MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kordlessagain | 2025-06-23 14:39:35+00:00
I use Claude Desktop to write the plan (the prompt) and then tell Claude Code to read that file to do heavy lifting. If I'm working on several projects at once, I open multiple WSL based Claudes. In Claude Desktop, I have several tools I've vibed which manage context and notes for the projects: https://github.com/kordless/gnosis-evolve

I did try to get Claude Desktop to send comms to Claude Code, but got stuck on a few things related to the terminal emulation in Windows.

I have session list, load, and save tools. If a character is embodied that is working on a project, that goes in the session information and the character is loaded (embodied) when you start a new session. Making characters is done with the character generator tool, which strongly randomizes traits. Traits can related to ability (or inability) to run tools. Why have a personality in the AI? Because it keeps it fun and changes the tone of the code commenting and planning. And it affects tool runs...

> We are Groot! completely deadpan delivery while already analyzing the situation

There are notes on projects (folders) and any files it created for planning usually goes in /notes in the folder.

Claude Code does have some ability to save sessions, but I don't edit it much myself. That would be a better job for Claude Desktop.
by Molitor5901 | 2025-06-23 14:39:42+00:00
Which is the worst part about all of this: It took government pressure and calling them out to force a change. My anger at government is why they didn't do this SOONER? Why did it take someone like RJF jr. to move this needle? After all the people we've had at Sec. of Agriculture, HHS, and FDA Commissioners..

I don't think this was because people were putting pressure, otherwise the sheer numbers of those communities would have done something by now. It only required one person in power to say enough, fix this.
by freeqaz | 2025-06-23 14:40:02+00:00
This distro seems like a fork of JELOS based on it literally saying "Just Enough Linux Operating System (ROCKNIX)" on the front page. That spells out JELOS, not ROCKNIX lol.

I believe JELOS did die, so this is cool to see. I'll try flashing it to a new SD card and seeing what's up! Does anybody see info on what's difference? Also, is there any indication that this is a fork anywhere?
by vidarh | 2025-06-23 14:40:22+00:00
There's nothing rigorous about this. It's pure crackpottery.

As long as you claim to disprove AGI, it inherently follows that you need to prove that humans exceed the Turing computable to succeed. Since you specifically state that you are not trying to prove that humans exceed the Turing computable, you're demonstrating a fundamental lack of understanding of the problem.

> 3. That’s not “proof” that humans exceed the Turing computable. That’s empirical evidence that human cognition appears to do something algorithmic systems, as formally defined, cannot do.

This is only true if humans execeed the Turing computable, as otherwise humans are proof that this is something that an algorithmic system can do. So despite claiming that you're not trying to prove that humans execeed the Turing computable, you are making the claim that humans can.

> I’m saying: algorithmic systems can’t do X (provable), and humans appear to do X (observed).

This is a direct statement that you claim that humans are observed to exceed the Turing computable.

> then it is you that would need to explain how a Turing machine bounded to Σ can generate Σ′ with Σ′ \ Σ ≠ ∅

This is fundamental to Turing equivalence. If there exist any Turing machine that can generate Σ′, then any Turing machine can generate Σ′.

Anything that is possible with any Turing machine, in fact, is possible with a machine with as few as 2 symbols (the smallest (2,3) Turing machine is usually 2 states and 3 symbols, but per Shannon you can always trade states for symbols, and so a (3,2) Turing machine is also possible). This is because you can always simulate an environment where a larger alphabet is encoded with multiple symbols.

> As for your claim that I misunderstand Turing machines, please feel free to show precisely which part fails. The statement that a TM cannot emit symbols not present in its alphabet is not a misunderstanding — it’s the foundation of how TMs are defined. If you think otherwise, then I would politely suggest you review the formal modl again.

This is exactly the part that fails.

Any TM can simulate any other, and that by extension, any TM can be extended to any alphabet through simulation.

If you don't understand this, then you don't understand the very basics of Turing Machines.
by joshstrange | 2025-06-23 14:40:33+00:00
>>> 200k lines of code per week

>> Do you seriously think that someone can write/review/maintain that?

> Yes, I do.

Then we have nothing more to discuss. If someone says "I can fly by flapping my arms" and I can absolutely say "That's absurd", I'm not going to respond with "What technique do you use? How can you do that?" because it's patently absurd. I'm not going to engage, I'm going to call out what is a lie or someone who has deluded themselves into thinking they are actually creating something of value.
by pedrocr | 2025-06-23 14:40:45+00:00
Canada isn't small, it produces almost 10x the electrical energy that Minnesota does. But I wasn't even giving it as an example of total capacity just of a neighbor that has a bunch of hydro that can be useful in some moments. And it works both ways too. When Minnesota has excess wind Canada can benefit. The same exercise needs to be modelled with all demand and capacity within viable transmission range. And with the advancements in HVDC that range keeps increasing.
by roxolotl | 2025-06-23 14:40:51+00:00
Why does race matter at all? Why would you become a minority? We’re defining minority here as racial and that’s totally arbitrary. It’s so arbitrary that if you look at the early 1900s you’ll see that Italians and Irish weren’t considered white and would be considered a minority.

Cultural differences are already massive across the US even amongst long time Americans. If you meet 10th generation Americans in New England, The South, The Midwest, and California their cultural differences are already at the size of a different country. There is no majority that’s being replaced. I know this because I’ve lived in those places and in Europe and Asia. The US has always been a place where cultures mix and change.

I’m sorry that makes you anxious. Harming others isn’t the way to resolve that anxiety though.
by zdragnar | 2025-06-23 14:41:18+00:00
Electrifying heat far away from the equator is challenging. My area is largely heated by natural gas furnaces. During a cycle called a polar vortex, the utility company sent out a call to people to lower their thermostats because they were struggling to keep the lines pressurized with how much demand there was.

The wind chill would drop below -40 most nights, sometimes significantly lower. Wind power won't help much because they need to shut down at the worst times- either too windy or icy.

As much as I love heat pumps, having thousands upon thousands of homes switching to resistive heating because the pumps can't keep up in the evening is going to get ugly.

District heating won't save you; the metro doesn't actually burn enough stuff to heat the cities and a significant part of the population is in semi or very rural areas that wouldn't benefit anyway.

Edit: that same metro just put together a fund to renovate a few blocks of an underserved area. It's in the millions of dollars. I can't imagine the cost of converting the entire area to district heating; it would surely eclipse the entire government budget. This is the sort of thing that will only happen if you have the kind of fiat power of an imaginary wand.
by AntonCTO | 2025-06-23 14:41:30+00:00
There isn't much information about correlation. What are the state-of-the-art tools and techniques for observability in stateful use cases?

Let's take the example of an SFU-based video conferencing app, where user devices go through multiple API calls to join a session. Now imagine a user reports that they cannot see video from another participant. How can such problems be effectively traced?

Of course, I can manually filter logs and traces by the first user, then by the second user, and look at the signaling exchange and frontend/backend errors. But are there better approaches?
by PaulHoule | 2025-06-23 14:41:31+00:00
It's kinda the opposite. Submarine reactors burn like a cigarette which is great from the viewpoint of rapidly changing power output and dealing with

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iodine_pit

but terribly uneconomical. Optimizing economics is about optimizing power output from a given volume of pressure vessel. The power of a nuclear reactor is limited by the ability to get heat out of the fuel rods and into the coolant so good economics requires producing energy evenly throughout the whole core, which commercial reactors do and submarine reactors do not.

Submarine reactors are worth it, however, because being able to go around the world over and over again without surfacing is of great military value. It's insane how fast a nuclear aircraft carrier can travel, there's enough uncertainty over where it will be in 15 minutes that an attack with a reasonably sized nuclear warhead could fail to kill it so, so china developed maneuverable hypersonic weapons that could punch a hole in the deck with a conventional weapon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DF-21#DF-21D_(CSS-5_Mod-4)_Ant...
by Breza | 2025-06-23 14:41:33+00:00
What's wild is that OpenAI's earlier models were trained to guess the next word in a sentence. I wonder if GPT-2 would get "though" correct more often than the latest AI-assisted writing tools like Grammerly.

There are some areas where it seems like LLMs (or even SLMs) should be way more capable. For example, when I touch a word on my Kindle, I'd think Amazon would know how to pick the most relevant definition. Yet it just grabs the most common definition. For example, consider the proper definition of "toilet" in this passage: "He passed ten hours out of the twenty-four in Saville Row, either in sleeping or making his toilet."
by user____name | 2025-06-23 14:41:37+00:00
> The entire US banking and financial system relies on NOT delivering or owning the underlying (fractional reserve banking, federal reserve printing money out of thin air

This is sadly a very common misunderstanding of how money is created inside the financial system, even by professional economists and financial advisers. In reality money is not valued at parity with some physical material but as a simple act of accounting [0,1,2,3,4]. Historically a currency (subset) has been pegged against rare minerals as a method of insurance against state or exchange rate instability, the flip side is that this restricts state spending and economic growth -- a growing economy needs a growing stock of currency to service loans and avoid debt driven deflation, as in e.g. the great depression [5,6,7]. This is why gold/silver standards are always episodic in world history [8]. Even in the fien-de-secle gold standard era the majority of currency in circulation had its origin in endogenous bank lending [9]. The typical stability and viability of a currency is from the fact that it can be used to procure real goods in the wider market, which in turn is because money contracts are legally enforced via social power relations, e.g. by a local government with the power make and enforce such rules. Incidentally this is why cryptocurrencies act as an investment asset and not as a currency, it lacks the enforcement component and it appreciates in value, which is never what you want for a currency [10].

[0] Bank of England, Money Creation in the Modern Economy https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/quarterly-bulletin/2014/q1/m... [1] Deutsche Bundesbank, The role of banks, non- banks and the central­ bank in the money creation process https://www.bundesbank.de/resource/blob/654284/df66c4444d065... [2] Richard A. Werner, A lost century in economics: Three theories of banking and the conclusive evidence https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S105752191... [3] Augusto Graziani, The Monetary Theory of Production https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/monetary-theory-of-prod... [4] Basil J. Moore, Horizontalists and Verticalists https://www.cambridge.org/sc/universitypress/subjects/econom... [5] Scientific Origin, What Was the Gold Standard, How It Worked, and Why It Ended https://scientificorigin.com/the-gold-standard-what-it-was-h... [6] Irving Fisher, The Debt Deflation Theory of Great Depressions https://www.jstor.org/stable/1907327 [7] Hyman P. Minsky, The Debt Deflation Theory of Great Depressions https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/232609677.pdf [8] Marc Lavoie, Endogenous Money: Accomodationist https://www.researchgate.net/publication/287788671_Endogenou... [9] David Graeber, DEBT: The First 5000 Years https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt:_The_First_5,000_Years [10] Wikipedia, Silvio Gesell https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silvio_Gesell

Apologies for the lengthy response, it's a personal pet peeve.
by msgodel | 2025-06-23 14:42:00+00:00
1) Minorities are going to have a worse experience anywhere just for practical reasons and additionally because of how human socialization naturally works. That's why we're so concerned about how they're treated and constantly do our best to help them.

2) The plurality or majority that replaces us will not be us and will not share our ideas (liberal democracy, market economies are two notable examples) which naturally we're going to prefer to theirs.

3) Globally people have been exceptionally unkind to minorities compared to how we've treated them. If they replicate that behavior here (and when they've been given the opportunity to they have) that absolutely is a problem.
by Swizec | 2025-06-23 14:42:04+00:00
Whenever you pine for the old internet stop and think: Do I just miss the freedom of childhood?

For me the answer invariably comes out as Yes. Mom filled the fridge, homework wasn’t that hard, and I could spend hours upon hours just existing on the internet. Find a new friend? GReat! Chat for hours. Find a new idea? Awesome! Deep dive into a wikipedia rabbit hole for hours. Get an idea? Superb! Spend the next week coding every day after school to make it happen.

Now I have, like, obligations and stuff. The list of fun new ideas and friends and websites to explore is … very long. Not to mention all the existing fun ideas friends and websites I’ve already accumulated that I also enjoy spending time with. Realistically there is very little room for anything new.

So ask yourself: Do you miss the old internet or do you miss being a kid staring at a new-to-you frontier?

edit: Whenever I talk about this with people IRL. “the old internet” is always whatever was available when they were in middle/high school. Funny how that works :)
by sorcerer-mar | 2025-06-23 14:42:07+00:00
> I am old enough to remember the "ice age" that we were going to enter.

You are remembering a fringe theory amigo. If that's what you expected to happen, it's because you were listening to fringe scientists.

You are continuing to listen to fringe scientists.

Science happens in public, so you will hear all sorts of different theories thrown out. If you are latching onto these and then perceiving divergence from them later on as "creating a loss of trust," that's on you. It means you are incapable of reasoning about the world and is probably something you should try to address yourself instead of externalizing blame.
by vidarh | 2025-06-23 14:42:21+00:00
You clearly don't understand what a function means in this context, as the word function is not used in this thread in the way you appear to think it is used.

For starters, to have any hope of having a productive discussion on this subject, you need to understand what "function" mean in the context of the Church-Turing thesis (a function on the natural numbers can be calculated by an effective method if and only if it is computable by a Turing machine -- note that not just "function" has a very specific meaning there, but also "effective method" does not mean what you're likely to read into it).
by jvanderbot | 2025-06-23 14:42:23+00:00
So, the entire nation of Canada gets a free pass to burn all the gas they want?

And Russia? And the northern EU? And many parts of China, Japan, northern US (NYC!? Buffalo?). Northern Italy, Germany, Switzerland? Does everyone who dips below 0 deg F get to burn gas? -10F? If the infra remains in place with that kind of demand, don't you see the costs being low enough that people elsewhere will want to do that rather than transition to carbon-free for the fun of it?

It's hand waved away like this, but did anyone do the analysis as suggested? My guess is the results will not be as easy to wave away as you suggest. But OTOH, maybe heat pumps + overcapacity solar arrays will do it. Who knows?
by IAmBroom | 2025-06-23 14:42:24+00:00
I am barraged by ads on FB that attempt to cell me rechargeable batteries with USB ports on them (to be charged through).

The slogan is something like "Stop buying single-use batteries!", as though the only thing preventing the use of rechargeable batteries is the need for a charging station.

And the USB receptacle takes up volume that would otherwise be used by the battery medium itself. Resulting in lower capacity (mAh) for these batteries versus standard rechargeable batteries. That already deliver lower mAh per charge than a single-use battery does in its lifetime, at lower voltages (sometimes too low for electronics).

I know I'm an engineer, but do their customers really not get anything about, well, the insides being smaller than the outsides, and basic ideas like that?

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These might produce better (higher storage capacity/volume) batteries, and that would be wonderful.
by ecshafer | 2025-06-23 14:42:54+00:00
Ill admit I am saying this out of only regional loyalty and have no idea about the status of other plants in upstate NY. I am also not sure on how much the power generated in Upstate NY goes to say Toronto vs NYC, and how much that reactor being in Buffalo or Rochester would even matter for that vs Oswego being 100 miles closer to NYC.
by sizzzzlerz | 2025-06-23 14:43:05+00:00
That brings back some memories from my early days. I worked on a project that had decided to use the newish C language for a 68000-based system. They chose Whitesmith compiler for it, probably because it was the only one available. For some reason, I was selected to attend a class on learning C and became responsible for installing the compiler and assisting the other engineers on using it. The project was ultimately successful but I don't recall what issues we had with it. I do remember contacting Whitesmith a couple of times to resolve some problems. I guess it possible I was talking directly to P.J. Plauger himself, although, at that time, I would have had no idea who he was.
by bunderbunder | 2025-06-23 14:43:43+00:00
> Why are so many people so unhealthy?

Because being unhealthy is the natural state of things, and keeping a handle on that fact, at scale, is difficult and complicated. We used to do a much worse job of it, though. Humans living in developed economies where everyone eats all these oft-maligned foods live much longer than their ancestors did a few centuries ago. And those who live into old age tend to remain healthier longer than those who did a few centuries ago.

That's to say that there isn't room for improvement, or that there aren't things in our food supply that don't belong there. But a sense of perspective is important. "Is this food coloring increasing people's lifetime risk of a specific cancer from 0.005% to 0.01%?" is still a pretty tidy improvement over, "Ugh, yet another outbreak of ergotism. Well, why don't we try burning witches to see if that puts it to a stop."
by makeitdouble | 2025-06-23 14:43:53+00:00
This a truly big problem that has been going surfaced for decades, and I honestly have become split...

On one side, France in particular, but many other "developed" nations as well have stepped in to build the infrastructure and provide clean water to places where it was problematic.

Only to monopolize water distribution one way or the other, resulting in people not able to afford the water at the end, while losing their previous precarious access to dirty but natural sources as well.

Nestle, Danone are the poster child of these predatory moves.

On the other side, there few places poorer countries can turn to. Japan might be one, but they suck at diplomacy. Then there is China, and they need to be willing to dance.

And places lacking water tend to lack education and political freedom as well.

I'd want to hold higher hopes, but it only ever progresses so slowly, as the incentives are basically stacked against real progress.

Has anyone more than small scale feel good stories or "promising advancements". Do we have things that really improved at scale in the last ten or twenty years ?
by caycep | 2025-06-23 14:44:08+00:00
Is this a J Rockefeller move, Amazon selling for below market prices to degrade the performance of competitors in a specific market?

It's easy to sneeze at "deficient competitors" as well, but the whole massive spend on infrastructure - warehouses, delivery vans, etc. is hard to replicate. In one sense, it's worth an antitrust look if that whole system essentially stiles competition
Show HN: Early prototype of a no-JavaScript, server-rendered Bluesky front-end
by exerinity | 2025-06-23 14:44:25+00:00
"Redsky" is a minimal, no-JavaScript front-end for Bluesky, built on Cloudflare Workers. It server-renders user profiles and feeds with images and video thumbnails, focusing on simplicity.

Check it out at https://bluesky.exerinity.com or https://redsky.exerinity.workers.dev/ and let me know your thoughts on it!

Since Bluesky does not work without JavaScript, I made Redsky to perhaps check the feed or a profile, for lower-end devices, or anyone just wanting a more simple interface. There are some known issues; listed on the homepage, they will be fixed whenever possible. I'll be releasing the source code of it fairly soon too!
by slightwinder | 2025-06-23 14:44:54+00:00
> But in the 2013 German election, AFD got no seats

They were founded in 2013 and missed the seat by just 0.3%.

> BSW probably picked up voters who would have gone to either AFD

AFD-Voters were the lowest group they grew from[1]. They mostly harvest from the political left, but also some (probably non-extrem?) right voters.

[1] https://www.tagesschau.de/wahl/archiv/2025-02-23-BT-DE/analy...
by keyserj | 2025-06-23 14:45:47+00:00
> Destruction is a terrible yet inevitable end that should only be induced to protect the weak and ameliorate suffering, so be just and resolute when you seek it.

I think an issue with this reasoning is that "protect the weak" and "be just" are things that many people (admittedly not all) from "both sides" _do_ want to do, and that reality is often not so straightforward, involving tradeoffs that cannot be objectively evaluated as "just".

Personally I believe that a lot of disagreements in this realm come down to misunderstanding, in which case it's very sad to have to resort to destruction, when better communication and efforts to work together could create agreement or at least compromise. Admittedly resolving these misunderstandings is really hard, and I think a lot of us don't have the skills or tools to do so in a reasonable amount of time.
by pedrocr | 2025-06-23 14:46:08+00:00
I'm confused. Who has agreed that solar+wind is off the table? Approximately no one has effectively decided nuclear is the right answer for a long time. If the proof is in what the market is actually building, solar and wind are the winners by huge margins.

What's commonly done in these arguments, and you did some of that, is declare that from first principles nuclear is the solution and we aren't only doing it for other reasons. Yet while there are plenty of simulations of doing full grids with only solar, wind and batteries there's never one where a full nuclear roll-out actually makes sense economically.