MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by SCAQTony | 2025-09-29 14:38:52+00:00
Back to qualia: in my opinion, and your mileage obviously varies, it’s not even a wild goose chase — it’s more like The Hunting of the Snark.

Consciousness isn’t just a spotlight, it’s the forced arbitration of billions of cellular demands. Each of our ~40 trillion cells has a survival stake and pushes its signals upward until the mind must take notice. That’s why certain experiences intrude on us whether we like it or not: grief that overwhelms reason, sexual arousal that derails attention, the impossibility of not laughing at an inappropriate moment, or the heat of embarrassment that turns thought itself into a hostage.

In that sense, qualia aren’t mystical paint on top of neural function — they’re the felt residue of our cells voting, insisting their needs be weighed in the conscious workspace. The Predictive Timeline Simulation framework is my attempt to make that arbitration explicit — testable in neuroscience, relevant to psychiatry, and useful for AI models.

Perhaps read the paper instead of skimming or running it through an AI. I believe that your complete understanding would either sharpen your criticisms or perhaps improve the paper.
by Klonoar | 2025-09-29 14:39:20+00:00
Fun isn't the point, and it's not (necessarily) a dig. I drive a manual transmission car as my daily driver. I enjoy it. I would never try to say it's better than a modern automatic, though - because that would be wholly incorrect at this point by any objective measure.

I'm noting that C++ vs Rust is basically this: every article that someone writes which goes over "we're still choosing C++" has the same vibe as people who choose manual transmissions in 2025. There's no real reason to do so at this point, other than if you want to.
by no_wizard | 2025-09-29 14:39:22+00:00
RIP Mass Effect and by extension BioWare.

One of the most groundbreaking trilogies in gaming with tons of potential and it’ll get relegated to the dustbin of history no doubt.

If I was absurdly rich I’d buy up lots of underused and/or abused IP and start a game studio around it. I feel like that would be a good business if you have the capital to handle game dev costs
by CaptainOfCoit | 2025-09-29 14:39:33+00:00
I'd argue the opposite, and go further and say there is no "good" code, only "not bad" code. I feel like most of what I think is good is because it's the only remaining option left after removing the "bad" ones. It's also way easier to find out why something is "bad" vs why something is "good" for some reason, not sure why.

In the end, all code comes with tradeoffs, so I'm guessing we're really talking about good/bad tradeoffs, rather than the actual code itself.
by enraged_camel | 2025-09-29 14:39:43+00:00
>> I have come across this although I think quite experienced engineers can suffer from this kind of immaturity.

Experience does not always result in maturity. It is actually pretty common for engineers to become more set in their ways as they gain experience, especially if they've seen some success, because that success has convinced them that the way they do things is the right way.
by crazygringo | 2025-09-29 14:39:49+00:00
No, it's not about wanting to be a nuisance. Please don't claim I said things I didn't.

It's about not wanting to outlaw every possible nuisance. And you're right -- we do outlaw plenty of things. But we also have to draw the line somewhere.

Jaywalking is a great example. It was finally repealed in NYC. Since it's fundamentally a pedestrian-first city.

And public photography is one of those things where it's such a tiny nuisance, and the cost of regulating it would be so onerous, that we wisely choose not to.
by Spartan-S63 | 2025-09-29 14:40:02+00:00
I believe that Battlefield 4 was the last good Battlefield game. Biggest asset was fully self-hostable servers that provided progression, community control, and allowed gaming clans/organizations to actually community-build. Nowadays, forced matchmaking and limited party sizes really eliminate the ability to build large communities.

The consolidation of publishers/developers in controlling all of the online experience has started limiting online gaming's ability to be a reasonable third place.
by sofixa | 2025-09-29 14:40:21+00:00
The West Bank is shown under Jordan, while Gaza under United Arab Republic (Egypt, plus Syria for a brief period, and almost Iraq). This reflects the reality in 1965. It was after all the height of Arab nationalism, with legitimate widespread desire to unite all Arab people (east of Libya at least) under a common country, and Palestinians were included in that.

In 1967 that would change, both coming under Israeli control/occupation.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-09-29 14:40:36+00:00
Hm that is a fair argument in the sense that I also wish to move forward to graphene but I got a shitty redmi phone which barely works but it still has f-droid and I also want to move forward to graphene as I said.

I mean, yes, graphene is fairly recent getting traction and I can understand why you felt that apple did a better job at saving the end user than google did.

That is partially because imo google is essentially an ads company and there are lots of ads of spyware/malware that google does nothing about and also they are esssentially spying on you yourself for selling ads.

Apple takes a more on hardware approach in the sense that they don't want to spy on you as much because they have less incentives to do so because they don't have an advertisement system aaas much as google y'know, so they definitely took a bite at apple = privacy which has worked for many people.

Google bought android and android was always an open system and it had both its pros and cons. There is also an open system of marketplace called aptoid which was literally apt + android but it also might have malware sometimes and f-droid is the best option for most use cases.

Apple had never really had an open system and it had both its pros and cons and google is seemingly shifting into it which is like a nightmare because now we have very less choices of sorts.

And android has sort of innovated/transitioned into grapheneos for general public privacy imo.

So, yes I do think that we are in agreement that grapheneos is now here to stay and I can understand why you atleast appreciated apple for not being as privacy invading as google for some time which you were pointing out

We are in unison, I agree with your points. Its just that I thought that you were just fanboying over apple for the sake of it in the original comment and glad we understood each other points as really we are talking about the same thing and agreeing at essentially everything.

Thanks for explaining your original comment better through this comment and have a nice day.
by dylan604 | 2025-09-29 14:40:46+00:00
Am I reading this correctly? Vertically they produce 77% compared to 90% of the tilted panels? In what graph is the lower number better?

Also: "Specifically, [Dave] is using bifacial solar panels– panels that have cells on both sides. In his preferred orientation, one side faces South, while the other faces North. [Dave] is in the Northern Hemisphere, so those of you Down Under would have to do the opposite, pointing one face North and the other South."

Isn't that the same thing? Is one of the sides specifically meant to face the sun? Maybe I'm just not as knowledgeable about solar panels, but what sunlight is being harnessed by the backside of the sun facing panel? Are they catching reflected light, otherwise, they are directly in shadow.
by jackstraw42 | 2025-09-29 14:40:50+00:00
this is what I'm talking about. I wish more folks in this thread had gone this direction.

I think those types of people like your MIL represent a very concerning bulk of Android users. So people are walking around with god knows what in their pockets, doing every single thing in their life through them these days. I thought others who had arrived at this thought would be alarmed too, but I'm not sure what to think anymore I guess.
by motbus3 | 2025-09-29 14:41:04+00:00
That is true but you miss one thing. Populism depends on having problems. If people feel safe they don't need a strong hand in control.

Populism creates problems or do not solve them in order to exist. That's why there is a need to create "the enemy".

That is exactly why people tolerate to-be-dictators like the evil-mustache guy. People needs to be afraid. Populism depends on fearmongering.

This is why people like the evil-mustache German guy was able to work on his platform to have absolute powers.
by bee_rider | 2025-09-29 14:41:09+00:00
I have a Kinesis Freestyle Pro that I sort of like. Although, I think tenting and split is honestly 99% of the value here, I don’t really get the whole mechanical keyboard click clacky thing. I actually prefer the key pressing experience of something like an Apple Magic Keyboard, nice and crisp and immediate. But, tenting is not optional as far as I’m concerned, it is mandatory.

Eventually the little rubbery feet fell off the tenting attachment. In a moment of frustration I wrapped the tenting attachment in tennis racket overgrip, which actually drastically improves the feeling of the thing IMO, it really keeps the keyboard in place and removes a lot of the creaky noises from the plastic tenting kits.

It looks like Moonlander tenting kits tend to be a bit more aggressive than what you get with Kinesis, though, so maybe it doesn’t apply.
by Klonoar | 2025-09-29 14:41:17+00:00
Nope, but I appreciate the effort. I threw the H-pattern reference in there without thinking about it too much mostly to differentiate the reference from situations where you're shifting but it's not with a lever.

(I've been stuck on planes for 20 hours with little sleep, so ignore it if it doesn't make too much sense lol)
by vintermann | 2025-09-29 14:41:33+00:00
Earning a lot does the heavy lifting here (and rent of various kinds does the heavily lifting of that in turn). It's far, far easier to be "frugal" in % of your income when your income is high.

People like this Tai guy pay a premium for screwing people over, they pretty clearly could have made more money, more safely, if they didn't love the feeling of getting one up on you. That explains their attitude better than some virtue of frugality.
by dbspin | 2025-09-29 14:41:33+00:00
I agree. It's bad in either case. No issue with a game or game engine should ever result in threats of violence or harassment. It's vile to publicly shame, cancel, still less attack individuals for the mistakes of their companies.

My initial skepticism was based in the voluminous amount of false allegations of harassment and misportrayal of valid criticism as harassment that happened at one point several years ago in the games industry.
by bilbo0s | 2025-09-29 14:42:05+00:00
I swear the social parts of life are what keep the elderly going, in my experience.

I could've sworn there was a paper, (or maybe just an article? can't remember), a long time ago about the community on a Mediterranean island somewhere? The thesis was that people there were living abnormally long lives because of the Mediterranean style food they ate, and how socially active and interconnected they were in old age.
by timr | 2025-09-29 14:42:14+00:00
Yeah, I don't really mean it as a criticism -- my list is stuff that I think is incredibly painful to build, ends up taking >80% of dev time, is messy/spidery, and which I've spent a lot of my life explaining the necessity of to (typically junior) engineers.

In short, this is the kind of stuff that I think fits the parent comment's categorization: it drives enterprise sales, engineers hate building it, and it never really ends because the maintenance and detailed feature requirements change with almost every contract.
by Moru | 2025-09-29 14:42:16+00:00
The 1000 civilians dead were in connection to food distribution. That number should be 0 even in a war zone.

Israel has been taking over palestinian villages for a very long time, murdering the inhabitants. The government is fueling the hate. They aren't even affraid to say it out aloud. I have seen several reports where they are calling for genocide.
by crazygringo | 2025-09-29 14:42:33+00:00
> You’re the one trying to include people in your photos without their consent.

You don't think people just happen to be in the background?

> Everyone should be allowed to enjoy public spaces without you imposing on them for your activities — and that includes you taking photos.

No, they shouldn't. It's a balance. When people play frisbee, that's "imposing" on me too, because it's not easy for me to put a blanket down in the middle of their game. Should they be fined too? I don't think so. I think I can just live with the inconvenience of walking 30 more seconds.

And I don't even know what you're talking about with blurring people's faces being so easy. My camera app doesn't do that. And even if it did, manually clicking on every single face in all 40 photos from the park that don't belong to my friends and family? No thanks. People can live with their faces in the background online, just like I can live with people playing frisbee where I'd rather be sitting.

I mean, what's next -- I'm not allowed to quote things people say in public and attribute it to them? I'm not allowed to say so-and-so was in this public park in a blog post? You don't have privacy in public places, because they're public.
by bediger4000 | 2025-09-29 14:42:40+00:00
Great, Trump hasn't educated himself on economics in almost 40 years.

Beyond that, he's abusing the office of the president's "economic emergency" power to do this. Lobby and advocate all you want, as a billionaire he had lots of lobbying power. But declaring a fake emergency to do your own thing is highly unamerican, and we shouldn't forget that.
by dangus | 2025-09-29 14:42:52+00:00
The final state of Mass Effect Andromeda was arguably a solid game after the most embarrassing well-publicized bugs got patched (“mostly positive” on Steam) The story may not be the best but there really isn’t anything wrong with the gameplay.

Dragon Age: Veilguard was actually a solid game, and it got review-bombed by angry right-wingers. It does make some traditionalist fans upset but it’s not some kind of disaster like it’s been painted to be.
by borroka | 2025-09-29 14:42:54+00:00
It is even more worrying that what is defined here as "growth", and in other contexts can be interpreted as "quality", when absent or reduced, leads to a vicious cycle of ever-decreasing quality over time.

Contemporary novels, especially those depicting modern times, are mostly terrible. I recently read a review of one such modern novel in the Financial Times—-the review was very promising—-and decided to buy and read it. Meanwhile, I am listening to audiobooks of classic, mostly forgotten novels from the last 100 years in my native language. What a difference! One could say that there is a selection effect at work, and that would be fair, but the prose, ideas, and creativity are of such superior quality in those classics compared to modern novels that I wonder how and why people read them. Some of the classics are certainly dated, but you can still understand their purpose, their vision.

I see the same phenomenon in music and movies, most of which are pseudo-creative works designed to make money in the short term. Movies and music that is quickly forgotten, shared on social media for a couple of weeks and then gone, forever. Although it may be natural to say “kids these days,” I have the impression that the easiest fruits to pick in terms of creativity have been picked in the last 100-150 years, during which more people have participated in creative fields, and in the end, there is not much else to say or experiment with. I mean, one of the most popular film genres today is the biopic, which often features people who are still alive or have recently passed away. In these films, screenwriters and directors sometimes feel the need to tweak certain facts and timelines to make the whole endeavor a little more creative.

I recently commented on a video in which one of today's most popular singers did not sing during their concert, but simply danced (badly, half-naked) with playback doing 90% of the work. Some were surprised by my astonishment, saying that this is how concerts by these new artists are today. That's the vicious circle: people don't even expect singers to sing anymore.

Technology, on the other hand, continues, at least for now, to push the boundaries.
by openfront | 2025-09-29 14:43:12+00:00
Hey everyone, I'm the creator of https://openfront.io, an open source io game licensed under AGPL/GPL with 120+ contributors. I've spent the last 15 months working on this game, even quit my job to work on it full time.

Recently a game studio called 3am Experiences, owned by "Mistik" (he purchased diep.io a while back) has ripped my game and called it "frontwars". The copy is blatant - he literally just find/replaced "openfront" with "frontwars" throughout the codebase. There is no clear attribution to OpenFront, and he's even claiming copyright on work he doesn't own.

OpenFront actually made it to the front page of HackerNews a few months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44528943

Questions for HN:

* Has anyone successfully enforced AGPL violations? What worked?

* Given it's a Wyoming LLC - best legal approach?

* Should I pursue copyright AND license violation, or focus on one?

* Any lawyers here experienced with AGPL enforcement?
by fwip | 2025-09-29 14:43:32+00:00
Using this example paragraph, at compression level 1 or higher (copy with the quotation symbols):

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.”

The red bit at the beginning is Zlib header information and parameters. This basically tells the decoder the format of the data coming up, how big the data is, etc.

The following grey section is the huffman coding tables - more common characters in the input are encoded in a fewer number of bits. This is what later tells the decoder, that 000 means 'e' and 1110110 means 'I'.

Getting into the content now - this is where the decoder can start emitting the uncompressed text. The first 3 purple characters are the unicode values for the fancy opening quote - because they're rare in this text, they're each encoded as 6 or 7 bits. Because they take a lot of bits, this website is showing them as a purple color, as well as physically wider. The nearby 't' is encoded in 4 bits, 0110, and is represented in a bluer color.

The orange bits you've mentioned are back references - "x10 <- 26" here means "go back 26 characters in what you've decoded, and then copy 10 characters again." In this way, we can represent "t was the " in only 12 bits, because we've seen it previously.

The grey at the end is a special "end of stream" marker, followed by a red checksum which allows decoders to make sure there wasn't any corruption in the input.

I think that's everything. Further reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zlib https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deflate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huffman_coding
by bee_rider | 2025-09-29 14:43:46+00:00
FWIW I actually didn’t use the card ever, haha.

I do have some relatives that like to rent the same place year-after-year for family events, for whatever reason. They are a little picky so I think they just like to go back to a place if it worked out. I’m actually not sure if they go through apps at this point, or what…
by gjm11 | 2025-09-29 14:43:55+00:00
To some of us weirdos, it actually matters whether things we repeatedly stand up and declare or sing about are true, and whether the stories we draw meaning from are factually correct, and whether values we repeatedly and publicly affiliate ourselves with are good.

And, among this admittedly weird fragment of the population, those of us who think the things churchgoers affirm and derive meaning from and value are true and good are mostly already going to church, and those of us who think they're not so true and mostly not so good shouldn't be going to church, no matter how sorry our asses.
by deadbabe | 2025-09-29 14:44:00+00:00
Mortality risk is already 100% isn’t it? We’re going to die, guaranteed, so what’s another 23% increase on 100%?

I think a good study would be the effects of likes, upvotes and karma on overall lifespan. I’d bet that people who gain more upvotes and positive engagement in general probably live much longer than people who are chronically downvoted or ignored.
by ghc | 2025-09-29 14:44:04+00:00
> The engineering tyrannical drive

The critique you're dismissing is from an English professor who teaches argument, not "engineering." So your writing is in fact being criticized by both "CS" and "English" (as you might put it). I'm not implying that taking license with punctuation, vocabulary, or grammar is necessarily bad -- I studied writing under two poet laureates, so I'm no stranger to unusual syntax -- but what are you writing on an Internet forum for if not to be understood? Your arguments against writing more plainly are quite familiar to me; engineers make similar arguments when told they need improve their documentation or user training materials.
by gruez | 2025-09-29 14:44:13+00:00
>What will PIF, Silver Lake and Affinity partners do to monetize such client software, beyond games, that is pre-installed on 1 billion devices?

How is this different than something like Broadcom buying VMware? Corporate machines are probably far juicier than a bunch of 18-35 yr olds computers. Not to mention that a wide install base also means if they go rogue it'll be detected even faster.
by estearum | 2025-09-29 14:44:23+00:00
No, my point is that presumably the cars arrived on your self-sufficient private roads via public roads. Is this correct or not?

Re maintenance: Again, obviously doesn't work outside of an area that definitionally does not have very few people/businesses.

If everyone lived in density like yours, first of all we wouldn't have nearly anything good about modern life, but secondly yes we could obviously have the system you describe. I'll take public roads and modern life any day.
by emilsoman | 2025-09-29 14:45:18+00:00
> What kind of code “looks good” to you? What kind of code “looks ugly”? IMO this is not taste, it's your pattern recognition skill based on what you think is better in terms of correctness, performance and maintainability.

> Which design decisions you feel really good about, and which ones are just fine? It's not just a feeling, it comes from reasoning.

Good taste == good skill isn't it?

When someone chooses a functional lang over an object oriented one - is this because of better taste? They’ve learned, through experience, what kinds of problems map more cleanly to immutability and composition versus encapsulation and state. Their "taste" for one paradigm over another is just a reflection of the skills they’ve built up in recognizing tradeoffs, debugging pain points, and anticipating long-term maintainability. What looks like taste is really just expertise shaping intuition.

I get why the author feels a team member who doesn't align with the team's goals has bad taste. But it's really just this - the opinions they have formed from their experience don't match yours.
by detaro | 2025-09-29 14:45:45+00:00
Bifacial panels usually have one side that's a bit more more efficient than the other. The backside can catch reflections, sky light on overcast days, ...

But it's usually more common to orient them east-west, so they have peaks in the mornings and in the afternoon/evening, which combines well with other solar panels that are mounted south-facing, or might even just match your electricity consumption pattern better.