MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sgt101 | 2025-05-29 16:12:48+00:00
"The fact that your quote says "Mental processes are not, or not only, computational processes." is the icing on the cake. Consider the unnecessary wording: if a process is not only computational, it is not computational in its entirety. It is totally superfluous. And the assumption that mental processes are not computational places it outside the realm of understanding and falsification."

Let's take this step by step.

First, how adroit or gauche the wording of the quote is doesn't have any bearing on the quality of the concept, merely the quality of the expression of the concept by the person who formulated it. This isn't bible class, it's not the word of God, it's the word of an old person who wrote that entry in the Stanford encyclopedia.

Let's then consider the wording. Yes, a process that is not entirely computational would not be computation. However, the brain clearly can do computations. We know this because we can do them. So some of the processes are computational. However, the argument is that there are processes that are not computational, which exist as a separate class of activities in the brain.

Now, we do know of some processes in mathematics that are non-computable, the one I understand (I think) quite well is the halting problem. Now, you might argue that I just don't or can't understand that, and I would have to accept that you might have a point - humiliating as that is. However, it seems to me that the journey of mathematics from Hilbert via Turing and Godel shows that some humans can understand and falsify these concepts.

But I agree, Wolfram is not under any obligations to consider embodied congition, thinking around enhanced brains only is quite reasonable.
by johncolanduoni | 2025-05-29 16:12:50+00:00
I’m guessing the source for Red Hat having to pay to have the shim signed is “I made it the fuck up”, but even if it was true I’m not going to cry about an IBM subsidiary paying money to give me a free service. And this is all ignoring the fact that I’ve never encountered an x86 motherboard that didn’t let you set your own keys.
by iLemming | 2025-05-29 16:13:02+00:00
Emacs is not really "modeless". Key-chords are kind of modes. Transients are kind of modes. Major and minor... well, just modes.

> What keeps me from using vi derivatives

That's correct. There's no such thing as "vim-mode". Every single Vim extension is full of glaring inconsistencies and shortcomings. Not a single VSCode extension, not IdeaVim for IntelliJ, not Sublime ones — none of them are really full-fledged vim integrations. Emacs one is the notable exception. Evil mode in fact is so good, it never feels like an afterthought, it feels like it was baked into the design of the editor from the get-go. It works extremely well. Emacs in fact can vim better than (Neo)vim.
by reisse | 2025-05-29 16:13:11+00:00
Sorry for hijacking the thread, but I'm too curious not to ask: is having censorship circumvention out of the box a non-goal for Mullvad?

Because there are VPNs with good censorship circumvention tech, and there are VPNs with good privacy guarantees, but I know none which can provide both. What Mullvad offers now is either a decade old stuff which is blocked even by subpar DPI solutions, or a set of (more modern) protocol bridges which are painful to setup and sometimes IP-banned.
by PaulHoule | 2025-05-29 16:13:16+00:00
Granted. I think synchronized was not such a great idea, in fact it's a lot like the bad ideas you see in other languages. I was coding Java back when you had to go to NASA's website to get a clear explanation of the module system and we went through all the stages of: "make every method synchronized", "discover a synchronized method call is 6x slower than a plain method call", "have a global discipline for threads and use synchronized concurrently"

But that's how Java is different from other languages. When a difficult to fix problem turns up in Java (like the original busted memory model), Java has a solution a decade before C++. Strange and obscure problems in Java are taken seriously whereas PHP, Pyhthon and the like may have the same problem and say "come in, the water's fine"."
by potato3732842 | 2025-05-29 16:14:09+00:00
Britain had a habit of showing all its religious/political (can't really separate them at this point in history) minorities the door (and to be fair, some of them were basically lunatics) which is likely a large part of why things shook out the way they did. A bunch of ideologically opposed groups cast onto another continent had no choice but to learn how to self govern despite their differences.
by tndibona | 2025-05-29 16:14:11+00:00
So if I take both your points - 1. Google will have to eat it's own lunch in order to force this change. 2. They will also have to skim down their Ad space as there will just be less content real estate to place ads when the way forward is an AI style Q&A type search.

Google will have pivot, and trim its bloat to effectuate this change. This will be at the expense of "Maximising shareholder value"?
by dumbfounder | 2025-05-29 16:14:57+00:00
There are also obviously some people that take advantage of the rules around emotional support animals. Like Great Danes on airplanes (second hand anecdote). So the effect is that people tend to suspect everyone is taking advantage. There are even a ton of services to make it super easy to classify a pet as an emotional support animal. So, I am all for these ridiculous chickens. Might buy some for my kids (I am not into knitting).
by myvoiceismypass | 2025-05-29 16:15:19+00:00
> Conversely, the food industry has taken names such as "milk" and "water", and expanded their definitions far beyond what common people recognize as those substances. Always receiving legal assent to sell fruit juice [nuts are fruits] with a mammalian name.

People don't seem to be complaining about that substance (not to be named) that usually goes with jelly on bread, and is not actually a dairy product.

This timeline is interesting: https://www.soyinfocenter.com/pdf/166/Milk.pdf
by throwawayforare | 2025-05-29 16:15:52+00:00
I don’t think most Americans are willing to embrace the lifestyle that comes with reindustrialization. Few want to work on farms or in factories under harsh conditions for low wages—jobs that are often left to immigrants when no other options exist. Similarly, in China, many workers endure long hours and low pay. I don’t believe currency manipulation or intellectual property theft are the main reasons behind China’s manufacturing dominance. The key factor, in my view, is their lower standard for human rights, which allows for a level of labor exploitation that would be unacceptable in many other countries.

There’s a fundamental tension between human rights and affordability or efficiency. Take California’s high-speed rail project, for example—it repeatedly runs over budget. That’s partly because we hold ourselves to higher labor and environmental standards.

In the long run, I believe robotic automation is the only viable path forward. Reindustrialization without it isn't a realistic solution.
by throwawaymaths | 2025-05-29 16:16:20+00:00
a nitpick:

a bit down the page there is stuff on the case syntax. The fact that "you can't have an empty break" is a good choice, but the fact that having two cases do the same thing has syntax

case X: case Y:

is footgun waiting to happen. I would strongly suggest the authors of C3 make stacking cases look like this:

case X, Y:
Show HN: We built a real-time Multilingual language voice bot using Sarvam
by arajkum | 2025-05-29 16:16:46+00:00
We recently built a proof-of-concept to see how far local-language voice AI has come in India.

The goal: a real-time, phone-based voice bot that understands and speaks Tamil (and other Indian languages), with fast enough latency for a natural back-and-forth conversation.

Stack used:

LiveKit for SIP/WebRTC and real-time audio

Sarvam (Indian STT/TTS models) for multilingual voice

OpenAI GPT-4.1 for conversation logic

Silero VAD for barge-in and turn-taking

Round-trip latency is low. It’s still early, but it worked surprisingly well—even on flaky connections.

Full write-up with stack, lessons, and demo: https://avaneeshrajkumar.substack.com/p/from-hello-to-namast...

Curious if others are experimenting with voice AI. Would love to hear use-case ideas.
by skissane | 2025-05-29 16:17:15+00:00
That’s a .Net API, so not easily usable from native code. If they offered a C API instead, almost anything could feasibly use it.

Plus, from reading that doc, it sounds like it only works on Windows if you enable “App-Local ICU” mode, in which case the ICU DLL is added to your .Net app’s distributable package - which implies the info isn’t actually bundled with Windows itself

Consider Python’s zoneinfo standard library module-it provides access to IANA TZ database. On all platforms except Windows it uses the copy of the DB bundled with the OS and updated by the OS update mechanisms. On Windows, you have to install a PyPI module containing it. If Microsoft bundled it with the OS, with a C (not .Net) API, you wouldn’t have to do that-but Microsoft doesn’t, so you do
by extroid | 2025-05-29 16:17:29+00:00
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by hatradiowigwam | 2025-05-29 16:18:03+00:00
"Religion" doesn't have the slightest thing to do with Jesus coming. Religion human thing. Jesus didn't say "go and spread religion to every man"...he said "go and spread the GOOD NEWS to every man".

Religion is the word we use to describe how us human's have managed to twist and warp and misunderstand that good news. We use it for gate keeping: "sorry this event is for church members only". We use it to put down people based on their behavior: "He seems like he needs religion". We use it to interfere with the law of the land: "Sorry, that law doesn't apply because of religious freedoms". And so on....

I don't think the big man gives one fiddly flying fig leaf about "religion". His son said(over, and over, and over!) that "I desire mercy, not sacrifice.". That means NOT excluding people over religion, insulting or belittling them with religion, or creating an unfair situation with "religious freedoms" in law. He wants MERCY.... that means instead of telling the beggar that religion would help him get clothed, fed, and generally happy - you should be giving him or her your clothes, sharing your food or drink, and welcoming them to your home where they can be safe. Will they abuse your trust? Who knows - and it's not important - your mercy to them was the critical action. You don't get into heaven for being discerning and clever...there is no award for actions like "I didn't invite him home, because he looked like a criminal and I don't trust him...". That's not mercy, that's you finding a human excuse to ignore the least of your brethren.
by wiredfool | 2025-05-29 16:19:30+00:00
(To be clear, child in question is now 20)

The problem was coming up with enough to read that wasn't too scary when he was young. Even the Hobbit was rough. Harry Potter is downright scary. Book series were falling in a week. We never had Christmas present books that lasted till New Year's.

I'm pretty sure that we have The Dark is Rising, but it was never one that was a reread, if they ever got through it. I've read the Little Fuzzy and other H Beam Piper books, and they're a little 50's to really let a young kid loose on.

Terry Pratchett worked, specifically the Bromeliad Trilogy. Eragon was ok. There was a set of Wings of Fire. And bookshelves of others that are gone by now.
by jbverschoor | 2025-05-29 16:19:48+00:00
Nothing about iMode? ABs the fact that EVERYBODY made fun of the Japanese that they washed a camera in the phone.

I remember going to Mobile Monday in Tokyo in 2003 or 2005. There were so many companies pitching new QR-type codes.

I wanted a Panasonic and NEC flipphone soo bad, but they weren’t available nor compatible. I did buy one though :)

I remember using opera to save on data indeed.
by ecocentrik | 2025-05-29 16:20:54+00:00
The discussion in Polymarket revolves around the trustworthiness of the market creator and their resolution criteria. Any discussion here that doesn't consider those things is missing the forest for the trees. The market isn't really about Jesus. Jesus is just the engagement hook. It's the reason this post has 147+ comments on Hacker News and $500k+ in market transactions on Polymarket. There's very little stopping the market creator from citing a guineapig pet lovers blog as his source with a claim that Jesus has returned as an adorable little guy with too much rizz to be anything other than the second coming.
by oooyay | 2025-05-29 16:21:36+00:00
Most of the tech blogs I run across are static sites. I understand the choice; to prioritize writing reads as pragmatic and I did that for a long time. At some point I got intrigued by being able to tailor my own editing experience and built my blog. It took months but now I use MarkdownIt and custom components in Vue to render the markdown in my posts. I built a commenting and moderation system.

I started all of this before LLMs but once I started using them it sped up my delivery substantially, especially with agents. It also informed how I use coding agents at work, which I think I've been able to adopt with relative ease and a higher success rate than most.

https://ooo-yay.com/blog if you're curious.
by rpozarickij | 2025-05-29 16:22:49+00:00
Furthermore, there's ongoing work ([0] and related JEPs) to allow running single Java files without an enclosing class and the static main method:

void main() { System.out.println("Hello, World!"); }

This is currently (as of JDK 24) under preview, so such a file needs to be run with "--enable-preview". E.g.

$ java --enable-preview HelloWorld.java Hello, World!

[0] https://openjdk.org/jeps/445
by perrygeo | 2025-05-29 16:24:11+00:00
Growth and the good times are over because the resources that provided that growth are dwindling. Peak oil is almost certainly behind us and everyone knows it, shifting their foreign policy accordingly. Recent events have laid bare that there's no facade of "manifest destiny" or ideology behind it... it's just naked aggression, scrambling for a bigger slice of the shrinking pie.

If it were just a shrinking energy/resource base, we could muddle through and build a better political system. Same with climate change. And biodiversity loss. And chemical pollution. And global nuclear warfare. And the decay of social morality. All of these things are solvable in themselves, but in aggregate I think we're running into harsh economic realities that we might not be able to solve all of it at the same time.
by hatradiowigwam | 2025-05-29 16:25:13+00:00
I'm so happy that you put that scripture here(Matthew 25). I have an inner dialog constantly that involves a certain someone telling me that I did not feed them, shelter them, or visit them when they were sick or in prison.

We are all so worried that if we give strangers(or immigrants) our food, clothes, and shelter - there won't be any left for us! I think we are worried about nothing. If we all pooled our tiny fragments of mustard seed, nothing would be impossible...
by mrdependable | 2025-05-29 16:25:33+00:00
AI advancement may be unstoppable, but how it is used is up to the government. A lot of the benefits of AI are not actually necessary to stay competitive as a country. My hope is that it ends up getting regulated in some way.

In the meantime, I am planning for the worst. I've cut my spending and I am using the money to invest in things that I think will provide income in a world where jobs are hard to come by.
by mywittyname | 2025-05-29 16:26:10+00:00
I'll throw in my $0.02 on this topic. I have a basement full of shelf stable foods, a reasonably large battery backup system plus some solar panels, and a couple of guns.

I don't see civilization collapsing overnight. I see it playing out as a series of scarce times that ebb and flow. I don't think the supermarket will go away, but I do think there will be times when it looks like those videos of Soviet groceries, where there's not much selection.

And I'm aware that natural disasters are increasing in frequency and cost/impact to a degree that the government won't or can't do anything about them. So I need to be able to weather the storms for a few months at a time.

As an aside, I also prepared by living in a neighborhood where people take care of each other and is close enough I can walk/bike to places.

Basically, I picture the USA collapse as turning the place into Puerto Rico, not Mad Max.
by not_your_vase | 2025-05-29 16:26:20+00:00
Have you noticed that Microsoft, Google and Apple software are still just as full of bugs as they were 5 years ago, if not more - even though all of them are all-in on AI, pedal to the metal? If LLMs would actually understand the code with human-like intelligence, then it would be a few minutes only to go through all open bug tickets, evaluate them, and to fix all the valid bugs, and reply to the invalid reports.

But to this day the best we have are the (unfortunately useless) volunteer replies on the relevant help forums. (And hundreds of unanswered github bugs per project)
by tristan957 | 2025-05-29 16:26:57+00:00
I'm not sure how you can call disenfranchisement activist wordplay. It makes me not even want to engage with you.

Just because someone didn't vote doesn't immediately mean the reason was disenfranchisement.

Given you live in Maryland, how can you claim voting is easy in the the entire US? Are you familiar with voting laws in every state and how elections can be weaponized by the state governments against certain populations?

Easy voting would mean drive thru voting, mail in voting, automatic voter registration, not weaponizing polling locations, etc.

I think you are taking your lived experiences and applying it to everyone. Are you elderly, disabled, a single parent, or are you living in poverty? Do you have immediate access to your birth certificate or a passport? Do you have a government ID at all? Do you have access to transportation? All these factors play into how easy it is for someone to vote.
by WorldMaker | 2025-05-29 16:27:00+00:00
The "built-in to Windows" one is essentially feature frozen and "dead". It's a bit like the situation where a bunch of Linux distros for a long while included a "hidden" Python 2 for internal scripts and last chance backwards compatibility even despite Python 3 supposed to be primary in the distro and Python 2 out of support.

Except this is also worse because this is the same Microsoft commitment to backwards compatibility of "dead languages" that leads to things like the VB6 runtime still being included in Windows 11 despite the real security support for the language itself and writing new applications in it having ended entirely in the Windows XP era. (Or the approximately millions of side-by-side "Visual C++ Redistributables" in every Windows install. Or keeping the Windows Scripting Host and support for terribly old dialects of VBScript and JScript around all these decades later, even after being known mostly as a security vulnerability and malware vector for most of those same decades.)
by hodgesrm | 2025-05-29 16:27:24+00:00
Or you focus on cost-efficient operation from very the beginning. Ironically databases are also one of the markets where it's possible to achieve profitability operating, extending, or supporting open source software. I did a talk at FOSDEM 2025 about how three specific companies (Percona, DBeaver, Altinity) achieved this. [0] It is possible because businesses depend on databases and are willing to pay real money to ensure they work properly.

[0] https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-5320-buil...

Disclaimer: I run Altinity.
by Tijdreiziger | 2025-05-29 16:27:45+00:00
But what evidence supports the theory of heaven and hell?

I mean, according to the Hindus and Buddhists, we’ll be reincarnated rather than going to heaven/hell.

We could read the Bible, or the Qur’ān, or the Vēdas, or the Buddhist scriptures, or any other religious text… but how would we know whether any of them holds truth?
by registeredcorn | 2025-05-29 16:28:07+00:00
Depending on the circumstances, one of the reasons why may come down to certain regulations outlined by CIFUS[1] or similar inter-government agencies.

I realize you're talking more about individuals, not necessarily who owns a company, but if we were to suppose that a non-US citizen were to become an employee of a company which works on some specific field ("critical technologies, infrastructure, sensitive data, and specific real estate deals") and that foreign employee was promoted to higher and higher roles, eventually being put into a position to hire other people from their country, that might trigger automatic CIFUS oversight review.

It's not enough to simply have a company deemed as critical to be US-based; if the majority of its workforce is foreign nationals, that is a security (and economic) concern for the entire nation, and will come to attention of the US Government.

Dealing with any US government bureaucracy is exhausting, but dealing with US government bureaucracy as it relates to national security is an entirely different beast.

I also realize that "90% of US-based companies" might not currently fall under CIFUS oversight, but if a company expands or pivots into new markets, I would assume that the vast majority of US CEOs would not want to lose out on the opportunity to win an sweet Government contract - that would limit future growth.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_on_Foreign_Investmen...
by wrs | 2025-05-29 16:29:03+00:00
The question was, did you explain it? If you posit an evolutionary mechanism, you need to show how the characteristics of the parent can be propagated to the descendants. If that’s just a hand-wave, then it’s an interesting thought experiment but as a theory there’s an important piece missing.

One of the beautiful things about an evolutionary explanation is that you really just have to show the propagation and selection mechanisms, and the “magic” fine tuning will automatically follow. But it’s less compelling if you have to run that logic backwards (it’s fine tuned so it must have evolved).
by petr25102018 | 2025-05-29 16:29:05+00:00
Honestly I haven't tried yet. Maybe Asciidoctor (Which I used) has it figured out. It would at least need to have good enough output for the code examples, otherwise it would probably be a non-starter.

I added links to example pages (which include TOC) to the Gumroad page and here, but yeah I should have put it on the homepage.
by hatradiowigwam | 2025-05-29 16:29:08+00:00
> I live in the largest Muslim country in the world

Are you a Muslim? I have a question for you... if I crawled onto your doorstep beaten and starving, would you invite me in and feed you? I am ignorant of Muslim teachings, and I don't know if this sort of things is covered...that's why I'm asking you.

I'm a Christian, and if you crawled onto MY doorstep, I would be ashamed with myself if I did not invite you in and care for you.

If your faith urges you to help the helpless, and my faith urges me to help the helpless... why do Muslims and Christians seem so opposed? If the news is to believe, we're like matter and anti-matter, we can't be friends, and at some point it always devolves to violence from one or both of the sides.