MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by levocardia | 2025-10-13 01:51:28+00:00
Searle had an even stronger version of that belief, though: he believed that a full computational simulation of all of those gazillion inputs, being stimulated in all those manifold ways, would still not be conscious and not have a 'mind' in the human sense. The NYT obituary quotes him comparing a computer simulation of a building fire against the actual building going up in flames.
by sotix | 2025-10-13 01:51:33+00:00
I appreciate the response and how you're proactive about following things! That's great to know RCS is now possible on GrapheneOS. That's very pragmatic.

For now, I have switched back to iOS due to a significant majority of my contacts using iMessage, so I'm back to encrypted chats again. Hopefully the future of RCS changes things while America struggles with using a unified messenger. I dream of using a dumb phone with RCS.
by BillSaysThis | 2025-10-13 01:51:54+00:00
My issue with most PE deals is that the PE firm doesn’t have enough skin in the deal. Look at, say, the EA deal where almost all of the purchase price is coming from debt on EA. This to me is wrong because the new owners have almost no incentive to build the business for the long term—EA is a strong operator but face layoffs and LOB closures just to service the new debt.
by harmmonica | 2025-10-13 01:53:09+00:00
I think getting Prop 13 repealed along the lines of Prop 15 (basically for investment property) may actually happen. I think the pro group is much more organized today than they were in 2020 and so it will stand a much better chance of succeeding.

That said, I fully agree with you that Prop 13 repeal for homeowners will "never" happen. The backlash would obviously be massive. But if they could keep it for homeowners and repeal it for all other types of property, including land, then that could be a major improvement because property owners would have to improve their properties to a "highest and best use" or sell it to pay the taxes.
by gruez | 2025-10-13 01:53:59+00:00
>Now those regulations are being undermined by this new backdoor approach, and so even public and regulated investments are becoming more risky. It’s a bad trend and it will only reverse when people inevitably follow the incentives and there’s a big crisis.

It's hardly "backdoor" when pension funds and other institutions could always have bought private companies. If anything the recent shift to ETFs and passive investing is a move in the opposite direction. In the past such institutions would have managed their portfolios in-house, ie. private equity.
by lukehan | 2025-10-13 01:54:05+00:00
I am working on a platform to help user to enrich their data by AI. so that AI can understand their Data more, especially for ChatGPT. Also it's easy to host a data and publish a MCP for ChatGPT.

The challenge is how ChatGPT can understand your "query" or say "prompts"? Raw data is not good enough - so I try to use a term called "AI Understanding Score" to measure it: https://senify.ai/ai-understanding-score. I think this index will help user to build more context so that AI can know more and answer with correct result.

This is very early work without every detail considered, really would like to have your feedback and suggestions.

You can have a try with some MCP services here: https://senify.ai/mcp-services

Thanks.
by laborcontract | 2025-10-13 01:54:39+00:00
The current trend started when people noticed that sam altman doesn't capitalize sentences, primarily in tweets.

In longer form, I do think people should feel bad for writing like this. Like you said, capitalization has genuine utility and, without them, it makes the blog post a nightmare to read.

Case in point: even Sam doesn't write blog posts like this https://blog.samaltman.com
by mnutt | 2025-10-13 01:56:01+00:00
This is a great project writeup, I did something _very_ similar for my son. (HT802, asterisk, twilio, calling relatives) With all of the NAT involved I could never get sjsip to work properly so I ended up having to use the old sip module, but looking at yours makes me want to revisit it.

Once you have asterisk set up and running, it becomes easy to also set up all sorts of other extensions like "check the weather" / "tell a joke" / "check the train statuses". I put up some code for it here: https://github.com/mnutt/rotary
by skopje | 2025-10-13 01:56:09+00:00
Back in 2008 I downloaded an app similar to this and then during one update 6 or 7 years later it vanished from the app store... and my phone! Been looking for a replacement since. I even studied Swift to write my own.

Thanks for writing the app, and not collecting any data! Reminds me of the glory days of the first app store before it all went to crap.

Also, I searched for the exact search string name of your app and you were STILL the third app down.
Ask HN: LLM coin flipping – lands on heads
by razodactyl | 2025-10-13 01:56:10+00:00
As per the title. Ask an LLM to flip a coin. Is heads biased in language?

I'm aware how LLMs work internally, just an interesting observation.

We use pseudo-random to select more dynamic language during token generation, so a run of flips from the model should in theory tend towards semi-randomness.
by greysphere | 2025-10-13 01:56:23+00:00
(1712) Newcomen Engine (1776) Watt Engine (1807) Atomic theory of Gasses (Dalton) (1807) Concept of Energy (Young) (1824) Carnot Cycle (1834) Ideal Gas Law (Clayperon) (1845) Relationship between work and heat (Joule) (1840-60s) Laws of Thermodynamics (Carnot, Clausius, Kelvin)

For over a century, there were a group of people working on building, maintaining, repairing, refining and improving engines, called 'engineers', who had a very incomplete picture of the physical laws surrounding them. I would assume there were many explosions and other accidents along the way (as there continue to be).

The investment in the science of thermodynamics and the chemistry of fuels was largely motivated by the value of the steam engine, and the attempts to improve efficiencies allowing miniaturization, enabling locomotives and the railroad boom, and eventually automobiles and powered flight.

I think the era from say 1950..2020 has been a relatively unique period in history where science has been ahead of praxis (though folks in medicine or other fields might not have had that luxury). Recent advancements in AI preceding strong theoretical foundations might be a reversion to the mean.
by castillar76 | 2025-10-13 01:56:26+00:00
Side note that not remembering it has nothing to do with memory deterioration. Neurons that fire together wire together: if you haven’t used that particular piece of information in a while, your brain gradually clears out links to it to make room for stuff you are currently referencing. So not remembering it is really more a demonstration of how much ICQ use has deteriorated. :)
by sabareesh | 2025-10-13 01:56:32+00:00
"Simple, Boring Tech Stack:" Good advice but bad example, because it depends on what engineers are familiar and comfortable with and technology itself should be mature enough. You dont want to spend time building orchestrator when k8s solves it for you. Most cloud provides provide you with k8s as a service, which are miles better than using shell scripts, if you are already familiar with k8s
by like_any_other | 2025-10-13 01:56:38+00:00
> They also buy up competition and enforce rules on other companies that make it difficult for competitors to thrive.

The article is quite sparse with sources/specifics, so let me back up this claim :

While it might not be an official requirement, being granted a Google apps license will go a whole lot easier if you join the Open Handset Alliance. The OHA is a group of companies committed to Android—Google's Android—and members are contractually prohibited from building non-Google approved devices. That's right, joining the OHA requires a company to sign its life away and promise to not build a device that runs a competing Android fork.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/07/googles-iron-grip-on... (It was surprisingly difficult finding any reporting on what should be a major story.)
by gruez | 2025-10-13 01:57:18+00:00
>This to me is wrong because the new owners have almost no incentive to build the business for the long term—EA is a strong operator but face layoffs and LOB closures just to service the new debt.

They have very strong incentive because debt holders have first dibs on the assets if EA goes belly up. Equity owners (ie. PE) are the last to get paid, so it's very much in their best interest that EA doesn't even lose a tiny bit of money, because such losses are magnified through leverage.
by matheusmoreira | 2025-10-13 01:58:48+00:00
> try solving human problems by dealing with human’s

Welp. I actually tried it. Here's my experience.

I contacted my banks and got in touch with their managers and devs. They do have APIs. I wanted to use those to create my own software with read only access to my account. I didn't even want to transfer money anywhere, just get my transactions for accounting purposes. I was using ledger at the time and was getting tired of manually inputting everything into the journal.

I eventually discovered I would need to incorporate and beg the central bank for permission to touch the financial system.
by rudderdev | 2025-10-13 01:58:57+00:00
I have found a hack. If you wait long enough, someone will build what you wanted to build :)

Thanks for building this. I am trying to set it up but facing this issu

> `torch` (v2.3.1) only has wheels for the following platforms: `manylinux1_x86_64`, `manylinux2014_aarch64`, `macosx_11_0_arm64`, `win_amd64`
by mothballed | 2025-10-13 01:59:10+00:00
Read it:

As used in Section 33700, “firearm barrel” means the tube, usually metal and cylindrical, through which a projectile or shot charge is fired. A firearm barrel includes any forging, casting, printing, extrusion, machined body, or similar article that has reached a stage in manufacture where it may readily be completed, assembled, or converted to be used as a firearm barrel, or that is marketed or sold to the public to become or be used as a firearm barrel once completed, assembled, or converted. A firearm barrel may have a rifled or smooth bore.

Put compressed air (or maybe some capped off black powder) in tube, it will expel a projectile. PVC pipes are readily convertible into a tube through which a projectile is fired.

Next time read the bill before accusing someone of being a loon. They 100% meet the definition in the law.
by Alupis | 2025-10-13 01:59:18+00:00
> The reservoir for the palisades wasn't filled due to a different form of incompetence, so even if the firefighters were there they would run out of water

> The pump system in the palisades didn't have enough pressure for large scale use, multiple fire hydrants would have resulted in the same lack of water

You cite even more governmental failures, then somehow still claim "due to climate change" policy needs to change. Weather events didn't create this fire - a human did, and governmental failures stacked to turn it into a disaster. Somehow your take-away is "climate change" nonetheless...
by renewiltord | 2025-10-13 01:59:57+00:00
I meant the comments. Sadly I've linked the wrong permalink and confused everyone.

> > > I see. I'll terminate at the Ryzen 7950 box behind the router and see what I get.

> > That will still be a no. Outside of very specialized solutions this level of the performance is not available. It is rarely needed in real life anyways. Only small amount of traffic neess to be protected this way; for everything else point to point protection with ssh or tls is adequate. I studied different router devices and most (ipsec is dominant) have low encryption truoughput compared to routing capabilities. I guess that matches market requrements.

> It looks like I can get 8 Gbps with low CPU utilization using one of my x86 machines as terminal. This is pretty good. Don't need 10 G precisely. 8G is enough.

I've done precisely this so easily. I just terminate the WG at a gateway node and switch in Linux. It's trivial and throughput can easily max the 10G. I had a 40G network behind that on obsolete hardware providing storage and lots of machines reading from that.

Reading that thread was eye-opening since they should have just told him to terminate on the first machine behind. Which he eventually did and predictably worked.
by potato3732842 | 2025-10-13 02:00:24+00:00
There's a sort of "you are why the world is the way it is" irony in your comment.

Development costs spiral once you cross the 1ac threshold because them you have to do stormwater permitting (which is federal in some cases) and that adds a ton of cost and wastes developable land. And then the scrutiny this brings can cause you problems on other axis. This is why newly built houses in the middle of nowhere on a bunch of acres.

Pretty much every commercial development, pretty much every cookie cutter residential subdivision of multiple houses, is saddled with costs that the sort of "5-over-1 here, shoehorn a duplex and some townhomes in there" type development 15min cities type people love isn't.

Stormwater permitting is the driving force behind why developments get laid out the ways that they do. It's why every big box store, every residential subdivision, every warehouse building, they all have the same dozen shapes oriented in one of the same dozen ways on the lot. This is also why every residential subdivision ever has an HOA, someone needs to be responsible for maintaining whatever the stormwater infrastructure is in perpetuity.
by 01HNNWZ0MV43FF | 2025-10-13 02:01:01+00:00
If it's hard to remember which is which, maybe they should be different words.

Like "Customer validation" and "Verification against the spec"

Like "sympathy" and "empathy". I finally heard a mnemonic but if I need a mnemonic maybe it's a sign that the words are just too hard to understand
by castillar76 | 2025-10-13 02:01:12+00:00
Agreed, and it’s not just the hardware keyboard (on which I could comfortably have written an entire novel) that I miss. It had just enough access to email that I could reply to things when necessary, even if it required a bit of typing (something very uncomfortable on a screen keyboard), and later on it had access to maps and enough web browsing to be able to look something up quickly. But the lack of an enormous app ecosystem and limited Internet access meant it didn’t become a doom-scrolling device to nearly the extent my current smartphone has, so I was more inclined to either pick up a laptop and do something deliberate or put it down and go do something useful like reading.
by DaveZale | 2025-10-13 02:01:45+00:00
Yes. I took an introneuroscience course a few years ago. Even to understand what is happening in one neuron during one input from one dendrite requires differential equations. And there are postive and negative inputs and modulations... it is bewildering! And how many billions of neurons with hundreds of interactions with surrounding neurons? And bundles of them, many still unknown?
by JuniperMesos | 2025-10-13 02:01:50+00:00
> "Winning" doesn't have to mean owning every transistor; it means setting the norms and powering most of what's built.

It doesn't matter if software published under free licenses sets the norms and powers most of what is built if critical transistors that are necessary to use important hardware at all are powered by unfree software. That is precisely what this article is decrying. If you don't own every transistor, whoever does own those transistors can use their control over them to prevent you from using your hardware as you wish, or attempting to get money out of you for the privilege; and preventing this state of affairs is actually more important in many ways than being able to use free software to create novel internet applications.
by WiggleGuy | 2025-10-13 02:03:45+00:00
Working on my website that can heatmap cities based on your lifestyle preferences.

https://theretowhere.com

It currently supports complex heatmaps based on travel time (e.g. close to work + close to friends + far from police precincts), and has a browser extension to display your heatmap over popular listing sites like Zillow.

I'm thinking of making it into an API to allow websites to integrate with it directly.
by piskov | 2025-10-13 02:05:23+00:00
> i tried running npm test and it was completely borked

> one problem, of course, was that the tests were entirely bullshit.

> whenever it would start getting lazy or confused i'd restart the session. often a failure would "demoralize" it or being sloppy once would cause sloppiness to stick. in particular i've noticed that being overwhelmed causes it to approach problems in a messy "throw anything against the wall" way. sometimes if too many newly un-skipped tests are causing failures and it got "demoralized", i'd just skip them again and have it focus on one or two at a time. with less noisy output and a permission to "really dig into what happened" (and often an explicit suggestion to remove things from the example until it no longer breaks), it would usually find the root cause.

> we got to majority of passing tests but there were a bunch of bugs it just couldn't solve and would walk in circles. the code was also getting quite complicated. it seemed like a mess of different ideas and special cases thrown in. moreover, i knew it didn't fully work because i had new test cases that just would refuse to pass

> i tried to let it do that and it just failed miserably anyway, breaking tests and not being able to recover.

> it struggled at first but i reminded it to look at other emitters.

> at one point, newly added tests kept confusing claude. it would completely get stuck on them, failure after failure, fixing one thing and breaking other thing, trying to turn off those tests or change the expected outputs (despite me telling it to never do that!) and in general seeming aimless and distraught (in the descriptive sense).

> i had to git reset --hard multiple times in this mess.

—

tldr; seems like a very nice experience, yeah
by godelski | 2025-10-13 02:05:36+00:00
Even on just normal calculators.

Quick, without looking it up, can you tell me what the {mc, m+, m-, mr} buttons do? If you're asking "the what buttons?" or "that's not on my calculator" then we have an answer. If you do know these, did you just intuit them or did you learn them from some instruction? If you really did intuit them, do you really think that's how most people do it? (did you actually intuit them...)
by mothballed | 2025-10-13 02:06:02+00:00
Please read it. I'm 100% right.

As used in Section 33700, “firearm barrel” means the tube, usually metal and cylindrical, through which a projectile or shot charge is fired. A firearm barrel includes any forging, casting, printing, extrusion, machined body, or similar article that has reached a stage in manufacture where it may readily be completed, assembled, or converted to be used as a firearm barrel, or that is marketed or sold to the public to become or be used as a firearm barrel once completed, assembled, or converted. A firearm barrel may have a rifled or smooth bore.

Put compressed air (or maybe some capped off black powder) in tube, it will expel a projectile. PVC pipes are readily convertible into a tube through which a projectile is fired.

Have you read the bill? It literally outlaws (without background check) any piece of pipe which you can readily fire a projectile from. You can do that with pretty much any pipe, just by adjusting the charge and projectile size/type.

Even the process used to make PVC pipes is explicitly called out, which is extrusion.
by more_corn | 2025-10-13 02:06:46+00:00
I’ve worked at a scale that is statistically relevant. Tens of thousands of drives under my control. I’ve seen a ton of different failure modes. Some of our anecdotes are actually useful. The problem with book and lab theory is that sometimes the theoretical problems don’t manifest (SSD wear out for example) and sometimes the minor seeming things turn out to matter a lot.
by baerrie | 2025-10-13 02:06:52+00:00
The existing state of society, economics, and governance in the US has led to many people and communities being left behind. Rather than support our people, we call them addicts and jail them for mental health issues. The US is an experiment in replacing true deep community bonds enjoyed by older nations with our purely fiscal bonds. A side-effect of this is that problems without lucrative solutions remain unsolved.
by bsder | 2025-10-13 02:07:29+00:00
> Prop 13 is a religious document in California.

Residential real estate isn't causing the big issue. It's been under Prop 13 long enough that people have died off and the properties are now sufficiently staggered that residential real estate reassesses even if it does so slowly. Consequently, it's not really religious to remove commercial real estate from Prop 13.

The problem is that Prop 13 is worth sooooo much money to entrenched California commercial real estate owners (like The Irvine Company) that you have to be prepared for a MASSIVE money firefight if you really want to go after commercial real estate on it.
by JuniperMesos | 2025-10-13 02:07:38+00:00
> Should service providers be forced (e.g. by regulation) to support consumer hardware stacks they prefer not to? By what mechanism do you propose we stop a bank from saying "we'll only support connections from iOS devices", if not the democratic market force of ensuring enough of their customers demand access from devices running free and open source software?

The same mechanism that stops a bank from saying, "sure you can withdraw more than $10,000 from your account and we won't ask any questions about what you plan to do with it" - explicit financial regulation with real penalties attached to it, that banks systematically adhere to. I'm not necessarily a fan of all legal regulations around banks or other financial product providers - this is a huge reason I'm interested in truly decentralized cryptocurrency systems - but given that the regulated fiat financial system does exist and is widely used, we might as well demand that these regulations include provisions that the bank has to let people running free smartphone OSs connect to their systems too.
by mikewarot | 2025-10-13 02:08:10+00:00
We just brought an IFR 2947a communications service monitor back from the dead. It's amazing how much functionality that you can pack into about 6U of rack space. I was testing it out, and detecting signals down to 0.1 uV on the spectrum analyzer.

I've been gathering up the supplies to set up a proper radio/computer repair workshop.
by brookst | 2025-10-13 02:10:02+00:00
It would still be a year or more before launch. They had to have the toolkit ready for internal apps way back when.

And any time you make a massive change in design system, you’re faced with a choice of maintaining two systems (which sucks) or ripping the bandaid off and shipping when the new one is not completely ready (which sucks)

The distraction thing is just a totally unnecessary conspiracy theory. It’s sufficient to observe that LG just doesn’t seem ready.
by mindslight | 2025-10-13 02:10:51+00:00
> No compensation is due if the person who suffered the loss is convicted

I already included how I propose this is handled - explicit law outlining that the liability falls to someone convicted of a crime.

> or the person who was convicted had ongoing permission to access whatever is involved

I don't see why this needs to be an exception, and also if it was an exception why it wouldn't just form another avenue of unaccountable abuse (eg imagine roommates. Let's say the police bust up a whole apartment for fun - the innocent roommates really should be getting compensated for that (they're innocent, remember?), and if that damage was necessary to effect the arrest/search, the govt can then recover from the criminal.