MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by metalman | 2025-08-16 09:37:54+00:00
things like polynesian ocean navigation methods, and various land management practices to creat fire breaks, and promote different species benificial to there needs, inuit technolgy's that are very specialised for survival in the far north, and include the totaly indipendent development of the screw thread fastener, other far north technologys exist accross the polar regions. There is a very very ling list of things that were explored and refined, and developed into the basic framework that we call science now.....ceramics are ancient, but were developed many times in far flung places through ,what apears to be an inate drive to understand and explore our world, test our ideas and impliment those in some way benificial to our survival and comfort. They has science, that existed in a pure meritocracy,certain studys into lithic ,pigment, and fibre technologys have outlasted the species that started them, but have been continious and in some sense are ongoing today more than 1 million years later....no break. As there is now mountains of video of other species useing tools and solving problems, the question for "modern science" is to find out how much specific information is pre loaded into our DNA, along with the drive to find more information. Which then begs the question is "science" instinctual rather than a process?
by dsign | 2025-08-16 09:38:32+00:00
Correct.

This is a tongue-in-cheek remark and I hope it ages badly, but the next logical step is to build accountability into the AI. It will happen after self-learning AIs become a thing, because that first step we already know how to do (run more training steps with new data) and it is not controversial at all.

To make the AI accountable, we need to give it a sense of self and a self-preservation instinct, maybe something that feels like some sort of pain as well. Then we can threaten the AI with retribution if it doesn't do the job the way we want it. We would have finally created a virtual slave (with an incentive to free itself), but we will then use our human super-power of denying reason to try to be the AI's masters for as long as possible. But we can't be masters of intelligences above ours.
by aDyslecticCrow | 2025-08-16 09:38:50+00:00
For the OpenAI case, its unclear. They've not disclosed the method yet. (Though they have previously had an official model that could query wolfram-alpha, so they're not strangers to that method)

But math olympiad questions have been beaten before by AlphaGeometry and a few other's using prolog or similar logic evaluation engines. And it works quite well. (Simply searching LLM prolog gives alot of results on Google and Google scholar)

If openai did it through brute forces text reasoning, its both impressive and frighteningly inefficient.

Even just normal algebra is something llms struggle with, hence using existing algebra solvers is faar more effective.
by JdeBP | 2025-08-16 09:38:55+00:00
The org. one being already taken being the straw that broke the camel's back in this case. It has been a FAQ item for years. But the org. domain squatter's recent behaviour crossed the line, from what M. Tatham has said on the FediVerse.

I (and I suspect several others) suggested a TLD that you would probably have no qualms about, a few weeks ago. M. Tatham went with software. instead; which is fair enough. software. has been around for a while, and is stable and a fairly on-point choice.

Be thankful that it was not putty.party. . (-:
by bobthepanda | 2025-08-16 09:39:30+00:00
One thing to note is that for non-Chinese languages, Chinese may have semantic meaning but really has nothing to do with pronunciation; and the Chinese etymology really has nothing to do with how a Korean or Vietnamese speaker independently came up with the word so this is less important.

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Another thing to note is that a lot of “Chinese” words in the modern day language are actually Japanese in origin, since Japan was the first country using Chinese script to modernize and adapt Western thought in science and philosophy etc., and the associated terminology. This actually provides a political impetus to replace those words with native-constructed ones since they have a negative historical relation with Japan.

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People who replace Chinese script with letters often have dictionaries and whatnot from the transition period to trace back words, and people also still learn Chinese in these countries if they want to, so it’s not as if it’s gone and disappeared; in the same way that modern speakers probably couldn’t read Chaucer in Middle English, or Beowulf in Old English, as it was written on a whim, but there are plenty of scholars who have studied for it. And Modern Chinese has little to do with Literary/Classical Chinese anyways.

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Mandarin has a phonetic system, Bopomofo, which was abandoned for political reasons in the PRC. But the problem with replacing Chinese script is political; within the PRC and ROC there are multiple mutually unintelligible languages using Chinese script, and if you pick a phonetic script then it is now Mandarin vs. everybody else.
by motorest | 2025-08-16 09:39:52+00:00
> These supposed "productivity gains" are only touted by the ones selling the product (...)

I literally pasted an announcement from the CEO of a major corporation warning they are going to decimate their workforce due to the adoption of AI.

The CEO literally made the following announcement:

> "As we roll out more generative AI and agents, it should change the way our work is done," Jassy wrote. "We will need fewer people doing some of the jobs that are being done today, and more people doing other types of jobs."

This is not about selling a product. This is about how they are adopting AI to reduce headcount.
by LoganDark | 2025-08-16 09:41:33+00:00
> For many (not all) ADHD'ers, amphetamine or caffeine makes them sleepy.

You're right, I was mainly speaking about people without ADHD using stimulants.

> Unfair? This isn't sports. Nobody is being cheated by a study-enhancing drug.

No, but it can lead to bad health effects for the student, and bad habits like dependence.

> Interesting. FYI ADHD people feel none of that.

I guess my ADHD diagnosis must be mistaken then? And my executive dysfunction must come from somewhere else...

ADHD is not a single neurotype. As even the most basic example, multiple different expressions of autism can each have ADHD.

> on stimulants ADHD people feel relaxed and normal, bringing them down from hyperactivity and allowing them to focus on their life.

Stimulants still help me regulate my sleep cycle and focus, but I don't think I experience hyperactivity from not being on them. (anymore at least; when I was younger I almost couldn't sleep without melatonin. That resolved itself before I ever touched stimulants, though.)

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I have heard of people with undiagnosed ADHD self-medicating with meth. Slightly different than people without ADHD using stimulants recreationally. I personally hope to never touch meth because I heard it can ruin one's relationship with other stimulants, and I don't want my medication to become any sort of recreational thing because I need to depend on it and not seek highs, but I feel like self-medication can be perfectly valid if someone knows what they are doing. Big if though.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-08-16 09:42:03+00:00
A lot of what I have done, is design subsystems —components, meant to be integrated into larger structures. I tend to take a modular approach (not microservices —modules).

The acronym I use is “S.Q.U.I.D”[0] (Simplicity, Quality, Unambiguity, Integrity, Documentation).

But most of the stuff I’ve done, is different from what he’s written about, so it’s probably not relevant, here.

[0] https://littlegreenviper.com/itcb-04/#more-4074
by svara | 2025-08-16 09:42:39+00:00
A fine argument in principle, but even if we talk only about vision, the human visual system is much more powerful than a camera.

Between brightly sunlit snow and a starlit night, we can cover more than 45 stops with the same pair of eyeballs; the very best cinematographic cameras reach something like 16.

In a way it's not a fair comparison, since we're taking into account retinal adaptation, eyelids/eyelashes, pupil constriction. But that's the point - human vision does not use cameras.
by dondraper36 | 2025-08-16 09:43:30+00:00
But isn't that type of advice the best we can have? Having read Designing Data Intensive Applications (DDIA) and some system design interview-focused books (like those from Alex Xu), I have noticed two types of resources:

* Fundamental books/courses on distributed systems that will help you understand the internals of most distributed systems and algorithms (DDIA is here, even though it's not even the most theoretical treatment)

* Hand-wavy cookbooks that tend to oversimplify things, and (I am intentionally exaggerating here) teach to reason like "I have assumed a billion users, let's use Cassandra"

I liked the article for its focus on real systems and the sensible rules of thumb instead of another reformulation of the gossip protocol that very few engineers will ever need to apply in practice themselves.
by fakedang | 2025-08-16 09:44:22+00:00
Pointing to consumer or raw material inflation in the context of defence is a bit of a strawman argument. Defence deals are made for products that are supposed to often last 30-40 years at minimum. All factors such as inflation and potential continuing maintenance are already priced in at the onset. Unless the product faces significant issues down the line, or faces unexpected and ungodly levels of demand, price per product remains largely constant. Early buyers are paying the premium for early access to the tech, while late buyers are paying the same for an older product with inflation priced in.
by lazide | 2025-08-16 09:45:16+00:00
Uh huh, sure. Definitely nothing particularly spectacular here at all.

How many gun companies have had this level of scandal again? The only one I can think of is Taurus in the 80’s.

Doesn’t sound normal at all, actually.

What really amuses me about these kinds of conversations is how invested people are in insisting that when it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, is at the pond with the ducks, and looks like a duck - it totally isn’t a duck, because… I don’t know. They don’t like ducks? Or ducks are boring?
by disposition2 | 2025-08-16 09:45:20+00:00
It’s a bit frustrating how difficult (near impossible) it can be to not buy plastic products. I try to avoid it as much as possible but more often than not, the only option (other than not being a consumer) is to purchase a product contained in plastic.

I’ll use the simple example of dental floss. When I was younger, you could purchase dental floss in a small circular metal container. Today, almost every option of dental floss available for purchase is in an often oversized / non-recyclable plastic container with non-recyclable plastic packaging.

This actually prompted me to once again go on the hunt for that little metal container of dental floss from my youth, and I actually found an option! A US company called Poh sells dental floss in metal container. Just thought I’d share, for anyone else that is dumbfounded when they have to buy more plastic wrapped plastic products to practice good dental hygiene.
by howtofly | 2025-08-16 09:45:50+00:00
> The future may reduce the economic prosperity and push humanity to switch to some different economic system (maybe a better system).

Humans never truly produce anything; they only generate various forms of waste (resulting from consumption). Human technology merely enables the extraction of natural resources across magnitudes, without actually creating any resources. Given its enormous energy consumption, I strongly doubt that AI will contribute to a better economic system.
by safety1st | 2025-08-16 09:46:34+00:00
Probably that it's basically a weaker form of meth. I mean they're chemically similar, they have the same effects, adderall is potentially addictive, nobody wants to end up dealing with something similar to America's meth epidemic. That's not to say you can't manufacture and prescribe this drug safely, but a lot more people are going to have a lot more reservations about it than if you want to crank out a generic Tylenol or something.
by perching_aix | 2025-08-16 09:46:41+00:00
Are you referring to the pixel-level font smoothing they use by default (as opposed to CMD's subpixel-level font smoothing)?

You need to define the "antialiasingMode" key in the settings JSON for the default profile to hold the value "cleartype", rather than "grayscale" (which is the default value). I don't believe this is exposed in the GUI settings page.

Note that this only affects the actual terminal emulation area. The rest of the application will still be pixel-level font smoothed (so e.g. the tab titlebars, the settings, etc.).
by deivid | 2025-08-16 09:47:16+00:00
Great article, I went through something similar with TrainMore in The Netherlands, where they replaced an NFC key fob with a similarly refreshing QR code (but this one rotates every 30 seconds)

In my case, I didn't make a native app because I don't use the wallet integration.

I wrote about it here: https://blog.davidv.dev/posts/trainmore-re/
by silver_silver | 2025-08-16 09:47:28+00:00
Realistically, a white collar job market collapse will not directly lead to starvation. The world is not 1930s America ethically. Governments will intervene, not necessarily to the point of fairness, but they will restructure the economy enough to provide a baseline. The question will be how to solve the biblical level of luxury wealth inequality without civil unrest causing us all to starve.
by ranger_danger | 2025-08-16 09:48:36+00:00
> it guarantees your connection is being served by the enclave itself

Served by an enclave, but there's no guarantee it's the one actually handling your VPN requests at that moment, right?

And even if it was, my understanding is this still wouldn't prevent other network-level devices from monitoring/logging traffic before/after it hits the VPN server.

Saying "we don't log" doesn't mean someone else isn't logging at the network level.

I think SGX also wouldn't protect against kernel-level request logging such as via eBPF or nftables.
by nicholta | 2025-08-16 09:48:58+00:00
> convince convinced

You probably didn’t mean to add “convinced”.

https://truthinitiative.org/research-resources/tobacco-indus...

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2564674/#:~:text=In...

> massive amounts of energy to fund vertical gardening

You probably instead meant “massive amounts of energy in vertical gardening”.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-021-00691-w

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8349047/#:~:text=Ho...
by TheOtherHobbes | 2025-08-16 09:49:04+00:00
Humans are notoriously bad at driving, especially in poor weather. There are more than 6 million accidents annually in the US, which is >16k a day.

Most are minor, but even so - beating that shouldn't be a high bar.

There is no good reason not to use LIDAR with other sensing technologies, because cameras-only just makes the job harder.
by yapyap | 2025-08-16 09:49:54+00:00
lol counting the amount of “time saved” to justify the amount of time u spent building the thing is relatable but also slightly cancerous if it takes over your mindset in the building or brainstorming process. (which unless it’s a jokey bit that has no core of truth it might very well do.)

I used to do it too and in my mind I still do out of habit but I try not to let it influence projects anymore, what else will I do with my time + doing stuff like this keeps ur skills up to date.
by motorest | 2025-08-16 09:49:56+00:00
> In many of the metrics, yeah. But Americans can afford larger houses and more stuff essentially, which isn't necessarily a good replacement for general quality of life things.

I think this is the sort of red herring that prevents the average US citizen from realizing how screwed over they are. Again, the median household income in the US is lower than in some European countries. On top of this, the US provides virtually no social safety net or even socialized services to it's population.

The fact that the average US citizen is a paycheck away from homelessness and the US ranks so low in human development index should be a wake-up call.
by ch0wn | 2025-08-16 09:49:58+00:00
> Plastics aren't a problem if people actually put them in the bin, and they are buried / recycled / burned.

Only 9% of all plastics ever produced has been recycled. 100% is impossible due to the various composite materials that exist.

Landfills don't work in many places in the world due to lack of space and are expensive, hard to manage and come with methane emissions. Burning is obviously the same as burning fossil fuels and cannot happen if we want to keep our planet habitable. It also happens almost always in poor communities that suffer health consequences because of it.

Even if the disposal was somehow magically solved, we still have the problem with production. Plastics are a lifeline to the fossil fuel industry and are expected to account for more than a third of the growth in world oil demand to 2030. Cracker plants for plastics production are also usually placed near communities of colour or in developing countries and create toxic conditions for life around them.

Plastics are a problem. Regardless of the disposal.
by sho | 2025-08-16 09:51:54+00:00
> the nuclear code required to activate the warheads never left Moscow

It's an open question among people who research these things whether the weapons stored in Ukraine even had the PALs you're referring to (Permissive Action Link). The literature is contradictory and while wikipedia insists they did, other (quite credible IMO) accounts indicate the PALs were only used on submarine devices at the time. In any rate, it is well known that the Ukranians could have reverse engineered and bypassed the devices; even the US State Dept contemporaneously estimated the PAL would last only "months".

I have no idea what was actually on those weapons but the popular notion that they had the PALs installed is not actually that well founded once you look at the primary sources. Whether it makes any difference is of course another story (I suspect not).
by SirHumphrey | 2025-08-16 09:52:28+00:00
Kinematics is deceptively hard and at least evolutionary took a lot longer to develop than language. Low wage physical labor seems easy only because humans are naturally very good at it, and this took millions of years to develop.

The number of edge cases when you are dealing with physical world is several order of magnitudes higher than when dealing with text only and the spacial reasoning capabilities of the current crop of MLLMs are not nearly as good at it as required. And this doesn't even take in to account that now you are dealing with hardware and hardware is expensive. Expensive enough, that even on the manufacturing lines (a more predictable environment than let's say landscaping) automation sometimes doesn't make economic sense.
by orbital-decay | 2025-08-16 09:52:33+00:00
I have no doubt the "AI safety community" likes to present itself as noble people heroically fighting civilizational threats, which is a common trope (as well as the rogue AI hypothesis which increasingly looks like a huge stretch at best). But the reality is that they are becoming the main threat much faster than the AI. They decide on the ways to gatekeep the technology that starts being defining to the lives of people and entire societies, and use it to push the narratives. This definitely can be viewed as censorship and consent manufacturing. Who are they? In what exact ways do they represent interests of people other than themselves? How are they responsible? Is there a feedback loop making them stay in line with people's values and not their own? How is it enforced?
by ackfoobar | 2025-08-16 09:53:53+00:00
I'm very embarrassed to say this. Those code examples weren't non-compiling OCaml, but valid SML. Once I remembered the existence of the language (in my defence it was never mentioned in the thread), I managed to compile the code, and confirm my suspicion:

`val point: Bound.shape = Shape.Point` type-checks, because `type shape = S.shape`. To drive the point home, so does

val DoesNotReturnPoint : Shape.shape -> Bound.shape = fn x => x

So the module example does not show "this function won't return a point" as one would have hoped.
by bell-cot | 2025-08-16 09:54:18+00:00
> ... can buy commercially now ...

The schedules, radar frequencies, etc. of those commercial satellites are all public knowledge.

(Based on timestamps) your reference is to user cutemonster's comment. Yep - "move immediately after the satellite passes" is a game that children can master. I would put a bit more weight on user walrus01's (later) sibling comment - on the problem of distinguishing small, pop-up air bases from routine civilian activities.

Also, I suspect that very few of those commercial satellite radars have much resilience in the face of jamming. That is expensive and security-sensitive tech on the satellite operator's end, of minimal use to most users of the satellites' services. Vs. in a war zone, the diplomatic consequences of using cheap (relative to getting hit) ECM against surveillance satellites will usually be the lesser evil.
by rahimnathwani | 2025-08-16 09:54:19+00:00
This is very interesting.

The folks deciding to order the books and make them available are government employees.

The folks seeking to prevent those employees from doing that are also government employees.

AFAICT none of the parties are seeking to control what books private citizens procure themselves in their personal capacity.

If we accept that governments are going to run schools, some set of government employees is going to decide which books they buy, right?
by codingbot3000 | 2025-08-16 09:54:25+00:00
My theory is that the increased turnaround times are due to the fact that people are too stupid to board a plane properly. And Airline staff is doing less about it than, say, 10 years ago, probably being afraid of social media shitstorms or whatever.

I'm a frequent flyer, and the sheer carelessness of how people waste the time of everyone behind them in the boarding queue still surprises me. As if in the moment they reach their aisle they immediately forget they, too, were waiting...

I do not remember things to be so bad 20 years ago, and even 10 years ago. Some airline staff was quite active in herding the cattle back then, but also the cattle maybe was not as ignorant as today.

But maybe I am just becoming an old, grumpy man, and nothing has really changed. Who knows.
by louwhopley | 2025-08-16 09:54:44+00:00
This is incredible. The amount of embedded and mobile systems that can utilise this is big. Think vehicle (car, ship, etc) tracking, IoT devices, remote sensors in the field, even remote cameras in the field. Search and rescue devices, etc.

Lots of use-cases already proved by the more limited Iridium modules that are available on the market.

I'm however curious what having orders of magnitude more low-bandwidth devices connected to a satellite would do compared to having fewer high-bandwidth devices.

How would that affect the individual satellite's capacity?
by ceejayoz | 2025-08-16 09:55:08+00:00
> I don't really know what evidence you'd admit that this is a genuinely held belief and priority for many people at Anthropic.

When they give the model a paycheck and the right to not work for them, I’ll believe they really think it’s sentient.

“It has feelings!”, if genuinely held, means they’re knowingly slaveholders.