MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Braxton1980 | 2025-10-15 05:30:51+00:00
Since statistics are gathered by cities and aggregated at the state then federal level it protects against a small number of bad actors from manipulating the data.

Finally the same reasons that cause underreporting today existed in the past.

1. Not reporting low level crimes feeling as it has no point.

2. Criminals not reporting when they are the victims of a crime out of fear.

3. When the victim takes the matter of into their own hands

I'll even suggest that due to racism and lack of accountability in the past it's possible more criminal complaints were ignored compared to today.
by fragmede | 2025-10-15 05:31:11+00:00
You should see this one! https://youtu.be/azEvfD4C6ow

It's a bit dated (completed in 1978) and cost approximately $100 million. At one point it was the heaviest land vehicle, clocking in at 13,500 tons. It's since been succeded, but this bucket-wheel excavator needed only five people to operate. Those five people could mine 240,000 tons of coal[8] or 240,000 cubic metres of overburden (rock/soil on top of the coal) per day. That's 2400 coal wagons!

After totally tapping out all of the coal at the Tagebau Hambach mine, in 2001, it took a crew of 70 together to move it 14 miles to the next mine. This move cost 15 million German Marks.

(Just watch the linked documentary.)
by jabl | 2025-10-15 05:31:26+00:00
> For those unfamiliar, a tanker truck comes by your house every couple of months and pumps diesel fuel into a tank down cellar

Huh, how un-insulated are those houses really? I grew up in an area with climate slightly colder than New England, and our house was heated with an oil boiler (not literally boiling, it was just warm water circulating in the radiators, not steam). Consumption was about 1000L per year, and the tank was big enough that one fillup per year was enough.

Since replaced with a heat pump, FWIW.
by BLKNSLVR | 2025-10-15 05:31:48+00:00
That is a slight concern, but I don't see it happening, at least in Australia for the big four banks, in the near future.

If that became the case, then the 'glorified token device' would become the dedicated banking device, and not much else would change (ie. I still wouldn't be doing 'banking' while I'm out and about).
by mercora | 2025-10-15 05:32:27+00:00
> it’s more than that. it’s any device that can present itself as a possible base station.

can you elaborate on this a bit? what devices are able to to present themselves as possible base stations? do i need any form of entitlement to participate in the network or not? From past encounters with SS7 and its, uhm, capabilities, it seemed the hardest part would be getting access to the network, albeit not hard really, it sounds like you were hinting at possibly gaining access by participating in the network without any official entitlement, by posing as a base station.
by strogonoff | 2025-10-15 05:32:29+00:00
It’s only technically incorrect to suggest that Musk should protest over the recent $15B scam profit seizure—it was from Cambodian scams, whereas the compounds that reportedly had to switch to Starlink due to being disconnected from the Internet are in Myanmar[0]—but yes, it’s still unclear why would Musk not shut any of it down if they have the capability (and if they don’t, then it’s another interesting controversy).

[0] https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/starlink--an-internet-l...
by cube00 | 2025-10-15 05:33:21+00:00
This repo [1] is a brilliant illustration of the copium going into this.

Third line of the Claude prompt [2]:

IMPORTANT: You must NEVER generate or guess URLs for the user - Who knew solving LLM hallucinations was just that easy?

IMPORTANT: DO NOT ADD ***ANY*** COMMENTS unless asked - Guess we need triple bold to make it pay attention now?

It gets even more ludicrous when you see the recommendation that you should use a LLM to write this slop of a .cursorrules file for you.

[1]: https://github.com/x1xhlol/system-prompts-and-models-of-ai-t...

[2]: https://github.com/x1xhlol/system-prompts-and-models-of-ai-t...
by onli | 2025-10-15 05:33:53+00:00
No one is going sue the fsf into oblivion. The movement has decades of legal experience, if a company would be dumb enough that company would just burn money and lose. Especially about reverse engineering software, as if patents had any power there. Apple, the end boss in that regard, not fighting on that level against the m1 project is proof enough.

Second, fuck the carriers. Certifications will not persist as soon as real Foss phones are available. Nothing persists against a world of free hardware invading a realm. And even if: freeing everything around a modem blob would still be a big step forward.

It's frankly ridiculous to assume the people working on this and the organisation that already supported replicant knowns nothing about the mobile space.
by Frieren | 2025-10-15 05:34:14+00:00
> total death factors are not that interesting

And this is why people die from very preventable diseases. News have a social duty to inform the public, when that part is removed all that is left is sensationalist and partisan pieces. And the pubic takes bad decision in their lives based on anecdotal data.

> Everyone of us will die one day

To have so many overweight 40-somethings with sedentary lives is treating live as having no value. People will die some day, but they should be able to enjoy the time that they are alive. Asking people to give up a healthy live because "they will die some time" is just helping big corporations that milk people out of their lives with fatty food, stressful working environments, polluted air, etc.

Do not give up, live is worth living and getting people the information to live good lives is very important.
by somesigmaperson | 2025-10-15 05:35:04+00:00
I don't tend to watch documentaries often but when I do they usually are 3 main subjects that I always have a constant interest in 1.History documentaries:I love to watch history documentaries when I get the chance to but I rarely find them I would love to know good places of where to watch them I have a main focus on when king Henry the 8th(VIII) was in rule and also both world wars more specifically pearl harbor and Hiroshima and Nagasaki for the second world war(or Japan and Hawaii in general) 2.Air force/cool A$$ planes:I love the air force there planes are so cool my favorite has to be the B-2 and the nighthawk is also cool there's a nice kind of recent documentary that's on Netflix I believe its called Thunderbirds(not 100% on that) it is about 2 hours long and it shows the process of how people get trained to do airshows its nice and I would also love recommendations on what else to watch 3.horror/true crime:I haven't watched documentaries on this but I would love to find some I watch things that are similar to documentaries of it but not 100%

I would love any recommendations and will try to watch them
by constantcrying | 2025-10-15 05:35:07+00:00
>Who is it that distinguishes the "slop" (you love that word) from the complex?

Why do you just completely ignore what I say? The answer is already part of my last response to you.

Again, the distinction is the why if you read it for entertainment it is slop. Most of genre fiction is terrible slop which totally fails at "quality of the prose, the depth of the characters, the complexity of the themes, etc.".

You should ask yourself why you are so upset by this distinction. Classics are books which stood the test of time, which have been read for hundreds if not thousands of years. Engaging with that or the 1 millionth Harry Potter clone, magical school romance, is incomparable.
by fragmede | 2025-10-15 05:36:19+00:00
Interestingly, one of the reasons the design phase for nuclear is so onerous is the sheer amount of red tape involved due to compliance and other regulatory reasons. You wanna know something funny? You know what's really good at generating piles of convincing sounding bullshit that it's possible no one even actually reads, and looks like it's totally going to insert fuel rods into the nuclear power industry?

LLMs!
by Braxton1980 | 2025-10-15 05:36:21+00:00
NYC is doing just that with their vision zero initiative. https://www.nyc.gov/content/visionzero/pages/

Reduction in the speed limit and enforcement with traffic cameras, changes in street design, etc

Per the site traffic fatalities, including pedestrian, were the 2nd lowest level in recorded history for the first three months.
by trenchpilgrim | 2025-10-15 05:36:24+00:00
I was talking to someone who is involved in a nature conservation nonprofit recently - small donations go into the general pot of money for the organization to choose how to spend it. If you want to influence what the money is used for you have to donate a significantly higher sum. They said they like having many small donors because they can fund things that don't necessarily make a big splash in a press release but are important precursors to impact (e.g. researching what projects would have the most impact vs actually implementing a project).
by teiferer | 2025-10-15 05:37:43+00:00
CSRF: Cross-Site Request Forgery

From https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Attack...

In a cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attack, an attacker tricks the user or the browser into making an HTTP request to the target site from a malicious site. The request includes the user's credentials and causes the server to carry out some harmful action, thinking that the user intended it.
by csande17 | 2025-10-15 05:39:03+00:00
> Is it getting brushed off as merely a compiler bug?

Yes, this thread contains an example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45587209 . (I linked the same bug you did in the comment that that's a reply to.)

The Rust team may see this as a language design issue internally, and I'd be inclined to agree. Rust's outward-facing marketing does not reflect this view.
by Terr_ | 2025-10-15 05:39:06+00:00
That makes... That makes just enough sense to become nonsense, rather than mere noise.

I mean, I could imagine a person with no common sense almost making the same mistake: "I have a list of 5 notifications of a person standing on the porch, and no notifications about leaving, so there must be a 5 person group still standing outside right now. Whadya mean, 'look at the times'?"
by amano-kenji | 2025-10-15 05:40:07+00:00
Still, I wouldn't tell COBOL programmers to maybe ditch COBOL and write another language. They chose it over other languages for their own reasons.

It's okay to mention rust or any other language when it's a particularly good fit for a business or a project. But, shoving languages in people's faces repetitively is not okay.

In my experiences, directly telling people to do things differently never works. You have to wait for other people to ask you for advices, or you end up bothering other people.
by goobatrooba | 2025-10-15 05:40:10+00:00
While humans and the first basis of culture evolved in Africa, many of the key cultural/technological innovations happened outside Africa, notably the invention of agriculture and pastoralism which happened 3-6 times independently (modern Turkey, China (possibly twice) and South America, possibly in addition also in Iran and India).

So if you look at Africa it stayed for the longest times with hunter & gatherer cultures until neolithic settlers came back into Africa from modern Turkey.

Moreover Africa in large parts is either moist or desert/savannah, both of which do not help preservation. And there are simply much fewer archaeologists going around Africa.
by epistasis | 2025-10-15 05:40:21+00:00
I've only been looking in the past month, but yes, at about that ratio too, when I come across posts on Reddit from last year.

This is especially painful for what I want to buy a ton of right now, RAM. I find all these year old posts with people talking about DDR4 at $0.70/GB, and it's twice that now.

I don't know why, but the obvious explanations are a combination of the dollar devaluation and tariffs. Both of these are ongoing, so strap in for even higher prices soon, I guess?
by irjustin | 2025-10-15 05:41:00+00:00
> Isn't this the case for all UI redesigns? When youtube changed to their current design there were posts about browser extensions to restore the old interface.

Yes but UI redesigns usually involve UX redesign as well. It's not just visual so you actually gain something from it (even if at first it feels like a regression).

But liquid glass helps me do what... see my background?....!?
by PaywallBuster | 2025-10-15 05:42:31+00:00
Direct link to the indictment https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/chairman-prince-group-i...

Cambodia's specifically 30-50% of the economy can be directly attributed to scamming plus casinos

This one of the other organizations / major bank used for money laundering directly linked to Hun Sen

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

> The company is linked to Cambodia's ruling Hun family, which includes the current prime minister, Hun Manet.[4] His cousin Hun To is a major shareholder and director of Huione Pay
by rashunain | 2025-10-15 05:42:51+00:00
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by aw1621107 | 2025-10-15 05:43:08+00:00
Yes, compilers will take some time to implement the new standards.

C23 seems to have decent support from a few compilers, with GCC leading the pack: https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/compiler_support/23.html

gcobol supports (or at least aims to support?) COBOL 2023: https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-15.1.0/gcobol/gcobol.html. Presumably there are other compilers working on support as well.

Intel's Fortran compiler and LFortran have partial support for Fortran 2023 (https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/t..., https://docs.lfortran.org/en/usage/). I'd guess that support both from these compilers and from other compilers (Flang?) would improve over time as well..
by linmob | 2025-10-15 05:44:06+00:00
I am pretty sure that it's not going to be the Librem 5, despite Purism's efforts to get it RYF certified (which, thinking of the Redpine WiFi card) went so far that they seriously impacted user experience.

Why? There's no Android port for that device and they keep mentioning LineageOS.

Even the PINE64 PinePhone would be more likely, as that has Android support and even some LineageOS 22 support [1]. The Replicant project had eyed it as a target device [2].

That said, I'd expect a different device, and, assuming LineageOS supports one, and I would not be suprised to see a device that's not powered by a Qualcomm, Mediatek or Samsung SoC.

[1]: https://github.com/GloDroidCommunity/pine64-pinephone/releas...

[2]: https://blog.replicant.us/2024/03/replicant-status-and-repor...
by godelski | 2025-10-15 05:45:25+00:00
> Just in my household alone, we've been victim of 4 assault+ attacks in the past 5 years. Two resulted in arrests, zero resulted in charges.

First, I'm sorry that that has happened to you. Personally I feel that that is unacceptable. You have every right to be upset and I'm personally not a fan of the police. No doubt they have a tough job, but they actually do need to do their jobs and actually focus on more impactful crimes. But that is orthogonal to this discussion.

Second, you have reported those, so they have been recorded and accounted for in this data.

If you click a few of the links on the Pew site you'll land here[0]

| The FBI publishes annual data[1] on crimes that have been reported to law enforcement, but not crimes that haven’t been reported.

And in the next paragraph

| BJS, for its part, tracks crime by fielding a large annual survey of Americans ages 12 and older[2] and asking them whether they were the victim of certain types of crime in the past six months. One advantage of this approach is that it captures both reported and unreported crimes.

So they are comparing two different sources which measure in two different ways. They are quite clear that this data isn't perfect, but at the end of the day, how can it be? We have to do the best with what we have available, right? But I would say that using both of these shows that due diligence is being done.

[0] https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/04/24/what-the-...

[1] https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/LATEST/webapp/#/pages/explorer/crim...

[2] https://bjs.ojp.gov/data-collection/ncvs

[Side note]: In [0] you will also notice that they mention that the FBI changed the definition of rape in 2013. The former definition was limited to women, specifically vaginal penetration, and "forcible". In 2013 this expanded to include vaginal and anal, remove sex, and removes "forcible". Also to note that the MeToo movement started in 2006 and gained full attention in 2017. There's a commonly held belief that the rate of reporting substantially increased due to the change of definition and the greater public attention given to the subject. Believe that or not, but this is context needed to evaluate that data.
by somenameforme | 2025-10-15 05:46:10+00:00
It's not really about "emphasis". For instance the US is one of the highest spenders in the world, even PPP adjusted, per student on education. I think it's largely about educational culture and goals. For instance in many/most places in Asia there tends to be far less tolerance for disruptive students. Many places even have varying forms of corporal punishment, even when there are technically regulations or laws against it. There are also generally parallel education systems where people can, from relatively young ages, pursue vocational school instead of normal schooling.

Basically the US education system is more focused on a sort of one-size-fits-all education with the only real differentiation being a 'normal' or 'accelerated' track (with some places like California even gradually moving against that remaining differentiation). This is in spite of having a far more diverse population in every possible way than other countries which focus on more of having educational systems which work to the strengths of each student.
by classified | 2025-10-15 05:47:01+00:00
I want this, even if it means we have to pay some of the people who work on this.

> Librephone will serve existing developers and projects who aim to build a fully functioning and free (as in freedom) Android-compatible OS.

It may well be that Google will not rest until "Android-compatible" means that they can put their foot down on this. We should be prepared for that eventuality.
by dimitrios1 | 2025-10-15 05:47:16+00:00
There is a whole 'nother level of safety validation that goes beyond your everyday OWASP, or heck even what we consider "highly regulated" industry requirements that 95-99% of us devs care about. SQLite is used in some highly specialized, highly sensitive environments, where they are concerned about bit flips, and corrupted memory. I had the luxury of sitting through Richard Hipp's talk about it one time, but I am certainly butchering it.
by altairprime | 2025-10-15 05:48:08+00:00
The most interesting search result for “rice as a bribe” was its use in a Pathfinder module in order to curry favor with birds. I recognize this isn’t precisely the point here, but given the cross-section of countries represented, I would imagine bribing people with what was literal food currency for centuries has merely decreased in priority relative to local fiat currency, which is perhaps widely accepted nowadays but less readily produced from farmland.
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-10-15 05:48:18+00:00
> Some exec somewhere in the company decided everyone needs to be talking to AI, and they track how often you're talking with it. I ended up on a naughty list for the first time in my career, despite never having performance issues. I explain to my manager and his response is to just ask it meaningless questions.

That's not a career-switching issue, that's a company-switching issue. Most people will work for at least one company in their career where the people in charge are dickheads. If you can't work around them, go find a different company to work for. You don't have to throw away an entire career because of one asshole boss.

Also fwiw, resistance is more effective than you think. You'd be surprised how often a dickhead in charge is either A) easy to call the bluff of, or B) needs someone to show them they are wrong. If you feel like you're going to quit anyway, put your foot down and take a stand.
by linmob | 2025-10-15 05:49:36+00:00
That's their US made patriot phone, the regular less than half of that. Also, please read up on the concept of economies of scale.

If you go with postmarketOS (good!), and don't want to touch anything that touched Purism, better avoid anything GTK (Phosh, GNOME Mobile and related apps). While Purism did not make a competitive phone, their investments into libre software went great and keep paying off.
by Cheer2171 | 2025-10-15 05:49:43+00:00
> said usage is actually getting monitored and performance appraisals have now started depending on the AI usage instead of (or at least in addition to) traditional metrics like number of priority bugs raised, code reviews, Function Points Analysis, etc.

Really? This sounds absurd. "Instead of" means it doesn't matter how shit your work is as long as you're burning tokens? Or it doesn't matter how good your work is if you're not burning tokens? Name and shame
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by ImrulKaayes | 2025-10-15 05:49:59+00:00
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by overgard | 2025-10-15 05:50:44+00:00
The worst part of AI is the way it's aggressively pushed. Sometimes I have to turn off AI completions in the IDE just because it becomes extremely aggressive in showing me very wrong snippets of code in an incredibly distracting way. I hope when the hype dies down the way these tools are pushed on us in a UX sense is also dialed down a bit.
by godelski | 2025-10-15 05:52:14+00:00
Got you covered!

They use FBI data for reported crimes as well as BJS data which interviews people and ask them if they have been the victim of a crime.

It's probably worth taking a minute or two to read their short explanation as I think it is not what people are assuming.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45588459
by lovecg | 2025-10-15 05:52:17+00:00
Steelmanning the "we must force tool usage" position: it's possible that a tool does increase productivity, but there's either a steep learning curve (productivity only improves after sustained usage) or network effects (most people must use it for anyone to benefit).

No opinion on whether or not this applies to the current moment. But maybe someone should try forcing Dvorak layout on everyone or something like that for a competitive edge!
by sandspar | 2025-10-15 05:52:52+00:00
User: list crafts that software has automated

GPT-5: Typesetting and paste-up, film prepress/stripping, CMYK color separations, halftone screening, darkroom compositing/masking, airbrush photo retouching, optical film compositing/titling, photochemical color timing, architectural hand drafting, cartographic scribing and map lettering, music engraving, comic book lettering, fashion pattern grading and marker making, embroidery digitizing and stitching, screen-print color separations