MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by integralid | 2025-10-15 18:35:18+00:00
Probably depends on the region. In my country, the church i attended to had three masses during the week and i think 6 (back to back all day) during Sundays. This was only one of three churches within a walking distance, and the (mid-small) city probably had around 10-15.

Which is expected, since every adult was expected to go to church every Sunday, and many people, especially elderly, went during the week. Also there were four or five priests, and only Sunday masses has more than one attending at once, so the load probably wasn't that large as I make it sound.
by leakycap | 2025-10-15 18:35:27+00:00
I leave my setup plugged in, using a low-profile USB-C to lightning cable on the iPhone SE stuck on the back of my screen and wired hotspot on macOS is a great experience.

We're discussing a MacBook someday with a built-in phone, the closest I've found is an iOS device wired to my MacBook as a wired hotspot. It's like having fast wifi everywhere.

Using my personal phone (that I also use for other things like calls) wouldn't be like having wifi everywhere on my Mac, for example if I walk away from my laptop while on the phone the Mac would lose internet.
by textlapse | 2025-10-15 18:35:56+00:00
It does feel like Apple is firing on all cylinders for their core competencies.

Software (iOS26), services (Music/Tv/Cloud/Apple Intelligence) and marketing (just keep screaming Apple Intelligence for 3 months and then scream Liquid Glass) ---- on the other hand seem like they are losing steam or very reactive.

No wonder John Ternus is the widely anticipated to replace Tim Cook (and not Craig).
by SAI_Peregrinus | 2025-10-15 18:36:40+00:00
Dani DaOrtiz is one of the best at that. He sells instructions for all his tricks, but he's so good at performing them that they still feel like magic even if you know what he's doing. His appearance on Fool Us¹ is a series of excellent examples of that. He palms a card onto the box, and Teller's reaction when he misses it happening is astonishment because it's such a simple move to spot but done so well Teller missed it despite looking for such moves. That continues as the act goes on, until both Penn & Teller are left experiencing only the joy of the performance & awe at Dani's skill. None of the techniques are ones they don't know about, but Dani does them so well they didn't even try to figure out everything he did, since they knew they'd have to guess what he'd actually done! Penn later described Dani as "the best card magician who has ever lived"².

The best magic tricks tend to be the ones where knowing the secret doesn't ruin the trick, but instead changes it to a show about the skill of the performer. Nobody complains about "spoilers" at a virtuoso's concert, the joy of the performance & the skill of the performer are not ruined by knowing the music beforehand. I think the same can apply to magic, to books, to movies, etc. You can re-read a really good book, or re-watch a really good movie, and the experience won't be ruined by knowing the ending. It'll be different, but not worse. With magic the awe shifts from "how is that possible?" to "how did that person manage to put in the effort to do that so well‽".

¹https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_KcQt0z-eE

²https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdxT3BL_Iik
by culll_kuprey | 2025-10-15 18:36:41+00:00
> in these households are going to have minimum of IQ that's higher than the normal minimum since that's a prerequisite for enlistment.

Is it? I know they’re a lot more selective than historically, but I was under the impression that a low 30-something asvab score qualifies you for at least infantryman. Is that really above average IQ?
by theamk | 2025-10-15 18:37:47+00:00
I expect that conference participants would be AIs too...

Sounds fair, as long as it's clear to everyone that those are AI generated papers, and no humans claim the papers as their own.

We are rapidly moving to future when there are AIs writing the tons of verbose, incorrect slop; and other AIs are reading that slop; and yet another AIs remix it into more plausibly-sounding but also incorrect pages. The whole ecosystem pretending to work, but actually just moving somewhat-incorrect facts around.
by Topfi | 2025-10-15 18:38:34+00:00
Hasn't that been the case throughout the industry for the last two decades now? Back when Intel was still on TikTok, the low powered laptop chips were always first, then mainstream desktop, then workstation and server roughly a year delayed. Maybe mistaken, but seems to make sense, if you mainly offer monolithic chips, you'd want to start with a smaller Die size to better leverage the process.

AMD is somewhat of an exception/unique case though, having chipsets and monolithic depending on the use case and console/semicustom offerings, so that doesn't map fully.

Also, let's not forget in Apples case, that they actually go phone first, the Air+iPad, then Pro and finally Studio. Feel that the lower end devices should priority personally though, efficiency gains are more valuable in connected devices with limited space for batteries over my 16 incher with 100wh.

Course, would be nice if we just got the entire range updated at once, but I doubt even Apple could pull such a supply chain miracle off, even if they bought all of TSMC and the entire island to boot...
by pessimizer | 2025-10-15 18:38:44+00:00
Maybe understand it as a conceptual question instead of a question about Ireland. Only the Irish have a right to care about where Irish taxes go, we're discussing the concept.

So, who would you fund as an artist? Who would you tell "no, you're not an artist, you don't qualify." Can you acknowledge that this is a difficult question without calling people argumentative?
by CalRobert | 2025-10-15 18:39:11+00:00
I live in the Netherlands, which has plenty of issues in its own right, but it's been a better place to raise kids. Finding a place to live here was easier, which is kind of insane considering how bad the housing crisis is in NL, and my kids can bike to school safely.

I really like Ireland. I think it's an amazing place. But it's really, really, really badly run. And it seems like most policymaking (like this, or rent control, or help to buy, etc) was built on vibes instead of logic.
by harshreality | 2025-10-15 18:40:02+00:00
"Good bots" would be ones that fuel a healthy, competitive economy. Whether or not they're good from the perspective of a retailer, data about products and supply chains is important.

"Bad bots" would be ones that primarily support grift. They siphon money from advertisers, or get other people to waste advertising $, or game product listing metrics so that the bots' owners products get better placement, or so that other manufacturers' products get worse placement. They're not creating any new value; they're removing value from the economy by causing bad allocation of resources.
by prewett | 2025-10-15 18:40:46+00:00
I shocked when I tried out the 2019 MBP speakers, they were almost as good as my (low-end) studio headphones. I was even more shocked with the M2 speakers, which are arguably better (although not as flat frequency response, I think, there definitely is something a little artificial, but it sounds really good). I really could not imagine laptop speakers being even close to par to decent headphones. Perhaps they aren't on par with $400 headphones, I've never had any of those. But now by preference I listen on the laptop speakers. It's not a priority--I'm totally happy to go back to the headphones--more like an unexpected perk.
by PeterCorless | 2025-10-15 18:41:08+00:00
Someone I know saw the 14" starts from $1,599 and the 16" starts at $2,499, and quipped "The most expensive 2 inches ever."

However, it is not just because of the larger display.

M5 14" starts at:

10-Core CPU

10-Core GPU

16GB Unified Memory

512GB SSD Storage

M5 16" starts at:

14-Core CPU

20-Core GPU

24GB Unified Memory

512GB SSD Storage

So it's the cost of 4x more core CPU, 10x (double) the core GPU, and +8GB memory.
by jfengel | 2025-10-15 18:41:09+00:00
Superdeterminism is an interpretation, not a theory. It's only falsifiable by falsifying the theory -- which would also falsify any other interpretation.

Which means that "we must use a superdeterministic approach" is incorrect. It means that you may use a superdeterministic approach. If that approach is productive, that may cause people to favor your interpretation. But it does not rule out other interpretations. At most, it can make them sufficiently inconvenient as to dismiss them.
by PaulHoule | 2025-10-15 18:41:23+00:00
It’s not difficult in theory to have a clean Python somewhere but when I was trying to get some data scientists to do the right thing I found they had an uncanny ability to screw things up. Same for ordinary devs, if you have a clean environment somewhere some of them will find it, activate it and pip install into it or mess with the files or mess with the environment variables, etc. That job taught me to be incredibly [1] paranoid.

Poetry would try to run out of a clean Python but I found my poetry environment would get somehow corrupted every few weeks back when I used Poetry.

In contrast if you want to mess up uv it is just one file and a frickin’ binary, patching it purposely would be a challenge, messing with the source means installing a rust toolchain, maybe if you worked that hard to screw it up you know what you’re doing.
by Benjammer | 2025-10-15 18:41:25+00:00
I mean ok, but it's all just prompting on top of the same base model weights...

I tried the same prompt, and I simply added to the end of it "Prioritize truth over comfort" and got a very similar response to the "improved" answer in the article: https://chatgpt.com/share/68efea3d-2e88-8011-b964-243002db34...

This is sort of a "Prompting 101" level concept - indicate clearly the tone of the reply that you'd like. I disagree that this belongs in a system prompt or default user preferences, and even if you want to put it in yours, you don't need this long preamble as if you're "teaching" the model how the world works - it's just hints to give it the right tone, you can get the same results with just three words in your raw prompt.
by Razengan | 2025-10-15 18:41:30+00:00
> A country with no guns and supposed to be one of the happiest in the world still experiences them

Do you know the difference between 1% and 99%? Once every 10 years vs. once every year?

A desert with a single tree vs. a forest with a dead tree, a lake on a continent vs. an island in the ocean.. are those the same things to you?
by ddtaylor | 2025-10-15 18:41:31+00:00
I had a light interview to get started with LLamaIndex from their Discord channel while I was waiting to connect with some of the real developers. The scammer attempted some nonsense in a similar way, but had no plausible reason why I would be accessing those packages or downloading those things. I was remote desktop streaming while messing with some of my own code. The repository is 100k+ lines of code and I was looking at maybe 100 lines total. At one point their mask slipped in a way they knew the jig was up. They began threatening to expose my code as it was "secret" and I started laughing. They said they could reconstruct X amount of it from the stream. I began laughing much harder. I let them tire themselves out with strange and non-real threats. They attempted to recruit me into their scam gang, which I also laughed at.

I asked them the same questions I ask all scammers: How was this easier than just doing a normal job? These guys were scheduling people, passing them around, etc. In the grand scheme of things they were basically playing project manager at a decent ability, minus the scamming.
by prmoustache | 2025-10-15 18:41:33+00:00
What is the use case for an iPad Pro vs the regular iPad or the iPad Air that I didn't knew even existed?

I have the feeling that everything one could do with the Pro could be done as well with the less expensive models. Apart from the handful of travel youtubers that might want to edit and render their videos in an airport terminal I think the use cases would be very niche. Yet a lot of people seem to prefer it over the other variants, I guess just because it exists and it is at the top of the line?
by lo_zamoyski | 2025-10-15 18:41:41+00:00
This is all very hand wavy. You don't address in the least what I've written. My criticisms stand.

Otherwise...

> I'm just assuming materialism, and that assumption is basically for complete lack of convincing alternatives (to me).

What do you mean by "materialism"? Materialism has a precise meaning in metaphysics (briefly, it is the res extensa part of Cartesian dualism with the res cogitans lopped off). This brand of materialism is notorious for being a nonstarter. The problem of qualia is a big one here. Indeed, all of what Cartesian dualism attributes to res cogitans must now be accounted for by res extensa, which is impossible by definition. Materialism, as a metaphysical theory, is stillborn. It can't even explain color (or as a Cartesian dualism would say, the experience of color).

Others use "materialism" to mean "that which physics studies". But this is circular. What is matter? Where does it begin and end? And if there is matter, what is not matter? Are you simply defining everything to be matter? So if you don't know what matter is, it's a bit odd to put a stake in "matter", as it could very well be made to mean anything, including something that includes the very phenomenon you seek to explain. This is a semantic game, not science.

Assuming something is not interesting. What's interesting is explaining how those assumptions can account for some phenomenon, and we have very good reasons for thinking otherwise.

> With "agency" I just mean the ability to affect the physical world (not some abstract internal property).

Then you've rendered it meaningless. According to that definition, nearly anything physical can be said to have agency. This is silly equivocation.

> Regarding "computers have no concepts of things": I'm happy with the "meaning" of something being a fuzzy cloud in some high dimensional space, and consider this plausible/workable both for our minds and current LLMs.

This is total gibberish. We're not talking about how we might represent or model aspects of a concepts in some vector space for some specific purpose or other. That isn't semantic content. You can't sweep the thing you have to explain under the rug and then claim to have accounted for it by presenting a counterfeit.
by handsclean | 2025-10-15 18:41:43+00:00
> If you sell your old laptop when you buy a new one, you generally sell it with old charger.

Sounds like a symptom of incompatibility. I’ve only ever included the charger when it was specific to the laptop.

> And different Apple laptops take chargers of different maximum watts (they're compatible but not optimal), so they're not all the same anyways.

Chargers automatically provide whatever power level is needed, up to their max, and charging power isn’t the steady tick upward we’re used to elsewhere. The MacBook Pro did get a faster charger a few years ago, relegating old ones to that “compatible but not optimal” state, but meanwhile MacBook Air chargers got slower, and most releases didn’t change the charger. Certainly there are sometimes benefits to buying a new charger, but it happens much less often than new device purchases, and even when there are benefits purchases should still be the customer’s choice.

> Sometimes letting the free market decide actually gives customers what they want and find most useful.

I agree, but “free market” doesn’t mean lawlessness, it means an actual market that’s actually free. Actual market: companies compete on economics, not e.g. violence or leverage over consumers. Actually free: consumers freely choose between available options. Bundling is a very classic example of an attempt to circumvent free market economics, using the greater importance of one choice to dictate a second choice.
by disgruntledphd2 | 2025-10-15 18:42:28+00:00
I kinda agree with the OP, but then I was a Linux user for well over a decade. I do think that C/C++ libraries are much, much more of a pain on Mac as soon as you go off the beaten path (compiling GDAL was not pleasant, whereas it would be a breeze on Linux).

Some of this is probably brew not being as useful as apt, and some more of it is probably me not being as familiar with the Mac stuff, but it's definitely something I noticed when I switched.

The overall (graphical) UI is much fluider and more convenient than Linux though.
by btown | 2025-10-15 18:42:30+00:00
Context on this cutting-edge benchmark for those unaware:

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/6/six-months-in-llms/

https://simonwillison.net/tags/pelican-riding-a-bicycle/

Full verbose documentation on the methodology: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44217852
by autoexec | 2025-10-15 18:42:52+00:00
AI is less of an extinction than climate change. Especially what passes for AI these days. Climate change is going to displace billions of people. That alone is going to be chaos, but food/water shortages are going to be a problem too.

AI is only a threat if we suddenly reach sci-fi levels where AI concludes that the earth is better off without humanity on it and there's zero indication that we're anywhere near that today.

The good news is that our society will likely collapse or require resources pulled away from power/water hungry AI datacenters well before we see any actual I in AI
by leakycap | 2025-10-15 18:42:54+00:00
> (I have used the low data mode on macOS, it helps but only handles a small part of the problem)

Yes, I mentioned that in the post you responded to.

> Not sure which apps, if any, respect it, but it's there

It reduces data consumption for me about 1/5. Not nothing, but the Mac can easily consume hundreds of GB of data a week doing "normal" activities. YouTube on a MacBook is many times more data than the equivalent on a phone screen.
by nextos | 2025-10-15 18:43:25+00:00
Mac laptop hardware is objectively better, but I am on the same camp as the parent post. For most development workflows, Linux is my favorite option. In particular, I think NixOS and the convenience of x86_64 is usually worth the energy efficiency deficit with Apple M.

It will be interesting to see how this evolves as local LLMs become mainstream and support for local hardware matures. Perhaps, the energy efficiency of the Apple Neural Engine will widen the moat, or perhaps NPUs like those in Ryzen chips will close the gap.
by dahart | 2025-10-15 18:43:35+00:00
That proves… absolutely nothing?

You’re demonstrating the fundamental misunderstanding of science the Golden Goose page refers to. It’s expected - and a necessary part of science - that not all papers succeed.

The funny thing about this is that, unlike UBI or whatever, the societal returns on investment in science research are huge and indisputable. Nothing else in human history has improved our condition or knowledge or quality of life as much or as fast. You’re typing your opinions into a box that came out of large numbers of papers, some of which were criticized for their pointlessness. You’re absolutely barking up the wrong tree.
by bdangubic | 2025-10-15 18:43:39+00:00
every one of the snarky comments like this on myriad of HN threads like this:

1. assumes most humans write good code (or even better than LLMs)

2. will stick around to maintain it

after 30 years in the industry and last 10 as consultant I can tell you fairly definitively that #1 cannot be further from the truth and #2 is frequent cause of consultants getting gigs, no one understand what “Joe” did with this :)
by overrun11 | 2025-10-15 18:44:07+00:00
You have to make an argument on _why_ market forces don't compensate artists fairly. The standard argument is that art is a public good with a free rider problem– a mural might produce value to everyone who looks at it but there is no way to force them to pay for it. That argument fails for many of the things this program is funding: theater, opera and film. All examples of art that is easily excludable.
by terminalshort | 2025-10-15 18:44:08+00:00
> supposedly they are vastly superior at training developers

Based on what sources and using what metrics? And vastly superior to what alternative? If you're saying better than schools, I wouldn't be surprised. But I would be surprised if it's better than the experience you would get as a junior at a major tech company, and shocked if it was better than experience at a small startup.
by fantunes | 2025-10-15 18:44:14+00:00
Unfortunatelly I wasn't as lucky to do my due diligence checking the harm on the code before I ran it. I only lost a few dollars I had in my wallet though.

This is the code base provided (I already flagged with gitlab): https://gitlab.com/0xstake-group

And the actual task (which was a distraction - also flagged with notion): https://www.notion.so/Web3-Project-Evaluation-1f25d6f4dcf180...
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-15 18:44:32+00:00
> Negative racial stereotype as a definition of racism is the classical definition of racism

It wasn’t racial stereotyping. It was stereotyping a country’s population as sad and desperate. Saying X country’s quality of life sucks isn’t racist.

If they’d said or implied Cambodian Americans are also sad and desperate, sure. But they didn’t.
by ddtaylor | 2025-10-15 18:45:20+00:00
IMO the "better" attack here is to just kind of use Return Oriented Programming (ROP) to build the nefarious string. I'm not going to do the example with the real thing, for the example let's assume the malicious string is "foobar". You create a list of strings that contain the information somewhere:

const dictionary = ["barcode", "moon", "fart"]; const payload = [ [2, 0, 1], [1, 1, 2], [0, 0, 3] ];
by huhkerrf | 2025-10-15 18:45:38+00:00
You're being unnecessarily condescending and combative.

The point that the person that you're arguing in bad faith with is making is not that we jettison immigrants and ESL students. It's that you accept that they will have struggles that the students in Japan do not (because there are much fewer immigrant students). So if you compare the students who are _like_ the ones in Japan and you come out ahead, then you go, great, we don't need to adjust for those students.

It does _not_ mean that you don't adjust for the students who have unique challenges and try to bring them up.

But if you compare two different cohorts, you might incorrectly get the signal that you should also change what you're doing for the students who don't have those challenges.
by cs702 | 2025-10-15 18:45:43+00:00
A glimpse of the future for all other countries.

I switched to driving EVs (Tesla) around six years ago, and it's so much better.

You get to charge at home for everyday driving. There are no toxic fumes. There are no unpleasant smells. You don't have to deal with dirty, greasy gas-station handles. There is zero maintenance required. There is fast charging everywhere I drive (true only with Tesla, so far). The vehicle is noiseless. Acceleration is crazy fast. Driving dynamics are insanely good.

If I can help it, I hope never again to have to drive a gas-powered vehicle.
by bugbuddy | 2025-10-15 18:45:51+00:00
> Saying we can’t negatively stereotype basically says you can only have positive opinions about this country

This logical fallacy is a False Dichotomy (also known as a False Dilemma or Black-and-White Fallacy).

This fallacy occurs when an argument incorrectly presents two opposing options as the only possibilities, when in fact a wide range of other options exist.

How it applies to the statement: The statement "Saying we can’t negatively stereotype basically says you can only have positive opinions about this country" creates a false choice between:

Option A: Engaging in negative stereotypes. Option B: Only having positive opinions. This completely ignores the vast and reasonable middle ground, which is legitimate, specific criticism.