MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cogman10 | 2025-09-17 22:36:55+00:00
For me, open borders with easy documentation.

We survived for decades with basically just that. People could come up from mexico to work the fields in the summer and head back for the winter with basically no friction at the border.

The question to ask is "what is the border actually protecting"? When you start to drill in the reasons for a strong border, they all end up being fabricated problems.

"To stop drugs". Well, most drugs are either being manufactured in america or they are brought in by US citizens not smuggled across the border.

"To stop human trafficking". The ironic part here is the most common human trafficking happens because of the strong border. "We'll deport you" is used to keep workers abused. A weaker border gives workers much more bargaining power.

"To stop crime". Most crime is done by citizens of the US, not immigrants. And, again ironically, overly punitive borders does exactly the opposite of stopping crime. When someone that's undocumented can't talk to the police they are far less likely to be a witness for a crime or to report a crime. It further encourages gangs. A lot of gangs spring up because people can't go to the cops. That's part of the reason the mafia flourished. It's the reason militant organizations like the Black Panthers were formed.

"To create jobs". This one might be a wash. However, it has to be said that more people means a higher need for services in areas which can in fact create jobs.

"To avoid spending on services". This just doesn't happen outside of maybe emergency room care. Undocumented workers are FAR less likely to use any public services because they don't want to be deported. And so what if they do? Is it really such a bad thing if a non-citizen gets an education here? Don't we want more skilled and educated residence?

Let me put it in contexts of other countries. I as a kid, made a few trips to Canada and back. Back in the day you could do that without even presenting passports, it was kinda wild. Did Canada suddenly explode because of that easy border crossing? No, it was just a non-issue.

Similar things happen in the EU. The relaxed border controls for EU members hasn't resulted in chaos. It is, for the most part, a non-issue. People generally do not move, you still have most people born in whatever EU nation they are from staying there. The same would be true of the US.
by naasking | 2025-09-17 22:37:01+00:00
> Powerful pattern matching is still just pattern matching.

Higher order pattern matching is Turing complete. Transformers are Turing complete. Memory augmented LLMs are Turing complete. Neural networks can learn to reproduce any function. These have all been proven.

So if computers can be intelligent and can solve novel problems in principle, then LLMs can too if given the right training. If you don't think computers can be intelligent, you have a much higher burden to meet.

> Human level reasoning includes ability to learn, so that people can solve novel problems, overcome failures by trial and error, exploration, etc.

You keep bringing this up as if it's lacking, but basically all existing LLM interfaces provide facilities for memory to store state. Storing progress just isn't an issue if the LLM has the right training. HN has some recent articles about Claude code just being given the task to port some GitHub repos to other programming languages, and they woke up the next morning and it did it autonomously, using issue tracking, progress reports, PRs the hole nine yards. This is frankly not the hard part IMO.
by ivolimmen | 2025-09-17 22:37:32+00:00
Yes been there but technically this has nothing to do with Java but mis-management. The same issue could have occured in a company with Typescript or C++ for that matter. Keeping your software secure requires maintanance and requires active monitoring of 3rd party libraries and occational switching of libraries and partial rewrites. Sticking you head in the sand and hoping to keep everything running without maintenance will at some point require a full rewrite or extreme high costs to get to a product without CVE's.
by holoduke | 2025-09-17 22:37:35+00:00
Same setup as your. Started with codex 2 days ago on a large 3d engine project. Spend at least 20 hours prompting. One time I received a message. Try again in 4 minutes. I generally let Gemini create a prompt and then paste it inside codex. For example is asked gemeni to make a plan for a subdivided lod terrain render with shadow map functionality etc. It took codex almost an hour to execute it. Did an alright job. Quite impressed.
by zepearl | 2025-09-17 22:37:35+00:00
Fully agree - such a great movie: absolutely flowing, entertaining, fantastic characters, nice colors. That together with "Three days of the Condor" is what I immediately though of when I heard the news, but so far only one of the newspapers/sites I read has mentioned both of them..., weird :o| Am I just getting too old (respectively, are articles being written by too junior people?)?
by BrenBarn | 2025-09-17 22:37:39+00:00
Maybe. I think one thing that contributes to my interpretation is that "peace" is something you can have more or less of, but you can't have more or less Erdős. So seeing "Erdős number" I just think "measuring something about Erdős", but seeing "peace index" I get a slightly more specific feeling of "measuring the amount/quantity/duration of peace".
by tguvot | 2025-09-17 22:38:37+00:00
i believe official un position about setting any refugee camps in gaza it's that it will be forced displacement of population. or something like this. going back to days when Israel setup camps for evacuation of population from Rafah.

I don't remember UN asking to setup refugee camps or helping them to evacuate out of war zone

and you ignored the middle, which says that IDF using same procedures like USA (and in other words entire NATO)
by sonofhans | 2025-09-17 22:38:43+00:00
Serious answer — Bunny Colvin’s “Paper Bag” speech in The Wire — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2fV-_eiKxE

This nation does now and always has depended on immigrants. This recent ICE nonsense is capricious (no public plan), punitive (targets mostly political opponents), and illegal (targets skin color).
by jasongill | 2025-09-17 22:39:11+00:00
> I don't think you can even find the firmware I flashed onto it in 2014 anymore because of link rot

This is exactly what I am talking about - you claim to have a reliable and easy to use solution, but it's not a solution that someone who wanted to print dragons for their grandkids could use. Bambu Labs is (and Prusa's current offerings, to some extent, are as well, although that is up for debate as you can imagine).

It sounds like your issue is not with Bambu Lab's products, but with their business practices, and I share your concerns there - but it still doesn't mean that "my old printer I've spent a lot of time getting to work the way I want it do" is a viable alternative to "I can buy it at BestBuy, plug it in, and hit print"
by leoc | 2025-09-17 22:39:15+00:00
Sure: I didn't say that the remote workers were driving the autonomous vehicles. The NYT article I linked gives a pretty clear account of what they're doing. (The big exception here would of course be Tesla, assuming it ever gets its current "robotaxi" plans to fruition.) In any case, while the "what the humans are doing is not driving" thing always seems to come up early in these discussions, it's a relatively secondary issue when it comes to the cost and profitability question, while (as you say yourself) things like human-assistant-hours per vehicle-hour are central.
by sandcat_ | 2025-09-17 22:39:24+00:00
I feel like it’s time HN had a rule against comments like this. I am biased: I say this as someone who was previously (inaccurately) accused of being an AI, which was kind of a bummer as I’m already quite shy online and rarely speak.

But in that case there was at least a tell-tale sign: I’d used em-dashes. In this case, correct me if I’m wrong, but there’s really no reason to think this post is written by AI. It’s just a long post, that’s all. The sort we should be encouraging!
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-09-17 22:39:43+00:00
> why on earth would anyone want to associate (let alone buy) a brand synonymous with "scam"?

It’s honestly hilarious. Like, I’d pay something for one of Ponzi’s original investment contracts.

I wouldn’t for Madoff. But his crimes are emotionally proximate. Influencers getting ripped off doesn’t really trigger my sense of moral outrage.
by cogman10 | 2025-09-17 22:39:49+00:00
I'd just push back on the deportation. Why would we want to deport someone that commits a crime? If someone kills someone do we really want to trust that the government we deport them to will jail them? Especially since they have pretty much no way to actually investigate that murder?

Imagine you are canada, A canadan citizen kills an american while visiting. The US immediately deports that person because "they are a murder". What do you do as the Canadian government? Do you just take the US's word that "this person is a murderer"?
by taylodl | 2025-09-17 22:40:01+00:00
I had never even thought of that! I had just assumed that Tesla would be responsible, but you know what they say about "assume!" Holy Cow! Now you've got me thinking there's another reason to not utilize a Robotaxi, buried in the terms and conditions that nobody reads could be a statement where you take full responsibility for everything the Robotaxi does. Yikes!
by Findecanor | 2025-09-17 22:40:13+00:00
Actually, runtimes often allocate 8GB of address space because WASM has a [base32 + index32] address mode where the effective address could overflow into the 33rd bit.

On x86-64, the start of the linear memory is typically put into one of the two remaining segment registers: GS or FS. Then the code can simply use an address mode such as "GS:[RAX + RCX]" without any additional instructions for addition or bounds-checking.
by o11c | 2025-09-17 22:40:22+00:00
A moderate fraction of the work is already done using:

https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Named-Address-Spaces.html

Unfortunately the obvious `__attribute__((mode(...)))` errors out if anything but the standard pointer-size mode (usually SI or DI) is passed.

Or you may be able to do it based on x32, since your far pointers are likely rare enough that you can do them manually. Especially in C++. I'm pretty sure you can just call "foreign" syscalls if you do it carefully.
by runarberg | 2025-09-17 22:40:44+00:00
> Women have, on average, a higher emotional intelligence which is e.g. tied to higher linguistic proficiency. That helps in many different fields and, on average, women tend to learn languages easier than men.

Has this been experimentally shown to be the case with studies that don‘t fail to replicate?

Between studies that fail to replicate and pure conjecture and pseudo-science I certainly favor the former, at least actual studies that fail to replicate can be disproven, your conjectures are just race/sex science and nothing but pseudo-science. I can either take you at your word, or choose not to believe you. I pick the latter.
by sho_hn | 2025-09-17 22:40:51+00:00
Prusa generally has better print quality in terms of accuracy and better overhang performance.

Prusa drives the slicer development ecosystem (Bambu Studio is a fork), so new production-ready advances typically come from them first, which is lovely to support.

The Bambu products are fine. They print well. But the "it's on another level" stuff is mostly paid influencer narratives (a rampant thing in 3D printer YouTube, etc.) that don't really hold up to any professional scrutiny.

With advent of EasyPrint etc. arguably Prusa may have also one-upped them on ease of use? Though this isn't first-hand knowledge as I haven't tried it personally.
by this2shallPass | 2025-09-17 22:41:20+00:00
Plenty of people criticize Israel and are not antisemites. This is true of most Israelis. They generally criticize Israel in non-antisemitic ways. It is quite easy to do so.

Roger Waters is an antisemite.

Do people who have known Roger Waters his entire life think he is an antisemite because of his obsessive criticism of Israel, or because of all the other anti Jewish things he has said and done AND his singular obsession with Israel?

* https://variety.com/2023/music/news/roger-waters-antisemitic...

>In the 2023 documentary The Dark Side of Roger Waters, the >saxophonist Norbert Stachel recounts Waters refusing to eat >vegetarian >dishes in Lebanon, calling them “Jew food”. When >the musician explained >that most of his relatives had been >killed in the Holocaust, the singer did >a crude and offensive >impersonation of a Polish peasant woman, and said, >“Oh, I can >help you feel like you’re meeting your long-lost relatives. I >can introduce you to your dead grandmother.” > >Tellingly, Stachel also claimed to overhear Waters telling a >girlfriend that Judaism was not a race, saying, “They’re >white European men that grow beards and they practise the >religion Judaism, but they’re no different than me; they have >no difference in their background or their history or their >culture or anything.”

* https://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/artists/rogers-waters-anti...

I know less about Said.

He did write the forward to Shahak's Jewish History, Jewish Religion: The Weight of Three Thousand Years. The book is framed as an attack on Jewish fundamentalism.

Werner Cohn, Professor Emeritus at the University of British Colombia, writes: “He [Shahak] says (pp. 23-4) that "Jewish children are actually taught" to utter a ritual curse when passing a non-Jewish cemetery.[b] He also tells us (p. 34) that "both before and after a meal, a pious Jew ritually washes his hands....On one of these two occasions he is worshiping God... but on the other he is worshiping Satan..." I did take the trouble to question my orthodox rabbi nephew to find what might be behind such tall tales. He had no clue. If orthodox Jews were actually taught such hateful things, surely someone would have heard. Whom is Dr. Shahak kidding?”

Edward Said wrote the foreward to the second edition, calling Shahak “one of the most remarkable individuals in the contemporary Middle East.” Said writes that the book is “nothing less than a concise history of classic and modern Judaism, insofar as these are relevant to the understanding of modern Israel.”

At best Said endorses antisemites.

Tucker Carlson hosted Darryl Cooper, a podcaster known for promoting Holocaust revisionism and making historically inaccurate claims about World War II. He labeled Winston Churchill as the "chief villain" of the conflict. They perpetuated downplayed Nazi atrocities.

Sure seems antisemitic.
by rtpg | 2025-09-17 22:41:23+00:00
One of the things that I think make this tricky is that if you have any DOM references you now have visibility into a GCable object.

Part of the web Javascript security model is that you cannot see into garbage collection. So if you have some WASM-y pointer to a DOM element, how do you handle that?

I think with GC in properly people might come at this problem again, but pre-GC WASM this sounds pretty intractable
by vondur | 2025-09-17 22:41:26+00:00
Here's the official Apple Information on how to do this:

In case of emergency, use your iPhone to quickly and easily call for help and alert your emergency contacts (provided that cellular service is available). After an emergency call ends, your iPhone alerts your emergency contacts with a text message, unless you choose to cancel. Your iPhone sends your current location (if available) and—for a period of time after you enter SOS mode—your emergency contacts receive updates when your location changes.

Note: If you have iPhone 14 or later (any model), you may be able to contact emergency services through satellite if cell service isn’t available. See Use Emergency SOS via satellite on your iPhone.

Simultaneously press and hold the side button and either volume button until the sliders appear and the countdown on Emergency SOS ends, then release the buttons.

Or you can enable iPhone to start Emergency SOS when you quickly press the side button five times. Go to Settings > Emergency SOS, then turn on Call with 5 Presses.
by zelphirkalt | 2025-09-17 22:41:48+00:00
"Never again" - Was that ever an idea that Israel committed to? I thought this is only something that Germany and potentially other countries committed to, and Israel saw itself as the victim since forever, so they have no reason to commit to anything, but the victim card, which allowed them to have their own country in the first place.

Note though, that Germany's commitment to "never again" got somehow repurposed in exactly letting the thing happen again. Be it because politicians here are not actually educated enough to recognize the thing they should prevent, want to close their eyes to the fact that the once-victim now perpetrator, did it and they did nothing to stop it, they just don't care, the weapon exports are just too good of a business, or whatever. Germany has utterly failed to prevent the thing from happening ever again, and Israel has proven our collective "blind spot". The one entity, that no German politician is allowed to criticize. And still the political climate is such that, most likely, if you criticize Israel in any way, your political career is over and you get branded as an anti-Semite. Oh the irony of it.

While it should actually be a huge headline in every newspaper, that Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians and is still committing it as we sit here, the newspapers are awfully quiet. It seems like it is not even worth a headline. Man, the truth hurts. Sucks when your reporting has been so biased all along. Hard to make a 165 degree turn now, I guess (I give them 15 degree, for the occasional reporting on the matter at all.).
by velcrohn | 2025-09-17 22:41:51+00:00
If I am going to attack a military installation under your house and I warn you to leave, that is not genocide.

If I see your house, miles from any military installation, and I destroy it in order to kill you, and I do that over and over and over, that is genocide.

In both cases, the house is destroyed. In one case, your life is saved.
by bsder | 2025-09-17 22:42:04+00:00
Yes. :)

How big a deal is it to be on the cutting edge with this? Given that models seem to be flattening out because they can't get any more data, the answer is "not as much as you would think".

Consequently, a generation or 2 behind is annoying, but not fatal. In addition, if you pump the memory up, you can paper over a lot of performance loss. Look at how many people bought amped up Macs because the unified memory was large even though the processing units were underpowered relative to NVIDIA or AMD.

The biggest problem is software. And China has a lot of people to throw at software. The entire RISC-V ecosystem basically only exists because Chinese grad students have been porting everything in the universe over to it.

So, the signal is to everybody around this that the Chinese government is going to pump money at this. And that's a big deal.

People always seem to forget that Moore's Law is a self-fulfilling prophecy, but doesn't just happen out of thin air. It happens because a lot of companies pump a lot of money at the engineering because falling off the semiconductor hamster wheel is death. The US started the domestic hamster wheel with things like VHSIC. TSMC was a direct result of the government pumping money at it. China can absolutely kickstart this for themselves if the money goes where it should.

I'm really torn about this. On the one hand, I hate what China does on many, many political fronts. On the other hand, tech monopolies are pillaging us all and, with no anti-trust action anywhere in the West, the only way to thwart them seems to be by China coming along and ripping them apart.
by z7 | 2025-09-17 22:42:11+00:00
Current cope collection:

- It's not a fair match, these models have more compute and memory than humans

- Contestants weren't really elite, they're just college level programmers, not the world's best

- This doesn't matter for the real world, competitive programming is very different from regular software engineering

- It's marketing, they're just cranking up the compute to unrealistic levels to gain PR points

- It's brute force, not intelligence
by duskwuff | 2025-09-17 22:42:12+00:00
Apple's own documentation is a fine place to start - the first chapter of this book explains what resources were and how they were used:

https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/ma...

But the short version is that the Resource Manager provided a standardized way for applications to store a bunch of record-based data in a file - either as part of the application itself, or in files it created - and load those records on demand. The system used resources heavily to represent assets like code fragments, icons, dialog box layouts, or sounds, which could all be loaded on demand or automatically purged from memory when not in use.
by munificent | 2025-09-17 22:42:14+00:00
> Is the drone of a fan harmonic?

Overtones are about timbre, not harmony. The fan isn't playing a chord (well, probably not). But the tone the fan plays isn't a pure sine wave either. It will have overtones that are integer multiples of the fundamental that give it its characteristic sound.

It's the same reason that a flute and saxophone can play the same note but sound different. The fundamental is the same, but the amplitudes of the overtones are different.
by bgwalter | 2025-09-17 22:42:34+00:00
The massive amounts of compute power is not the major issue. The major issue is unlimited amount of reference material.

If a human can look up similar previous problems just as the "AI" can, it is a huge advantage.

Syzygy tables in chess engines are a similar issue. They allow perfect play, and there is no reason why a computer gets them and a human does not (if you compare humans against chess engines). Humans have always worked with reference material for serious work.
by SpaceManNabs | 2025-09-17 22:43:05+00:00
You make some good points based on your deeper read. I am a bit saddened that the rest of the comment section (the top 6 comments as of right now) devolved into "look at how silly psychology is with all its p-hacking"

That might be true, but this article's comment section isn't a good place for it because it doesn't seem like the article is entirely fair. I would not call it dishonest, but there is a lack of certainty and finality in being able to conclude that these papers have been successfully proven to not be replicable.
by II2II | 2025-09-17 22:43:15+00:00
> Blender did everything The GIMP should have done.

Gimp is an amazing tool and its creators deserve our gratitude. Then there is Krita, which is another amazing tool and its creators deserve our gratitude. Then there is LibreOffice, ditto. Then there is KiCAD, ditto. Then there is ...

I am not saying this to detract from Ton's contributions. I am saying this because a lot of people have made contributions to the open source world and, by extension, to the lives of many people. We shouldn't be treating this as a competition.
by godelski | 2025-09-17 22:43:15+00:00
Isn't the goal of disinformation campaigns to create a post truth era?

It's very hard to combat. I hope since HN has an at least above average intelligence userbase and familiarity with the internet that we'd be better at fighting this. I hope we don't give up the fight.

I think some advice I got from another academic about how to serve as a reviewer applies more broadly.

It's easy to find flaws or critiques in a work. Your job as a reviewer isn't to help authors identify flaws, they are likely already aware. Your job is to determine if their flaws undermine their claims, even if their claims are accurate it's insufficient if not properly evidenced.

The point is that nothing is perfect. So the real question is if we're making progress to finding truth or if we're just being lazy or overly perfectionist. Or Feynman said something similar. (Not a precise quote) "the first rule is not to be fooled and you're the easiest person for you to fool"