MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mrtksn | 2025-06-23 11:36:15+00:00
Amazing. Do you people understand that this is the most oppressive policy ever among any country?

In American movies dictatorships are portrayed as regimes that are able to control every aspect of their citizen's lives but in real life dictators don't do that. This is why there's the myth among the alt-right about how free Russia is. In real life, only the relevant people are bothered and the rest do whatever they want, say whatever they think. Just don't say it at the wrong place.

USA is going for the US style dystopia and the American dystopia is totalitarian.

I'm sure some will think "This is only for the foreigners, it makes sense to know what they are up to". Once you are done implementing it for foreigners you will want to know what citizens are up to because the rhetoric of these people is not only about the "dangerous aliens among us", they talk about traitor all the time. They will want to know who are those traitors to keep them from infiltrating key positions and you have all kind of traitors already. It's not just national traitor, it's also gender traitors, race traitor, language traitors, fiscal traitors, history traitors, religion traitors, traitor traitors.

The speed of US descending into darkness is scary.
by rsynnott | 2025-06-23 11:36:47+00:00
> Older culture is "boring" because it doesn't follow the standard tropes, and that makes it incomprehensible.

Hrm, I'm not sure what culture you're thinking of, but many genres are considerably _less_ trope-bound today than fifty years ago. Partly just because there is just _so much more stuff_. It is far easier to publish books. The end of the top-40 system as a curb on what music anyone actually gets to hear has allowed for far more diversity there. Total TV output today must be at least 10 times what it was 50 years ago, maybe more. All of this allows more experimentation.
by jimmySixDOF | 2025-06-23 11:36:52+00:00
Little sparse on the documentation side can't tell at a glance if there is a 1:1 hyperperameter tuneability or if this is an opinionated single path locked soft fpga eval-hacking kind of thing.

EDIT: -- Ok, it's legit, here is an example of it put to use by the makers of the Dolphin OpenSource series of FineTunes:

> Here I implement in nano-vllm, efficient sample-K logit extraction, as described in "Sparse Logit Sampling: Accelerating Knowledge Distillation in LLMs" by Anshumann et. al. Sampling occurs on the GPU, the non-sampled logits do not get copied out of GPU space. I tried to implement this in @vllm_project, but it was a bit too heavy for me to figure out.

https://github.com/GeeeekExplorer/nano-vllm/pull/34
by joenot443 | 2025-06-23 11:37:32+00:00
> Another professor notes that AI papers are replete with “seemingly logical statements that are actually full of emptiness.” A depressing thought is that students are incapable of discerning such intellectual vapor because their heads are empty.

This is depressing, indeed. I think this type of empty-headedness has been growing for a while and isn't just a result of AI, I think it's a result of people generally not having a well-tuned mental barometer for what makes for strong writing.

I think if you didn't read much as a young person, the sort of grammatically-sound and calmly-smug prose that GPT produces probably passes as "good" writing because it has all of the characteristics you remember that good writing must possess. If I may..

> Summarizing paragraphs must begin with strong statements. References can be made to previous points, perhaps acknowledge weaknesses, but the main structure remains the same. Our writing is confident, familiar, and satisfied - just like writing should be.

Unfortunately, I think this is similar to someone growing used to "good" meals from Cheesecake Factory and allowing that to become their reference point for fine dining. All the pieces are there, nothing about it is distinctly "wrong", but something feels off.

I don't pretend to have a solution.
by karlperera | 2025-06-23 11:37:59+00:00
This article does feel to me like we are at a crossroads. The potential upside for understanding neurological diseases (by essentially creating a "disease in a dish" to test therapies on) is huge. It could also unlock entirely new paradigms for computing that aren't bound by the limitations of silicon.

That said, the ethical implications are staggering and feel far beyond what current research guidelines are equipped to handle. We're not talking about a simulation anymore; we're talking about using functional human brain tissue as a component.

The question "is it conscious?" is no longer just philosophical or hypothetical. At what density and connectivity of neurons does a subjective experience emerge? We need a serious, global conversation about the ethics of this right now, because the technology is clearly moving faster than our ability to comprehend its consequences.
by merek | 2025-06-23 11:38:17+00:00
They only observed an area of sky approximately the size of "three full moons"

> By using the data from the James Webb Space Telescope’s 6.5‑meter (21-ft) mirror, scientists at UC Santa Barbara have surveyed 0.54 square degrees of sky, which is equivalent to the area of three full moons when viewed from Earth. Charting nearly 800,000 galaxies, the COSMOS-Web dataset covers almost 98% of cosmic history.
by magicalhippo | 2025-06-23 11:38:24+00:00
> I break down why this hiring model is gaining traction and how companies are using it to improve both candidate experience and recruiter productivity.

Your link is just to the landing page which has none of that, and thus just the submission looks like a straight ad run.

Perhaps you meant to submit a blog post or similar? The approach sounds interesting, so I'd be interested in reading more about than the simple three bullet points presented on the landing page.
by baalimago | 2025-06-23 11:38:27+00:00
I asked some LLMs all the questions stated in section 3, and they found an answer without diverging. So the entire premise seems speculative: just try out the LLMs to find how they act instead of 'straw-man'-ing what their response is.

In addition, how does the example in 3.1 about answering one's wife's question about her weight even fall within the bounds of "have a high relevance/effect (e.g., economic, scientific, strategic, societal, existential, pivotal, etc.... ) in human existence"..?

I was excited by the buildup and the link between philosophy and math, but the publication seems terribly hobby-ist and lacking of peer-review.
by dukebw | 2025-06-23 11:38:55+00:00
Doesn't Mojo already support this in its parameter system? https://docs.modular.com/mojo/manual/parameters/

Jitting like you mentioned is supported by the MAX graph API: https://docs.modular.com/max/tutorials/build-custom-ops. It could have a nicer syntax though to be more like Numba, I think you have an interesting idea there.
by vidarh | 2025-06-23 11:39:06+00:00
I think if they define intelligence that way, it isn't a very interesting discussion, because we're back to Church-Turing: Either they can show that this actually has an effect on the ability to reason and the possible outputs of the system that somehow exceeds the Turing computable, or those aspects are irrelevant to an outside observer of said entity because the entity would still be able to act in exactly the same way.

I can't prove that you have a subjective experience of feeling emotion, and you can't prove that I do - we can only determine that either one of us acts as if we do.

And so this is all rather orthogonal to how we define intelligence, as whether or not a simulation can simulate such aspects as "actual" feeling is only relevant if the Church-Turing thesis is proven wrong.
by Hikikomori | 2025-06-23 11:39:24+00:00
I don't. But I don't find them particularly relevant to the situation in Gaza and the continued colonization/land stealing in the west bank.

For example, you recognize the fledgling UN's decision to partition the land but don't recognize any decision they've taken since, not like you're following those borders anyway.

I can all it Israeli state propaganda talking points if you want, hasbara is less of a mouthful though.
by littlestymaar | 2025-06-23 11:39:58+00:00
Illegal immigration has always been a pretext. The real motivation is racism/white supremacism, they don't care about whether or not the immigrants are legal or not (hence the lack of trial/due process to expel people to Salvador) they just don't want more non-white (whatever that means) people in the US.

Yet another page from the alt-right playbook: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dBJIkp7qIg
by roenxi | 2025-06-23 11:40:21+00:00
The US might literally just not give it to them. Germany has been trying to ask for their gold back for a while IIRC and they generally get an explanation that paraphrases to it being a very complex operation to pull off and they should come back next year.

The US has enough leverage over Germany that the Nord Stream incident is still an unsolved mystery where everyone just moved on. Probably the Russians did it. That's a lot of leverage.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-06-23 11:40:38+00:00
> to play the devil's advocate, if more people wanted to visit the US than the other way around, then it's not "disadvantageous" for the US to do this.

That would only be true if the per capita advantage to the US of doing it is at least as large as the per capita disadvantage of having it done to US citizens. Which it isn't. The value of doing it is negligible and the cost of having it done to you is significant.
by anal_reactor | 2025-06-23 11:40:40+00:00
The government is doing exactly what it promised. "Less foreigners" was one of the selling points of Mr Trump. Sure, it means a bit less of soft power and international startups, but that's a cost the electorate was prepared for. Oh, and a slight dip in tourism. I don't understand what's so shocking about this.

BTW I don't think anyone has ever done a true risk-benefit analysis of such a move, so while it's baseless to say it'll bring any good, it's also baseless to say it'll bring bad. Because realistically, many people going to the US simply don't have an alternative. It'll take decades before Europe decides to hold a meeting to schedule a conversation about improving innovation.
by khaledh | 2025-06-23 11:40:46+00:00
One feature that is still exclusive to Cursor is the Cursor Tab feature. It almost always accurately predicts your next edit with high accuracy, based on your recent edits and cursor navigation.

But from an agent perspective, Claude Code is much more tuned to understanding the task, breaking it down into small steps, and executing those steps with precision.

Overall, IMO agentic coding is great for well defined tasks, especially when they're backed by tests. It still lacks though in deep technical discussions and being opinionated about architectural decisions, unless specifically nudged in a certain direction. This is an area where Gemini Pro excels at, but it sucks at as a coding agent. So I use both: Gemini Pro for high-level picture design, and Claude Code for executing the plan by giving it clear requirements. All while making some edits myself using Cursor Tab.
by a_bonobo | 2025-06-23 11:41:24+00:00
A related (counter?) point - OP's article talks about the demise of literary magazines.

I feel like SF magazines have the same problem? Ut looks like all the SF magazines are on the downward slope, to quote Wikipedia:

>[Asimov's] Circulation declined steadily over the life of the magazine and as of 2020 it was below 20,000, more than half of that coming from online subscriptions.

If people would still read SF, why do these magazines fail just like the literary magazines?
by southernplaces7 | 2025-06-23 11:42:42+00:00
I don't see it. For one thing, the classic creative pieces of literary fiction continue to sell and be read (and we don't even know how many other people read pirated or freely available copies of them every day), while more new fiction than ever in human history is being published constantly.

About the vast majority of that new fiction, we really have no easy way to tell which of it will one day be considered literary fiction too. Many of the books and other pieces of creative fiction we consider "greats" and literary today, were at some point just, fiction. Tehir future reputation wasn't yet known.

Not quite literary fiction, but Shakespeare's plays were their era's versions of Hollywood films for the masses, but look at them now. Similar applies to many books.
by aisenik | 2025-06-23 11:42:49+00:00
Anger is an emotion that enables us to identify threats and injustice. In that way, it protects us.

It's an emotion whose healthy expression is essential to functioning as a human being. I've had a lot of trauma therapy/done a lot of personal work in that domain and healthy angering is one of the hardest things I've had to learn.

Bad things will happen, but when we are connected with ourselves and have empathy for the people around us, anger is a vital indicator that enables effective proactive behavior.
by Y_Y | 2025-06-23 11:43:00+00:00
My first guess would be that your gold bar isn't 100% gold, because alloying with a little copper or silver will give you more durable and practical ingot. Ifyou look at a typical gold bar they'll usually have embossed their purity. Even "pure”, 24-carat gold is probably "fineness" 998 or 999, which translates to 99.8% or 99.9% by mass.
by jcynix | 2025-06-23 11:43:11+00:00
Let's not forget "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley, published in 1932, where he already described consumerism and instant gratification, rejection of science, as well as shallow experiences by consuming "soma" (todays "social media") versus authenticity.

And about 30 years later his book "Brave New World revisited" where he stated that "Brave New World" appeared much faster then he expected.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-06-23 11:43:27+00:00
> Authors under the age of 65 grew up in an impoverished literary environment. How could we expect them to compete with those whose imaginations were formed when culture was more uniformly attuned to what has been considered great throughout the centuries? What books did Austen, Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky grow up with, or learn in school, that are no longer widely regarded or read?

You are operating under the asumption that the issue is authors. I think the issue is the readership. Great books are still being written. They are just not widely read anymore.

The problem is that it's easier to mindlessly scroll through Instagram or watch meaningless YouTube videos than take the time to read a book. There are large teams dedicated to ensuring this stays so and that these products are as addictive as they can be.

We, as a society, have apparently decided that it's acceptable to turn a large part of the population into idiots to sell more detergents. It's sad but at least we are selfdestructing through global warming so the problem will have an end.
by rsynnott | 2025-06-23 11:43:40+00:00
Honestly I think that some sci-fi has been somewhat accepted at this point; people write serious analyses of sci-fi these days, and you no longer really see sci-fi pretending not to be sci-fi (notably, Atwood did this with Handmaid's Tale, and _at the time_ you can see where she was coming from, because contemporary sci-fi was mostly pretty narrowly trope-bound...)
by wltr | 2025-06-23 11:43:49+00:00
My solution to this was substitute one thing for another. E.g. instead of visiting Facebook, I visit hacker news. But since I just hate most of the posts, comments, ycombinator and dang personally, I tend to spend much less time here. It’s less engaging than flashy Instagram, Facebook, or real news websites, so I’m less addicted. Over time, it’s easier to fight the smaller addiction. Given this HN example, I still can spend hours reading comments to some active topic, but when I see some sheer stupidity, I realise ‘hey, I’m just wasting my time here!’ And it’s easier to close the tab and go back to the real world.
by throwawayffffas | 2025-06-23 11:43:55+00:00
This kind of adversarial nonsensical thinking is the problem.

It's disadvantageous for the US if their citizens have to go through more bullshit whenever they are visiting another country. Regardless of how much they subject people going to the US, or how many people travel either way.

It's a lose lose pissing contest. The reason reciprocity is exercised is to discourage this kind of thing in the first place.
by incomingpain | 2025-06-23 11:44:00+00:00
>Do you buy bottled water from the store?

Not regularly. More of an alcoholic.

>Do you filter tap water?

Yes.

>What filter do you use?

Brita? Nothing too fancy tbh. I'm not particularly conspiracy theory on the subject.

>Do you drink unfiltered tap water (which country)?

Canada, yes I'm sure I do. If i could flip a switch and never drink unfiltered, I would in a heartbeat.

>Something else?

I'm still unconvinced of the threat of fluoride and arsenic. Both of which are actively added to the drinking water in Canada.

In my city they dont use chloramine but do add chlorine. You only need to let it breath a couple days before it's gone. You drink chlorinated water and that chlorine goes somewhere. Do you know where it's going and what it's doing to you? Is that why we have gut biome problems?

BPA and other estrogens are extremely high in Canada. They did a study about how much birth control was in our drinking water and they said, 'oh no, less than 1% of the estrogens come from the pill' and that's entirely because there's that much. It mainly sources from diary farms. Not a problem for me.

Im in a city, so there's very little heavy metal problem. If you're rural or native reserve that's very different. Uranium, lead, iron, mercury are common in the drinking water in northern ontario. Especially uranium surprisingly.

Fertilizers, Herbicides and pesticides are extreme in Canada; our numbers are something like 20x-30x higher than the EU's limit.

PFAOS are extreme in most of Canada.

TLDR:

dont drink the tap water in canada, drink alcholic beverages
by IshKebab | 2025-06-23 11:44:18+00:00
Yeah this is one of the craziest things about the scientific publishing industry.

Journals justify their fees by claiming its for typesetting, but all they are really doing is adding extra work to nit pick bibliography formats and so on (see the comments in this article about sentence case). Nobody cares about that. I don't think anyone even reads "journals" any more (except maybe Nature/Science etc.). They mostly just read individual papers and then there's no consistency to maintain.

In a sane world journals would accept PDFs. They would check that the format roughly matches what they expect but not insist on doing the type setting themselves.

Oh well, maybe one day.
by jen729w | 2025-06-23 11:44:29+00:00
This does Cursor a disservice by not mentioning its deep integration.

Cursor will suggest and complete code for you inline. You just tab-complete your way to a written function. It's mad.

Claude Code doesn't do this.

Cursor also has much better awareness of TypeScript. It'll fix errors as they occur, and you can right-click an issue and have it fixed.

Contrast with CC where I've had to specify in CLAUDE.md to "NEVER EVER leave me with TS errors", and to do this it runs a CLI check using its integration, taking way longer to do the same thing.
by ulrikrasmussen | 2025-06-23 11:45:14+00:00
I didn't know about these, but I think they look great. I am not against locking down hardware if that hardware has a very specific and tailor-made purpose for security, and this seems like a really good and fairly cheap solution. I wish my government offered them as an alternative.

You could also imagine having them integrated directly into the phone, but with a physically separated button or fingerprint reader to authenticate. The TAN generator could even have the ability to override the display to replicate the UX of authenticator apps.
by nithril | 2025-06-23 11:46:35+00:00
VSCode is really the primary platform for AI/agentic plugins, receiving priority over other IDEs such as IntelliJ, this is understandable as it is free, supporting many languages, and really good.

As a long-time IntelliJ user, I’m beginning to question whether it still makes sense to remain on this platform.

Perhaps I’m too impatient and agentic plugins may reach parity on IntelliJ within a year but a year is quite a long time to wait in this really fast-evolving landscape.

The intellij plugin in beta: https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/27310-claude-code-beta-...
by ath3nd | 2025-06-23 11:46:49+00:00
That's rich coming from a defender of Israel, the apartheid state that indiscriminately kills children and does a genocide on a whole population. What's even richer is that Israel is the one known for doing so:

https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/03/more-human-c...

Besides, two wrongs don't make a right. And it's Israel occupying another country, not the other way around. It's also Israel who killed 20x more innocents in the last years.

https://israelpalestinetimeline.org/charts/

Israel also attacked 4 countries: Syria, Iran, Palestine and Lebanon in just the last 2 years, yet somehow those genocidal warmongers are allowed to have nukes?

Nah, the ICC has issued an arrest for Netanyahu because of his war crimes, and there IS genocide in Gaza. Go cry somewhere else, you won't take the world's eyes away from this Nazi style genocide.
by londons_explore | 2025-06-23 11:47:15+00:00
A modern browser (ie. chromium) uses the GPU for all drawing.

Here is an awesome (slightly outdated) talk about the architecture: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/blink-dev/c/AK_rw...

The basic idea is that HTML content is drawn in transparent 'tiles' which are layered on top of one another. When the user scrolls, the tiles don't need to be redrawn, but instead just re-composited at their new positions. GPU's are super fast at that, and even a 15 year old GPU can easily do this for tens of layers at 60 FPS.

On a linux with a remote X server, I think the tiles would all end up on the X server, with only the pretty small 'draw tile number 22 at this location' going across the network. So the answer to your question is 'yes'.
by palmfacehn | 2025-06-23 11:47:38+00:00
I'm not sure how it will enrich Trump. I can see how it will appease the interventionist faction. Previously, these people styled themselves as, "The adults in the room".

However aside from a few consistent non-interventionists, opposing partisans seem to uniformly be using this as yet another opportunity to attack. So even there it hasn't served to appease all of the interventionists.
by ninetyninenine | 2025-06-23 11:48:04+00:00
I never made a claim for absolute truth. I said it’s the most likely truth given the fact that you get up every morning and drive a car or turn on your computer and assume everything will work. Because we all assume it, we assume all of logic behind it to be true as well.

Whatever probability is, whatever philosophers say about it any of this it doesn’t matter. You act like all of it is true including the usage of the web technology that allows you to post your idea here. You are acting as if all the logic, science and technology that was involved in the creation of that web technology is real and thus I am simply saying because the entire world claims this assumption by action then my claim is inline with the entire world.

You can make a philosophical argument but your actions aren’t inline with that. You may say no one can prove math or probability to be real but you certainly don’t live your life that way. You don’t think that science logic and technology will suddenly fall apart and not work when oh turn on your computer. In fact you live your life as if those things are fundamentally true. Yet you talk as if they might not be.