MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hackthemack | 2025-10-15 15:30:40+00:00
I feel like this was known years ago, but never gained traction. Here is a 2022 article in wired about bots.

https://www.wired.com/story/bots-online-advertising/

And before that, in the 2010s, an employee of ebay discovered the perverse incentives of online advertising. Freakonomics did a podcast on the subject. It is a two parter, but really worth your time if you want to get some of the behind the scenes thoughts and machinations of the advertising industry.

https://freakonomics.com/podcast/does-advertising-actually-w...
by ironman1478 | 2025-10-15 15:31:01+00:00
It's surprising to me macs aren't a more popular target for games. They're extremely capable machines and they're console-like in that there isn't very much variation in hardware, as opposed to traditional PC gaming. I would think that it's easier to develop a game for a MacBook than a Windows machine where you never know what hardware setup the user will have.
by wat10000 | 2025-10-15 15:31:13+00:00
I think people forget how big people are. We're well above average size in the typical natural environment, and especially in the typical sorta-natural-but-sorta-urban environment most of us are in most of the time.

The local rabbits and squirrels tolerate each other but are pretty scared of me. Of course they are, I'm two hundred times bigger than they are, and much more dangerous. The local foxes are the closest thing we have to an apex predator around here, and they're rightfully terrified of this massive creature that outweighs their entire family combined.

Imagine wandering through the woods, enjoying the birds tweeting and generally being at one with nature, and then you come across a 20-ton 35ft-tall monster. You'd run away screaming.
by PaulHoule | 2025-10-15 15:31:15+00:00
Ah... I remember back when Anandtech would run a monthly roundup of hard drives that would usually insist that you pay another $150-$200 for a hard drive because hypothetically the more esoteric consumer SKUs were 3db softer or consumed 0.2W less than the mass-produced least-cost enterprise Seagates. [1] They unquestioningly quoted the spec sheets and never did any tests whereas everyone knows you can't trust spec sheets when it comes to noise and power.

The thing was that site kept reflowing the layout over and over again and I think the point was that they were hoping you were going to click on something you saw on the sidebar and then it would reflow and an ad would be there right at the second when you clicked and then... Ka-Ching!

[1] Funny reversal that the enterprise product is mass market and the consumer product is overpriced if not gold-plated.
by SkyPuncher | 2025-10-15 15:31:23+00:00
There are so many software related things that drive me absolutely loony with Apple right now.

* My iPhone as a remote for my Apple TV has randomly stopped deciding it can control the volume - despite the "Now Playing" UI offering an audio control that works.

There auth screens drive me crazy:

* Why cannot I not punch in a password while Face ID is working? If I'm skiing, I know Face ID isn't gong to work, stop making me wait.

* Likewise, on Apple TV the parental control input requires me to explicitly choose to enter a Pin Code. Why? Just show me the Pin Code screen. If I can approve from my device, I will.

* Similarly, if I use my phone as a remote, why do I need to manually click out of the remote to get to the parental control approval screen. I'm literally using my phone. Just auto-approve.
by bestatsiege_01 | 2025-10-15 15:31:32+00:00
With respect to:

>> they did just clever algorithm and heavy profiling to stole your organic traffic

>Not sure if you had a stroke while writing this, but this makes no sense.

I have only ever been a buyer; so my technical understanding of the back end implementation is incomplete.

However, I think the point OP is trying to make is that the back end of the ad targeting infrastructure ends up attributing "spend" to folks who would have otherwise been organic traffic and found your site anyway. ie placing your ad in effective organic pathways and/or in front of well targeted users.

This of course makes sense. A well targeted ad is going to be presented to lots of people who would have otherwise been organic traffic.

This is just a problem with measuring ROI on ad's in general though. I think what has changed is improved attribution of digital ad's has confused people. They see 10 clicks, $5 spend, 1 sale @ $10 and think a 200% ROAS.

In the old days (and still sometimes for non digital) ad effectiveness was measured as a lift over baseline. Different media had different decay rates.

Depending on your digital property, a similar model may need to be applied to your digital campaigns. As I understand though, this is harder to do in modern times with digital ad's.
by ACCount37 | 2025-10-15 15:31:42+00:00
Clearly, language reflects enough of "intelligence" for an LLM to be able to learn a lot of what "intelligence" does just by staring at a lot of language data really really hard.

Language doesn't capture all of human intelligence - and some of the notable deficiencies of LLMs originate from that. But to say that LLMs are entirely language-bound is shortsighted at best.

Most modern high end LLMs are hybrids that operate on non-language modalities, and there's plenty of R&D on using LLMs to consume, produce and operate on non-language data - i.e. Gemini Robotics.
by ErikCorry | 2025-10-15 15:31:56+00:00
It's easy to blame project mismanagement, when it was always well known that undersea cables are much more expensive and difficult than the on-land cables that the Nimbies scuppered.

And it's unsurprising that windfarms in Scotland keep getting planned when the operator can collect these payments while switching off their turbines to reduce wear and tear.
by tikhonj | 2025-10-15 15:32:00+00:00
There is a lot of value in reducing risk, variance and up-front costs for artists. Enough value that, to somebody barely scraping by, it makes the difference between a show/exhibition/etc being doable and not.

It also changes the distribution. I'd say it's a net positive if a bunch of artists get enough money to live on their art rather than the vast majority not making enough and a tiny fraction making the most. It's just a matter of correcting for structural factors that otherwise push towards an exponential distribution of income.
by danans | 2025-10-15 15:32:18+00:00
The deaths with the highest coverage (apart from suicide) are committed by people upon other people.

Because they have an actor and an object, both with identities, they inherently have stories, which are the product that the news media ultimately produces.

It's harder to tell a story about someone (or even many people) dying of heart disease because there is no "doer".

Assuming no agenda and honest representation of known facts, this will already bias coverage. But since we know many news outlets have agendas and don't honestly represent known facts, this tendency is amplified further.
by nmz | 2025-10-15 15:32:21+00:00
You can do this in the news, basically everything you do in finance is look at charts and see trends going up or down, everyone can see it and it informs way more than a story, people do want it, What I wouldn't give for an itemized table of the goings on in my country/city/county but I don't think the government itself wants that, its why they refuse audits, nobody but the ones high up know what the trends actually are, if things are actually improving or not, we are all blind trying to see and the news is there to extract revenue from speculation not from real data.

(And yes I'm aware chartr exists)
by nonethewiser | 2025-10-15 15:32:51+00:00
Where is the "what the thing cares about" part?

When I look at that loop my thought is, "OK, the sensory inputs have updated. There are changes. Which ones matter?" The most naive response I could imagine would be like a git diff of sensory inputs. "item 13 in vector A changed from 0.2 to 0.211" etc. Otherwise you have to give it something to care about, or some sophisticated system to develop things to care about.

Even the naive diff is making massive assumptions. Why should it care if some sensor changes? Maybe its more interesting if it stays the same.

Im not arguing artificial intelligence is impossible. I just dont see how that loop gets us anywhere close.
by charv | 2025-10-15 15:33:18+00:00
Interesting, free AI coding agents but "completely for free because we use anonymized usage data for model training and other purposes."

Not quite sure how I feel about that, but I guess the major AI players are already using chats for model training anyways. Reminds me a bit of OpenRouter with grok code fast 1, trading off hot models for usage stats.
by Keyframe | 2025-10-15 15:33:18+00:00
so, macbook pro m5 normal, macbook pro m5 pro, macbook pro m5 max. I see M4 still in the offer, which costs more. No wifi 7 on m5 (normal or not). 32GB these days, unified or not, in a pro machine.. I haven't paid much attention to macs over the past few years but I wonder what would Steve Jobs say about this shit.
by throw7 | 2025-10-15 15:33:41+00:00
The steelman would be that knowledge is possible outside the domain of Science. So the opposing argument to evolution as the mechanism for us (the "general intelligence" of AGI) would be that the pathway from conception to you is not strictly material/natural.

Of course, that's not going to be accepted as "Science", but I hope you can at least see that point of view.
by sofixa | 2025-10-15 15:33:43+00:00
Docker works very weirdly (it's a desktop application you have to install that has usage restrictions in enterprise contexts, and it's inside a VM so some things don't work), or you have to use an alternative with similar restrictions (Podman, Rancher Desktop).

The OS also has weird rough edges when used from the terminal - there are read-only parts, there are restrictions on loading libraries, multiple utilities come with very old versions or BSD versions with different flags than the GNU ones you might be used to coming from Linux, the package manager is pretty terrible. There are things (e.g. installing drivers to be able to connect to ESP32 devices) that require jumping through multiple ridiculous hoops. Some things are flat out impossible. Each new OS update brings new restrictions "for your safety" that are probably good for the average consumer, but annoying for people using the device for development/related.
by PaywallBuster | 2025-10-15 15:33:47+00:00
Cambodia is also big player in money laundering

(not only for these cambodia originated crimes)

Also keep in mind all the bribes, all the money laundering mentioned in the article by the 100s of affiliated subsidiares of the criminal group all in Cambodia

the big casinos which directly and indirectly support additional laundering

https://www.fincen.gov/system/files/2025-10/Huione-Group-Fin...

https://www.kharon.com/brief/huione-group-cambodia-treasury-...

Every business has revenue / costs

The indictment mentions they were doing 30M/day ~ 10B / year, could be an old message when they were smaller

Guessing that's revenue

They're just one of many organizations in the "industry"
by jncfhnb | 2025-10-15 15:33:49+00:00
There is not strong consensus on the meaning of the term. Some may say “human level performance” but that’s meaningless both in the sense that it’s basically impossible to define and not a useful benchmark for anything in particular.

The path to whatever goalpost you want to set is not going to be more and more intelligence. It’s going to be system frameworks for stateful agents to freely operate in environments in continuous time rather than discrete invocations of a matrix with a big ass context window.
by BeetleB | 2025-10-15 15:34:23+00:00
> I couldn’t find a single example of Windows or Windows software where I think the experience is in any way better.

While overall I may say MacOS is better, I would not say it's better in every way.

Believe it or not, I had a better experience with 3rd party window managers in Windows than on MacOS.

I don't think the automation options in MacOS are better than AutoHotKey (even Linux doesn't have something as good).

And for corporate work, the integration with Windows is much better than anything I've seen on MacOS.

Mac HW is great. The OS is in that uncanny valley where it's UNIX, but not as good as Linux.
by immibis | 2025-10-15 15:34:39+00:00
If inviting someone to take drugs is a crime because it harms others, then inviting someone to take drugs should be the crime - taking them yourself should not be. You could even stretch it to mean that taking drugs in public should be a crime (like how it is with sex) since other people might see you. But it doesn't justify making it illegal to take drugs in private.
by incomingpain | 2025-10-15 15:34:43+00:00
A year out, in that time nvidia and amd; not to mention huawei and others are going to hit the market as well. Intel are quite behind.

To me, the price point is what matters. It's going to be slow with ddr5. The 5090 today is much faster. But sure big ram.

RTX pro 6000 with 96gb of ram will be much faster.

So I'm thinking price point is below the 6000, above the 5090.
by immibis | 2025-10-15 15:35:21+00:00
Watching Netflix. You pay people streaming movies that don't provide a good to society and you do alter your state of mind which affects others and you do destroy your health a cost which also payed by others.

The argument you used earlier could be applied to literally anything, so if it's valid, literally everything should be a crime. I don't think the argument is valid.

You can't counter-argue that streaming movies is good for society, but growing plants isn't. I think it's the other way around, actually.
by stackskipton | 2025-10-15 15:35:23+00:00
You could start using DNS Traffic Shaping where DNS server looks at IP making the request and returns the IP of closest server.

Azure/AWS/GCP all have solutions for this and does not require you to use their services. There are probably other DNS providers that can do it as well.

Cloudflare can also do this as well but it's probably more expensive than DNS.
by JKCalhoun | 2025-10-15 15:35:23+00:00
Glider Pro [1] (called Airfoil?) is on the list. I guess posting the sources on Github made that an easy matter.

I suppose I can point people to this when they ask me if there is a "Glider" on a modern platform. A lot easier than setting up emulators.

[1] https://galeforcegames.itch.io/aerofoil
by NoGravitas | 2025-10-15 15:35:32+00:00
Even when criticizing and mocking the people running things doesn't have any effect? The point of free speech was supposed to be that you'd be able to make material changes in your living conditions and government policies by convincing people that they should be made. That's not really true anymore for anyone in the US except the very, very wealthy. But don't take my word for it: https://archive.org/details/gilens_and_page_2014_-testing_th...

What would happen if we took a more consequentialist look at democracy rather than caring mainly about the forms?
by buu700 | 2025-10-15 15:36:09+00:00
I think it could be a pretty reasonable system. The idea is that universal guaranteed stipends would become the ultimate backstop: almost a UBI, but targeted at those with actual need for it while requiring something of social benefit in return. I'd imagine that under this system the average person would live off of stipends indefinitely, which is fine because acting as a redundant store of useful knowledge is valuable to society in and of itself.

If someone runs a startup that isn't providing a livable income and they don't have savings to live off of, that startup shouldn't be their full-time job. Of course startups aren't for everyone, just as coding isn't, but there are many other forms of self-employment. Even so, I'd imagine successful startups to be far more common than today in such an environment — if not by percentage, at least by absolute numbers. A world of cheap and abundant capital with engineering and physical labor available at a fraction of the cost of human employees would be an entrepreneur's dream.
by steveBK123 | 2025-10-15 15:36:10+00:00
Precisely, people on the left wildly overestimate the admin overhead while people on the right wildly overestimate the fraud.

In the end, we have a gradually increasing idea of what the "basics" are which we should provide the poor / the elderly / everyone, and a decreasing working-to-retired ratio.

That is - the spend side is increasing faster than the income side. Europe is about 10 years ahead of us on this problem, but we are catching up fast.
by davidmachek | 2025-10-15 15:36:19+00:00
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by daxfohl | 2025-10-15 15:36:32+00:00
Wow that's a great analysis!

Yeah I essentially agree. I'm sure there are still plenty of good cases for C, depending on project size, experience of the engineers, integration with existing libraries, target platform, etc. But it definitely seems like Rust would be the better option in scenarios where there's not some a priori thing that strongly skews toward or forces C.
by 0xffff2 | 2025-10-15 15:37:04+00:00
Also, not all of the admin overhead would disappear if we got rid of means testing. I don't have the expertise to come up with a specific number, but I'd wager that getting half the admin costs back would be the absolute best case. I still support simplifying means testing for benefits programs, but not because it's going to magically free up a consequential amount of money.
by maqnius | 2025-10-15 15:37:26+00:00
I skimmed through one of the videos and it reminded me of how I just had a week of mainly reviewing other's code and supporting their work.

When I finally had the occasion to code myself, I felt so much better and less stressed at the end of the day.

My point is: what I just saw is hopefully not my future.

I sometimes read the opinion, that those who like the programming part of software engineering, don't like „agentic engineering“ and vica versa. But can we really assume that Armin Ronacher doesn't like programming?
by nyeah | 2025-10-15 15:37:41+00:00
"I'm not buying the "current AI is just a dumb parrot relying on human training" argument [...]"

One difficulty. We know that argument is literally true.

"[...] because the same thing applies to humans themselves"

It doesn't. People can interact with the actual world. The equivalent of being passively trained on a body of text may be part of what goes into us. But it's not the only ingredient.
by rgo | 2025-10-15 15:37:50+00:00
> First time I've ever heard of webAI - I wonder how they got themselves that mention?

I wondered the same. Went into Crunchbase and found out Crunchbase are now fully paywalled (!), well saw that coming... Anyway, hit the webAI blog, apparently they were showcased at the M4 Macbook Air event in 2024 [1] [2]:

> During a demonstration, a 15-inch Air ran a webAI’s 22 billion parameter Companion large language model, rendered a 4K image using the Blender app, opened several productivity apps, and ran the game Wuthering Waves without any kind of slowdown.

My guess is this was the best LLM use-case Apple could dig-up for their local-first AI strategy. And Apple Silicon is the best hardware use-case webAI could dig-up for their local-first AI strategy. As for Apple, other examples would look too hacky, purely dev-oriented and depend on LLM behemoths from US or China. Ie "try your brand-new performant M5 chip with LM Studio loaded with China's Deepseek or Meta's Llama" is an Apple exec no-go.

1. https://www.webai.com/blog/why-apples-m4-macbook-air-is-a-mi...

2. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/apple-updates-bestselling-mac...
by WillAdams | 2025-10-15 15:38:03+00:00
This is why I replaced my Samsung Galaxy Book 12 w/ a Galaxy Book 3 Pro 360.

I'd give my interest in Hell for there to be a tablet Mac w/ a Wacom stylus --- as it is, I'm seriously considering a Mac Mini and Wacom Movink 14 and a 3D printed shell.... (but first, I'm going to try out an rPi 5 w/ Wacom One 13 Gen 2 w/ touch).
by ACCount37 | 2025-10-15 15:38:10+00:00
In the same way there's "nothing substantially different" in humans from any other run of the mill matter.

I find that all this talk of "illusion" is nothing but anthropocentric cope. Humans want to be those special little snowflakes, so when an LLM does X, there are crowds of humans itching to scream "it's not REAL X".
by whimsicalism | 2025-10-15 15:38:29+00:00
you’re not arguing in good faith and now you’re motte-baileying. you said:

> Correlations between socioeconomic status and success of one's offspring in educational systems don't mean that intelligence is inherited in the genetic sense. If you're seriously arguing this, you're very close to flirting with eugenics and the like.

the obvious reading is that you do not believe in a genetic component to intelligence - and in fact say that a belief in “this” is arguing for eugenics.

> Sorry, to clarify, you are saying that "Two parents of higher IQ are much more likely to produce an offspring of higher IQ than median" because of genetics as the main determining factor?

Even if you remove all environmental factors, two smart parents are more likely to have a smart kid than the counterfactual.
by eagleinparadise | 2025-10-15 15:38:40+00:00
Anyone know when to expect the M5 Pros? I am on a base 16gb M1 and struggling hard in daily workloads. I am often running at 20gb of swap memory usage.

I don't really use local LLMs but think 32GB RAM would be good for me... but I am so ready to upgrade but trying to figure out how much longer we need to wait.
by thayne | 2025-10-15 15:38:54+00:00
In the first case, it often is optimized out. But the optimizer isn't perfect, and can't detect every case where it is unreachable.

If you have the second case, I would much rather have a panic than undefined behavior. As mentioned in another comment, in c indexing an array is semantically equivalent to:

if (i < len(arr)) arr[i] else UB()

In fact a c compiler could put in a check and abort if it is out of bounds, like rust does and still be in spec. But the undefined behavior could also cause memory corruption, or cause some other subtle bug.