MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Trenthug | 2025-06-19 04:53:57+00:00
The mention Shannon entropy is in there,the model was made with an intent only capture the subtleties of the descriptive aspects of consciousness,It is worth acknowledging that use of metrics of complexity like Shannon entropy and no. of bits required are the metrics used to quantify complexity and that section does seem to require some refinements (was the reason behind it being posted here), beliefs are just statements labelled true by the observer (karl friston's work uses a similar thing by using the word inference),and it does incorporate qualia(the subjective experiences) as the privately experienced symbols qualities of objects from which the inferences are made
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-06-19 04:55:40+00:00
> not sure 1FA applies to non-US individuals on non-US soil

Textually, it does. (The President acts without force of law when he restricts “freedom of expression.”)

Intent-wise, for those seeking entry to America, it does—our republic was formed, in part, to restrict the executive from excluding religious minorities he doesn’t liked

Legally, however, you are right.
by mook | 2025-06-19 04:57:12+00:00
I don't know if this applies here, but my previous experience with doing amateur open source stuff against a code base work corporate backing was that they'll out-code you if they don't care about it. As in be very slow at doing reviews (because they are busy doing features their manager wants them to do, but it's their area that's being changed so the review is still needed), and things can bitrot in that time because they're actively working on it. In one case the lead then said too bad the project is a meritocracy and people who do the work daily has the say.
by tkgally | 2025-06-19 04:58:12+00:00
> Dr. Demento debuted in October 1970 on KPPC Pasadena, California

I was thirteen years old then and living in Pasadena. I remember hearing the regular rock music shows he deejayed on KPPC, and I must have started listening to the Dr. Demento shows from the very beginning. A song he played called “Shaving Cream” [1] was a big hit among the kids at Woodrow Wilson Junior High School.

It’s great that he has stayed active for so long.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaving_Cream_(song)
by sothatsit | 2025-06-19 05:00:06+00:00
I find Karpathy's focus on tightening the feedback loop between LLMs and humans interesting, because I've found I am the happiest when I extend the loop instead.

When I have tried to "pair program" with an LLM, I have found it incredibly tedious, and not that useful. The insights it gives me are not that great if I'm optimising for response speed, and it just frustrates me rather than letting me go faster. Worse, often my brain just turns off while waiting for the LLM to respond.

OTOH, when I work in a more async fashion, it feels freeing to just pass a problem to the AI. Then, I can stop thinking about it and work on something else. Later, I can come back to find the AI results, and I can proceed to adjust the prompt and re-generate, to slightly modify what the LLM produced, or sometimes to just accept its changes verbatim. I really like this process.
by fnordpiglet | 2025-06-19 05:00:40+00:00
The challenge of excluding homeless from bathrooms is they still have to go to the bathroom. I’d rather them use a toilet than on the sidewalk. In SF they had self cleaning bathrooms that would cycle cleaning to ensure it was always sanitary and people couldn’t stay in the bathrooms (I.e., sleep in them).

There often seems to be the idea that if you exclude homeless people from services and accommodation they disappear. They don’t - their impacts on the city become worse.
Food for though: is this the same surface?
by teocalin37 | 2025-06-19 05:00:47+00:00
<Problem>

When two cameras look at different parts of a scene, their corresponding depth maps could sometimes overlap. Now technically, if there is overlap, you might be able to identify the overlap and reverse engineer a whole 3D scene. Essentially, match various patches, and based on the geometries, and positions, make it such that all is integrated in one singular reference system.

Pick a handful of distinctive points in each depth map, give every point a short “fingerprint” describing the shape of its immediate neighborhood, and line up points whose fingerprints look most alike. Many of those matches will be wrong, so keep only the pairs whose geometric relationships agree in both maps. If two pairs fit the same distance-and-angle pattern they likely belong to the same rigid object. The surviving few dozen matches are enough to solve for one rigid rotation-and-translation that best aligns the two clouds.

Clouds that lie on a perfectly flat wall are useless to identify, because every neighborhood there looks almost identical, and where more cameras are present matches may happen between cameras looking at completely different scenes. I am now filtering off any flat surfaces, to ensure that such matches don’t happen.

</Problem>

What kind of other approaches may be worth exploring? Been deep into this for the past couple of days, and would love some fresh perspective.
by quotemstr | 2025-06-19 05:02:35+00:00
> One of the downsides of a lot of these tools is that's exactly what they don't do well: many things don't align or wrap nicely.

Bling is easy. Unsexy usability details are hard.

Z$ time ./example/run You ran the root command. Now try --help. ./example/run 0.13s user 0.27s system 177% cpu 0.228 total

Why would an example program take 228ms?

Z$ ./example/run --name='abc def' Unknown command "def" for "example". Try --help for usage.

Huh? 'abc def' is one shell word. --name=abc works fine.

Z$ ./example/run --name '' ERROR Flag needs an argument: --name. Try --help for usage.

But I did give it an argument: the empty string.

And why is the output indented two columns from the left margin anyway?

Z$ ./example/run '' You ran the root command. Now try --help. Z$ ./example/run 'x' ERROR Unknown command "x" for "example". Try --help for usage.

Should have produced an error using '' for the subcommand name.

Z$ ./example/run sub "multi-word quoted string" --flag "another quoted string" Ran the sub command! Z$ ./example/run --help A little example program! It doesn’t really do anything, but that’s the point.™ USAGE example [command] [args] [--flags] EXAMPLES # Run it: example # Run it with some arguments: example --name=Carlos -a -s Becker -a # Run a subcommand with an argument: example sub --async --foo=xyz --async arguments # Run with a quoted string: example sub "quoted string" # Mix and match: example sub "multi-word quoted string" --flag "another quoted string" COMMANDS help [command] Help about any command sub [command] [args] [--flags] An example subcommand throw Throws an error FLAGS -a --async Run async -h --help Help for example --name Your name (jane) -s --surname Your surname (doe) -v --version Version for example Z$ ./example/run sub "multi-word quoted string" --flag "another quoted string" zsh: command not found: example sub multi-word quoted string --flag another quoted string

Huh? Why did the command work when I typed it myself but not when I pasted from the help output?

Oh. Because the help output is using nbsp, not regular spaces.

Anyway, command line interfaces have a surprising number of hairy corner cases. I'd rather have boring monochrome that gets them right than an all-colorful theme auto-shell-completion-generating system that doesn't.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-06-19 05:03:36+00:00
Open source grants folks the right to use however they want at whatever level they want, but yeah, I think it's riding dirty to take take take & not give a lick of thought to the ecosystem or concern for it's overall well-being.

When you said:

> I don't care about the details of why it won't work, I'll just keep using the product that does work.

I see active dis-interest like that as damaging to open source as a whole. It's a mercenary in-it-for-me view, one that's not investing any caring.
by lelanthran | 2025-06-19 05:04:08+00:00
> That said, I'd like this quality with a relatively quick tool using model; I'm not sure what else I'd want to call it "AGI" at that point.

Am I the only one who is looking around at the AI industry and seeing only developers and artists being replaced with AI?

It's hardly AGI when it can't replace a salesperson, or an accountant, or a lawyer, or a teacher, or ...

All the headlines I am seeing are software development related. In this post, you yourself are using s/ware development as a measure for how good/bad AI is.
by magicmarks | 2025-06-19 05:04:15+00:00
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by eddythompson80 | 2025-06-19 05:04:22+00:00
There is a lot you can fault Apple for, but we're literally talking about a 4 year old CPU that is still unmatched by their competition. People often argue "how much is Apple ahead of the competition" if at all, right? Guessing you're in the "not at all, it's all PR bullshit" camp, which is fine.

This is the one undisputed example though where we can put a definitive number on it. So far Apple is 4 years ahead of their competition on this very particular metric (High performance, low energy, fanless CPU)
by godelski | 2025-06-19 05:04:45+00:00
> If he wasn't talking about those folks, maybe he should have specified that rather than seemingly characterizing all criticism of GNOME accessibility as some sort of anti-GNOME conspiracy. | What do virtue-signalers and privileged people without disabilities sharing content about accessibility on Linux being trash have in common? | They don’t actually really care about the group they’re defending; they just exploit these victims’ unfortunate situation to either fuel hate against groups and projects actually trying to make the world a better place.

It reads to me like they're doing what you're asking. Their language separates "they" from "disabled people". Specifically with "the group they’re defending"
by f33d5173 | 2025-06-19 05:06:39+00:00
The point is that is may be admitedly true on the part of the one accused.

In general, you should be wary of "forms of antisemitism" (or similar "forms of x-ism/x-phobia/etc"). Such things usually consists of the defensible but vacuous notion that "doing X in an antisemetic way is antisemetic", while attempting to imply that doing X is antisemetic in general, regardless how it's done, or at the least that doing X is suspect. But the only proof that has been provided in such cases is that X has ocassionally been done in an antisemetic way, which you could say for just about anything. Since X in these cases is not per se anti semetic, it is more helpful to identify what antisemetic thing has often been done alongside it, and be on the lookout for that, instead of for X.
by psviderski | 2025-06-19 05:12:12+00:00
Ah neat I didn't know that podman has 'image scp'. Thank you for sharing. Do you think it was more straightforward to implement this in podman because you can easily access its images and metadata as files on the file system without having to coordinate with any daemon?

Docker and containerd also store their images using a specific file system layout and a boltdb for metadata but I was afraid to access them directly. The owners and coordinators are still Docker/containerd so proper locks should be handled through them. As a result we become limited by the API that docker/containerd daemons provide.

For example, Docker daemon API doesn't provide a way to get or upload a particular image layer. That's why unregistry uses the containerd image store, not the classic Docker image store.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-06-19 05:12:47+00:00
> Totally disagree

Hence debatable.

Let me escalate: I think such a bill would find bipartisan support. Right now might be a good time to attempt it.

I hate the idea of revoking citizenship. But a question about swearing, on naturalisation, that your supreme allegiance is to America should be incredibly popular to secure.
by cat1750309572 | 2025-06-19 05:13:18+00:00
I'm surprised someone remembers this, considering how long ago it was, the fact that Valve publicly denied this later, and that most people (on the side of publications reporting that situation initially and outside observers on reddit and other platforms) didn't understand/didn't care for the difference between linux user account names (that caused the bans at that time), steam display names, steam account names and steam custom profile urls.
by 9rx | 2025-06-19 05:14:39+00:00
> A compiler would be even better.

Right, but the condition here is that the languages that are expressive enough to negate the need for testing are, shall we say, unusable. In the real world people are going to be using, at best, languages with gimped type systems that still require testing to fill in the gaps.

Given that, we're trying to understand your rejection of the premise that the tests you will write to fill in those gaps will also catch things like null exceptions in the due course of execution. It remains unclear where you think these errant nulls are magically coming from.

I'm not convinced "Didn’t help that we were testing by hand.", "Better tests would have caught these." is that rejection. Those assertions, while no doubt applicable to your circumstances, is kind of like saying that static type systems don't help either because you can write something like this:

data MaybeString = Null | Str String len :: MaybeString -> Int len (Str s) = length s main :: IO () main = do print (len Null) -- exception thrown

But just because you can doesn't mean you should. There is a necessary assumption here that you know what you are doing and aren't tossing complete garbage at the screen. With that assumption in force, it remains uncertain how these null cases are manifesting even if we assume a compiler that cannot determine null exception cases. What is a concrete example that we can run with to better understand your rejection?
by deterministic | 2025-06-19 05:15:24+00:00
I use non-AI code generators written by myself all the time. It is a huge time saver. Usually about 90% of the code I need for a typical biz application is auto generated => no coding needed, no bugs, no AI weirdness etc.

Having said that, for simple ad-hoc code generation (I need a dump function for this data structure for example) AI's work great.
by jalapenos | 2025-06-19 05:15:28+00:00
Debuggers are great. I too have tried and failed to spread their use.

But the reason is simple: they are always 100x harder to set up and keep working than just type a print statement and be done with it.

Especially when you're in a typical situation where an app has a big convoluted docker based setup, and with umpteen packers & compilers & transpilers etc.

This is why all software companies should have at least one person tasked with making sure there are working debuggers everywhere, and that everyone's been trained how to use them.

There should also be some kind of automated testing that catches any failures in debugging tooling.

But that effort's hard to link directly to shipped features, so if you started doing that, management would home in on that dev like a laser guided missile and task him to something with "business value", thereby wasting far more dev time and losing far more business value.
by cat1750309572 | 2025-06-19 05:15:30+00:00
In Source Engine games, your inputs are stored in a struct ("usercmd", if I remember correctly) before being sent to the server in a client tick. You can modify that struct, a mouse click there is a bit flip on one of the fields. Rotation and movements are float fields. Modifying that struct makes your client send the "inputs" without a need to actually "call" anything.
by neya | 2025-06-19 05:16:06+00:00
> just making a monolith MCP combining multiple disparate API

This is what I ended up doing.

The reason I thought I must do it the "MCP way" was because of the tons of YouTube videos about MCP which just kept saying how much of an awesome protocol it is, an everyone should be using it, etc. Once I realized it's actually more consumer facing than the backend, it made much more sense as why it became so popular.
by drdeca | 2025-06-19 05:16:23+00:00
I wouldn’t claim to not notice ads. Especially ads that interrupt videos. I remember quite a few of them. But, even the ones that are initially a little amusing become annoying with repetition, and what initially seemed mildly amusing instead seems just stupid.

I don’t know what “north face” is. Personally I have a strong preference to not display any brand logos myself. People considering some brand to be “fashionable” seems kind of absurd to me?

I don’t feel like the ads I’ve seen influence my purchasing decisions much? Because most of the things I see ads for, aren’t things I would be interested in. I get ads for like, women’s clothing (I’m a man) home shopping sites (not in the market to buy a house at this stage of my life), horror movies (which I hate to see).

Well, I guess some candy ads have influenced me, in the opposite direction from what they intended. A kind of candy which was once among my favorites, I found the ads objectionable to a degree which I have pretty much committed to not buying any of it until they substantially change their advertising. Another brand I’ve never purchased because an ad of theirs covered the content of a webpage I was trying to view and kind of broke the site, and so I kind of regard them as bad actors?

I’d be willing to give advertisers a lot of information about what I would be interested in if I could be assured that they wouldn’t try to combine that information with any other information about me.
by tguvot | 2025-06-19 05:18:40+00:00
denying existence of palestinian state is not racist. because it never existed, it doesn't exist now and whatever exist as result of Oslo agreement doesn't meet definition of state.

in previous conversation i said that I don't care how they self identify. for all i care they can identify as Atlanteans.

On the other side, you been denying palestinians their self identification. this is racist. i gave you two example of prominent palestinians who fought for independence and you brushed them off as misguided. this is literally marginalizing self identity of the people that you claim to be ally of.

as example, among those of them who live in Israel (and I think you wouldn't argue with fact that they are same ethnic group) 30% to 60% (depends on survey) self identify as arabs

among those who live in west bank/gaza, some identify as palestinians, some as arabs, some as muslims, some as palestinian arabs and some identify mostly with a their clan or hamula (as Mosab Hassan Yousef whom you dismissed claim). and some as all of those things at same time.

are they all wrong and you right ?

there is a bunch of papers "out there" about evolution of palestinian identity. i'll suggest you to read them instead of harassing a bunch of people here and claiming that they are racists.
by mersorion | 2025-06-19 05:18:45+00:00
I totally share the concern about “secure” messengers leaking plaintext not due to encryption failures, but through archives, relays or vendor-controlled exports. As someone pointed out in this thread - “There’s always an attempt to ‘secure the system’... but E2EE alone doesn’t guarantee safety.”

What really matters is modeling real world threats and minimizing risk at every point in the system. That’s where GOSPL.CHAT stands out. It was designed with context-aware security from the ground up, with critical safeguards like:

No plaintext ever accessible to intermediaries or vendors

Zero-knowledge archives, where only the end user can decrypt their data

No export features or backdoors that can be exploited

These protections mean that even if infrastructure is breached or supply chains are compromised, user data remains unreadable. GOSPL doesn’t just promise encryption — it ensures resilience in the face of real threats. That’s the level of trust we actually need.
by Zaheer | 2025-06-19 05:19:04+00:00
This isn't theoretical. There's literally cases of ICE kidnapping people off the streets for writing an innocuous op-ed in a magazine:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detention_of_R%C3%BCmeysa_%C3%...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detention_of_Mahmoud_Khalil
by jerrysievert | 2025-06-19 05:19:17+00:00
I'm sorry you're offended by a song title by the band that we were discussing that is directly related to the article, but this is a direct response to what dr Demento was playing, not a religious or political response.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNR4PHyvXeQ for a randomly searched YouTube video. perhaps you'd also be interested in the _other_ reference, where the artist was sued and an album destroyed because of heavy copyright enforcement against parody: https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/ep-u2-sued-out-of-existence/
by Hnrobert42 | 2025-06-19 05:19:41+00:00
The US Supreme Court has long held that the border mitigates "reasonable" in the 4th amendment such that warrantless searches at the border are constitutionally sound. [0]

That said, this isn't a search. It is the presumption of guilt if a search is refused. I agree with you that it's bad policy, but it's not unconstitutional.

0 - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_search_exception
by huevosabio | 2025-06-19 05:19:51+00:00
> Accusing Jewish citizens of being more loyal to Israel, or to the alleged priorities of Jews worldwide, than to the interests of their own nations.

> Denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination, e.g., by claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavor

> Applying double standards by requiring of it a behavior not expected or demanded of any other democratic nation.

> Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis.

...

Many of the examples make sense, but these four above are absurd.
by neya | 2025-06-19 05:21:17+00:00
If you search for MCP integrations, you will find tons of MCP "servers", which basically are entire servers for just one vendor's API (sometimes just for one of their products, eg. YouTube). This is the go to default right now, instead of just one server with 100 modules. The MCP protocol itself is just to make it easier to communicate with the LLM clients that users can use and install. But, if you're doing backend code, there is no need to use MCP for it.