MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by xarope | 2025-09-15 07:25:18+00:00
I can see how the AI companies would work around this though:

user queries "static" training data in LLM; LLM guesses something, then searches internet in real-time for data to support the guesses. This would be classified as "browsing" rather than trawling.

(the searched data then get added back into the corpus, thus sadly sidestepping all the anti-AI trawling mechanisms)

Kind of like the way a normal user would.

The problem is, as others have already mentioned, how would the LLMs know what is a good answer versus a bad, when a "normal" user also has this issue?
by jajko | 2025-09-15 07:26:05+00:00
> cons target someone currently vulnerable

This. I am a senior software dev, living in Switzerland. Few years ago there was an issue with my residence permit renewal, process that should have taken few weeks took more than a year. No way to contact that Geneva immigration office, and you can't visit them personally, emails ignored. Official phone contact is just a single phone that often rang few times and then dropped the call, 19 out of 20 times. Few times it was picked up clearly annoyed and couldn't-be-bothered woman who just told me to wait, no further info. My boss applied for same after me, got the papers in 3 weeks.

Me and my kids (who have same permit as me) were basically living in Switzerland semi-illegally, while sporting high paying permanent banking job and wife is a doctor.

One day a call came which introduced themselves as Swiss police, a very elaborate scheme, stating that my ID was used in fraud and I am being investigated. They caught me in this period of fear of getting deported, ruining efforts of past 15 years and my whole family lives. I followed through, they were very clever, pulled just the right strings.

But then came the moment when all this could be solved if I just went to the shop and bought... Apple gift card. LOL. But man I felt extremely vulnerable and under tremendous stress during those few hours.
by ninetyninenine | 2025-09-15 07:26:18+00:00
>If we see huge variation in intelligence scores intra group, that strongly suggests that there are social/cultural/environmental factors in play driving a large part of this.

Correlation does not equal causation. Variation in genetics in a group can realistically be a factor as well. Three probable possibilities here: Only environment, Only genetics, both genetics and environment. Common sense says it's both genetics and environment.

>It may be true that some racial backgrounds offer an advantage; but there is no evidence to suggest that this advantage is materially large relative to many of the social structural drivers that are obvious.

I never commented how large this advantage was relative to the social driver. I agree with you... the social structure likely the greater driver. But the genetic driver is not insignificant.

>The subtext of the claim is not that a statistically significant effect exists. It’s that there is a big important difference in intelligence across races intrinsically derived from genetics. And there’s no compelling evidence to support that.

There is evidence. But there is huge political debate and attacks around the evidence. There are many studies that study IQ among races independent of environment and many of those studies show there is a statistically significant difference. Those studies suffer from the replication crisis, but so do all conflicting studies within psychology as well.
by laurentiurad | 2025-09-15 07:27:02+00:00
I am originally from EE and there are reports every month on how cars cause accidents because breaks didn't work, or an entire wheel flies out of its place. Not to mention the gazillion cases of accidents caused by improper headlights.

The only reason the second-hand market works there is because most of the used cars come from Germany, and they have strict laws for checking the cars periodically. Once they roll on the EE roads for a few years, then the cracks start popping up which cause horrible accidents.

Just implying that EE is this amazing place where second-hand cars have no issues and Americans should follow the same model shows that you have no idea what you're talking about.
by Hamuko | 2025-09-15 07:27:03+00:00
You can get used cars with a warranty too, since a lot of manufacturers have certified pre-owned programs.

For example a 2025 Mercedes-Benz C300 is $48,450 but a certified pre-owned 2022 Mercedes-Benz C300 is $32,820, and you get whatever is remaining of the original warranty + 12 months. I'd say that's a pretty decent saving, especially considering that it's still the same model (current generation is 2022 and onwards).
by sergiolema | 2025-09-15 07:27:58+00:00
When you start a new React project, the initial momentum is great. Components are flying, features are getting built, and everything feels clean. But as the codebase grows, that initial structure often crumbles. Files get dumped everywhere, components become bloated, and simple changes start to have ripple effects. I’ve been there, and it's not a fun place to be.

This is where system design for the frontend becomes essential. It's not just about backend architecture or a massive corporate process; it's a practical framework for making consistent, scalable decisions about your project's structure from day one. I believe adopting this mindset is a critical skill for any mid-level developer looking to build maintainable, long-lasting applications.
by safety1st | 2025-09-15 07:28:08+00:00
I never really understood the point of a cake mix in the first place. Admittedly I'm not a grandmother and I don't bake cakes with regularity. But when I do bake them, I just do it from scratch. What's the advantage of a mix? It takes me five minutes to mix the dry ingredients and they're all inexpensive things that most cooks would already have on hand: flour, sugar, a leavener, cocoa powder, etc.
by xarope | 2025-09-15 07:28:20+00:00
I had that exact feeling when I visited denver, many years ago when I was doing triathlons. I woke up the next morning, went to the gym to do a 1 hour bike threshold session, and started panting for breath within the first 10 minutes of warmup. I was like, what-the-heck?

Then I remember Denver was the mile-high city.
by dangus | 2025-09-15 07:28:52+00:00
But if we point out the McKinsey study that finds companies with greater ethnic and cultural diversity were 36% more likely to experience above-average profitability compared to their counterparts, the facade of the conservative dedication to free market capitalism crumbles.

Look, plenty of DEI programs weren’t done well, especially affirmative action programs at some prestigious universities where the design of the admissions programs were boneheaded at best and illegal at worst.

But in truth, many DEI opponents who just “want everyone to be treated equally with merit” don’t actually realize that “merit-only” doesn’t mean utopian pure equality, it means going back to a status quo state where the concept of merit is tainted by personal biases.

I also think this idea of “merit-only” is hyper-individualist, because this type of thinking resists the consideration of the social interaction of humans. A business owner needs employees who can not only have merit on their own but also work well together.

Typical corporate DEI was never about race/gender quotas or anything malicious like that, it was just training to help avoid employees/managers being biased toward solely hiring and working with people who are aligned with their world view.

And it isn’t just cultural or racial or gender-based, it’s also based on things like diversity of background. E.g., maybe we don’t just hire people with a degree from a prestigious university, maybe someone who got experience through some non-traditional way is also qualified.

A lot of the focus of the training is also just informing employees about how they can respect/accommodate different types of thought and culture so that the diverse people you already hired don’t decide to quit.

For my anecdote, I worked with a black woman in an SRE role who said she almost never lasts more than a year at an employer before she can’t stand someone she works with being racist/biased against her and has to quit for her own sanity. This is a person that is getting hired because she’s highly qualified but keeps getting pushed out because employees frequently have bias against her ingrained in them. Turnover costs tens of thousands of dollars for each occurrence, and that’s one area where DEI training is meant to help.

And yes, that’s why it’s important to use people’s preferred pronouns. Employees are supposed to be adults and not big dumb babies who can’t adapt to basic changes in the world. The company already hired a trans or non-binary person because they are the most qualified for the role, and now they want employees to not ruin it for them and cost the company a bunch of money because their bigotry causes them to quit.
by jarofgreen | 2025-09-15 07:29:11+00:00
> I'm still not unsure if I should include it as part of my answer when asked if I contributed to open source projects

I woud say yes, as long as you make sure you indicate the level clearly.

It's not landing a great new feature, but it shows you understand how Open Source works, you understand the value of the non-code parts of these projects, you can use the tools (I assume Git PR's), you can communicate well and work with others.
by lm28469 | 2025-09-15 07:29:12+00:00
> Corporations don't do things that people don't want to pay for

Have you heard about lobbies and the billion of dollars companies spend in advertising targeting everyone from the moment their mom shits them out in the world?

Are people born wanting an iPhone 98 Max S pro and a Ford mustang gt5000 7.0 ultimate? I doubt it, but they sure are influenced by comics/movies/ads 24/7 into wanting them.

Do you think the average Joe stands a chance again zuck and his friends hiring the top behavioral scientists and paying the 1m a year to make sure their ad delivery platform are addictive as possible?
by Llamamoe | 2025-09-15 07:30:27+00:00
What is being advocated is not protecting children, it's the establishment of a mass surveillance state that's every single dictator's wet dream, without any understanding of how trivial it will be for criminals to coordinate and share CSAM in other ways.

If that's not a meme("bUt tHiNK oF THe cHilDRen!!11") I don't know what is.
by notpachet | 2025-09-15 07:30:59+00:00
> AI doesn't use any more water or energy than any other tool. An hour of Netflix uses same energy as more than 100 GPT questions. A single 10 hour flight (per person*) emits as much as around 100k GPT prompts. It is strange that one would repeat the same nonsense about AI without primary motive being ideological.

We should stop doing those things too. I'm still surprised that so many people are flying.
by MrJohz | 2025-09-15 07:31:42+00:00
Doesn't Erlang/Elixir solve this by having every function do its own parsing (via pattern matching) and then failing fast if something goes wrong? That seems intuitively like a good approach to take — you can't make any real guarantees across machine boundaries, but you can use structural typing at the edges to ensure that the data coming across the boundaries has the right shape.
by menaerus | 2025-09-15 07:31:58+00:00
But x86_64 does outperform ARM64 in high-performance workloads. High-performance workloads are not single-threaded programs. Maybe if Apple decides one day to manufacture the server CPU, which I believe they will not since they would have to open their chips to Linux. OTOH server aarch64 implementations such Neoverse or Graviton are not as good as x86_64 in terms of absolute performance. Their core design cannot yet compete.
by matheusmoreira | 2025-09-15 07:33:51+00:00
Is strcat the person who supposedly stepped down?

If so, I'm glad he's still project lead. I would have immediately written off GrapheneOS as a lost cause if he wasn't.

I have spent many hours browsing his comment history and reading his extremely detailed posts on Android and smartphone security. He obviously knows what he's doing. Not only is he competent, it's also clear that he cares way too much about GrapheneOS and is personally invested in it.

Competence and actually giving a shit are the two attributes I respect most in a person. I wouldn't want anyone else making decisions.

And that's coming from a guy who publicly disagreed with him on some ideological issue literally three days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45214818
by eesmith | 2025-09-15 07:34:54+00:00
In 1981, the Betty Crocker Supreme Fudge Brownie Mix included a 5.5 oz can of Hershey's syrup. In 1949 you could get a 5 oz can when you purchase 2 quarts of ice cream. https://archive.org/details/mansfield-news-journal-1949-08-1...

It came in multiple sizes. 5 oz is probably the "small can" mentioned at https://archive.org/details/trinity-parish-of-newton-centre/... .

There was also a 16 oz can, https://archive.org/details/escanaba-daily-press-1964-12-10/... and https://archive.org/details/childrenasconsum0000mcne/page/11... and https://archive.org/details/The_Times_News_Idaho_Newspaper_1... and https://archive.org/details/cupl_004738/mode/2up?q=%22can+of... .

And an 8 pound can (!) for food services. https://archive.org/details/foodloversguidet0000harr_d5o7/pa...
by aprilthird2021 | 2025-09-15 07:35:09+00:00
I don't get this at all. I'm an urban know-nothing about cars. The current car I have I bought online from a private seller. I insisted on taking the car to a 3rd party mechanic for an assessment. Paid for the assessment, then bought the car.

It is spending maybe $400-$500 to save potentially over $10000
by axegon_ | 2025-09-15 07:35:43+00:00
Tbh I never thought of that but yeah, it would be nice. Hypothetically if you have a 3d printer, you can modify this guy's designs and add a removable battery cover: https://github.com/strtfnst/uConsole-Parts

Personally I got the lora-gps-wifi-sdr expansion board and I found that he had a design to cover the otherwise exposed top of the port, I modified it a bit so that I have direct access to the power button(his covers the power indicator, which I hate) and trimmed it off a bit cause it was too bulky for my likings.

That said, you have a point. The reason why I've got a rpi4 as opposed to 5 is partially because of the thermals but also partially because of the battery life. You know what, I might actually work on that when I have some time to spare.
by overfeed | 2025-09-15 07:35:49+00:00
> It's absurd to me that people should commit code they don't understand

The industrywide tsunami of tech debt arising from AI detritus[1] will be interesting to watch. Tech leadership is currently drunk on improved productivity metrics (via lines of code or number of PRs), but I bet velocity will slow down, and products be more brittle due to extraneous AI-generated, with a lag, so it won't be immediately apparent. Only teams with rigorous reviews will fare well in the long term, but may be punished in the short term for "not being as productive" as others.

1. From personal observation: when I'm in a hurry, I accept code that does more than is necessary to meet the requirements, or is merely not succinct. Where as pre-AI, less code would be merged with a "TBD" tacked on
by singularity2001 | 2025-09-15 07:35:59+00:00
If you ever played 20Questions you know that you don't need 1000 dimensions for a billion concepts. These huge vectors can represent way more complex information than just a billion concepts.

In fact they can pack complete poems with or without typos and you can ask where in the poem the typo is, which is exactly what happens if you paste that into GPT: somewhere in an internal layer it will distinguish exactly that.
by unwind | 2025-09-15 07:36:14+00:00
I'd say (from northern Europe) that 500 g [1] is a standard pack of butter, even though they've also added the smaller "half packs" of 250 g. For professional use, there's also the full kilogram. Whoa that has got to be expensive these days.

[1]: https://www.arla.se/produkter/svenskt-smor/
by lm28469 | 2025-09-15 07:36:40+00:00
This isn't the American way apparently, do you want to be a True American Patriot or some loser driving a shitbox

I still remember the first thing my bank offered me as a student in the US, a credit card, 25%+ apr, give that to a 18 years old clueless kid and you'll set them up for failure. The entire system is setup to make you think these interests rate are normal and that being in debt is a proper lifestyle
by lelanthran | 2025-09-15 07:37:02+00:00
> Additionally, a lot of people who would otherwise be in the used car market for price reasons in the US cannot afford to purchase even a used car outright, and getting financing for cars sold on the private market is, to my knowledge, not really possible.

To me, that's the biggest reason for used-car prices to be low - the market is restricted to those who have cash. IME, the prices of cars that cannot be financed (older than 5 years) is severely constrained. I've seen a 5 year old model advertised for exactly twice the price as an almost identical 6 year old model, with similar mileage and similar condition[1].

I find that hard to reconcile with the other posters in this thread who observed that used cars are still too expensive. Maybe they are looking at used-cars that can still be financed (under $X years, for example)?

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[1] Condition of both was reported by the same independent assessor - see my posting upthread
by lifestyleguru | 2025-09-15 07:38:08+00:00
In Eastern Europe I regularly hear that car disintegrated into three pieces or engine fell off after a collision. These do not happen to a car having minor crash in its history, these happen to a car which had been totaled in the past. Eastern Europe is the scrapyard of Western Europe and yet its inhabitants found a way to fell superior about their 15 years old BMWs with engine mounted on three screws.
by anonzzzies | 2025-09-15 07:38:55+00:00
I am a slow thinker but learnt a trick early on from an American girl I met in a bar: she said that a lot of Americans think and are perceived as quick thinkers but often it's not the case: they just don't stop talking. And if you keep talking, about whatever (no one listens anyway), indeed you get ahead. I met that girl when I was 19, now i'm 50 and still it works well in social settings. People like me at parties as just blabber on wherever you put me. But when you ask me a question about math or software, I am quiet for too long, which makes me better at those than many I think as I see many of my colleages just blabber on about those things too and, while seemingly quick, they are often very wrong and shouldve kept their mouth shut.
by salad-tycoon | 2025-09-15 07:39:46+00:00
My 8 & 6 year old have spent 2 weeks digging a hole out in our little forest. It has been one of the most bonding & therapeutic things in them I’ve witnessed. They’ve developed stories, they go out and dig after school or when they are upset, etc.

Give a boy a shovel, step back & witness unbridled creativity.
by dns_snek | 2025-09-15 07:40:15+00:00
> They want it to be as unpleasant as tobacco

I vaped for around 8 years, about 4 years with typical flavorings and the last 4 years unflavored. IME unflavored vaping really isn't that bad, I accidentally switched to it because I ran out of flavoring one time and after a few days I didn't really miss them anymore so I just stopped using them.

I would compare it to people who drink soda all day, they can't fathom how people can drink "boring" plain water all day and they have a really hard time switching, but people who are used to drinking water find it as refreshing and satisfying as anything.

I think these flavorings cause more harm by luring young people to start vaping than they help smokers by luring them away from cigarettes. In an ideal world adults would be allowed to vape whatever they want, and teens wouldn't be able to get their hands on vapes in any capacity, but clearly that's not working so I think that flavor bans are a decent compromise.

I don't buy the argument that flavor bans will make teens go back to smoking. Cigarettes taste awful, they make you smell terrible, they irritate your lungs far more, they're far more expensive. If I was a teen I would still pick up unflavored vaping over cigarette smoking any time, but I'd be less likely to get into vaping without the flavorings.
by smcl | 2025-09-15 07:40:17+00:00
> Her cookie recipe — a box of Betty Crocker chocolate cake mix, two eggs, and

> ⅓ cup neutral oil — no longer works now that the box is a full 5 ounces smaller

> than its original 18.25-ounce size ... “It’s just so upsetting,” says Judith,

> whose cookie recipe was passed down by her mother.

Shrinkflation is irritating but I dunno if I'd be pushing the "old family recipe" angle if it's just adding two eggs and some oil to a packet of pre-mixed powder
by sigmoid10 | 2025-09-15 07:40:52+00:00
Why do people bother with new theories in this space? Just to throw shade at other countries' political systems? It is perfectly clear what caused China's rise and why it is a historic and geopolitical exception that will not translate to any other country today. And it's certainly not their authoritarian political system that deserves praise, even though right-wingers in the west love foreign autocrats these days and want to bring that shit here.
by ViewTrick1002 | 2025-09-15 07:40:54+00:00
Here’s the source Cour des Comptes report validating that you are incorrect.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45243337

The world also very much is not investing in nuclear power given how it is backsliding as a % of the global energy mix with a huge number of closures looming in the close future with no replacements in sight.

Given this answer I don’t know if you are either trolling or have serious problems with delusions.

I dislike drawing conclusions so I will end this conversion with a question:

If you are not trolling, have you tried seeking help from the mental healthcare system?
by inferiorhuman | 2025-09-15 07:41:09+00:00
I only recently found out that in some places in the US, they cut them in fours

That's pretty much the standard in the US. It's common enough that there's a bit of an east/west divide as to how the quarters are shaped. When I worked in a grocery store we'd also sell individual quarters (but I never actually saw anyone buy them as such).
by sebstefan | 2025-09-15 07:41:19+00:00
>Judith isn’t the only one. She says that her other (grandma) friends are feeling the changes, too, and they’re not happy about it. Betty Crocker has empowered home cooks to make delicious desserts for over a century now.

>*So it’s no surprise just how many cherished family recipes — involving that once familiar box of cake mix* — have been passed down from generation to generation.

This can't be serious

Family recipes involving cake mix? Is north america for real?
by Daub | 2025-09-15 07:41:22+00:00
I have always found it odd how in VFX we spend a lot of time degrading our perfect 3D renders: motion blur, film grain, sensor noise and lens blur, which I would call a defocus. I am interested in the application of this research, and imagine a library of typical cameras and their associated blurs. We have similar libraries of film grain and sensor noises.
by unwind | 2025-09-15 07:41:39+00:00
Yeah, it's like people who spend time around campfires and have watched American media are all going "let's make s'mores" [1], and then they realize that "graham crackers" [2] are a mystery ingredient that nobody knows anything about.

Digestives [3] are the typical substitution in my experience, but again nobody knows how close they're getting. They look thicker, to me ...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%27more

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_cracker

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digestive_biscuit