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by Lammy | 2025-10-17 19:47:58+00:00
> A Japanese audience was probably even less inclined to learn yet another loanword to preserve that technical distinction.

That's what I mean, though, is that my internalized idea of cassette == tape was the one that was wrong. It was one of those words I learned incorrectly as a child based on the observation that everything adults called “cassettes” had magnetic tape in common, not realizing that “cassette” is describing the enclosure instead of the contents and literally means “little box” (case-ette). Nintendo were using it correctly and taught me something in the process and that's why I think it's cool and wanted to share.
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2025-10-17 19:48:00+00:00
> folks on HN were wrong about Dropbox–HN: why would I pay for something that provides so little value, it's just slightly more convenient file storage?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42392302

(Before discussion of your comment devolves into nonsense about this.)
by squigz | 2025-10-17 19:49:15+00:00
Isn't it though? To be sure it very much depends on how you measure progress, but I do firmly believe that there is a slow but inexorable push forward in terms of equality, human rights, and various other issues. Yes, there will be hiccups, but we always move forward.

(I don't comment this to imply there's not a lot of work we have to do, or that there's not seriously fucked up things going on right now; but hope - perhaps, even, a bit of faith - is important.)
by baby_souffle | 2025-10-17 19:49:42+00:00
> During COVID lockdown I learnt 3D modelling via Blender and so STLs are my lifeblood for 3D printing!

Blender is a good skill to have, no doubt. 99.9% of all the 3d modeling / printing that I do is "functional" and you need an entirely different set of skills/techniques/tools to build a functional part compared to the models that blender spits out. At the end of the day, all techniques do generate a list of triangles but "going backwards" from that list of triangles can be a massive pain in the ass especially if you have a precise modification that you need to make.

If you want to share your models _and_ make life easier for anybody that's going to tweak them, STEP files are the best bet.
by grebc | 2025-10-17 19:49:42+00:00
It’s amusing the outages of hyper scalers are posted here on HN regularly enough but there’s plenty of turkeys in this thread mentioning you have to use hyper scalers if you need 100% uptime.

Newsflash - no one has 100% and your over equitied startup is just burning other people’s money with no clue as per usual.
by jimbo808 | 2025-10-17 19:50:16+00:00
No probable cause? So you are truly convinced that out of hundreds of thousands of interactions with ICE, those 170 people who were actually arrested, didn't meet any of these criteria for arrest? Are you really that far gone?

A protestor's actions are arrestable if they meet statutory elements:

- Physically blocking police movement or access (e.g., surrounding a patrol car or blocking arrests).

- Touching, grabbing, or standing too close after a lawful order to back away.

- Ignoring a lawful dispersal order after being warned.

- Using amplification or crowd behavior that prevents officers from issuing commands or making arrests.

Officers typically move to arrest when:

- They’ve given clear, repeated commands (e.g., “Move back,” “Clear the street”) that are ignored.

- The person’s proximity or actions create a safety risk (blocking traffic, interfering with detainment).

- A dispersal order is issued and disobeyed.

- The crowd shifts from peaceful to physically obstructive or destructive.

>> "The reason you don’t care is that you think somehow this cruelty will benefit you and people who look like you."

This doesn't work anymore. If you're this committed to being a victim, and claiming racism whenever you experience cognitive dissonance, that's your problem. But I'm not going to lose sleep over it anymore, and it would probably do you and others like you a benefit to read the room.
by sarchertech | 2025-10-17 19:50:32+00:00
It happens. It’s surely possible. But does it happen enough that anytime a Nobel laureate says something a little out there, this is the immediate explanation?

Especially if what he’s saying has lacks a major hallmark of crackpot theories. That is he is very open to his theory being wrong and he won’t even say that it’s probably correct. He just thinks it’s possible and would like to see more work done on it.
by js4ever | 2025-10-17 19:50:48+00:00
Yes we offer clusters with auto failover and replicas can be in multiple regions and even in multiple providers.

We support postgres but also MySQL, redis, opensearch, Clickhouse and many more.

About backups we offer differential snapshots and regular dumps that you can send to your own S3 bucket

https://docs.elest.io/books/databases/page/deploy-a-new-clus...
by hbn | 2025-10-17 19:51:01+00:00
On the other hand, no one has figured out how to make money providing AI yet, and everyone's operating at a loss. At some point they're going to need to monetize, and the cost/convenience compared to alternatives may not be worth it for a lot of people.

At one point you could get a Netflix subscription and it was convenient enough that people were pirating less. Now there's so many subscription services, we're basically back to cable packages, paying ever increasing amounts and potentially still seeing ads. I know I'm pirating a lot more again.

Uber vs cabs, Airbnb vs hotels - We've seen it time and time again, once the VC cashflow/infinite stonk growth dries up and they need to figure out how to monetize, the service becomes worse and people start looking for alternatives again.
by rrrrrrrrrrrryan | 2025-10-17 19:51:20+00:00
There's a new theory that we might actually gain a greater understanding of the human mind by studying the AI systems we create, because we can basically get a perfect X-ray of their neural nets at any particular state.

When we look at the "apple zone" part of an AI model that lights up, we see it in way higher resolution than our best scans of the human brain, and this might tell us something about how apples are perceived by both systems, or how language is represented neurally, or any number of other things.
by shmerl | 2025-10-17 19:51:21+00:00
A bigger problem for me is not lack of Linux Galaxy client, but that a bunch of developers only release Linux versions on Steam (Larian with BG3 is a recent example).

But I agree in general. The issue is probably that GOG is a smaller store than Steam and Linux segment for them in result is also way smaller than for Steam, so they don't see it as a priority.

Meanwhile you can use lgogdownloader.

It's sort of interesting that they support Linux as platform for games sales to begin with. Besides them, Steam and itch.io who even does?
Holborn 9100, an almost-forgotten Z80 multi-user PC from Holland
by drex91on | 2025-10-17 19:51:52+00:00
The Holborn 9100 was released in 1981 by Dutch computer manufacturer Holborn. The appearance was designed by an industrial design office named Studio Vos and developed by Hans Polak and Henny Beavers. The name comes from the phrase "born in Holland." There were two main versions, a larger one with a proprietary multi-user operating system named Holborn OS with support for a light pen, and a smaller machine with the operating system CP/M and no light pen support. These versions were split into four different models released: the 9100, 7100, 6500, and 6100. The systems consist primarily of a combined desktop monitor, terminal, and keyboard with an external unit housing two 8-inch floppy drives and an optional hard drive. The 6500 series had a detachable keyboard. The computer was primarily marketed to small companies for administration and bookkeeping purposes. The lower-numbered models were produced after the release of the 9100. Around 200 machines were produced, with 50 of them being the larger models. Due to the high price of the system at the time at 30,000 guilder or $10,000 USD (equivalent to $30,591 in 2023) and competition from IBM, the system was a commercial failure and caused the manufacturer to go bankrupt in 1983. The most popular version was the 6100. It is estimated that around 20 systems survive.
by KronisLV | 2025-10-17 19:52:58+00:00
> It's like saying, you know it's really dumb that we spend $4000 on Macbooks for everyone, we could just make everyone use Linux desktops and save a ton of money.

Ohh idk if this is the best comparison, due to just how much nuance bubbles up.

If you have to manage those devices, Windows and Active Directory and especially Group Policy works well. If you just have to use the devices, then it depends on what you do - for some dev work, Linux distros are the best, hands down. Often times, Windows will have the largest ecosystem and the widest software support (while also being a bit of a mess). In all of the time I’ve had my MacBook I really haven’t found what it excels at, aside from great build quality and battery life, it feels like one of those Linux distros that do things differently just for the sake of it, even the keyboard layout, the mouse acceleration feeling the most sluggish (Linux distros feel the best, Windows is okay) even if the trackpad is fine, as well as stuff like needing DiscreteScroll and Rectangle and some other stuff to make generic hardware feel okay (or even multi display work), maybe creative software is great there.

It’s the kind of comparison that derails itself in the mind of your average nerd.

But I get the point, the correct tool for the job and all that.
by theothertimcook | 2025-10-17 19:53:37+00:00
They are definitely degrading.

Complex driver aid/“safety” systems, outrageously complicated “infotainment” systems that are also used to interact with system functions, sealed/un-serviceable transmissions, exhaust gas filtration and recirculating systems, these are all additional points of failure that represent a degradation on modern ICE cars.

These cars won’t be around 20 years after manufacture in the same way Toyota Camry and Corolla are.
by robotresearcher | 2025-10-17 19:54:07+00:00
In my view 'understand' is a folk psychology term that does not have a technical meaning. Like 'intelligent', 'beautiful', and 'interesting'. It usefully labels a basket of behaviors we see in others, and that is all it does.

In this view, if a machine performs a task as well as a human, it understands it exactly as much as a human. There's no problem of how to do understanding, only how to do tasks. The 'problem' melts away when you take this stance.

Just my opinion, but my professional opinion from thirty-plus years in AI.
by Noaidi | 2025-10-17 19:54:09+00:00
This is the last paragraph of his article for people who aren’t going to read the whole article.

“ So yes, there is scientific confusion about what consciousness is! And there’s metaphysical confusion about what consciousness is! But there’s no definitional confusion about the word “consciousness” itself. People know what needs to be explained, it’s just that explaining the phenomenon is very hard, and no one fully has yet.“
by amlozano | 2025-10-17 19:54:20+00:00
This boarders on self-promotion but I'd like to say, "Bitcoin fixes this".

We're launching Bitcoin payments available to every Square point of sale with 0% transaction fees for next year. 1% after that. Available Nov 10th. [https://squareup.com/us/en/releases#bitcoin]

My sincere hope is it catches on and helps out small business. The difference in fees can really add up, and with near instant settlement to dollars on the backend, the merchant doesn't even need to hold or think about Bitcoin unless they want to.

The fine article talks about stablecoins, but in my biased opinion those are much more complicated than Bitcoin to deal with right now.
by AtlasBarfed | 2025-10-17 19:55:01+00:00
Did you try ChatGPT for step by step directions for an EC2 deployed database? It would be a great litmus test to see if it does proper security and lockdown in the process, and what options it suggests aside from the AWS-managed stuff.

It would be so useful to have an EC2/S3/etc compatible API that maps to a homelab. Again something that Claude should allegedly be able to vibecode give then breadth of documentation, examples, and discussions on the AWS API.
by btilly | 2025-10-17 19:55:13+00:00
In 1989, Penrose picked up Lucas' 1961 argument that no computer can possibly simulate intelligence. The argument rests on fundamental misunderstandings of logic, that are well-known among logicians. See, for example, https://www.ams.org/journals/bull/1995-32-03/S0273-0979-1995... for an article explaining this, written some 30 years ago.

The fact that Penrose has maintained his misunderstandings for 30 years, demonstrates that, on this topic, he has been a crank for a long time. No matter his other accomplishments.
by lucastech | 2025-10-17 19:55:48+00:00
I remember dealing with a large credential stuffing attack at a marketplace right after we announced our series B ~2018. We developed some tools to keep them out through pattern matching, but it was not easy and it took some time to develop those tools.

Best companies to work with were spycloud.com and sift.com.

spycloud actually specializes in identifying leaked credentials, which are what attackers use in the credential stuffing list they go through, so you could identify "stuffable" credentials prior to the attack happening, which is nice.

sift was great at helping to just identify fraud in general, so if an account did quietly get compromised, we could identify it before the transaction was finalized.
by yellowapple | 2025-10-17 19:56:05+00:00
Meanwhile, I don't really care much about resale value because when I buy a car I typically intend to drive it until it dies.

In this sense, EVs depreciating faster than ICEVs is exciting, since if my current Tacoma prematurely gives up the ghost (or I buy a second car) I can add “snag an EV for cheap” to my list of available options.
by fabianlindfors | 2025-10-17 19:56:07+00:00
With that, I was referring to the definition in the article: "The spec is the main source file over time, and only the spec is edited by the human, the human never touches the code". That's how Specific works.

And I think that opens up a very interesting question about quality. If the human never touches the code, then "good code" gets replaced with "good specs" instead, and I don't think anybody knows what constitutes good specs in that context right now!
by kelnos | 2025-10-17 19:56:17+00:00
> Hooks are ~~7~~ 6 years+8months old, almost 7 years. This may not seem like a significant difference, but IMO it puts them 75% of the way back in time to when react took off versus 50% of the way.

I don't disagree with your overall point here, but if you're going to be super nitpicky and pedantic about this, then you can't call 6 years and 8 months 75% of 10 years.
by deaux | 2025-10-17 19:56:17+00:00
I don't get this comparison. The non-Dropbox version was magnitudes less convenient to 99.99% of the population. A non-OpenAI chat interface is, at best, a fracfion less convenient.

A good number of people used to pay for email. Now a tiny fraction does. It all hangs on wbether OpenAI can figure out how to get ad revenue without people moving to a free competitor without them - and there will be plenty of those.
by thegrim33 | 2025-10-17 19:56:21+00:00
I have no horse in this race whatsoever, but after watching the footage, the test is so insanely unrealistic.

It's the equivalent of "test driving" a car by driving it off a cliff into the grand canyon and then when it hits the bottom and explodes complaining that it failed to "drive".

Yeah, you're technically right, it did fail to drive, just like the phone did "explode", but neither situation is realistic in the slightest. I don't care whether other phones passed the same test or not, it's irrelevant. The test scenario is not one that I would ever subject my phone to.
by noosphr | 2025-10-17 19:57:45+00:00
>We also don't know, in situations like this, whether all of or how much of the research is true.

That's perfectly fine since we don't know how much of the original research is true either: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis

If I waste three months doing a manual literature review on papers which are fraudulent with 100% accuracy have I gained anything compared to doing it with an AI in 20 minutes with 60% accuracy?
by bentt | 2025-10-17 19:58:21+00:00
I think this a useful challenge to our normal way of thinking.

At the same time, "the world" exists only in our imagination (per our brain). Therefore, if LLMs need a model of a world, and they're trained on the corpus of human knowledge (which passed through our brains), then what's the difference, especially when LLMs are going back into our brains anyway?
by hackinthebochs | 2025-10-17 19:58:33+00:00
LLMs aren't just modeling word co-occurrences. They are recovering the underlying structure that generates word sequences. In other words, they are modeling the world. This model is quite low fidelity, but it should be very clear that they go beyond language modeling. We all know of the pelican riding a bicycle test [1]. Here's another example of how various language models view the world [2]. At this point it's just bad faith to claim LLMs aren't modeling the world.

[1] https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/7/gpt-5/#and-some-svgs-of...

[2] https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/xwdRzJxyqFqgXTWbH/how-does-a...
by hitekker | 2025-10-17 19:58:50+00:00
I agree with busterarm's take. Andre Arko's story omits specific concerns like ssh'ing into Rubygems in Japan 9 days after the debacle. Further, his narrative excludes his termination email and instead focuses on generic platitudes his boss sent the group, to somehow prove Andre didn't know he was fired.

All in all, I don't see sound judgement from Andre Arko or from RubyCentral. That seems the common takeaway from neutral third parties https://archive.md/SEzoV

> Regarding Arko’s blog post about his removal, McQuaid [Homebrew Maintainer] told me it’s good that Arko is crediting other people for their contribution and that he’s following open source principles of community and transparency, but that “his ‘transparency’ here has been selective to things that benefit him/his narrative, he seems unwilling or unable to admit that he failed as a leader in being unwilling or unable to introduce a formal governance process long before this all went down or appoint a meaningful successor and step down amicably.”
by jsheard | 2025-10-17 19:59:07+00:00
> Open source models like deepseek and llama 3 are rapidly catching up

Catching up for how long though? Large models are very expensive to train, and the only reason any of them are open is because ostensibly for-profit companies are absorbing the enormous costs on behalf of the open source scene. What's the plan B when those unprofitable companies (or divisions within companies) pull the ladder up behind them in pursuit of profits?
by muwtyhg | 2025-10-17 19:59:31+00:00
> That some females can be stronger than some men

If you are using "female" as a noun in a sentence to refer to human women, it is a good idea to also refer to human men as "male". It is more consistent and doesn't end up dehumanizing one side.

People seeing this inconsistency may jump to conclusions about your thoughts on men and women.
by zahlman | 2025-10-17 19:59:43+00:00
(I'm assuming this is a throwaway account from someone with some insight into the PSF, and not some random person who just happened to choose this subthread as an entry into participating in the HN community. If I'm wrong about that, I'd strongly urge you to reconsider your approach.)

> Try calling out Python's inner circle politely while they are openly rude to you.

...You do know who you're responding to, right? I have first-hand experience of that (https://zahlman.github.io/posts/2024/07/31/an-open-letter-to...). (Although I don't think most of their rudeness is intentional; it seems to come from a failure to understand that not everyone has the same social norms.) I spoke in generalities for a reason.

The current situation is ultimately mostly about callouts of DHH, which are happening all over the place (including here) and the form and substance of most of those callouts is... not good.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-17 19:59:45+00:00
> Places only Starllink can reach are an insufficient and shrinking TAM

Planes; yachts; cruise ships; naval vessels; sea-based drilling, mining and research platforms; mines in the middle of nowhere are a shrinking TAM?

You may also be underestimating how many large rural landowners don't want to give telcos (and the relevant authorities) access to any of their land.
by BeetleB | 2025-10-17 19:59:50+00:00
The equivalent is the US threatening to arrest the operators of those venues when they set foot on US soil.

But in any case, this is different, as the US has only declared these activities as illegal in the US. They haven't enacted laws saying you cannot gamble outside the US.

When it comes to antiterrorism stuff, it's a totally different story. If I go to the Middle East and provide money to an organization on the US terrorist list, then yes - I can definitely be prosecuted for it if I enter US jurisdiction. And it goes even further - I don't need to enter their jurisdiction. The US can just have me extradited if there is a treaty.
by mindcrash | 2025-10-17 20:00:02+00:00
It's on the radar (as Gitea is also actively working on this - https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/35295), but I suspect you can not expect anything for a while:

"Upstream Proposal: Repository Grouping/Subgroups in Forgejo":

https://codeberg.org/fedora/forgejo-deployment/issues/224

"feat: extend Forgejo URL structure from organisation/repository to organisation/project/repository":

https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/issues/9550
by haunter | 2025-10-17 20:00:26+00:00
>Linux versions on Steam (Larian with BG3 is a recent example)

Not just on Steam but only for Steam Deck

But I think that's an understandable position. One single distro with one single hardware (okay two because the LCD and OLED versions has some differences).

Once you go down the "full Linux support" way it's a hellhole of different distros, compositors, proprietary and open source hardware drivers etc. This is where Flatpak, AppImage, snap etc. could actually play a good part imo if done well but I'm not sure I've seen any games released on Steam for Linux in those formats (maybe Steam not even allow it)

Edit: you can download BG3 for any Linux distro not just the Steam Deck
by adastra22 | 2025-10-17 20:00:33+00:00
Yes, we do understand quantum mechanics very, very well. It is a profoundly reliable theory, and fully describes all phenomena that could plausibly have causal effects on biochemistry. You have to get to black holes, galaxy formation, or femtokelvin above absolute zero to encounter regions where the standard model breaks down / new physics becomes possible.

Regarding critical evaluations of Penrose, this is the first that pops up: https://physicsworld.com/a/quantum-theory-of-consciousness-p... Like most published accounts, it is respectful towards Penrose and less inflammatory than what I wrote, at least on the surface. I'd draw your attention to this bit towards the end though:

> Still, they say, the overall requirements seem daunting – the brain needing to maintain a mass of 10−16 kg in a coherent state for 25 ms over a length scale of about 10 nm. “This vastly exceeds any of the coherent superposition states achieved with state-of-the-art optomechanics or macromolecular interference experiments,” they note.

This is a devastating statement hidden in technical terminology. Basically he's saying: "Even with the most sophisticated physics laboratories, under ideal conditions & with highly sensitive instrumentation, we're unable to achieve the superpositions that Roger Penrose is claiming is going on in the absolutely hostile thermal bath of the brain."