MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by npstr | 2025-09-27 08:58:07+00:00
I had some RSI at the start of corona from too much home office + gaming, what actually helped was getting a trackball (Kensington Slimblade Pro) for $work tasks.

Tried a Moonlander and hated it. My hands don't work with ortholinear. And I hated having to learn layers and layouts. Besides I have a real job and I use a proper IDE so I need my F keys, I like to use the Home/End/Page Up+Down keys, I learned to use the numpad efficiently, etc. I think most of what is told and sold in ergonomics is snake oil. I don't believe ortholinear is any good for it, and minimizing movement also seems really questionable to me. I'm working with comfortable 30-40 wpm and am still one of the most prolific and productive engineers at $work, typing speed is not important for many jobs.

I would like to continue be able to use regular keyboards efficiently and with little annoyance. Too often I'm traveling and stuck with the laptop keyboard. I have to accommodate Linux ($work), Windows (gaming), Mac (personal projects, open uni). That's already challenging enough to get these have similar shortcuts. I use a keychron K5 pro that supports all OSs. I can work efficiently in all situations, with all OSs, with just a single screen. Having a more specialized keyboard (or otherwise setup, like relying too heavily on multi-monitors), wouid overall surely be detrimental, during the times I could not use it.

What I've learned to avoid pain: Wrists should be straight. For me, a slim keyboard helps to achieve that, flat on the table. Hands should have some room apart, open chest. Small keyboards are bad for that, you'll want a 100% one, or a split. Do some lifting, have some muscles. Try a trackball, you might love it. Switch how you are sitting. The best sitting position is the next one. Get up to think, go for breaks. Don't overly specialize into some local/global optimum that is a moving target over your lifetime. Use defaults. Mostly boring setup with some minor personal tweaks can go a long way.
by d1sxeyes | 2025-09-27 08:58:15+00:00
It’s not about “the app”. The app can have two or two million datapoints locally.

What matters in terms of processing is how much of it gets sent to LALIGA (or their provider).

On a separate note, I am surprised you think you can just promise not to look at something. You can’t, it’s not “acceptable in compliance”, and I’m not even sure what that means—there’s no body that certifies GDPR compliance.
by T-A | 2025-09-27 08:58:32+00:00
From the article: a human hand has about 17,000 low-threshold mechanoreceptors in the glabrous skin (where hair doesn’t grow) of the hand, with about 1,000 of them right at the tip of each finger, but with much lower density over the rest of each finger and over the palm. These receptors come in four varieties (slow vs fast adapting, and a very localized area of sensitivity vs a much larger area) and fire when they sense pressure applied or released.

Where can you buy the artificial equivalent?
by mikaraento | 2025-09-27 08:59:37+00:00
Depends heavily on the use case. Indeed many tasks humans carry out are done without touch feedback - but many also require it.

An example of feed-forward manipulation is lifting a medium-sized object. Classic example is lifting a coffee cup. If you misjudge a full cup for empty you may spill the contents before your brain manages to replan the action based on sensory input. It takes around 300ms for that feedback loop to happen. We do many thing faster than that would allow.

The linked article has a great example of a task where a human needs feedback control: picking up and lighting a match.

Sibling comments also make a good point on that touch may well be necessary to learn the task. Babies do a lot of trial-and-error manipulation and even adults will do new tasks slower first.
by Nerdx86 | 2025-09-27 09:01:13+00:00
So this is where having subagents fed specific curated context is a help.. As long as the "poisoned" agent can focus long enough to generate a clean request to the subagent, the subagent works posion-free. This is much more likely than a single agent setup with the token by token process of a transformer.

The same protection works in reverse, if a subagent goes off the rails and either self aborts or is aborted, that large context is truncated to the abort response which is "salted" with the fact that this was stopped. Even if the subagent goes sideways and still returns success (Say separate dev, review, and test subagents) the main agent has another opportunity to compare the response and the product against the main context or to instruct a subagent to do it in a isolated context..

Not perfect at all, but better than a single context.

One other thing, there is some consensus that "don't" "not" "never" are not always functional in context. And that is a big problem. Anecdotally and experimental, many (including myself) have seen the agent diligently performing the exact thing following a "never" once it gets far enough back in the context. Even when it's a less common action.
by spwa4 | 2025-09-27 09:01:14+00:00
You don't? Think about it. If your picture/source data is not perfectly clear ... what do you want? We all want perfection, but if you can't have that ...

Would you prefer what current OCR does and just suddenly sentences go 2#!@%7Q&*@3 ladfk !@$?

Or would you rather have a reasonable completion of a sentence that is nearly always (but not quite always) correct, that even actually takes the context into account?
by thomassmith65 | 2025-09-27 09:02:34+00:00
It makes perfect sense for Nvidia to own shares of Open AI if one remembers that Open AI is still private.

While I wouldn't invest in Nvidia (not now with the AI bubble liable to pop at any moment) the reason many people have is because they couldn't invest in Open AI (aside from via MSFT which is a less pure AI stock).

So Nvidia investors now get what they wanted all along: exposure to Open AI.
by Symbiote | 2025-09-27 09:02:49+00:00
I put together https://aposymbiont.github.io/split-keyboards/ a while ago to help decide between ergonomic keyboards.

However, it's not become a hobby, and I'm satisfied with the keyboards I bought in 2019 and have no plans to replace them.

If anyone is interested in taking over the site, I'm willing to transfer the repository, which should mean GitHub make an HTTP redirect.
by OCTAGRAM | 2025-09-27 09:02:54+00:00
Computer-is-in-keyboard is a good idea if keyboard is right. But this all-white dull stuff is no match for IBM Model M style of contrast keyboards full of sense. SUBOR SB97 is what I think of as good computer-is-in-keyboard looks. They just cloned IBM Model M. Just clone IBM Model M and you are fine
by ioasuncvinvaer | 2025-09-27 09:03:08+00:00
Cetz[0] is the drawing library in typst. For your other needs check out the package repository at [1] (visualization should be the correct category).

Typst has a bibtex support by default [2].

[0] https://typst.app/universe/package/cetz [1] https://typst.app/universe/search/?kind=packages&category=vi... [2] https://typst.app/docs/reference/model/bibliography/
by duskwuff | 2025-09-27 09:03:41+00:00
> Would you prefer what current OCR does and just suddenly sentences go 2#!@%7Q&*@3 ladfk !@$?

Yes, actually. I'd rather be aware that the OCR tool failed somewhere than have the tool silently fabricate part of the text, or "correct" perceived errors which were present in the source document.
by impossiblefork | 2025-09-27 09:04:04+00:00
I have actually become less skeptical about claims like this over time.

I didn't expect LMs to be able to attack IMO problems this soon. There's also this video stuff recently discussed here, where it was explained that video models can be prompted to segment, solve blind deconvolution problems, solve maces, etc.

I'm not sure it's going to work out economically-- I think a crash is unavoidable because P/E ratios for firms like Tesla of 200 or whatever it is are silly, but I think that technology is going to keep evolving throughout and I don't see why some kind of mild not-quite-AGI-but-beating-humans-on-what-we-pay-humans-to-do-for-their-jobs type thing is not achievable.

If these video models get better and more available we might actually be able to use them to spot patterns in the natural world and in humans.
by 1dom | 2025-09-27 09:05:22+00:00
No you're not questioning it, you're making statements against it, without evidence, which is just as useless as the statement without evidence.

Like I suggested, like the person you responded to suggested: when science tries to prove or disprove LLM intelligence it generally descends into disagreements about definition or evidence (neither of which you provided).

The reason why no evidence was provided for the original LLMs are intelligent claim is because - if you read through this thread - you were the first to make that claim, and the counter claim.

> But that's not what's happening. LLMs are called "AI". You know what the I stands for, right? It's not "artificial we-don't-know-if-intelligent".

I don't know what you want me to say here - if you want to continue acting like there's some widely accepted and agreed on definition of intelligence that everyone who isn't you is an idiot for not knowing, then carry on.

I don't have a reliable definition for intelligence. Like I said, if you do, please share your finding with science, you could settle some fairly big debates and change the world in a meaningful way.
by frm88 | 2025-09-27 09:06:23+00:00
Not one comment in this thread mentions exorcism. I was floored by information that those are still real and practising and even holding conferences. So I went to read the Catholic church's explanation on the topic [0] and yes, demonic possession is rare but it exists in their worldview. What exactly are those exorcists doing - more to the point why would you need 1000 of them? It's 2025 and we're talking demons in the same breath as AI.

[0] https://catholicus.eu/en/the-exorcists-of-the-vatican-realit...
by imtringued | 2025-09-27 09:08:43+00:00
As others have said autorouting is a trivial problem under the assumption that you have infinite PCB layers. Trying to squeeze a design into a finite number of layers might be NP-hard though.

What's not solved is setting up constraints on signals.

Now if you still want to do this anyway, I'd suggest building an autorouter and automatically generating custom parts with both standard and generated footprints, place them randomly on a PCB with a random number of layers, then autoroute it with a conventional algorithm and there is your dataset.
by cy6erlion | 2025-09-27 09:08:46+00:00
Great post. Why use Social Media when you can use your own blog with RSS. I think it's because of Network effects, Social Media gives you an identity/address within a social network that has demand for your posts and a supply of posts that interests you. The Social Network itself should be vybrant for strong Network Effects to take place, this is inherently centralizing sorta like super markets. Thus the idea of Decentralization and Social Media don't go well together.

Decentralization is also more complex for the developers and particularly for the users, this creates a market for people offering services to operate decentralized systems, which ends up centralizing the network. This is how the WWW, Email, Git, BTC all got more and more centralized.
by dotancohen | 2025-09-27 09:10:11+00:00
Usually, managing a development team is more work than just writing the code oneself. However, managing a development team (even if that team consists of a single LLM and yourself) means that more work can be done in a shorter period of time. It also provides much better structure for ensuring that tests are written, and that documentation is written if that is important. And in my experience, though not everybody's experience I understand, it helps ensure a clean, useful git history.
by squidbeak | 2025-09-27 09:10:24+00:00
You're not correct in saying nobody knows. This has been in discussion for several years, and the standard is outlined in detail on the government website [1], and also discussed in a blog [2].

But I fully agree if you mean it hasn't been adequately explained to the public [3].

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-digital-identi...

[2] https://enablingdigitalidentity.blog.gov.uk/

[3] https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/digital-id-scheme...
by whitehexagon | 2025-09-27 09:11:01+00:00
I´ve just been reading about Mondragon Corporation, but probably this is the wrong site to discuss such ideas.

But you did get me wondering if I need some new chilli seeds, I´ve not heard that phrase before, and thought maybe there was a new super-hot kicking around. My 4yr old Carolina Reaper plant died in the crazy summer heat extremes this year, and now it looks like full steam ahead for business until the planet is toast. Forests might be the least safe place, looking at all the fires across Europe this year.
by makeitdouble | 2025-09-27 09:12:19+00:00
"things you own" is a more complex concept than most people give it credit for.

If for instance you consider anything that can be legally and uniterraly taken away from you as not owned, that definition becomes really really small, short of you being a diplomat or some special entity.

Many see "owning" things in a more colloquial way, but that's also how Amazon gets by with their shenanigans, as it still feels like ownership day to day.
by grepfru_it | 2025-09-27 09:12:55+00:00
>nuclear

The waste problem still has not been solved. Instead the USG threw up their hands and walked away. I don’t know how other countries are addressing it. We have a temporary (read 2-3 generation) solution we can fall back on, but this is a can worse than climate change we are kicking towards future generations.

I am fully aware of advances in nuclear tech but that doesn’t solve the problem, it just delays the tipping point
by spwa4 | 2025-09-27 09:12:59+00:00
A state (or a carrier, in theory), doesn't need RCEs to do this. In every phone, the "actual phone", what talks to cell towers, is a separate system called the Baseband. It is a full computer, storage, memory, encryption, ... and it is under the control of carriers and through them of law enforcement and the like. It is also where the microphone and mostly the cameras are connected. The baseband then passes them through to the UI, like android or IOS. It's how carriers enforce disabling wifi when mobile data is active unless you pay extra, for example.

But it can copy the sound of a phone call to separate channels, or copy the data being sent (even on wifi), or it can activate emergency messages or broadcasts. It can also transmit audio and video when the phone is not actually in a call. That sort of thing.

In practice there are a great many different basebands and of course most states couldn't be bothered to actually write a decent system to use them (well, they tried forcing carriers to do it for them, but anyone who ever worked at a large carrier on a big project can tell you how that went), so only lowest common denominator features are in practice accessible. That means location and getting audio. But nothing is stopping countries from implementing more. I bet the NSA has something with a lot more features, for example.
by 3036e4 | 2025-09-27 09:14:43+00:00
I guess if Pandoc adds Typst output support I will consider using that, but "LaTeX replacement" sounds like something that is too low level to consider for most usecases? It was many years since I used LaTeX for anything other than at most short snippets embedded in other documents (e.g. md or org). Or would Typst replace something like Pandoc Markdown (with a long list of supported output formats and a convenient Lua filter API)?

* Submitted too fast. A quick search tells me Pandoc already added Typst input and output support (e.g. https://pandoc.org/typst-property-output.html), so guess I need to look into if I should switch to use that for generating PDFs.
by card_zero | 2025-09-27 09:14:43+00:00
Now I'm imagining a brain in a jar, but with every world-mimicking evolved aspect of the brain removed. Like, it has no implicit knowledge of sound waves or shapes or - well, maybe those low-level things are processed in the ears and retinas, but it has no next-stage anticipation of audio or visual data, either, and no body plan that relates to the body's nerves, and no relationship to digestion or hormones or gravity or jump scares or anything else that would prepare it for being monkey-shaped and living in the world. But, it has the key thing for intelligence, the secret sauce, whatever that is. So it can sit there and be intelligent.

Then you can connect it up to some input and output, and ... it exhibits intelligence somehow. Initially by screaming like a baby. Then it adapts to the knowledge implicit in its input and output systems ... and that's down to the designer. If it has suction cup end effectors and a CCD image sensor array doobrie ... I guess it's going to be clumsy and bewildered. But would it be noticeably intelligent? Could it even scream like a baby, actually? I suppose our brains are pre-evolved to learn to talk. Maybe this unfortunate person would only be able to emit a static hiss. I can't decide if I think it would ever get anywhere and develop appreciable smarts or not.
by jesuswasrasta | 2025-09-27 09:15:06+00:00
As an Italian, it translates as we actually state questions, so it feels natural to me :)

But you're right, I think it's not even grammarly correct.

Anyway, I'd like always to remember this about headlines as a question: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-09-27 09:15:57+00:00
> To me, a great majority of problems in the US fundamentally boils down to people looking for markets and money where there aren’t any.

Your examples are mostly things where there are, though, e.g.:

> rising healthcare costs (what is the right price to pay for saving a child’s life, for example? Culturally, it’s basically unlimited!)

This is confusing value with cost. If you had to pay a million dollars to save a child's life, maybe that's worth it, but that's not the problem. The problem is that so often we could have saved the child's life for $100 but for various bad reasons it ends up being $100,000 instead, and the people getting the other $99,900 want to keep it that way.

> whereas rising legal costs are NOT seen as a crisis (suing other people over BS grievances, unlike saving lives, is not compulsory)

Isn't the problem with the rising legal costs mostly on the defense side? You can't prevent someone from filing an unmeritorious lawsuit against you, or avoid hiring compliance lawyers to tell you what to do to prevent that from happening, so it matters when those things get more expensive. But then the compliance lawyers and their lobbyists like it to get more expensive because they're the ones getting the money.

> infrastructure investment (cars don’t make financial sense everywhere and everything all the time, but they’re REALLY cozy, so we will spend exorbitant amounts of money on infrastructure for them compared to everything else)

People who hate cars say this but we mostly spend money on cars because everything is too spread out for mass transit, which brings us to this one:

> lack of growth of alternatives to single family homes

Markets are great at solving this. If it wasn't literally banned in most of the relevant places, developers would be replacing single family homes with higher density housing all over and people would be buying it.

> the obesity crisis (eating feels GOOD, even if it costs EXORBITANT amounts of money)

Government subsidizes the production of high fructose corn syrup, which does this:

https://www.princeton.edu/news/2010/03/22/sweet-problem-prin...

> worsening education outcomes

And then people make school choice arguments.

Which one of these isn't a situation where we would benefit from a competitive market but the existing laws prevent us from having one?
by squidbeak | 2025-09-27 09:16:49+00:00
There's a full section of the government website dedicated to this subject, and also a recent act of parliament which in part prepared legislation for it, the Data Use and Access Act 2025 [1]. See my other answer in this thread for the links.

The Digital ID scheme isn't new. The only change is from it being optional to mandatory.

[1] https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2025/18/enacted
by its-summertime | 2025-09-27 09:18:43+00:00
Code of Conducts are misaligned, in telling people what is allowed and what isn't.

What is practical is a list of obligations the maintainers are willing to do for the community:

Maintainers can only directly control themselves, after all. Only through their actions does anything happen, either merging code, or removing people from accessing the project.

Knowing where the maintainers are going to draw the line is far more useful.
by noelwelsh | 2025-09-27 09:19:45+00:00
I've ditched Pandoc + Latex for Typst for a book [1] that I'm writing. Typst is as easy to write a Markdown, and so much easier to program than Latex (though it is still a bit rough in some places). In Latex I would have to rely on a slew of packages to get anything done, and then work around their quirky interactions. With Typst it's feasible to just write it myself. It's also really fast and doesn't poo all over the file system. Strong recommend if you're producing technical documentation with PDF as your primary target.

[1]: https://github.com/scalawithcats/scala-with-cats/tree/featur...
by trhway | 2025-09-27 09:20:26+00:00
the Nature limited us to just 2 hands for all tasks and purposes. The humanoids have no such limitations.

>10000 sensors with specific spatial layout and various specialised purposes (pressure / vibration / stretching / temperature) that require different mechanical connections between the sensor and the skin.

mechanical connection wouldn't be an issue if we lithograph the sensors right onto the "skin" similarly to chips.
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by delusional | 2025-09-27 09:21:08+00:00
I think I would count internal power created by the rotating component itself. I hadn't though of that possibility, since human made machinery usually has the power producing component located in the main body and transferring that power to a freely rotating component is quite hard. Biological systems wouldn't necessarily look like that, and could feasibly be powered by the wheels themselves deforming as if the wheels were a separate, but connected, biological system.

That's quite interesting.
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