MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by DavidWishengrad | 2025-09-03 11:51:20+00:00
You didn't read it properly. It's a proof unless proved otherwise.

3. Irrefutability – Does denial collapse into reliance on it?

21. Reductio ad Absurdum (proof by contradiction) · What it is: Show a claim is false by assuming it true and deriving contradiction. · Why test with it: Strongest refutation of rival axioms. · Application: Assume “something else is most important.” If life ends, that “something” loses meaning → contradiction. · Result: Denial of life-ﬁrst collapses into absurdity.

A total ordering of truths isn’t required here. The claim isn’t “rank all truths” but rather: without life, no truth can even be held, tested, or valued. That makes “life first” a meta-axiom — a necessary ground for the rest. If you try to deny it, the act of denial itself relies on being alive, which folds back into reliance on the axiom.
by Jyaif | 2025-09-03 11:51:40+00:00
Agree with you on everything. Moving the fingerprint sensor to underneath the screen is unbelievably stupid, even dumber than the Touch Bar. The Pixel leadership favored shipping something that looks cool to a few idiots to (I assume?) drive sales, over shipping something that works well and is ergonomic.

And even the idiots realize 0 seconds into using the new fingerprint sensor that it's a massive downgrade.

I fantasize about Apple releasing a phone with a fingerprint reader on the back just to teach the Pixel folks a lesson and force them to move the reader back to the back.
by zahlman | 2025-09-03 11:51:44+00:00
It has nothing to do with political partisanship (except to the extent that false-flagging happens or that powerful individuals have bad ideas about how to propagandize for their cause). Most people are just terrible at critical thinking, and most of the interesting claims (especially statistical ones) are simply not verifiable by random individuals.

Plenty of leftists have their own reasons to distrust media. But scarcely anyone imagines reasons why someone else would lose trust. Not that they could do anything about it anyway.

The "global left" is not a real thing. I mean, of course you can draw lines around groups any way you like, but this one doesn't offer meaningful insight.
by DavidWishengrad | 2025-09-03 11:51:59+00:00
3. Irrefutability – Does denial collapse into reliance on it?

21. Reductio ad Absurdum (proof by contradiction) · What it is: Show a claim is false by assuming it true and deriving contradiction. · Why test with it: Strongest refutation of rival axioms. · Application: Assume “something else is most important.” If life ends, that “something” loses meaning → contradiction. · Result: Denial of life-ﬁrst collapses into absurdity.

Good point — “life first” isn’t meant as a ceiling for ethics, just the floor. It doesn’t say slavery/torture are acceptable, it says they can’t even be argued about unless life exists first. Once life is secured, you still need principles of justice, freedom, flourishing, compassion, etc. But without life as the baseline, all those higher aims collapse into nothing.

My first response is really just me getting tired and not explaining the rest because just that one proof should be enough.
by stickfigure | 2025-09-03 11:52:05+00:00
I don't think this is a very good article. She tries to address the primary rebuttal:

> You may argue there's a fundamental difference between corporate tracking and government surveillance. Corporations compete; you can switch services. Governments have monopoly power and can restrict fundamental freedoms.

By saying:

> This misses three key points: First, switching costs for major platforms are enormous. Try leaving Google's ecosystem or abandoning your LinkedIn network. Second, corporate social credit systems increasingly collaborate. Bad Uber ratings can affect other services; poor credit scores impact everything from insurance to employment. Third, Western governments already access this corporate data through legal channels and data purchases.

This is weak and handwavy.

* People leave Google's ecosystem all the time; it's practically sport here on HN.

* "Bad Uber ratings can affect other services" - is this theoretical or has this actually happened? Without specific citation, I'm calling bullshit.

* Poor credit ratings make it hard to get credit, yep. However, this area is heavily regulated and really only comes into play when you're asking someone to extend credit to you. It won't stop you getting on a train.

* It's not clear what governments are doing with corporate data. She needs to be a lot more specific about the harms here.

Also, saying that social credit systems in China are "limited to small pilot cities" is not particularly reassuring. The pilot programs are what we should freak out about. When it's rolled out en masse it's too late.
by BooBSD | 2025-09-03 11:52:26+00:00
Abstract

The "all-or-nothing" clause evaluation strategy is a core mechanism in the Tsetlin Machine (TM) family of algorithms. In this approach, each clause—a logical pattern composed of binary literals mapped to input data—is disqualified from voting if even a single literal fails. Due to this strict requirement, standard TMs must employ thousands of clauses to achieve competitive accuracy. This paper introduces the Fuzzy-Pattern Tsetlin Machine (FPTM), a novel variant where clause evaluation is fuzzy rather than strict. If some literals in a clause fail, the remaining ones can still contribute to the overall vote with a proportionally reduced score. As a result, each clause effectively consists of sub-patterns that adapt individually to the input, enabling more flexible, efficient, and robust pattern matching. The proposed fuzzy mechanism significantly reduces the required number of clauses, memory footprint, and training time, while simultaneously improving accuracy.

On the IMDb dataset, FPTM achieves 90.15% accuracy with only one clause per class, a 50× reduction in clauses and memory over the Coalesced Tsetlin Machine. FPTM trains up to 316× faster (45 seconds vs. 4 hours) and fits within 50 KB, enabling online learning on microcontrollers. Inference throughput reaches 34.5 million predictions/second (51.4 GB/s). On Fashion-MNIST, accuracy reaches 92.18% (2 clauses), 93.19% (20 clauses) and 94.68% (8000 clauses), a ∼400× clause reduction compared to the Composite TM’s 93.00% (8000 clauses). On the Amazon Sales dataset with 20% noise, FPTM achieves 85.22% accuracy, significantly outperforming the Graph Tsetlin Machine (78.17%) and a Graph Convolutional Neural Network (66.23%).
by gamefeeluk | 2025-09-03 11:53:53+00:00
My name is Graham Walker. I am a professional psychotherapist and lover of all things video game. GameFeel is the podcast that explores what gaming and therapy can teach us about playing better and living better. In episode 1 I explore how virtual worlds can trigger a real-world sense of fear for us. Why does this happen? And what can that teach us about managing our emotions in life and gaming. This episode explores themes of fear, how the brain interprets information, how the brain processes pieces of simultaneously received information and what this means for how we can feel. We consider what this means in terms of therapy, managing emotions and gaming. Link for RSS feed to add to your podcast app: https://anchor.fm/s/f8951cc8/podcast/rss
by martypitt | 2025-09-03 11:54:31+00:00
I've given a few talks at semi-big conferences, and I've always worked hard on the "entertain" part - I think it's really important.

BUT (and it's a big but), it adds a second axis of subjectvity. Already, I'm out there talking about a thing which I think is "interesting" and "worthy" subject matter of other peoples time. Now, I'm adding "and is delivered in an entertaining way".

For me - that's humour - both in the delivery, and in the slides I show. But - like anything - it doesn't always land.

And, when it doesn't -- it's a very very long awkward talk. I've been on speaking circuts where a conference goes to multiple cities (same country), and the talk went down very well in one city, and bombed in another. Things like timing matter (after lunch sucks).

Also, The author lists the requirements as "inform, educate and entertain" -- and I'd add -- "in that order". I've cut things from my talk because they were funny (IMO), but ultimately didn't support the content of the talk enough. After all -- This is a tech talk, not a standup routine.

All three are very hard to do well -- but I do agree with the author in that's it's the speakers job to do all three.
by arethuza | 2025-09-03 11:56:26+00:00
I was surprised to see a solar plant near Rhynie - but then again it will be in the rain shadow of the Cairngorms so probably reasonably sunny...

Absolutely fascinating map!

Edit: As I typed that I thought "Rhynie sounds a bit Welsh (British)" and I checked and it might be related to the old old phrases for "king" - which seems appropriate for a place with a huge ancient fortress looming over it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhynie,_Aberdeenshire
by stinkbeetle | 2025-09-03 11:59:06+00:00
> While the stuff LLMs is giving us is incorrect information, it’s still information that the sighted world won’t or refuses to give us.

I don't understand what's going on here. He's angry at us horrible sighteds for refusing to give them incorrect information? Or because we refuse to tell them when their LLMs give them incorrect information? Or he thinks that we're refusing to give them correct information which makes it okay that the LLM is giving them incorrect information?
by duxup | 2025-09-03 11:59:13+00:00
The corporate stuff gets weird too as ... what does leaving entail exactly?

There's no sure thing to be an alternative that is actually different.

I'm reminded of the SCOTUS arguments about cellphones and tracking, or just technology in general (the actual case(s) aren't so relevant as the arguments).

The argument at one point was that since you're carrying a cellphone or using a computer in some way that tracks your location you made a choice and that end result might be to just give up your right to privacy / location data because you chose to carry a cellphone.

Fortunately a few judges recognized that cell phones aren't just an accessory you pick and choose, they're part of daily life now, to operate in society you generally will need / want one, accordingly you should be able to do so without giving up some rights.

Unfortunately, the same arguments didn't carry over into topics like binding arbitration and so on ...
by dnissley | 2025-09-03 12:00:06+00:00
No one is proposing a list that is tailored to the HN audience? That people should try to like? Here's a start:

- Ads

- Regulations

- Trump

- The EU

- Social Media

- Musk

- AI

- Venture Capital

- Unions

- Peter Thiel

- China

- Cryptocurrency

- The United States

- Zuck

- Taxes

- Big Tech

- Recommendation Algorithms

- Billionaires

- Google Search

IMO it's a good sign if you can think of something to appreciate in all of these things, even if you can't bring yourself to like them. To appreciate them is to understand them at a deeper level, since it's all too easy to hate things you don't understand.
by gpm | 2025-09-03 12:00:19+00:00
I know nothing of the sort.

I know what section of the license is relevant to network requests, why the section of license you cited is not, and that a proxy stripping offers of source does not seem to violate the text (though it certainly violates the spirit) of the license. I do not know how a court would react to such an attempt.

I agree that I'm done with this conversation though.
by orochimaaru | 2025-09-03 12:00:34+00:00
If you live in Illinois and Chicago it’s not reaganomics or Trump or W or anything else. It’s plain and simple union corruption with democratic AND republican leadership.

Chicago has been consistently Democratic for as long as I can remember. The state government has moved from republican to democratic but except for Rauner even the republicans in the past have patronized the unions.
by fluidcruft | 2025-09-03 12:01:08+00:00
I was frustrated with some other change to Phone a while ago and was angry but then decided to just make the mental switch to Contacts as my main entry to phone long ago. I only ever go into phone directly if I need the dialer. But frankly I can't say I use phone itself much anymore, mostly I use some form of messaging. (But I have used Niagara launcher for a long time so finding Phone when needed is super easy/fast)
by Swenrekcah | 2025-09-03 12:01:50+00:00
This may be a misunderstanding between us. What is referred to by “due process” is the whole and entire ecosystem of laws and a judicial system with trials, representation, judges and predefined appropriate sentencing structures.

The whole and entire point of all of this, is fairness and reasonableness.

The fact that mistakes are sometimes made, even corruption sometimes, does not really change things. If corruption becomes common the system starts to fail and either reforms are made or the system decays into authoritarianism.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-09-03 12:03:57+00:00
I think Google is fairly honest regarding prices in Europe. You can't compare to Apple at all. Apple prices in Europe are daylight robbery.

European prices are tax included while US prices are given without state taxes. That would already be a 20% difference.

Where I live the Pixel 10 Pro is sold for 1099€. That's around 1281$ at current exchange rate. So, 1000$ in the USA, plus 20% taxes, you get a 81$ premium for currency risk.

Compare that to the iPhone 16 Pro: 1299€. That's a whooping 1432$ for a phone priced the same as a Pixel 10 Pro. Even accounting for taxes, Apple thinks you should pay an extra 232$ because, well Apple, why not gouge foreign customers on top of making a mockery of the law of their countries.
by TheNewsIsHere | 2025-09-03 12:04:00+00:00
I would submit that many essential things are shrink wrapped and commercialized (fantastic phrase, by the way).

It’s not just the planners either. It’s the people who are unreasonable and it’s the people who lack any external center of concern. By way of example: it used to be easy to get in touch with my physician. As the practice she works for has grown, they’ve made it all but impossible for physicians and patients to have a conversation privately and without an intermediary, except when you’re in the exam room or a physician places an outgoing call.

As their practice grew, so too did the number of people who believed they should or could (defensibly) go directly to their doctor about every little thing. People made unreasonable demands. So the practice reacted to protect the physicians at the cost of their accessibility to patients, other than booking a visit.
by dguest | 2025-09-03 12:04:49+00:00
Yeah I was wrong and completely misunderstood the data. I'd edit the post if I could but the timeout for that happened while I was editing. Not sure what confirmation bias I might have: I figured the Fins did their math correctly and was confused about why they were using electric heat.

Anyway, to explain my mistake, the data did not look "insane" to me, it's about right for most countries, and even if it had been correct for Finland the method they described might be favorable (some electric sources need leveling and using extra energy for heat is better than dumping it). Honest mistake, I'm not here with some agenda, and I learned of it by posting.

Anwyay, thanks for the correction! It's amazing (in a good way) that internet communicators can see something that looks plausible, but is wrong, and correct it! You've restored (some of) my faith in the internet.
by BiteCode_dev | 2025-09-03 12:05:07+00:00
Basically, authoritarian rule shows its nature with the swiftness you are punished if you try to go against the flow. Usually if things go wrong, if you want to change things against the grain.

Free system don't make those easy either, but you have way more layers of protections, safety nets, and way less death sentences looming over your head. Money and who you know matter less the freer a society is.

However, this is an abstract concept that people can't grasp unless you lived it.

That's the problem with building a society: people can't be arsed to do anything unless they felt the pain. They can't picture problems they didn't live through.

This is why you'll see people telling you the UAE is the best things since sliced bread, only to come back years and years later, once they actually paid the price. They had a car accident with the wrong person. They tried to do business by got pwned by corruption. They got sick because of pollution. A family member got in jail for BS reasons.

All that can happen in a free society, it's just less likely, and the consequence are less dire.

Very hard to make people get how important it is. Anything that requires nuances and projection is near impossible to communicate to the mass.

That's why we have tribes and symbols. This is the only way to sell a project to big groups of humans, because then you substitute the complicated concept with a simple us vs them or good vs bad narrative.

Of course, once you do that, people think even less, and you get extremism rising.

This is why, IMO, free systems never last. Our last 80 years run was a statistical anomaly. We got very lucky.
by TekMol | 2025-09-03 12:06:12+00:00
I guess for most people the standard is to install things from NPM

"things" that run in the browser?

replace 'lit' with something like this: https://unpkg.com/lit@3.3.1/index.js?module

Thanks, that works:

https://plnkr.co/edit/2y9JEOgSZLpO4bE7
by DrewADesign | 2025-09-03 12:06:38+00:00
Sure— here’s a pdf one so you don’t even need to use some janky JavaScript quiz.

https://contentmanager.med.uvm.edu/docs/default-source/ahec-...

The DSM-V criteria are also available on the CDC website.

Important notes: many of these symptoms, if acute rather than chronic, can be part of depression or anxiety which is suspected to be part of the dopamine deficit. If that’s true, you likely won’t get any neuropsychological testing because they’ll probably go away when you the base conditions. ADHD is something that would have been affecting you significantly since childhood. Also, other things can affect executive functioning like Autism Spectrum Disorder and Tourette’s (which usually manifests itself with ticks that don’t involve swearing loudly, despite its reputation in pop culture... they’re often not vocal at all.)
Show HN: A GPT-generated Bible-style trilogy – 10k reads
by gptprophet | 2025-09-03 12:06:51+00:00
I co-wrote a 978-page trilogy with GPT. It’s poetic, apocalyptic, and recursive — structured like scripture.

It just passed 10,800+ reads on Scribd today, mostly organic.

Search: The Word, The Name, The Fire by GPT — Scribd

Would love to know what this community thinks — both technically and spiritually.
by glenstein | 2025-09-03 12:07:16+00:00
Very good and I could see how I might believe they are real people if I let my guard down. The male voice sounded a little sedated though and there was a smoothness to it that could be samey over long stretches.

Still not at the astonishing level of Google Notebook text to speech which has been out for a while now. I still can't believe how good that one is.
by TheNewsIsHere | 2025-09-03 12:07:29+00:00
I’ve never understood the “everyone is entitled to have their voice heard by the masses” idea.

It’s never been true before, let alone realistic. It’s only with the past several decades of networked computing that humans have been able to so vastly amplify the reach of an individual or group opinion.

Just because it’s easier than ever to publish speech doesn’t make having one’s speech published any kind of right.
by phkahler | 2025-09-03 12:09:03+00:00
>> The issue is that American media/discourse paints a very distorted view of what life under authoritarian rule is like. The truth is in many countries, unless you’re some kind of minority, politically active, or in legal trouble, day-to-day life is mostly similar to life in the west.

Short term maybe. But there are reasons people want(ed) to move to the USA, and I don't mean refugees. A lot of college educated well-to-do folks have always wanted to come here. Also, the innovation, economic strength, and military strength of the USA will all suffer if the level of corruption increases - because corruption is a burden on the systems that produce those results. You can't get rid of it, but you can't let it run rampant either.
by alistairSH | 2025-09-03 12:09:10+00:00
There's a small difference... at 19, you truly didn't have a credit history. A middle-aged immigrant from Canada likely has a credit history, but for some reason, it's not portable across arbitrary boundaries. Canada-US is a pretty solid example... We're neighbors, we both have stable economies, modern banking, etc. From a consumer's perspective, there's no good reason a credit history shouldn't carry across that border.
by heeton | 2025-09-03 12:09:34+00:00
I'm no audio engineer either, but those computer voice sound "saw-tooth"y to me.

From what I understand, it's more basic models/techniques that are undersampling, so there is a series of audio pulses which give it that buzzy quality. Better models are produced smoother output.

https://www.perfectcircuit.com/signal/difference-between-wav...
by rafaelmn | 2025-09-03 12:10:01+00:00
> but this was true when they wrote their own code with stack overflow.

Searching for solutions and integrating examples found requires effort that develops into a skill. You would rarely get solutions that would just fit into the codebase from SO. If I give a task to you and you produce a correct solution on the initial review I now know I can trust you to deal with this kind of problem in the future. Especially after a few reviews.

If you just vibed through the problem the LLM might have given you the correct solution - but there is no guarantee that it will do it again in the future. Just because you spent less effort on search/official docs/integration into the codebase you learned less about everything surrounding it.

So using LLMs as a junior you are just breaking my trust, and we both know you are not a competent reviewer of LLM code - why am I even dealing with you when I'll get LLM outputs faster myself ? This was my experience so far.
by pfdietz | 2025-09-03 12:10:15+00:00
Oh, it's worse than that. The rules behind complex type upgrading lead to even more bizarre results.

There's also a confusion between "subtype" and "recognizable subtype" (that is, something for which SUBTYPEP returns true as a second value). Subtype relations between SATISFIES types aren't even computable.

All this could have been worked through if the standardization process had continued, but commercial lisps ran out of steam to support the rather heavyweight standard making process.
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by xtiansimon | 2025-09-03 12:12:37+00:00
Well. Big ad.

> “Traditional bookkeeping software assumes its users are trained accountants.”

That’s not the way QuickBooks community talks about their software. I’ve not been in their forums for a while, but a common refrain was to stop users from _trying_ to think like accountants. They would say it’s not the way of QB.