MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by komali2 | 2025-06-25 02:59:23+00:00
One could argue for "emergent" dualism without arguing for an immortal soul, for example - the physical complexity collapses on death, so too does the emergent consciousness with it.

Property Dualism is probably the most palatable to materialists, especially non-reductive physicalism. Basically, the idea that mental properties are irreducible to physical ones 1:1, but may still map to physical reality. Or that all mental states may map to physical states, without mental states themselves being physical (the things itself not really "existing" outside of the qualitative experience of the conscious entity).

I know that to many materialists that just means that the physical state (of the brain or GPU vram) is the consciousness, but dualism is imo sort of like saying one thing can't be two things at the same time, at least when it comes to consciousness - the vram state is real and correlates to a conscious state, but the conscious state still exists non-physically.

I also understand that many of us don't want to think that consciousness is "something special" or have aversions to anthropocentric theories, but I believe we shouldn't completely write off the possibility that something really is special about consciousness until we solve it, or at least get anywhere close to solving it, which we evidently haven't done at all because we're not even theoretically sure of a good path to make an artificial version of consciousness. It's not like we lack the compute and are waiting for technology improvements, we just don't know how to do it.
Tell HN: Fraudulent food stamps / EBT app on the App Store (please report it)
by jsolomon | 2025-06-25 03:00:59+00:00
Hi HN, sharing a PSA that one of the top ranked EBT (food stamps) apps in the App Store is a scam: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ebt-edge-food-stamps/id6654917839. It's trying to trick food stamp recipients into a useless and misleading $5/week App Store subscription. Presumably the developer is buying installs and ratings to increase rank.

If you have an iPhone, you can report the app here: https://reportaproblem.apple.com/store/6654917839?s=9 (you'll have to install it first).

I also wrote up a longer post if you're curious to learn more: https://jakesolomonwrites.substack.com/p/inside-a-fraudulent-ebt-app

Happy to answer questions. Thx!
by zzo38computer | 2025-06-25 03:02:24+00:00
Principia Discordia says some things about chaos and order. Below are some quotations (which do not appear immediately next to each other in the original text, but are within one section of the original text):

> Both order and disorder are man made concepts and are artificial divisions of PURE CHAOS, which is a level deeper that is the level of distinction making.

> We look at the world through windows on which have been drawn grids (concepts). Different philosophies use different grids. A culture is a group of people with rather similar grids. Through a window we view chaos, and relate it to the points on our grid, and thereby understand it. The ORDER is in the GRID. That is the Aneristic Principle.

> The point is that (little-t) truth is a matter of definition relative to the grid one is using at the moment, and that (capital-T) Truth, metaphysical reality, is irrelevant to grids entirely. Pick a grid, and through it some chaos appears ordered and some appears disordered. Pick another grid, and the same chaos will appear differently ordered and disordered.

The mathematical ideas described in the article are interesting and mathematicians might be able to try to figure out these things, but it is only about ZFC and the variants with the additional axioms, not about "all of mathematics" (for one thing, there are other kind of set theory too; but there are other things too), which cannot be answered.
by johnklos | 2025-06-25 03:03:16+00:00
This article has nothing to do with the speed of a Raspberry Pi as a server, unless the purpose of this server is to run "kopia".

I ran an 8 gig Raspberry Pi 4 with mirrored 8 TB spinning rust disks for quite a while. Performance is very good, once you stop playing with all the meta tasks and run, you know, server stuff. I ultimately switched to another system not because of CPU, but because of memory. SearXNG [1] likes a lot of memory.

[1] https://docs.searxng.org
Show HN: TableSprint- Supabase alternative with vibe coding features
by abhijkum | 2025-06-25 03:04:38+00:00
We have built tablesprint for users to vibe code data structure and use our inbuilt APIs to get started. It also features airtable like or better capability in terms of UIs and Templates. While we have built lot of things on one Platform, you can vibe code various UIs on top of tables like forms,kanban,card,charts, calendar, gantt. We also feature micro app which works on mobile and Web both and where you can just combine screens, apply permissions and publish. Permission is another standout feature for us. Lot of integrations built in for notification, gmail, outlook, stripe and others.
by throw4573s2 | 2025-06-25 03:05:27+00:00
> On the flip side, I have serious doubts about my ability to enter authoritarian regimes like China because of my outspoken critique of government policies, regardless of my intentions within their borders.

I’ve posted a lot of pro-Taiwan content and not once have I ever been interrogated at the Chinese borders. Many times they don’t even talk to me.

Unless you are a well-known and famous agitator, I highly doubt they will even care about you.
by Defenestresque | 2025-06-25 03:06:05+00:00
The first amendment is a good thing overall, but I have honestly never heard of a story of someone attempting to enter the US, someone with no criminal record and from an ally country, just to be forcibly strip-searched at the border.

They just tell you that you they are denying you entry and putting you on the next plane back.

That being said, we are clearly only getting one side of the story and I'd love to know what _exactly_ that found on his phone, but given how consistent the stories have been (pulled into secondary, forced to unlock personal media under threats of imprisonment, strip search, disappearance for a few days or weeks) I am inclined to move this from the "anecdotes" to "anecdata" to something-very-close-to-data category.

If you chose to rebutt this with the "millions of people come in to the US every year with absolutely no problem" I'd like to say that only 0.02 people die by train per 100,000,000 miles travelled. Does that mean I don't want the NTSB to investigate train crashes or that these peoples deaths (and injuries) don't matter because they comprise such a low percentage?*

I am extremely sympathetic to his position of his phone automatically downloading media he is sent. My phone's WhatsApp settings came with "auto-download any images people send you to your (local, on-device) gallery" set as default. I also had Google Photos installed, which had the option of "auto back-up any images/videos you store on your phone to your Google Photos account" which I turned on because I break my phones often. The result was that several relatives with questionable (and opposite) political tastes have their memes (think [pollitician x] next to a [hate symbol]" (got it? Good. It's not the one you're thinking of!) automatically stored on my phone and backed up to my Google Photos account, not even accounting for the automatic WhatsApp backup that is stored on my Google Drive account.

From previous reporting, the agents plug in the device into a forensic analyzer which dumps out a list of images/videos that were saved (note the distinction between "that you saved" and "that were saved") and use it against you.

I can't imagine what it must feel like to arrive here from Norway to go camping and be subject to a strip-search and interrogation because someone you may not even consider a friend sent you some shitty memes a few years ago. Or, in this case, because they found a "anti-JD-vance" meme that even JD vance seems to think is fine?

[0] https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/home-and-community/safety-topics...
by TMEHpodcast | 2025-06-25 03:07:44+00:00
Probably subconscious. I tend to use "instant" when trying to sound more technical/physics-y and "moment" when being more conversational. If time is emergent, both words are describing the same phenomenon.

It's like the difference between saying "temporal coordinate" versus "when", one sounds more scientific but they're pointing at the same thing.
by m00x | 2025-06-25 03:08:45+00:00
A more modern one, smolVLA is similar and uses a VLM but skips a few layers and uses an action adapter for outputs. Both are from HF and run on LeRobot.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01844

Explanation by PhosphoAI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00A6j02v450
by baobun | 2025-06-25 03:09:36+00:00
> I bought a Kingston SNV3S/1000G NVMe drive. It supposedly can read and write at 6 GB/s and 5 GB/s respectively

That's a cheapo QLC drive making those numbers very conditional on several factors. Under sustained load it's not a surprise to see such drives drop to SATA speeds.

> So the limiting factor is the enclosure, that should still give me a generous 1000 MB/s.

That's capped by the USB controller, which means 512MB/s max.

I believe the USB controller still shares a bus with the NIC, which means maxing out the network connection will affect disk rw performance. You could confirm this by observing a concurrent iperf affecting fio results.

> The Raspberry Pi is notorious for not being excellent with encryption algorithms.

Well, that's specifically AES precompiles. Just like for kopia, you can benchmark and change LUKS algo for something more suitable for the platform like xchacha20: https://rr-developer.github.io/LUKS-on-Raspberry-Pi/
Show HN: Plug Generative UI with One Line of Code (Open Source)
by weebhek | 2025-06-25 03:09:41+00:00
I was adding generative UI and user input handling to my AI agents and kept repeating the same logic. So I turned it into AgenticGenUI — and now I’m open-sourcing it.

It’s a React library that lets you add generative UIs and capture interactions with just one line of code. It renders components from structured data and emits structured responses (tool calls) back to your agent.

Live demo: https://v0-open-source-library-creation.vercel.app GitHub: https://github.com/vivek100/AgenticGenUI

45+ components: MetricCard, MultiStepForm, KanbanBoard, ConfirmationCard, etc. Works with any LLM/runtime, CopilotKit-ready, fully typed, themed Would love feedback and contributors!
by koakuma-chan | 2025-06-25 03:10:26+00:00
So, from what I understood, they had a quantum system of two entangled photons, where one photon acted as a "clock", and the other photon acted as a "system". The quantum system had all possible states "encoded" in it and thus it was "frozen" (it didn't need to change because it already represented all possible states, makes sense). Measuring the clock photon would yield the value of time for the system photon, and changing the "measurement angle" (whatever that is) would yield value of different time (kind of like a cursor over values of `t`?).

It seems like it was just deliberately designed that way, and doesn't necessarily have anything to do with our time. Correct me if I'm wrong.
by TMEHpodcast | 2025-06-25 03:10:33+00:00
Yes, in this quantum scheduling system, all the potential meeting attendees would exist in superposition, simultaneously traveling to Conference Room A, Conference Room B, and the Zoom link that nobody can find. Only when someone actually arrives and observes the meeting does the wave function collapse, confirming which reality we're all stuck in.

The "ghost workers" headed to the non-realized meetings don't disappear though - in many-worlds, they just continue existing in parallel branches where they're attending completely different meetings about completely different quarterly projections. Somewhere there's a universe where your 2 PM budget review became a 2 PM birthday party because Karen from Accounting collapsed the wave function by showing up with cake instead of spreadsheets.
by dale_huevo | 2025-06-25 03:11:56+00:00
If you think HTTPS is performing code validation I have news for you.

HTTPS only guarantees the packets containing the unverified malicious code are not tampered with from the server to you. A server which could very well be compromised and alternate code put in its place.

You are drawing an egregious apples-to-oranges comparison here. Please re-read what you said.

You could serve digitally signed code over plain HTTP and it would be more secure than your example over HTTPS. Unfortunately there are a lot of HTTPS old wives' tales that many misinformed developers believe in.
by tacticalturtle | 2025-06-25 03:13:05+00:00
> I think this can make sense theoretically and what about cases where companies just horde wealth like Apple or spend it on stock buybacks (like Apple)?

Eventually that money is going to come back though - no shareholder wants a company to sit on a massive cash pile for decades.

If a company can’t find a use for the money, then investors will want that cash returned so that they can find a use for it elsewhere.

Apple itself set a goal in 2018 to be net cash neutral:

https://www.morningstar.com/markets/what-apples-cash-problem...

And when the money comes back to investors, that’s when taxes can be paid and everyone benefits.

Stock buybacks also result in capital gains taxes eventually - it just takes a long time because investors get to choose when to take the gain. If we wanted to fix that, we could just make stock buybacks illegal again like they were before 1982.

Then investors would get dividends again, which results in immediate revenue for the federal government.
by jrflowers | 2025-06-25 03:13:15+00:00
> I can use ChatGPT to alphabetize a long list for me.

Trying to imagine using enough energy to boil two liters of water(1)(2) to sort a list instead of typing

sort list.txt

which is a command that works pretty much the same on Windows(3), Linux/Bash(4), macOS (5) and does not have any risk of hallucinating at all, and the only reason I could imagine myself doing that was if for some reason, using enough energy to boil two liters of water to sort a list made me feel good. Like I would only do that if I got some sort of rush out of it or if it made people on the internet think that I am smart.

1 https://ai-basics.com/how-much-energy-does-chatgpt-really-us...

2 https://eatwithus.net/how-much-energy-does-it-take-to-boil-1...

3 https://www.windows-commandline.com/sort-command/

4 https://thelinuxcode.com/bash_sort_command/

5 https://ss64.com/mac/sort.html
by donatj | 2025-06-25 03:15:19+00:00
I was pondering this earlier today while manually prepending archive.is to a pay walled link on my Android phone for the umpteenth time today.

The micro-transaction proposals everyone cried about in the early 2000's would have been so much better than this.

The odds of me paying for a subscription for some tiny local newspaper on the other side of the country are literally nil, but I'd be far more willing toss you a penny or two to read the content of a single article.
by tim-- | 2025-06-25 03:15:33+00:00
> in a reasonably secure fashion

It's trivial for a remote server to hand two different versions of a script with the traditional `curl | bash` pipeline. https://lukespademan.com/blog/the-dangers-of-curlbash/

There is 0 validation that the script that you are piping into bash is the script that you expect. Even just validating the command by copying and pasting the URL in a browser -- or using curl and piping into more/less is not enough to protect you.
by deontology | 2025-06-25 03:15:47+00:00
I like the strategies being proposed!

"When we need better solutions, we can be strategically less greedy using four key approaches:

Keep more options open. Instead of committing to the single best choice at each step, preserve multiple promising alternatives. Beam search does exactly this—maintaining the top-k solutions rather than just the top one. Preserving options allows us to delay some decisions till we have more information.. ..."
by jimbob45 | 2025-06-25 03:15:58+00:00
The US practice of patents helps incentivize inventors to study and innovate so that they see an ROI when they sell to a large company able to handle exploiting a defending a patent. If you wanna try to make a company on your own around your patent, you’re free to try but we don’t build the system around moonshot strategies that are likely to fail (i.e. making the company around your patent).

I’m not defending the system, I’m simply explaining. Likewise, forever copyrights exist to increase the value of artistry so that artists get something back when they sell them. Again, not defending.
by jkelleyrtp | 2025-06-25 03:16:36+00:00
The challenge is that if the program is busy in a spin loop, there's no way to preempt it and modify it. Things like malloc, spin loops, network requests, syscalls etc.

I looked into liveplusplus a lot and their unreal integration also requires a broker to get the most out of it. If you're building a game engine and want to support struct layout and alignment changes, you'll need to do some re-instancing. Hiding a `subsecond::call` deep in the bowels of the host framework hides it from the user and lets the framework handle any complicated state management it needs during hotpatches.

I wouldn't say it's purity - the first version of subsecond actually did do in-process modification - but after playing around with it for a while, I much preferred the light runtime integration. The dioxus integration was about 5 lines of code, so it's quite minimal.
by typewithrhythm | 2025-06-25 03:17:34+00:00
I gave several real, amoral, and tangible examples to explain why we should respect old debts in the current day, as it allows us to use the tool of currency to facilitate trade. No moral arguments are needed here.

You are also still trying to assign the idea of a specific debt being somehow more relevant than a specific pound coin. Due to the way nations create and balance currency exchanges this doesn't work.

It's simply not true to say we are paying for an old debt at a national level. The creation of a debt at a national level is similar to the creation of currency, this is immediately balanced by how people we trade with view the currency. This is all resolved at the time it's created...

You seem to think a nation is just a very long lived person, taking out specific loans from other people, but again; it's an abstract group that uses a floating currency to settle large trade agreements over time.

Because these agreements are made in currencies that are also abstract, it works.

These are all material concepts, not moral ones.

A collection of individuals all have their own moral choices to make, the "group" is just a convenience, it does not make moral choices. You cannot extend the idea of morality past the individual without a good justification.

Especially in the scale of a nation (where membership is non voluntary), the current members did not make any moral decisions that occures in the past, so trying to assign culpability to the current nation is flawed.

This is why these ideas are not compatible.
by neya | 2025-06-25 03:18:18+00:00
I think you're confusing implementing MCP for your own software offering/Saas, which is different and I think you should do it, vs implementing third party MCP servers into a Saas backend, which is what I'm talking about.

Because, to do the latter, the standard design is one hosted MCP server per vendor. If you use more than even 5, that's a lot of servers to maintain in a Saas context.
by nlawalker | 2025-06-25 03:20:45+00:00
I’d even pay a respectable amount more than that, but it needs to take like 3 seconds tops with no typing. Heck, the faster it is, the more likely I’d be to impulse buy more content from the same place.

I’d be fine with some up front work to create an account and associate a payment method or something, but not on each individual site. PayPal pretty much fits the bill for me for most transactions, where is PayPal for microtransactions?
by sherdil2022 | 2025-06-25 03:20:50+00:00
Looks promising. But I am getting the following error when I run 'xtool dev':

> status: "409", code: "ENTITY_ERROR", title: "There is a problem with the request entity", detail: "You already have a current Development certificate or a pending certificate request."

I have even manually copied the development certificate and installed on the iPhone - but keep getting the same error when I do 'xtool dev'

I have searched but none of the solutions worked so far. Will keep trying.

Did anyone get this error and get past it? Please let me know how you got past this error.
by neya | 2025-06-25 03:21:06+00:00
You think you're being sarcastic, but you don't get the point - implementing 3rd party Saas tools in your Saas backend means one MCP server per service, which can quickly add up, not to mention is bad design. I'm not opposed MCP protocol itself, it's just not needed if you're providing a Saas that talks to many vendors, you don't necessarily need MCP for it.

Also, MCP is relatively new, not "bAtTlE tEstEd"
by swores | 2025-06-25 03:21:57+00:00
Worth noting: "The study was limited by a lack of available information on the time or duration of illness, making it impossible to determine whether autoimmune conditions preceded, co-occurred with or followed affective disorders."

And the article's link to ththe study itself is broken, it should go to: https://mentalhealth.bmj.com/content/27/1/e301252
by klabb3 | 2025-06-25 03:23:12+00:00
> If I buy and read a book on software engineering

You're comparing that you as an individual purchase one copy of a book to a multi-billion dollar company systematically ingesting them for profit without any compensation, let alone proportional?

> do I owe the author a percentage of my lifetime earnings?

No, but you are a human being. You have a completely different set of rights from a corporation, or a machine. For very good reason.
by dragonwriter | 2025-06-25 03:24:54+00:00
> I gave several real, amoral, and tangible examples to explain why we should respect old debts in the current day,

An idea for why something should be done can be immoral (from the perspective of a particular moral framework), but it can't be amoral: should always presupposes an explicit or implicit value system.

> as it allows us to use the tool of currency to facilitate trade.

Why, without invoking any moral value, should be care about the ability to do that, much less weigh it more favorably than the effects of not being constrained by old debts?
by kiwijamo | 2025-06-25 03:26:41+00:00
I used to see it all the time on X11. I'd see it on YouTube/Firefox. I'd see it on VLC. I'd see it on MPV. Any video player, playing any fast paced video you'll see X11 struggle to keep up with drawing full frames that it'd just give up and draw half of one frame and another half of another frame and call it a day. The Intel driver luckily had an xorg.conf setting I could add to make this less of an issue -- I guess it'd turn on some internal Intel driver logic to skip frames or something else if it wasn't able to draw the entire video frame in time for display. However as soon as Debian made Wayland the default this issue 100% disappared and I no longer needed to edit a conf file to make my display work correctly. This is hands-down the singular reason I love Wayland. It just works without any faffing around as Windows, MacOS, etc has done since the mid 1990's. Wayland has achieved more in 5 years than X11 has done in the last 25 years.