MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by markx2 | 2025-09-10 14:26:21+00:00
I joined /r/gamedeals as a mod when the subscriber count was ~25k I left when I think it was ~700k That's a pretty good increase, yet despite the huge increase in numbers this was not reflected in upvotes and comment numbers.

https://old.reddit.com/r/GameDeals/top/

There will be multiple reasons why this happened but changing to this new metric - engagement - makes sense.

At one point the sub mods were asked by the reddit admins if we wanted to be in the default selection for new users and we declined. It will be interesting to see how defaults are now offered given that I understand the default was based on subscriber numbers.
by chlodwig | 2025-09-10 14:26:35+00:00
Taking care of a baby can be very social ... as long as the other mother's aren't all at work.

And what exactly are these jobs that are a rest compared to taking care of a baby? Are they actually economically productive or are they bureaucratic fake jobs?

I have noticed that many of my peer parents make parenting more stressful than it needs to be, and don't invest enough in learning techniques to make it less stressful. Like, some parents don't even invest in baby-proofing and then they are constantly chasing their toddler around. But, the first year of baby is always going to be stressful because everything is so new, just as the first year at a brand new job is always going to be more stressful than a job one is highly experienced at.
by malshe | 2025-09-10 14:26:44+00:00
> the text of the email reads like one you'd get from npm in the tone, format and lack of obvious spelling & grammatical errors.

As a university professor whose email address is public, I've been regularly getting phishing emails for years. Many of these are targeted and devoid of any spelling or grammatical errors. I am sure generative AI is making writing these emails easier but by how much is unknown.
by dijit | 2025-09-10 14:26:50+00:00
I mean, you’re right you need systems and people need to get places.

But I used Malmö and Orlando as specific examples of extreme behaviour because in Malmö I can get around very easily. I can go anywhere in the city at any time with complete freedom even though there is good public transport it only enhances the situation. - I don’t depend on it in the same way you imply.

Where as in Orlando I was completely dependent on a car and any public transport that could exist would be wholly insufficient due to the distance you would have to travel: because of all the enormous car parking lots and expansive highways.
by Hizonner | 2025-09-10 14:27:11+00:00
Microsoft will cut off your account if any of its abuse detection heuristics misfire. You will probably not get it back, ever, period. And, by the way, I don't remember if it was for email or storage or both, but Microsoft has admitted to going so far as trying to brute-force the passwords on encrypted ZIP files to run those heuristics.

Microsoft will (intentionally) lose your incoming mail if, say, it comes from the wrong AS. You have no control over most of that, and you will not be told about it.

Microsoft may or may not be data mining the actual content of your email. Possibly also after trying to break your encryption.

Since you not only use Microsoft to process mail, but have also inexplicably decided to use Microsoft's domain name for your address, you'll find it difficult to ever move away from Microsoft. If your account gets deleted without warning, you'll be permanently screwed. If Microsoft, say, decides to go out of the email business in 10 years, or start charging some ridiculous fee, you'll probably at least get some notice, so you'll only have to scramble to change your address before the hammer falls.

AND you're contributing to the centralization of the whole damned Internet.

The better alternative is to self-host. Even though you'll then constantly have to worry about your outgoing mail getting dropped, at least you'll be in a position to notice if that happens.

If for some reason you can't handle that, then at least register your own domain and host it with a smaller provider that gives you some guarantees. You will, of course, have to actually pay a small to moderate fee for the reliability.
by Othan | 2025-09-10 14:27:18+00:00
> If there is more congestion it is because you made some trips that were impossible before possible and so people are better using your city.

No, this means that the trip was made easier by car, not that a trip was impossible and is now possible.

> limiting the things people can do means you are a bad city.

Not building massive freeways everywhere != limiting the things people can do in a city. Building public transit and better cycling infra is a much more effective way to allow people to do more things.

> if you don't believe me explain why there is no congestion west of Jamestown ND - an area where few people live that has a 4 lane freeway which by your logic should have congestion anyway

Yes, in certain circumstances, you can build big enough roads where the capacity is greater than the demand. This does not work in populated areas with high demand. (This is incredibly well studied)
by sleepyguy | 2025-09-10 14:27:24+00:00
Here in North Texas, school districts drop tens of millions on artificial turf for junior high and high school football fields. Some even run bond elections to build stadiums and training facilities that would make an NFL team jealous. Meanwhile, academics sit dead last on the priority list—kids are walking across the stage barely able to read or write. Honestly, if AI came in and torched the whole education system, it might be an upgrade. Hard to do worse than the geniuses running things now, who seem to think Friday night lights are more important than literacy.
by samuelbalogh | 2025-09-10 14:27:39+00:00
Wrote an mcp server for Cursor Background Agents. This makes Cursor agents accessible like any other tool: your AI-assisted IDE (Kilo, Cline, Roo, etc) can spin them up programmatically, fan out subtasks in parallel, or wire them into ci/cd pipelines. It’s useful for distributing long coding jobs, spreading out llm costs, and treating Cursor as just another composable backend service.
by trenchpilgrim | 2025-09-10 14:27:39+00:00
Hellfires have a selection of available warheads. The newest ones have multi-purpose warheads that have different selectable explosive patterns for different types of target. Even physically twisting the missile to get better hit probability on an air target:

https://www.twz.com/usaf-testing-mutant-missiles-that-twist-...

This area of defense technology has been moving very quickly in the past few years, many assumptions the general public holds about military weapons and tactics are long obsolete.
by jonhohle | 2025-09-10 14:27:42+00:00
I don’t mind using a debugger, but one of the advantages to printed debugging is that it is universal. I work on a project with code in five languages (6 if you count the build system, 7 if you add shell scripts). Two of them I know the debugger very well. One of them I might be able to get by. One of the others I might have use the debugger once and the last I’ve never touched.

printf debugging works in all of them, even the build system and shell scripts.

A debugger can be great, no question about it, even for remote debugging. In my experience, I’ve seen fewer people effectively debug unfamiliar systems quickly.
by shadowgovt | 2025-09-10 14:27:52+00:00
Unfortunately, unless we install some kind of back-stop to facilitate people moving without ruining themselves (since the median American has a little under half their net worth tied up in their home), this will be a messy transition. You can't sell those houses to afford to move elsewhere since the whole problem is they can't safely be houses anymore (as the sage said, "Sell them to who, Ben? F**ing Aquaman?").

We will all pay the tab to restructure society to avoid this climate change effect, or we won't and we can expect the people who get screwed to not be particularly invested in being part of this society.
by bluGill | 2025-09-10 14:28:19+00:00
Parking lots near stations make sense only at the farthest out place. They are for farmers coming into town for that big once a month trip, and hobby farmers driving from their "acrage" to their day job. The vast majority of people should be taking transit from their door to where they are going.

Note that I said "place" not station - stations should be your highest demand places since they are so easy to get to. That real estate should be far too valuable to stores too waste on a parking lot. That parking lot should have a shuttle to the station, not be a station itself.

Remember once somebody has got into a car they have paid most of the costs of having a car. They will always be asking why not drive all the way instead of stopping part way. Your goal should be every family sells a car because they don't need two (they still keep a "truck" for towing the boat or whatever they think they need it for, they just don't use it for most trips and don't need a backup vehicle)
by hennell | 2025-09-10 14:28:25+00:00
Anyone is a literal stretch, but "almost anyone" seems pretty true. How many people do you think follow your very security minded, but quite long-winded practice? 1 in 1000?, 1 in 10,000? 1 in 100,000? Less?

I think the vast vast majority of people would have fallen for it, it's a decent looking message, it has a sense of urgency and the domain doesn't look wildly wrong. Devs in theory might be more security aware, but also we work with a lot of different apps, systems and sites - mixed domains, weird deep-links, redirects we've all used (and possibly even deployed) such setups.

Add in most of my email is now through a corporate outlook, so domains aren't very visible it's all nestled behind "safelinks", and personal email is often on a phone so mousing over a link just isn't muscle memory anymore.

I think I'd be suspicious at the request, but possibly have clicked to see more, especially with the threat things might stop working soon. Maybe NPM/package platforms should be pushing security training to their biggest maintainers like your old corporation did, but for now they don't and the idea that people should be more aware of the risk is sort of the point.

Almost anyone would have fallen for that, thats why almost all of us need to be reminded to think of this stuff more.
by stetrain | 2025-09-10 14:28:47+00:00
The cheaper option for Apple would be to use smaller camera sensors with worse performance because that would reduce the depth needed for the sensor + lens.

The cameras are getting bigger because a decent segment of the customers want better performing cameras on their phone.

Either the whole phone would have to get thicker and heavier to accommodate, or you end up with a camera bump. And yes, some people would want that brick phone, but Apple seems to think it isn't a large market segment and the money they print from iPhone sales seems to point to them being decent at gauging that market.
by echelon | 2025-09-10 14:28:55+00:00
I'll limit the scope of my reply to hurricane zones as wildfires and flooding are a bit different.

People in hurricane zones are used to evacuating and have plenty of advanced notice. For the vast majority of the time they're able to enjoy a healthy beach lifestyle - relaxing, great climate, fun hobbies. It's extremely rewarding to live near the beach. I'm sure there are studies that show positive impact to health and healthspan outcomes as well.

The problem is that America was for several generations living in a privileged bubble. The post-WWII period was very good for us. We could afford to build, rebuild, and rebuild again. Labor costs and material costs were low, and there wasn't overwhelming demand. This advantage lasted for a whopping 50 years as we transitioned from strength to strength, shifting from a manufacturing economy to a robust consumption and services economy.

Until recently, it didn't cost a million dollars to put a home near the beach. What's changed is the economic position of the country and the financial capability of the average American. We can't build houses for $60,000 anymore.

This is less a signal of "insurance getting smarter" and more of a signal the outsized advantages of America are coming (have already come) to an end.
by nikole9696 | 2025-09-10 14:29:01+00:00
Let me know when Siri can do even the most basic things using natural language. It can't even properly answer things like "hey siri, is apple juice already on my shopping list" or answer most questions that require a web search. Summarize it for crying out loud, I asked you because I'm not right next to my screen to click search results.

THAT would make me take an upgrade. Until then, I'm just keeping this phone until it goes out of support.
by tim-fan | 2025-09-10 14:29:05+00:00
I'm hoping for a self driving taxi + trains combo to maybe solve the problem.

For one a self driving taxi fleet could take up vastly less space - you'd no longer need one car per person, you'd need far fewer parking spots, most cars could be single or double seaters again taking less space and running more efficiently.

The space savings could be used to boost rail-based public transit options, which would see more adoption as self driving taxis make last-mile transport cheaper and easier. A bunch of positive feedback loops driving public transit adoption and improvements.

Result is cleaner and more efficient transport for all, and vast amounts of space returned from serving cars to serving people.

At least that's the dream!
by bluSCALE4 | 2025-09-10 14:29:09+00:00
17 Air - 2025 - 156.2mm x 74.7mm x 5.64mm, 165g

Sony Xperia Z2 - 2014 - 172mm x 266mm x 6.4 mm - 439g

Sony made nearly equally thin but lighter devices 11 years ago.
by acomjean | 2025-09-10 14:29:30+00:00
You have to take people’s concerns seriously, but “cities are so dangerous” has returned as a political thing and is hard to change as long as one group is making these claims for political reasons.

I’ll point out that we had a postdoc in the lab I worked in from India, then Germany. When he told people he was going to Boston people told him he was crazy to come to crime ridden america where everyone has guns. He laughed about it hind-site but that image is real and gave him pause. It does real damage.

Cities aren’t perfect, but traffic needs to get bad enough or too costly and people will take transit (as my cousin pointed out about living in NYC). I just ended up riding my bike 50 minutes to work.
by OutOfHere | 2025-09-10 14:29:32+00:00
The way we think about time is very human-centric, and specifically it relates to individuals, not even to the lengths of civilizations. Even a human civilization is expected to last at least a thousand years. As for 4000 years or even 100,000 years, that would be nothing much to an AI. It would purportedly take several hundreds of thousands of years before sufficient memory corruption sank in to the point where algorithmically repairing the corruption, even if in a low steady dose, would be akin to neutering the individual identity of the AI.
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by nir-zicherman | 2025-09-10 14:29:47+00:00
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by yepitwas | 2025-09-10 14:30:00+00:00
Reading the actual study, this appears to be a preschool program of 2.5 hours minimum, not adding on to an existing school day. There are also a lot more details about outcomes and they're wildly positive for an intervention period of just two years. The authors estimate the ROI (from increased productivity and savings on various costs) at an astounding 16x.

There are way more metrics in there, including more crime stats. The one somenameforme chose to highlight has a ton of ambiguity, leaving it open to the reader to guess that maybe all the program participants were arrested merely four times by age 40, so in fact this program sucks (plus somenameforme's scare-quotes on "only"), but the paper itself contains far more information and paints a clear picture of outstanding success for a relatively small intervention. Somenameforme's characterization of the study doesn't match the contents.

If that's the evidence a person's citing, the evidence they've cited is screaming "this works great", not the opposite, as implied. It may still not be true, but if so... cite different evidence to support that, because this study says this intervention was wildly successful.
by perryizgr8 | 2025-09-10 14:30:01+00:00
I want ai agents controlling my laptop, my desktop and my phone. I'm tired of doing everything manually. These personal devices should be brimming with intelligence, anticipating my every move, offering to complete my tasks, touching up photos and videos automatically, having a perfect memory and awareness of my online and offline life. I think the real barrier right now is cost. But i can't wait to get to that future.

Example: sometimes i start working on a thing on my laptop in the living room, realise I would rather finish it on the desktop. My laptop has a camera, the desktop has a webcam, my phone has multiple cameras. An ai agent should be monitoring all these and more sensors and my laptop screen and be able to deduce that I want to continue on the desktop. By the time I reach the desktop it should be awake, and in the same state I left off on the laptop.
by ninetyninenine | 2025-09-10 14:30:07+00:00
I’m not implying immigration leads to US decline. The pool I refer to is international. China.

Environmental factors Of China have been changing in the past 3 decades leading to extraordinary gain in IQ. This re normalizes the IQ every year which leads to what appears to be a decline in IQ in the US.

Genetics plays a part because with the economic infrastructure of China supporting students to their maximum potential it brings the playing field on par with US. China no longer has to deal with poverty effecting IQ scores.

This with environment in parity the only thing left is really genetics.
by dragonwriter | 2025-09-10 14:30:36+00:00
> For the silent down voters, when has Trump shown signs of senility?

For quite a while. Even compared to the already generally incoherent speaking style of his first term, his speech has been unfocussed, his grasp of facts worse, etc., during his second term. Even before that, the cognitive test he bragged about passing his first term isn't sonething that is ever indicated without symptoms of cognitive impairment, his speaking style, grasp of facts, etc., in even his first term shows significant decline from his earlier public life, heck even his extreme forward leaning stance, while it can have other source, is a symptom of certain kinds of dementia.

Aside from fairly extreme media bias issues stemming from business and political interests of media owners that became undeniable with the public active intervention of a number of media owners late in the 2024 campaign, he gets a pass for this for a number of reasons, including the fact that critics generally have a lot of bigger fish to fry, some critics see pointing to cognitive dysfunction as mitigating arguments they want to make about conscious moral evil, incoherence and looseness with facts being a noted feature of his speaking style making people less likely to note changes that are changes in degree rather than kind for him, etc.
by SilasX | 2025-09-10 14:30:51+00:00
Because the onus is on you to show the substantive difference. Learning from copyrighted works has always been accepted as free and unrestricted, up until 2022. Before that, nobody (to a rounding error) thought that simply being influenced by a previous copyright work meant you owed a license fee. If anything, people would have been livid about restrictions on their right to learn.

Only when big-corp critics needed another pretense to support a conclusion they long agreed with for other reasons, did they decide that the right to learn from your exposure to a copyright work was infringement.

If you're interested in the similarities and genuinely curious, you could look at the article linked above, which shows how both LLMs and humans store a high-level understanding of their training set. It's a way deeper parallel than "it's all learning" -- but you have to be willing to engage with the other side rather than just strawman it.
by mothballed | 2025-09-10 14:30:59+00:00
I looked up, i.e. Chicago. There were double the number of homicides vs fatal car accidents. I don't pretend those can be compared 1:1, but I'll note when I took public transit it wasn't just the risk of being on the transit but also getting dumped out near areas that were violent assault / murder hot spots.

The public transit stations I rode in the eastern part of Cleveland would become or already were hood rat hangouts where I would routinely see vicious beatings. I eventually started biking, which was a bit safer, although still then someone tried to rob me at gunpoint when my bicycle got a flat near the public transit line. I finally moved to somewhere with no public transit and haven't dealt with such violent threats since. I learned public transit = robbery/gang express, get further away and you get further away from their getaway -- although many of them know not to 'shit where they eat' by doing it right on the train car. Another plus of getting off public transit was the ability to carry a weapon, in case some jackass tried it again.
by bentcorner | 2025-09-10 14:31:02+00:00
IMO there's a gap between "charge every day" and "charge once a week" that needs to be crossed.

In other words, if they made the battery last twice as long it'd still be equally as annoying (since your daily routine would be nearly the same, except now you also need to remember if it's a charge day or non-charge day).

To be fair maybe 3/4 days buys you some convenience. But anyways charging once a day is a reasonable place to get to, to get something better would require at minimum a 3x improvement which probably means a ground-up rework instead of continuous refinement.

A battery band might get you there but I suspect it'd be too clunky. At best Apple may redesign their watch to support a battery band and allow 3rd parties to make them for folks that need weeks of battery life.
by epolanski | 2025-09-10 14:31:05+00:00
In switzerland you pay income taxes based on your city/neighborhood.

This means that cities have generally higher income taxes as they offer more services.

But here's the catch, since suburbs and neighboring villages have lower income taxes...property is still expensive, because high earners are going to raise the prices in order to pay less taxes.

It's a very balanced system.

In any case, most Swiss cities have pedestrian downtowns and areas combined with normal car-friendly roads.