MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Frost1x | 2025-11-21 12:21:27+00:00
Businesses are great at optimizing in profit and left to their own accord, that’s ultimately what they’ll do. In many cases that means risking safety, externalizing costs to others, creating anticompetitive unions like cartels, and so on.

Regulation exists to guide that optimization process so it’s forced to factor in other things like safety, environment, competitiveness for consumers and so on. The point being that if you can optimize in a way for profit AND for society at large then we have a reasonable balance to justify your existence. If you can’t, well then we probably shouldn’t be doing what you’re tying to do because the costs you would otherwise opaquely externalize on society are too high for your profit motive.

That isn’t to say things can’t go awry. Over regulation can occur where constraints are added that become crippling and the constraints are too risk averse or just poorly constructed that they do more to break the process than actually protect society. But whenever someone cries at over regulation, they need to point out the specific regulation(s) and why they’re nonsensical.

I’ve worked in highly regulated environments and you’re often very aware of what regulations you need to conform to. Part of that process is often asking why it exists because it can be frustrating having a roadblock presented before you with no rationale. Most the time I can think of good reasons something exists and it’s easy to consider and honor that. Meanwhile there are some regulations I scratch my head and can’t find what they justify, so there should be a channel back to lawmakers or regulators where people can inquire and work can be done to see if those regulation are actually effective or not at achieving their goal, or if they’re just constraints that makes things more expensive.
by Humperdunkel | 2025-11-21 12:22:18+00:00
Who is to say that all 'features' on a SoC won't have the licensed variants coming out of the woodwork. If Intel and AMD didn't think they were worth paying for themselves then they shouldn't have put them in silicon to pass on a few times to the consumer with a bundled copy, possibly buying it in the store anyway, maybe not even using windows or multimedia, etc.

The best move would have been killing it in the crib, the next best is making no one certain the format will work with all their demographics.
by 0xDEAFBEAD | 2025-11-21 12:22:32+00:00
>this is a greed problem.

I'll take it even further, if you look at the price of goods over time, it's even possible to see the ebb and flow of greed in the numbers:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G5Qi8_vXwAAbRTn.jpg?name=orig

I wonder if prices are really a measurement of fluctuations in some underlying supernatural or cosmic psychic force?
by spectralista | 2025-11-21 12:22:42+00:00
I think Bach's lute music is the most approachable because it sounds the most modern like guitar music. Even though the baroque lute is an alien instrument visually to the average person today, the sound is closer to what people have grown up on.

The whole question though is like what is the best David Bowie album to start with multiplied by 100.

The catalog is just so immense, the sounds are just so varied that one person's favorite might completely be wrong for someone else.

I think the most relatable after thinking about it more is Stephanie Jones playing lute music on classical guitar.

Like BWV 1006a on guitar is the closest thing I can think of to modern pop music and Stephanie's virtuosity is just ridiculous. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyySAFA2En8
by ThatPlayer | 2025-11-21 12:23:38+00:00
It's not just 'running under Wine', it's a different anti-cheat with different capabilities and the same name.

It's like comparing Office 2024 Excel on Windows to Excel for iPad. They're both called Excel, and share basic features, but once you start using features like VBA, it will not run on iPad Excel.

Also does it even work in Wine? Last I checked EAC only worked in Proton with the env variable to enable it being PROTON_EAC_RUNTIME
by supermatt | 2025-11-21 12:23:52+00:00
> EU's response?

It wasn’t the EU, it was France who fined Apple over ATT (although there are ongoing discussions at the EU level).

They were fined for self-preferencing, which is exactly the “different story” in your footnote.

It was also pointed out that consenting to ATT still isn't sufficient to provide informed consent required under GDPR and is misleading for implementers who think they can just rely on ATT (its effectively yet another non-compliant cookie banner), but the fine was just for the self-preferencing.
by mapontosevenths | 2025-11-21 12:24:08+00:00
> Just what software or service does even use HEVC or VVC over H264, VP8/9 and AV1?

Like everything? Its objectively better in every way.

Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney+, Apple TV+, RDP, Teams, etc...

You'll note that Zoom and Webex aren't listed which is why Teams provides sharper screen sharing with less bandwidth. Its likely they also didn't want to pay the shiny nickel to have happier users.

EDIT - I left off 4k UHD Blu Ray. Thats a big one.
by arowthway | 2025-11-21 12:25:27+00:00
I wonder if "X is not Y - its' Z" LLM shibboleth is just an artifact of "is not" being a third most common bigram starting with is, just after "is a" and "is the" [0]. It doesn't follow as simply as it does with markov chains, but maybe this is where the tendency originated, and later was trained and RLHFed into the shape that kind of makes sense instead of getting eliminated.

[0] https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=is+*
by johnisgood | 2025-11-21 12:25:38+00:00
This Turing completeness equivalence is misleading. While all Turing-complete systems can theoretically compute the same class of functions, this says nothing about computational complexity, physical constraints, practical achievability in finite time, or the actual algorithms required. A Turing machine that can theoretically simulate a brain does not mean we know how to do it or that it is even feasible. This is like arguing that because weather systems and computers both follow physical laws, you should be able to perfectly simulate weather on your laptop.

Additionally, "No mechanism to exceed Turing computable" is a non-sequitur. Even granting that brains do not perform hypercomputation, this does not support your conclusion that artificial systems are "computationally equivalent" to brains in any practical sense. We would need: (1) complete understanding of brain algorithms, (2) the actual data/weights encoded in neural structures, (3) sufficient computational resources, and (4) correct implementation. None of these follow from Turing completeness alone, I believe.

More importantly, you completely dodged the actual point about intuition. Jensson's point is about evolutionary encoding vs. learned knowledge. Intuition represents millions of years of evolved optimization encoded in brain structure and chemistry. You acknowledge this ("knowledge encoded in physical structure") but then pivot to an irrelevant theoretical CS argument rather than addressing whether we can actually replicate such evolutionary knowledge in artificial systems.

Your original claim was "If they are not derived from past experience or knowledge" which creates a false dichotomy. Animals are born with innate knowledge encoded through evolutionary optimization. This is not learned from individual experience, yet it is still knowledge, specifically, it is millions of years of selection pressure encoded in neural architecture, reflexes, instincts, and cognitive biases.

So, for example: a newborn animal has never experienced a predator but knows to freeze or flee from certain stimuli. It has built-in heuristics for threat assessment, social behavior, spatial reasoning, and countless other domains that cost generations to develop through survival pressure.

Current AI systems lack this evolutionary substrate. They are trained on human data over weeks or months, not evolved over millions of years. We do not even know how to encode this type of knowledge artificially or even fully understand what knowledge is encoded in biological systems. Turing completeness does not bridge this gap any more than it bridges the gap between a Turing machine and actual weather.

Correct me if I'm misinterpreting your argument.
by cassepipe | 2025-11-21 12:27:01+00:00
I am also wary of things like government owned encryption backdoors and ChatControl, mostly because I feel like like society should be resilient to authoritarian takeovers (and they always seem to happen much faster than we would expect, we'll see if see the US gets another fair election in 2028)

I am just not swayed by the slippery slope argument because as someone else said, it can be used for anything.
by zjuventus14 | 2025-11-21 12:27:37+00:00
Are you suggesting that less “free” (cost-bundled) parking spaces would lead to more cars? Or do you just mean from an aesthetic perspective more street parking would be used when you say cities would be more littered with cars?

We’ve ended up with such car-centric cities (in the U.S.) thanks in part to the presence of ample free (subsidized) parking thanks to parking minimums and free street parking. If the cost of parking was actually borne by car owners, it would reduce car ownership thanks to higher cost. This is less true today thanks to car ownership being near-mandator, but with the right investments that can change. I’d describe parking minimums as a regulation against non-car owners as they still pay in part for the parking spaces required by their apartment/home/every business they visit in most cases.

As an aside, have you looked at how parking minimums are often set? It’s only loosely correlated with the goal of sufficient parking.
by Asooka | 2025-11-21 12:27:43+00:00
Mass surveillance is far more damaging. Also there are several porn block solutions on offer for parents to install on their children's devices. There is absolutely zero need for the government to be regulating mass surveillance on everyone to block porn for children. We are replacing the damage caused by porn on a small handful of people who are predisposed to get addicted and got exposed to it at a young age due to bad parenting, with damaging all of society with mass surveillance, which is not even guaranteed to stop kids from seeing porn.
Show HN: GuardiAgent – Sandboxing / permission model for MCP servers
by phear_ | 2025-11-21 12:29:08+00:00
Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (MCP) has made it easy to spin up servers that expose tools and data to LLMs.

A lot of these MCP servers run locally because they need access to your files, shell, browser, etc. The problem: they typically run with the same privileges as your user. If a server is buggy, misconfigured, or prompt-injected, it can do anything you can do: read SSH keys, exfiltrate dotfiles, poke around in private repos, etc.

Our research group is working on this by adding a security manifest (inspired by the Android app manifest) plus a local policy enforcement engine that sandbox MCP servers. You can specify which hosts they can reach, which files/directories they can read/write, and so on, instead of giving them full user-level access.

Code and docs: https://github.com/orgs/GuardiAgent/repositories https://www.guardiagent.com

Curious how others are locking down agents/tools today and what you'd want from a system like this.
by mschuster91 | 2025-11-21 12:30:44+00:00
Flock's founder is just as dangerous a tech-bro as the company he created [1]:

> Langley offers a prediction: In less than 10 years, Flock’s cameras, airborne and fixed, will eradicate almost all crime in the U.S. (He acknowledges that programs to boost youth employment and cut recidivism will help.) It sounds like a pipe dream from another AI-can-solve-everything tech bro, but Langley, in the face of a wave of opposition from privacy advocates and Flock’s archrival, the $2.1 billion (2024 revenue) police tech giant Axon Enterprise, is a true believer. He’s convinced that America can and should be a place where everyone feels safe. And once it’s draped in a vast net of U.S.-made Flock surveillance tech, it will be.

This guy literally wants to replicate China's social credit score and ubiquitous surveillance in the US - and instead of shunning him, the company and everyone on their board, payroll and investors like an effort of that scale deserves, police, law-and-order freaks and many municipalities flock to it.

Where the fuck is the "don't tread on me" crowd?

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2025/09/03/ai-st...
by handsclean | 2025-11-21 12:31:27+00:00
I thought so too at first, but zoom in to where the neck joins the head. What looks like the head’s shadow from a distance is actually a hard seam between thick neck and thin neck, with much of the apparent shadow actually a cutout showing the background.

Looks like the Seedream result here has been changed to fail, which I’d agree with, too. Pose change complaints aside, I think that neck is actually the same length were it held straight.
by bsenftner | 2025-11-21 12:31:48+00:00
What we "we need" is less corruption, this means better educations, educations that actually teach the secondary considerations of why these regulations exist, and how many corruptions they prevent. Then that education should continue with how our over regulated situation is caused by not teaching critical analysis such that these corruptions look like a good idea at all, they become exploited, and the end result is over regulation.
by ofalkaed | 2025-11-21 12:32:30+00:00
Passive circuits have been novel for a long time now, or at least very very quaint. It is hard to put much stock in a coil when it is banal to walk around with 100 billion transistors in your pocket.

One of my favorite books is Tremaine's Passive Audio Network Design, seems appropriate right now. Passive circuit design is great fun and a lost art.
by bmacho | 2025-11-21 12:33:52+00:00
~a month ago I saw a comment on HN someone stating that the only possible way to send data from computer to phone is to convert it to base64, open it in a text file (several pages), photo them, OCR them and convert them back on the phone.

The comment got deleted shortly after, but I like the idea of someone actually trying to send data from computer to phone, failing, and settling on this method
by thrance | 2025-11-21 12:34:37+00:00
Don't fall into this reductionist thinking, there is no secret cabal behind it. It's not even coordinated.

This wave of authoritarianism is simply the result of well-funded right-wing populists taking advantage of an economically tough situation for the masses, after decades of neoliberalist austerity and deregulation. They're using fear and hate to further the goals of their wealthy patrons: deregulating the economy further. Mass surveillance comes for free with these people, it's purely a consequence of focusing the entire public discourse on perceived crime levels and fear of foreigners.

The two articles attacking GrapheneOS come from right-wing rags: Le Figaro and Le Parisien, who make their bread and butter painting a bleak picture of the country, when crime levels are at an all-times low. QED
by general1465 | 2025-11-21 12:35:08+00:00
> I don't want to wear a tinfoil hat but considering that chat control is unlikely to work at EU level, local "solutions" like above in Germany and Poland may give legal way to include scanning instant messengers in the future.

That's because lawmakers think it has no impact on them. In Czech Republic a transparency law has been passed many years ago. This law effectively said that cities needs to disclose suppliers and agreements for services they are purchasing, like trash collection. Sounds pretty innocent.

It has turned out that politicians did not think that through because people found a lot of cities are buying services from companies which are owned by politicians who are also part of city council. Whoops, massive conflict of interests. So then politicians were clamping the law down until this got hidden under wraps again. All these Chat Controls, porn filters are going to have exactly same effect.
by komali2 | 2025-11-21 12:35:20+00:00
> The classic retreat into the subset of the rules that make sense.

Yes, because lasseiz-faire has no allowance for the subset of rules that make sense, so I oppose that mindset, but I don't oppose one that promotes simplified, context aware regulations, such as what the PRC has.

> The government has a monopoly on force and anyone who seeks power will work to capture it. It's not a loyal pet and its teeth have blood on them.

Right, my argument applies only if there's an existent state, and is basically to make the most of it by at least checking the power of corporations, which are more motivated to harm people than governments. If you say there can be bad governments, sure yes, but that's just as much an indictment of lasseiz-faire economics since there can be bad corporations too, and in fact that's far more likely.

Ideally there's no state at all, but the only way to have that without corpotocracy is to also dismantle capitalism and private property, and something tells me you wouldn't be a fan of that either...
by handsclean | 2025-11-21 12:36:06+00:00
Please consider changing pass/fail to an integer score out of maybe 5. This test is becoming more and more misleading as your apparent desire to give due credit conflicts with quality improvements over already ok-ish models. For example, on the great wave Gemini 3’s excellent rendition gets no additional credit over Qwen technically not failing if one is generous, and on cards, there’s actually no score distinction between results that one could or could not use.
by johnisgood | 2025-11-21 12:36:50+00:00
Do we actually have a disagreement? I genuinely have no idea.

I do not care about Twitch and I consider Facebook outright harmful, but I do not think they should be banned. I have not fully read the article, but I bet it is "think of the children", a really old justification for "I want more control", a classic power grab.
by DrierCycle | 2025-11-21 12:38:06+00:00
“I think there are a few strands of intuition and confusions that have led people to believe very strongly that language is the medium of thought,” she says. “But when they are pulled apart thread by thread, they don’t really hold up to empirical scrutiny.” E Fedorenko

comma

https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262049658/blunt-instrument/
by Twey | 2025-11-21 12:38:56+00:00
The point of effect systems isn't to stratify the behaviour of the operating system (it's the Wild West out there). It's to stratify the behaviour of your program. A function that has a DB effect isn't telling you that it will make Postgres queries (which can do anything!), it's telling you that it wants to make DB queries so you need to pass it a handler of a certain form to let it do that, hexagonal architecture style.

But you can also stratify in the other direction. ‘Pure’ functions aren't real outside of mathematics: every function can have side effects like allocating memory, possibly not terminating, internal (‘benevolent’) mutation, et cetera. When we talk about ‘pure’ functions we usually mean that they have only a particular set of effects that the language designer considered ‘safe enough’, where ‘enough’ is usually defined with reference to the ergonomic impact of making that effect explicit. Algebraic effects make effects (and importantly effect composition — we got here in the first place because we were fed up of monad transformers) more ergonomic to use, which means you can make more effects explicit without annoying your users.
by spectralista | 2025-11-21 12:41:22+00:00
I am not even the biggest Bach fan but it is hard to think of a more towering figure in any artistic medium.

I suspect you don't understand music enough to understand the immensity of Bach's work and influence.

Maybe if Picasso had been born 200 years earlier he could have influenced painting in the same way.

The fact you don't give a counter example kind of shows your hand that you don't know much about this subject beyond your surface level understanding of critical theory.
by aengelke | 2025-11-21 12:41:56+00:00
Been there, done that during my PhD (code: [1]). Works reasonably well, except for compile times (for which I implemented a caching strategy). However, due to calling conventions, using LLVM isn't going to give the best possible performance. Some features like signal handling are extremely hard to implement with LLVM (I didn't, therefore). Although the overall performance results have been good, it's not an approach that I could strongly recommend.

[1]: https://github.com/aengelke/instrew
by latexr | 2025-11-21 12:44:35+00:00
Edit: I misread “purchase” as “purchased”, which is wrong.

You’re removing the important part. Here’s the full sentence, with emphasis:

> According to the tech giant, customers who purchase the watches in the U.S. will still be able to see Apple's Blood Oxygen app on their devices, but when tapped, users will get a message saying the feature is no longer available.

In other words, you saw the icon for the app but it didn’t work. The feature had been removed even for those who had already paid for it.
by thrance | 2025-11-21 12:44:49+00:00
Except the two newspapers here aren't public, they're right-wing rags: Le Figaro and Le Parisien, both owned by right-wing oligarchs (Dassault and Arnault respectively) trying to fuel this climate of fear and hate to further their economic interests by getting a right-wing demagogue elected. Both papers are caught lying all the time, like Fox News.
by spectralista | 2025-11-21 12:45:14+00:00
Bach's catalog would be like if Tolstoy wrote maybe 100 novels on the level of War and Peace.

It has nothing to do with subjective taste. The immensity of Bach's work is almost inhuman.

That still wouldn't capture Bach's influence on western music though.

The combination of the immensity, originality and influence is just mind boggling.
by Asooka | 2025-11-21 12:45:23+00:00
Reads like paid copypasta. In the unlikely case you're sincere, have you tried testosterone blockers medication? I checked out SLAA (SA and SAA yielded no results) and while learning to control yourself is nice, why should you have those urges in the first place if they are making your life miserable. I find most porn kind of boring and even icky. I would never get tired of seeing pretty women (especially naked), but porn itself is kind of meh.
by Forgeties79 | 2025-11-21 12:46:41+00:00
Definitely didn’t mean to imply it’s a home run. I’m just saying it clearly and legitimately helps a ton of people.

My point is if you include more and more people who don’t need it because of over-prescription it’s going to appear as lower overall efficacy while still helping a lot of people in the pool.

Making up numbers: If only 20 out of 100 people actually have ADHD then out the gate you’ve ruled out helping 80% of the people. So if 15 of the remaining 20 see improvement in their daily lives that means 75% suddenly looks like 15%.

Diagnosing and treatment is never that clean, there will always be some people who don’t necessarily need a certain medication yet get it prescribed (or don’t when they need it! Especially women with ADHD) because doctors are fallible like anybody else, systemic issues, etc. But with a commonly prescribed medication like Adderall the problem is definitely more pronounced.

Anyway I’m curious enough to look more closely at the study, this is a very interesting topic. If Xanax is really not helping people that’s pretty serious.
by Sesse__ | 2025-11-21 12:47:46+00:00
The blur happens on the GPU. HEVC encode also happens on the GPU (or at least a GPU-adjacent device; it's rarely a full-shader affair). If you were to use HEVC software encode with GPU blur, you'd need to send the camera data to the GPU, pull it back to the CPU, and then software encode. Performant GPU readback is often cumbersome enough that developers won't bother.