MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lnsru | 2025-10-15 13:26:25+00:00
Deutsche Bahn is a bad joke nowadays. They even released some shorts on youtube with famous comedian Anke Engelke to laugh from themselves. But the situation is everything else than funny.

I design hardware, data science is not my thing. Is it that hard to collect all the delayed train events, categorize them. Create few groups like suicides, train breakdowns, infrastructure failures, too many passengers to close the doors, etc. And then fight the issues by groups defining oldest and possibly failing infrastructure and trains. And managing trains to squeeze everyone inside. Political failure is one thing, but some things can be solved by science.
by cafard | 2025-10-15 13:26:55+00:00
Lincoln favored projects of emancipation with compensation to the slaveholders. In a letter of March 14, 1862, he writes that the paying off all claims in Delaware, Maryland, the District of Columbia, Kentucky, and Missouri, at $400 per head (his term, not mine) would cost less than the expense incurred in eighty-seven days of war. The project went forward only in the District of Columbia.
by DennisP | 2025-10-15 13:26:56+00:00
I was super interested in the Vision Pro when it was first released. Then I found out they went with an app model and the device could only display a single MacOS window. There went my dream of surrounding myself with a bunch of vim windows and terminals.

If they'd focused on maximizing the device's usefulness instead of its revenue stream, maybe things would have worked out better.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-10-15 13:26:58+00:00
Central bank prints the money, puts it into bank accounts or hosts the bank accounts itself. Government taxes money to destroy it. I think its interesting if you can assign money different "classes" or make it programmable; give fiat away to stoke consumption but make it have an expiration or prevent it from being invested if sourced from a central bank allowance, but lots of hazards too (usual suspects of human governance failure modes). Money earned "human to human" could have a different, higher value or class than money printed for consumption of goods or services that can be produced by automation also comes to mind. Much better imho than the blunt instrument of target interest rates for adjusting the speed of an economy and blanket fiat value.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Monetary_Theory
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-10-15 13:27:40+00:00
From what I understand, a number of them are Chinese nationals. I suspect that taking Chinese slaves might not be a great idea. China tends to carry a big stick; especially in that region.

Wouldn't surprise me, if the DOJ had some "under-the-table" help from Chinese sources, but not in any way that anyone can prove.

If you don't want to sign up for a podcast, John Oliver did a fairly decent bit about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLPpl2ISKTg
by physicsguy | 2025-10-15 13:27:44+00:00
It does, but it's not some panacea. It would cause a massive upheaval in planned investments to start which would likely cut investment overall for a few years, you have to hedge no longer against one price but many prices, a transition would be complex, settlement would be much more complicated, not to mention the massive political cost of it when campaigners go "the government has legislated to make our electricity cost more!"
by topaz0 | 2025-10-15 13:27:50+00:00
Survivorship bias is real, but is missing the important piece of the story when it comes to software, which doesn't just survive but is also maintained. Sure you may choose to discard/replace low quality software and keep high quality software in operation, which leads to survivorship bias, but the point here is that you also have a chance to find and fix issues in the one that survived, even if those issues weren't yet apparent in version 0.1. Author is not trying to say that version 0.1 of 30 year old software was of higher quality than version 0.1 of modern software -- they're saying that version 9 of 30 year old software is better than version 0.1 of modern software.
by cudgy | 2025-10-15 13:28:00+00:00
What does this have to do with which party has more of a proclivity to go to war? Why does everything have to devolve back to Trump?

By the way, I think Trump‘s stupid comment about training the troops in cities was absolutely stupid and deserves to be called out. However, you would be foolish to think that other leaders prior to him haven’t thought similar thoughts, but just haven’t said it out loud.
by throwforfeds | 2025-10-15 13:28:00+00:00
My wife has won multiple prestigious awards for her writing (novels, memoir). She's published by huge multinational corporations you've heard of. She got paid about $100k for her last novel, which took maybe 5 years to complete. It works out to less than $20k/year, after paying her literary agent. The publisher encourages her to spend her own money on PR (~$20k).

Many of our friends in the literary circles of NYC end up teaching in MFA programs (Columbia, NYU, New School), but then they have very little time for their own work and the pay isn't great (she's been offered $4k to teach a course for the semester at Columbia MFA). Of course we do have friends that have gotten $1 million advances, but that is exceptionally rare and you have to be a bestseller at that point.

So, that's all to say, you can have an artist that from the outside looks wildly successful because of the awards and articles written about them, but they're in reality poor.
by paulwilsonn | 2025-10-15 13:28:07+00:00
Yeah, I’ve noticed the same trend - Facebook’s recommendation algorithm seems to have gone off the rails lately. It’s aggressively pushing shocking or borderline content to maximize engagement. What’s scary is how subtle it’s become - it’s not explicit, but it plays on outrage or taboo just enough to keep people watching.

Feels like the platform is optimizing purely for watch time, not safety or decency anymore.
by mexicocitinluez | 2025-10-15 13:28:07+00:00
> I've been doing this for 25 years and everything I do can be boiled down to API Glue.

Oooof, and you still haven't learned how big this field is? Give me the ego of a software developer who thinks they've seen it all in a field that changes almost daily. Lol.

> The basic stuff has been the same for two decades now.

hwut?

> Maybe 5% of the code I write is actually hard, like when the stuff comes in REAL fast and you need to do the processing within a time limit

God, the irony in saying something like this and not having the self-awareness to realize it's actually a dig at yourself. hahahahaha

Congratulations on being the most lame software developer on this planet who has only found himself in situations that can be solved by building strictly-CRUD software. Here's to hoping you keep pumping out those Wordpress plugins and ecommerce sites.

I have 2 questions for you to ruminate on:

1. How many programming jobs have you had? 2. How many programming jobs exist in the entire world at this moment?

It's gotta be what, a million job difference? lol. But you've seen it all right? hahahazha
by wlesieutre | 2025-10-15 13:28:13+00:00
Amazing home theater replacement if you watch all your movies alone, or have a lot of money.

Does Vision Pro have any apps for a virtual theater where you can watch video online in a VR space with other people? I've used Bigscreen for that once or twice with a Quest, and it struck me as something that would be a cool feature if I knew more people with VR headsets.
by somenameforme | 2025-10-15 13:28:16+00:00
Not really. In modern times I think we are increasingly missing the point of why we started collecting all of these data to begin with. And that's to aim at giving everybody a more pleasant life. And that is going to be determined solely by their own subjective experience and perception.

Of course you're right that subjective experience will be biased, but it will usually be biased in a relatively fixed way. And so changes in this overtime create arguably the most valuable measurement that exists. Like during the previous administration, trying to brow beat people into believing that the economy was awesome because 'look at these totally-not-fake numbers' was just so dystopic.

So for example, we tend to overestimate threats rather than underestimate them. Yet in El Salvador we now have the overwhelming majority of people (at the 8th highest rate in the world) say they feel safe walking alone at night. That is just an extremely informative datum. I'd also add that people's actions are based on their perceptions. Gallup hits on this in a reasonable way in that survey linked earlier:

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"In our uncertain world, it’s not enough to make sure that people are safe. They also need to feel safe. When people feel safe, they devote time and energy to learning opportunities and to their relationships with their families, communities and workplaces.

Feeling safe fosters trust in these relationships. This trust forms a foundation for collaboration, cooperation and social development, which makes communities more resilient to challenges such as natural disasters, economic downturns, political conflicts or health crises like the recent pandemic."

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by oxceedo | 2025-10-15 13:28:47+00:00
Hi Martin,

We had somewhat the same exchange on reddit a few weeks ago under a similar article if you remember :)

Once again, I really appreciate the time you are taking to explain those things!

Everytime you chip in, it's always spot on and crystal clear. This is the kind of informations those people should put in their articles.

Have a good day and keep up the good work!
by xrd | 2025-10-15 13:29:17+00:00
I can't really make out what this all means. It seems like people cannot live in the world anymore because of expensive housing and taxation.

Across the ocean, Peter Thiel recently did a private lecture on the anti-christ and how that is connected to how hard to hide your money and "escape from global taxation if you're a U.S. citizen." He has dual citizenship in New Zealand. And, the following article conjectures that "prophesies about a society where an individual's ability to engage in commerce is contingent upon brandishing the mark of the beast on one's body."

Is this a criticism of swag? I love free t-shirts at tech conferences, is he calling me out for taking them?

https://reason.com/2025/10/14/i-listened-to-over-7-hours-of-...

https://sfstandard.com/2025/09/16/peter-thiel-antichrist-san...

After squinting at it, this Irish action feels like paying off a few court jesters, nothing more.
by tankenmate | 2025-10-15 13:29:33+00:00
Of course CSRF is a form of authorisation; "should I trust this request? is the client authorised to make this request? i.e. can the client prove that it should be trusted for this request?", it may not be "logging in" in the classic sense of "this user needs to be logged into our user system before i'll accept a form submit request", but it is still a "can i trust this request in order to process it?" model. You can wrap it up in whatever names and/or mechanism you want, it's still a trust issue (web or not, form or not, cookie or not, hidden field or not, header or not).

Servers should not blindly trust clients (and that includes headers passed by a browser claiming they came from such and such a server / page / etc); clients must prove they are trustworthy. And if you're smart your system should be set up such that the costs to attack the system are more expensive than compliance.

And yes, I have worked both red team and blue team.
by JonChesterfield | 2025-10-15 13:30:17+00:00
I'd bet the 72M cost was in actual euros that could be spent on other things, while other people have noted that the 80M in benefit was not in euros, but in happiness, which is notable for being difficult to spend on different things.

Some people might speculate that the arbitrary multiplier on happiness-to-euros for the second half was chosen to make it look like a slightly profitable endeavour on superficial examination.
by buellerbueller | 2025-10-15 13:30:18+00:00
Ok, sure, we can go that route and cherry pick examples that are not representative of the trends of the vast majority of flying. I'll even grant that I probably invited it by saying "full stop" on my sentence. Nevertheless, as most of us will never be in a C172, flying in a plane is far safer than being in a car.

The least you can do here is be honest about the conversation that is being had. It would be appreciated.
by kingstnap | 2025-10-15 13:30:47+00:00
I think you need to solve the gap the other way, by bringing down the "amount people need to live", ideally to zero, and not by directly paying people.

There is no numerical value of UBI that makes any sense in Canada. Rent is expensive and toys are cheap.

You need universal basic services with income being a thing you use for toys and vices. So this hypothetical artist should instead get paid what other people are willing to pay but need $0 in pay for basic food, water, healthcare, and housing.
by Aurornis | 2025-10-15 13:30:56+00:00
> Examples like self hosted LLM finetuning and RAG on an old dell or HP server with these type of cards on them.

This won’t be in the price range of an old Dell server or a fun impulse buy for a hobbyist. 160GB of raw LPDDR5X chips alone is not cheap.

This is a server/workstation grade card and the price is going where the market will allow. Consider that an nVidia card with almost half the RAM is going to cost $8K or more. That price point is probably the starting point for where this will be priced, too.
by physicsguy | 2025-10-15 13:31:06+00:00
There are a huge number of statutory consultees who are asked - they don't have to respond. It is an enormous list. Just as an example any and all of these can be statutory consultees depending on site location:

Environment Agency, Natural England, Forestry Commission, Canal and River Trust, Historic England, The Gardens Trust, Health and Safety Executive, Office for Nuclear Regulation, Highways Authority, Parish Councils, Rail Infrastructure Managers, Coal Authority, Sport England, Theatres Trust, Water and sewerage undertakers, Local Planning Authorities, National Parks Authorities, Greater London Authority
by bogwog | 2025-10-15 13:31:50+00:00
Did you read the article? They're not creating nor choosing an operating system for the librephone project. They're looking into reverse engineering the binary firmware blobs needed to achieve a fully free software distribution on a modern device. Afaik, this work will benefit all alternative OS projects for whatever devices they succeed with.

I guess maybe a good analogy would be like trying to port coreboot to a laptop.
by belorn | 2025-10-15 13:31:53+00:00
"Hooray! No wind has been wasted today (so far)."*

This week the northern-ish parts of europe are hitting one of the highest price point for electricity in recent time, with prices going for around $0.5 per kw/h. Calm weather in combination with low production from solar is creating a shortage in production, at the same time as the weather is getting colder.

There is a lot of money on the table to get energy produced at the right time and right place. Having energy produced at the wrong time and in the wrong place is not worth anything.
by pmezard | 2025-10-15 13:32:02+00:00
Hungary suspected of spying for Russia, in der Spiegel (also in Le Monde but no translated link):

https://www.spiegel.de/ausland/eu-wie-ungarns-agenten-in-bruessel-informanten-anzuwerben-versuchten-a-a44776c8-c8a6-4bf1-a7d1-7e92f643b748

> Other than Orban being corrupt and unpopular because the same applies to most politicians at EU level especially Ursula vs Leyen.

I am so tired of these "they are all bad anyway" stances. AFAIK, Ursula van der Leyen is not actively supporting a country who invaded a EU neighbour some years ago or routinely performs assassinations on EU territory. Also, I do not think she is actively criticizing the EU whenever she has the opportunity while pocketing as much money from it as she can. Maybe we could talk about Orban stance wrt democracy and people rights.

I don't especially like Ursula van der Leyen, I think she is the usual misdirected pro-market believer the kind we had too much in EU so far. But she is not that bad.

I guess they are the same anyway.

All that said, Ireland action is bad but not that bad.
by Aurornis | 2025-10-15 13:32:14+00:00
> If they could release this for around the price of a 5090

This is not targeted at consumers. It’s competing with nVidia’s high RAM workstation cards. Think $10K price range, not $1-2K.

The 160GB of LPDDR5X chips alone is expensive enough that they couldn’t release this at the $2K price point unless they felt like giving it away (which they don’t)
by quxbar | 2025-10-15 13:32:19+00:00
LLMs unlock a fundamentally different paradigm of interaction, in my experience a non-technical person with a good humanities background can describe what they want adequately. This is without needing to master the arbitrary grammar of a no-code system. Does often inevitably turn out to be a 'toy' version of what a real business needs? Yes, but it's still strictly better than previous ways of working.
by cudgy | 2025-10-15 13:32:25+00:00
Maybe a small time period during the hippie era near the end of the Vietnam war?

My main point is that I get tired of people from both sides of the aisle democrat/republican making comments about how the other side does or doesn’t do stuff that their own party does as well? It results in virtually no decent discussion and everybody pointing at each other, even though they basically want the same things. It is very cultish and unproductive.
by mschuster91 | 2025-10-15 13:32:48+00:00
> The US is mid-way down that list, below most of Eastern Europe.

That's why I specifically mentioned large and developed countries, of which the US is leading. Not to front Eastern Europe too much, I'm half Croat myself, but you can't expect the former USSR and Yugoslavian countries to be up to par with Western healthcare systems or with Western economies - even in Western countries, the socio-economic status has had a measurable effect on patient outcome during Covid [1] so it's reasonable to assume that the effect is just as pronounced if not worse comparing whole blocks of countries.

> Sweden, with notably lax mask/distancing approach, is better than EU average.

I'd rather say "notorious" instead of "notably". During the early pandemic phase, Sweden had 5x the mortality than Denmark [2], explained as follows:

> Behavioural data (Fig. 1b,c) suggest that the major difference between Sweden, the UK, and Denmark was the rapidity with which population contact rates were reduced, rather than the extent of this reduction

The study also mentions the UK as being similarly bad but I'm choosing to exclude the UK given the widespread reports of NHS being on the verge of collapse [3][4], which makes it harder to attribute deaths to Covid itself vs deaths that would have been preventable had the NHS not been in shambles even before Covid hit (as evidenced by polling showing NHS issues a greater pressure point than Brexit woes just right before Covid appeared on the global stage [6]).

Other evaluations of Sweden against other countries come to a similar conclusion, blaming lax policies for marked increases in excess deaths and the acute crisis duration [5]:

> Sweden is an interesting case because the country never introduced a formal lockdown. Excess mortality peaked at 49.2 percent and remained high for 12 weeks, i.e. longer than in Italy, which had much higher excess mortality. Looking at the figures for Sweden in comparison to especially Italy and Switzerland, it seems that the lockdown in the latter two countries did have a major impact, both as concerns the level of excess mortality and the duration of the recovery period.

[1] https://www.local.gov.uk/health-inequalities-deprivation-and...

[2] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8358009/

[3] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c78dl0xv7y2o

[4] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/23/nhs-co...

[5] https://www.efta.int/media-resources/news/covid-19-excess-mo...

[6] https://www.ipsos.com/en-uk/nhs-replaces-brexit-most-importa...
by gjsman-1000 | 2025-10-15 13:32:54+00:00
Many people blame the lack of OpenGL/Vulkan... but I really don't buy it. It doesn't pass the sniff test as an objection. PlayStation doesn't support OpenGL/Vulkan (they have their own proprietary APIs, GNM, GNMX, PSSL). Nintendo supports Vulkan but performance is so bad, almost everyone uses the proprietary API (NVN / NVN2). Xbox obviously doesn't accept OpenGL/Vulkan either, requiring DirectX. Understanding of Metal is widespread in mobile gaming, so it's weird AAA couldn't pull from that industry if they wished.
by mothballed | 2025-10-15 13:33:36+00:00
If the lunch were actually free no one would probably oppose it. It's that they oppose throwing grandma to the street when she can't come up with the property tax to pay some lunch-co megacorp to give the kids lunches. If you literally go to the grocery store on your own dime, bag lunches, and donate them for poor kids to eat I don't see how anyone could rationally oppose that.
by fakedang | 2025-10-15 13:33:51+00:00
Orban gerrymandered his way to infinite rule, begs EU for money then gives the same money to his cronies or to himself, builds palatial estates for himself and his family, and has basically positioned Hungary as a one-party country masquerading as a European democracy.

Agree on Von der Leyen also masquerading as a democratically elected politician, when in reality she was just slotted into place by German politicians who wanted her so far away from the Bundestag because she was just that much incompetent.
by ytch | 2025-10-15 13:34:12+00:00
they usually release Pro or Max model later:

M4: May 2024

M4 pro/max: Oct 2024

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/05/apple-introduces-m4-c...

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/10/apple-introduces-m4-p...
by alt227 | 2025-10-15 13:34:30+00:00
Apple has always been a software first company, and they only sell the hardware as a vehicle to their software. They regularly say this themselves and have always called themselves a software company. Compare their hardware revenues with that of the app store and icloud subscriptions, you will see where they make most of their money.

EDIT: I seem to be getting downvoted, so I will just leave this here for people to see I am not lying:

https://www.businessinsider.com/tim-cook-apple-is-not-a-hard...