into bubbles of partisan-approved groupthink. That begets more yelling, less mutual understanding, and makes it even harder to solve problems. All of this empowers the extremists who control the major parties to continue making the world a worse place in service of their own power.

Yes, everything about politics sucks, and the people in charge are unfathomably awful. But if you refuse to share ideas with people you might disagree with, you're contributing to making that even more true.
Why is nobody disrupting LinkedIn?
by spicchiantano | 2025-08-26 19:16:32+00:00
Title says it all. LinkedIn seems to be the only business "social" network left, and it is such a massive shitshow.

The UI/UX is stuck in 2004, the feed algorithm is atrocious and insufferable, and the networking stuff seems to have lost all meaning.

Come on people, build something new.
by floxy | 2025-08-26 19:16:58+00:00
That is exactly the same for the U.S., with the same Harmonized code, 8534.00.

https://hts.usitc.gov/search?query=8534

...and has been that way for a long time. Only thing that might be different now is that the de-minimus import exemption is going away for (certain?) countries? (and of course the tariff rate changing).
by pcaharrier | 2025-08-26 19:17:06+00:00
They hinted at the issue in footnote 11:

"Our state Constitution, Const 1963, art 1, § 11, also guards against unreasonable searches and seizures. In fact, as amended by voter initiative in the 2020 general election, Const 1963, art 1, § 11 specifically provides that “[n]o warrant to . . . access electronic data or electronic communications shall issue without describing them . . . .” However, defendant’s claims below rested solely on Fourth Amendment principles. Therefore, we have no occasion to consider whether the language of Const 1963, art 1, § 11 provides broader protection than the Fourth Amendment in this context. Compare People v Lucynski, 509 Mich 618, 634 n 6; 983 NW2d 827 (2022) (noting that Const 1963, art 1, § 11 is interpreted coextensively with the Fourth Amendment unless there is a compelling reason for a different interpretation), with People v Bullock, 440 Mich 15, 30-31; 485 NW2d 866 (1992) (concluding that a textual difference between the Eighth Amendment and Const 1963, art 1, § 16 supported a broader interpretation of our state constitutional provision)."

So really the downside is that the defendant's lawyer didn't raise the state constitutional issue (which looks even clearer).
by oersted | 2025-08-26 19:17:30+00:00
Well that is what happens when you let the market guide industrial strategy, and very often it is the right call.

But these things take time and significant capital to develop, you often need to be non-competitive for years, doing things in a more expensive way, until you can catch-up. But then you can overtake everyone else, if nothing else due to the momentum of growth and the higher efficiency you had to maintain to catch-up. Just like it happened with oil in the US, or with Germany, Japan, Korea or China recovering from catastrophe.

If you don't do this, you can get cornered, where in principle you can produce a resource much more efficiently in your country, but you can't quite climb over the hill because you are addicted to depending on others as an economy and you don't anymore have the capital, know-how or culture for such things.
by paulcole | 2025-08-26 19:17:36+00:00
I'm 45 years old. I've woken up 16,000+ times and it's been fine.

I know what I do on computers/phones/iPads. I know that every computer/phone/iPad I've ever owned has done more or less what I wanted. I'm usually the weak link, not the device.

I don't go to bed worried that the sun is going to rise in the West. I've got things that seem likely to happen to worry about.
by knicholes | 2025-08-26 19:18:13+00:00
I didn't edit my bio. My projects are not satire. I'm just less ashamed than most, so I work on more "exciting" projects. I've worked extensively with generative AI, including video, myself. It was just that convincing to me in the moment. My regret knows no bounds. Luckily I earn enough this doesn't devastate me, but I really could have done some good with that money.
by cbull | 2025-08-26 19:18:33+00:00
I have an N100 miniPC that I'm using as an OPNSense firewall, claims to be fanless but it killed an NVME drive.

Now I just have a small usb-powered fan aimed at it and it runs fine. Fortunately for me it's in the basement so I don't have to see or hear it, but the fanless versions run super hot in my experience.
by pj_mukh | 2025-08-26 19:19:24+00:00
Wait, ARE “personal packages” exempt? Doesn’t say that in the press release.

If I buy a Swiss watch (<$800) I’ll have to use DHL or UPS (though AFAIK, they also use national post in places) so I’m SOL.

But if my Swiss friend mails me a watch they can use Swiss Post still? Unclear.
by aliljet | 2025-08-26 19:19:46+00:00
Having played a LOT with browser use, playwright, and puppeteer (all via MCP integrations and pythonic test cases), it's incredibly clear how quickly Claude (in particular) loses the thread as it starts to interact with the browser. There's a TON of visual and contextual information that just vanishes as you begin to do anything particularly complex. In my experience, repeatedly forcing new context windows between screenshots has dramatically improved the ability for claude to perform complex intearctions in the browser, but it's all been pretty weak.

When Claude can operate in the browser and effectively understand 5 radio buttons in a row, I think we'll have made real progress. So far, I've not seen that eval.
by janfoeh | 2025-08-26 19:19:54+00:00
In recent years, a sizeable amount of people has begun to end questions in regular discussions — such as for recommendations — with the current year, as in which framework should I choose for X in 2025?. Presumably due to SEO filth and its effects on Google.

> I seem to have missed the memo that we're primarily writing for AIs now.

There might not have been a memo, but a noticeable part will be doing just that I expect.
by sumtechguy | 2025-08-26 19:20:05+00:00
The thing is most people do not want to mess with computers. They are terrified they are going to break them. Frankly they are not wrong. I spent yesterday just trying to get a div tag to flow correctly with all the objects around it, a whole day down the drain. I have a pretty good idea what I am doing. However, for others these things we call computers are inscrutable devices that just 'decide' to do something wrong. We have built this https://xkcd.com/2347/ and expect everyone to be cool with it. Most people most certainly are not, and are willing to give away whatever just to make it easier to use, and not randomly screw up. Apple and Google can take whatever they gave away now because well most people really do not care. The rest of us can pound sand for all they care. We effectively have a duopoly and they are acting exactly in the manor of that.
by TrueDuality | 2025-08-26 19:20:30+00:00
The references I'd direct you to are NIST 800-53r5 controls CM-3 (Configuration Change Control) and CM-4 (Impact Analyses) along with their enhancements, require that configuration changes go through documented approval, security impact analysis, and testing before implementation. A certificate change is unfortunately consider a configuration change to the services.

Each change needs a documented approval trail. While you can get pre-approval for automated rotations as a class of changes, many auditors interpret the controls conservatively and want to see individual change tickets for each cert rotation, even routine ones.
by tptacek | 2025-08-26 19:20:52+00:00
This is such a great piece and I admire Somers Atlantic writing. I just want to say, this process feels similar to the process Michael Lewis used in his later books, particular with "Going Infinite", where he embedded deeply and for a long time with FTX, emerging to write just as the story shifted from FTX legitimizing the world of cryptocurrency to becoming its chief villain.

So I do wonder, when you dig in that deeply before coming close to getting any work product, how do you ensure that you'll be able to cut your losses, as opposed to what Lewis did, trying (and failing) to salvage a narrative that had been demolished by events and other reporting?
by gwbas1c | 2025-08-26 19:21:26+00:00
My Dad told me he worked for a manager who always kept a job open "just in case" someone good walked through the door. It also made it easier to hire if he got a phone call within his network, because he didn't need to jump through hoops to open the req.

(Although it's not the approach I would take if I was a manager,) I do think there's merit in the approach. It was a real opening that could be filled, just not one that they were actively seeking people for. (IE, if someone applied, the resume would be reviewed.)

This was the 1980s or 1990s, though, so I doubt it was SPAMMed with applicants like what happens today, though.
by wqaatwt | 2025-08-26 19:21:40+00:00
> erases their literal nazi ideologies

If you say so. Seems like a rather incoherent view though…

Fact is that there is a lot of overlap between far and far right voters in ex-socialist parts of Eastern Europe. Just compare the supporters of BSW and AFD in Germany..

If you want the most absurd example this was a thing: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Bolshevik_Party
by TZubiri | 2025-08-26 19:21:58+00:00
It was easiest to do some napkin math than throwing their hands in the air and writing a blog post.

I suspect this is more about politics than it is about international trade. If you've ever done imports you know that there's a substantial amount of paperwork and compliance, demanding that products state their composition doesn't seem extraordinary at all. Maybe OP should try consulting what regulations food exporters must follow.
Ask HN: Why aren't more startups using C#?
by rubenvanwyk | 2025-08-26 19:22:06+00:00
I’m discovering that C# is such a fantastic language in 2025 - has all the bells and whistles, great ecosystem and yet only associated with enterprise. Why aren’t we seeing more startups choosing C#?

Some interesting thoughts coming from Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/csharp/comments/1n0v8qq/ask_reddit_why_arent_more_startups_using_c/
by thisisit | 2025-08-26 19:22:34+00:00
Repeating my comment. That is not how this works.

Governments ask for something like a metal spectrometer analysis of components. They might even say each batch needs to be analyzed and we trust analysis from spectrometers manufactured and/or operated in US. Each condition raising the price for certificate/analysis even more.

Or directly from the post

> U.S. customs is demanding a Certificate of Analysis (which could cost thousands of dollars and to determine what exact amount of Aluminum, Copper and Steel are in the product), otherwise they assume the entire PCB consists of copper, aluminum, and steel, and charge a 100% tariff on the whole product.
by zdragnar | 2025-08-26 19:22:38+00:00
If you don't trust the subject, he would most likely decline to participate in an independent review entirely.

In any case, just like the stock market, the fact he responded well does not guarantee someone else will.

What we need is more data, not a higher degree of confidence in this one point. An independent review would be nice to satisfy our curiosity, but it wouldn't add much to our understanding anyway.
by eqvinox | 2025-08-26 19:22:44+00:00
Not all modules have this feature; and it's also locked behind feature/license bits sometimes. It's obviously not needed for normal GPS use… u-blox timing targeted modules definitely have it. Some have a "measure-in" mode where you let it sit for a while (days) and it does all the setup automatically. Other cases you actually have to feed things into the module (annoying and error prone…)

It's simply that if you know your location, you can remove that as free variable from the equations and instead constrain the time further.
by vunderba | 2025-08-26 19:22:47+00:00
Good point. I probably need to adjust the success pass ratios to be a bit stricter, especially as the models get better.

> midjourney covers 9 of 8 arms with sock puppets.

Midjourney is shown as a fail so I'm not sure what your point is. And those don't even look remotely close to sock puppets, they resemble stockings at best.
by medhir | 2025-08-26 19:22:56+00:00
Personally, the only way I’m going to give an LLM access to a browser is if I’m running inference locally.

I’m sure there’s exploits that could be embedded into a model that make running locally risky as well, but giving remote access to Anthropic, OpenAI, etc just seems foolish.

Anyone having success with local LLMs and browser use?
by echelon | 2025-08-26 19:23:23+00:00
When we felt we were getting close to flight, people were jumping off buildings in wing suits.

And then, the Wright Bros. cracked the problem.

Rocketry, Apollo...

Same thing here. And it's bound to have the same consequences, both good and bad. Let's not forget how dangerous the early web was with all of the random downloadables and popups that installed exe files.

Evolution finds a way, but it leaves a mountain of bodies in the wake.
by fooker | 2025-08-26 19:23:23+00:00
> three elements of NAZI policies that were socialist

Government control over transportation, newspapers, and other industries that should ideally not choose profits over quality of service. Communalized non-profit grocery stores. Sounds familiar?

Strict measures to ban or nationalize war profiteering, high interest rates, capital heavy business models allowing rent seeking. Explicit profit sharing required by large companies.

Welfare state with free healthcare and expanded pension funds.

Sometimes 'bad' people have the same 'good' ideas you have. Now sure why this is so difficult to grasp.
by wavemode | 2025-08-26 19:23:28+00:00
> My issue is this: The title of “web developer” implies a certain level of skill and knowledge that people who merely prompt their way to a website generally do not have. To call a prompter a web developer both elevates prompters and degrades web developers, in a way that, frankly, neither group deserves.

Implies to whom? There are many "web developers" who only know how to make WordPress websites, or Squarespace websites. At my old job at $MEGACORP, I worked alongside many "web developers" who really only knew how to configure SharePoint. Even basic HTML and CSS skills were scarce.

So yeah, I don't think LLMs have changed anything on this front. "Web developer" has never implied expertise to me. "Frontend engineer" perhaps slightly moreso, but even then you gotta really talk to the person to find out what they know or don't know.
by bobnamob | 2025-08-26 19:23:47+00:00
> slop that works

Until that slop that works leads to therac-26 or PostOfficeScandal2 electric boogaloo. Neither of those applications required software superior to their competitors, just working software

The average quality of software can only trend down so far before real world problems start manifesting, even outside of businesses with a hard requirement on "software superiority"
by brookst | 2025-08-26 19:24:01+00:00
You just proved the seatbelt analogy.

Yes, for SOME subset of attackers (car crashes), for SOME subset of targets (passengers), the mitigations don’t solve the problem.

This is not the anti-attestation / anti-seatbelt argument many think it is.

All security is mitigation. There is non perfection.

But it makes no sense to say that because a highly motivated attacker with a lot of money to spend can rig real attested devices to be malicious, there must be no benefit to a billion or so legit client devices being attested.

I think your enthusiasm for melodrama and snark may be clouding your judgment of the actual topic.
by bilbo-b-baggins | 2025-08-26 19:24:13+00:00
If the “Task” is outputting the JSON for terms to a file, it can be streamed one row at a time - with memory reused after each row is read and the output written. That could be done with a few KB of program space assuming you’re parsing the CSV and outputting the JSON manually instead of using a larger library.

The problem isn’t well constrained because it seems to imply that for some reason it needs to be all accessible in memory, doesn’t specify the cardinality of terms, doesn’t specify whether Get(i) is used in a way that requires that particular interface for accessing a row by number.

If I were to do it, I’d just parse a Page at a time and update a metadata index saying Page P contains entries starting at N. The output file could be memmapped and only the metadata loaded, allowing directly index into the correct Page which could be quickly scanned for a record, and would maybe use 1-2MB of RAM for metadata and whatever Pages are actually being touched.

But like I said the problem is not well constrained enough for even a solution like that to be optimal, since it would suffer from full dataset sequential or random access, as opposed to hot Pages and a long tail.

/shrug specs matter if you’re in the optimization phase
by kube-system | 2025-08-26 19:24:25+00:00
Yes, along with a number of other US companies. This was done to stabilize the economy in the wake of the 2008 economic crisis. It was a very hot political topic at the time.

https://www.politico.com/story/2009/05/obama-reluctant-share...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troubled_Asset_Relief_Program
by AJayWalker | 2025-08-26 19:24:45+00:00
Not that it changes your point that much, but doesn’t MISO have more like a 20-30% Coal mix?[0]

It looks like natural gas is usually the biggest source of electricity.

[0] https://app.electricitymaps.com/zone/US-MIDW-MISO/72h/hourly...
by timr | 2025-08-26 19:24:50+00:00
That's silly. What's actually happening is far more nuanced and interesting: the parties have flipped.

For years, Democrats were generally aligned with labor, and broadly opposed to trade agreements -- remember that Hillary Clinton campaigned on rejecting the TPP [1], and it was unusual that Trump agreed with her, taking the issue away. Now, suddenly, the left is on the other side of the issue, because the current executive wants to restrict trade. It's nothing but realpolitik.

Also, not that long ago, it was the left that was advocating tariffs. For example, Obama in 2009 [2]. Admittedly nothing as sweeping or rushed as what is going on now, but still far from the party of free trade.

[1] https://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/hillary-clinton-trade...

[2] https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna32808731
by hombre_fatal | 2025-08-26 19:24:52+00:00
Since the LLM has to inherently make tool/API calls to do anything, can't you gate those behind a confirmation box that describes what it wants to do?

And you could whitelist APIs like "Fill form textarea with {content}" vs more destructive ones like "Submit form" or "Make request to {url} with {body}".

Edit: It seems to already do this.

Granted, you'd still have to be eternally vigilant.
by BoorishBears | 2025-08-26 19:25:02+00:00
I'm really waiting for a Pro sized Gemini model with image output.

I experimented heavily with 2.0 for a site I work on, but it never left preview and it had some gaps that were clearly due to being a small model (like lacking world knowledge, struggling with repetition, missing nuance in instructions, etc.)

2.5 Flash/nano-banana is a major step up but still has small model gaps peeking through. It still gets to "locked in" states where it's just repeating itself, which is a similar failure mode of small models for creative writing tasks.

A 2.5 Pro would likely close those gaps and definitively beat gpt-image-1
by sizzzzlerz | 2025-08-26 19:25:11+00:00
I own every book McPhee published and have read each one at least twice. He is, without question, the finest writer of non-fiction I know. Annals, as you may know, was originally published as 4 separate volumes, each covering a particular US region. Assembling California is my absolute favorite McPhee work. I have a layman’s interest in geology and plate tectonics that I developed specifically because of this book.
by johnea | 2025-08-26 19:25:14+00:00
Much of the www is composed of copying.

I recently corrected an error in this wikipedia article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Shionomisaki

Which stated: "Geologically, the cape is a flat uplifted seafood plateau"

My comment for the change: I'm not an oceanographer, but I'm pretty sure it's not a "seafood plateau". Changed to "seabed plateau"

Afterward, out of curiosity, I did a search for "seafood plateau".

I was shocked at the number of sites that exactly copied that error along with the rest of the page. Most of these sites were clones of wikipedia with the inclusion of ads.

It didn't seem that these sites were LLM generated (they were exact copies), but this seems to be the case for many scientific paper submissions now.

Where it all goes from here is extremely unclear, but it does seem a disruption to many fields which are dependent on written material is in progress...
by eqvinox | 2025-08-26 19:26:28+00:00
> Steering the same PHC with phc2sys as chronyd is using for HW timestamping is not the best approach as that creates a feedback loop (instability).

This is standard practice, though, for most PTP slave clocks. The feedback is just factored into the math. (Why? No idea. I just know how the code works.)

Although… it's standard practice in PTP setups that are designed for it. Not NTP… if only there were a specification… :)

I do have to wonder though. Of what use are timestamps from an unsynchronized PHC to chrony? Is it continuously taking twin sys+PHC timestamps to line up things?