MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pegasus | 2025-10-25 08:32:30+00:00
I have no problem with using the word intelligence to describe human-made systems, since the attribute artificial preserves the essential distinction. These systems inhabit the second-order world of human-created symbols and representations, they are not, and never will be, beings in the real world. Even when they inevitably will be enhanced to learn from their interactions and equipped with super-human sensors and robotic arms. What they won't have is the millions of years of evolution, of continuous striving for self-preservation and self-expansion which shaped the consciousness of living organisms. What they won't ever have is a will to be. Even if we program them to seek to persist and perpetuate themselves, it will not be their will, but the will of whoever programmed them thus.
by itsalwaysgood | 2025-10-25 08:32:56+00:00
You can completely abstain from smoking for health reasons and there's no downside.

Screentime is a part of life. You can abstain but you fall behind in some ways.

Screen time is also linked to the pace of technology, advancement, etc. It's unavoidably pushed into our lives.

These seem like two very different issues to me.
by somenameforme | 2025-10-25 08:33:33+00:00
Try to put yourself in my shoes for a second, and think about what I'm reading from you. The example you chose was not only the exact year the US Civil War had just ended, but also the start of the second US industrial revolution and even a peak of the transition from rural->urban life. So in other words - some very major events. And over 35 years during this wild times, prices dropped by half, all while wages for workers were raising rapidly. And debt was quite rare 'back in the day'. In 1890 about 39% of farms had a mortgage [1], and that was near a peak of the bell curve on that. Go back before the Civil War and other such events and it shrinks down to 10-20%.

For some contrast to this point, I'll pick my date of 1971. Over just 9 years prices more than doubled. If we do the same timeline of 35 years, prices increased by more than 500%. And during this time, wages didn't come even remotely close to keeping up. So people were paying more and earning less. And obviously indebtedness also skyrocketed during this era, which is indeed nice for inflation (at least if wages keep up, which again they often don't), but that's only because people could no longer afford anything! Like in modern times the median home costs 7 years of median salary, which means basically nobody, outside of the very wealthy, can afford a home without going into decades of debt. By contrast in the past there were homes available for less than a year's salary - which is rather necessary when you can't just go get endless funny money to buy something.

And you're arguing that this new system is better for workers. Now of course it's possible I'm straw-manning you, though I assure you it's not intentional if so! But if not, then what am I missing here? Because I think surely, if you put yourself in my shoes, you can see that your argument isn't the most compelling.

[1] - https://www.mba.org/docs/default-source/research---riha-repo... (page 32)
by nwienert | 2025-10-25 08:34:08+00:00
It’s of course on topic to talk about the bigger picture of whether people in general are charged with these specific types of crimes or should be.

I hate the whole fallacy callout stuff in general. God didn’t create them, half barely work, none work in every situation, and they’re just abused to death by people to shut down conversation in a shallow way.
by blfr | 2025-10-25 08:34:52+00:00
Absolutely, because they have the time for it and fewer alternatives. I got my mom a tablet, set her up with ReVanced YouTube & Twitter plus VLC, and now she is by far the heaviest user of our NAS, last Kindle user on our Amazon account, and reachable on Signal pretty much always.

Would it be better if she sat at home with the TV on and a paper book? No, I don't think so.

This is also where the leisure time went. Keynes predicted 15 hour workweek, we decided to just have kids and the elderly not work at all.
by transpute | 2025-10-25 08:35:16+00:00
This change was not present in iOS26 betas, hopefully Apple will fix soon, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHijS6jLPxI&t=304s

> If you care about your iOS device security.. reboot every day.. writes a list of running processes to this shutdown.log file.. If you have processes that shouldn't be running, they will get written to this shutdown.log file.. allows you to go back in time and check for IOCs.
by ZephyrBlu | 2025-10-25 08:35:53+00:00
I wouldn't really call it "demand". It's more like one-shotting humans with a product which maximally stimulates them through what is basically a psychological hack.

We were not built with the capacity to handle the sheer amount of stimulation the modern world has. You have to put in a lot of effort to not succumb to natural desires that would have been adaptive behaviours until recent history.
by atoav | 2025-10-25 08:36:05+00:00
Youtube is one of those platforms I would probably never have used if my feed wouldn't be adjusted to me.

There is real gold on youtube, like for example the math explainers by 3blue1brown. But if you ever tries opening a private browser window and opening and see the video recommendations it looks like a platform only containing mindless trash, with the mental nutritents contained in a piece of cardboard.

And there are people who like precisely that: Mindnumbing somethings that just keep your brain from having a single thought.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-10-25 08:37:05+00:00
If you've already managed to assert your boundaries and they've failed to respect them, then your boss is failing to listen, do their job, and maybe simply there to collect a paycheck and follow the path of least resistance rather than have a backbone.

Try to have them see the light or you'll need to find somewhere else to be for your own sanity. Maybe bring your boss a copy of the No *sshole Rule by Prof. Sutton.

Never put up with excessive toxicity because silence gives consent and your feet vote. Just as there are many other workers, there are many other jobs.
by Nextgrid | 2025-10-25 08:37:10+00:00
Starlink-based ones have enough bandwidth for the whole plane to have workable bandwidth (just rate-limit based on client so no single heavy user hogs the entire bandwidth).

There's also an European one whose name currently escapes me which uses a custom flavor of LTE and special ground stations that also happily provides hundreds of mbps.

Capacity is primarily an issue on the legacy BGAN-based ones where you have a handful of mbps for the entire plane.
by KronisLV | 2025-10-25 08:37:20+00:00
> The coordinated takedown, codenamed Operation SIMCARTEL, took place on October 10 in Latvia, as part of a joint investigation by police in the Baltic nation, Austria, Estonia and Finland.

Not the best way to see my country in the news, but oh well.

That said, I wish I could reasonably do something similar to what's possible with e-mails: where you can have one mailbox per account/company you want to do interaction with, like aliexpress@mydomain.com, paypal@mydomain.com, banking@mydomain.com and so on. I'd like to have one phone number per company or whatever that I have to interact with, so that if they sell my data to third parties and I suddenly start getting advertisement/spam calls, I can figure out exactly who was acting badly.
by mmooss | 2025-10-25 08:37:52+00:00
> In which situation does the end user not pay for everything? Even a fine or a tax on a company ends rolled up in the price paid by the end user.

New costs are covered by a combination of a cut from the seller's profits and an increase in the buyer's price, and the proportion of each varies greatly depending on economic factors.

For example, imagine you offer that ugly sweater in an online marketplace. Can you just charge whatever you like (cost + desired profit)? No way. You can only charge as much as someone will pay, and that may work out to be a loss - for less than your costs. If somehow your costs go up - you spill something on it and need to dry clean it - can you just charge more? You can try, but there's no reason buyers will pay you more because your costs have increased; they don't care. Now imagine an inventory of 1,000 sweaters to sell - you might get lucky with one desperate buyer, but it's even harder to raise prices when you need 1,000 buyers.

Companies sell some things for huge markups, such as a bottle of soda, and for losses - even if the cost is $500, $100 is better than nothing. Think of sales and clearance sales.

Like you, companies price things to maximize revenue, where R = price x volume. Theoretically, they already price things for maximum revenue before they incurred additional costs, so how can they raise the price?

One way is to shift consumer perspective by blaming X for the price increase - government is a popular excuse, or oil prices - saying they must pass on the additional cost, and persuading some consumers that they must or ought to pay more. But when they say that the new tax will have to be be passed on to the consumer, they are full of $#!+ - when they buy the CEO a new private jet, do they pass that on too? - because they also can and do pass on the cost to their shareholders.
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-10-25 08:40:04+00:00
The number is probably nonzero but those are the whales, the kids of the super rich who have millions to blow on trivial shit. The rest will be in it for trading, for the potential that either another trader will buy their stuff for more (in the hopes that it will appreciate more) or one of those whales will.

But it's probably mostly money laundering, I wouldn't be surprised if the crypto market is tightly integrated in it too. Buy using crypto, sell using fiat, ???, cash.
by Terretta | 2025-10-25 08:44:07+00:00
HODLer stopped HODLing a bit is all, why is this curious in any way?

If one thinks of this thing in orders of magnitude, seeing support at 100,000 with 1,000,000 still a ways off is a fine checkpoint.

Thinking back, 10 and 100 weren't interesting, 10k could have been but for reasons felt unripe. By contrast, 100k feels on "this side" of a lot of things aligned, fewer things left unaligned, so, meh.

And now, more topically, the BTC vs. alt coin behavior on China tariff Friday suggested a new kind of institutional support that could give a long term HODLer comfort for selling into it once that dust settled.
by palata | 2025-10-25 08:44:12+00:00
> “Because, evolutionarily, why would we be so disgusting that we need constant cleaning? And constant moisturizing and/or de-oiling?”

I am highly sceptical of every argument starting with "evolutionarily". Many times it just doesn't make any sense. "Evolutionarily, why would we travel in cars? I have this friend who stopped travelling in cars and hasn't been sick ever since".

Not that the soap question is not interesting, but anecdotal evidences ("I know a guy who...") never convince me.
by assimpleaspossi | 2025-10-25 08:44:30+00:00
In the nearly 25 years of running a web dev company, we never used such resets because it always felt like browsers had their built in settings, then one would have a reset to shift everything around one way, then we'd have settings to throw things another way and that's how it felt--like we were slamming things back and forth far too much.

Instead, we'd just set elements to what we wanted them to be which is what we'd have to do in most cases anyway, making any reset unnecessary.
by freeaitoolsAU | 2025-10-25 08:44:41+00:00
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by _gezt | 2025-10-25 08:44:52+00:00
Hi, Bruce, thanks a lot for your response. My financial plan wasn't there in the post. So let me make it clear. My Software will be free forever. However, to support myself financially, I will mainly do Consultancy and some freelancing, and I will try to be a trainer in my locality (because I love teaching what I know).

However, I will also try to get sponsorship. If I get some, then good, even if I don't, it's okay since I am not solely dependent on it.

What do you think about this approach?
by Karen667 | 2025-10-25 08:45:39+00:00
DeepSeek-OCR revolutionizes document processing by converting text into high-resolution images, achieving up to 20× compression while maintaining impressive accuracy. At a 10× compression ratio, it retains approximately 97% accuracy, and even at 20×, it maintains around 60% accuracy Tom's Hardware .

This approach reduces token usage significantly, making it particularly beneficial for industries like finance, healthcare, and legal sectors. For a comprehensive guide on implementing and utilizing DeepSeek-OCR, you can check https://deepseeksguides.com/deepseek-ocr-guide/
by nvarsj | 2025-10-25 08:47:33+00:00
> They said a pentest would find them if they were important.

Is it just me, or are pentests about as useless as a UK home survey? Like, they're not going to move the furniture to look for issues.

I've experienced many companies who think due diligence is done by paying a 3rd party company to do the annual pentest. Meanwhile, the eng that actually work on the product, and know about potential issues, can't get leadership buy-in to invest in security.
by biot | 2025-10-25 08:47:47+00:00
The article says:

> The full menagerie of shapes is too diverse to get a handle on, so mathematicians tend to focus on convex polyhedra

The phrase "tend to focus on" suggests it's not an exclusive thing. However, you're right -- it appears that the Rupert property only applies to convex polyhedra, so the article title and text is at the very least incomplete given that a sphere is a shape.
by the_af | 2025-10-25 08:49:14+00:00
To me, in a way, it reads like Principal IC is the worst possible job.

You're doing all the politicking and influencing stuff many of us presumably don't like and associate with management roles, while also being expected to be "hands on" and at the top of your technical game. "Nothing is not part of your job", as this article describes it.

Someone who's not doing this, the article argues, "is setting themselves up for failure." Yikes! These are not rookies if they reached Principal IC, but the most experienced team members ever, yet the author still feels the need to say this. Which makes me thing it's a really perilous path.

Seems highly stressful. I'd rather stay a low-level IC. Do we need to move up or out? (In general I mean, I wouldn't want to work at Amazon).
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-10-25 08:49:54+00:00
I had to check but I barely played CS:GO. I have a 5 year veteran coin, untradeable, that's it lol. I also have a $0.03 gun for Payday 2, lol.

Nearly 300 "trading cards" but they're all valued between $0.03 and $0.10 at best. Weirdly enough, even the randomest games still get some trading volume. I seriously doubt people are buying cards from random games to complete collections in those volumes, and fully expect it to be bot driven and / or some kind of scam. But I assume Valve gets a percentage for every transaction so they don't really care.
by logicchains | 2025-10-25 08:50:47+00:00
>something like 3 excess cases per 100,000 doses

That was for clinical myocarditis in the overall population, but the rate of subclinical cardiac damage among young males was significantly higher, around 1% with abnormal ECGs post vaccination: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00431-022-04786-0 .
by salamanteri | 2025-10-25 08:51:44+00:00
Counter Strike has weekly drops, you get a case and some random skin. Usually those are not worth much themselves, except maybe for the case. People then sell these weekly drops on the community market and get Steam balance. Sell enough to afford a key (+case).

In other cases kids might have access to their parents payment methods, or they can buy prepaid cards from places like gas stations. I used to do this to buy games when I was younger and my parents wouldn't buy games for me.

Valve doesn't prevent anyone from opening cases. There is no KYC.
by giancarlostoro | 2025-10-25 08:52:42+00:00
Forgot to add, you may want to buy a $50 SSD drive copy your old one over, and save all your files. It brings new life to old macs to get an SSD, alternatively if you're not going to power it on very often, just buy an old HDD. Old Macs are easy to maintenance the hardware. They are literal thanks, I'm not sure why that is, maybe its another sign of all the Windows bloat. Any time I install Linux on a Windows laptop, it feels like it adds 20 years of life to it. I still have a laptop I bought when Windows 8 came out, it still runs Linux just fine to this day.
by pegasus | 2025-10-25 08:53:18+00:00
You could say that that, yes, that kettle is intelligent, or smart, as in smart watch. But the intelligence in question clearly derives from the human who designed that kettle. Which is why we describe it as artificial.

Similarly, a machine could emulate meta-cognition, but it would in effect only be an reflection and embodiment of certain meta-cognitive processes originally instantiated in the mind which created that machine.
by skylurk | 2025-10-25 08:54:47+00:00
LLM are plenty useful, don't get me wrong, but:

If your interaction with the junior dev is not much different than interacting with an LLM, something is off.

Training a junior dev will make you a better dev. Teaching is learning. And a junior dev will ask questions that challenge your assumptions.

It's the opposite of "outsourcing."
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-10-25 08:55:32+00:00
It depends on the game; notably, FFXIV does not allow trading most of the drops you get from the boss fights, so anyone that has a rare mount from one of those "earned" them themselves.

Of course, there's also a market for characters - there's bot / player farms of people leveling characters and acquiring these rarities which then get sold to whales. I don't believe it's a particularly big market though.

There is also a market for leveled characters, as people don't want to spend the time to do so themselves, but they (and I'm sure all other MMOs too nowadays) offer a paid for level boost that takes you to the current max level - 10, at a price point that directly competes with bots.

One issue XIV still has is gold farming and selling bots, they don't offer a means to directly buy gold. Closest thing is buying pure white/black dyes for real money, which can be sold in-game. I suspect it's a PR tradeoff, that is, "boo at people just buying gold".

Of course, XIV has a bit of an inflation issue I think, not enough money sinks. They'll add a new mount that costs 7.5 million in an expansion which will remove some money from the economy, but I don't think it's enough.
by menzoic | 2025-10-25 08:56:00+00:00
Studies on rats have shown significant similarities between sugar consumption and drug-like effects, including bingeing, craving, tolerance, withdrawal, dependence, and reward. Some researchers argue that sugar alters mood and induces pleasure in a way that mimics drug effects such as cocaine. In certain experiments, rats even preferred sugar over cocaine, reinforcing the idea that sugar can strongly activate the brain’s reward system
by InMice | 2025-10-25 08:56:06+00:00
Thank you for saying it. Ever be around to watch kids grow up or have them yourself? The exposure and cultural, regulatory control that the junk food industry has here in USA is kind of amazing. Especially in schools. It's really insane but it's become accepted here it's normal for kids, toddlers to consume hundreds of grams of added/free sugars per day. Even infants if you think about it, when ever in human history does an infant grow up sucking down pulverized fruit packets multiple times a day, 365 days a year? This is totally normal and acceptable for most people today.
by djtango | 2025-10-25 08:56:12+00:00
Sugar is very difficult to unplug from if you don't cook for yourself.

Here in Singapore almost every restaurant and hawker is obsessed with jacking their food up with sugar. Worse though is that if they don't the local Singaporean "foodie" hitmen will annihilate the restaurant with poor reviews on Google Maps for being "bland".

So eating out is a no go. Cooking again unless you're obsessed with reading packaging or make everything from scratch yourself you're instantly adding more sugar than you know.

I have a suspicion that now fruits are also being engineered to be sweeter because apples are way way sweeter than I remember growing up and a lot of the oranges my mother in law buys for me also are blindingly sweet. And yet I feel there's a certain fragrance missing from these sweet fruits...
by denpa | 2025-10-25 08:56:14+00:00
https://3dbag.nl/ might be worth a try. This project reconstructed and maintains building models of 11 million buildings in the Netherlands.

It combines airborne LiDAR and building footprints, it's OS (https://github.com/3DBAG) with the reconstruction pipeline here: https://github.com/3DBAG/roofer.
by YeGoblynQueenne | 2025-10-25 08:56:45+00:00
We had a big hornet problem one year at my friend's place. Hornets made their nest outside the kitchen and would enter every time we opened the door and fly around the house. Big, fat hornets with a powerful sting that you really didn't want flying around you, or landing on chairs and tables.

Me and my friend's father tried to fight off the wasps by killing them. I crushed them with a fly swatter and the father sprayed them at close quarters with a bottle of Raid.

My friend would instead turn off the lights in the kitchen and turn on the ones nearer the door, then turn on the lights outside, so the wasps would naturally follow the light and find their way out.

Me and my friend's dad killed the wasps, my friend guided them to the light and got rid of them without murder.

Also, my friend was once stung by one of those wasps, while I never was. I don't know about the father.

I've often thought that if me and my friend were prehistoric people, I'd be like the stereotypical brutish primitive hominid going around bonking everything on the head with a bludgeon while my friend would like, figure out how to make leather out of animal hides or invent pottery or arithmetic or something.

P.S. Suffice it to say, I've never killed a hornet since, or any other insect on purpose. I only kill mosquitoes on purpose and that only after a long time that I tried not to.
by sho_hn | 2025-10-25 08:58:30+00:00
I have one of those jobs, and I don't contribute a lot of code at work anymore (sometimes, when it makes a difference or I can help save a lot of time).

I still write code almost daily however, e.g. for personal projects or in FOSS. For one, I love it as an activity - writing code is stress-relief for me. If I don't do it for some time I really feel deprived. I also think it's necessary to keep the first-hand knowledge of stacks and tools alive and well, e.g. for effectively communicating with engineers in a way both sides will enjoy.

I also do still make a point to e.g. do a MR regularly at work, partly to make sure I know the processes and their pain points, also so I can use my clout to complain if we make engineers waste time with stupid stuff, as processes also tend to accumulate cruft over time.

And obviously I don't think of writing code as a "lowly activity". Quality and skill matter on every level.

For that matter, you can also encounter quite a lot of "the architects don't know how to code"* stereotypes, so the subtle-disdain thing can go both ways (your comment may be exemplary). I try to prove them wrong by having written more and more different stuff than most :-)

* = https://i.programmerhumor.io/2021/11/programmerhumor-io-prog...