MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jangxx | 2025-09-17 12:04:21+00:00
A law like this would obviously need some sort of sensible definition of what "AI" means in this context. Online translation tools also use ML models and even systems to unlock your device with your face do, so classifying all of that as "AI contributions" would make the definition completely useless.

I assume the OP was talking about things like LLMs and diffusion models which one could definitely single out for regulatory purposes. At the end of the day I don't think it would ever be realistically possible to have a law like this anyway, at least not one that wouldn't come with a bunch of ambiguity that would need to be resolved in court.
by ndsipa_pomu | 2025-09-17 12:04:22+00:00
The UK seems determined to arrest the wrong people. I understand that Trump is a powerful person, but it makes my skin crawl to see people welcoming him to the UK even when he goes against their long-held beliefs (e.g. King Charles and protecting the environment). Of course, Prince Andrew was a known friend of Epstein too, but he has largely been disgraced.

This follows on from the continual arrest of people supporting "Palestine Action" with approx 300 people being arrested for peaceful protest the other week. Then we had a violent right-wing protest that had Musk meddling again in politics, and more police were injured than people arrested.

It seems that Starmer is working hard to introduce fascism to the UK, whilst supporting Israel's genocide.
by like_any_other | 2025-09-17 12:05:46+00:00
The problem is the indirection. Only the European Commission can propose legislation [1], so the legislative direction of the EU is entirely determined by them - MEPs can only slow it down.

And citizens don't vote for the Commission directly, meaning there's a lot of backroom dealing in its selection.

[1] Which also covers, I think, the act of repealing prior legislation.
by palata | 2025-09-17 12:05:55+00:00
> Albert Einstein urged us “don’t memorize what you can already look up.”

I find it ironic to go from "Our education system is stuck in the past" to sharing a quote without even checking if it's true. I find at least a few sources saying that it is not.

Anyway, why is it stuck in the past? They say:

> We still ask kids to memorize and regurgitate information from textbooks.

Memorising is extremely important. And learning to memorise is most definitely part of the education. Is it useless to know a poem by heart? Let's assume it is (but I disagree). What is certainly useful is to learn how to memorise something. Be it a poem, maths or a language.

Whether we want it or not we memorise stuff all the time. That's pretty much how we interact with the world. The people who are better at memorising have an advantage over the others. It is an important skill.

I would say this: memorising is very important, but it's not enough. You have to understand what you memorise. And memorise what you understand. It's a loop.

> What Every Parent Should Know About the AI Future

The article uses a lot of word to... not say much. TL;DR: help your children finding what they like and help them learn. I can agree with that, no need to tell me it came from Einstein.
by andyferris | 2025-09-17 12:06:22+00:00
I used to use XTree Gold, which was... golden. I always heard of Midnight Commander but never really got around to using it. I should probably fix that.

What I never got was why this style of TUI (MS edit.com, qbasic, etc) isn't really carried through in modern tradition? I really enjoyed these when when I was younger... yet even textual or ratatui apps don't really bring this interface to the terminal. (Or why screen-coordinate-based terminals aren't the norm to base TUI apps upon... this aspect just seems "obvious" but in this aspect modern terminal emulates seem lightyears behind MS-DOS, of all things).

Perhaps the rewrite of edit [1] will spawn a ressurgence of this TUI style?

[1] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/edit-is-now-open-...
by distances | 2025-09-17 12:07:05+00:00
I don't think they dominate. Noctua used to be the best, but current reputation as far as I've seen is that the performance isn't necessarily better than the competition. You buy them for durability and supporting the engineering, but most (not some/fringe) DIY builders choose a cheaper brand.

It's a bit more pronounced in CPU cooling towers, they are solid blocks where durability doesn't play a role. Noctua is good but the top performer and market leader is Thermalright which costs a third of Noctua.
by graemep | 2025-09-17 12:07:18+00:00
Do those numbers include the UK when it was in the EU? Obviously removing a large pool of sceptics would shift the numbers.

The "positive" number has recovered from a low in the wake of the Eurozone crisis but is still fallen significantly from the pre-crisis level of around 50%.

It would be interesting to see a breakdown by country - The EU's own report suggests very big variations between countries: https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/905...
by theallan | 2025-09-17 12:07:19+00:00
Joker.com. Credit to them they fixed it reasonably quickly, but its a horrible policy to default to enact the change if no response if given. Their reasoning was what else would they do if someone got locked out of their email - they need a way to recover their domain somehow, and they ask for ID to be submitted, but as seen, that is trivial to fake.
by ants_everywhere | 2025-09-17 12:07:21+00:00
> Cloud vendors provide security, but out of the box they don't provide secure platforms - a lot of this is left up to developers, without security experts -

A lot of the spread of Shai-Hulud is due to s having overly broad credentials on NPM, GitHub and elsewhere. It's not that NPM doesn't support scoped credentials, it's that developers don't want to deal with it so it's not the default. There's no reason why, for example, a developer needs a live credential to publish their package when they're just hacking on code.

This is related to the `curl | bash` pattern. Projects like NPM want to make it easy to get started and hard to reach a failure case so they sacrifice well-known security practices during the growth phase.
by xg15 | 2025-09-17 12:07:48+00:00
Yeah, it seems more like a "warmongering index", something like "belligerent intent * amount of military power to realize that intent".

At least that would explain how "Palestine" ranks as (slightly) more peaceful than Israel even though it's probably one of the most "unsafe" places on the planet right now.

Also Russia has the highest score but has neither the world's most powerful military nor would it be the least safe country to live in. But it likely is the country with the largest army that is currently engaged in open, offensive warfare.

It's a useful thing to measure for sure, but if that's what's measured, shouldn't there be more focus on the alliances and power relations between the countries? E.g. all the countries are listed individually here, but some are members of NATO, some of BRICS or SCO, some have bilateral military agreements, etc.

How would this deal with "proxy conflicts" and non-state actors?

If this had been published a few years before, would the breakaway Donbass republics have counted as countries? (If yes, they might even have counted as relatively "peaceful" as there was no reason for them to attack anything - their existence was the attack)

Would Hezbollah be counted towards Lebanon, towards Iran, towards Palestine or not counted at all?
by mark_l_watson | 2025-09-17 12:07:48+00:00
I think that NVIDIA’s moat is the US government. Remember our government’s efforts to prevent the use of Huawei cell infrastructure in Europe and around the world?

I am a long time fan of Dave Sacks and the All In podcast ‘besties’ but now that he is ‘AI czar’ for our government it is interesting what he does not talk about. For example on a recent podcast he was pumping up AI as a long term solution to US economic woes, but a week before that podcast, a well known study was released that showed that 95% of new LLM/AI corporate projects were fails. Another thing that he swept under the rug was the recent Stanford study that 80% of US startups are saving money using less expensive Chinese (and Mistral, and Google Gemma??) models. When the Stanford study was released, I watched All In material for a few weeks, expecting David Sack’s take on the study. Not a word from him.

Apologies for this off-topic rant but I am really concerned how my country is spending resources on AI infrastructure. I think this is a massive bubble, but I am not sure how catastrophic the bubble will be.
by bc569a80a344f9c | 2025-09-17 12:07:56+00:00
Not quite, I think this is the relevant part of the paper:

> Structure of the proof. The proof of our main result, Theorem 1.1, is given in Section 6. The structure of the proof is as follows: machines are enumerated arborescently in Tree Normal Form (TNF) [9] – which drastically reduces the search space’s size: from 16,679,880,978,201 5-state machines to “only” 181,385,789; see Section 3. Each enumerated machine is fed through a pipeline of proof techniques, mostly consisting of deciders, which are algorithms trying to decide whether the machine halts or not. Because of the uncomputability of the halting problem, there is no universal decider and all the craft resides in creating deciders able to decide large families of machines in reasonable time. Almost all of our deciders are instances of an abstract interpretation framework that we call Closed Tape Language (CTL), which consists in approximating the set of configurations visited by a Turing machine with a more convenient superset, one that contains no halting configurations and is closed under Turing machine transitions (see Section 4.2). The S(5) pipeline is given in Table 3 – see Table 4 for S(2,4). All the deciders in this work were crafted by The bbchallenge Collaboration; see Section 4. In the case of 5-state machines, 13 Sporadic Machines were not solved by deciders and required individual proofs of nonhalting, see Section 5.

So, they figured out how to massively reduce the search space, wrote some generic deciders that were able to prove whether large amounts of the remaining search spaces would halt or not, and then had to manually solve the remaining 13 machines that the generic deciders couldn't reason about.
by Xelbair | 2025-09-17 12:08:08+00:00
How do i vote out representatives not from my country? In this case my country is vehemently opposed to this.

How do i vote out representatives if all of them support the measure despite it being unpopular in my country, no matter the faction? That was the case with centralized copyright checking.

EU parliament, and especially EC, are so far removed from any form of accountability, that frankly votes are almost irrelevant - same factions form no matter who's there, and EC runs on rotation.

Lobbying takes prime spot over votes.

EU is sitting in the middle ground between federation and trade union... and we get downsides of both systems.
by TZubiri | 2025-09-17 12:08:24+00:00
Just wanted to comment that chatgpt also wrongly categorizes this as reductio ad absurdum and strawman.

This is very dead internet theory, but not automated, someone copied my comment, gave it to chatgpt, and returned the chatgpt answer, presumably passing it off as their own, but in effect we are talking with chatgpt lol.
by chris_hhh | 2025-09-17 12:08:46+00:00
"Here’s hoping that by encountering an extraterrestrial role model, we will do better in the future than we did in the past."

Through what mechanism? This is thoughtless, ignorant stuff.

Instead, humanity has come together by successfully acting as a species through cosmopolitanism -- which right now is cast as an equity thing, but if you squint, it's actually a way for humans to row in the same direction, more free from reptilian-brain isms.

That's tough; there's reactionaries everywhere and self-interest causes them to be bankrolled and amplified by our most wealthy and powerful folks.

Where we've made the most strides as humans though, we've temporarily found narratives to mobilize enough folks against the Charlie Kirks of the world, lifting some of the economic and social barriers that artificially depress the talent/cooperation/discovery.

Casting that work as a distraction when it's actually a force-muliplier for progress -- like the kind described here -- is profoundly dumb.
by 18272837023 | 2025-09-17 12:09:08+00:00
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by madeofpalk | 2025-09-17 12:09:14+00:00
NPM has both Trusted Publishing and provenance claims for where packages are built.

https://docs.npmjs.com/trusted-publishers

https://docs.npmjs.com/generating-provenance-statements

Trusted Publishing is relatively new - GA-ed in July https://github.blog/changelog/2025-07-31-npm-trusted-publish...
by TuxSH | 2025-09-17 12:10:07+00:00
Alas none of gcc/clang/msvc(?) have implemented start_lifetime_as, so if you want to create an object in-place and obtain a mutable pointer to it, you're stuck with the:

return std::launder(static_cast<T*>(std::memmove(p, p, sizeof(T))));

trick until they properly implement it. For MMIO, reintepret_cast from integer is most likely fine.
by jorvi | 2025-09-17 12:10:13+00:00
> So I could see why you'd see H265 as the competitor. I mostly don't simply because I believe they explicitly stated that they were trying to be competitive with 266.

That is some major revisionist history.

AV1 was created to suck all the oxygen out of the room for h265, and hopefully be finished soon enough that most chipsets would implement AV1 instead of h265, because no one would want to pay the royalty fees. This would then be a major boon to Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Netflix and Amazon. Only Apple had vested interest in h265.

Instead, h265 was finished very fast and Apple almost immediately implemented it on their iPhone chipsets, with their end goal being much smaller video recording sizes at high resolution and FPS. Then Intel added h265 decode to Quick Sync. This was the nail in the coffin for AV1. AV1 is only now seeing some limited uptake.

Hopefully AV2 can have its bitstream / spec frozen in time and garner hardware support before h266 does, otherwise the AV codecs will be forever niche because the MPEG group will always have the lead in hardware decode.
by nopurpose | 2025-09-17 12:10:45+00:00
It always puzzles me how apparently well known flaws never mentioned by product reviewers, even genuinely pro-consumer and generally well respected, like rtings or notebookchecks.

You buy product after stellar review, encounter problem, search for solution, find reddit thread where everyone is "yeah, it is always like that, why do you act surprised?"

Why indeed?
by Someone | 2025-09-17 12:10:56+00:00
No, it isn’t. The OP isn’t questioning whether the file changed, but asking what changed to the file, not what changed visibly.

The visible effect shown could be due to a change as small as a single bit flip. It also could be that large parts of the file got overwritten, or that it partially got zeroed. The exact kind of damage can help pinpoint the cause of the problem.
by AlienRobot | 2025-09-17 12:11:06+00:00
I don't want any arrows in my knees but I agree.

The main reason I don't want to use C/C++ are the header files. You have to write everything in a header file and then in an implementation file. Every time you want to change a function you need to do this at least twice. And you don't even get fast compilation speed compared to some languages because your headers will #include some library that is immense and then every header that includes that header will have transitive header dependencies, and to solve this you use precompiled headers which you might have to set up manually dependending on what IDE you are using.

It's all too painful.
by joules77 | 2025-09-17 12:11:17+00:00
> Our education system is stuck in the past. We still ask kids to memorize and regurgitate information from textbooks. Well before the internet put the world’s information in our pockets, Albert Einstein urged us “don’t memorize what you can already look up.”

You can look up how to ride a bike, play a violin, or cook a meal for 200 people. But knowing about something isn’t the same as being able to do it. A good library or even Google can give you knowledge. But only practice gives you competence.

When you deal with anyone who knows their job, things are on their finger tips. That comes from Practice.

Practice, feedback, and iteration matter more than just information access.

So it is not about memorization and regurgitation. Its about deliberate practice being required for competence or skill development.

Herbert Simon (Turing+Nobel awardee + pedagogist) had more relevant thoughts on this than Einstein, who brilliant as he was, wasn’t an expert in education.

Here's his famous quote on the subject - "The criticism of practice called drill and kill, is prominent in constructivist writings. Nothing flies more in the face of the last 20 years of research than the assertion that PRACTICE is bad. All evidence, from the laboratory and from extensive case studies of professionals, indicates that real competence only comes with extensive practice. In denying the critical role of practice one is denying children the very thing they need to achieve real competence. The instructional task is not to "kill" motivation by demanding drill, but to find tasks that provide practice while at the same time sustaining interest."

Don't tell your kids memorization has no value. Instead tell them to use AI to stay motivated when interest in Practice dips.
by alimahmoudhu | 2025-09-17 12:11:19+00:00
> I ended up passing a number of fake profiles through because their CVs looked real. None of them showed up to the initial screening call.

That's just crazy. Probably those were for collecting data to analyze what makes a CV pass. Mass apply everywhere, combine the results, and analyze the results manually or using LLMs. Selling these data can be profitable
by Freak_NL | 2025-09-17 12:11:37+00:00
That seems naive — this was pushed by several Dutch ministers over the past decades. It would have been made law here in any case.

Law and order, tuff-on-crime political parties (PVV, VVD, CDA¹) just love the idea of control over citizen's chat messages.

This is not 'because of the EU'. We are part of the EU and influence its policies.

1: https://chatcontrole.nl/stemwijzer2023/
by roblaszczak | 2025-09-17 12:12:37+00:00
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For 7 years, we've been building Watermill in the true open-source spirit—all components are open. We don't obscure documentation to push users toward our consulting services.

In that spirit, we've created a hands-on quickstart that teaches Watermill's core concepts through a real-world project. Since browser-based environments don't cut it for real-life projects, we built a custom platform that handles all the setup and verification directly in your IDE.

Rather than say more, I'd encourage you to try the quickstart yourself!
by watwut | 2025-09-17 12:12:37+00:00
> In a highly capitalized world, where share holder value is more worth than anything else, there are only a few companies that do the right call and act responsible.

It is not just that. In a well functioning theoretical free market, no one is going to have time either. The margins are supposed to end up being tight and the competition is supposed to weed out economic inefficiency. Voluntary pro-social behavior is a competitive disadvantage and an economic inefficiency. So, by design, the companies end up not "having time for that".

You need a world that allows for inefficiency and rewards pro-social behavior. That is not the world where we are living in currently.
by zbentley | 2025-09-17 12:13:06+00:00
I mean, you kinda do. Otherwise you won’t understand why bit-shifting to std::cout prints something, which is pretty much day 1 of C++ hello world introduction (yes, I know there are introductions that don’t use that silly syntax sugar. They’re rare, like it or not.)

Like, sure, you don’t have to understand cout’s implementation of operator <<, but you have to know a) that it’s overloadable in the first place, b) that overloads can be arbitrary functions on arbitrary types (surprising if coming from languages that support more limited operator overloading), and c) probably how to google/go-to-documentation on operators for a type to see what bit-shifting a string into stdio does.

That’s … a lot more to learn than, say, printf.
by ookdatnog | 2025-09-17 12:13:08+00:00
It's not undemocratic. The behavior of the parliament reflects the reality that only a tiny minority of the population care at all about this issue.

One might be tempted to blame a lack of media attention, but I don't think that's it. For example in the US, the Snowden revelations attracted tons and tons of media attention, yet it never became a major topic in elections, as far as I'm aware. No politician's career was ended over it, and neither did new politicians rise based on a platform of privacy-awareness. No one talks about mass surveillance today. No one cares. There is no reason to believe that the situation is different in Europe.
by ozgung | 2025-09-17 12:13:12+00:00
No it's not "just a very good autocomplete". I don't know why people repeat this thing (it's wrong) but I find it an extremely counterproductive position. Some people just love to dismiss the capabilities of AI with a very shallow understanding of how it works. Why?

It generates words one by one, like we all do. This doesn't mean it does just that and nothing else. It's the mechanics of how they are trained and how they do inference. And most importantly how they communicate with us. It doesn't define what they are or their limits. This is reductionism. Ignoring the mathematical complexity of a giant neural network.
by p0w3n3d | 2025-09-17 12:13:15+00:00
Oh Harry, don't worry! Everyone can happen to have bloated his aunt by an accident!

(quoting from memory), and also

I like Ludo. He was the one who got us such good tickets for the Cup. I did him a bit of a favour: His brother, Otto, got into a spot of trouble — a lawnmower with unnatural powers — I smoothed the whole thing over."
by jcfrei | 2025-09-17 12:13:30+00:00
Japan wasn't "destroyed" - they fell into the same trap that most emerging countries fall into eventually. Massive economic growth -> people become more wealthy -> they put it all into real estate -> real estate market collapses -> people are disillusioned, stop spending and growth crumbles. Happens to many nations that try to enter the group of high-income economies, same with China. The problem is that people don't trust any other asset besides housing to put their savings in. That creates a bubble and a lack of private investment in other parts of the economy.