MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by willguest | 2025-07-04 13:35:42+00:00
I was not going for the semiotic-reductionist interpretation, but it's a fair assumption to think that that's what I meant by 'name ≠ thing named'.

My point was more to do with the construction of meaning and the general trend of clinging to knowledge at the expense of learning, hence the Taoist addage, since this is a phenomenon that is driven primarily by Western scientific thought.

To put it more verbosely - taxonomies, especially those driven by classification based on gene presence and regulation, will end up with lots of loose ends and contradictions, because this is not the fundamental mechanism by which new forms emerge. The metric is distorted and, by extension, so is our understanding of the morphogenetic space that it is attempting to describe. Calling it phylogeny is somewhat circular because it insists on genes being the regulating mechanism, whereas the article specifically draws attention to the limitation of this category-system, instead looking at the direct experience of a tree, which would more aptly be described as its morphology: "a big long-lived self-supporting plant with leaves and wood."

I do not see nature (of which we are a part) as entirely gene-regulated, though obviously they are involved. But what else is there? Following Michael Levin, I say 'agential material', meaning that life solves problems with full acknowledgement of an unpredictable context. In this interpretation, it is no surprise that a dandelion can become a tree, or vice versa; what matters is the needs that the plant expresses and the responses given by the environment it is exploring. This is cell-level cognition; heretical and beautiful.
by skydhash | 2025-07-04 13:35:46+00:00
Criticism is not refutation. It's identifying flaws (subjectively or objectively) . I'm all for it if you can show me that those flaws don't exist or are inconsequential.

Workflows are personal and the only one who can judge them are the one who is paying for the work. At most, we can compare them in order to improve our own personal workflow.

My feedback is maybe not clear enough. But here are the main points:

- Too complicated in regards to the example provided, with the actual benefits for the complication not explained.

- Not a great methodology because the answer to the queries are tainted by the query. Like testing for alcohol by putting the liquid in a bottle of vodka. When I search for something that is not there, I expect "no results" or an error message. Not a mirage.

- The process of getting information, making decisions, and then acting is corrupted by putting it only at some irrelevant moments: Before even knowing anything; When presented with a restricted list of options with no understanding of the factors that play in the restriction; and after the work is done.
by CoastalCoder | 2025-07-04 13:36:00+00:00
My first reaction when reading this story was a desire for what I'd (generously) call "justice" for the Ford staff that made that choice.

But on further reflection, I'm wondering what is an acceptable way to navigate those decisions?

If viewed entirely as a tradeoff between safety of that car's passengers vs. the total corporate profits, then the "right" answer is they should operate as a nonprofit that barely makes ends meet.
by dang | 2025-07-04 13:36:30+00:00
Related links that have been posted in other threads. Others?

https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/03/who-is-soham-parekh-the-se...

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/man-goes-viral-working...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWMngMm3_88
by hyperpape | 2025-07-04 13:36:34+00:00
> databases are complicated beasts and tens of thousands if not more working years of the smartest people have been working on them since the 70s

Yes, but they've also set themselves a much harder problem. Instead of "find the proper execution for this particular query, armed with all the knowledge of the database you have" they have the problem of "find the proper execution for all possible queries, using only information that's encoded in DB statistics."

So it's no surprise that it's quite easy to find places the optimizer does silly things. To take one instance that bit me recently: or clauses representing different tables cannot be optimized well at all in postgres (https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com/en/avoid-or-for-better-p...).

I'd still rather have optimizers than not--the optimizer does well most of the time, and my current work has far too many queries to hand-optimize. But you do end up seeing a lot of poorly optimized queries.
by rglover | 2025-07-04 13:36:58+00:00
You can—except for the researchers and pioneers at the low-level—write most of the fervor off as mimetic behavior.

We live in a world now where people scare one another into making significant choices with limited information. Person A claims it's the future you don't want to miss, Person B takes that at face value and starts figuring out how to get in on the scam, and Person C looks at A and B and says "me too." Rinse and repeat.

That's why so much of the AI world is just the same app with a different name. I'd imagine a high percentage of the people involved in these projects don't really care about what they're working on, just that it promises to score them more money and influence (or so they think).

So in a way, for the majority, it is just stupid and greedy behavior, but perhaps less conscious.
by bruce511 | 2025-07-04 13:38:07+00:00
Oh, think people should be properly compensated for their labor. And I'm still programming.

But lots of programmers don't get properly compensated. Some by choice, some by external factors.

I'm saying that's a reality. How you feel about other programmers and the choices they make for themselves is up to you.

Clearly there's no obligation to post anything yo public repositories, send the vast majority of programmers never do.
by user_7832 | 2025-07-04 13:38:18+00:00
Slightly tangential, does anyone know of a decent n100/150 board that's not super expensive, has enough pcie for at least 2 ssds, and is available ideally in India or the EU?

The vast majority of mini PC's with these processors don't have pcie. The lattepanda mu is the closest product I've found so far.

All I want to do is run a server with 2 disks, but it seems weirdly tough. (Ideally a small physical footprint server but I can compromise on that a bit.)
by close04 | 2025-07-04 13:38:28+00:00
Great suggestion, I'll keep an eye on this. Not sure if this is 802.3af, or 802.3at, or even 802.3bt. I wouldn't want to upgrade the switch for this alone.

The S100 product page gives me this brilliant description :).

> The processor Intel N100 is the perfect home for the architects of Gracemont and the perfect combination of processes and processes, 7 d'Intel, 4 cores and 4 threads, maximum RPM at 3,4 GHz, 24EU and graphite centroids and TDP. seulement 6 W. La consommation and production of chaleur It’s the perfect place to be. It’s a great deal, it’s a process, it’s N5105, it’s N100, it’s a sign, it’s augmentation, it’s maximum CPU, it’s 500 MHz, it’s L3 cache, it’s 2 MB.
by scarface_74 | 2025-07-04 13:38:58+00:00
You seem to not understand how far racism goes in America. Right now the government is screwing over the poorer part of the population by taking away health care in more Rural Republican areas, Medicaid when the rural areas needs it most and Florida (where I live now) is cheering the government on while they kill FEMA even though this state is hit by a hurricane every year (slight exaggeration).

There won’t be a revolution because poor rural America is happy as long as Trump mistreats immigrants and non straight (and especially trans) people and as long as he protects Jews because they believe if Isreal doesn’t exist, Jesus won’t have a place to come back to (no exaggeration). No I don’t have any opinion one way or the other about Isreal vs Palestine.

The American people and especially the poor who overwhelmingly voted for Trump this time are going to get exactly what they voted for.

I would be more than happy for my taxes to support education, universal healthcare, fully funded pre-K, a better safety net etc. I wouldn’t have a problem if my stock returns decreased slightly because corporations paid more taxes to help a better safety net. But on the other hand I did move to state tax free (and warm) Florida when I started working remotely post 2020 and save a good chunk each year.

Why wouldn’t I take advantage of the arbitrage of being on the other side of inequality and make as much money as possible, keep 12 months expenses in savings outside of retirement savings and stack money? I vote for politicians who probably wouldn’t treat me as favorably as far as taxes to help pull others up.

The only people who believe America is the objectively best country are those who are on the other side of income gap like me and those who haven’t actually been anywhere else for any length of time and don’t realize how ridiculous for instance the American health care system is.

My wife and I have done the digital nomad thing domestically from late 2022-late 2023 only coming home to Florida for Jan-February.

Starting next year, we are going to spend a few months in Costa Rica and/or Panama City every year. I know how good and affordable the public health care system is there (caja) and even paying out of pocket is feasible for many things for health tourism. We are really leaning toward retiring there permanently or at least become legal residents.
by colordrops | 2025-07-04 13:39:13+00:00
Yes. For example, in the US, they told people to not wear masks at the beginning of the pandemic, saying it wasn't airborne because they wanted to save masks for medical professionals. They should have just said directly that medical professionals need masks, so conserve them, reuse them, donate them, whatever, but anything but lie to the public. It helped create the conspiracy culture around COVID.
by tomalpha | 2025-07-04 13:39:29+00:00
Wonderfully, the official government webpage[1] lists his duties as:

Larry spends his days greeting guests to the house, inspecting security defences and testing antique furniture for napping quality. His day-to-day responsibilities also include contemplating a solution to the mouse occupancy of the house. Larry says this is still ‘in tactical planning stage’.

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/history/10-downing-street#larr...
by mnky9800n | 2025-07-04 13:39:34+00:00
I have been working on this idea of a curators only social media. where instead of algorithms delivering you content, you follow people whose taste you appreciate. The original idea came from having your own "tv station". If you think about what cable tv is, it's basically a 24 hour block that the station manager could decide what to put on. Station managers with good taste (and perhaps deep pockets) could put on consistently great content. Like, it was actually nice to watch Comedy Central or Cartoon Network at some point. So I had this idea to build a website where you get a timeline where you can add youtube videos that you think are important and they will play during the day when you set them up to play. So a person could watch your channel and watch whatever you wanted to be on at that time. Everything would be curated instead of algorithmically delivered. I guess it's not a novel idea, but I haven't put it all together yet, i have been just working on this repo: https://github.com/mnky9800n/timeline-tv-studio
by NoTranslationL | 2025-07-04 13:39:56+00:00
I make an app called Reflect [0] that’s designed to track things like chronic pain and help you get to the root cause with self guided experiments. I’ve used it for my own pain symptoms, especially joint pain. Happy to answer any questions. Wish you the best on your journey.

[0] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/reflect-track-anything/id64638...
by thunky | 2025-07-04 13:40:17+00:00
> Do they do requirement gatherings? Like talking to stakeholder and getting their input of what the feature should, translating business jargon to domain terms? No.

Why not? This is a translation problem so right up its alley.

Give it tool access to communicate directly with stakeholders (via email or chat) and put it in a loop to work with them until the goal is reached (stakeholders are happy). Same as a human would do.

And of course it will still need some steering by a "manager" to make sure it's building the right things.
by M4v3R | 2025-07-04 13:41:38+00:00
I can't give you the token count because I didn't really track that (Augment Code does not give you detailed token stats) and I'm not paying per token - I use the Developer plan on Augment Code ($50/mo) and Pro plan on Cursor ($20/mo). Didn't pay for additional usage and I have requests to spare on both of them.

As far as stats go from the provider dashboards I see:

- 7667 lines of Agent Edits accepted on Cursor

- 105 messages (prompts) on Augment Code
by Damogran6 | 2025-07-04 13:41:40+00:00
I used RPi's for years for little stuff like DNS and file sharing and when I b it the bullet and got a surplus DELL SFF office PC things just started working a little bit better.

yeah, docker images and the like are supposed to be platform intependent, but there's 'supposed to' and 'is'

Running Ubuntu (and later Proxmox) on it just worked a tad bit better. I was into it for about $160 (purchased from Microcenter)
by gwd | 2025-07-04 13:42:14+00:00
> They were given a chance to admit they were at fault. They instead bullshitted about “sloppy work”.

So just to point out, here you're complaining about them not performing step 1 on the redemption path sufficiently well. That's a fair criticism; but I'd point out that the "Just admit you screwed up and don't try to explain because you're just making excuses for yourself" principle is neither so self-evident nor so well-known that it's fair to expect everyone to magically know it.

What Mashimo's problem is that with regard to the "make it right" step, it's really not clear what to do in this case regarding the git history. Do you take it out? People complain you're trying to hide your sins. Do you leave it in? People complain the other way too.

This shows that the right answer is not self-evident; which means we need to cut people slack. It also means that we as a community need to figure out what is the right way to "make it right" when people do a bogus relicensing, so that there's a clear path to redemption.

But your response to Mashimo wasn't trying to help define a clear path to redemption; your response was basically, "If there's no path to redemption, that's your problem, you shouldn't have screwed it up in the first place."

That attitude is only going to harm our community in the long run. If there's no way to redeem yourself, why bother doing anything at all? Just keep claiming rights over the source code and tell the author "so sue me", knowing there's no way he'll get a fraction of his legal fees back. Or, abide by the letter of the law but don't admit fault.

> Btw, I have never ever taken someone else’s work and brand it as my own without credit

So it's, "Some things need a path for redemption and other things don't." And as it happens, the things that don't need a path for redemption are things you've never done.
by DanielHB | 2025-07-04 13:43:00+00:00
Fair, I was mentally comparing to Go. I was a bit disappointed there wasn't more wrappers around basic OS stuff. Go stdlib wraps everything and does its best to make stuff cross-platform.

In my specific case I was trying to send some DNS messages. I went the route of linking libc and using the posix data structures for DNS messages and struggled quite a bit how to map the C data structures to my program.

This kind of thing is a big barrier to adoption unfortunately.
by lloeki | 2025-07-04 13:43:38+00:00
> After all these years of UI evolution. It still mostly sucks to find the setting you need to change something that bothers you.

In Windows 95 there sometimes was a `?` in the title bar, and you could click on things, and help would be shown.

Not a stretch of the imagination that it could a) document how to tune things and b) give you a link to jump straight to where to tune those things.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxurwDW8Bto

But with yearly iterations it's a humongous task to have all these little tidbits of documentation stay consistent across time.
by Trenthug | 2025-07-04 13:44:30+00:00
This paper presents a descriptive model of consciousness based on information theory

The aim is to enumerate definitely described aspects of consciousness and present them in a coherent manner,talks about both phenomenal Consciousness (seen as attention)and access Consciousness,

Some aspects described about consciousness might seem akin to karl friston's view of defining brains as Bayesian inference machines, Wittgenstein's private language argument and Tononi's IIT
by prmph | 2025-07-04 13:44:41+00:00
Exactly.

But, to make a comparison here with Claude Code, I was initially impressed with Geminis ability to hold a keep a conversation on track, but it rarely gets the hint when I express annoyance with its output. Claude has an uncanny ability to guess what I find wrong with its output (even when I just respond with WTF!) and will try to fix it often in actually useful ways, Gemini just keeps repeating its last output after acknowledging my annoyance.
by cardanome | 2025-07-04 13:45:00+00:00
Well if you are winning money, you need to keep going as to not waste your lucky streak. If you are losing, you need to double down to win back what you lost. You need to keep going, as long as you do, the loses are not real, you can still turn it around. You need to play one more game. One more. You don't want to face she consequences of your action, you are in too deep. Your life will be ruined. There is no escape. It is to late to stop anyway, might as well keep playing.

Many people don't understand how serious gambling addictions is. It destroys families. I can be as bad as any drug related addiction if not worse.

Though that was just one guess. There are many money sinks. Porn, gacha games and so on.
by Arnt | 2025-07-04 13:45:06+00:00
NAT is bad and massive address spaces, sure. And having massive address spaces is so pleasant to work with.

Should be globally addressable, not so much: IPv6 explicitly includes site-local and link-local addressing. A fridge ought to ask for a site-local address, not a global one.

The core of IPv6's addressing is that if you make the address space large for everyone, even the use cases that don't need it, you get rid of many minor headaches later. Like the sort-of-colleague I have who suddenly needed access to some 186.168 servers from a distant network that also happened to use 192.168, partly overlapping.
by nattopizza | 2025-07-04 13:45:31+00:00
He's the only that says something that drastic in the article, and he's a physicist, not a climate scientist. The other two comments are from telecommunication engineers. I'd wait a bit to see what the general climate science community has to say about the study. Based solely on the facts reported in the paper I'd say the most worrying point is precisely that we don't know what's going on.
by mgdev | 2025-07-04 13:45:45+00:00
This is awesome. I've been in software for 20+ years now as well.

One thing I've noticed is many (most?) people in our cohort are very skeptical of AI coding (or simply aren't paying attention).

I recently developed a large-ish app (~34k SLOC) primarily using AI. My impression is the leverage you get out of it is exponentially proportional to the quality of your instructions, the structure of your interactions, and the amount of attention you pay to the outputs (e.g. for course-correction).

"Just like every other tool!"

The difference is the specific leverage is 10x any other "10x" tool I've encountered so far. So, just like every tool, only more so.

I think what most skeptics miss is that we shouldn't treat these as external things. If you attempt to wholly delegate some task with a poorly-specified description of the intended outcome, you're gonna have a bad time. There may be a day when these things can read our minds, but it's not today. What it CAN do is help you clarify your thinking, teach you new things, and blast through some of the drudgery. To get max leverage, we need to integrate them into our own cognitive loops.
by latexr | 2025-07-04 13:45:48+00:00
What part of it “sucked” exactly? OK, your app reached #15 with very few downloads, and then nothing bad or good happened. What exactly was the “sucking” part?

This is looking more like a disguised ad than a genuine post. You don’t need to engage in subterfuge, you could just submit the app as a Show HN and probably gotten better results than the clickbait.
Tell HN: My Experience with Gemini CLI (Vs Claude Code)
by prmph | 2025-07-04 13:45:55+00:00
To make a comparison here with Claude Code, I was initially impressed with Geminis ability to keep a long conversation on track, but now routinely encounter pretty dumb and infuriating behavior from it:

- Gemini rarely gets the hint when I express annoyance with its output. Claude has an uncanny ability to guess what I find wrong with its output (even when I just respond with WTF!) and will try to fix it, often in actually useful ways; Gemini just keeps repeating its last output after acknowledging my annoyance.

- Gemini CLI once kept using an old version of a file I had updated by hand, despite me asking it several times to re-read the file. It also sometimes proposes empty changes.

- Gemini CLI's format for proposing changes in the terminal is such that you often can't make out what's actually changing. I have to keep choosing the option to view the changes in VSCode, and yet you cannot even accept the changes in VSCode, you have to close the VSCode window and then go back to the terminal to accept. Claude on the other shows changes clearly even right in the terminal, and if you prefer always viewing changes in VSCode, you can configure that once.

- Gemini CLI's permission systems is not as usable as Claude Code's. When Claude Code offers to permit it to do some actions without asking for further permission, it is always clear what class of action is being allowed. With Gemini this is sometimes very vague, making me hesitant to grant it that permission.

- Claude can be started with an initial prompt and still retain interactive mode. This option is useful for priming the session with instructions in a more direct way that CLAUDE.md. For example:

claude "Please carefully read the CLAUDE.md and README.md files"

As far I can tell, Gemini CLI does not offer anything similar.

I guess the thing going for it is that it has a free tier of use, and the core intelligence is probably about on par with Claude. But it's slow too.
by Tijdreiziger | 2025-07-04 13:45:59+00:00
Yeah, my experience with AI and Japanese is quite the opposite. I used to use the Drops app for learning vocabulary, until they added genAI explanations, because the explanations were just wrong half the time! I had to uninstall the app!

Similarly, I used the Busuu app for a while. One of its features is that you can speak or type sentences, and ask native speakers to give feedback. But of course, you have to wait for the feedback (especially with time zone differences), so they added genAI feedback.

Like, what’s the point of this? It’s like that old joke: “We have purposely trained him wrong, as a joke”!