MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sshine | 2025-10-16 08:46:31+00:00
> companies don't want to do make more money with the same (retrained) people

Right, a capitalist dream where the factory is fully automated and you can cut all labor cost.

But we're not competing to become laborers at a fixed set of coal mines here.

The service economy is significantly larger than industry; in the US, 77% of GDP. Worldwide, 60%.

There's a limit to how many coffee shops you can have in any one area, but it's limited by purchasing power and not by natural resources that capitalists compete for monopoly over extraction.

There is always something to do.

(Also, I'm grossly overestimating people's willingness and ability to retrain.)
by rolph | 2025-10-16 08:46:54+00:00
ok, so someone makes the license available for end user to read or not, thats one down for providers responsibility.

now the next is the nature of linux as a common good, generated by many contributors over some time. is it acceptable for anyone to turn a profit from distributing copies of linux on media, or as a component of a retail unit, for an additional price ?

how does that scale up? suppose thousands of ISOs or live distros are sold, enriching the seller by some thousands of dollars, is that ok?

could i, or you, or anyone, burn a couple hundred disks, or rufus thumbdrives, then sell them for $40 each, and have no concerns ?

the submission, links to what is clearly, a profit oriented business. what limitations exist? none if you just pack a GPL2 in with it? can he charge a fee as if he is selling linux to the end user? is public awareness, and availability a suitable contra for financial profit from sale of a product of many contributions from many individuals over many years?

just how philanthropic is the community?
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-10-16 08:47:10+00:00
Yeah. I think it might even be worse than that.

The purpose of a multi-core benchmark is that if you throw a lot of threads at something, it can move where the bottleneck is. With one thread neither a desktop nor HEDT processor is limited by memory bandwidth, with max threads maybe the first one is and the second one isn't. With one thread everything is running at the boost clock, with max threads everything may be running at the base clock. So the point of distinguishing them is that you want to see to what extent a particular chip stumbles when it's fully maxed out.

But tanking the performance with shared state will load up the chip without getting anything in return, which isn't even representative of the real workloads that use an in-between number of threads. The 6-thread consumer app isn't burning max threads on useless lock contention, it just only has 6 active threads. If you have something with 32 cores and 64 threads and it has a 5GHz boost clock and a 2GHz base clock, it's going to be running near the boost clock if you only put 6 threads on it.

It's basically measuring the performance you'd get from a small number of active threads at the level of resource contention you'd have when using all the threads, which is the thing that almost never happens in real-world cases because they're typically alternatives to each other rather than things that happen at the same time.
by jim-jim-jim | 2025-10-16 08:47:31+00:00
Paris was the cultural shot in the arm I needed. All the stores in Australia only stock RBG biographies and diaspora navel-gazing with titles like "The Grapes My Mother Squeezed."

I don't know if it's on the map, but there was a little place in the 5th or 6th or so called "Autodidact" which had so many tomes of bizarre art that you'd never chance upon at a gallery here. I imagine the literature is similarly adventurous, but I don't parler the language it's printed in.
by Turboblack | 2025-10-16 08:47:40+00:00
cover http://elpis.ws/12.gif

Table of contents:

1. ASCII Art is an art born from limitations

2. Brown Doesn't Exist!

3. Doodling, or scribbling while waiting for an idea

4. Web 1.0 Fossils

5. AI devoured the internet, but choked on a Nissan Leaf muffler.

Thanks to everyone who reads, I am grateful for any support and cooperation.
by submeta | 2025-10-16 08:47:45+00:00
So many new options. NeoVim and Helix in terminal, Zed as a beautiful GUI editor. - A few years ago I thought it’s Emacs/vim for us hackers, and for the rest it’s Sublime, and later VS Code, and then comes nothing. But wow, here we are: Ever more options. I‘m loving it.
by gargan | 2025-10-16 08:47:51+00:00
You're looking at the wrong laptop, the Dell XPS 13 9345 has a ~88.6% screen to body ratio, the Macbook Pro 14 M4 2024 has a ~84.6% screen to body ratio.

The weight is the big one for me - only 2.5 lbs vs 3.4 lbs

Remember the Dell has an 18 month old processor, X Elite 2 coming out next year.

Source for all these stats: https://nanoreview.net/en/laptop-compare/dell-xps-13-9345-20...
by metalman | 2025-10-16 08:47:55+00:00
personaly, I am very busy spooling up a new iteration of my business, and various constraints are forcing me to quicker descision making, and a patern is emerging where I need to cut other humans off, when it becomes clear that they are working from and to false information, and will not let go of "that" to focus on the actual situation and task at hand, the flip side is that some people are cutting ME! off, when I insist on sticking to the actual real world reason for our talking, rather than a digresion into the "app" and it's issues. the take away is that the "attention economy" has worked past anything functional and is well into unintended consequences territory.
by ubutler | 2025-10-16 08:48:53+00:00
We were unfortunately disappointed to discover that, yes, Voyage, Cohere, and Jina all train on the data of their API customers by default.

Voyage's terms say:

> you grant Voyage AI (and its successors and assigns) a worldwide, irrevocable, perpetual, royalty-free, fully paid-up, right and license to use, copy, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display and perform the Customer Content: ... (iii) to train, improve, and otherwise further develop the Service (such as by training the artificial intelligence models we use).

Cohere's terms say:

> YOU GRANT US A ... RIGHT TO ... USE ... ANY DATA ... TO ... IMPROVE AND ENHANCE THE COHERE SOLUTION AND OUR OTHER OFFERINGS AND BENCHMARK THE FOREGOING, INCLUDING BY SHARING API DATA AND FINETUNING DATA WITH THIRD PARTIES ...

Jina's terms say:

> Jina AI shall, subject to applicable mandatory data protection requirements, be entitled to retain data uploaded to the Jina AI Systems or otherwise provided by the Customer or collected by Jina AI in the course of providing the Services and to use such data in anonymized/pseudonymized format for its business purposes including to improve its artificial intelligence applications.
by aw1621107 | 2025-10-16 08:49:20+00:00
> You made several good points. I agree with some of them and I think the remainder is a matter of framing. Below is a hopefully direct, precise reply that (a) acknowledges the valid objections, (b) restates the crux of your original argument cleanly, and (c) points the discussion toward the practical/architectural distinction that matters for verification and certification.

...I had my suspicions, and this and the rest of the comment really isn't helping.

> My position is not: "SPARK is merely an older tool and therefore superior".

I don't believe I was claiming that that was your position either?

> My position is:

Most of these points are basically completely tangential to the rest of the thread.

> The fact that the syntax later became native to Ada strengthens the point that Ada and SPARK are conceptually aligned, not orthogonal.

This completely misses the point I was trying to make.

> The question I keep returning to is: how much engineering, process, and qualification effort is required before Rust + tools equals SPARK's current production story?

As does this, because that's certainly not what I was responding to.

> My answer is: a lot. May not be impossible, but it is definitely not trivial

That's absolutely not what you claimed earlier!

> and not the same as "Rust already provides that".

Did anyone claim that in the first place?

> The relevant point remains that Ada+SPARK are an integrated, production-ready verification ecosystem today, whereas Rust is a promising base for verification research that has not yet produced the same integrated, certifiable toolchain."

And for at least a third time, you're comparing SPARK and Rust, which is not an interesting topic of discussion here.

> Ada 83 Rationale: it explains the design goals (reliability, maintainability, suitability for real-time/embedded and defense systems) and the language design decisions (strong typing, modularity, explicitness)[1]. <snip>

I'm not sure this or the rest of the comment is relevant for what I was getting at. I was wondering whether the Ada 83 rationale contained discussion about design elements specifically for validation. Not just things that are usable for validation such as strong types; I'm looking for decisions specifically made with formal validation in mind.
by dd_xplore | 2025-10-16 08:49:45+00:00
Even as kids we were fiddling with batch/bash scripts, how many kids do you see using apple script or whatever? It's the ease of accessibility.

Powershell now is lot more powerful than what Apple can dream to offer. MacOS is an opinionated OS for people who want to do simple tasks. MacOS apart from good looks offers nothing else.
by kragen | 2025-10-16 08:49:48+00:00
Your story is appalling, and I agree that this is a major problem.

However, drowning in e-waste from smartphones is many orders of magnitude from being an issue, as trivial calculations easily show. Mentioning it makes your argument rhetorically much weaker. The iPhone 16 is 147.6mm × 71.6mm × 7.8mm (8.2 × 10⁻⁵ m³) and weighs 170g, according to https://www.dimensions.com/element/apple-iphone-16-18th-gen. The population of France is 68.6 million people. One iPhone per person each year for the next century would be 6.86 billion iPhones in France, assuming the population remained constant. This would weigh 1.2 million tonnes and fit in a sphere 51 meters in diameter. If stacked 6 meters deep it would cover 9.4 hectares, a circle 340 meters in diameter. France contains 63 million hectares. The hypothetical pile of iPhones would cover about a third of the area of the Gravelines Nuclear Power Station near Calais.

Far from drowning in e-waste from smartphones, if you dump it in a landfill, it will be extremely hard even to find the e-waste without a map.

Even if you didn't have a countryside to bury e-waste in, this should be obvious even on the household scale. Suppose you and your four children each get a new iPhone every year, and instead of throwing them away, you put them in a box in the attic. How big is the box? It's a 35 cm cube after 100 years. It would weigh 85 kg, though, so you'd want to use several smaller boxes. But there is no risk of drowning.
by piva00 | 2025-10-16 08:51:40+00:00
US$150k is not only "decent" in high-income Western European cities (Paris, London, Amsterdam, etc.), it's a huge salary, usually in the top 5% of earners.

This expectation is why software development has become the neo-yuppies of the 2010s-2020s, people with overinflated expectations because they are keeping-up-with-the-Joneses from the internet being loud about their high salaries. Yes, there are people earning a lot in this industry but it's definitely not the norm outside of the inflated US salaries, the USA is the outlier.
by Weaver_zhu | 2025-10-16 08:52:21+00:00
IMO the author is a little over-claiming this work by naming 'recursive'. Quote from this blog:

> Lastly, in our experiments we only consider a recursive depth of 1 — i.e. the root LM can only call LMs, not other RLMs.

> but we felt that for most modern “long context” benchmarks, a recursive depth of 1 was sufficient to handle most problems.

I don't think a size 2 call stack algorithm should be regarded as 'recursive'.
by graemep | 2025-10-16 08:52:22+00:00
The UK has online forms for this, even for businesses, but is moving away from this as part of "Making Tax Digital" - i.e. they are axing paper forms to doing away with the online equivalents as well.

Then again, most people here who have salary only income do not have to fill in a tax return at all - only if they have certain types of income (self-employment, capital gains or investment income) above a threshold.
by stared | 2025-10-16 08:52:42+00:00
A bare model may lack a lot.

Yet a week ago I used Claude Code for my personal finances (not taxes) - I downloaded over a year’s worth of my bank account data. Since I pay for most things by card, if I buy lunch, it’s there.

With a single prompt (and about 10 minutes), it produced an analysis. It solved all the technical issues by itself (e.g., realizing it wasn’t CSV but TSV) and ran quite a few different explorations with Pandas. It was able to write an overview, find items that were likely misclassified, etc.

Everything I checked by hand was correct.

So, instead of pursuing a project to write an AI tool for personal finance, I ended up concluding: “just use Claude Code.” As a side note, I used 14 months of data due to my mistake - I wanted to analyze 2 months of data, since I didn’t believe it would handle a larger set, but I misclicked the year. The file was 350 KB.
by rixed | 2025-10-16 08:54:27+00:00
> this is also Apple's fault to a large degree

I don't know, I haven't checked extensively but I believe supporting iphone7 is still one checkbox away in xcode (xcode 26 release notes state that it "supports on-device debugging in iOS 15 and later", which is what is installed on my iphone).

I could imagine how some team at N26 though that "supporting" more devices was too much on their plate, which I would sympathise with, but the most likely scenario to me is that some technically inept "decision maker" decided to ban older phones in a security gesture to give the impression that he is adding value.

Note: I also own a venerable ipad air2 (2009) that I bought second hand long ago to serve as a midi controller. Still a very nice, well build machine. It's not allowed to connect to wifi or it would figure out what year it is. I call it "hibernatus" (reference to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hibernatus) :)
by simul007 | 2025-10-16 08:55:12+00:00
Hi HN, I posted yesterday thinking nobody would care and was ready to just leave it alone. Waking up today to see all these comments absolutely shocked me.

Here are answers to the main questions I'm seeing:

Regarding the writing style: Look, I used AI to edit the article for clarity and professionalism only for the blog. This is a business website, not a personal blog. If you want the raw, unedited version, check this Reddit link:

https://www.reddit.com/r/DataCops/s/vieMBQO8Lg

I find it ironic that some people are more focused on criticizing the writing style than addressing the actual problem I'm documenting.

About sharing the script: Sophisticated bot detection can't rely on Microsoft Clarity or traditional analytics alone. It requires multiple data points:

Modern bots use specific behavioral patterns at scale with customized browser configurations (not just basic headless browsers). You need to understand frameworks like Puppeteer, Playwright, and Selenium very well to detect them.

You need access to live global datacenter IP databases.

Even when click farms use real phones with real browsers, IP intelligence helps distinguish human from automated behavior. Each device needs a unique IP, when it runs its target activity to avoid fraud detection.

Detection involves analyzing dozens of factors simultaneously.

The data in this article is real. I stand by the findings.
by chownie | 2025-10-16 08:55:33+00:00
> For a proper way this would work, you the user would contribute your time for those features so you don't overburden the maintainer, but people like you won't and so this is where we're at.

Sure, if you're up front and honest from the beginning then some users will do that, the majority are likely to go for other offerings which don't suffer this problem. Vanishingly few users are going to be cool with features disappearing and then reappearing later on with a price tag attached, which is the scenario we're talking about.

In reality, 99.9% of the users are going to be using whatever free thing is available and your project will live for just about as long as you personally care about it. Rightly or wrongly, the maintainer's work/life balance isn't on the forefront of your mind when you're looking at npm packages, no amount of grandstanding will change that.
by otabdeveloper4 | 2025-10-16 08:56:29+00:00
Formal verification solves nothing. You can have a formally verified 100% secure backdoor exploit. (Ultimately it all depends on the semantics of "sysadmin" vs "hacker", who are really just two different roles of the same person.)

This is also why signing code commits isn't a solution, only a way to trace ends when something fucks up.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-10-16 08:56:48+00:00
This writing is another example of anthropocentricist hubris.

It doesn't really matter to us humans if "artificial life" AGI agents can/will exist at all or not, it's a MacGuffin canard. The greater impact is that many forms of narrow AI/ML, with some hype deserved and some not, are and will be used with minimal regulation to upheave society in profound ways like the cotton gin, steam engine, transistor, internet, and smartphone all in one to impoverish [mb]illions of workers and make trillionaires. In the absences of corrective measures, the present course is running towards ever more grotesque inequality, deprivation, corruption, and tyranny. Flock cameras' "ALPR" object and people classifier mass surveillance and likely misuse by intelligence services, police, and data brokers is just one other example. Hidden socioeconomic "social credit"-like data brokering is already selectively benefitting and sabotaging people by routine discrimination they're unable to inquire about.
by aaronmdjones | 2025-10-16 08:57:36+00:00
It feels like I have malware...

You do; it's called Windows.

I jumped ship over a decade ago and have been using Linux Mint as my daily driver; there hasn't been one day I've regretted it. Seeing the recent news about the constant full-screen Windows Backup/OneDrive popovers and needing a Microsoft Account just to install the OS (they recently killed the OOBE workaround) is just the stale icing on this dumpster fire of a cake.

Don't even get me started on all the AI crap in Edge.
by vietvu | 2025-10-16 08:57:54+00:00
For Zed user, yes. They don't care (I too, didn't use Windows for years, but Windows is popular is a fact, not opinion).

What I meant was there are so many problems with Windows that the team cannot do it quickly (they post about it before: https://zed.dev/blog/windows-progress-report).

Just surprised, as I thought building GUI app on Windows must be easy right, as must be libs/frameworks already available to support that? It's just not.
by mk89 | 2025-10-16 08:57:58+00:00
Uh?

In Germany people vote for the parties, and then the Bundespresident "randomly" picks the chancellor: the person that throughout the campaign/pre-election period mentioned everywhere on tv and in the news "I want to be the chancellor, because ...". At the same time, it's (again) "randomly" the person belonging to the party who won with the most votes.

Then the Bundestag has to assess whether the President chose really properly and randomly this person: was it actually the person who belongs to the party who won the most votes and that said throughout the campaign "I want to be the chancellor" or did the President play a trick on us? Most of the times, they are indeed the person that screamed the loudest throughout the campaign. So it matches. AFAIK it never happened that the President actually randomly picked someone else.

Literally everyone knows who is the "chancellor candidate" in case their party reaches the majority. OK, the President could play a trick, but concretely this never happens, so it's good enough for most people.

Now, go and tell the people who voted for CSU / Weber Spitzenkandidat and got Von Der Leyen instead ;)
by roenxi | 2025-10-16 08:59:54+00:00
If you want me to try explaining something more clearly you should include a rough outline of what you think I said. Otherwise I've basically got nothing to do but repeat myself. Hopefully this helps.

The journalists and the generals can presumably still talk to each other over drinks after work. The journalists were only ever going to be tolerated in the building because US leadership thinks they are helping them achieve military propaganda aims which are rarely noble things. There isn't much at stake here beyond classified information.

US classified information has been a bit of a disaster for them. It just means the government is slowly escaping accountability for what it does. They have that massive spying program on US citizens and the last I heard of the story was they can't sue anyone over it because the courts aren't allowed to believe it exists.
by akimbostrawman | 2025-10-16 08:59:54+00:00
>Except it learned by direct examples

What do you mean by "it learned"? From my perspective evolution is nothing more than trail and error on a big timescale. In a way we are much more than evolution because we are a conscious intelligence that is controlling the trail and error resulting in shortening the timescale substantially.

Take robots that can walk for example. Instead of starting at a fish that slowly over thousands or even million of years moves to land and grows limbs over many generations we can just add legs which we have already tested in simulated software at x10 or more the speed of real time.

AI(G) potential or possibilities should not be measured by natures scale.
by sersi | 2025-10-16 09:00:04+00:00
> blaming Apple for this for "not testing Electron apps internally", but I don't expect Apple to test every single app ever released for regression testing.

Given how high profile the impacted app are, yes it's their responsibility to test it. Even Microsoft does better there (or at least used to). Contacting electron and finding a solution would have been an easy step to take
by alkonaut | 2025-10-16 09:00:52+00:00
What's next? Asking hard questions, or follow up questions?

If Trump says "I've ended 7 or 8 wars" or says "I've lowered drug prices 800, 900, 1000 percent" and no one says

"Sir, how is it possible to lower a price by 900 percent" or "Could you specify which conflicts it is you refer to by those 7 or 8 wars?" then you aren't a journalist.

If you go to an event where such things are said and there is no opportunity to ask these obvious follow up questions, then you stop going there, or you aren't a journalist.

If someone asks these questions and that leaves them excluded from those events - then you also stop going there in solidarity, or you aren't a journalist.
by ap99 | 2025-10-16 09:01:12+00:00
49.8% of the population voted for Trump, myself among them. First time voting Republican.

Everything I've seen so far from Trump is what I voted for. And almost everything Democrats have said and done has reaffirmed my choice.

Every one I've spoken to that has been surprised Trump was elected lives in a bubble. Hacker News is one such bubble.

You're not going to get any reliable "when are the masses going to revolt" info here.
by breakingcups | 2025-10-16 09:01:38+00:00
There's a reason Microsoft is aggressively deprecating "older" CPU's that work perfectly fine. Heck, I have one laptop with Windows 11 that worked great, but won't update from 22h2 to 24h2 because CPU support was dropped between versions, leaving me with only the glib suggestion from the Windows Update UI to "Buy a new device".

Ironically, installing Windows 10 and activating ESU would lead to longer hardware life.

Of course, I didn't. Instead, I installed Linux on that laptop too. My partner had no issues switching.