MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ratelimitsteve | 2025-10-22 17:38:34+00:00
ciagrettes are tobacco and paper. consider how dirt cheap those things are as raw materials when the price doesn't include sales tax or excise tax and doesn't account for the demand generated by addicts. In terms of just the cost of sourcing the materials and processing them into cigarettes you could probably afford to lose 90% of your product and still make money.

As far as 25 balloons 25 teams, I think this is another r breeding strategy type of thing: inputs are dirt cheap so massive losses can be tolerated, and 25 balloons being tracked means there have to be at least 25 officers chasing each balloon in order to arrest the smuggler picking them up, but one smuggler successfully retrieving one balloon ends the day with more money than he started. I think it's designed to exploit the extremely asymmetric costs associated with tying some cigarettes to a balloon when compared to the cost of tracking a balloon across europe and arresting whoever receives it.

tldr - you're absolutely right, the difference between the price of the raw materials in a cigarette and the price of the actual cigarette means they can tolerate extreme losses and still make money.
by pmg101 | 2025-10-22 17:38:42+00:00
I don't think it has anything to do with age but with the rate of new experiences.

Take a year off work to travel the world and you'll find your subjective sense of time passing slows right down.

Does it matter though? Does it matter how many experiences you collect? You can't take them with you. Better to develop relationships that can be a source of joy (I imagine. I have not done that).
by riedel | 2025-10-22 17:38:42+00:00
It is clear to me that it is different tech. However, I am not referring to the tech, but rather those applications they promoting. IMHO, there needs to be a better case for those features. I acknowledge that people want 4k in other places, so I guess it is partially only me. But particularly for the real AR I somehow doubt that resolution is the problem.
by toasted-subs | 2025-10-22 17:39:12+00:00
There in lies the problem. Hey can I have a few billion dollars for my baby doesn't really work out too well for investors or industry.

The current situation with "AI" took off because people learned their lessons from the last round of funding cuts "AI winter".

That being said any pushback against funding quantum research would be like chopped your own hands off.
by bko | 2025-10-22 17:39:27+00:00
You think websites like having this crap? You think they haven't considered alternatives? What greedy corporate executive is thinking "yes, let's make our product considerably worse just to prove a point"

They obviously looked at the alternatives and decided that the benefits of cookies or the cost of compliance is bad enough to allow for this crappy experience. And they all pretty much decided across the board.

So what problem is this cookie crap trying to solve? No one asked for it, no one wants to comply and now we're just making the web worse off as a result.
by gethly | 2025-10-22 17:39:31+00:00
Yeah, having mutability optional would be great. It would also allow a lot of data to pass through the stack instead of heap due to pointers, which Go is riddled with for absolutely no reason(imo).

On the other hand, now that we have iterators in Go, you can create a wrapper for []byte that only allows reading, yet is iterable.

But then we're abstracting away, which is a no-go in Go and also creates problems later on when you get custom types with custom logic.
by xxs | 2025-10-22 17:39:38+00:00
2kg would be a monster of a laptop battery of course, esp since it's regular Li-Ion (not the one w/ Fe/P). LiFePO4 should be ~150Wh/kg. So indeed, the battery is 'tiny', like 1kg only. Yet, it'd have no issue supplying the brakes - it's less than 10C discharge rate. LiFePO4 tends to have much higher discharge rate which is the important part not the total capacity.

Either way, the battery is indeed 'tiny'
by progmetaldev | 2025-10-22 17:40:47+00:00
This site helped me tremendously in my youth, with staying safe and giving me actual knowledge about different chemicals, rather than the complete abstinence information from programs like DARE. At one point, I found that a psychoactive chemical I was taking had a serious side effect with a prescription I was taking, and that information was nowhere to be found through web searches. Without Erowid, I definitely would have permanently damaged my liver! I don't think we should necessarily be marketing psychoactives to the youth, but I'm glad that this type of information is available for those that choose to search for it.
by nestorD | 2025-10-22 17:40:54+00:00
The paper[0] is actually about their logarithmic number system. Deep learning is given as an example, and their reference implementation is in PyTorch, but it is far from the only application.

Anything involving a large number of multiplications that produce extremely small or extremely large numbers could make use of their number representation.

It builds on existing complex number implementations, making it fairly easy to implement in software and relatively efficient. They provide implementations of a number of common operations, including dot product (building on PyTorch's preexisting, numerically stabilized by experts, log-sum-of-exponentials) and matrix multiplication.

The main downside is that this is a very specialized number system: if you care about things other than chains of multiplications (say... addition?), then you should probably use classical floating-point numbers.

[0]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03426
by throwawaykf10 | 2025-10-22 17:41:41+00:00
This is in addition to another round of cuts from a couple months ago that didn't make the news. I heard from somebody who joined Meta in an AI-related division at a senior position a few months ago. Said within a couple of months of joining, almost his entire department was gutted -- VPs, directors, manager, engineers -- and he was one of the very few left.

Not sure of the exact numbers, given it was within a single department, the cuts were not big but definitely went swift and deep.

As an outside observer, Zuck has always been a sociopath, but he was also always very calculated. However over the past few months he seems to be getting much more erratic and, well... "Elon-y" with this GenAI thing. I wonder what he's seeing that is causing this behavior.
by teachrdan | 2025-10-22 17:41:48+00:00
I probably agree with you on more things religious than not. Having said that, I was correcting OP, who strongly suggested that Islam was uniquely misogynist by quoting a couple passages from the Quran.

What I think is really interesting is that the some of the strongest currents in Christianity, Judaism and Islam are all converging on the subjugation of women, especially the control of their bodies and their sexuality.

> We can also do this with Islam too, a religion founded by a slaver war monger who had sex slaves, and whose teachings say women are a sexual reward.

A helpful reminder to you that Christianity was founded by a man who never married, never had children, and lived poor his whole life. Something literally no one within Christianity espouses today. It is ignorant to assume that Muslims all aspire to live like Mohammad when virtually no Christians aspire to live like Christ.
by SDedu | 2025-10-22 17:42:05+00:00
Dangus, the plan helps workers by removing the taxes from being pulled from their check because Federal taxes are like 50 percent and I’m a worker at work typing this while juggling boxes so I that’s why I came here but take this example if a person or company just made 1 billion dollars and if flipped means 9 billion which means 4.5 billion of that goes to fix the economy while rewarding workers to own houses, build families, and investing so money works for them and not getting the other end of the stick if you know what I mean!
by andersa | 2025-10-22 17:42:17+00:00
Had the same experience last time I attempted to report an issue on Hacker One. Triage did not seem to actually understand the issue and insisted on needing a PoC they could run themselves that demonstrated the maximum impact for some reason, even though any developer familiar with the actual code at hand could see the problem in about ten seconds. Ended up writing to some old security email I found for the company to look at the report and they took care of it one day later, so good ending I guess.

This was about an issue in a C++ RPC framework not validating object references are of the correct type during deserialization from network messages, so the actual impact is kind of unbounded.
by margalabargala | 2025-10-22 17:42:35+00:00
"8 is one of the only" is a little off because it doesn't have an object, it relies on that being implicit from the prior sentence. "Only" here is an adjective, not a noun. The usage is a little awkward.

It would be more correct to say "there are only 4 positive integers less than 10. 8 is one of them."
by cypherpunks01 | 2025-10-22 17:42:45+00:00
I think generally yes, phenethylamines are the primary compounds known to work in the same dose range as LSD. Unfortunately they are much cheaper to produce, and the majority of the 25C- and 25I-NBOMe fatalities occur after people believed they were taking LSD. I have read similarly, that tab size of a dose might be an indicator, but I don't think it's a fully reliable method. Check out the old 2013 Erowid "Spotlight on NBOMes" article [1]-

> Silk Road prices for pure 25I-, 25C-, and 25B-NBOMe powder currently range from $90 to $200 per gram. The most problematic listings are vendors selling blotter that begs to be resold as acid: 1/4-inch perforated squares in 100-hit sheets bearing designs such as Albert Hofmann's bike ride and The Beatles Yellow Submarine, among other acid-blotter designs from the past. One vendor states "each tab is acid size, no big blotters here". Another offers hits supposedly containing 1 mg of 25I- and 25B-NBOMe each! Dosages range from 500 micrograms to 2 mg per 1/4-inch hit, with advertised doses averaging around 1 mg. On Silk Road, LSD blotter is 5-10 times more expensive than NBOMe blotter.

I think unfortunately toxic and potentially fatal doses can fit on a 1/4 inch hit or in a single liquid drop. There needs to be a lot more active chemical though, whereas you get a slight metallic taste with LSD, the article says NBOME is extremely bitter due to the higher concentration, which is sometimes covered up with mint or other flavor (never heard of this with LSD).

There's an interesting 2019 article "Multimodal imaging of hallucinogens 25C- and 25I-NBOMe on blotter papers" [2] that analyzed a random seized NBOME sample from Germany. It has lower concentration per cm² than what Erowid cited, but I don't think it's a technical limit unfortunately that prevents scary doses from fitting on a standard blotter.

[1] https://erowid.org/chemicals/nbome/nbome_article1.shtml

[2] https://analyticalsciencejournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/do...
by ctrlp | 2025-10-22 17:42:52+00:00
This is hopelessly naive. Heads of state should not be prosecuted in democracies. It sets a bad precedent and there is no easy way to apply the rule of law to the head of state. There are too many examples in history of abusive lawfare practices. Better not to nitpick about "crimes" in such cases and let the man disappear from the stage. Aggressive prosecutions only increase the likelihood he'll try to mount a political comeback.
by drunx | 2025-10-22 17:42:54+00:00
I feel like this tech always misses real life usecases. I mean yes sure we do watch movies... But are you really going to sit in the headset for 2 hours straight. It's physically... Biologically(?) Uncomfortable.

Then when they say - explore Google Maps - ok. Fun. But for what? 10 minutes? How prominent is that need/activity in our life?

All usecases that Apple and now Google/Samsung showcase are "imaginary", wishful thinking usecases. They don't stick. They are more like "party-tricks" than something that can integrate into our lives and fill in a certain gap.
by IncreasePosts | 2025-10-22 17:42:59+00:00
This is really just a hacker news/inside tech meme. Look at half the comments on this submission, they're just low effort "lol Google kills off products" statements. Random people on the street would have no idea what you're talking about, because they use chrome, android, Google search, discover, Gmail, and Google maps.

I think Google just has a habit of making products that excite techies but then prove unsustainable for a wider audience (reader being the prime example). I think them trying that (and then failing) is better for everyone than them simply not even trying, which is what some other major tech players do(Apple)

If people actually want to use this product and it is selling well and there are a lot of android XR users, then it's unlikely that Google will kill it. If it doesn't sell well and there aren't many android XR users, sure, it may be killed, but I don't think you'll find many examples of companies sustaining an unprofitable line of business just for the goodwill of the few people using the product.
by bartread | 2025-10-22 17:43:06+00:00
Yeah, but those layout managers came later. I don’t think they were there in the early 2000s.

I’ll say this for Microsoft: they supported WinForms, even adding new features, long after it had ceased to be the new hotness. Whether they still do, I don’t know. The last time I touched WinForms was 2013.
Show HN: Listibly – Simple platform to share recommendation lists
by zainalabdin878 | 2025-10-22 17:43:11+00:00
I built Listibly to help people share recommendations with others.

This is not a new idea, but we're still being asked for recommendations of places in town, books, and more. I couldn't find a platform that does this yet is simple and modern.

This is a super early MVP, would love to hear your thoughts.
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2025-10-22 17:43:24+00:00
No, really, DHH does that in the linked article.

> Chiefly because it's no longer full of native Brits. In 2000, more than sixty percent of the city were native Brits. By 2024, that had dropped to about a third. A statistic as evident as day when you walk the streets of London now.

I personally don't see how it could be "as evident as day" simply by walking around and observing without bringing skin color into it. Walking the streets of London doesn't reasonably include the activity of investigating the citizen status of everybody one sees so he's presumably not observing "native or not". And if he's not observing that, then it seems reasonable to think he's observing their skin color. At least, it does without him clarifying what he was otherwise observing.

But some of the words also link to a wikipedia article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_groups_in_London) which doesn't actually support his point unless you look at numbers that explicitly concern race. More specifically, I can't find the race-agnostic numbers which corroborate the specific (approximate) numbers he gave. There's a "White British" row in a table that has a value of 36.8% for the 2021 census. It shows 59.79% for the 2001 census.

It's hard to compare strictly with citizenship using the numbers he linked to, which seems another reason to assume he was thinking in terms of skin color. On top of the fact that the wiki article is titled "Ethnic groups in London", which is not relevant to citizenship status, nor whether they "natively" got their citizenship. I mean, seriously, what evidence could he even be using to make the claim that a mere 1/3 of London's population is comprised of "native Brits", if we start with the assumption that it's not what he observed of others' skin color? (Not rhetorical despite the tone, please answer if you have an idea.)
by apizon | 2025-10-22 17:43:37+00:00
Thanks, not being well versed in design I just picked a small color palette I liked and sticked to it

Approval was I think 2-3 days for Google (I had already validated the store page and opened it to preregistration a month before the final build) and a bit more than week for App Store due to some back and forth because of missing privacy policy links in some places of the app and stuff like that.
by canto | 2025-10-22 17:43:45+00:00
It's absolutely not what is happening.

It's more like the farmer was giving leftovers for free to schools and it was so good that it made him famous. People from all over the country came in, including businessmen who told the farmer he is missing out and should be charging more for his food. He started a restaurant chain but, the businessmen went further and said that a quality product cannot be given away for free and made him stop supporting schools and shelters which got him rich and famous in the first place. Even tho, he was just handing over leftovers (it cost around USD 100 to host a docker image - yearly)

Think EA, Microsoft and Xbox, Broadcom and bitnami.
by PaulHoule | 2025-10-22 17:44:03+00:00
(1) As much as people complain, home inkjet printers do a remarkable job of printing high quality art reproductions and photos at low cost relative to alternatives, (Sure offset litho is cheaper… if you are running 10,000 prints)

(2) The key to this using quality materials. You’ve got to use good coated paper (which is relatively expensive.). You can mostly trust OEM ink although I found low-end EcoTank printers use ink that fades in six months although the higher end models like the ET-8550 are better. Look at forums and you will find many versions of “I was trying to print borderless and all I got was this inksplosion” and the common denominator is third party inks. There could be testing of third party inks that proves they are comparable to or even superior too the OEM links but as it is there is no testing because… they target a consumer who doesn’t care.
by DrewADesign | 2025-10-22 17:44:11+00:00
I was a working adult through the .com bust, 2008, and lost my job during the pandemic. I knew a lot of people who did things like half-ass two remote full time jobs, even in the early aughts. You know how many are successful in the long run? Zero. Still hustling the same tired patch of ground while their peers moved on because they only got better at hustling and didn’t mature as professionals. The people on top are on top because they either started on top or were extremely lucky. Hucksters that find themselves one step in front of the curve, trying to claw themselves a double portion of scraps will always do better than their immediate peers in the short term, and almost universally think they’ve figured out some grand secret to gaming the system. But gaining depth and credibility is what makes people actually successful in the white collar world. We’ll never be on the same battlefield for many reasons. Good luck on yours.
by narag | 2025-10-22 17:44:54+00:00
Honestly, I can't get myself to worry about "societal damage"... what would the contact mean for individuals? Medical and technical advancements would extend our lifespans and could add enjoyment to our lives.

A civilization capable of space travel doesn't seem that would be so interested in slaving or torturing humans for the sake of it. Would "our culture" disappear? I still doubt it. It'd be kept as History.

I like visiting museums and learning about the history of ancient civilizations but by no means I'd like to live in the any of those past environments.
by soco | 2025-10-22 17:44:57+00:00
But what AR can you do with them? I mean, what AR content can you get nowadays? Labeling the stuff around you? Pedestrian or bike navigation (not full screen display but hints)? Tourist information? Any of this integrates with a sibling app for extra info on the connected phone? I'm asking all this because for games I think VR is much better, and trying to understand the current practical value of customer AR.
by amiga386 | 2025-10-22 17:44:59+00:00
There is also what's called "Oversight", which performs actions that are invisible to the public and administrators alike (though not invisible to some very privileged people)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Oversight

There are also "office actions", where essentially the Wikimedia Foundation and/or its legal counsel have been required to do something. In most cases, the office actions are visible and logged, unless they've been required to use Oversight as well. But the main thing is that the office actions will generally not be explained to anyone, as it usually stems from some legal threat to Wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Office_actions
by lucideng | 2025-10-22 17:45:01+00:00
If I want to know... what Python library I looked at, I have browser history; what I did in code, I have Git; who I spoke with, chat apps have searchable history; what commands I ran; I have terminal history;

We have been solving the history problem with computing for decades now. My limited, imperfect human memory is a feature, not a bug. We get very good at the things we do regularly.

App security issues aside, my opinion of a more useful product would be about how can you make the person more efficient, not by doing something for them, but by informing them of how they can grow.

For example: "I noticed you... write many python command line apps; have you tried the python Fire library?"; you are struggling with some python basics; would you like me to schedule some time to practice Python with some of the libraries you use most?"; you do this task regularly; I think you can automate that like this.."
by 1970-01-01 | 2025-10-22 17:45:04+00:00
Take your pick:

If you give it a big job, it freezes halfway and just spins its wheels as fast as it can until you unplug it.

It refuses to paint yellow lines when it's out of blue paint.

It asks you for feedback after doing any and every job.

It doesn't have good Linux support.

It has no off button. The only modes are printing, standby at half power, or unplugged.

When you want to just print a small blue square on the floor, it makes xxxjuukkktsssssruuuuukkkttt sounds for 5 minutes, pauses for another 2, zooms at max speed to the location on the floor, pauses for 10 seconds, and begins doing the actual job it was designed to do, but does it in a shade of blueish brown.
by derektank | 2025-10-22 17:45:22+00:00
Are we crying tears over Muammar Gaddafi here? The man was a butcher and NATO was completely justified in imposing a no fly zone and supporting the National Transition Council in Libya. There was a UN Security Council resolution authorizing it.

Lots of things to criticize Sarkozy for but his support for the intervention is not one of them.
by dns_snek | 2025-10-22 17:46:08+00:00
[2] Doesn't fully capture the negligence of the Swedish DPA ("IMY"), here's a better source:

> IMY’s practice of simply “forwarding” complaints.

> The IMY’s way of dealing with complaints since the Supreme Administrative Court ruling is to attach an “appeal form” to their (non-)decisions. But it still doesn’t investigate the complaints. Instead, the authority simply forwards the complaint to the entity that illegally processes personal data and then immediately closes the case. This also happened in the case preceding noyb’s current legal action against the IMY. After a data subject filed a complaint regarding a recorded phone call, the authority forwarded it to the respondent without investigating.

[3] https://noyb.eu/en/noyb-takes-swedish-dpa-court-refusing-pro...