MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lo_zamoyski | 2025-10-13 14:23:30+00:00
You claim it makes no sense, but don't give a good reason why it wouldn't.

> You could equally make the statement that thought is by definition an abstract and strictly syntactic construct - one that has no objective reality.

This is what makes no sense, as I am not merely posing arbitrary definitions, but identifying characteristic features of human intelligence. Do you deny semantics and intentionality are features of the human mind?

> There's also no "magic" involved in transmuting syntax into semantics, merely a subjective observer applying semantics to it.

I have no idea what this means. The point is that computation as we understand it in computer science is purely syntactic (this was also Searle's argument). Indeed, it is modeled on the mechanical operations human computers used to perform without understanding. This property is precisely what makes computation - thus understood - mechanizable. Because it is purely syntactic and an entirely abstract model, two things follow:

1. Computation is not an objectively real phenomenon that computers are performing. Rather, physical devices are used to simulate computation. Searle calls computation "observer relative". There is nothing special about electronics, as we can simulate computation using wooden gears that operate mechanically or water flow or whatever. But human intelligence is objectively real and exists concretely, and so it cannot be a matter of mere simulation or something merely abstract (it is incoherent and self-refuting to deny this for what should be obvious reasons).

2. Because intentionality and the capacity for semantics are features of human intelligence, and computation is purely syntactic, there is no room in computation for intelligence. It is an entirely wrong basis for understanding intelligence and in a categorical sense. It's like trying to find out what arrangement of LEGO bricks can produce the number π. Syntax has no "aboutness" as that is the province of intentionality and semantics. To deny this is to deny that human beings are intelligent, which would render the question of intelligence meaningless and frankly mystifying.
by komon | 2025-10-13 14:23:33+00:00
These are mutually exclusive states, actually.

The "chance at making FU money" and "100% more work/stress" and "losing funding or... goes bust and can't make payroll", that's stuff that happens at startups that are paying _below_ the VC-backed market rate.

Once a company gets money to be paying employees in the third hump of the trimodal distribution of SWE pay, those "exciting" parts are long gone. You're no longer in the running to receive a hilarious amount of money should everything 10-100x, and you're no longer worried about going bust and not making payroll.

Even a pre-series A startup I worked at saw the writing on the wall with 5 months of runway left and switched from trying to get funded to finding an M&A deal. At the very least you can get the team acquired by someone in the expansion phase and get the rare chance to interview as a group and compare notes and have an exec try and negotiate your salary _up_ for once.

By the time a startup is paying VC-backed market rate, the level of stress you have just comes from the usual suspects: management, culture toxicity, etc. some of that you can absorb, some might prompt you to find a new job, just like normal.

There's still a level of "hoo-rah, we're a startup" present of course, but I just consider this a bad attempt to keep the magic of when the company and products were small alive. I let it affect me none.
by jcattle | 2025-10-13 14:23:41+00:00
I find macroeconomics fascinating. These theories to explain how growth works, what incentivizes it, where value comes from, I find them really fascinating.

It kind of echoes a common theme with LLMs, of humans creating systems that somehow work and only afterwards trying to make sense of why they work. We know that transformers are good at capturing context, and gradient descent is good at arriving at a working model of that context but how exactly this knowledge is being distilled and stored in an embedding space, no exact clue.

Is there some course which teaches the basics of macroeconomics?
by whizzter | 2025-10-13 14:23:55+00:00
Honestly, many math teachers are kinda bad at conveying all that.

When everything clicked a few years down the line it all became so simple.

Like you mention "linear operation", the word linear doesn't always make intuitive sense in terms of rotations or scaling if you have encountered simple 1 or 2 dimensional linear transformations when doing more basic graphics programming.

As a teacher, I think the biggest lesson I had to learn was to always have at least 3 different ways of explaining everything to give different kinds of people different entrypoints into understanding concepts.

For someone uninitiated a term like "basis vector" can be pure gibberish if it doesn't follow an example of a transform as a viewport change, and it needs to be repeated after your other explanations (of for example how vector components in the source view just are scalars upon the basis vectors when multiplied with a matrix instead of a heavy un-intuitive concept).
by MisterTea | 2025-10-13 14:23:55+00:00
I mean sure, nuclear is very interesting but the cost right now is so sky high vs renewable that it's a massive uphill battle to even consider it. Then factor in the negative public perception and waste disposal issues and that hill you have to fight up just became a vertical wall. Solar and wind are low cost and high return. Maybe one day it will make sense but today it does not.
by nonethewiser | 2025-10-13 14:23:58+00:00
This is very cool.

Here is something I'm struggling with as a user. I look at a product (this tofu for example [0]) and see the amounts. And then I have absolutely no clue what it means. Is it bad? How bad? I see nanograms one place and μg in an info menu - is μg a nanogram? And what is LOQ? Virtually 0? Simply less than the recommended amount?

I think 99% of people will have the same reaction. They will have no idea what the information means.

I clicked on some info icons to try and get more context. The context is good (explains what the different categories are) but it still didnt help me understand the amounts. I went to "About" and it didnt help with this. I went to the FAQ and and the closest I can find is:

>What makes a result 'concerning'? We don't make safety judgments. Instead, we compare results to established regulatory limits from FDA, EPA, and EFSA, noting when products exceed these thresholds. We also flag when regulatory limits themselves may be outdated based on new research.

I understand that you don't want to make the judgement and it's about transparency and getting the information. But the information is worthless if people dont know what it meant.

[0] - https://laboratory.love/product/118
by dsign | 2025-10-13 14:24:28+00:00
I too believe social unrest due to labor market disturbances is very likely. But I will feel some relief if that's all it comes from it. AI has the potential to automate everything, including company management and civil governance, at which point people will be out of the loop to a degree not seen before in history. The worst part is that it won't happen overnight; society will gradually anneal humans towards that redundancy potentially without any shock that would provoke our species to react decisively. Plus, we are starting from a bad place already.
by theshrike79 | 2025-10-13 14:24:36+00:00
Gemini is useless as a coding assistant.

What it excels at (because of its massive 1M token context) is code reviews. As a reference the French version of The Three Musketeers is about 700k tokens. A ~440 odd page book.

You can shove any codebase at it and ask questions about how it works and it's all in its context at the same time with no RAG magic.
by geysersam | 2025-10-13 14:24:44+00:00
> Technology advances rapidly and affects us all, with new products and production methods replacing old ones in a never-ending cycle. This is the basis for sustained economic growth

since the end of the 19th century...

Am I missing something?

How can they assert that the current trajectory of economic growth won't end in stagnation, like every other growth spurt throughout history?

Sure, the economic growth of the last 150 years is unprecedented in history. But so was the second most significant period of economic growth before it stagnated.
by queenkjuul | 2025-10-13 14:24:59+00:00
No, i asked for evidence that "Portland is burning to the ground" and will happily accept any evidence from any source, but you haven't provided anything resembling one, presumably because no part of Portland is burning.

I genuinely know nothing about Portland, but i know that the way Chicago is described is entirely unmoored from reality, and that none of the protestors in Chicago have been violent, so you can back up your claim or continue to look like you're making things up
by like_any_other | 2025-10-13 14:25:17+00:00
I am not objecting to it not being allowed to jam radio/disrupt communications. I am objecting to corporations one-sidedly policing us, using said disruption as a mere excuse (or not even an excuse in this case - Google secretly patched this, without disclosing it in the patch notes).

Is it really an "extremist libertarian" position that corporations shouldn't abuse their backdoor access to our devices to enforce their whims? Or even that our property shouldn't enforce laws against us? Like mandating all cars come with a remote shutoff that police can use. It sounds like a totalitarian dystopia to me.
by lukevp | 2025-10-13 14:26:17+00:00
Is this a parody of the Dropbox comment or is this sincere? I don’t think iPads have built in ssh… and even if they do, this is a far cry from an app. It assumes you have a Linux machine on your local network and are willing and able to set up ssh to connect to it as well as learn command line tooling for making calculations.
by cceckman | 2025-10-13 14:26:39+00:00
I'll play with acrylic at some point. But I want this to be wood to match other things in my office: desk (not pictured), clock [1], various other items.

It's a good point about the soot, but I don't mind doing a little bit of sanding to finish it. :)

[1]: https://cceckman.com/writing/aclock/
by llm_nerd | 2025-10-13 14:27:18+00:00
It doesn't remotely repudiate anything I said, more than saying that Gpvos is the #1 seller of buggy whips ergo ipso facto buggy whips are super popular. This is not a hard logical chain to follow, so good god.

But secondly, even that site claimed they have what, a 20% marketshare of multitools from once owning the market entirely to themselves? Even if we were so profoundly simple that we believed that being the biggest vendor in a market validates the market, this particular example is hilarious.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-10-13 14:27:23+00:00
> How can we do this if the world has created a divide between two parties all across the world and its only fueled by the proprietory algorithmic worlds

You really think the world wasn’t divided before the internet and Facebook? My still living parents grew up in the Jim Crow south where they were literally and legally separated because of the color of their skin. Society has always been tribal.
by mschuster91 | 2025-10-13 14:28:02+00:00
What I don't really get about ReactOS is... why did they not go for the route of focusing on getting the Windows binary compatibility layer for drivers working first? I 'member some horrible WINE plus other stuff layer for NDIS network drivers to be used on Linux, so the theory should work out.

That way, they could have used allll the existing Windows drivers there are, by prompting the user to insert a legitimate Windows CD to pull them from (similar to how OpenTTD or Doom ask for the original asset files) they wouldn't need to take care of copyright as well...
by arjunnarayan | 2025-10-13 14:28:18+00:00
1/4. The max number of recipients of any prize is 3, but it can be split into a half, and then one of those halves into two further halves, for a 1/2 + 1/4 + 1/4 split. (It can also be split equally into 1/3 + 1/3 + 1/3).
by WesolyKubeczek | 2025-10-13 14:28:52+00:00
> This method is not available on all devices and does not support sharing or collaboration.

The parent cites "hassle of creating the database" and does not mention sharing or collaborating. I showed that it doesn't get more hassle-free than this and doesn't even require connectivity (which might be a problem "on some devices" or "in some locations").
by tcoff91 | 2025-10-13 14:28:58+00:00
I am a git expert and I very much prefer jj. It enables workflows that are impractical with git. It’s hard to even imagine these workflows if you only use git because your thinking is constrained by the limitations of your tools.

Git rebase is like programming with punch cards compared to jj’s rebase being like writing Python.

https://ofcr.se/jujutsu-merge-workflow/
by exasperaited | 2025-10-13 14:29:05+00:00
While it's possible it was something like finally getting proper nutrition or that something delayed puberty, or some random circumstance that caused his pituitary to start working again, like one too many hilaaaaarious slaps on the head, it's probably more likely the historical record was simply inaccurate/falsified/mythologised, and he reached his full height more or less at adulthood. After all, there were likely no really unimpeachable records of his earlier height.
by omni_georgio | 2025-10-13 14:29:17+00:00
Hey, co-founder of Coral here. Just for some context; the website is a little outdated for sure.

Ai23T was the old name of the brand; we changed it to Coral since it fits better with the idea of an ecosystem.

There was a 100% migration from the token; no one lost any money.

A lot of the founding team comes from AI backgrounds, going through pilots with enterprises and onboarding new customers. We just finished our first hack with ElevenLabs, Mistral AI, Lovable, etc.

No one on the team is building for a scam, just to be clear but 100% see where you are coming from as crypto has a lot of fake projects, and we’re shipping weekly. Happy to answer any questions!

Feel free to check our docs out! https://docs.coralprotocol.org/welcome
by woodrowbarlow | 2025-10-13 14:29:22+00:00
some people think it's not "homelabbing" unless you're doing things the way it's done at large scale. i think these people are aiming to enter IT as a career and consider a homelab to be a resume project.

but proxmox and kubernetes are overkill, imo, for most homelab setups. setting them up is a good learning experience but not necessarily an appropriate architecture for maintaining a few mini PCs in a closet long term.

you can ignore the gatekeeping.
by southernplaces7 | 2025-10-13 14:29:24+00:00
I agree that it can be, and that this can be terribly depressing when you start to believe it's the case in your life (it's happened to me before), but even then at least there's another human being on the other side of the equation with whom the chance of opening a crack is possible against some forming emotional blockade.

Now imagine trying to connect with a person, investing an emotional trickle in ideas of chemistry and possibility, to discover you weren't even speaking to them at all. Their mindless, stone-unconscious AI was snowing you along. So much worse. Brrrr.

The empty people who use these tactics deserve the desolate romantic life they seek to avoid.
by vanillax | 2025-10-13 14:29:25+00:00
This is a neat guide. Its baked in already if you have a Firewalla device. Cool to see this roll your own approach. I always found their guide helpful.

From the Firewalla Site -

How to Choose Your DNS Strategy If you have NO concerns at all, just use traditional DNS from your ISP or configure some public DNS for your LAN networks if you like. If you need simple filtering to protect your network from unwanted online content, choose Family Protect -> Native mode. It won't conflict with other DNS services. If you trust your DNS service provider but don't trust your ISP, choose DNS over HTTPS. If you do not trust any single DNS server other than the root and authoritative DNS server, choose Unbound. If you do not want any DNS queries getting changed or filtered, use Unbound. If you do not want any DNS queries getting changed or filtered and want to add a layer of encryption so that your ISP can't see your DNS requests, use Unbound and turn on DNS over VPN under it.

https://help.firewalla.com/hc/en-us/articles/4570608120979-F...
by actinium226 | 2025-10-13 14:29:30+00:00
> apt-get/pacman/dnf/brew install <everything that you need>

If only it were so simple. Not every tool comes from a package with the same name, (delta is git-delta, "z" is zoxide, which I'm not sure I'd remember off the top of my head when installing on a new system). On top of that, you might not like the defaults of every tool, so you'll have config files that you need to copy over or recreate (and hopefully sync between the computers where you use these tools).

That said I do think nix provides some good solutions for this. It gives you a nice clean way to list the packages you want in a nixfile and also to set their defaults and/or provide some configuration files. It does still require some maintenance (and I choose to install the config files as editable, which is not very nix-y, but I'd rather edit it and then commit the changes to my configs repo for future deploys than to have to edit and redeploy for every minor or exploratory change), but I've found it's much better than trying maintain some sort of `apt-get install [packages]` script.
by James_K | 2025-10-13 14:29:31+00:00
>https://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/

>match

>[Definition: (Of strings or names:) Two strings or names being compared are identical. Characters with multiple possible representations in ISO/IEC 10646 (e.g. characters with both precomposed and base+diacritic forms) match only if they have the same representation in both strings. No case folding is performed.

I'm quite fond of XML myself, and this is not an issue in XML.
by throwaway290 | 2025-10-13 14:29:41+00:00
> it removed the driver’s power to reject you. It made price transparent. It weaponized accountability through ratings.

Wow. I really doubt this person took many ubers. if this was written by a person of course

Anyone can get rejected by drivers. Just canceling or the worst is if the driver is hiding somewhere next block and not moving, waiting for you to cancel. It's better when a taxi driver just tells you no

The price is not transparent. You know it in advance if it's uber X but it's not transparent. And of course Uber X with its "transparent price" cost the same or more as a regular taxi

I know of people who got scammed by an uber driver in india and were taken instead of their hotel in delhi all the way to kashmir. Or a friend just got dropped off on wrong street at night in a foreign country without internet. Etc
by burnt-resistor | 2025-10-13 14:30:20+00:00
That's not so good. 24-channel GPS can do <1cm today while moving (that's RTK) using (free in most areas) WAAS. Fusion constellation many channel GNSS receivers with clear terrain can do about as good without DGPS (of which RTK is a subset). There's really no reason not to use as many constellations and as many satellites as possible to reduce error more quickly.

I really hope QPS works, becomes available to the public, and decreases in cost quickly because it would make GNSSes more of a backup and calibration system than a primary system. Hybrid location chipsets in mobile handsets use a fusion of many technologies and techniques which would be really cool to have QPS especially for underground metro systems and inside buildings with lots of signal-attenuating materials.
by mpalmer | 2025-10-13 14:31:08+00:00
git is both a (bad) UI and a protocol. Jujutsu is a UI on top of git (the protocol).

There's nothing wrong with taking the time to learn how to use a bad UI, especially if there's no other option. But don't mistake your personal mastery of git for evidence that it's better than jj.

In all likelihood, the git proposal you allude to would not extend further than adding a bit of persistent metadata that follows commits after "destructive" changes. And even then, it'd be imperatively backing into the change-as-commit-graph data model rather than coming by it honestly.

> If you actually take time to learn your tools and how they're intended to be used, there's really not reason to learn jj IMO

This is like saying if people take the time to learn curl, there's really no reason to learn Firefox.

And it doesn't suggest to me that you're all that familiar with jj!

- automatic rebasing! goodbye to N+1 rebases forever

- first-class conflict resolution that doesn't force you to stop the world and fix

- the revset/template languages: incredibly expressive; nothing like it in git

- undo literally any jj action; restore the repo to any previous state. try that with the reflog...

No amount of learning git nets you any of these things.
by omni_georgio | 2025-10-13 14:31:17+00:00
Hey, co-founder of Coral here, Ai23T was the old name of the product; we changed it to Coral since it fits better with the idea of an ecosystem.

We 100% migrated the token, there was an AirDrop for a new token.

Will keep doing more hacks and working on the discord I guess haha
by wjgilmore | 2025-10-13 14:31:22+00:00
This weekend I added a broken link monitor to https://SecurityBot.dev. It will scan a site and flag 400, 403, 404, and 500 HTTP status codes. Screenshot:

https://imgur.com/a/9kWMXVe

Next up: an MCP server so devs can pull data from SecurityBot's various monitors directly into their IDE.
by whyoh | 2025-10-13 14:31:23+00:00
I tried installing the latest 25H2 (stable iso) and nothing has changed so far. You can still use "bypassNRO" to set it up with a local account, offline. The planned changes will likely only affect the Home edition (Pro/Ent/Edu have more options). Even with Home edition there's a good chance you'll be able to make a local account with an answer file[1][2] or an unofficial tweak.

I think Windows will always be able to work without a MS account, because there are many critical (offline) deployments out there. But they'll probably make it difficult if you're using a "consumer" edition.

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufactu...

[2] https://schneegans.de/windows/unattend-generator/
by FrankWilhoit | 2025-10-13 14:31:35+00:00
Definitive solutions, to this or any other problem, are not wanted. What is wanted are "wedge issues", problems that can be nurtured and perpetuated, always just off the boil, to be used to place blame and raise money. To solve a problem is to render it useless. This is the Second Law of Modern Politics.
by drewg123 | 2025-10-13 14:32:02+00:00
This seems relatively common among ancient hunter-gatherer societies. We've been watching Prof. Jiang's excellent "Story of Civilization" course on his Predictive History YT channel[1]. In the 2nd or 3rd video, he mentions that the remains of somebody with a rare form of dwarfism were found as part of an ancient hunter-gather tribe, and they had the same levels of nutrition as the able-bodied members of the tribe.

Maybe "primitive" people were not so primitive after all..

[1]The course is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjqf9T59uY0&list=PLREQ8S3NPa...