MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by zxxma | 2025-06-14 14:23:38+00:00
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Join the gnomes of Gno.land for a relaxed Sunday evening of discussions and drinks, and get to gno us in Berlin's crashed spaceship, the legendary c-base station, Rungestraße 20, Berlin, Germany.

Gno.land is a smart contract platform for writing dApps in Go, but goes beyond this initial scope. Similar to how Tendermint changed the way blockchain developers think about blockchain consensus algorithms, Gno.land will change the way developers think about programming.
by lotsofpulp | 2025-06-14 14:23:45+00:00
> Management is asking Wall Street to allow them to make this huge investment (in their own salaries and R&D empire), and they need to promise a corresponding huge return. Wall Street always opportunities to jack up profits in the short term, and management needs to tell a compelling story about ROI that is a few years in the future to convince them it’s worth waiting

Explain Amazon, Uber, Spotify, Tesla, and other publicly listed businesses that had low or even negative profit margins for many years.

The idea that Wall Street only rewards short term profit margins is laughable considering who is at the top of the market cap rankings.
by aaomidi | 2025-06-14 14:24:37+00:00
The idea that go demonstrates is “this is the language to get shit done in”.

I actually think Go is a great language to teach programmers. It has a good standard library. It has a really easy way of turning your code into a library (this is great to get students to learn how libraries work and the risks associated with them by depending on each others code).

A ton of new software that’s actually making money or is used as core infrastructure is written in Go. The world’s largest CA is in Go. Kubernetes is in Go.
by cb321 | 2025-06-14 14:24:46+00:00
AFAICT, this "number of pixels" (as well as the outside-the-cell pixels) effect is one of those "obvious as heck if you experiment on yourself with barely any science or even just contemplate it" things that somehow winds up ignored in standards. I'd love to be wrong, though.

The screenshotting is surely more portable.

I was not saying LC_* are a source of color values, though a terminal could surely do that as a way to export this data to its first shell without the clunky stdin/out protocols for OSC4. For example, I believe one variant of rxvt/urxvt used to export COLORFGBG. I would even say (LC_FG LC_BG LC_COLOR0..15 LC_CURSOR, etc) is an ok idea. One downside is a user could change the values since environment variables are very much not "read only", but that is sort of "on them" for fooling subprocesses "on purpose".

I was mostly lamenting that ssh server configs are moving toward making it hard(er) to "pass through" this kind of environment variable-driven setup. Something people often overlook in this general problem space is making whatever protocol they come up with also "work through to shells beyond one (or more) ssh hops". So, the LC_COLOR<N> idea would have been "more fabulous" 5..10 years ago when I would have anticipated "this will usually work". Maybe it could still be easier for some than OSC4.

Anyway, big topic with half century of history and hard to be brief.
by anton-c | 2025-06-14 14:26:00+00:00
I'm not sure their tech contributions in any way offset the various scandals they've had with data and like, actively targeting teens when it appears they're in a vulnerable state. Who cares about friggin 'open source' Llama when they've done evil stuff like that. Their 'social credit' is way deep in the red, esp with people who have no knowledge of those contributions.

They are incredibly ruthless and shameless in my opinion.
by soulofmischief | 2025-06-14 14:26:18+00:00
> What i'm seeing here are the arguments of an apparently typical AI bro

Ad hominem and a clear display of bias. You know nothing about me, my history or capabilities.

> Sure, there are artists who use AI to create interesting projects that I would call art

> And yes, I declare myself completely able to say that shit like that isn't art

Gatekeeping, again.

The rest of your post regurgitates your previous post, and completely fails to address my previous rebuttal. Your argument is disingenuous, tired and still riddled with issues. Take the L and learn to not arrogantly force your world view onto other creatives.
by perching_aix | 2025-06-14 14:29:06+00:00
Small update: now that I brought it up, I figured I should just test it. And indeed, as long as the seed is pinned, the replies are bit-for-bit identical run to run (note that the conversation context was cleared before each attempt, of course).

So even setting the temp to 0 is not actually needed. This is handy in case somebody makes the claim that the randomness (nonzero temp parameter) makes a model perform better.

The devil really is in the "insignificant for humans but significant for the model" details, basically. Not in the computational determinism.
by londons_explore | 2025-06-14 14:29:56+00:00
Big companies that have a legal team and operate in the EU generally do honour deletion requests - I have worked with/for some and a big part of the system architecture usually revolves around being able to be sure that deleted data is erased even from backups within 30/60/90 days.

Smaller companies, all bets are off - good chance your data is sitting on a dusty hard drive/tape backup or in some 'data_extract_test_2023.tgz' file in an S3 bucket.
by b112 | 2025-06-14 14:30:36+00:00
Or even better:

https://www.pogo.org/analysis/f-35-the-part-time-fighter-jet

"The F-35 fleet can only perform the full range of its combat roles 30% of the time. This unreliability renders the entire program ineffective."

"The services consider an aircraft as mission capable if it can perform at least one of the program’s assigned missions. Such a threshold may be appropriate for a program like the C-17 transport, which has essentially a single mission. For a multi-role program like the F-35, however, a different standard should be used. Because the F-35 is designed to perform many missions, from delivering nuclear weapons to supporting troops on the ground, program officials aren’t even using the right yardstick to measure the aircraft’s performance.

Fortunately, such a yardstick does exist. It is the full mission capable rate, or the percentage of aircraft available to perform all the assigned missions. The testing director said the full mission capable rate standard is “a better evaluation of combat readiness” for the F-35 program. When this higher standard is applied to the F-35 fleet, the magnitude of the program’s failure becomes clear: DOT&E reports the full mission capable rate for the F-35 fleet was 30% in 2023."

Essentially, if a plane they approach cannot perform the role, they don't mark it as bad and move on until they find a plane capable, as long as the F-35 can perform a role.

Not very helpful if you need all planes for combat, or troop support immediately. Not very helpful if, unlike the US, you only have 70 planes spread across 5 bases.
by bowsamic | 2025-06-14 14:31:55+00:00
Yes, it is a major risk. I’m unsure why people want to pretend that it isn’t. Everyone knows someone who unexpectedly changed forever for the worse bc of these drugs. It also happened to me even though I had perfect set and setting, I was traumatised by it for years, and I know if I took it again today I would still have a bad time. And yet I’ve met multiple people who have told me that the issue is that I just didn’t take enough, some even going as far as saying that I’m stuck in some kind of purgatory unless I take a heroic dose

Wildly irresponsible, many of the fans of these drugs, who seem to talk as if things like risk and responsibility are just constructs from the man trying to keep you down
by jrm4 | 2025-06-14 14:32:36+00:00
I'll keep saying it; all this design stuff is goofy and will continue to be goofy as long as everyone in it keeps confusing "science" with "fashion."

Genuinely -- fashion is fine, plaid is in this year, great! Whatever!

But so many bozos think they're doing "science about human behavior" when they do this, and they're not.
by juancn | 2025-06-14 14:32:39+00:00
It depends on the aesthetics of the language I think. What are core concepts that you must know? (there should be few). Striking the right balance is hard.

Code is read a lot more than is written in my experience, so saving time writing it is optimizing for the wrong thing.

Languages with much inference for me REQUIRE IDEs that help you see what the code is actually doing. Forget about using a text editor or reading a diff and getting what the implications are.
by yencabulator | 2025-06-14 14:33:09+00:00
> Once the device is EOL it's e-waste.

This was largely true before already. Once the security updates stop, the hardware is best used as a paperweight. And with practically all phone hardware, only the hardware vendor (and all their suppliers!) are the ones capable of updating the device drivers and various chipset firmwares.

Blame the hardware that relies on binary blobs and vendor-forked kernels that never contribute to mainline.
by lotsofpulp | 2025-06-14 14:34:00+00:00
> It's why Apple's laptops start at the price of "used car" and Google's Chromebooks start at "two tanks full of gas".

“Used car” is a wild exaggeration. For many years, people have been able to buy MacBook Airs that overperform for 90% of consumers for $1,000 (sometimes even less). This device will last at least 7 years, if not 10.

https://www.costco.com/macbook-air.html?screen-size=13-in+13....
by coro_1 | 2025-06-14 14:34:09+00:00
X-Code app draws attention in a certain way, Finder right onto the right side of the 'face'- I find the shifts distracting. Consumers should feel trust though.

Also, letting go of our 2000-2015 experience is a must for me. Because that's the move to success. But the processing changes from Mojave to Ventura in audio-video are also very noteworthy. Media previously was more genuine to enjoy, imo now there's a deterrence factor worked in.
by GarnetFloride | 2025-06-14 14:36:07+00:00
I was in a car crash and spent a month in the hospital where they gave me heavy-duty pain killers. I could tell I was having cognitive issues because I couldn't remember words that I knew I used before, but I wasn't curious about it.

After a while they halved the prescription and after a few hours I could feel my words returning. It was terrifying to feel my IQ rise substantially. Before I left eh hospital they gave me various cognitive and mental tests and it was reassuring to be told that I was in the 96 percentile of my peer group (college educated, engineers)

We deal with a parent with dementia and another with a stroke. The difficult part with all of these are not really seeing the decline from the inside, sometimes there are the acknowledgment of hints of decline but mostly you don't want to think about it and compensate as best as you can.
by anton-c | 2025-06-14 14:37:04+00:00
Bread and circuses to keep the people happy while they do they shady stuff behind closed doors. This is millenia old. Can't say that as fact but it certainly looks that way when you examine their record.

Remember when they were into swaying elections, giving extra data to Cambridge analytica? Here's more

https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2018/12/business/facebooks-y...
by jpfr | 2025-06-14 14:37:10+00:00
Microkanren et al are nice! But it is becoming sort of a mono-culture where other approaches get ignored.

Before Microkanren, the rite of passage for logic programming was to build a Prolog using Warren's Abstract Machine (WAM).

https://direct.mit.edu/books/monograph/4253/Warren-s-Abstrac...
by rahen | 2025-06-14 14:37:33+00:00
No need for an RPi 5. Back in 1982, a dual or quad-CPU X-MP could have run a small LLM, say, with 200–300K weights, without trouble. The Crays were, ironically, very well suited for neural networks, we just didn’t know it yet. Such an LLM could have handled grammar and code autocompletion, basic linting, or documentation queries and summarization. By the late 80s, a Y-MP might even have been enough to support a small conversational agent.

A modest PDP-11/34 cluster with AP-120 vector coprocessors might even have served as a cheaper pathfinder in the late 70s for labs and companies who couldn't afford a Cray 1 and its infrastructure.

But we lacked both the data and the concepts. Massive, curated datasets (and backpropagation!) weren’t even a thing until the late 80s or 90s. And even then, they ran on far less powerful hardware than the Crays. Ideas and concepts were the limiting factor, not the hardware.
by Chio | 2025-06-14 14:38:23+00:00
I can't share pricing details since they are confidential but if you just want to play with MIP you don't need to buy one of the big three (XPRESS, Gurobi, CPLEX) which are all very expensive but usually available for free for students. There are at least two good open source / free for non-commercial use MIP solvers available:

https://highs.dev/ https://www.scipopt.org/
by canadiantim | 2025-06-14 14:38:32+00:00
The important point, I believe, is here:

> what is consciousness? Why is my world made of qualia like the colour red or the smell of coffee? Are these fundamental building blocks of reality, or can I break them down into something more basic? If so, that suggests qualia are like an abstraction layer in a computer.

He then proceeds to assume one answer to the important question of: is qualia fundamentally irreducible or can it be broken down further? The rest of the paper seems to start from the assumption that qualia is not fundamentally irreducible but instead can be broken down further. I see no evidence in the paper for that. The definition of qualia is that it is fundamentally irreducible. What is red made of? It’s made of red, a quality, hence qualia.

So this is only building conscious machines if we assume that consciousness isn’t a real thing but only an abstraction. While it is a fun and maybe helpful exercise for insights into system dynamics, it doesn’t engage with consciousness as a real phenomena.
by I_complete_me | 2025-06-14 14:38:56+00:00
What a good article.

This is not my area of expertise but I think Klass makes some very interesting points that affect all of us eventually. He calls out the BS in his field and is even prepared for the backlash. How is progress supposed to happen if sincerely held opinions have to be defended that way? One very minor criticism I have of the article is that when he says "Don’t get me wrong: there’s a lot of astonishingly good social science research" he doesn't provide any examples. I would have liked if he'd had.
by kingkongjaffa | 2025-06-14 14:40:01+00:00
I’ve tried several different chapters of toastmasters and they always feel very cliquey.

There’s usually a core group who are already awesome at public speaking and I found it really off putting.

Maybe it is because I’m in the UK but I sensed many use the club as a place for socializing rather than for public speaking. Last time I went people were more excited about staying for drinks after the session finished. Not sure it works for everyone.
by phrotoma | 2025-06-14 14:40:11+00:00
Dang, this is great stuff. You may enjoy this piece that tackles similar themes but focuses on what use evolution has for consciousness.

My reading of it is that the author suggests global workspace theory is a plausible reason for evolution to spend so much time and energy developing phenomenal consciousness.

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10....
Would photographers want a simple gallery and payment tool?
by esmeth | 2025-06-14 14:41:13+00:00
I’m thinking about building a really simple tool for photographers — just a fast way to upload client galleries, share them, and get paid.

No extras, no slow dashboards, and cheaper than stuff like Lightfolio or Pixieset.

I’m wondering:

What do you use now?

What annoys you most about it?

Would you try something simpler if it worked well?

I can share early mockups if anyone’s curious. Just trying to see if this is worth building.
by Intermernet | 2025-06-14 14:45:16+00:00
I'm interested, and I'm sure I'm not alone. This isn't easily researched information, and it would be nice to have a list of organisations to put on my boycott list. These companies should be named and shamed. They have no positive influence on the world. If they disclosed instead of exploited the vulnerabilities they have knowledge of, they would improve the security of most of the world's population. Instead, they profit from the insecurity of the population. This is criminal behaviour and should be treated as such.
by einsteinx2 | 2025-06-14 14:46:15+00:00
I have them and they actually look worse than a real 1080P screen because the edges are out of focus. I know some people do, but I could never use them for real work. They’re ok for videos and video games but not amazing. If they were 4K they’d be significantly more usable but for me the number 1 issue is the edge blur and general clarity issues which I guess are lens related.
by dahart | 2025-06-14 14:46:20+00:00
My former boss (Steve Parker, RIP) shared a story of Turner Whitted making predictions about how much compute would be needed to achieve real-time ray tracing, some time around when his seminal paper was published (~1980). As the story goes, Turner went through some calculations and came to the conclusion that it’d take 1 Cray per pixel. Because of the space each Cray takes, they’d be too far apart and he thought they wouldn’t be able to link it to a monitor and get the results in real time, so instead you’d probably have to put the array of Crays in the desert, each one attached to an RGB light, and fly over it in an airplane to see the image.

Another comparison that is equally astonishing to the RPi is that modern GPUs have exceeded Whitted’s prediction. Turner’s paper used 640x480 images. At that resolution, extrapolating the 160 Mflops number, 1 Cray per pixel would be 49 Tera flops. A 4080 GPU has just shy of 50 Tflops peak performance, so it has surpassed what Turner thought we’d need.

Think about that - not just faster than a Cray for a lot less money, but one cheap consumer device is faster than 300,000 Crays.(!) Faster than a whole Cray per pixel. We really have come a long, long way.

The 5090 has over 300 Tflops of ray tracing perf, and the Tensor cores are now in the Petaflops range (with lower precision math), so we’re now exceeding the compute needed for 1 Cray per pixel at 1080p. 1 GPU faster than 2M Crays. Mind blowing.
by xg15 | 2025-06-14 14:46:47+00:00
> Only two of these episodes were associated with foraging, while the authors suggest that the remaining 10 involved inquisitive interactions with humans aboard boats, swimming, or in light aircraft.

The research was conducted under the umbrella of Whale SETI, an organization that seeks to decode the intricacies of humpback whale communication as an avenue to understand non-human intelligence in the context of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.

I don't know that org, but they don't exactly sound like the best source of unbiased information on that subject.
by hnthrowaway121 | 2025-06-14 14:47:22+00:00
> In the US giving any form of peanuts to babies is attempted murder, in Israel peanut puffs (Bamba) are among the first foods offered.

This is not the case, peanut puffs are a common early solid food in the US. Before that there are allergen mixes you can add to milk/formula.

All the recommendations I saw when my kid was born said early exposure to allergens is good to reduce chances of allergic reactions.
Ask HN: What are your Unicode woes?
by Rendello | 2025-06-14 14:48:43+00:00
I've always worked with text, but I only started digging deep into understanding Unicode this year.

What do HN people have to say about Unicode and UTF-{8,16,32}? Are there parts you've never really understood? Have you had unexpected bugs due to misunderstood properties of text?
by UltraSane | 2025-06-14 14:49:17+00:00
You say you can match any claim I make about Hamas with an equivalent one about Israel.

I say that yes but my statement about Hamas would be factual while yours would not be because Hamas really does want to destroy Israel while Israel just wants coexistence with Palestinians. At its core Hamas is an Islamic Theocratic Supremacists group that truly hates Jews. Just read their charter.
by more_corn | 2025-06-14 14:50:36+00:00
You can do all that in a Waymo except for the “buy” part. When asked about that Sergey said “why do you want to own a car? You have to maintain it, insure it, park it at home and at work. Don’t you really just want to get where you’re going and have someone else figure out the rest?” This was back before google ate the evil pill. Now their philosophy is more like “don’t fall asleep, we can get a good deal on your kidneys, after that we’ll sell your mom’s kidneys too”
by squeegee_scream | 2025-06-14 14:50:57+00:00
I've had cognitive decline over the past 6 years. I turn 41 this year. It's strongly (maybe solely) due to stress, anxiety, depression, migraines, and insomnia. This entire clusterfuck started 6 years ago because, while I had the skills to excel in school and career, I was sorely lacking in the skills to be a father, husband, and homeowner. When I got married and we began having children, my decline began. But it was slow enough and normal enough at first (new parents often don't get enough sleep, they often have extra stress and anxiety, etc) that I did nothing to combat it. It wasn't until 2021 with all the added awfulness of 18 months of a global pandemic that it become obvious things were unsustainable. I was barely able to function at work, I was being put on a PIP, and I was almost completely absent from my family. When I was with my family I was irritable, angry, constantly complaining.

I got on antidepressants and that helped, though it came with it's own set of problems. I started seeing counselors, reading self-help books, I went through 6 months of cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBTi), working with a neurologist to get migraines under control, seeking help wherever I could. It has been a slow process but I'm doing a lot better. I'm still nowhere near where I was cognitively. In fact I don't know that has improved much at all. And it's only been in the past year that I've began to understand my decline as a result of jumping into marriage, fatherhood, and home ownership without the necessary skills to handle them. I'm hopeful things will continue to improve, I've learned an enormous amount about life, fatherhood, marriage, love, forgiveness, hope, and priorities.

If you are a young parent, or considering being a parent soon, work on yourself. Ensure you have the skills you need or your life (and the lives of those near to you) will become a bag of utter despair filled with shit.
by perching_aix | 2025-06-14 14:53:26+00:00
Unless the OP meant to post specifically the abstract, which I very much doubt, the content submitted is the PDF linked. That said, if that's how the [pdf] tag is meant to be used on this forum, I could understand. Would just also leave me moderately annoyed & wondering why the tag isn't automated then, since that'd be automatable.
by thedufer | 2025-06-14 14:54:07+00:00
Labeled tuples are effectively order-independent. Your implementation's order has to match your interface's order, but callers can destruct the labeled tuples in any order and the compiler will do the necessary reordering (just like it does for destructing records, or calling functions with labeled arguments). I don't think this is materially different from what you're describing in F#, except that labeled tuples don't allow labeling a single value (that is, there's no 1-tuple, which is also the case for normal tuples).