MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sunscream89 | 2025-08-27 11:18:39+00:00
Consciousness is the simulator.

Our experience IS simulated in a “matrix”, the matrix of our biotechnology system. Merely our virtual environment does everything it can to accurately “real time” sensor and actuator I/O with the environment. All of your senses and your internal sense of “now” may be overridden by other parts of your own mind (which people tripping find out, though also athletes and meditators achieve transmutations of consciousness.)

As far as “AGI”, you mean, “Authentic General Intelligence”, HA!

Our brains are machines our consciousness programs as sensors and actuators with lots of error correction (some natural, rest learned.) it’s a fractal-like feedback loop that evolves through refinement (or catastrophe.) That’s it! Our human wide variable intelligence is the supreme intelligence we seek, only within our single minds, not in an app, though orchestrating group intelligence is a fine art.

Myself, I do not think consciousness emerged from intelligence. Life emerged from consciousness (quantum domain is universal existential potential bound). Intelligence is merely a strategy for the continuity of identity (sustained existence.) life is an arms race for consciousness, and intelligence is a technology different lines invest in by context. Our lines chose generalization before specialization, winning out (whew). Semi-chaotically, our life is “intelligent design” (duh right?), we are arrogant of the minimal requirements for that. When we understand our own bodies intelligence we will be that much further out of our own stupefactions.
by athrowaway3z | 2025-08-27 11:19:26+00:00
I'm not sure about software that sells itself on providing a mirror for people to reflect on the structure they use for organization, but I do believe eventually the tools that are going to win are those that do text interface.

Even a visual tool like blender should expose their full GUI as a text API. It needs a bit of adapting, specifically for domain-specific structs (which should be retrievable via calls like 'select-bb' or 'select-coordinates'), but after that's done it's a game changer.

That class of software has a lot of proprietary GUI's that look slick and people are familiar with, but who cares about familiar in a world where the other software lets me point my LLM at its help file and build me whatever gui/tui/script/voice integration I can think of.
by whywhywhywhy | 2025-08-27 11:19:55+00:00
Can’t help feeling the “-Libre” “Libre-“ branding on projects is cursed.

Naming things matters and if FireFox had been called WebLibre or LibreBrowser it would have been far less appealing.

There’s just something lame about it and it’s too many syllables, same deal with XLibre.
by freetime2 | 2025-08-27 11:21:02+00:00
I wish they wouldn’t call it “Elon Musk’s Brain Chip”. I guess it is true in a sense since he owns the majority of Neuralink. But it feels unfair to the scientists and engineers who actually designed it, and to all the people who could benefit from it, to overemphasize Musk’s involvement.

Considering all the possible future implications of a Brain Computer Interface - both positive and negative - I would say Musk’s involvement is the least interesting part of this story.
by binarymax | 2025-08-27 11:21:08+00:00
The thing about spaCys API is that it perfectly aligns with how NLP worked at the time with actual programming paradigms and allows you to be very pythonic. For example, you can use list comprehension to get all the nouns from a document in a one liner.

These days NLP is quite different, because we look for outcomes rather than iterating over tokens.

What does your NLP library need to do? The way I design APIs is I write the calling code that I want to exist, and then I write the API to make it work. Here’s an example I’ve worked on for LLM integration. I just wanted to be able to get simple answers from an LLM and cast the answer to a type: https://www.npmjs.com/package/llm-primitives
by edanm | 2025-08-27 11:22:39+00:00
> I read quotes like this and reminded that it is common that people forget money is just a competitive resource we use to outbid each other for _real_ things.

But money is an abstraction of wealth, and wealth absolutely can be destroyed, in multiple ways:

1. It can be physically destroyed - if I break a window, that's wealth that is destroyed. That window now needs to be replaced, which costs materials and labor, which could've gone to building something new instead.

2. It can be spent on things that end up not used. If five years from now, those millions of GPUs are no longer in use, we created them for nothing instead of creating more of something people would use.

3. Wealth can be spent on the less important things, rather than the more important things. This is not exactly wealth being destroyed, just built more slowly, because instead of building lots of new wealth (via innovation, say) we're creating less valuable things.

I don't think any of the above are relevant to AI, btw.
by panick21_ | 2025-08-27 11:22:46+00:00
If you go buy actual objective measure of what people tried to achieve, Shuttle is a failure. They literally drop an architecture, Apollo, that was perfectly achieving what needed to be achieved, namely, facilitate humans to LEO, extreme large payload to LEO and large payload to LEO, very fast payloads for outside of LEO and single shot space stations. All of that existed and was able to be build of the shelf.

Shuttle then took all that money, in turn losing the US the capability to do all this amazing stuff. With the promise that it could then do all those things again but actually do it cheaper.

In that aspect, Shuttle completely failed. Not only did the US lose most of its capability for the next 40 years, some we still have not gotten back. And it did that while costing absurd amounts to develop and then a huge amount to operate, so much that NASA barely had a budget to actually do anything useful with Shuttle. And of course it also took so much time to develop that a whole space station had to be scarified for it.

So really the whole Shuttle program is an anti-achievement, it literally directly reduced the technical capability of a nation and turned it from the best space nation in the world into the second best to arguable being second best.

Technical complexity by itself is not a mark of great engineering, and that's all Shuttle was. In terms of actual objective measure, Shuttle is a failure pretty much every way you look at it. Failure on cost, failure on safety, failure on ecosystem, failure of evolution, failure operational reliability and so on.

Soviets could launch payload and human cheaper to LEO for the next 40 years and only SpaceX brought this back to the US.
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-08-27 11:23:35+00:00
Ion drives ionize particles like xenon and expel them; they're much more fuel/weight efficient than burning fuel but they still use fuel, unfortunately.

There's been a number of pure electric propulsion proposals or prototypes, but they've all turned out to be a hoax; the latest one I recall was the EmDrive [0], where any paper claiming it produced positive thrust was debunked with the measurements having been influenced by outside forces.

The TL;DR is that reactionless drives are not possible due to Newton's third law. This page / this website is always a great resource for things like this, it's in the context of writing science fiction but it has tons of research: [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EmDrive

[1] https://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/reactionlessdr...
by jamesy0ung | 2025-08-27 11:23:42+00:00
Yeah I also found myself curious as to how KVM actually works, I found these helpful

https://www.kernel.org/doc/ols/2007/ols2007v1-pages-225-230.... http://www.haifux.org/lectures/312/High-Level%20Introduction... https://zserge.com/posts/kvm/
by chamomeal | 2025-08-27 11:23:59+00:00
I remember when people figured out you could tell bing chat “don’t use emoji’s or I’ll die” and it would just go absolutely crazy. Feel like there was a useful lesson in that.

In fact in my opinion, if you haven’t interacted with a batshit crazy, totally unhinged LLM, you probably don’t really get them.

My dad is still surprised when an LLM gives him an answer that isn’t totally 100% correct. He only started using chatGPT a few months ago, and like many others he walked into the trap of “it sounds very confident and looks correct, so this thing must be an all-knowing oracle”.

Meanwhile I’m recalling the glorious GPT-3 days, when it would (unprompted) start writing recipes for cooking, garnishing and serving human fecal matter, claiming it was a French national delicacy. And it was so, so detailed…
by pm215 | 2025-08-27 11:24:01+00:00
Resources-wise there's not really any "stealing" going on. The people/companies who care about KVM and the virtualization use cases work on that, and the people/companies who care about emulation work on those parts. If QEMU didn't support virtualization then it's not like the people currently working on QEMU virtualization would shift over to emulation support: they'd be working on some other project instead to achieve their VM goals.
by curvaturearth | 2025-08-27 11:24:04+00:00
This is terrible, and like search engines and the internet in general should be audited closely and the companies held responsible. In my opinion these tools shouldn't talk like a human, and should be banned from "making friends" (if we can define that). I always try and tell an LLM to not be conversational and usually get more succinct answers. Even using cursor AI is painful if it keeps saying "I need to xxx".
by ACCount37 | 2025-08-27 11:24:30+00:00
Uneconomical. The best way to dispose of things like the weakly radioactive reactor hulls is often to simply leave them when they are.

They aren't particularly dangerous, and they don't leach contaminants. So you just bury them so no one can access them too easily. But it does require leaving the sealed reactor buildings in place - even if you can reuse the rest of the land and the exclusion area.
by npteljes | 2025-08-27 11:25:49+00:00
Yeah, I was one such person, but I might give up on this ultimately. If I will, I will do so for CYA reasons, not because I think it's a bad thing overall.

In this current case, the outcome is horrible, and the answers that ChatGPT provided were inexcusable. But looking at a bigger picture, how much of a better chance does a person have by everyone telling them to "go to therapy" or to "talk to others" and such? What others? Searching "online therapy", BetterHelp is the second result. BetterHelp doesn't exactly have a good reputation online, but still, their influence is widespread. Licensed therapists can also be bad actors. There is no general "good thing" that is tried and true for every particular case of human mental health, but even letting that go, the position is abused just as any other authority / power position is, with many bad therapists out there. Not to mention the other people who pose as (mental) health experts, life coaches, and such. Or the people who recruit for a cult.

Frankly, even in the face of this horrible event, I'm not convinced that AI in general fares that much lower than the sum of the people who offer a recipe for a better life, skills, company, camaraderie. Rather, I feel like that AI is in a situation like the self-driving cars are, where we expect the new thing to be 110%, even though we know that the old thing is far for perfect.

I do think that OpenAI is liable though, and rightfully so. Their service has a lot of power to influence, clearly outlined in the tragedy that is shown in the article. And so, they also have a lot of responsibility to reign that in. If they were a forum where the teen was pushed to suicide, police could go after the forum participants, moderators, admins. But in case of OpenAI, there is no such person, the service itself is the thing. So the one liable must be the company that provides the service.
by nopurpose | 2025-08-27 11:26:12+00:00
This sounds really interesting. Query planner acquires lightweight lock on every table partition and its indexes. There can be only 16 fast locks, exceed that number and locking becomes significantly more expensive slowing down queries significantly. Workaround I have used so far was to use plan_cache_mode=force_generic which prevents re-planning queries on parameters change.

This approach might be a better option, but sadly app needs to be modified to make use of it.
by dannye | 2025-08-27 11:26:30+00:00
Microsoft SharePoint version 2007 and 2010 where all XSLT. Used in just about every serious Intranet 15...20 years ago.

Developers deemed it too complex (or they were just stupid?)

SharePoint 2013 went the CSR (Microsofts "Client-Side-Rendering") path and SharePoint 2016 went the JSON/React path

Maybe with current AI aid XSLT would have had a chance... or we are still just too stupid.

Yes, XML/XSLT is a better technology, so was any Video Casette tape BUT VHS in the early 80s
by MomsAVoxell | 2025-08-27 11:27:24+00:00
Very nice product!

In the retro computing world, the use of "ASCII" to construct levels and worlds is quite prevalent.

I immediately considered whether Monodraw might be used as a kind of level editor in that context.

Would you consider adding an '8-bit character bitmap' mode, which allows for the bitmap to also be edited?

With such a feature, Monodraw would become immediately applicable to those of us building retro games for older platforms where this technique is used rather extensively to produce compelling art-work.

For context, here is an example game which uses plain ol' ASCII chars to deliver some fun Moon Buggy action:

https://www.oric.org/software/ascii_moon_buggy-2500.html

The same technique is used here, albeit with redefined character sets, to implement a Scuba Dive adventure:

https://www.oric.org/software/scuba_dive-89.html
by nobodyandproud | 2025-08-27 11:27:27+00:00
As much as I take a centrist position; I can’t see a solution that doesn’t involve a civil war that some of the American white supremacists have been begging for.

The project 2025 mandate for leadership enabled a dictator in the making to establish himself.

The Republican Congress removed the checks in the Supreme Court during Trump’s first term; and refuse to legislate in a way that works against Trump.

And this second term, he’s been purging all of the civil servants who are more loyal to the mission than to him.

What I’m dreading is 2028: Will he make good on his threat to go for a third term? Will most of the nation be too apathetic?
by chasd00 | 2025-08-27 11:27:27+00:00
The crazy thing is there’s a public road about 200 yards from the pad that also goes right by the front door of the factory. Like you can drive right up to starbase, park, and walk around and see everything. Also, you can go past the pad to the beach and walk up on the dunes and be within 500 yards of the pad and whatever is sitting on it too. I visited a few years ago and was amazed at the scale and how everything is literally right on the side of the road. One thing I didn’t expect, it’s pretty noisy because it’s an ongoing construction site. You don’t think of that when you see the videos.
by zekrioca | 2025-08-27 11:27:36+00:00
> I said I don't know. I said had heard the argument and these are better arguments against wind IMO if they are true. > I don't know what to believe. I am dubious of any reporting on these issues.

The person didn’t ask if you know, they asked if you had looked at reports. You cannot for once believe there weren’t subsidies as these endeavors are very time consuming with hundreds of regulations that need to be met.

> Neither are they claiming wind is 100% the target.

What do you perceive when they say wind is not reliable and increase electricity costs? I mean, it is free electricity, with minimal impact.

The way you understand about gas prices, while dismissing some arguments in favor of renewables is a bit telling.
by defrost | 2025-08-27 11:27:38+00:00
What's the actual hard time line and price on when, say, Australia can order 20 modular reactors and have them delivered and online?

In the meantime how many GWh of wind, solar, and battery storage can they install without waiting?

A recent detailed CSIRO report on exactly this considered nuclear modular reactors to be a dud option that kicked the can down the road while continuing a reliance on fossil fuel for power generation.

Renewables were judged the pragmatic best bang for the buck in a multi decade near timeframe.
by Lockal | 2025-08-27 11:29:39+00:00
Why developers should invest THEIR money? Maybe let vibe coders pay?

Look at this - https://github.com/n4si/kubernetes/pull/1 - devin-ai-integration wants to merge 10,000 commits, 5000+ files changed. This is not some random user of Devin AI, this is a part of paid promotional video, demonstrating "a nice PR" (quote from https://youtu.be/OIomeLQmf-4?t=219), solving "real life problem" (sic). Now let's say, user pays $$$ according to formula of cognitive load added (both for human and CI). A single PR like this would cost as much as "oops, Netlify just sent me a $100k bill", but this time without a refund.
by ethbr1 | 2025-08-27 11:29:50+00:00
> Greenland is such a small population it's hard to hide something like this.

I remember reading some impressions of the dating scene in Iceland (almost 7x Greenland's population) and realizing just how well everyone knows of... well, everyone. (At least via friend of friend in cohorts)

A country of 56,800 isn't a great target for secretly conducting influence ops...
by npteljes | 2025-08-27 11:29:53+00:00
You might not care personally, but this isn't how we do anything, because we wouldn't have anything in the world at all. Different things harm and kill people all the time, and many of them have barely any use than harmful activity, yet they are still active parts of our lives.

I understand the emotional impact of what happened in this case, but there is not much to discuss if we just reject everything outright.
by ohthehugemanate | 2025-08-27 11:29:54+00:00
That's a hell of a journey! Congratulations on the accomplishment and thank you for sharing.

Like many other biological systems, neurological wiring is multidimensional and not a natural fit into our arbitrary culturally defined abstractions, or even language. And the dimensions themselves are multifaceted expressions of multiple genes and environmental factors. I am happy to hear stories like yours, of people who can ultimately achieve "normal" functional parity without medication.

Have you considered if that would have been possible without the journey? Had you, on day 1, cancelled that first therapist appointment and decided to grit your teeth and "try" instead, could you have "accepted discomfort" on your own? Or is it possible that the methylphenidate created supportive conditions that improved your chances?

I ask because there is a body of well reproduced research demonstrating not only that ADHD patients have specific genetic and neurobiological differences from neurotypicals in areas associated with executive function, but that long term ADHD medication use can permanently bring the neurological differences into line with neurotypical controls. Something like 20% of medicated childhood ADHD patients can ultimately stop medication without losing points in functional testing or the associated brain structures. It's a lower percentage in adults and less well studied, but still exists. It's a big difference from the results of every non-chemical intervention we've studied, which have single digit efficacy percentages if they beat P at all.

I'm interested in your feelings about this because ADHD is by far the most-studied psychological disorder in the world, and ADHD medications as a group are not only equally well studied, but also the most successful and least harmful of any psychiatric drug. There are more safety and efficacy studies for ADHD medication than for ibuprofen.

So... if you feel your recovery was not helped by the neurogenetic compensations provided by methylphenidate, you should know that you are flying so far in the face of some of the best-validated medical science, that you imply invalidity of pharmaceutical or medical science as a whole.

... which is fine of course - it's your body and brain! But I bet it would help readers to know how you think this aligns with the science, or maybe what you think of medical science altogether. Questions like "Do you take ibuprofen?" And "Do you vaccinate?" Become relevant.
by nikolayasdf123 | 2025-08-27 11:30:31+00:00
say I start charging you 40 USD for clothes you have bought from someone else, you are washing yourself, reparing, and other people made, using their own tools and materials. I did close to nothing, and yet "you will be wearing it for a year". great, but that does not mean there is no ripoff from my part. I have close to nothing to do with your clothes, even if they are obviously useful to you for next year.

same story here. marginal contribution is too low compared to price
by monocasa | 2025-08-27 11:30:36+00:00
KVM is basically three components.

* An abstraction over second level page tables to map some of a host user process as what the guest thinks of as physical memory.

* An abstraction to jump into the context that uses those page tables, and traps back out in the case of anything that the hardware would normally handle, but the hypervisor wants to handle manually instead.

* A collection of mechanisms to handle some of those traps in kernel space to avoid having to context switch back out to the host user process if the kind of trap is common enough, both in the sense of the trap itself happens often enough to show up on perf graphs, as well as the abstraction being exercised is relatively standard (think interrupt controllers and timers).

Let me know if you have any other questions.
by pureliquidhw | 2025-08-27 11:30:40+00:00
Given it's 2025 and companies saddled with tech debt continue to prioritize speed of delivery over quality, I doubt the craftperson will win.

If anything we'll see disposable systems (or parts) and the job of an SE will become even more like a plumber, connecting prebuilt business logic to prebuilt systems libraries. When one of those fails, have AI whip up a brand new one instead of troubleshooting the existing one(s). After all, for business leader it's the output that matters, not the code.

For 20+ years business leaders have been eager to shed the high overhead of developers via any means necessary while ignoring their most expensive employees' input. Anyone remember Dilbert? It was funny as a kid, and is now tragic in its timeless accuracy a generation later.
by jraph | 2025-08-27 11:30:43+00:00
How current is this still? Asking as a complete noob. I don't expect Firefox's architecture to have changed much, but it's been 3 years, so it could have improved a lot since this was written, and there are things I know about that are outdated in this document.

For instance, the two mentioned Linux sandbox escapes [1] involve two things that have disappeared in many setups: X11 and pulseaudio. We now have Wayland and pipewire, which should both be better in this aspect IIUC. The mentioned bug related to X11 was also closed 3 years ago.

[1] https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/firefox-chromium.ht...

[2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1129492