MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by runako | 2025-09-10 02:51:58+00:00
Thanks for weighing in here.

> we are also just coming off some insanely profitable years

Could you offer some color on the prominent narrative from farmers (even in this article) that the last few years have just been terrible for farmers? From TFA:

> This is the worst agriculture economy of my lifetime over at least the past three years

Thanks again for commenting.
by chrismorgan | 2025-09-10 02:52:04+00:00
Yeah, I feel that bit is just wrong, in three ways for me:

1. Like you, I never put credentials into links from emails that I didn’t trigger/wasn’t expecting. This is a generally-sensible practise.

2. Updating 2FA credentials is nonsense. I don’t expect everyone to know this, this is the weakest of the three.

3. If my credentials don’t autofill due to origin mismatch, I am not filling it manually. Ever. I would instead, if I thought it genuine, go to their actual site and log in there, and then see nothing about what the phish claimed. I’ve heard people talking about companies using multiple origins for their login forms and how having to deal with that undermines this aspect, but for myself I don’t believe I’ve ever seen that, not even once. It’s definitely not common, and origin-locked second factors should make that practice disappear altogether.

Now these three are not of equal strength. The second requires specific knowledge, and a phish could conceivably use something similar that isn’t such nonsense anyway. The first is a best practice that seems to require some discipline, so although everyone should do it, it is unfortunately not the strongest. But the third? When you’re using a password manager with autofill, that one should be absolutely robust. It protects you! You have to go out of your way to get phished!
by meltyness | 2025-09-10 02:53:45+00:00
tts would be an interesting case-study. it hasn't really been in the lime-light, so could serve as a leading indicator for what will happen when attention to text generation inevitably wanes

I use Read Aloud across a few browser platforms cause sometimes I don't care to read an article I have some passing interest in.

The landscape is a mess:

it's not really bandwidth efficient to transmit on one count, local frameworks like Piper perform well in alot of cases, there's paid APIs from the big players, at least one player has incorporated api-powered neural tts and packaged it into their browser presumably ad-supported or something, yet another has incorporated into their OS, already (though it defaults to speak and spell for god knows why). I'm not willing to pay $0.20 per page though, after experimenting, especially when the free/private solution is good enough.
by jasonjmcghee | 2025-09-10 02:53:54+00:00
Every engineer should understand how to use a debugger and a time profiler (one that gives a call tree). Knowing how to do memory profiling is incredibly valuable too.

So many problems can be solved with these.

And then there's some more specialized tooling depending on what you're doing that can be a huge help.

For SQL, the query planner and index hit/miss / full table scan.

And things like valgrind or similar for cache hit/miss.

Proper observability (spans/ traces) for APIs...

Knowing that the tools exist and how to use them can be the difference between software and great software.

Though system design / architecture is very important as well.
by hbn | 2025-09-10 02:54:44+00:00
The people monthly payment plans target are not able to afford the thing because they bought 30 other things on monthly payment plans in the past year and can't keep track of all the monthly payments they're owing until it's too late. That's the intent and why they're so popular now. It's why DoorDash is getting in on the action, so people will buy a Taco Bell delivery with a tempting price tag of only $4 at the time of purchase, multiple times a week for months until you owe hundreds of dollars.
by jameshart | 2025-09-10 02:54:58+00:00
> Servers will always have way more compute power than edge nodes

This doesn't seem right to me.

You take all the memory and CPU cycles of all the clients connected to a typical online service, compared to the memory and CPU in the datacenter serving it? The vast majority of compute involved in delivering that experience is on the client. And there's probably vast amounts of untapped compute available on that client - most websites only peg the client CPU by accident because they triggered an infinite loop in an ad bidding war; imagine what they could do if they actually used that compute power on purpose.

But even doing fairly trivial stuff, a typical browser tab is using hundreds of megs of memory and an appreciable percentage of the CPU of the machine it's loaded on, for the duration of the time it's being interacted with. Meanwhile, serving that content out to the browser took milliseconds, and was done at the same time as the server was handling thousands of other requests.

Edge compute scales with the amount of users who are using your service: each of them brings along their own hardware. Server compute has to scale at your expense.

Now, LLMs bring their special needs - large models that need to be loaded into vast fast memory... there are reasons to bring the compute to the model. But it's definitely not trivially the case that there's more compute in servers than clients.
by bpye | 2025-09-10 02:55:09+00:00
This still exists? You can also use JavaScript to script/extend and there is a native code API too.

Note: I do work at MSFT, I have used these capabilities but I’m not on the debugger team.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/d...

https://www.timdbg.com/posts/whats-the-target-model/

https://github.com/microsoft/WinDbg-Samples/tree/master
by qart | 2025-09-10 02:56:59+00:00
This is India. If people are informally reporting corruption in some institution, you'll be on the right track if you believe it to be true. There will never be any formal studies of such cartels. Journalists who attempt to report on such things are regularly murdered. Most people are simply oblivious. You saw in the main e-waste story how the journalist seemed oblivious to the cartel in front of his eyes. If you stay in an independent house, not a flat, you might want to look into cartels of water tankers too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mukesh_Chandrakar
by nickpsecurity | 2025-09-10 02:57:07+00:00
There's multiple options:

1. Hit them with fines or punitive damages high enough to wipe out all their operating profit and executive pay for as many years as a person would be in prison.

2. Seize the company (retainership?), replace its executives, and make the new leaders sign off to not do that thing again. That's in addition to a huge fine.

3. Dissolve it. Liquidate its assets.

They usually just let the big companies off while throwing everything they have at many individuals who aren't corporations.

For settlement-type deals, maybe see if they'll give all authors they ripped off free access to Claude models, too. They reap the benefits of what was produced. At cost with certain amount of free credits.
by gpm | 2025-09-10 02:57:20+00:00
Just a FYI that it's closer to $6750 (Anthropic pays $9000, but 25% is likely to go to the attorneys - the exact number here is up to the court).

Can't help but feel the reporting about $3000/work is going to leave a lot of authors disappointed when they receive ~$2250 even if they'd have been perfectly happy if that was the number they initially saw.
by JamisonM | 2025-09-10 02:58:01+00:00
Define "enough"? The article in question is about Arkansas and broad acre farming, there is 600+ million acres of farm in the midwest down to the delta 99% of which isn't close to a major population center. There is lots of pressure in areas of California and all up and down the west coast up to Vancouver.. but that is a trivial amount a farm land in the grand scheme of things (and specialized due to climate, water, and market access issues that don't apply to most farm land in the US or really anywhere)
by hbn | 2025-09-10 02:58:13+00:00
They've been using that terminology for like a decade. They take multiple photos and use ML to figure out how to layer them together into a final image where everything is adequately exposed, and applies denoising. Google has done the same thing on Pixels since they've existed.

That's very different from taking that final photo and then running it through generative AI to guess what objects are. Look at the images in that article. It made the stop sign into a perfectly circular shiny button. I've never seen artifacting like that on a photo before.
by maxbond | 2025-09-10 02:59:22+00:00
Thank you for the suggestion. It's a reasonable one. I'm undecided. The --help output is pretty long, I don't want to put so much information in the README that it damages it's legibility. But you're right that the documentation is maybe too dense for easy discovery. I'll add it to the docs shortly, but for the README I'm going to keep thinking about it for now.

I've created an issue: https://github.com/MaxBondABE/attempt/issues/5
by YetAnotherNick | 2025-09-10 02:59:38+00:00
Asked AI:

- Sam Bankman-Fried (FTX): Sentenced to 25 years in prison in 2024 for orchestrating a massive fraud involving the misappropriation of billions in customer funds.

- Elizabeth Holmes (Theranos): Began an 11-year prison sentence in 2023 after being convicted of defrauding investors with false claims about her blood-testing technology.

- Ramesh "Sunny" Balwani (Theranos): The former president of Theranos was sentenced to nearly 13 years in prison for his role in the same fraud as Elizabeth Holmes.

- Trevor Milton (Nikola Corporation): Convicted of securities and wire fraud, he was sentenced to four years in prison in 2023.

- Ippei Mizuhara: The former translator for MLB star Shohei Ohtani was charged in April 2024 with bank fraud for illegally transferring millions from the athlete's account.

- Sergei Potapenko and Ivan Turogin: Convicted in February 2025 for a $577 million cryptocurrency fraud scheme.

- Bernard Madoff: Sentenced to 150 years in prison in 2009 for running the largest Ponzi scheme in history. He died in prison in 2021.

- Jeffrey Skilling (Enron): The former CEO of Enron was sentenced to 24 years in prison in 2006 for fraud and conspiracy. His sentence was later reduced, and he was released in 2019.

- Dennis Kozlowski (Tyco International): The former CEO served over six years in prison after being convicted in 2005 for looting millions from the company.

- Bernard "Bernie" Ebbers (WorldCom): Sentenced to 25 years in prison for orchestrating an $11 billion accounting fraud. He was granted early release in 2019 and died shortly after.

Apart from this list I know Nissan's ex CEO was put into solitary confinement for months.
by ninetyninenine | 2025-09-10 02:59:38+00:00
IQ is one of the most heavily studied constructs in psychology. Modern IQ tests have over a century of development behind them, starting with Binet and refined through versions like the WAIS-IV and Stanford–Binet. They have high test–retest reliability, meaning a person’s score tends to be stable unless there’s brain injury, illness, or some major change. Scores correlate strongly with academic performance, job performance in cognitively demanding roles, and even certain life outcomes like income, health behaviors, and longevity. There’s also a body of neuroscience work showing links between IQ and measures like processing speed, working memory, and brain connectivity.

The “IQ is BS” meme mostly comes from misunderstandings and misuse. People often assume IQ is meant to measure all kinds of intelligence when it really focuses on certain reasoning and problem-solving skills. Early tests had cultural biases, and while modern versions address this better, that history sticks. It’s also been used for discriminatory purposes, which has left a bad taste even when the measurement itself is valid. Critics are right that IQ doesn’t capture creativity, emotional intelligence, or practical skills—but psychologists never claimed it did.

In short, IQ is a valid and reliable measure for a specific set of cognitive abilities. It’s not the whole story of intelligence, but dismissing it outright ignores a large and consistent body of evidence.
by bediger4000 | 2025-09-10 02:59:44+00:00
Even if you have and use a debit card, you should use it as a credit card, for better consumer protection. Run as a credit card, I believe some scams and bad purchases can be refunded. Run as a debit card, you are pretty much out of luck on a scam purchase.

The charge to the merchant is higher for credit card than debit card transactions: merchants prefer you to use a debit card as such.

Always skip entering your PIN if you can.

We wouldn't have these problems if we hadn't privatized our electronic money. The US government runs check clearing and that's either free or nearly free, which is why businesses want you to do ACH if they can get you to, especially for subscriptions.
by goku12 | 2025-09-10 03:00:00+00:00
Please remember that the 'Third World' doesn't refer to countries in squalor. It referred to the bloc of nations that were not aligned with either the Western bloc (First World) led by the US or the Eastern/Communist bloc (Second World) led by the USSR. Quoting directly from Wikipedia:

> Strictly speaking, "Third World" was a political, rather than economic, grouping.

> Since most Third World countries were economically poor and non-industrialized, it became a stereotype to refer to developing countries as "third-world countries".

> Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, the term Third World has decreased in use. It is being replaced with terms such as developing countries, least developed countries or the Global South.
by charcircuit | 2025-09-10 03:00:02+00:00
>No, because that's illegal.

But why is it illegal if it's physically possible for you to take it? By your line of reasoning it shouldn't be illegal in the first place.

>You are REQUESTING to run advertisement scripts on my computer.

That's an implementation detail of how the webpage works and does not matter. You are focusing too much on the way it's implemented and not the high level picture of how it works. If you have to get to the point of describing the HTTP protocol to justify why what you are doing is moral, you need to realize that you are just coming up with a justification for your actions to not feel bad about doing bad things. You should just accept that you are being greedy and you will block ads because you don't care if creators make money from ads and want to prioritize having an ad free experience.
by achierius | 2025-09-10 03:00:08+00:00
It's more complicated than that, so I just use 15/16 to gesture at the general idea. E.g. some strategies for ensuring adjacent tags don't collide can include splitting the tags-range in half and tagging from one or the other based on the parity of an object within its slab allocation region. But even 1/7 is still solid.
by lazycouchpotato | 2025-09-10 03:00:30+00:00
Base Pixel 10 is the same as iPhone 17 at USD 800.

Yes the Pixel 10 now has telephoto but they nerfed the cameras from the Pixel 9 for that.

In the Pro models for both the pricing is comparable, yeah.

Also realized that Apple charges $200 to jump from 256 GB to 512 GB. That's ridiculous.
by nobody9999 | 2025-09-10 03:01:10+00:00
I use Network Cell Info Lite[0] for this purpose.

Sadly, it's only available in the Google/Apple stores (if anyone knows of a similar tool that's available elsewhere, I'd love to hear about it!)

It allows me to locate the "cell towers" I'm connecting to and that are nearby, as well as the devices around me, and will map them for me.

In fact, several years ago, I noted a brand spanking new "cell tower a block or so away (this is in NYC) that appeared to be in the street(!). It stayed there for a couple weeks and then was gone. It sure seemed like it was an IMSI catcher[1].

It's not directly the feature set you suggest, but can certainly be used to identify the towers near you -- and any new ones that might "pop up."

[0] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wilysis.ce...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMSI-catcher

Edit: Another comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45189302 ) mentioned snoopsnitch (https://github.com/srlabs/snoopsnitch ) and other tools which, apparently can do similar (and more apropos to the topic at hand) things as Network Cell Info Lite.
by admin_account | 2025-09-10 03:01:30+00:00
That’s interesting! My mind always just assumes the reason is some “core” biological reason. I think contralateral wiring helps the brain manage signal sequencing while preserving evolutionary symmetry.

The spinal cord handles rapid reflexes (pulling away from a hot stove), leaving the brain for slower non-immediate tasks. By crossing nerves before they reach the brain a standardized delay is introduced, giving the brain a predictable offset to filter against. The optic chiasm follows the same logic.

And I think this is necessary to keep same-side brain-body pairs from over-optimizing (direct nerve connection from the right hand to the right brain hemisphere) their paths at the expense of balance, preserving biological symmetry.
by thund | 2025-09-10 03:01:46+00:00
Around 2000-2005 there was a race for the smallest phone with ludicrously small displays. I believe Nokia was kind of leading and “winning” the race. Then blackberry and iPhone reversed trajectory and suddenly bigger was better, and Nokia died out.

I think we are on the same path here, thinner is not what I want. I want a powerhouse that can run AI for at least 48 hours on the worst conditions, a week at least in an ideal scenario.
by therobots927 | 2025-09-10 03:02:36+00:00
Very good advice. I make a big effort to stay on the good side of the law as like you I have a healthy respect for their abilities. I’m also interested in your last couple sentences there about sending them on wild goose chases. It reminds me of a YouTube video I watched recently about a way to send AI data scrapers into an infinite hall of mirrors filled with randomly generated text. Not something I have the time to cook up at the moment but I found it amusing. At the same time it’s not hard for me to imagine how easy it would be to pass laws that make such efforts to poison AI a felony.
by ninetyninenine | 2025-09-10 03:02:38+00:00
No I'm just voted down. Not flagged. You were voted down as well because your response is against the rules and rude.

What I said got you angry. But I am stating a factual truth and opinion. You need to learn how to respect other peoples opinion, because your anger and disillusionment is what causes the same thing as censorship.

The truth hurts, but you can't restrict it just because it hurts.
by FollowingTheDao | 2025-09-10 03:02:47+00:00
It’s not secret , it’s published widely and I read it often. Here’s an example of how much cheaper Canadian farmland is an American farmland.

And your farmland is not only cheaper, but it’s more productive.

You can’t compare the United States and Canada because we have different political systems. I mean, you guys get free healthcare. You can probably afford to buy land because you’re not spending all your money on outrageous insurance premiums, or out-of-pocket cost from going to the doctor.

https://www.producer.com/news/prairie-farmland-still-a-barga... Western Canadian farmland is cheap when compared to Europe and the United States, says the director of an investment fund with offices in Calgary and Toronto.
by brundolf | 2025-09-10 03:03:22+00:00
I feel like Dropbox has never figured out how to expand beyond folder sync. Which, it's still a fantastic folder-sync client and I'm a very happy customer of that product. But I mostly just have to swat away all the other things that pop up because I don't need them. And folder sync seems like a dying market, as fewer and fewer people work with files on disk
Show HN: Null0 – A fun and easy game-engine for use with any language
by konsumer | 2025-09-10 03:03:39+00:00
This is a 2D game-engine that runs user's code from WASM, so you can make a game in any language that can target that. It's designed for learning about programming, and just having a quick place to try out ideas in whatever language you like. Games runs in the browser and native. You bundle your game (wasm) and any assets into a zip file, and you can also make a standalone native game, similar to how love2d works (copy the cart + executable together.)

Currently, I have full support for games written in C, js and nelua, but more will come soon (I auto-generate headers from a central API definition to make it easier to make games in each cart-language.)

I have the main API I want to support (WASI + lots of game-helpers and callbacks for drawing/sound/input/etc) complete, so the next phase for me is adding more cart-languages & examples, and improving the docs.

Let me know what you think!
by 9rx | 2025-09-10 03:03:55+00:00
> Could you offer some color on the prominent narrative from farmers (even in this article) that the last few years have just been terrible for farmers?

I honestly have no idea. Three years ago in particular is when the perfect storm lead to historically high commodity prices. If that's what they consider the worst time in agriculture history, I have no understanding of where they are coming from. The problem right now is that the input costs are still trying to act as if it is still three years ago, which is a problem, but the cure for high prices is high prices. I see no reason to think that will last.

As suggested before, it is likely that they are overleveraged and the loss of profitability coupled with higher interest rates is what is killing them. That's the trouble with trying to be a mid-sized player.
by ants_everywhere | 2025-09-10 03:04:16+00:00
I'm not making a judgment about whether it's a good or bad thing for the kid. I don't know the literature to have a position. I'm just contextualizing the data.

In practical terms, the states kind of have different definitions of what it means to be in 4th grade. And that's one way of increasing your score on this particular measurement.

I think the right thing to do is intervene before students are held back. But that costs money and might make your NAEP scores worse if the student just squeaks by this year rather than staying behind a year. But I don't have the data on how much they're attempting to intervene in cases where students look like they're going to be held back.