MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by stared | 2025-10-13 10:10:16+00:00
John Searle is one of those thinkers I disagree with, yet his ideas were fruitful — providing plenty of fuel for discussion. In particular, much of Daniel Dennett’s work begins with rebuttals of Searle’s claims, showing that they are inconsistent or meaningless. As in a story by Stanisław Lem — we all know there are no dragons, but it’s all about the beauty of the proofs.

The same goes for "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?" by Thomas Nagel — one of the most cited essays in the philosophy of mind. I had heard numerous references to it and finally expected to read an insightful masterpiece. Yet it turned out to be slightly tautological: that to experience, you need to be. Personally, I think the word be is a philosopher’s snake oil, or a "lockpick word" — it can be used anywhere, but remains fuzzy even in its intended use; vide E-Prime, an attempt to write English without "be": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Prime.
by antisol | 2025-10-13 10:10:32+00:00
I tried SHR too. That original 2007.2 distro that it shipped with was almost usable as a phone before OM released the much worse one.

Interesting to hear, I never managed to get anything like that many hours out of mine - as I say I never managed a full day because it wouldn't wake from sleep to ring. And I spent a LOT of time trying to eliminate the echo but never quite managed it (though I think it might have been gone in qtmoko, it's been a long time so hard to remember exactly).

Still I'm glad to hear that it was usable for someone, I guess.

> Things have changed meanwhile ;)

I wish. But my experience with the pinephone was somehow even worse.
by grafmax | 2025-10-13 10:11:58+00:00
It’s a tried and true method of Silicon Valley VCs. Produce something as a loss leader. Build a moat. Then extract rent. Not only can you stop having to produce anything of value, you can even degrade your product and people won’t be able to leave thanks to lock-in.

We wonder why the US has lost or losing competitiveness with China in most industries. Their government has focused on public investment and public ownership of natural monopolies, preventing rent extraction and keeping the costs of living lower. That means employers don’t have to pay workers as much so their businesses can be more competitive. Contrast with the US whose working class is parasitized by various forms of rent extraction - land, housing, medicine, subscription models, etc. US employers effectively finance these inefficiencies. It’s almost like the US wants to fall behind.
by holowoodman | 2025-10-13 10:12:41+00:00
Yes, for larger volumes of rain, that sawtooth pattern is visible and can be corrected for, or even ignored and averaged out. But for low volumes of rain, there will only be one tick. Usually you don't know which side of the bucket that tick was on, because most sensors just count the tipping of the bucket, not the direction or resting position. So for the one-tick-per-day case, you will very often not know whether to count the "large" or "small" bucket amount.

Calibration will also be drifting off for dirt accumulation and evaporation. Different fill states of each bucket lead to different evaporation in each bucket (smaller will evaporate faster, deviating towards even smaller amounts), and different resting times lead to more dust and algae settling in the bigger bucket, making it even heavier.
by marginalia_nu | 2025-10-13 10:13:30+00:00
I'm fiddling with index optimizations for the Marginalia Search index software, with being able to add ad-hoc domain filters in mind.

Not sure if there's more to say about it right now except that fuzz tests are good for this sort of low level programming with disk layouts involved. They drive up test execution time, but it's still almost hard to build them too early or have too many of them, as there's almost always an unimaginable number of permutations of weird corner cases that are hard to get at with regards to block boundaries and so on that are hard to identify based on staring at the code and doing classic unit tests.
by decimalenough | 2025-10-13 10:13:51+00:00
Many reasons.

1) Ever since the Cold War ended, German companies have been shifting production to cheaper places in Europe, so less and less "German" cars are actually built in Germany and show up as German industrial production.

2) Germany used to sell a lot to China, but Chinese companies are upping their game and shifting to EVs, and Germany is losing Chinese market share as a result.

3) Those same Chinese companies are increasingly selling overseas and starting to kick German butt. I went to an EV car show recently, and while Volkswagen Group had a large presence (VW, Audi, Cupra, etc) and some of their EVs looked pretty good, the prices were consistently 20-50% above the equivalent Chinese models.
by Ciantic | 2025-10-13 10:14:09+00:00
"a thin wrapper over the system webview"

That is very complicated if you take into account also Linux, Windows, iOS, MacOS, Android support, and related utilities like tray icon, etc. There are other efforts, too, but they are also wrappers. Like this C/C++ implementation https://github.com/webview/webview that targets only desktop operating systems.
by dvt | 2025-10-13 10:14:12+00:00
> while he accuses others of supporting cartesian dualism when they think the brain and the mind can be separated, that you can "run" the mind on a different substrate

His views are perfectly consistent with non-dualism and if you think his views are muddy, that doesn't mean they are (they are definitively not muddy, per a large consensus). For the record, I am a substance dualist, and his arguments against dualism are pretty interesting, precisely because he argues that you can build something that functions in a different way than symbol manipulation while still doing something that looks like symbol manipulation (but also has this special property called consciousness, kind of like our brains).

Is this true? I don't know (I, of course, would argue "no"), but it does seem at least somewhat plausible and there's no obvious counter-argument.
by netsharc | 2025-10-13 10:14:15+00:00
Article says:

> But a profit warning by German carmaker BMW late on Tuesday was the latest reminder of the industry’s structural challenges as it struggles with the transition to battery cars, weak sales in China and US import duties.

My gut feeling is that the Chinese are now buying locally made EVs. Other nations are buying Chinese made EVs. Except the Americans, who can't afford anything without paying extra money to their Mad King. (This is generalized, obviously there'll be American or Chinese BMW buyers, but a lot less).

Damn, look at that graph of registrations: https://carnewschina.com/2025/10/08/byd-sales-surged-2225-in...
by robinsonb5 | 2025-10-13 10:14:21+00:00
For me, Ubuntu / Gnome 2 came so close to being something tech-savvy people could recommend to non-technical friends and relatives at a time when people who were happy enough with WinXP and Win7 were being corralled into dealing with the Win8 carcrash. And instead of closing that final gap it went scampering off into the far distance again, never to recover.
by jakedata | 2025-10-13 10:14:51+00:00
There are two distinct use cases spelled out in this article. Electronic and photonic technology incorporating graphene to improve performance and efficiency and "we added graphene to stuff". Graphene cement, graphene carbon fibre - 3000 tons of graphene expected from one company in 2026.

Try not to breathe any, studies are still pending but that stuff gets everywhere.
by hopelite | 2025-10-13 10:15:07+00:00
Of course they are. It’s basically foreign soft power infiltration, invasion, control, and conquest. WhatsApp is Meta, Meta is deeply associated with not only the US government and its agencies, but the various entities of state control in the subordinate countries that believe they are being provided a means of controlling their countries, but do not realize or are deliberately subordinating themselves to the empire that is called America.

The pernicious thing that neutralizes many people like yourself, is that you cannot understand that meta/Facebook/WhatsApp is not just innocuous private business somehow magically different than the government in which at least you have a theoretical level of control over in a democracy.

Every place that an “American” company controls aspects of a technology inside a society is effectively to that degree conquered by the “USA”. One’s own country simply does not exist anymore to the same qualitative degree that it is controlled by foreign technologies/companies. That is also the revealing argument the system made when it threw its fit about the Chinese control of TikTok! So at least the “American” system believes it… “The lady doth protest too much, methinks.”
by bootsmann | 2025-10-13 10:15:17+00:00
It's the American duopoly in these peoples head man. If you're a Republican everything bad is "Liberal" and if you're a Democrat everything bad is "Conservative". Always quite entertaining when it is used as a measuring stick for policies developed in a multi-party democracy which does not fall along the party lines as cleanly as it does in the US. The fact that Merkel voted against gay marriage always seems to break brains.
by holowoodman | 2025-10-13 10:17:31+00:00
> liberal agenda

It is quite the opposite of a liberal agenda. German policy is very illiberal in that it is heavy on bureaucracy, strict on regulations, and nowadays firmly stuck in a green-at-any-cost course. All that leads to high energy prices, sky-high barriers for industrial development and entrepreneurship and therefore high prices of german-produced goods.
by lofaszvanitt | 2025-10-13 10:17:59+00:00
People nowadays do not have any means to connect with whatever. They see a picture somewhere and they only see the picture, and maybe the name of the artist. So the piece has to talk for itself.

You can be sure people never actually see the original Mona Lisa, or any other heavily marketed artwork. And in terms of pricing. It's all a game.
Show HN: Cadence – A guitar theory app
by apizon | 2025-10-13 10:18:29+00:00
Hello HN, I just released this music theory and ear training mobile app for guitar which I've been working on for a bit more than a year on the side.

The idea was to make something for the eternally "intermediate" guitarist (myself included). There are a lot of beginner apps which rely on learning songs, toolkits which give you a bunch of stuff with no explanation but not many in-between apps to actually learn and practice more generic and somewhat advanced stuff.

The app contains short lessons, recaps and most importantly challenges (visual, audio and pure theory) along with a very complete library.

The challenges are made for practicing, they will get increasingly harder and getting to the max score is supposed to be quite hard. The idea being that you have to repeat them regularly until your brain has integrated the info and it flows naturally rather than being a one time quick dopamine shot. This is partly inspired by how language learning apps work.

It has no ads, a lifetime purchase option and you can use it without an account if you don't care about multi-device sync or backing up your progress.

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.apizon.cad...

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/cadence-guitar-theory/id674701...

(This is my second and last post about this sorry for spam. My first post a few weeks ago didn't get any views and posting on a saturday might not have helped...)
by bootsmann | 2025-10-13 10:18:48+00:00
> but after multiple warnings and casus belli about Ukraine not flirting with NATO

Putin invaded in 2014 after Ukraine deposed of their dictator over his failure to commit to EU alignment, the Nato stuff is a post-hoc excuse developed by the Russian government. This isn't about Nato it's about Putin being afraid of having working democracies next door.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-13 10:18:55+00:00
> I see a lot of startups that seem to be 23 year olds vibe coding. That hits a brick wall fast

But they’re going fast. That unlocks resources. The whole point is experience is expensive. Moving fast lets you afford that expense. And collision measures velocity.

Messiness is bad. Premature optimization fatal. Young companies tend to be messy because that’s the bias that survives.
by klempner | 2025-10-13 10:20:23+00:00
At the very least, the benefits of QUIC are very very dubious for low RTT connections like inside a datacenter, especially when you're losing a bunch of hardware support and moving a fair bit of actual work to userspace where threads need to be scheduled etc. On the other hand Cloudflare to backend is not necessarily low RTT and likely has nonzero congestion.

With that said, I am 100% in agreement that the primary benefits of QUIC in most cases would be between client and CDN, whereas the costs are comparable at every hop.
by stanislavb | 2025-10-13 10:20:24+00:00
OK, it seems you are on the path of another 8 fig exit. Good on you. It seems like a great project and could possible save so much time if well executed and well integrated.

I've added it to SaaSHub saashub.com/orgtools. If you have an @orgtools.com email you can verify and improve the profile. Cheers!
by Someone | 2025-10-13 10:20:26+00:00
> MAML will also have to reference JSON implementations to resolve ambiguities, e.g. how to handle multiple identical array keys

Isn’t the spec (https://maml.dev/spec/v0.1), which says “Duplicate keys are not allowed within an object.” sufficient for that?

Or am I misunderstanding what you mean by “array keys”?

It seems the spec is silent on whether key order is significant in dictionaries, though.
by h4kor | 2025-10-13 10:20:43+00:00
Reasons I can think of (as a German) from the top of my head:

- Crumbling infrastructure

- Decades of missing investments in education and the public sector

- no digitization

- Unwillingness to move away from ICE vehicles

- Slow internet access and slow build out of fiber network

- Killing future industries (solar, battery ...) by cutting funding/subsidies early

- low wages in European comparison
by Stranger43 | 2025-10-13 10:21:19+00:00
Why would we even want that, the whole point is to break the monoculture and single vendor dependency not to create an new mostly irrelevant one to be stuffed with has-been and rejects from the national levels the way most of EU's big prestige projects end up being run.

One of the thing that sets EU apart from most federations is that it kind of enables a lot more regional independence in how things are actually implemented while still guaranteeing the rights of the individual citizens, this lead to a lot of dynamism at the local level despite the failings of the central level, and allow this kind of projects to succeed and create paths for others to follow at their own pace.
by hshdhdhehd | 2025-10-13 10:21:19+00:00
It should be easy to make FOSS Web apps especially ones that favour front end (and hence web standards) for most of what they do. Someone does need to be the server though so you end up with a bit of cloud.

I think another problem is marketing. The SaaS can afford to advertise. The free libre app has to be discovered.
by zahlman | 2025-10-13 10:21:21+00:00
> Color carries a huge amount of information. Color draws our attention. Color distinguishes things. And we just use it to distinguish syntax.

I didn't actually find the uncoloured circle to be that much harder to spot.

Before looking at the concrete examples, I thought:

> Understanding the syntax similarly isn't hard scanning over the code. But if the words were coloured in a way that didn't correspond to syntax, I expect I would find it distracting, in the same way as those experiments with colour words written in a different colour from what the word indicates. Trying to make use of that second information channel isn't necessarily a good idea.

> I like the aesthetic of syntax-coloured code. But also, it's reassuring. I'm not using it to help understand the syntax, but to confirm that there's software in place that understands the syntax the same way I do.

After: the rainbow parentheses honestly don't help that much, not for a language like LISP anyway. The context highlighting seems to work much better. But then, as I go on through the examples... these are all really doing the same kind of thing that syntax highlighting does! They're about the structure of the code. And I'd have to shift my expectation, but once aligned, it's again something I'd perceive the same way — as something to confirm my understanding rather than eliciting that understanding.

Perhaps being able to switch between colouring modes would change that, but I don't know how quickly I could get used to that technique. And then, the kind of code where most of these things would help is smelly anyway. I already try to avoid this kind of nesting. Maybe import and argument highlighting (which could be used at the same time, along with highlighting for class attributes and closures in Python?), though...
by wongarsu | 2025-10-13 10:21:56+00:00
Like many traditional car makers they are struggling with the EV question. Presumably they want to switch to EVs, but in a company built on building ICE vehicles that comes with a lot of resistance from inside the company.

All things considered they aren't doing too bad, both Volkswagen and BMW are in the global top 7 EV brands by sales. But BYD is far ahead of everyone else, selling nearly an order of magnitude more EVs than any German brand. Which hurts Germany especially since they used to sell a lot of cars in China, BYD's home turf
by hansmayer | 2025-10-13 10:22:03+00:00
> Claiming AI regresses is like claiming that computer chips are getting slower

Yeah, or maybe learn how transformer architecture with neural networks actually works and stop comparing apples to oranges.

> that YOUR AI set up degrades

Well, yeah, I did nothing but say all the time that the so-called "AI" has been degrading in my own setup, my entire company to be precise. Who knows, maybe myself and my team are just stupid and we "suck" at writing english-language sentences. Have a stroll through subreddits dedicated to cursor, claude, chatgpt. You could be onto something. So many stupid people vs. a few of those like you, who are apparently very smart. The masters of "Prompt Engineering". Or could it be, that your use-case is so trivial, and you so inexperienced, that whatever the statistical parrot spits out, seems like wonder to you?
by VenturingVole | 2025-10-13 10:23:07+00:00
I'm not sure if they've changed the process since your issues (hopefully) - I was using their trial and when it expired had to go through the KYC process. They under-promised by saying two working days to reach out, but everything was wrapped up within an hour and done over email.

I nearly moved away from Twilio having read the negative feedback, but my personal experience so far was very prompt support.
by fluidcruft | 2025-10-13 10:23:09+00:00
That's really important I think. Tangentially, https://ecfr.gov/ is bizarrely one of the most impressive websites I have encountered. It's regulations not laws but it has so many ways to discover and link and learn and trace back to law. I'm not a lawyer but it's been a great resource for understanding and surprisingly pleasant to read. I found learning about the whole law and regulation machinery and provenance via eCFR pretty fascinating.

Dunno if other governments are this Byzantine in practice (our system seems to be like... manual integration of diff patches) but it's pretty interesting and I really appreciate the work that goes into these types of things.
by tomaytotomato | 2025-10-13 10:23:28+00:00
Tinkering away on my opensource Java NLP library to parse text and find geographical information from it.

https://github.com/tomaytotomato/location4j

I think I am going to re-write the logic to calculate a score on all matches it makes from a given piece of text.

e.g.

"us ca" ---> is this "USA California" or "USA and Canada (CA ISO2 code)"?

"san jose usa" ---> is this "San Jose California, USA" or another San Jose in America
by humuhumu33 | 2025-10-13 10:24:22+00:00
Something to note. UOR Foundation Atlas embedding model has exactly 96 layers or classes and 12,288 coordinate space to enable universal lossless data encoding.

This just happens to match w/ original GPT-3 parameters below.

With the key difference that Atlas enables unique deterministic data addressing, which does not require expensive transformer training.

https://dugas.ch/artificial_curiosity/GPT_architecture.html

"Decoding. We're almost there! Having passed through all 96 layers of GPT-3's attention/neural net machinery, the input has been processed into a 2048 x 12288 matrix. This matrix is supposed to contain, for each of the 2048 output positions in the sequence, a 12288-vector of information about which word should appear."
by PaulRobinson | 2025-10-13 10:24:56+00:00
Was at this place a couple of weeks back with some mates I used to work with in a software engineering team - we'd reconvnend for a few drinks and something cultural after 5 or so years of not seeing each, so had people from all over Europe flying in.

I've been before, and it's good to see some old favourites (Micro-break! Alien Probe!), stick around while they rotate through new machines with new ideas.

I recommend a good hour or two in there at some point, and just dive into the whimsy of it all. It is a very British sense of humour, one that is quite soulful for me as a Brit, but I think there are few people who wouldn't find something to enjoy in there.
by anovikov | 2025-10-13 10:25:10+00:00
Surely there's plenty of work that AI can't and won't do for a long time if ever! And plenty of coders will be employed for a very long time to come. Thing is, it doesn't take too much oversupply for price to become essentially zero, even with all those people who are now leaving the industry. In a few years even senior coders will realise that burger flipping or DoorDash-ing makes similar money and will find themselves at crossroads.
by mattv8 | 2025-10-13 10:25:24+00:00
What do you guys think of this? https://www.textaurant.app. It's an AI "agentic" SMS ordering system that's hopefully better than Taco Bell's attempt... I got sick of navigating every restaurants nuanced online order placing and figured I'd try to standardize it myself with an SMS based assistant (yes I'm aware of the XKCD). The idea is every restaurant would have their own number, or down the road I could have a single number for all restaurants but I'm somewhat token/context limited right now. It uses GPT 4o and I've been working on it for the past 4 months. Closed source for now but who knows I might open it up but I'm deciding if it's worth trying to patent.
by fabian2k | 2025-10-13 10:25:44+00:00
Even if we assume, for the sake of argument, that Ukraine "was flirting with NATO". Why does that justify an invasion? Why do you think Ukraine or NATO or the US are at fault here?

Accepting that trying to get closer to NATO justifies this invasion, usually with the term "legitimate Russian security interests" denies Ukrainian sovereignty. Russia does not have the right to impose its will on its neighbours.
by mitthrowaway2 | 2025-10-13 10:25:55+00:00
Are you sure the debt bomb is a bomb? Private debt can be a major concern, but government debt may not work the way you think it does. In fact, the great depression was preceded (and possibly in some ways triggered) by a significant paying down of public debt, counterbalanced by an increase in private debt that kept the money supply growing through the roaring 20s.