MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by wcagscans | 2025-09-29 15:02:15+00:00
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Where would you use this in your content pipeline?

Is the free plan actually enough to be useful?

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by toomuchtodo | 2025-09-29 15:02:22+00:00
+1. I have no career achievements worth including in an obituary. My life will be measured, hopefully, by the help I was able to provide others with the output of the meaningless work, and those I was lucky enough to connect with during our shared journey on the timeline.

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/927691-what-is-success-to-l...
by Someone | 2025-09-29 15:02:54+00:00
> I thought the original article included the strongest objective data point on this: recent progress on the METR long task benchmark isn't just on the historical "task length doubling every 7 months" best fit, but is trending above it.

There is selection bias in that paper. For example, they chose to measure “AI performance in terms of the length of tasks the system can complete (as measured by how long the tasks take humans)”, but didn’t include calculation tasks in the set of tasks, and that’s a field in which machines have been able to reliably do tasks for years that humans would take centuries or more to perform, but at which modern LLM-based AIs are worse than, say, Python.

I think leaving out such taks is at least somewhat defensible, but have to wonder whether there are other tasks at which LLMs do not become better as rapidly they also leave out.

Maybe it is a matter of posing different questions, with the article being discussed being more interested in “(When) can we (ever) expect LLMs to do jobs that now require humans to do?” than in “(How fast) do LLMs get smarter over time?”
by wintermutestwin | 2025-09-29 15:03:01+00:00
tldr pages are a great idea, but the execution is a total fail. Looking at the rsync entry, it fails to provide the most blatantly common requirements:

I just needed two commands: one to mirror a folder from one drive to another, updating only the changes (excluding all of the hidden MacOS cruft). And another command to do a deep validation of the copy. These have to be two of the most commonly used commands right???

In the end, I felt that messing around with precious data without being 100% certain of what I am doing just wasn't worth it so I got a GUI app that was intuitive.
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-09-29 15:03:02+00:00
> good taste is the ability to select the right set of engineering values for the particular technical problem you’re facing

I don't think this makes sense. Firstly because engineering values aren't the same thing as engineering requirements; I don't want someone's "values" to end up making a product unsafe or unreliable (these aren't "taste", they're non-negotiable requirements). But secondly because, in engineering at least, your personal opinions shouldn't matter.

Taste is all about opinion and self-expression. Your taste is different than my taste? That's fine. Your engineering is different than my engineering? That's not fine. The same building, with the same architectural plans, same location, same everything, shouldn't be built 6 different ways depending on the "taste" of the engineer. Trusses and struts aren't to your "taste"? Tough luck, buddy. Engineering is about precision, science, math. It's not a plate of spaghetti.

A PR could be said to be a "review of taste", that nit-picks in a PR are just judgements of personal taste. But that's not what PRs are supposed to be. They're actually a replacement for QA. In normal products, a Quality Assurance process is a secondary one that verifies products are built correctly. But in software engineering today, PRs take the place of QA (and design reviews). This means a PR isn't about taste, but about quality.

Higher quality implies good taste, but they aren't the same thing. Style, fit, context, etc are as much a component of "taste" as quality is. Therefore I think "taste" in software engineering should be limited to the optional or irrelevant parts. All the things that you care about, but don't actually affect the engineering quality of the end result. And if that's true, then it means we probably need to have hard definitions of what affects engineering quality.

For example: most people would argue that variable names are very important. That how you name a variable affects its "maintainability". But in reality, the names could be random, and the program would operate the same way. That doesn't mean that variable names are irrelevant. But it does mean there's a categorical difference in what it is, and why it's important. That needs to be codified and taught to new CS students.
by tmarsden | 2025-09-29 15:03:13+00:00
I'm not an expert here so please take what I say with a grain of salt.

It's my understanding that what's included in open source Android (AOSP) is FAR from a complete product and there is quite a bit of Google closed source/proprietary software that goes into the mix before it's shipped as Android (think Google Services.)

So, while you could fork AOSP and try to use that as a basis for and alternative mobile OS, it would require quite a bit of work on top of the AOSP code. This is what's done by custom ROMs like GrapheneOS (ironically Pixel devices only) or LineageOS for example.
by lukan | 2025-09-29 15:03:30+00:00
"The age of posting on Facebook under your real name with privacy settings public is long gone"

According to my 18 year old niece, FB is just for old people anyway. (Thank god I never really used it). They still use Instagram, though.

Privacy concerns .. are little in general. Hard to be popular, when you avoid the mainstream plattforms. And yes, private groups are on the rise everywhere.
by hereme888 | 2025-09-29 15:03:31+00:00
Agree with author. Laws do not necessarily dictate right vs. wrong. Filming others to publicly share that video may be legally allowable, is unethical regardless of the laws. It's like those crazy people who start playing their social media feed without headphones in public places like airplanes, or bathroom stalls....it's so weird, and annoying.
by crabbone | 2025-09-29 15:03:46+00:00
Oh, you opened a can of worms... In terms of user experience Android is garbage. It forces on you features you cannot remove unless you break into the system (which is kinda illegal or, at a minimum, voids your warranty).

Stuff like "do not disturb" that turns on accidentally and makes me miss calls, and is impossible to remove. It's impossible to remove a bunch of trash from the lock screen, and with some workarounds sometimes only the picture is removed, but it stays interactive or affects other widgets, like the audio player, for instance. Lockscreen randomly trying to dial random numbers, especially if I don't answer an incoming call. Also, taking screenshots randomly, so after almost every run I have to spend some time deleting these screenshots.

Now, when it comes to the subject in OP, it's not really about Android, it's about Google's policies around developers and app store. The whole idea behind Android is very similar to MS Windows: oppress the user because the system provider "knows better". Make choices on user's behalf, prevent users doing from useful things jut to blanket "secure" them from some imaginary threat. Manipulate users into doing a thing that's harmful for them, but beneficial for the system provider.

So, the app store managed by Google is one example of such policies. Google doesn't have the best interest of the user in mind. They are maliciously complying with regulations that want them not to abuse their users. They check the applications submitted to the app store, but they check them for the wrong things. Just to say they did.

I ended up using an FTP server app from F-Droid and a file manager from F-Droid because the stuff that was available for the same functionality found in app store is some atrocious predatory trash. It doesn't matter if I can afford to buy an app. Whatever I tried was just garbage. Once you get used to freedom and the approach of free software after you've spent some time with eg. Linux, using Android will make your blood boil because of how hostile both the system and the programs written for it are.
by mothballed | 2025-09-29 15:04:08+00:00
>No, my point is that presumably the cars arrived on your self-sufficient private roads via public roads. Is this correct or not?

Sometimes yes sometimes no.

>If everyone lived in density like yours, first of all we wouldn't have nearly anything good about modern life, but secondly yes we could obviously have the system you describe. I'll take public roads and modern life any day.

I'd say high density public roads are causing a big problems for cities. Cars are subsidized in a way that distorts the market to overrepresent car travel over private mass transit or other more efficient alternatives. I believe our cities would be much safer and more enjoyable, without losing access to needed goods, if the roads were all privatized.
by AlecSchueler | 2025-09-29 15:04:12+00:00
> You asked "how could the government do this"? Come on, bro.

And you gave a generic link showing that they could share "data" in general. Not this kind of data.

Like "come on bro" both Ireland and the EU already have generic data portals...

> The linked article explains where they were getting the data before.

Yes, from the company who choose to share the data. There's no way to get the date from inside the company. In order for the government to publish the data they need to rely on the very same private company to supply them with it indefinitely, don't they? Again, "come on bro"...
by pimlottc | 2025-09-29 15:04:40+00:00
Non-AI description from original publication note (Robert Frew, 2025) [0]:

> "Original large colour-printed map of the Middle East (95 x 126 cm), laid down onto board and in original frame, unglazed. Includes detailed inset maps of Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, the Persian Gulf, Pakistan, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Kuwait, and Turkey (2x), and Kamaran (Yemen). Also included is a detailed table entitled ‘Owners of Concessions, Leases, Permits, & Contracts’, 4x statistical tables on the production and consumption of oil, and a detailed key. Extremely rare, genuinely imposing and highly attractive map that showcases the petroleum industry across the Middle East and adjacent regions.

> It is the seventh edition of a sequence of maps on the subject produced in Fort Worth, Texas, by Brian Orchard Lisle, a flamboyant and well-known oil trade insider, founder of industry-leading magazine The Oil Forum. This map offers an unrivaled visual record of the state of play in the oil industry at a critical stage in its development, when the oil assets of Iran, Iraq, and Kuwait were still controlled by British concerns, although being challenged by nationalist movements.

> It covers an area from the Aegean and Libya in the west, to the frontiers of India in the east, while the Gulf, epicentre of the petroleum world, occupies pride of place. The greatest concentrations of oilfields are located in south-eastern Iran, Kuwait, northern Iraq, the Gulf Coast of Saudi Arabia, and in Bahrain and Qatar, while the Baku oilfields in Soviet Azerbaijan are shown in the far upper area.

> Of the numerous marginal inset maps the most important illustrate the ultra-productive Dhahran-Damman area of Saudi Arabia, with the great Ghawar Field, and the nearby petroleum operations in Qatar and Bahrain.

> The creator of the map, Brian Orchard Lisle (1915–2004), is an enigmatic figure, described in A History of the Twentieth Century in 100 Maps as “an English-born Second World War pilot and later kayaking champion”. In fact, he was born in New York to English parents, his father being “an internationally known journalist in the petroleum and marine industry” and publisher of International Oilman (obituary in The Monitor, 2 December 1959). Brian Lisle joined the staff of World Petroleum in 1934, becoming assistant editor in 1936. In the war he served in the USAAF, rising to the rank of first lieutenant. He is buried in Dallas-Fort Worth National Cemetery. His enduring legacy is the series of impressive oil maps issued under the aegis of Oil Forum: the Caribbean (1952), Northern and Middle Africa (1961), Australasia (1962), and the Far East (1963)."

0: https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~3...
by Zambyte | 2025-09-29 15:04:57+00:00
The important part of the "church" in this context is finding a third space[0]. A church can be a reasonable third space, even for atheists. Particularly in smaller communities with limited resources. Other healthy options include hackerspaces / makerspackes (that is my third space of choice), libraries, parks, sporting events, etc.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_place
by screye | 2025-09-29 15:04:58+00:00
Wonder how PE intends to transform a company that was already trying every slimy PE trick.

[x] - Employees are overworked and underpaid

[x] - IP treated as infinite cash cows loaded with micro-transactions

[x] - Games turned soulless in pursuit of wide 'rated E' appeal

Sports is ~50% of their revenue. I wouldn't be surprised if this is a sports-washing exercise where revenue growths takes a back set to normalizing Saudi Arabia to the new generation.
by biophysboy | 2025-09-29 15:05:10+00:00
>Recent meta-analyses examining 2.2 million individuals across 90 cohort studies reveal that social isolation and loneliness trigger measurable biological cascades comparable to traditional disease risk factors.

Its frustrating, because cohort study experimental designs like these can in principle chip away at reverse causality (i.e. observe loneliness exposure before a cardiovascular disease prognosis, compare difference-in-difference between treatment/control), but the meta-analysis doesnt clearly state whether this constraint was applied. But even a study like this would have issues with medical participation, so that would need to be controlled, preferably with a prospective design.
by atmavatar | 2025-09-29 15:05:24+00:00
That's a cop-out.

It may very well be true that in some cases, a bad actor asking you to do a bad thing X will simply find someone else to do it. However, consider the following:

* If there were someone more desperate than you and willing to do X, they would demand lower compensation, and the bad actor wouldn't even be talking to you.

* By saying no, you are inherently making bad thing X more expensive, because said bad actor has to spend more resources finding someone else to do it.

* Saying no gives cover for your peers who disagree with X to also say no.

* The person said bad actor finally finds to do X will inherently have more leverage to ask for greater compensation due to the fact that you, by saying no, have shrunk the pool of people capable of doing X.

* If enough people say no, said bad actor may never find someone both capable of doing X and willing to do it for the price point the bad actor is willing/able to pay.

I don't turn down jobs I disagree with because I necessarily believe it will stop those jobs from happening. I'm satisfied enough with keeping my conscience clear and knowing I made the job a little harder to accomplish.
by gwbas1c | 2025-09-29 15:05:26+00:00
The one time I was accidentally captured on video, I was filtered out, but I actually wish I was there.

Many years ago, I went to a Green Day concert where they played 21st Century breakdown for the first time. There was a large video camera on a crane above the floor. About a year later, I visited a friend and we played Green Day's (then) new Rockband game.

I noticed that Tre's dance around his drums looked awfully familiar, and then at the end of one song, the camera focused on a statue next to the stage, that I was staring at before the show. My friend didn't believe me when I told him I was in the concert they recorded to make the game.

Unfortunately, all the people in the crowd were removed and replaced with faceless stick-figure-like people. I really wish my face was in there, because it would have proved that I was there, and give me something to look for when someone else is playing the game.
by filoleg | 2025-09-29 15:05:36+00:00
Yes, he bought a dead husk of a company.

After tons of internal crisises, mismanagement, and consecutive revenue losses, Radioshack got delisted from exchanges and eventually filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2015.

After that, Radioshack got acquired, got mismanaged again, the parent company went broke, and Radioshack filed for bankruptcy again in 2017.

By the time Tai Lopez got his hands on it (late 2020), there was pretty much nothing of value left there, except the brand (and even the brand was a questionable value proposition at that point tbh).
by andiareso | 2025-09-29 15:05:59+00:00
Yes? I'm not sure I understand here.

If you are doing it because you're a creator on YouTube and you are getting paid through views on YouTube, aren't you then required to get release info? If it's for personal use, sure thing, but when you are making money on it then you should absolutely get releases and default to bluring non-released individuals.

I think the bigger issue is that our laws (in the US at least) haven't really caught up with this gig/creator economy. It would be no different than a blockbuster film group filming a war/battle sequence and having to get permission ahead of time from the location and individuals.

My work will have signs up or ask explicitly if they are filming and intend to publish. If you go to a private org with the intention of filming, you should follow the same rules for a full-budget production group.
by bee_rider | 2025-09-29 15:06:08+00:00
Another note in his defense, that was before integrated graphics really (well, integrated graphics were integrated into the motherboard at the time, haha). If we include modern iGPUs they are pretty low margin devices I guess (or at least it is hard to separate out their value from the rest of the CPU package). Of course iGPUs aren’t add-on cards like he describes, but I don’t think it really weakens his overall point—the most popular GPUs in the world are so cheap nowadays they can’t even justify the premium of having their own PCB or taking up a physical PCI slot.
by CommieBobDole | 2025-09-29 15:07:01+00:00
I wouldn't personally go that far; having recently replayed all three back-to-back, I'd say that they're just very different types of games.

ME1 is a an excellent story-driven action RPG with clunky combat and issues with environment size/complexity due to technological limitations of the platform it was built for.

ME2 is a very good story-driven third-person shooter with excellent combat and a thin veneer of RPG elements that has overcome a lot of the technical issues with ME1 despite the same platform/engine.

ME1 by far has the better story and I enjoyed it more than ME2 on my first playthrough years ago, but now, already knowing the story, ME2 was more fun to play this time. It's a shame they couldn't have improved on everything good about the first one instead of turning it into a shooter.

Personally, I'd love to see the whole trilogy reimagined and remade as a single giant open-world action RPG, but that's probably never happening.
by jader201 | 2025-09-29 15:07:24+00:00
> the reason modern AAA games hold your hand is because they have to.

This doesn’t touch on one key difference between games now vs. games then: there were some secrets in games that you just didn’t ever know about unless there was a (printed) walkthrough, or through the word of mouth of friends. The Legend of Zelda is a great example.

Nowadays, many games can be 100%’ed without even having to jump online or ask someone for help. I’m not saying that’s necessarily a bad thing.

I’m playing the Metroid Primer Remaster on the Switch 2 (originally for the GameCube), and even it can be 100%’ed without having to look much up or without even a manual.
by dragonwriter | 2025-09-29 15:07:37+00:00
> First, a post on a social media site by the President has no force of law and does not "impose" anything.

You are correct on this point, the correct phrasing would be “announces intent to impose” not “imposes”. You, however, proceed to make a similar error:

> Second, the President cannot invent a new law and can only apply authorities given to him by existing laws

This sentence misuses “can” (which expressed capability) in place of “may" (which expresses permission).

The President can act outside of authorities given by existing laws, and regularly does. The President may not, (under the Constitution and laws, consistent with his oath of office, etc., do so), but nothing actually prevents or, to date, imposes meaningful consequences after the fact, when he does, making that lack of permission more of an issue in abstract theory than concrete practice.
by fullstop | 2025-09-29 15:07:53+00:00
It sounds like your grandma passed from a broken heart.

My mother in law lost her husband when she was in her early 60s, and I was worried that she would suffer the same fate as your grandma. She sold her house after a few years to escape the ghosts and moved into a condo near me. Her social schedule is jam-packed.

There is so much to be said about having your own identity, hobbies, and passions.
by Andrew_nenakhov | 2025-09-29 15:08:14+00:00
I think we have reached the point when AppStore / Google Play must be spun off from Apple / Google and made to work as a separate companies, and have access to Android / iOS platforms on equal terms with other vendors.

We have a great example of such approach on desktop: while some people decry Steam for being a monopoly, it is totally different. Users aren't forced to use it, but choose to use it, and nobody prevents them from installing epic store or whatever. This will stop monopolistic anti-user abuse in their tracks and greatly improve conditions for everybody (except Google and Apple, but after all these years, they kinda deserve it).
by erichocean | 2025-09-29 15:08:14+00:00
Ask Gemini Pro 2.5 to build the rsync command and then give it the man page for your version of rsync. It should succeed the first time.

Here's a command to copy the man page to the clipboard than you can immediately paste into aistudio (on a Mac):

man rsync | col -b | pbcopy

As a general rule, if you would need to look something up to complete a task, the AI needs the same information you do—but it's your job to provide it.