MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by gpm | 2025-07-05 22:30:35+00:00
Yes, that's along the lines of how I meant the word cheat.

I wouldn't specifically use either of those words because they both in my mind imply a fairly concrete victim, where here the victim is more nebulous. The journal is unlikely to be directly paying you for the review, so you aren't exactly "defrauding" them. You are likely being indirectly paid by being employed as a professor (or similar) by an institution that expects you to do things like review journal articles... which is likely the source of the motivation for being dishonest. But I don't have to specify motivation for doing the bad thing to say "that's a bad thing". "Cheat" manages to convey that it's a bad thing without being overly specific about the motivation.

I don't have a problem with a journal accepting AI assisted reviews, but when you submit a review to the journal you are submitting that you've reviewed it as per your agreement with the journal. When that agreement says "don't use AI", and you did use AI, you cheated.
by odyssey7 | 2025-07-05 22:30:37+00:00
Recursion isn't about writing functions, it's the foundation of scalable systems.

Deep learning with backpropagation? That's the chain rule of calculus applied recursively over a network, as described by Rumelhart, Hinton, and Williams. We owe LLMs and emerging AI to recursive ideas.

The internet? It's a recursive structure made up of an arbitrary number of interconnected servers. We owe the information era to recursion.

Database queries and programming languages? We prove correctness by reasoning recursively. We architect entire systems of arbitrary size, with correct behavior, simply by specifying the properties of their element types.

Sure, you could probably block recursion within the scope of a program's compilation. But when you're developing scalable systems, recursion is their natural language. The powerful recursive algorithms for these systems are symptoms of their scalability, not mere implementation choices. When forced, stacks and other recursion workarounds are obstacles that get in the way of innovation.

Plus, real-world systems aren't single programs compiled together. When microservice A calls microservice B, there's potential for recursion, regardless of whether the programming language of either microservice supports it. Programmers still have to think recursively. No programming language annotation is going to change that.

The Great Pyramid contains a combinatorial explosion of smaller pyramids inside it. They made it out of blocks. Forty centuries look down upon us.
by lisper | 2025-07-05 22:31:36+00:00
I would love to avoid Amazon, and indeed I would love to support local retailers, but more often than not it is simply impossible. The only way I can find out if a local vendor carries an item I'm interested in, and if they have it in stock, is to physically go there. The amount of time that requires is orders of magnitude more than what it takes to order the item on Amazon, where I am all but guaranteed that it will be available.

It is astonishing to me that brick-and-mortar retailers have not banded together to put an on-line front-end onto their stock. It would technically straightforward (albeit not trivial) to build a web site as easy to use as Amazon, but with guaranteed same-day or next-day delivery via a partner like doordash, and with more reliable quality because local vendors have more of an incentive to vet their suppliers. I would love to use a service like that, but AFAICT it doesn't exist.

Someone here, please build this. I will be your first customer.
by kurisufag | 2025-07-05 22:32:59+00:00
for a while I thought I might go to one of those uniquely nerdy colleges where they let you fuck around with dorm infrastructure.

i back-of-napkin'd a whole packet-over-laser relay system based conceptually on the clacks that'd give every room/station its own serial-interfacible (up|down) link. you could link buildings out of windows and stuff. horribly impractical and prohibitively expensive, but the kind of thing that could only happen in a university on-campus environment.
by kashunstva | 2025-07-05 22:33:31+00:00
> as they industrialized and hollowed out US manufacturing

Just to be clear about cause and effect - during the long period of globalization, the U.S. chose to off-shore manufacturing, trading high availability/low cost for domestic production. Off course, China has been an active participant in that process; but the U.S. could have chosen otherwise. Much of the rhetoric from the current administration's leader in the U.S. implies that the U.S. has been victimized unwittingly by the process, which of course is entirely unfounded.
by m463 | 2025-07-05 22:33:36+00:00
Some parrots are out of their cage all the time and interact quite well with the family, like potty-trained 3-d dogs.

It is harder to take them outside for a walk though (although there are bird leashes). This sort of limits the outdoor social interaction that dogs confer.

and yes, some smaller birds are treated more like fish that a member of the family.
by gyomu | 2025-07-05 22:34:18+00:00
> Apple has begun to transition this way too. There aren’t any designers working there

This is a dumb “no true Scotsman” argument, there are undoubtedly designers working there by any stretch of the imagination.

The more interesting discussion to have is why the field of software design has come to the point it’s at today, and why many designers think that work like the kind Apple is doing is good design.
by guywithahat | 2025-07-05 22:34:30+00:00
Is sex not an addiction in your mind?

The sex industry is terrible for everyone involved; it's addictive, it ruins the lives of the girls and men who work in it, it spreads dangerous diseases, and it doesn't contribute to the advancement of our society. I can't imagine why anyone would support it except out of a sadomasochist curiosity.

I suspect (ironically) you may be too sheltered to understand why the sex industry is so harmful
Show HN: SimTool – Terminal UI for iOS Simulator Management
by azizuysal | 2025-07-05 22:34:34+00:00
I built SimTool to solve a recurring pain point in iOS development: constantly navigating through Finder to inspect app containers and simulator files.

It's a terminal UI that lets you: - Browse all iOS simulators and their installed apps - Navigate app containers with syntax-highlighted file viewing - Preview images, SQLite databases, plists, and archives in terminal - Search/filter simulators and apps - Boot simulators and open files in Finder with keyboard shortcuts

Built with Go and Bubble Tea. Supports 60+ syntax highlighting themes and works across different terminals.

Installation: brew install azizuysal/simtool/simtool

GitHub: https://github.com/azizuysal/simtool

Demo GIF: https://github.com/azizuysal/simtool/blob/main/demo.gif

Would appreciate any feedback, especially from iOS developers who deal with simulators daily.
by phatfish | 2025-07-05 22:34:36+00:00
Once the "path tracing" that the current top end Nvidia cards can pull off reaches mainstream it will settle down. The PS6 isn't going to be doing path tracing because the hardware for that is being decided now. I'd guess PS7 time frame. It will take console level hardware pricing to bring the gaming GPU prices down.

I understand the reason for moving to real time ray-tracing. It is much easier for development, and apparently the data for baked/pre-rendered lighting in these big open worlds was getting out of hand. Especially with multiple time-of-day passes.

But, it is only the "path tracing" that top end Nvidia GPUs can do that matches baked lighting detail.

The standard ray-tracing in the latest Doom for instance has a very limited number of entities that actually emit light in a scene. I guess there is the main global illumination source, but many of the extra lighting details in the scene don't emit light. This is a step backward compared to baked lighting.

Even shots from the plasma weapon don't cast any light into the scene with the standard ray-tracing, which Quake 3 was doing.
by mitthrowaway2 | 2025-07-05 22:35:21+00:00
I've been hoping someone would build the same thing. Even without delivery, I'd love to be able to search for products across multiple stores through a web interface and see their availability in a map view, with price and in-stock status. I would be happy to go to the store and buy it, as long as I only need to make one trip and I know it will be in stock and at a certain price.
by 0xTJ | 2025-07-05 22:36:24+00:00
What are you talking about, what is being "optimized"?

People can do stuff for fun, because it feels good, or for whatever reason. Not everything in someone's life has to be done for a direct survival goal. People go for runs because they want to be fit or achieve personal goals, (probably) not because they want to be better at outrunning a boar that they're hunting.
by classichasclass | 2025-07-05 22:36:54+00:00
Commodore infamously used TI chips in their calculators too, leading to the situation where Jack Tramiel was getting massively undercut by TI using the same chips in their own TI calculators for less. Buying the ailing MOS Technology gave him the vertical integration he wanted and enabled him to force TI out of the home computer market only a few years later. Revenge is such a dirty word.
by plqbfbv | 2025-07-05 22:39:05+00:00
> > “Autopilot appears to automatically disengage a fraction of a second before the impact as the crash becomes inevitable,”

> This is probably core to their legal strategy. No matter how much data the cars collect they can always safely destroy most because this allows them to pretend the autonomous driving systems weren’t involved in the crash.

I didn't have a reply to this until a couple days ago, when it hit me: it's a deliberate safety choice. They never concealed that AP/FSD disengages at the last second, it's always been stated: "because there's nothing else it can do". While I agree with that, the choice tells more about the possible consequences if AP/FSD remained active.

What would happen if AP/FSD were not disengaged before the crash? Suppose the cameras/sensors, the self-driving computer or the actuators got damaged to some degree on collision, not enough to make some or all of them inoperable, but enough to provoke uncontrolled movements after the crash. You may have a vehicle trying to accelerate without control, steering at random, repeatedly crashing into a wall, ... making it impossible for rescuers to reach you.

During an imminent unavoidable collision the last second of travel is basically watching the accident unfold, so if AP/FSD were at fault it would be apparent regardless of the disengagement.
by kragen | 2025-07-05 22:39:20+00:00
No, "something that it takes to be high status" would be some characteristic (in this context, one that is stable over time) that was necessary for high status, while something that "directly confers high status" is something that is sufficient for high status. It's entirely possible for something to be sufficient and nothing to be necessary. You're making the basic logical error of confusing ∀ with ∃.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-07-05 22:41:31+00:00
Partially, but there has also been a persistent strain of illiberal new, privileged left for the past 20-30 years who don't like debate on inconvenient or unapproved topics.

But now, in past 10-15 years, there is also a populist right-leaning faction that has also begun to emulate this by attacking free speech and gatekeeping discussions too.

This is sad because illiberalism harms both the precepts of separating people from the problems/ideas and also shuts-down and marginalizes thoughtful curiosity. This, in turn, calcifies and balkanizes ideological camps into sports team-like divisions without a universally safe public forum for inquiry and expression.
by kragen | 2025-07-05 22:43:11+00:00
I notice you haven't answered my question. What motivated you to treat me in this extremely discourteous way?

We're talking about this quote:

> Without an exchange your bitcoin is not a liquid asset, it's even less liquid than most commodity for which there are digital exchange marketplace. You can sell it over the counter, but that makes it an asset comparable to real estate in terms of liquidity.

There is nothing in the tone of this utterance that suggests that it's joking, sarcastic, or hyperbolic; it's a series of apparently serious, sincere, literal claims which simply happen to be completely unrelated to reality.
by throwup238 | 2025-07-05 22:43:24+00:00
Amazon Pharmacy is its own regulated pharmacy with licenses in all of the states, not a marketplace/platform like Amazon.com.

It’s really a renamed PillPack [1] which they acquired in 2018 with (I assume) Amazon Pharmacy launching on top of their licenses in 2020

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PillPack
by rendx | 2025-07-05 22:44:31+00:00
I asked ChatGPT for definitions of Self, and this is what I got:

– The self as the sum of all memories. – The self as a narrative we tell ourselves. – The self as the brain’s model of its own body and mind. – The self as the sense of being a single, continuous subject. – The self as an emergent process of experience.

Within any one of these definitions, how does it make sense to speak of the self as an "illusion", or of a "false self"? I mean, the definition constructs and instantiates the self, so the moment you define it, it exists? Isn't it like saying "the set consisting of the numbers 1,2,3 is an illusion"? The moment I "create" the set, it exists?

And what's with this "not my thoughts" business? They're mine as much as it is only me that receives them, and nobody can take them away from me. Like a radio that only I can hear and carry around with me is mine?
by jrflowers | 2025-07-05 22:46:55+00:00
> What on earth is wrong with not paying taxes legally?

The issue is who is able to avoid paying taxes. The ability to reduce tax burden is largely possessed by people that make significantly more than the median income, so if you rephrase your question as “What is wrong with low- and median-earners subsidizing the wealthy?” then you’ll see people’s problem with it.
by tbrownaw | 2025-07-05 22:47:08+00:00
Degeneracy is about loss of expected complexity, yes? All your atoms are smooshed together into a uniform soup, all your call-center people have to follow an identical script, etc. Taking something that originated itself as a way to ensure continuation of the species and splitting out the fun parts from the continuation parts seems like the sort of thing that ought to count. And yes gyms probably should count as well, except nobody cares about that.
by sonicvrooom | 2025-07-05 22:49:45+00:00
1. ASSEMBLY and how CPUs and human long and short term memory work, and how which networks in the brain exchange between these blocks (among others, but shhhh)

2. Math, Tensors (you'll get why later) and Matrix Transformations, and all that sin cos tan stuff

3. Ben Eater-ish stuff on YT because it's 2025 and Computer Science is about to (you are ADHD, so anything from 2 days to 7 years) change without anybody noticing ... think AIs having a preference for certain voltage drops and materials ... ... ...

4. the while 37-year-old part is irrelevant because, again, it's 2025, and pretty much any PhD can be caught up with within 10000 hours aka 3-4 years ...

5. you should start a reddit thread where people suggest stuff you SHOULD do instead of CS and thinking in general and some rich guy should hire some people to remind you of all those suggestions multiple times a day
by rubyn00bie | 2025-07-05 22:51:46+00:00
If you put even a modicum of effort into trying to acquire a Switch 2 you can. I’ve had multiple instances to do so, and I don’t even have interest in it yet. Nintendo even sent me an email giving me a 3 day window to buy one. Yes, it will require a bit of effort and patience but it’s absolutely possible. If you decide you want one “immediately” yeah you probably are going to be S.O.L. but it has literally been out a month as of today. I’d bet by mid August it’s pretty darn easy.

Nintendo has already shipped over 5 million of them. That’s an insane amount of supply for its first month.

Also, Nvidia could have released the 50-series after building up inventory. Instead, they did the opposite trickling supply into the market to create scarcity and drive up prices. They have no real competition right now especially in the high end. There was no reason to have a “paper launch” except to drive up prices for consumers and margins for their board partners. Process node had zero to do with what has transpired.
by drillsteps5 | 2025-07-05 22:51:52+00:00
Hammer is not a perfect analogy because of how simple it is, but sure let's go with it.

Imagine that occasionally when getting in contact with the nail it shatters to bits, or goes through the nail as it were liquid, or blows up, or does something else completely unexpected. Wouldn't you want to fix it? And sure, it might require deep understanding of the nature of the materials and forces involved.

That's what I'd do.
by al_borland | 2025-07-05 22:52:05+00:00
Preventative care also seems to be an issue. Medicare denied a test for my dad to check the state of his heart, because it wasn't really having any symptoms. When he found out the test was only about $100, he just paid for it himself. He'll be going in for a quintuple bypass next week. I guess Medicare was content to wait for a heart attack.
by II2II | 2025-07-05 22:52:17+00:00
It can be about predictability as well. If Amazon says two days, it is usually two days. I arrange the purchase for a day when I don't work or work a short shift. If it is a valuable product that requires someone to receive the parcel, I don't have to deal with shippers who force people to use a pickup point that is a 15 minute drive away. (I don't drive, so that is usually problematic.) At the end of the day, in my case, it is more about receiving the product than getting it right away.
by gibbitz | 2025-07-05 22:52:38+00:00
As they get bigger competing with them becomes harder and harder as their overhead per transaction reduces due to volume. Eventually they become the only choice. I feel like with Amazon this is nearly the case. Many local brick-and-mortar stores that would have existed in the early 200's are non-existent today. Even chains like RadioShack and Circuit City are gone. This leaves the next alternative to be slower and more expensive online stores that struggle to compete.
by Ferret7446 | 2025-07-05 22:53:02+00:00
Literary vs visual porn is strongly gender divided. I would be very surprised if you were into erotica and weren't aware of AO3; I find it more likely that as a male you aren't actually very into erotica, as is the norm.

I'm sure you can find lots of studies about this, but just for a very easy data point, a few years old survey shows that AO3 is ~54% cis female, ~5% cis male, rest nonbinary/trans/etc.
by kragen | 2025-07-05 22:56:51+00:00
Bitcoin in particular can remain operational in extremely degraded conditions.

Its relatively long average block interval (10 minutes) and strictly limited maximum block size limit the total bandwidth requirement for a full node to a few kilobits per second, and you can easily run that on a laptop that consumes a few watts, easily supplied from a relatively inconspicuous solar panel or handheld gasoline generator run at a 1% duty cycle. Blockstream supplies a satellite feed of the blockchain that requires no internet connection, just a groundstation that costs less than a laptop and uses slightly more power.

Outbound bandwidth requirements from the place where the power has gone out are many orders of magnitude smaller. A Bitcoin transaction is a few hundred bytes, so outbound bandwidth requirements for transmitting one transaction at a time are a few bits per second without adding significant delay, and because the transaction is valid indefinitely in the absence of double-spending, potentially down to a small fraction of a bit per second if further delays of hours or days can be tolerated.

Now, it's true that power needs to stay on somewhere for the miners to keep running, and the miners need to be able to transmit their mined blocks to the rest of the network fast enough to avoid many orphaned forks, which requires bursts of somewhat higher bandwidth. But keeping the power on somewhere is much more likely than keeping it on everywhere.

I don't understand LN2 well enough to do this kind of analysis on it, but I'd expect it to be less tolerant of such extreme infrastructure degradation.
by figoshi | 2025-07-05 22:57:14+00:00
We just launched WeSellRemotely.com, a focused job board built specifically for remote sales roles. Unlike generic job platforms, this one is all-in on sales – from SDRs and AEs to partnerships and leadership roles, all remote.

Why we built it: Most job boards treat sales as an afterthought. We saw great companies struggle to find quality sales talent, and top reps hunting through noise. So we made something simple, fast, and built just for remote sales hiring.
by monkeyelite | 2025-07-05 22:59:31+00:00
There is no reason for every application to have its own sync platform. I suspect this framing came out of mobile apps where there is no composability or modularity between programs.

If you really embrace "local first" just use the file system, and the user can choose from many solutions like git, box, etc.

I hate signing up for your sync just as much as any other SAAS, but it's even more opaque and likely to break.
by Ferret7446 | 2025-07-05 23:00:09+00:00
What do you mean by "active"? IMO, if you haven't spent at least few years on, e.g., 4chan, then you haven't been very active at all, you've just stayed in a bubble.

Who is a better judge of what is insulated or not, someone who spent decades living in a single city, or someone who spent a few years traveling everywhere?

(I bring up 4chan because by virtue of being practically unmoderated, it is about as unlike a bubble as you can get. Where else do you get people into origami, hardcore rape porn, international backpacking, nobel prize winning mathematicians, and pranksters running iphone microwaving campaigns rubbing shoulders?)
by ericmay | 2025-07-05 23:00:56+00:00
> This is a dumb “no true Scotsman” argument, there are undoubtedly designers working there by any stretch of the imagination.

It’s a rhetorical device, not an argument. Of course there are people with that title working there.

I don’t think it has too much to do with software though, I meant to address a general cultural malaise that we can see (or I can see) surface in design broadly across industries. The software industry (writing code and papers about it and such) is probably, I say as I haven’t really felt the need to commit to an opinion here, one of the better design oriented industries precisely because the design of software, elegant code that is efficient and elastic to demand, reliable, and performant, seems to me to be progressing quite nicely.

But software by its very nature isn’t meant to be superfluous - unlike say, good architecture with ornamentation and carefully selected materials that are adapted for a given environment.

To serve the purpose of an interesting conversation, I don’t think focusing on a rhetorical comment as very important. Maybe engage with the substance (or lack thereof if that’s your opinion) of the content instead? Not to sound like a jerk I don’t mean to - just that it may be more interesting.