MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by em500 | 2025-09-15 12:59:35+00:00
> It's mostly run by Chinese. (But they scam Chinese too. It originated as scamming older single Chinese ladies, actually.)

This comment suggests that the main target would be non-Chinese, with some incidental Chinese targets/victims. I think the reality is the opposite, and that the primary targets are Chinese, with some incidental Western victims, for the simple reason that both the perpetrators and the (involutary) scam workers are largely far more fluent in Chinese and knowlegable about Chinese financial systems, culture, etc.

Both in mainland China and other countries with large ethnic Chinese populations, there is quite some awareness and media information these issues, e.g.:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_More_Bets

https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/323544...

https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/08/30/1078663/pig-butc...

p.s.: From casual conversations with European friends, there are probably smaller scale "native" versions of such scams in many Western countries. Large scam centers with imprissoned workers might be somewhat specific to Chinese/Cambodia.
by raincole | 2025-09-15 12:59:36+00:00
The ship has sailed, unfortunately. Obviously humans use em-dash too. But more and more people's first reaction to em-dash would be "haha got you, AI!"

Imaging you're an artist designing a character with 6 fingers today.

The situation is really sad. People who have the proper skills have to change how they work just to avoid "witch hunting" (for the lack of better term). What's next? If GPT-5.5 uses a lot of ellipses, are we going to stop using them? Semicolon? Will humans be using the most watered-down subset of English only at some point?
by lucb1e | 2025-09-15 12:59:52+00:00
"having access to" is not the same as having opened it, though. A server could log which files were retrieved without knowing what the contents are

By having such audit logging, we could see that we e.g. don't need to call the alarm company to change the phone password. Most people don't work in the office outside of business hours and so never need to call them, but since it's the only way of proving you're an employee if you accidentally set off the alarm, we give everyone access to that password. There's at least a dozen examples like that
by JKCalhoun | 2025-09-15 13:00:02+00:00
Maybe the only cool thing to come out of this kooky obsession then: people are learning more about the wider world of punctuation.

I just thought it was cool when I learned that there were glyphs with names that indicated how wide they were.

And I believe the letter "x" is the standard for determining font height? Someone can correct me.
by bluGill | 2025-09-15 13:00:08+00:00
Concurrency is very hard for humans to get right. It can work in a factory where we can analysis everything and figure out that someone has time to do two jobs (you might be able to put the windshield wipers on at the end of the line and then turn to a different line to put the seat recline buttons on - if the lines are arranged for this and the bottleneck is somewhere else on the line). However most home jobs are not the repetitive and so you can never get good enough at something to take advantage of it. (maybe if you always make the same meal every night you will know where the breaks are and can do something else - but most people like more variety in life)
by brovonov | 2025-09-15 13:00:19+00:00
On the section called The Plan

Complete the XPath 1.0 implementation. (Done!)

Implement all XSLT v1.0 functionality. (Done!)

Improve XDM, XPath; achieve v2.0 compliance.

Add v2.0 features to the XSLT engine.

Further improve XDM, XPath; achieve v3.1 compliance.

Add remaining v3.0 features to the XSLT engine.

NB. We're picking the low-hanging fruit first. So major, fundamental features of the languages are being implemented to begin with. The fine detail will be added later. Although the eventual desire is to implement all of XSLT v3.0 functionality, some more advanced features will be implemented sooner rather than later.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Rust/markup-rs/xrust#the-plan
by SkyeCA | 2025-09-15 13:00:23+00:00
Normal people (myself included) are not particularly good at writing and would never use an emdash. The average person won't even use semicolons because of confusion about how to use them and at least those have a dedicated key.

I'm sorry to the professional writers out there, but if I see an emdash in a piece of throw away writing (like a reddit or HN comment) I assume it's AI generated and I now immediately stop reading it.
by somenameforme | 2025-09-15 13:00:35+00:00
I don't think your post here is in accordance with the facts. Biden released arguably the single highest value captive we had in order to solely get one of the lowest value that Russia had, and he started this process almost immediately after she was detained. That is indisputably extremely special treatment.

At this point we loop back through. Biden was absolutely obsessed with pandering based on race and deviant sexuality, largely as a means of furthering his own political ambitions which relied heavily on these two demographic, which were expected to (and indeed did) prove critical in the 2024 election. And in this case the completely unprecedented and special treatment he offered was granted to somebody to happened to fill out every checkbox he sought to pander to.

And you want to claim it was, instead, because of her alleged "fame" as a WNBA player. Okay, that's fine - and I can't prove you wrong because outside of private conversations it's not like Biden's going to pull an LBJ and openly rant about strategic racebaiting. But what's not fine is you then claiming that anybody who accepts the most probable explanation is suddenly lying or engaged in divisive rhetoric is, itself a lie. And in fact you'd also be pointing to the overwhelming majority of Americans as only 38% of people approved of this action [1], which is obviously going to be disproportionately made up of heavily partisan Democrats who are not exactly being impartial.

[1] - https://www.statista.com/statistics/1356203/approval-brittne...
by tolmasky | 2025-09-15 13:00:38+00:00
I'm glad the em dash is getting properly shit on these days, if for unrelated reasons. I've never liked it. I hate the stupid spacing rules around it. It never looks right to put no spaces around the em dash, and probably breaks all sorts of word-splitting code that's based on "\s". Where else does punctuation without spaces not mean a single word? Hyphens without spaces is a compound word: it counts as one. Imagine if the correct use of a colon was to not put spaces around it:like this. Do you like that? Of course not.

But I think worst of all it just gives me the fucking creeps, some uncanny-valley bullshit. I see hyphens a million times a day then out of nowhere comes this creepy slender-man looking motherfucker that's just a little bit too long than you'd expect or like, and is always touching all the letters around it when it shouldn't need to. It stands out looking like a weird print error... on my screen! Hopefully it keeps building a worse and worse reputation.
by Brendinooo | 2025-09-15 13:00:39+00:00
If you didn't read the article -

> These calculations were completed for cohorts of men born during 1895–1904, 1905–1914, 1915–1924, and 1925–1934

and the gap gradually closed with time. There was an 10-year difference in the first cohort which closed by about two years per cohort.

So, a four-year gap in the most recent cohort is notable, but the narrative's probably a little different than you might guess when looking at the headline alone.
by discardedrefuse | 2025-09-15 13:01:17+00:00
An alternative (and possibly easier) way that doesn't require root is to use Hail + Shizuku.

Shizuku helps normal apps to use system APIs without root. You can enable it with from a computer with adb or from the phone itself using wireless debugging. Hail uses Shizuku's API access and lets you select apps to freeze. You can then unfreeze / refreeze apps with a quick tap in Hail.

If you already have root, all this becomes easier. If you do the wireless debugging method, Shizuku's API access won't survive a reboot. You'll have to go thru the wireless debugging procedure again before you can use Hail. https://shizuku.rikka.app/guide/setup/
by Svip | 2025-09-15 13:01:59+00:00
A few details to note: The quote is from August 2024 (last year), and the question (from an MP) to the minister is from September 2024 and so is the response, which can be read here:

https://www.ft.dk/samling/20231/almdel/reu/spm/1426/svar/207...

For those less familiar with Danish: the minister's answer is basically the same spiel about needing to protect children; and how people will still be protected by the legal system (you know, which is little consultation after you've been beaten up, swindled across borders or worse). So this quote is from a year before Denmark had the presidency in the EU and pushed Chat Control forward. (Though clearly they haven't changed their views on this.)
by aeve890 | 2025-09-15 13:02:33+00:00
Same! I lost days looking for the most distant galaxies and traveling to them. I always felt the same anxiety of the emptiness thinking why the universe doesn't give us a way to explore it, why I was born so early or in a _lame low tech planet_ (in a lame low tech country) or how incredibly diverse could be the life out there. I remember being fascinated by the sheer number of galaxies and then "wait, this app doesn't even zoom _into_ galaxies", which is another level of infinityness, and that was just overwhelming. Man, I feel depressed now.
by Illniyar | 2025-09-15 13:02:55+00:00
I assume if you are running multiple SaaS you already discovered this - but the expectation is that you will amortize the cost of a chargeback into your price if you are a legit business.

Card-not-present (I.E. internet transaction) has a lot more merchant fraud then friendly fraud (what we call these cases) and the incentives for both merchants and banks is to make sure the customer never loses trust in the system. If people were afraid to use their cards on the internet everyone loses.

It doesn't make sense for both the merchants and the banks to arbitrate every 10$ transaction. I doubt your case even reached a human, or if it did they even gave it a minute of thought - you are just someone who does not know the rules to them.

Now if a customer abuses the chargeback mechanism, he'll have is card revoked, probably be blacklisted and his life would be an insane amount of complicated from now on. But you'll never see these cases. Be sure that if someone could abuse the chargeback mechanism to the extent you mentioned, the system would be unusable, the fact you get chargebacks only rarely is a testemant that there is policing going on at the bank side.

It's just not 100%. Like Patio11 says - the optimal amount of fraud is non-zero[1]

If you have a large chargeback (let's say 1000$ and more) you might actually get someone to review it, and there's a slight chance you'll win if the case is good. But the system is not geared for that.

It's geared towards you amortizing the cost of chargeback into your price - and eventually the people who pay it is always the customer, not the merchant.

[1] - https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/optimal-amount-of-fra...
by Jensson | 2025-09-15 13:03:18+00:00
It is important to note that Sweden has never had serfdom or in other ways oppressed its people to a high degree like most other countries did, so it makes sense the culture doesn't hate its government as much.

People there have had their freedom since the viking ages and probably earlier, it was never taken from them and therefore never scarred the culture. In other countries where peasants had to fight for their freedom their culture reflects that, but Swedes never had to do that.

So after millennia of governments letting its people be free why start distrusting the government today?
by 4rknova | 2025-09-15 13:03:27+00:00
Hi everyone, I’m the author of the article.

To the best of my knowledge, Scene Optimiser was turned off for the shot I discussed in my write-up. That said, a great point was raised, and I’d like to address it thoroughly. I’ll take some comparison photos with Scene Optimiser both on and off and update the blog post as soon as I get the chance.

The goal wasn’t to run a detailed, scientific comparison, but simply to do a quick check on the spot. The post is really aimed at people who just want to snap some fun photos of the Moon, not folks doing serious astrophotography.

Do feel free to leave your comments in my page, I appreciate everyone's input.
by Bender | 2025-09-15 13:03:33+00:00
Yeah, no. It's not normal just because people have been doing this for a long time. It has sugar which makes people addicted to it and will argue until they are blue in the face to defend it just like drug addicts will defend their behavior until their last breath. Milk can cause just as much a fatter liver as beer. People can get all their calcium from green leafy vegetables. Raw milk will also contain IGG, IGB, IGA that humans can create on their own. Adding animal immunoglobulins is not well studied. Humans can create their own.
by arcmutex | 2025-09-15 13:03:58+00:00
When Governments ban encryption, its like banning the citizens from sending unreadable gibberish messages over the network.

Encryption algorithm, source code and ciphertext are also free speech. Here is RSA printed on a T-shirt: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Munitions_T-shirt_(fron...
by dsr_ | 2025-09-15 13:04:20+00:00
Similarly, the fact that Banks didn't write about internal threats other than the ones he wrote about (Eccentric Minds, Absconders, conspiracies to promote specific agendas, etc etc) doesn't mean that others don't exist. An absence of evidence in the text is not evidence of absence (or presence) in the wider universe.

And so fanfic exists.
by totallymike | 2025-09-15 13:04:20+00:00
I’ll grant you that, but at least a new contributor who actually writes the code they contribute has offered some level of reciprocity with respect to the time it takes to review their contributions.

Trying to understand a problem and taking some time to work out a solution proves that you’re actually trying to learn and be helpful, even if you’re green. Using a LLM to generate a nearly-thousand-line PR and yeeting it at the maintainers with a note that says “I don’t really know what this does” feels less hopeful.

I feel like a better use of an LLM would be to use it for guidance on where to look when trying to see how pieces fit together, or maybe get some understanding of what something is doing, and then by one’s own efforts actually construct the solution. Then, even if one only has a partial implementation, it would feel much more reasonable to open a WIP PR and say “is this on the right track?”
by toomuchtodo | 2025-09-15 13:04:23+00:00
You’re correct. The loans are made because they’re profitable even when the borrower defaults and a repo is performed. The car is sold to someone else and the cycle repeats. The goal is to get you off the lot and to get enough payments and interest out of the borrower so it’s a net profit even when the borrower defaults.

"America runs on credit."
by KaiserPro | 2025-09-15 13:05:02+00:00
In the UK you'd need a class D "loi-sonce" to be able to pull the shipping container sized battery trailer for that to work.

However, if you were wanting to use pure lead acid batteries for your house, because you'd be doing slow charge/discharge you'd probably be able to get away with just 1100 130ah lead acid car batteries.

I mean you'd be optimising for peak current, which isn't what you'd want. However it could be interesting to see what happens when you have ~500mega Amps at 48v. (24Mw would heat your radiators up pretty quick. )

for lithium, then you'd need 12-14 secondhand tesla/polstar batteries, which if they caught fire, might be a challenge to contain.
by AlecSchueler | 2025-09-15 13:05:10+00:00
I use em dashes in my comments too but this is Hacker News. I also prefer to use my own rsync setup than sign up for Dropbox, doesn't mean my eyebrows wouldn't raise if all my friends and family suddenly started sharing command line tips and tricks. It's self selection like you say.

But my point about the article not being convincing is just this: I can share my anecdotal evidence, you can too, we all go in a circle and it gets us nowhere. What I was expecting when I clicked the link was some actual data on dash prevalence in casual writing such as YouTube comments and a conclusion based on that data. What I got was more "Well if you look at this very particular kind of writing then extrapolate that to cover all writing then my point is made."
by bede | 2025-09-15 13:05:44+00:00
Yes, when doing anything intensive with lots of sequences it generally makes sense to liberate them from FASTA as early as possible and index them somehow. But as an interchange format FASTA seems quite sticky. I find the pervasiveness of fastq.gz particularly unfortunate with Gzip being as slow as it is.

> Took me a while to realize that Grace Blackwell refers to a person and not an Nvidia chip :)

I even confused myself about this while writing :-)
by ndsipa_pomu | 2025-09-15 13:06:04+00:00
Yep, some recipes don't require precision, but something like a soufflé might.

Weighing things out is the correct method. What could be useful is if recipes provided the ratios of the ingredients along with error margins, so that you could easily type in an amount (e.g. 100g flour) and it'd scale the other ingredients to match. However, maybe that's overthinking it.
by jcupitt | 2025-09-15 13:06:24+00:00
Hello, libvips author here, the JPEG loader has a flag to do this for you. You can write:

VipsImage *image = vips_image_new_from_file("something.jpg", "autorotate", TRUE, NULL);

and it'll flip it upright for you and remove any EXIF orientation tag. It isn't the default since it has (obviously) a large memory and cpu cost.

For simple resize and crop it's much better to use the exif tag to adjust the resize and crop parameters (the vipsthumbnail command does this).
by PUSH_AX | 2025-09-15 13:07:44+00:00
Braindead? Or better architects of systems?

The abstraction an LLM provides almost forces you to take more of a tech lead/architect approach, which I find really interesting.

Maybe we should be more agnostic to the lower level details as we trust the abstraction more (I know we're not there yet!), decades ago we needed to write ASM, there was probably a point in time when higher level languages came out and we were still double cheking the machine code, then a point came when we no longer cared or needed to care much and could focus on the higher level. I see LLMs as creeping towards this paradigm (again, not there yet).
by sroerick | 2025-09-15 13:07:45+00:00
Its basically LARBS or an autoricing script. But its happening in kind of a cultural moment where Linux gaming is good enough and Windows is bad enough for people to see ricing and say "I want that!"

I think it is function follows form, but it turns out a lot of people actually want that.

Not to mention - if you're coming from Windows or MacOS and you've never had real tiling before, you could install a bunch of goofy electron launchers or whatever and still get form improvements.

I'm not a Rails guy, so I've always kind of thought their scaffolding system was a little silly. It's going to autogenerate a config and then I also have to edit it?

But I'm coming to terms with the idea that there is actually tremendous value to lowering the barrier to entry as much as possible, and providing scaffolding for people to learn along the way
by OgsyedIE | 2025-09-15 13:07:46+00:00
To be a human person is to have:

* autonomy

* internal (mental) sovereigneity

* some degree of legibility to other human persons (e.g. a name, capacity to enter social games, a consistent personal history)

* a tolerance for information throughput within the normal distribution of human persons

The Culture abandons 1 and maybe 2, while the VO from Accelerando abandon 4. I've never seen any proof that the universe is privileged to permit all four to coexist indefinitely under conditions of social acceleration.
Show HN: I built LLM Quotes to collect and share funny/weird LLM outputs
by jcoulaud | 2025-09-15 13:08:13+00:00
I often get strange or funny outputs from LLMs (ChatGPT, Claude, etc.), and wanted a simple way to save and share them. So I built this small side project https://llmquotes.com.

What it does: - Submit quotes (no login needed, optional Twitter handle) - Upvote and favorite - Spam is manually moderated (for now) - Best ones also get posted to https://x.com/LlmQuotes

Backstory: This started because my friends and I kept screenshotting odd LLM replies and losing them in chats. I built a little place to collect them. Nothing fancy, just centralizing and sharing.

Tech: Small Next.js app with Postgres, running on Vercel. Open source.

Curious if others also save weird LLM replies, or if I’m the only one doing this.
by bluGill | 2025-09-15 13:08:23+00:00
> It is highly unlikely to be dangerous enough to have a significant, or even measurable, effect on life expectancies.

Assuming you are a normal healthy adult who gets plenty of nutrition - like someone in the modern world. If you are eating near starvation your immune system won't be as strong. If you are otherwise unhealthy the potential bacteria can overwhelm you...
by JonChesterfield | 2025-09-15 13:08:32+00:00
This is exciting. Thank for for raising the point. I've posted https://discourse.llvm.org/t/our-ai-policy-vs-code-of-conduc... to see what other people think of this. Thank you for your commit, and especially for not mentioning that it's AI generated code that you don't understand in the review, as it makes my point rather more forcefully than otherwise.
If EU chat control passes, what will protect financial people?
by anon191928 | 2025-09-15 13:08:50+00:00
longer title: if EU chat control pasess, how financial people and executives will be able to to protect financial information communication ? what am I thinking wrong? 3rd party will be able to see IPOs early and revenue data early and way more? that information always worth billions and encryption in chat will be forbidden?
by atonse | 2025-09-15 13:10:13+00:00
To me this is a wonderful example of the power of mathematics and science to go well beyond our normal intuition of how the world around us works works (which was the normal way things were done until only a few hundred years ago).

The fact that we are able to measure things globally indirectly and accurately based on our understanding of physics, hypotheses we make, and then apply those experiments is very cool.

Never mind the marvel of GPS that we've just taken for granted for decades...
by mrtksn | 2025-09-15 13:10:39+00:00
Actually, having encryption defeating mechanisms makes a lot of sense when its limited to public servants, like the Denmark's Justice Minister. Those people are trusted with a lot of public resources, in fact all the public servants should have a monitoring device like a black box on them all the time and when something goes wrong that blackbox should be decrypt-able so we can look at the logs and see what went wrong.

Corruption and incompetence, solved.
by benoitonchainyc | 2025-09-15 13:11:09+00:00
Hello hackers,

To kick off the week, let me introduce you to a new project supported by the Ethereum Foundation: Wallet Beat.

Digital assets, cryptos… How do you protect them? The answer seems simple: you need a solid wallet.

But…

…Which wallets are truly solid? Are they all the same? Are hardware wallets really safer? Do they all comply with security standards?

These questions are not so easy to answer.

That’s why the Ethereum Foundation decided to clear things up and is supporting the open-source initiative Wallet Beat.

The platform aims to provide a comprehensive list of wallets, their features, and their readiness for upcoming standards.

I’ve broken down Wallet Beat and shared my insights in the latest article of the Monthly of Set In Stone.