MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hattmall | 2025-09-15 04:58:30+00:00
Are they drug friendly, or are they stoners? In my experience it's not so much needing to be high to eat as it is the craving to get high outweighs that for food, then when you get high you forget to eat. Then when it begins to wear off all the hunger hits you and you eat a whole pizza and a bag of Doritos right before falling asleep.

When the first thing on your mind when you wake up is smoking weed and that's your primary activity throughout the day, food just becomes secondary, so the idea of eating without smoking first is just not realistic.
by joecool1029 | 2025-09-15 04:58:55+00:00
> I can't help but wonder how these policies would be enforced

One of the parties that decided on Gentoo's policy effectively said the same thing. If I get what you're really asking... the reality is, there's no way for them to know if a LLM tool was used internally, it's honor system. But I mean enforcement is just ban the contributor if they become a problem. They've banned or otherwise restricted other ones for being disruptive or spamming low quality contributions in the past.

It's worded the way it is because most of the parties understand this isn't going away and might get revisited eventually. At least one of them hardline opposes LLM contributions in any form and probably won't change their mind.
by ninetyninenine | 2025-09-15 04:59:11+00:00
The variation of IQ among any population follows a bell curve. The center of that bell curve it what is different among races.

https://www.scribbr.de/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Normal-dis...

So yes you can very much find black people who are smarter than Asians and vice versa but the generality (aka the mean, aka the center of the bell curve) will be different for races.

>But the _variation_ in IQ in a population is not explained by genetics.

This is not proven to be true. The most likely explanation is that variation in a population can be explained by both environment and genetics.
by freakynit | 2025-09-15 05:01:52+00:00
You’re right. If life really does boost entropy production, then in principle it should leave a footprint in how planets handle energy. The tricky part however, is telling apart what's due to biology versus what's just weather, geology, or atmosphere.

Of course, to notice something like this from such vast distances, the energy transformations would have to be happening on a very large scale. So, it's possible life is out there, but just not at a scale on those planets that our current instruments could pick up.

By any chances, do you have any good reading references for this: "I have seen this idea somewhere" .. I am genuinely curious to read more on this.
by mindslight | 2025-09-15 05:02:01+00:00
Yes, we can definitely fix our deep societal rot by directing anger at individual scapegoats that aren't even that prevalent. (compare your auto insurance premium lines for your own liability, and for uninsured drivers. the latter is small, meaning the total amount of damage caused by uninsured drivers is small)

Anything but staying focused on the entire system of paid "professionals" doing the least possible to meet their KPIs while shifting/avoiding responsibility at every step of the way. (in this story those "professionals" include the medical workers themselves, the billing department fraudsters, and the insurance companies)

Non-sarcastically - having advocated for family members in the hospital more than a handful of times, this article totally tracks. You're mostly there to generate billable events, getting appropriate treatment may be a side effect.
by fy20 | 2025-09-15 05:03:20+00:00
I have a cupboard full of bags at home I can reuse. It's right next to my door. Really easy to get to.

75% of the time I forget to take a bag to my car.

As well as all the single use bags (paper and plastic) I bought, I also have jute bags that I got years ago and are still holding up. I like them better as they are bigger and stronger.

Even if I managed to get a bag, the other 75% of the time I forget to take it into the shop and leave it in my car.

Even if I manage all of that, 25% of the time I will end up not having enough bags.

What I would like to see is some kind of deposit system with stronger bags (like my jute bags). Then when I actually remember I can bring them back to the store for someone else to use.
by snailmailman | 2025-09-15 05:04:26+00:00
I have used various AI models. They often aren't good at fact checking. They hallucinate mistakes all the time and often even insist that they are correct when they are not. Some models are better at this, but the ones used in "ai summaries" on various search engines aren't in my experience.

I want the answer that is actually correct. I dont want the ai generated "answer" that has the most SEO, or has appeared often in results, but was entirely made up. When i say "the most common answer" can be incorrect - there are often recent topics where reliable sources don't exist yet. As an example, I've been playing through silksong recently, and had some questions about some late-game content. The official wiki is extremely incomplete, as the game is brand new. I had several questions, and asked a few AI's and search engines. I got completely wrong information a few days ago, but trying the the questions again today, some AI's are only now giving me the right answer. But the correct information simply doesn't appear online enough or in the right places.

(To avoid game spoilers - I wanted to know the quantity of an item, because i wanted to know if i found them all. the answer is "at least 4" because i found 4 of this item while playing. Nearly every AI said "3" a few days ago, and many still do.)
by Theodores | 2025-09-15 05:05:37+00:00
C'mon now, orange juice or cheese - perfectly safe?

Unless you are specifically out to gain weight or needing extra calories due to hard work, you should not be drinking your calories. With orange juice you have sugars stripped from fibre and you can glug the sugars in a dozen oranges just glugging away for a few seconds. To eat those oranges would take an hour if you had to peel them first.

Cheese is worst thing ever for saturated fat, which clogs the arteries, gives you diabetes and sends you to hospital for some bypass surgery. Besides, what is natural about consuming dairy? The bull gets jerked off, the cow gets artificially inseminated, the baby gets eaten and the milk for the baby gets stolen. That is just plain weird. Technically everything is natural if you want to see it that way.

Cakes are just fats, sugars and additives, sometimes with some fruit in there, but you are right, these things have to be consumed just because it is a cultural tradition. Healthy cigarettes are just as easy to find, and cigarettes are arguably a cultural tradition. The more you look into it, the more messed up it is.

Chocolate is particularly messed up, with small children that should be at school sifting the beans for us in Ghana. Then there is climate change, with cocoa supplies being so low at the moment.

Undoubtedly cake brings joy but there is all of this misery and cruelty that goes into the ingredients. Haven't even got as far as where the red food colouring comes from. Yet it all started so innocently.
by alexey-salmin | 2025-09-15 05:06:20+00:00
It's not a hard problem. Shipping companies must know the content of each container by law.

Verify 1 container out of 20. When you catch a stolen car, fine the shipping company for not doing their job. Find employees who performed the forgery of documents and put them in prison. If the company doesn't keep records of which employee prepares which document, fine the company. And so on. Unfortunately police and customs would have to do their job in this case, I can see how they're upset.
by pbasista | 2025-09-15 05:06:54+00:00
> just put a backdoor in that only we can access

Who is arguing for a backdoor? Do you actually know what are the proposed technical approaches or are you making assumptions?

> people who actually know better saying that's not possible

What is not possible?

> all these stupid "chat control" like proposals

For example here, you make your argument by stating that these proposal are "stupid". There is no effort that I can see to even try to understand where the other party is coming from.

And that is an issue, in my opinion. I think that a productive and honest conversation about a complex issue like this one requires empathy with the other party's position.
by fulafel | 2025-09-15 05:07:36+00:00
It was the other way around. See eg https://www.maximum-progress.com/p/the-printing-press-nfts-a... - "In 1843 alone 14,000 new works were published in Germany, close to the publication rate today in per capita terms." .. "Publishers knew that once a manuscript was out in public it could be cheaply copied by other printing press owners, so instead they sought out new manuscripts in pursuit of a first mover advantage on publishing. In addition, they created fancy special editions for wealthy customers to differentiate their product from what other printers could easily copy with mass market paperbacks."
by onecommentman | 2025-09-15 05:09:16+00:00
“But wait, does all this mean that nonvoting Democrats stayed home in 2024 because Democrats’ policies were too progressive? Not necessarily…”

But quite likely, and in fact very likely. But this is The Nation, so even the suggestion that this is a possibility is a great admission. When a media channel that is left-wing acknowledges a right-wing or centrist position, this is a real piece of information, in an information-theoretic sense.

Much as when Bill Buckley and the National Review came out in support of civil rights in the 1960s.

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/05/13/william-f...

When the unexpected happens, that’s the real news.
by kingstnap | 2025-09-15 05:11:27+00:00
Revocation seems really nasty to deal with.

The whole chain of trust model is that your browser vouches for an authority that vouches for a website that everything is legit.

You can't just ducktape on an idea like that cert for "www.xyz" is totally legit unless I takesies-backies'd my vouch at some point, so just double-check.

If you want that sort of "continuous" trust scheme, then what makes more sense is something like having short-lived certificates.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-09-15 05:11:52+00:00
Nah, they will be sold into the used car market at whatever price the market will support while charging the highest interest rate possible.

From the report this is based on (pages 6-7), there are simply not enough cars to meet demand due to manufacturers constraining supply to maximize by price. Similar to new construction housing in the US. Tariffs make importing cheaper foreign made vehicles untenable. It’s an economic extraction doom loop.
by light_hue_1 | 2025-09-15 05:12:07+00:00
This is a great example of how horrible the situation is under Wayland.

Screen sharing sometimes works. Sometimes doesn't. For example: https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/1ebwaz4/is_wayland_scr...

There are countless such threads. Something that always worked perfectly out of the box now has endless workarounds per compositor/desktop system that you use.
by doganugurlu | 2025-09-15 05:12:12+00:00
So, they are able to get illegal goods through customs and police is not able to catch it because no wiretaps?

The following is supposed to happen in undetectable manner: - stolen car drives from A to B (on roads that can be policed), - at location B let’s assume it’s chopped (finite locations/people that can chop cars) - a container is loaded with heavy, metal car parts, undetected by metal detectors (weight scan, x-ray, visual inspection) - container paperwork is signed by someone (literal government ID is presented here) - customs officers are approving the outbound container that weighs over a metric tonne

You don’t think there is immense amount of incompetency or corruption here?

And what happened to police posing as a buyer, undercover cops, physical surveillance?

We recently shipped our furniture to US, and customs x-rayed it and charged us.

These are literally non-issues.
by dylan604 | 2025-09-15 05:12:26+00:00
And? You keep saying this like it's an answer to a question, but it's just not a useful one. Do you go through all of life deciding that you're going to do nothing because it's a bad governance problem? Do you honestly never make changes to things you can control just because it technically should be someone else's problem? Personally, I don't have time for that. If I can make improvements for things as a band-aid fix to something that will never get fixed in any other fashion, I do it. I don't have time for BS and lazy "but it's not my problem" type of people, and you're quickly moving into that column
by Eric_WVGG | 2025-09-15 05:13:12+00:00
A story I heard: the boxes of cake mix initially didn’t require eggs. Apparently housewives at the time hated them, because it made them feel sort of worthless, so the recipe was re-engineered to require a minimal amount of fresh ingredients; then they were a huge hit.

[edit] oh, this story is repeated in a Youtube vid someone else here posted: https://youtu.be/CZDFwqHkPec?feature=shared
by henearkr | 2025-09-15 05:13:17+00:00
This is where there is a misconception.

This use of the word "socialist" (the use that is NOT meaning "communist dictatorship") is quite equivalent to "politically left".

For example, it correlates with free healthcare, free education.

This is not in opposition to "capitalism".

It is more, like, "maybe profit (financially) less, but care more"?
by joshvm | 2025-09-15 05:13:41+00:00
Yes, my mistake - it's been a while! Definitely a local thing, and always with German pronunciation. There were a several words/phrases like that which got loaned into English. Doubly confusing because it wasn't always clear if the new word was Züri, regular Swiss-German, French but not Swiss-German, or High German. Had to be careful using new vocab in Germany!
by vmurthy | 2025-09-15 05:14:57+00:00
The 20 year old me would have been so excited about something like this. The 39-year old (ok 40 next month) is more reserved. It is not that I don't think this will be adapted but more like : What needs to happen (government, civic groups whatever economic forces) for companies to adapt this? It's going to be a slow burn for sure if this needs to work at a global scale but the impetus should begin with incentives, sadly.
by dualogy | 2025-09-15 05:15:51+00:00
Wicked, fully FOSS for non-console targets, I had some fun with earlier this year, it's a great very-modern full-featured D3D-or-Vulkan renderer under active development with a lively yet cozy-sized community (including a handful of folks taking care of the Linux side). The API is easily learned and can be operated via your game code from Lua or C++ or a mix, as you see fit, with Lua scripts being executable also in Wicked's editor app (Windows/Linux).

My hunch is that by sticking to just Windows/Linux/consoles and firmly-decidedly-skipping other cross-platform platforms such as Apple's Metal, mobile's OpenGL, WebGL/WebGPU/WebAssembly, it is kept maintainable, unbuggy (not 100s of bug-tagged Open Github Issues) and capable of ongoing rapid feature iteration.
by cortesoft | 2025-09-15 05:18:44+00:00
TLS is to protect you from malicious actors somewhere along your connection path. DNS can't help you.

Just imagine you succeeded in inventing a perfectly secure DNS server. Great, we know this IP address we just got back is the correct one for the server.

Ok, then I go to make a connection to that IP address, but someone on hop 3 of my connection is malicious, and instead of connecting me to the IP, just sends back a response pretending to be from that IP. How would I discover this? TLS would protect me from this, perfectly secure DNS won't.
Show HN: Aotol AI – Offline LLM app runs on iOS with voice and multilingual
by doublez78 | 2025-09-15 05:20:37+00:00
I’ve been experimenting with running LLMs directly on consumer devices. Aotol AI is an iOS app that runs a quantized model entirely on-device, with no network calls.

What it does: - Fully offline LLM chat (works even with no signal) - Multilingual text + voice (switch languages on the fly) - Conversations stay on your phone (no data sent out)

How it works: - Model: Llama 3.2 3B (quantized q4f16) - Size: ~2 GB app bundle - Inference: uses MLC-LLM + TVM runtime, optimized for iOS - Average response: ~1–2s/token on iPhone 15 Pro Max - Added voice chat using AVSpeechSynthesizer + SFSpeechRecognizer

Why: I wanted to test if “desktop-grade” LLM experiences could run locally on a phone, both for privacy and offline availability.

Limitations: - Accuracy is ~70% for general QA (small model, quantized) - Long prompts will slow down - Memory footprint is tight on older devices

Download (iOS): https://apps.apple.com/app/aotol-ai-private-on-device-ai/id6...

I’d love feedback from anyone experimenting with: - Smaller models on-device (sub-4B) - Optimizing quantization for speed vs accuracy - UX patterns for chat when inference can stall
by TZubiri | 2025-09-15 05:21:22+00:00
Brief reminder/clarification that these tools are used to circumvent WhatsApp ToS, and that they are used to:

1- Spam 2- Scam 3- Avoid paying for Whatsapp API (which is the only form of monetization)

And that the reason this thing gets so many updates is probably because of a mouse and cat game where Meta updates their software continuously to avoid these types of hacks and the maintainers do so as well, whether in automated or manual fashion.
by user3939382 | 2025-09-15 05:21:28+00:00
I couldn’t just leave an upvote because rather than read and agree, I immediately had the identical reaction and then saw your post. I may as well still be reading the order section in the back of my comic books or the gadgets in Popular Science.

I’m grateful the work is being done because it’s essential but no longer have faith in these things being solved in 5, 10, or 20 years.
by joshvm | 2025-09-15 05:21:52+00:00
Look out for sparks as well. There was a period when everything had sparks. It seems to have calmed down a bit but you still see it on action posters. Orange and teal is fascinating. Once you know it's a thing, you can't unsee it. Especially when the set dressers are in on it and characters have orange and teal books, light fittings and clutter.

https://www.theshiznit.co.uk/feature/how-to-design-a-hollywo...
by zxexz | 2025-09-15 05:22:20+00:00
Substantially. It is way more coarse, usually much more moist as well. Tends to be more “pure” tobacco with less additives, though I’m sure that’s not universal. I know somebody who does not smoke but buys it to keep in cabinets and various drawers because they love the smell. I must admit I am partial to the smell as well.
by jdietrich | 2025-09-15 05:22:49+00:00
The coil is part of the pod and therefore user-replaceable. The point of a pod system is to keep the coil and liquid in a self-contained system, which practically eliminates the risk of liquid leaks. All of these quasi-disposable vapes with replaceable pods and a charging port can be re-used hundreds of times.

I don't know why people dispose of the whole thing rather than just changing the pod, but at least it's a boon for electronics hobbyists.
by andrewdug | 2025-09-15 05:22:54+00:00
You're right. Parents can google it and explain it to their kid. Parents can find the answer in an encyclopedia, find a book about it, or find a youtube video for them. There are lots of options. I hope we didn't offend you.

As parents ourselves, we think it's helpful for kids to have independent access to the world's knowledge. We've found it helps them feel they can learn as far as their curiosity takes them instead of waiting for library day or waiting for us to look things up for them. Statistics show that most parents just end up letting their kids use Google independently, which has led to half of children today stumbling on adult images and videos by 12. For some reason, I don't see a lot of people criticizing that. Perhaps, because they don't market to kids. Kids just use it. That's probably what will happen with AI tools that don't specifically market to kids. They will have adult content, kids will get exposed, but they won't be blamed because they didn't market to kids.

We understand all parents have different opinions on these things. We basically just built the tool we want for our kids, and we want to give interested parents an extra option if they want it. One where it is impossible to find adult images, video, links, or advertisements.
by phil21 | 2025-09-15 05:23:16+00:00
Cake mixes almost always come ahead in blind taste tests. Very few bakers short of folks with a lot of volume are doing stuff from scratch.

It may or may not be healthier, but the subjective taste preferences of the masses is pretty much settled fact at this point.

Frosting is a different topic - totally agree there, but I haven't seen any blind taste tests on that one.

The professional bakers around me who do a dozen cakes a day or whatnot are all pre-made mixes, maybe some small modifications to the mix, and from-scratch frostings. I'm not sure I could even find a local spot with cakes made from scratch - at least in the traditional sense. The spots making 200 cakes a day perhaps, but those are going to look a lot more like the mixes you buy from Sysco or whatnot.
by indrora | 2025-09-15 05:23:37+00:00
Even regional differences in things.

If you say "one bar of butter", "one stick of butter", and "one pat of butter", these can all refer to three different things or the same thing, depending on where you are located. East Coast and West Coast US butter are sold in different size blocks (though both are "8 tbsp") however sometimes you'll find 4tbsp sticks on the west coast that look like 1/2 an East Coast stick that I've heard called pats.

Then Europe comes along and all the fancy European butters are made in 250g blocks, which are bigger than the 110g sticks but smaller than the package of 4 of them! This always confused my European friends when I'd say "oh I'll toss in a stick of butter" because they thought I was adding a quarter kilo of butter.
by samrus | 2025-09-15 05:23:49+00:00
So the proposal is that parents just input the age on their kid's device, and apps pull the age range to limit content.

Thats actually reasonable. Does not personally identify anyone, can be opted out of as easily as those "i am over 18" buttons. The only freedom being lost is by minors to their parents, which is already how things work. I like this
by hannob | 2025-09-15 05:24:21+00:00
For the people wondering why this does not show up as revoked in their browser: I believe the way the current revocation systems work is that browsers compile centralized lists of revoked certificates, but they do not contain all revoked certs, but only ones that indicate some form of security issue.

Certificates can be revoked with various revocation reasons, however, it looks this one has no specific revocation reason listed in the CRL. For a certificate that was revoked with a reason of "Key Compromise", things would be different, and most browsers would probably reject it.
by anasrin | 2025-09-15 05:24:38+00:00
Couple months ago I got message from random woman on Telegram, I'm sure from the account photo it self is AI generated, and start play along. After I got some photo of her, I start reverse search the photos and found some Russian forum [1] that some people share their experience about pig-butchering scam

[1] https://pikabu.ru/story/temu_neponyatnyiy_razvod_11302944