MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Saladin7 | 2025-10-09 00:33:22+00:00
We found this brain-network renders subjective experience from multiple predictive modules, explaining why people can share a reality based on how their brains predict.

We tested how moment-to-moment experience evolves by analysing brain scans of people while they saw a movie/heard a story. Results suggest subjective experience/phenomenal consciousness is not just passive sensory input. A brain network called the default-mode network (DMN) runs three parallel predictive modules in midline prefrontal cortex, dedicated to contextual, social, and temporal information. These modules update predictions continually, and their outputs are blended with sensory data, giving a single, unified “now.”

People with more similar prediction patterns had similar experience, than with ones having different prediction profiles.

We suspect this provides some fresh insight into how brains create shared realities and personal differences, pointing toward new models of human cognition.

Paper

Fragmentation and multithreading of experience in the default-mode network

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-63522-y
by JoshTriplett | 2025-10-09 00:33:29+00:00
Ah, got it! Sorry for us talking past each other there, then.

I think part of what I was suggesting still applies there: if you can't install things remotely, and you have oversight to ensure that any backdoor applied to you has to have been sent to everyone (which provides a measure of security), then what's left is physical control of the device. For instance, keeping the device in your possession, locking it down against peripherals...

That can't prevent you from being physically coerced, but it provides a lot of security in every other case. And if things have devolved to the point of you being physically coerced then you have much worse problems.
by xpe | 2025-10-09 00:33:46+00:00
> > You don't provide any evidence from the report of #3. Instead, you refer to Trump's comments as evidence of his xenophobia.

> No, as evidence of how the President of the United States has abused his position to weaponize xenophobia, of which the report in question is just another example.

We don't disagree that Trump has weaponized the government in many ways. But Trump's corruption and weaponization is not completely pervasive. To explain, I'll restate a point from another comment:

> But you are confused if you think this tendency of Trump means that this particular NIST report is irredeemably twisted and manipulated. You seem to believe that Trump's derangement has percolated NIST to the point where nearly every word in the report is in service of his whims or agenda (which changes so often that even his supporters have to find ways to cope with the chaos).

> No. I haven't seen you demonstrate much understanding of NIST or U.S. government agencies in general. I've seen you commit many errors and much motivated reasoning.
by array_key_first | 2025-10-09 00:33:48+00:00
Proton is not an emulator. Games running on Proton typically have slightly better GPU performance than native DX. It's mostly a compiler.

It's sort of like saying that C++ is inherently a performance hit over C because you have to do more translation. Well, no, the translation happens ahead of time, and the result of the translation might be better suited to run on the hardware. For example, C++ has semantics that allow optimizations that are impossible in C. Rust ALSO has semantics that allow optimizations that are impossible in C.

But, I'm being sloppy here. Proton is many tools, and DXVK is just one of them, WINE is another.

But, of the modern graphics APIs, Metal is the most unique. And it does have good reason - the M series chips do have some unique GPU hardware that allows them to do certain things faster.

It's just that those things aren't generally useful or automatic, WE have to set it up. But we can't do that if we use automatic translation.
by avidiax | 2025-10-09 00:33:51+00:00
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."

I fully believe that climate denialists can ignore anything. It could be 55 degrees C outside and they'll say that it's an El Nino year and we are coming out of an ice age, and sure, it's hot, but how do you know that humans caused it?
by whimsicalism | 2025-10-09 00:34:39+00:00
Leveraging your power as "sovereign currency issuer" means monetizing the debt, aka inflating away the debt, which is disastrous in terms of what it does to purchasing power but also in terms of creditor confidence.

Please, Stephanie Kelton didn't discover some secret hack to get money for free - I would recommend learning traditional macro before going on the MMT train.
by aseg | 2025-10-09 00:34:52+00:00
In gliding, tow upsets are pretty common and, in rare cases, can be fatal. An out-of-position glider out can _easily_ and very quickly overcome the tow planes elevator authority (ability to pitch up or down) which leads to accidents like this. This video does a good job explaining explaining the root causes and potential dangers (https://youtu.be/5cpqFzhM9dY?si=J7GxP1dI9Xopy3xu). Also read the comments from testimonials from other glider pilots.

This is my biggest concern with this concept as well. Towing things is challenging because the tow plane's center of gravity can change drastically depending on the forces on the glider it is towing -- if the glider deploys its spoilers / crabs in a crosswind / gets in your wake turbulence you're not going to be able to predict how it changes your CG (and your control authority) without training or experience. Also, with gliders, the tow plane is traveling at around 60MPH to 90MPH, with a decision window of 2-3 seconds. Commercial planes travel at ~500 MPH... The concept seems like a hard sell to the pilot unions. I bet they've thought about this though.
by dylan604 | 2025-10-09 00:35:40+00:00
This feels gross. If the manufacturers are not held accountable, then they will never stop making shite products. If the retailers are knowingly selling shite products, then sure. But most of the time, retailers are just selling products they think customers will want to buy. Lots of shite products get returned to the manufacturer when the retailers cannot move them, or other issues arise from the products.

The retailers are the front line for returns as that's the point of contact for the customer. That's just the nature of the beast. If a company establishes itself as a maker of decent products that retailers can trust suddenly gets lazy/cheap/profit focused to the point they cheapen their products, it is not the retailer's fault.
by throw234234234 | 2025-10-09 00:35:47+00:00
In the end with most of these deals its the shareholders paying through market cap dilution. Given the current market structure (the big companies are tech companies) there's PLENTY of capital for OpenAI to fund their expansion.

They've discovered a cheat code IMO. Instead of using and raising money themselves, use their reputation/popularity and use their suppliers market caps (e.g. NVIDIA, AMD, etc). The deal makes sense as long as the value projected to be added (i.e. via efficiency gains, loss of jobs, changing society, etc) exceeds the capital dilution for the supplier; they use their equity but the leftover equity value increase makes up for it.

Given all the passive investing, and funds invested in the top tech companies this is a VERY large pool of capital. It however increases leverage if the value doesn't materialise.
by whimsicalism | 2025-10-09 00:36:02+00:00
Yes, I understand your point very well. My point is two-fold, 1. that many small and stable jurisdictions can absorb excess capital even if there isn't a single stable player as large as the US, 2. it makes higher yield less stable jurisdictions more appealing on the margin. Ultimately, capital will flow away from the US if our fiscal stability is increasingly in question.
by syncsynchalt | 2025-10-09 00:36:58+00:00
It's because the wheels can turn the engine more easily and for longer in higher gears. This isn't intuitive until you realize that you've flipped the inputs and outputs of the transmission, and this inverts the gearing relationship. _Higher_ gears are better at multiplying relatively little input (wheelspin) into a lot of output (engine rotation).

You learn the same lesson (2nd gear starts) with motorcycles, which have much smaller batteries and fragile charging systems so the need to push-start is unfortunately common.
by A_D_E_P_T | 2025-10-09 00:37:45+00:00
There's really no way it costs them more than $3M, and many civil cases cost way less. They've already lost more than what I'd consider a reasonable upper bound. Besides, they're not a very small business, so they ought to have set aside money for legal events, and they might even have insurance to cover it.

(I realize that it's absurd and inherently unjust that the legal process is so expensive.)

IMO, even if it just gets the offending poster deleted, it would be money well-spent. The marketing/PR hit is just brutal. I blame Google for this.
by iszomer | 2025-10-09 00:37:52+00:00
Judging by the rest of the comments on this post, they don't add much to "the conversation" either but I would think Peter Thiel "has a lot of fingers in a lot of pies", eg: Palantir.

I'm okay with the flag -- morning HN skim + dumb comment prior to work and after hours followup on my commute home.
by array_key_first | 2025-10-09 00:38:46+00:00
Free money has fuck all to do with it. This is about freedom and the perseverance of humanity.

If it makes you feel better, I do pay many hundreds of dollars a year for open source software. All donations.

I'm not saying that to brag or anything, but since we want to start making moral arguments, I think it's likely I'm much less of a freeloader than you. Um, ouch.
by nis0s | 2025-10-09 00:38:48+00:00
This article is written from an innocent perspective because it assumes that shouting away your ideological opponents is motivated by a personal need to preserve identity, or prevent harm, to yourself or others. That may be true sometimes, but there are nation state level efforts devoted to manipulating democratic institutions into believing some view point is represented by a strong and numerous collective, thereby gaining more political influence for that viewpoint. The issue mainly gets complicated because of geopolitics.

It’s well known that some of the least progressive nations, for example, will run campaigns to foster discontent in secular, liberal democracies. But it’s less heard of that some progressive agendas want reparations to certain nations from other states which they hold responsible for their current state, hundreds of years and many generations later. The ideology behind equity, for example, is about creating democratic will in Western liberal democracies to pay reparations, including by giving away land. But who are the leaders who these reparations will be paid to, and will the people of those nations ever receive any benefit from them? It’s ironic that progressives often stand up for cultures or leaders who are very much not progressive themselves, and it’s doubly ironic that democracy is often dismantled by itself, often by its own rules.
by simonw | 2025-10-09 00:39:54+00:00
Here's an example from today of something I just figured out.

I had Claude Code do some work which I pushed as a branch to GitHub. Then I opened a PR so I could more easily review it and added a bunch of notes and comments there.

On a hunch, I pasted the URL to that PR into Claude Code and said "use the GitHub API to fetch the notes on this PR"...

... and it did exactly that. It guesses the API URL, fetched the JSON and read my notes back to me.

I told it to address each note in turn and commit the result. It did.

If a future model changes such that it can no longer correctly guess the URL to fetch JSON notes for a GitHub PR I'll notice when this trick fails. For the moment it's something I get to tuck in my ever expanding list of things that Claude (and likely other good models) can do.
by zenmac | 2025-10-09 00:40:57+00:00
>But Danish Justice Minister Peter Hummelgaard, one of the loudest proponents of tough measures to get child abuse material off online platforms, said in a statement that his proposal is far more balanced than the Commission’s original version and would mean that scanning would only happen as a last resort.

That is the whole problem isn't it?

Should government be able to scan your personal data without your permission to fight crime?

If people want to get child abuse material off online platforms, then there are other things that needs to be dealt with than installing back doors for government to scan your personal files. This comment is just seems like some kind of hand weaving of excuse on the politician side to create infrastructure of massive surveillance state.
by striking | 2025-10-09 00:43:20+00:00
I prefer https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-10-07/openai-s-... which shows the circularity in the deals.

A stronger counterpoint to the circular deals suggestion is at the end of the article, which reads

> Michael Intrator, CoreWeave’s CEO, acknowledged the circular financing worries in a recent interview with Bloomberg News, but said the public concerns will dissipate as more businesses adopt AI.

> “When Microsoft comes to us to buy infrastructure to deliver to its clients who are consuming 365 or Copilot, I don't care what the narrative is about circular financing,” Intrator said. “They have end users that are consuming it.”

It's on you to decide then if end users are actually getting value / paying for AI products.
by clickety_clack | 2025-10-09 00:45:05+00:00
Agreed. Some people say “I don’t have anything to hide”, but the actual fact is they don’t have anyone to hide from. It just takes one election, or a couple of years of political distress leading to a coup and you can find yourself on the other side from the government. You might find that the “normal” things “everyone” believes aren’t so well tolerated anymore, and things like laws turn out to be a little less powerful than you were promised. Once the infrastructure is built out, it’ll turn out the bad guys are perfectly capable of using it to suit their needs.
by Fade_Dance | 2025-10-09 00:46:09+00:00
Sure, if you want to cross the spread you can usually get a clean fill in exchange for a bit more cost. That said, a fair price is fairly synonymous with a midpoint fill, and if you have a proper execution route you can get the ask (smart algo peg orders for example).

There is a caveat though, which is that top-of-book liquidity is increasingly thin every year. It doesn't take that much size to hit the bid, take out the first thin onion layer of liquidity, and have the spread widen away from you. If you look at the live order book depth you will see that the top of book is often thin and flittering. The deeper liquidity will react to the top levels getting cleared before you can blink. (That's why if you have a non-small order and want the bid price, sweep the bid and go a few cents under, you will get a much more reliable fill and won't be left hanging with the liquidity instantly repositioned a sub-penny below you).
by doubled112 | 2025-10-09 00:47:36+00:00
I don't consider myself oblivious, and it really scared me how little the handling changed with a flat rear tire. It also didn't make any extra noise.

I have always wondered if it is the lack of sidewall on a 225/45R17.

I did notice in time though, somehow. The tire shop also couldn't find a reason for the flat, so they simply remounted it, filled it, and sent me on my way.
by devilbunny | 2025-10-09 00:48:09+00:00
I take it you're not in the US? Retailers here generally must warrant against DOA, but almost anything beyond that can absolutely be shoved off onto the manufacturer.

Those who wonder why Americans can get so many things so cheaply - yes, we have lower tariffs (or at least did), but also we don't have those minimum-duration warranties that allow the consumer to return to the place of purchase as much as a year or more after purchase and demand satisfaction from the retailer. Those are expensive to provide.
by marcus_holmes | 2025-10-09 00:49:18+00:00
Precisely my point about terrorist organisations; Palestine Action did not kill anyone, yet the UK considers them to be the same category of organisation as ISIS.

If I read this right, you're thinking that only naturalised citizens would be affected by such a law; those with dual nationality that can be "sent back to where they came from". Which explains why you think this is a good idea.

That's not how citizenship works. If you allow for removing citizenship, then all citizens, regardless of "primary" nationality, can be made non-citizens. There's no second-class citizenship that can be revoked while still retaining a first-class citizenship that cannot.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-10-09 00:49:38+00:00
> Perhaps Texas could use a different trading model that doesn't require ultra high speed trading.

What would that model look like?

Suppose we trade infrequently but take orders whenever. A trade is coming up and the order book looks like this:

buy XMPL 100 shares $0.40 buy XMPL 150 shares $0.22 sell XMPL 100 shares $0.15 sell XMPL 100 shares $0.20 sell XMPL 100 shares $0.25 sell XMPL 100 shares $0.30

We can always fill the buy order for 100 shares. How much should that guy pay?
by array_key_first | 2025-10-09 00:49:54+00:00
The monetization behind AI is on shakey grounds. Nobody is actually making any money off of it, and when they propose how to make money, we all get very scared.

It's either world-ending hard to believe conjecture, like the death of scarcity, or it's... ads. Ads. You know, the thing we're already doing?

So, it's not looking great. Maybe we will find monetization strategies, but they're certainly not present now, even by the largest players with the most to lose.
by sehugg | 2025-10-09 00:50:21+00:00
Last time I played a well-maintained Asteroids cabinet, bullets had obvious bloom, but I was surprised to not see a trail. There wasn't any noticeable bloom or trails on the other objects. I believe the arcade monitors have fast decay phosphor like in regular TV sets, so any trail would come from persistence of vision, probably due to the brightness of the bullet.

I'm not sure about the Vectrex CRT, it may have longer persistence phosphor.
by tzs | 2025-10-09 00:50:23+00:00
> A guy who makes EVs spending $200 million to help elect the party that doesn’t believe in global warming can be called many things, but a “bribe” isn’t one of them, lol. He was acting directly contrary to his self interest.

From what I've read Musk believed that the loss of the EV tax credit would hurt the EV programs at other companies such as GM and Ford much more than it would Tesla, with a decent chance it could push the timeline for those programs becoming profitable far out enough that those companies might have to greatly cut back whereas Tesla could still profit without the credit.

If he did indeed believe that then supporting Republicans may have appeared at the time to be in his self-interest. That doesn't mean it was a good idea, of course, because who said that party would stop at just that tax credit? They also killed the emissions credits that ICE car companies were buying from Tesla which were responsible for something like 40% of Tesla's net income.
by JoshTriplett | 2025-10-09 00:50:52+00:00
> Why? That's what the bill's intentions are.

It's always the stated intention, because it's hard to argue against "think of the children". From commentary on similar legislation in the UK:

https://bsky.app/profile/tupped.bsky.social/post/3lwgcmswmy2...

> The U.K. Online Safety Act was (avowedly, as revealed in a recent High Court case) “not primarily aimed at protecting children” but at regulating “services that have a significant influence over public discourse.”

I have every expectation that Chat Control is either similar or is a blatant cash-grab by people interested in peddling technical "solutions", or both.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45508537
by credit_guy | 2025-10-09 00:51:25+00:00
Yes. OpenAI is also investing in AMD. This was discussed yesterday on HN, following some very good explanation by Matt Levine at Bloomberg. This is a way for one party to reduce some risk, by enjoying some upside in the equity of the counterparty.

But this is not circular. Circular would be if I sell you an apple worth $0.25 for $2.00, and then you sell it back to me for $2.00, or other similar amount, and I get to mark all the apples in my inventory at $2.00 and show a huge profit (on paper). One can create variations of this blatant deal. Like I sell you some rubber for 10 times the market price, you make a balloon and then I buy the balloon for 10 times the market price. I may not have other balloons in my inventory, but plenty of rubber, and I show some nice profit. One can imagine other, fancier deals.

But in the case of AMD and NVidia, and OpenAI and Oracle, the direction is clear. OpenAI has a clear need for compute. They can buy it directly from NVidia and AMD, or indirectly from Oracle. They can buy it with hard cash (of which they don't have that much), or with their own equity, or some form of deal that offers the seller an upside in OpenAI's equity.

But there is not back and forth buying of the same item, or of rubber/balloons. All the deals seem legit. Is it possible that all the future compute will not be needed, because the AI craze will fizzle. It is, lots of things are possible. But that's general business risk.
by A_D_E_P_T | 2025-10-09 00:51:38+00:00
Most topics still have old-fashioned forums, they're just even harder to find these days.

And there are still lots of blogs. Not all of them are SEO blogspam. And there's always libgen...

Reddit is pretty much the last place I'd go for reliable information, especially if we're talking about anything that's a commercial product.
by chews | 2025-10-09 00:51:59+00:00
if anyone @ x.com infosec is here, my buddy got her account phished / there is someone in CS selling creds. Then it was used to pump a crypto scam and she has been trying for months to get it sorted. She's had the account for 16 plus years, it's surprising it's this hard to fix.

It's x.com/leighleighsf, we've tried every channel but for filing a small claims lawsuit in Texas to get her account back.
by tomhow | 2025-10-09 00:52:23+00:00
Please don't post flamebait like this here. We've asked you before to avoid flamewar-style commenting on HN, and we need you, like everyone, to observe the guidelines and use the site in its intended spirit if you want to keep participating here. We have to ban accounts that continue to comment like this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45520332 and marked it off topic.
by Lammy | 2025-10-09 00:53:22+00:00
That was almost certainly the Intel Avoton clock degradation issue. It hit Cisco and lots of other networking vendors too. I lost Supermicro and ASRock boards to the same thing. Soldering on the resistor gets the CLK circuit back into spec for a while, but I had an officially-repaired board eventually fail again in the same way after a few more years since it keeps degrading.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13585048

https://www.auvik.com/franklyit/blog/vendors-clock-signal-fl...
by just_some_guy_2 | 2025-10-09 00:53:55+00:00
It's the same story all over again with AI.

It's legal because there's no law saying AI isn't allowed to copy popular artists, or give legal, medical and physiological advice to random people without possesing any kind of formal qualifications for giving said advice.

If I hired a hundred starving artists and a thousand students to provide the same services, my company would quickly be sued into the ground.

But just fire the people and add AI instead, and then I'm magically no longer responsible for the output. The picture becomes murky and we start to discuss how the AI was trained, if the training data was sourced legally and so on and so forth.