MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Trenthug | 2025-06-27 09:43:17+00:00
This paper presents a novel method of defining and measuring Consciousness with a descriptive model of it, trying to encompass all it's aspects in a definite and objective manner with an attempt at reaching a coherence between them

It has elements akin Tononi's IIT theory's usage of complexity metrics, Karl friston's modelling of brains as Bayesian inference machines and Wittgenstein's private language argument

The methods of measuring complexity might be able to do better with a refinement,one possibility has been conjectured within the paper using a thought experiment
by r1chardnl | 2025-06-27 09:43:37+00:00
From one of his other blogposts. "Guidelines for computing sizes and subscripts"

Never mix unsigned and signed operands. Prefer signed. If you need to convert an operand, see (2).

https://nullprogram.com/blog/2024/05/24/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvtFGa6XJDU
by badmintonbaseba | 2025-06-27 09:43:50+00:00
We didn't use Saxon, I don't work there anymore. We also supported client-side (browser) XSLT processing, as well as server-side. It might have helped on the server side, maybe could even resolve some algorithmic complexities with some memoization (possibly trading off memory consumption).

But in the end the core problem is XSLT, the language. Despite being a complete programming language, your options are very limited for resolving performance issues when working within the language.
by mmh0000 | 2025-06-27 09:44:32+00:00
With a little bit of vimrc magic you can make it transparent:

"Make k/j up/down work more naturally by going to the next displayed line vs "going to the next logical line (for when word-wrapping is on): noremap k gk noremap j gj noremap <up> gk noremap <down> gj "Same as above, but for arrow keys in insert mode: inoremap <up> <Esc>gka inoremap <down> <Esc>gja
by CrossVR | 2025-06-27 09:44:37+00:00
Ultimately as much as we love individual responsibility, the truth is only the lucky few have the ability to freely choose their lifestyle. For the rest of us we have to conform to the unhealthy lifestyle that society demands of us.

To live a life that's even remotely healthy we have to dedicate a significant amount of the precious spare time we have just to undo some of that damage.

I do not believe we are predisposed to adopt sedentary lifestyles. As kids most of us are very active, but we are taught to be sedentary. Both academically and professionally we are most rewarded for sedentary activities: doing extra coursework, building your resume. Is it any surprise we develop a sedentary lifestyle when such a lifestyle is most rewarded?
by vidarh | 2025-06-27 09:45:21+00:00
I've had actual, real-life deployments in datacentres where we just left dead hardware in the racks until we needed the space, and we rarely did. Typically we'd visit a couple of times a year, because it was cheap to do so, but it'd have totally viable to let failures accumulate over a much longer time horizon.

Failure rates tend to follow a bathtub curve, so if you burn-in the hardware before launch, you'd expect low failure rates for a long period and it's quite likely it'd be cheaper to not replace components and just ensure enough redundancy for key systems (power, cooling, networking) that you could just shut down and disable any dead servers, and then replace the whole unit when enough parts have failed.
by freilanzer | 2025-06-27 09:45:38+00:00
I like the idea of matrix and element, but the execution is just so lackluster. Even Signal added a lot of quality of life improvements, and WhatsApp is consistently getting better. I don't like the idea of using a messenger owned by Meta, but honestly, messengers absolutely need an excellent UX and UI, QOL features, etc. and Element is just far behind in this regard.
by closewith | 2025-06-27 09:46:04+00:00
> Chohbam composite tank armour

Chobham is from the '60s, but the UK cannot manufacture Chobham or the current incarnation Epsom independently.

> Dragonfire Laser

Developed by MBDA UK (a subsidiary of MBDA, owned by Airbus, BAE, and Leonardo) and QinetiQ. It also cannot be manufactured independently by the UK.

> SkySabre

MBDA again, also cannot be manufactured independently by the UK.

> Accuracy International firearms (best sniper rifles in the world)

Cannot be manufactured independently by the UK. Not even the barrels nor the steel to produce them, both of which are imported.

> Rolls Royce jet engines

Cannot be manufactured independently by the UK, which does not even manufacture most of the parts in the UK.

> I could go on

You could, and you'd continue to prove my point. The UK can partly design and manage projects (the services sector) and can assemble some items from parts mostly imported and almost exclusively using overseas inputs.

I think it's also telling that majority of all the items mentioned armour, from composite armour to Trent turbofans are already manufactured overseas and outside the UK
by Lio | 2025-06-27 09:46:10+00:00
My (limited) understanding was that in the USA it was not illegal to read a book you don't own but it is illegal to make a copy (download) of a book you don't own.

I still don't fully grok how Meta can legally download a pirated book as fair use when an individual doing the same would be deemed a criminal act.

It would seem that Meta still don't have the right to make copies of books that they haven't paid for no matter what they do with it.
by Ferret7446 | 2025-06-27 09:46:42+00:00
As a simple practical matter, "hanakami" is incorrect Japanese. The "k" changes to "g" via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendaku; there's already an example in "origami". So at the very least, it should be "hanagami".

(The fact that "it also means “tissue paper” in Japanese (鼻紙)" is irrelevant; homophones are common in Japanese.)

The choice of words is also kind of weird. "Oribana" would work, but that already refers to flowers made of origami. I would have gone with "hanaori" instead. "Hanagami" sounds like you're making paper out of flowers, or flower printed paper.
by amy214 | 2025-06-27 09:46:50+00:00
>It would be one thing if minor damage could just be "buffed out",

No, it's not fair. What you owe them is deprecation of the vehicle value consequent to the damage, not cost to make it perfect again. For example, if I get in a car accident, my insurance looks at cost to repair and if it's too high, they "total" the car and pay the value of it.

There are also other complexities - a windshield crack because a dump truck kicked up a stone on the highway, someone keys your car or knocks into the door, or bumps your car while it sits parallel parked. Of course the rental agency can say "you rented it, it was under your watch, and it came back like this" which is a shady thing to say
by Kim_Bruning | 2025-06-27 09:47:05+00:00
> That would require reindustrialising, which while possible would require a complete reorganisation of UK society and accepting a much lower financial standard (financially, at least) of living as the workforce moves to manual labour from services.

Not sure that holds up:

- Manufacturing: £785/week average earnings (Apr 2025) https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwor...

- Services: £708/week average earnings (Apr 2025) https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwor...

This is the 21st century — people aren’t running around soot-covered factories anymore.

Modern industry is about designing, building, and maintaining complex hardware and software systems, often with a big dose of automation.

It’s more likely you’re managing robots than shoveling coal.
by lynx97 | 2025-06-27 09:47:11+00:00
I am in my mid-40s, don't do regular exercise, and still dont feel like "shit".

Really, this "motivation trainer" rhetoric coming out of obesity-infested America is tiring.

You sound like there is only two extremes: Couch potatoes and people that run a marathon every weekend. There is actually a middle-ground. And a not-so-small group of people is actually comfortable in that middle-ground.

You can feel relatively healthy without running around like a wound-up monkey. Step on, don't eat too much. Then you don't have to burn calories to get rid of extra fat. It almost sounds like "uppers and downers"... Mind you, I am not arguing against sports in healthy doses. But whenever I read or talk to fitness fans, I feel like I am talking to a person following a cult.
by JimDabell | 2025-06-27 09:47:22+00:00
> How do you discern that a “deepfake” (what a dumb term) is similar to you and not just similar to anyone else?

Presumably the only reason to use a deepfake of a specific person is to produce things specifically in relation to that person. Otherwise, why bother? So “is this about the individual or just coincidence?” isn’t likely to be a factor in any complaint made. This seems like a hypothetical rather than something that is likely to need answering in practice.
by weinzierl | 2025-06-27 09:48:01+00:00
Room temperature on earth. In physics room temperature is used as a technical term and actually pretty universally defined as 20°C (293.15 K).

Traditionally in European papers it used to be 18°C, so if Einstein and Schrödinger talk about room temperature it is that.

I've heard in chemistry and stamp collecting they use 25°C but that is heresy.
by rich_sasha | 2025-06-27 09:48:31+00:00
That's probably one of very few options available quickly.

UK could launch it's nuclear program, it has the scientific background and infrastructure, but surely they wouldn't have a certified, tested weapon within 5 years.

Maybe UK could buy them from France - but I don't think France ever exported their nukes, and if they would even consider it. How would it be launched? They have air-launched missiles, presumably only working with French jets, and cruise missiles, which IIRC are not very long range.

Who else is there? India? Pakistan? Israel? North Korea? Hard to imagine a sale from either of these countries.
by throwaway_434 | 2025-06-27 09:49:01+00:00
> The fact that there is zero such efforts visible leads me to the conclusion that Modi just doesn't give a fuck.

Modi cares about Indians more than he cares about US citizens. Indians come first. Just like Trump cares about US citizens more than he cares about Indian citizens. So when it comes to protecting Indians from scammers in Kolkata, West Bengal and other islamo-commie places Modi Government has done an excellent job. We get regular messages warning us against scams and even educating us on how these scams work.

Why doesn't Modi warn US or prevent it from targeting Western citizens? Because Modi has bigger things to worry about when it comes to India itself. If Trump personally asks Modi, then yes there will be a change (depending on how Trump reciprocates for that gesture, especially considering US has back-stabbed India too many times to even count, Modi will be weary).

> Particularly when the state in question is run by the opposition, I would expect the federal government party to use this as political ammunition.

And then what? Western institutions demonize Modi and fund regime change operations in India with their unlimited wealth? Modi won't fall into that trap. If your Governments were not so prolific in regime change operations and interfering politically in other Countries, we would have definitely done a lot to fix this issue. Right now, for any non-Western Government, it is like walking on eggshells. We never know what might piss you guys off (even if the step is in your favor) and you unleash your regime change ops in our Country. The best example that comes to my mind is India sending thousands of deportation requests for wanted criminals, terrorists and gangsters who have taken shelter in Canada, US, UK and Australia. Most of those deportation requests were rejected by your Governments. Guess who these scammers work under? Yep you guessed it right! These very same criminals, gangsters, terrorists who have found refuge in your Country.

There is a lot I can unpack. But I have only provided you with what is the tip of the iceberg.
by fennecfoxy | 2025-06-27 09:49:22+00:00
Well empty space has a temperature of roughly -270c...so that's pretty cold.

But I think what people/movies don't understand is that there's almost no conductive thermal transfer going on, because there's not much matter to do it. It's all radiation, which is why heat is a much bigger problem, because you can only radiate heat away, you can't conduct it. And whatever you use to radiate heat away can also potentially receive radiation from things like the Sun, making your craft even hotter.
by simonask | 2025-06-27 09:49:38+00:00
It truly is not about bounds checks. Index lookups are rare in practical Rust code, and the amount of code generated from them is miniscule.

But it _is_ about the sheer volume of stuff passed to LLVM, as you say, which comes from a couple of places, mostly related to monomorphization (generics), but also many calls to tiny inlined functions. Incidentally, this is also what makes many "modern" C++ projects slow to compile.

In my experience, similarly sized Rust and C++ projects seem to see similar compilation times. Sometimes C++ wins due to better parallelization (translation units in Rust are crates, not source files).
by rgblambda | 2025-06-27 09:50:23+00:00
Would that not be covered under the UK-EU Free Trade Agreement or the UK-EU Security & Defence Partnership?

And if it were the case, then Eurofighter isn't independent of the UK either, as it's one of the main stakeholders and manufacturers.

I think your previous comment explains it better. The maintenance and logistical complexities are being experienced by countries that weren't initial adopters. The UK remains an initial adopter and manufacturer for Eurofighter.
by drakonka | 2025-06-27 09:50:39+00:00
I see it now, thank you! This looks like what I was hoping for. I wonder if there's some way to communicate very clearly that you'll need to talk for around n minutes to get a structured curriculum prepared - and maybe even show a progress bar of some sort so the user can have an idea of when they're going to get to "the good stuff"?

Another thing is that the trial period seems incongruent. To me the structured curriculum is what I really want to _try_. I want to see what the planned lessons are like, how guided they are, etc. But the trial runs out and tries to make me pay right after the unstructured more all-over-the-place feeling introductory conversation, and I'm not prepared to pay at that point since I feel like I haven't gotten to evaluate the main part of the product at all. I would suggest leaving the trial unlocked to maybe the first three structured lessons of the learning plan. Let the user really experience what they'll be paying for.
by halffullbrain | 2025-06-27 09:52:15+00:00
O(n^2) issues can typically be solved using keyed lookups, but I agree that the base processing speed is slow and the language really is too obscure to provide good DX.

I worked with a guy who knew all about complexity analysis, but was quick to assert that "n is always small". That didn't hold - but he'd left the team by the time this became apparent.
by famahar | 2025-06-27 09:52:56+00:00
This looks similar to Speak. I took part in their Japanese language beta and enjoyed it. It's an interesting use of AI and I did learn a lot fast. My biggest problem with these are that they feel like magic until it suddenly doesn't. Weird pronunciation and strange replies. It comes nowhere close to replacing a tutor or speaking partner yet. I am optimistic as the tech improves fast.
by vidarh | 2025-06-27 09:55:21+00:00
The point is that past burn-in, the failure rates are low enough for years that they're a rounding error and you can plan for just letting the failed equipment sit there.

Allowing the failed equipment to sit there can in fact cut costs because it allows you to design the space without consideration of humans needing to be able to access and insert/remove servers.

The higher the cost of bringing someone in to do maintenance, the more likely it is you will just design for redundancy of the core systems (cooling, power, networking), and accept failures and just disable failed equipment.
by itkovian_ | 2025-06-27 09:55:57+00:00
I think the better analogy is if you had someone with a superhuman, but not perfect memory read a bunch of stuff, then you were allowed to talk to the person about the things they’d read, does that violate copyright? I’d say clearly no.

Then what if their memory is so good, they repeat entire sections verbatim when asked. Does that violate it? I’d say it’s grey.

But that’s a very specific case - reproducing large chunks of owned work is something that can be quite easily detected and prevented and I’m almost certain the frontier labs are already going this.

So I think it’s just very not clear - the reality is this is a novel situation, the job of the courts is now to basically decide what’s allowed and what’s not. But the rational shouldn’t be ‘this can’t be fair use it’s just compression’. Because it’s clearly something fundamentally different and existing laws just aren’t applicable imo
by throwaway_434 | 2025-06-27 09:56:16+00:00
> Clearly, the GP is completely rational and quite well-informed.

Yep you believe everything under the Sun when it comes to your Governments and institutions, when it has been proven time and time again that they have been involved in regime change ops and covert ops.

It is quite evident you don't have any ability to introspect and question your own Government.

Also, it is not just Homi J Bhabha we are talking about. There is a list of at least 11 nuclear scientists that died unnatural deaths. These are just nuclear scientists. Total 684 scientists have died unnaturally in just the past 15 years.

You can keep dismissing all this as "conspiracy theory" but we all know how the 3-letter agencies operates.
by paldepind2 | 2025-06-27 09:56:23+00:00
> A quick Google search with "flutter setstate is not refreshing" reveals a struggle that you will face quite often when running Flutter. It sounds like an easy fix, but the nature of Flutter using a bunch of nested Widgets creates, naturally, lasagna code that makes it hard to reason about this.

Can you expand on this OP? I've never had problems with `setState` nor "lasagna code" in Flutter. From a quick search I mostly seem to find questions from people who are still learning Flutter and getting basic things wrong.
by Nursie | 2025-06-27 09:56:24+00:00
> UK could launch it's nuclear program, it has the scientific background and infrastructure, but surely they wouldn't have a certified, tested weapon within 5 years.

As in the other thread (that I see you've now seen) the UK does have an active nuclear weapons program, with an in-progress updated design. It's true that it would need a smaller 'tactical' warhead design for the use-case we're talking about so it would take some time.

> How would it be launched?

I have no idea, we have certainly reached beyond my competence to hold an opinion here :)

It just feels like an odd choice at the current time, to crow about a new capability, but reveal another country is going to hold the keys. especially when the UK does have an active nuclear program. :shrug:
by rajnathani | 2025-06-27 09:56:36+00:00
Exactly what I was thinking when the OP comment brought up "regular launches containing replacement hardware", this is easily solvable by actually "treating servers as cattle and not pets" whereby one would simply over-provision servers and then simply replace faulty servers around once per year.

Side: Thanks for sharing about the "bathtub curve", as TIL and I'm surprised I haven't heard of this before especially as it's related to reliability engineering (as from searching on HN (Algolia) that no HN post about the bathtub curve crossed 9 points).
by msgodel | 2025-06-27 09:56:57+00:00
Ah I see what you're saying, although now that I think about it that actually is a very good argument for Apple not reviewing apps at all. By trying to moderate all of the iOS software Apple takes responsibility for it and becomes liable, this doesn't just mean no medical apps but it also changes what's allowed with communication apps for example (and many more.) It's really just a terrible way to run things.

Just let people do what they want, this makes no sense.
by Arathorn | 2025-06-27 09:57:12+00:00
Room membership is still determined by the server rather than the client - but we now warn the user and freeze the room if devices which are not signed by their owner are present in the room.

Constraining the user membership to be controlled by the client is Hard in a fully decentralised world, but we're working on it: one option is MSC4256 (which pushes the whole problem to MLS); another option is to run Matrix's state resolution algorithm on the client (making the client implementation even more complex) to ensure that the client agrees with the server on the correct user membership.
by JimDabell | 2025-06-27 09:58:01+00:00
No, it can’t recreate a book. Well, maybe it could get most of the way for the Bible. That is an exceptional case because its adherents are constantly quoting verses religiously. I expect it’s the most reproduced, quoted, and translated book in history by a very significant margin. It’s also not copyrighted.

Can you do this for the general case? No, not even for extremely popular books. People might quote Harry Potter a lot, but they don’t quote the entire thing over and over, chapter and verse, on hundreds of thousands of different websites. The number of times Bible verses appear in the training data is going to absolutely dwarf the number of times Harry Potter quotes appear, and people aren’t quoting all parts of Harry Potter, just the interesting parts.

> When i ask chatgpt for a specific page or so from HP I get the impression that the model would be perfectly capable of doing so but is hindred by extra work openAI put in to prevent the answer specifically because of copyright.

They do put extra work in to filter this stuff out, but even if they didn’t the model wouldn’t be able to reproduce entire chapters, let alone entire books.

You can test this for yourself. Remember, this lawsuit isn’t against OpenAI, it’s against Meta. Download Llama and try to get it to reproduce Harry Potter. There won’t be any guardrails imposed on top of the model if you run it locally.
by Thorrez | 2025-06-27 09:58:05+00:00
>The court further reiterated that the human authorship requirement does not “impede the protection of works made with artificial intelligence”, as the USCO has previously permitted the registration of works “made by human authors who use artificial intelligence”. It continued that “line-drawing disagreements” over the extent to which artificial intelligence contributed to a human author’s work are “neither here nor there”, as Thaler had listed the Creativity Machine as the sole author.

It sounds like in this case the the guy claimed the AI was the sole author, and that's why there's no copyright. But if a human is using AI as a tool, then there can be copyright.
by Quarondeau | 2025-06-27 09:58:22+00:00
I welcome the initiative. At the same time, there probably needs to be some kind of "freedom of panorama" exception to take and use pictures where someone's likeness just happens to be featured incidentally/in the background, like pictures of tourist attractions, public events, urban photography etc.

Otherwise everyday photography in public spaces would become legally risky or impractical, especially in crowded areas where avoiding all faces is nearly impossible and where the focus clearly isn't on the individuals but the landmark or scene itself.