MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by trainerxr50 | 2025-06-29 14:26:41+00:00
I think more importantly there is this stupid argument that because the submarine is not swimming it will never be able to "swim" as fast as us.

This is true of course in a pointlessly rhetorical sense.

Completely absurd though once we change "swimming" to the more precise "moving through water".

The solution is not to put arms and legs on the submarine so it can ACTUALLY swim.

It would be quite trivial to make a Gary Marcus style argument that humans still can't fly. We would need much longer and wider arms, much less core body mass, feathers.
by motorest | 2025-06-29 14:27:19+00:00
> Even without an explanation, you can use statistics to find the fruits of the beliefs, though.

I hope you are not serious.

> Does 100 people believe in not working and rather join a cult that worships the watermelon god?

Hundreds of loonies making nonsense statements that no one can verify is collective lunacy that adds no value. It only takes a single person to show something exists and works to add substance to a claim. If all those loonies push a belief that none of them can support, they are fools.

This sort of absurdness would mean absolute morons, such as those in Heaven's Gate cult, should be taken seriously in their claims about aliens and comets. Let that sink in.
by gosub100 | 2025-06-29 14:28:17+00:00
my only problem with it is "give everyone 1400/mo and suddenly prices will rise by an effective rate of 1400/mo". I don't see any argument to counter that. I want it to work though.

The only way I could see it working is having a 2nd currency, comparable to SNAP benefits or housing vouchers, that is independent of the dollar (and not stigmatized either). Then let the dollar value of rents and food fluctuate as they may, but require that the UBI currency is accepted for some fraction of housing and food (and the minimum housing is sufficient to be covered 100% by UBI). Then cover the spread through taxing the corporations who wish to do business in that state. If the greedy Private-Equity owned corporation wants to jack up the rent, they can get their UBI tax jacked up also. If they want to quit the state, they can sell their assets to a local resident who wants to build a small business being a property manager.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-06-29 14:28:57+00:00
It surprises me that this is what apple has essentially boiled down to. Yes there are people stuck in the walled garden but they were willingly stuck there tbh. They liked apple vision and felt different. But if apple is just going to lose on all fronts ("AI","vision?","This year innovation=liquid-glass") Yeah, they might not be in a good state..., Also most people I see want an iphone just rebuy old iphones and those phones themselves are still in good conditions.
by DarknessFalls | 2025-06-29 14:29:28+00:00
Federal loans are serviced by unscrupulous middle men like Nelnet. Before I understood a thing about federal interest rates and that, at the time, they were quite high historically, they convinced me to "lock in" the interest rate with loan consolidation. Seemed smart, but they were acting in bad faith and not long after, we had the market collapse of 2007.

By the time my loans were discharged, I had fully paid the principal and was treading water on interest. Because I paid the minimums, the interest itself had risen to above the cost of the original loans based on those high interest rates I consolidated with. I would call it predatory, and as far as I'm concerned, my debt between me and the Federal government is paid for by me. Nelnet be damned.
by kmoser | 2025-06-29 14:29:34+00:00
Exactly what cause for the decrease in social interaction would we be revolting against? I'd say things like cell phones would be on the top of the list, but protesting Apple and Android won't cause an appreciable shift to decreased phone usage. People like their smartphones a lot.

Remote work also plays a big part in isolating us, but people seem to want to work remotely more than they want to go into an office. So again, you're fighting the tide.

Socialization is as broken as you want it to be. There is no shortage of activities like pickleball, which is highly social by nature, or more niche activities if sports aren't your thing. If anything, I'd say the massive number of available activities make it so easy to find our niche that we end up never interacting with other huge swaths of society simply because we have that choice.
by lesuorac | 2025-06-29 14:30:48+00:00
> If some stranger comes to your home, you're not obliged to let him in

Sure.

But if you go over to where a stranger lives and build a wall around them. You are responsible if they then starve to death.

If another stranger is delivering food to a different stranger and you kill the food deliverer. You are responsible for that mans death.

These analogies are much more relevant to the discussion. Isreal is disallowing people from delivering food and has even killed people that do (leading to organizations like word food kitchen to leave).
by karmakaze | 2025-06-29 14:32:53+00:00
Every now and then, I get a heartfelt chuckle from HN.

By 'Modern' they must mean latest generation, so we'll have to wait and see. I was imagining not using an RTX 5090 for 7 years and find it doesn't work, or one used 24x7 for 3 years then failing.
by AshamedCaptain | 2025-06-29 14:33:31+00:00
I am yet to see _any_ consumer-oriented motherboard where SMBIOS descriptions have even a passing relationship to the actual hardware. I would not be surprised if this malware would also fail in 50% of real hardware out there. But I also guess malware can afford this failure rate; as long as it guarantees it also fails on 100% of VMs/debuggers, it is worth it.

But if these assumptions are true then I'd presume malware authors would do timing checks rather than the trivially "emulable" SMBIOS.
by t8sr | 2025-06-29 14:33:42+00:00
I have never said and rarely thought this before, but I really hope the person who came up with / approved this idea got fired for it. It’s rare that you see something so unbelievably stupid and destructive of the shared pool of trust, which Apple spent 30 years building, only for one self-interested PM to blow a chunk of it up for no gain.

If the person who came up with this reads this site, I hope they see this comment and think about how screwed the industry would be if everyone acted the way they did.
by Jensson | 2025-06-29 14:33:50+00:00
> consciousness cannot be proven from the outside by definition.

If it invents a concept of consciousness, I don't think a being without consciousness would invent a concept like consciousness to describe itself.

So when we have LLM zero that doesn't have the word "consciousness" and no human inputs and it still starts talking about consciousness then I think we can say it is conscious. Humans did this, so I'd expect an AGI to be able to do it as well if it is conscious.
by upoisnd2mny | 2025-06-29 14:34:01+00:00
aren't they just trying to get others to invest? and wouldn't such European Investments spur military funding or at least spark some heightened "interest"?

or are they trying to prove that the EU isn't willing "to adequately do space stuff"?

the US grabbed a top robotics company from the EU because the EU apparently refuses to evolve the game based on the rule set they created and CEOs are complaining about too much regulation instead of working with the constraints.

the US reduced constraints to an absolute minimum and, without question, got much farther than European companies but there is zero chance they can handle all the future load without becoming dependent on Chinese supply chains, or is there? and so they need to drive EU spending and European competition in order to drive the creation of European supply chains, in order to keep the markets diverse and incentivise the EU to strengthen their game on the African continent.

I'm out of the loop and mostly guessing ... a lot of middle class Germans are about to be 3rd, 4th, 5th generations heirs, ascending into the 1% and they will have the liquidity to build and expand 3D printing companies in all industries, including metal and construction and German universities are up to speed and I assume other European countries aren't too far behind.

then there is the whole 'Wiederaufbau' of Ukraine in the planning, a country with tech talent and space and now more than present in people's minds, which should additionally drive investments and partnerships aiming at next gen city, civil, construction and space tech.

would love to hear some opionions.
by ezekiel68 | 2025-06-29 14:34:24+00:00
I've been reading posts with equally daunting arguments since 1992 on Usenet.

As the article points out, Moore's Law was principally about the number of features. Today, the "Intel ISA" portion of one of their CPU cores is dwarfed by caches and vector & machine learning processing facilities devoted to that same core. Off-chip memory access and other I/O is still a huge factor for why we don't have 10 GHz processors yet. These days we are devoting silicon resources to slowing things down - due to previous performance designs that turned out to have flaws (SPECTRE, Meltdown, etc).

The features per nm just keep on a-coming.
by quickthrowman | 2025-06-29 14:34:47+00:00
Or perhaps people predisposed to schizophrenia are more likely to seek out drugs. Something like 9 in 10 schizophrenics smoke cigarettes too, is schizophrenia caused by nicotine or do schizophrenics smoke because they’re predisposed to do so? I find it hard to believe that so many schizophrenics smoke cigarettes and are not also predisposed towards using other drugs.

I think blindly accepting the statement ‘drugs can cause schizophrenia’ is harmful because we don’t actually know if the drugs trigger it or if the disorder makes them seek out drugs.
by FridayoLeary | 2025-06-29 14:34:48+00:00
Nonsense. Anything less then a full military occupation of gaza for the medium term at least would be unacceptable. This is so blindingly obvious that it doesn't even need to be explained. Anyway it would benefit the gazans far more then a war every 5 years.

If they wanted to ethnically cleanse gaza they would have done so long before October 7. You don't seem to understand the reality of war and the consequences of being on the losing side. Nor of the constraints Israel would be forced to work with if they had total control of Gaza.
by ednite | 2025-06-29 14:34:48+00:00
I’ve been trying to make sense of all the recent safety discussions. After reading Bengio’s interview on Vox, I felt both uneasy and strangely hopeful, so I tried to put those thoughts into a blog post.

It’s not technical, just one curious person reflecting on what “guardrails” like Scientist AI might mean.

Sharing here in case anyone else has been thinking about the same.

TL;DR: After co-inventing the tech behind today’s AI, Yoshua Bengio is now sounding the alarm. Through his nonprofit LawZero, he’s working on “Scientist AI”. A system designed not to act, but to stop other AIs from acting dangerously. It’s cautious by design, boring on purpose, and maybe exactly what we need. This post explores why it matters, what it means for the rest of us, and why building guardrails is just as important as building breakthroughs.
by amy214 | 2025-06-29 14:35:30+00:00
Complicated interaction.

Schizos may take alcohol or cigarettes to calm down, a form of self medication. On the long term these may worsen, in the immediate they help. Why do you think they smoke a lot?!? To treat. If you smoke or drink, what do you do after a tough day - smoke or drink, to relax, feels great. Schizos may have a tough day , but not from external stimuli, but from internal stimuli
by geoctl | 2025-06-29 14:35:32+00:00
Thank you. Octelium, however, does not operate as p2p and does not directly connect devices since that by itself contradicts the whole point of zero trust. It provides remote access to resources, or even sub-resources via L7 access control (e.g. allow access to some HTTP paths to some users based on identity/context/request content, etc...), not completely to "devices" or to complete subnets.
by halb | 2025-06-29 14:36:17+00:00
I guess the blame is on me here for providing only a very brief context on the topic, which makes it sound like this is just anti-scraping solutions.

This kind of fingerprinting solutions are widely used everywhere, and they don't have the goal of directly detecting or blocking bots, especially harmless scrapers. They just provide an additional datapoint which can be used to track patterns in website traffic, and eventually block fraud or automated attacks - that kind of bots.
by daveguy | 2025-06-29 14:36:40+00:00
> You can test this very easily with running old models w/ new cradles. They don't perform well at all.

This is because neither the LLMs nor the cradles are intelligent.

> They have to work together.

Exactly. Because they are essentially a single, brittle model. Not a "smart" text generator + a "smart" validation system.

LLMs are an enormous breakthrough in NLP and something like it will be part of an AGI system. But there is no path to AGI without more breakthroughs.
by sandworm101 | 2025-06-29 14:36:43+00:00
I'd describe it more as a system designed to enable capital to better purchase assets built by persons without. Taylor Swift sold her early work to someone with capital, who then owned her as the labels owned the artists in the article.

The answer might be then to disallow capital from buying artists so easily. One option, which Canada does partially have on the books, is a concept of non-divestible "artist rights". If fully implemented, Taylor Swift would be incapable of selling away her works fully, always retaining a degree of control. This would no doubt reduce the value of art but would keep control in the hands of artists. So when the artist feels dissatisfied, they can always walk away no matter what contact they have signed earlier in their career.

NerdCubed did a video recently about similar experiences when publishing a book.
by nradov | 2025-06-29 14:36:46+00:00
Most dogs will become accustomed to staying in a crate with a bit of training. But certainly don't get a high-energy dog with a strong working drive if you're not going to be able to give it a lot of activity.

The way to know in advance whether a dog will be destructive (after the puppy teething stage) is to buy a purebred. I know that everyone recommends adopting from a shelter, and that's a great option for many dog owners. But if you need more predictability then you can select a specific breed based on known temperament and typical behavior, then buy a puppy from a reputable breeder with good health records.

https://www.akc.org/breed-selector-tool/
by DarknessFalls | 2025-06-29 14:37:25+00:00
I noticed that you didn't address the question of whether birthright citizenship is an entitlement, because it's kind of hard to argue with the Constitution on that point.

Secondly, something that is lawful does not need to be an entitlement. If a president can declare an air strike, costing hundreds of millions of dollars -- which I may not consent to as a taxpayer -- then he can forgive loans. The argument that the federal judge in Texas made regarding student loan forgiveness not applying to everyone could be made to PPP loan forgiveness for businesses. (I have a business but didn't receive free money.)
by wat10000 | 2025-06-29 14:38:18+00:00
But Q is a number you can actually count, for a definition of “actually” that includes unimaginably large space and time. That finiteness comes from the basic mechanics of the Turing machine, which don’t depend on your mathematical axioms.

Sure, you can come up with a set of axioms where the natural numbers include infinities. You may be able to use it to prove interesting things. But all that does here it make it so that the set of numbers describing how many steps a Turing machine runs before it stops is no longer the “natural numbers.”
by Apofis | 2025-06-29 14:38:18+00:00
I still have my iPhone 12 Pro that I preordered and got in release day and it still does everything I can ask of it, though the latest Call of Duty runs a bit slow, which is making me want to upgrade. Them not releasing a smart Siri that answers to more than just basic prompts is really hurting them and I can see why investors sued them. There's no reason for me to have to use ChatGPT on an iPhone, I should be able to talk to Siri like she's an actual personal assistant and not just an easier way to check the weather and set a timer.
by johnisgood | 2025-06-29 14:39:31+00:00
You should check out some creatures living deep in the ocean. I cannot remember the name, but Lord, they terrify me. It looks like a centipede (ugh), and the way it catches fish is wild. I do not think I am referring to deep-sea amphipod though, but that is wild, too. The ocean is full of terrifying creatures. Bees are lovely in comparison.

Thoughts on centipedes though?
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-06-29 14:39:48+00:00
> launch is at least as commoditised as space semiconductor packaging

Cadence and national origin de-commoditise launch.

> the Exploration Company wouldn't struggle to get into space if the Falcon 9 wasn't a thing, it'd just have to pay someone else more

And wait longer. Higher cost, uncertainty and lead times challenge project viability.

> ArianeSpace absolutely has the technical ability to take the equivalent to Transporter mission payloads to the same orbits at the same launch cadence

Arianespace has a negligible fraction of SpaceX’s launch cadence. Europe doesn’t have the ability to build e.g. a LEO constellation with its own rockets, or replace destroyed orbital materiel in a conflict as quickly as China or America can.
by chubot | 2025-06-29 14:39:59+00:00
Yup, I added an osh-static column there, because I know dynamic linking slows things down. (With the latest release, we have a documented build script to make osh-static, which I tested with GNU libc and musl: https://oils.pub/release/latest/doc/help-mirror.html)

Although I think the CALLING process (the shell) being dynamically linked affects the speed too, not just the CALLED process (/bin/true)

I'd like to read an analysis of why that is! And some deeper measurements
by wat10000 | 2025-06-29 14:40:18+00:00
I can accept that there is a lot of nuance on the math side that I’m completely missing, but the Turing machine side is really straightforward. A Turing machine either never stops, or it stops after a finite number of steps. If it stops, the number of steps that it runs is a finite whole number, no different from “three” in its relationship to infinity or its theoretical ability to be written down. This doesn’t depend on your mathematics, only on your Turing machine.
by arp242 | 2025-06-29 14:40:39+00:00
As far as I know there are zero examples, CVE or not. I have asked several times over the years and thus no one has been able to provide an example. It just doesn't happen because it just doesn't make much sense.

As I already said years ago[1], if you want to hide some nefarious stuff then you'd do it in something like autoconf soup, or something like that. The install.sh is just too obvious of a place. And this is exactly what happened in the real-world xz attack. I can guarantee you very few, if any, packagers are auditing all of that. And even if they did: it's just so easy to miss.

[1]: https://www.arp242.net/curl-to-sh.html
Show HN: I built a FAST AI Video agent(now with image generation)
by yorkyarn | 2025-06-29 14:41:22+00:00
Hi HN

I built Vidduo, an AI agent that turns images or prompts into 1080p videos in ~10–30 seconds.

Just added image generation too — so you can create images and turn them into videos all in one place. * Fast (~10–30s) * Cheap (from $0.10/video) * Auto-selects best model for quality/speed/cost * Smooth motion * native multi-shot storytelling * diverse style * precise camera control

https://www.vidduo.com/

Would love feedback!
by hopelite | 2025-06-29 14:42:13+00:00
I would say it’s simpler than that. Between Wall Street demanding “growth” and the executives’ stock options being tied to meeting those numbers, they always pull out any and all stops to push “growth”. As others have implied, with people like Jobs and others gone, there is also no cultural resistance based on core values that created Apple to push back on shameless debasement.

It is also what is happening all over the western world in general as “growth” sacrifices the indigenous cultures and people at the altar of money for the executives, ie aristocrats, and anyone resisting or even just objecting is silenced, including here, because resistance to growth at all costs is futile.
by me_smith | 2025-06-29 14:42:15+00:00
The last time I bought the newest iPhone was iPhone 5. In the past, I’ve been getting hand me downs since most people change their phone between 12-18 months. I’m still using an iPhone X. I can’t upgrade the iOS at the moment so looking forward to getting an iPhone 13 in the next year or so.

I agree with you. Hand me downs aren’t coming as fast as they used to.
No network, no contacts, how to get small funds?
by healthy_mind | 2025-06-29 14:43:14+00:00
Hi everyone,

I'm the founder of a mobile application for mental health, a project I've been working on for the past 10 months. We're almost ready for our MVP release.

My current situation is that I'm running out of money, with only one month of savings left before I need to find work. I believe this product is needed in the market, but selling subscriptions will likely only be possible about six months from now, especially as a solo developer.

I'm an introvert and don't prefer extensive networking on social platforms, nor am I active on social media. I've started a funding campaign, but I'm unsure how to drive traffic or find contributors. I've also considered cold-approaching angel investors on LinkedIn.

My preference is to avoid finding a development job so I can focus on this project.

What are your thoughts on how I can secure funding? What other options should I consider?

Any feedback on improving funding campaign is also welcome.

Reference: - https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-to-build-a-mental-health-app-to-stay-privacy-focused - https://swasthamind.com/ - App Demo: https://youtu.be/Mz8sur_OyO4
by raincole | 2025-06-29 14:43:20+00:00
> ultrafinitism

I'm not sure what flavor of ultrafinitism you're referring here. If it's the "very big numbers, like TREE(3), are not natural numbers as they are far bigger than the number of atoms in this universe..." kind, then it has nothing to do with what this is about.

> physical representation

> your own eyes

Non standard models of ZFC have nothing to do with our physical world. That's why no physicist or engineer cares about them (or cares about axiom systems at all). So we need to be very careful when connecting the idea of physical, running "stuff" to the discussion of ZFC.

Anyway, back to

> you can run them both alongside in this universe and see which one finishes first

There are two Turing Machines, Foo and Bar. We build and run them in our physical universe. Foo halts at the standard BB(748) steps. Bar just keeps running and running. That's what we will see with our own eyes.

The issue is that when we try to reason out whether Bar will ultimately halts, ZFC doesn't prevent us from defining a non-standard model where Bar halts after a non-standard number of steps. Note that the physical Bar will not halt in our universe. The "non-standard number of steps" is as nonsense as it sounds. It's just that ZFC doesn't prevent us from defining such a nonsense. The point of ZFC is it's compatible with almost all the useful, sane math. It's not necessarily incompatible with bullshit and insane math.

That is it. The fact that Bar is still keeping running in our universe is completely irrelevant.