MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nwah1 | 2025-09-10 20:56:23+00:00
If the solution to the Fermi Paradox is that there's a great filter that prevents many advanced civilizations from sticking around long enough to be observable, then we hope that the filter is behind us rather than in front of us.

The more common that life is, the more likely it is in front of us.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Filter
by techcode | 2025-09-10 20:56:29+00:00
Waste of time you say? Were never life changing?

I'm curious to hear what's your definition of "life changing"?

Salaried tech compensation in Europe grew quite a lot over the last 10+ years. Still behind US, but no longer by as much as before.

Back in 2005, 2010, and even 2015 - companies were benchmarking salaries locally (and even down to that specific country). With FAANG opening up shops in EU, all other bigger tech companies started to benchmark compensation somewhat globally.

I know plenty of European software engineers that got a house with 30 years mortgage, and (with salary, RSUs and bonuses) paid it off in <10 years.

Granted, cost of real estate is now 3x compared to 10-15 years ago (other costs are also bigger, but not 3x). From what I've seen it's the same just about anywhere in Europe.

So if you just got a mortgage now, it will take longer.

But still - there's usually enough salary left (even after spending on traveling with 25+ vacation days) to put loads of money into rainy day funds, expensive hobbies, as well as investments/FIRE.

Most other sectors are not really close.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-09-10 20:56:32+00:00
Mad respects.

People might say that the company is doing it for good will, but that is the point, it is better to get the good will of the users by actually helping them instead of being like thousands of other companies which don't even do that. It is a nuanced topic but I feel like we should encourage companies which do good period. (like silksong / team cherry in gaming) etc.

I will look further into this now :p thanks!
by rrmm | 2025-09-10 20:56:32+00:00
I think the building blocks of life are so common in the universe it might be a case of "easy come, easy go". It wouldn't be surprising if simple life happened anywhere it was given half a chance at all, but one would equally expect that it would die out just as quickly when conditions changed (which they certainly did on Mars).

And of course nothing is ruling out life in the nooks and crannies of Mars.
by dogweather | 2025-09-10 20:56:40+00:00
Yes - makes me think of the assassination of Shinzo Abe.

The gunman made his own gun, in a country with ultra-strict gun laws. The Unabomber made his own bombs. The Seattle mall Islamist knife attacker refused to stay down after being shot multiple times.

My takeaway: political terrorists are particularly motivated. Secondly, gun laws slow them down but don't stop them.
by AngryData | 2025-09-10 20:56:56+00:00
Regular people suffer no matter what the problem is, they have always been the front line to blunt the effects of economic, political, or military tolls. The whole reason people resort to political violence is to inflate a problem so large that not even the "bourgeoisie" can completely shield themselves from it. If someone feels they are suffering or dead without doing anything, then suffering or dieing from actually taking action against your perceived oppressors seems like a decent option.
by mtalantikite | 2025-09-10 20:57:03+00:00
> I like to think that books (novels and fantasy) are low-resolution prose, so the crux of the matter is distributed — mostly useless info — across several pages.

Well, novels are just more subtle. A good novel will get you deep into the emotional landscape of it's subject, or give you a vivid portrait of a scene that is happening, or transport you to a historical or future time. You get to embody a particular character or world, which builds your own personal knowledge and empathy. We're not just reading a collection of facts or statements. We can get lost in the beauty of a landscape we've never visited before in a novel, which is the crux of the matter, even if it doesn't seem like it.

Those sorts of novels tend to be challenging to read, but most things worth doing challenge us. If you've never read something like Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian, or Toni Morrison's Beloved, or Gabo's 100 Years of Solitude, or many of the other great artistic achievements in literature, you really should challenge yourself to do so. They make us better.
by _bramses | 2025-09-10 20:57:35+00:00
A lot of good ideas in this comment section.

I’ll say this: between store, search, synthesize and share, store and synthesize are consistently the most difficult to nail down.

A society that wishes to succeed in creating an activated and knowledgeable populous should be interested in how to train people to notice better, and to create insightful follows.

In the words of David Deutsch (paraphrasing): knowledge consists of conjecture and error correction
by russellbeattie | 2025-09-10 20:58:07+00:00
Those were my thoughts exactly.

There was no presidential message expressing sympathy and outrage then and complete radio silence from Republicans in general. And the amount of misinformation from the right was incredible. Even in this thread of nominally intelligent people, they're still repeating falsehoods.

Any expression of shock and dismay from conservatives now is pure theater. The right wing is absolutely fine with violence. Accusations of the violent left is of course a talking point projection as usual.
by davidgu | 2025-09-10 20:58:27+00:00
Amanda says thank you so much!

I actually agree that it’s become incredibly easy to transcribe conversations using open-source models, and that’s not where Recall adds the most value. The hard part is building the infrastructure that allows you to get real-time access to the raw audio, video, and transcript data directly from the meeting platforms. We abstract all of that away and provide you with a clean interface to access that data. Once you get the data, you could use any of the models that you mentioned to do your own transcription, or transcribe using Recall’s transcription models.
by normalaccess | 2025-09-10 20:59:09+00:00
Here is the breakdown for illegal immigration by country of origin:

By region: Mexico + Central America collectively made up 68% (~9.3 million) South America – ~12% (~1.7 million) Asia – ~6% (~851,000) Europe, Canada, Oceania – ~7% (~896,000) Caribbean – ~4% (~575,000) Africa – ~3% (~415,000) Source: migrationpolicy.org
by akshaysg | 2025-09-10 20:59:10+00:00
> you likely have a bigger organizational issue

Could you expound on this? In my experience as a software engineer, a pull request could fall into one of two buckets (assuming it's not trivial):

1. The PR is not organized by the author so it's skimmed and not fully understood because it's so hard to follow along

2. The PR author puts a lot of time into organizing the pull request (crafting each commit, trying to build a narrative, etc.) and the review is thorough, but still not easy

I think organization helps the 1st case and obviates the need for the author to spend so much time crafting the PR in the 2nd case (and eliminates messy updates that need to be carefully slotted in).

Curious to hear how y'all handle pull requests!
Show HN: HumanAlarm – Real people knock on your door to wake you up
by soelost | 2025-09-10 20:59:24+00:00
I built HumanAlarm because I'm a heavy sleeper who's missed important things despite multiple phone alarms.

It's exactly what it sounds like - you book a wake-up time, we send someone to knock on your door for 2 minutes. If you don't answer, they wait 3-5 minutes and knock again. Simple as that.

We're live in select cities.

Would love feedback on the concept and execution!
by YetAnotherNick | 2025-09-10 20:59:45+00:00
The argument was whether executives go to jail and the answer is yes and I believe people in HN wrongly think executives are overpreviliged/immune in this case, that's why I bothered to comment. The argument above my thread was never if they "always" go to jail. I would even say normal people don't always go to jail when they deserve.
by bilbo0s | 2025-09-10 21:00:06+00:00
If violence becomes a tool of politics, the rich will command violence at greater scale and with more impunity than anyone who cannot command an audience at the White House.

I actually wish that were the case.

The problem today is that we've scaled up the damage that a single attacker can do. I won't go too far into it, but think of it this way, what happens when someone wakes up to the fact that they can use autonomous ordinance (e.g. - Drones)?

We made a big mistake with this whole "incivility is cool" thing in public discourse. In retrospect, it's kind of obvious that it set us on a slippery slope.
by estimator7292 | 2025-09-10 21:00:29+00:00
I really kind of doubt we'll actually see a W12. Microsoft appears to have lost all interest in creating an operating system in favor of a revenue system.

Best case, W11 tanks when W10 goes away and Microsoft becomes irrelevant on the PC.

More realistically, W11 will become SaaS with a sort of rolling release similar to Arch. After all, why build a new OS when you can do nothing and rake in subscription fees? Actually, why create anything of value when you have such a profitable racket as renting people's own PC to them for literally any price you want?

Hopefully Microsoft wither dies or becomes an ineffectual zombie like IBM or HP.
by buildsjets | 2025-09-10 21:00:39+00:00
Cool, an IMSI Catcher Catcher. I am reminded of the otherwise unremarkable 1998 action comedy "The Big Hit."

Not only does this trace buster keep a buster from tracing your call, but it can also trace the MF that's tracing your shit. But if them MFs got a trace buster too, that's why I gots this trace buster BUSTER. See when a MF try to bust your trace with a trace buster, this MF gonna bust the MF trace buster that's busting your trace.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VY_xxL2jL0
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-09-10 21:00:51+00:00
I think the filter was eukaryogenesis [1]. (Which in turn depends on the endosymbiosis of mitochondria.)

Put simply, I expect the universe is littered with single-celled life. I think multicellular life, on the other hand, is rare.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eukaryogenesis
by like_any_other | 2025-09-10 21:01:03+00:00
> How many can name them? How long did their deaths stay in the headlines?

I don't know - how long did these stories stay in the headlines?

A 26 year old man from Irondale, Alabama was later arrested and charged in connection with the bombing. Prosecutors stated that prior to the bombing, the suspect had been spotted placing stickers on government buildings, displaying "antifa, anti-police and anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement sentiments" and had expressed "belief that violence should be directed against the government" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Marshall#Bombing

Man, 80, run over for putting Trump sign in yard, say police - https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1rw4xdjql4o

Alabama Antifa Sympathizer Pleads Guilty to Detonating Bomb outside State AG’s Office - https://www.nationalreview.com/news/alabama-antifa-sympathiz...

a man armed with a pistol and a crossbow showed up at Fuentes' home - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Fuentes#Alleged_murder_at...

Attempted Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent Assassin Identifies As Transgender; Hoped To Kill “Nazis” - https://wsau.com/2025/01/30/doj-filing-attempted-treasury-se...

10 arrested after ambush on Texas ICE detention facility [..] When an Alvarado police officer arrived on the scene, one of the individuals shot him in the neck. Another individual shot 20 to 30 rounds at the facility correction officers, according to Larson. - https://abcnews.go.com/US/10-arrested-after-ambush-texas-ice...

Last but not lest, there was also an assassination attempt on Trump, though I concede that one did get plenty of attention.
by tczMUFlmoNk | 2025-09-10 21:01:15+00:00
There seem to be some locales or styles that use asymmetric spacing. From the Zen of Python—note different spacing based on context and position within the sentence:

There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it. Although that way may not be obvious at first unless you're Dutch. [...] Namespaces are one honking great idea -- let's do more of those!
by hulitu | 2025-09-10 21:01:36+00:00
> AMD Zen 6 CPUs May Use TSMC's 2nm and 3nm Nodes for a Performance Boost

Because if you use thick spagetti, you can make the same food with thin spagetti. /s

Using another node, means a redesign. If the things would have been so simple, you would have seen, since 30 years, a lot of wonder designs.
by skissane | 2025-09-10 21:02:35+00:00
> Am I wrong in thinking this guy isn't/wasn't a very influential person, outside of Twitter and the people that stay on there 24/7?

I’d heard of him-I’ve lived my whole life in Australia, and although I have a Twitter/X account, I almost never use it, and that’s not a new thing, I dabbled with it but never committed.

Do most Australians know who he was? I don’t have any hard data, but my “No” to that is very confident. But I remember briefly discussing him (in person) with one of my old friends from high school, who is deep into right-wing politics (he’s a member of Australia’s One Nation party, which a lot of people would label “far right”, yet mainstream enough to have a small number of seats in Parliament)
by rdtsc | 2025-09-10 21:02:37+00:00
Yeah, the security part wasn't baked into the hardware. It relied on the OS (it ran a virtualization layer of sorts) to enforce it via traps if it set those traps.

From https://www.devever.net/~hl/ppcas

> As such, they can principally be viewed as providing a performance enhancement for the IBM i operating system, which uses these instructions to keep track of pointer validity. It is the IBM i OS which enforces security invariants, for example by always following every pointer LQ with a TXER.
by JohnFen | 2025-09-10 21:02:49+00:00
"You're holding it wrong!"

The problem, of course, is that people will, and do, take what these systems say as truth at first blush. They won't iterate. If they were inclined to do that, they'd probably engage in actual research in the first place rather than taking the easy path of asking an LLM. The whole promise of using an LLM for these sorts of tasks is minimizing effort.
by ceejayoz | 2025-09-10 21:02:56+00:00
Everyone?

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/charlie-...

> “Why has he not been bailed out?” Kirk said Monday on his podcast of the man who allegedly beat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi‘s husband Paul with a hammer last Friday. “By the way, if some amazing patriot out there in San Francisco or the Bay Area wants to really be a midterm hero, someone should go and bail this guy out, I bet his bail’s like thirty or forty thousand bucks.” With a smirk, he added: “Bail him out and then go ask him some questions.”
by HaZeust | 2025-09-10 21:03:04+00:00
>"Charlie Kirk is neither here nor there"

Best way I've ever seen it put. There is no "essential" Charlie Kirk, just as there's no "essential" of any of these talking heads. They are a reflection of beliefs from the person's payroll they're on. He didn't even think twice about the Epstein files with the MAGA base imploded, and was happy to say - to a camera - that he "Trusts his friends" to sort it out.
by mhb | 2025-09-10 21:03:07+00:00
Pick up this set of cookbooks and don your shop apron—but don't fire up the oven. The Exploratorium Cookbooks deliver everything you need to build your own versions of the Exploratorium's interactive exhibits. These "recipes" are related to light, vision, sound, electricity, magnetism, color, mechanics, and more. Put on your thinking cap and get cooking!
by lazyasciiart | 2025-09-10 21:03:11+00:00
> am always puzzled that people think other people believe the purpose of law and order is "deterrent"...have you ever met anyone who says this?

………yes, many of them. Do you talk to real people about prison policy a lot?

> if you let them out they will commit crimes

I guess not, since we have plenty of evidence that 75yo men with one leg and cancer are at 0% risk of recidivism, and yet they’re still locked up.
by dcminter | 2025-09-10 21:03:12+00:00
I think the Hunkin exhibit really did look a bit tired - I don't think it's necessarily unreasonable to try something else. After all, Secret Life only got its chance because they were willing to change something back then.

If you like Tim's stuff you can always catch his Novelty Automation arcade over by Holborn. Highly recommended by me at least!

I don't know how good the information transfer was at the London Science Museum way back when I was a kid; I remember excitedly spinning all the little brass handles and pushing the brass buttons on various teak cased devices, but I'm not sure I took much science home with me. Sci Fi, a home computer, and (much later) Bill Bryson's book informed me far more.
by logifail | 2025-09-10 21:03:20+00:00
> US customs are now _worse_ than they were a month after 9/11 and this time it's not just the ones at airports

Apologies, but "citation needed"?

(As a non-US citizen) I flew into JFK earlier this year and did my (first) Global Entry interview. It was the shortest and most polite immigration interview I've ever had anywhere, and I've had a few.
by ok1984 | 2025-09-10 21:03:26+00:00
Come on man, try to put yourself in others people shoes and have a bit of humanity otherwise the hate cycle will never end.

I never thought that people should be killed because of an election, today almost 50% of Gaza people are <18 which means they were not even born when the elections of 2006! are we saying that 1M are responsible for what is happening to them? Also, in the future the same argument could be used against the other party blaming them that they elected a far-right party, both parties should settle down and end this hate cycle once and for all.

And please we are in 2025 we are not in WWII anymore, if it happened to germany doesn’t justify making it happen again, we should learn from the mistakes of the past instead of repeating them.
by kjkjadksj | 2025-09-10 21:03:41+00:00
I’ve read that NASA has chosen landing sites that specifically have evidence of ancient rather than more recent or even present day water, with the logic that they do not want to potentially contaminate a site with active martian life with earth based microbes.

Can anyone speak more towards this or identify some of these potential sites that harbor life on mars? Will we ever directly probe somewhere that likely harbors life?
by themafia | 2025-09-10 21:04:12+00:00
I would think addressing the reasons people commit suicide leads to a better society. I would think that simply removing a popular tool for them only hides a symptom of a broader problem.

The other break in your statistic is people who own guns and commit suicide, and people who own guns and have a family member steal them to commit suicide. The later is far more common. Which suggests that part of the issue is unrestricted access to firearms by children in the home of a gun owning parent.
by iugtmkbdfil834 | 2025-09-10 21:04:15+00:00
<< Do I understand why it's happening?

I think most of us understand the why. That part is not exactly a secret. Naturally, it does not help that the why is a list of multiple factors playing into it and most pick the favorites and I am sure each power center will spin this to their particular benefit further polarizing society.

What I am really saying is:

We should try to cool things down.
by mmulet | 2025-09-10 21:04:29+00:00
Ask and ye shall receive: Running doom: https://github.com/mmulet/term.everything/blob/main/resource...

I had the change a couple of line to make it work because term.everything takes input only from stdin (this way it works of ssh and is pretty broadly compatible across terminals).

1. I had to remap another key to the control key (which is usually used to send signals like sigterm)

2. Then I had to change the timeout in which keys are pressed. When using stdin, you get a keydown event, but you don't get a key up event (ever). So I have to guess when you want to key up. Most of the time, I can send key up right away. But, it looks like doom has some sort of key debounce, so I had to wait 50-100 ms for keyup. Then there is the problem of if you want to walk forward in games you usually hold down up arrow, but now you have to rapidly press it! Not ideal, but it does work, and it it playable.
by rrmm | 2025-09-10 21:05:48+00:00
You are right: this is indeed no smoking gun (and it isn't hyped to be one). This is more like "we can't rule out life having created this, but there are alternate explanations which have also not been ruled out".

Unfortunately most of the evidence is going to be like this. The chances for better evidence would probably require a sample return of some sort, and even then I wouldn't expect a smoking gun (either way).
by tstrimple | 2025-09-10 21:06:04+00:00
Yes it's true but it's not limited to or even primarily phones. It's disruptive students who cannot sit still or listen to lessons regardless of whether they have a phone or not. Phones are an easy scapegoat for shit parents who won't do anything to set their kids on the right path. Anything wrong their kids do must be because of someone else. Ban the phones all you want. These parents will still be shit parents and their kids will still be disruptive in classes. We cannot tackle anti-social behaviors because it's largely a protected political and religious class.
by apollopower | 2025-09-10 21:07:19+00:00
Congrats Recall team, I've been a customer for the past 1.5 years and the entire infra layer behind meetings has let our company really focus on "what makes our beer taste better" instead of having to worry about building universal support for different (and tedious) platforms like Teams and Zoom. Eager to give the desktop recording sdk a try soon.
by iugtmkbdfil834 | 2025-09-10 21:07:34+00:00
<< This country has soundly rejected any form of sensible gun control.

Hmm. Do you know why? Having seen the basic pattern of action of anti-gun people, I have come to realization that nothing is ever enough. They will just keep pushing for more stuff regardless of 'wins' they score.

Granted, some of it is various organizations and they really don't want to say 'mission accomplished'. Still, my point remains. I no longer really accept any changes to status quo.
by CM30 | 2025-09-10 21:07:52+00:00
Feels like you could write the same article about theme parks nowadays too. Okay, there are still a fair few physical attractions there, but the likes of Universal Studios were infamous for having 'rollercoaster' like rides which were just simulators on a screen rather than relying on physical scenery, animatronics, etc.

Feels like there's a lot of attempts to integrate smartphones into the parks too, like through activities that involve using a mobile app instead of a physical prop or console.
by mandeepj | 2025-09-10 21:07:53+00:00
> This _did not_ happen during his first term.

He and his enablers played that argument during his 2024 campaign as well, but everyone is missing a crucial aspect of it. During his first term, he was surrounded by a large number of career administration staff, who put guardrails around him. This time it's all 'Yes men' and his well-wishers. Notably, no one from the previous admin staff had endorsed him for 2024. That should have given a clue to people. But, nope.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/former-trump-officials...
by gritzko | 2025-09-10 21:08:15+00:00
Automerge is based on design decisions from 2014-2017. I remember that epoch and what everybody thought back then. The views have evolved since, but Automerge is a large project, many things have being built on top. It is unrealistic to change any of the basic assumptions at this point.

I may go into the technical details, assuming my hourly rate is respected.