MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Trenthug | 2025-08-04 18:04:07+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 usage of a complexity metric(amount of information) for measurement purposes with some subtleties of of it's own to add .

The part about choosing a method of measuring complexity seems to be something that can be looked over by a logician to get it refined for the models usage, some thought experiments with conjectures are there in that regard which might be worth looking into or to check their validity.
by nrvn | 2025-08-04 18:04:48+00:00
I used the following sources to create an RFC template (and promote the document culture across the engineering documentation):

- https://www.industrialempathy.com/posts/design-docs-at-googl...

- https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs

- https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/blob/master/keps/...

- https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/rfcs-and-design-docs/

Hint: tailor the process and template structure based on your org size/maturity and needs. Don’t try to blindly mimic/imitate.
by amatecha | 2025-08-04 18:04:54+00:00
How does that work for the PC I just got a month ago that has this motherboard and was advertised as having PCIe 5.0 ? https://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/MX00129652 I just lose capability that was clearly marked as a specific feature in the item I purchased?

Ah, I see that the PCIe 5.0 mentioned in the product specs is for the M.2 storage, not for the PCI slot for a graphics card. The post title should probably say "removes unofficial GPU slot PCIe 5.0 support" or something.

But yeah, considering I have a 5060ti 16gb on this motherboard, I guess I'll be staying with the current BIOS version indefinitely... Just checked with CPU-Z, it says Bus: PCI Express 5.0, current link width: x8 , current link speed: 16GT/s
by mopsi | 2025-08-04 18:04:56+00:00
I recently tried to identify a font from a screenshot of an ad and used everything I could find, from WhatTheFont to LLMs. The LLMs were hopeless at identifying the font from the screenshot, but ChatGPT eventually led me to the correct result after I threw away the image and started describing the font in plain text: monospacing, a dot in the middle of the 0, and (presumably) wide usage. It turned out to be Ubuntu Mono. It was surprising that so many obscure fonts were suggested, none of which were even a reasonably close match, while Ubuntu Mono was completely overlooked.
by pogue | 2025-08-04 18:05:06+00:00
When I was a lad, I was fascinated by Ghostbusters and wanted to become one when I grew up. So, when I was thinking about college, I tried to ask around on forums dedicated to ghost hunting and other miscellaneous topics to find out if there was any actual careers in the field of parapsychology or if there was anywhere to study it. The replies I got were rather disheartening, with people telling me not to bother with such stuff and work on my "psychic abilities" to become a medium. :/
by autoexec | 2025-08-04 18:05:08+00:00
This is why I recommend avoiding scanning QR codes to get prices/menus. You have no way to be sure that the prices that show up on your device are the same as what was shown to the person next to you.

You should also avoid going to stores like Kroger who want to use facial-recognition (https://gizmodo.com/krogers-plan-to-use-facial-recognition-r...)
by SoftTalker | 2025-08-04 18:05:28+00:00
> Still, stretched-thin HR teams say it’s the only way to handle thousands of applicants.

You're doing it wrong if you're considering "thousands" of applicants.

First of all ask your current good employees if they can refer anyone.

If you need to go to resumes, sort by qualifications. Screen out obvious robo-applications, you know them when you see them just like you know spam email from the subject line alone.

Hint: if you're an insurance or financial services company in Chicago and getting applications from people with a degree from Stanford and 10 years of amazing experience at FAANG companies, they are fakes.

Hire the first candidate that has acceptable experience and interviews well. Check their references, but you don't need to consider hundreds or even dozens of people. Most people are average and that's who you're most likely going to hire no matter what you do.

Your job is also nothing very special. Have some humility. Very few companies need to be hiring the top 1% type of person, and your company is almost certainly of no interest to those people anyway.
by TMWNN | 2025-08-04 18:05:36+00:00
As the article alludes, the MC-10 was intended to fight super-cheap computers that many thought the industry was moving to, specifically the ZX81 AKA Timex-Sinclair 1000.

Two things happened:

* Americans had more money to spend than Britons, and weren't interested in TS1000 even with 2K of RAM compared to ZX81's 1K.

* Commodore. Specifically, Jack Tramiel so aggressively lowered VIC-20's price—forcing others to follow—that by the time MC-10 hit the market, VIC-20 was already at $99. So was TI 99/4A, preempting TI's own 99/2 import fighter.

Commodore even ended up preempting itself, with (after Tramiel's departure) Commodore 16 ending up selling for more than VIC-20 with zero software.
by rendall | 2025-08-04 18:05:43+00:00
> "But eventually, we broke away—you, to join the funny kids, a group of hilarious and friendly people who could match your unparalleled wit and high-octane energy...

That is not how people actually talk in real life.

> ...and me, to join the kids at the back of the bus, literally and figuratively.

People really do not make other people the main character like this. "My crew were shy introverts who were hilarious once we got going" is how people describe themselves: more description, adjectives and familiarity. "You were doing your own thing with the party crowd" is how people describe others: vague and sparse in descriptive detail.

This passage inverts that.
by munificent | 2025-08-04 18:06:06+00:00
> There can be no objective story since the very act of assembling facts requires implicit beliefs about what should be emphasized and what should be left out. History is therefore a constant act of reinterpretation and triangulation, which is something that LLMs, as linguistic averaging machines, simply cannot do.

This exactly why tech companies want to replace those jobs with LLMs.

The companies control the models, the models control the narrative, the narrative controls the world.

Whoever can get the most stories into the heads of the masses runs the world.
by EPendragon | 2025-08-04 18:06:15+00:00
I have checked it out initially. It hd a good set of defaults. I didn’t like everything that came with it, but I did read through its config file and borrowed a couple of lines from there into my own setup. IMO the problem with using a prebuilt config like that is that it requires you to learn all of its keybinds, styling, layout. I would rather build my own incrementally but have a sense of knowing everything that is going on in my setup.
by dfxm12 | 2025-08-04 18:06:20+00:00
They could easily do the same thing ahead of the meeting, and you'd have much shorter meetings.

To highlight two ways to go about this, we can assign homework, or assign, for lack of a better word, meetingwork. We don't always know how much free time our colleagues have outside of the time we've scheduled for a meeting. At least by enforcing meetingwork org-wide, it is ensured that everyone has at least some time to read the docs and they're fresh in their mind, even on short notice.

You're right about "reading speed", but I think the common alternatives are no one knows how prepared anyone is vs a few people might not be fully prepared.
by vouaobrasil | 2025-08-04 18:06:27+00:00
Main things:

1. Spend less time on the internet - I spend 2 days of the week without internet access so I can finish my projects in peace

2. Use as little technology as possible to finish them. I find having a limited tool-set actually lets me think about the creative part instead of working with too many tools and being distracted learning more tools.

3. Don't become attached to projects. If it doesn't feel natural, discard it and work on a new one. I regularly finish projects, but I also have a large pile of discarded ones.
by shagie | 2025-08-04 18:06:49+00:00
> Probably a bunch of them have opened my submission history in a new tab by now to mass downvote

Two things work against that. First, it requires a sufficiently high karma to downvote something. Not that threshold is that high, but it takes more than a casual person's activity to get quickly.

Secondly, you can't downvote something older than 24 hours. So nothing you said yesterday would be down-voteable.

You can also vouch for something that has been marked dead if you believe that something written contributes. If one believes that it is a minority of highly active users that prune undesirable opinions, then vouching for those would make those comments viewable again.

That said, make sure that vouching for things isn't based on a desire to be contrary. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10298512
by xwowsersx | 2025-08-04 18:06:54+00:00
Well, a few things to consider:

Investment capital isn't zero-sum...if/when AI generates outsized/large returns, it actually brings more money into the entire VC ecosystem. LPs who 10x their AI investments don't exactly hoard that cash, they reinvest and often diversify into other sectors.

Every major tech wave creates huge downstream opportunities. The internet "bubble" didn't just benefit search engines...it spawned e-com, SaaS, fintech, etc. AI is doing the same thing with robotics, new semiconductors, data infrastructure, and I'm sure other categories that don't even exist yet.

Also investors know they need portfolio diversification. Even AI-focused VCs are actively looking for contrarian bets in undervalued sectors precisely because there's less competition there right now.

Plus, AI advancement should (yes, I know there's hype and theses that may not play out) accelerate innovation everywhere else. Example: A biotech startup today has access to AI tools that were Google-only five years ago. This makes non-AI startups more attractive, not less.

We saw identical complaints during the dotcom era about "real businesses" getting ignored, but that period actualy coincided with growth across enterprise software, telco, and tons of other sectors.
by jacurtis | 2025-08-04 18:07:39+00:00
I think this is the world we are going to. I'm not going to get mired in the details of how it would happen, but I see this end result as inevitable (and we are already moving that way).

I expect a lot more paywalls for valuable content. General information is commoditized and offered in aggregated form through models. But when an AI is fetching information for you from a website, the publisher is still paying the cost of producing that content and hosting that content. The AI models are increasing the cost of hosting the content and then they are also removing the value of producing the content since you are just essentially offering value to the AI model. The user never sees your site.

I know Ads are unpopular here, but the truth is that is how publishers were compensated for your attention. When an AI model views the information that a publisher produces, then modifies it from its published form, and removes all ad content. Then you now have increased costs for producers, reduced compensation in producing content (since they are not getting ad traffic), and the content isn't even delivered in the original form.

The end result is that publishers now have to paywall their content.

Maybe an interesting middle-ground is if the AI Model companies compensated for content that they access similar to how Spotify compensates for plays of music. So if an AI model uses information from your site, they pay that publisher a fraction of a cent. People pay the AI models, and the AI models distribute that to the producers of content that feed and add value to the models.
by Henchman21 | 2025-08-04 18:08:48+00:00
So how do we boycott the entire US business community? The "business community" -- as an aside I have a real fucking hard time describing this as a _community_ -- has been working overtime to drown the US federal government in a bathtub since Grover Norquist uttered the phrase.

The behavior of this "community" is abhorrent. Many in the C-suite deserve a life in prison -- looking your way "healthcare industry"!

The pursuit of profit above all else, that is: basic human _greed_ is a VICE, not a VIRTUE.

Boycotts won't stop this madness.
by avereveard | 2025-08-04 18:08:51+00:00
Life Transitions 4

Lack of mutual effort 4

Diverging values 3

Miscommunication 2.5

Geographic distance 2.5

Emotional disengagement 2

(Since article is lacking a conclusion - or the conclusion is a weird direction, "should I talk to my ex" - I guess I'm not the target demo)
by Tadpole9181 | 2025-08-04 18:08:53+00:00
Of course women have their own problems, I would never claim otherwise!

For instance, your example, unreasonable social media beauty standards, is an issue largely perpetuated and enforced by women. Men telling women they look pretty without makeup does not solve women feeling pressured to wear makeup, just as women telling men that it's attractive to be more feminine doesn't suddenly make men stop wanting to have big muscles and a chiseled jaw.

But women do suffer the ripple effects of historical patriarchy and the fact that they have been, until maybe the last decade, almost entirely unrepresented in health studies, economic and political steering, etc. There remains a systemic negative bias against the success of women.

They, just like men, can be both a victim and an aggressor. Heck, this discussion is focusing on young men, but the exact same pipeline also exists for women! See the homesteader influencers, anti-natalists, or dedicated subreddit for misandrists as examples.

These problems are not unique to a single demographic, it's just that young men are the largest affected in the most outwardly obvious way.

I digress a bit. Young men are not failures - that's silly rhetoric that doesn't belong in an honest discussion - most young people are good people just doing their best in hard times. We're talking about a specific subset of them that are statistically relevant enough so as to create meaningful sociopolitical impacts. Single to low double-digit percentage drifts.

And for that subset, I'm still fully capable of empathizing that they are victims of external forces that have abused identity politics and social media algorithms to indoctrinate them in beliefs they likely would not otherwise hold!
by good_stuffs | 2025-08-04 18:08:54+00:00
>Right, only the B650E chipset has official PCIe 5.0 support.

There is no AM5 chipset with PCIe 5.0 support. They are all on PCIe 4.0. The lanes come from CPU, they go to SSDs/GPU/chipset. All AM5 chipsets are linked to CPU via PCIe 4.0 lanes, none support PCIe 5.0 speeds.

edit: Not sure why the downvote, this is common information and it should be easy to link an AM5 motherboard that has x4 PCIe 5.0 downlink lanes to chipset. But they do not exist.
by codingdave | 2025-08-04 18:09:17+00:00
And that logic would hold up if AI interviewing was being deployed equally across all jobs. But it is not. Go ahead and take the example from the original quote - Braintrust - their web site explicitly caters to technical talent.

Entry-level jobs have already been converted to automated Q&A sessions that take place right alongside your application on the jobs site. They have been that way for years. These new AI interviews are targeted at later career roles.
by 12_throw_away | 2025-08-04 18:09:32+00:00
Thank you. Applying this applet to TFA honestly improves its accuracy tenfold:

Bullshit interviewers are only the newest change to the hiring process that has been upended by the advanced bullshit. With HR teams dwindling and hiring managers bullshitted to bullshit thousands of applicants for a single role, they’re optimizing their jobs by using Bullshit to filter top applicants ...
by rado | 2025-08-04 18:09:44+00:00
In Summary – What Was Learned • Friendship loss in adulthood is common and often tied to life transitions. • Direct communication with an ex-friend can be enlightening, even if the relationship doesn’t restart. • Personal growth often comes from understanding your role in the ending—not assigning blame or regret, but acknowledging patterns. • Reconnection does not guarantee reunion, and in many cases, the value lies in what you learn about yourself, not whether the relationship is revived.
by csense | 2025-08-04 18:09:49+00:00
It's quite fascinating that this was not only possible with 1800's technology, but formed the basis of a successful business: "Vacuum-tube amplification would not be developed until the 1910s, so there were limited means for producing signals strong enough to be heard throughout the system. Therefore, for transmitting the news, announcers with especially loud voices — known as stentors — were hired and instructed to speak as forcefully as possible into specially designed double-receivers."

Wikipedia also talks about their sub growth: "Telefon Hírmondó began operations in 1893 with 60 subscribers, a total that grew to 700 in 1894, 4915 in 1895, 7629 in 1899, around 6200 in 1901, and 15,000 by 1907...The annual subscription price of the service was 18 krones (the price of 10 kg sugar or 20 kg coffee in Budapest at that time)."

Claude says retail for 20kg of coffee is $360 today. Assuming that's accurate, it would be equivalent to a service today selling at $30 / month. Some quick research shows Netflix's most expensive Premium plan costs $25 / month.

It's pretty interesting that in 1893 they could run the business sustainably (it survived until radio) at essentially the same price point as modern day, given they were producing all their own content (all live) and providing customers with hardware. Although I suppose they weren't building completely from scratch, they were using the existing telephone network for the actual physical layer connectivity.
by dale_glass | 2025-08-04 18:09:58+00:00
> The deeper risk is not that AI will replace historians or translators, but that it will convince us we never needed them in the first place.

I think the bigger danger would be that they'd lose the unimportant grunt work that helped the field exist.

Fields need a large amount of consistent routine work to keep existing. Like when analog photography got replaced by digital. A photo lab can't just pay the bills with the few pro photographers that refuse to move to digital or have a specific need for analog. They needed a steady supply of cat pictures and terrible vacation photos, and when those dried up, things got tough.

So things like translation may go that way too -- those that need good quality translation understand the need very well, but industry was always supported by a lot of less demanding grunt work that now just went away.
by bboygravity | 2025-08-04 18:10:08+00:00
I get your thinking, but x.com is proof that simply making users pay (quite a lot) does not eliminate bots.

The amount of "verified" paying "users" with a blue checkmark that are just total LLM bots is incredible on there.

As long as spamming and DDOS'ing pays more than whatever the request costs, it will keep existing.
by EPendragon | 2025-08-04 18:10:20+00:00
I feel that “make your own” has been the major driver behind looking into the configs myself. Learning other configs feels like a chore. I would rather learn and make it as I go. In the end I will have a sense of complete ownership. I will know what needs to change if I decide to change it. I think investing time into making your own wins in the long run.
by kevdoran | 2025-08-04 18:10:44+00:00
Having used many of the 'Toyota Corollas' to build web apps, do any others feel a little pang of frustration that, here in 2025, teams have the choice of using TypeScript on both the client and the server and choose not to?

"Use this other language I know for the backend, it's the [reliable car model]. It's the {Latin, Swahili, English} of the programming world. It's JVM, it's PHP, it's Python, it's Ruby, it's C#'"

I feel that after a decade of jumping between systems, TypeScript is now the "good enough" language. We have to use it on the client. Now we can use it on the server.

The weird side-projects vibes node libraries had in the 2010's have matured into fully supported production systems in the 2020s.

And I've never been happier. It's a fine choice for the backend, and it's not really optional on the frontend. Which is important: like a lingua franca, TS/JS is not optional in a web app. This is not an attribute which PHP shares.
by cnst | 2025-08-04 18:10:48+00:00
> https://electrek.co/2025/08/01/tesla-tsla-is-found-liable-in...

> Update: Tesla’s lawyers sent us the following comment about the verdict:

> Today’s verdict is wrong and only works to set back automotive safety and jeopardize Tesla’s and the entire industry’s efforts to develop and implement life-saving technology. We plan to appeal given the substantial errors of law and irregularities at trial. Even though this jury found that the driver was overwhelmingly responsible for this tragic accident in 2019, the evidence has always shown that this driver was solely at fault because he was speeding, with his foot on the accelerator – which overrode Autopilot – as he rummaged for his dropped phone without his eyes on the road. To be clear, no car in 2019, and none today, would have prevented this crash. This was never about Autopilot; it was a fiction concocted by plaintiffs’ lawyers blaming the car when the driver – from day one – admitted and accepted responsibility.

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Personally, I don't understand how people can possibly be happy with such verdicts.

Recently in 2025, DJI got rid of their geofences as well, because it's the operator's responsibility to control their equipment. IIRC, DJI did have support of the FAA in their actions of removing the geofencing limitations. With FAA expressly confirming that geofencing is not mandated.

These sorts of verdicts that blame the manufacturer for operator errors, are exactly why we can't have nice things.

It's why we get WiFi and 5G radios, and boot loaders, that are binary-locked, with no source code availability, and which cannot be used with BSD or Linux easily, and why it's not possible to override anything anywhere anymore.

Even as a pedestrian, I'm glad that Tesla is fighting the good fight here. Because next thing I know, these courts will cause the phone manufacturers to disable your phone if you're walking next to a highway.
by headcanon | 2025-08-04 18:10:48+00:00
I think they have value as a discovery method and aggregator. If you know the hotel you want, yes you're better off going direct, but if you want to browse its nice to have.

First-party websites to book directly + better aggregators/search like ChatGPT are eroding this value pretty rapidly though. If they leaned into comprehensive trip planning they might have a shot of staying relevant.
by tomsmeding | 2025-08-04 18:11:00+00:00
Rank polymorphism means that a function can be polymorphic in the additional dimensions of arrays. For example, if you write a function that takes a 2x3 and a 4x5 array, it can also work on 10x15x2x3 and 10x15x4x5 arrays by broadcasting.

If rank polymorphism results in accepting both 4x2x8 and 3x7, then that means the function was a function on elements to begin with. Which is possible, but not the most interesting application of rank polymorphism.