MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rpdillon | 2025-09-06 19:18:39+00:00
> Do you seriously believe that 90% of current porn consumers would rather watch their pornography on websites where it's intermingled with child pornography and revenge porn, than verify their age?

Of course! We can go back and forth about the 90%, but the immediate data available 24 hours after the UK law passed was very clear.

> Daily visits to Pornhub, the UK’s most used porn site, fell from 3.6m on 24 July, the day before age-gating was introduced, to 1.9m on 8 August, a drop of 47%.

> At the next most popular sites, XVideos and xHamster, visits fell 47% and 39% over the same period, according to the data from Similarweb, a digital market intelligence company.

> A spokesperson for Pornhub said: “As we’ve seen in many jurisdictions around the world, there is often a drop in traffic for compliant sites and an increase in traffic for non-compliant sites.”

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/aug/13/porn-site-tr...
by johnfn | 2025-09-06 19:18:51+00:00
How does that reconcile with the article, which states:

> Did Claude catch all the edge cases? Yes, and I'm not exaggerating. Claude never missed a relevant E2E test. But it tends to run more tests than needed, which is fine - better safe than sorry.

If you have some particular issue with the author's methodology, you should state that.
by trenchpilgrim | 2025-09-06 19:18:58+00:00
> The solution to running only e2e tests on affected files has been around long before LLM.

This doesn't work in distributed systems, since changing the behavior of one file that's compiled in one binary can cause a downstream issue in a separate binary that sends a network call to the first. e.g. A programmer makes a behavioral change to binary #1 that falls within defined behavior, but encounters Hyrum's Law because of a valid behavior of binary #2.
by mschuster91 | 2025-09-06 19:19:25+00:00
> there is no evidence of gene expression for autism.

The fact that we haven't identified candidate genes for autism and a bunch of other mental health issues doesn't mean these aren't hereditary or have hereditary triggers that make outbreaks easier.

> if anything it is epigenetic caused by environmental pollutants and hormone exposure

Doubtful. The difference to older times is, we now properly diagnose mental health issues instead of just labeling affected people as "loons", locking them away in institutions or, like it happened with witch-burnings and in the NS Aktion T4, outright murder them.
by JustExAWS | 2025-09-06 19:19:26+00:00
There are multiple jobs to choose from. California’s attempt to regulate contractors was a disaster. Jason Snell, the former editor of Macworld, left to go independent and makes a living based on a combination of podcasting, writing books and freelance writing and he said how much harder the rules made it for him to do freelance writing because of the requirenments around hiring contractors.

Trust me, Snell is far from a fire breathing libertarian conservative.

It’s not the responsibility of a corporation to decide what a “living wage” is. Should Uber pay more to a single mother with three kids than a single father with no kids? Again it’s society’s responsibility to provide for a safety net and to tax corporations to fund it.

On the federal level, that’s what the earned income tax credit was suppose to do and until 2016, it had wide bi-partisan support and was championed by both Republican and Democratic Presidents.
by djfobbz | 2025-09-06 19:19:37+00:00
That's pretty freaking cool!!! Got exactly what I wanted with the following prompt:

Create a 200x100mm rectangle with depth of 12.7mm, 6mm filleted corners, a 25mm center hole, 6.35mm holes in each corner offset 12.7mm each edge, with 1mm chamfer on top of center hole and 0.5mm chamfers on corner holes.

Now, just give me a picture to parametric model prompt generator...and then we can get into assemblies! ;)
by shellsteady | 2025-09-06 19:19:44+00:00
Tech notes: static site on Netlify, no build system. Data is a JSON file; favorites persist via localStorage. Search is client-side; queries are linkable with ?q= and you can filter favorites with fav=1. Dangerous commands show a confirm before copying. Headers (HSTS, nosniff) + sitemap/robots are set.

Planned next: more commands/recipes (docker, systemctl, networking), offline PWA, and a simple import/export for favorites.

If something’s obviously missing, drop it here or via the form: https://www.greppers.com/submit.html
by moron4hire | 2025-09-06 19:19:45+00:00
The problem with Unity for green developers is that a lot of the defaults are bad and there isn't a lot of guidance to fixing it unless you just Git Gud at Unity, which is not something I've observed a lot of green developers do. There's a reason why "Unity Asset Store Dump" is a meme and it's largely because of content farm companies churning projects off the backs of perpetually underpaid junior developers (with no seniors around to mentor them). I saw too many of my friends in the local VR scene 10 years ago see absolutely zero economic progress and very little technical progress because of it.

So yeah, Unity is an easy on-ramp. But unfortunately, I think it puts people in a bad market that doesn't serve them well.
by WalterBright | 2025-09-06 19:20:22+00:00
In Tokyo there are parking garages that are a multistory cylinder. The car is driven onto a platform in the center, which is an elevator that goes up, and turns like a railroad turntable so the car lines up with a parking spot arranged like spokes on a wheel.

It's one way to put a lot of cars in a small space. Much of the space in a conventional parking garage is lost to the driveways.
by tacitusarc | 2025-09-06 19:20:25+00:00
I completely agree with almost all of this.

But…

> Humans are bad at reasoning about how failures cascade, so we implement bright line rules about when it's safe to deploy.

I think aggregate human intuition is often undervalued. It is the case that every bright line rule has a cost, and the total cost of its adherence must be weighed against the occasional cost of failure to adhere.

Benefits don’t exist in a vacuum.
by water-data-dude | 2025-09-06 19:20:31+00:00
"...the problem is with impure products and people misusing / abusing them."

That second part "people misusing/abusing them" is a lot bigger than you're letting on. People can get hooked on opiates easily - a quick trip to Wikipedia turns up: "Long-term opioid use occurs in about 4% of people following their use for trauma or surgery-related pain" [1]. That's a pretty big knock-on effect! If you're prescribed opiates you're rolling the dice, and if you have the right mix of brain chemistry and genetics, you might be screwed.

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30063596/
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-09-06 19:20:45+00:00
I feel like I might be stepping on a land mine here, but it’s important to note that even if they don’t prevent transmission, vaccines are important for reducing severity and length of illness and have value as a second line of defense, even for those wearing N95’s in high risk circumstances (such as air travel).

Research to develop more effective countermeasures should continue of course, precisely because current vaccines aren’t a full solution. I keep hoping to hear good news about those inhaled vaccines that’ve been in development.
by Animats | 2025-09-06 19:21:07+00:00
The animated training film for B-29 gunners.[1]

For a sense of what air to air gunnery is like without computer assistance, see the corresponding training film for B-17 gunners. [2].

[1] https://archive.org/details/19584-army-air-forces-gunnery-in...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoHOVUKOc0M
by UncleEntity | 2025-09-06 19:23:31+00:00
> ...Claude Code strategically examines specific files, searches for patterns, traces dependencies, and incrementally builds up an understanding of your changes.

So, it builds a dependency graph?

I've been playing with graph related things lately and it seems like there might be more efficient ways to do this than asking a daffy robot to do the job instead of a specific (AI crafted?) tool.

One could even get all fancy with said tool and use it to do fun and exciting things with the cross file dependencies like track down unused includes (or whatever) to improve build times.
by BJones12 | 2025-09-06 19:23:37+00:00
> If Tylenol causes autism, how did those parents in the 1920s get their hands on it?

The claim is that Tylenol is a factor that increases the risk of autism. It is not the cause of 100% of all cases.

That said, the first synthesis of Paracetamol in the USA was Johns Hopkins in 1877, so maybe the answer is they went to Baltimore.
by WalterBright | 2025-09-06 19:23:48+00:00
> If someone is saying it's for environmental reasons, likely they're lying to make more profit.

And they lie because they get vilified otherwise by people who can't stand the idea that they make a profit.

BTW, whenever someone gives you a reason why they do something, odds are pretty good that you're given the palatable plausible reason, not the actual unflattering one.
by rsecora | 2025-09-06 19:24:09+00:00
Back in the day, when business computing emerged (COBOL, Mainframes...), it appear the distinction between systems analysts and programmers. Analyst understand business needs, programmers implemented those specs in code.

Years later, the industry evolved to integrate both roles, and new methodologies and new roles appear.

Now humans write specs, and AI agents write code. Role separation is a principle of labor division since Plato.
by johnea | 2025-09-06 19:24:17+00:00
I think a better title would be:

"Why do venture capital funded startups try to turn PR propaganda terms into widely used technical jargon"

Supporting points:

1) LLMs are not intelligence in any form, artificial or otherwise.

2) Hallucination is a phenomenon of a much more complex conscious entity. LLM's are not conscious, and therefore can't hallucinate in any way similar to a conscious entity.

3) Anthropomorphizing inanimate systems is a common phenomenon in human psychology.

Please stop spreading PR propaganda as if it were technical fact.

A reference from today's feed:

https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/archive/2025/09/ai-and-...
by johnisgood | 2025-09-06 19:24:25+00:00
I do not disagree with that.

> if you have the right mix of brain chemistry and genetics, you might be screwed.

Right. I experience no euphoria whatsoever from any opiates (in any dose)[1]. Blessing or a curse? I personally call it a blessing because I have an addictive personality so I would get hooked up on it too. It works for my pain and my depression & anxiety, and for that I am grateful, all while not causing euphoria, all it seems to do is just mood stabilization, i.e. I am less likely to be emotionally volatile.

The constipation side-effect can really be frustrating though, but thankfully I can manage it through diet and skipping doses.

[1] It possibly has to do with my neuro{biology,chemistry} and my brain lesions but who knows. Psychiatric medications never affected me the way they typically affect others and I have gone through _a lot_. It might be genetic, metabolic (as well), I have no clue.
by pojzon | 2025-09-06 19:24:35+00:00
I was super in favor of EVs in EU to the moment I visited Germany to notice that 3/4 of all cars were disel cars and getting pushed to green laws is a scam.

I enjoy driving good cars that roar nice, so bought a new disel car that can drive 180/h without sweating much.

I value my time more than anything else.
by acdha | 2025-09-06 19:24:55+00:00
> I engaged with the article in another comment

No, you tried to quibble over terminology. Both of these comments were shallow dismissals which tried to distract from the point by focusing on surface issues.

> LWN is focusing on "social issues" in open source and how I do not think it is something valuable for LWN to spend time on and lowers their brand.

Open source is a social concept and politics has been an integral part of it since the beginning. It’s not not “lowering” LWN’s brand to talk about contributor dynamics and it certainly isn’t their job to vet their authors based on the intersection of their tonsorial choices and your personal politics rather than the substance of their articles.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-09-06 19:25:03+00:00
Note that it isn't the norm for clay tablets to survive. We have lots of them, far more than we're willing to provide the manpower to read, but in most cases[1] that's not because they were made to be durable.

Whenever a city was conquered, the tablets there were immortalized as the city burned down. But cities that didn't get sacked didn't burn down, and their tablets could be lost. For example, we don't have the clay records from Hammurabi's reign in Babylon, because (a) he was a strong king, and Babylon wasn't conquered on his watch; and (b) he reigned a long time ago, and that period of Babylon sank below the water table, dissolving all the records.

[1] Some tablets were intentionally fired for posterity.
by alsetmusic | 2025-09-06 19:25:44+00:00
> Advanced voice input for Claude.ai with intelligent features powered by OpenAI Whisper

I think it'd be useful for this detail to be in the title. I assumed, from the title, that this would process any sound file. I'd like to see an AI tool that could identify notes and scales in music. I was a bit disappointed once I saw the tool description was voice only.
by whyenot | 2025-09-06 19:25:47+00:00
It seems highly unlikely to me that it will be banned by congress in the next few years, if ever. So, what we really should be asking is how do we live in a world of pervasive surveillance, where everything we do and say is being recorded, saved, analyzed, and potentially used to manipulate us.

As I write this, sitting in Peet's Coffee in downtown Los Altos, I count three different cameras recording me, and I'm using their public wifi which I assuming is also being used to track me. That's the world we have now.
by jampa | 2025-09-06 19:25:55+00:00
I think you might be confusing end-to-end (E2E) tests with other types of testing, such as unit and integration tests. No one is advocating this approach for unit tests, which should still run in their entirety on every pull request.

Running all E2E tests in a pipeline isn't feasible due to time constraints (takes hours). Most companies just run these tests nightly (and we still do). Which means we would still catch any issues that slip through the initial screening. But so far, nothing did.
by ohdeargodno | 2025-09-06 19:26:05+00:00
No, it isn't. Every single definition of violence includes forms other than just physical.

The World Health Organization (WHO) defines violence as "the intentional use of physical force or power, threatened or actual, against oneself, another person, or against a group or community, which either results in or has a high likelihood of resulting in injury, death, psychological harm, maldevelopment, or deprivation
by youworkwepay | 2025-09-06 19:26:14+00:00
Speaking as someone who has worked in a role which legitimately requires weeks of intense work (running large deals, where you're a Dune-style "mentat" about every aspect of a relationship)... these are absolutely not sustainable and the quality of your work starts to fall apart after a certain point....

It's biologically impossible to generate good long term results form 996 or 007.
by ok1984 | 2025-09-06 19:27:01+00:00
Agree! I don’t understand how they convinced so many companies to move to the cloud, making them pay more than actually running physical hardware. If Azure, Google, AWS go down most of the internet will be down which is really the opposite of what the internet is supposed to be! Soon we will not be able to call it the World Wide Web anymore!

Cloud is needed for very specific scenarios such as:

1) You running a global service like instagram, amazon, netflix. 2) Your hardware demands have very high fluctuations.

Apart from that, many software solutions can be easily installed on prem, and as your business grows you can increase the compute power of your infrastructure.
by jacquesm | 2025-09-06 19:27:12+00:00
There was a person with severe burns admitted to the nearest hospital (OLVG) so that wasn't a real problem (for the authorities, for that guy it was a completely different matter). I trust his copper thieving days were over. It was a real problem too because it wasn't exactly a trivial thing to splice, in the end they just ran a new cable in exactly the same way and that one lasted until the substation was back online. I lived there (illegally) at the time so I got to be the one to call it in. I got some funny looks from the cops when I returned to my company quarters with the power off.

To make matters worse: I also took that whole lot offline one cursed evening not that long afterwards just before a tradeshow. Not my best moment. To put it mildly.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-09-06 19:27:43+00:00
The part where it can't admit situations where there's not enough data/training to admit it doesn't know.

I'm a bit surprised no one talks about this factor. It's like talking to a giant narcissist who can Google really fast but not understand what it reads. The ability to admit ignorance is a major factor of credibility, because none of us know everything all at once.
by Clamchop | 2025-09-06 19:27:44+00:00
I don't disagree that Fox News is problematic for lots of reasons and I also have personal grievances with how they and similar outlets have affected several members of my family. That said, it's become folk knowledge that Fox News doesn't even think they're news, but that's simply a misunderstanding of the case. There's a tiny bit of irony that there are those who are patting themselves on the back for being above misinformation and getting this important detail wrong.

I've seen the actual news that comes from them and while it's certainly biased rightward, particularly in what they choose to report on, it's not outrageously so.
by 93po | 2025-09-06 19:28:07+00:00
users at large have a right to know if their data is being handled recklessly by any person or group, and just because some entity has arbitrary rules and poor communication/practices on how they want to tell them disclosures, it doesn't in any way make it irresponsible to let the public know: hey, your shit is getting recorded and is available for anyone to download and listen to.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-09-06 19:28:55+00:00
> If you told them to write a Lewis Carroll poem about a nonsense word, it wouldn't have any problem.

This makes me wonder something specific.

Let's imagine that we generate poetry "in the style of Lewis Carroll" around a particular nonsense word, one that hasn't been written down before.

Will that poetry treat the word as if it has one consistent pronunciation?

(This question doesn't quite apply to Jabberwocky - Lewis Carroll himself would obviously have passed the test, but he doesn't reuse his nonsense words.)
by tpmoney | 2025-09-06 19:29:00+00:00
Like most things in law, the answers are going to come down to intent and outcome. If you distribute the PDF to other people with the intent that they can read the copyrighted works of an author, then you have distributed that author's content in violation of copyright. If on the other hand, you encrypted the entire contents of that PDF, threw away the encryption key and the published prints of the PDF as artwork of binary code, that's probably going to fall on the side of "fair use" even though the entire copyrighted work is input to and contained in your final output. Though you might get into some legal hot water if you promoted your work using the author's name, but that's more of a trademark issue than a copyright issue.
by JumpinJack_Cash | 2025-09-06 19:31:23+00:00
Setting a lofty goal and failing is not to be rewarded or congratulated, or in this case compensated .

There are other stuff to do in the world both as far as technological advancement and leisure that could fill that time and man hours and produce a tangible ROI as opposed to "we are failing but at least we are trying"

By the same token the next goal set by Musk would be creating a wormhole if he hasn't said it already considering the amount of drugs that he takes.

Many people conflate the reasoning that is prevalent in SV for founders where they say "there is no price for failure". That is maybe true for the individual not when trillions of man hours and trillions of dollars are allocated.
by BatuhanU | 2025-09-06 19:31:30+00:00
Oh, also: The dataset is exposed via a remote MCP server: https://mcp.priceperprotein.com

You can connect to it using any MCP client (such as Claude). Then ask in natural language, e.g. “What’s the cheapest unflavored whey powder right now with 4+ stars?”, and the client will hit the MCP tool with those filters and give you back the results.
by wnoise | 2025-09-06 19:31:31+00:00
No, humans can't inspect their own weights either -- but we're not LLMs and don't store all knowledge implicitly as probabilities to output next token. It's pretty clear that we also store some knowledge explicitly, and can include context of that knowledge.

(To be sure, there are plenty of cases where it is clear that we are only making up stories after the fact about why we said or did something. But sometimes we do actually know and that reconstruction is accurate.)
by tliltocatl | 2025-09-06 19:31:45+00:00
> It would have been much easier to create ASN.1 tooling w/ OER/PER and for some suitable subset of ASN.1 in 2001

Just by looking at your past comments - I agree that if google reused ASN.1, we would have lived in a better world. But the sad reality now is that PB gots tons of FOSS tooling and ASN.1 barely any (is there any free embedded-grade implementation other than asn1cc?) and figuring out what features you can use without having to pledge your kidney and soul to Nokalva is a bit hard.

I tried playing with ASN.1 before settling on protobuf. Don't recall which compiler I used, but immediately figured out that apparently datetime datatype is not supported, and the generated C code was bloated mess (so is google's protobuf - but not nanopb). Protobuf, on the other hand, was quite straightforward on what is and is not supported. So us mortals who aren't google and have a hard time justifying writing serdes from scratch gotta use what's available.

> Stop spreading this idea that ASN.1 is bloated

"Bloated" might be the wrong word - but it is large and it's damn hard for someone designing a new application to figure out which part is safe to use, because most sources focus on using it for decoding existing protocols.
by evantbyrne | 2025-09-06 19:31:46+00:00
You've touched on some interesting points here. I have also felt the entitlement, but while contemplating why it exists I came to the conclusion that it is due to a misplaced belief that open-source primarily benefits the individual and as such is a righteous crusade. While individuals may become beneficiaries in particular use-cases, I would argue that it is actually corporations that benefit the most, and not by a small margin. Just think of all that labor they get away with not having to pay for and all that specialized knowledge they don't have hire for. Then they also benefit from publishing libraries to end users so that their platforms may be more deeply integrated in customer's tech stacks. Meanwhile the guy maintaining the various open-source libraries that underpin those commercial services doesn't get anything at all. One might even be able to claim that open-source is predominantly an upwards transfer of wealth from engineers to executives.