MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Frummy | 2025-08-19 07:47:08+00:00
Yes, that accruing is linear. I mean there are exponential examples in the religious system, such as more karma required for different things, the lifespans of deities in various realms and the length of the kalpas/ timespans of the ages.

And compared to saying it aloud by yourself it's orders of magnitude more. And when they cram the text into like neat folds with dense text, thats a few more. I just googled, yeah I still google because perplexity on comet is not my thing, 100 trillion prayers on a microfilm is an example I saw.
by BrenBarn | 2025-08-19 07:47:15+00:00
I find that landlines actually have an advantage for customers too, at least of brick-and-mortar businesses: when you call, you're talking to someone who is actually there. Now that so many things you might previously call for can now be handled via apps or websites, some of the remaining ones are tied to physical presence. I'm thinking of stuff like "I think I left my jacket on the chair" or "Do you have any tamales left?"
by highfrequency | 2025-08-19 07:47:40+00:00
> The “establishment” mistakenly assumes that a shameless person wants the approval of their community, when it turns out that, much like any cult or counterculture, that person’s goal was to attract a following, regardless of who the members are. The disgust of one’s peers doesn’t matter anymore, because that disgust forms the basis for an entirely new community.

This is a great point, and we can push it further. Perhaps the more powerful effect is that once the supporting fringe communities grow large and influential enough, the original establishment will move over to the shameless person’s camp. This happens swiftly, like dominoes falling, because the establishment’s opposition was actually not ideological to begin with but rather based on perception of the most socially acceptable / financially beneficial position at every moment.
by lionkor | 2025-08-19 07:47:48+00:00
The wildlife (like hedgehogs) will feel very audited when they get sliced up by a razorblade, run over, and can barely drag themselves off your lawn to bleed out throughout hours of pain. If they don't bleed out, they often end up mutilated, unable to properly eat, walk, etc.

Nice wildlife auditing. Hedgehogs are endangered in lots of areas of the world. Run your robot lawnmower during the day.

If you don't like that mental image, you should feel for the people working at hedgehog rescues
by niek_pas | 2025-08-19 07:47:49+00:00
> I'm perfectly fine eating something that was alive, so long as it was treated with respect and was killed humanely. Doing so connects you, a living being, to other living beings that are part of the circle of life, which live and die the same way you and I will.

Would you say the same thing about killing other humans for food? If not, why not?
by sureglymop | 2025-08-19 07:47:54+00:00
I understand, I think I moreso wanted to hint that there may still be more room for exploration when it comes to things like this.

However, while I agree, I do want to challenge you to explain/show if and why this is the case (I know that you wrote "suggest"):

> That would suggest the file object needs to be refactored and split.
by pjmlp | 2025-08-19 07:48:22+00:00
As Portuguese, I can relate as I have seen what the euro has brought, positive and negatively as well.

For example 1 euro = 200.482 escudos, and when euro came we had stuff happening like 50 cents escudos becoming 50 cents in euro, I bet something similar has happened in Croatia.

Those 50 cents across coins are naturally not the same value, especially when the income wasn't suffered the same valuation across monetary systems.
by shlant | 2025-08-19 07:48:27+00:00
> But when an omni dieter looks unhealthy we just say “that guy looks rough” and when we see a vegan who looks unhealthy we say “vegan diets make you look rough”.

many such cases. People have no idea about how much their bias influences their perception of the world and then share the output of that worldview as if it is relevant to reality
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by iammukunthan | 2025-08-19 07:49:33+00:00
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by 9rx | 2025-08-19 07:49:41+00:00
> Of course it has flaws, but that alone doesn't tell us anything; only comparisons do.

Comparisons won't tell us anything. If Python were the only programming language in existence, that doesn't imply that it would be loved. Or, if we could establish that Python is the technically worst programming language to ever be created, that doesn't imply that wouldn't be loved. Look at how many people in the world love other people who are by all reasonable measures bad for them (e.g. abusive). Love isn't rational. It is unlikely that it is possible for us to truly understand.
by crinkly | 2025-08-19 07:50:12+00:00
I'm desperately doing it a different way. I managed to beat off our corporate IT overlords and kept hold of windows 10 for a long time. I'm using that, virtualbox with debian in it and PuTTY. Far more reliable than WSL. I will switch to windows 11 at the last moment and spend a week doing exactly the same there.

They won't let me have a Linux box because I'm supposed to be a windows desktop dev (now about 10% of my workload) and they don't like Linux because none of the invasive security and VPN crap they add works on it.

I use a Mac at home. Mostly proper Unix at your fingertips. Feels much less dirty than either solution.
by mschuster91 | 2025-08-19 07:50:25+00:00
> As opposed to say Germany where it's close to impossible to work for a overseas company even as a citizen

That's by design of our employment laws. We are the ones whose social security system will have to pay up when the employer closes down shop or fires their remote employees over night, and we are the ones whose health system has to take care when people burn out from being overworked, so we demand that employers create a local subsidiary with people and bank accounts we can hold accountable when laws are being violated.

Oh, and we also want to make sure that people and companies pay their taxes.
by jeremysalwen | 2025-08-19 07:50:41+00:00
It's hard to put a specific number on it, since it's been progressively improving the whole time I had it. I bought it in the fall of 2023, and got it "running" then, but it was not actually doing any useful work. Summer of 2024 it was doing useful work but required constant hand holding and a series of hardware and software upgrades to get it more stable. This year it is actually doing the majority of the mowing. It still requires frequent rescue but it's a lot less work than actually mowing the lawn myself.

However my lawn is probably the most difficult lawn of any openmower user. I'm in Vermont, so I have very steep terrain, a bumpy yard, poor GPS reception, very wet weather, and also my lawn is very large and complex shaped. For a simple use case it would be working great a long time ago. I also chose to do a "Mowgli" build which is based on more reverse engineering, which added complexity and unreliability (but saved some money).
by littlecranky67 | 2025-08-19 07:51:01+00:00
I am living in a Digital Nomad hotspot, and you are painting a dystopian picture that is not reality. Most DNs I know work either from Home or Coworking Spaces, which have sprawled up everywhere. You pay around 150-250€/month for your own desk. There are also now "coworking cafés", that usually target DNs and Coworkers by charging a flat fee (i.e. 5€ a day) a give either a free coffee included, or 10%-20% rebate on drinks/food. These cafés are specifically setup for Laptops (i.e. single table layouts). Other cafés that had those "nursing people" simply put up signs disallowing laptops - which is at every café owners discretion to do so.

In my experience, the local starbucks is crowded with tourists and their laptops (or tablets with keyboards), but these folks are not DNs, they are just waiting for their plane or airbnb to get ready.

Regarding property price and high rent, this discussion is pretty stupid. Every country wants richer-than-average people to come and pay taxes and/or spend their money. I often hear the bogus argument that DNs don't pay taxes which is bullshit, because even DNs pay taxes indirectly, as every amout they spend is someone elses taxable income (this includes rent). If they don't come, those incomes won't exist and no taxes be paid.

Most places in Europe bring in millions of poor immigrants, while some countries (most prominently spain) the people complain about rich immigrants...
by Atlas667 | 2025-08-19 07:51:22+00:00
Regulations themselves are not bad, but regulations without changing any of the power/property relations in society politically means NOTHING for the masses (you and I are part of the masses btw).

You are doing wishful thinking. The world is not ideas the world is real.

Regulations meets deregulation backed by billionaires. They can completely fund political candidates and judges. They can carry out conspiracies to avoid and circumvent regulations. In fact they do. The powerful already are the law, dont you see? They cant do everything they want, but they do almost all of it.

Do you think politics is as it seems? The very existence of the massive power imbalance requires you to think deeper about how politics works and not believe the illusion of modern democracies.

> There are many kinds of profit besides the currencies broadly recognised today.

Your mentioning of "many kinds of profits" is ignorant, we're talking about profits and capital, it doesnt matter what the currency is. The rule is still exactly the same:

The accumulation of profits from the work of others leads to power imbalances. The type of currency is irrelevant.

And the red paperclip thing was a stunt, it is not an inherent part of modern economies. Its not "real".

> To actually stop corruption would require an incorruptible omniscient surveillance system

Nah. Blockchain can be used for managing funds. In fact the function of the state should be reduced to accounting, which almost anyone could do.

> Ah, the small-commune model of communism.

Im not talking about that. Read Lenin, real democracy requires local councils. Small communes dont work.

Honestly, dude, I can tell you know nothing about communism, marxism or even power dynamics in politics. I'm not being rude. Read about it, because if not youre just hating because someone told you to.

Like I said before: Marxism is a framework that describes the progression of society through socioeconomic theories. It implies the democratization of production. Thats whats so bad about it, according to the rich and their state. Thats why they made you hate it without you even knowing what it is.
by synctext | 2025-08-19 07:51:36+00:00
The MIT NANDA lab seems to have a link rot problem.

Their cardinal code repo is also 404. The NANDA Lab also does coding, their publication at AAAI 2025 is titled: "CoDream: Exchanging dreams instead of models for federated aggregation with heterogeneous models" [1]. However, the link to the Github repo is broken. Fascinating paper, sad about the missing code.

[1] https://mitmedialab.github.io/codream.github.io/
by TheAceOfHearts | 2025-08-19 07:52:12+00:00
Any interesting highlights you would suggest checking out? I feel like most occult texts are a bit of a mixed bag in terms of what you can get out of them, and it's sometimes difficult to figure out if I should just go read the primary source directly or someone's analysis. For example, I tried to read the Corpus Hermeticum but a lot of the stories felt like they had already mixed into the drinking water, so to speak.

So far, out of every spiritual text I've read, I think the Tao Te Ching remains the most important.
by account42 | 2025-08-19 07:52:14+00:00
> The game had some online functionality (leaderboard or something). They were surprised when the number of accounts accessing the online functionality exceeded their sales by a dramatic number. The developer updates grew more and more sad as they switched from discussing new features to pleading with people to actually buy the game instead of copying it. Eventually they called it quits and gave up because the game, while very popular, was so widely pirated that few people actually paid.

Ok, but why? Whas the game actually unprofitable or did they just feel bad about some people getting it for free. You need to remember that a pirated copy does not equal a lost sale - in fact, sales may even be higher than they would be without piracy as popularity gained from pirated copies also translates to more legitimate buyers.
by rickdeckard | 2025-08-19 07:53:33+00:00
Some context is needed here.

Foxconn is quite in the spotlight for producing iPhones, but it's far from their only area of operation.

54% of their business is Consumer Electronics, and only half of that is estimated to be for Apple, with roughly 20% of their revenue being Apple products.

They have been producing cloud infrastructure and servers for more than a decade, and in the past quarters the revenue of that segment is growing while Smartphone production is rather stable. So somehow this is getting mixed into some general Taiwan tech-sector growth.

The reason why AI drives the Taiwan's tech sector is much less the production of servers, but more that Taiwan is the center of the semiconductor industry producing most of the chips for AI. With TSMC, the biggest semiconductor manufacturer in the world producing chips for Apple, nVidia, Qualcomm and many others, and companies like MediaTek (a huge fabless chip-manufacturer, basically No2 after Qualcomm), I would expect much more momentum in AI caused by those companies than server manufacturers.

Tl;DR: Foxconn is just one of many server-manufacturers (HP, Compal, Inventec, Flextronics, Wistron, Quanta, USI,...), but TSMC is THE chip-manufacturer for the AI-industry...

> Feels like in a few years Taiwan might be known less for iPhones and more for being the backbone of AI infrastructure

Just to note that Taiwan isn't actually producing any iPhones, the facilities are in Mainland China and India.
by crinkly | 2025-08-19 07:53:34+00:00
Yeah been there. My company issue laptop cooked itself to death once in my bag when I was on the train to a customer.

I was pleasantly surprised when I bought a Mac (M1 MBP) a few years ago. It doesn't have all the idiot behaviours that Windows and Linux seems to have. It's so boring. It just works. If the Linux/Windows folk can nail that quality down it'd be nice but I have my doubts it'll ever happen (after trying for about 30 years!)
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-08-19 07:53:35+00:00
Less fun but you can also run OpenBTS or Yate to get your own GSM network. Probably illegal but nobody's gonna care in the woods.

Back in the day we would "find" spools of phone cable and string them between houses. If you found that much cable you could definitely wire up a few miles of woods.
by necovek | 2025-08-19 07:53:55+00:00
That one is a generator[Any], and for others it could be set[Any], list[Any] or dict[Any]. You obviously don't get embedded type information, but you still do get the encapsulating type, which is better than an untyped for loop :)

I get that it's about how it's structured and ordered, but that is true for the "for..in" loops in every language as well: you first set the variable, and only then get the context — this just follows the same model as the for loops in the language, and it would be weird if it didn't.
by KempyKolibri | 2025-08-19 07:54:02+00:00
Yep, and we can even see it in others. I have little doubt that if the person I replied to was a passenger in a car, the driver got cut off by someone and they responded by making a sweeping generalisation about people of that race/gender/religion driving poorly they’d be able to identify the same bias at play.

As I say, my thesis is that these double standards/logical contradictions are intellectual tools to protect us from our cognitive dissonance. We’re not really operating from a set of logically coherent principles for the most part.

I say this without judgement or any belief that I’m not doing the same thing in a million areas in my life. Just to point out that this is why I lean more towards cultivated meat than outreach activism when it comes to veganising the world!
by fuzzfactor | 2025-08-19 07:54:35+00:00
R & D is about the only thing you have if you want to make something out of nothing.

Most other forms of value-added activity need to start with something of value to begin with.

The closer that that "nothing" can be brought to zero, the greater the leverage by comparison until it wipes the floor with everything else.

It wasn't so bad until all the MBA's came along, they have nothing like the equations that are needed to figure this out when the data is not numbers yet. Regular non-degreed business operators used to be so much more advanced in mathematical intuition regardless.

The researchers stayed as talented, plus got better technology, the founding giants of leadership lasted as long as they could but were replaced by midgets, and here we are.
by furgot | 2025-08-19 07:56:16+00:00
While that is true, and the full context only makes it worse, the important reminder is that a lot of people have died doing "Wim Hof" breathing before diving. It is not safe to hyperventilate before going into the water, because you are not saturating your blood with any more oxygen (normal breathing accomplishes that), but you are rejecting CO2. Your urgent need to breath is not triggered by low O2 but by high CO2.

So if you hyperventilate and then go under water, you will experience an urgent need to breath after you start to become hypoxic. This has killed people and will kill again. Don't let it be you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freediving_blackout#Shallow_wa...
by fhd2 | 2025-08-19 07:56:54+00:00
Even I, who doesn't require anyone to be in any sort of office (we don't even have one) only hire people from the same country my company is registered in. I've hired full time employees from other countries before, but it's quite the hassle bureaucracy wise.

So yeah, I'm sure it's possible to find remote work from Croatia, especially in Europe cause it's a bit less hassle to employ someone across borders between EU countries. But I do think the chances of finding even a remote job are higher if you're based in a country with plentiful employers.
by mschuster91 | 2025-08-19 07:57:15+00:00
> The system will only be challenged in politics once enough young Croatian voters find themselves priced out of their own cities like in Barcelona or Lisbon.

Outside of the direct coastal areas that already struggle with this issue from tourism, the brain drain that followed the 90s Independence War still left a sizable amount of empty real estate just sitting around.

And even in the direct coastal areas... a place to live is cheap. In doubt, just buy it, usually young people pool together some cash from relatives and some from bank loans to get started. Or they build it piece by piece, floor by floor, just like my grandparents did. Work a few years in a good job abroad, return to the homeland, build a house.
by pjmlp | 2025-08-19 07:57:31+00:00
Unfortunally tourist inflation, digital nomads, and foreign pensionists have driven house prices sky high, prevented the usual system of house renting for university students and people unable to buy houses, with crazy rents, as landlords rather profit from foreigners, thus that is how we end with a mostly right goverment, the far right having a large majority, with my parents and many others having fought the dictatorship for nothing.
by crinkly | 2025-08-19 07:57:38+00:00
Our secops guys broke most of our laptops so the engineering teams can't use them for development. They told them to use a Hyper-V VM. So they do. With a Hyper-V vswitch that talks directly to the ethernet adapter rather than the VPN connection. So effectively their policy leads to all those SSH keys, AWS credentials and other stuff to be stored on a virtual machine which is connected directly to the public internet and bypasses all DLP and security controls.

The more I work with secops people the more I fail to trust or respect them.
by pstroqaty | 2025-08-19 07:57:38+00:00
If anyone's interested in a janky-but-works-great dictation setup on Linux, here's mine:

On key press, start recording microphone to /tmp/dictate.mp3:

# Save up to 10 mins. Minimize buffering. Save pid ffmpeg -f pulse -i default -ar 16000 -ac 1 -t 600 -y -c:a libmp3lame -q:a 2 -flush_packets 1 -avioflags direct -loglevel quiet /tmp/dictate.mp3 & echo $! > /tmp/dictate.pid

On key release, stop recording, transcribe with whisper.cpp, trim whitespace and print to stdout:

# Stop recording kill $(cat /tmp/dictate.pid) # Transcribe whisper-cli --language en --model $HOME/.local/share/whisper/ggml-large-v3-turbo-q8_0.bin --no-prints --no-timestamps /tmp/dictate.mp3 | tr -d '\n' | sed 's/^[[:space:]]*//;s/[[:space:]]*$//'

I keep these in a dictate.sh script and bind to press/release on a single key. A programmable keyboard helps here. I use https://git.sr.ht/%7Egeb/dotool to turn the transcription into keystrokes. I've also tried ydotool and wtype, but they seem to swallow keystrokes.

bindsym XF86Launch5 exec dictate.sh start bindsym --release XF86Launch5 exec echo "type $(dictate.sh stop)" | dotoolc

This gives a very functional push-to-talk setup.

I'm very impressed with https://github.com/ggml-org/whisper.cpp. Transcription quality with large-v3-turbo-q8_0 is excellent IMO and a Vulkan build is very fast on my 6600XT. It takes about 1s for an average sentence to appear after I release the hotkey.

I'm keeping an eye on the NVidia models, hopefully they work on ggml soon too. E.g. https://github.com/ggml-org/whisper.cpp/issues/3118.
by Incipient | 2025-08-19 07:57:53+00:00
I don't really track issues, as I don't need to. Just a recent example "please extract the tabular data from this visual" and the model had incorrect aligned records in one column, so the IDs were off by 1 in the data.

I'm sure in 95% of cases it gets it right, but it didn't this time, and I'm not sure how to actually work around that fact.
by boxed | 2025-08-19 07:58:23+00:00
Israel is condemned in the UN for "human rights abuses" more than Saudi Arabia, North Korea, China, Iran, Iraq, Rwanda. Combined.

The BBC reporting is the same. "Starving children" with a picture of a child with an disease that made that child look starved before the war. I saw that same false picture in the news just today!

The bias against Israel is striking if you open your eyes.
by keiferski | 2025-08-19 07:59:03+00:00
“Living standards” includes things like access to the sea and better weather.

Not everyone cares about having access to the urban amenities that Vienna has. Split is also a pretty nice place, even off-season (I once lived there for 3 months February-April.)

That is why the costs of living between the two are not as disparate as you might expect.